MORE THAN 70 WILDFIRES (29 UNCONTAINED) RAGING IN AUSTRALIA, and that is where this photo you’re seeing was taken.. they are also getting increasingly close to Sydney..

Unusually for the overall American drone campaign, the strikes in the area mostly occur in densely populated neighborhoods. The drones have hit a bakery, a disused girls’ school and a money changers’ market, residents say. One strike occurred in Matches Colony, a neighborhood named after an abandoned match factory that is now frequented by Uzbek militants. While the strike rate has dropped drastically in recent months, the constant presence of circling drones — and accompanying tension over when, or whom, they will strike — is a crushing psychological burden for many residents.

Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes Cited in Report (via azspot)

A must read story.

Do you really want these drones?

The wheat belly..

And here I thought the beer was doing it to me..
Tonight, my dental hygienist, who converses with me for the entire appointment about food (she talks more than me, given the circumstances), taught me something new. I learned something about food that I somehow did not contemplate: Wheat is making people fat, and maybe causing more problems than solutions in my life.

And this comes as a shock—as I thought it was good eating wheat cereal and whole wheat pasta..

So my all natural hygienist informed me that William Davis and his research on wheat would be important for me to read. I did.. If Dr. Davis is right, I am doing most things wrong..

According to what I  now know in this anti-wheat theory,  if I stop eating wheat my stomach will decrease and I will lose my appetite to keep eating more wheat (I do go for second helpings of that wheat pasta when I make it) ..

I also learned that wheat is just about as addictive as anything.. Maybe even cigs and beer? 

The theory also contends: Wheat is a trigger of heart attacks. 

So much to learn.. so much to eat that’s not wheat.

And Doc Dav concludes this about what the best diet is: 

My philosophy is a return to real ingredients. Eggs, vegetables, some fruit, avocados. We should eat regular food and get rid of this notion of processed foods for breakfast. I understand that we have kids and we have people we need to entertain. So I try to recreate foods that are familiar to people. I show people how to make pizza, muffins, cookies, chocolate éclairs. We use benign ingredients. We don’t use wheat, gluten-free carbohydrates, or sugar. You can turn something like coffee cake into something that’s benign and healthy. Life is good without wheat.

Hmm.. a one ingredient diet.

Where did I hear that one before.. hmmm???

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Noel Harrison is dead.

WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND may be one of the greatest songs ever written..

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'MILEY CYRUS CALLS YOU'

Coming this Halloween to a phone near you.

Chinese city shrouded in smog—airport shut down, masks are being worn, and ground transport is at a standstill.. 

And because of the smog, and God knows what’s in the thick stew, a city of 11 million people in China has completely been cut off from the world

Look Inside a Chicken Nugget

When will it become unethical to keep calling these chemically produced deep fried containers of bone and fat ‘chicken’? Sounds like now..

Look Inside a Chicken Nugget

Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes

This is just becoming a mess … So many surprises ..

The report says, in part:

By all accounts, the new policies will offer consumers better coverage, in some cases, for comparable cost — especially after the inclusion of federal subsidies for those who qualify. The law requires policies sold in the individual market to cover 10 “essential” benefits, such as prescription drugs, mental health treatment and maternity care. In addition, insurers cannot reject people with medical problems or charge them higher prices. The policies must also cap consumers’ annual expenses at levels lower than many plans sold before the new rules.
But the cancellation notices, which began arriving in August, have shocked many consumers in light of President Barack Obama’s promise that people could keep their plans if they liked them.

Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes

Illuminating Earth's mysterious gamma ray flashes

Illuminating Earth's mysterious gamma ray flashes

ENOUGH OF THE SELFIES!

Not a day goes by that we are not subjected to a nude or partially nude celebrity selfie on Twitter. Today it’s Shai Labeouf..

Come on Hollywood, it’s bad enough we have to see our naked bodies. We certainly don’t want to see your Shai Labeoufs staring at us

Job-creation weakens, but unemployment rate down

The job numbers were significantly worse than expected…

Job-creation weakens, but unemployment rate down

Why Is There A Winter Flu Season? A series of info-graphics attempts to explain..

I have been researching this for a while. I was sure there was an answer.

And then I realized, there are a ton of answers and endless possibilities as to why there is even a flu season to begin with.

And with all the possibilities, I will add one more in the mix: The flu shot. It seems that whenever there is a hot and heavy campaign to vaccinate people against the flu, the flu suddenly spreads.

Coincidence, I am sure I’d be told. Coincidence. 

Now excuse me while I pop my vitamin D supplement. 

Why Is There A Winter Flu Season? A series of info-graphics attempts to explain..

Corey Feldman breaks his silence: A new book memior reveals the sexual abuse that he said he, and Corey Haim, faced in the 1980s.. 

Even more interesting, Feldman writes The man who abused Haim now “walks around, one of the most successful people in the entertainment industry, still making money hand over fist” .. 

I am sure the cast and creators of the movie LUCAS is being studied heavily today..

WOMB TO THE TOMB

Remember a few weeks ago when Syria crossed that ‘red line’.. the President went on TV, and the world was on the brink of World War III. 

