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  • War and Profits


    War On You: Breaking Alternative NewsAuthority Authority: 579
    War and Profits by Stephen Fleischman | November 25, 2009 We know why there are wars, and we’ve known it for a long time. Good wars, that is, necessary wars, not wars by powerful foreign invaders, wars that might threaten our country. Everybody knows we’re in the ...
    6 hours ago
  • Nuclear Radiation Worries? There’s A Pill For That


    BloggerAuthority Authority: 167
    Fear turns out be a very good thing for certain businesses. When North Korea or Iran mentions the word “nuclear,” orders pour in to NukePills.com — a Web site that sells potassium iodide. The government also stockpiles this FDA-approved drug.
    8 hours ago
  • North Korea To Only Show World Cup Games If It Wins


    FoolocracyAuthority Authority: 436
    North Korea has qualified for its first World Cup appearance since 1966. Odds makers place the North Korean team at 350-1 long shots to win the World Cup. The chances of the average North Korean seeing a televised match are even longer than that. Kim Jong Il has decreed that state-run television not run live ...
    21 hours ago
  • URGENT BREAKING NEWS: North Korean Christians: ‘Children Die On Streets’


    BosNewsLife - Christian News AgencyAuthority Authority: 529
    By Eric Leijenaar, BosNewsLife Senior Special CorrespondentPYONGYANG/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in North Korea said Wednesday, November 23, a massive famine has broken in their autocratic-ruled nation with many children "dying" while security forces send malnourished people to prison camps for refusing to ...
    1 day ago
  • North Korean Tanker Seized By Somali Pirates


    ROK DropAuthority Authority: 546
    I don’t think hijacking North Korean ships would be the most lucrative business for Somali pirates: The captain of a chemical tanker who was shot when his ship was hijacked earlier this week has died, Sky News reported a Somali pirate as saying. “The captain of the chemical tanker died last night from ...
    1 day ago
  • As a Student of Realpolitik, Obama’s Catching On Fast: Dziennik, Poland


    The Moderate VoiceAuthority Authority: 735
    In the realm of getting the job done – principle be damned – how is President Obama doing? According to columnist Zbigniew Parafianowicz of Poland’s Dziennik newspaper, the brass tacks deal-making Barack Obama has been pursuing shows that he’s adjusting well to the inevitable compromises of power. For ...
    1 day ago
  • Take With a Grain of Salt: North Koreans Claim Ediacaran Fossils


    The Dragon's TalesAuthority Authority: 134
    North Korean researchers have discovered a 620,000,000-year-old fossil of a tubular animal, the first organism with skeletal structure on Earth, the state media reported today. Researchers from the geology faculty of Kim Il Sung University excavated the fossil of the tubular animal in the Proterozoic era of North ...
    1 day ago
  • Repeat After Me....


    The New Republic - The Plank FeedAuthority Authority: 138
    Ever on the lookout for ways to shrink the party’s tent still further, a few of the masterminds at the Republican National Committee are pushing a resolution to establish an ideological purity test for prospective GOP candidates . Those who fail on three or more of the following ten criteria would be deemed ...
    1 day ago
  • “Even during the Arirang Mass Games in North Korea, the...


    BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.Authority Authority: 731
    “Even during the Arirang Mass Games in North Korea, the ultimate expression of the state ideology, an individual can still sometimes stand out from the crowd and break free of the collective. If only just for a moment.” (Photo and caption:  Brendyn Zachary / National Geographic via the Boston Globe)
    1 day ago
  • North Korea Builds Monument In Senegal


    ROK DropAuthority Authority: 546
    It is interesting that a country that can’t afford to pick up its own trash is able to hire North Koreans to build a gigantic monument: The statue shows a muscular man in a heroic posture, outstretched arms wrapped around his wife and child. Nearly 50 North Korean workers were brought in to build it, because of ...
    2 days ago
  • Republican Purity and Conservatism


    Outside The Beltway | OTBAuthority Authority: 675
    It appears that the Republican National Committee is working on a set of principles that Republican candidates have to adhere to in order to receive funding and support from the RNC. There are ten principles listed, and the candidates have to adhere to at least seven of these principles “as identified by the ...
    2 days ago
  • An RNC Purity Test?


    The Washington Independent BlogAuthority Authority: 157
    Reid Wilson has the first look at a resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, author of the infamous “socialist” resolution, that would aim to prevent future NY-23 disasters by requiring that candidates agree to at least seven of 10 issue promises in order to receive financial ...
    2 days ago
  • GA condemns Burma, DPRK, Iran


    View from GenevaAuthority Authority: 130
    On Thursday, November 19, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution that “strongly condemns the ongoing systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Myanmar,” with 92 countries voting in favor, 26 voting against, and 65 abstaining.  Sweden, ...
    2 days ago
  • OBAMAS MAGIC WORKING OUT WELL...


    A Tangled WebAuthority Authority: 485
    Following on from Obamas wildly successful visit to China and his regimes much more nuanced approach to dealing with North Korea, it looks like things are working out really well! Chinese and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their long-standing military alliance. The Chinese Defence ...
    3 days ago
  • Beating Kim’s game of ‘blackmail diplomacy’


    East Asia ForumAuthority Authority: 432
    Author: Andrei Lankov, Kookmin University North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons, but it makes sense for the United States to continue talks now with a more realistic understanding of the North’s strategies and goals. President Barack Obama arrived in Seoul last Wednesday for a summit meeting with ...
    3 days ago
  • Water on a Stone: Fallows relays an insiders view of Obamas Chinese conversations


    xpostfactoidAuthority Authority: 494
    James Fallows has been pushing back in multiple posts against the shallow horse-race coverage of Obamas China trip. The centerpiece is his relay of an anonymous insiders view of what Obamas meetings with Chinese leadership did and did not accomplish, offered here and here . This account is nuanced and neutral ...
    3 days ago
  • Crying for Korea


    The thoughts, the reviews, the ideas, the newsAuthority Authority: 114
    I just watched a channel which broadcasted a documentary called "Escaping North Korea*" and am stirred to write this. I dont really know about that socialist country , but after reading several articles on the internet I feel more sad and concerned about North Korean people. Although almost all of them are ...
    3 days ago
  • How North Koreas Arms Trade Funds Its Nuclear Program


    War News UpdatesAuthority Authority: 504
    North Korea Arms Trade Funds Nuclear-Bomb Work, UN Panel Says -- Bloomberg Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea is running a global arms smuggling enterprise to finance its nuclear weapons program, a United Nations panel said in a report on sanctions imposed on the regime. “The Democratic People’s Republic of ...
    4 days ago
  • What Life Is Like In The North Korean Army


    War News UpdatesAuthority Authority: 504
    North Korean military honour guard standing to attention at Pyongyangs airport during a diplomatic visit Photograph: Stephen Shaver/AFP/Getty Images Defector Tells Of Life In North Korean Army -- BBC Newsnight has spoken to two North Korean defectors about life inside the secretive Stalinist state, one of ...
    4 days ago
  • Obama trumpets Asia trip as boost to US economy (AP)


    Politics - Political NewsAuthority Authority: 155
    WASHINGTON – President Barack Obamas eight-day trip to Asia produced no tangible wins for the United States, though he is citing talks with Asian allies that he says could help create thousands of job and open new markets for American goods in the future. Citing progress on a trip that took him from ...
    4 days ago

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