The upcoming death of music is upon us

The upcoming days the music will die.

A sobering story written by Damon Linker in THE WEEK.. The following artists and their ages.. and how they are set to die.

Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).

(source https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend) 

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The early 2000s called and wants its social wars back

St. Edward Catholic School in Nashville, Tenn., has removed the internationally bestselling “Harry Potter” book series from its library, citing the depiction of “curses and spells.”

The Rev. Dan Reehil, a pastor at the Roman Catholic parish school, told The Tennessean newspaper that the seven-book series had been removed from the school library.

“These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception, Reehil said in a statement to the paper. "The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text.”

(source https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/459634-nashville-catholic-school-pulls-harry-potter-books-from-library) 

Just for perspective, it has been 20 years since the books were published….

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NASA satellite spots a mysterious green light that quickly disappearedNuSTAR X-ray observatory has...

NASA satellite spots a mysterious green light that quickly disappeared

NuSTAR X-ray observatory has spotted something a little weird. While imaging the Fireworks galaxy, NuSTAR spotted several mysterious bright sources of X-ray light, appearing as green and blue spots. Within days, the blobs had disappeared.

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There is video that shows that Joe Biden’s eye appearing to be...

Trump and the ALABAMA hurricane threat…During an Oval...

Trump and the ALABAMA hurricane threat…

During an Oval Office briefing Wednesday, Trump displayed a map of the National Hurricane Center forecast for last Thursday that showed Dorian could track over Florida. The map he displayed included what appeared to be a hand-drawn half-circle that extended the cone of uncertainty over a swath of Alabama.

Trump had raised eyebrows and drawn an emphatic fact check from the National Weather Service on Sunday when he tweeted that Alabama, along with the Carolinas and Georgia, “will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”

He appears to be doubling down on the clearly incorrect weather prognostication..

And now on Wednesday, Trump displayed the graphic with the alteration that suggested the storm could have tracked over Alabama.Trump had no explanation for who had altered the map he displayed in the White House.But he told reporters, “I know that Alabama was in the original forecast.”..

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It still amazes me how much world leaders visually match in appearance as of late

Yellowstone’s tallest geyser continues to break eruption records The Steamboat Geyser has...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched America into the Space...

Elvira is in a new Scooby Doo movie .. available now only in Walmart stores

PARADISE LOST IN THE...

PARADISE LOST IN THE BAHAMAS..

https://news.yahoo.com/desperate-calls-help-flooded-bahamas-islands-213619761.html

The AFP:

“Anybody who can help me, this is Kendra Williams. I live in Heritage. We are under water; we are up in the ceiling.

"Can someone please assist us or send some help. Please.”

“Me and my six grandchildren and my son, we are in the ceiling.”

The text message was forwarded to AFP by Yasmin Rigby, a resident of Freeport. Authorities in the hurricane-hammered Bahamas said they were getting many such dire-sounding pleas for help.

“We’re getting a lot of frantic people calling in,” Don Cornish, the Grand Bahama disaster manager, told NPR.

x x x 

AP: 

Relief officials reported scenes of utter ruin Tuesday in parts of the Bahamas and rushed to deal with an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful storm on record ever to hit the islands. At least seven deaths were reported, with the full scope of the disaster still unknown.

The storm’s punishing winds and muddy brown floodwaters destroyed or severely damaged thousands of homes, crippled hospitals and trapped people in attics.

“It’s total devastation. It’s decimated. Apocalyptic,” said Lia Head-Rigby, who helps run a local hurricane relief organization and flew over the Bahamas’ hard-hit Abaco Islands. “It’s not rebuilding something that was there; we have to start again.”

She said her representative on Abaco told her that there were “a lot more dead” and that the bodies were being gathered. The prime minister also expected more deaths and predicted that rebuilding would require “a massive, coordinated effort.”

Source: https://apnews.com/10633adb197f40f9bcbe584c0d9037a5 

CBS NEWS:

“My grandson’s dead. I’d just seen my grandson about two days ago. My grandson just tell me he loves me,” said Ingrid McIntosh.

Much of the islands now resemble a wasteland. Homes torn inside out, cars destroyed, trees stripped and toppled, residential streets now rushing rivers. Tim Aylen filmed himself and his family Tuesday fleeing their Freeport home in dangerously rising waters, their dogs in tow, exhausted.

Major infrastructure has been rendered useless. The Grand Bahama International Airport, for example, is under water. That’s just one of the challenges rescuers face in the midst of such destruction. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-dorian-desperate-search-for-survivors-underway-after-devastates-bahamas-2019-09-03/) 

All of this is heart wrenching beyond wildest nightmares…

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IGN is showcasing a JOKER review.. it called the movie a masterpiece.. and it’s amazing that not...

People with gun demand Popeyes chicken sandwiches in SE HoustonAn armed group of people rushed the...

People with gun demand Popeyes chicken sandwiches in SE Houston

An armed group of people rushed the door of a Popeyes Chicken restaurant in southeast Houston Monday night demanding chicken sandwiches.

Houston police were called to the restaurant on Scott Street and Corder just after 9 p.m.

Apparently 2 women, 3 men, and 1 baby were in the drive thru when they were told the chicken was sold out. Their response was to pull firearms in their demand for chicken .. a demand that would go unanswered since … they were sold out…

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Labor Day horrors hitting the Bahamas and the East Coast with #Dorian .. the West Coast with a boat bursting into flames..

DEVELOPING..

(source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7419423/Many-feared-dead-boat-bursts-flames-California-30-people-rescued.html) 

Four bodies have been recovered near the 75-foot dive boat that caught fire off the coast of Southern California, a US Coast Guard spokesman said.  

Lt Cmdr Matthew Kroll told AP the bodies recovered on Monday morning had injuries consistent with drowning.

Rescue crews are still searching for 29 people who were sleeping below deck on the vessel Conception when it burst into flames in the middle of the night while anchored 20 yards off of Platts Harbor on the north side of Santa Cruz Island.  

Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach received a mayday call just before 3.30am local time Monday.

In chilling audio the person who made the call can be heard telling a dispatcher: ‘I can’t breathe.’

Crews from the Coast Guard, Santa Barbara Fire Department, Ventura County Fire Department and Vessel Assist responded to the scene, along with multiple personal watercraft in the area.

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The latest cone..The latest news from Dorian..DORIAN FURY GRAND...

The latest cone..

The latest news from Dorian..

DORIAN FURY GRAND BAHAMA…
MAX WINDS 150 MPH…
MOVEMENT WNW 1 MPH…
WATCH AND WAIT; NOW CAT 4…
Colossal damage…
MASSIVE FLOODING…
13,000+ houses affected…
‘It’s just shredded’…
SYSTEM CRAWLING…
THISCLOSE; NEXT TURN CRITICAL FOR USA…
COMPUTER MODELS… CONE… RADAR… SATELLITE… DETAILS…
STORM CHASER UPDATE…
DESANTIS: 'Perilously Close’ To FL…
Millions ordered to evacuate…

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Pope gets stuck in Vatican elevator, firefighters rescue him

Pope gets stuck in Vatican elevator, firefighters rescue him:

Thousands of people who were gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the traditional Sunday on-the-dot-of-noon appearance by Pope Francis were watching for the window of the Apostolic Palace to be thrown open so they could listen to the pope’s remarks and receive his blessing.

