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Inside the Ring: Beijing coup rumors. War in the city?
Washingtion times ^ | 3-22-2012 | edcoil

Posted on 03/22/2012 9:34:01 AM PDT by edcoil

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To: TigerLikesRooster

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41 posted on 03/22/2012 11:10:08 AM PDT by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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To: null and void
At some point the military has to act out of self-preservation, I suppose...

You mean in China, of course....

42 posted on 03/22/2012 11:11:03 AM PDT by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: Jim Noble

Of course! Goodness, what did you think I was implying???


43 posted on 03/22/2012 11:15:46 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1157 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: null and void

A guy in my office here just got back from China today, didnt hear anything about this.


44 posted on 03/22/2012 11:33:19 AM PDT by Moleman
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To: BitWielder1

If it’s the military, think Imperial Germany say 1911. Looking for a place in the sun. How’d that turn out?


45 posted on 03/22/2012 11:36:19 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: stormer

There was a report on John Batchelor that the media was banned from showing the arrival of Communist Party members to the recent CP Congress because too many of them were driving up in their Mercedes and BMWs, and party leaders didn’t want that to incite the poverty-stricken masses against them.


46 posted on 03/22/2012 11:45:11 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: edcoil

While what ever is happening in China may have some effect on us, the same report goes on to detail US Mil cyber security - and that IS scary - essentially the mil is ill prepared for modern cyber warfare and faces an existential threat to machines and personel ...


47 posted on 03/22/2012 12:34:00 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: edcoil

Nothing this week from a civilian friend in Beijing. When changes within the Politburo are going on, rumors are always rife.


48 posted on 03/22/2012 12:46:13 PM PDT by Wuli
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49 posted on 03/22/2012 12:47:15 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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To: RinaseaofDs

So the Washington Times isn’t part of the MSM???

News to me.


50 posted on 03/22/2012 2:35:15 PM PDT by Raymann
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To: untenured

“...where there is enough freedom of speech to say that you heard a rumor but not enough freedom of the press to actually look into it.”

That does sound familiar doesn’t it.


51 posted on 03/22/2012 2:40:06 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: null and void

“Of course! Goodness, what did you think I was implying??”

ECOMCON meeting at Site Y.


52 posted on 03/22/2012 5:18:01 PM PDT by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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?


53 posted on 03/22/2012 5:32:58 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1157 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Ingtar

Lol, that’s hilarious.


54 posted on 03/23/2012 2:02:48 AM PDT by Phoebe From China (I believe we've arrived at another quintessential "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock" moment.)
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To: Ingtar

Lol, that’s hilarious.


55 posted on 03/23/2012 2:03:57 AM PDT by Phoebe From China (I believe we've arrived at another quintessential "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock" moment.)
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To: Ingtar

Lol, that’s hilarious.


56 posted on 03/23/2012 2:04:31 AM PDT by Phoebe From China (I believe we've arrived at another quintessential "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock" moment.)
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