If you're an illegal immigrant, you might think about another sanctuary city, although the weather probably won't be as good.
[NBCBayArea] New satellite data released by the European Space Agency confirms that San Francisco's 58-story Millennium Tower is sinking. The swanky mirrored skyscraper at 301 Mission Street - home to multi-million dollar apartments, some of them owned by celebrities like Joe Montana and Hunter Pence - has been infamously nicknamed the "leaning tower of San Francisco," after it was revealed that the tower was tilting and sinking. Hunter Pence? The baseball guy, born in Ft. Worth, Texas, plays right-field for the Giants. Not the NY Giants, either.
"The Sentinel-1 satellites have shown that the Millennium Tower skyscraper in the center of San Francisco is sinking by a few centimeters a year," a study by ESA says. "Studying the city is helping scientists to improve the monitoring of urban ground movements, particularly for subsidence hot spots in Europe." Gee, ya think the satellites can pick up Angela Merkel's sinking?
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Day after day, more people come to L... A...
Don't you tell anybody, the whole place's slipping away
Where can we go, when there's no San Francisco?
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho
Do you know the swim, you better learn quick Jim
Those who don't know the swim, better sing the hymn
Tuna at the bowl
Find fillet of much sole!
Ooooo what can you do
With a bushel of wet gold?
Day after day, more people come to L... A.
Don't you tell anybody, the whole place's shaking away
Where can we go, when there's no San Francisco?
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho
Where can we go, when there's no San Diego
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho
Do you know the swim, you better learn quick Jim
Those who don't know the swim, better sing the hymn
Tuna at the bowl
Find fillet of much sole!
Ooooo what can you do
With a bushel of wet gold?
Day after day, more people come to L.A.
Don't you tell anybody, the whole place's shaking away
Where can we go, when there's no San Francisco?
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho
$289 billion.
[SGVTribune] A newly released analysis reveals that a major earthquake along the San Andreas fault could damage twice as many homes as previously thought.
The global property information and analytics firm based its data on revised earthquake risk science from the U.S. Geological Survey's Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast. The forecast concludes that a large temblor could occur simultaneously in both Northern and Southern California. Better secede from the Union now, before we hafta cut you loose.
The San Andreas fault has traditionally been viewed as two independent segments with earthquake ruptures on the northern and southern faults that were deemed mutually exclusive of one another.
Bolton acknowledged that an 8.3 magnitude quake running the entire length of the San Andreas Fault would be rare.
"It would be pretty far out there," she said. "And the only way we could determine where we sit on the cycle is to know a lot about past earthquake occurrences. We would need to have a record for a good many years of how frequently they happened." Nah, you don't need steekin' records! Talk to the climate guys; they can develop historical records for you!
Bolton said families should have earthquake kits at the ready and also have earthquake insurance. Many don't have insurance because the deductibles tend to be high.
A spokesman for the California Earthquake Authority, which provides about 75 percent of the earthquake policies that are sold in the state through participating insurance carriers, said only 10 percent of California homeowners earthquake insurance.
"In areas with a higher risk, the percentage is higher than the statewide average for obvious reasons," he said earlier this year. "In the greater Los Angeles area it's 15 to 17 percent, and in San Diego it's 20 percent." Looks like a lot of (D) voters will depend on Uncle Sugar to bail them out.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of kleptomaniac fuckheads.
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Not mentioned are the large number of lateral faults running off the San Andreas fault. The likelihood of one, or many of those, being triggered alone or with a San Andreas event is higher than a simultaneous fault.
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Let's remember it took generations for those 'you didn't build that' to actually build that. Any 'historical' level damage is also going to take generations to recover.
A spokesman for the California Earthquake Authority, which provides about 75 percent of the earthquake policies that are sold in the state through participating insurance carriers, said only 10 percent of California homeowners earthquake insurance.
