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What is Akashic Data? Akashic data is like the DNA of the universe. They may be the soul's journey through time. Each thought, action, word, and feeling is registered inside Akasha data. Every soul has its' individual Akashic record. The way we gather information in the Akashic Records is in encoded light vocabulary that is like a sacred geometry of words encoded in fire. Mastering tips on how to interpret the information is crucial. We start understanding the usage of our inner senses to offer text and interpretation from what we collect; we also get in touch with this new energy.
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The magician Julien Proskauer revealed that the levitating trumpet of Jack Webber was a trick. Close examination of photographs reveal Webber to be holding a telescopic reaching rod attached to the trumpet, and sitters in his séances only believed it to have levitated because the room was so dark they could not see the rod. Webber would cover the rod with crepe paper to disguise its real construction.[162]
An important feature for memory card readers is the speed with which they can transmit data. Readers with USB 3.0 compatibility will be faster than USB 2.0 technology (as long as your computer has a USB 3.0 port). As mentioned earlier, there are various types of memory cards, so having a reader than can communicate with more than one interface will be beneficial, especially if you find yourself using multiple memory cards.
After about 15 minutes, our call was interrupted with a recording saying she had one minute left. Then a recording said she had added more time to her call. I had done some Web searching to see how much my potential callers were paying for my advice, and my best guess was that it was about $1.99 a minute. Cindy came back on, and we talked for 15 more minutes. For her $59.70 I told her that she had conceded all the power in the relationship to her boyfriend, and she had to find a way to make the decision whether they would marry more mutual. I realized that she wanted confidence from me—I remembered how much I disliked wishy-washy psychics.
Between 8 November and 31 December 1920 Gustav Geley of the Institute Metapsychique International attended fourteen séances with the medium Franek Kluski in Paris. A bowl of hot paraffin was placed in the room and according to Kluski spirits dipped their limbs into the paraffin and then into a bath of water to materialize. Three other series of séances were held in Warsaw in Kluski's own apartment, these took place over a period of three years. Kluski was not searched in any of the séances. Photographs of the molds were obtained during the four series of experiments and were published by Geley in 1924.[123][124] Harry Houdini replicated the Kluski materialization moulds by using his hands and a bowl of hot paraffin.[125]
One day I travelled to a witch village in Sedona, Arizona. Once I entered a psychic boutique, the woman told me I was a gifted light bearer and that I would help people that would require my gifts. So I started from there, getting seriously into it and learning to understand what I could do with my gifts. My biggest rewards were knowing that I could help people understand their situation.
5/When it comes to your psychic reader, you might have already found a psychic reader you have a good professional relationship with. If not, most telephone psychic companies have profiles on each of their psychic readers where you can see a bit more information about them and also see what other people who have had a psychic reading with them have said.
^ Brian Righi. (2008). Ghosts, Apparitions and Poltergeists: An Exploration of the Supernatural through History. Llewellyn Publications. Llewellyn Publications. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-7387-1363-2 "One medium of the 1920s, Mina Crandon, became famous for producing ectoplasm during her sittings. At the height of the séance, she was even able to produce a tiny ectoplasmic hand from her navel, which waved about in the darkness. Her career ended when Harvard biologists were able to examine the tiny hand and found it to be nothing more than a carved piece of animal liver."
The Polish medium Stanisława Tomczyk's levitation of a glass beaker was exposed and replicated in 1910 by the magician William S. Marriott by means of a hidden thread.[114] The Italian medium Lucia Sordi was exposed in 1911, she was bound to a chair by psychical researchers but would free herself during her séances. The tricks of another Italian medium Linda Gazzera were revealed in the same year, she would release her hands and feet from control in her séances and use them. Gazzera would not permit anyone to search her before a séance sitting, as she concealed muslin and other objects in her hair.[115]
Email – Most companies don't offer email readings because it makes it harder for the psychic to pick up on your energy and to retrieve answers from the spiritual realm without being able to hear your voice or see your face.  The way email readings work is you submit your questions through a form, and then you'll receive answers in your inbox within 24 hours.
