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INSIDER INSINUATES THAT NORTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT MAY BE CORRUPT Vienna, Austria – Corruption in government is nothing new. In fact, up until the 20th century corruption was the norm, embedded in the culture of power and politics. In many nations throughout the world deep and severe corruption exists and even in modernized governments like the United States incidents of kickbacks and sexual indiscretion are common. However, the growing power of the people and the dissemination of information on a scale that the world has never seen before means that most extreme expressions of corruption are that much harder to get away with, and thus simply don’t happen. OFFICIALS FEAR POTENTIAL VIKING INVASION AHEAD OF 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES London, U.K. – There is rarely an Olympic games that goes by without a massive controversy. In Salt Lake a bombing nearly derailed the games, in Athens IOC officials publicly rebuked the city for its lax pace in building facilities, in Beijing human rights protestors took the focus away from the athletes, and in Vancouver melting snow and an unfortunate death almost stopped the games before they started. With that many people and that much focus, controversy seems almost inevitable, something that has already started for the next event. IRAQI ELECTIONS START OFF WITH A BANG Diyala, Iraq – For centuries the process of democracy has been ever evolving. Our modern incarnations of the process, whether in a republic like the United States a parliament such as in the U.K. or some other version, are as different from its origins as it could possibly be. That evolution is of course completely natural. Our societies have become much more complex and much larger since those early days in Greece, and the threats existing in the world are so much more dire that inevitably our political process has to adapt.

ALERT FOR NATION OF GEORGIA Tbilisi, Georgia – This is an alert for the nation of Georgia. Strange lights seen above the skies of Tbilisi. Future developments to be posted here. 12:09 pm – Reports of lightning flashes throughout the Georgian country side. No accompanying storm clouds. 12:47 pm – Major lightning storm over capital of Tbilisi. Reports of ‘nearly black’ storm clouds forming over the city. 1:03 pm – Major explosion in eastern section of the city. Emergency personnel dispatched to area   ISRAELI POLICE MAKING EFFORT TO ARREST CHILDREN PROPERLY Jerusalem, Israel – There are few conflicts in the world that have the same kind of ferocity and global consequences as the one between Israel and the Palestinians. Though other ethnic and social traumas exist in many places across the globe, the historical significance and the financial importance of that region of the world has ensured that every move, no matter how insignificant, is scrutinized by every other nation. That hasn’t stopped the conflict however and the battles between the two distinct but intertwined communities will likely continue for years to come. ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA LEAVES HUNDREDS OF NIGERIANS DEAD Jos, Nigeria – Anthropologists believe that all modern human beings descended from common ancestry. Starting in Eastern Africa, Homo sapiens spread outwards, conquering other members of the genus, spreading the seed of humanity throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. While new evidence may throw a wrench in that classical out-of-Africa hypothesis, the simple biological truth of our species is that we are all closely related, that at a genetic level we show very little diversity, confirming that theory that all 7 billion of us carry a shared ancestry.

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