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http://whatreallyhappened.com/taxonomy/term/62/0 en http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20091117hn.html <p>Dear Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama,</p> <p>In the fall of 1980 I was assigned as a civilian university professor to provide Japanese language instruction to the officers and men of the USS Knox (FF-1052), a destroyer home-ported in Yokosuka. Sharing quarters with the ship's nuclear weapons officer, I soon became aware that the Knox was outfitted with an ASROC antisubmarine missile system including nuclear depth bombs.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-nuclear-arms-japan-firsthand-account" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-nuclear-arms-japan-firsthand-account#comments ASIA KOREA WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:09:50 +0000 poorrichard 46741 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://refreshingnews9.blogspot.com/2009/11/barack-obama-bows-and-talks-of-green.html <p>There was talk of green tea ice cream, memories of a childhood visit to Japan and even a reference to the remote fishing town Obama as the US President set out his vision for US relations with Asia in a keynote speech.</p> <p>He later bowed deeply to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, upon arrival at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for a private lunch before he headed to Singapore on the next leg of his Asian tour.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/barack-obama-bows-and-talks-green-tea-icecream-he-pushes-us-ties-asia" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/barack-obama-bows-and-talks-green-tea-icecream-he-pushes-us-ties-asia#comments ASIA Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:11:06 +0000 suman 46091 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/obamas-japan-visit-prompts-protests.html <p>In Japan, thousands of people are expected to rally against the American military presence in their country as US President Barack Obama arrives in Tokyo.</p> <p>Thousands of demonstrators will march through the capital, Tokyo. Over 16-thousand police have been deployed to guard key sites in Tokyo against possible threats.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/obamas-japan-visit-prompts-protests" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/obamas-japan-visit-prompts-protests#comments ASIA WHITE HOUSE Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:43:36 +0000 Mike Rivero 46016 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://refreshingnews9.blogspot.com/2009/11/barack-obama-arrives-in-japan-on-first.html <p>US president Barack Obama has arrived in Tokyo for a two-day visit kickstarting a whirlwind Asia tour.</p> <p>Security was tightened on the streets of Tokyo as Mr Obama began his first presidential visit to Japan, during which he will meet with the Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama as well as the Emperor.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/barack-obama-arrives-japan-first-leg-asian-tour" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/barack-obama-arrives-japan-first-leg-asian-tour#comments ASIA Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:59:06 +0000 suman 46000 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.innworldreport.net/inn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1537:international-news-8th-&catid=36:international&Itemid=1 <p>Japan’s new government is reviewing an agreement with Washington on US military facilities. This is a follow-up to a campaign pledge to residents of Okinawa island who have borne the brunt of the American presence for more than 60 years. Around 50,000 American troops are based in Japan, of which two-thirds are in Okinawa.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japan-threatens-kick-out-us-troops" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japan-threatens-kick-out-us-troops#comments ASIA Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:13:01 +0000 Mike Rivero 42384 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB125498941145272887-lMyQjAxMDI5NTA0ODkwODg5Wj.html <p>The U.S. dollar continued to tumble against most Asian currencies Thursday, prompting a wave of foreign-exchange intervention by central banks in South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Thailand seeking to limit damage to their export industries.</p> <p>Traders said the dollar selloff is unlikely to fade soon, given the prospect for a long period of low U.S. interest rates to support a sluggish U.S. economy and increasing signs central banks in Asia will begin tightening monetary policies in the months ahead.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/asian-central-banks-intervene-dollar-tumbles" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/asian-central-banks-intervene-dollar-tumbles#comments ASIA ECONOMY Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:20:27 +0000 Mike Rivero 42209 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107720&sectionid=351020406 <p>Japan's new government which has vowed to pursue a foreign policy independent of the US, says it will replace its refueling mission in Afghanistan with humanitarian aid.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japan-halts-helping-us-fuelling-mission-afghanistan" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japan-halts-helping-us-fuelling-mission-afghanistan#comments AFGHANISTAN ASIA Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:33:15 +0000 Mike Rivero 41779 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6860536.ece <p>Japan's former finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who was forced to resign over his apparently drunken behaviour at a meeting of world powers, was found dead at his home in Tokyo earlier today.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/former-japanese-finance-minister-shoichi-nakagawa-found-dead" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/former-japanese-finance-minister-shoichi-nakagawa-found-dead#comments ASIA ECONOMY Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:57:52 +0000 Mike Rivero 41776 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/6250453/Japan-hit-by-expenses-scandal.html <p>Japan has been hit by an expenses scandal after it was revealed that politicians claimed back money spent in hostess and transsexual bars.