jumpin' shit

From: "nu-monet v6.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 1, 2004

(my caps)

http://tinyurl.com/37r46

HONG KONG - The United States is planning a massive
show of force in the Pacific Ocean near China to
register a point with Beijing.

In an exercise codenamed Operation Summer Pulse 04,
it is expected to arrange for an unprecedented SEVEN
aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs) to rendezvous
in waters a safe distance away from the Chinese
coastline - but still within striking distance -
after mid-July.

This will be the first time in US naval history that
it sends seven of its 12 CSGs to just one region...

--
"Mars was destroyed with weapons from the future.
There, does that make you feel any better?"
-- nu-monet

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From: Cardinal Vertigo <vertigo@alexandria.cc>

nu-monet v6.0 wrote:
> (my caps)
>
> http://tinyurl.com/37r46
>
> HONG KONG - The United States is planning a massive
> show of force in the Pacific Ocean near China to
> register a point with Beijing.
[snip]

Yep, it's official; someone near the top has completely lost their
fucking mind.

--
"Look, there is one statement that bothers me more than anything else,
and that's the idea that when the troops are in combat everybody has
to shut up. Imagine if we put troops in combat with a faulty rifle,
and that rifle was malfunctioning and troops were dying as a result.
I can't think anyone would allow that to happen, that would not speak
up. Well, what's the difference between a faulty plan and strategy
that's getting just as many troops killed?"
- Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.), former CENTCOM C-in-C, 21 May 2004

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From: Artemia Salina <y2k@sheayright.com>

Well it makes a bit more (moore?) sense when you read this:

http://english1.peopledaily.com.cn/200407/01/eng20040701_148176.html

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Subject: Re: jumpin' shit
From: Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Jul 1, 2004 3:00 PM
Message-ID: <ton8e0p6mkl3bu7jv2j0253j2f94ppdit3@4ax.com>

"nu-monet v6.0" <nothing@succeeds.com> wrote:
>(my caps)
>
>http://tinyurl.com/37r46
>
>HONG KONG - The United States is planning a massive
>show of force in the Pacific Ocean near China to
>register a point with Beijing.
>
>In an exercise codenamed Operation Summer Pulse 04,
>it is expected to arrange for an unprecedented SEVEN
>aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs) to rendezvous
>in waters a safe distance away from the Chinese
>coastline - but still within striking distance -
>after mid-July.
>
>This will be the first time in US naval history that
>it sends seven of its 12 CSGs to just one region...

For fuck's sake, WHY?

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
"Now, now my good man. It's no time to make enemies"
-Voltaire, on his deathbed, in response to a priest asking him to renounce Satan.

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From: IMBJR <imbjr@imbjr.com>

Just because.

Well that's another pat reply milestone ticked off.

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From: Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>

I think Guuber is mad because we wouldn't let him fly to Mars.

Typical acting-out behavior.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
thirty eight ... thirty nine ... fourty
- Two times

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From: IMBJR <imbjr@imbjr.com>

Eye, China is practically as far as Mars as far as a mind like that is
concerned.

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From: "nu-monet v6.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

Joe Cosby wrote:
> >http://tinyurl.com/37r46
> >
> >HONG KONG - The United States is planning a massive
> >show of force in the Pacific Ocean near China to
> >register a point with Beijing.
>
> For fuck's sake, WHY?

That, as they say, is the 64 dollar question.

Here are some speculations, though, that may have
something to do with it, individually or collectively:

1) The Chinese leadership is currently broken into
several antagonistic factions, some of whom are very
warlike. The old leader retained much of his power
before turning over the job to the new guy, and there
are warlords running the countryside. Intrigues are
everywhere in that "one party state."

2) China has been emplacing THOUSANDS of short range
missiles on its coast opposite Taiwan, at a rate of
perhaps 100 a month. All the while becoming a lot
more openly threatening towards Taiwan, that some in
China have almost a fanatical desire to conquer, even
with horrific losses on both sides.

http://tinyurl.com/2fym7

3) Oil. Right now China and Japan are in contention,
as diplomatically as bad as anything since WWII, over
a proposed oil pipeline from Russia. They both want
it, desperately, and are in a bidding war to get it.
China is facing a catastrophic energy crunch, and soon.
Oil, BTW was a major factor in the Pacific War in WWII.

4) China has been investing obscene amounts of money
to upgrade its military structure, buying anything and
everything it can, especially for its navy and air
forces. If there is a piece of military hardware on the
market for the last 20 years, China wants it. Especially
the high-tech stuff, radar, anti-missiles, C&C planes,
and satellites.

5) China published a white paper about 10 years ago
calling for the use of "alternative means" in fighting
the US, basically terrorist-style attacks to distract
the US from protecting Taiwan. The estimated that if
the two US naval installations at Bremerton and San Diego
were interfered with, it would effectively disable the
US Pacific Fleet.

6) The US, for its part, has long been involved with a
plan to counter the Chinese threat, including a massive
redesign of its naval, air and ground and space forces.
Our latest ship designs seem to be solely to neutralize
the Chinese coastal areas, and the US has established
bases in ALL of the Central Asian -istans, which could
threaten China.

7) India, for its part, has become so nervous about
China that it has launched a massive build-up of its
navy, which is now quite modern and threatening. They
have also acquired, with the blessing of the US, tons
of cutting edge military tech from Israel, which now
all faces China. The Indians still remember their last
brief war so intend to thump the Chinese if they try it
again.

8) Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody Wang Chung
tonight. X-Day will be soon, and somebody has to
destroy the world.

--
"I'm Secret Agent D-V-8 from the land
of Twurtle-Dee"
-- Nurtle the Turtle (as voiced
by Arnold Stang), from the movie
'Pinocchio in Outer Space'

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From: Cardinal Vertigo <vertigo@alexandria.cc>

nu-monet v6.0 wrote:
[snip]
> 8) Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody Wang Chung
> tonight. X-Day will be soon, and somebody has to
> destroy the world.

The Xists said we'd be spirited away on the pleasure saucers while the
Pinks were left behind to fry in Hell on Earth. You'll notice they
never said anything about destroying the earth.

Why would they bother, when the Pinks are perfectly willing to take care
of that little chore for them?

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From: Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>

Cardinal Vertigo <vertigo@alexandria.cc> wrote:
>Why would they bother, when the Pinks are perfectly willing to take care
>of that little chore for them?

Why do people bother to golf?

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
ultimately, nuclear preparedness is the only answer to the problem of global
population

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From: Joe Cosby <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>

"mrs peeabody" <chichititti4c@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"Der Mad Hattern" <Der Mad Hattern@therabbithole.org> wrote:
>> Seems US has been acting a bit too thuggish lately to seriously try to
>send
>> a statement to someone bigger than them...
>> But guess who else might be watching...
>> Maybe the next 'rogue nation' on 'duh shrub's" hit list?.
>> Like somebody making 'bad' with nuclear weapons?
>> I'm suprised that South Korea is not participating!
>
>I wish that I were Kim Jong Ill.
>If I was,I'd conduct a 1950's style
>aove ground nuclear test just a scant 15
>miles north of the DMZ on July 04
>and teephone Bush to enjoy
>the fireworks show.
>

If I was Kim Jong Ill
I'd nuke'em in the morning
I'd nuke'em in the evening ... all over the land
I'd nuke'em for danger
I'd nuke'em for warning
I'd nuke'em for love between my brothers and my sisters
a a all over this land

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.com/
The Compleat Demystified Idiots
Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed

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