Day: January 7, 2015

  • CHARLIE HEBDO SHOOTING ROCKS FRANCE, AND THE WORLD

    This is a developing story and it has global ramifications ..

    At least 12 now dead after what the nation of France is considering a terror attack..two of the dead are police officers..

    The shooting took place at the offices of the magazine CHARLIE HEBDO..that magazine has been running satirical images mocking Mohammed recently..

    Kim Hjelmgaard of USA TODAY writes,

    Armed gunmen wearing black hoods stormed the offices of the publication in a suburb of the city before firing automatic weapons in a scene police described as “carnage,” local media reported. The attackers were heard shouting “Allahu Akbar,” an Islamic phrase that means “God is great.”

    The masked men who went into the name and asked for specific names before the shooting began walked out and got away..

    They were also armed with a rocket launcher along with their Kalashinkovs..

    Minutes before the shooting, CHARLIE HEBDO tweeted a satirical image of Mohammed.. Moments later their office building was under siege and the murderous rampage took place..

    An injured person is evacuated outside the French satirical

    There is also video of the attacks.. raw video showcasing the shootings.. Originally, the media reported that they had video but chose, initially,not to air footage. That self imposed embargo has been obliterated after the video streamed online millions of times over already.. in the footage, sounds of gunfire can be clearly heard, as can frequent shouts of Allahu Akbar..

    Jean Cabut, a graphic artist known to readers by his pen name Cabu, and Stéphane Charbonnier, the magazine’s editor in chief known by his pseudonym Charb, were among the dead, the police said..

    Since the attack, a car bombing has made news in Paris.. French media reports indicate that an explosion took place outside of a Synagogue in Sarcellas.. There is video of the aftermath of the car bombing here..

    The killings also follow the official warning of attacks that were previously heralded..

    Three terror suspects are on the loose..

    Developing story..

    Breaking: Car Bomb Reported at Paris Synagogue »


     

    “The aim is to laugh. We want to laugh at the extremists — every extremist. They can be Muslim, Jewish, Catholic. Everyone can be religious, but extremist thoughts and acts we cannot accept.”

    Charlie Hebdo journalist LAURENT LEGER, speaking after the firebombing of his publication’s offices in 2011; the controversial magazine had published caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.

    (via Time Magazine)

    And the events of today have led to anything but laughter..


     

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    Raw footage of the Paris terror attack..

    FLASHBACK: White House slams French magazine Charlie Hebdo over Islam cartoons »

    An interesting flasback via poorrichardsnews:

    This is from 2012.  Leave it to the Obama administration to take the side of the terrorists…

    Certainly, in the perceptive of today’s events, this is interesting..

    This is an image of a police offering begging for his life at the Charlie Hebdo building.. The media is opting to only show this still image and now the next scene in which the officer has his head blown off..

    This is an image of a police offering begging for his life at the Charlie Hebdo building.. The media is opting to only show this still image and now the next scene in which the officer has his head blown off..

  • The TEXAS shaking

    The TEXAS shaking

    There has been nine earthquakes in under 24 hours in Texas.. the most recent and final was called a strong one. None are aftershocks, but this swarm has shocked researchers and residents..

    This is from Tuesday January 6 through January 7 2015.. So far.
    I suspect more will be happening..

    7:37 a.m. 2.3 magnitude
    3:10 p.m. 3.5 magnitude
    6:52 p.m. 3.6 magnitude
    8:11 p.m. 2.9 magnitude
    8:12 p.m. 2.7 magnitude
    9:54 p.m. 1.7 magnitude
    10:05 p.m. 2.4 magnitude
    11:02 p.m. 1.6 magnitude
    12:59 a.m. 3.1 magnitude

    9 in 24 hours..

    Make that 11 in 27!

    New information breaking shows a steady continuation of the quakes around Dallas..

    The latest two ..

    8:34 a.m. Wednesday               2.6 magnitude

    9:57 a.m. Wednesday               2.7 magnitud

  • SEALED WITH A KISS. WELCOME BACK TO THE 20TH CENTURY

    ing wrong.

