You know after 9/11 I delved so much into Islam and that religion’s
history I learned way more than any religious-minded Muslim would want me to
know because I began blogging Islamic facts that most Muslims are unaware or in
mandated self-denial.
The Wuhan China derived COVID-19 Pandemic not only has
killed but in America has altered the Liberty Americans love. So I see myself
beginning to obsess all on all Globalist, Communist and especially Communist
China.
Below we read how America’s old enemies are still enemies by
colluding with ChiComs that the American Left keeps wanting to extol rather
than blame. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised about the American Left because they
are all witting or unwitting Communist Fellow Travelers or friendly Useful Idiots of the New World Order Agenda.
The State Department confirmed to staff members of the House
Committee on Oversight and Reform during a briefing on April 15 that the
state-run media in China, Russia, and Iran are working in together to blame the
Wuhan coronavirus pandemic on the United States, according to an internal GOP
Oversight and Reform Committee report.
In the report that was obtained by Townhall, it also laid
out how the World Health Organization and China had been misleading on the
severity of COVID-19 during the early stages of the pandemic, which originated
out of the city of Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province:
"According to a cybersecurity
report, Chinese state-run media has attempted to shift the blame for the
pandemic away from China and instead painted China as a global leader in the
response to the pandemic. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry has
openly blamed U.S. servicemembers for originating the virus in China. China
further censored and detained any Chinese official, including doctors, who
tried to warn of the true origins of the virus.
"The State Department has
confirmed Chinese, Iranian, and Russian state-run media are all promoting
similar messages in an effort to blame the U.S. for COVID-19. Further, China is
attempting to use propaganda regarding its pandemic response to convince the
world that socialism, communism, and authoritarianism are better than freedom,
liberty, and representative government."
The State Department said they are doing the following to
push back against Chinese propaganda:
oUsing a global programmatic
strategy to counter and expose propaganda by partnering with international
organizations to reinforce U.S. messages.
oCountering the CCP’s claim
of supremacy in COVID-19 response by using social media campaigns in Europe,
India, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific to push out the truth about the U.S.
response to the pandemic, including their status as a long-standing leader in
global public health.
oContinual coordination of
foreign media analysis and response between the Group of Seven to ensure a
synergy of effect – multiplying the efforts of all the countries to combat
global propaganda campaigns.
Pointing to the U.S. intelligence community finding evidence
of China purposefully underreporting their number of cases and deaths from
COVID-19, the report said, "The global health community relied on these
early Chinese reports to plan responses in other countries, and such
underreporting may have led other countries to operate under false assumptions
regarding the spread of the virus."
The report further takes aim at the WHO's missteps,
resulting in lost time to adequately prepare for the disease.
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found
no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified
in #Wuhan, #China????. pic.twitter.com/Fnl5P877VG
"These preliminary investigations included China
jailing any doctor that disseminated any information about COVID-19 not first
cleared through state-run media. Additionally, the WHO failed to promote in a
timely manner Taiwanese warnings of human-to-human transmission in December
2019; Taiwan is not currently recognized by the WHO as an independent nation.
On January 23, 2020, the WHO finally recognized human-to-human spread was
occurring – a month after the first warnings," the report stated about the
WHO's now-infamous January 14 tweet.
"By the time the WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on
January 30, 2020, the disease had infected almost 10,000 and killed almost
1,000 people in nineteen different countries," it continued. "The
Guardian has reported the delay in the PHEIC declaration was a result of
intense pressure from China. While making the declaration, Dr. Tedros said
'China is to be congratulated for the extraordinary measures it has taken to
contain the outbreak.' Since then, there have been over 2.5 million new cases
and 175,000 deaths worldwide."
Because the WHO criticized President Trump's order to
restrict travel to and from China and their continued praise for China
"despite clear Chinese efforts to cover-up their complicity in the
pandemic," Oversight Republicans wrote to Dr. Tedros in early April
demanding documents and a briefing. The request included:
oAll documents and
communications regarding public health, including but not limited to COVID-19,
novel coronavirus, or coronavirus, between the WHO and the Chinese Communist
Party or the government of China between August 2019 and present.
oAll documents and
communications regarding the total number of infected persons and deceased
persons related to the current COVID-19 pandemic in China, including those
infected but asymptomatic.
The Ethiopian Embassy contacted Oversight Republicans to
confirm they had received the letter on April 11, but so far, no documents have
been produced and the briefing has yet to be scheduled.
If you live in a nation where the rule of law affords you at
least the semblance of Freedom, you should trust information coming from
Communist China like a mouse should trust a carnivorous snake.
The only indisputable fact about the Coronavirus (increasingly
being called COVID-19) is the point of origin
is Communist China. The official Communist government line on the Coronavirus
is somehow the virus developed in some kind of wetland/fish market in Wuhan.
That line is apparently receiving wide acceptance by the Mainstream Media (MSM)
and official non-Chinese government and health organization outlets.
