Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France

And you thought the Flight 370 was a mystery..


Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France

Attention all teenagers

There must be an epidemic today of teenagers crying online, on Twitter and Facebook, about the Zayn One Direction nonsense. Keep in mind, the internet never goes away now. All of your tears will come back to haunt you five years from now when you wonder why you cried about this..



I’m very happy the internet wasn’t popular with Hootie and the Blowfish broke up..

I have yet to find the person that will disprove my theory

People who drive white vans that have curtains on the windows are always crazy

Huge asteroid is on near-collision course with Earth..but it will miss.

Even more troulbing: This fire in the sky is about to skim past Earth this FRIDAY—THIS FRIDAY—at 23,000 MPH..

It will not hit us.. But it’s relatively close and will be viewed by professional and amateur astronomers alike..

It’s also a huge reminder—in size and meaning—of how much is beyond us that can endanger this planet.

While we argue about useless memes and toil away with trouble, the danger lurks in our galaxy. It can strike at any time. So far we’ve been lucky.. But you sure would think by now we would have found a way to find these threats and do something about them …


Huge asteroid is on near-collision course with Earth..but it will miss.

Germanwings plane crash: New information suggests that the descent took 18 minutes, not 8

A lot of initial reporting on the Germanwings flight crash in the French Alps has been discredited as more information has surfaced.. The initial report yesterday that a mayday distress call was placed was wrong.. And then another issue was reported, that the descent of Flight 9525 took 8 minutes. Instead, new information suggests, it took 18!

John Lichfield with the UK INDEPENDENT reports this for history:

The French environment and transport minister, Ségolène Royal,  said that the crew of the Airbus A320 had stopped responding on radio at 10.30am yesterday when the aircraft was over the Mediterranean.
The aircraft slammed into the sheer side of a mountain in the French Alps soon after 10.48am. For those 18 minutes, it gradually shed height from 28,000 feet to less than 2,000 feet without transmitting any form of distress signal.

This information is also being reported: The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said that so-called “black box” had been damaged in the crash but was “usable”. .. For some reason, I hesitate buying into this at this point. With the number of times official stories have already changed, I wouldn’t doubt a change in this factoid either.

At this point, the results from yesterday’s crash are horrific.. one family last three generations of people. A school lost 16 of its best and brightest children.. The heartache extends to the United States with news that two passengers on the doomed flight were from here..

And a few more things of note as well:

Three generations of one family dead in plane crash..
Mystery: What happened on Flight 9525?
Two people from the United States were on flight..
Weather an issue in search ..


Germanwings plane crash: New information suggests that the descent took 18 minutes, not 8

Three generations of a family die in Alps plane crash

Three generations of one family — a schoolgirl, her mother and grandmother — were on the Germanwings plane that crashed, according to a town outside Barcelona.
A statement from Sant Cugat del Valles town hall didn’t provide their names.
The girl was a student of a middle school for children aged 10 to 11 at Santa Isabel school in Sant Cugat.
"The students are very affected. The teachers are trying to help them any way they can," said a woman who answered the phone at the school. She refused to give her name or comment further.
—By Associated Press writer Jorge Sainz in Madrid.


Three generations of a family die in Alps plane crash

The Big Bang glitch: A shirt circuit at CERN

The Big Bang glitch: A shirt circuit at CERN

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Two stories to make you feel very very small

Just when you think your plight in the grand scheme of things matters a bit, news comes along to give perspective to just how tiny we all are. Today, two examples exist in science news, presented for your review:

Maybe JUPITER is planet x!? There is new information to suggest that the early solar system was made up of giant super earths. And then Jupiter came along to smash things into pieces.. A theory for now, but certainly amazing when considering the mighty explosion something like this could have made..

And this other tale, a little closer to home: The huge Australian impact of an asteroid was so large that it caused cracks to the earth’s core..

When considering the history of our universe, and the ever-changing space around us, it’s pretty amazing that we are even here. That somehow we evolved into the creatures of habit we have.. and somehow still survive in a very hostile existence.. 

We are somehow alive..

No matter how big of planets of the past crashed and asteroids smashed.

Of course all of that could easily happen again..

A rescue helicopter flies over wreckage of a Germanwings Airbus A320 plane that crashed between the towns of Barcelonnette and Digne in the French Alps.



There is nothing left.. The plane, according to all reports, has been obliterated..

The US executed 20 Molly Maguires in biggest federal executions ever

This is a good read about worthwhile history of the coal region.. The area I am from is going downhill fast.. Vacant streets and empty storefronts. We are a mere dilapidated replica of the wealthy area we once were decades ago. But there is still reason to be proud .. even if I move from this area soon—and for my family and me, it will be the best choice when I do it—there will still be these proud roots in my heritage. A place where workers rights began in the United States. Where the government’s injustices were seen in black and white.. with coal soot on top.. 


The US executed 20 Molly Maguires in biggest federal executions ever

Parts of California only have one year of water left

MEANWHILE..

NESTLE keeps taking California water.. 


Parts of California only have one year of water left

Cruzing to a bruising

I don’t put much stock in the chances of Ted Cruz becoming our next president.. But his candidacy will lead to lots of fun and jokes.. Already has.. 

But there is one thing that makes a bigger difference to me than him even being from Canada: 

After 9/11, he stopped listening to rock music.

