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Exactly one month ago, South Korea's political crisis - recall that the country's president Park Geun-hye was impeached last December - spilled over into the corporate sector when the country's special prosecutor unexpectedly sought a warrant to arrest the head of Samsung, the country's largest conglomerate, accusing him of paying multi-million dollar bribes to a friend of impeached President Park Geun-hye. On the night of January 16, investigators had grilled the head of Samsung, the world's largest maker of smartphones, flat-screen TVs and memory chips, Jay Y.

Scientists have discovered a new continent hidden in plain view in the Pacific Ocean right next to New Zealand. Zealandia, as it is formally called, is a continent with a 5 million square kilometre landmass that lays largely submerged in the south-west Pacific. The 11 geologists from New Zealand and Australia who discovered Zealandia say that it should be confirmed as earth’s eighth continent, after Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

China has often found itself in trouble over the past couple of decades for its attempts to replicate technology from other developed countries.  But technological advances aren't the only things being mimicked in China as the country is also littered with fake replicas of monuments from around the world including the Great Sphinx of Giza, the Sydney Opera House and the U.S. Capitol building, just to name a few.

Courageous Ron Unz Wonders How John McCain Gets Away With It

John McCain: When “Tokyo Rose” Ran for President

by Ron Unz

What Was John McCain’s True Wartime Record in Vietnam?

With Sen. John McCain so much in the headlines these days due to his harsh criticism of the foreign policy positions of Donald Trump, a few people suggested that I republish my article from a couple of years ago exploring McCain’s own very doubtful military record.

The global "risk on" melt-up continues.

After a modestly hawkish Yellen warned that every meeting is live, and refused to take March off the table, sending the dollar and yield higher and the S&P to fresh record highs, world stocks rose hitting a 21-month high on Wednesday with the dollar rising for the 11th straight day, the longest positive streak since July 2015.