SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 New Start Is Unilateral Disarmament The treaty’s little-noticed limits on conventional weapons systems will reduce our ability to project power around the world. By JOHN BOLTON The centerpiece of “New Start,” the arms-control treaty that President Barack Obama signed with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April, is its reduction in nuclear warheads.
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AUGUST 23, 2010 Wind Power Won’t Cool Down the Planet Often enough it leads to higher carbon emissions. By ROBERT BRYCE The wind industry has achieved remarkable growth largely due to the claim that it will provide major reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. There’s just one problem: It’s not true. A slew of recent studies
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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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INFORMATION AGE AUGUST 16, 2010 The Railroad Precedent and the Web The FCC bids to become the ICC of the Internet. By L. GORDON CROVITZ ‘The pact to end the Internet as we know it,” said a report on the Huffington Post. Wired’s headline called Google a “net neutrality surrender monkey.” The lobbying group Free
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use Minute BARTLETT & PRY: What if Iran already has the bomb? Better to be prepared than surprised By Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, of Maryland serves as ranking member of the air and land forces subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee and Peter Vincent Pry, president of EMPact America – August 2, 2010 EXCERPT FROM
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JULY 22, 2010 The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom The FCC’s move to treat broadband providers like phone company monopolies could spur international efforts to regulate the Web. By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL In 1988, delegates from 114 countries gathered in Melbourne, Australia, to negotiate an international treaty for the future of telecommunications regulation. Since then,
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JULY 17, 2010 Weapons Inspectors Can’t Disarm Iran Hostile regimes have too many ways to hide their clandestine nuclear programs. by DAVID KAY Tehran’s belligerent rhetoric about its nuclear program ratchets up daily, while the international community continues to push for tougher sanctions. The hope is that economic pressure can force Iran to the bargaining
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JULY 15, 2010 Here are five steps to ensure that the U.S. remains the dominant force in the sky. By NOAH SHACHTMAN The United States Air Force has long been the envy of the world’s militaries—sleek, high-tech and lethal to all who opposed it. Now, at a clandestine military base that serves as the headquarters
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Book Review – One Second After by William Forstchen This is a book you will never forget as it tells the story of the aftermath of an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) Weapon attack on the United States. It is a book of fiction but is based on factual possible nuclear attack information. This book review is being posted in conjunction with an
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MAY 29, 2010, 6:53 P.M. ET ‘Top Kill’ Fails to Stop Flow of Oil From Gulf Leak By MARK LONG BP PLC has abandoned its effort to plug a mile-deep oil and gas gusher in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by injecting drilling fluids after failing to stem the flow of hydrocarbons. View Full Image
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