Hunter Schwartz with the Washington POST reports,

In an interview with CBS News Tuesday, Cruz said he grew up listening to classic rock, but became a country fan after 9/11 because of how musicians responded to the attacks.
"I actually find this intellectually curious, but on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded, and country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me, and I just have to say just at a gut level, I had an emotional reaction that said these are my people," he said.
Country music was very patriotic following 9/11. Songs like “Only in America” by Brooks & Dunn, “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” by Alan Jackson, and “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” by Toby Keith were all hits on Billboard’s Country chart.

The POST article goes on to point out the rock songs that became popular after 9/11, like Bruce Springsteen’s THE RISING, Wu Tang Clan’s RULES, and Neil Young’s LET’S ROLL..

It’s not being said, but I think this whole Cruz quote is based off of what happened to the Dixie Chicks. Remember that fiasco? Freedom fries eating American burned their albums to protest their protesting of the Iraq war? Let’s be honest… there were two periods after 9/11: 1) The initial unification of America and chance to change the world. 2) The Iraq war run-up.. Which America is Cruz talking about?

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10,000 US troops will be remaining in Afghanistan through the end of this year, clearly no drawdown will take place as earlier promised

President Obama said this is not a return to combat..
He also said that he will bring troops home by the end of 2016..

The troops were slated to leave Afghanistan very soon, but now that Afghan president asked for troops to stay longer, the United States has agreed.. 

The war goes on. We just stopped it war.

At a press conference, the airline said the plane was last inspected yesterday and that the pilot was very experienced, with years of service and thousands of hours of flying time.

Another intriguing part of this crash.
Inspections are thorough.. no company wants a crash on their record.. And this plane was inspected one day before this tragedy…


At a press conference, the airline said the plane was last inspected yesterday and that the pilot was very experienced, with years of service and thousands of hours of flying time.

IT’S CONFIRMED: THE X FILES ARE COMING BACK..

6 episodes.. 

Original stars are back, as is Chris Carter..

But only 6 episodes? That part is a little disappointing..

The truth is out there. But only for a few short weeks.

Monsanto chief admits ‘hubris’ is to blame for public fears over GM

I get the sense that Monsanto is about to change its tune.. Get ready for a stunningly amazing PR campaign for complete public acceptance of GMO food.

The FOOD BABE army vs the chemical companies.. the fight is on..


Monsanto chief admits ‘hubris’ is to blame for public fears over GM

Check the date on this foreign news source reporting the Germanwings crash.. yes that says 2 days ago. I have seen a number of people beginning to link this cached page as evidence that conspiracy has occurred here..

We know this:
We don’t know.

Already today, the news surrounding the flight crash has changed substantially.

When it was first reported, there were news accounts that a mayday distress call was made. Now it has turned out, according to official statements, that no mayday was made. And then the plane descended for 8 minutes before the final crash into the mountains of the French Alps..

This is a part of why, until the dust clears, I attempt to steer clear of reporting breaking news, as no news source seems to get anything correct in the initial hours. Or maybe they do. And the official narrative just changes.

As for the events of this Germanwings crash: The theories are abounding.. This is the latest in a series of high profile crashes that have seemingly been dominating headlines over the past 14 months..
But crashes happen too, remember.

I don’t want to authoritatively state any theory on why this crash occurred. To the best of our knowledge, if you believe the reporting of NBC NEWS at least, there is at least one black box recovered from the scene.   In that light, the world hopefully will find out the truth as to why the plane crashed, why no mayday was called out, and why the entire event took 8 minutes… just imagine the horror of those 8 minutes.

I think it’s fair and proper to question all accounts, all theories, and try to ascertain what events took place. That goes for any events that occur.. But it’s premature to conclude a conspiracy.

Sometimes accidents do happen. Just as every crash accident is not a conspiracy, every plane crash is not either.

I have my personal thoughts about Fligth 800 in 1996. I also have my own doubts about Flight 370.. I also think a missile took down the flight in late 2014..

As far as this one? Time will tell.
But there is one thing to note.. If this is not a conspiracy, not terrorism, not inflicted on humans by other humans, then it becomes scarier.. Why? Because it shows how out of luck we can be on this planet.. how cursed we often times are without knowing it.. And how at risk we all are to the dangers that pop up when least expected.

Yes, indeed.. Just as reality is scarier than fiction, ‘chance’ is much more frightening than conspiracy. Because there’s no rhyme or reason or sympathy when you speak about ‘chance.’

German official: High school group on crashed Germanwings plane; Spanish school says 16 students involved

I remember the crash of TWA Flight 800.. I was 16 at the time (and all conspiracy and missile theories aside) that result from that crash was traumatic to my area in Pennsylvania. On Flight 800:  The town of Montoursville PA was ‘in a daze’ after a number of high school kids died on that plane (Source: USA TODAY, 1996)

I would imagine the same ‘daze’ will be happening in whatever school these kids were from—teenagers who were lucky enough to get a chance to see some new parts of the world and now after this tragedy, have perished from our earth..


German official: High school group on crashed Germanwings plane; Spanish school says 16 students involved

Germanwings Flight 4U9525: Airbus A320 plane crashes in French Alps en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf

There was NO mayday..
The plane dived for 8 minutes
NBC news is reporting that at least on black box has been recovered..


Germanwings Flight 4U9525: Airbus A320 plane crashes in French Alps en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf

Big Bang theory could be debunked by Large Hadron Collider

She bang. Or she don’t. Science may be turned on its head as CERN could disprove something accepted and assumed to be true for a long time..



And when CERN powers up to its full blast, anything may be possible..


