SUNDAY JULY 8 2018 NEWS ROUNDUP









Catastrophic rains in Japan..






Flashback 2002: Jamie Foxx slapped a woman with his penis.. 2018: No charges and the case closed..


NETFLIX does not care what you think anymore.. It's killing off its user reviews.. As first reported by CNET, Netflix recently emailed users to inform them user reviews are going away. Users who have contributed a review within the past year have been notified that “this feature will be retired on July 30th due to declining usage.”..

A judge in Los Angeles granted a second restraining order that has been set up to protect the Marvel comics legend Stan Lee from Keya Morgan! The permanent restraining order conditions state that Keya Morgan has to stay 100 yards away from Lee at all times as well as his home. In addition, Morgan is to stay away from Lee's daughter J.C. and Larry Lieber. Stephen Crump alleges that Morgan has been making threatening phone calls to both J.C. and Lieber over the last several months. It is also believed that Morgan was trying to get his hands on Lee's estate, which is valued at over $50 million. Crump had this to say...

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Spider-Man co creator Stephen Ditko dead at 90



Stephen Ditko, co-creator of Marvel Comics superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, has died at 90 years old. 

Ditko was found dead on June 29 in his midtown Manhattan apartment, New York Police Department spokesman George Tsourovakas told CNN. 
Ditko was born November 2, 1927 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.. 
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FRIDAY JULY 6 2018 NEWS ROUNDUP








VULTURE laments that COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE is much better for the 1990s than the current time.. And for those who wish the 90s were back again.. The decade about nothing!

Cris Brown arrested in Florida.. The singer was arrested on an outstanding out-of-county warrant from last year, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. It declined to provide additional details on what the warrant was for, but said Brown was booked and released about an hour later --- after he posted bail..

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Three charged with kidnapping of HALLOWEEN RESURRECTION actress



Prosecutors allege Keith Andre Stewart, Johntae Jones and Amber Neal went to "Halloween: Resurrection" actress Daisy McCrackin’s home in L.A. on May 3, where they say Stewart pistol-whipped a man in the home, identified as Joseph Capone. The three placed bags over the two victims’ heads and drove them to Jones’ home in Compton, prosecutors said.

Once they were at Jones’ home, the suspects forced Capone to strip naked and held him in a bathtub for 30 hours without food, prosecutors allege.

Investigators said Jones and Neal took McCrackin’s car and drove her to several different banks while demanding she pay $10,000 for Capone’s release. She was forced to write a $10,000 check to Neal, prosecutors said.

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HOT DIGGITY DOG: JULY 4 IN AMERICA


NOT PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN? For the first time in 'Gallup's' history a record low of 47 percent of people are 'Extremely proud to be Americans'...





Fireworks horror: Authorities say two people have died after a tree branch fell on spectators during a fireworks display in western Illinois. The Rock Island County Sheriff's Office says the branch fell from a large oak tree outside the county courthouse in Rock Island around 9:40 p.m. Tuesday..















THIS FOURTH OF JULY, one tradition ends and another begins.. THE SYFY network was airing THE TWILIGHT ZONE marathon for years on the 4th (along with New Years) .. this July 4, today, they are not. Instead they switched to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET marathon.. I am somewhat against this change. And even worse, the BEST movies are not included: FREDDY'S DEAD and A NEW NIGHTMARE, along with FREDDY VS JASON... Excluded fromt he lineup..



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MONDAY JULY 2 2018


Google GMAIL has a dirty secret.. It reads all of your emails..








And I saw two of them.. JURASSIC WORLD 2 is exactly what you'd expect. HEREDITARY is not what you'd expect and is better for it.. Both the most amazing movies of the summer 2018 so far..







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Mandela Effect redo.. Do you wear glasses or no glasses in your Tom Cruise reality?

Ahh....the famous scene with Tom Cruise in RISKY BUSINESS.. where he flies out on his pale white socks on a hard wood floor lip syncing OLD TIME ROCK N ROLL...
With ...

Sunglasses?
Or did he?

Two videos for your discernment. One is real, one is contrived.. What do YOU REMEMBER in your reality?

THIS>

OR ...
THIS?

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Google feeling lucky: Secrets now coming out

GMAILed...

