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Tibetan Unrest and Economic Implications: ‘Nancy Pelosi’s War’

1. “Nancy Pelosi’s War”

If you have not seen the film Charlie Wilson’s War, then do! It, along with Crile’s book, is brilliant, funny and realistic.
Ms. Pelosi is no less cunning, and no doubt must feel very motivated by the movie.
Having dealt with her indirectly in the late 1980s, she must be one of the strongest China-haters on the Hill.
Thus, she loves stirring, all the more so ahead of the not so august Olympics this August.
Indeed, there already are many fissures in the fiefdoms that constitute a medieval society wearing ties…
But one cannot blame the Tibetan mess solely on a lady from San Francisco. So why did the Tibetans riot from 14th – 15th March? Said Economist provides some clues:
Strong economic growth has helped the Han Chinese, but not the local Tibetans;
The hard-line policies of Tibet’s party chief are hated. Zhang Qingli has quelled participation in religious activities, and has denounced the deeply-revered Dalai Lama. Seems to me that the stature of the Dalai Lama is to Tibetans what the stature of the King of Thailand is to the Thais.

2. Circling the Wagons

Of course it is not only Nancy Pelosi stirring.
In Charlie Wilson’s War, Gen. Zia wanted the Americans to get the Afghan pot boiling – but not boiling over into Pakistan. In “Nancy Pelosi’s War”, however, the Americans want the Tibetan pot to boil over into China.
Tibetan “reach”. That is easy: according to The Economist of 22nd March, 2008, p. 27, “Since March 10th protests have been reported not only in Lhasa’s main monasteries…but also at Samye Monastery about 60 km east of Lhasa, Labrabrang Monastery in Gansu province, Kirti Monastery in Sichuan province, and Rongwo Monastery in Qinghai province. Tibet’s traditional boundaries stretch into these provinces.”
Olympic flames. The Olympic flame is due to arrive in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, on June 20. How embarrassing to the Chinese if this festivity is marred by more Tibetan riots…
Muslims. We read further that “China worries too about the possibility that other ethnic minorities in China, particularly Muslim Uighurs in the far western region of Xinjiang, may be emboldened by Tibetan activism if it is left unchecked.”
India. However, with the Dalai Lama living in India, the Indians are not keen for the Tibetan pot to boil over into India. This is because India wants stress-free relations with China.
This is part of a larger strategy designed to encircle China: North Korea is not going well for the Americans, while Japan is dying a slow death. Thank heavens that Taiwan’s election results were favorable. America now wants to help Vietnam. And America is putting nuclear missile shields into Russia’s nether regions. That is what I mean that America is circling the wagons around China.

3. Insides and Outsides

Another point fueling Tibet flames is that the US is a domestic mess, what with sub-prime and elections.
Thus, when things get messy on the inside, politicians invariably get nasty on the outside – in order to deflect criticism for their domestic stupidities – anywhere, not just in America! Tibet plays into this hand.

4. Market Implications

The Economic Time™ keeps worsening in America. This means that U.S. markets will continue their volatility.
That market volatility gets fanned worldwide because we all are linked psychologically – now more than ever, courtesy of the internet.
Finally, China’s markets already are down 2x more than America’s, so if the Tibetan pot does boil over into China, then watch their markets take an even greater drubbing. Hong Kong and Taiwan cannot be excluded from this.
All of which suggests that things are not so different this time around.

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Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly

Every 11 years or so, the sun gets a little pissy. It breaks out in a rash of planet-sized sunspots that spew superhot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward Earth at nearly the speed of light. These solar windstorms have been known to knock out power grids and TV broadcasts, and our growing reliance on space-based technology makes us more vulnerable than ever to their effects. On January 3, scientists discovered a reverse-polarity sunspot, signaling the start of a new cycle — and some are predicting that at its peak (in about four years) things are gonna get nasty. Here’s a forecast for 2012.

Detours
Clumps of ions in the atmosphere could interfere with GPS. Satellite signals are slowed by bumping into particles, meaning your trusty navigator may lose its way. Remember those colorful paper things called maps?

Falling Satellites
Increased solar energy heats Earth’s atmosphere, causing it to expand. That’s a drag on low-flying satellites and can even knock them out of orbit. A solar storm in 1979 deposited Skylab on Australia.

Layovers in Alaska
Particles are drawn to Earth’s magnetic poles, right through popular flight paths. Electrons absorb the energy in shortwave signals, causing radio blackouts — and unscheduled stops in Anchorage.

Light Shows
Auroras occur when waves of charged particles light up gases in the upper atmosphere. As more particles stream in, the so-called aurora oval grows, bringing the “northern lights” as far south as Key West.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-04/st_spaceweather

Heavy fighting continues in Basra

-US airstrikes kill Iraqi civilians-

 

Heavy fighting has erupted in Basra as military operations against gunmen in the southern city entered a third day, witnesses say.