A reader radiates a 1" to 20" electrical field around itself. Cards use a simple LC circuit. When a card is presented to the reader, the reader's electrical field excites a coil in the card. The coil charges a capacitor and in turn powers an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit outputs the card number to the coil, which transmits it to the reader.
Emily wanted me to be happy and wanted to get some rest too. It's important to remember her and even talk to her but it isn't healthy to dwell on her death, Psychic Four said, and for the first time that day, I began to understand how some people can find going to a psychic comforting. She hugged me a few times as I was getting ready to leave and the last thing she said as I stepped out the door was, "Life is a gift."
Type A are the tested and proven ones who have their own website. They cost more because they deliver more, they are more proven and more popular. You make an appointment to speak to them. They are far too busy to bother to sit by the phone in the hope someone rings. What you pay them covers their time, skill and their business costs, their website is part of that.
In the 26-bit Wiegand format, bit 1 is an even parity bit. Bits 2–9 are a facility code. Bits 10–25 are the card number. Bit 26 is an odd parity bit. 1/8/16/1. Other formats have a similar structure of a leading facility code followed by the card number and including parity bits for error checking, such as the 1/12/12/1 format used by some American access control companies.
He confessed that he'd just shared a cab with the potential mistress and they were planning to tryst within the week. Thirty minutes later, he'd emptied his pockets and placed all of his cash into my tip jar. The event planners paid me $200 an hour and I made even more in tips. Later, I brown-bagged a beer taken from the party while waiting for the subway, feeling like I'd fooled them all.
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A contactless smart card uses the same radio-based technology as the proximity card, with the exception of the frequency band used: it uses a higher frequency (13.56 MHz instead of 125 kHz), which allows the transfer of more data, and communication with several cards at the same time. A contactless card does not have to touch the reader or even be taken out of a wallet or purse. Most access control systems only read serial numbers of contactless smart cards and do not utilize the available memory. Card memory may be used for storing biometric data (i.e. fingerprint template) of a user. In such case a biometric reader first reads the template on the card and then compares it to the finger (hand, eye, etc.) presented by the user. In this way biometric data of users does not have to be distributed and stored in the memory of controllers or readers, which simplifies the system and reduces memory requirements.
^ God's World: A Treatise on Spiritualism Founded on Transcripts of Shorthand Notes Taken Down, Over a Period of Five Years, in the Seance-Room of the William T. Stead Memorial Center (a Religious Body Incorporated Under the Statutes of the State of Illinois), Mrs. Cecil M. Cook, Medium and Pastor. Compiled and Written by Lloyd Kenyon Jones. Chicago, Ill.: The William T. Stead Memorial Center, 1919.
We have a community of experienced online phone psychics who are ready to guide you through your most important life decisions. And with so many phone psychics who specialize in specific areas, you're sure to get the right psychic phone reading for your needs. We're confident you'll find the right fit and that's why your satisfaction is guaranteed!
In 1930 the Polish medium Stanisława P. was tested at the Institut Metapsychique in Paris. French psychical researcher Eugéne Osty suspected in the séance that Stanislawa had freed her hand from control. Secret flashlight photographs that were taken revealed that her hand was free and she had moved objects on the séance table.[146] It was claimed by spiritualists that during a series of séances in 1930 the medium Eileen J. Garrett channeled secret information from the spirit of the Lieutenant Herbert Carmichael Irwin who had died in the R101 crash a few days before the séance. Researcher Melvin Harris who studied the case wrote that the information described in Garrett's séances were "either commonplace, easily absorbed bits and pieces, or plain gobblede-gook. The so-called secret information just doesn't exist."[147]
So this was my first time having a reading. I came to make this decision after going through a very hard break up and not finding where else to go to look for advice and some help by looking toward to the future. Lyndsay is a very good friend of mine and with what she's doing i looked for her for help. Even tho she knows me so well, what her and her sprit had said to me came across on some things she wouldn't even say in a certain way way to me. I found it all helpful and by the end result I could use all info and use it to my best ability for the support I need. I would highly recommend Lyndsay and she came across at ease and very knowledgeable in what she knows and what her sprit tells her.