YET those same outlets are also reporting the Communist
government in China is being less than cooperative in divulging statistical and
scientific data relating to the Coronavirus.
That lack of cooperation has led many investigative news
outlets typically relegated to Conspiracy Theory by the MSM to come to
conclusions that differ from the Communist government line by scanning documented
info that the MSM has failed to divulge or has buried in their difficult to
locate media sections.
Those conclusions disagreeing with the official Communist
government line points from the worst case scenario of a bio-weapon development
accident to a best case scenario bio-virus study accident all spilling into the
Chinese population originating in Wuhan China.
Propping up the Conspiracy Theory conclusions is a
discovered fact (from a Chinese government memo) is that the Communist government
has unleashed thousands of Internet propaganda trolls to counter negative info-stories
relating to the Coronavirus associated with Chinese Communist designs. One such
report on the propaganda trolls comes from The Epoch Times
(who are sadly in the process of transforming from free to subscription):
The propaganda department in
virus-stricken Hubei Province has engaged over
1,600 censors to scrub the internet of “sensitive” information relating to the coronavirus
outbreak, according to an internal document obtained by The Epoch Times.
The internal report, dated Feb. 15,
detailed the agency’s efforts to ramp up censorship measures. It was drafted
after a speech given by Chinese leader Xi Jinping via video link on Feb. 10 to
“frontline responders” of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, the capital of
Hubei, where the virus first broke out.
The revelations come as the Chinese
regime tightens information controls over the worsening outbreak, as netizens
have increasingly turned to the internet to vent their frustrations about the
authorities’ response, or document what is happening on the ground.
The illness has seen a steadily
growing official list of infections and deaths on a daily basis. Experts and
commentators, however, believe the actual number of infections to be far
greater, due to underreporting and shortages in testing kits and hospital
beds—meaning many people are left undiagnosed.
1,600 Trolls Deployed
According to the document, the
department has hired more than 1,600 trolls, known as the 50-cent army in
China, to regulate internet speech continuously, 24/7.
The trolls, through technological
and manual screening, had identified as many as 606,800 posts online with
“sensitive or harmful information,” it said.
Their approach, it said, was to
“timely dispel the online rumors” and “strike powerful blows offline.”
As of Feb. 14, the online censors
had deleted as many as 54,000 such “rumors,” and had social media influencers
write nearly 400 commentary articles to shape the narrative.
I also found a video reporting on Communist Chinese propaganda
manipulation of Coronavirus information. The Internet propaganda trolls begins
about the 6:20 mark of the 18:10 minute video:
An exclusive. We obtained an internal
document that reveals the Chinese #communist regime is ramping up
propaganda efforts inside Hubei province, the epicenter of the #coronavirus outbreak.
And inside #China, cases of the virus in the
Chinese army are also increasing. Photos show soldiers wearing face masks and
getting their body temperature measured.
Japan now has nearly 700 cases of
the coronavirus. 621 of which are from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
The U.S. state department has
labeled five Chinese media outlets as foreign missions to make it clear that
these media outlets primarily trade in propaganda.
You can’t trust a Communist. Think twice before dismissing these
Communist Chinese reports of a screw-up involved with bio-weapon or bio-hazard
research which you should definitely check out:
Doug Bandow writing for the Foundation for Economic
Education (FEE) speculates the Coronavirus
casualties within China could lead to the demise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP – additional
info detail from Alpha History) or at least the demise
of the current leadership of the CCP. I hope he is correct but it is my opinion
that history doesn’t show the Chinese populace rising in anger over authoritarian
rule even back toward Imperial Chinese days. The Mao Zedong Communist movement
took place in a China ultimately governed by various Chinese warlords who
perpetrated the illusion of an emperor. Essentially Mao was a warlord that
defeated other warlords utilizing the Mao concept of Marxism. Perhaps Communist
authoritarianism filtered by Western institutions implanted in Hong Kong and
Taiwan filters a Mainland uprising. I don’t know.
JRH 2/25/20
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Why Chinese Communism Could Be the Final Casualty of the
Coronavirus
The Maoist
totalitarian state is being reborn in China under Xi Jinping, who is constructing a personality
cult akin to that which surrounded the late “Great Helmsman.” Xi is determined
to strengthen his and the Chinese Communist Party’s authority. However, the
response of the Chinese government to the COVID-19 virus has undermined the CCP’s
credibility—and ultimately may threaten the party’s hold on power.
Despite the modern world’s many extraordinary medical
miracles, the potential of a pandemic, an easily transmitted disease with a
high fatality rate, continues to worry medical
professionals. Most people have heard of the Black Death, when bubonic plague
killed between 75 and 200 million people in Eurasia in the mid-1300s. A century
ago the Spanish Flu infected a half billion people and killed between 20 and 50 million worldwide, more than the
number of deaths in World War I.
The worst pandemic in recent years was Ebola between 2014
and 2016: there were about 28,600 cases and 11,300 deaths, an average 40 death
rate, though the fatality rate of specific outbreaks ranged between 25 percent
and 90 percent. SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, infected almost 8,100
and killed roughly 800 people in 2002 to 2003.