Cause, surprise, they expect Uncle Sugar to cover their losses. Can you say 'Obamacare' calculations boys and girls. You don't really pay in, but expect everyone else to cover you for catastrophic losses.
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When I worked for USGS in 1970-1972, I worked along the San Andreas Fault, and other faults, such as the Hayward Fault, Garlock Fault and others. I measured deflections along the fault, and in other places I installed creep meters that gave real time fault movement through telemetry.
A memorable site was on the 1906 fault trace crossing Roberta Drive in Woodside, California. The fault trace had locked up since the 1906 earthquake. But on the north side of the drive,there was a 3 ft dia redwood stump that was split by earthquake as it was straddling the fault. The west half of the stump moved north 12 feet! One hell of a movement. Now there are expensive houses only 30 to 40 feet from the 1906 fault trace.
So using freshman logic, I did some figuring. From our measurements by geodimeter across the fault for regional movement, the two plates were moving 30 mm a year laterally at a steady rate. 12 feet = 3658 mm.
So 3658 mm of total movement/30 mm per year =
122 years to accumulate that strain. Add that time interval to the year 1906 when the earthquake occurred and you get year 2028 for an estimate of the next big one. Very rough estimate.
12 ft of strain is one huge amount of stored energy!
Next time I will tell you a story of surveying the fault in San Juan Batista, and telling a rather *ahem* loony fellow passing by that we were surveying for beach front property, just to get ahead of things when California would fall into the sea.
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Amherst, Mass. – At least one thousand veterans gathered in Amherst this afternoon to protest the removal of the American flag at Hampshire College. 22news spoke to protesters about why they strongly disagreed with the college’s decision.
Freedom is not free. That’s the lesson that hundreds of veterans, their families and friends and other local residents hoped to teach students at Hampshire College Sunday afternoon.
Jerry Maguire, Veteran said, “They took down my flag, they have a right to that, I’m here to defend their right to do that but I want them to understand how bad that hurts me.”
Hundreds gathered to show their support of the American flag and what it stands for after the College removed the flag on campus earlier this week following the presidential election results. A decision by the college that outraged many.
David Soucy, a Veteran told 22News, “I was in Iraq 18 months. I got hurt, spent time at Walter Reed. I came home and there’s no way I’ll let anyone take down the flag, no way. It means a lot to me and my brothers.”
People came from all over New England to attend this protest. The news of the flag being taken down upset Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno who stood in solidarity with veterans Sunday.
Mayor Domenic Sarno mentioned, “For the students here and the president and board of trustees have risen from what the veterans sacrificed, this flag and not to fly the flag on this campus if you were in some other countries around the world it would be handled very, very differently.”
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I can imagine a slowdown in public services will sway opinions. Missed garbage pickup days, burned out streetlights, reduced late patrols by police, periodic/random power brownouts, food service inspections. Yeah, quality control on services can slip a lot.
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Calling BS on the mayor's actions; Like he wasn't in the know of the flag being taken down and only showed up in support of the vets once the wind direction changed.
useless POS
[Nuus24] Harare - Zimbabwe on Monday starts issuing "bond notes", its own currency equivalent to the US dollar in a bid to ease critical cash shortages amid widespread fears of a return to hyperinflation.
The crisis-hit southern African country has used multiple foreign currencies, including the greenback since 2009 after a rate of inflation that peaked at 500 billion percent rendered the Zimbabwe dollar unusable.
The introduction of $2 and $5 bond notes into circulation follows the issuing of bond coins over a year ago to ease shortages of change in smaller denominations.
The country has experienced a severe shortage of US dollar banknotes in recent months which forced President Robert Mugabe's government to print what locals have dubbed "surrogate money".
"Citizens are generally opposed to the introduction of bond notes because they are still smarting from the death of the Zimbabwe dollar, which was abandoned in 2009 due to hyperinflation," said an editorial in the weekly independent newspaper The Standard.
"The government has been arrogant, dismissing those opposed to the surrogate money as unpatriotic.
