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Tensions are mounting on the Korean peninsula amid increasing rhetoric from the North. Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, has declared that nuclear weapons are “the nation’s life.” Such provocations are not new and likely add up to more posturing and bluster, but the heightened strain emphasizes that a
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. has taken its first real swipe at China following accusations that the Beijing government is behind a widespread and systemic hacking campaign targeting U.S. businesses.Buried in a spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on Tuesday is a provision that effectively bars
From Conservative News Source- blog.heritage.org
Arms Trade Treaty conference session (Photo by Ted Bromund) In New York, the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) conference is entering its final phase, and the ways in which the negotiations might fail are becoming clearer. A large number of nations—mainly the Middle East but also
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world economy grew at a significantly weaker pace in 2012 and is not likely to pick up enough in the next two years to recover jobs lost during the global financial crisis, the United Nations said Tuesday.The U.N.’s report on the World Economic
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NEW YORK (AP) — Law firms systematically submitted fraudulent asylum applications for Chinese immigrants falsely claiming government persecution and coached applicants on how to lie to federal authorities to back up their fictitious stories, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.Some of the applications also
From Conservative News Source- reason.com
A deal on the fiscal cliff is looking close. President Obama is reportedly offering to raise taxes on only those making more than $400,000 a year. Gotta soak somebody. The president has asked his cabinet on ideas for gun control reforms. Dick’s Sporting Goods, meanwhile, has suspended the sale
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
HONG KONG (AP) — U.S. insurance company AIG has sold its remaining stake in Asian life insurer AIA Group for $6.4 billion.Hong Kong-based AIA Group said Tuesday that American International Group sold nearly 1.65 billion shares. They were sold at 30.30 Hong Kong dollars ($3.90) each and
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Less freedom the world over? Authoritarians don’t care. The United States and an alliance of Western democracies spoke up against Russia, Iran, China, and others’ proposals to restrict the ease with which the Internet currently operates across international borders during the United Nations’ telecom conference over the past couple
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple said Monday that it sold more than 2 million iPhone 5s in China in their first three days of availability, setting a record for that market.IPhone 5, which launched in China on Friday, will be available in more than 100 countries by the
From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com
On December 12th, extremely leftist Congressman Ed Markey and 44 other stridently leftist Democrats sent a letter to the Republican and Democrat leaders of both houses of Congress again calling for spending on America’s nuclear deterrent to be cut by over $100 bn over the next decade… ignoring
From Conservative News Source- humanevents.com
Five years after he resigned Japan’s top job because of exhaustion, the LDP’s Shinzo Abe has managed a comeback on par with that of Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton. With his Liberal Democratic Party winning between 300 and 320 seats in the 480-
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
Japan’s main opposition Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe answers a reporter’s question at the party headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday night, Dec. 16, 2012. The conservative LDP stormed back to power in parliamentary elections Sunday after three years in opposition, exit polls showed, signaling a rightward shift
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
HONG KONG (AP) — Stock markets in Japan and China, Asia’s two biggest economies, rose Monday after Japanese conservatives who favor greater economic stimulus returned to power in a landslide election victory and China’s new leaders promised more spending if needed to underpin a wobbly
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
In this Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012 photo, supporters of Japan’s largest opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) gather with national flags during a parliamentary election campaign in Tokyo. Japanese were voting Sunday, Dec. 16 in parliamentary elections that were expected to put the LDP, once-
From Conservative News Source- frontpagemag.com
You can see their point. It’ll be a lot easier for the People’s Liberation Army to do their debt collecting if there aren’t a few hundred million guns out there. The state news agency in China, the official voice of the government, has called for the
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
In this Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012 photo, supporters of Japan’s largest opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) gather with national flags during a parliamentary election campaign in Tokyo. Japanese were voting Sunday, Dec. 16 in parliamentary elections that were expected to put the LDP, once-dominant conservatives, back in power after a