BOMBSHELL REPORT on how the internet giant continues to let hundreds of outside software developers scan the inboxes of millions of Gmail users who signed up for email-based services offering shopping price comparisons, automated travel-itinerary planners or other tools. Google does little to police those developers, who train their computers—and, in some cases, employees—to read their users’ emails, a Wall Street Journal examination has found

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:

Letting employees read user emails has become “common practice” for companies that collect this type of data, says Thede Loder, the former chief technology officer at eDataSource Inc., a rival to Return Path. He says engineers at eDataSource occasionally reviewed emails when building and improving software algorithms.
“Some people might consider that to be a dirty secret,” says Mr. Loder. “It’s kind of reality.”
Neither Return Path nor Edison asked users specifically whether it could read their emails. Both companies say the practice is covered by their user agreements, and that they used strict protocols for the employees who read emails. eDataSource says it previously allowed employees to read some email data but recently ended that practice to better protect user privacy.

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JULY 2: The real holiday?

Most are off on Wednesday for the Fourth of July...

BUT.

Only two Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776..The Second Continental Congress met on July 2nd to formally approve the new nation’s independence. The Congress approved the Declaration of Independence two days later, on the 4th of July. John Adams thought that July 2nd would become a memorable day of celebration. Adams even wrote to his wife, “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epoch, in the History of America.”

SO HAPPY 2ND OF JULY!

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Happy solstice




Around 25,000 people watched the sun rise across Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice this morning - an occasion that is said to have been celebrated for thousands of years at the ancient prehistoric site..

The longest day of the year.
The most beautifully long day of the year…
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Joe Rogan talks Whitley Streiber

Joe Rogan and Dennis McKenna discuss possible explanations for alien encounters. From The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast
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Still no cause of death for Art Bell!

The Clark County Coroner's office still has not determined the cause of death for radio legend Art Bell, who died April 13 at his home in Pahrump...

Chaos has reigned supreme since the talk show legend's Friday the 13th demise..

Midnight in the Desert host Heather Wade was replaced by Dave Schrader, but Wade started her own Kingdom of Nye show. A rather awkward and public battle has ensued between Wade and long time Bell associate Keith Rowland. Yesterday Rowland even posted a note on Twitter sarcastically thanking whoever signed him up for travel brochures.

The newest information about the Clark County Coroner's inaction was posted today on Facebook by sometimes Coast to Coast AM host and news reporter George Knapp. Knapp was a long time friend of Art Bell and reported several stories on him throughout the years during his routine comebacks and routine quittings..

Developing..



Buy Art Bell's book today!

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THE GUARDIANS fate may still be sealed by the Russo brothers

If you read this, accept the spoilers contained..  

X X X X 

IF you are still haunted by the ending sequence of INIFITY WARS and hope that somehow Spider-Man’s fate along with Groot’s final demise is just figment of the imagination, you may be saddened to hear this: Dr.Strange could be having fun with the foundations and principles of time itself, or.....they are all still dead in the world of the RUSSOBROTHERS.





Talking to the HUFFINGTON POST, this occurred; 

Anthony Russo said: ‘Just because there’s a sequel on the books doesn’t mean… people become accustomed to time moving linearly in the MCU. ‘That doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. There’s a lot of very inventive ways of where the story can go from here.’ Anthony’s brother Joe added: ‘There’s four years between Guardians 2 and Infinity War. That’s a long time, and a lot of Guardians stories to tell.


A prelude to the horrid finale of INFINITY WAR would at least keep the gang alive for a bit of a reason.. but the looming demise we already saw in the newest film is just going to keep the entire GUARDIANS 3 sad .. just depressing. Even if they win, we know they lose big time..


Marvel kicked things up a notch with INFINITY WAR.. but did they just go too crazy on their own team to continue down the path?

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Justin Trudeau really took a browbeating at the G7

The video is cringeworthy.. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking and his eyebrows appear to slide down his face, dangling dangerously above his eyes during the press event...

No, not fake news from the ONION, but a wild video circulating the web showcasing the world leader’s apparently fake brows on display.



Just as the nation states of the US and Canada had a public feud between leaders, the Trudeau video emerged from the strange shadows..

Fake brows?
Brow beating?
As Trump left for Singapore to meet LIL KIM JONG, all things were left strange in the dust of his visit...

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American box offices numbers solely don’t matter anymore

Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has come in above yesterday’s estimates with $151.1M in its international box office opening.

And with that it clearly shows that what’s number 1 in America doesn’t matter anymore.. 

Films now are more prone to gathering steam from international movie audiences as opposed to the domestics..

What mattered in 93 doesn’t anymore .. we’ve moved far beyond American choices dominated world markets.
 
Now the world comes first.. American releases come second.

America is sure to follow the globe and embrace wholely Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom .. 




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The class of 2018 will not be silenced if if the classes of the 20th century try

A major news story just occurred not mostly because a class of 2018 valedictorian talked about sexual assault by because the school made the decision to cut her mic during the speech!!




