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China sends warplanes to newly established air defense zone

China sends warplanes to newly established air defense zone

A Jian-10 fighter plane of China Air Force takes off from an unidentified military base in China. (Reuters / China Daily / Files)

China confirmed that it had flown warplanes over the country’s newly established East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Thursday, state media reported.

The zone roused controversy when it was announced last week, as it covered disputed territory claimed by China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a daily press briefing that civilian flights have not been impacted, Xinhua news agency reported. China has said that all planes flying through the zone should submit flight plans and identify themselves, or their operators would end up facing “defensive emergency measures.”

“We expect all sides, including aviation companies, to actively coordinate with us and jointly safeguard flight safety,” Qin said.

Earlier Thursday, Japan and South Korea, key US allies in East Asia, sent their own military aircraft into the zone’s airspace in an act of defiance.

Both countries’ air forces flew planes into the disputed area following a similar flight Monday by two unarmed American B-52 bombers. Neither country informed the Chinese of their plans in advance, in an apparent snub of Beijing’s claims to the airspace.

Japan’s ANA Holdings and Japan Airlines said Tuesday that they would stop submitting flight plans to Chinese aviation authorities. Both carriers had been previously informing China of flights through the recently established zone.

Both said that they would cease to do so as of Wednesday, after Japan’s Transport Minister Akihiro Ota called the declaration of China’s defense zone “not valid at all” and urged noncompliance.

Japan and the US were outraged after Beijing declared eight uninhabited islands at the center of its ongoing territorial dispute with Tokyo to be part of China’s new aerial zone, with the Japanese Foreign Ministry saying that China’s claim to the airspace was “totally unacceptable and extremely regrettable.”

The area is routinely patrolled by Japanese naval ships and P-3C aircraft, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday.

Tensions between Japan and China over the islands, which are situated in waters rich with oil, natural gas and fish, rose after the Japanese government purchased three of the islands in the group from a private Japanese owner.

Chinese patrol ships and airplanes have since been repeatedly entering and patrolling the areas around the islands to protest the Japanese move.

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Ephemerality Aside, SnapChat Sends Its First Permanent Message

Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He writes at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.

In many parts of Silicon Valley and the consumer technology world, the zeitgeist surrounding SnapChat is undeniably the talk of the town. In a way, it has been for most of 2013. I wrote a post on SnapChat’s rise in February 2013 and it generated an intense level of feedback. A seemingly small, unassuming outfit which builds a social, mobile application from the shores of Venice Beach, the company has grown into one of the world’s most dominant photo-sharing services, has reportedly turned down billions in acquisition offers from some of the world’s most powerful technology companies, and in a complex yet simple manner, continues to extend its brand as the hyper-growth symbol for the anti-web, anti-Facebook, anti-permanent network.

While few deny SnapChat’s growth and engagement, plenty are skeptical regarding the number of zeros tacked on to the company’s valuation as this year unfolded. Common refrains include “they have no revenue” and “it’s a frothy environment” and “it’s a bubble” and “they’re stupid for not selling and taking the money.” Yet, it wasn’t too long ago that another hyper-growth photo-sharing service was acquired for a handsome sum by one of the largest technology companies. At that time, a small chorus did want Instagram to remain independent to see if it could unseat Facebook. The majority of the crowd, however, realized that a team of under 15 could build a billion dollars worth of value in a few short years — “take the money and run.”

In 18 months from Instagram to SnapChat, we find ourselves with a bit of hypocrisy.

Scores of Internet-famous startup “gurus” constantly peddle their theories, bemoaning founders and investors who help create more social media properties, more photo-sharing services, and more new companies which don’t start out with lofty ambitions. The implication in this line of criticism is to suggest that there are too many companies getting funded going after the same, small problems, a cycle which stifles innovation. Then, when valuations creep up, especially in the absence of a clear revenue model and/or for services the chattering class in technology doesn’t often use themselves, we hear more criticism about the frothiness of the market, how SnapChat will never be able to sell a proper ad unit, and how the company is overvalued on paper given all the hype surrounding the technology sector worldwide today.

The Instagram team is applauded for taking the quick exit over playing the long game. They could have potentially turned their little toy into something potentially bigger than Facebook. I tip my hat to them, no doubt. The SnapChat team is, on the other hand, often the subject of public scorn and perhaps a bit of jealousy as they brashly play a high-stakes game of courting acquisition or investment and turning up the heat. “Of course, SnapChat should take the money and run.” “It’s hard enough to build and distribute a great product, let alone slapping a robust business model on top of one.” “If SnapChat rejects these offers, they’ll have to go it alone and may flame out.”

