Month: January 2014

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died at age 85, eight years after a stroke left him in a coma-like state, according to Israeli Army Radio.

FRIDAY JANUARY 10 2014

When is it the time to stop saying happy new year? There are people I am still seeing that are wishing me such things.. Certainly ten days into a year is the right time to end the practice? So I decree: There will be no more happy new year utterances until the first week of 2015. So says me..

Forced abortion abuses in China revealed..

Toronto woman wants to create public record of frost quakes..

Chris Christie meets the press about bridge scandal weighing him down..

Arctic nightmare moves to Britain.. sub zero temps coming..

Flu researcher rift.. how should they stydy the potential pandemic H1N1?
Now H1N1 becomes deadly in North America..

Massive chemical spill in West Virginia forces state of emergency and a water ban in 9 counties! More than that.. schools and restaurants are closed in the main capitol of Charleston.. The water ban and state of emergency comes after a chemical leak into Elk River.. MORE: Affected residents have been told not to drink, cook, bathe or wash with the contaminated water supplied by West Virginia American Water .. Along with all of this, some people are being treated for water related issues .. from the CBS report: “Once word got out about the governor’s declaration Thursday, customers stripped store shelves in many areas of items such as bottled water, paper cups and bowls. As many as 50 customers had lined up to buy water at a convenience store near the state Capitol in Charleston. “It was chaos, that’s what it was,” cashier Danny Cardwell said. “

Omaha police fired after ‘caught on tape’ incident’..A parking ticket turned into an issue of excessive force and now termminations..

And another story from Omaha: A cursing toddler seen on a viral video has been put into protective custody in Nebraska..

I pray that Omaha and Nebraska (especially the ‘system’ for children) is better than it was during the Franklin Credit Union Scandal. Only that, I will say..

5.1 quake hits Florida and Cuba..

Fukishima us.. should you take radiation pills?

Kabul says that US forces shot and killed 4-year-old Afghan boy..

Why are COWS washing up on beaches in Denmark?

EW gets behind the scenes look at WAYWARD PINES..

“THOSE WHO KILL” gets March 3 premiere date on A&E..

BANSHEE CHAPTER movie review..
Another review says BANSHEE plays like an uninteresting X FILES..

BANSHEE director selects 5 conspiracy other horror movies worth watching..

Amazing Magic with David Blaine and Harrison Ford..

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Another example of technology extracting even bit of human interaction in life.. Pajamas will soon tell bedtime stories to your kids. Seriously..

While the pajamas will not be able to comfort a crying child who is scared of dark shadows at bedtime, I am sure a robot soon will. And you, as a parent, can achieve your splendid plan of doing nothing while raising your child. Congrats .. now the shining and most beautiful moment of the day—bedtime—will be taken from your by technologically advanced pajamas.

I spoke with Coast to Coast part time host George Knapp today.. he is recovering after a life threatening illness. Sepsis almost struck down the great reporter..

Rodman has faced both ridicule and harsh criticism for his trips to North Korea, which some U.S. politicians and activists view as serving only as fodder for North Korean propaganda.

But he defended his visit, saying it would help “open the door” and was a “great idea for the world.”

“It’s amazing how we thrive on negativity. Does anyone know this guy’s only 31 years old?” he said of Kim, whom he calls his friend.

“Dennis, he could be 31, he could be 51,” said CNN interviewer Chris Cuomo. “He’s just killed his uncle. He’s holding an American hostage.”

After a schism, a question: Can atheist churches last? »

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Alfred Hitchcock’s unseen Holocaust documentary to be screened »

In 1945, Hithcock had been enlisted by his friend and patron Sidney Bernstein to help with a documentary on German wartime atrocities, based on the footage of the camps shot by British and Soviet film units. In the event, that documentary was never seen.

“It was suppressed because of the changing political situation, particularly for the British,” suggests Dr Toby Haggith, Senior Curator at the Department of Research, Imperial War Museum. “Once they discovered the camps, the Americans and British were keen to release a film very quickly that would show the camps and get the German people to accept their responsibility for the atrocities that were there.”

The film took far longer to make than had originally been envisaged. By late 1945, the need for it began to wane. The Allied military government decided that rubbing the Germans’ noses in their own guilt wouldn’t help with postwar reconstruction.

Five of the film’s six reels were eventually deposited in the Imperial War Museum and the project was quietly forgotten.

In the 1980s, the footage was discovered in a rusty can in the museum by an American researcher. It was eventually shown in an incomplete version at the Berlin Film Festival in 1984 and then broadcast on American PBS in 1985 under the title Memory of the Camps but in poor quality and without the missing sixth reel. The original narration, thought to have been written by future Labour Cabinet Minister Richard Crossman in collaboration with Australian journalist Colin Wills, was read by actor Trevor Howard.

Honey Boo Boo, family ‘really sore’ after car wreck »