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Chinese baby rescued from sewer released to family

 

They must be kidding!  I smell something and it isn't the crap that was in the toilet pipe, it is Chinese propaganda.  Neighbors heard the baby crying in the toilet pipe and called authorities, where was the mother???

 

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese newborn who was rescued from a sewer pipe has been released to his family and his mother is unlikely to face criminal charges because authorities concluded he fell into the toilet after his birth accidentally, local officials and media reports said.

The baby was released from a hospital to his maternal grandparents late Wednesday, while his 22-year-old mother remains under medical care,  [anip]

The mother initially raised the alarm about the baby when he got stuck Saturday in a pipe just below a squat toilet in a public restroom of a residential building, but she had cleaned the room of signs of a fresh birth and did not immediately come forward as the mother, officials have been quoted as saying.

She admitted she was the mother two days later when confronted by police who found baby toys and blood-stained tissues in her apartment, the reports said.

Police later concluded that the incident was an accident and that the woman did not initially come forward because she was frightened, but that she later started telling the truth, the Jinhua Evening News  (continue reading )

And then there's this:

Sociologist Li Yinhe said the only mistake by the woman was not to immediately admit the baby was hers. "I don't think that's a big deal. After all, the child is safe, and it has a happy ending," Li said. "The Chinese people still lean heavily on the human considerations. Let it be bygones if there's no serious crime."

 

The baby is alive only by the grace of God, alert neighbors, and a skillful rescue and medical team.

 

 

Newborn Chinese baby is rescued ALIVE from toilet pipe after being flushed away by parents

Daily Mail Onine:

Firefighters in eastern China have rescued an abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage pipe.

The infant was stuck in a pipe directly beneath a toilet commode, state television reported, in a case which has sparked anger on social media sites.  [snip]

The harrowing discovery came after residents reported the sound of a baby crying, state television said late on Monday.

The pipe was just four inches wide in diameter the China Daily newspaper said.

Firefighters had to remove the pipe and take it to a nearby hospital, where doctors carefully cut around it to rescue the baby boy inside, the report said.

His arms had been pinned to his side, and when the confines of the pipe had been delicately prised away, he let out a long wail - much to the relief of doctors who were battling against the clock to rescue him.

His eyes, face and body were covered in the filth of the pipe.

The child is in a stable condition and the police are looking for his parents, state television added.  (continue reading, see more pictures, video, at Daily Mail UK)

Leading Solar Panel Maker In China Declares Bankruptcy

By Bernie at Planck's Constant:

China has lessons for Marxists the world over regarding government subsidized Solar energy (are you listening Obama?) - even with the largest building boom (1) in world history, there is not enough profit to be made to keep a solar panel company in business, despite China's generous handouts and loans.

Leading solar panel maker in China declares bankruptcy
Photo Credit: Xinhua/Shen Peng

In the photo above taken on 26 Sep 2011, a worker forklifts solar panel products at Suntech Power in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province. China's leading solar panel maker, a New York-listed private company based in Wuxi, declared bankruptcy on 20 Mar 2013 (2).

As well, a few days later, German car parts supplier Bosch announced it would discontinue its solar panel manufacturing business (3).

This will not deter our President from making more investments in green energy businesses that will ultimately fail. Despite state and government subsidies, promises of lower utility rates to encourage voters to accept these projects have not panned out; even the U.S. Department of Energy experts in the matter say that solar costs three and a half times that of coal. Indeed, rates for electricity in Boulder City, Colorado did in fact increase (4).

I can't figure out which is the greater hoax: that subsidizing green energy is good for our country or that Obama is not a Marxist.

(4):

Nevada Journal, 20 mAR 2012, Obama to tout green energy ‘investments’ at solar facility employing 5 workers, relying on $54 million in taxpayer subsidies

President Obama will tout investments in “renewable” energy Wednesday at the local Copper Mountain Solar 1 plant, although the plant has only five full-time employees.

The plant, owned by San Diego-based energy company Sempra, was built in late 2010 at a cost of $141 million. Funding included $42 million in federal-government tax credits and $12 million in tax-rebate commitments from the state of Nevada.

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Solar 1 is the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant in the country and is regarded as a “revenue generator” by Sempra. According to the Las Vegas Sun, Boulder City expects to receive over $60 million in lease revenue from the plant.

