New motion filed in the Steven Avery case


A motion filed last week accuses the State of Wisconsin of violating Steven Avery’s rights when it turned over bone evidence to Teresa Halbach’s family. 

Steven Avery was convicted in 2007 of murdering Teresa Halbach, though he maintains his innocence. Avery’s trial and conviction were the subject of a popular Netflix series, Making a Murderer

According to the motion, in the original trial, the prosecution argued that Teresa Halbach was murdered and mutilated in Avery's garage and burn pit. In his closing argument, the motion says, prosecutor Ken Kratz told the jury that the location of the bones in Avery's burn pit was the “most important” evidence that Avery murdered Halbach

Meteorite hits Cuba!!

A meteorite hit western Cuba on Friday afternoon, according to eyewitness reports. 

The event sounds like it was pretty dramatic: "We're receiving reports that a meteor was seen in the sky across the Florida Keys," NWS Key West tweeted, adding that the space rock "likely exploded over the province of Pinar del Río." 

CNN's Havana correspondent, Patrick Oppmann, described the sound of a "large explosion" in the town of Viñales and posted pictures of the fragments..



And perhaps adding the oddest part to this... February 1 2019 was rumored since 2002 to be the target date for a meteor to hit earth.. back at the early part of this century there were fears it would be planet ending.





Maybe not the meteor that wiped out earth... but sure a fragment that freaked out Cuba..???


The social network social experiment: Facebook paid teenagers to spy on rivals



The Facebook Research program, which began in 2016, has drawn scorn of critics and parents in the wake of Apple's decision to ban the data-monitoring app from all iOS phones. 

Apple said Facebook's research app was a "clear breach" of their agreement with the Cupertino, Calif. company. 

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The pushback from Apple, which revoked Facebook's Enterprise Certificate, has escalated the war between the tech companies and wreaked havoc at Facebook because all of its internal, employee-only apps cannot be accessed.

"I find this behavior shameful. Taking advantage of people who do not understand the value of the data they generate. Targeting kids of all people! As a parent I am appalled. I am so happy I stopped using Facebook years ago," Claudiu Musat, a research director for data, analytics and AI at Swisscom, said on Twitter.

Man shot after strange Area 51 incident

 


According to a press release issued, at 5:18 pm local time on January 28, an unidentified male sped through a security checkpoint at the entrance to the secret Area 51 government site. Both the Nye County Sheriff’s Office and the NNSS Security Protective Force Officers pursued the man in a high speed chase for eight miles..

According to the NNSS, the man got out of his car and began approaching security officials carrying an unknown “cylindrical object.” The man did not respond to officers’ verbal commands and was shot and pronounced dead.. 

The FBI is also investigating.. 

The press release is vague and mysterious... no word on the identity of the man or what the cylindrical item in question was... 

Natalia Dyer hypes STRANGER THINGS 3 as "bigger and darker"

Natalia Dyer, or NANCY, on STRANGER THINGS 3

“It does feel bigger, just filming it,” she told MTV News while at the Sundance Film Festival.

“I haven’t seen any of it, but it does feel bigger, darker, scarier. It felt like they noticeably bumped it up to a different level this season.




“So I’m excited to see it, too. I don’t know how they do it, [creators] the [Duffer] brothers, but yeah, I’m excited.”

Dyer is ready to premiere on NETLIX in just days..

In Velvet Buzzsaw, Dyer stars alongside Hollywood heavyweights such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Toni Collette, John Malkovich, Rene Russo and Zawe Ashton.

Based loosely in the art world, the story revolves around a mysterious painter, whose pieces appear steadily through the film even while he doesn't, leading many to theorise on where they came from, how they were created and who the mastermind behind the work could be.






THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES IN A LIFETIME DESCEND ON THE UNITED STATES #PolarVortex2019

Tues night RF Jan 29

Snow is ending in the Northeast... And the POLAR VORTEX mean streak is about to plunge like hell into the United States...

The coldest temps, they tell us, in a generation are going to hit.. frostbite within seconds! Warnings not to talk! News that Chicago will be colder than the Antarctic! All of this happening AS WE SPEAK with cold air immersing down from the North..

FROM ACCUWEATHER, which must be accurate: 

The coldest weather in years will put millions of people and animals throughout the midwestern United States at risk for hypothermia and frostbite to occur in minutes during the final days of January.
The deep freeze has commenced across the Upper Midwest with an AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperature of 75 degrees below zero Fahrenheit reported at Grand Forks, North Dakota, on Tuesday morning.
The worst is yet to come for other parts of the Midwest as the polar vortex gets displaced from the Arctic Circle and dives into the region.
In addition to the risks of frostbite and hypothermia, residents will be faced with high heating costs and the potential for frozen and bursting water pipes, dead car batteries and school closures.

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While this is not the first time, it may be the COLDEST TIME yet in a long time.

GLOBAL WARMING!?

Give us some!!