"As we have warned the government before, a currency can only be sustained through confidence it inspires on the market."
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The Balancing Rocks have been used as a metaphorical theme to explain the importance of development coupled with preserving the fragile environment of Zimbabwe as similar to that of the Balancing Rocks found in Epworth, Matopos and in other areas.
At least 34 civilians were killed Nov. 27 in a flare up of ethnic violence in restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said, following a week of soaring tensions.
When was the DR Congo ever not restive?
“The provisional toll is 34 civilians killed,” said local official Joy Bokele, referring to an attack by a Nande ethnicity militia on the Hutu village of Luhanga, AFP reported.
“They started by attacking the FARDC [DR Congo military] position. While they were attacking the FARDC, another group was executing the population with bladed weapons or bullets,” Bokele said.
Bokele added that the attack was carried out by a Nande militia group and that one of the attackers was killed in the clashes.
Tensions between the Nande and Hutu peoples have been running high in the restive east, shaken by two decades of fighting over land, ethnic tensions and mineral riches. The Nande accuse Congolese Hutus of abetting the FDLR Rwandan rebel group. The Hutus, in return, say they are looking for land where they can settle for farming and accuse the Nande of trying to expel them.
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Strongly worded UN condemnation coming forthwith.
Opposition candidates are estimated to have won around 20 seats out of 50 in Kuwaiti elections that saw most parliament members replaced, in a vote analysts said reflects anger at austerity measures to curb a budget deficit. The results of the vote on Nov. 26 are likely to make it harder for the government to work with the new assembly to pass further reforms.
State news agency KUNA said that 30 new MPs gained seats in the 50-member parliament, including several younger men and one woman, after a turnout estimated at around 65 percent for the Gulf’s most outspoken legislature.
Analyst Ibrahim al-Hadban said the election campaign had shown that some of the decisions taken by the government were not popular among citizens, including raising gasoline prices.
“MPs who were in the assembly did not object to these decisions. So, in my view, they were blamed and punished,” Hadban, who teaches political science at Kuwait University, told Reuters.
With no political parties, it was difficult to pin down precisely how many opposition MPs had been elected. But some estimates put the number at between 17 and 24. The opposition, including the Muslim Brotherhood, liberals and pan-Arabists, had boycotted the election in 2012 to protest against changes to election laws they saw as favouring pro-government candidates.
At least two cabinet members failed to win parliament seats this time, apparently an indication of popular discontent with the government’s austerity plans.
The parliament of Western-allied Kuwait had been due to run until July 2017, but the emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, dissolved it in October, saying “security challenges” in the region - an apparent reference to wars in Iraq and Syria - should be met by consulting the popular will.
More than 290 candidates, including 14 women, were standing in an assembly that enjoys legislative powers but has often been at odds with the government of Kuwait, one of the world’s wealthiest countries, thwarting attempts to strengthen fiscal discipline.
Former speaker Marzouq al-Ghanem, who retained his seat, said political stability was crucial for Kuwait to focus on economic development in what he described as a “sensitive, critical and important stage.”
“As I pointed out to all political blocs, progress or development must have a base and the base is political stability,” Ghanem told Reuters after polls closed late on Nov. 26.
Campaigning had focused mainly on austerity measures adopted in the past year after officials forecast a deficit of 9.5 billion dinars ($31 billion) for the 2016/17 fiscal year. The OPEC state relies on oil for about 90 percent of its revenues.
Although the deficit is likely to be smaller than forecast as it was based on an oil price of $25 a barrel, many Kuwaitis fear the government will try to raise prices further and cut many of the perks they have enjoyed for decades. These include free health care, education, subsidised basic products, free housing or land plots and interest-free loans for many citizens.
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It's only 135 miles from one end of Kuwait to the other - how big a deal can gas price be?
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Oil profits pay for all those government benefits that the citizenry is accustomed to, Glenmore.
