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Art Of Noise - Paranoimia (1986)
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Ahhh ... reaching back to the days of Max Headroom, before the Max Headroom show was on ABC TV?
:)
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok (1984)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Verse 1: Murray Head]
Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean Spa had the chess boys in it
All change -- don't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue?
It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or--
Or this place!
[Chorus: Anders Glenmark]
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel slidin' up to me
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Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds
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... The drought in the Southwestern US is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond as global warming shifts the distribution of heat in the Pacific Ocean, according to a study published last week led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. ...
Texas Floods Could Worsen Housing Market Issues
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... The flash floods that claimed the lives of at least 135 people in Texas Hill Country on July 4 also impacted thousands of properties that stood along their path of death and destruction, according to estimates by researchers at data-driven tech company Cotality.
Using rainfall, stream gage, and property data, Cotality experts recreated the footprint of the flash floods in central Texas, finding that over 38,600 homes in nine counties deemed eligible for individual and public assistance by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are likely to have been damaged during that tragic weekend. ...
The cost of home insurance has skyrocketed in recent years in Texas, reaching an average annual cost of $4,585 this year -- 117 percent more than the national average of $2,110, according to NerdWallet.
Premiums are so expensive that many homeowners cannot afford them, and some are choosing to renounce paying extra for flood coverage, which is not included under the standard homeowner policy. ...
Then something like this occurs ...
Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone
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... A U.S. Army veteran who was arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California marijuana farm last week said Wednesday he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle and pinned down by federal agents who arrested him.
George Retes, 25, who works as a security guard at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, said he was arriving at work on July 10 when several federal agents surrounded his car and -- despite him identifying himself as a U.S. citizen -- broke his window, peppered sprayed him and dragged him out. ...
From the sub-summary ...
Wait, what?
Was that falling out the cause of Mr Epstein's arrest?
Was this an early indication of Pres Trump's oft stated revenge?