EMPIRE star Jussie Smollett attacked with chemical substance

DEVELOPING STORY...

“Empire” star Jussie Smollett is recovering from an attack that allegedly went down just as he landed in Chicago and included the use of a chemical substance.

The 35-year-old actor had traveled from New York on Monday night, as “Empire” is filmed in Chicago where Smollett has a residence.

THE BLAST REPORTS MORE..

Chicago police now say during a follow-up interview with Smollett, he recalled the suspects shouting about “MAGA Country.”
10:45 AM PT: Police are currently searching for video evidence of the alleged attack.
8:59 AM PT: — Smollett told police the chemical substance thrown in his face was bleach. We’re told officials are currently running tests to verify the chemicals.

News media tonight is labeling this a hate crime..

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GLASS NUMBER 1 FOR SECOND WEEK

CONGRATS TO M NIGHT ON A SECOND WEEK AT 1 ..

'Glass' stars Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy preview Shyamalan's surprise trilogy

1. Glass
 $19,049,000 Total: $73,589,135
LW: 1
THTRS: 3,844

2. The Upside
 $12,240,000 Total: $63,144,846
LW: 2
THTRS: 3,377

3. Aquaman
 $7,350,000 Total: $316,554,074
LW: 3
THTRS: 3,134

4. The Kid Who Would Be King*
 $7,250,000 Total: $7,250,000
LW: N
THTRS: 3,521

5. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
 $6,150,000 Total: $169,040,116
LW: 5
THTRS: 2,383

6. Green Book
 $5,413,000 Total: $49,003,486
LW: 14
THTRS: 2,430

7. A Dog's Way Home
 $5,225,000 Total: $30,834,525
LW: 6
THTRS: 3,081

8. Serenity*
 $4,800,000 Total: $4,800,000
LW: N
THTRS: 2,561

9. Escape Room
 $4,275,000 Total: $47,915,074
LW: 7
THTRS: 2,192

10. Dragon Ball Super: Broly
$3,600,000 Total: $28,958,823
LW: 4
THTRS: 1,10

Ted Bundy's eyes grew darker as he talked about his crimes

Ted Bundy's own blood-curdling words is being heard in a new docu-series released by Netflix ...

Something else of particular creepiness: One of the experts tells the camera: "He had really blue eyes and when he really got going his eyes went absolutely black."

The documentary features previously unheard audio of interviews with Bundy when he was on death row in Florida... The "blue" to black eye quote was used in trailers for the show and is featured... It adds an extra layer or paranormal to the already "SPLIT" like personality of Bundy..

The four-episode documentary looks at his killings and has become the newest NETFLIX rage..

He was convicted and confessed to murdering more than 30 women in the 1970s..

A few other weird things about Bundy:

Bundy worked for a suicide hotline in Seattle. His coworkers, including author Ann Rule, remember him as a skilled volunteer who helped ease troubled callers and saved lives..

There have been claims made by Bundy’s family that Bundy might have been fathered by his mother’s abusive father, Samuel Cowell..


It is believed that Ted was exposed to his grandfather’s collection of pornography as a young child, which some believe may have sparked his utter fascination and preoccupation with pornography and violent sex...

There is some evidence suggests that he abducted and killed 8-year-old Ann Marie Burr of Tacoma in 1961 when he was 14, an allegation he denied repeatedly. However, there is a bone chilling story about Ted, while he was staying with one of his aunts. That while she was sleeping, he placed several butcher knives under the covers in the bed next to her. When she woke up and discovered the knives, young Ted could not stop laughing...

Bundy died in the Raiford electric chair at 7:16 a.m. EST on January 24, 1989; he was 42 years old. Hundreds of revelers—including 20 off-duty police officers, by one account—sang, danced and set off fireworks in a pasture across the street from the prison as the execution was carried out, then cheered loudly as the white hearse containing his corpse departed the prison..His body was cremated in Gainesville, and his ashes scattered at an undisclosed location in the Cascade Range of Washington State, in accordance with his will.

During Bundy’s time at college in 1967, he became romantically involved with Stephanie Brooks, but she ended their relationship due to his “lack of ambition” and “immaturity. All of Bundy’s victims are believed to look similar to Stephanie, as they all were white females between the age of 15 to 25..



In PROJECT CAIN and CAIN’S BLOOD, I got to research serial killers, cloning, military science, post-traumatic stress disorder, the genetics of violence, and crime. Interesting topics. Did I get everything right? Doubtful. Difficult to do when even something as basic as Ted Bundy’s eye color becomes arguable. “Blue” says one report, “Brown” claims another witness. “Green,” Bundy replies himself in the court transcript. “They change color depending on the light,” says a reporter following the case. They change color??!! <yanks hair> The FBI said blue, so I went with that. The FBI was a good-enough source for me. Might someone who knew Bundy have a better/different fact? Maybe. But I had two books to write and couldn’t spend the next four years of my life deciding what Bundy’s eye color was.

