Epstein Secrets

s new book is not at all about Putin and only indirectly about Russia. "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-56" focuses on Poland, Hungary and East Germany. It details the Soviet recipe used to stifle three wildly unalike countries. The book is richly human, sometimes funny, often hear

d Patrikarakos 4 Nov 2012 -- On the 24 September at Israel's National Institute of Security Studies, an obdurately dull building off a main road in Tel Aviv, three dozen men and women drawn from the top echelons of Israel's EFTA00700300 political and military elite met to play a war-game, the outcome

ch rights.) The twenty-first century began with a fraudulent Presidential election. And this is in the luckiest of nations. Elsewhere—in Russia, in Hungary, in Zimbabwe—the fragility of democratic aspiration is a brutal fact of history. To revisit the Arab Spring, one year later, is to celebrate popula

, the ultra-Orthodox, Shas, the National Religious Party—is indispensable to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition. A visitor to Tel Aviv and other freethinking precincts might overlook the reactionary currents in the country, but poll after poll reveals that many younger Israelis are

y an attractive trading partner for Europe, with significant mineral resources, a large landmass bordering four EU member states (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania), an educated population of forty-five million, and a 2012 GDP of more than $175 billion. However, it EFTA00636723 has heavy financi

nt annually. Recently, Apple paid about $350 million for Israel-based PrimeSense Ltd., whose technology drives the gesture controls in Xbox Kinect. Tel Aviv is now ranked 32nd as a world financial center, ahead of Melbourne, Munich and Rome. So you have resources. Bibi, it's time to shoot for the stars

s not a Cold War phenomenon. Ironically, interventionism was for the Soviet Union something they did in their part of the world [East Berlin, 1953, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia, 1968] and they had no compunction at interventionism as long as they were doing it. And then the Soviet forces began to inte

n attack on Iran would likely rile much of the Muslim world, causing wide-ranging political fallout. But the consequences of nuclear bombs hitting Tel Aviv and Haifa — effectively destroying Israel, a very small country — are even more dire, certainly as seen from Jerusalem. The Israelis may have the

erlin Wall being the most famous example - more than half were constructed in a rush of self-protection between 2000 and 201426, And more are coming: Hungary, Kenya, Algeria and India now posthole their borders in initial exploration of what might be built. There’s a frantic urgency to some of this. The Sp

each other. Imagine I put one kid with a flu in one classroom and a schoolmate of his in another building. The second kid should remain healthy. The Tel Aviv research team wanted to challenge this. They first placed two computers side by side on a desk, unconnected to each other by any wire or network. One