But after seven minutes, people were looking at each other quizzically: no pope?

Then Francis popped out and answered their question: “First of all I must excuse myself for being late. I was blocked in an elevator for 25 minutes.”

Apparently referring to electrical power, Francis explained that there was a “drop in tension,” causing the elevator to get stuck.

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Now, in a statement from the Ministry of Health, they said today, September 1, 2019, “there have so...

Some of the new JOKER movie reviews praising the Joaquin Phoenix flick

REVIEWS: DARK MASTERPIECE…

‘DAZZLING, UNCOMFORTABLE’…

SET IN MORALLY BANKRUPT AMERICA…

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Will the Bahamas become the Bahama?175 mph SUSTAINED...

Will the Bahamas become the Bahama?

175 mph SUSTAINED winds??

WATCH AND WAIT; NOW CATASTROPHIC CAT 5…
Dorian closes in on Bahamas…
NEXT TURN CRITICAL FOR USA…
COMPUTER MODELS…
CONE…
SATELLITE…
DETAILS…
175 MPH WINDS…
200+ MPH GUSTS…
VIDEO: UPDATE…

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Veggie burgers were living an idyllic little existence. Then they got caught in a war over the future of meat | The Star

Veggie burgers were living an idyllic little existence. Then they got caught in a war over the future of meat | The Star:

GET READY FOR A MAJOR DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST VEGGIE BURGERS

But as plant-based meat goes from an afterthought to a financial juggernaut that aims to change how most people eat, the opposition has suddenly awakened: Many of the country’s 800,000 cattle ranchers have declared war on newcomers Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, which use technology to make products that hew closely to the taste and texture of meat, and now “first-generation” veggie burgers and similar products are caught in the crossfire.

In 2019, officials in nearly 30 states have proposed bills to prohibit companies from using words such as meat, burger, sausage, jerky or hot dog unless the product came from an animal that was born, raised and slaughtered in a traditional way. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Wyoming have already enacted such laws. In Missouri, the first state where the ban took effect, violators incur a $1,000 fine and as much as a year in prison. Mississippi’s new law is sweeping: “Any food product containing cell-cultured animal tissue or plant-based or insect-based food shall not be labeled meat or as a meat product.”

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Astronomers Show Dead Planets Could Be 'Broadcasting' Radio Wave Signals Into Space

Astronomers Show Dead Planets Could Be 'Broadcasting' Radio Wave Signals Into Space:

DEATH BECOMES US!

Astronomers are planning a hunt for the relics of long-dead planets.

They just found a big clue in that search: The cores of dead planets can “broadcast” radio waves for up to a billion years, according to a new study published by the Royal Astronomical Society.

The waves are caused by interactions between a dead planet’s core and the magnetic field of its dead star, known as a white dwarf.

After a star explodes, it often strips the surrounding planets of their atmospheres and outer layers, leaving just the metallic inner core. That metal conducts electricity, creating a circuit between the planet core and the dead star that produces radiation in the form of radio waves.

Scientists have known for decades that these planetary remains can emit radio waves. But this is the first research to establish a lifetime for those broadcasts - and it reveals that the signals last long enough for researchers on Earth to detect and study them.

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Just pareidolia ? A face on Antarctica it can be found at the...

Just pareidolia ? A face on Antarctica it can be found at the coordinates 72° 00’ 36" S, 168° 34’ 53" E. on Google Earth

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NORTHWEST IS SHAKING

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network has detected more than 4,500 tremors over the past two weeks deep beneath the Olympic Peninsula and southern Vancouver Island and from another swarm stretching from Eugene to the Siskiyou Mountains.

It’s a phenomenon called “episodic tremor and slip” or “slow slip.” Humans can’t feel it, but seismologists have discovered this happens along Cascadia’s tectonic plate boundary on a regular basis — every 14 months or so in the case of Puget Sound and on a different cycle in Oregon and northern California.

(Source: https://www.opb.org/news/article/slow-slip-tremors-oregon-washington-california-cascadia-earthquake/) 

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Cyborgs will replace humans and reshape the world, famed scientist says

Cyborgs will replace humans and reshape the world, famed scientist says:

‘Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end.’

Corey Powell writes, 

For tens of thousands of years, humans have reigned as our planet’s only intelligent, self-aware species. But the rise of intelligent machines means that could change soon, perhaps in our own lifetimes. Not long after that, Homo sapiens could vanish from Earth entirely.

That’s the jarring message of a new book by James Lovelock, the famed British environmentalist and futurist. “Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end,” he says in the book, “Novacene.” “The understanders of the future will not be humans but what I choose to call ‘cyborgs’ that will have designed and built themselves.”

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Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the U.S.

Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the U.S.:

This is from the report:

During one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said, “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” according to one source who was there. “They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do that?” the source added, paraphrasing the president’s remarks.

• Asked how the briefer reacted, the source recalled he said something to the effect of, “Sir, we’ll look into that.”
• Trump replied by asking incredulously how many hurricanes the U.S. could handle and reiterating his suggestion that the government intervene before they make landfall.
• The briefer “was knocked back on his heels,” the source in the room added. “You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What the f—? What do we do with this?’”

Trump also raised the idea in another conversation with a senior administration official. A 2017 NSC memo describes that second conversation, in which Trump asked whether the administration should bomb hurricanes to stop them from hitting the homeland. A source briefed on the NSC memo said it does not contain the word “nuclear”; it just says the president talked about bombing hurricanes.

• The source added that this NSC memo captured “multiple topics, not just hurricanes. … It wasn’t that somebody was so terrified of the bombing idea that they wrote it down. They just captured the president’s comments.”
• The sources said that Trump’s “bomb the hurricanes” idea — which he floated early in the first year and a bit of his presidency before John Bolton took over as national security adviser — went nowhere and never entered a formal policy process.
  

For those who think is this a crazy idea (well it kind of is maybe) .. Read this from 1997: Then Secretary of Defense Richard Cohen spoke about terrorists using weather as a weapon..

Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we’ve learned in the intelligence community, we had something called – and we have James Woolsey here to perhaps even address this question about phantom moles. The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search. 

The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of a chemical weapon or a biological one. There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. 

Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.

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The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials

The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials:

Perhaps history will view the millennials as the cursed generation..