Big Bang theory could be debunked by Large Hadron Collider

This is how CNN looks this morning… the plane crash in the French Alps taking center stage

Germanwings Airbus A320 Crashes in France, 150 Feared Dead

All are lost…


Germanwings Airbus A320 Crashes in France, 150 Feared Dead

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Morning serial

Last night before bed, I made a little mistake in listening to a DARKNESS RADIO true crime show with Dave Schrader featuring the owner of Serial Killer Magazine. The show was great and interesting. True crime fascinates me … actually scares me. The intense reality that exists beyond the safety of our locked doors and closed windows is abhorrent, often.  There is much to be written and told of true crime—too much to start now. But I’m curious how many others out there are interested in true crime.. How many people are both fascinated and horrified by the macabre.. and how many fear reality more than fiction?

Massive amounts of fresh water, glacial melt pouring into Gulf of Alaska

Is NYC's new gunshot detection system recording private conversations?

Is NYC's new gunshot detection system recording private conversations?

Only 36% of college grads have jobs that pay at least $45,000, a sharp decline from the 1990s, after adjusting for inflation. Perhaps most depressingly, the percentage of young people making below $25,000 has topped 20%, worse than in 1990.

Only 36% of college grads have jobs that pay at least $45,000, a sharp decline from the 1990s, after adjusting for inflation. Perhaps most depressingly, the percentage of young people making below $25,000 has topped 20%, worse than in 1990.

1. Will your child be six years, six months or older when he begins first grade and starts receiving reading instruction?



2. Does your child have two to five permanent or second teeth?



3. Can you child tell, in such a way that his speech is understood by a school crossing guard or policeman, where he lives?



4. Can he draw and color and stay within the lines of the design being colored?



5. Can he stand on one foot with eyes closed for five to ten seconds?



6. Can he ride a small two-wheeled bicycle without helper wheels?



7. Can he tell left hand from right?



8. Can he travel alone in the neighborhood (four to eight blocks) to store, school, playground, or to a friend’s home?



9. Can he be away from you all day without being upset?



10. Can he repeat an eight- to ten-word sentence, if you say it once, as “The boy ran all the way home from the store”?



11. Can he count eight to ten pennies correctly?



12. Does your child try to write or copy letters or numbers?



SORRY HALLE BERRY, NO ONE IS EVER GOING TO FORGET YOU IN CATWOMAN. I know you wish they would..

Saturday, March 21, 2015

I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future. There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is over” and “the science is settled.”



My skepticism begins with the believers’ certainty they can predict the global climate with a computer model. The entire basis for the doomsday climate change scenario is the hypothesis increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel emissions will heat the Earth to unlivable temperatures.



Patrick Moore. And he is a climate skeptic.. (And a founder of Greenpeace)
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Sure, it’s a good performance.. Fine, she is a great singer.. And yes, she’s a STAR»> But there’s something awfully creepy to me about this J LO live scene from AMERICAN IDOL.. Maybe her hypnotic dress.. perhaps the ‘feel the light’ mantra in light of the CERN churning of parallel universe hopes or the eclipse and super moons..  

Or maybe I just listened to too much CLYDE LEWIS recently.. 

Regardless.. feel the light.

Mexican Wrestler Pedro Aguayo Ramirez Dies From Blow in the Ring

MORE.. Pedro Aguayo Ramirez, known as Hijo del Perro Aguayo, fell unconscious on the ropes, apparently after receiving a flying kick from fellow wrestler and former WWE star Oscar Gutierrez, known as Rey Mysterio Jr., according to video of the match in a municipal auditorium in Tijuana.


Mexican Wrestler Pedro Aguayo Ramirez Dies From Blow in the Ring

A historical perspective of liquor licenses in Schuylkill County PA from the 1800s.. THIS is when things were up and coming in the coal region, when coal was king and the barons were robbing. But the high tide of the economy also lifted all boats.. A  much different picture exists today..

thedoomreport IT was the fun not knowing.. the idea that the truth was just ‘out there’ on the X FILES, and all of that was just fake. Right? All fun and fake.. Soup Nazis on Seinfeld and the Clinton scandals that weren’t really. Those were the days—the 90s were a decade about nothing. A decade in which we were infuriated about issues that didn’t matter. And I was moving through my teens toward 20, paying less than a buck a gallon for gas in a little Chevy car and staying awake often until sunrise listening to Art Bell with my father or friends.

Then the knowing began as I aged.. After 9/11, after floods and fury across the globe. And I began to know.. 

The knowing..
The fun all happens before that.

Thanks for the question—it made me think..

There are times I have such nostalgia for my youth in the 90s…

I’ve never looked better..

The learning process...

I am proud of my son learning to play video games. Is that wrong? Sure.. I will be proud when  he learns science, math, reasoning, and spelling.. but seeing him discover how to play SUPER MARIO not only on the Wii U, but also the WII and the NINTENDO (original, folks) is amazing for a father.. 

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Thanks to someone on Facebook, this song is now re-stuck in my head for the first time in 5 years.. Awful.. just an awful song..

It’s spring.

Put another shrimp on the Barbie..

Spring gets about 30 seconds shorter every year

But we get an extra minute this summer.

Explain that.


Spring gets about 30 seconds shorter every year

A must watch video: Bill Maher takes on college fraternities..

And some news just in time to watch Bill Maher say that Frats are like ISIS:

PENN STATE’S PRESIDENT REACTS TO PROTESTS ON CAMPUS

Monsanto Weedkiller Is "Probably Carcinogenic,"™ WHO Says

And as a result, MONSANTO is dismissing the new study linking one of its popular products to cancer..