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japan-hit-expenses-scandal" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japan-hit-expenses-scandal#comments ASIA ECONOMY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:43:40 +0000 Mike Rivero 41615 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/07/07/suharto-monster-of-the-cia-and-u-s-empir-1 <p>Suharto: Monster of the CIA and U.S. Empire<br /> July 7th, 2009 9:28 AM<br /> Suharto, who was the brutal U.S.-backed military dictator of Indonesia from 1965 to 1998, is now dead.<br /> One of the greatest crimes of the 20th century was committed in Indonesia. On October 8, 1965, right-wing mobs ransacked the offices of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and its mass organizations in Jakarta, the capital city.<br /> Tens of thousands of PKI cadre and supporters were rounded up at night, detained, and executed....It is not known exactly how many were killed, but Indonesian activists estimate the number at from one to three million people....In the 1990s, some details of the U.S. hand in the massacre became known as several former State Department officials admitted their role publicly.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/history-indonesias-suharto-monster-cia-and-us-empire" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/history-indonesias-suharto-monster-cia-and-us-empire#comments ASIA ASSASSINATION HIDDEN HISTORY PROTESTS/REVOLUTION TORTURE/WAR CRIMES WHITE HOUSE Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:03:56 +0000 mytrueword 41455 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/giraldi2.1.1.html <p>Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation for bribing senior government officials and members of Congress, drug trafficking, illegal weapons sales, money laundering, and nuclear proliferation. She appealed her termination, but was more alarmed that no effort was being made to address the corruption that she had been monitoring.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/who%E2%80%99s-afraid-sibel-edmonds" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/who%E2%80%99s-afraid-sibel-edmonds#comments ASIA COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA MIDDLE EAST Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:49:10 +0000 poorrichard 41343 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6567.5047.0.0 <p>Japan has new leadership. In a landslide victory, a new party has done the seemingly impossible. A new freshman class of leaders now governs the Land of the Rising Sun. The effects are already rippling across the Pacific toward America.</p> <p>Yukio Hatoyama is Japan’s new leader. He officially took office last Wednesday, and he is already threatening to split with the United States.</p> <p>Hatoyama blames America for the global economic crisis and says that the U.S. is responsible for “the destruction of human dignity.” He campaigned on protecting traditional Japanese economic activities and reducing U.S.-led globalization.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japan-abandons-america" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japan-abandons-america#comments ASIA Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:10:35 +0000 Mike Rivero 40916 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/6174814/Incoming-Tokyo-government-threatens-split-with-US.html <p>A split is emerging between the United States and Japan over the new Tokyo government's anti-globalisation rhetoric and its threats to end a refueling agreement for US ships in support of the war in Afghanistan.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/incoming-tokyo-government-threatens-split-us" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/incoming-tokyo-government-threatens-split-us#comments ASIA Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:45:46 +0000 poorrichard 39639 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/the-tragic-price-tag-for-an-intelligence-driven-war/ <p>The CIA was given the lead in America’s alleged war of retribution, allowing the agency to secretly lead the direction of the war, using false flag direction and by supplying the new “intelligence” documents that would support the secret actions, in order to fuel succeeding phases of the war, straight into the heartland of Central Asia. The CIA sets the pattern in this war that others must follow, even the Pentagon. Covert spy networks supply the individual pieces of new “intelligence” that determine both the air missions and those conducted by Special Forces teams (under CIA leadership, of course).</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/tragic-price-tag-intelligence-driven-war" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/tragic-price-tag-intelligence-driven-war#comments AFGHANISTAN ASIA PAKISTAN / INDIA TORTURE/WAR CRIMES WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:06:17 +0000 poorrichard 39066 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2009m9d1-Waking-people-from-tranquilized-obviousness-the-paradox-of-patience-in-an-emergency <p>For those of us with the interest of drawing attention to glaring opportunities for societal improvement, this article includes insight and video from the Pulitzer-winning story of Joshua Bell, an elite violinist, who went to Washington DC's Metro during rush hour to discover if brilliance could be recognized without a platform in the middle of peoples' busy lives.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/waking-people-tranquilized-obviousness-paradox-patience-emergency" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/waking-people-tranquilized-obviousness-paradox-patience-emergency#comments ASIA Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:19:11 +0000 Carl_Herman 38454 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/2009/09/us-invasionoccupation-of-pakistan-has.html <p>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Undercover armed Americans are swarming the Pakistani capital in the latest sign that the elected government has allowed Washington to dispatch what is believed to be a large number of American special operations agents and contractual security guards, including the infamous Blackwater private militia.