"Aurora is an amazing soul. She has clarity coupled with compassion in her reading style as an Intuitive. I am a medical doctor who practices from a multidimensional perspective where Spirit comes first in a Spirit, Mind, Body approach to well being, I give Aurora an excellent rating for her psychic attunement. We are living at a time where we can embrace our own abilities to go deep within for our own answers. Having Aurora being part of your journey is a true gift. Dr Denise" Denise McDermott M.D., CA, USA
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Clairvoyant psychics use their gifts to provide guidance on friendships and relationships. Because they receive unique visions of events, images and places, clairvoyant psychics are uniquely qualified to advise you if someone special is "The One" or if a relationship is destined to last. With guidance from a clairvoyant reader providing a love tarot reading, you may be better able to nurture positive connections and move on from relationships that are having a negative influence on your life.
In 2013 Rose Marks and members of her family were convicted of fraud for a series of crimes spanning 20 years entailing between $20 and $45 million. They told vulnerable clients that to solve their problems they had to give the purported psychics money and valuables. Marks and family promised to return the cash and goods after "cleansing" them. Prosecutors established they had no intent to return the property.[196][197][198]
Whether you're looking for advice from an empath, or a tarot card reading from a skilled card reader, any and every type of reading can be done accurately over the phone. You don't have to spend hours with a telephone psychic to get important insights and answers to your questions. If you feel you are not connecting well with an Advisor, it's OK to say so and continue browsing until you find someone with whom you truly connect.
Michael Shermer criticized mediums in Scientific American, saying, "mediums are unethical and dangerous: they prey on the emotions of the grieving. As grief counselors know, death is best faced head-on as a part of life." Shermer wrote that the human urge to seek connections between events that may form patterns meaningful for survival is a function of natural evolution, and called the alleged ability of mediums to talk to the dead "a well-known illusion of a meaningful pattern."[201]
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The fraudulent medium Ronald Edwin confessed he had duped his séance sitters and revealed the fraudulent methods he had used in his book Clock Without Hands (1955).[164] The psychical researcher Tony Cornell investigated the mediumship of Alec Harris in 1955. During the séance "spirit" materializations emerged from a cabinet and walked around the room. Cornell wrote that a stomach rumble, nicotine smelling breath and a pulse gave it away that all the spirit figures were in fact Harris and that he had dressed up as each one behind the cabinet.[165]
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8/As the psychic reading goes along, take as many notes as you like and jot down anything that you want to know more about. Many telephone psychic companies offer recordings of readings so that you can listen to them again, we have a members area where you can listen back to your psychic reading for free if you book by credit card or Paypal. You also want to stay on track as you're actually having the psychic reading. Sometimes you can get so involved in one topic that you put the phone down and then think – oh! I meant to ask so and so.
Jennie Marie has the unique spiritual gift to receive messages from loved ones who have passed on from our world. Mediumship is a part of Jennie Marie's everyday life and meditation is a big factor in balancing her energy. The core of Jennie Marie's practice is communication; her readings are guided by an array of spiritual resources spanning God, past relatives, and guardian angels.
"Mental mediumship" is communication of spirits with a medium by telepathy. The medium mentally "hears" (clairaudience), "sees" (clairvoyance), and/or feels (clairsentience) messages from spirits. Directly or with the help of a spirit guide, the medium passes the information on to the message's recipient(s). When a medium is doing a "reading" for a particular person, that person is known as the "sitter".
