Tag: china
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china: one child, wargames & the pollution olympics
china may end the one-child limitfrom press tv: China, worried about an ageing population, is considering how to waive the one-child policy while keeping family-planning policies altogether… The rules are privately detested by most Chinese, and have been criticised abroad. US & china navies talk joint drillsfrom ap: The Chinese and U.S. navies may hold…
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pentagon says satellite shootdown a success
update: spy satellite blast caught on tape navy missile hits satellite, pentagon saysfrom washington post: A missile fired from a Navy cruiser in the Pacific Ocean hit an out-of-control spy satellite falling toward Earth last night, Pentagon officials said. They said that a single SM-3 missile fired from the USS Lake Erie hit the satellite…
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Shooter, Spy Sat Cover, DHS Death, Buffet, Blackwater, Beijing
shooter did time in mental health facilityfrom washington times: A former employee at a Chicago psychiatric treatment center said Kazmierczak had been placed there after high school by his parents. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications, she said. Kazmierczak spent more than a year at the Thresholds-Mary Hill House in…
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dying dollars & buying sprees
how bush destroyed the dollarfrom paul craig roberts: It is difficult to know where Bush has accomplished the most destruction, the Iraqi economy or the US economy. In the current issue of Manufacturing & Technology News, Washington economist Charles McMillion observes that seven years of Bush has seen the federal debt increase by two-thirds while…
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china hushes up olympic deaths
from the australian: China has systematically covered up the accidental deaths of at least 10 workers, and perhaps many more, in a rush to construct the futuristic “bird’s nest” stadium in Beijing for this summer’s Olympic Games… Witnesses have told The Sunday Times of seeing workers plummet to their deaths from the perilous heights of…
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‘futurist’ foresees rough times
from record online: A crashing stock market, a plunging U.S. dollar and tumbling corporate giants are among the predictions of a self-proclaimed “futurist” who says 2008 will hit this country with the economic equivalent of 9/11. Gerald Celente, founder and director of the Trends Research Institute in Rhinebeck, claims to accurately forecast economic and business…
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lou dobbs is concerned about china’s space ambitions
from raw replay: Lou Dobbs is concerned about China’s Space Ambitions. The following video is from CNN’s Lou Dobbs, broadcast on January 03, 2008
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crude milestone: crude oil futures hit $100 per barrel
from ap: Crude oil prices briefly soared to $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time, reaching that milestone amid an unshakeable view that global demand for oil and petroleum products will outstrip supplies. Surging economies in China and India fed by oil and gasoline have sent prices soaring over the past year, while ……
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china leads weather control race
from wired: Not content to push the edge in cloning, architecture & geological engineering, China’s also leaving the rest of the world behind when it comes to controlling the weather. A few years ago, Australian journalist John Taylor reported: It’s uncanny living in Beijing how it rains on the eve of major events. Be it…
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yahoo settles with jailed chinese dissidents
from market watch: Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday settled a lawsuit filed against the Internet company by Chinese dissidents who accused it of complicity in their jailing, according to a court filing. Yahoo had been sued earlier this year in California by Wang Xiaoning, Shi Tao and Yu Ling for allegedly providing Chinese authorities with personal…
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china testing space weapons
from ap: A Chinese submarine will send test signals that could change the course of a satellite when China launches its first moon orbiter, as part of the country’s effort to develop space war technology, a human rights watchdog said Tuesday. The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said two survey ships are deployed…
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US prepares to disable north korean nuclear arsenal
from spacewar: The United States is preparing to send experts to North Korea to launch a groundbreaking effort to disable the hardline communist state’s nuclear weapons arsenal following a six-nation agreement. The pact, unveiled by China on Wednesday, was hailed by President George W. Bush as a commitment “to realize a Korean Peninsula that is…
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SCO could expand to include pakistan & india
from app: The six-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) could be enlarged in near future to include Pakistan,India,Iran and Mongolia to help strengthen regional security and ensure greater economic development and progress. At a discussion arranged at the International Institute of Strategic Studies on “The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation and Sino-Russian Strategic Rapprochement” on Thursday afternoon, the…
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september clearinghouse
ron paul – the internet sensation video: kevin barrett questions amy goodman on building 7 international narcotics agenda behind myanmar instability cheney to address top secret conservative policy group gun bill rewrites law to disarm more americans defense stocks hit new highs pentagon seeks $190bn war funds security company death squads timeline mukasey poised to…
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china’s ultimatum
let us invade taiwan or we’ll dump the dollarfrom paul joseph watson: The Fed’s decision to cut interest rates again is likely to send the dollar tumbling to historic new lows, leading one financial analyst to predict that China’s fury at the devaluation of its huge dollar reserves will provoke them into giving the U.S.…