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North Korea would like to test missiles and advance its nuclear program, while smuggling arms to some potentially bad actors for extra cash. The U.S. would like North Korea to stop doing all of these things. Neither side is particularly interested in finding out what happens should the other press the issue. And thus North Korea and the U.S. find themselves in a very strange Kabuki war. Pyongyang is plainly the instigator, continuing its rash of missile and nuclear tests while apparently seeking hard currency by peddling weapons to all buyers. Like automated chess pieces, U.S. military assets have responded...
...grocery store in midtown Tehran where I happened to watch the program, none of the four others present seemed to buy the story. "Look, the guy looks like a total Basiji. Besides, there are a ton of people with that name," said the store owner. (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...surprisingly, state television has not been reporting the violence meted out to demonstrators by special police forces and paramilitary Basij. In fact, in one program on the victims, it showed three badly injured young men who looked like Basijis. One of them said, "I was beaten to a pulp just because I wear a beard." Mourning the Basij as victims is one of state television's greatest distortions of truth. Legally unaccountable and equipped with police gear like shields, batons and, in some cases, Colts, the Basij have not held back in their violence against demonstrators. (Read about...
...required to have pornography-filtering software pre-installed. The news caused outrage among Chinese computer users, many of whom complained that the software, called Green Dam Youth Escort, was ineffective and would expose users to viruses and hacker attacks. Meanwhile, a U.S. company, Solid Oak Software, alleged that the program had illegally incorporated parts of its proprietary software...
...That same point was made by many Chinese netizens, whose anger over the attack on Google dominated online forums and billboards following the June 19 airing of a program critical of Google on CCTV. China's "human-flesh search engine" - a vigilante Internet mob that discovers the identities and publishes personal details of those who displease netizens - also swung into action. The group claimed that a Beijing youth, depicted in a CCTV program as a university student who had mounted an anti-Google campaign, was actually a CCTV staff member...