A barcode is a series of alternating dark and light stripes that are read by an optical scanner. The organization and width of the lines is determined by the bar code protocol selected. There are many different protocols, such as the prevalent Code 39.[3] Sometimes the digits represented by the dark and light bars are also printed to allow people to read the number without an optical reader.
Being a half-ass psychic, I wondered whether he meant business partner or sex partner. He soon revealed she was both—and they were starting a company together. My intuition/magical powers told me this woman was about to leave him high and dry, but common sense told me that news might offend him and blow my chances of landing this job. Fortunetelling has no solid ethics, so I told him what I believed he wanted to hear. And I got the job.


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Park Gyu Young And Lee Hyun Woo Join ASTRO's Cha Eun Woo For Upcoming Popular Webtoon Based Drama
Published September 13, 2022 3:32 pm By Ritu K.Categorized as K-Dramas and K-Movies
Actors Park Gyu Young and Lee Hyun Woo have confirmed their appearance in the upcoming webtoon-based drama "A Good Day to Be A Dog."
According to a report on Joy News 24 on September 13, Park Gyu Young and Lee Hyun Woo recently confirmed their appearance in the new drama "A Good Day to Be A Dog" and are preparing to film.
"A Good Day to Be A Dog" is an unpredictable fantasy romance drama about a woman who turns into a dog when she kisses a man and the only way to resolve the curse is by kissing a man who is afraid of dogs.
It is based on a popular webtoon of the same name, which was enthusiastically loved by readers based on a novel concept and a solid story that repeatedly twists.
Earlier, it was reported that Cha Eun Woo has confirmed his appearance as Jin Seo Won, a character who is afraid of dogs due to trauma when he was young, is drawing attention.
Park Kyu Young plays Han Hae Na, a woman who turns into a dog when she kisses a man, and Lee Hyun Woo plays Lee Bo Gyeom, a mountain god who hides his evil side behind a smile, and the two will act with Cha Eun Woo. As various events occur as the three characters become entangled with the curse, expectations are high for the special fantasy romantic chemistry that the three actors will showcase in the drama.
Park Gyu Young was loved by viewers for her stable acting skills and different charms through dramas such as "Nokdu Flower," "It's Okay to Not Be Okay," "Sweet Home," "The Devil Judge," and "Dali and Cocky Prince." Meanwhile, Netflix's "Celebrity" and "Sweet Home" season 2 and season 3 as well as "A Good Day to Be A Dog" will be cast, continuing to gain popularity.
Lee Hyun Woo has shown reliable acting skills by appearing in various films such as "Hero," "The Con Artists," and dramas such as " The Liar and His Lover,"," and "Master of Study," has worked hard since he was discharged from the military in 2019. On top of that, he is expected to show his true value as an actor once again by confirming his appearance in "A Good Day to Be A Dog."
"A Good Day to Be A Dog" is set to start first filming in October.
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As a successful entrepreneur, when it comes to business, I have lost and felt stagnated more times than I can count. Yet, I have experienced tremendous business success over the years. I've studied under some of the greatest business minds in history, and I want to share what I've learned both from studying and from hands-on experience with others who strive to get better performance out of their businesses. I've come to think of business as a sport in a way.
When it comes to the sport of business, would you say you're winning or losing? I call business a sport to illustrate a powerful principle; it's really easy to tell who's winning or losing in any sport just by looking at the score. However, in high growth businesses, all-too-often, nobody is keeping score, so they don't know how well they're actually doing. Either that or they're keeping track of too many statistics and are becoming overwhelmed with information. It's a bit like tracking how many points someone scored in months starting with "J."
The lifeblood of a business is its cash, and we need to measure how we're doing with our cash flow on a regular basis. Cash is key!
This is simply sales minus expenses. Yet, all-too-often, businesses are not keeping track of these numbers. They may be recording them, but they're not reviewing them on a monthly basis, and they're definitely not comparing them to the prior year's performance. Profitability is most valuable as an indicator when measured to prior performance.