It was the last downturn—the once-a-century Great Recession—that set them on this doddering economic course. The Millennials graduated into the worst jobs market in 80 years. That did not just mean a few years of high unemployment, or a couple years living in their parents’ basements. It meant a full decade of lost wages. The generation unlucky enough to enter the labor market in a recession suffers “significant” earnings losses that take years and years to rebound, studies show, something that hard data now back up. As of 2014, Millennial men were earning no more than Gen X men were when they were the same age, and 10 percent less than Baby Boomers—despite the economy being far bigger and the country far richer. Millennial women were earning less than Gen X women.

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THE LATEST COMPUTER MODELS ON TROPICAL STORM DORIAN..It may have...

THE LATEST COMPUTER MODELS ON TROPICAL STORM DORIAN..

It may have Puerto Rico as a hurricane..

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The revenge of your social network: China’s social credit system about to hit the globe?

A cancer cluster in Massachusetts

After being diagnosed in 2015 with oligodendroglioma, a rare brain tumor, Nick Squires told The Patriot Ledger he noticed that an alarming number of other young adults who grew up in his neighborhood were fighting, and dying from, brain tumors.

The PATRIOT LEDGER article is damning

“I had anxiety about coming out and talking about this because I know it can cause panic,” said Squires, a married father of three children, including 4-month-old twin boys. “But there’s something very wrong here, and people have the right to know.”

The National Fireworks Co. began developing, testing and manufacturing civilian fireworks and military munitions at the site near the Hanson town line in 1907, and disposed of chemicals there until it closed in 1971.

The property was then purchased by American Potash and Co., which operated there for a few years before selling the land to the Atlantic Research Corp., a government contractor that produced explosives for the Army and the Navy, and also allowed other entities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to dump hazardous waste on its property.

In the mid-1980s, the federal Environmental Protection Agency found several dozen barrels of toxic waste around the property and indications that many had been dumped, according to several reports. Some of the toxins found include chloroform, Freon, arsenic, trichloroethene and vinyl chloride.

A variety of heavy metals, including mercury, were found in the soil and water around the former factory, setting off a decadeslong effort to clean up 140 acres between King and Winter streets. While the contamination was measured at twice the threshold for earning Superfund status – a federal program that prioritizes and funds the cleanup of hazardous sites – town officials asked the state to oversee the cleanup to avoid the federal process and stigma that came with it.

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These people rule the world.G-7 cracks emerge… Iran...

These people rule the world.

G-7 cracks emerge…

Iran foreign minister makes surprise visit…

Macron gamble…

Economic storm clouds hovering over global leaders…

Boris Johnson’s Long Journey From Trump Hater to Best Friend…

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There is something so strange about the world, no? A time when...

There is something so strange about the world, no? A time when the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the UK look virtually like twins, and meet Macron of France at the G7..

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Fast radio signals being transmitted to the planet Earth continue

Numerous repeated signals are being sent through the universe to Earth, scientists say.

Researchers have detected eight repeating blasts of energy, or fast radio bursts (FRB), that have been picked up on Earth by telescopes.

The discovery could mark a major breakthrough for researchers as they attempt to discover the source of the mysterious signals.

Scientists found the first FRB in 2007, and have found dozens since. But they have only confirmed two that repeat.

Repeating FRBs are so valuable because they offer researchers the opportunity to predict where they might come from, and study them in more detail. As such, discovering eight more repeating bursts could provide huge value to the researchers who are attempting to find where the bursts are coming from.

That source could be surprisingly close. The researchers suggest that one of the bursts could be coming from a galaxy that neighbours own Milky Way – though caution that further work will need to be done to discover more about the bursts.

(SOURCE: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/repeated-signals-coming-earth-another-153000220.html) 

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Cell phone radiation output may be far above safety limits Apple and Samsung phones released over...

Cell phone radiation output may be far above safety limits

Apple and Samsung phones released over the last three years may be producing radio frequency radiation at levels higher than current Federal Communications Commission limits allow, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune.

Scientists and consumers have shown increasing concern that radio frequency radiation from our devices may have adverse effects on human health, especially with 5G rolling out across the globe. The new report demonstrates that older phone models, operating in the 3G and 4G bands, have the potential to exceed the FCC’s safe limits by up to as much as five times..

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There are global fears over the Amazon fires.. and you probably don’t even know about it

Overstock Overshock: What happened on TV today?

Russia wins again! Fedor in space!Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a...

Yellowstone ‘supervolcano’ eruption would be catastrophic, NYT op-ed saysAnd you think...

Yellowstone ‘supervolcano’ eruption would be catastrophic, NYT op-ed says

And you think you have worries today?

Suddenly main stream news is warning of death and apocalypse ..

Volcanologists predict an explosion could spread toxic gas all the way to the Midwest, ruining crops and knocking out power, according to Walsh. He adds that a toxic cloud blocking the sun could cause much colder temperatures in the United States for years

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The tantalising mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell’s burger bar ‘makeover’When the NEW...

The tantalising mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell’s burger bar ‘makeover’

When the NEW YORK POST Claimed to have a photo of Maxwell we had doubts. We were not the only ones. And though the media are calling us ‘conspiracy theorists’ again, we are actually doing their job.. jobs they refuse to do as they simply eat up press releases and regurgitate as fact..

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The JOKER film with Joaquin Phoenix is coming in early...

The JOKER film with Joaquin Phoenix is coming in early October… Fans are eagerly looking forward to the season of the witch clown..

But where did Phoenix get the inspiration? Not Heath Ledger.. but reality..

In a new interview with Italian magazine Il Vernerdi (via The Playlist), the actor revealed that he studied victims of PLC (Pathological Laughter or Crying), to craft his take on The Joker’s evil laugh.

“I saw videos showing people suffering from pathological laughter, a mental illness that makes mimicry uncontrollable,” the actor explained. The incredibly unfunny disease causes involuntary laughter or crying, usually separate from any kind of conventional trigger.

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Earthquake shook L.A. skyscrapers so hard some got vertigo

Earthquake shook L.A. skyscrapers so hard some got vertigo:

The money quote:

But up on the 50th floor, the experience was terrifying. The building — equipped on each floor with seismic sensors — swayed back and forth for perhaps two to three minutes and as much as one foot in each direction, said Caltech research professor of civil engineering Monica Kohler.

On the 48th floor of another building in downtown Los Angeles, Beth M. Foley said she felt vertigo, and her husband motion sickness, after what seemed like minutes of swaying. Eventually, the building creaked and came to a stop. The couple said they plan to pack anti-nausea medications in their earthquake kit. “These things swayed like loblolly pines in a storm,” Foley said.

“That’s going to do a number on your brain,” Kohler said. “Seasickness is something you get when you’re in these high-rises.”

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A cigar shaped UFO wa spotted over Wyoming during the Persied meteor shower this week..In footage...

Someone decided this was a good idea on the pedophile...

Someone decided this was a good idea on the pedophile island??

NBC NEWS reporting this:

A boat captain cruising past Little St. James, located off the coast of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, captured images and videos of the solemn sight Wednesday night.

