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Video: ‘60 Minutes’ Shows Pentagon Employee Selling Secrets To Chinese Agent

Chris Jones — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:30:40 +0000

This is extremely disturbing video. I’ve actually read a lot about the espionage situation with China and it’s nothing short of chilling.

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For years the United States has literally been under siege by China’s intelligence services. There is hardly a secret left that China hasn’t already stolen. Not only is America awash in undercover Chinese agents like the one “60 Minutes” shows, but Chinese hackers steal Pentagon secrets on a daily basis.

It’s literally open season on the US and nobody is doing a damn thing about it.

Add that to the fact that China has us by the balls financially and you start to realize what bad shape we’re actually in.

Health care reform can wait. What we really need is intelligence reform, but that’s for another post.

By the way, the two jerks in the video only got 15 years. That’s probably the biggest disgrace in this story. That Pentagon employee sold out his country for $2,000. He should have been given life. A life sentence would serve as a deterrent to other traitors.

-Chris Jones

Predictable: Congress Shocked That 80% of ‘Green Jobs’ Stimulus Money Going Overseas

Chris Jones — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:55:57 +0000

The only people surprised by this are the assholes in Washington. Schumer is right that people have lost faith in government. In fact, most of us never had any faith in government to begin with. The government has been overstepping its bounds for decades and created one boondoggle after another. President Obama is always yammering about phony ass “green jobs” and how his phony ass “stimulus” package was going to kick start a phony ass green revolution in America.

Well, he was partially right. It did kick start a phony ass green revolution, but it’s overseas — mostly in China. 80% of the $2 billion dollars set aside in the phony stimulus went to “green” projects like building phony ass wind turbines for phony ass wind farms. The vast majority of the phony ass wind turbines are built in China.

This is why the stimulus was such a bad idea. It was never going to do what its supporters promised it would. The phony stimulus was nothing but billions of dollars in giveaways to Obama’s favorite constituents and special interests.

The American people got bent over and gang raped without even so much as the courtesy of a little lube first.

Global warming is a fraud. So to the extent that a “green jobs” revolution is even necessary the private sector will create it. The government has no business getting involved in “creating jobs” anyway — that’s the role of the private sector.

Imagine how much better our economy would be if we had just kept the billions we sent to China, scrapped the phony ass wind farms, and used the oil, coal, and natural gas we have right here at home.

This entire energy related drama is based on the phony ass premise of global warming. We have enough coal, natural gas, and oil in this country to power every home and car in America. We don’t need China to build us phony ass wind farms.

There is still hundreds of billions of “stimulus” dollars that have yet to leave the treasury. We should keep that money and help pay down the debt. After that, every single member of Congress who voted for the phony stimulus along with the president who conceived it should resign.

They knew the “stimulus” was bullshit, we knew the “stimulus” was bullshit — but they did it anyway.

-Chris Jones

(hat tip Gateway Pundit)

Video: Mixed Race Chinese Girl Faces Racism In China

Chris Jones — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:01:28 +0000

This is an interesting story:

It has to be particularly difficult to be of a mixed race in China, because there aren’t really any other races in China (in any significant numbers) — and there damn sure aren’t any black people.

(hat tip ThisIs50)

Video: Chinese Ships Harass U.S. Navy Vessel

Chris Jones — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:18:33 +0000

Several Chinese ships threatened and harassed a U.S. Navy ship in what U.S. officials are calling an “extremely provocative” and “very dangerous” action on the part of the Chinese.

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What You Didn’t See In Beijing

Chris Jones — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:34:22 +0000

I’ve been largely willing to turn a blind eye to the politics in China, at least while the Olympics were going on. I thought the games were really exciting this year and except for China cheating with underage gymnasts, the games went quite well.

Having said that, now that the games have concluded we’re beginning to learn more about just what made it possible for Beijing to put on such a spectacle. It seems that like everything else in China, one must take a peek behind the curtain to see what’s really going on.

Foreigners traveling around Beijing over the last couple of weeks have admired the beautiful flowers blooming and lush green grass around famous monuments.

We’re now learning that China was terrified that they would run short of fresh water during the games, predicting as much as a 30% spike in water usage. Rather than gather the smartest minds in China to come up with a solution, the Chinese government did what any good dictatorship does, and decided to steal the extra water.

