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 DELPHI DISASTER: An economic horror story Obama won’t tell by Michelle Malkin September 2010 The White House believes it can win back depressed and economically stressed voters by turning President Obama into the storyteller-in-chief again. But victims of Obama’s Chicago politics don’t want to hear any more of his own well-worn tales of struggle and
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD How Stuxnet is Scaring the Tech World Half to Death BY Jonathan V. Last September 30, 2010 2:30 PM The computer worm Stuxnet broke out of the tech underworld and into the mass media this week. It’s an amazing story: Stuxnet has infected roughly 45,000 computers. Sixty percent of these machines happen
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD Our Predatory Trading Partners How Russia and China take advantage. BY Irwin M. Stelzer August 9, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 44 America runs large and persistent trade deficits. Our partners figure out how to make lots of things we want, and we can’t figure out how to produce an equal amount of
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 China Spooks Auto Makers Foreign Companies Fear New Rules on Electric Cars Will Erode Intellectual Property By NORIHIKO SHIROUZU BEIJING—China’s government is considering plans that could force foreign auto makers to hand over cutting-edge electric-vehicle technology to Chinese companies in exchange for access to the nation’s huge market, international auto executives say.
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Standing up for North Carolina: Discussing Health Care Reform http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SjqpbqtNHw&feature=search Standing up for Veterans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIHIVRIePLk&feature=search Martha Jenkins supporting Richard Burr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EROvu5jYhfY&feature=search Richard Burr, down to earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpL9e7Bf98c&feature=search
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NEW YORK TIMES July 29, 2010 G.M.’s Electric Lemon U.S. Taxpayers send $150 million to Volt’s Korean Battery Supplier By EDWARD NIEDERMEYER Portland, Ore. GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would go
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Fortune Underfoot Can Bolivia develop its mineral wealth—and undermine Hugo Chávez? BY Vanessa Neumann August 23, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 46 The stark white landscape of the Salar de Uyuni in the Potosí department of Bolivia is punctuated only by pink flamingos and salt pyramids being slowly shoveled
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AUGUST 17, 2010 Notable & Quotable Abraham Irwin on how a multi-employer pension plan liability destroyed his business. Abraham Irwin, commenting at WSJ.com in response to the Journal editorial on Aug. 16, “The Next Pension Bailout”: MEPPA [Multi-employer Pension Plan Amendment Act] is not only bad for industry and tax payers, but it is bad
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