“It was a real moment out there and it just felt so heavy,” said Captain Kelly Quinn, owner of Salty Dog Day Sails.

“I didn’t feel there was a realness of the end of Jeffrey Epstein until I saw that. That was a lot more literal.”

It wasn’t clear who lowered the two flags on opposite ends of the 70-acre island. But Quinn is nearly certain it was one of the employees Epstein hired to staff his lavish estate.

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The true story behind the Atlanta child murders depicted in the new MindhunterThis is going to be an...

The true story behind the Atlanta child murders depicted in the new Mindhunter

This is going to be an amazing season and give some really good attention to a yet ‘unsolved’ crime—though enough circumstantial evidence is there to have a suspect.

More..

Over the course two years between 1979 to 1981, more than 28 children, adolescents and adults were killed in the city. The victims were mostly children, black and male.

One man who appears in the series, Wayne Williams, who had been was convicted of killing two adults, was linked to the murder of 20 children but he was never charged.

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THE MATCH MADE IN HELLMiley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s...

THE MATCH MADE IN HELL

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s “amicable” split has turned nasty, with drug use and infidelity accusations flying.

Sources on both sides have made shock claims just days after their separation was confirmed.

TMZ reported that 26-year-old Cyrus battled “valiantly” to save her and Hemsworth’s seven-month marriage, but struggled to accept his heavy drinking and “use of certain drugs.”

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'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' hit with hefty fine for using emergency alert tones... Mayor Dildo takes the hit..

'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' hit with hefty fine for using emergency alert tones... Mayor Dildo takes the hit..:

Alert tones used in a “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” episode earlier this year to poke fun at a presidential alert test that occurred last year cost ABC $395,000 in fines, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in a Thursday statement announcing a handful of settlements with TV networks.

The FCC said it had settled with the networks for the misuse of the emergency alert system (EAS) tone. The tone is broadcast via TV, radio and other devices to warn of emergencies such as hurricanes and other national disasters.

“We remain concerned about the misuse of the EAS codes and EAS and WEA Attention Signals, or simulations thereof, to capture audience attention during advertisements; dramatic, entertainment and educational programs, and at any other time that there is no genuine alert,” the agency said in a statement. “The FCC may issue sanctions for such violations, including, but not limited to, monetary forfeitures.”

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NON conspiracy sites conspire on conspiracy stories about Epstein

There is something very unifying about the Jeffrey Epstein murder/suicide… death.. 

Republicans.. Democrats.. conservatives… progressives.. everyone has a theory..

And this from the conservative site the GATEWAY PUNDIT:

• ** Epstein said he was considering cooperating in “naming names” in his international sex ring
• ** He was found unconscious in his prison cell just three weeks earlier
• ** Two days prior to his death documents released for the first time implicated several top Democrats in his pedo sex ring
• ** He was taken off suicide watch after a failed attempt just two weeks earlier
• ** He was in isolation (unusual for a suicidal individual)
• ** The cameras malfunctioned — There is no video
• ** Even Mexico had video of El Chapo’s escape from prison
• ** Then later we hear the cameras showed the guards did not do rounds? Which is it?
• ** The prison guards had worked several extra shifts last week
• ** One prison guard on his floor was not even a certified guard
• ** The prison guards “forgot” to check on Epstein
• ** The prison guards slept through their shift
• ** The guards did not check Epstein for several hours
• ** There were reports of screaming the morning Epstein died
• ** The MCC had not seen a successful suicide in 40 years
• ** Epstein said he was the victim of attempted murder three weeks ago
• ** Epstein’s former roommate is facing mass murder charges
• ** Epstein had dirt on numerous globalist elites
• ** Epstein was not given paper sheets
• ** Epstein had sheets in his cell to hang himself
• ** Epstein was not suicidal according to medical professionals
• ** Epstein told his lawyers on Friday, a day before his death, “See you Sunday.”
• ** Epstein’s former roommate heard nothing
• ** Epstein reportedly had to get on his knees to hang himself from his bed
• ** Epstein autopsy showed broken bones in neck common in strangulation deaths

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Jeffrey Epstein Spent Time Alone With Young Female Prison Visitor

Jeffrey Epstein Spent Time Alone With Young Female Prison Visitor:

Whoa whoa wait…..

The day after he was taken off suicide watch, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein spent at least two hours locked up alone with a young woman, in a private room reserved for inmates and their attorneys, according to an attorney who was visiting the prison that day.

“The optics were startling. Because she was young. And pretty,” said the visiting attorney, who asked that his name not be used because he didn’t want to anger the prison administration. NBC News has reported that Epstein paid his lawyers to sit with him in a room for eight hours a day for attorney-client meetings, allowing him to avoid his cell.

The visiting attorney went to the Manhattan Correctional Center on July 30, a day after Epstein was reportedly taken off suicide watch and transferred into the Special Housing Unit (SHU). During the hours the visiting attorney was present, it wasn’t Epstein’s main lawyer, Reid Weingarten, or other named attorneys who visited him.

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Fat Trump Mocks Protester’s Weight in Manchester

Fat Trump Mocks Protester’s Weight in Manchester:

Midway through a rally that had already featured him claiming that the stock market would crash if he weren’t re-elected, Trump’s typically off-the-rails speech was interrupted by a demonstrator.

As the crowd chanted “USA! USA! USA!” and security made its way to the protester’s section, the president took some potshots at the man he identified as the protester.

“That guy has got a serious weight problem,” Trump yelled. “Go home, get some exercise!”

After demanding security escort the protester out of the arena, the president appeared briefly self-conscious before returning to his taunts: “Got a bigger problem than I do. Got a bigger problem than all of us. Now he goes home and his mom says ‘What the hell have you just done?’”

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Any ideas why a cop would be spraying fake blood on another during the Philadelphia shooting?

Another mass shooting in Philly right near where 6 cops were shot in the stand off

Four men and a teenage boy were shot Thursday afternoon in the Ogontz section of North Philadelphia, just 24 hours after six police officers were shot in a gun battle that terrorized the Tioga neighborhood — on the very same street, two miles away.

Shortly before 4:30 p.m., police responded to reports of multiple people shot in the area of 15th and Conlyn Streets. One man was shot in the head and back, and was listed in critical condition. A 17-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to a hand. All the victims were taken to Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia.

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So how did Epstein die? ... Some strange medical news emerges on his injuries

The most conspiratorial conspiracy story

Russian President Vladimir Putin has remained silent, amid...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has remained silent, amid growing speculation that a nuclear missile accident has caused a dangerous radiation leak at a naval base. The Kremlin have confirmed that a “rocket engine explosion” at the Archangelsk base in northern Russia killed five people and injured three.

Russia’s nuclear energy agency Rostam admitted that they had been involved in the aftermath of the incident, raising concern of a radiation leak.

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UNIVERSAL cancels the HUNT

The movie is a gory, R-rated political thriller that depicts liberal “elites” hunting people in red states for sport. Trump criticized the planned movie on Twitter Friday, without mentioning its name, saying it was intended “to inflame and cause chaos.”