From Conservative News Source- thegatewaypundit.com
China news agency called on “no delay” on gun control laws in US. NY Times reported, va Free Republic: The state news agency in China, the official voice of the government, has called for the United States to quickly adopt stricter gun controls in
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
Japan’s main opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Shinzo Abe speaks during a campaign rally for the Dec. 16 parliamentary elections in Kawaguchi, near Tokyo, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. The LDP ruled Japan almost continuously since 1955 until it lost badly to the DPJ in 2009. If the LDP
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Communism on the defensive. China and others’ plans for using the international mechanisms of the United Nations to clamp down on a free and open Internet may have been foiled (…for now), but of course that isn’t stopping the communist regime from furthering
From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com
In 1897, as the United Kingdom celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign, it stood at the peak of its military, economic, and diplomatic power, as it spanned one quarter of the world and was being patrolled by the Royal Navy, stronger than the next two navies combined
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
BEIJING (AP) — A half-day before a young gunman committed one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history, a Chinese farmer took a kitchen knife and hacked at more than 20 children as they entered their rural elementary school.Though the outcomes are different — 28
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
FILE – In this Nov. 9, 2012 photo, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard talks to media in Bali, Indonesia. Leaders of two of the closest longtime allies of the United States have been quick to express sympathy over a shooting rampage that left 26 people dead, including 20 children
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have arrested a legislator found to have four wives.A district official in the northern province of Shanxi said Li Junwen also had 10 children, and had been detained on suspicion of document forgery. Bigamy is a criminal offense in China, while rules restrict most couples
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — The president of Kazakhstan said Friday he plans to introduce direct elections for town and village mayors in an effort to foster democratic standards in the authoritarian Central Asian nation.In a wide-ranging address, President Nursultan Nazarbayev
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
How ’bout no. Russia, China, Iran, and other repressive governments’ attempts to put international rules on the way the Internet works at a United Nations telecom conference in Dubai, was met with staunch opposition from a united front of Western democracies (the US,
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
FILE-In this file photo dated Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, an official sticks a note on the wall next to the conference banner during the eleventh day of the World Conference on International Telecommunication in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A U.N. conference
From Conservative News Source- reason.com
Yesterday, Politifact, the Pulitzer-winning fact checking arm of the Tampa Bay Times, declared Romney’s claim that Chrysler “is going to build Jeeps in China,” ;its “lie of the year.” But it’s a ;PoliticusUSA story ;about Politifact awarding Obama its coveted “promise kept” label for his 2007
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Sovereignty. A dispute over a small island group heated up considerably this morning after China sent a government aircraft into Japanese airspace to surveil the uninhabited Senkaku Islands. Japan scrambled F-15s to confront the plane, which left without incident
From Conservative News Source- blog.heritage.org
China’s largest auto-parts maker just won the bidding for A123 Systems, the bankrupted electric car battery company. It’s time to back the car up and remember where the American taxpayer started with A123. A123 received a $249 million grant as part of the 2009 stimulus. By the time it
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
Female members of a North Korean military band perform in celebration of the country’s rocket launch in Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. North Korea successfully fired a long-range rocket on Wednesday, defying international warnings as the regime of Kim Jong Un took a
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
In this image made from video, displays show the Unha-3 rocket launch at North Korea’s space agency’s General Launch Command Center on the outskirts of Pyongyang, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. The rocket launch will enhance the credentials of 20-something leader Kim Jong Un at home a year after he took power
From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com
The DefenseNews.com website has recently published an article by John T. Bennett that extensively quotes a letter sent by 11 RINO and 11 Democrat members of Congress – including such conservative stalwarts as Barney Frank, Lynn Woolsey, Keith Ellison, Jim Moran (D-VA), and Chris Gibson
From Conservative News Source- blog.heritage.org
North Korea again defied the international community today by launching a Unha-3 rocket, which is the same vehicle as its Taepo Dong-2 ICBM. Despite North Korean claims that the launch was of a civilian satellite, it is a clear violation of