SARS is particularly relevant because it also was a coronavirus
that originated in a Chinese “wet market”
that featured the sale of live and wild animals. Beijing’s response to that
health crisis was heavily criticized. In 2004 a report
from an Institute of Medicine forum accused the Chinese government of a “fatal
period of hesitation regarding information sharing and action.” The regime was
more concerned about presenting an atmosphere of calm and stability during a
leadership transition than preventing the spread of a disease of unknown
potency and transmissibility.
Luckily, SARS fell short of past pandemics. However, the
Chinese government is making similar mistakes in its response to what is now
being called COVID-19. The latter appears to be much less deadly than SARS,
though apparently more easily spread. As of mid-February, the number infected
exceeds 73,000, with some 1,900 deaths, assuming Beijing’s
statistics are accurate. Some doctors and outside researchers estimated that 100,000 or more Chinese actually
have been infected.
Nevertheless, the Xi government’s obvious concern belies its
official confidence. Vice Premier Sun Chunlan denounced “quarantine deserters,”
indicating that people were evading the government’s harsh control measures.
The regime just announced that anyone returning to Beijing from elsewhere in
the People’s Republic of China must report to local authorities and self-quarantine
for two weeks. Obviously, a pandemic in the nation’s capital would have
significant political and economic implications.
Handling a medical crisis of this nature will never be easy,
irrespective of the form of government. The PRC faced an additional challenge
because the epidemic hit amid the Lunar New Year, during which tens of millions
of Chinese traditionally travel. Many of those on the move are migrant workers,
who leave the countryside to work in cities. The circumstances could hardly
have been worse.
Nevertheless, the government’s response has fallen short of
that necessary to slow if not stop the disease’s spread. Initial blame rested
with the Wuhan provincial government. Wet markets continue to operate, despite
the evident risk of transmission of diseases from animals to people, the
genesis of both SARS and COVID-19.
Moreover, as the disease first emerged, the province was
reluctant to acknowledge reality. Officials failed to admit person-to-person
transmission and sponsored a Lunar New Year public potluck dinner with more
than 10,000 families intended to set a world record.
“Having a big event like this at a time of an epidemic
amounts to a lack of basic common sense,” observed Shanghai physician Li
Xinzhou.
The province also failed to report a single infection during
the first half of January, which coincided with a local party congress, so as
not to discourage attendance.
Beijing decided to lock down the entire city of 11 million.
But the Xi government gave advance notice that it was closing the airport and
train station, enabling a flood of people to escape while the door was still
open. Five million Wuhan residents ended up elsewhere in China and beyond.
Even with much of its population missing, the city lacked
the essentials to combat the epidemic. The lack of beds caused hospitals to
send patients home to self-quarantine without professional care. That the
authorities had not stockpiled masks, hand-sanitizer, and more to respond to an
unexpected pandemic was perhaps understandable. But refusing to acknowledge let
alone confront the swiftly swelling tsunamic of infections made it impossible
to catch up.
Although Wuhan’s CCP leadership deserved censure—and the
party chief since has been removed—the increasing centralization of power
orchestrated by Xi discouraged local leaders from taking responsibility. That
is a natural and predictable consequence of shifting power upward to the
national leadership. Xu Zhangrun, a law professor who last year lost his
position at Tsinghua University for criticizing Xi, argued that the monopoly of power
“has served to enable a dangerous ‘systematic impotence’ at every level.”
Jude Blanchette of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies argued that: “Xi’s leadership style
has effectively instilled a ‘wait and see’ attitude within the bureaucracy,”
which “is leading to slow and hesitant responses from government officials as
they wait for pronouncements from Beijing before taking action.”
Obviously, the slower the government’s reaction, the less
effective its response. Indeed, Wuhan’s Mayor Zhou Xianwang refused to accept blame, telling
China’s CCTV: “As a local government official, after I get this kind of information
[regarding human-to-human transmission] I still have to wait for authorization
before I can release it.”
In taking control, the central government seemed uncertain
whether to advertise Xi’s role. Having placed him at the “core” of the party
and affirmed his omniscience and omnipotence, it was not easy to limit his
responsibility for handling COVID-19. Nevertheless, for a time Xi disappeared
from public view. Speculation on the reason ranged from protecting Xi from
infection to insulating him from blame. Some compared the episode to 2012, when
the then-vice president similarly vanished, apparently to confront party
challenges centered around provincial chief and politburo member Bo Xilai, who
was ousted and imprisoned.
Instead, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who has been
marginalized by Xi, was
sent to Wuhan to show Beijing’s concern. Apparently,
Li was seen as expendable—though there was no word on whether he was
quarantined on his return. Li also was publicly placed in charge of the CCP’s
“leading small group” on the epidemic. Most LSGs operate without public
attention and at least half are chaired by Xi, presumably to tighten his
control of the party and policy apparatus. But not for COVID-19.
