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Bookmark this website for future reference: Spirits for hire An excerpt: Spirits for Hire is a wizard’s website. Wizards are magicians who use magick in workings associated with spirits. Spirits are sentient intelligent powerful energy/plasma creatures. YES! They do exist and thrive, but generally on other planes of existence than we do. … Spirits for Hire [...]
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On May 13, 2005, things turned deadly in the Central Asian Uzbekistan city of Andijan when government troops opened fire on demonstrators, possibly killing hundreds. Here are some BBC stories: How the Andijan killings unfolded Uzbek refugees and residents speak U.S. calls for Uzbek killings probe West urged to punish Uzbekistan
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While the Hummer H1 will roll off GM's assembly line for the last time in June, the Humvee H2s and H3s live. Demand had fallen for the $130,000 US gas-suckers (10 mpg; 22 L/100 km). From the BBC story: “It's really one of those over-the-top vehicles,” car analyst Erich Merkle told the Associated Press news agency. [...]
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New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow held his first briefing Friday. He described it as “a mess.” An excerpt from the NYT story: Mr. Snow, the new White House press secretary, showed that being a talking head for Fox News, his previous job, was a lot different from being a talking head for the [...]