Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday called the apparent killing of a Japanese captive by Islamic State militants "outrageous and impermissible," and again called for the release of a Japanese journalist being held by the group.

And more from REUTERS:

Abe, speaking to public broadcaster NHK, said chances were high that a recording and an image of what appeared to be the decapitated body of Japanese captive Harman Yukawa, which emerged late on Saturday, were authentic.

Abe also called for the immediate release of the remaining Japanese captive, reporter Kenji Goto, and said he was putting top priority on saving Goto’s life.

But he reiterated that Japan would not give in to terrorism.

"Such an act of terrorism is outrageous and impermissible, which causes me nothing but strong indignation," Abe said.

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday called the apparent killing of a Japanese captive by Islamic State militants "outrageous and impermissible," and again called for the release of a Japanese journalist being held by the group.

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Because the night isn’t scary enough, here’s the SPONGEBOB theme slowed down 800%. 

Be freaked..

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When a Russian feels any foreign pressure, he will never give up his leader," Shuvalov said. "Never. We will survive any hardship in the country — eat less food, use less electricity.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov

Pootie Poot’s been awfully demanding lately.. more sex? less food?

Life in Russia..

Report says bodies found stacked at funeral home

A Jan. 12 inspection of Arkansas Funeral Care in Jacksonville found the funeral home’s cooler in its holding facility “filled beyond capacity with bodies,” according to a state inspector’s report, with two bodies “stacked on top of each other” and other bodies, not embalmed, lying outside the cooler.

The state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors suspended the licenses of the funeral home and its manager, LeRoy Wood, during an emergency hearing Wednesday afternoon. Several hours later, officials with the state Crime Laboratory and the Pulaski County coroner’s office removed 31 bodies from the funeral home.

This is disgusting and shameful.. A special place in hell should exist for whoever would disrespect the dead in this way.

Report says bodies found stacked at funeral home

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I can’t describe how enamored I am by this Ninja Turtle sewer set that that my son got for Christmas this year, I feel like it’s the toy I never had when I was a kid.
I swear I play with it more than him, at times he tells me to stop touching it.

German scientists invent working teleporter, of sorts

New system destructively scans objects transmits them through encrypted communications across any distance and rebuilds it the other side

We are getting closer..
No excuse for missing work one day in the future with this technology..

German scientists invent working teleporter, of sorts

LAKES IN GREENLAND MYSTERIOUSLY DRAIN!?   Scientists say that they are baffled–as would be anyone–at the sudden vanishing lakes in Greenland..

Get this: One lake was so large that a mile-wide crater was left behind after it was drained in the span of a few weeks. Another sub-glacial lake has been filled and emptied twice in the last two years..

One expert told ABC news that this shows that the ‘plumbing system under the ice’ is changing..  

Keep in mind, this is BILLIONS OF GALLONS of water we are talking about. 

Good thing we moved that DOOMSDAY CLOCK closer to midnight..

A study concludes that MONSANTO chemicals cause GENETIC damage to soybean workers! 

The study was published in the journal Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, and it involved 127 people, including 81 exposed to biocides while working in the Brazilian soybean industry and 46 non-exposed individuals in a control group.. 

Even more, the study concludes that it causes DNA damage and cell death.

Japan Is Fighting ISIS with Super-Kawaii Tweets

The people of Japan have declared meme warfare on Jihadi John.

A few

Japan Is Fighting ISIS with Super-Kawaii Tweets

One last bow.. 
Obama to make short trip to Saudi Arabia to pay respects to King Abdullah..

I love old postcards.. this one is of Ashland, PA.. If you’d see it now, you would never realize this 1907 card could have been the same town.. 

So often we think ‘progress’ is achieved.. but think back> AT that time we have railways to connect towns and cities.. we had downtowns where people would congregate for shopping and eating.. we had theaters.. so many towns had most of its people working in coal mining or manufacturing. 

