6.1-magnitude quake hits Vanuatu -- USGS / UFO China held up flights for more than half an hour / 39 People Shot In NYC Over Holiday Weekend... / BROKE: POST OFFICE SYSTEM MAY SHUT DOWN ENTIRELY THIS WINTER... / Israeli general: Likelihood of regional war growing, could prompt use of WMDs... / TEXAS ON FIRE... / Italy pledges to meet debt goal as worries grow... / European stocks drop sharply... / Major Quake Strikes Off Alaskan Coast 7.1 / VOLCANO BLOWS WEIRD GLOWING SMOKE RING / Turkey expels Israeli ambassador

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FOOD SHORTAGE
Scorpion in your soup? EU spends £2.5m encouraging people to eat insects/
----UN – 750,000 Somalis now at risk of death from famine
------- Inflation Soars to 21.4% in Uganda As Food Shortage Worsens
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6.1-magnitude quake hits Vanuatu -- USGS
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UFO China held up flights for more than half an hour
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Mars Attack: UFO Causes China Airport to Divert Flights - In the last months, UFOs have been spotted in Jerusalem, New York, and Texas and several times in the UK and recently, a research team from Sweden claimed they found the remains of a UFO in the depth of the Baltic Sea.
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39 People Shot In NYC Over Holiday Weekend...
----Gunfire erupts near Bloomberg in Brooklyn...
------Gunfire erupts near Bloomberg in Brooklyn...
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BROKE: POST OFFICE SYSTEM MAY SHUT DOWN ENTIRELY THIS WINTER...
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Fears rise again over Europe debt crisis...
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Giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines...
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Israeli general: Likelihood of regional war growing, could prompt use of WMDs...
----Israel to hold special emergency drill simulating enemy strike on nuke reactor...

--------Turkey expels Israeli ambassador
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TEXAS ON FIRE... Catastrophic fires burn thousands of acres, force evacuations across Central Texas
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Italy pledges to meet debt goal as worries grow...
---- European stocks drop sharply...
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Earthquake Caused Massive Nuclear Storage Casks To Move
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4.2 Earthquake Rumbles Across Los Angeles
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Major Quake Strikes Off Alaskan Coast 7.1
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IMF: global economy faces a 'threatening downward spiral'

Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing-director, said the outlook had darkened suddenly over the summer. "There has been a clear crisis of confidence that has seriously aggravated the situation. Measures need to be taken to ensure that this vicious circle is broken," she said. "The spectrum of policies available is narrower because a lot of ammunition was used in 2009. But if governments, institutions and central banks work together, we'll avoid recession," she told Der Spiegel. The comments come at the start of a dramatic week for the eurozone as Italy prepares to roll over record sums of debt and Germany's constitutional court issues its long-awaited verdict on the legality of the EU's bail-out machinery. Markets are already tense after the EU-IMF 'Troika' withdrew abruptly from Athens on Friday, accusing the Greek...
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IMF approves $2.11 billion of bailout funds to Ireland
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The worst of the euro crisis is yet to come
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Christian Consultant Fired by Bank of America Over Gay Marriage Book

Just months after being fired from Cisco Systems in California over an anti-gay marriage book, Christian consultant Dr. Frank Turek was also given the boot from Bank of America. "I get a lot of flak for just actually agreeing with what a majority of Americans agree on and that...
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1300-Ft Asteroid Flyby Due On 8-9 November The third near-earth asteroid of 2011 will pass between the moon and earth later this year, NASA has confirmed. The 1300-foot-wide (400 metres) asteroid, which is more than one and a half times the length of a soccer pitch, will pass within 0.85 lunar distances of the Earth on November 8, 2011. Discovered on December 28, 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program near Tucson, Arizona, 2005 YU55 is believed to be... /

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Beneath the Surface of the Denver Airport 
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Northern Argentina hit by 6.4 quake
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Goldman Sachs secretly believes economic collapse coming
Goldman Sachs is doing it again. Goldman is telling the public that everything is going to be just fine, but meanwhile they are advising their top clients to bet on a huge financial collapse. On August 16th, a 54 page report authored by Goldman strategist Alan Brazil was distributed to institutional clients. 
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European stock markets rocked by bank sector plunge
European stocks plunged on Monday, with Paris shedding 4.0 percent, as US legal action hit banks and added to pressures from the eurozone debt crisis and recession risks, traders said.  
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