Broad New Hacking Attack, Command Center in Germany

Com­ment: a “broad” new hack­ing attack, involv­ing China but cen­tered in Ger­many, has pen­e­trated the data­bases of numer­ous cor­po­ra­tions. In FTR #699, we exam­ined Ger­man anx­i­ety about U.S. cozi­ness with China. Fol­low­ing the hack­ing attack (ear­lier this year) on Google, among other firms, rela­tions between the U.S. and China became strained. Obama is now meeting [...]

FTR #699 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Anti-Semitic GOP big­wig shep­herd­ing Sarah Palin around Wash­ing­ton; McVeigh men­tor work­ing with Alaskan seces­sion­ists; Ger­many doesn’t like US cozi­ness with China and Under­ground Reich ele­ments work­ing to sub­vert that rela­tion­ship; British fas­cist rep­re­sents EU Par­lia­ment at Copen­hagen talks.

FTR #676 Sedition! (Part 2): Target, America!

Wall Street Jour­nal fea­tur­ing advo­cacy for the dis­so­lu­tion of the US; Rea­gan admin­is­tra­tion vet­er­ans push­ing this view­point; Will a Nazi “cor­po­racracy” dom­i­nate the “leftovers”?

FTR #631 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Cindy Shee­han char­ac­ter­izes Mus­lim Broth­er­hood as force for democ­racy; MSM drops the “Von” from ricin sus­pect Roger (Von) Bur­gen­dorff; Dalai Lama link to SS; 2001 anthrax attacks; Las Vegas links to anthrax investigation.

FTR #627 Going Native, Part IV

Recorded March 9, 2008
MP3: 30-Minute Seg­ment
REALAUDIO NB: This RealAu­dio stream con­tains both FTR #627 and FTR #628 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
The broad­cast ana­lyzes Ger­man deep for­eign pol­icy in the Balkans—the seces­sion­ist move­ment in Kosovo in par­tic­u­lar. Of par­tic­u­lar sig­nif­i­cance is the pol­icy of pro­mot­ing “volks­grup­pen­rechte,” or the rights of native peoples, [...]

Live From Lhasa

Shaky cell-phone videos from Tibet fore­tell doom for the Chi­nese empire.
by Anne Apple­baumSLATE
Cell-phone pho­tographs and videos from Tibet, blurry and ama­teur, are cir­cu­lat­ing on the Inter­net. Some show clouds of tear gas; oth­ers burn­ing build­ings and shops; still oth­ers purple-robed monks, riot police, and con­fu­sion. Watch­ing them, it is impos­si­ble not to remem­ber the cell-phone [...]

FTR #616 Going Native, Part 3: Homeland Insecurity

Recorded Octo­ber 28, 2007
MP3: Side 1 | Side 2
REALAUDIO

Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists and Pan-Turkists working [...]

FTR #615 Going Native, Part 2 German Foreign Policy and Its Implications

Recorded Octo­ber 21, 2007
MP3: Side 1 | Side 2
REALAUDIO
Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists and Pan-Turkists working [...]

Strategies of Attrition (IV)

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I), Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).]
BERLIN/URUMQI/MUNICH/BEIJING(Own report) — Ger­man for­eign pol­icy mak­ers, are upping their polit­i­cal pres­sure on Bei­jing, and hold­ing talks with a Chi­nese sep­a­ratist. As the Munich based “World Uyghur Con­gress (WUC)” announced, its pres­i­dent, Rebiya Kadeer will also be received by the foreign [...]

Strategies of Attrition (III)

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II).]
LHASA/BEIJING/ULAAN BAATAR/BERLIN(Own report) — Last week­end, par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of the Ger­mano­phonic minor­ity in North­ern Italy (“South Tyrol”) vis­it­ing the head­quar­ters of the Tibetan “exile gov­ern­ment” in India, declared Tibet’s being part of the People’s Repub­lic of China to be “ille­gal” and called for the seces­sion of [...]