Tag: china
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US ‘Sonic Blasters’ Sold To China
from danger room: There was a surprising piece of gear at last month’s China International Police Forum, held in Beijing. There, among the rows of law enforcement tech, was an American machine, the Long Range Acoustic Device. It’s not something you’d expect to see, because, depending on who you ask, the LRAD is either a…
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‘thousands dead’ in chinese quake
from time: Between 3,000 and 5,000 people have been killed by an earthquake measuring 7.8 in one county of Sichuan province in south-western China, reports say. Some 10,000 people are also feared to have been injured in Beichuan county. update1: toll mounts in china earthquakefrom time: As many as 8,500 people have been killed by…
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hayden: rising populations could get ‘adversarial’
cia: china’s military could get ‘adversarial’from world tribune: China’s rise is posing serious challenges and its military buildup and international behavior could produce an “adversarial” relationship with the world, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said last week. “After two centuries of perceived Western hegemony, China seems to be determined to flex its muscles,” Hayden said.…
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m.i.c. & ike: US mulled nuking china in 1958
from ap: President Dwight D. Eisenhower overruled some of his military commanders in the summer of 1958, ordering them not to use nuclear weapons against China if communist forces blockaded the Taiwan Strait, according to declassified Air Force documents. Eisenhower “made it clear that the Chinese would be given a warning with conventional explosives before…
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‘flame protection unit’ or chinese paramilitary police
from steve watson: A 30 man squad of crack trained Chinese paramilitary cops will today march through the streets of San Francisco, policing the one and only US stop on the Olympic torch relay, and tackling any American protesters who get in their way. The news follows revelations that the London and Paris Olympic torch…
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extinquished torch, internet2, absolut raza & swatkids
olympic torch put out three timesfrom ap: Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China’s human rights record turned a relay through Paris into a chaotic series of stops and starts. Despite massive security, at least two activists got within almost an arm’s length of the flame before they were…
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global tensions: bombers, beijing, suez & subs
russian bombers fly close to US borderfrom afp: Russian bombers accompanied by Nato fighter jets have completed a patrol off the north west coast of the United States, the Russian air force said on Wednesday, Interfax reported. “NATO fighter jets accompanied the planes of long range aviation in the area of Alaska during the air…
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pentagon mistakenly sends icbm parts to taiwan
from danger room: Well, it’s not as bad as mistakenly sending nuclear-armed cruise missiles for a ride across the United States, but it’s not good either. The Pentagon today announced that it had mistakenly sent fuses for intercontinental ballistic missiles to Taiwan. Oops. No nuclear components were involved, however. Apparently, Taiwan was supposed to get…
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tibet protesters disrupt olympic flame ceremony
from guardian: Pro-Tibetan protesters today disturbed a high security ceremony to light the Olympic flame in Greece. International dignitaries were gathered at Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympics, when three members of the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders ran onto the field to disrupt a speech by Liu Qi, president of the Beijing organising committee…
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china’s weather control brigade
from danger room: By now, you may have heard about China’s efforts to keep the Beijing Olympics from being rained out. Fox News visits the Chinese weather controllers. Despite their arsenal of 4,000 rocket launchers, 7,000 anti-aircraft guns, and 30 airplanes for reverse cloud-seeding, they do not sound too sure they can hold China’s traditional…
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china locks down as protests blow up
beijing sends in tanks as tibet eruptsfrom guardian: China flooded the streets of Lhasa with riot police, yesterday, as the international community urged an end to the bloodshed in Tibet that has already claimed at least 10 – possibly dozens more – lives… “The army and police forbid us from walking down the road, so…
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rebiya kadeer: china fabricated terror plots
from afp: Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer Monday accused China of fabricating alleged plots against the Olympics, and even of scheming to carry out its own terror attacks, to blacken her community’s name. “It’s completely untrue. All these allegations are falsified,” the separatist figurehead, who joined her US-based husband in 2005 after six years in…
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chinese hacks, autism vax, israel tracks & blair attacks
chinese cyberattacks target US think tanksfrom upi: Defense-related think tanks and contractors, as well as the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, were the target of repeated computer network intrusions last year apparently originating in China, the Department of Defense said this week. court finds vaccine-autism link?from ap: For those convinced that vaccines can cause autism,…
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1child, wall st mafia, fb-spy, mindread, bluebrain & moloch
premier says china will stick with one-child policyfrom afp: China will stick with its strict family planning rules, Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday, in an apparent rebuttal to officials who raised the possibility of changes to the one-child policy. “We will adhere to the current policy of family planning, keep the birthrate low, improve the…
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special prison for 9/11 truth, sonar wars, minot & bjork
i hope we have a special prison for 9/11 truthers from kurt nimmo: In response to the arrest of a 9/11 demonstrator during a Bill Clinton appearance in Corpus Christi, corporate media shill and former Republican Congress critter Joe Scarborough and his co-hosts demanded 9/11 truthers be tasered and taken to detention camps. “Where’s the…