Until Vlad the Impaler Putin was able to get his best buddy Assad to ‘give up’ those weapons of some destruction. 

But now comes this story from the LONDON TELEGRAH: Assad’s snipers, they report, are ‘targeting unborn babies’ .. the story is shocking. 

Including with it is even a disturbing image of a fetus with a bulley lodged in its head.. And whether this is true not or, LIFENEWS (a pro-life oriented site) reports that an X-ray shows unborn baby being targeted screamed in pain ..

We have been here before—times when ‘doctors’ and other experts from within a nation say something has happened but history uncovers a fact that it never did. Think back to the babies being thrown from incubators in Iraq .. George H.W. Bush used it as part of the pretext to enter Gulf War I. It has since been revealed that those events did not occur, but simply were used as propaganda to humanize the war to sell it to America..

Is this new example of babies being killed in the womb another example of selling a war? 

Is this war even for sale anymore?

The strange behavior of Elisa Lam

Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old student staying at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles .. She also succumbed to her fate there.. The story was a shock to the world: She was found dead in the Cecil’s water tank. 

Not to make the story less strange, but the Cecil was also the location where the ‘Nightstalker’ stayed—Richard Ramirez was a serial killer. A murderer of prostitutes, Jack Unterweger also lived there for a bit.. 

And now the weird death of Elisa Lam made the Cecil an even darker place than it already was.

The other night, Art Bell’s website showcased a video of Elisa Lam in her final moments of life.. Though the video was online for some time now, Art Bell talking about it propelled it to instant popularity. 

It shows Lam on an elevator acting, for lack of a better word, strange. Some think she is battling a spirit or demon, others think the video is simply an example of her fragile sanity.. The four-minute security video was posted on YouTube (*I don’t know by who, you’d think this was evidence??*) .. In the clip, Lam is frantically pushing elevator buttons as the door of the elevator stays open.. then she starts behaving bizarre..After these strange events on the elevator, Elisa Lam gained access to the rooftop of the Cecil Hotel. She climbed into the water tank of the hotel. She then died—and was found two weeks later .. The only reasons she even was found was because hotel guests were complaining of the water’s taste and color—investigators found her body decomposing in the hotel’s source of water.. 

In September, the UBC student’s parents filed wrongful death litigation against the owners of the Cecil Hotel. After all, the water tank is in a restricted area, and it is sealed. Yet somehow she ended up being found dead in a place where, frankly, someone of her strength and size should not even be able to get to..  

The VIGILANT CITIZEN website did great work on a report concerning Lam, the dark history at the Cecil, and other weird things like the Lam death being similar to DARK WATER from 2005 and the fact that, after Lam’s death, tuberculosis broke out on skid row in Los Angelas, near the Cecil Hotel, and the test kits used during those situations were named: ‘LAM-ELISA’..

This video, along with the inclusion of her circumstances on paranormal websites across the Internet landscape, must be painful for the family already reeling in pain from the loss of her innocent life. 

But there are just some weird things about this video.. her behavior may be a result of a psychotic episode or drug use.. but the elevator doors not closing until she is gone? The fact her body was found somewhere that a person should not be able to get to? 

The Cecil’s history is already frightening enough.. Add this to the mystery of the location.. And this one, in my opinion, is still unsolved—regardless of the experts and officials that called this death accidental. 

Do you check your kids' Halloween candy every year for knives and poison? Ever wonder why?

Where did the fear of poison in Halloween candy or knives in apples come from? The MEDIA! The SMITHSONIAN offers up an interesting report that you probably didn’t know: You really never had anything to fear with All Hallow’s Eve treats.. 

I myself also recall a childhood fear of this very thing—the notion that the candy would kill me or that a razor blade would be hidden in my fruit.

The fear was only inspired further by the scene from HALLOWEEN 2 (not the Rob Zombie version) of a boy in a pirate suit being taken to the hospital for his mouth bleeding..

Those fears that we have, ingrained in us from an early age thanks to modern media and pop culture.

And today,

I still check the candy every Halloween night..

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There is no way in hell you’re learned about this in history class. the X-Rated and weird Lyndon Johnson, waving his appendage proudly for all to see…

From cracked:

THIS WEEK: Daniel O’Brien and Jack O’Brien tell the story of a President who recorded phone calls with his tailor, accepted the Vice Presidency because JFK’s death was statistically likely, and nicknamed his penis “Jumbo”.  

The Mind-Blowing, Dick-Waving Presidency of Lyndon Johnson

This is when you should be hospitalized for your Bieber Fever.. A man has undergone extensive and expensive plastic surgery in his desire to look like Justin Bieber—and he STILL does not even look like him!

 

Lady Gaga asks ‘do you want u’ ? And also posts a shot of her rear end. 

I have nothing more to say..

Oh the fun! Sunbathing in the middle of poverty and riding a water slide while government goons monitor your every move.

The WASHINGTON POST is reporting on a new water park in North Korea.. The government built the brightly colored park, in the middle of the drabby conditions the nation faces.. among some odd photos released, the POST reports, pictures of “handful of eager-looking young men and women playing in the water while, in the background, a mass of several hundred stern-looking men in dark suits look on silently. It’s weird.”

Creepy..