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China stirs over offshore oil pact
Post Date: 2008-07-28 20:29:00 by A K A Stone
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In yet another skirmish over oil rights in the South China Sea, China has fired a stern warning shot across the bow of ExxonMobil Corporation. China is miffed that Exxon is seeking to enter into a deal with PetroVietnam to explore for oil in waters surrounding the disputed Spratly and Paracel island chains. China has warned Exxon to pull out of the exploration deal, describing the project as a breach of Chinese sovereignty, according to the South China Morning Post at the weekend, citing unnamed sources close to the US company. Chinese diplomats in Washington had made verbal protests to ExxonMobil executives in recent months, and warned them the company's future business interests ...
Hong Kong Reports Mainland Chinese Eating Infants
Post Date: 2008-07-28 19:49:21 by A K A Stone
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You have to be kidding right? Unfortunately this is really happening! The Next Magazine, a weekly publication from Hong Kong, reported that infant corpses and fetuses have become the newest supplements for health and beauty in China. Not only is the placenta considered a beauty remedy, but also aborted fetuses are much sought after delicacies. In Guangdong, gourmet body parts are in high demand and can ...
China Owns America (Or Will Before Long)
Post Date: 2008-07-28 06:48:22 by A K A Stone
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Four years ago, when the foreign-exchange reserves of China totaled about $450 billion and the value of China’s holdings of U.S. securities was about $300 billion, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned about the emergence of a global “balance of financial terror.” Mr. Summers and others worry that U.S. consumption and investment levels are becoming dependent on “the discretionary acts” of other governments. Foreign governments and investors are accumulating huge pools of dollars by virtue of the massive trade deficits the United States has been running. What these governments decide to do with their rapidly growing dollar reserves could have a huge ...
Chinese Steel: Inferior
Post Date: 2008-07-20 20:37:44 by A K A Stone
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Inferior Steel imports from China that fall apart easily are making U.S. manufacturers and constructions firms more than a little nervous. Reports of failures during initial fabrication and questions about certification documents will mean closer scrutiny. The biggest concern is hollow structural sections widely used in construction of skyscrapers, bridges, pipelines, office, commercial and school buildings. This high-strength steel is also commonly used in power lifts, cranes, farm equipment, furniture and car trailer hitches. Failures of this “tube steel” has already happened in several California schools Chinese high-strength steel tubes and pipes are also a potential ...
The Aide Who Went to War How a year in Iraq changed an Obama adviser
Post Date: 2008-07-19 18:41:18 by A K A Stone
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Mark Lippert is hardly the kind of man most people would expect to find as Barack Obama's longest-serving foreign-policy adviser. The buzz-cut Navy reservist has just returned to his civilian job at the senator's office after a year's deployment in Iraq. His boss may have made his name with his antiwar stance, but Lippert has spent far more time on the ground in Iraq than most of Obama's right-wing critics ever will. Until Obama launched his presidential campaign, Lippert was his only senior foreign-policy aide. Now the presumptive Democratic nominee has more than 300 experts advising him on foreign affairs, organized into roughly 20 specialized groups and weighing in on ...
From the Campaign to the Battlefront
Post Date: 2008-07-19 18:34:29 by A K A Stone
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After a long day training to be deployed to Iraq, Navy reservist Mark Lippert unlaces his desert boots and pulls out a BlackBerry email device from his dusty backpack. Checking his messages, he spots an email from the presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama: "I miss you, brother." Mr. Lippert, a lieutenant junior grade sporting a buzz-cut and desert camouflage, is training here before being shipped out to Iraq, where he will serve as an intelligence officer for the Navy SEALs. In his civilian life, he is the chief foreign-policy adviser for Sen. Obama -- the Democrat whose most well-known foreign-policy stance is his opposition to the Iraq War Lt. Lippert is about to join. ...
Egypt's Coptic Christians avoid hard-line Muslims
Post Date: 2008-07-13 20:49:49 by A K A Stone
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Under pressure from fundamentalist forms of Islam and bursts of sectarian violence, the most populous Christian community in the Middle East is seeking safety by turning inward, cutting day-to-day social ties that have bound Muslim to Christian in Egypt for centuries, members of both communities say. Attacks this summer on monks and shopkeepers belonging to Egypt's Coptic Christian minority, and scattered clashes between Muslims and Christians, have compelled many of Egypt's estimated 6 to 8 million Copts to isolate themselves in a nation of more than 70 million Muslims. To a degree, the separation will stand as the legacy of one of the longest-serving leaders in the church's ...
Beatles a Christian band? Lennon 'big fan' of Jesus
Post Date: 2008-07-13 20:42:54 by A K A Stone
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John Lennon, famous for singing, "Imagine there's no heaven," is now said to have been "on the side of Christ," according to his own words recently unearthed from a long-lost radio interview. "I'm one of Christ's biggest fans," the Beatles' songwriter is heard to say in a 1969 interview with Ken Seymour of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. "And if I can turn the focus on the Beatles on to Christ's message, then that's what we're here to do." The interview with startling words from a man long-considered to be hostile to Christianity was bought three years ago by National Museums Liverpool, a museum complex ...