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On January 27, Chinese Premier Li
Keqiang, head of the leading group of the CPC Central Committee on the
prevention and control of the novel coronavirus outbreak, inspected and guided
the efforts to handle the outbreak.]
Finally, after much speculation, the president and party
general secretary ventured onto Beijing’s streets,
with facemask, to highlight the regime’s concern. Xi was said to be “personally
leading and directing” efforts to control the virus, and people were told to
“rally around the party with Xi Jinping at the core.” Said to be in “personal
command,” he issued “important directions” on the issue. He was in full
apparatchik-speak: “We should fight bravely” and “resolutely contain the spread
of the epidemic, and resolutely win the people’s war, an all-out war, a
resistance war to prevent and control the epidemic.”
Still, the regime was quick to blame the US and other
Western nations for banning visitors who had been to the PRC. The Foreign
Ministry accused America of having “unceasingly manufactured and spread panic.”
Yet Hong Kong and Russia tightened travel restrictions before America did so.
Official Chinese media complained about the lack of American
aid, after refusing US offers. At the time the US was preparing a shipment of
materials in short supply. Beijing long refused access to foreign scientists
and refused to furnish the virus to other nations’ laboratories. The Xi regime
defended itself by citing flu deaths in America, even though far more Chinese
die of that infection.
In any case, despite its best efforts, Beijing could not
offload blame for such obvious failings as lack of beds and medical equipment.
Indeed, the Xi government’s attacks on Washington occurred with the backdrop of
increasingly coercive measures being applied in China. For instance, there
currently are more than 80 Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai,
Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen, as well as several provinces, under some
form of lock-down/quarantine/isolation—more than 45 million people.
The regime’s mistakes appear to have damaged its reputation
for competence. Nevertheless, so long as the number of infections and deaths do
not race wildly out of control, and economic activity soon resumes without a
new rush of infections, the consequences of such inefficiency might have only
limited political impact. However, these are major hedges. The economy was
slowing even before the epidemic and the new restrictions imposed in Beijing
suggest that relief remains weeks and perhaps months away.
A soft landing also presumes that the Xi government’s
existing figures can be trusted. Lack of transparency and honesty may be the
regime’s greatest weakness in fighting COVID-19. The CCP previously gained a
reputation for covering up the party’s role in disasters, such as earthquakes
and train accidents. The regime also lost credibility attempting to limit the
political fall-out during the SARS crisis.
Current skepticism exploded after the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, an
ophthalmologist who sounded the alarm when he observed the rise in suspicious
infections. He was detained by the police and accused of spreading “false
information.” He and seven other doctors were threatened with arrest and forced
to admit that they had “severely disrupted the social order.” He then treated
patients, catching the virus and dying at age 34. The government sought to
defuse public hostility by claiming that he was still alive and being treated
even after his death.
Li’s death set off a social media explosion. In the hours
after his death, millions of comments poured in through Weibo, the Chinese
Twitter, and other social media platforms. Before he died Li told an interviewer: “A healthy
society should not have just one voice.” Many posts declared “I want freedom of
speech,” which the government removed as quickly as possible. Even some Chinese
inclined to trust the government went online to express their anger over his
treatment.
Alas, Li was not alone in being silenced. Numerous ad hoc
bloggers and citizen journalists plied Wuhan’s streets and hospitals, filing
reports and posting videos. These activists reported nonexistent test kits and full hospital beds, people turned
away by hospitals, underreported hospital deaths, uncounted deaths of
undiagnosed patients, and increased cremations. These suggested that infection
and death rates are higher than officially stated.
In late January the government relaxed control of private
reporting, but that ended quickly as Beijing took control of the disease
narrative and especially infection statistics. Accounts of doctors, video
bloggers, and ad hoc reporters were deleted. Some bloggers, such as lawyer Chen Qiushi, welder Fang
Bin, and human rights activist Hu Jia, were detained. The latter two were later
released, but the former officially remains in government quarantine.
The regime also distributed
its new media line: “Sources of articles must be strictly regulated,
independent reporting is strictly prohibited, and the use of nonregulated
article sources, particularly self-media, is strictly prohibited.” Social media
providers were told they were under “special supervision.” Moreover, the regime
sent a legion of official journalists to Wuhan and surrounding Hubei province
to “report” on the virus. Cheng Yizhong, a newspaper editor fired for reporting on SARS, nearly
two decades ago, opined: “All Chinese are suffering the bitterness of CCP
monopoly over papers, resources and truth.”
This self-serving censorship has highlighted the more
fundamental problem of tyranny. Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer and human rights
activist who escaped to the US, wrote: “The Chinese Communist Party
has once again proved that authoritarianism is dangerous—not just for human
rights but also for public health.” He charged that the CCP “has succeeded in
turning a public health crisis into a health rights catastrophe.”
Similar was the judgment of fired law professor
Xu Zhangrun: “The coronavirus epidemic has revealed the rotten core of Chinese
governance, the fragile and vacuous heart of the jittering edifice of state has
thereby shown up as never before.” The result, he added, is to abandon “the
people over which it holds sway to suffer the vicissitudes of a cruel fate. It
is a system that turns every natural disaster into an even greater man-made
catastrophe.”