Which is to be expected..There has been along controversy about this. Heck, there is still a controversy about Agent Orange—created of course by the same folks who now give us GMO food and products to kill the bugs that used to feast on growing plants.. 

While doing some searching for other peer reviewed science that may back up these most recent WHO findings, I found this article from 2013 appearing in the HUFFINGTON POST, lashing out at those who are critical of Monsanto based on ‘bad science.’   I wonder how much more ‘bad science’ has to happen before we listen.. before the butterflies stop dying.. before cancer rates start falling.. and before we eat good honest food again..


Monsanto Weedkiller Is "Probably Carcinogenic,"™ WHO Says

Witnesses: New Orleans airport machete attack chaotic

Witnesses: New Orleans airport machete attack chaotic
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The exploding ashtray and orb video..

A real video, the owner claims.. one angry spirit..

7 DEAD IN A BROOKLYN FIRE..

An AP Dispatch:

A fire that tore through a home in a heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood, leaving seven children dead and two other people in critical condition, may have been caused by a malfunctioning hot plate left on for the Sabbath, the city’s fire commissioner said Saturday.
Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the deceased range in age from 5 to 15 years old. He said a woman and teenager survived after jumping from the second floor.
The woman is believed to be the mother of all eight children, Nigro said.

This is now how firefighters—heroes—want to  begin a weekend..

The CERN burn continues..

Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days.. For those who don’t know, the Hadron Collider fired back up a few days ago … so far the world didn’t end or fall into a black hole. But there’s always time for that..

But I was a little intrigued when I found that the Extinction Protocol was reporting a story that scientists with CERN are going to be attempting contact with a parallel universe. You certainly don’t see headlines like that everyday, so my eyes did a triple take. The Extinction Protocol is a decent website that usually links up its information to a valid source.. In this matter, they linked a UK EXPRESS article titled:

Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days

So a few things need to be contemplated before running into the world of lunacy.. First off, the UK EXPRESS is a clear tabloid from the land across the pond.. I read it, I enjoy it.. but I take it with a grain of salt. If the DAILY MAIL is the NY POST, the EXPRESS is probably the STAR.. 

Nonetheless, I read Paul Bowman’s article with extreme interest..  I sure don’t really understand what I should about physics but that doesn’t stop me from trying to. 

Ironically, this all travels back in the Internets to the DAILY MAIL, the powerhouse tabloid that gets worldwide attention.  Days ago, that paper reported.

Will the Large Hadron Collider find a parallel universe? Particle smasher could become a gateway to alternate realities, say scientists


Mir Faizil, a scientist at CERN, gets a lot of the attention in various postings regarding this..

Back to the EXPRESS, Bowman writes,

Mir Faizal, one of the three-strong team of physicists behind the experiment, said: “Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects [breadth and length] can exist in a third dimension [height], parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions.
“We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.
"Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised.
"This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science.
“This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.
“As gravity can flow out of our universe into the extra dimensions, such a model can be tested by the detection of mini black holes at the LHC.
“We have calculated the energy at which we expect to detect these mini black holes in ‘gravity’s rainbow’ [a new scientific theory].
“If we do detect mini black holes at this energy, then we will know that both gravity’s rainbow and extra dimensions are correct.”

Without question, there is some eyebrows raised and even panic.. Some fear that this attempt to tinker and toy with the unwritten laws of existence are dangerous.. Many fear it will shred the vale between the here and there, the now and the then.. I even read one account that this will amplify our lives and give us super abilities and senses beyond the 5 we have, but that we will die quickly since our existence in this reality cannot handle the reality from some alternate universe..

I quite frankly don’t know what will happen.
We certainly trust those who make oodles more in cash than us to have the best interest of humanity in mind when playing in the scientific sandbox. And to me, I would love there to be some confirmation that alternate universes or parallel existences have gone beyond the science fiction realm and are now becoming mainstream enough to continue studying it for proof of their respective existences. 

Meanwhile, grab some popcorn.. Throw in DONNIE DARKO, and watch the pictures as they flutter around the universe(s). 

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Girardville St. Pat's Parade Still On!

Snow won’t stop this..


“Lucky enough people are stepping up, making thing happen, that`s the old coal region initiative around here, that`s why this is the Saint Patty`s Day parade of the coal region in Girardville,” said parade manager Stephen Barrett.“We have a very optimistic view of this thing, this isn`t the first time we`ve had snow,” said Joe Wayne, the owner of Hibernian House.He says he’s ready for the event with his bar and the block outside being where everyone ends up after the parade.“Well, it`s like inside here, they said if you died you can`t fall over, and it`s not too different out here,” said Wayne.

Girardville St. Pat's Parade Still On!

Water Reads Your Mind, Does That Mean Water Is Alive?

This is a bit out there for me, but I can roll with it. I can head down this lane, this very watery lane. And quite frankly, as we develop more knowledge, we discover lots more. SO maybe one day we will become one with the water bottle. And we will consume what we are..


Water Reads Your Mind, Does That Mean Water Is Alive?

Starbucks #RaceTogether Campaign: An Idea That Failed in Execution

Salon went one step further, labeling Starbucks as a national joke and saying that the campaign was ‘neo-liberal’ self parody


Starbucks #RaceTogether Campaign: An Idea That Failed in Execution

New fallen snow on a Spring morning

There is a fresh blanket of snowing consuming the ground this morning.. it won’t last, I can hear the sounds of spring birds chirping away, perhaps in disbelief that their return home was greeted with a winter blast.. The cold is waning, though. . And the sky is a beautiful shade of pinkish purple the darker clouds lift..

