Barack Obama cancels meeting with Dalai Lama ‘to keep China happy’

Samdhong Rinpoche, the Tibetan prime minister-in-exile, has accused the United States and other Western nations of "appeasement" toward China as its economic weight grows.

"Today, economic interests are much greater than other interests," he said.

Mr Obama’s decision dismayed human rights and Tibetan support groups, who said he had made an unnecessary concession to the Chinese, who regard the Dalai Lama as a "splittist", despite his calls for autonomy rather than independence for Tibet. The Chinese invaded in 1950, forcing the young leader to flee.

Sophie Richardson, Asia advocate for Human Rights Watch, said: "Presidents always meets the Dalai Lama and what happens? Absolutely nothing.

"This idea that if you are nice to the Chinese Communist Party up front you can cash in later is just wrong. If you lower the bar on human rights they will just move it lower and lower."

More evidence that China owns us. Yawn.

These are all Drudge headlines.

Arabs, China, Russia and France plan to dump dollar for oil trading

Obama renews health-care push

Obama’s pissed at his Afghanistan General for talking about Afghanistan

Mayor of New York declares that “We can’t just say everybody can go everyplace and do anything they want.” — without being monitored by surveillance cameras…

These ones all just made little hairs on my neck stand up. First of all, Every country that matters in the world is about to stop trading oil in US dollars. The dollar is about to tank again. Why would these countries make such a profound change? Because the US government and Federal Reserve have shaken the confidence of the ability of America to maintain its debt level without inflating the currency.

Why would they lack confidence in our ability to control spending? Well, how about spending trillions of dollars that we don’t have on universal health care? That’s link #2.

Why would they question the political leadership of the United States? How about because Barack Obama has shown that he has no international clout, and his Generals are apparently taking their concerns directly to the people instead of “advising” the president behind closed doors? Obama has an inability to make a decision on what to do in Afghanistan, and it’s costing him.

And finally, the mayor of the most important city in the world has decided that people shouldn’t just be allowed to go wherever they want and do whatever they do without being monitored by their government.

This is just TODAY. What does this stuff mean? It means freedom is being stripped from us. It means our personal property and reward for our labor is being devalued. It means that the country’s legacy of prosperity is being squandered, that our economy is being dismantled, that our influence in the world is in decline. And it’s all 100% the fault of the people who have “governed” us for the last 50 years and longer. Our economic stability has been sold to the Chinese and Japanese. Our freedom is being curtailed for our own “good.” And the top priority of the man who serves as president is to increase our indebtedness and decrease the control we have over our own lives.

Load up on guns, bitter clingers. The shit’s gonna hit the fan at some point.

What in the name of Christ is going on?

NEW YORK — New York’s iconic Empire State Building will light up red and yellow Wednesday in honor of the 60th anniversary of communist China.

The Chinese consul, Peng Keyu, and other officials will take part in the lighting ceremony which will bathe the skyscraper in the colors of the People’s Republic until Thursday, Empire State Building representatives said in a statement.

I guess they are our masters now. Might as well kneel before them.

The US is too dependent on Japan and China buying up the country’s debt and could face severe economic problems if that stops, Tiger Management founder and chairman Julian Robertson told CNBC.

"It’s almost Armageddon if the Japanese and Chinese don’t buy our debt,” Robertson said in an interview. "I don’t know where we could get the money. I think we’ve let ourselves get in a terrible situation and I think we ought to try and get out of it."

Robertson said inflation is a big risk if foreign countries were to stop buying bonds.

“If the Chinese and Japanese stop buying our bonds, we could easily see [inflation] go to 15 to 20 percent,” he said.  “It’s not a question of the economy. It’s a question of who will lend us the money if they don’t. Imagine us getting ourselves in a situation where we’re totally dependent on those two countries. It’s crazy.”

More Joe Biden comedy

In an interview on ABC’s "This Week" program, Biden said Israel can determine for itself how best to deal with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.

"We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do when they make a determination, if they make a determination, that they’re existentially threatened," Biden said.

But wait!

The US has "absolutely not" given Israel a green light for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday.

Obama was qualifying comments Vice President Joe Biden had made Sunday that left the impression the US would not stand in the way of an Israeli action.

"We have said directly to the Israelis that it is important to try and resolve this in an international setting in a way that does not create major conflict in the Middle East," said Obama, currently in Russia, during a CNN interview.

Obama said it was "very important that I’m as clear as I can be, and our administration is as consistent as we can [be] on this issue."

I think they must have a Joe Biden “comment qualifying” team in the White House now.  Last time they let the goof out he almost destroyed the transportation industry over his swine flu panic, and Gibbsie had to “qualify” those comments.  Now Barry has to come out and say that he really doesn’t want Israel to determine for itself how to deal with Iran two days after Biden says that they absolutely have the right to.

They have to publicly slap the guy down every couple weeks.  It’s awesome.

 

If anyone’s still wondering how the Obama administration would treat the human rights struggle in Iran following the elections last week, it looks like we have our answer.

We’ve got Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, giving her full-throated, unequivocal support ambivalence towards the cause of freedom in Iran:

"The people of Iran deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted. The outcome of any election should reflect the will of the people. And it is for the Iranians to determine how they resolve this internal protest concerning the outcome of the recent election, but it is a fundamental value that the United States holds with respect to free and fair and credible elections.”

And Barry on Saturday, apparently still under the impression that the Iranians seek the respect of the international community:

President Obama on Saturday called on the Iranian government to "stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people" amid calls for the White House to go further in showing support for the Iranian people after the country’s disputed elections.

Republicans, in particular, have pressed Obama to speak out more forcefully, as protesters and authorities clashed Saturday in Tehran during a government crackdown.

"The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights," Obama said in a written statement.

Obama also referred back to his speech this month to the Muslim world, saying "suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion." 

And Obama cited the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s, famous quote: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

"I believe that," Obama said. "The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness."

And Gibbsie on Thursday, giving us a status report on all the free thinkers in the Obama cabinet:

QUESTION: Robert, on Iran, is there an internal debate in the White House now between those who clearly support what the president is doing in terms of the hands-off approach and those who think that the president needs to have some stronger language? Is that ongoing in the White House?

GIBBS: There’s no debate in the White House.

QUESTION: Is there division at all? Is everyone on the same page on this or are there those who think that the president — internally — that the president…

GIBBS: Everybody’s on the same page. There’s no difference of opinion.

So there you have it.  It looks like the United States of America is going to “bear witness” to the “long arc” of the “moral universe” while the mullahs brutalize the protesters that Obama encouraged to press for freedom a few weeks ago.

What a treat this guy is to watch!  I’m so glad they’re all on the same page over there.  It warms my cockles.