Ominously, Zhangrun has not been heard from since his
article appeared.
A successful conclusion to the epidemic—if infections and
deaths soon plateau and start to fall—might minimize memories of the Xi
government’s inadequate preparation and slow response. However, economic losses
already are huge, in the tens of billions of dollars. And there appears to be
no early end to the crisis.
Zhong Nanshan, an 83-year-old epidemiologist respected for
his role in combatting the SARS epidemic, predicted that COVID-19 infections
would peak this month and end by April. However, he admitted: “We don’t know why
it’s so contagious, so that’s a big problem.” The government’s failure to level
with people at risk, share information with health care professionals to enable
them to respond effectively, and justify to all the tough measures required may
not be easily forgotten.
Some observers compare the pandemic
to the impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union, when
Moscow lied to its own citizens and foreign nations with equal enthusiasm.
However, that blow was delivered to a regime already in a state of advanced
decay. The PRC does not look as vulnerable. Nevertheless, Beijing’s reputation
and prestige have suffered.
Xi and the CCP justify an increasingly authoritarian, even
totalitarian regime on the basis of caring for the Chinese people. The COVID-19
crisis has exposed that claim to be a lie. Popular skepticism toward other
self-serving government claims will rise in the future.
Similar failure in a future crisis, with regime credibility
already damaged, could force political change today considered to be
unthinkable. Ironically, Mao likely would understand the
regime’s peril: “A potentially revolutionary situation exists in any country
where the government consistently fails in its obligation to ensure at least a
minimally decent standard of life for the great majority of its citizens.”
Although he was speaking of people at a “subsistence level,”
the principle has broader effect. Which ultimately could be the PRC’s undoing.
Doug Bandow
is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of a number of books on
economics and politics. He writes regularly on military non-interventionism.
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Are you or have ever been a Sci-Fi fan? I was an enormous
fan in my teens and early adulthood. Today I am more a Sci-Fi dabbler than an
obsessed fan. Here is the reason I share this hobby predilection.
Any future global war will have a military venue that most
people do not imagine in the present unless – you have been or are a Sci-Fi
fan.
I just read a Bill Gertz article in which the phrase “Space
Warfare” is a serious military subject in which current military rivals are
central figures. Science Fiction is a heartbeat away from being Science Fact in
the National Security interests for the United States of America. (Unless
of course Snowflake Obamanites guide our foreign policy into oblivion.)
The Pentagon is preparing for war should China, Russia, or
other adversaries attack vital American satellites and other space systems, a
senior Pentagon official told Congress on Wednesday.
John Rood, undersecretary of defense for policy, testified
before a House subcommittee that the Trump administration's new defense policy
calls for conducting military and other operations in response to space
attacks, mainly by China and Russia.
Rood said American space systems are essential for "our
prosperity, security, and way of life."
"And [Defense Department] space capabilities are
critical for effective deterrence, defense, and force projection
capabilities," he told a hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee
on strategic forces.
"Due to the critical importance of these assets, the
national security strategy states, ‘any harmful interference with or attack
upon critical components of our space architecture that directly affects this
vital U.S. interest will be met with a deliberate response at a time, place,
manner, and domain of our choosing.'"
The statement on space defense was the first clear policy
announcement by a senior U.S. official outlining "declaratory policy"
normally reserved for strategic nuclear weapons use.
The new policy represents a break from the policies of the
Obama administration that sought to promote transparency initiatives and arms
control agreements as a way to limit space weapons or conflict in space.
The policy likely will be opposed by arms control advocates,
and by both China and Russia, which have been promoting agreements limiting
space weapons at the United Nations while secretly building arms for space
conflict.
Rood said the Pentagon has requested $12.5 billion in
funding for the fiscal year 2019 that begins Oct. 1 for building up what he
termed a "more resilient defendable space architecture."
The request is $1.1 billion more than funding for last year
on military space.
Rood, and Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of the
Omaha-based Strategic Command, testified on the command's budget request of $24
billion.
Neither elaborated on what space warfare capabilities are
being developed. The Pentagon also has not said how it would deter and defend
satellites from attack.
Space defense so far has involved development of
intelligence capabilities to identify and assess if an incident in space is an
attack, or the result of a malfunction or disruption due to collision with
space debris.
Military space "resilience" also calls for the
Pentagon to rapidly replace or restore satellites after attacks or other
disruptions.
The Pentagon's Defense Science Board, in a report last year,
warned that the vulnerability of U.S. satellites to electronic attack was
"a crisis to be dealt with immediately."
The Joint Staff intelligence directorate warned earlier this year
that China and Russia will have fully developed space attack weapons in place
by 2020 that will threaten all U.S. satellites in low earth orbit—100 miles to
1,200 miles in space.
More than 780 orbiting satellites operated by 43 nations are
currently in low-earth orbit and are vulnerable to electronic or kinetic attacks.