It was a beautiful morning. Even though it was spring, it was amazing to see the snow thick on tree limbs. It will be over soon.. gone.. And forgotten.

Spring will turn to summer.. And summer will also wane away eventually.
Years go by fast anymore.. 

I don’t know if you agree, or perhaps if I am just beginning to fear the middle ages of life as I quickly progress in my 30s, but life is going fast. 

‘Just how we roll’: Bristol Palin’s fiance pictured playing with baby next to unsecured handgun

Yemen mosque bombings: 'Blood was running like a river', say survivors after attack kills 120

Yemen mosque bombings: 'Blood was running like a river', say survivors after attack kills 120

Friday, March 20, 2015

N. Korea prepared to use nukes ‘any time’ it feels threated by US – DPRK Ambassador to UK

Maybe by the time you read this it will be happening…


N. Korea prepared to use nukes ‘any time’ it feels threated by US – DPRK Ambassador to UK

BEST IMAGES OF TODAY’S SOLAR ECLIPSE

Monica Lewinsky gave a really, really important TED talk on bullying

ok.. ok.. ok.. I get it.

But yet, there is a part of me that wants to discredit this and completely ignore the bullying aspect. She was a part of history. As was her dress. The 1990s was the Seinfeld era, the decade about nothing. 

Bullied? I don’t know about that.. I just don’t..


Monica Lewinsky gave a really, really important TED talk on bullying

Twas the night before a St Patrick’s day parade in Girardville PA.. a mess of snow. A quick attempt to clear the parade route. Guntown will go green but not until they clean the white…

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The final snow day?

Let the Heavens Fall: The Rites of Destruction

Tracy Trtyman is Clyde Lewis’ producer.. her latest article is interesting..


Let the Heavens Fall: The Rites of Destruction

sixpenceee:

It took about a year to get the iconic shot in where blood pours out of the elevator in The Shining right, but only three days to film.



Funny.. this is probably, to me, one of the dumnest scenes in any movie. I mean that.. But three days to film? Sad..

Scientology Takes Aim at 'Going Clear' Documentary

As they should, this docu OBLITERATES them..


Scientology Takes Aim at 'Going Clear' Documentary

mothernaturenetwork:

Believe it or not, you can still rent movies at Blockbuster
The well-known movie-rental business closed its stores and ended its DVD-distribution program in January, but about 50 stores remain open — and one man owns half of them.



Wow..

I have no words except wow.

YES… IT’S SPRING.. DESPITE THIS.

Kaia Bonshock, left, Brooke Hovenstine, Kelsee Dunn and Mackenzie Hasuga, freshmen members of the Shamokin Area High School girls’ softball team, decided to practice on their own in a parking lot for Kemp Memorial Stadium on Friday, despite an early dismissal from school because of snow. The team’s first regular season game is tentatively set for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and will be played in Kemp Memorial Stadium, instead of the team’s field because it is not ready for play.

The happy Art Bell dance

For those who don’t know, radio great Art Bell is planning a return this summer. Either online, or perhaps a little online and a little AM. Undisclosed information at this time.. But my son, age four now, is happy. Perhaps by force.. He has been a captive audience member since infancy when he’d hear Art’s reruns on the FINE ART STREAM and U7 Radio .. Now he fully endorses the return with his own version of a celebratory dance. I suspect if Art can muster up another ten years, Ayden will be 14 years of age. And he will have a full experience of what Art Bell was .. Amazing.


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And for perspective, Ayden at 1 year:

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Vanuatu Official: Nation Will ‘Run Out Of Food In Less Than A Week’

think-progress:

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Late last week, a Category 5 tropical cyclone ripped through the island nation of Vanuatu, killing at least 24 people and displacing 3,300 more. In statement to the Associated Press, Vanuatu’s president
Baldwin Lonsdale said that 90 percent of the island’s buildings had been
destroyed or damaged by the storm.

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“Chilling” is now the word for this.. this category 5 storm was immense, and the world, sadly, isn’t paying attention to the plight of those affected. 

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SCORES DEAD IN YEMEN..
ISIS takes credit for suicide bombs..
Noon prayers rocked by car bomb..

ECLIPSE ATTACK: ISIS STRIKES YEMEN 

This photo was posted to REDDIT on Thursday and shows, at least according to the description, an ER doctor stepping outside after losing a 19-year-old patient..

An EMT worker posted the photo. According to the report, the EMT had permission to share it and wanted to shed light on what it is like to work in the industry..

According to the report, moments after the photo was taken, the doctor went back into the ER to continue his work. But he obviously took a time out to contemplate and become privately emotional about not being able to save a life.

This is a moving picture—a showcase that doctors are good and that the medical profession, though flawed and often littered with bureaucracy and lawsuit fevers, can still be morally just and amazing in professionalism.. 

The picture can also be and instrument of attraction to get more people into the field.. or a turnoff to some who know, seeing this, they couldn’t handle the emotion of seeing young and old human beings perish in front of them.. 

There is a deeper meaning to life. A bigger picture. Perhaps that bigger picture is that earth is simply a stepping stone in life and our souls move on.. Maybe the bigger picture is that this brief life is the beginning and the end of our computer systems.. That there’s nothing else, that we are alone in this galaxy and that life just happened without the help of divine love.