The election on Saturday saw the Islamist-dominated opposition win nearly half of the 50-seat parliament after it ended a four-year boycott and took part in the polls.
Analysts predict the return of political disputes in parliament unless the ruling family-led government succeeds in cooperating with the opposition.
Around half of the opposition candidates who won seats are Islamists from a Muslim Brotherhood-linked group and Salafists.
The emir dissolved the previous parliament due to a dispute over hiking petrol prices.
But a majority of the elected MPs have openly said they would oppose any austerity measures by the government to boost non-oil income.
Voters dealt a heavy blow to candidates from the outgoing parliament, with more than half of them failing to win seats in the new assembly.
Only one woman was elected and Kuwait's Shiite Muslim minority was reduced to six seats from nine
Kuwait has arrested two Iranian nationals for the murder of two Kuwaiti nationals and an Indonesian woman. According to Arab Times, news about the brutal murder broke on Friday, when it became known that two Kuwaiti citizens, including royal Shaikh Sabah Mubarak Al-Nasser Al-Sabah and Saleh Al-Othman, and an Indonesian woman were murdered.
The paper reported that the victims were found inside an apartment in Salwa area, with their hands and feet tied and their mouths covered. According to Arab Times, "They were killed execution style and there were other bullet wounds on their bodies. An injured Indian expatriate with a bullet wound on his back was also found in the vicinity."
In less than 24 hours, Kuwait's General Administration of Criminal Investigation managed to arrest those responsible for the murder of the two Kuwaiti nationals and an Indonesian female in Salwa on Friday, the Ministry of Interior said on Saturday.
According to Kuwait's national agency KUNA, the Interior Ministry's media and public relations department said in statement the suspects were arrested after intense investigation and information from eyewitnesses.
The suspects, Iranian nationals Mohammad Abdullredha Nawasser and Ali Mohammad Al-Bughaibesh, committed the crime using a handgun, said the statement. Before escaping, the two suspects stole KD276,000 (Dh3.32 million, Zimbob 400,000,000,000, USD $5.49) and three guns belong to the house owner, the statement added.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — It’s not so easy to find someone who still uses a wallet in Venezuela, where inflation is expected to reach 720 percent this year and the biggest bill — 100 bolivars — is worth about 5 U.S. cents on the black market.
The currency has dropped dramatically in value as Venezuela’s oil-based economy has cratered and the government has frantically printed more money. Prices, meanwhile, are soaring. So Venezuelans must handle huge volumes of cash — so much that the bills don’t always fit in a standard wallet — with many people packing wads of currency in handbags, money belts or backpacks.
The owner of a tiny kiosk selling newspapers, cigarettes and snacks in one of Caracas’s nicer neighborhoods said that each evening he quietly stuffs a plastic bag full of the day’s earnings, around 100,000 bolivars (about $52) in notes of 10, 20, 50 and 100 bolivars. This is a country with one of the highest crime rates in the world, and carrying that much cash is dangerous. He said he doesn’t feel safe, despite having his own scooter rather than using public transport.
“All of Caracas is unsafe,” said the 42-year-old kiosk owner, who declined to give his name.
Three years ago, the volume of cash he carried home after a long day of work was smaller, he said, “and so were the risks.” He said that his clients usually count out their notes before stepping out onto the street, since they are too scared to be seen holding money in public.
His best-selling item is cigarettes, which have climbed in price from 250 bolivars to 2,000 bolivars, now worth just over $1 on the black market. The sale of one pack of cigarettes alone will add a fresh batch of 20 100-bolivar bills to his earnings.
Down the road, in a different kiosk, a 70-year-old man who identified himself as Augustinho added up his afternoon sales on a tattered sheet of paper. He takes much of his morning earnings home before starting his afternoon shift. “I was robbed at gunpoint once,” he said. “I take all of my 100 notes home in the afternoon.”
On a busy road nearby, a couple of taxi drivers waited idly for their next customers. The eldest, a 70-year-old man who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that customers will sometimes hand over a stack of 100 20-bolivar notes to pay for a 2,000-bolivar fare.