Satellites form the backbone of the U.S. military's ability
to conduct combined arms warfare over long distances. They provide
communications, navigation, intelligence and surveillance, weapons targeting,
and attack warning.
Analysts say anti-satellites attacks knocking out 12 Global
Positioning System satellites, located in medium-earth orbit around 12,550
miles high, would be severely degraded military operations.
U.S. space weapons are likely to match anti-satellite
weaponry developed by both China and Russia. That would include several types
of weapons and capabilities, ranging from advanced missile defense interceptors
modified for space attacks on satellites, cyber warfare capabilities to disrupt
or destroy anti-satellite and space weapons systems both in space and on the
ground, and lasers and electronic jammers.
A defense source said one of the more stealthy
anti-satellite capabilities being considered is a laser weapon capable of
overheating an orbiting satellite that would disrupt or destroy electronic
components.
Small satellites with robotic arms capable of maneuvering
and grabbing or crushing satellites also could be developed. Such satellites
have been tested by China.
The experimental space plane known as the X-37B, that has
been secretly tested on long-duration flights in space, is also said to be a
potential platform for delivering weapons and fighting in space.
Hyten, the Stratcom commander, said in his prepared
statement that the Pentagon and National Reconnaissance Office are implementing
a "space warfighting construct."
"This construct supports the national space policy and
focuses on the forces, operations, and systems needed to prevail in a conflict
that extends into space," he said.
"Space is a warfighting domain just like the air,
ground, maritime, and cyberspace domains," Hyten said.
Currently, a defense and intelligence center called the
National Space Defense Center [Blog Editor: NSDC
info], located at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, runs 24-hour
operations for rapid detection, warning, and defense from space attacks.
War games involving space war also are held regularly with
U.S. military forces and allies, including Asian and European allies.
Hyten also revealed that U.S. adversaries will deploy
hypersonic strike vehicles—that can travel at more than 7,000 miles per hour—in
the next few years.
China has conducted at least seven tests of hypersonic
vehicles and Russia as well has conducted several hypersonic missile tests.
The hypersonic vehicles are designed to defeat missile
defenses.
Hyten urged speeding up U.S. development of hypersonic
strike weapons as well as what he termed conventional prompt strike weapons.
"New long-range, survivable, lethal, and time-sensitive
strike capabilities, such as a hypersonic (conventional prompt strike) weapon,
will allow the U.S. to achieve its military objectives in these
environments," Hyten said. "This new weapon class prevents
adversaries from exploiting time and distance and provides additional response
options below the nuclear threshold."
Rood said U.S. missile defenses currently are configured for
countering missile threats from North Korea and Iran and are not capable of
stopping strategic strikes from China and Russia.
The undersecretary described China and Russia as the
"central challenges" for the Pentagon in an increasingly complex
military threat environment. "Both Russia and China are seeking to reshape
the world order," he said.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.), the subcommittee chairman, has
been pressing for creation of a separate space corps within the Air Force.
Defense legislation passed last year calls for a study on
the issue and for recognizing space as a warfighting domain.
"These were the first steps down a long path in the
right direction," Rogers said. "Much remains to be done here to
ensure we're postured to both successfully deter a conflict in space, and if
need be, prevail over any adversary if a conflict extends into space."
Rogers said for space defense, the Air Force has discussed
the idea of shifting from large satellites to many smaller satellites.
"But what I've seen so far in the FY '19 budget isn't convincing me we're
heading in that direction fast enough," he said.
As part of the Pentagon's budget for nuclear modernization,
two modified nuclear weapons are planned.
One is a smaller warhead on submarine-launched ballistic
missiles, to counter Russia's development of a new nuclear cruise missile in
violation of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Force Treaty.
A second smaller nuclear weapon will be a new sea-launched
nuclear cruise missile designed to counter China's large arsenal of medium and
intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
The Pentagon also is bolstering the ground-based
anti-missile interceptor force now located in Alaska and California. Twenty
additional interceptors will be added to the 44 interceptors currently in
place.
The added missiles are designed to counter North Korean and
Iranian long-range missile threats.
Rood said the Pentagon is considering a third anti-missile
interceptor base on the East Coast but has not made a final decision.
The third base will be part of the Pentagon's forthcoming
Missile Defense Review that is nearing completion.
Rood said recent disclosures of new strategic nuclear
capabilities by Russia were known to the Pentagon. The statements were
"not surprising but disappointing," he said.
As for China, Rood warned that China is "developing a
very large strategic offensive nuclear force."
"Both countries are pursuing hypersonic weapons and
other capabilities and their behavior in the cyber realm concerns us," he
said. "All of those things apiece are concerning and why in the national
defense strategy we highlighted those two countries as our primary and central
focus for our national security efforts going forward."
Asked if the U.S. doctrine of mutual assured destruction
used to deter nuclear conflict with China and Russia will endure, Hyten said:
"I don't think we have to worry about that for at least a decade."
