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Barcelona hit with Terrorist Attack,,van driven into a crowd... fatalities and many injured,, Our thoughts and condolences are with their Families and Friends... God Bless them,,,,, Alan... [hidden image - please register][hidden image - please register] |
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Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-winning playwright, is dead at 73 ...
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, has died. He was 73. [hidden image - please register] Family spokesman Chris Boneau said Monday that Shepard died Thursday at his home in Kentucky from complications related to Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
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Some very sad news here - Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington has died due to a self inflicted suicide
 - [hidden link - please register]I cite Linkin Park as one of the most important bands to come from this century. Just the other day I was playing one of their songs and videos when trying to make sense of this world which we all live in. RIP - Chester Bennington [hidden image - please register] |
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George A. Romero, "Night of the Living Dead" creator, dies at 77 ...
Romero died Sunday in his sleep after a “brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer,” according to a family statement to The Times provided by his longtime producing partner, Peter Grunwald. He was 77. [hidden image - please register] It was the night of April 4, 1968, and George A. Romero was driving to New York City from Pittsburgh on a mission: In the days to come he was to meet with film studios in hopes that one might buy the horror film he was lugging in his trunk, “Night of the Flesh Eaters.” None of the studios was interested, but Romero still managed to get his $114,000 film in front of audiences that year. And though critics panned the picture, retitled “Night of the Living Dead,” moviegoers were mesmerized — packing theaters, hitting the drive-ins in droves and making Romero the father of the modern movie zombie. Romero’s “Living Dead” franchise went on to create a subgenre of horror movie whose influence across the decades has endured, seen in movies like “The Purge” and TV shows like “The Walking Dead.” |
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 The city in the fire. How Hamburg suffered from extremists ... Hamburg, Germany, was on fire as up to 100,000 left wing extremists have descended upon the city to protest, injuring more than 100 police officers and doing untold damage prior to the start of this weekend’s G20 summit. [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] Scenes from the smoky city skyline look eerily similar to those of Middle Eastern war zones. “Activists torched more cars, vandalised shops, threw petrol bombs, set fire to patrol vehicles near a police station and even fired flares at the several police helicopters buzzing overhead,” reports AFP. [hidden image - please register] The intentions of these ‘black block’ activists are clear: they hope to ignite chaos across the West, and they are prepared to clash violently with police and military if necessary. [hidden image - please register] “With 200 people we have shown to millions of people that it’s possible to bring people onto the streets and make clear that we are not going to simply accept everything decided by the people at the top,” said one unnamed activist in Hamburg. “And we believe that we have brought across a pretty good message — that it’s possible to protest and that there is no need to be scared of the police.” [hidden image - please register] In addition to barbarous mayhem, some anti-capitalist leftists are staging ‘zombie’ marches to demonstrate their ‘political apathy.’ [hidden image - please register] Despite police presence of up to 20,000 officers from all around Germany and Austria, reinforcements are still being called in as ‘protests’ are expected to escalate in ferocity through the weekend. [hidden image - please register] #NoG20 and ‘Welcome to Hell’ march organizer Andreas Blechschmidt claims that law enforcement’s response has been ‘too rough’ and ‘heavy handed.’ “The police should have reacted proportionally… It wasn’t necessary,” he said. “There are a lot of people injured.” So what awaits us next? |
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Eastern Europe has covered a heat wave in Bulgaria, the air warmed to 44 degrees ... Abnormal heat on Saturday caught up with Eastern Europe and began one by one to update the records. In Romania, the mercury thermometers have reached more than + 42 ° C, in Bulgaria and the air is warmed up to 44 degrees. Extreme conditions has already led to human victims, the authorities were forced to declare a critical level of weather danger. [hidden image - please register] In the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, due to the high temperature, five people died, 180, including children and elderly people sought medical assistance. Across the country the number of victims has reached several hundred. [hidden link - please register] |
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Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist dies at 56 ...
Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, known for his roles in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "John Wick," has died after a yearlong battle with lung cancer, his representative said. He was 56. [hidden image - please register] He also appeared in "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" and starred alongside Gerard Butler in an action movie to be released called "Hunter Killer." [hidden image - please register] Butler tweeted a [hidden link - please register] praising Nyqvist for his "incredible humility, warmth and this cheeky glint in his eyes." |
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Otto Warmbier - US student sent home from North Korea dies [hidden image - please register] So brutal is the North Korean detention system that a perfectly healthy and innocent American who was given a 15 year sentence last year after attempting to bring home a political propaganda poster from a hotel he was staying in has died as his condition was the reason for his early release aswell as mistreatment being an obvious factor. Only 21 at the time of his arrest, his one act of stupidity effectively cost him his life. North Korea is a brutal country and along with Saudi Arabia is the worst country in the world. I think calling these places hell would be a compliment to hell! - [hidden link - please register] |
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Guys, A car was deliberately driven into a Police Car on
The Champs Elysees Paris A short time ago The car caught fire and the driver died at scene weapons found in car,,,,,,, the police do not know what his intentions were,,,,,, Cheers Alan,,,,,,,, [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] |
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Guys, Yet another terrorist attack in Finsbury Park London,
Van driven at worshipers leaving Mosque at Midnight, one person killed 10 injured,,,,,,, One arrest made,. Once again our condolences to Family and Friends, God Bless them Alan,,,,,, [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] |
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Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has died.
Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl has died at age 87. Having led Germany for 16 years, he is remembered for reuniting the country as well as for making a huge political and economic contribution to the integration of Europe. [hidden image - please register] Helmut Kohl's political party the Christian Democratic Union on Friday confirmed media reports that the former chancellor had died. "We mourn. [hidden link - please register] the brief message read. |
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eigentor wrote:...Well, it's not that 1 dimensional. Also the democrats won't dare to significantly restrict the gun laws because they want to be elected again. I have some American friends and all of them have guns. In first place most Americans need a gun to feel being able to defend family and property, like many Germans need an Autobahn without speed limit to feel free. And in rural areas you need a gun because of wild animals. Especially bears meanwhile enter the outskirts of the big cities. So it will be really difficult to balance the completely opposite requirements between both. And on the other hand there are so many guns in the U.S., even if they completely stop selling new ones the situation won't really change for several years. Regards Joker |
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Deadly explosion rocks in Chinese kindergarten ...
At least eight people were killed and 65 were injured, including children, in a blast Thursday near a kindergarten in eastern China, according to Chinese state media. [hidden image - please register] Two people died at the scene and six died at the hospital, the Xinhua news agency reported. Nine are in serious condition, according to CCTV. Authorities have not said what caused the explosion, but police were treating it as a criminal case and have targeted a suspect, according to Xinhua. The Fengxian communication department did not answer a phone call from CNN. [hidden link - please register] |
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Scottishbloke wrote:With regards to the Virginia shooting...[/i]Of course this shooting is a tragedy, but sorry: to put the blame on the "Mainstream Media" coverage of Trump is, imho, ridiculous. If you want to read or watch real hatred in the media, take a look at Breitbart, Infowars, Fox etc. Or listen to some of Trumps own speeches. And maybe the US should rethink their gun laws in the first place. But this will never happen because the Republicans and also a huge chunk of the Democrats are deep in the pockets of the NRA. As if 'more guns' equals 'more security'. 
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