To me, that is what this picture symbolizes.. not just the emotion of a doctor losing a patient, but the true and unadulterated humanity that shows itself during intense moments of birth and death. 

This doctor, despite his high education and established career, is moved to tears by the same thing humanity itself is.. We don’t know anything. We say we do. We go to Churches with pastors who tell us what to know.. we read self help books about how to know. We listen to vague pluralities that are supposed to define the known.

But we don’t know.
Instead, we wail and cry when we face the end. We are confused by the process.. We are are succumbing, each day, to death. And this doctor couldn’t save a 19-year-old from expiring before his time..

There indeed is a lot of emotion in this photo snapped during a second in time.

But it’s a testament to the goodness that can exist in the hearts of men.

SUGAR WINS!? MAKING THE HEART GROW OLD

Just when Katie Couric’s documentary on sugar begins sinking in, this woman comes along at 104 and she’s healthy and been religiously drinking Dr Pepper since the 1960s.

So there!

Katie Couric 1.
Sugar industry 104.


SUGAR WINS!? MAKING THE HEART GROW OLD

NEW DETAILS EMERGE IN CRAIGSLIST HORROR..

Shocking information coming to light on this crime.. something worse than any horror movie of recent memory. 

Reality is like this—scarier than anything of fiction on movie or TV screens. This matter is revolting ..

And a cautionary tale about CRAIGSLIST, perhaps..


NEW DETAILS EMERGE IN CRAIGSLIST HORROR..

Penn State frat KDR had warning about social media before posting lewd photos

PICTURES ARE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS..
WARNINGS WERE NOT HEEDED.
THOUSANDS IF NOT MILLIONS OF WORDS WERE POSTED


Penn State frat KDR had warning about social media before posting lewd photos

Spring time comes later today.. Right now as I write this post, a snowstorm (yes, snow) is falling outside on my Pennsylvania USA sidewalk.. Meanwhile, there’s a celestial event of epic proportions taking place in the NORTH ATLANTIC, the total eclipse of the sun is in progress at press time..

8000 visitors have voyaged to the Faroe islands to witness the amazing event..

CBC news reported it this way for the historical accounts:

People shouted, cheered and applauded as Longyearbyen, the main town in Svalbard, plunged into darkness. The skies were clear, offering a full view of the sun’s corona — a faint ring of rays surrounding the moon — that is only visible during a total solar eclipse.
A few hundred people had gathered on a flat frozen valley overlooking the mountains, and people shouted and yelled as the sudden darkness came. A group of people opened bottles of champagne, saying it was in keeping with a total solar eclipse tradition.

People are ‘blown away’ by the event.. As the darkness shrouded the existence, eyes on the sky were perplexed and fixated on the rare event–so many times in history, human beings had the same reaction. Despite the time and place, we are always amazed when the source of life and light vanishes behind a cloak of darkness.. Many people, as we know, see it as a harbinger.. a time when darkness invades the land. That belief goes back a long way. But it still exists today as much as it did then, despite scientific explanations as to why and how solar eclipses happen in the first place. I think we are programmed through evolution and the development of the brain to be apprehensive of darkness.. and when our senses see dark skies on what should be a sunny day, it throws the mind for a loop.

Coming later on top of the darkness, a blood moon at night. Spring, too.. the equinox to remember.

A few weeks ago, I had a dream that was bizarre.. In the night terror, it was 4am and it was sunny. People were confused as to why the sun had risen so early, and it was as bright as noon at 4am.. People were waking early to come out from their comfort zone and look to the a frightening sky..  It reminded me a bit of the MIDNIGHT SUN Twilight Zone episode..

And that is why eclipses rattle us. They make the unexpected occur.. They turn off the lights.. they let the darkness enter. And the fear begins..

Happy viewing to those who see it.
Happy shoveling to anyone else getting the snow today.
Happy spring to all who are reading.

ECLIPSE..

Breathtaking solar eclipse witnessed by millions..
Looking to the sky..
Solar energy tested..
LIVE..


Wednesday, March 18, 2015

News to not lose..

Bardo Museum in Tunisia attacked.. tourists killed, hostages taken..

The near death science.. Gideon Lichfield  on empirically investigating brushes with the afterlife..

Catholic viewpoint: An open letter to bloggers..

KRAFT food recalls major load of Mac N Cheese.. containing metal!

MORE STRANGE LIGHTS, THIS TIME IN RUSSIA..

Major quake in Oklahoma possible as new fault lines discovered..

Vanuatu islands getting more aid after Cyclone Pam..

Cyanide sent to the White House..

University of Houston  suspends frat for hazing incident..

MILKY WAY may have BILLIONS of planets in habitable zone.. And they say we’re alone..
A galaxy teeming with life..

A mysterious dust cloud around MARS..

HUBBLE’S GREATEST HITS: Transforming our knowledge of SPACE in photographs.. How small do you feel now?

The future is now: Designer babies and genetically edited human beings.. This changes everything.. imagine the baby shower of the future.

Coming this Friday to a sky near you: A solar occurrence that never happened in history

DIET Soda leading to fat stomachs in adults..

Avian Cholera kills 2000 birds in Idaho..

EPA takes on conspiracy theories: Attempts to debunk chemtrails

Worth thinking: What if inanimate objects have feelings.. I think the first thing they would do is laugh at us every time we stubbed our toe on them..

