mile economic zone off Japan-administered Okinotori atoll, a rocky outcropping in the Pacific Ocean around 1,075 miles south of Tokyo and 975 miles east of Taipei.
An international maritime treaty grants such an economic zone to “islands” while “rocks” are limited to a 12-mile territorial sea. The distinction between “rocks” and “islands” is also at the heart of the South China Sea disputes pitting China against its U.S.-backed maritime neighbors.
"Japan has no right to ban our fishing boats from the area," Taiwan's coast guard administration was quoted as saying in an official statement. "The government will resolutely defend the rights and freedom of our fishermen in international waters."
Taiwan summoned a Japanese representative Friday to protest the vessel's seizure.
However, some experts note that Japan’s claim is anchored on a couple of uninhabitable rocks within the atoll that is reportedly around 100 square feet in combined area — or no bigger than a bedroom — at high tide. Tokyo's approach essentially mirrors Beijing's expansive claims to the South China Sea.
“The irony is that Japan is doing exactly what it is accusing China of doing in the South China Sea,” former Taiwan deputy defense minister Chong-Ping Lin told NBC News. Lin now teaches international and strategic studies at Taiwan’s Tamkang University.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida last week said China was making the world "worried" with its military buildup and maritime expansion in the East and South China Seas.
Panel: How Can We Build a Mass Movement to End War, and Bring about Real Transparency?
* William Pepper, Esq. - Prolific Attorney and Author of "Act of State" Chief Counsel to NYC CAN.
Building the Bridge: How Can We Unite the Peace and Truth Movements?
The Peace, Anti-War and Truth movements are all against empire. We are for what Gandhi called Satyagraha, or "truth-force." What tactics should we use going forward? Slesinger reports based in part on his experiences in July at the National Assembly to stop the war.
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PEACE! I just spoke to Sander this morning via email. he's going to be updating the site soon... I'm going to be attempting to break the Guinness World Record (TM) for Longest Freestyle on the 12th. I've been training to do 48 hours!
I'll be featured in the Parish Hall.
I'll be taking pledges to benefit NYCCAN, ae911truth, and Fealgood Foundation.
I'll have a lot of stuff up about this in the next 3-4 days. DJGREENARROW.COM has details.
pachamama on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 6:03pm.
Longest Freestyle What? May I ask?
I remember last year on 9/11 the news of events and actions were pouring in so fast it was about impossible to keep up. Let us make this years showing much greater. Let "them" know we are not going away.
A new administration and NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
Rap. Here's my bio, which has details on what I'll be talking about.
DJ Green Arrow is among the humans and especially the Hip Hop activists in the Americas, and has been called " a master of finding different ways to present artistic expression," by best-selling author, MC/Raptivist and lecturer Chuck D (Public Enemy). Green Arrow has unofficially broken the World Record for Rap twice, in both October 2007 and August 2009, when he rapped freestyle for 14 consecutive hours.
Green Arrow is the producer of "T.R.U.E.", a mix CD which redefines the DJ as Composer idea, and is currently working with both Hip Hop and Folk Culture. Joining Public Enemy, Afrika Bambaataa, and NYOIL with the legendary National Treasure Pete Seeger, Green Arrow will fuse these artists' work with that of the Shuar Tribe in the Amazon. The project, tentatively called "Conscience of an Economic Hit Man: An Earl Robinson Creation", is is preproduction. Green Arrow is also the author of the forthcoming "Freestyle to Death", a Book and DVD box set which documents his process in training himself to break the World Record for Rap. He is also working on two unique remakes of Public Enemy's essential "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back" and "Fear of a Black Planet", and producing the first 9/11 Truth audiobook, David Ray Griffin's "Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory".
DJ Green Arrow will be attempting to officially break the World Record for Rap according to Guinness World Records (TM) at the conference. The record is only 8 Hours and 45 minutes, which Green Arrow is confident he can break. He then plans to continue rapping until he triples his own unofficial record and sextuples the Guinness World Record (TM), rapping for a total of 52 hours on the subjects of race, art, 9/11 Truth, the "Shock Doctrine", and the principles outlined in John Perkins' classic "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man".
UPDATE: The 48 Hour rap has been extended to 52 Hours, and has been rescheduled to 10/10/10 in New York City. I will be attempting a total of 10 hours and 40 minutes at "We Demand Transparency!"
It's too bad this conference is giving a voice to the "flyover" theory at the Pentagon, a claim which even people who think everything was faked do not support. So unfortunately, this is advocating misinformation directly to the public on the 8th Anniversary.
People in NYC who come to see some films will be told that the cabbie in DC whose cab was hit by a lamp post was "in on" the attack on the Pentagon, a claim based entirely on speculation about broad statements like "this is bigger than me". I wonder what NYC residents who attend this will think of the "truthers" after that.
Craig, Aldo and CIT have been targeted by the same wrecking crew of cyber-stalkers who (individually and/or collectively) have tormented me, William Rodriguez, Rob Balsamo, Carol Brouillet, Webster Tarpley, Sofia, Dr. Steven Jones, Ellen Mariani, and other competent and accomplished voices of 9/11 truth. Stay tuned to this blog for a detailed discussion of cyber-stalking, the bane of the 9/11 truth movement. (I will be naming names...at least when the culprits have real names, rather than absurd pseudonyms like "Arabesque" and "Col. Sparks"!) Now the same cyber-stalkers are harassing Peter Dale Scott and myself, and presumably also David Ray Griffin and Richard Gage, because we have publicly endorsed the hard investigative work, if not necessarily all of the conclusions, of CIT. Through extremely hard work and exacting research, CIT has made a strong case that the large aircraft that witnesses assumed struck the Pentagon on 9/11 flew over the building rather than hitting it. By establishing a flight path on the north side of the Citgo station, CIT has shown that evidence supporting the official story's flight path to the south of the Citgo station--including downed lightpoles and the ridiculous C-ring hole--was probably manufactured. There would have been no need to manufacture this evidence if a large plane actually hit the building. The wreckers are so desperate to support the government's version of Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon that they have been sending insulting emails to Peter Dale Scott!
"Kevin Barrett is a prominent 9/11 activist. While he has significantly contributed awareness for the 9/11 truth movement, he has also damaged its credibility with damaging associations, discrediting theories, and controversial statements."
"If he convinces even one person to do something other than work for 9/11 truth, he may as well have personally murdered all 6 billion people on earth."
"Amy, you will one day find yourself on the scaffold, condemned to hang alongside the other Goebbels-style traitors and mass-murder-coverup-conspirators from the corporate media you pretend to criticize...."
Victronix on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 6:49pm.
Every dog has fleas...
Every dog has fleas- Just don't let them drive the beast crazy.
The presence of Kevin Barrett and CIT...
... at this event is disappointing to say the least. Sander Hicks should know better. The statement of Barrett's above about "cyber-stalkers" is dishonest. How much longer will the Movement tolerate this man lying? For him to share a stage with Bob McIlvaine is a travesty. If you choose to support this event, go to support Bob, the family members and some of the other guests who are hard-working activists. If you go to see Barrett and Ranke, "truth squad" their butts and call them out on their dishonest behavior and let them know that it is not just people like Arabesque that will stand up to their tricks, but there are many of us that will not let them turn the 9/11 Truth Movement into a laughing stock for all of history. We will not let you, despite