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A fascinating piece came tumbling across our desk this morning, from the ever-curious 'englishrussia.com'. The article showcases the power of Google Earth but also the fading strength of a former power on that earth: Russia. Haunting images of abandoned and capsized military ships loom out of the waters of Murmansk.

Whilst many have expressed recent reticence about the power which Google is assuming (and their often questionable ethics) it must be admitted that Google Earth truly is a pair of 'Global Eyes'.

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Original article at EnglishRussia.com

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If you have Google Earth installed, you can click on this link and use the specially created Blather Placemarker to fly directly to Murmansk and dig around for yourself. If you don't have it installed then for the love of all that's holy go here and get the thing. You bloody luddite.

Hit men. Low-life, amoral, degenerate scum or valuable servants of the community? Well, despite a raft of Hollywood movies that have tried to paint these button-men as loveable rogues who only kill those that 'deserve it' (see Grosse Point Blank, Leon and the recent Matador) professional assasins still seem to get a bad press.

Except in this instance, rather than a hit-man finding himself in hot agua for offing someone that the law had rather lived, one particular 'cleaner' has found himself on the wrong side of a law-suit for failing to 'execute' the terms of a contract that he signed with a depressed Englishwoman:

'Christine Ryder paid Kevin Reeves a total of $20,000 to end her life when she was feeling depressed. He promised to find a hitman, and then even offered to do it himself. However, all he did was keep the money - so Mrs Ryder filed a complaint for breach of contract.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the pair met when they were being treated for mental health problems in hospital.

At one point Reeves promised she would be killed in a drive-by shooting on a certain date, but then rang her to say he had had to kill the hitman and pay her money to his widow.

Instead of carrying out the murder, he took his wife on an expensive holiday to Tenerife, the Times reported. A jury found him guilty of deception. He was jailed for 15 months and ordered to pay his would-be victim $2,000 compensation.'

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As I write this, the permanent members of the UN Security Council (surely one of the more absurd oxymorons in common usage) are tearing their hair out at the prospect that Iran is making it's nuclear move: claiming that they want to develop nuclear energy.

Britain, France, Germany and the USA are all looking at the long-term benefits of developing Nuclear energy, but are having a hissy-fit about Iran's plans to do the same. Of course, there is that small problem with the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly stating that he believes the Holocaust is a fiction and that he wants Isreal 'wiped off the map', but hey, what's new?

Bearing all of this in mind, I thought that it might be worth looking at the work of Michael Light, specifically his 100 Suns Project:

'Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United States is known to have conducted 216 atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally invisible - but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723 underground tests until 1992.

100 SUNS documents the era of visible nuclear testing, the atmospheric era, with 100 photographs drawn by Michael Light from the archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. National Archives in Maryland. It includes previously classified material from the clandestine Lookout Mountain Air Force Station based in Hollywood, whose film directors, cameramen, and still photographers were sworn to secrecy.'

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We've all known the irritation of a song that gets played too much. Indeed, last year, I spent several months fighting off an almost overwhelming urge to beat someone to death every time I heard the Crazy Frog song.

And yes, sometimes, late at night, I can still hear the annoying little fucker blithering away. I honestly mean this: I wished with all of my human strength that the cretinous cuntsplatter that was responsible for that hideous little bubole on society's ass would die screaming after contracting a particularly vicious STD, hitherto unknown outside of the greater pig family. But I digress.

An Australian woman, clearly feeling somewhat irked that her husband chose to play Elvis' 'Burning Love' over and over again, decided to resolve the situation by repeatedly stabbing her husband in the back with a pair of scissors:

An Australian woman will face court on Tuesday charged with repeatedly stabbing her partner because he played an Elvis Presley song over and over again, police said on Tuesday.

Police said the 30-year-old woman was charged with unlawful wounding after her 35-year-old partner was stabbed with a pair of scissors in the back, shoulder and thigh at Northam, about 100 km (62 miles) east of Perth in Western Australia state on Monday.

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Elvis made me stab my man