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coolhand
08-09-2009, 09:36 AM
http://rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/07/the_worlds_10_most_dangerous_countries

Nordic
12-23-2009, 01:37 PM
http://rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/07/the_worlds_10_most_dangerous_countries

Here's an article concerning #5 on the list. Will be interesting to see how long things escalate in Iran before something blows up. Let's see, we have hundreds of thousands of troops on at least two sides of Iran in Iraq and Afghanistan....coincidence? :suspicious:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34570961/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa

Birchtree
12-23-2009, 01:52 PM
President Bush had it all planned out - he was a forward thinker. The infrastructer is in place to handle any logistics - and we can thank the Russians for some infrastructure in Afghanistan.

Nordic
12-24-2009, 08:08 AM
We can't afford health care or education for our citizens, but we CAN afford billions to help re-build troubled nations? I realize we need to be proactive instead of reactive, but some of these policies are head scratchers.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34580582/ns/politics-washington_post

Show-me
12-24-2009, 08:16 AM
I reminded of the old military saying. "Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil because i am the baddest mother in the valley?"

I cleaned it up a bit for the mb. ;)

WorkFE
12-24-2009, 09:10 AM
I cleaned it up a bit for the mb. ;)

Good thing, I'd hate to see you in the TSP striped jump suit:D

phil
12-24-2009, 09:43 AM
Interesting story on China and the steel industry. It's how countries directly interfere in the world economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_espionage_case

Industrial espionage is sometimes never considered in the international economy. In this case, it's a state corporate actor.

Boghie
12-24-2009, 10:17 AM
While not a country...

One must look at California for the same reasons the author selected the United States and China as the most dangerous countries in the world.

The "Land 'O Fruits and Nuts" can take down the United States.

We are only asking for our two front teeth and ten billion or so:nuts:

Bullitt
01-01-2010, 09:18 PM
2010 could be a year that sparks unrest (http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15098974&fsrc=nwl)

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Buster
01-01-2010, 09:27 PM
2010 could be a year that sparks unrest (http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15098974&fsrc=nwl)


Nah!!!..The fires of unrest have already been blazing..to say this year will be any different, is simply overstating the obvious...:suspicious:

Nordic
02-03-2010, 08:06 AM
Al-Qaida threat...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35212549/ns/us_news-washington_post

Warrenlm
02-03-2010, 08:55 AM
Al-Qaida threat...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35212549/ns/us_news-washington_post

The Senator's question "will there be an attack" was modified by the first witness to answer it. It was clarified by him to be an attempted attack. To which all witnesses could then give the Senator her camera moment and headline. I would think there is an "attempted" attack frequently. Depends on the definition of attempted. Nobody at the table had to be less than sure in their answer at that point.

alevin
02-07-2010, 02:22 PM
2010 could be a year that sparks unrest (http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15098974&fsrc=nwl)

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I was looking up a reference to a guy named Alf Fields, who is apparently a long-cycle guy and maybe better at it than Armstrong even. I found this boots-on-the-ground article on how things are in Zimbabwe lately-you know-the hyperinflation experience and aftermath?

I read it because I know one young expat white Zimbabwean from back in 2000, and met another white-haired expat briefly at that time. Interesting insights-don't seem to bear out the "very high" risk of social unrest projected for 2010 as marked in the map we were looking at earlier. Things are much better now, but yes, people starved during the height of the situation.

http://www.kitco.com/ind/Field/nov112009.html

phil
02-07-2010, 03:49 PM
It all depends to what you've become accustomed.

http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html

is the list of countries with current Travel Warnings. They usually indicate countries of higher instability, or one with a humanitarian or natural disaster, but most of them are countries with political instability, where the State Department discourages travel. Some are obvious, some aren't. Venezuala isn't on there, by the way. The list is very volatile, constantly changing, though most of these countries have been on the list for at least 3 years. Internal dissent among ethnic groups is the major cause. A lot of them fit under the "states of combustibility", but a lot of them don't.


Haiti (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_4632.html)01/14/2010
Pakistan (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_930.html)01/07/2010
Sudan (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_934.html)12/31/2009
Somalia (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_933.html)12/31/2009
Mauritania (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_4600.html)12/02/2009
Chad (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_2876.html)11/23/2009
Mali (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_4566.html)11/19/2009
Sri Lanka (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_3011.html)11/19/2009
Nepal (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_927.html)11/19/2009
Algeria (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_929.html)11/16/2009
Colombia (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_941.html)11/10/2009
Guinea (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_3122.html)10/17/2009
Lebanon (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_3072.html)09/29/2009
Cote d'Ivoire (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_915.html)09/22/2009
Philippines (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_2190.html)09/17/2009
Congo, Democratic Republic of the (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_2198.html)09/01/2009
Eritrea (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_2939.html)08/28/2009
Central African Republic (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_940.html)08/19/2009
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_922.html)08/14/2009
Kenya (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_923.html)07/24/2009
Afghanistan (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_2121.html)07/23/2009
Burundi (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_2122.html)07/22/2009
Nigeria (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_928.html)07/17/2009
Haiti (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_917.html)07/17/2009
Iran (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_920.html)07/01/2009
Yemen (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_936.html)06/26/2009
Saudi Arabia (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_932.html)06/26/2009
Uzbekistan (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_2533.html)06/16/2009
Iraq (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_921.html)06/15/2009
Georgia (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_4327.html)04/09/2009
Syria (http://www.tsptalk.com/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_3036.html)02/12/2009

Nordic
03-26-2010, 10:11 AM
Was wondering when N. Korea was going to stir the pot again. :suspicious:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36052055/ns/world_news-asiapacific