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NETFLIX struggles to cope with subscribers who think TED BUNDY is hot

TWEETS THAT TWEET FOR THEMSELVES..



Last Thursday, on the anniversary of Bundy's death, the streaming giant released director Joe Berlinger's four-part docuseries, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, to a captive and eager audience. Two days later, Berlinger's Bundy biopic starring Zac Efron, titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, premiered to a divided audience at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival...

And since then the program has garnered millions of views on Netflix and conversation threads on the socials.. many people believe what women said then: He is "hot"..

In the 70s women were killed.. in the 2000teens it seems "cool" to call murderers hot again.

Make a red hat for that..

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Margot Robbie’s New ‘Birds of Prey’ Harley Quinn look revealed



SHE'S BACK!

Margot Robbie will return as HARLEY QUINN. . . thanks to social media she is releasing a 'new look'of the famed DC character..





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Now filming in Los Angeles, Birds of Prey is being directed by Cathy Yan and also features Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the Huntress, Ewan McGegor as Black Mask, Jurnee Smolet-Bell as Black Canary and Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya. 

From press releases: The dark-edged crime film from director Cathy Yan is part of the Warner Bros. wave of edgy DC Comics adaptations (along with the upcoming Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix) that are more stand-alone than the intricately connected narratives that have become a foundation of rival Disney’s Marvel Studios approach to superhero cinema.

A few onliners have critiqued that the new Look doesn't fully capture the SUICIDE SQUAD version.. that was messier.. grimier.. Harley Quinn is a new lady! She's ready for action.. and Margot Robbie has perfectly captured the role and essence that is the JOKER's leading lady.

Researchers claim lowering blood pressure could help prevent dementia

A new study offers a glimpse into preventative attention one should give blood pressure..

Drastically lowering blood pressure may help protect memory and thinking skills later in life, researchers reported Monday — the first hopeful sign that it's possible to lower rates of mental decline.

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The large blood pressure study looked at more than 9,000 people over the age of 50 years old found that those who lowered their blood pressure to 120 — the top number, or systolic blood pressure — were 19 percent less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment, the loss of memory and brain processing power that usually precedes Alzheimer’s disease. The results of the study, called Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial, or SPRINT, were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

ISRAELI SCIENTISTS SAY THEY THINK THEY FOUND A CURE FOR CANCER!

“We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” said Dan Aridor, of a new treatment being developed by his company, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), which was founded in 2000 in the ITEK incubator in the Weizmann Science Park. AEBi developed the SoAP platform, which provides functional leads to very difficult targets.

MORE..https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/A-cure-for-cancer-Israeli-scientists-say-they-think-they-found-one-578939

“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market,” Aridor said. “Our solution will be both generic and personal.”
It sounds fantastical, especially considering that an estimated 18.1 million new cancer cases are diagnosed worldwide each year, according to reports by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Further, every sixth death in the world is due to cancer, making it the second leading cause of death (second only to cardiovascular disease).

YouTube will stop recommending "conspiracy" videos..

YouTube claims it will stop recommending conspiracy videos.

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Following complaints over the number of unwelcome videos appearing in recommendations, the Google-owned site says it plans to try and banish them.

It says 'borderline' videos that come close to violating community guidelines or those which 'misinform users in a harmful way.' will now be excluded...

MISINFORM.. USERS.. IN A HARMFUL WAY...

Who judges? Who determines?

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'We’ll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways—such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11.'


YouTube says the decision affects less than 1 percent of videos - but this will still impact millions of clips.

'We think this change strikes a balance between maintaining a platform for free speech and living up to our responsibility to users,' YouTube said.

However, it will not ban the videos.

'To be clear, this will only affect recommendations of what videos to watch, not whether a video is available on YouTube.'

Model And Actress Kim Porter Died From Pneumonia






Coroner office officials say former model and actress Kim Porter died last year from pneumonia.

The Los Angeles coroner’s office on Friday released the results of its investigation into Porter’s Nov. 15 death. Investigators determined after an autopsy that her death was from natural causes.

The 47-year-old was also a former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs and the pair had three children together. Combs eulogized Porter at her funeral in her hometown of Columbus, Georgia. Numerous celebrities, including Usher, Mary J. Blige, Lil’ Kim and producer Russell Simmons attended the ceremony, which ended with fireworks.

Kevin Smith responds to Bill Maher's comic book attack

BILL MAHER raged back on Additional to the comment, Smith reminded his followers on Twitter of the moment when he appeared on Maher's show..



Maher attacked Stan Lee and comic book fans, and also hurled insults at Kevin Smith.

Smith on Twitter reacted:



"Yes, @billmaher took a shot at me during his show last night, in the midst of his latest rant about @TheRealStanLee and adults who like comic books." Smith wrote in the Twitter post. "No, I’m not mad at all. Bill may talk tough but he’s a stoner like me and a real pussycat when confronted."

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