The shrinking value of the currency has meant that withdrawing the equivalent of $5 from the ATM produces a fistful of at least 100 bills. Some ATMs now need to be filled every three hours, since the machines can hold only so much cash. Because of the difficulties in restocking the machines, there are often a limited number of functioning ATMs and endless lines of people waiting to withdraw money.
The hassles over cash have prompted many Venezuelans to pay their tabs with credit cards. The owner of a local cafe, who declined to give his name, said that 90 percent of his business’s earnings were paid electronically.
Electronic payment is increasingly common in the country, said Henkel Garcia, director of the Venezuelan economic think tank Econométrica. “The use of online payments is likely to have soared.”
But it is expensive for small businesses to buy and set up credit-card machines.
And it allows the government to track your income...
President Nicolás Maduro, who came to power in 2013 and has continued the socialist policies of his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, blames the country’s woes on an “economic war” waged by his opponents in the business community and in the United States. But, in a sign his government recognizes the problems with cash, authorities are planning to issue larger-denomination bills in January, according to local press reports.
The notes are reportedly set to start at 500 bolivars and reach 20,000 bolivars, or just over $10.
They could borrow the printing presses in Zim-bob-we, except those are getting ready to print "bond notes"...
“They’re necessary for the economy, for the banks and for the people,” said Jose Grasso Vecchio, an economic consultant and former executive technical director of the Venezuelan Bank Association. “The move is a positive one.”
If you like inflation...
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The word 'socialism' is mentioned, albeit in the third to last paragraph, thus insuring a sizable number of the WaPo reading clapping seals will miss it.
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What was that old joke...
East German takes a wheelbarrow to the store, goes insides and gets his items. Goes outside to get the money, and somebody had dumped the money and stolen the wheelbarrow.
Russia agrees non-OPEC countries should join the agreement on stabilizing the oil market after OPEC members reach a consensus, and Moscow continues negotiations with its partners on the matter, Russian Energy Minster Alexander Novak said on Saturday, Sputnik International reported.
"We back the position that OPEC countries should first reach a consensus before other countries could join the agreement. Russia remains positive about the agreement and continues to participate in the consultations with our partners," the minister told journalists.
In September, the OPEC club of the world's major oil producers reached a preliminary agreement in Algeria to set the oil output ceiling at 32.5-33 million barrels a day for the cartel. The OPEC countries have yet to finalize the deal at the November 30 meeting in Vienna with non-OPEC states, including Russia, open to capping the output.
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[Breitbart] Editor’s note: Missing from this wire -- the word "communism." That political ideology, responsible for the murder of tens of millions worldwide, is what bound Cuba and North Korea together as allies.
TOKYO (AP) -- North Korea is observing a three-day period of mourning for Fidel Castro, seen by the North as a rare comrade-in-arms against the common enemy of the United States.
State media reported Monday that the North has ordered flags outside official buildings be flown at half-staff to honor Castro. The iconic Cuban leader died Friday at age 90.
Reports from Pyongyang said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a wreath to the Cuban Embassy and that a delegation of senior North Korean officials has left for Havana to attend Castro’s memorial services.
According to a Japanese agency that monitors North Korean media, Castro is the first foreign political figure to be honored in such a manner since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004.
If conventional wisdom is right, François Fillon’s thumping victory in France's centre-right presidential primaries on Sunday as good as hands him the keys to the Elysée Palace.
The two favorites are Fillon and Le Pen -- a conventional conservative and a hard right activist. Strangely, the left is not doing well in the polls. I can't imagine why -- has something happened to tarnish the lustrous brand of socialism?
But conventional wisdom was turned upside down in the UK’s referendum on EU membership and the US presidential election. Mr Fillon is the favourite now, but there is nothing inevitable about his path to the presidency.