Rocket propelled grenades and mortar, machine gun and small arms fire rocked the central Jumhuriyah neighborhood from early morning, AFP reported.

Fighting has spread to Sadr’s stronghold in Baghdad and other cities, with at least 50 people killed countrywide since the clashes started on Tuesday, according to Iraqi officials.

Police spokesman Colonel Karim al-Zaidi said the convoy of Basra police chief, Major General Abdul Jalil Khalaf, was hit by a car bomber around 1:00 am on Thursday (2200 GMT Wednesday) as it passed through the streets of the city.

“Three policemen were killed in the attack,” Zaidi said, adding that Khalaf was unharmed.

Residents said the streets of the oil-rich city of 1.5 million people, Iraq’s economic nerve centre, were deserted on Thursday and that shops and businesses remained shut.

Maliki on Wednesday gave militiamen battling the Iraqi government forces in Basra 72 hours to lay down their arms and warned that those failing to do so would face the full brunt of the law.

The US military spokesman Major General Kevin Bergner told a news conference on Wednesday that 2,000 extra Iraqi security forces had been sent to Basra for the operation.

He said it was aimed at improving security in the city ahead of provincial elections in October.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=49149§ionid=351020201

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US airstrikes kill Iraqi civilians

British Launch `Great Eurasian War’ Drive

by Jeffrey Steinberg

The British oligarchy, working through British intelligence and its longstanding assets and dupes, has launched a series of provocations, aimed at triggering what Lyndon LaRouche has described as a new “Great Eurasian War,” pitting the trans-Atlantic powers against China, Russia, India, and other leading Eurasian states. The drive for war is coming from the highest levels of the British oligarchy, and is aimed at preventing, at all costs, the kind of collaboration among the United States, Russia, India, and China advocated by LaRouche, to deal with the onrushing collapse of the post-Bretton Woods global financial system.

As in the 1920s and 1930s, the British oligarchy, today, is pressing for the imposition of fascism in Europe and the Americas, and for malthusian wars across Eurasia, aimed at wiping out the nation-state system, and a vast majority of the population of the planet, to establish a London-run world empire. British Royal Consort Prince Philip would unleash the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: He has stated publicly that he would like to be “reincarnated as a particularly deadly virus,” in order to drastically reduce the world’s population. London is now aggressively moving into the implementation phase of that genocidal scheme, just as it moved in an earlier period to engineer two world wars in Eurasia during the 20th Century, to defeat the spread of American System republicanism across the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair promotes this one-world nightmare as a “post-Westphalian world,” a reference to the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, which ended the Thirty Years War, by establishing the principle of “the benefit of the other,” and an acceptance of the idea of a system of sovereign nation-states. Blair, and others, wish to see the era of the nation-state come to a bloody end, starting with the total destruction of the United States from within. Indeed, Blair is peddling these ideas as part of his campaign to be the first president of the European fascist super-state, which would come into being early in 2009, if the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty is passed by all the European parliaments.

It is from this standpoint, alone, that the assassinations and other destabilizations of the recent months, in Tibet, in Pakistan/Afghanistan, in the Caucasus, and in the Persian Gulf and Eastern Mediterranean, can be understood. As LaRouche recently warned: Do not look for local causes, or event-driven explanations for the near-simultaneous outbreak of chaos throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Ibero-America. We are witnessing a top-down, London-orchestrated global confrontation, aimed at spreading permanent chaos across much of the globe, as the British financier oligarchs seek to impose fascism in Europe, and also in the United States, through their corporatist schemes, and their Michael Bloomberg Presidential manueverings. London vows that under no circumstances will it permit another “Franklin Roosevelt reflex” in the United States, in response to the near-total collapse of the once-dominant American agro-industrial economy, and the onrushing evaporation of the global financial system. London would sooner kill, than see a revival of FDR anti-fascist policy from Washington.

And, while both the Lisbon Treaty and the Felix Rohatyn- and George Shultz-led Bloomberg scheme are meeting with significant, mounting resistance, the war plans targeting Asia are moving forward with breathtaking speed, despite significant resistance from among the leading Asian nations, themselves.

Venetian ‘Index Cards’
There is a dangerous, widespread belief today, even among leading policy-making circles in the Americas and Europe, that the British Empire is a thing of the past. This dangerous delusion reflects a sorry lack of understanding of the Venetian method of financier oligarchical rule, and could, if not rectified, bring on a New Dark Age of horrible suffering.