Universal had already suspended the marketing campaign for the film, which stars Oscar winner Hilary Swank and is directed by Craig Zobel.

But the studio said in a statement Saturday that it had decided to cancel release altogether, saying “we understand that now is not the time” for the film.

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Nicolas Cage hated "Peggy Sue Got Married" but is searching for the Holy Grail

Nicolas Cage hated "Peggy Sue Got Married" but is searching for the Holy Grail:

The Hollywood REPORTER:

“The dinosaur skull was an unfortunate thing, because I did spend $276,000 on that,” he told the magazine’s David Marchese. “I bought it at a legitimate auction and found out it was abducted from Mongolia illegally, and then I had to give it back. Of course it should be awarded to its country of origin. But who knew? Plus, I never got my money back. So that stank.”

But that incident sparked a new interest in the 55-year-old actor: a quest for the Holy Grail.

“I started following mythology and I was finding properties that aligned with that. It was almost like National Treasure,” he said. “It’s like when you build a library. You read a book, and in it there’s a reference to another book, and then you buy that book, and then you attach the references. For me it was all about where was the grail? Is it at Glastonbury? Does it exist?”

He continued, “Yeah, if you go to Glastonbury and go to the Chalice Well, there’s a spring that does taste like blood. I guess it’s really because there’s a lot of iron in the water. But legend had it that in that place was a grail chalice, or two cruets rather, one of blood and one of sweat. But that led to there being talk that people had come to Rhode Island, and they were looking for something as well.”

It may have been the literal search for a while, but Cage came to a conclusion after also trekking through England. “What I ultimately found is: What is the Grail but Earth itself?” he said.

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You can’t have a controversial awards show host if you don’t have an awards show host..

And in the age of controversy and tweets that come back to haunt, the new normal is to lack a big name to hold a night together..

Fox, which carries the ceremony this year, and the Television Academy have decided to not have a host on the show, which takes place a month and a half from now, on September 22. Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier just confirmed the news during the network’s TCA executive session.

“Our job is to assess as to how to elevate the program in the year that we have it,” Collier said of the Primetime Emmys, which rotate annually among the Big 4 networks. “If you have a host and an opening, that’s 15 or 20 minutes you can‘t have to salute the shows.”

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This was the ‘highest shave’ Yes, a shave. On top of the...

This was the ‘highest shave’ 

Yes, a shave. On top of the Chrysler building, which for the few short months of summer 1930 was the tallest building in the world, topping what was then The Bank of Manhattan and what is now known as The Trump Building by 6 stories, or 119 feet, or 36 meters. The man getting “the highest shave” in the world is Sergei Eisenstein; the woman taking pictures of it is the American photographer Margaret Bourke-White. The barber’s name is lost to history.

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The accused names in the Epstein case..

Before he “committed suicide,” news broke of influential names in his case..

Virginia Giuffre, who says that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to powerful people for erotic massages and sex, claimed in depositions in 2016 that Maxwell directed her to have sex with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Britain’s Prince Andrew (whom she has accused before), wealthy financier Glenn Dubin, former senator George Mitchell, now-deceased MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, and modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, as well as “another prince,” a “foreign president,” a well-known prime minsiter" and the owner of a “large hotel chain” in France.

None of the men named in the deposition have been charged with a crime or even sued in civil court in connection with the Epstein case. The deposition represents accuser Giuffre’s allegations, and the court documents unsealed on Friday did not contain any corroboration or further details, though many documents remain sealed.

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Trump retweets conspiracy theory tying Clintons to Epstein’s death

Trump retweets conspiracy theory tying Clintons to Epstein’s death:

The Justice Department said Jeffrey Epstein, who was being held in a federal corrections facility, died by “apparent suicide.” But Trump retweeted an unsubtantiated claim from conservative actor and comedian Terrence K. Williams.

Perhaps a little freaked that #JusticeforKatie is trending

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Any media sources today being critical or laughing and mocking...

Any media sources today being critical or laughing and mocking ‘conspiracy theorists’ today need to get real.. every American Joe Schmoe and then some are looking at the lunacy of the Jeffrey Epstein ‘suicide’ are scratching heads in disbelief… revulsion… and yes. Conspiracy theories.

Why? Because the real story makes as sense as Jack a Ruby saving the nation from a tragic trial and killing Lee Harvey Oswald..

The billionaire pedophile was found dead around 7.30 am on Saturday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan.

The 66-year-old hanged himself, according to law enforcement sources.

Epstein was awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking and was being held at the high-security complex without bail.


Just yesterday Bill Richardson and George Mitchell were high profile. Ames accused of utilizing the Epstein planes to pedophile island.. 
His death comes two weeks after Epstein, 66, was placed on suicide watch after he was found slumped in his cell with injuries to his neck.


A woman who has long claimed disgraced money man Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with powerful men named two prominent Democratic politicians - former Sen. George Mitchell and ex-New Mexico governor and Clinton cabinet official Bill Richardson - in documents unsealed Friday by federal prosecutors in New York.

Friday’s revelations came from more than 2,000 documents that were unsealed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. The papers included affidavits and depositions of key witnesses in a lawsuit the now-33-year-old woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, filed against Epstein and his associate, Ghislane Maxwell in 2015. Giuffre accused the duo of keeping her as a “sex slave” in the early 2000s when she was underage.

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The NEW YORK POST is featuring a SUNDAY splash.. the corpse of...

The NEW YORK POST is featuring a SUNDAY splash.. the corpse of Epstein being wheeled out from the prison where he allegedly committed suicide.. the POST labeling it a suicide in quotes…

Their article is featuring images taken by William Farrington..

And that is where Twitter can take it from there..

How did photographer Farrington know to be at the jail where Epstein was supposedly found dead?
How did he get in the correct position to snap the photo?

Some on Twitter want to know..

And some people have some good questions about the META DATA information…

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FORBES: The Cold, Hard Math Says Netflix Could Crash 70%

FORBES: The Cold, Hard Math Says Netflix Could Crash 70%

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Connor Betts killed 9 people in Ohio including his sister Megan.. so how did he die in 2014?

….he didn’t…

https://www.newsweek.com/debunking-conspiracy-theorists-who-believe-dayton-ohio-shooting-never-happened-1452820

Robert D. Betts, the father of Connor D. Betts, was unaware that his son’s death was being used to discredit Sunday’s mass shooting when Newsweek contacted him by telephone on Monday.

“The names are just a coincidence,” Robert D. Betts told Newsweek. “He died five years ago in a construction accident. It’s unfortunate that people are linking my son’s death to the Ohio shooting.”

Robert D. Betts on Monday told Newsweek his son’s death was well documented by journalists in 2014.

Connor D. Betts was killed on February 19, 2014, in South Windsor, Connecticut, after being electrocuted when attempting to clean out snow from the dump truck he was driving, according to NBC Connecticut, who reported the story back in February 2014.

