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CHINESE TELECOM CO. EXCLUDED FROM U.S. COMMUNICATIONS BECAUSE OF SECURITY THREAT

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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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CHINESE INTELLIGENCE LURKS BEHIND TELECOM PROPOSAL

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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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STUXNET, THE COMPUTER WORM

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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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CHINA USING THE CONTROL OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS AS A WAY TO INFLUENCE THE WORLD ECONOMY

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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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CHINA CONTROLS 97% of RARE-EARTH MINERALS

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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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AIR FORCE/MILITARY CUT BACKS QUESTION OUR POWER PROJECTION

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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Air Force We Won’t Have … Alas Is the era of power projection over? Reuben F. Johnson October 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 Linköping, Sweden A three-day airpower conference at the Swedish Air Force base at Malmen this summer covered all the usual wonkish territory: defense budgeting

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CYBER WARFARE

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Annals of National Security The Online Threat Should we be worried about a cyber war? by Seymour M. Hersh November 1, 2010 s Some experts say that the real danger lies in confusing cyber espionage with cyber war. On April 1, 2001, an American EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance plane on an eavesdropping mission collided with

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FEDERAL MONEY DANGLED IN FRONT OF NORTH CAROLINA CITY BUT WITH WORRISOME STRINGS ATTACHED

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Carolina Journal Exclusives Greensboro Council Worried About Strings Attached to ‘Free’ DOE Money Grant assumes residents would assume debt to install energy-saving improvements By Sam A. Hieb October 25, 2010 GREENSBORO — It is hard for local governments to turn down so-called “free money,” no matter how many strings are attached. The City of Greensboro

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CALIFORNIA’S SELF-DESTRUCTIVE CLIMATE CHANGE LAW

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OCTOBER 18, 2010 California’s Cap-and-Trade War The battle to repeal a self-destructive climate change law. What happens when environmental fashion collides with a state’s desperate need for jobs and economic growth? That question will be put to the test when Californians vote November 2 on a ballot measure that would suspend the Golden State’s cap-and-trade

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