"In other news"

Events and people making news around the world today, March 17 2014:

Crimea has voted: 95+% of the over 1.2 million people who went to the polls want to be a part of Russia.. people took to the streets to celebrate after the vote, champagne glasses were raised and people kissed under the moonlit skies.. But what now? Well hopefully not this: State TV says Russia could turn the United States into radioactive ash..

The drums are beating.. Russia downs a United States drone, according to a report..

Beating..beating.. North Korea fires 25 missiles into the sea of Japan..

So .. what are Russians doing off the coast of Florida?

Plane vanished in plain sight: As if things couldn't get weirder with Flight 370's vanishing act.. Read this: The missing Malaysia plane reportedly sent signals, a final 'ping,' seven hours later after the flight vanished..

Those who have listened to Coast to Coast AM since the 1990s (and lots of other UFO oriented sources) may know this name: Dr. Roger Leir. He was famous for saying he took alien implants out of a large number of patients who went to him.. He passed away this weekend while awaiting surgery relating to a 2010 accident...

An avalanche in Idaho buried state highway 21 under 60 feet of snow! There's no spring coming to melt that fast enough..

There's been a tremendous amount of conspiracy conjecture relating to Fukushima since the nightmare began March 2011.. but this article posted at the New York TIMES is hair-raising.. Apparently Japan's government is trying to stop reporting of facts, such as this: Radioactive cesium 137 in the surface water of the Pacific Ocean COULD BE 10,000 times as high as contamination from Chernobyl. Let that, and other facts from the article, sink in a bit..

I get a feeling that if alien life is going to be announced, it will be coming from religious leaders before the government. That way it would sink in better with people if they heard it from God-like men as opposed to devil-like whores.. And in that regard: The Vatican Observatory is co-hosting a conference in Arizona this week on the search for life beyond the solar system.. I always think back to the priest who said he'd love to baptize an alien.. Maybe the Vatican knows disclosure will lead to a surge in numbers. But what will the aliens donate in the weekly collection basket?

And you thought the government was invading your privacy!? Get this: Companies are tracking your secrets, medical information and sexual habits. And it's all being resold online.

There have been over 280 earthquakes in 72 hours in the El Hierro area..

NASA says Mercury is shrinking..


This is Lady Gaga with vomit all over her..