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In addition to wanting to create many new jobs, President Obama has claimed green-energy investment will decrease America’s energy costs and reduce the country’s dependency on foreign oil.

In Boulder City, however, renewables have produced no lower energy costs. Instead, in late 2009, the city approved a 35 percent rate hike, while power generated by Copper Mountain is to go to Southern California — rather than serve Nevadans whose taxes helped finance the plant.

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Nationally, solar energy is unlikely to help the president achieve his goal of lower energy costs. Geoffrey Lawrence, deputy policy director at the Nevada Policy Research Institute, the free-market think tank that publishes Nevada Journal, noted in his Solutions 2013 report that, even according to the U.S. Department of Energy, solar-PV energy will cost three and a half times more than energy from traditional sources such as coal.

 

(posted here with permission - go leave Bernie a comment here)

 

The US response to North Korea

North Korea has proven it is a nuclear threat not only to South Korea, Japan, and China, but a serious threat to the United States - and what response do we offer -  a vow of tough action from the United Nations Security Council in the form of a resolution.  A resolution!  North Korea is so scared I'm betting they will dismantle their program tomorrow (not).  Bring in the clowns!

North Korea's third nuclear test  was "strongly condemned" by the United States.  Not just condemned, but strongly condemned.  Pyongyang said "even stronger" action might follow, saying its test was a response to US "hostility".

Nuclear test monitors in Vienna say the underground explosion had double the force of the last test, in 2009, despite the use of a device said by the North to be smaller.

If a smaller device was indeed tested, analysts said this could take Pyongyang closer to building a warhead small enough to arm a missile.

UN sanctions on North Korea were expanded after the secretive communist state launched a rocket in December, in a move condemned by the UN as a banned test of missile technology.

'Stern' message

North Korea's latest nuclear test comes as senators in Washington prepare for the first votes on whether to confirm Chuck Hagel as successor to current Defence Secretary Leon Panetta.  (continue at BBC)

Via Drudge:

TEST #3: 'Miniaturized, lighter'...
Japan's PM Calls Urgent Security Meeting...
Pyongyang orders troops to prepare for combat...
2008: Obama Promised to 'Eliminate' NKorea Nukes...
Test A Response to 'Outrageous' US Hostility...
On Eve Of Obama Speech...
World shaken...
Will boost Iran...
Savage envisions China threat in 'Time for War'...
Obama's Asia team has no Korea experts...

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Maternity Mansion' Lures Pregnant Women From China

The unassuming home at the top of the hill in an upscale Chino Hills, Calif., neighborhood has been operating as a "maternity mansion," charging women from China high prices to give birth in the United States, essentially buying American citizenship for their babies, according to neighbors who want the operation shut down.

An address found on AsiamChild.com, a Chinese language website advertising the American birthing experience to prospective mothers, matches with the Chino Hills residence. Packages on the site range from $5,000 to $15,000 and call the expenditure a "worthwhile investment" in order to have an American baby.[snip]

The 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States. (continue reading at AP)

I'm betting this isn't the only one, and I'm betting they are not just for Chinese.

Counterfeit electronic parts in U.S. combat planes

Report unveils the presence of more than a million counterfeit electronic parts in U.S. combat planes (The Aviationist.com)

The Senate Armed Services Committee has just released a year long report in the use of counterfeit parts in military equipment whose findings are simply shocking.

The report unveils the presence of some 1,800 cases of fake parts (worth more than a million components) than a in SH-60B helicopters and in C-130J and C-27J cargo planes as well as the US Navy’s P-8 Poseidon.

The report highlighted that more than 70 percent of the counterfeit parts were traced back to China, but it blamed weaknesses in the U.S. supply chain, and China’s failure to curb the counterfeit parts manufacturers.

U.S. servicemen rely on a multitude of sophisticated electronic parts found in all sorts of systems, from GPS to Night Vision equipment and these counterfeit parts have not passed through the rigorous testing that the real parts have.  (continue reading)

 

China's collapse?

