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China choking off supplies of Rare Earth Elements to rest of world

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A neodymium magnet, commonly used in motors, loudspeakers and other appliances. Neodymium is a rare earth element. Neodymium is one of 17 metals crucial to green technology. There’s only one snag – China produces 97% of the world’s supply. And they’re not selling. Britain and other Western countries risk running out of supplies of certain highly sought-after rare metals that are vital to a... 

Australia to turn Asian as China becomes no.1 Source of Immigrants

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China has overtaken the UK and New Zealand as Australia’s biggest source of immigrants, official figures reveal. The latest government figures show a record 6,350 people arrived from China in the four months to October. China’s new primacy was due largely to a fall in migration from the UK and New Zealand, as people there opt to hold on to jobs instead of moving to Australia. Arrivals... 

Australia an Asian nation, say Chinese

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That perennial and uniquely Australian debate – are we an Asian country or not – has finally been settled. By the Chinese. A Lowy Institute poll of Chinese public opinion on world affairs, to be released today, shows Australia is accepted as an Asian nation, with an important role to play in regional organisations, attractive values and a good political system. But the Chinese are wary... 

Ethnic riots spread in China's west; 156 killed

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Riots and street battles killed at least 156 people in China’s western Xinjiang province, state media said Tuesday, and injured 828 others in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit the region in decades. Officials said the death toll was expected to rise. Police sealed off streets in parts of the provincial capital, Urumqi, after discord between ethnic Muslim Uighur people and China’s Han majority... 

Obama's Controllers: Brzezinski clan of Russia haters, worse than neocons, bent on crushing Moscow

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In spite of healthy majorities opposing the US war in Iraq and our trillion-dollar military budget, war candidates are dominating the Democratic primaries. There is a danger they may be stolen by the Brzezinski clique of eastern European revanchists who run Obama from behind the scenes, says Washington-based investigative journalist and historian Webster Griffin Tarpley. “Behind Obama and Worse... 

Chinese Skull Find Puts ‘Out of Africa’ Theory in Question

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Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000- year-old fossilized human skull in central China which may throw new light on the origins of the human race, national media said on Thursday. The well-preserved skull was found in the central Chinese province of Henan, and Chinese scientists say it could disprove the widely-held theory that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. The majority of Chinese... 

Chinese eat Dinosaur Bones Soup

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Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers. Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as “dragon bones” at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Dong,... 
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