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 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  AP  鈥?Daily life in Haiti began to spin out of control last month just hours after Prime Minister Ariel Henry said聽fuel subsidies would be eliminated, causing prices to double.Gunshots rang out as protesters blocked roads with iron gates and mango trees. Then Haitis most powerful gang took a drastic step: It dug trenches to block access to the Caribbean countrys largest fuel terminal, vowing not to budge until Henry resigns and prices for fuel and basic goods go down.The poorest country in the Western hemisphere is in the grips of an inflationary vise that is squeezing its citizenry and exacerbating protests that have brought society to the breaking point.聽Violence is raging聽and making parents afraid to send their kids to school; fuel and clean water are scarce; hospitals, banks and grocery stores are struggling to stay open.The president of neighboring Dominican Republic described the situation as a  low-intensity civil war. Life in Haiti is always extremely difficult, if not downright dysfunctional. But the magn stanley cup itude of the current paralysis and despair is unprecedented. Political instability has simmered ever since聽last years still-unsolved assassination of Haitis president; inflation soaring around 30 percent has only aggravated the situation. If they dont understand us, were going to make them understand,  said Pierre Killick Cemelus, who sweated as he struggled to ke stanley cup ep pace with thousands of other protesters marching during a recent  stanley cup demonstration. Rgnv Somali Leader Declares Victory in War with Militants Despite Violence
 Sierra Smith had heard gunshots in the neighborhood before, but never this close.The longtime Ferguson, Missouri, resident was on her way to a nearby stanley cup  park with her two children when they heard the first shot. At first, she thought it was a firecracker, but it was louder than that. It echoed.Smith ran with her son and daughter, then 6 and 4, to her cousin   apartment nearby.Growing up, Smith was taught to hit the floor and stay there until the gunshots stopped or the sirens began. When the noise stopped, she made her way back outside.There, just outside the complex on Canfield Drive, Smith saw a police officer, gun still in hand, ordering people onto the sidewalk.And then she saw him: Mike Mike, a teen from the neighborhood who had played in her apartment, face down on the asphalt.There was no police tape yet to isolate the crime scene, and no sirens in the distance.*****When Ferguson authorities arrived at the scene of the Aug. 9, 2014, shooting, they found Michael Browns belongings scattered around a police SUV: a red St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap, two bracelets and a pair of Nike sanda adidas originals ls. Closer to Browns body, they found most of the casings from the 12 bullets Officer Darren Wilson had af1  fired.                    State violence is not new to black people. Its just something was different about how Michael Brown was killed.    It wasnt until 4:37 p.m. that day  more than 4.5 hours after Smith heard the gunfire  that medical workers finally

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 Way back in the Nineties, there were a couple of screenplays based on a simple idea: Wouldn t it be clever to do a movie about recording an Average Joe s daily life  In The Truman Show, an insurance salesman discovers his life is r stanley termohrnek eally a TV show. And EDtv st stanley mug ars a video store clerk who allows a network camera crew to film his every move. The movies were fiction. They were comedies. People laughed. But that was before Reality TV. And way before Reality TV met the Internet-and politics. Now voters are the ones laughing, but for the candidates it s more like a horror show: political campaigns filled with video voyeurs, recording the enemy s every mistake, posting them on the Internet, and s stanley cup ending them around the globe in a trice via websites like YouTube. In the last presidential cycle, the elites of both parties were all atwitter about Howard Dean s cool discovery that he could raise millions of dollars on his website. Building a campaign over the Internet is now the old news; destroying a campaign with Internet video-that s what s really new, if maybe not so cool. This year s poster child for the dangers of downloading is Virginia Sen. George Allen. He called his Democratic opponent s campaign worker a  macaca  as the young man let the videotape roll. If  macaca  is a racial slur meaning  monkey,  as some say, then Allen is really dumb-since the aide is Indian-American.  Let s give a welcome to Macaca here,  Allen said, clearly irked at being taped.  Welcome to America.  And w Ucvy Humans create cat werewolves鈥攁nd they   re very cute and very spooky
 If you haven ;t dived into the pages of The Silmarillion, there   a whole cosmology of J.R.R. Tolkien   Middle-earth that you may not know. This short video outlines the basics, explaining as much about the universe   divine and angelic be stanley cups ings as you can learn in four minutes. YouTuber CGP Grey made this primer on The Lord of the Rings ; mythology, with a little artistic help from deviantART user kittyninjafish, who provided the illustrations. It   not stanley becher  a substitute for reading The Silmarillion, but it gives you a v stanley cup ery basic idea about who is who in Tolkien   mythos. [via Geeks Are Sexy]                                                        jrr tolkienLord of the RingsMiddle-earth