</p> <p>This comes at a time when whistleblowers within the government and the military are reporting the arrival of a large number of US Marines in Pakistan. Some reports put the figure at 1,000 US soldiers, much of whom are thought to be arriving as part of the massive expansion of the US Embassy and four consulates across the country. While the US embassy continues to deny this, new buildings are under construction to house security teams. The expanded US embassy is supposed to become the largest US embassy in the world.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-invasionoccupation-pakistan-has-begun" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-invasionoccupation-pakistan-has-begun#comments 911 ASIA COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:59:14 +0000 poorrichard 38331 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.911video.de/news/fujita/fu-en.htm <p>Councilor Fujita is a current member and former director of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense. In this function he questioned 9/11 three times in parliament. Fujita claims that 9/11 as the main reason for the "War on Terror" needs to be newly investigated in order to find peaceful solutions.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/major-911-breakthrough-japan-spectacular-support-yukihisa-fujita" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/major-911-breakthrough-japan-spectacular-support-yukihisa-fujita#comments 911 ASIA Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:14:07 +0000 Mike Rivero 38263 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://news.antiwar.com/2009/08/30/japanese-opposition-victory-could-force-us-rethink-in-pacific/ <p>While the DPJ’s first order of business will be its plan of free market decentralization and tax cuts to try to stem rising unemployment, in the long-term it may have a significant impact on the US relationship with the island nation, as the DPJ publicly attacked the LDP for letting the US basically dictate policy.</p> <p>In the near term, the DPJ is expected to only demand a few key revisions to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the two nations, and cancel the nation’s role in the Afghan War, which it has insisted is in violation of the country’s pacifist constitution. It will also ban the US from stationing nuclear weapons in Japan, a key issue in a nation which 64 years later is still distraught over twin US nuclear attacks.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japanese-opposition-victory-could-force-us-rethink-pacific" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japanese-opposition-victory-could-force-us-rethink-pacific#comments ASIA Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:58:39 +0000 ladylove 38254 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19536&p=131215#p131215 <p>Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso conceded defeat in elections Sunday as media exit polls indicated the opposition had won by a landslide, sending the conservatives out of power after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule amid widespread economic anxiety and desire for change.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japan-election-results-opposition-democrats-win-huge-victory" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japan-election-results-opposition-democrats-win-huge-victory#comments ASIA Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:28:47 +0000 Mike Rivero 38147 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19621&start=0 <p>?????????? ???????????? Aso expresses retirement after the election results<br /> <a href="http://www.j-cast.com/2009/08/30048465.html" title="http://www.j-cast.com/2009/08/30048465.html">http://www.j-cast.com/2009/08/30048465.html</a><br /> ???????????????????????2009?8?30?22?20????NHK?????????????NHK??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</p> <p>Aug 30 10:20pm (Japan time) Aso Taro is saying he is is going to retire. Aso holds himself responsible for the LDP's loss. He will have an election again as soon as possible. NHK and many companies are saying the JDP is now more than half of the lower house. They can rule without opposition. Big Chages are inevitable.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japanese-pm-will-resign-antiwar-party-wins-landslide" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/japanese-pm-will-resign-antiwar-party-wins-landslide#comments ASIA Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:28:01 +0000 Mike Rivero 38146 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/28/burma-shan-refugees-fighting-china <p>Thousands of people have fled from northern Burma into China after fighting erupted between government troops and an armed ethnic group yesterday, breaking a 20-year ceasefire.</p> <p>The government signed a ceasefire with ethnic groups in the Shan state in 1989, allowing them to hold on to their arms. Several fused their political aims with vast drug operations and have grown increasingly powerful, enjoying considerable autonomy. But the Burmese army has gradually increased its presence and the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the official name of the ruling military junta, recently began pressing the militias to be incorporated into an official border force.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/thousands-flee-burma-army-clashes-kokang-militias" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/thousands-flee-burma-army-clashes-kokang-militias#comments ASIA Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:47:00 +0000 ladylove 37987 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.smh.com.au/national/swine-flu-vaccine-plan-in-disarray-20090827-f17x.html <p>THE Federal Government's plan to immunise the population against swine flu is in chaos because insurers may not cover doctors who administer the jab.</p> <p>Inadequate testing and the possibility of spreading other infections means there is too high a risk patients will sue, the insurers say.</p> <p>Despite weeks of crisis talks, the Government has refused to underwrite doctors' liability for the vaccinations and medical groups say the program - due to start as early as mid-September - cannot proceed unless doctors are insured.