How much money are you able to take from the business each month? In order to keep you, the most important employee of the company, keep you motivated in your business, you need to be able to reap rewards from the business on a regular basis.
When we get down to it, whatever is hindering your business's performance, it is probably a problem inside of you. Many of us carry things from our childhood, such as insecurities and low self-esteem, that impede our success and keep us from striving for better. Still, others have never been trained how to get optimal performance out of their business. In both cases, these people need a business performance coach who can help them to identify their roadblocks and give them the breakthrough they need to start living up to their potential in their personal and business lives.


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November 13, 2015 US and World Briefing Report
President Obama is meeting at the White House with a group that includes Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, and James Baker, who held that position in the first Bush administration, to promote the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership pact before a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders next week in Manila.
U.S. House Republican hard-liners who helped force out former Speaker John Boehner are readying their next act: a multi-point manifesto demanding quick action on long-time conservative priorities. Members of the House Freedom Caucus are preparing a "Contract With America II" that would call for House votes in the first 100 days of 2016 on replacing Obamacare, overhauling entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, and repealing the estate tax.
Sales at U.S. retailers rose 0.1 percent, less than forecast in October, as consumers pocketed the money saved after fueling up their cars.
Confidential surveys of dozens of millionaires and billionaires conducted since European and U.S. economic sanctions began last year show Russia's wealthy are finding little support within the country's legal framework to pass down businesses. A majority say they're taking the issue of succession seriously for the first time.
The Islamic State extremist known as "Jihadi John" was targeted by a U.S.-led airstrike in Syria, potentially killing a symbolic figure in the group's reign of terror and compounding its battlefield losses.
Oil stockpiles have swollen to a record of almost 3 billion barrels because of strong production in OPEC and elsewhere, potentially deepening the rout in prices, according to the International Energy Agency.
Business school deans say some students who consider themselves "highly ethical" are avoiding careers in finance because they consider the field beneath their standards.
Norway – Pareto Securities AS is among banks targeting debt funds and private-equity firms to buy oil rigs at fire sale prices to hold until demand for offshore-drilling rebounds, according to people familiar with the matter.
China moved to contain leveraged wagers on its stock market, cutting by half the amount of borrowed money investors can use to buy shares, as authorities seek to prevent a repeat of the excesses that led to a $5 trillion rout earlier this year. Margin requirements will be raised to 100 percent from 50 percent starting on Nov. 23.
AP Top Stories
Iraqi Kurdish militias battling to take back Sinjar from Islamic State militants raised a Kurdish flag in the center of town and a top official said it was liberated Friday, though U.S. and Kurdish military officials urged caution in declaring victory in a major offensive to retake the strategic community.
El Nino's warm currents have brought fish in an unexpected spectrum of shapes and colors from Mexican waters to the ocean off California's coast, thrilling scientists with the sight of bright tropical species and giving anglers the chance of a once-in-a-lifetime big catch.
After sparking ridicule with a proposal to build a prison island for drug convicts surrounded by crocodiles, Indonesia's anti-drugs czar has now gone further — revealing on Friday he also wants tigers and piranhas as guards.
Japan said Friday it was monitoring waters near islands disputed with China in the East China Sea after it spotted a naval intelligence ship from the country operating in a new area for the first time.
Thousands of men around the world are to be sterilized Friday in what organizers dubbed a global "vasectomy-athon", to encourage men to take a bigger role in family planning and combat resistance to the procedure. Some 750 doctors in 25 countries are to perform the procedure on more than 3,000 volunteers to mark World Vasectomy Day, with many operations being provided for free or at discounted rates.
China's new 100-yuan banknote, acclaimed by authorities as bearing high-tech features that make it harder to forge, is being rejected by cash machines, a report said Friday.
Graphic video footage released of three Virginia police officers repeatedly tasing a man who later died in their custody has brought renewed attention to the use of stun guns in law enforcement.