Witnesses at the time said when the open-box bed of the dump truck was raised to clean out the snow, the bed made contact with live wires and energized the vehicles.

“The driver [Connor D. Betts] had exited the vehicle and made contact with his energized truck and was stricken and went down,” South Windsor Police Lieutenant Scott Custer told NBC Connecticut in 2014.

Lloyd Folsom, Jr., 55, the owner of Folsom Construction, jumped out of his truck to help Connor D. Betts but was also electrocuted when he too touched the vehicle. Paramedics were unable to save either man. NBC Connecticut’s reporting matched what Robert D. Betts told Newsweek via telephone on Monday.

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Aliens on the moon... US!

Humans are planted on Earth. No one on the moon.. but maybe we are??

Stephen Johnson writes,

There are no humans currently on the moon. But it’s very possible that other Earthly animals exist right now on the lunar surface, following the crash of an Israeli lander in April.

The washing-machine-sized spacecraft – Aerospace Industries’ Beresheet – was on a mission to deposit what was basically a digital time capsule on the moon. It contained a primer on humanity and its achievements: thousands of books, DNA samples, textbooks and the secrets to David Copperfield’s magic tricks. It also contained thousands of dehydrated tardigrades – microscopic animals, commonly called “water bears,” known for being able to survive extreme conditions that prove fatal for nearly all other known lifeforms.

But on April 11, 2019, Beresheet’s gyroscopes failed and it crashed into the moon.

“For the first 24 hours we were just in shock,” Nova Spivack, found of Arch Mission Foundation, which seeks to create “a backup of planet Earth,” told Wired. “We sort of expected that it would be successful. We knew there were risks but we didn’t think the risks were that significant.”

The team knew the lander was toast. But subsequent analyses revealed that the lunar library likely survived the crash, meaning the tardigrades might have too. Tardigrades possess the rare ability to essentially stop their metabolism and enter a dormant, desiccated state. Although these tiny creatures only live for a few months, some have been put into a dormant state for 10 years and then were successfully revived. One was even revived after 30 years.

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FEELING THE BERN! Bernie Sanders will tell us the truth about aliens if he's elected

FEELING THE BERN! Bernie Sanders will tell us the truth about aliens if he's elected:

The Vermont senator and Democratic party candidate for US president went on the Joe Rogan Experience on Tuesday and fielded an oddball question about aliens. Podcast host Joe Rogan asked Sanders whether if he got elected and found out something about aliens or UFOs, if he would let the public know.

Half joking.. half serious?
In a world where classified Navy briefings to members on Congress on UFOs make headlines, these words from Bernie are gaining attention..

“My wife would demand that I let you know,” Sanders answered with a laugh. Rogan asked if his wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders, is a UFO nut. The candidate assured Rogan she’s not. He joked that he would announce any alien information he finds out on Rogan’s show.

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America is suddenly feeling a whole lot like post 9/11...

America is suddenly feeling a whole lot like post 9/11 America..

Today alone:

Panic in Times Square after motorcycle backfire…

Hundreds flee; 22 injured…

Loud noise causes chaos at Utah mall…

USATODAY EVACUATED; ‘MISTAKEN’ WEAPON REPORT…

More on the Times Square panic from the NEW YORK POST from Tuesday August 6:

Chaos erupted in Times Square on Tuesday night as people stormed out of the area when a backfiring motorcycle was mistaken for gunshots.

The false alarm took place around 10 p.m. as a loud boom sent tourists darting into restaurants and theaters, disrupting a performance of “To Kill a Mockingbird” at the Shubert Theatre on 44th Street near 7th Avenue.

“Stopped our show tonight due to a motorcycle backfire that was mistaken for a bomb or shooting,” tweeted cast member Gideon Glick.

“Screaming civilians tried to storm our theater for safety… This is the world we live in. This cannot be our world.”

The NYPD was quick to quell the fears, sending out a tweet explaining the false alarm.

“There is no #ActiveShooter in #TimesSquare,” the department’s Midtown North precinct tweeted at 10:09 p.m.

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A mass murderer’s ex girlfriend reveals herself..Adelia Johnson...

A mass murderer’s ex girlfriend reveals herself..

Adelia Johnson took to blogging platform Medium to write about the Dayton shooter, Connor Betts, whom she met in her Social Psychology class at Sinclair College. 

She wrote that the piece was not an excuse for Connor Betts. 

She said, 

This is just the Connor that I knew. Johnson wrote about how she was very open about her mental illnesses and Connor was the same with her, he admitted that he had bipolar disorder and possibly OCD, but that did not scare Johnson. They hit it off soon and started to form a bond. We bonded over depression humor, something that only people who have been in the throes of it really ever understand and find humorous. Joking about personal mental illnesses is one of the biggest coping tools in the mental health toolbelt

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unexplained-events: Nuclear Test Dummies Used in the 1950s...

unexplained-events:

Nuclear Test Dummies

Used in the 1950s during nuclear bomb testing. These were used before the development of the hydrogen bomb, which was much more powerful.

It’s the fact that, these dummies lay torn in half admist the debris of their own bodies with smiles on their faces, that makes these images so creepy.

There are videos of entire towns being blown up along with these test dummies.. They were called doom towns

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Facebook “Storm Area 51 page” back up

Earlier today: Facebook shut down the “Storm Area 51” event page that got over 2 million pledges to “storm” the Air Force base that’s allegedly hiding aliens in southern Nevada.Matthew Roberts, who created the event in July, said Facebook took the page down on Aug. 3 for “violating community standards,” according to CNET…

And now this late tonight:

The Area 51 Facebook page is back up and running — and it wasn’t ever supposed to be offline.

“This was a mistake and the event page is now available again,” a Facebook company spokesperson told VICE News about the event page that got shut down.

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Clyde Lewis tonight: CONSPIRACY THEORY AS PROTECTED SPEECH W/ QUINN MICHAELS

Clyde Lewis tonight: CONSPIRACY THEORY AS PROTECTED SPEECH W/ QUINN MICHAELS:

Clyde Lewis’ show tonight will respond to the double mass shootings that rocked America over the weekend..

Among the things said during the monologue, this:

I remember when I first started on talk radio, I was given great advice from my mentors. I was told two important things – one, no matter what you say on the air you will never change the way the world goes and two, you should never fall in love with your opinions because eventually, you will fall into the trap of thinking they are fact.

And more..

There is no doubt that the media wants to set up the talking points about how the biggest evil in the country is white nationalism. They certainly are creating an atmosphere of white versus people of color.

They are creating an atmosphere of hate towards our fellow Americans period – making us not trust one another and focusing on extremism rather than what an average American thinks and does.

They wish to keep the liberals in a state of defined collective thought and reminding them that resistance against conservatives is a righteous endeavor. Conservative media is then placed on the defensive, forcing them to rationalize some of the most insidious actions being carried out by extremists.