Today’s generation of British oligarchs and their vast intelligence establishment operate on the same “Venetian” principles as their predecessors, from the 18th- and 19th-Century epoch of undisputed British global imperial domination, during the heyday of the British East India Company. They always play divide-and-conquer, manipulating religious, ethnic, racial, and cultural fault-lines, to rule by promoting perpetual chaos.

Talk to any well-informed senior intelligence official from a nation targeted for British destabilization. They will all tell the same story, about British junior officers, sometimes presenting themselves as “cultural anthropologists,” or even journalists, walking from one village to another, in the most remote, God-forsaken areas of their country, updating the card-files on the local tribal sheikhs, religious leaders, and warriors; updating genealogical charts; and following clan disputes from generation to generation. It is this method, and this repository of in-depth profiles of targeted populations, that is key to the Anglo-Dutch “Venetian method.” Very often, the most senior British intelligence operatives deploy from major British universities, such as Oxford and Cambridge; from so-called news organizations, such as The Economist and Reuters and BBC; and from the House of Lords.

The Case of Tibet, Now Considered
It is from this vantage point, alone, that the case of the onrushing destabilization of the Chinese province of Tibet—ostensibly launched with anti-Chinese Tibetan independence riots in the capital city of Lhasa on March 10—can be assessed. The target of this destabilization, as well as the soon-to-be unleashed destabilization of China’s Xinjiang Province, by Muslim Uighur separatists, is China. London intends to provoke a confrontation between China and the West, to be the opening phase of a larger Eurasian war, soon to target Russia and India as well.

Tibet has been a playground for British intelligence operations against China for more than a century, based on the initial British colonial-era interest in establishing a buffer state between its India colonies and China, and using that buffer state, on key occasions, to provoke actual war.

It was during the early 1930s, as Russia and China were being militarily challenged by Britain’s ally Japan, that Britain trained and armed a separatist army, under the 13th Dalai Lama, to split Tibet out of China. At the same time, Britain trained and armed a Uighur Muslim uprising in southern Xinjiang Province in western China, which promoted then, and still does, to this day, an independent, mythical “East Turkestan.”

In May 1933, the Soviet news agency TASS reported on the Uighur uprising and its links to the British-led actions in Tibet, in terms that could easily describe the British plans being activated today: The Xinjiang uprising, TASS wrote, “must be considered as definitely connected with the operations of Tibetan troops…. There is no doubt that interested imperialist countries are endeavoring to utilize the present moment to set up in Xinjiang, a Mohammedan state hostile to China, which would be dependent upon them and would serve as a buffer between the U.S.S.R. and China in the northwest, just as ‘Manchukuo’ the Japanese puppet state does in the northeast.”

One of the architects of those 1930s Tibetan and Xinjiang operations for British intelligence was Hugh Richardson (1905-2000), a third-generation veteran of the British Foreign Office’s India Office, who spent nine years in Tibet during the 1930s and 1940s, and became the British “handler” of the young 14th Dalai Lama, as well as the protector, after World War II, of the leading Nazi agents in Tibet, including Heinrich Harrer and Bruno Beger. A recipient of the Order of the British Empire, Richardson was the architect of the “independent” Tibet hoax, and recruited a next generation of British intelligence Tibet-handlers, including Michael Aris (the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi, the British intelligence-run Myanmar “opposition” leader). Upon his “retirement” in 1951, Richardson established the Tibet Society of the U.K., at the time the only non-governmental organization in the world that disputed Chinese sovereignty over Tibet; and later founded the Richardson Foundation, to recruit young Tibetans to British service.

Richardson, himself, had been recruited and trained by Basil Gould and Sir Charles Bell, two earlier Tibet handlers for the British secret services, who had worked on the original British invasion of Tibet in 1903, with Francis Younghusband, the military commander of that operation, which, in effect, sealed off Tibet from China. Richardson was the author of secret British intelligence profiles on Tibet, and a series of published works, profiling the culture and history of the Himalayan region.

U.S. Institutional Loss of Memory
During the 1920s and 1930s, the General Staff of the United States military maintained war plans, which included plans for a U.S. war against the Anglo-Japanese axis. The British targeting of China, described above, was well known among American intelligence specialists, and “War Plan Red-Orange,” the specific American plan to fight against Great Britain and Japan, was regularly updated, and considered a very real proposition. Today, the mere historical existence of U.S. war plans to fight Britain is almost unknown, except among a rare breed of military historians of the period.

The unravelling British campaign to break up China, as an opening shot in a Eurasian war, pitting Europe and the United States against China, India, and Russia, poses a grave danger—particularly as the Bush Administration, leading Congressional Democrats like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and most European governments, fall in, lock-step, behind the British schemes, out of ignorance or worse.

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2008/3513brit_eurasian_war.html