    This is the now. There is no more future..
    To hear the debates in Congress, the tired old foolish whims of old men, is beyond frustrating. The lackluster performance isn’t a verdict on the system–the amazing part of our founding fathers is that devised something that could withstand war and rage and the tests of time. But what needs changed are the minds and attitudes of the ruling class.

    There is a great unveiling occurring across the internet world.

    This week, I was reminded of the 1990s again.. Bill Clinton was able to get away with quite a bit and leave office with a nation loving his presidency.. The Seinfeld era, a decade about nothing, was a success for Clinton.. His sexual tribulations didn’t matter but instead led to a more erect President in front of the American people.. Things may change now though in this century.. Clinton finds himself embroiled in a strange and lurid scandal involving a pedophile named Jeffrey Epstein.. And now thanks to the internet (and the British press) we are finding out quite a bit more than we ever though possible about Bubba. And his 20+ phone numbers. We also know that the houseman for Epstein cleaned his sex toys and was constantly afraid he would disappear.  Matt Drudge was the lone wolf in the 1990s who cleared the way for the internet when he blazed a headline and siren on his page about Bill Clinton having sex with an intern in the White House. If it was sex, of course.. But these days, the DAILY BEAST is the one who is claiming other media sources dropped the ball on the Epstein scandal.. Vicky Ward wrote a piece titled “I tried to warn you about sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2002.” Among her interesting words,

    Upon hearing of my assignment, Epstein had invited me to an off-the-record tea at his Upper East Side house (during which I distinctly remember he rudely ate all the finger food himself) and then had his assistant call to tell me he’d thought I was pretty.

    Even more

    Separately, Hoffenberg’s daughter has gotten in touch—and it’s gotten me thinking. There are some injustices that maybe only time can right. And perhaps now is the time. Things happened then that simply shouldn’t have, and if I don’t talk about them, then probably no one will.

    Ward’s piece for VANITY FAIR on Epstein was scrubbed of any references to women claiming abuse. That was 2002. Eons ago in Internet language.

    The future is now. The scandals of yesterday have a renewed place in the Internet of today, and a new generation is constantly judging the old one. Children not of age in the 1990s may wonder why Bill Clinton got away with it.. children not of age in the 1980s recently became shocked at the fall of Bill Cosby from the national applause sign..

    Everything that’s old is new.
    Except our Congress..

    There the same debates still occur as they did in the late 1980s.. Many people still be in a mindset that there’s a Cold War.. that we are far away from others .. instead we’ve never been closer. With our modern technology, we have never known more about everything and everywhere in the world.

    We are educated. We are understanding. And we are not young and dumb..

    Some may be able to stop a few websites. But not a billion. Not a trillion.

    There’s information beyond our wildest dreams. And quite frankly, LOTS of it is true. Even the ‘tin foil’ types have facts to back up their often lengthy diatribes about our modern world and news of the day..

    The economy is changing drastically.. pop culture is evolving every 12 hours.. the weather is more fierce and the demographics of America are rapidly evolving.

    But John Boehner is the speaker of the House. And Nancy Pelosi kissed him.

     

  • LARGE GEOMAGNETIC STORM UNEXPECTED HITS EARTH

    UNEXPECTED Strong geomagnetic storm hits Earth »

    The storm was being called ‘unexpected’ .. This is how SPACE WEATHER documented today’s event:

    UNEXPECTED GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A strong G3-class geomagnetic storm erupted during the early hours of Jan. 7th, sparking bright auroras around Earth’s poles. What happened? The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) near our planet tipped south, opening a crack in Earth’s magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in to fuel the strongest magnetic storm since Sept. 2014. NOAA analysts believe the fluctuation in IMF is related to the arrival of a CME originally expected to miss Earth. Browse the aurora gallery for pictures of the event. 

    The geomagnetic storm is the strongest to hit Earth since September..