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“Dr. George Taylor, cancer researcher and college professor leads a team of World Health Organization Inspectors to the Ukraine during the height of the ‘Cold War’. The team’s mission: evaluate the effects of radiation exposure on workers, their families and surrounding communities at several nuclear facilities. During the inspections Dr. Taylor is unwittingly drawn into a dangerous mystery which began years earlier in Greenland. The truth uncovered could place the entire Soviet system in turmoil. His loyalties will be tested between the UN’s goals and his secret involvement with the National Security Agency.”

Idiots who drowned in the gene pool #21

(25 May 1999, Ukraine) A fisherman in Kiev electrocuted himself while fishing in the river Tereblya. The 43-year-old man connected cables to the main power supply of his home, and trailed the end into the river. The electric shock killed the fish, which floated belly-up to the top of the water. The man waded in to collect his catch, neglecting to remove the live wire, and tragically suffered the same fate as the fish.

In an ironic twist, the man was fishing for a mourning meal to commemorate the first anniversary of his mother-in-law’s death.

In a related story, on January 9 the China Post reported that a 23-year-old Pingtung man died after eating fish he poisoned in a nearby ditch. Three days of diarrhea and vomiting led to his demise after he ate fish he caught by pouring toxic chemicals in the water at the suggestion of friends.