Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010


A bit of "mood music" to put you in that pre-Thanksgiving state of mind!

Yeah... audio quality isn't the best... but the mix of audio, video, and sheer energy packed into the performance makes this one a keeper...
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William R. Barker said...

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/TOE6AN06U.htm

China's...diplomatic fence-sitting now faces an agonising test on the barbed-wire dividing North and South Korea, but Beijing is likely to endure the sting and shield its friend, the North.

* THE CHINESE ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS. WE'RE IN BED WITH A TOTALITARIAN AMORAL EXPANSIONIST POWER. BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS HAVE SOLD OUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHEN IT COMES TO CHINA.

U.S. officials have already complained about China's muted response to the shelling that killed at least four people. "The Chinese did not react in a way we thought was conducive to striving toward regional stability," a senior U.S. official in Washington D.C. told Reuters.

* NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!

November 24, 2010 at 9:34 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101123/wl_nm/us_usa_afghanistan_violence

Violence in Afghanistan hit an all-time high in recent months as...an increasingly sophisticated insurgency expanding across the country, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

* REMEMBER OBAMA'S 18 MONTH WITHDRAWL TIMETABLE, FOLKS?

Nine years after the arrival of foreign forces, the Pentagon said all types of violent incidents in Afghanistan had increased from April through the end of September, up 300% from 2007...

(*SIGH*)

The White House will reveal in coming weeks its review of the war a year after President Barack Obama unveiled a "new strategy" for the...campaign in Afghanistan.

* OH... (*SNORT*)... I CAN HARDLY WAIT...

[T]he Pentagon's latest congressionally mandated report painted a grim picture of the situation in Afghanistan, where corruption undermines the fight against the Taliban... Officials said certain "predatory" corruption, like that among police, encouraged Afghans to join the Taliban. "Corruption continues to have a corrosive effect on (international) efforts in Afghanistan," the report found. The military also said Iran continued to provide weapons and training to the Taliban and that their safe havens along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border remained...

(*SIGH*)

* HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEING PISSED AWAY... OUR SOLDIERS BEING KILLED AND WOUNDED... AND FOR WHAT?

* CAN YOU SAY V*I*E*T*N*A*M R*E*D*U*E*X...

* ASK YOURSELVES... IF BUSH WERE STILL PRESIDENT - OR EVEN THAT HORSE'S ASS MCCAIN - WOULD THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND THE COLLEGE LEFT BE AS "CALM," "PATIENT," AND "ACCEPTING" AS THEY'VE BEEN WITH OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE?

* HYPOCRITES. PHONIES. YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE...

November 24, 2010 at 9:34 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-11/24/content_11599087.htm

China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday.

(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)

* SO... FOLKS... THAT OBAMA... HE'S SOME KINDA GUY, HUH?! AND SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON... (*SMIRK*)... OH, YEAH... BANG UP JOB, HILLARY!

Chinese experts said the move reflected closer relations between Beijing and Moscow...

* AGAIN... BRAVO SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTION...! YOU'RE REALLY DOING A HECK OF A JOB BROW... er... MADAM SECRETARY.

Wen's trip follows Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's three-day visit to China in September...Wen said at the press conference that the partnership between Beijing and Moscow has "reached an unprecedented level" and pledged the two countries will "never become each other's enemy". Over the past year, "our strategic cooperative partnership endured strenuous tests and reached an unprecedented level," Wen said, adding the two nations are now more confident and determined to defend their mutual interests."China will firmly follow the path of peaceful development and support the renaissance of Russia as a great power," he said.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*) AIN'T THE AGE OF OBAMA GRAND?!

November 24, 2010 at 8:44 PM

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