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China Undercuts Obama Green Energy Iniatives
All that talk from President Obama about reviving our economy and creating jobs to foster clean, green living in the US has been too little, too late. Read this summary of the current situation: Chinese solar panel manufacturers accounted for slightly over half the world’s production last year. Their share of the American market has […]
Chinese Merchants Target Northern Iraq
February 15, 2011
A Chinese woman stocks the shelves of her store in a Chinese marketplace in semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan in northern Iraq. She got there because she responded to an ad from a Chinese company. She and the company believe there will be expanding opportunities in this region of Iraq: “I came to do business here. I […]
Green Energy Fraud: Rare Earth Mineral Extraction for Wind Turbines Pollutes China
January 30, 2011
In China, the true cost of Britain’s clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale By SIMON PARRY in China and ED DOUGLAS in Scotland Last updated at 10:01 PM on 29th January 2011 This toxic lake poisons Chinese farmers, their children and their land. It is what’s left behind after making the […]
China Limits Info on Egypt Available on Internet. Deletes Search Term “Egypt”
January 29, 2011
The Chinese government long interested in control of the internet in country has limited information from that source about the uprising in Egypt. It has removed “Egypt” as a search term in at a website similar to Twitter and has made information about the turmoil unsearchable. [CBS News] In published articles, only scant bits of […]
US Failure with The Siamese Situations: Afghanistan and Pakistan
January 23, 2011
An old saying “the shortest route to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” This impossibly impossible route must surely have been the model adopted by the US Military to solve the problem of Afghanistan: the shortest route to peace in Afghanistan is seen as going through Pakistan. US Drone attacks, use of special forces, […]
China and Commodities: The Americas Do Not Want to Be the Next Africa
January 13, 2011
These are the latest headlines compliments of Wikileaks: WikiLeaked: China’s next president lashed out in Mexico against ‘well fed foreigners’ Posted By Josh Rogin Wednesday, January 12, 2011 – 6:21 PM Share Not much is known about Xi Jinping, the expected next president of China, but according to a newly public WikiLeaks cable, Xi has […]
China 2011: Moves Closer to Economic World Dominance
November 21, 2010
By 2011, China’s economic and strategic power will have increased exponentially. Currently China has a corner on the market in production of electronics (TV, cell phones, etc.) and small appliances. They have the needed minerals for manufacture; they have plentiful cheap, skilled labor. They could demand any price they wanted for the finished product. In […]
China Now Has Fastest Computer – We Need Money for High Tech, Obama
October 28, 2010
The news could not be worse. Not only does China make all the cheap stuff we buy, owns the major part of our debt and has a strangle hold on minerals the world needs, it now has the fastest computer. We need an infusion of money into high tech now. Shovel-ready projects will not take […]
Serious Power Shift in Asia – Japan and the US Rendered Helpless
October 8, 2010
The US appears to be “losing” the war in Afghanistan. In another important arena, Japan, one of America’s staunchest allies, appears to have lost a recent, important confrontation with China. In early September, Chinese fishing boats entered Japanese waters off the disputed Senkaku Islands (called the Diaoyu by China. The disputed islands are controlled by […]
Asian Unicorn: Must We Kill Rare Species in the Attempt to Study and Preserve Them – UPDATE 4/2011
September 18, 2010
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Do we really have to preserve the DNA of all endangered species? Do we need to capture and cage them? Each time we see the picture of a captured rare land or aquatic life form dragged up before a camera, it is dead, not alive or has died shortly thereafter. Capturing these rare creatures really […]
Carrier-Killing Missle Being Developed in China. One Landed in My Back Seat
August 5, 2010
Experts have known for about a decade that the Chinese have been developoing a remarkable weapon that could change the balance of power in the Pacific region. Called the Dong Feng 21D, it is an “unprecedented carrier-killing missile that can hit moving targets.” Launched from land, it will have accuracy that will allow it to […]
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