On Climate Change California Dreaming: Missing America’s Wake-Up Call Larry Bell, 11.10.10, 11:25 AM ET What happened to the notion that “where California goes, so goes the nation”? The Nov. 2 midterm election results demonstrated something very different: The Golden State zagged, while most of the country zigged. That dynamic applied pretty much across the […]
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NOVEMBER 8, 2010 ‘Net Neutrality’ Goes 0 for 95 Regulating the Web wasn’t a political winner last week. By L. GORDON CROVITZ As a reminder of unpredictability in politics, consider what happened when the Progressive Change Campaign Committee last month announced that 95 candidates for Congress had signed a pledge to support “net neutrality.” The
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WASHINGTON TIMES GAO: Border fence lagging, over budget Home Security mismanaged project, report says By Jerry Seper– The Washington Times October 24, 2010 The Department of Homeland Security has “largely defined but has not adequately implemented” controls over a “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border promised for completion in 2009 and, as a result, the
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WASHINGTON TIMES Stopping the Next Stuxnet by Austin Bay October 20, 2010Can a worm bust a hydroelectric dam, on command? The cyber-warrior scenario goes something like this: If the worm is a computer worm (or other digital malware) infecting a dam’s computer system, it might be possible to use the malicious code to take control
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TECHNOLOGY NOVEMBER 5, 2010 Security Fears Kill Chinese Bid in U.S. By JOANN S. LUBLIN and SHAYNDI RAICE Sprint Nextel Corp. is excluding Chinese telecommunications-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from a contract worth billions of dollars largely because of national security concerns in Washington, according to people familiar with the matter. A
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Beijing spying feared in telecom proposal Chinese firm would make parts Washington Times November 5, 2010 by Eli Lake EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: John Tkacik, who was the chief intelligence analyst on China for the State Department during the Clinton administration, said the employee ownership of Huawei does not diminish the company’s close ties to
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Computer worm creates an opening for copycats By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times Sunday, October 10, 2010 **FILE** In this photo from Nov. 30, 2009, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, the reactor building of Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen just outside the port city of Bushehr, 750 miles south of
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NEWS & OBSERVER Oct 29, 2010 HOW CHINA GAINED A RARE EARTH EDGE DURHAM People are wrong if they think that China couldn’t possibly obtain any more power over America than it already has. The latest problem is rare earth elements. Rare earth elements are, well, rare. They are mostly a group of 15 metals
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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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