The Army's Underground Nuclear Ice Village. Mining firms spent more than $20 million to bury Rudd's tax. Mining companies spent more than $20 million to sink a tax on profits, and Kevin Rudd's Labor leadership in the process.
New figures released by the Australian Electoral Commission show the Minerals Council of Australia spent $17 million, BHP Billiton more than $4 million and Rio Tinto more than $537,000 in their battle against the Rudd government's resource super profits tax. The government wanted to impose a 40 per cent tax on the so-called "super profits" of the country's mining companies.
But Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who ousted Mr Rudd as the tax debate entered a stalemate, negotiated with the biggest companies for a 30 per cent mineral resources rent tax applying to coal and iron ore only. Niall Ferguson Video Lecture - "Empires On The Verge Of Chaos" Ignoring the Signs of A War at Home - Technorati Politics. Jared Loughner’s descent into darkness started long before he bought the gun, the ammunition, or took the cab to that supermarket on a sunny Saturday in Tucson where Gabrielle Giffords was doing her job.
We are spending too much time looking for “THE ANSWER”; be it Sarah Palin’s rhetoric, the Tea Party chorus, gun control, and on and on. Russia's Putin warns West over missile defense: report. Iran: Computer Malware Sabotaged Uranium Centrifuges. In what appears to be the first confirmation that the Stuxnet malware hit Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that malicious computer code launched by “enemies” of the state had sabotaged centrifuges used in Iran’s nuclear-enrichment program.
The surprise announcement at a press conference coincided with news that two of Iran’s top nuclear scientists had been ambushed Monday by assassins who killed one scientist and seriously injured the other. Iran had previously acknowledged that Stuxnet infected the personal computers of workers at its Bushehr nuclear power plant but had insisted that the malware had not infected work systems involved in the nuclear program, and that the program itself had not been harmed.
Officials did not mention then whether any computers at its nuclear facility at Natanz had been infected. Natanz is engaged in enriching uranium that could be used to manufacture weapons. North Korea details expanded nuclear program. Iran May Have Missiles From North Korea, Cables Posted by WikiLeaks Show. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S.
“strongly condemns” the leak of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables as she sought to reassure nations, civic groups and individuals who might be affected. “It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems,” Clinton told reporters today at the State Department. “We are taking aggressive steps to hold responsible those who stole this information.”
WikiLeaks.org, a nonprofit group that releases information the governments and businesses want to keep confidential, yesterday began posting on its website what it says are secret, confidential or in some cases unclassified U.S. embassy cables written from December 1966 to February 2010. The documents include U.S. intelligence findings such as a conclusion that Iran obtained 19 advanced missiles from North Korea. Cable Viewer. Hoekstra: Death Penalty Possible for WikiLeaks Perpetrator. Rep.
Pete Hoekstra says the death penalty should be considered for those responsible for the WikiLeaks publication of more than 250,000 classified documents. The focus must be on those who leaked the information to the website, says Hoekstra, the ranking Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee. The legal penalties for the WikiLeaks website, which posted the trove of State Department documents, are limited, Hoekstra said in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview. WikiLeaks Reveals Plans for North Korean Collapse.
BEIJING — Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables show China's frustration with communist ally North Korea and speculate Beijing would accept a future Korean peninsula unified under South Korean rule, according to the documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.
Saudi King Urged US to Attack Iran: WikiLeaks. WASHINGTON – Saudi King Abdullah has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran's nuclear program and China directed cyberattacks on the United States, according to a vast cache of diplomatic cables released on Sunday in an embarrassing leak that undermines U.S. diplomacy.
The more than 250,000 documents, given to five media groups by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, provide candid and at times critical views of foreign leaders as well as sensitive information on terrorism and nuclear proliferation filed by U.S. diplomats, according to The New York Times. The White House condemned the release by WikiLeaks and said the disclosures may endanger U.S. informants abroad. WikiLeaks said its website was under attack and none of the underlying cables was visible there Sunday night, though some were posted by news organizations. Over 250,000 U.S. Diplomatic Documents Released by Wikileaks. Wikileaks had set this afternoon as the date to release another round of secret U.S. government documents - this time, over 250,000 classified cables from various U.S. embassies.
Hours prior to the documents' publication, Wikileaks tweeted that the website was experiencing a "mass distributed denial of service attack. " But whether or not the site goes down - it's functioning, albeit slowly at this time - the documents released today have already been distributed to a number of international news agencies who are publishing their findings from the trove of leaked documents.
Today's publication marks the latest in a string of secret government documents published by the rogue media organization. In July, Wikileaks released the Afghan War Diary, containing over 91,000 reports from the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. Robots, the Military’s Newest Forces. Pentagon to Test 2nd Near-space Strike Craft. Richard Dawkins & Questions About Subjective Consciousness.
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Chinese Professor. Global Economy on Brink! Will The Anglo-American Hegemony Survive? « Socio-Economics History Blog. Special report: The Pentagon's new cyber warriors. DickMorris. Seduction of Drugs. Cannabis Research. China Gets Wiretap Security, But Not India Or America. - Technorati IT. It is strange that authoritarian China demands and gets a better wiretap internet security deal than the two largest democracies of the world, India and the US.
It is not the market size alone that makes Blackberry, Facebook, Google or Skype listen to the Chinese and devise special provisions for wiretapping of encrypted subscribers' data or peer to peer messages. The combined market size of the two democracies is bigger in both numbers and in value, so the special privileges are not related to market economics. China, and even Russia, delayed BlackBerry permission to operate encrypted services in their nations for over two years, until they were satisfied that they had wire-tapping security as well as blanking facility to block wireless communication through local partner routing. Most internet and mobile communications service providers are aware that China doesn’t negotiate.
Why Wal-Mart Went Shopping in Africa - Rajiv Lal - HBS Faculty. By Rajiv Lal | 4:36 PM September 28, 2010 Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, made a $4.6 billion (32 billion rand) offer on September 27th to acquire the South African retail chain, Massmart Holdings. If it goes through, the acquisition will represent the American retailer’s biggest acquisition in an emerging market and the first by a global retail chain in South Africa. Brazil Confirms What Everyone Knows: "A Currency War Has Broken Out" From the FT: "An “international currency war” has broken out, according to Guido Mantega, Brazil’s finance minister, as governments around the globe compete to lower their exchange rates to boost competitiveness. " Welcome to the new frontline. It is being played out at every 500x levered FX trade station. No prisoners are taken as those wounded are immediately shot. Wal-Mart's CEO Provides The Starkest Visual Of The Modern Bread Line Yet.
In today's Art Cashin Comments there is a stunning admission by none other than the CEO of Walmart on what modern day bread lines look like. To wit: Profits And Baby Formula – Our pal, Rich Yamarone, over at Bloomberg picked up an eye-opening statement made by the Wal-Mart CEO last week. I don't need to tell you that our customer remains challenged…You need not go farther than one of our stores on midnight at the end of the month. And it's real interesting to watch, about 11 p.m. customers start to come in and shop, fill their grocery basket with basic items – baby formula, milk, bread, eggs – and continue to shop and mill about the store until midnight when government electronic benefits cards get activated, and then the checkout starts and occurs. Raw USA Economic Data. Economics. Game Theory.
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