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A powerful, magnitude-7.1 earthquake rocked southern Mexico Tuesday afternoon local time, toppling buildings and killing at least 42 people in Morelos state.  Deaths and damage are bound to be even worse closer to the epicenter, near the town of Raboso in Puebla state.  Even though this is 80 miles southwest of the capital, Mexico City skyscrapers swayed with the rumbling as windows broke, while lesser structures and roads crumbled and caught fire.  These are links to videos showing buildings coming apart and collapsing:  Here and here.  What follows are photos of the aftermath:
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This comes less than two weeks after the magnitude-8.1 temblor killed nearly 100 people in just a little south of this region of the country. 

"The UN is a venue to promote peace.  Today, the president used it as a stage to threaten war," tweeted California US Senator Dianne Feinstein, giving just one of thousands of awful reviews to Donald Trump's moronic first appearance before the United Nations General Assembly.  In a "menacing" and rambling speech many thought was written by a dense high schooler, the barely-literate orange clown redundantly threatened the US might have "no choice but to totally destroy North Korea" unless it backs down from its nuclear weapons programs.  He also derisively referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as "rocket man", confusing everybody who isn't familiar with his elementary school sense of humor, and leaving them wondering what he has against Elton John.  You could almost see cartoon thought bubbles of despair above the heads of  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley as they stared blankly through the clown's ad-libs.

But the stupidity didn't stop there.  Trump also blasted Iran for real and imagined problems, calling it an "economically depleted rogue state".  Trump complained about the Iran Nuclear Deal, going back to his campaign rhetoric of calling it an "embarrassment" to the US - as if the US and Iran were the only parties.  In fact, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the European Union were also signatories.  Tehran denounced Trump's warmongering speech as "shameless and ignorant" and as "hate speech" that belongs in "medieval times - not the 21st Century UN". 

Unlike Trump, the President of Iran actually got the most votes in his election; and so did Democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, who was singled out for one of Trump's nonsense.  "The problem in Venezuela is not that Socialism has been poorly implemented, but that Socialism has been faithfully implemented," Trump claimed.  The room fell silent, as leaders of nations who've successfully implemented Socialist education, healthcare, and development programs were stunned at the moron's complete lack of understanding of basic economics and governance.  Trump waited for applause, and looked around the silent room.  Tumbleweeds, crickets.  Eventually, a couple of claps were heard.  In fact, Trump got barely any applause from the assembled Prime Ministers, Presidents, and Kings attending - except of course from Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu.

While Trump was bashing Venezuela, Venezuela was prepping two planes filled with 18 tons of humanitarian aid and first responders for the Caribbean Island of Dominica, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria.  Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said the storm caused "mind-boggling" damage to the island, including to his own home which was heavily damaged.  Powerful wind knocked out communications for the entire country, leaving anyone outside Dominica struggling to determine the extent of damage.  Hurricane Maria then strengthened into a Category 5 Cyclone as it headed back out to sea towards Puerto Rico.

About 50 refugees from the Manus Island and Nauru refugee camps will learn today that they have been approved to be resettled in the United States, such as it is.  Although the orange clown has endlessly whinged and complained about it, the White House says it will honor the deal with Australia to take in refugees in Nauru and Papua New Guinea who are of special interest to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees due to their high level of vulnerability.  One of those approved is Jalaluddin Mohammad, a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar who has been concerned with the deteriorating situation in his home.  "I am hopeful now I can go to America," he told the ABC, "America is one good country.  I want to (go to) a safe country."

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been widely panned for her speech on the ethnic cleansing crisis and exodus of than 400,000 minority Rohingya Muslims from the country into refugee camps in Bangladesh.  "We would like to find out why this exodus was happening," she said - rather disingenuously, since reports of military atrocities, summary executions, and nationalist mobs burning Rohingya villages aren't exactly a secret and were well-documented before the current crisis.  Apparently relegating her Nobel Peace Prize to a door stop, she also falsely claimed that Myanmar doesn't fear international scrutiny - even though it has kept out UN investigators and human rights NGOs and refused to allow aid deliveries to the Rohingya.

The family of an Argentine activist who went missing after he was last seen being arrested by police is concerned authorities are working up an elaborate cover-up.  Even though numerous witnesses saw Santiago Maldonado being arrested at a demonstration for indigenous rights on 1 August, a federal judge put in charge of the investigation is making the preposterous claim that Maldonado might have drowned while swimming in a river near a Mapuche village.  Maldonado's brother Sergio told a radio interview that his greatest fear is that authorities would "toss him inside there and invent any type of story" to cover up the truth.  Which is looking pretty obvious at this point.  The disappearance of Santiago Maldonado has set off concerns that Argentina's conservative government is bringing back the forced disappearances and secret executions of the fascist junta of the 1970s.