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/swine-flu-vaccine-plan-disarray-0" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/swine-flu-vaccine-plan-disarray-0#comments ASIA POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:42:28 +0000 poorrichard 37928 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8192633.stm <p><em>Watch the video of the hotel collapsing. If fires brought down WTC 7 then it should have collapsed in the same manner as the hotel.</em></p> <p>See also: <a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/wtc7.html">The Controlled Collapse Of WTC 7</a></p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/deadly-storms-sweep-eastern-asia" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/deadly-storms-sweep-eastern-asia#comments 911 ASIA SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:58:43 +0000 malterwitty 36291 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://rense.com/general87/behin.htm <p>The capture of two US reporters of Chinese descent, who worked for Al Gore, and their subsequent rescue from North Korea's clutches by former President Bill Clinton was a setup from the beginning. Nothing reported about this story comes close to the real truth. As I covered the story in a prior brief, the initial capture of the reporters on the frozen Yalu River (where no one could prove which side of the China-NK border they were really on) was a predictable tactic used by North Korea to obtain secret concessions from the US. The two women were railroaded into a North Korean court and sentenced to hard labor in one of NK's notorious prison camps. This was done for the shock effect to illicit horror around the world. In reality, they never suffered a day of hard labor.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/behind-clinton-rescue-north-korea" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/behind-clinton-rescue-north-korea#comments ASIA CORPORATE MEDIA COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA WMD Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:04:35 +0000 poorrichard 36053 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://links.org.au/node/1186 <p>August 6 and August 9 2009 mark the 64th anniversaries of the US atomic-bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Hiroshima, an estimated 80,000 people were killed in a split second. Some 13 square kilometres of the city were obliterated. By December, at least another 70,000 people had died from radiation and injuries. </p> <p>Three days after Hiroshima's destruction, the US dropped an A-bomb on Nagasaki, resulting in the deaths of at least 70,000 people before the year was out. </p> <p>Since 1945, tens of thousands more residents of the two cities have continued to suffer and die from radiation-induced cancers, birth defects and still births.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-worst-single-terror-attacks-history" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-worst-single-terror-attacks-history#comments ASIA WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:25:56 +0000 malterwitty 35817 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.smh.com.au/world/malaysian-arrests-condemned-20090802-e5um.html <p>The Malaysian Government has faced criticism for arresting hundreds of people and using tear gas and water cannon to break up a protest against laws that allow for detention without trial.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/malaysian-arrests-condemned" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/malaysian-arrests-condemned#comments ASIA Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:47:56 +0000 ladylove 35455 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxWMDTuhxdI&feature=player_embedded <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/major-911-truth-breakthrough-kbdi-denver-airs-911-press-truth" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/major-911-truth-breakthrough-kbdi-denver-airs-911-press-truth#comments ASIA Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:13:17 +0000 Mike Rivero 34600 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Washington_to_ink_SE_Asia_pact_to_c_07212009.html <p>The signing by the United States this week of a friendship pact with Southeast Asia sends a strong signal of its desire to deepen ties and counter China's increasing influence, diplomats said.</p> <p>The treaty commits signatories to three basic principles: the peaceful settlement of disputes, non-recourse to the use of force and non-interference in domestic affairs.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/washington-ink-se-asia-pact-counter-china" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/washington-ink-se-asia-pact-counter-china#comments ASIA Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:42:19 +0000 ladylove 34158 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-not-just-afghanistan-its-everywhere.html <p>Central Asia has oil and gas.</p> <p>And heroin.</p> <p>Journalist Simon Reeve said of his trip to the Stans, such as Uzbekistan:</p> <p>"Most people I met longed for a return to the financial security of Communism...</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/its-not-just-afghanistan-its-everywhere-azerbaijan-uzbekistan" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/its-not-just-afghanistan-its-everywhere-azerbaijan-uzbekistan#comments AFGHANISTAN ASIA Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:18:47 +0000 poorrichard 33337 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMA3baJa6tg <object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JMA3baJa6tg&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JMA3baJa6tg&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><p> I still think this is the most revealing Settler video. Imagine if the average American was given a raw view of Israel and the way they think ("our" neighborhood?). Support would vanish overnight. </p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/flashback-settler-video" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/flashback-settler-video#comments ASIA Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:58:38 +0000 SamLowrey 32625 at http://whatreallyhappened.com