Brace for China's impending crash, By GWYNNE DYER, Japan Times

Building a skyscraper is the ultimate expression of economic confidence, and more than half of the 124 skyscrapers currently under construction in the world are being built in China. But confidence is often based on nothing more than faith, hope and cheap credit, and a frenzy of skyscraper-building is also the most reliable historical indicator of an impending financial crash. [snip]

China avoided that recession by flooding its economy with cheap credit — but that credit has mainly gone into financing the biggest property and infrastructure-building boom of all time. Such booms always end in a crash, but this time, we are told, will be different. [snip]

People in the West want to believe that China's economy will go on growing fast because the fragile recovery in Western economies depends on it. Twenty years of 10 percent-plus annual growth have made China the engine of the world economy, even though most Chinese remain poor. But the engine is fuelled by cheap credit, and most of that cheap money, as usual, has gone into real estate. [snip]

Nobody knows what will happen in China itself when growth stops and unemployment soars, but the Communist regime is clearly frightened of the answer. Maybe it can ride the crisis out until growth resumes at a slower pace in a few years, but with its communist ideals long abandoned, its only remaining claim on people's loyalty has been its ability to deliver constantly rising prosperity.

If that collapses, so may the regime.

Read the entire article, very informative and full of facts (hat tip Marcus Wilder).

 

Pentagon Report: China Military Build-up in Preparation for War Over Taiwan

Via Pat Dollard:

Generational Dynamics:

One of the saddest things that I’ve had to report on my web site is China’s rush towards total war with the United States. I’ve been describing this for years, but it was always in the distance. A new report by the Pentagon makes it clear that this war is no longer distant, and an attack within the next 12-18 months is a reasonable expectation.

On Wednesday, the Pentagon issued its annual report on China’s military, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2011 (PDF).

This report was supposed to be issued five months ago, but it was apparently delayed until mid-August, with Congress out of town, at a time when it was less likely to alarm people. The report contains euphemistic phrases like, “China’s military is modernizing, but the Chinese government needs to be more forthcoming on why it needs these new capabilities.” But if you actually read the details of China’s preparations for war, you get a very stark reality.

The Taiwan Scenario

The report details China’s border disputes in central Asia, especially with India, as well as China’s aggressive claims to practically everything in the South China Sea and East China Sea, including many islands that are considered sovereign territory of other countries.

But the really big focus is Taiwan. There’s never been any doubt that China has been focused for years on invading and taking control of Taiwan. They said that themselves many times, as I’ve reported in dozens of reports on this web site. Furthermore, the Chinese consider a preemptive invasion of Taiwan to be a “defensive” military action.  (continue reading at Pat Dollard, hat tip Marcus Wilder)

 

America, and the Continuing Days of Dead Music.

America, and the Continuing Days of Dead Music.
By R.J. Godlewski
© October 24, 2011, All Rights Reserved.

    America has gone through some very tough times in her history but, fortunately, she has always had some very proud music to see her citizens through these turbulent periods. During World War II, for instance, there was the Big Band era of Glenn Miller and company. Who, after all, could not be inspired by a chorus of In the Mood? Later, as the red-hot Korean war morphed into the decidedly frigid Cold War, we had Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and Bill Haley rock us through the rocky times.

    The 1960s were a strange period, ending with the strangest forms of music ever created by mortal man and, yet, without a doubt, even those musicians who lambasted America and her fighting men remained courteous enough to uplift their neighbors with decent music and resounding beats. During the last period of economic calamity, the 1970s, we had Brownsville Station, the J. Geils Band, and KISS smokin’ up the stage live for our benefit. Times were indeed horrible, but we carried on through because the music was just too damn good not to care.

    Today, unfortunately, America has lost its appreciation for what music can do. No longer, for example, is talent required to enter the field. When, during the 1970s, Detroit’s own petite firebrand, Suzi Quatro, failed to gain the recognition of her countrymen, it had little to do with lacking blazing talent.  Even in her third decade of music – she began at the tender age of eight playing bongos in her dad’s jazz band – Ms. Quatro proved that she was much more than simply ‘The Wild One’; she was also the real thing.

