If you look at a modern map of the world’s most populous cities, you’ll notice that they are quite evenly distributed around the globe.
Metropolises like Moscow, New York, Tokyo, Cairo, or Rio de Janeiro are spread apart with very different geographic and cultural settings, and practically every continent today can claim at least one of the world’s 20 most populous cities.
Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com,
As if things weren't bad enough for America's mall owners, what with the having to filling their retail space with high schools, grocers and churches, it seems that retailers have grown so uncertain about the future of these 1980s relics that they're only willing to sign 1-2 leases these days.
As Bloomberg points out this morning, leases renewals used to be 5-10 years in length but are increasingly only being signed with 1-2 year terms. Meanwhile, thousands of stores are closing each year and it's only expected to get worse over time.
In a story published Wednesday, the New York Times alleged that President Trump revealed to Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte the location of two U.S. nuclear submarines lurking in the waters off the Korean peninsula, ready to counter any acts of aggression by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Here’s what Trump allegedly said, according to a transcript of the call, which was circulated to reporters by the Americas wing of the Philippines embassy. The contents of the document were later confirmed by "a senior White House official." Per NYT:
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
Why can’t brain dead liberals understand the need for a wall after seeing these statistics?
How can we have an unsecured border with a failed third world state, where murder and drugs are the two biggest imports?
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Mexico was second deadliest country in 2016