From the monthly archives: December 2009
Space travel has been an exciting new phase in our history. As the most experienced and technologically advanced nation in this field, the United States has been in a unique position to chart the growth of the industry and should continue to do so. It took vision and leadership to get us to the moon, [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal, “[m]ore than $2 billion allegedly held on behalf of Iran in Citigroup Inc. accounts were secretly ordered frozen last year by a federal court in Manhattan, in what appears to be the biggest seizure of Iranian assets abroad since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Read the complete article, here. The [...]
According to DEBKAfile, a “senior official in the Obama administration described the UN nuclear watchdog inspectors’ discovery of traces of highly processed plutonium at the bombed Syrian-North Korean facility at Dir a-Zur as a “smoking gun” – evidence of Iran’s covert nuclear activities and proliferation.” The continued standoff between Iran and the world [...]
The QRS-11 is back in the news this week. QRS what? In 2006, the Boeing corporation paid a $15 million fine and signed a consent decree with the U.S. government t stemming from the the unlicensed foreign sales of commercial airplanes carrying a small gyrochip with military applications, the QRS-11. This time it was not [...]
According to the Japan Trade Compliance blog, the owners of a small trading company have been arrested for exporting household items to North Korea without a license. The likely punishment? Violations of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law face jail time for as much as give years and/or a fine of five million [...]
When President Obama visited China last week he announced that the “United States and China look forward to expanding discussions on space science cooperation and starting a dialogue on human space flight and space exploration … the two sides believed that the two countries have common interests in promoting the peaceful use of [...]
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