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CHINA CONTROLS 97% of RARE-EARTH MINERALS

WASHINGTON POST China gives U.S. ‘assurances’ on export of rare-earth minerals By John Pomfret Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 30, 2010; HANOI — China on Saturday assured the United States that it would continue the export of crucial rare-earth minerals that Beijing is believed to have halted as a way to pressure Japan. In […]

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THE ROCHE RECORD – CHINA BUYS US ENERGY ASSETS

THE ROCHE RECORD  by Frank Roche, Economist October 20, 2010 COMMUNIST CHINA TAKING STAKE IN US ENERGY ASSETS The China National Offshore Oil Company, commonly referred to as CNOOC and controlled by the central government, has taken a 1/3 stake (pending US approval) worth $2.2 billion, in the energy assets of a US energy industry powerhouse,

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HOW THE WORLD WOULD OF CHANGED IF NIXON HAD BEAT JFK

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) JFK-a-Palooza, faux correction & more From The Scrapbook. October 11, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 04 JFK-a-Palooza Herewith a friendly warning from The Scrapbook: We’re just a few weeks away from the golden anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election as president, and already the commemorative essays and video tributes are

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A PEASANT MENTALITY OR INDIVIDUAL SELF-WORTH

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Victor Davis Hanson September 23, 2010 12:00 A.M. A Nation of Peasants? The U.S. has returned to deriding “trickle-down” economics. Traditional peasant societies believe in only a limited amount of good. The more your neighbor earns, the less someone else gets. Profits are seen as a sort of theft; they must be

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CHAVEZ: PATH FROM POPULIST TO OPPRESSOR CAN BE SHORT

RABEN: Love affair with leftists Chavez proves the path from populist to oppressor can be short By Robert Raben    The Washington Times September 13, 2010 As a veteran of the Washington policy world, I know all too well how easy it is for politics to trump principles. And as someone who grew up in Miami

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“STUXNET” WORM ATTACK

September 25th, 2010 3:34 pm Cyber War on Iran: the Siemens Connection While the boors and bores of the mainstream media continue to focus on the “crucial matters” of our time such as Stephen Colbert’s tedious appearance before Congress and whether a Delaware senatorial candidate spent two days as a witch in high school,  news

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HUGO CHAVEZ TALKS TO THE DEAD!

The Weekly Standard Hugo Chávez, Tomb Raider From the Scrapbook August 9, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 44 The Scrapbook confesses that it takes a certain unhealthy interest in recent accounts of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez’s exhumation of the corpse of Simón Bolivar. No disrespect to the Liberator is intended here, of course; but the details

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