Foreign investors have more control over the US economy than Americans
Post Date: 2008-07-13 08:54:54 by A K A Stone
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America’s leading public finance watchdog has sounded a warning that the US economy is vulnerable to hostile financial actions by nations that are not its “allies”.
Foreign investors have more control over the US economy than Americans Foreign investors have more control over the US economy than Americans
BREAKING NEWS Former Soviet republics ignore Putin's Russia Someone in the Kremlin wants to take Lenin's mummy out of the Tomb Can government decide if women can do abortions?
David Walker, the US comptroller general, indicated that the huge holdings of American government debt by countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and Libya could leave a powerful financial weapon in the ...
Barack Obama proposes to change bankruptcy laws to help those in need
Post Date: 2008-07-13 08:52:05 by A K A Stone
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Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed changing bankruptcy laws to "fast-track" the process for military families, help seniors keep their homes, and protect people recovering from natural disasters. The Democratic presidential hopeful also accused Republican rival John McCain of repeatedly siding with the banking industry, saying, "When it comes to strengthening the safety net for hardworking families, he's been part of the problem, not part of the solution." Both candidates are in the midst of weeklong efforts devoted to the economy, the top concern of voters four months before the election as gas prices and job layoffs rise while the credit crisis and housing crunch ...
The world order based on USA’s global supremacy has ended
Post Date: 2008-07-13 08:46:13 by A K A Stone
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The full text of the report about national security threats has been published in the USA for the first time ever. Russia was listed as one of the threats in the document. The search for the enemy is based on the pre-election campaign in the States. If the USA is in fear of Russia then it means that the United States finally started to respect its erstwhile Cold War rival. The world order based on USA’s global supremacy has ended The world order based on USA’s global supremacy has ended BREAKING NEWS Former Soviet republics ignore Putin's Russia Someone in the Kremlin wants to take Lenin's mummy out of the Tomb Can government decide if women can do abortions? ...
Another US family kills another baby adopted from Russia
Post Date: 2008-07-13 08:40:01 by A K A Stone
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A two-year-old baby adopted from Russia by an American family died after his father left him in a car for hours. Foster father Miles Harrison, 49, fainted when he found the little boy dead in the back seat of the car outside his office. The man can be sentenced up to ten years in jail for involuntary manslaughter, The Washington Post reports. Another US family kills another baby adopted from Russia Another US family kills another baby adopted from Russia BREAKING NEWS Former Soviet republics ignore Putin's Russia Someone in the Kremlin wants to take Lenin's mummy out of the Tomb Can government decide if women can do abortions? Hollywood's hottest raven-heads More... The ...
Energy war: India and China face off in Central Asia
Post Date: 2008-07-12 22:44:23 by A K A Stone
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Call it a diplomatic fandango. Heavy-duty Chinese bulldozers groan day and night, building motorable roads that will connect towns with cities in Kazakhstan. In the countryside, Russian engineers are busy putting new cables on newly-erected towers to put a fresh spark into the rusty, unreliable electrical grid. On the streets of Tashkent and Dushanbe, Bollywood numbers incite local people to break into impromptu jigs. And in the war-torn dustbowls of Afghanistan, American workers are building schools and hospitals in the middle of non-stop gunfire. The Indians are doing the same, at the risk of their lives. This is the soft side of the story — efforts to woo the Central Asian ...
U.S. Taxpayer Bailout of China Over Fannie Mae
Post Date: 2008-07-11 22:48:20 by A K A Stone
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If the US bails out Fannie Mae bonds as suggested in We're All Homeowners Now, Nationalization of Fannie, Freddie Unavoidable, inquiring mind just might be wondering "Who is the biggest beneficiary?". It's a good question too. Please consider Chinese Government is Top Foreign Holder of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Bonds. As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas. The top five foreign holders of Freddie and Fannie long-term ...
'Israeli warplanes practice in Iraq'
Post Date: 2008-07-11 09:05:47 by A K A Stone
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Israel Air Force (IAF) war planes are practicing in Iraqi airspace and land in US airbases on the country as preparation for a potential strike on Iran, sources in the Iraqi Defense Ministry told a local news network, Friday. An IAF jet participates in a... An IAF jet participates in a large-scale air force drill. Photo: IDF Slideshow: Pictures of the week The report, carried also by Iranian news outlets, claimed that recently massive nocturnal activity by IAF craft was noted in several American held airbases, including measures by the US army to increase security around the bases. The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the veracity of the report. According to the sources, former military ...
