SAN FRANCISCO — The photograph on the Home Depot website shows a line of smiling soldiers unloading a truck stacked with power tools and other company wares. The company says this shows “federal dollars go farther at The Home Depot.” San Francisco Attorney Paul Scott says the photo also shows the company providing Chinese-made products [...]
Tag: China
June 27, 2011
June 12, 2011
VOA’s Digital Tweaks Get Mixed Signals
As the government’s Voice of America broadcasting services undergo a 21st-century digital makeover, some proposed moves away from radio transmission to Web-casting and Facebook are causing static on Capitol Hill, The New York Times reports. Walter Isaacson, the veteran D.C. journalist who now runs the propaganda agency, is discovering that traditional VOA affiliates such as [...]
June 12, 2011
Sen. Sanders Lauds US-Made Producs at Museum
U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders is pleased with the progress the gift shop at the National Museum of American History has made in switching over to selling more American-made products. The independent from Vermont had visited the shop before Christmas in search of presents for his grandchildren and was disturbed to find that small busts of [...]
June 12, 2011
May 21, 2011
Chinese General: We’re 20 Years Behind US Military
Gen. Chen Bingde, head of China’s armed forces, said during a charm offensive in Washington this week that his country is two decades behind the United States in military development, the National Journal reports. Speaking on Wednesday at the National Defense University, Chen described his U.S. tour as eye-opening. “We are not that strong yet,” [...]
May 18, 2011
IMF Suicide? Starting to Look a lot Like Games to Me…
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed under a suicide watch in jail, while pressure mounted on him to resign Tuesday, the foreign media reported. Law enforcement officials emphasized that Strauss-Kahn had not tried to harm himself but that guards were keeping a close watch on him just in case. Hummm Interesting… http://www.china.org.cn/world/2011-05/18/content_22585451.htm Coffee Talk!
May 14, 2011
China has excelled us (America) in all aspects…
The Chinese have already pulled off a miracle. It has only been 32 years since Deng Tsaioping opened up China to making money. In that time, the nation has gone from a third world dump to the world’s 2nd largest economy…whose growth rate continues to be shocking. What’s their secret? China is a zombie-free zone. [...]
April 21, 2011
Geithner Should Resign as Treasury Secretary…
The biggest headline in the news so far this week has been S&P’s decision to downgrade their U.S. credit outlook to negative. After S&P made their announcement, almost everybody in the mainstream media proclaimed it to be a “wake up call” for the U.S. government, saying that if they don’t make a real effort to [...]
April 14, 2011
April 8, 2011
We Brag About Killing and Disabling a Third of Libya’s Army…
76,000 active personnel seems to be the lowest number that I can find on how many personnel they have in Libya’s armed forces. (I see higher numbers though.) I also understand that 40,000 extra are non active and can be called up… If we have killed one third of them and for easy sake just [...]
April 7, 2011
Somethings Make Your Day: This is One of Them…
Bruce Fein, a former Reagan administration official in the Department of Justice and chairman of American Freedom Agenda writes in his 15-page argument of Obama’s course that “Barack Hussein Obama has mocked the rule of law, endangered the very existence of the Republic and the liberties of the people, and perpetrated an impeachable high crime [...]
March 31, 2011
China eyes US military ‘expansion’
By Michael Bristow BBC News, Beijing China says military competition in the Asia-Pacific region remains fierce China says the United States is increasing its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region, which is becoming more “volatile”. It also says there has been a rise in operations directed against China. The views were made in China’s National [...]
March 30, 2011
China ‘to overtake US on science’
China’s surge in progress could soon overwhelm the US, say experts China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country that invented the [...]
March 23, 2011
UN wrangles over Libya no-fly zone
Members of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on a possible no-fly zone over Libya despite calls for the measure from the international community and rebels waging a campaign against Muammar Gaddafi’s decades-long rule. The Arab League, Britain and France – both permanent Security Council members – have called for a no-fly [...]