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In Zimbabwe, inflation hits 3,731%...my friend writes that Zim is like an animal with three legs, just limping along. If it wasn't for a thriving black market and money sent from relatives working outside the country, no one would survive...

Fluff piece on train uniting the Koreas HERE...essentially the south paid 80 million dollars for a single train run, to assure it's population that their asskissing of the North is working.(sorry for the vulgarity...I just don't know a better word to describe this)

Hell freezes over: BBC has a report praising US troops in Iraq...

Estonia hit by Russian Cyberwar...a hint of things to come?

Creation of the undermen? UK to allow chimeras (human animal hybrids) to be developed. The problem is not adding one or two human genes (heck, we already to this)the problem is this:

The draft bill allows the creation of human embryos that have been physically mixed with one or more animal cells. However, true animal-animal hybrids, made by the fusion of sperm and eggs, remain outlawed. And in all cases it would be illegal to allow embryos to grow for more than 14 days or be implanted into a womb.

And NASA's photo of the day: LINK