Sure the past was rough and tough.. but in 1907 when this was sketched, the town was also younger and more vibrant. Filled with business and life. 

Now it has boarded up store fronts and dilapidated buildings. Chances are your town is the same, too.

I guess that’s progress..

Faux surprise face is the new duckface

A growing trend on Instagram seems to be people making a faux surprise face.

Goodbye duckface. It’s been real.

Faux surprise face is the new duckface

A-Treat Bottling Company closing after 97 years

A-Treat is closing its doors after 97 years of manufacturing and distributing soda to the Lehigh Valley and beyond.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

The best soda on earth..

Not good.

I seriously cannot explain just how bad of news this is. I know everything changes, everything evolves, and old things die, but this was probably my favorite brand name in Pennsylvania.. 

A-Treat Bottling Company closing after 97 years

Pope Francis: put your iPhone down and start talking - Telegraph

Pope Francis says families should put aside their iPhones and Twitter feeds and talk to each other

I’m completely okay with that..

Pope Francis: put your iPhone down and start talking - Telegraph

Pope sees 'shadows and dangers' amid Vatican attack fears

Pope Francis on Thursday told Italian police officers in charge of security around the Vatican that he saw “shadows and dangers”, but urged them not to give in to fear.

"On the horizon we see shadows and dangers which worry humanity," he said in the wake of an increase in security around the Vatican amid fears Islamic State extremists may be plotting to attack the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Security was tightened in Saint Peter’s Square in September after intelligence services intercepted a possible plan to attack the Vatican. Iraq’s ambassador to the Holy See, Habib Al Sadr, at the time warned that “what has been declared by the self-declared Islamic State is clear.

Yesterday on NIGHT TERROR NEWS, I wrote a bit about the troubling ‘prophecies of the Pope’ that litter my mind. The news of this “shadows and dangers” comment provides even more fodder for the paranoid mind, the haunting images of a Pope standing overtop of his people during a final battle or perhaps even on being the last in a series prophetized by St. Malachy so many centuries ago..

This from the AP:

Iraq’s ambassador to the Holy See, Habib Al Sadr, at the time warned that “what has been declared by the self-declared Islamic State is clear. They want to kill the Pope. The threats against the Pope are credible.”

But are the prophetic words of Malachy, Pope Pius, and Nostradamus as credible as the threats?

Pope sees 'shadows and dangers' amid Vatican attack fears

The Pagan conquest

More information about something locally making big news.. The former Cardinal Brennan high school is going to be NORTH SCHUYLKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL very soon..

The former Catholic home to education was closed in 2007.. shuddered and tucked away in the annals of memory in the coal region..

Since the announcement was made that NS was going to take over CB, mixed emotions have developed..

There is one common thread, though. Most people seem to be quite fine that it will be used as a home to edumucation.. but there’s some other things which are getting some heated reactions among CB alumni, including the following:

• All religious relics will be subtracted from the property.. obviously crosses and Jesus can’t exist on a publicly funded taxpayer location. Including the giant cross on the mess of the new field house that was built in the late 1990s..


• All memories of CB will be eliminated..


• The çharger horse that exists throughout various places on the campus will be painted over with NS emblems..


• The blue and gold, once the color of CB pride, will be replaced with red and blue where ever it existed..


• The places of memories and reflections of past students and classes will be trampled on by people who have no clue what happened in certain rooms or buildings. That one is upsetting to me..


• There is a good chance the bell tower, once known for the signatures of past people, may be painted over. As though none of the sneak-signings ever even happened..


• Nate, the janitor, will not be there. And for that, it’s a great misfortune on future students..

I am not in the camp blaming NS for anything.
But instead I blame the Catholic Church. I blame them for having priests who molested children for 50 years, leading to a collapse in faith and lack of church attendance ,and lack of money, and death of Catholic education. If anyone is looking for a villain, they are your best option.

Meanwhile.. This is how CB once looked way in the past, and more recently in the past.. 