All the chatter and pontification in the world does not change some hard facts. SnapChat and other big, growing mobile messaging platforms such as, but not limited to, Line, WeChat, Whatsapp, Kik, and others are all in the middle of a high-stakes, lucrative mobile land grab. Regardless of “how” these new networks grew to such large scale, the fact remains mobile growth only continues to march on, unbundling and fracturing the concentrated graph Facebook has collected on the web. It’s not hard to imagine a future where mobile messaging apps become the predominant platform for new mobile products and services, distribution and commerce. In the eye of the storm, it’s nearly impossible to model what these apps are worth on paper — that can only be determined by the market, and in the case of SnapChat, if the reports are true, it is worth somewhere between $ 3-4Bn.

It is more precise to say that SnapChat is worth $ 3-4Bn to Facebook, or to Google, or to Tencent. Each potential acquiring company is playing a slightly different game, but their strategies all converge at the same place — in the palm of our hands. Tencent, which owns WeChat, may view SnapChat as a key piece on its chessboard; Facebook may see SnapChat as a potential runaway freight train that needs to be bought and killed; and Google may either want to bolster its mobile portfolio, or simply just get under the skin of its social network rival.

Dollars and sense aside, the larger question for me revolves around the emotions and confusions a company as seemingly simple as SnapChat can arouse among so many. The crowd wants more big ideas, more founders attacking real problems, and more investors and entrepreneurs who align incentives to build for the long-term. Yet, when a certain amount of cold-hard cash is put on the table and rejected, the crowd reaches its reserve price and calls into question the rationality of such a decision.

And, herein lies the rub. Entrepreneurs often play a series of complex, concurrent, nuanced games. Entrepreneurs often don’t have a reserve price when momentum is at their back and probably aren’t economically “rational” in the way most of us believe to be sane. In dramatic instances such as these, I go back to the silver screen — in this case, to Heath Ledger’s immortal performance as The Joker, who in one scene lectures a greedy criminal while setting his own cash bounty on fire: “All you care about is money…It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message.” Unlike its photos which expire, SnapChat’s recent message has an aura of permanence around it, reverberating through startup technology circles and trickling into the mainstream consciousness. By publicly rejecting latest eye-popping Facebook’s offer, SnapChat reinforces its anti-Facebook message and simultaneously taps into our collective imagination and disbelief, exposing a hypocrisy in the charlatan mantras, the greed in the crowd’s thirst to make sense of valuations, and the insecurity in the harsh reality that a little app which appears to be a simple toy “could” potentially grow so large by riding the biggest technology platform wave of our lifetimes, it could render the giants before it obsolete.

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W.H. Sends Out Rice, Who Misled on Benghazi, to Make Case for Syria

Daniel Halper
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September 9, 2013

Susan Rice famously blamed the Benghazi terror attack that took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, on an Internet video. She further said the terror attack occurred after a spontaneous protest over that anti-Muslim film got out of hand, instead of blaming the al Qaeda backed terrorists responsible for the murders.

“The White House has had quite enough of the controversy over ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, the misleading talking points she used in TV interviews about the jihadist attacks in Benghazi, and the Obama administration’s contradictory narrative about those attacks,” Steve Hayes reported in December.

But today, Rice will be called upon again to make a public case for the White House — this time, she’ll be talking about Syria. Except now Rice is the national security adviser, a promotion she received in the last year.

Here’s the press release from the New America Foundation, where Rice will be speaking today, which the White House forwarded along:

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New America Foundation to Host White House National Security Advisor, Susan E. Rice

WASHINGTON, DC — On Monday September 9, the New America Foundation will host a public event on the situation in Syria featuring White House National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice. Ambassador Rice will discuss the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians, the longstanding international norm against the use of chemical weapons, and the need for action to deter the Assad regime from future use of chemical weapons.

WHO:

Introduction: Anne-Marie Slaughter, President, New America Foundation

Keynote remarks: Ambassador Susan E. Rice, White House National Security Advisor

WHEN:

Monday, September 9, 2013

12:30 p.m. EST – 1:30 p.m. EST

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Russia sends warships to Mediterranean as Syria tension rises

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is sending two warships to the eastern Mediterranean, Interfax news agency said on Thursday, as Western powers prepare for military action over last week’s alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.

Interfax news agency quoted a source in the armed forces’ general staff as saying a missile cruiser and an anti-submarine ship would arrive in the coming days because of the “well-known situation” – a clear reference to the conflict in Syria.

