North Korea has fired five unidentified short-range projectiles from an area to the south of Hamhung city, South Hamgyong province, on the country’s east coast, from between 3:19 p.m. to 4:05 p.m. South Korean time (2:19 a.m to 3:05 a.m. ET) Monday, according to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
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The projectiles flew about 200 kilometers towards the sea to the east of the Korean peninsula, the JCS said in a statement.
The South Korean military is closely tracking and monitoring the situation and is maintaining full readiness posture, the statement added.
Linda Moulton Howe reporting on the EARTHFILES page about this:
A Pedricktown resident sent the following email with his image of a mysterious, pulsing pink beam that lasted for at least ten minutes before the strange beam kept contracting on itself half a dozen times getting smaller and smaller until it disappeared.
The light is bizarre to say the least.. in the description Linda received, the tipster wrote,
At 6:45 am, the beam disappeared. The way it disappeared was it contracted to about 2/3 of the size that was visible towards its center, disappeared,reappeared at its original size and repeated the contraction and disappearance-reappearance about five or six times.
This was not a spotlight, as the brightest spot was in the middle of the beam. Spotlights would be brighter at the power source. It wasn’t a laser pointer as known laser pointers are handheld and couldn’t produce a beam that strong.
There may be a very normal (?) explanation for this light.. but I certainly cannot think of something that would make it seem that way..
The 100 Season 3, Episode 9 is titled “Stealing Fire” and there are new spoilers and theories circulating the Internet prior to its airing. With Pike’s order to
While I have never been a fan of the show, this entire ordeal of the death of a character and the outrage of a fan base, particularly the LGBT community, may be a case in point on how not to use social media to prop up television programs.. All of the fans ordered to watch .. they did.. and then they abandoned the show in droves after a main character succumbed to a catastrophic ending.
The famed photographer who captured moments in time–dilapidated malls and properties showcasing the death of the once great American infrastructure–has hit a nerve with Disney.
Last night Lawless posted this:
So Disney is upset at me, but why do they get so upset anytime someone gets too close to the abandoned Discovery Island..
What are you hiding Disney?
Stay tuned for the strange and bizarre oddities of the Disney Conspiracy…
Today the message was amplified with this posted Facebook message:
Officially banned from Disney World for life, which is ironic because I already banned Disney from my life after they raised tickets prices…
I couldn’t think of a better way to make a story go viral and bring attention to a growing public health catastrophe that killed an 11 year old child.
What are you really hiding Disney?
No corporation should be powerful enough to hide the truth and not clean up their mess.
Stay tuned for the strange and bizarre oddities of the Disney Conspiracy
The photos are showcased on Lawless’ many platforms online–and the UK DAILY MAIL .. The headline from the British paper: The creepiest place on Earth? Inside the abandoned Disney World water park left to rot for 15 years after becoming one of only two that was ever shut down
Some photos:
Lawless wants to k now why Disney did not clean things up.
They responded by issuing a ban on the photographer from entering..
Unlike the other space station in the South American country – an antenna in Argentina’s central-west Mendoza province built by the European Space Agency – the Chinese facility will be operated by the country’s military.
There is undoubtedly a secret space program .. nations around the world joining in.. shrouded in secrecy..
What secrets don’t we know? What satellites circle? What enormous hidden universal magic do the powers that be have and hold?
From FOX:
The intended use of the giant antennae at the station is supposed to monitor the moon – as China has ambitions of sending people to the earth’s only satellite – but some speculate that it could serve a dual purpose of watching celestial bodies and also intercepting signals from other nation’s satellites.
Despite the speculation,China has not given out much information to the public about the remote facility and its operations.
MORE.. Madonna invited a 17-year-old fan onstage during her concert Thursday night in Brisbane, Australia, and then pulled down the teen’s corset top to briefly reveal her left breast…
The Material Girl ended up in a bit of hot water when she – seemingly accidentally – exposed a 17-year-old fan’s breast during her Rebel Heart Tour in Brisbane, Australia on Thursday.
“She’s the kind of girl you just want to slap…on the a**. And pull–” Madge said as she yanked the teen’s corset down and flashed her boob. “Oh, sh*t! I’m sorry. Sexual harassment. You can do the same to me.”