More than 200 miles of pipeline was constructed which drained thousands of farms completely dry leaving farmers without a livelihood and many without a home.

More than 30,000 people have been left homeless, and many have even been driven to suicide. Security officials blanketed the area to ensure none of the disgruntled farmers could somehow make it to Beijing and clue the world in on what’s going on.

The blunders began when officials started to worry that Beijing might not have enough water to cope with 500,000 visitors to the Olympics. There was talk of a 30% spike in demand. Their gaze turned to Hebei province, its fields ripe with vegetables, corn and rice, providing a good living for its huge rural population.

Decrees were issued, targets were set and engineers scurried to complete a “100day struggle” to build almost 200 miles of channels and pipes to Beijing. These will form part of a gigantic project to bring the waters of the Yangtze River to the drought-stricken plains of northern China. Meanwhile, four strategic reservoirs in Hebei, around the city of Baoding, were filled to the brim.

Accounts differ of what happened next. Some farmers say the price of water was raised by 300% to put it beyond their reach. Others simply say that their irrigation channels ran dry. As subterranean water levels fell, their wells collapsed, fields were abandoned, mud-brick farm houses stood empty.

About 31,000 people around Baoding are said to have lost their homes or land. Local leaders complained; China’s tiny environmental movement agitated. That all stopped when the Hebei media trotted out a barrage of propaganda assuring readers that the entire population was overjoyed to be making a sacrifice for the national good.

The security services were also on high alert for any foreigners entering Baoding. Taxi drivers were told to drive any foreigners who asked for a ride straight to the police station.

A reporter for the London Times who uncovered this whole story experienced the creepy security first-hand when he traveled to Baoding.

At a city hotel, the staff at the front desk arose aghast when I entered to ask for a room, then immediately telephoned the authorities. Deciding to forgo the pleasure of their acquaintance, I made my excuses and left Baoding.

As I waited at the railway station, the only foreigner in a reeking hall crammed with shabby migrants, a young man in a perfectly ironed green polo shirt and polished black shoes came and sat opposite, apparently engrossed in a newspaper.

A few minutes later a second young man, in a neat purple T-shirt and equally shiny shoes, sat down nearby and stared into space. A third fellow, this time in a pink polo shirt, materialized in the heaving throng next to me as we tramped towards the night express, murmuring into a mobile phone. After I climbed on board they vanished.

Yet another red banner, strung across the interior of our packed carriage, read: “The five Olympic rings include you and me.”

This pretty much destroys any illusions about the Chinese government. The entire Olympic games was a remarkably well choreographed charade intended to maintain a facade of progress. President Hu Jintao is really just a quieter and more reserved version of Joseph Stalin. It was a mistake to allow China to host the Olympics and it’s a decision the world will grow to regret more and more as time goes on.

HuffPo: Documents Reveal Underage Chinese Gymnasts

Chris Jones — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:14:37 +0000

The Huffington Post has a very interesting collection of documents that seem to definitively prove what we’ve all known to be true since these games started — China cheated.

Like any other country, when a Chinese athlete has an impressive victory the Chinese media reports it. This otherwise routine reporting of sports news in China has left a lengthy paper trail that reveals the true age of China’s gymnasts.

Making an issue of this has nothing to do with being “sore losers” because the U.S. team came in second. The Chinese team was amazing and they deserve all the credit in the world. However, rules are rules and winning a medal at the Olympic games doesn’t mean anything if it’s based on a lie.

The athletes are not to blame here, the Chinese government is. China has proven that not only do they have no respect for human rights or freedom, but they also have no honor. In other parts of Asia, to have no honor is a fate worse than death.

By winning on a lie, not only has China cheapened the victory of their own athletes, but they’ve stolen the dreams of athletes from other countries who’ve trained for years hoping for a shot at Olympic glory. For many of those athletes this Olympics in Beijing was their last chance to fulfill a dream they’ve spent their entire lives up to this point working for — the chance to honestly compete against the best in the world.

What a disappointment.

-Chris Jones

Pollution Threatens Olympic Sailing In Yellow Sea

Chris Jones — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:41:18 +0000

Everyone knows China is on of the most polluted places on earth. Many of the rivers in China are so polluted they no longer support life. In some rivers the pollution level is so toxic that merely touching the water can cause skin burns.