    Unfortunately, comparing the bass and piano playing five-foot-nothing Quatro with today’s five-foot-one Lady Gaga is an embarrassment – for Suzi Quatro. She who inspired Joan Jett and Chrissie Hynde benefitted little from the modern technology and marketing that fabricated the likes of Lady Gaga or her idol, Madonna.  In fact, despite playing for the troops in Vietnam at the age of eighteen with her sisters in the band Suzi and the Pleasure Seekers, Ms. Quatro was a bona fide star long before her native America caught on following her guest appearances on Happy Days as “Leather Tuscadero.” Ron Howard may have faked playing the guitar, but Suzi wasn’t acting in the least. In fact, she politely turned down the offer of starring in her own spin off of the series.

    Acts today just cannot compare with what ended in the 1980s. During an era when the B-52s could invoke some quintessential American ingenuity – namely, friends creating a hit band after singing together drunk in a bar – music in the 1990s began to evolve through electronic wizardry and guerrilla marketing. Today, one cannot even listen to John Fogerty’s classic Centerfield, a tribute to that other great American invention, baseball, without being sickened with ostentatious advertisements of the ghastly Lady Gaga.   (image: Drumbum)

    America, once again, has found herself in deep trouble – deeper than the national debt our despicable politicians have piled upon us. Our twin wars of Afghanistan and Iraq are dwindling down, but the eternal struggle against Islamic jihad may only be heating up. Communist China, Putinist Russia, and Wahhabist Saudi Arabia remain diabolical threats to our freedom and our security. Our culture of life has long since descended into a culture of death. That’s bad enough for our future, but now we do not even have decent music to save our sanity. Yes, bring back that Old Time Rock and Roll. Please!

 

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R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant, the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team [INERT], and the author of several novels, commentaries, and professional articles. His most recent article is “Latte Intelligence: The Divorce of Shock Creativity and Special Information Operations,” which appears in the current issue of American Intelligence Journal He is also the author and architect of the Internet-based Independent Counterterrorist training program. He is currently a graduate student at American Military University and has earned his B.A. in Intelligence Studies from AMU with a concentration in Terrorism Studies,  a minor degree in Area Studies – Middle East and also holds an undergraduate certificate in Explosive Ordnance Disposal. He is a veteran of both the United States Navy and Navy Reserve. He can be reached at rjgodlewski(at)rjgodlewski.com.

(See other articles by R.J. Godlewski at Right Truth here.)

 

Death by China: Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action

A must read book, Death by China is written by Peter Navarro, author of The Coming China Wars, and Greg Autry.  Americans need to understand the dangerous position we are presently in economically, how we got here, where we are headed, and what we can do to survive the current threats posed by China.  One word to describe the truths set forth in this book:  SCARY!  

The Forward is written by Baiqiao Tang, Tiananmen Square protester and co-author of My Two Chinas:  The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary.  Here is his money quote:

But facts are facts and the truth is the truth.  And as the pages of this incredibly powerful book unfold, you will be confronted with fact after incontrovertible fact that the rulers in Beijing continue to brutally suppress the voices of china's own people even as they systematically flood the world with dangerous products, use a potent arsenal of merchantilist and protectionist weapons to destroy the economies of America and the West, and rapidly arm themselves with the best weapons systems their elaborate spy network can steal from the Pentagon.

Death by China is easy to read, a book you will share with friends and keep close by for future reference.  As the title of Chapter One says, "It's Not China Bashing If It's  True", and it's ALL TRUE.  Buy this book!

About Death by China ... 

Death by China is a new release by Financial Times Press - a Pearson imprint. The book by Peter Navarro and Greg Autry challenges the dominant paradigm of a "Chinese Miracle" – the one featuring a modernizing, progressive Chinese state heading toward political reform and driving global economic growth with its new found embrace of capitalism and freedom.

Tearing this delusion away, Death by China documents the myriad ways that a powerful, wealthy, and corrupt Chinese Communist Party emboldened by a growing nationalistic frenzy is becoming the biggest threat to global peace, prosperity, and health since Nazi Germany.

From currency manipulation and abusive trade policies, to slave labor and deadly consumer products, China's ruthless rulers threaten the livelihood of the citizens of every developed nation. These thugs have created a frightening amoral society ruled by a constant fear hidden to outsiders and bought off with the ill gotten profits of a myopic quest for economic advantage at any cost – social, environmental, or civil rights concerns be damned. Worse, as with everything else, China is scaling and exporting the model around this world, threatening their neighbors and exploiting developing nations across the globe with a new imperialism.