[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o1R16juyQ4[/youtube] whitehouse — April 22, 2010 — Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, answers your questions about the clean energy economy. WhiteHouse.gov/earthday
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Global steel prices are set to leap by up to a third, pushing up the cost of everyday goods from cars to domestic appliances, after miners and steelmakers on Tuesday agreed a ground-breaking change in the iron ore price system. The deal by Vale of Brazil and Anglo-Australian BHP Billiton [BLT-LN] with Japanese and Chinese [...]
Amnesty International on Tuesday challenged the Chinese authorities to reveal how many people they execute and sentence to death, as the organization published its world overview of the death penalty for 2009. The report, Death Sentences and Executions in 2009, reveals that at least 714 people were executed in 18 countries and at least 2001 [...]
This year at Davos, Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, told an audience of journalists that his company is not a country, does not set laws, and does not have a police force. Yet in its showdown with China, Google is acting as the ambassador for the internet. Well, somebody has to. Next to no one has been [...]
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Kenneth Gareau wrote: The countries of the world should tell China, since they have full control over their people, that any cyber espionage will be met with cancellation of any national debt held by China for every intrusion traced back to them. March 28, 2010 12:32 AM GMT From a comment via Chinese city is [...]
Eventually he realized it wasnt the Americans he was trying to reach. He said it was something people didn’t always understand about radios, that even if the Americans stopped listening, the heavens always heard. – Eliot Pattison, The Lord of Death via Truthout: Detained I feel the same way about these blog entries. Having readers or [...]
(Xinhua) Updated: 2010-03-12 16:52 BEIJING – China’s Information Office of the State Council published a report titled “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009” here Friday. Following is the full text: The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009 on March 11, 2010, posing [...]
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On Sept. 11, 2006, FBI and NASA agents searched Chung’s residence in Orange, California, and found more than 250,000 pages of documents from Boeing, Rockwell and other defense contractors inside the house and in a crawl space underneath it. Among the documents were scores of binders containing decades’ worth of stress analysis reports, test results [...]
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
What good does a meeting with the Dalai Lama do? What good it does is simple — it sends a clear message to Beijing that they are not the only ones who set the agenda on the Tibet. It sends a clear message that there are limits to their sphere of influence outside their borders. [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
At the end of the day we need a comprehensive approach that would allow this country to jump start its economy and lead the world to a cleaner environment Every day we wait in this nation China is going to eat our lunch. The Chinese don’t need 60 votes. I guess they just need 1 [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Called Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), the attacks are distinctive in the kinds of data the attackers target, and they are rarely detected by antivirus and intrusion programs. What’s more, the intrusions grab a foothold into a company’s network, sometimes for years, even after a company has discovered them and taken corrective measures. “APT is a [...]
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
US President Barack Obama intends to go ahead with plans to meet the Dalai Lama despite warnings from China not to, a White House spokesman has said. Mr Obama told China’s leaders last year in Beijing that he would meet with the Tibetan spiritual leader, White House spokesman Bill Burton said. China has warned that ties [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
A new ranking of the world’s nations by environmental performance puts some of the globe’s largest economies far down the list, with the United States sinking to 61st and China to 121st. In the previous version of the Environmental Performance Index, compiled every two years by Yale and Columbia University researchers, the United States ranked 39th, and [...]
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Whether you’re an environmentalist or someone who’s looking at peak energy or peak other things, green is an answer but green itself is very resource intensive. That is a quandary that we haven’t faced up to in any way, shape or form. We just don’t get it. There are a lot of major dots that have [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that December’s mass cyber attack against 33 American companies was most likely the result of a coordinated espionage campaign endorsed by the Chinese government. Google’s revelation that they’d been hit was deemed a “watershed” moment by security industry analysts, but the other 32 companies who were hit have not followed [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Surely, the U.S. Congress that is now putting its foot down on private companies cooperating with such abusive spying elsewhere would react very angrily in the face of revelations that it was being done here. Actually, in the face of such revelations less than two years ago, they ended up on a very bipartisan basis [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Microsoft has not commented on Google’s decision and don’t expect the company to do so. What’s to say? We value shareholder interests above freedom and democracy? Tyranny keeps our stock high? Some of our best customers are Communist Party censors? Certainly businesses have to balance competing interests, but at some point, compromise without question becomes [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
In March 2009 Villeneuve uncovered “GhostNet,” (.pdf) a cyber-spying operation originating in China that was said to have targeted the Dalai Lama and other human-rights activists. Though Villeneuve has no direct knowledge of the attacks discovered by Google, he says it’s likely that they match the methods he has been monitoring. Villeneuve says the hackers [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
To be clear, Google is not accusing the Chinese government of anything, and a spokesman would only say that they’ve determined the latest string of attacks “originated from within China.” But cyber security expert Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, said that attacks like the one on Google can be judged to [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Friday night, a Chinese developer and eSolar of Pasadena, Calif., signed an agreement to build solar thermal power plants in the Mongolian desert over the next decade. These plants would generate a total of 2,000 megawatts of electricity. It’s the largest solar thermal project in the world and follows another two-gigawatt deal China struck in [...]
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Two years ago, the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, bid $3.4 billion — $1 billion more than any of its competitors from Canada, Europe, Russia, the United States and Kazakhstan — for the rights to mine deposits near the village of Aynak. Over the next 25 years, it plans to extract about [...]
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Work on the Loongson, or Dragon Chip, began in 2001 at the Institute of Computing Technology in Beijing. The goal was to create a chip that would be versatile enough to drive anything from an industrial robot to a supercomputer. One of the first Loongson-powered computers appeared in 2006, an ultracompact desktop PC known as [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
A computer company in Siberia was ultimately used to post the controversial messages – which cast doubt on the reliability of scientists’ global warming claims – on the internet. The revelation led to claims that the Russians were behind the release of the information. But, anxious to distance themselves from the leak, the FSB revealed [...]
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