NEWS ARCHIVE: WINTER 2017

MONDAY DECEMBER 25 2017
SUNDAY DECEMBER 24 2017 
CHRISTMAS EVE
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24 2017
BLACK FRIDAY MADNESS ENSUES!
Not sure if people are buying anything.. but they are sure fighting about stuff..
But .. Will people shop til they drop or just search til they lurch..?
Scores dead in Egypt mosque attack.. After an explosion, gunmen were waiting outside and opened fire on fleeing worshipers
British scientists are developing an immune therapy based on blood cells from patients who have made “miracle” recoveries from the disease. They believe they have found a way to extract the cancer-killing immune cells from donor blood and then multiply them by the million.
THANKSGIVING 2017..
Somehow this year steamrolled right on through us as human beings. We’re on in this Mandela Affected bizarre Stranger Things-ish world together .. Let’s start acting like it..
BLACK FRIDAY prep.. BUT will people actually shop?
Russian president Putin puts nation’s big businesses on war footing..Vladimir Putin says all big Russian businesses should be ready for war production..
Representative Joe Barton says sorry over his nude photos online.. He actually should buy 300 million vomit bags for each time an American sees it..
YOUTUBE cracking down on videos that feature child exploitation.. “In the last week we terminated over 50 channels and have removed thousands of videos under these guidelines,” YouTube said in a statement. All of the videos featured below were still up as of Tuesday evening…
Toy Freaks, for example, was a channel in which a single father uploaded clips in which he scared his daughters while bathing, or dressed them up as infants. The channel had 8 million subscribers before YouTube took it down last week.
An interstellar interloper is dashing through our solar system MORE: “This thing is an oddball,” said Karen Meech from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy, leader of an international team studying ‘Oumuamua. “What we found was a rapidly rotating object, at least the size of a football field, that changed in brightness quite dramatically. This change in brightness hints that ‘Oumuamua could be more than 10 times longer than it is wide — something which has never been seen in our own solar system.”..

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17 2017

PENNNLIVE continues to run its series about opiod addiction in rural parts of the Pennsylvania.. It is not just a Keystone state problem.. it is widespread. But the series illustrates the same story taking place in various parts of the country where this is occurring..

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 15 2017

The state of the world we live in: Trump trades “short and fat” barbs with Kim Jong Un.. MORE: He took to Twitter to complain he would never call North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “short and fat”, after its foreign ministry called him “old”
Thor: Ragnarok delivered an expected #1 finish in its second weekend at the domestic box office, pushing the film’s domestic total ahead of both the first and second Thor films after just ten days in release..
Blumhouse Productions has had a truly massive year and it doesn’t look like they intend to slow down at all in 2018. The studio has just given an official release date for their upcoming, original supernatural horror/thriller, Truth or Dare, which will hit theaters on April 27, 2018..

SUNDAY OCTOBER 15 2017

The Academy boots Harvey Weinstein.. but may have to confront some other members..

British actress Lysette Anthony says that Harvey Weinstein raped her 25 years ago in his office..

CLOONEY LOONEY! ER actress says that the famed star helped silence her sexual harassment claims..

Jane Fonda knew about Weinstein and now shamed she did not speak out..

Courtney Love warned of Harvey Weinstein in 2005.. She joked that if Weinstein invites you to a party in the Four Seasons, “Don’t go”..

Thousands more in California fee wildfires.. gusting winds return..
The wildfires have killed 40 people this week..

The strangest storm of the year so far: A hurricane hit is expected in IRELAND!! How the south-west part of Europe is bracing for Ophelia..  One aspect experts have been astounded by: The fact that Ophelia became a major category 3 storm.. It is still going to remain a hurricane until about early Monday and downgrade, but remain a severe tropical storm..

Larry Flynt will pay someone $10 mil to bring dirt out on Trump..

To kill TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.. Mississippi bans.. The Sun Herald reports that Biloxi administrators pulled the novel from the 8th-grade curriculum this week. School board vice president Kenny Holloway says the district received complaints that some of the book’s language “makes people uncomfortable.”

NASA takes the fidget to space..

Movie reviewer Kenneth Turan writes about why he gave up on horror movies..   I share some of the same emotions.. modern horror is simply modern gore. Very little story..very little character development.. the newest film JIGSAW is an example of a movie I’d most likely never watch, even by force..

TUESDAY OCTOBER 10 2017

Wildfires burning out of control across Northern Cali.. 15 dead..

3 women now accusing Harvey Weinstein of rape..
Weinstein going to sex rehab in Europe?

Hollywood at a crossroads after Weinstein..

And big stars are coming out! Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie are among those who say that Weinstein abused them..

Leonardo DiCaprio Harvey WeinsteinDiCaprio responds…

Damon denies…

Obama breaks the Democratic silence over Weinstein.. says he needs to be condemns.. 

The Obamas’ daughter Malia, 19, interned for Weinstein’s powerhouse company earlier this year. The movie mogul also helped raise millions of dollars for the Democratic Party, hosting fundraisers during Obama’s presidency.

Why did NBC news hold off reporting Weinstein scandal?

TERRY CREWS OPENS UP ABOUT BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY HOLLYWOOD EXEC

Rob Schneider says he was harassed too!!

….really a change? Texas officials rename Robert E. Lee high school to L.E.E. H.S. ..

STRANGER THINGS episode titles revealed.. What they mean..


STRANGER THINGS Halloween costume slammed online.. Making ELEVEN sexy comes at a cost..


Halloween spending is reaching an epic $9.1 billion..

A record pumpkin in California.. 2,363 pounds..

John Carpenter says that the new Halloween movie will be like an alternative reality.. He says: “t picks up after the first one and it pretends that none of the other [sequels] were made. It’s gonna be fun. There’s a really talented director and it was well-written. I’m impressed.”

Cops say that parents left their three year old son at a corn maze and did not realize until the morning after!

Paging John Moore!!
The Canary in the coal mine!
The threat of a tsunami!?
This is real: Volcano warning and fears over massive waves.. panic as earthquakes in Canary Islands reach big numbers..

IS IT THE END OF THE ROAD? Automation is doing a lot to the United States.. to the world.. industry.. and now it could be getting rid of the great American truck driver..

Clyde Lewis auctioning off this clown mask..

STARS WARS delivers new trailer we all can get behind..

Robert Englund revealed what he what NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET DREAM WARRIORS to be about..

MONDAY OCTOBER 9 2017: COLUMBUS DAY 2017

Ronen Rubinstein and Crispin Glover are starring in the independent horror movie “Smiley Face Killers,” scripted by Bret Easton Ellis.. The film’s plot has been kept largely under wraps, but is based on actual events and the conspiracy theories that have arisen on the internet as a result of serial deaths of young men that shared common characteristics…

IT becomes the first horror film to pass $300 million at domestic box offices..

Defy Media fires HONEST TRAILERS creator after sexual abuse allegations..


An aggressive ghost caught on CCTV?

The fever coming back: BIEBER emerging from a very dark place..


The kiss scene seen around the world (many times) .. GAL GADOT makes out with Kate McKinnon..