August 6th, 2010
The Associated Press is reporting today that China will soon be ready to deploy their new “Aircraft Carrier Killer” missile, a weapon specifically designed to destroy our super aircraft carriers in case of a conflict with China.
Here is the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100805/ap_on_re_as/as_china_us_carrier_killer
Since WWII, our navel strategy around the globe has depended on our ability to deploy large aircraft carriers around the globe. The planes they carry being able to challenge potential enemies within their home territory.
Rather than try to match us by building their own aircraft carriers, China is cleverly developing a specialized missile meant to attack our aircraft carriers. The Dong Fong 21D will be a serious deterrent when the missile’s accuracy is improved.
Even more seriously, this weapon could eventually be sold to countries like Iran and others.
We will need to develop much better defense systems if our carrier groups are to be secure.
In the meantime, as a low tech defense, it occurs to me that huge oil tanker ships could be filled with water and sail around our aircraft carriers. That would provide decoys and a shield around our sailors.
Todd Lipscomb
Founder of www.MadeinUSAForever.com
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July 24th, 2010
I have long pointed out in this blog and www.MadeinUSAForever.com newsletter that the moving of factories abroad has put our middle class under intense pressure by taking away those good manufacturing jobs.
Here is an interesting article from The Business Insider backing up that position somewhat:
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-out-here%27s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520657.html?tickers=^DJI,^GSPC,SPY,MCD,WMT,XRT,DIA
However, his points about the American worker’s expense miss the boat on the other key reasons the playing field is not level with China, etc.. Those include foreign government protection, unsafe products and working conditions abroad, China’s currency manipulation, foreign company’s lack of being liable for safety or patent infringement issues, etc.
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June 21st, 2010
As a Midwest guy that moved to the coast for work, I have to admit being really impressed on the few occasions I have seen dolphins and whales in the wild. There is something naturally playful about the dolphins and majestic about the whales.
I have a lot of friends who are really into the ocean. I understand their feelings, but what I don’t get is that nearly all of the folks I know that are really into the ocean movement drive Japanese cars. Japan kills dolphins and whales. I have seen whale meat in Tokyo that somehow ends up in the markets, though Japan supposedly only kills whales for scientific reasons. Every year Japan sends a fleet of ships to the South Pacific to harvest, oops I mean “study”, whales by killing 1000 of them.
Dolphins are slaughtered by Japanese fishermen by being trapped and clubbed violently over the head. They somehow view dolphins as competition for fish, or they are collecting some for Sea Park shows and kill the rest (young female dolphins are taken for the shows, and the rest of the group is killed). You can see some the gory details in the documentary The Cove (http://thecovemovie.com/).
The Japanese government protecting their fishing industry’s right to kill whales and dolphins is the same government that protects their automobile makers, like Toyota, Subaru, Nissan, and Honda.
The taxes that those automobile companies pay to the Japanese government when someone here buys one of their cars subsidizes their fishing industry.
If folks here would boycott Japanese products until the killing of whales and dolphins stops, it would not be long before these senseless hunts stop.
Todd Lipscomb
Founder of MadeinUSAForever.com
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June 9th, 2010
Please see this cool video from a college student concerned about the USA:
http://tinyurl.com/2dqdhyg
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