The liberal-leaning media will not call out the domestic terrorists and radicalized political groups that they believe share the idea of resistance. This breeds contempt.

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Can we all agree that this is the best intro to Coast to Coast...

Can we all agree that this is the best intro to Coast to Coast AM ever–and maybe a radio show ever? 

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Why did Trump turn on MAGA?? His wife!

The sequel, It Chapter Two, could be set to surpass its...

The sequel, It Chapter Two, could be set to surpass its predecessor, however, with Boxoffice Pro projecting that it will bring in over $130 million in its opening weekend. Their chief analyst Shawn Robbins writes:

“With director Andy Muschietti returning, the promise of this being the end of the story, and — perhaps most intriguingly — an ensemble cast with several popular adult actors the likes of Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, and Bill Hader taking over their kid counterpart roles, there may arguably be just as much of a ‘must see’ status for Chapter Two as there was for the first film. Perhaps, initially, even more of one.

This is the one many horror fans have waited for–what will they do with the story.. stay true to the spider? The ending? The sex.. the intrigue.. the suicides? The murders? There are rumors of a horribly blood soaked scene coming in this film that just about made the R rating cut…

The made for TV movie ending was not much to be desired.. but CGI effects in the early 1990s were not either.

This film has the buzz and the stamina to create a box office masterpiece.. IT .. ends.. soon.

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Blood-soaked ‘It’ sequel jolts Comic-Con to lifeOne haunting clip showed McAvoy’s...

Blood-soaked ‘It’ sequel jolts Comic-Con to life

One haunting clip showed McAvoy’s character – an adult Ben Denbrough – racing through a claustrophobic house-of-mirrors in a bid to stop the clown’s murderous spree.

McAvoy said he pulled muscles and developed tendonitis during an arduous, physical shoot in which Muschietti demanded endless multiple takes.

“Zero Dark Thirty” actress Chastain also praised the genre’s portrayal of strong women in the age of #MeToo.

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Lightning hit Word Trade Center One and was caught on camera July 18 2019

Instagram gets unlikable in the land down underAustralia suddenly will see the famed like count on...

Triple-digit temperatures could bring blackouts in New York City, DC and Chicago100 plus degrees...

Triple-digit temperatures could bring blackouts in New York City, DC and Chicago

100 plus degrees expected throughout much of the East Coast.. there was a weird blackout that occurred earlier this month.. there are new warnings that the same heat will head to further blackouts this weekend..

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PVZ 3 ANNOUNCED!

CLYDE LEWIS IS LIVE TONIGHT TALKING ABOUT THE DEATH OF HIS...

CLYDE LEWIS IS LIVE TONIGHT TALKING ABOUT THE DEATH OF HIS FORMER PRODUCER TRACY TRYMAN

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YOU ARE OWNED!

FaceApp now owns access to images of over 150 million users’ faces and names, according to a Wednesday-published Forbes report.

Owned by Russian parent company Wireless Labs, FaceApp is a popular mobile app allowing users to add visual effects to photos of their faces to alter their facial expressions, look, and appearance of age..

FACEAPP RESPONDS!

FaceApp released the following statement in response to the above-mentioned reports:

We are receiving a lot of inquiries regarding our privacy policy and therefore, would like to provide a few points that explain the basics:

1. FaceApp performs most of the photo processing in the cloud. We only upload a photo selected by a user for editing. We never transfer any other images from the phone to the cloud.

2. We might store an uploaded photo in the cloud. The main reason for that is performance and traffic: we want to make sure that the user doesn’t upload the photo repeatedly for every edit operation. Most images are deleted from our servers within 48 hours from the upload date.

3. We accept requests from users for removing all their data from our servers. Our support team is currently overloaded, but these requests have our priority. For the fastest processing, we recommend sending the requests from the FaceApp mobile app using “Settings->Support->Report a bug” with the word “privacy” in the subject line. We are working on the better UI for that.

4. All FaceApp features are available without logging in, and you can log in only from the settings screen. As a result, 99% of users don’t log in; therefore, we don’t have access to any data that could identify a person.

5. We don’t sell or share any user data with any third parties.

6. Even though the core R&D team is located in Russia, the user data is not transferred to Russia.

Additionally, we’d like to comment on one of the most common concerns: all pictures from the gallery are uploaded to our servers after a user grants access to the photos (for example, https://twitter.com/joshuanozzi/status/1150961777548701696).  We don’t do that. We upload only a photo selected for editing. You can quickly check this with any of network sniffing tools available on the internet.

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Tension rises in Iran

DEVELOPING TONIGHT..

President Trump said the U.S. Navy downed an Iranian drone that was flying too close to a U.S. warship in the Strait of Hormuz, hours after Iranian forces said they had seized a foreign tanker, the latest in a series of incidents that have ratcheted up tensions in a vital oil shipping route.

Mr. Trump said the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship, took defensive action against the drone, which he said was “threatening the safety of the ship and the ship’s crew” in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow channel leading into the Persian Gulf through which a third of the world’s seaborne oil is transported.

The drone was “immediately destroyed,” Mr. Trump said. The president called the approach by the drone the latest “of many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels operating in international waters.”

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House passes amendment ordering Pentagon to review whether U.S. experimented with weaponizing...

House passes amendment ordering Pentagon to review whether U.S. experimented with weaponizing ticks

Amendment offered by New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith to order the Pentagon inspector general to conduct a review about whether the military experimented with making ticks into biological weapons. The amendment, passed by the House last week by a voice vote, would require the Pentagon inspector general to examine “whether the Department of Defense experimented with ticks and other insects regarding its use as a biological weapon between the years of 1950 and 1975.”

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Netflix said it added 2.7 million new subscribers worldwide in the April-June period, well below...

Netflix said it added 2.7 million new subscribers worldwide in the April-June period, well below expectations, as the sector prepared for offerings from rival groups including Walt Disney, Apple and others.

Shares in Netflix skidded 11.97 percent to $319.07 in after-market trade following the results, which showed revenues and profits largely in line with analyst forecasts.

There are times when growth just stops.

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Google and Facebook are watching what porn sites you go toMany social media companies block porn...

Google and Facebook are watching what porn sites you go to

Many social media companies block porn from their networks.. but they are sure interested in what sites you go to to see it.

More from a report on the NEW YORK TIMES:

Trackers from tech companies like Google and Facebook are logging your most personal browsing details, according to a forthcoming New Media & Society paper, which scanned 22,484 pornography websites. Where that data ultimately goes is not always clear.

“These porn sites need to think more about the data that they hold and how it’s just as sensitive as something like health information,” said Elena Maris, a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft and the study’s lead author. “Protecting this data is crucial to the safety of its visitors. And what we’ve seen suggests that these websites and platforms might not have thought all of this through like they should have.”

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The worrying thing that happens when you use the viral face aging app

The worrying thing that happens when you use the viral face aging app:

Suddenly just about everyone on social media is using FaceApp to make themselves old.. the old making themselves young.