Milky way may have billions of planets in habitable zone

Milky way may have billions of planets in habitable zone

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Shake your shamrocks but be safe.

It’s Green Beer time across America..

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, world.

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With the energy of a Metallica song, I wish you all a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, 2015..

Monday, March 16, 2015

My daily doodle… Staying awake

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jtotheizzoe:

NEW VIDEOOOOO!

What color is the universe? 

(Hint: It’s not “black”)



Good video..

Coke as a sensible snack? Coca-Cola works with dietitians who suggest cola as snack

I just gulped a bit when I read this..

In the 1950s, doctors advertised smoking.
In the 2000teens, doctors will harp on the benefits of sugary drinks?

Sorry Coke, but THIS:


Coke as a sensible snack? Coca-Cola works with dietitians who suggest cola as snack

Move over, Reddit: Tumblr is the new front page of the Internet.

I have been telling my friend who loves the poorly designed REDDIT that Tumblr is the new social media of record.

But I still think all the memes and worthwhile Facebook nonsense comes from 4CHAN. That’s not changing any time soon..


Move over, Reddit: Tumblr is the new front page of the Internet.

More than 45,000 Russian troops as well as war planes and submarines started military exercises across much of the country on Monday in one of the Kremlin's biggest shows of force since its ties with the West plunged to Cold War-lows.

Looks like while Vlad was gone, some plans were put into motion..


More than 45,000 Russian troops as well as war planes and submarines started military exercises across much of the country on Monday in one of the Kremlin's biggest shows of force since its ties with the West plunged to Cold War-lows.

Sirius founder envisions world of cyber clones, tech med

Oh but there’s so much more than just robots taking out the trash.. try this:

At the keynote, Rothblatt described how the inevitable emergence of cyber consciousness – when machines act with a sophistication and thought level equal to that of humans – will not be overnight but a more subtle evolution.
"Every company will try to out-Siri Siri until we have consciousness," she said, referring to the Apple/iOS application that works as a personal assistant and navigator. "It will be like water that rises and rises and rises and, before we know it, we’re in an ocean of cyber consciousness."

And then what?
Lots of choices are coming for humanity. Lots of choices will not have to be made—and actually a lot of misery and heartache may occur as advancements become cruel to people trying to live out out their lives.

Progress.. The future. It’s all good. Until it goes bad.. Until one of those thinking machines thinks too much..

And I wonder, sometime about 1000 years from now, will robots ponder ‘who created me? Why am I here? What happens when I turn off?”   We do. And we think. Or so we are told we think..

Rick Jervis in USA TODAY goes on to report: 

Artificial intelligence and robotics have been key – and controversial – themes at this year’s SXSW. A slew of panel discussions and keynote speeches on the topic have drawn thousands of attendees, while films screening at the film festival portion of SXSW, such as Ex Machina and Creative Control, have addressed it in their plot lines.
The themes have also prompted protests outside the conference warning of an over-reliance on artificial intelligence to the detriment of humans. In one, a group of protestors held signs reading “Stop the Robots” while chanting “A-I Say Goodbye!”
Rothblatt said robots and humans don’t have to choose sides – such as in the plotlines seen in popular Hollywood movies – but will live in a peaceful co-existence that will make them virtually indistinguishable from one another.
"It’s not us versus cyberspace," she said. "We’re merging together."
She added: “We don’t want to create a new slave-versus-free motif. I’m all for merging everyone together. On the level of consciousness, we’re all one.”

We are all one.
Skin and bones. Gear and bytes.. We are the world. 

We are the future..


Sirius founder envisions world of cyber clones, tech med

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS: Claim: ISIS fighters dress as women in desperate attempt to flee battlefield‏

Drudge picked up the story. Expect it to be the talk of your respective town by dinner hour..

Devils in blue dresses..


DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS: Claim: ISIS fighters dress as women in desperate attempt to flee battlefield‏

The ghosts--literally--of 9/11?

For obvious reasons, I am careful when reporting ‘ghosts’ at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center attacks so many years ago.. 

But there is an article appearing in the NEW YORK POST about the subject of paranormal activity in relation to the infamous terror attack site.. Gary Busio writes about a number of workers at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island who were sifting the rubble from the 9/11 attacks reported seeing a female ghost holding a tray of sandwiches, a new book ­reveals.. 

Other police officers witnessed things, too, like large black masses and shadows. Some comments are mocking the story, others are accepting of it. 

I did a bit more research on the book that the NY POST was talking about. 

It’s called From Landfill to Hallowed Ground, by Frank Marra. Marra is a retired police officer. He also worked at the Staten Island Landfill World Trade Center Recovery Site from September 2001 until February 2002. The inspiration to write the book obviously came from the work he performed.. It does not seem that the entire book is dedicated to paranormal affairs, but instead offers an historic account of what it was like on the ground during the aftermath of the biggest crime scene in American history..

There are only two reviews at press time on AMAZON.. I think that number will increase with attention. 

I am a firm believer that the paranormal is NOT real until it happens to you. 

And it would appear many police officers now consider the paranormal to be very real..

HEY WORLD: #PutinIsNOTdead

All the world’s a stage> And I think Pootie Poot just played the world..

Vlad lives to impale another day.

Philadelphia-area residents see dollar signs in visit by Pope Francis

PAPAL FEVER in the city of brotherly love.. and as only Philly faces can do, people are taking advantage of the unique chance to see a Pope by inflating prices, gouging customers, and having a field day of unfairness when it comes to legally taking lots of cash from tourists who want the chance to see Francis..

