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Earlier this month, J. Peter Pham of The Africa Center for Strategic Studies provided an in-depth analysis of the militant Islamic group Boko Haram. He makes the important point that since the group's reemergence in 2010 and its association with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Boko Haram has grown to present a threat not only to Nigeria, but also across Africa and globally.US news world and latest breaking and showbiz news updates
By Sajjad Shaukat A committee of Indian experts, appointed by the Tamil Nadu government regarding the safety aspects of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNNP) recently submitted its report to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa,...
Announcement Part II of The Yomiuri Shimbun's War Responsibility series will be published as a book in early October by Chuokoron-Shinsha Inc. Titled "Kensho Senso Sekinin II," the book will be priced at ¥1,575, including consumption tax.
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Solar-driven rainbelt cycles suggest another megadrought within the coming century, but human ingenuity, if unleashed, could prevent calamity.
March 30 The misleading assault on the president’s energy policies continues. A conservative group’s TV ad claims “we will all pay more at the pump” because the administration “blocked” the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Why does it seem that American society is in decline, that fairness and decorum are receding, that socialism and tyranny are becoming malignant despite the majority of the public being averse to such philosophies, yet the true root cause seems elusive? What if everything from unsustainable health care and social security costs, to stagnant wages and rising crime, to crumbling infrastructure and metastasizing socialism, to the economic decline of major US cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore, could all be traced to a common origin that is extremely pervasive yet is all but absent from the national dialog, indeed from the dialog of the entire Western world? Today, on the first day of the new decade of '201x' years, I am going to tell you why that is. I am hereby triggering the national dialog on what the foremost challenge for the United States will be in this decade, which is the ultimate root cause of most of the other problems we appear to be struggling with.
The Futurist
August 2011
Updated to March12th, 2012 Despite the cheerleading of at least one of Mr. Bernanke's Federal Reserve District Presidents as I posted here , it now appears that QE was an unmitigated failure. This should not have come as a surprise to anyone, least of all Wall Streeters and central bankers around the world who should really know better.
Tatiana Golikova, Elvira Nabiullina, Yuri Trutnev, Yuri Ushakov, Andrei Fursenko, Igor Shchegolev and gor Levitin were appointed aides to the president
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The Wall Street firm, which was publicly criticized a few weeks ago by one of its own for running roughshod over the interests of clients – dubbed “muppets” in internal speak – in the pursuit of profit, has now pulled off what looks like the trade of the year. But this one comes at the expense of its own shareholders. Commentary
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The U.S. and Afghanistan have agreed to a deal that will put Afghan troops in charge of deeply unpopular night raids on local homes by special forces in Afghanistan. FULL STORYI use this to evaluate liberal bias in mainstream media by Aug 30
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Ay-O's three-dimensional work "Rainbow Environment No.7+Rainbow Ames Box" from 1969 (Kazumasa Nishioka) ANALYSIS: Restarts of Oi reactors hinge on new safety standards The Japanese government's push to restart nuclear reactors now depends on the establishment of provisional safety standards, but even that may not be enough to win over local governments and residents.Catching up on back reading and came across this funny article from a month ago in the New York Times : Shiites in Iraq (where they rule due to constituting a majority in Iraqi elections) are for a dictatorship in Syrian when that dictatorship keeps Sunnis out of power. And here in Iraq, where Shiites are a majority, the events across the border have put the nation on edge while hardening a sectarian schism. As Abu Ali discovered, Iraq’s Shiites are now lined up on the side of a Baathist dictatorship in Syria, less than a decade after the American invasion of Iraq toppled the rule of Saddam Hussein and his own Baath Party, which for decades had repressed and brutalized the Shiites. Similarly, Syria's Christians back Assad because they know a Sunni majority elected government in Syria will treat them far worse.