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Take the points and bet heavy on Le Pen. Look at the last two major elections (Brexit and Trump), where the majority media lied to you every fucking step of the way and stacked the polls the same way, and bet accordingly. I don't believe these cocksuckers for a fucking second.
The Canadian government has announced plans to acquire F/A-18E/F Super Hornet multi-role fighters. Ottawa wants to secure a modest number of the jets until it decides on a real replacement for its current fleet of legacy Hornet fighters—which won't be the F-35.
During the 1980s, Canada bought 138 CF-18 Hornets (its designation for the Boeing F/A-18A Hornet). Canadian CF-18s flew combat missions in the Persian Gulf War, NATO operations in the former Yugoslavia, Libya, and most recently over Iraq against the Islamic State. Despite modest upgrades, however, such as the ability to carry the beyond visual range AMRAAM missile, Joint Directed Attack Munition satellite-guided bombs and Link 16 data communications, the planes are increasingly outdated.
The previous Canadian administration had the country lined up to buy the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed as part of his election campaign to cancel the purchase on the grounds a real competition hadn't taken place and that such an expensive fighter was unnecessary. True to his word, Trudeau canceled Canada's planned purchase of the F-35 and announced a new, open competition for a permanent replacement would be forthcoming.
The new plan is for Canada to acquire 18 F/A-18 Super Hornets as a stopgap measure until the permanent replacement fighter is announced. The government press release doesn't use the words "purchase" or "buy", saying they will be used "for an interim period of time". That leaves open the possibility the jets will be leased from Boeing.
The Super Hornet is a practical replacement for the CF-18 Hornet. The "Super Bug" is bigger, with a longer range and greater weapons payload than the CF-18. Although not as stealthy as the F-35, the Super Hornet was designed with some radar cross reduction features that make it more difficult for enemy radar to detect. The improved Hornet also has a high level of commonality with older Hornets, particularly weapons and the engine, meaning Canadian air crews will get up to speed on it quicker than a brand-new plane.
Canada's new interim fighter could even be the new Advanced Super Hornet currently being marketed by Boeing to India. The improved design includes an infra-red search and track sensor for air-to-air and air-to-ground combat, conformal fuel tanks that sit above the wings, and an enclosed weapons pod designed to hide bombs and missiles in a stealthy enclosure to reduce their radar signature.
How would Canada use 18 new Super Hornets? The new jets would be more survivable over modern battlefields, especially against Russian air defenses. The new planes could also be paired with older jets, their newer APG-79 active electronically scanned array radars scanning ahead for aerial threats instead of the older radars on current CF-18. The APG-79 has a lower probability of intercept, making it harder for enemy radar warning receivers to detect. The Super Hornets could then share data with the CF-18s through the Link 16 system. One last benefit to Canada: the Super Hornet could be used as an aerial tanker for CF-18s, extending their range.
This interim acquisition just kicks the can a little bit down the road. Canada still needs at least one hundred new fighters, and it needs them very soon. The Super Hornet seems to be the frontrunner, but don't count the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter out yet. As the plane continues to mature it's looking to be the plane Lockheed Martin has promised it will be, and per-unit costs are dropping to the point where the plane is becoming a serious competitor to the Super Hornet.
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Canada likes two-engine birds. While patrolling the coasts of the Great White North it is a plus to have a spare engine to limp home on. The F-35 is single engine AND, well, has *cough* issues.
The DassaultRafale would be a good bet.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The global property information and analytics firm based its data on revised earthquake risk science from the U.S. Geological Survey's Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast. The forecast concludes that a large temblor could occur simultaneously in both Northern and Southern California.
[Nuus24] Harare - Zimbabwe on Monday starts issuing "bond notes", its own currency equivalent to the US dollar in a bid to ease critical cash shortages amid widespread fears of a return to hyperinflation.
[Breitbart] Editor’s note: Missing from this wire -- the word "communism." That political ideology, responsible for the murder of tens of millions worldwide, is what bound Cuba and North Korea together as allies.