What would Jesus do?
I think he’d order ‘wit’..


Philadelphia-area residents see dollar signs in visit by Pope Francis

Russia's Vladimir Putin makes first public appearance in 10 days

Russia's Vladimir Putin makes first public appearance in 10 days

Sunday, March 15, 2015

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This is the video of the long lasting blue meteor over Austria and Switzerland.. 

A Blue 'Meteor' Over Switzerland and Austria

A Blue 'Meteor' Over Switzerland and Austria

Broadcasting again: The UVB-76 Live Stream Blog

I think the buzzer is buzzing again. I am able to hear UVB-76 again on the live feed page.. It’s back to ‘normal,’ whatever that normal may be.

Meanwhile, I am on the Earthcam Moscow site. Traffic is moving as normal. I think.. “normal,” again..

I got a message earlier from someone asking why it would even matter if UVB-76 was down, or up, or broadcasting eerie messages. You can read some background from this January story on the HUFFINGTON POST UK page..

I also wrote a few bits about the numbers station and my intrigue and love for them during the history of this site.. one four months ago, another here showcasing one of the creepier numbers stations broadcasts I have ever heard, one a year ago when I celebrated the Clyde Lewis show where he played recordings of creepy media hijacks.. 

However, the best article I may have ever read on the UVB-76 story was by James Cook in THE KERNEL.. 

Lots of reading to do.. Lots of weird beeps and buzzing, oddities and frequencies.. Strange frequencies during the night. While you sleep, the numbers stations don’t.. And isn’t that the creepy part? Trying to relax while these strange messages beam around the planet?


Broadcasting again: The UVB-76 Live Stream Blog

Confirmed: The live stream of UVB-76 is offline..

If someone can confirm that UVB-76 is down or operational please contact me

The best way is on Twitter coalspeaker or on my Open Lines page..

I have a report that UVB-76 number station is currently down.

Amazing news.. anyone who follows knows this could be a big deal. There’s something big happening in Russia. Or some major international influences and propaganda are at work … but a numbers station like this being down is a little chilling .

Cinderella takes the top box spot.. but a horror 'Follows'

The family film secured $70 mil this weekend.. the audiences were primary women and primary families–66% for each category, respectively..



The horror film IT FOLLOWS got $40,000 or so per theater.. the tiny release will expand experts don’t see it expanding past 200 theaters but with this little film that could, who knows



Families and horror fans both happy with a weekend box..
Notbbad, Hollywood.. March madness.

Vatican backs using force against IS

Something seems very significant for the world with this turn of events..


Vatican backs using force against IS

Footage of Vladimir Putin raises speculation of whereabouts

The events in the Kremlin are being explained this way: A big concert on the anniversary of Crimea’s annexation.. 

Meanwhile, the Kremlin is getting angry at REUTERS reporting calling asking where Vladimir Putin is. One comment said it wasn’t funny anymore to be asked so many times.

The next public appearance is set for Monday. Although Russian state TV already said on Friday what happened on Monday, I suppose time is going to be on someone’s side here.

The wild rumors .. the facts. 

In propaganda wars, there are no facts. Always remember that. The victors of war and battle simply write the history book..


Footage of Vladimir Putin raises speculation of whereabouts

Much-needed aid arrives in cyclone-devastated Vanuatu

The situation on the island is dire—food and water and shelter are all gone for a population quickly ravaged by the storm.  Ten are reported dead.. there are hints and suggestions that the number will rise as time goes on.  One pilot who was forced to land in Tanna described pure devastation, with entire communities simply flattened.

Many officials and also world citizens are relying heavily on social media to see just how bad things are—the world has been reading Tweets and other citizen reporting from the ground where the storm struck.. One Tweet described a 21-year-old sheltering a 1 week old baby even as the roof was ripped off by Cyclone PAM.. 

And that is how natural disasters work. They come quick, they leave fast. They leave misery in the wake.. And deaths. Injuries, but also little quips and anecdotes of miracles that seem to keep humanity hopeful just enough to clean up until the next disaster..


Much-needed aid arrives in cyclone-devastated Vanuatu

Ohio has a problem. This man you see here, is the phantom pooper.. the night owl defectator.. the silent shitter.. You pick your own term. Either way, he’s going around various parts of the city of Akron, Ohio. It’s been going on for years, the suspicion now is that the Bowel Movement Bandit has defecated on over 19 cars.  The poopetrator even hit one woman’s car 7 times..

He’s been getting busy with his business. But now cops want him to cut the crap. This story is just asking for bad puns, and regardless of the source, people are making them. But just imagine waking up one day to find a large load on the cook of your car.. The horror of that scene would be unimaginable.. 

Either way, with his image now blasting across the internet–the image of him in action–there may be ‘movement’ on the case.. For the sake of Akron, we certainly hope so.


another daily doodle . “the Perfect Selfie”

Vladimir Putin has been 'neutralised' by a stealthy coup as rumours about his health and well-being continue to flourish'

It’s going to be a wild night of news, as this UK DAILY MAIL headline showcases..



There are some interesting developments in Moscow even as US media blackout on it continues.. Reports of tanks rolling into the city and power being out in several places..



Propaganda on all sides is evident in the a Tweets and news reports coming from Russia.. Only rumors at this point and no hard reporting.. Few facts. Only a deepening mystery in the nation .. And for that matter , the world.


Vladimir Putin has been 'neutralised' by a stealthy coup as rumours about his health and well-being continue to flourish'
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