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TOKYO | Japan's central bank injected a record 7 trillion yen ($85.5 billion) into money markets, and the Tokyo stock market nosedived Monday on the first business day since an earthquake and tsunami devastated the country’s northeast and raised dire worries about the economy. The benchmark Nikkei 2...

High ground now....

If it's still strong it should be hitting soon.

The issue becomes now as Ghadafi has for years turned away from terrorism or at least that’s what history tells, will his successor, if applicable, also do the same? There is talk over here that within the rebels there is a large group of militants that would stray to drugs and terrorism. I guess ti...

During the 1970s and 1980s, Libya served as the arsenal of terrorism. While this role may have received the most publicity when large shipments of weapons were intercepted that Libya was trying to send to the Provincial Irish Republican Army, Libyan involvement in arming terrorist groups was far mor...

Ever since the toppling of the Tunisian president in early January, Saudi Arabia has been using its resources to make sure that other states within the region, particularly Bahrain and Yemen that border Saudi Arabia, do not go the way of either Tunisia or Egypt. In recent days, however, there is evi...

The single most astonishing fact about foreign exchange is not the high volume of transactions, as incredible as that growth has been. Nor is it the volatility of currency rates, as wild as the markets are these days. Instead, it's the extent to which the market remains dollar-centric. Consider this...

Army Ranger veteran and local icon Leonard G. "Bud" Lomell, whose crucial D-Day heroics were chronicled in two best-selling books, died Tuesday of natural causes, according to J. Mark Mutter, township clerk and historian. Lomell was 91. On the morning of June 6, 1944, Lomell and fellow mem...

Many years ago, back when Pastor was in Boot camp, the Governor of Virginia was pissed off that the government wasn't doing shit about the pirates in his area. Specifically some ballsy guy by the name of Edward Teach (had a cool shaving profile). So the Governor hired a Royal Navy captain to go tra...

Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- The Libyan capital was a ghost town Thursday morning, witnesses said, as anti-government protesters declared victory elsewhere after reportedly seizing control of the country's third-largest city. Misrata -- also spelled as Misurata -- is now in the hands of the opposition, ...

My understanding is that American war ships approached the sail boat and two Somali pirates went on board one to negotiate. There where two others in the sail boat holding the four Americans. Navy seals where on stand by when gun fire erupted on the sail boat. They rushed in and shot one pirate and ...

The pirates operate up to 1250 miles off the coast. So if you need a Suez transit you’re going to have to have to pass the pirate area. I have worked in shipping companies for the last 20 years and most ships have some weapons but very light. They are locked in the ship’s safe along with alcohol and...

BERLIN | Shrinking parishes, a dwindling number of clergy and the taint from the Catholic Church‘s sex-abuse scandal are prompting calls in parts of Europe for church leaders to re-examine some of the institution’s basic policies. More than 140 Catholic theologians from Germany, Austria and Switzerl...

When I went to Dubai last year I saw the following which was interesting. Every supermarket shelf in every supermarket was 80% (my take) Turkish products. What makes this interesting is that the Turks are not Arabs. I know that they export to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. But ...

Interesting analysis on the Egyoptian distance between enthusiasm and reality from STRATFOR: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110213-egypt-distance-between-enthusiasm-and-reality?utm_source=GWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110214&utm_content=GIRtitle&elq=40cf9c4fc29e492ba4d5933...

What about axis of evil? Op-ed: After turning his back on ally Mubarak, will President Obama confront Iran? There are those that compare the fall of Hosni Mubarak to the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Wall’s fall cascaded to communism’s crumble in Eastern Europe, but will the end of Mubarak’s rule in ...