French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told CNN affiliate BFM-TV that an operation was underway in the Dammartin-en-Goele area, as police hunt the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Friday, January 9, 2015
Charlie Hebdo: 'major operation' north-east of Paris in hunt for suspects
A major operation is underway in Dammartin-en-Goele where police helicopters have been deployed.
Police are reported to have entered negotiations with the suspects amid still unconfirmed claims that they are holding at least one hostage.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Ghislaine Maxwell hits back amid a devastating sex scandal
New York socialite - pictured with Prince Andrew at Heidi Klum’s ‘Hookers and Pimps’ Halloween party - is fighting for her reputation after being dragged into an underage sex scandal.
This is not going away..
Ghislaine Maxwell hits back amid a devastating sex scandal
Dad's Strange Behavior Unsettled Some Before Child's Killing
Hours before John Jonchuck Jr. allegedly threw his 5-year-old daughter off a Florida bridge, he called his lawyer “God” and asked her to read from a Bible written in Swedish
Strange or not strnage, what Jonchuck did to his daughter is reprehensible.. NBC NEWS reports,
The 11 a.m. Wednesday encounter in Tampa was so disturbing that the attorney, Genevieve Torres, called police to report that Jonchuck was acting strangely and had just left her office — and she warned that he had his daughter with him.
He “started talking to me and saying I was the creator, I was God and then he wanted to read a Bible of his — I said, ‘I can’t, it’s in Swedish’ — he started being really … I mean, he’s nuts,” the attorney told a dispatcher, according to audio released by the sheriff’s office Thursday.
"What I’m saying is, he’s out of his mind, and he has a minor child with him."
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office sent a deputy specially trained to deal with the mentally ill to speak with Jonchuck, who at that point was at St. Paul’s Catholic Church with his daughter, Phoebe, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies, however, found no reason to detain him.
Phoebe “was smiling and appeared properly clothed and happy,” according to the police report. Jonchuck denied he intended to hurt her or himself, and said he had never been diagnosed with a mental illness.
The pastor of the church said Jonchuck’s behavior was odd — he would say “I am the Pope,” and then, “I know I am not,” but he also told deputies he didn’t think Jonchuck was a threat, the report said.
But Jonchuck, 25, allegedly threw Phoebe from the bridge just after midnight Thursday.The girl fell 60 feet into the cold waters of Tampa Bay and was found dead. Authorities aren’t sure whether the child was alive when she was thrown off the bridge.
It’s difficult to conjure in your mind.. It certainly sounds like things were being conjured in his .. despite whatever mental state he was in or still is in, I doubt there will be much understanding when this presses on to trial..
Dad's Strange Behavior Unsettled Some Before Child's Killing
Jonathan Laurence in SLATE: Marine Le Pen told a talk show host on Thursday morning she was “still waiting for her phone to ring” with an invitation from the prime minister to participate in Sunday’s national unity march. But Le Pen’s phone has remained silent. Government leaders are gambling that they don’t need her and can keep the National Front at a safe distance from its street-level display of strength and solidarity
The timing of the Paris attacks couldn’t be more interesting.. an election coming and a victory for an insurgent right wing candidate looks like a good chance.
Jonathan Laurence in SLATE: Marine Le Pen told a talk show host on Thursday morning she was “still waiting for her phone to ring” with an invitation from the prime minister to participate in Sunday’s national unity march. But Le Pen’s phone has remained silent. Government leaders are gambling that they don’t need her and can keep the National Front at a safe distance from its street-level display of strength and solidarity
America about to change
President Barack Obama says he’ll propose making two years of community college “free for everybody who’s willing to work for it.” CNN reporting. And everyone else will soon..
J.C. Penney, Macy's to shut stores, lay off scores
If anyone visited a mall this Christmas season, this should come as no surprise
J.C. Penney, Macy's to shut stores, lay off scores
Blast hits restaurant near mosque in France's east
Is this a continuation of yesterday’s terror attack?
Blast hits restaurant near mosque in France's east
The Complete Guide to Horror Movies in 2015
It is as complete I suppose as one could get..
It looks like a solid group of garbage in my opinion, with a few gems of exceptions..
But 2014 was an equally useless year for the genre.. So why not continue suckage well into ‘15..
The Complete Guide to Horror Movies in 2015
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Science says you might have psychopathic traits if you post a lot of selfies
Here is the gist of the study as reported by the UK INDEPENDENT:
Men who take more selfies have higher than average traits of narcissism and psychopathy, a study from academics at Ohio State University has found.
The research, published in the journal of Personality and Individual Differences, looked at 800 men between the ages of 18-40 who completed an online survey about how many photos they posted on social media, and another questionnaire looking at their personality traits.
It also found men who edited their selfies before posting them were more likely to have traits of narcissism but editing selfies was not linked to psychopathic traits.
