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America's 'Top Gun' F-14 Was Only Ever Sold To Its Greatest Mid-East Opponent
The F-14 Tomcat may be the most pined for military aircraft of a generation. When talking to senior Navy officers we've heard more than once how some admiral is always going on about how much they miss...
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Here's Some Advice: If You Happen Upon Military Ordnance, Don't Pick It Up
A Columbia, S.C. man allegedly found three pieces of "military-style" ordnance (bombs, shells, etc.) in a dumpster, picked them out, and took them home with him.Jason Old of WISTV 10 reports that...
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Americans Applied To Buy More Than 4.5 Million Guns In The Last Two Months
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) received more than 2 million requests for background checks in November and more than 2.7 million in December, Jim Hoft of The Gateway...
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Supreme Court Of Pakistan Orders Arrest Of PM — Karachi Stock Exchange Plunges
Pakistan, which is always one of the most geopolitically interesting countries in the world, appears to be having another major political upheaval. The Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of the prime...
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Experts: Palestinian Peace Process Dead If Netanyahu Wins Israeli Election
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is dead if Binyamin Netanyahu wins next week's Israeli election, leading academics have warned – even if he forms a government with centrists rather than the...
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China To Survey Islands Disputed With Japan As Part Of Mapping Exercise
China is to carry out a geographical survey of islands in the East China Sea at the centre of a bitter dispute with Japan, state media said.The survey of the Diaoyu islands -- known as Senkakus in...
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Wal-Mart Plans To Hire 100,000 Veterans Over Five Years
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, said it plans to hire more than 100,000 veterans in the United States over the next five years, a move supported by First Lady Michelle Obama.Most of...
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The Pentagon's New 30,000-lb MOP Bomb Is Ready To Go
Senior Pentagon officials told Congress the nation's largest conventional bomb, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), is ready for action.The Air Force said as much back in June after rushing the MOP...
View ArticleChinese State Agents Abducted This Young Man For Talking About Censorship
With its global economy and ostensible reform, China gets a pretty good rap — but just when the Communist country seems not so bad, a video like this pops up.Max Fisher at The Washington Post points to...
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US Fighters Join Japan's F-15s Over The Disputed East China Sea Islands
US and Japanese fighter jets on Tuesday carried out joint air exercises, an official said, days after Chinese and Japanese military planes shadowed each other near disputed islands in the East China...
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Why Democratic Presidents Keep Choosing Republican Defense Secretaries
Barack Obama's selection of former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as his choice to be the nation's next defense secretary has received a tidal wave of criticism.But Hagel may be in for a bruising...
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Walmart Thinks Veterans Make Such Great Workers That It Plans To Hire 100,000...
Veterans make great employees after their deployment ends, according to a Walmart senior executive. "Veterans are great employees because of the qualities they learn in training," Simon said in a...
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Mercenary Hackers Appear To Be Behind An Insane Global Espionage Campaign
They're calling it "Red October."On Monday, Russia's Kaspersky Labs reported that they had identified what may be the most comprehensive, global cyber espionage hack in the history of the Internet.From...
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France May Find It A Lot Harder To Get Out Of Mali
On Tuesday French President Francois Hollandetold RFI radio that the with the help of African troops being deployed, "in one more week we can restore Mali's territorial integrity."Judging from the...
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Iran Plans Second Attempt To Launch Monkeys Into Space
Iranian space officials announced they will make another attempt to launch a live monkey into space within the next month, according to news reports."Testing phase of these living capsules has ended...
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The US Sold A Bunch Of Weapons To Bahrain During Its Brutal Crackdown
The U.S. has been selling arms to Bahrain amid the small Mideast nation's increasingly repressive crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, Justin Elliot of ProPublica reports. The sales, combined with...
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The US Plans To Give Drones To Afghanistan Amid Heated Policy Debate
Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai's recent meeting didn't reveal much of anything, but afterward Karzai followed it up by telling reporters the U.S. plans to hand Afghanistan its own fleet of...
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The Army Wants A Massive New Complex For Its Fleet Of Drones
So the Army is taking bids on parts of its new 'Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Complex' — slated to cost between $20 and 25 million.Mark Thompson of Time's Battleland blog jokes that this can't possibly fit...
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Ex-Soviet Police Chief Charged With Setting Up A 'Gay Surveillance Honeytrap'
The head of Georgia's Military Police stands accused of a massive coercion ring centered around covert homosexual 'agents' seducing "publicly well-known" targets while the police secretly...
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Refugees Are Fleeing Mass Rapes In Syria
Rape is being used as a weapon of war in the Syrian conflict to such an extent that many refugee families are citing it a as a primary reason to flee, according to a new report.The study of the nearly...
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