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Chinese Ships Are Sailing The Black Sea For The First Time Ever
There is some controversy and debate about China's first foray into the Black Sea. On the surface two Chinese vessels have entered the inland sea just days after the conclusion of the 2012 Sea Breeze...
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Al-Qaeda Jihadists Are The Best Fighters Among The Syria Rebels
Members of al-Qaeda and other foreign jihadist organizations are entering Syria and establishing themselves as some of the best fighters in the rebellion against Bashar al-Assad's regime, Ghaith...
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Tensions have been high for more than a week in Anaheim after two fatal shootings by police – one involving an unarmed man and another involving an allegedly handcuffed man. Last weekend authorities...
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F-22s Arrived In Japan With No Sign Of Those Oxygen Problems
Air Force officials breathed a sigh of relief Saturday as at least eight of the first 12 F-22s scheduled to deploy to Kadena Air Force Base, Japan, arrived safely with no reports of pilots suffering...
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The US Bought Another Of These 'Unreliable' $1.5-Billion Ships
Able to carry 800 Marines and their gear anyplace they need to go — the San Antonio Class Amphibious Transport Dock is vital for projecting U.S. forces abroad: but they don't come cheap. The newest...
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How Syria's 'Desert Rose' Became 'The First Lady From Hell'
Spot the difference in these two pieces about the wife of the Syrian president, Bashar Hafez al-Assad: "Asma al-Assad is a glamorous, young, and very chic - the freshest and most magnetic of first...
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Bulgarian Police Release A Digital Recreation Of The Suicide Bomber's Face
Bulgarian police have released a computer-generated image of the suicide bomber who killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian on July 18, the Associated Press reports. The representation of a...
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Meet The Man Behind The 'Holy Grail' Of Wearable Computing
The iOptik contact lens is a revolutionary product that's about to change the future of augmented reality vision. We chatted with Stephen Willey, the CEO of Innovega, about his company and their...
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This New Anti-Leaks Bill May End Government Transparency As We Know It
A new anti-leak measure approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee would make it illegal for intelligence analysts to discuss unclassified national security issues off-the-record, according to the...
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These Contact Lenses Could Be The Future Of Augmented Reality
The future of augmented reality isn't on a smartphone screen or on a pair of cumbersome glasses. The future is a contact lens. Innovega is developing a contact lens called the iOptik lens that will...
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How One Iraq Military Vet Got Involved In A White Supremacist Plot To...
He began corresponding with the leader of a white supremacist group when he was stationed at Camp Striker on tour in Iraq. Before long, the young veteran was being invited to become a sworn member of...
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Abe Lincoln Would Have Dominated The Twittersphere Of 1863 With This 7-Word...
Slate editor David Plotz revives interest Thursday in a great piece of Abraham Lincoln writing. According to Plotz's post, Lincoln reviewed death sentences by court martial during the Civil War, and...
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How A Last-Minute Decision Led To The Nuking Of Nagasaki
Days after Hiroshima, a deadlier atomic bomb was bound for an armaments factory in Kokura – until bad weather forced a change of plan. In an extract from his new book, Nagasaki, Craig Collie gets...
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New Generation Of Unmanned Sea Drones 'Could Launch Attacks On Other Vessels'
British defence planners are seeking to develop a new generation of unmanned sea drones with the capability of attacking submarines and launching missile attacks on enemy vessels, it has been...
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A Bunch Of Elderly Protestors Managed To Sneak Past Security Into A US...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium has been temporarily shut after anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old...
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How US Troops Get Set Up With Prosthetic Limbs Is Totally About To Change
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to create a new office that will oversee all prosthetics and rehabilitation programs, department officials told Congress on Tuesday. VA officials want the...
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The Newest Wave Of Russian Marines To Syria May Be The First Step In An...
According to reports, Russia is sending three boatloads of Marines to their base in Syria, and everyone is speculating about why. One of the more compelling theories is that Russia wants to deploy a...
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Iran Wants To Pay $4 Billion To Buy $900 Million Worth Of These Missiles
While the world went back and forth about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in 2002, Saddam Hussein was planning for the worst and did all he could to acquire a batch of Russian S-300 surface-to-air...
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A Scary Vision Of Future Crime And Terrorism [Presentation]
Veteran police officer and counter terrorism strategist Marc Goodman discussed the future of crime and terrorism in a recent Ted Talk. Goodman warns that "the flip side of the technologies we marvel...
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Here's What Closing The Army's Ohio Battle Tank Plant Really Means
General Dynamics has been quite open in its opposition to the Army’s proposed three-year closure of its tank plant in Lima, Ohio. But what has that actually meant, in practical terms? The Center for...
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