The news does keep on coming, this from The Times of India:
Six Chinese ships sailed into waters around a disputed archipelago on Friday, with Beijing saying they were there for ‘law enforcement’ around islands Japan nationalized earlier this week. The move – dubbed ‘unprecedented’ by Tokyo – came as it was reported Japanese nationals had been physically attacked in China, marking the latest stage in a deteriorating row between Asia’s two biggest economies.
Japanese living in or visiting China were warned to take extra precautions after assaults and harassment were reported to the consulate in Shanghai, a base for Japanese businesses and a popular tourist destination.
Meanwhile, back in the Middle East:
The State Department has gone into full-blown crisis mode, organizing a round-the-clock effort to coordinate the U.S. government’s response to the expanding attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East and North Africa.
And in America itself:
Thousands of people streamed off three college campuses Friday after bomb threats prompted officials to issue evacuation orders for schools in Texas, North Dakota and Ohio. . . .
The first threat came around 8:35 a.m. to the University of Texas from a man claiming to belong to al-Qaida, officials said. The caller claimed bombs placed throughout campus would go off in 90 minutes, but administrators waited more than an hour before blaring sirens on the campus of 50,000 students and telling them to immediately “get as far away as possible” in emergency text messages.
Meanwhile, in local news just in, Kerry Stokes, the owner of the 7 Network, stated in relation to US troops stationed in Australia that he “must be the only Australian in Australia that is physically repulsed by the thought of armed people on my soil not being under our command.” I can only hope that’s true.
America under attack throughout the world…
Obama heads to Vegas to party.
C.L.
15 Sep 12 at 1:10 pm
Obama Tweets following arrival of ambassador’s body:
As US Ambassador’s Coffin Returns to US – Obama Camp Tweets About Jackets.
C.L.
15 Sep 12 at 1:12 pm
Not “following” CL. That tweet went out as the coffins were being unloaded!
Anne
15 Sep 12 at 1:32 pm
If the US is happy for us to maintain a base in the US, I’m happy for them to maintain one here.
Otherwise Kerry has a point. Then again, if the current form is anything to go by, we aren’t taking great care of our own defense..
Driftforge
15 Sep 12 at 1:38 pm
What a dumbo. Alliances have existed since the dawn of time. This kind of jingoistic sentiment is the worst sort of insular, blinkered nationalism.
“Only Aussie soldiers on Aussie soil! Oi! Oi! Oi!”
With that kind of attitude, no nation could ever have a functioning alliance with another nation.
dd
15 Sep 12 at 1:41 pm
Steve – Is the title supposed to be drawing a parallel between the US today and Germany 1938?
Driftforge
15 Sep 12 at 1:43 pm
Does it really need pointing out that the US alliance is the best defense we’ve got?
Right now, the US Alliance is our defense. That’s it. We have no functioning navy, and as for ground forces, we have a whole 29 tanks. Our national defense is an embarrassment, yet the US is still there, ready to come to help if needed. It’s a very good deal for us. Why on earth would we want to make more demands of them? What are we threatening – withdraw from the alliance? Without them, we’re sunk.
dd
15 Sep 12 at 1:46 pm
Well said dd
JamesK
15 Sep 12 at 1:49 pm
I’m just thinking about all of the combustible material around that could turn into a real conflagration. Things seem to be spinning out of control with no idea how they can be resolved. Just like it must have been in 1938 which did not end up with peace in our time.
Steve Kates
15 Sep 12 at 1:50 pm
You are on the money Steve noting the Japan/China situation.
The CCP knows they are riding a tiger (to use the cliche) and if they can’t deliver 8% growth the pressure in the pressure cooker is going to build.
It is noticeable that each time the Chinese economy noticeably slows the anti-Japan rhetoric builds.
Token
15 Sep 12 at 1:54 pm
Well if it does end up in a not peaceful solution, one thing is for sure, green power will fly out the window quick smart. That coal and oil will be crankin’.
Helen Armstrong
15 Sep 12 at 1:59 pm
Not “following” CL. That tweet went out as the coffins were being unloaded!
How much more convincing can those uncommitted to either candidate need?
dover_beach
15 Sep 12 at 2:02 pm
Meanwhile, back at the White House…Mr President it’s time to show up for work
New video ad, 47secs.
Gab
15 Sep 12 at 2:11 pm
Great ad. The empty chair will become the enduring motif of this presidential campaign and of Obama’s presidency.
dover_beach
15 Sep 12 at 2:23 pm
No, no, no Helen, it’ll be alright. Christine Milne and the Greens will send fruit baskets. That will cool things down.
Anne
15 Sep 12 at 2:49 pm
Pretty close to the truth Steve Kates. It should be remembered that a year later, the German troops leaving for the Polish Front from Berlin did so without massed, cheering crowds. This is all about big egos and little men who will sell millions of their own people to their deaths for the “Greater Glory of Something or Other.”
Bob Sewell
15 Sep 12 at 2:58 pm
That’s hilarious Dover.
Here’s another ad –
Hilary caught red handed with the Constitution in one hand and pair of scissors in the other and a strip of paper which reads Freedom of Speech hanging out of her mouth.
Anne
15 Sep 12 at 2:58 pm
Protests in Sydney, right now. Police use tear gas.
dd
15 Sep 12 at 3:00 pm
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/gillard_bets_we_wont_need_a_defence_force_for_decades/
Whatever it takes. Australia is in the very best of hands.
