Tag: china
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North Korea to Freeze Nuclear Work, US to Give Food Aid
North Korea announced on Wednesday that it would suspend its nuclear weapons tests and uranium enrichment and allow international inspectors to monitor activities at its main nuclear complex.
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Apple Lets Labor Watchdog Audit Chinese Suppliers’ Factories
Apple CEO Tim Cook is betting that monthly updates on hours worked, audits and focus on firing offenses like hiring underage workers will limit any damage from an emerging supply chain controversy. Cook, speaking at a Goldman Sachs investment conference, reiterated that Apple “takes working conditions very seriously.” The company on Monday outlined a plan…
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US/China Drone War: Chinese Hacked RQ-170 Drone Over Iran
US officials reject Iran’s claim that it brought down the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel but remain tight-lipped about what caused the crash…their intelligence agencies discovered the culprits were a Chinese cyber warfare team which seized control of the drone.
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mlk day: quote to be changed on made-in-china memorial
obamessiah marks holiday with call to service from ap: A quote carved in stone on the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington will be changed after the inscription was criticized for not accurately reflecting the civil rights leader’s words. The inscription currently reads: “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.”…
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great chinese-iranian drone theft caper
Mike Harris, a Veterans Today writer, provides his take in article, “The Great Chinese-Iranian Stealth Reconnaissance Drone Theft Caper.” Harris, technical adviser to a Congressman, who served on House Committee for Science and Technology during nineties, believes caper dates to time United States sent semiconductor manufacturing offshore. During Clinton-Gore years, military electronics manufacturing standards were…
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winter solstice 2011: pagan celebrations mark shortest day of the year
from national post: Depending on where you are in the world, December 21 or 22 marks the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere: the official beginning of winter, and the longest night of the year. (In Canada, the switch happens either late at night on the 21st, or early in the morning on the 22nd;…
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kim jong il is dead, long live kim jong un!
north korea’s longtime leader & cult of personality dead at 69* from cnn: North Korea’s longtime leader Kim Jong Il, the embodiment of the reclusive state where his cult of personality is deeply entrenched, has died. He was believed to be 69. Regarded as one of the world’s most-repressive leaders, Kim Jong Il always cut…
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‘wonderful blood’: christian cannibalism in the middle ages
from strangehistory.net: Christian ‘cannibalism’ refers to the Eucharist when Christians (or at least non-Protestant Christians) believe that the bread and wine transmute, in mass, into the blood and body of Christ. Modern Christians are for the most part blasé about this: no one really thinks of the Eucharist as eating the flesh of another human…
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Iran Captures CIA Drone
Iran reports capture of CIA drone, this week, on Iran TV. It appears to be a CIA RQ-170 (UAV), taken into possession by Iran about 140 miles inside its eastern border. // Update: Obama appeals to Iran to give back downed drone
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project censored: the hidden news of 2011
from razor’s edge: They’re the headlines you don’t see, the words that don’t make the page- but if they did, these stories would cause quite a stir. Project Censored is a United States media research group and they’ve released their 2012 list of the top 25 censored stories. Number one on the list is the…
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china space program animation set to ‘america the beautiful’
Shenzhou-8 landed in Inner Mongolia, today, after successfully docking in space. Universe Today article provides nice coverage of China’s ambitious space program with two manned flights planned for 2012. Shenzhou-8 was unmanned. The Chinese space program animation is perhaps of greater interest to Americans, which curiously simulated docking set to song “America the Beautiful”. Wow!…
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dragon space: china has tracking station in australia
China acquires space tracking station in Western Australia, according to Space Daily article. The Chinese station is located in Dongara, a remote site 217 miles north of Perth, Australia. China also has four other tracking stations outside its borders in Chile, Namibia, Kenya and Pakistan. It’s lost any sense of novelty, some time ago, to…
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US weighed use of cyberattacks to weaken libya
from nytimes: Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare: a cyberoffensive to disrupt and even disable the Qaddafi government’s air-defense system, which threatened allied warplanes. While the exact techniques under consideration remain classified, the goal would have…
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US preparing more sanctions against iran over saudi murder plot
will US exploit dubious terror case to attack iran? from kurt nimmo: On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced it had uncovered a plot by Iran to enlist a member of a Mexican drug cartel to kill Saudi Arabia’s envoy in Washington, D.C. The FBI and the DEA uncovered the plot, according to officials. The FBI…
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9/29 defcon: cookies, retention & a heavenly palace
facebook tracks you even after logging out* australian tech expert discovers faCIAbook cookies* facebook to form its own political action committee* after outcry, onstar backing down on vehicle data collection* ‘retention periods of major cellular service providers’: secret memo reveals verizon stores your data the longest* state dept employee faces firing for posting wikileaks link*…