It’s over folks 
The blue and gold blood has long dried up..

Rumor: Some Bad Shit Is Going Down At Tumblr

electradaddy:

I knew there would be consequences if I caught up on my dash.

People knew there’d be SOME KIND OF MESS that happened once YAHOO! took over..

Now I just wish, before this mess becomes a full fledged website social networking crisis, they come up with a good backup for people who don’t use MACs.. just hoping..

Rumor: Some Bad Shit Is Going Down At Tumblr

From the start, the idea of Hatred was supposed to be like it is now. I mean, we somehow knew that the media and some people would find it disturbing and shocking, but we also felt that gamers need something like Hatred, because the market is filled with too many sterile and far too polite games. A little bit of dirt and murky atmosphere never hurt anyone. As you have seen lately, gamers have rushed into support this project, with amazing numbers of Greenlight votes. So if there is a need for such games, we feel that we did the game concept well.

Destructive Creations business developer Przemysław Szczepaniak in an interview with VICE about the controversial new game HATRED

Get read to read and hear a lot of debate and wild comments being made about this game.. The main plot of HATRED: You can play a mass murdering psychopath. And that’s about it..

You can do all the killing you want.. 
You can gameplay murder as long as you want..

One more point on the interview in VICE: The business developer Szczepaniak *say that five times fast* also said this about the brutal honesty of HATRED when compared to other games:

Any killing game is about violence. It doesn’t matter if you try to justify it by a twist in the storyline, because you are still killing to reach a certain goal. Killing is always wrong. We show with Hatred how killing can be cruel; we did not justify anything about [it] – this is our honesty.

There is no doubt.. if you play HATRED, you will kill and that’s the goal.. For some that is the beauty of this game. To others, that’s the real reason to be scared: The cover is off and the truth is being spoken.. HATRED wants you to score some good death numbers.. Confined to the GAME.. of course.. 

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., 75, talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, for the first time since he suffered an eye injury and broken ribs on New Year’s Day, when a piece of exercise equipment he was using broke and sent him smashing into cabinets at his new home. Reid sais his re-election bid in 2016 is on track even though he’s been sidelined by an exercise accident. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: "The Internet Will Disappear"

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted the end of the Internet as we know it.

I agree..
Note the ‘as we know it’ ending to his statement..

There are some clear thing to agree with on this assumption of our future.. Schmidt reminds us, 

“There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it. It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.”

It already is a part of our presence. Washing machines and refrigerators equipped to go online, Smart TVs being watched (and watching us) and now iWatches are on the way, making technology even closer to being implanted into our arms instead of just being worn on the outside of our skin.

The comments section on the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER story may be the most interesting.. many call Schmidt a creepy narcissistic evil entity, some call him a “Nazi” and say he deserves prison time.. One said “Google is full of nut jobs” .. and then this comment,

He’s also insane. Just model it out: 100 things in your house with IP addresses, all using electricity and all subject to configuration and durability problems. The learning curve alone is absurdly impossible. I feel like Khrushchev - I want to beat him with my shoe…

Sure, people have the chance to make witty and quick comments to stories on the Internet..But as fast and comedic as people can be, they are also purchasing the evil products that Schmidt spoke about. They are eating up smart TVs.. they are happily living a constantly-connected life on social media on their smartphones.. 

Schmidt is right. 
The Internet is changing and it will never be the same again.

However, that’s not really a bad thing. It is just a thing..  Just as a stone tablet led to a fountain pen that led to a typewriter that led to a smart phone, it’s the progression of society and humanity. It just seems, lately, that we have steamrolled far more into the future than what human minds are capable of emotionally dealing with. At least to me.

BUT… 
As with anything.. 
Technology can be amazing and give birth to freedoms of the mind, or it can become a technocratic hell on earth led by demons with human skin. We pick..
And we buy, either buy into the future of hope or the soon-to-be-days of demonic existence.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: "The Internet Will Disappear"