The unchecked pollution in Chinese waters however, is now threatening at least one popular Olympic event–sailing. With only six weeks until China hosts the Olympic sailing regatta in the city of Qingdao, officials are working feverishly to clean up a massive algae bloom that is choking off large stretches of coastline.

As many as 20,000 people and more than 1,000 boats are participating in the clean-up effort. Nearly a third of the coastal waters (5,000 sq. miles) designated for the Olympic games is covered by the algae.

Algae blooms occur naturally in the Yellow Sea and elsewhere, however the size of the bloom is believed by everyone except Chinese officials to be caused from the raw sewage that is dumped into the water daily. In addition to that, the rivers and tributaries that flow in to the coastal waters are often polluted with industrial run-off.

Hundreds Buried In China Quake

Chris Jones — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:01:39 +0000

Via the BBC:

Almost 900 students are buried after an earthquake measuring 7.8 caused a building to collapse in south-western China, state media reports.

President Hu Jintao urged “all-out” efforts to rescue victims of the quake, which hit 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan’s provincial capital.

Premier Wen Jiabao is travelling to the area and troops are being sent to help with disaster relief efforts.

Officials have confirmed 107 deaths in the area but the figure could rise.

Chinese Spy ‘Slept’ In U.S. For 2 Decades

Chris Jones — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:25:50 +0000

From The Washington Post:

Prosecutors called Chi Mak the “perfect sleeper agent,” though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer lived quietly with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a steady job with a U.S. defense contractor, which rewarded him with promotions and a security clearance. Colleagues remembered him as a hard worker who often took paperwork home at night.Eventually, Mak’s job gave him access to sensitive plans for Navy ships, submarines and weapons. These he secretly copied and sent via courier to China — fulfilling a mission that U.S. officials say he had been planning since the 1970s.

Mak was sentenced last week to 24 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge who described the lengthy term as a warning to China not to “send agents here to steal America’s military secrets.” But it may already be too late: According to U.S. intelligence and Justice Department officials, the Mak case represents only a small facet of an intelligence-gathering operation that has long been in place and is growing in size and sophistication.

The Chinese government, in an enterprise that one senior official likened to an “intellectual vacuum cleaner,” has deployed a diverse network of professional spies, students, scientists and others to systematically collect U.S. know-how, the officials said. Some are trained in modern electronic techniques for snooping on wireless computer transactions. Others, such as Mak, are technical experts who have been in place for years and have blended into their communities.

“Chi Mak acknowledged that he had been placed in the United States more than 20 years earlier, in order to burrow into the defense-industrial establishment to steal secrets,” Joel Brenner, the head of counterintelligence for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said in an interview. “It speaks of deep patience,” he said, and is part of a pattern.

Spies like Chi Mak should get the death penalty for living here all these years and pretending to be a honorable American, but betraying his country all along.

At the same time, U.S. agents could probably learn a lot from these guys. You have to admire the dedication and patience it takes to pull off an intelligence operation that lasts 20 years.

This guy was sent here more than twenty years ago to be educated, employed, and then send back information to China. Imagine how many opportunities there was for Chi Mak to stop reporting back and just live a normal life. I’m sure China sends these kind of operatives to many countries around the world to the exact same kind of thing.

I’m not sure an American agent could pull off something like that. I don’t think you could find a CIA agent willing to move to a foreign country for the rest of his life and work as an undercover operative.

The whole thing is pretty amazing, and it really shows what a cunning adversary China truly is.

-Chris Jones

Pentagon Official Pleads Guilty To Giving Secrets To China

Chris Jones — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:59:26 +0000

A Pentagon official pleaded guilty Monday to passing US military secrets to an agent working for China after being showered with gifts and gambling money, the Department of Justice said.

Gregg William Bergersen, 51, faces up to 10 years in jail after admitting to one count of conspiracy to disclose national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it, the department said in a statement.

It said Bergersen started handing secret information in March 2007 to Tai Shen Kuo, 58, a Taiwan-born US citizen with business interests in New Orleans.

Bergersen worked as a weapons systems policy analyst at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which implements the Pentagon’s foreign military sales program.

I can’t think of anything more disgraceful or repugnant than selling your own country out for a few gifts and some gambling money. Actually, I can’t imagine selling my country out for any amount of money or gifts.

Bergersen deserves a hell of a lot more time than 10 years in prison. In fact, the most appropriate punishment would be for him to hang.

-Chris Jones

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