The Traderszone Network

Submitted by Patrick Chovanec via ForeignPolicy.com,

During the Vietnam War, surveying the shelled wreckage of Ben Tre, an American officer famously remarked, “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” His comment came to epitomize the sort of self-defeating “victory” that undoes what it aims to achieve.

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The German economy likely grew by around 0.3 percent in the second quarter, the finance ministry said on Monday, adding that the mood in corporate boardrooms remained largely optimistic despite the Greek debt crisis. The finance ministry said in its monthly report that the German economy was in an upswing, with domestic demand remaining the key growth driver, but foreign trade also picking up.

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The first time Russia’s armed forces demonstrated the Platform-M combat robot was one year ago in mid-June 2014, when in the course of military drills by the Baltic Fleet near Kaliningrad, the robotic combat platforms, armed with grenade launchers and Kalashnikov rifles saw their first action, executing their military missions alongside their live colleagues.

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The plucky processor underdog can’t afford to play second fiddle in the PC sector for much longer. It’s high time to find new core markets.

Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,

(Pictured: Proxyham by Benjamin Caudill / Rhino Security Labs)

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Stocks look primed to set new all-time highs, but that doesn’t mean that they’re in a bubble.

Apple and its fellow tech stocks face a lot of pressure heading into a peak week of earnings season following huge stock run-ups among the peers that reported in the past week.
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