The navy later denied the deployment was linked to events in Syria and said it was part of a long-planned rotation of its ships in the Mediterranean. It did not say what kind of vessels, or how many, were on their way to the region.

The initial Interfax report had made clear that the aim was to beef up the navy’s presence and not to replace the ships in the Mediterranean. The reason for the discrepancy in the two reports was not immediately clear.

The United States accuses Syrian government forces of carrying out last week’s chemical weapons attack and has said it is repositioning its naval forces in the Mediterranean.

Russia, President Bashar al-Assad’s main international ally, says it opposes any military intervention in Syria and that it has no plans to be drawn into any conflict. It says there is no proof that Assad’s forces carried out the attack.

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Britain sends Typhoon jets to Cyprus

The MoD says Britain has deployed six Typhoon jets to Cyprus base near Syria.

Britain has deployed six Typhoon jets to its Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus as the Western rhetoric of war continues against Syria, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) says.

“We can confirm that as part of ongoing contingency planning, 6 RAF Typhoon interceptor fast jets are deploying this morning to Akrotiri in Cyprus,” said an Royal Air Force (RAF) spokesman.

The MoD said the RAF fighters were flying to the Mediterranean on Thursday, ahead of a potential foreign military intervention in Syria over the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.

The MoD also claimed that the deployment of jets was not aimed at conducting a military strike on the Arab country, but served as a “purely precautionary measure.”

The Typhoons flying from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, east England, were reported to have been fitted with advanced short range air-to-air missiles, medium range air-to-air missiles, and a Mauser cannon.

On August 21, the militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed that 1,300 people had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar.

However, the Syrian government categorically rejected the baseless claim, and announced later that the chemical attack had actually been carried out by the militants themselves as a false flag operation.

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Assad sends air force to prevent rebel advances in home province

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Warplanes bombed a village in Syria’s north overnight in an apparent effort by President Bashar al-Assad to prevent rebels fighting him from advancing on communities in the stronghold region of his Alawite sect.

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Chemical release at Intel in Arizona sends 11 to hospitals

(CNN) — A chemical release at the Intel complex in Chandler, Arizona, on Saturday sent 11 people to local hospitals, where they were reported in stable condition, said fire department spokesman Tom Dwiggins.

Forty-three people suffered breathing difficulties and skin and eye irritations, but only 11 of them were taken to medical centers, he said.

The leak began at 6:30 a.m. Saturday but has since been stopped, Dwiggins said later Saturday morning.

The cause is under investigation, he said.

CNN’s John Branch contributed to this report.

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Fires, floods, storms: Mother Nature sends extremes across U.S.

• Heavy rains head to Florida with season’s first possible tropical depression or storm


• Wildfires burn in Los Angeles area and New Mexico


• The Mississippi River crests at St. Louis, and high water heads toward Cape Girardeau


• Thunderstorms may hit Oklahoma, but mercifully, more tornadoes are a long shot

(CNN) — Tempestuous weather is striking the United States on four fronts. It seems as if Mother Nature is trying to throw us one extreme or another. Here they are:

First tropical storm of the season?

An area of “disturbed weather” in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula, could bring heavy rains and flooding to the Florida Peninsula and the Georgia and Carolina coastlines by Thursday, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.

Morris says he’ll be watching to see if the bad weather becomes the first tropical depression — or even the first tropical storm — of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.

At a minimum, the storms could cause a lot of rainfall and flooding on the Florida Peninsula, he said.

Fires

A 32,000-acre wildfire is burning some old-growth chaparral in northern Los Angeles County that lies in the western tip of the Mojave Desert.

Firefighters have brought the so-called Powerhouse Fire 60% under control, said Ed Gilliland of the U.S. Forest Service.

A few hundred homes and other structures remain at moderate risk, but conditions are safe enough to lift evacuations and allow people to return to the communities of Green Valley, Leona Valley, Elizabeth Lake and Lake Hughes, authorities said.

Higher humidity and lower temperatures should help firefighters, Gilliland said.

Added Morris: “They aren’t expecting gusty winds in that area, so the conditions should be favorable for the firefighters to gain some ground there, which they have been.”

In New Mexico, a wildfire is burning nearly uncontrollably in the mountains at Pecos. The Tres Lagunas Fire is only 7% contained and has consumed 8,500 acres, authorities said, adding that crews are trying to protect structures in Holy Ghost Canyon.