I am hesitant linking to the video.. there are some YOUTUBE accounts permitting the underage nudity.. even some showing it in SLO MO.
Global information streaming in.. CHINA loves REVENANT.. $30 mil plus in that nation–rare for the nation where R rated flicks don’t get releases in China that often..
DiCaprio the star adored by locals as “Little Lee,” will attend the Beijing premiere tomorrow…
China could quickly become the biggest overseas play for the film, unseating the UK…
Japan is next: Little Leo is headed there for a Wednesday premiere..
The international market is fast becoming more important than the American version–China and Japan especially..
But while we are speaking of the American market, some BO news from that over the weekend..
ZOOTOPIA stays at number 1 for a third week. Through 17 days, Zootopia is outstripping Frozen ($400M), Disney’s highest grossing non-Pixar toon,by 51% .. This week adds another $39 mil to the mix.
DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT places second..
MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN next.. For that, Older females at 67% women and 75% over 25 took up the majority of seats…
10 CLOVERFIELD LANE places fourth..
DEADPOOL fifth.
With my son being sick this week, there was one thing that seemed to most give him hope during the bleakest times: The top 40. Seriously.. for a child at 5, I am amazed with how adept he is with music and how quickly he learns to hear the words and learn them.. I credit my wife. While I can play piano by ear, her ears were in tune much more for life with the music.
That’s why the poignancy of this photo strikes me.. the ‘sound of silence’ cartoon.. you may have seen it before. It passes around a number of times when people of musical astuteness passes away..
But picture a world with no music. One where the notes fall from the pages of life and end tragically in a pile of nostalgic rubble? How depressing it would be.
It’s so simple to assume music will always be there to help and haunt us.. but the day music decides it’s done with humanity will be the saddest day of all.
I have a sense music won’t give up on us until we give up on it. Hope that never happens, though. The sound of silence is the only sound that keeps me awake at night.
Seriously.. did you ever stop and actually listen deeply to silence? It is one of the most frightening sounds that exists.
An emerald-green comet will brush the Earth Monday, followed one day later by a kissing cousin that will swerve closer to the planet than any other comet in nearly 250 years.
The first and bigger of the two comets will be visible Monday to the naked eye in the southern hemisphere, as long as city lights are far away. Stargazers in the United States will probably need only binoculars to see the bigger comet in late March. Scientists, however, are bringing out the big guns. The Hubble Space Telescope, the powerful ground-based Gemini telescopes and others will be trained on the celestial visitors, which will provide an extraordinary close-up of objects usually glimpsed only at a distance.
It forced me into a strange place.. contemplation over what this whole NET thing is doing to the world. To us. To news.. to everything.
I turned 21 a week before 9/11 happened. When that terror attack took place, I went online and immediately began updating –in HTML mind you–my website about the terror attack.. There is still a record of it somewhere on Archive.org. So in that regard, I was immersed in the NET world at 21 before REDDIT and Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Back then it was AOL Chat rooms and Drudge, along with very basic chats..
But now? Twitter? REDDIT.. The REAL error of citizen journalism is here. And it’s fast, sloppy, messy, and amazing.
But to what end?
The funny thing is after watching THE THREAD, I feel out of the loop. Even though I was a NET kid, it was new then.. it was all new. Now it’s ‘always been’ to the generation born since 2000. Think about that.. Kids of today have no idea what a boring Sunday afternoon watching NICK meant.. Now it’s constant life online. Nothing boring but yet everything is. Kids of today? You don’t KNOW boring..
And even though I was somewhat on the ‘cutting edge’ of media evolution with my VERY OWN DOT COM in the early part of the century, it’s rudimentary when compared to the fast paced information overload of today’s age.
Fast news.
Loose rules..
What you see isn’t what you get.
And the best chance of real factual information may come when the book is written years later.
But we are all experimenting with this old media murder. The journalists of yesterday who are still paying their school loans are watching the carpet pulled from them. YOU. Me. EVERYONE can be a reporter.
Is it too much/ Too much Trump? Too much of a good thing?
Live streaming until it gets dull?
Periscope…And all of the rest of the social networks popping up hourly.