Baghdad Reenlistment
Post Date: 2008-07-11 00:21:31 by A K A Stone
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U.N. scheme to make Christians criminals
Post Date: 2008-07-10 21:48:44 by A K A Stone
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Dozens of nations dominated by Islam are pressing the United Nations to adopt an anti-"defamation" plan that would make Christians criminals under international law, according to a United States organization that has launched a campaign to defend freedom of religion worldwide. "Around the world, Christians are being increasingly targeted, and even persecuted, for their religious beliefs. Now, one of the largest organizations in the United Nations is pushing to make a bad situation even worse by promoting anti-Christian bigotry," the American Center for Law & Justice said yesterday in announcing its petition drive. The discrimination is "wrapped in the guise of ...
Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web
Post Date: 2008-07-09 09:37:13 by A K A Stone
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Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web. Major software and hardware makers worked in secret for months to create a software "patch" released on Tuesday to repair the problem, which is in the way computers are routed to web page addresses. "It's a very fundamental issue with how the entire addressing scheme of the Internet works," Securosis analyst Rich Mogul said in a media conference call. "You'd have the Internet, but it wouldn't be the Internet you expect. (Hackers) would control everything." The flaw would be a boon for ...
Iran test-fires missiles in Persian Gulf
Post Date: 2008-07-09 09:25:17 by A K A Stone
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles Wednesday during war games that officials said aimed to show the country can retaliate against any U.S. and Israeli attack, state television reported. Gen. Hossein Salami, the air force commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, said the exercise would "demonstrate our resolve and might against enemies who in recent weeks have threatened Iran with harsh language," the TV report said. Wednesday's war games were being conducted at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which about 40 percent of the world's oil passes. Iran has threatened to shut down traffic in the ...
Bin Laden's son in web terror rant
Post Date: 2008-07-08 22:03:46 by A K A Stone
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THIS is Osama Bin Laden’s school-age son, who yesterday continued his father’s mission of hate — with a POEM begging for Britain to be destroyed. Baby-faced Hamza Bin Laden — just 16 but already dubbed the Crown Prince of Terror — also ranted in his evil ode that the US and our other allies must be wiped out. The teen declared in his demented ditty to fanatics: “Accelerate the destruction of America, Britain, France and Denmark.” He continued: “Oh God, reward the fighters hitting the infidels and defectors. Oh God, guide the youth of the Islamic nation and let them assist with the fighters’ plans. “God, be pleased with those who want to ...
China's economy to become world's biggest in 2035: study
Post Date: 2008-07-08 19:15:29 by A K A Stone
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China's economy will overtake that of the United States by 2035 and be twice its size by midcentury, a study released Tuesday by a US research organization concluded. The report by economist Albert Keidel of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said China's rapid growth is driven by domestic demand more than exports, and will sustain high single-digit growth rates well into the 21st century. "China's economic performance clearly is no flash in the pan," Keidel writes. "Its growth this decade has averaged more than 10 percent a year and is still going strong in the first half of 2008. Because its success in recent decades has not been export-led but ...
EU Constitution author says referendums can be ignored
Post Date: 2008-06-29 10:54:05 by A K A Stone
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Future referendums will be ignored whether they are held in Ireland or elsewhere, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the architect of the European Union Constitution said. The former President of France drafted the old Constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters three years ago before being resurrected as the Lisbon EU Treaty, itself shunned by the Irish two weeks ago. Mr Giscard d'Estaing told the Irish Times that Ireland's referendum rejection would not kill the Treaty, despite a legal requirement of unanimity from all the EU's 27 member states. "We are evolving towards majority voting because if we stay with unanimity, we will do nothing," he ...
: No ice at the North Pole Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change
Post Date: 2008-06-26 22:55:40 by A K A Stone
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It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer. "From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water," said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice ...
Driving the surge in gas prices?
Post Date: 2008-06-09 23:41:41 by A K A Stone
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I can’t make this up: In a hotel room in Brussels, the chief executives of the world’s top oil companies unrolled a huge map of the Middle East, drew a fat, red line around Iraq and signed their names to it. The map, the red line, the secret signatures. It explains this war. It explains this week’s rocketing of the price of oil to $134 a barrel. It happened on July 31, 1928, but the bill came due now. Barack Obama knows this. Or, just as important, those crafting his policies seem to know this. Same for Hillary Clinton’s team. There could be no more vital difference between the Republican and Democratic candidacies. And you won’t learn a thing about it on the ...
America’s Medicated Army
Post Date: 2008-06-09 23:29:49 by A K A Stone
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Seven months after Sergeant Christopher LeJeune started scouting Baghdad's dangerous roads — acting as bait to lure insurgents into the open so his Army unit could kill them — he found himself growing increasingly despondent. "We'd been doing some heavy missions, and things were starting to bother me," LeJeune says. His unit had been protecting Iraqi police stations targeted by rocket-propelled grenades, hunting down mortars hidden in dark Baghdad basements and cleaning up its own messes. He recalls the order his unit got after a nighttime firefight to roll back out and collect the enemy dead. When LeJeune and his buddies arrived, they discovered that some of the ...
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