U.S. strategic nuclear capabilities will remain strong
enough to keep the doctrine in place, he added.
Hyten said Strategic Command is interested in developing
missile defenses capable of knocking out missiles in the early stages of
flight.
Direct energy and cyber attacks are two possible weapons.
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to have a cruise missile fired at his desk after he wrote a column critical of
the CIA’s analysis of China. And China’s communist government has criticized
him for news reports exposing China’s weapons and missile sales to rogues
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Cliff Kincaid writes about the stealth threat of Communism
still pervasive in America and gives a huge amount of credit to Barack Hussein
Obama for this stealth infusion.
Kincaid mentions Sebastian Gorka as a person exposing
Communism intrusion from China and the infusion of Stealth Islamic jihadism in
the USA. But Kincaid criticizes Gorka for not including Russia (former USSR) in
this Marxist makeover being secretly paved into the American consciousness.
I’m a Gorka fan so I not really hip to criticizing him. I
would be more inclined to ask Gorka to add the Russian influence to the other
outside anti-American influences. I have no doubt Gorka would side with that.
It’s suddenly big news that
there are perverts in Hollywood. The really big news is that former President
Barack Hussein Obama’s communist and terrorist-support network remains a state
secret. Attorney General Jeff Sessions won’t touch it.
Until we come to grips with
Obama, our first Marxist president with radical Muslim sympathies, we are
adrift as a nation. He ran for office as a “committed
Christian,” a monumental deception to conceal his record of
service to the communist cause, Muslim background, and grooming by suspected
Soviet espionage agent Frank Marshall Davis.
As the world marks the 100th
anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution, America should take note of our own
communist revolution – the eight years of the Obama presidency and his
leadership of the global anti-Trump “resistance.”
AWND story says
former Trump White House aide Sebastian Gorka believes radical Islamic
jihadists, China and radical leftists pose the greatest threats to U.S.
national security, but that “they will be defeated by President Trump and his
supporters who are restoring America’s global dominance and reclaiming the
country’s culture.”
Based on the record so far,
this is as likely as Hollywood coming completely clean about Harvey Weinstein’s
perversities.
Russia is not even on the
list of Gorka’s top three threats! Yet Russia is behind the Jihadists, is in an
alliance with Red China, and still backs the radical leftists.
Gorka tells WND, “The
immediate term threat is the Shia-jihadis – this is Iran, this is the
Republican Guard, Hezbollah. If they get nuclear weapons, that’s a game changer
and that’s why it’s so important the president decertified the Iran deal.”
Yet, Iran’s nuclear weapons
program is made possible by Russia. Why no mention of that? And why didn’t
Trump cancel the Iran deal as he promised to do?
In the first place, Obama
should have been impeached. Under United Nations auspices, he ordered the
bombing of Libya, in order to depose a ruler, Gadhafi, who had given up his
weapons of mass destruction and was fighting al Qaeda. The massacre of
Americans in Benghazi by Jihadists resulted from this illegal and
unconstitutional war. All of this benefited the Muslim Brotherhood. Indeed,
Obama issued a secret 2011 Presidential Study Directive-11, or PSD-11,
supporting this radical Islamist group throughout the Middle East.
National security reporter
Bill Gertzsaid, “The
directive, according to officials familiar with its contents, outlined how the
administration would seek to support the Muslim Brotherhood around the world
despite the Islamist supremacist organization providing the ideological
underpinning for jihadist terrorism for both al Qaeda and its successor, the
Islamic State.”
PSD-11, which is still
secret, should be released by the Trump Administration and declared exhibit
number one in a criminal investigation of Barack Hussein Obama.
Trump was supposed to turn
things around. In Afghanistan, Gorka tells WND that Trump’s speech sending more
American soldiers to their deaths in an endless conflict didn’t use the words
“radical Islamic terrorism.” He was upset about that omission. But Trump
alsodidn’t mentionRussia’s
role insending armsto
a Taliban faction killing our troops.
This is what we called
theRed Jihad, a
book quoting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that
Soviet/Russian support for international terrorism made radical Islam into the
threat it is today. He explains that, “without the support offered by the
Soviet bloc and the Arab world, international terrorism would revert to its earlier,
localized manifestations before the 1960s and would hardly dominate the global
scene.”
If you want to defeat radical
Islam, engineer regime change in Russia, which is still the global center of
revolutionary violence against America.
Domestically, Sebastian Gorka
mentions in the WND interview the influence of Obama associates Bill Ayers and
Bernardine Dohrn in academia, but ignores how their communist terrorist
networks spawned the Obama candidacy and presidency. These networks, nurtured
even today by Bill Ayers in his new book, Demand the Impossible: A
Radical Manifesto, are promising an uprising of some sort on November 4.
The Refuse Fascismgroup,
which is behind the November 4 protests, is a front of the Revolutionary
Communist Party and its founder, former Ayers and Dohrn associate Bob Avakian.
As we document inComrade Obama Unmasked,
Obama supported America’s enemies at every opportunity, including the communist
regime in Cuba, the communists running South Africa, and even the FARC
narco-terrorists in Colombia.
