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At least 35 dead in Grozny blast.  “Powerful truck bombs rip through <the pro-Russian> Chechen government compound in regional capital Grozny, Russian media reports.” [Guardian Unlimited]

We’re not in Kansas anymore… Human clone born: Raelians “A baby has been born through cloning, French scientist and member of the Raelian sect Brigitte Boisselier told AFP. The baby, a girl, was born Thursday by cesarean section. The birth…

U.S. military interventions from 1890-1999 Over 130, in this partial list (PDF). That’s averaging more than one military intervention a year for 110 years. Yow.

Database monitor far from a realityAs I’ve been surmising here, the Bushies plan to monitor us is probably unworkable. “The Pentagon project to find terrorists by searching the electronic records of all Americans, from credit-card transactions to medical files, has alarmed…

Iranian blogger’s meeting. “15 months after the first waves, Blogging seems to prove so popular among young Iranian boys and girls that now the number of Persian (or Farsi) weblogs has jumped to more than 9,000. Almost half of them…