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• War and Profits

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — 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 ...
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• Nuclear Radiation Worries? There’s A Pill For That

  
  Blogger — 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.
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• North Korea To Only Show World Cup Games If It Wins

  
  Foolocracy — 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 Agency — 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 ...
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• North Korean Tanker Seized By Somali Pirates

  
  ROK Drop — 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 ...
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• As a Student of Realpolitik, Obama’s Catching On Fast: Dziennik, Poland

  
  The Moderate Voice — 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 ...
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• Take With a Grain of Salt: North Koreans Claim Ediacaran Fossils

  
  The Dragon's Tales — 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 ...
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• Repeat After Me....

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — 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 ...
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• “Even during the Arirang Mass Games in North Korea, the...

  
  BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. — 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)
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• North Korea Builds Monument In Senegal

  
  ROK Drop — 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 | OTB — 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 ...
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• An RNC Purity Test?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — 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 ...
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• GA condemns Burma, DPRK, Iran

  
  View from Geneva — 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, ...
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• OBAMAS MAGIC WORKING OUT WELL...

  
  A Tangled Web — 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 ...
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• Beating Kim’s game of ‘blackmail diplomacy’

  
  East Asia Forum — 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 ...
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• Water on a Stone: Fallows relays an insiders view of Obamas Chinese conversations

  
  xpostfactoid — 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 news — 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 Updates — 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 ...
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• What Life Is Like In The North Korean Army

  
  War News Updates — 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 ...
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• Obama trumpets Asia trip as boost to US economy (AP)

  
  Politics - Political News — 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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