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Hackers Briefly Controlled US Government Satellites
Orome1 writes "Two U.S. satellites have been tampered with by hackers — possibly Chinese ones — in 2007 and 2008, claims a soon-to-be released report by the the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The two satellites, Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1, had been interfered with on four separate occasions, allowing the attackers to be in command of the satellites for two to over twelve minutes each time. Luckily, both of the satellites are used only for observing the Earth's climate and terrain, and the hackers never actually misused their control over them in any way."
China is only consuming about half as much oil as the US - assuming oil/energy production and consumption play a major role in global warming. On the other hand, most of that consumption is being done to produce goods to be shipped to the US and Europe. Can you really blame someone for bleeding if you're the one that cut them?
Quite true--we are outsourcing our production to them. The Chinese government could have chosen to put stronger (or any) pollution controls in place, however. So much for communism being about the people.
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I refuse to buy any made in China product. China's government is hostile towards the US (and towards other nations). All loyal Americans boycott China.