SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 Unrest Grows as Economy Booms By TOM ORLIK Beijing China’s massive economic-stimulus program has supported near double-digit growth, but also stoked inflation, piled up debt and fueled another unwelcome development: social unrest. In 2010, China was rocked by 180,000 protests, riots and other mass incidents—more than four times the tally from a
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2011 From Phoenecia to Hayek to the ‘Cloud’ Human progress has always depended on spontaneous collaboration to harness dispersed knowledge. By MATT RIDLEY The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all.
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mark Steyn September 24, 2011 6:00 A.M. Global Bust-Up It’s the end of the world as we know it. You shouldn’t feel fine. ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it,” sang the popular musical artistes R.E.M. many years ago. And it is. R.E.M. has announced that they’re splitting
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August 27, 2011 By Jed Babbin Jed Babbin served as a deputy undersecretary of defense under George H.W. Bush. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:It is in these areas – cyberwar and anti-satellite weapons, among others — that American economic weakness may be having the greatest effect. As one source told me, the Pentagon is enormously concerned
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AUGUST 24, 2011 Two advanced Su-27 fighters recently chased an American reconnaissance plane over the Taiwan Strait. By MICHAEL AUSLIN China watchers have been fixated on the maiden voyage of Beijing’s first aircraft carrier this month. However, U.S. and Asian defense planners should take care not to ignore another aspect of China’s growing military might.
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AUGUST 20, 2011 America’s leading Russia scholar reflects on the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse, and the new threats to the world order today. By NANCY DEWOLF SMITH Twenty years ago, on Aug. 19, an attempted coup in Moscow accidentally started the countdown on what would be the final days of the Soviet Union. The
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http://americanfreepress.net/?p=266 Japan’s government is untruthful, as the radation levels continue to present a threat to the future of the people and possibly the west coast of the US and Canada! Mainstream Censors Radiation Threat August 19, 2011 admin By Frank Whalen. For several months, there has been a news blackout in the United States
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Beijing has chastised the U.S. for fiscal recklessness, but it may be headed for an economic collapse of its own. by Niall Ferguson | August 14, 2011 10:0 AM EDT Small wonder the Chinese news agency was on gloat mode during the week of Aug. 8. The U.S. stock market fell off a cliff, bounced
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GE moving X-ray unit to Beijing Updated: 2011-07-26 07:51 By Li Woke (China Daily) A General Electric Co employee at the healthcare unit’s production facility in Beijing assembles a medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device. Nelson Ching / Bloomberg BEIJING – General Electric Co’s healthcare sector will move its X-ray global headquarters to Beijing from
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Nguyen Cao Ky, 1930-2011 David DeVoss August 8, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 44 ‘When we moved to California, I got a new Cadillac Seville,” Nguyen Cao Ky told me back in 1990. “One day I was driving around, dressed in some old shorts and a T-shirt, when a motorcycle
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