Be aware of this:

“You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you,” its terms read.

In practise that means that the photos you upload into the app might seem initially private, but that they could be used in very public ways later on.

Similarly, the company’s privacy policy makes clear that it is able to collect and store information from your phone and that it might be used for ads or other forms of marketing.

According to some in the DNC, there are warnings it is a secret Russian spy app to be afraid of..

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The rumble across Earth: Now a quake off the coast of Oregon

A strong one, as well..

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck off the Oregon coast Wednesday morning.

According to the US Geological Survey, the epicenter of the quake was about 140 miles east of Bandon, Oregon. It happened at 8:00 a.m.

There was no tsunami..

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Weatherboy WeatherDangerous heat is coming this weekend

Weatherboy Weather

Dangerous heat is coming this weekend

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The Mandela Effect in full effect as we see a trademark application that said Fruit of the Loom...

Proving Hitchcock Right, Bird Attacks Are Turning Violent This Summer“More than 250 million of the...

Proving Hitchcock Right, Bird Attacks Are Turning Violent This Summer

“More than 250 million of the birds live across North and Central America, and this summer some are feeling extra aggressive toward human neighbors—driving them to change walking routes, wear protective headgear or furiously wave arms above their heads as they jog. “You talk to people about being attacked by birds, and they look at you like you’re crazy,” says Mr. Vedder, a 60-year-old programmer. “This is ‘The Birds’ all over again, but it’s real!” Many people who have long lived in harmony with the birds have noticed an uptick in their aerial assaults this season. Bird-on-human attacks are growing more common as people encroach on their habitats, says Lori Naumann, information officer at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.”

This is so true. Has been happening here in Pennsylvania. People have been complaining about aggressive birds and birds that suddenly are dying by flying head on into houses and moving cars in bigger numbers ..

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DRAMA IN DC TONIGHT.. the House votes to condemn Trump.. nation watching night time debate..

House fight over Trumo tweets turns into floor fight over Nancy Pelosi calling the Trump tweets...

House fight over Trumo tweets turns into floor fight over Nancy Pelosi calling the Trump tweets racist!

The House ruled Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s criticism of President Trump violates the chamber’s rules.

Members are now voting on whether her words should be struck from the official record.

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer took over the gavel to make the announcement.

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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area Tuesday afternoon, and residents...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area Tuesday afternoon, and residents around the region widely reported feeling light shaking.

The quake struck at 1:11 p.m. with a depth of 7.46 miles and and an epicenter in the East Bay, about 7.5 miles east of Blackhawk and 17 miles southeast of Concord, according to the United States Geological Survey. A magnitude 3.5 aftershock followed at 1:28 p.m. in the same region.

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JOHN CARPENTER REVEALS JASON BLUM’S CHALLENGE FOR...

JOHN CARPENTER REVEALS JASON BLUM’S CHALLENGE FOR HALLOWEEN

“Jason Blum came to me and said, ‘This movie is going to be made, so we’d like you, John, to come aboard as [an] executive producer and just sort of shepherd it through, and maybe do the music,’” Carpenter told Variety.

“I could offer advice. I could talk to the director. I like the director very much. I like the script. So, you know, stop throwing rocks from the sidelines and get in there and try to do something positive.”

An unconfirmed report from June revealed Blumhouse and studio Universal Pictures will shoot Halloween 2 this fall for a planned October 16, 2020 release date.

Reportedly Jamie Lee Curtis will also return.

The biggest challenge is for Blum.. and the challenge is to make all of this seem relevant after all of these years.. all of these incarnations.. 

The remake struck a chord.. But will a sequel to a remake?

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Yet another weird power outage in a major city with no explanation as to what’s causing it.. this...

How many cyber attacks are occurring without us being told?

Odd events continue.. All since the pre Fourth of July Mike Pence cancellation in New Hampshire and secret Putin meeting.. And the Russian ship.. and the Verizon AT&T and other cell provider problems.. and 911 outages across the East Coast.. And then New York City blackouts without any explanation with a warning more are coming.

And now this:

Europe’s Galileo satellite network has been almost entirely offline since Thursday, according to the European GNSS Service Center. The Galileo network of satellites is Europe’s answer to the American GPS system, Russia’s Glonass, and the Chinese Beidou system, all of which are what enable devices like our phones to pinpoint our location.

Fast Company reports,

So far there’s no reported sign of any kind of cyber attack on the Galileo system and the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is describing the issue as a “technical incident related to its ground infrastructure.”

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"Hi! You have reached the residence of Murray Bauman. Mom, if this is you, please hang up and call me..."

The future is now! A Theoretical neuroscientist writes: Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg

The future is now! A Theoretical neuroscientist writes: Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg:

The money quote.

I don’t want to “cure” someone of themselves. Especially not my son. I want them to be able to share that self with the world.

Kurt Vonnegut’s short story Harrison Bergeron imagined a planet in which prosthetic handicaps make us all equal by removing advantage. While a standardized world may seem utopic, it is equally possible that we’d lose our rich differences through over-augmentation as well. If we assume there is only one kind of strength, one kind of beauty, or one kind of intelligence, then we might super-normalize away the rich difference of human existence.

It’s seductively easy to imagine a world in which we’re a little smarter or a bit more creative, in which our kids have the latest advantage. But augmentation could also become a tool to entrench inequality even more firmly.

These technologies can and should be used to give people with disabilities—the non-neurotypical—the ability to exist and thrive in a neurotypical world. But what happens once everyone has a superpower in their back pocket?

What happens when we all want to become superhuman?

Everything theoretical is not possible. Everything you learned from BRAVE NEW WORLD is old world.

This is the future.
And the future is now.

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WASHINGTON POST interactive page: Our fascination with UFOs, from ancient times to today

WASHINGTON POST interactive page: Our fascination with UFOs, from ancient times to today:

More examples of UFOs and the paranormal taking over mainstream headlines in our modern times..

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The military forced to say it will defend Area 51!More than 400,000 people have joined a Facebook...

The military forced to say it will defend Area 51!

More than 400,000 people have joined a Facebook event page calling for storming Area 51, with many more indicating interest. The proposed event is scheduled for Sept. 20.

The Washington Post on Friday asked how officials will deal with anyone showing up for the event. Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews declined to elaborate on specific details of the military’s plans.However, she did issue a warning.

“[Area 51] is an open training range for the US Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces,” McAndrews said. “The US Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets.”

Art Bell’s replacement Heather Wade floated the Area 51 raid before she abruptly quit her show.. before his death, Art Bell actually said she should not go through with it.

This newest petition is believed to have begun as a gag.. or was it a final homage to Bell?

Either way.. guns are at the ready for any invasion of alien. Or human.

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Brits teetering on brink of new Mad Cow Disease epidemic, warns expert

Brits teetering on brink of new Mad Cow Disease epidemic, warns expert

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