Ivan Denisovich
15 Sep 12 at 3:04 pm
From dd’s link:
Don’t anyone in Australia dare say anything derogatory against their bloody prophet. If they don’t get you then the RDA will.
Gab
15 Sep 12 at 3:05 pm
The situation is indeed very dangerous and this drives home the point that now is not the time for Leftists to be in power. Things are just too delicate to even allow Leftist ideas to enter the mix.
Fisky
15 Sep 12 at 3:10 pm
Problem solved:
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/all_aboard_the_hmas_flannery/
Ivan Denisovich
15 Sep 12 at 3:33 pm
I look forward to hearing Linda Mottram’s take on the Sydney riot.Will she postulate a “controlled” version of beheading for prophet insulters?
Lew
15 Sep 12 at 3:33 pm
Compare and contrast:
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/-299428–.html
Ivan Denisovich
15 Sep 12 at 3:43 pm
China does have a lot of young men.
Ellen of Tasmania
15 Sep 12 at 3:46 pm
It is never time for leftists to be in power. Their role is as whiny fools making noise on the sidelines, not playing or directing the game.
brc
15 Sep 12 at 3:48 pm
Yes, well. I don’t think we should grant them that luxury either.
Fisky
15 Sep 12 at 4:31 pm
Let’s face facts, these Muslim male fuckwits protesting in Sydney have a credibility problem.
The fact that they felt the need to migrate to the West is a problem.
The sight of people living successfully without Islam must drive them insane.
ella
15 Sep 12 at 5:04 pm
They haven’t migrated Ella, they’ve infiltrated. That’s the grand plan! Disseminate cancer cells in all countries. Didn’t you see the placards? Sharia Law worldwide!
Anne
15 Sep 12 at 5:17 pm
No of course it’s not like in 1938, what a stupid comparison. Honestly Steve, you do write some dumbarse OPs.
If there is a domestic analogy today, it is to the days before the Cronulla riots. Hopefully Alan Jones doesn’t bob his fat head up again and incite things further.
m0nty
15 Sep 12 at 5:34 pm
it is to the days before the Cronulla riots.
Dear God.
dover_beach
15 Sep 12 at 5:56 pm
m0nty, aren’t you the guy who supported the “philosophy that people can and should be defined by race”?
Fisky
15 Sep 12 at 5:57 pm
How long before some ABC and Fairfax pundits start blaming the police and/or some alleged deficiency in the Australian character for the violence? I see some have hastened to blame talk back radio identities in a pre-emptive strike! (“please don’t incite me, I have no self control”).
And one wonders if Kerry Stokes (who has never worn an army uniform of any kind) is “physically repulsed”?
Siltstone
15 Sep 12 at 6:00 pm
FTFY
Nanuestalker
15 Sep 12 at 6:01 pm
Here’s m0nty And here’s Alan Jones.
Who’s head is fattest? I link, you decide.
Fisky
15 Sep 12 at 6:08 pm
Were there this many trolls in 1938? There certainly were in 2005 before Cronulla.
m0nty
15 Sep 12 at 6:19 pm
Somebody pinch me (not you, m0nty, you filthy pervert). Did m0nty really call Alan Jones fat? It certainly does appear that he did.
Fisky
15 Sep 12 at 6:22 pm
Fisky -
Leave m0oby alone.
Nanuestalker
15 Sep 12 at 6:30 pm
C’mon mUttly, embrace your lot and declare a fatwa on AJ.
DavidJ
15 Sep 12 at 7:21 pm
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2179/2178744885_1b99d20146.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/tinfinger/interesting/&h=500&w=354&sz=125&tbnid=LD7rXn4ALRuVeM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=71&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpaul%2Bmontgomery%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=paul+montgomery&usg=__T2FoyPG1peD8M2DLCFbOIwqBwVM=&docid=tqUgLeMCT407BM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=10dUUJvOJ8uziQf7qoBI&sqi=2&ved=0CFUQ9QEwCw&dur=337
DavidJ
15 Sep 12 at 7:22 pm
Your a bit of a pansy aren’t you David.
sdfc
15 Sep 12 at 9:02 pm
Fisky is in Vietnam? On a tour are we, Fisky? A frisky tour?
m0nty
15 Sep 12 at 11:24 pm
The riots in Sydney are unforgivable…. I hope that everyone involved receives hefty punishments (but doubt it).
Combine Dave
16 Sep 12 at 8:21 am
Where’s the movie? All we have so far is a poorly made, badly dubbed Youtube “preview” clip clearly designed to inflame. Do you not know a psyop (psychological operation) when you all see one? How many of you even know what a psyop is? Reading the comments here, psyops obviously work, whether it be on ignorant Muslims who suffer from Pavlovian group-think, or self-satisfied Westerners can’t even feel the opinion massage going on in their deep tissues.
So many of you off to join Ralph Wiggum at bovine university.
Paul
16 Sep 12 at 8:54 am
What are you suggesting about Fisky, Monty, you disgusting pile of elephant turd?
Come on, you’re a brave man, in your own eyes, that is.
Own up to it.
Bob Sewell
16 Sep 12 at 11:53 am
Just for the record those island’s belong to the republic of china (Taiwan).
Combine Dave
17 Sep 12 at 5:37 am