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New Planet Found: Molten "Mars" Is "Right Around the Corner"

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Dave Mosher

for National Geographic News

Published July 19, 2012

Discovery takes scientists by surprise.

An illustration of a molten alien world.

Magma may cover UCF-1.01, which orbits scorchingly close to its star, as shown in an artist's concept.

Illustration courtesy R. Hurt, SSC/Caltech/NASA

 

In a surprise find, astronomers have discovered a planet possibly covered with oceans of magma "right around the corner."

"Dramatic" New Maya Temple Found, Covered With Giant Faces

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Ker Than
for National Geographic News
Published July 20, 2012

Archaeological "gold mine" illuminates connection between king and sun god.

A mask depicts a sun god in the guise of a shark.

The Maya sun god as shark-man—one of his several guises on a newfound monument in Guatemala.

Photograph courtesy Edwin Román, Brown University
 

Some 1,600 years ago, the Temple of the Night Sun was a blood-red beacon visible for miles and adorned with giant masks of the Maya sun god as a shark, blood drinker, and jaguar.

 

Astonishing pictures of the young gorillas who worked together to dismantle the poachers' trap that killed their friends

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DailyMail.co.uk

By Mark Prigg

PUBLISHED: 10:42 EST, 19 July 2012
UPDATED: 14:05 EST, 19 July 2012

Gorilla

The astonishing moment when two young mountain gorillas were spotted working together to find and destroy traps in their Rwandan forest home.


Just days after a poacher's snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas have been spotted working together to take apart poachers traps.

Staff at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund were stunned when they spotted the plucky young duo, called Dukore and Rwema, destroying a trap in their forest home.

UBS Issues Hyperinflation Warning For US And UK, Calls It Purely "A Fiscal Phenomenon"

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GFP Note: This is a very interesting article. I suggest you pay close attention to the discussion of the gold market at the end. Given that we know that the gold and silver markets are manipulated and that central banks have been buying up tons (literally) of gold, it will be interesting to see what happens.
 

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2012 14:22 -0400

 

HSBC’s criminal clients

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Tuesday, Jul 17, 2012 11:05 AM EDT

Money laundering for drug dealers, terrorists and gangsters is the latest evidence of financial sector corruption
HSBC's criminal clients
(Credit: Reuters/Toby Melville)

And you thought bankers fixing interest rates and playing games with mortgage-backed securities was bad? How about laundering money for Mexican drug dealers, the Russian mafia and Mideast terrorists?

JPMorgan pressed on emails in US energy prices probe

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BBC.co.uk
18 July 2012 Last updated at 13:02 ET

Commuters are reflected in stone as they walk past the JP Morgan headquarters in New York 17 May 2012
Energy regulators have subpoenaed the
emails twice as part of an investigation
 

US authorities investigating claims JPMorgan manipulated the electricity market have challenged the bank's refusal to hand over subpoenaed emails.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc) is looking into complaints from grid operators in California and 11 Midwestern states.

The bank is accused of profiting from loopholes in the bidding process to drive up prices by some $73m (£47m).

To read the rest of this story, visit BBC.

IMF warns eurozone crisis at critical stage

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PressTV.ir
Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:23PM GMT

A structure showing the Euro currency sign is seen in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) . (file photo)

A structure showing the Euro currency sign is seen in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) . (file photo)


The International Monetary Fund has warned that the eurozone is in “critical” danger and there is “a sizable risk” of deflation in the single currency bloc.


“The euro area crisis has reached a new and critical stage,” the IMF said in a report on the state of eurozone policy published on Wednesday.

“Despite major policy actions, financial markets in parts of the region remain under acute stress, raising questions about the viability of the monetary union itself,” the report added.
 

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