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
In this Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 photo, a sign of RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, is seen at its office in the City of London. The value of global mergers and acquisitions deals in 2012 was nearly half the amount made five years ago, when
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
North Koreans toast with beer after hearing the news of a rocket launch at the newly-built Mansukyo Restaurant Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea appeared to successfully fire a long-range rocket Wednesday, defying international warnings as the regime of Kim Jong Un
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
BEIJING (AP) — In a fresh challenge to Vatican authority, China has revoked the title of a new Catholic bishop in Shanghai who outraged Chinese officials by immediately dropping out of the government agency that oversees the country’s officially sanctioned church, religious officials said Thursday.Ma Daqin
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
This Sept. 10, 2012 photo shows the Gevrey-Chambertin castle amid vinyards in Burgundy, eastern France. Gevrey-Chambertin is the kind of French village where the waiter chastises diners who don’t order a glass of locally made wine, even at a midweek lunch. So when Louis
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
TOKYO (AP) — It’s the $6 trillion question: how to jolt Japan out of its 20-year economic slump.The dozen or so parties vying in a Dec. 16 parliamentary election all agree the world’s third-largest economy needs a jump-start, now that it has slid back into recession for
From Conservative News Source- blog.heritage.org
The Canadian government just approved the $15.1 billion acquisition of integrated oil and gas producer Nexen by China’s third-largest oil company, state-owned China National Offshore Oil. The deal is an important step forward (or two) for Chinese investment, but a
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
BRUSSELS (AP) — BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union approved a new common patent system on Tuesday designed to cut red tape and streamline patent procedures across much of Europe.The European Parliament concluded the drawn-out decision-making process, backing
From Conservative News Source- powerlineblog.com
(Scott Johnson) New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has a recurring daydream. In Friedman’s daydream the United States adopts the highly efficient Chinese Communist mode of government under the leadership of “a reasonably enlightened group of people” — such as Friedman finds the Chinese Communists to
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
A signal light turns red in front of the Opel car plant in Bochum, western Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. General Motors Co.’s Opel unit said Monday that it plans to end car production at one plant in Germany in 2016, but a slimmed-
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
FILE — In this file photo taken at Chigi Palace government’s office in Rome, on Dec. 6, 2012, Italian Premier Mario Monti gestures arrives for a news conference at the end of a cabinet meeting. Premier Mario Monti told the Italian president Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, he plans to
From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com
BANGKOK (AP) — Oil prices edged up Tuesday despite growing uncertainty about the strength of China’s economic recovery as investors looked to the Federal Reserve to implement new measures to help the U.S. economy.Benchmark crude for January delivery was up 23 cents
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report Tuesday that a record-number 232 journalists are imprisoned worldwide and that Turkey has the highest number with 49 journalists behind bars.The total is 53 more than the tally last year and is the highest number since the
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North Koreans wait for a bus in snow-covered Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. North Korea on Monday extended the launch period for a controversial long-range rocket by another week until Dec. 29, citing technical problems. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Athletic footwear and apparel giant Nike Inc. plans to expand its operations in Oregon and hire hundreds of workers but wants the government to promise that tax rules won’t change, prompting a special session of the Legislature.Gov. John Kitzhaber said
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
“Investments.” Let me get my obligatory free-trade qualifier out of the way here first: It’s not so much that there’s anything at all wrong with businesses buying and selling on the international arena, because foreign markets may have demands for products we don’t, and we
From Conservative News Source- nation.foxnews.com
By Anjali Sareen On Sunday’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos, economist Paul Krugman sat down with political consultant Mary Matalin to discuss possible solutions to the impending fiscal cliff. Matalin slammed Krugman for claiming the GOP had offered no specifics, asking him, “Are you an
From Conservative News Source- blog.heritage.org
Two days ago, the 18th United Nations conference on climate change wrapped up. As they did at the previous 17 conferences, developing nations demanded that the United States and other developed countries pay them for the climate’s effects. In short, the joke’s