Floods

The mighty Mississippi River is now at major flood stage in St. Louis, but the worst of it is over and waters will recede this week, Morris said.

The river there has topped 40 feet, more than 10 feet above flood stage.

Downriver, however, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, could face flooding as the surge moves downstream, Morris said.

But the city will be the last along the river to face such a threat, because the river begins to widen south of there, Morris said.

“We’re expecting Cape Girardeau to reach major flood stage tonight and crest at the end of the week,” Morris said Tuesday.

Crews in West Alton, Missouri — a town just north of St. Louis where the Mississippi and Missouri rivers meet — were reinforcing their levees with sandbags. A levee breach prompted authorities to urge 300 residents to evacuate. And the bridge to Alton, Illinois, was shut down after a temporary flood barricade failed.

But no homes in West Alton are under water, said Colene McEntee, a spokeswoman for St. Charles County.

Tornado Alley

Still reeling from deadly twisters, Oklahoma faces a slight risk of thunderstorms Tuesday, but the good news is there’s only a slight chance of an isolated tornado, Morris said. There’s also a chance of large hail and damaging straight-line winds in northwest Oklahoma, he added.

“For most of the state, it’s just a very slight risk of severe storms,” Morris said.

There is also a slight risk of severe weather for the southern half of Kansas, far northern Texas and southeast Colorado.

Oklahoma’s recent storms have killed 19 people, said Shanea Scully, administrative coordinator for the Oklahoma City Fire Department.

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Sweden Riots: Islamism Sends Stockholm Up in Flames

Sweden Riots Islamism Sends Stockholm Up in Flames

Over the past week, Muslim immigrants have been on the rampage, destroying Swedish businesses, burning vehicles, attacking policemen, and waging a war against Western civilization. This is the breaking point for Sweden, and if the country is to succeed in preserving its liberties, then it must have a complete overhaul of its immigration policies, which have permitted millions of Muslim immigrants into the country — immigrants who have no interest whatsoever in assimilating into Swedish culture.

Rioting began on the May 19 when a Muslim man was gunned down by policeman in Stockholm after he brandished a machete and attempted to kill them. Muslims claimed that this was police brutality, and took the streets to protest. This has resulted in more than 300 cars being burnt by Islamist thugs, and damages are likely to cost billions of dollars. The irony of the situation is that no police brutality occurred whatsoever, for the police had every right to gun down the madman who was attempting to kill them. Nevertheless the fanaticism that has come about due to the killing has reinvigorated those who are fundamentally opposed to mass immigration from Muslim nations. It is well known that Sweden has been a safe haven for those who wish to seek asylum, or simply live off of hard-working people, due to its welfare state that has been taken advantage by those who are lazy and refuse to work. The fact of the matter is that regardless of what occurs, the welfare state will not be abolished, nor should it be, for it has become evident that the welfare system implemented by the Nordic countries has been a tremendous success. The problem is that many of the immigrants, including most of the Muslims, have no interest contributing to society, for they wish to retreat into their slums, live off the state, and attack policeman, ambulances, and anyone else who is not Muslim. 

The line must be drawn, and it is becoming clear that only the Swedish Democrats are willing to stand up for Swedish values in a non-fascist way. Their leader, and member of Parliament, Jimmie Akesson, has made it clear that his nation has an “extreme immigration problem.” The only way this will be fixed is by dramatically decreasing the number of immigrants coming in from Muslim nations, and putting an end to the absurd multicultural program being pushed through by the political elite in both Sweden, and the European Union.

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US sends 100 armed troops to Niger

22 February 2013 Last updated at 11:45 ET

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The US has deployed 100 troops to Niger to assist French forces in neighbouring Mali, the US president has said.

The armed troops will provide intelligence support, President Barack Obama informed Congress on Friday.

France deployed troops to Mali in January to counter al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants.

The US and Niger signed a status of forces agreement last month, and the US is weighing a base for surveillance drones there, US media have reported.

A senior Niger official said in January that US Ambassador Bisa Williams requested permission to establish a drone base in a meeting with Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou, the Reuters news agency reported.

Last month, the US and Niger struck an agreement on the status of US forces as the two nations “define precisely what kind of military presence we may have in Niger in the future”, a spokeswoman for the US state department said.

The new deployment of US forces are stationed in Niger with the government’s consent, Mr Obama said in his letter to Congress.

Their mission will focus on “intelligence sharing”, the president said. They will be armed for their own protection, he said.

Thousands of troops from France and African nations have been sent to Mali to oust Islamist militants.

They have recaptured the major towns in northern Mali.

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