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According to Scripture, spiritual desolation is a judgment rendered by the Holy Trinity against a proud, rebellious, godless people whose inward turned souls have fallen into contemplation of ‘self’ rather than of the Lord. The book of Ezekiel for example, is a history of the apostasy of God’s people and resulting spiritual desolation while Jeremiah speaks of desolation as the cup of God’s fury:“For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand: and thou shalt make all nations to drink thereof, unto which I shall send thee.”...

[photos] Desolate Land of Propaganda Props A desk where Kim Jong-il used to sit while he was a student at the school. Human panel and other mass performance at Arirang Festival commemorating Kim Il-sung's birthday. Two flowers, Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia, commemorating two (father and son) dictators The Monument for N. Korean Worker's Party Another mass performance including human panel. Human panel trying to show that N. Korea is the paradise of children. Kim Il-sung Square. The Great Leader is dead but he remains as an eternal president of N. Korea according to N. Korean constitution.

Issue 5.12 - Dec 1997 The Future Ruins of the Nuclear Age By Masha Gessen In pursuit of superpower status during the Cold War, the Soviet Union built 60 science boomtowns. Then in 1990, the Soviet Union collapsed, and funding for the cities ended. Masha Gessen reports from Russia on this grand experiment in failure. When two protons collide in an accelerator, they are transformed into muons and other particles. One Russian physicist offers this analogy: it's like two Soviet Fiats colliding to produce a bus and a Mercedes Benz 600. That's the thing about high-energy physics: the total...