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2011 Predictions: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Nuclear War, Asteroid Impact & Massive Floods
2011 Predictions: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Nuclear War, Asteroid Impact & Massive Floods
My predictions for this year: [] = Hasn't occurred / ✓ = Occurred (accurately predicted) *For predictions that were accurately predicted, click the link after the arrow (→) to read the news article on that prediction. 1. Dramatic increases in weather and environmental changes [✓] → abcn.ws 2. Natural disasters to be on the rise [✓] → reut.rs 3. The worst landslides in California history destroy thousands of homes [] 4. A major event will occur were thousands die on the scale of the Boxing-Day tsunami [✓] → bit.ly 5. Another oil spill in the Persian Gulf [] 6. $100/oz silver by March [] 7. Large earthquake hits Seattle [] 8. An accident" in the Gulf of Mexico will destroy the southern coast of the United States [] 9. The FBI will attempt to stop every terror attack attempted in the United States [✓] 10. Expect a sharp rise of non perishable foodsand a lack of fresh produce [✓] 11. Meat prices will soar to the point only the rich can afford it [] 12. Our weather will go from horrible to terrible and scary for the globe [✓] 13. Winter will last longer than usual in 2011 [] 14. Crop failures in the US and Northern Europe [✓] → on.ft.com 15. We will be more dependent than ever from third world nations to supply our vegetables and fruits [✓] 16. Because of the unusual cold season this coming year, fuel prices will soar [] 17. A search for alternative fuels will become more ominous [✓] 18. Hilary Clinton will resign, splitting the Democratic party [] 19. She will
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The Korean War, A History. By Bruce Cumings - Part 1
The Korean War, A History. By Bruce Cumings - Part 1
- published: 23 Mar 2011
- views: 22767
- author: MSLawdotedu
www.mslaw.edu http Bruce Cumings, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago and author of The Korean War: A History, joins Dean Lawrence R. Velvel in part one of this episode of Books of Our Time. Cumings and Velvel discuss the historical origins of the Korean war, from the early disputes between North and South Korea and then on thru to the more recent history of North Korea, from General MacArthur's massive underestimation of the North Korean army, to the north's involvement with China, all the way to the great famine and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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What I Saw in North Korea and Why it Matters
What I Saw in North Korea and Why it Matters
Google Tech Talk (more info below) March 28, 2011 Presented by Siegfried S. Hecker, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University ABSTRACT North Korea Nuclear Proliferation, Negotiation and the human aspects of an estranged country. My seventh trip to North Korea in seven years produced another surprise -- North Korea decided to build its own light-water reactor and uranium enrichment facility. During my first visit I was shown plutonium produced in its Yongbyon nuclear complex to convince me they have the bomb. For more than 30 years, Pyongyang has moved along parallel paths of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, opting to chose bombs over electricity. I will discuss how North Korea got the bomb, why it got it, and the prospects of whether or not it will give up the bomb. Finally, I will try to show with photos and stories of how North Korea is not such a hermit kingdom after all. Siegfried S. Hecker is co-director of the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation, Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Professor (Research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering. He is also director emeritus at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he served as director from 1986-1997 and senior fellow until July 2005. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in metallurgy from Case Western Reserve University. His current professional interests include plutonium research
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NEW COLD WAR ANALYSIS- SKYNEWS- TIM BYRNES
NEW COLD WAR ANALYSIS- SKYNEWS- TIM BYRNES
Tim Byrnes, an Australian Freelance Journalist, appearing in on SkyNews Australia to discuss his analysis of the Russian -Georgian conflict. US President, Barack Obama, met with his Russian counterpart, President, Dmitry Medvedev, in Moscow this week in an attempt to open a new era of dialogue between Moscow and Washington but it will take more than rhetoric and symbolic agreements to reset the button on relations between the world s two nuclear superpowers. There have been allegations circulating for years in Russia that the Americans have been secretly supporting rebellions in Russia s southern regions of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and North Ossetia. A Senior Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) source, in North Ossetia claims that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been attempting to destabilise the Russian Government by supporting groups that are linked to terrorist attacks on Russian soil. They have been trying to discredit Russia s reputation in Europe and the West by supporting opposition groups in Russia, Chechnya, North Ossetia and Ingushetia. America is also providing refuge for Chechen terrorists and criminals wanted here in Russia. And they are still training the Georgian military for operations against Russian interests, he said. Since 1991, Russia has waged two wars in Chechnya to crush a militant separatist movement that has spilled out into Ingushetia and Dagestan. During the conflicts Russia was accused of committing war crimes and human
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The North Korean Human Rights Crisis
The North Korean Human Rights Crisis
- published: 25 Jul 2007
- views: 64285
- author: Google
Google Tech Talks June 29, 2007 ABSTRACT North Korea today is home to a network of several dozen concentration camps rivaling those of Auschwitz and Dachau of days past, hosting over 250000 political prisoners and their families. North Korea is a prison state- there are no freedoms of religion, speech, movement, assembly- even the right to leave the nation is barred from the people. Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have fled to neighboring China, only to be hunted down by Chinese authorities and sent back to North Korea to face torture and death; or to be sold by brokers and smugglers as labor or sexual slaves. An additional 15000 North Koreans toil in slave labor camps outside North...
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War and History, Ancient and Modern
War and History, Ancient and Modern
Beginning with the assertion that war is inseparable from the human condition, Victor Hanson proceeds to explain the ways in which the American way of war is distinctive.
![American director Abel Ferrara arrives for the screening of the film "Go Go Tales", at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Thursday, May 24, 2007.(ss2)](http://web.archive.org./web/20130306185909im_/http://cdn1.wn.com/vp/i/48/3d39b1baf95fcd.jpg "American director Abel Ferrara arrives for the screening of the film "Go Go Tales", at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Thursday, May 24, 2007.(ss2)")
