Are All Those Guns and Ammunition for Obama’s Civilian National Security Force?

Many of you will remember a story I broke a long time ago — about presidential candidate Barack Obama’s little-noticed announcement that, if elected in 2008, he wanted to create a “civilian national security force” as big, as strong and as well-funded as the Defense Department.
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Huawei’s U.S. competitors among those pushing for scrutiny of Chinese tech firm.

“Fear of Huawei spreads globally,” the report reads. “Despite denials, Huawei has struggled to de-link itself from China’s People’s Liberation Army and the Chinese government.” The paper’s author was Huawei’s main U.S. rival, the California-based company Cisco Systems.
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Climate change threat more real to those with perceived personal experience: study.

Using population survey and climatic data from a county in Michigan, researchers found 27 per cent of people felt they had personally experienced global warming, which refers to the long-term rise in the earth’s average temperature (“climate change” includes global warming and everything else affected by increasing greenhouse gasses).
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