But he stands out during his
eight years in office as the real Russian agent, who was passive when Russia
invaded Ukraine and Syria, gave Russia a nuclear weapons advantage over the
U.S., and awarded the Russians special trading privileges. Working with Russia,
he conceived the Iran nuclear deal.
However, on his way out the
door, in a classic Marxist dialectical maneuver, his CIA director John Brennan
launched an investigation of President Trump as a Russia agent. It was a stroke
of genius that put Trump on the defensive, gave the liberal news media months
of joy, and resulted in multiple Russia-gate investigations, including by a
former FBI director determined to get Trump.
On the 100th anniversary of
the Virgin Mary Fatima revelations about Russia’s threat to world peace, we
also learn from Dr. Paul Kengor’s new book that the Soviets were behind the May
13, 1981, attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II. The book, A
Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold
Story of the 20th Century, says Reagan’s CIA director Bill Casey confirmed
the Soviet role, in the face of official CIA resistance to the finding.
Until the reality of Obama’s
communist support is examined and the secret role of Russia in global conflict
exposed, the former president and America’s enemies will have the upper hand.
But Gorka and Trump seem
clueless. “China has the most leverage to deal with North Korea,” Gorka told
WND. “And the fact that the president and Ambassador Haley at the U.N. have
managed to convince China that even if you’re in a competition with us, you
will not profit by having a nuclear war on your border and they joined us with
Russia – it’s a big deal – in the tightest sanctions package against North
Korea in history, that tells you how big a problem North Korea is. China may be
our long-term enemy, but they don’t [want] a war in their back doorstep
either.”
Does he really think another
in an endless series of U.N. resolutions will make any difference? The U.N. is
another communist front, designed by a Russian agent working in our State
Department by the name of Alger Hiss. Have we forgotten?
Working through the U.N. is a
dangerous dead end.
Our book The Sword of Revolutionconclusively demonstrates that the “Sino-Soviet split” was a fraud. What’s
more, the “collapse” of Red Russia was itself a fraud, too. Together, China and
Russia, combined with Obama’s inaction during his two terms, have made a
nuclear North Korea a reality.
What’s more, China is still
communist. An article in China Daily, entitled, “Adapting Marxism called
crucial,”explains how Marxism is guiding the country’s
future. Here’s a quote:
President Xi Jinping, also
general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee…said that as a party upholding Marxism, the CPC
should make sure its theories keep up with the times. Drifting away from or
betraying Marxism will lead to the Party’s losing its soul and direction as it
moves forward, Xi added. Marxism is unsurpassed in achieving great
heights and having a huge influence, he said.
The reliance on China to deal
with its nuclear client, North Korea, is another dead end.
The key failure involves the
inability or unwillingness to investigate Obama’s global network and what his
anti-American policies were designed to do.
In terms of the threat
within, consider that the FBI website still features wanted posters of two
fugitives:Donna BorupandElizabeth Anna Duke, both
members of the May 19th Communist Organization.
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, a
speaker at our upcomingNovember 10 National conference on
Obamunism, hascited evidencethat
Obama was a member or supporter of the May 19th Communist Organization, an
above ground support group for the Weather Underground based in New York City
from 1978-1985.
He notes that the May 19
Communist Organization was described by Obama pal and former communist
terrorist Bill Ayers as providing “a sea for the guerillas to swim in.”
Some May 19 members committed
acts of violence and terrorism, such as the 1981 Nanuet Brinks robbery and murders,
the bombing of South African offices in 1981, and the U.S. Capital bombing in
1983, notes Gilbert. He adds, “I spoke with a former FBI informant who told
me the May 19th Communist Organization had a weapons training camp in the
Catskill Mountains, run by former Black Panthers. In addition, some May 19
members were sent to Cuba for several weeks each year with the Venceremos
Brigades, a continuation of the SDS/Weather Underground program begun in the
sixties, for explosives training from Cuban intelligence, DGI.”
Here’s the big revelation: “A
former May 19 member I spoke with identified Obama as participating in their
public protests and meetings. In his ‘Dreams’ book, Obama mentions
transferring to Columbia to pursue his interest in activism and recounts
attendance at some events similar to those sponsored by May 19.”
This might help explain why
Borup and Duke are still on the loose. And why Obama never demanded the
extradition of Black Liberation Army cop-killer Assata
Shakurand FALN bomb-makerWilliam Moralesfrom Cuba.
In addition to the focus on
Obama, our November 10 conference will expose the Red Pope, Francis, who was
Obama’s collaborator after a George Soros-engineered coup forced Pope Benedict
to resign. The old joke, “Is the Pope Catholic?,” is not funny anymore. This
pope is not Catholic; he’s a communist.
George Neumayr, author
of The Political Pope, examines the communist ideology driving
Jesuit Pope Francis and the movement for world government in the ASI TV
program“The Red Pope: Enemy
Occupation of the Vatican.”
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