Chi-Com Navy Probing American Allies

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During the orgy of racial exploitation by the American media an important story was lost in the din. Chinese communist ships were in a tense stand-off this week with Philippine naval vessels which ostensibly started over Chinese poaching:

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines and China agreed Friday to set aside their diplomatic protests in order to ease tensions over a naval standoff in the disputed South China Sea, the top Filipino diplomat said

China also pulled back one of three surveillance ships at the Scarborough Shoal off the northwestern Philippines, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario told reporters. But the impasse remained with two other Chinese ships facing off a Philippine coast guard vessel.

Del Rosario said that China’s ambassador presented her own proposal to end the standoff, which began early this week when Chinese ships prevented the Philippine navy from detaining Chinese fishermen who were allegedly caught poaching.

Both sides claim the uninhabited, horseshoe-shaped shoal, which lies about 200 kilometers (120 miles) from Zambales province, the nearest Philippine coast.

The 4-day-old standoff has reignited concern for potential conflict in the South China Sea, one of the world’s busiest lanes that is also home to a myriad of competing territorial claims, most notably the Spratly Islands south of the shoal.

The disputes have settled into an uneasy standoff since the last major clash, which involved China and Vietnam and killed more than 70 Vietnamese sailors in 1988.

The barren islands, reefs and coral outcrops are claimed by China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan. They are rich fishing grounds and are believed to contain oil and gas reserves.

So the stakes here are high, especially to a country like China whose internal stability relies on large supplies of both cheap food and cheap energy. But there may be more going on here as this report implies:

MANILA, Philippines – The standoff at Scarborough Shoal, which Filipinos call Panatag Shoal, is a baptism of fire for the Navy’s largest warship BRP Gregorio del Pilar, its officers and crew.

The decades-old vessel acquired from the US last year did not encounter any intruder before this week’s incident, which involved two Chinese surveillance ships.

“What is interesting is the ship was in Palawan since Christmas and nothing happened. It’s been in Scarborough Shoal for just a day and this incident happened,” Navy chief Vice Adm. Alexander Pama remarked.

The Gregorio del Pilar was deployed to Panatag Shoal last Sunday on a mission to protect the country’s marine environment and sovereignty. The Panatag Shoal is located 124 nautical miles from the nearest base point in Zambales.

On Sunday, the Navy monitored eight Chinese fishing vessels anchored inside the shoal while conducting security patrol.

The Gregorio del Pilar sent a boarding team on Tuesday to inspect the fishing vessels and collect evidence of their catch. The team found illegally collected corals, giant clams and live sharks inside the vessels.

However, two Chinese surveillance ships placed themselves between the Gregorio del Pilar and the fishing vessels, preventing the arrest of the erring fishermen. The standoff has not been resolved as of this writing.

While critics claim the incident proved that China is not afraid of the Philippines’ warship, Pama said this boosted the morale of the Filipino sailors.

It sounds like the Chinese wanted to test the resolve and capabilities of the Philippine Navy and their newest warship which is an old U.S military vessel.

I Guess Today Might Get Ugly if The New Black Panthers Get Their Way

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The New Black Panther Party held a conference call to plan their “day of action” for “justice” for Trayvon Martin. Brietbart has a recording of their audio call where they openly call for violence nation wide. Via The Blaze this transcription of some of the rantings of Michelle Williams, the Tampa area NBPP chief of staff, exposes what sort of activism they are looking for:

“I say to everyone that is on this call right now, I‘m comin’ out of the gate…my prize right now this evening is going to be the bounty, the arrest– dead or alive– for George Zimmerman. You feel me? To every brother, to every female, I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem just to avoid violence. You feel me? It’s time to wake up, I don’t know how else…It’s in me to fight. It’s in me to raise up soldiers. It’s in me that every time my feet touch the ground the state of Florida- these crackers- they scared.

“I’m kinda pissed off right now that the state of Florida ain’t on fire. This could not have happened in L.A. because them brothers up there are not scared to riot. This could not have happened in St. Petersburg Florida, where the black man over there are ain’t scared to kill a cracker.”

The New Black Panter party has a large national presences with membership estimated in the thousands and have chapters in Europe, most notably France. In this respect they operate very similarly to 1%er motorcycle gangs like the Hell’s Angels, thus we can assume that national leadership here exerts influence over chapters worldwide.
They are also allied with radical Muslim groups like Hezbollah and openly support Al-Qaeda. So this sort of “community organizing” could easily lead to violence. National spokesman Chaun Kweli made this dire warning to listeners:

An act of war has been declared on us and we have no choice but to fight…[But] we have to be trained how to fight. See the whole purpose of the maneuver that’s happening in Sanford is to train in self-defense, because many of us think we’re prepared for a battle- just like many of us think we’re prepared for a fight- but if you are not training, if you are not stocking up water, if you are not stocking up food, if you are not stocking up weapons and artillery and survival books, and gas masks, and flashlights, and cantines, and ready-to-eat meals…if you are not stocking that up I don’t know how serious we are right now.

They’re socking up on food, water and weapons – are you? Here’s the recording.

Be careful out there.

DHS Preparing for Massive Civil Unrest?

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That’s the theory that many are operating under on the more paranoid side of the web, though in this case they may not be far off. I personally wasn’t concerned by rrecent reports of the DHS ammunition binge though it does seem that they are buying an eyebrow raising amount of .40 HST hollowpoints. It was strange since ICE is under orders to use less lethal rounds in all but the most extreme circumstance but the feds would have to be blind to not see that the border will be a war zone in a few years so I didn’t really give it much thought.

Likewise FEMA purchasing emergency food doesn’t seem particularly out of the ordinary because their job is to basically distribute food and provide other logistical support to states during disasters. Even the most suspicious bloggers pointed out that much of the government procurement of late was likely in preparation for large earthquakes which seem to be on everyone’s mind of late.

Yet their newest acquisition seems to suggest that the Department of Homeland security is expecting to have its agents come under heavy fire. They are putting in orders for what are essentially bulletproof, toll both style checkpoints that can withstand anything up to sustained 7.62 rifle fire.

These checkpoints are very similar to the kind you see in front of government buildings now, so these must be upgrades. But what exactly is the government expecting to happen within our borders that would require armed guards in pre-fab bunkers to guard start and federal buildings?

Taken together rational people can only come to one conclusion. The government is taking economic collapse and radical movements like OWS much more seriously than they are letting on. They seem to be preparing for large-scale disaster and violence, should you be doing the same?

h/t SHTFPlan