Why Defense Stocks Soared Through The Sequester (LMT, BA)
Despite threats of Armageddon from defense contractors and the Pentagon, sequestration hasn't slowed down the industry at all.Major companies like General Dynamics and Lockheed initially showed losses...
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If Kim Jong-Un Really Wanted To Start A War, He Wouldn't Have Told Foreigners...
Earlier today North Korea warned foreign nations with personnel in the country to consider evacuating their embassies.On the face of it this would be a signal that hostilities might break out soon, but...
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The Sad Rise Of Prostitution In Cairo
There's a point when the parents of a country get so desperate they sell whatever they can to make ends meet, including their daughters. This topic came up with some guys at my hotel when Ahmed stood...
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Scandals And Setbacks Rocked The US Military This Week
It was a horrible week for the military.Luckily, they still had "appearing strong" in front of North Korea (and the world) to distract from a few of their more prodigious messes.Here's the breakdown:—...
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Economics Must Answer For The Rise Of Mass Murdering Tyrants
The twentieth century’s tyrannies were more brutal and more barbaric than those of any previous age. And—astonishingly—they had their origins in economic discontents and economic ideologies. People...
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Former Ambassador: Kim Jong-Un Is Making A Big Mistake
North Korea has been acting really wild lately, spooking the international community with its decision to close off an industrial zone shared with South Korea for the first time since 2009, stepping up...
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Syrian President Assad: There Will Be Contagion
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that the fall of his regime would destabilise the region "for many years," as US President Barack Obama announced talks with Middle East allies over the...
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A Look At North Korea's Artillery Shows Why No One Wants War
War on the Korean Peninsula: Why no one wants to go there again, despite the rhetoricTOKYO (AP) — As tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula, one thing remains certain: All sides have good reason to...
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French Secret Service Threatened To Arrest Wikipedia Volunteer Over An Article
French secret service agents have been accused of censorship after reportedly threatening to arrest and charge a French Wikipedia volunteer unless he deleted an article on the internet...
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KAESONG: Where 51,000 North Koreans Come To Work For 120 South Korean Companies
There is a North Korean factory with no portraits of the country's late leaders on the walls, no North Korean flags, no hand-painted posters screaming party slogans. Everything from the tissues to the...
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North Korea Has Feared An American Nuclear Attack For Decades
Those Americans who may be fearful of North Korea’s verbal threats and its missile-launch preparations should take note: Its leaders have long expressed a fear of an American nuclear attack.This fear...
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13 More South Korean Firms Stop Work At Kaesong As Pyongyang Blocks Access
Seoul said Sunday 13 South Korean firms had been forced to suspend production at a joint industrial zone in the North and warned of a "critical" situation if Pyongyang continued to ban access to the...
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25-Year-Old US Diplomat Killed Delivering Schoolbooks In Afghanistan
A young diplomat from River Forest, Ill., was among five Americans killed Saturday in an explosion in Afghanistan, according to her family and the U.S. State Department.Anne Smedinghoff was 25, said...
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Syrian Exports Are Almost Nonexistent
Syria suffered in 2012 an unprecedented decline in foreign trade, with exports falling by nearly 100 percent from a year earlier, according to an official study published in a newspaper on Sunday.The...
View ArticleNorth Korea Announces Total Evacuation And Suspension Of Border Industrial Zone
In the latest ratcheting up of tensions from North Korea, leadership has called for the complete evacuation and suspension of activities at the Kaesong industrial zone, an industrial area on the border...
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We're giving you a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD. Become a newsletter subscriber now to enter. If you're the lucky winner you will have a host of features at your fingertips. Entry deadline is May...
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US Diplomatic Cables Reveal American Surprise Over Thatcher's Rise
"Margaret Thatcher has blazed into national prominence almost literally from out of nowhere," announced a 1975 US State Department cable on the former British prime minister, who died Monday, according...
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A Crazy Comparison Of Life In North Korea And South Korea
North and South Korea were separated at the end of World War II. They've walked quite different paths since then.Under successive pro-American governments, the South has become an economic powerhouse,...
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North Korean Propaganda Video Shows Kim Jong-un Shooting A Gun
North Korean State Television aired footage of leader Kim Jong-un firing a gun on Friday, following weeks of rapidly increasing tensions between the country and the South.While Kim may be better known...
View ArticleWatch A Fighter Jet Pilot Do Tricks In A Boeing Dreamliner
Boeing's Dreamliner 787 has been out of service since January, when the FAA grounded it after the battery systems in two planes failed in quick succession.While the batteries may not be up to par, the...
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