Ten Most Dangerous Countries

[coolhand]

http://rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/07/the_worlds_10_most_dangerous_countries

 

[Nordic]

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]

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]

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]

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]

I cleaned it up a bit for the mb.

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

 

[phil]

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]

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]

2010 could be a year that sparks unrest

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[Buster]

2010 could be a year that sparks unrest

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

 

[Nordic]

Al-Qaida threat...

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

 

[Warrenlm]

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]

2010 could be a year that sparks unrest

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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]

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 01/14/2010
Pakistan 01/07/2010
Sudan 12/31/2009
Somalia 12/31/2009
Mauritania 12/02/2009
Chad 11/23/2009
Mali 11/19/2009
Sri Lanka 11/19/2009
Nepal 11/19/2009
Algeria 11/16/2009
Colombia 11/10/2009
Guinea 10/17/2009
Lebanon 09/29/2009
Cote d'Ivoire 09/22/2009
Philippines 09/17/2009
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 09/01/2009
Eritrea 08/28/2009
Central African Republic 08/19/2009
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza 08/14/2009
Kenya 07/24/2009
Afghanistan 07/23/2009
Burundi 07/22/2009
Nigeria 07/17/2009
Haiti 07/17/2009
Iran 07/01/2009
Yemen 06/26/2009
Saudi Arabia 06/26/2009
Uzbekistan 06/16/2009
Iraq 06/15/2009
Georgia 04/09/2009
Syria 02/12/2009​

 

[Nordic]

Was wondering when N. Korea was going to stir the pot again. :suspicious:

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