Tag: china
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US, china & russia ♥ cluster bombs
from washington post: Forty-six countries agreed Friday to push for a global treaty banning cluster bombs, a move activists hope will force the superpowers that oppose the effort – the U.S., China and Russia – to abandon the weapons… Of the 49 countries attending the Oslo conference, only three – Japan, Poland and Romania -…
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weapons for iran & china traced to pentagon
from international herald tribune: The U.S. military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen for countries – including Iran and China – who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department’s surplus auctions. The sales include fighter jet parts and missile components. In one case, federal investigators said, the contraband made it…
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first-baby sweepstakes fuels immigration debate
from new york times: It seemed like a perfect formula for good publicity: A national sweepstakes would award a $25,000 United States savings bond to the first American baby born in 2007, courtesy of the toy chain Toys “R” Us and its Babies “R” Us division. Instead, after disqualifying a Chinese-American baby girl born in…
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news on the march
Ba’ath threatens US if Saddam is executedfrom international herald tribune: Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party threatened Wednesday to retaliate if the ousted Iraqi leader is executed, warning in an Internet posting it would target U.S. interests anywhere… “Our party warns again of the consequences of executing Mr. President and his comrades… The Ba’ath and the resistance…
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china admits selling prisoners’ organs
from abc news: For the first time, the Chinese government has admitted selling the organs of executed prisoners for profit, a gruesome business it had denied for years. Speaking at a national conference of transplant surgeons in Guangzhou last week, Vice-Minister of Health Huang Jiefu admitted, “Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most…
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china harvesting organs from falun gong detainees
from thought criminal: Western countries are beginning to pay high-level attention to accusations that Chinese authorities are killing jailed members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement in order to sell their body parts for organ transplants. A subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing on the accusations on September 29. The…