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News Headlines: April 21, 2015 – ISIS Leader Injured in Air Strike, Fukushima Dumping Nuclear Waste, Staff at Windsor on Strike, PRC Plans Modern Silk Road
Austria Recognizes Armenian Genocide Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Seriously Injured in Airstrike Toxic Waste Dumped Into Ocean from Fukushima After Outage Scandal Involving Australian Universities and Foreign Students Staff at Windsor Castle on Strike Saudi King Issues Decree Sending Saudi National Guard Troops Into Yemen Russian Prime Minister […]
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News Headlines: April 20, 2015 – ISIS Declares Jihad on Taliban, PRC and Solar Power, Russian Trade Declines, Pulitzer Winners
ISIS and the Taliban Declare Jihad on Each Other Germany Plans to Recognize Armenian Genocide, Turkey Offers Protest People’s Republic of China Engaged in Massive Solar Power Program France’s National Assembly Debates Legalizing Edward Snowden-Style Whistleblowing Astronomers Discover Largest Known Object in the Universe Israeli Prime Minister Refuses to Meet Former US President Jimmy Carter […]
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Asia
International Relations
Japan‘s Rearmament: Reawakened Nationalism or Neo-Realist Pragmatism?
Inside Japan’s Controversial Military Expansion Decades after World War II, Japan begins an aggressive rearmament program Implications for the stability of the greater Pacific region notwithstanding, what does Japan‘s aggressive expansion of the Self Defense Forces (SDF) projective/offensive military capability mean for Japan‘s place in the wider world? Is Japan merely responding to China‘s (People’s […]
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RPG Video Games (Role-Playing Games)
Video Games
Fallout Series Lore and History: The Great War
FALLOUT Lore: Prologue – Great War The Great War – a global nuclear war between the United States and China that saw atomic bombs dropping across the surface of the globe The Resource Wars, the global fight for oil between the major powers, saw China and the United States as the sole remaining superpowers afterward. […]
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Hong Kong Protests – Documentary Video
Hong Kong Monday Protests 1 (video by The Wall Street Journal)
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Joshua Wong Arrested in Civic Square: Hong Kong‘s Scholarism Student Group Leader
17-year old Joshua Wong, leader of the Scholarism movement, has been arrested in Hong Kong. Yvonne Leung Lai-kwok, head of the Hong Kong University Student’s Union confirmed that Wong and four other students were arrested and taken by police for alleged acts of violence against police officers. The police arrested the student organizer in Hong […]
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Who Wins Between Ukraine and Russia? Chinese Defense Firms
VICE’s Ryan Faith has an interesting bit of speculation as to who will emerge in the struggle between the Russian Federation and the Ukraine – China and its defense manufacturing industry. During the Cold War, prior to the Sino-Soviet split of the 1970s, China and the then-Soviet Union were allies in the common cause of […]
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Chinese State-Sponsored Christianity? Wang Zuoan Says PRC Aims to Develop Chinese Christian Theology
The growth of Christianity in the People’s Republic of China has prompted the Chinese Communist Party to consider developing an indigenous, Chinese Christian philosophy that incorporates Christian tenets with Chinese culture and CCP political goals such as the construction of state socialism according to senior official for religious affairs Wang Zuoan, who spoke at a […]
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