I am a bit back and forth on this, quite frankly.
I am not a selfie kind of guy, and typically avoid cameras.. but at times I really enjoy having photographs of myself in certain situations. Nostalgia sets in quickly. I also appreciate that my wife snaps a number of photos of the family for posterity..
However, I also know people who take lots of snapshots of themselves to document, in a sense, their self importance. And yes, they put that colored hue on it courtesy of the iPhone effects of Instagram editing.. Virtually no photo taken anymore is actually of the scene. Instead colors are changed and the edits are done to make the fragmentation look better and the pixelation tanner.
I do not think, though, that every person who is a selfie fiend is also a self-aggrandizing psychopath in the works..
But a lot are.
I think that..
Think back to history, though. I would say this: If cell phones were around during Black Plague, the Middle Ages, the Civil War, the French Revolution, selfies would have been just as popular then as they are now.
Even during the 1800s, it was a major big deal to get a family portrait snapped.. It was historic for a person to get their image solidified in history.
Now there’s a billion selfies being posted every second of the day. And quite frankly, the more that get posted the less they matter.
Psychopaths maybe. But it’s a psychopathic world where no one gives a damn anymore about what you ate or where you went. You simply exist in your own small sheltered world of self importance.
Enjoy it.
Science says you might have psychopathic traits if you post a lot of selfies
Katie Couric, Woody Allen: Jeffrey Epstein's Society Friends Close Ranks
Despite the pedophile mogul’s conviction for soliciting underage prostitution, his circle is standing by their man. Scientists whose research Epstein funded also back the billionaire, writes Alexandra Wolfe.
Katie Couric, Woody Allen: Jeffrey Epstein's Society Friends Close Ranks
A new study from reputable sources claims that the SUN may actually predict how long a person lives
The lifespan of those born in periods of solar maximum — interludes marked by powerful flares and geomagnetic storms — was “5.2 years shorter” on average than those born during a solar minimum, they found. “Solar activity at birth decreased the probability of survival to adulthood,” thus truncating average lifespan, according to the paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Causation or correlation?
I am sure there are people who are surprised to see such astrology making the rounds in real news sources today.. but this study seems to confirm long held worship of the giant orange ball in the sky..
But think about the actual results. . In a way, they make perfect sense.
Everything is connected.. we all are, too..
Looks like I have five years less.. 1980 was a big year for solar flares.
A new study from reputable sources claims that the SUN may actually predict how long a person lives
Jeffrey Epstein And A Long History Of Slime
And some names may surprise you.
LIKE STEPHEN HAWKING!?
The SMOKING GUN reports:
Epstein refers to himself as a “science and education philanthropist” who sponsors “cutting edge science around the world.” In 2012, Epstein hosted Stephen Hawking at a science conference held on his private Caribbean island. The theoretical physicist joined the sex offender, three Nobel Prize winners, and other noted scientists like Lawrence Krauss for a discussion on gravity.
The sordid tale only gets weirder..
Jeffrey Epstein And A Long History Of Slime
Y2K-15?!
The International Earth Rotation Service will add a leap second on June 30 to sync up the atomic clock time to Earth’s rotational time.
And that is supposedly now going to cause a problem for the internet..
Here is a good summation of the summer’s upcoming computer problems from THE VERGE
Of course, not every website or company has the sort of engineering resources needed to implement something like a “leap smear,” and when June 30th rolls around in the summer, you can expect to see the odd outage or two. Beyond clever engineering though, there’s not much to be done. As The Telegraph reports, there are some factions in the US that would like to drop the leap second altogether, but doing so would mean unmooring our concept of time from one of the most fundamental timescales, the solar day, and setting civil time on a path forever diverging from time as measured by our planet. Would it be worth the trouble? We’ll get another chance to find out on June 30th.
Just something else to worry about.
As far as why the second is being added: The earth’s rotation has slowed..
While I have seen a multitude of theories as to why, let’s not forget the major earthquakes of the past ten years—and even how some speculated after the Japan quake in ‘11 that it caused an earth wobble and affected time itself.
Cue the DON’T HUG ME I’M SCARED VIDEO.
Y2K-15?!
I thoroughly disdain the term “polar vortex” .. I liked the 1990s term ‘Arctic Express” much better. It felt happier and more a reminder of winter as opposed to the deadly cold that is going to bite our faces away..
Just look at how cold it’s going to get.. The way it will fear as far as Florida.. this is a deep freeze.
It may not last long. But with temperatures that low who cares.. let it end fast..
UNEXPECTED Strong geomagnetic storm hits Earth
The warning also said that the storm could push the area where the Aurora could be seen as far south as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon.
The main intensity of the storm was supposed to have affected the planet just before 6:30 a.m. but the storm was reported to still be in progress at 9 a.m.
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..
UNEXPECTED Strong geomagnetic storm hits Earth
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..
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