This news reported today sending shockwaves and bringing much attention for unnecessary things..

When the student later posted an "uncensored" version of the speech, it contained a line alleging members of the school community mishandled cases of sexual misconduct.

Petaluma High School senior Lulabel Seitz was the first member of her family to graduate high school and did so as her class' valedictorian, The (Santa Rosa, Calif.) Press Democrat reported.

And this: 

"Because the class of 2018 has demonstrated time and time again that we ... are not too young to speak up, to dream and to create change. Which is why, even when some people on this campus, those same pe —"

And then.... the mic cut and the speech went silent.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/09/petaluma-high-school-cuts-valedictorians-mic-over-sexual-assault-graduation-speech/687648002/


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The Trump Kim McDonald’s deal

History about to be made... president Donald Trump is set to meet Lil Kim .. and when they do the grand subject of fast food may be first on the agenda?!

Axios reporting

  • Part of Trump's expected message is telling Kim how much wealthier he and his people would be if he were engaged with the U.S. A source familiar with the U.S. preparations says Trump likes the idea of iconic American businesses, like McDonald's, eventually getting to North Korea.


Trump just left the G7 summit in shambles after his quick departure, asserting that the world order is not the future .. a now famous image of Trump and Chancellor Merkel has made rounds..





Within the coming hours new images of an American president with a North Korean leader will surely cause as many heads to spin as any other image Trump has been in.. 

Developing.. 
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May your Saturday be filled with spirits ..

Spirits of all shapes and kinds .. 
haunts and hints and flavors of paranormal.




Thanks for reading and be safe in the world.. 
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The perfect drink of the future Saturday night out will be made by robots


Collaborative robots such as this one are getting cheaper and easier to program.

Everything is a science.. from how much ingredients go into baked goods or meals to how much liquor goes into the perfect evening cocktail. . . So much science that people, with human error, can mess things up on a grand scale.


Enter the robot revolution.

The future of manufacturing has come and gone, with robots replacing so many people. Restaurants and bars are next.

So much for the fight for Fifteen when the fight of the future may just be for a job in itself..

From the WALL STREET JOURNAL, a good story on the coming robot revolution: They will offer drinks, dinner, and a massage. 

The MONEY QUOTE:
When restaurateur Patrick Beijk opened Mofongo’s Distillery & Cocktail Bar in the Dutch city of Groningen in 2013, he went looking for a machine that could scale the space’s jewel-colored wall of spirit bottles. The robot he bought to do the job saves time and draws in curious customers, he said. When Mr. Beijk opened a wine bar last year, he bought a two-armed cobot programmed to extract wine from bottles without removing the cork. In Singapore, AiTreat—a startup at Nanyang Technological University—has created robots that can give Chinese medical massages, which focus on acupressure points. The massage robots, which are warmed to 100 degrees Fahrenheit to mimic human hands, are being tested at the offices of chiropractors and therapists. Now Hiring: Robot Babysitters Robots need managers too. Meet one robot specialist who gets paid to look after several robot security guards that roam offices in the San Francisco Bay Area. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal Both Mr. Beijk’s and AiTreat’s cobots were made in part by Universal Robots, which sold its first cobot in 2008. Last year, the company sold 8,600 units. Universal Robots President Juergen von Hollen said the Danish firm has spurred wider adoption of cobots by using open-source coding that allows developers to tailor the company’s machines to their own specifications.
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Rear reaction: Monroe statue shocks near church!





This news coming from Stanford Connecticut..

It’s a jarring sight for members of the First Congregational Church: The underwear-clad buttocks of Marilyn Monroe mooning the downtown parish.
A 26-foot Seward Johnson statue illustrating the star in her iconic pose from “The Seven Year Itch” was installed this week in Latham Park as part of the Stamford Downtown Special Services District’s “Art in Public Places” series that lasts through the summer.
But much like the subway grate stirred up her skirt, Monroe has created a whirlwind in just a few days in Stamford.
Lorri Tamburro, a lifelong Stamford resident, was disturbed when she visited the statue with her husband and watched children climbing up Monroe’s leg and looking up her skirt.
“I just find the position to be offensive,” she said. “It was, in my eyes, very disrespectful. I looked at it and I think because of what I saw with all these little kids looking up, the height is ruining it. It’s ruining beautiful Marilyn.”
Officials said that social media has now led to a handful of calls about the location of the iconic image. The article goes on to report that children are eating their picnic lunches under the statue of the skirt flowing in the wind.
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