A US federal appeal court has rejected a ruling which declared that capital punishment in California was unconstitutional. The original judgment said long delays in executing prisoners meant the death penalty was "cruel and unusual".
Australia's government will give 7.1m in funding to a community prepared to house a permanent nuclear waste dump. Six sites across the country have been shortlisted to host the dump, which would be Australia's first.
An elite South African university wants to drop Afrikaans as the language of instruction and teach in English.
The US has lifted economic sanctions against Liberia as President Barack Obama praised the country's commitment to democracy since the end of the 2003 civil war.
Lebanon is holding a day of national mourning after at least 41 people were killed in two suicide bombings in the capital, Beirut.
Gov. Chris Christie signed his name to a new law requiring educators across New Jersey to adopt rules allowing students with developmental disabilities and proper prescriptions to take their medical marijuana doses at school.
A well-established black student coalition is calling for violence if the U.S. Constitution is not replaced with a version that serves "the interests of black people." Afrikan Black Coalition was created in 2003 to connect activists across the University of California system.
Top News – 11/13/2015
Secret Russian radioactive doomsday torpedo leaked on television
Secret plans for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo came to light after a state television cameraman filmed over a senior officer's shoulder with a diagram on show. The scheme involves the use of massive doses of radiation to render large areas of enemy coastlines uninhabitable and appeared on TV during a meeting with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.
The Time Has Come for God to Reveal the Messiah, Says Jerusalem's Chief Rabbi
at this gathering in the early morning hours of November 9, 2015, Amar agreed that the time had come to rule that God must hasten the arrival of the messiah. In the presence of dozens of colleagues and holding the hands of the two men sitting closest to him, Amar pronounced, "We hereby rule according to the demand of the audience – we see the plaintiff but can't see the defendant – that God Almighty speedily bring an end and reveal the Moshiach (messiah) in front of our eyes in actuality."
Army's MIND Lab able to decode brain waves
In an Army Research Laboratory facility here called "The MIND Lab," a desktop computer was able to accurately determine what target image a Soldier was thinking about. MIND stands for "Mission Impact Through Neurotechnology Design," and Dr. Anthony Ries used technology in the lab to decode the Soldier's brain signals.
IBM's Watson gets chatty to act as a sounding board
While researchers around the world are making gradual gains in the monumental task of developing artificial intelligences that can creatively solve problems or produce art, IBM's Watson supercomputer has now learned how to help people get more creative. Six student teams at Georgia Tech trained Watson to chat with them about the many systems from nature that we could mimic in solving big problems such as long-term space travel and more efficient desalination processes.
EU on verge of MELTDOWN as countries across Europe SLAM SHUT doors to migrants
Panicked EU leaders admitted they've lost control amid claims other countries could follow in Sweden's footsteps after it dramatically sealed its borders. The reemergence of border checkpoints is set to sweep across Europe, while one of the most senior EU officials conceded the "clock was ticking" on the termination of the Schengen Agreement.
November El Niño update: It's a small world
The peak of our current El Niño is expected to occur in the next month or so… but what does that mean? El Niño-related impacts have been occurring around the globe for months already, and will continue for several months after the warmest temperatures occur in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Mom sought after 7 dead babies found in plastic bags
The bodies of as many as seven babies were found packed in plastic bags inside a German apartment – and a 45-year-old woman believed to be their mom is being sought, according to reports. The gruesome discovery Thursday left residents in the small town of Wallenfels in northern Bavaria in shock.
Putin 'forced Obama's hand' on ISIS: Russia hailed for making Jihadi John death 'possible'
BRITISH butcher Jihadi John could not have been targeted WITHOUT Russia strongman Vladimir Putin stepping in and ramping up the pressure against Islamic State (ISIS), according to political commentators around the world.
Vatileaks Reports That Vatican-Owned Properties Are Operating As Brothels For Priests
The facility, billed as 'Italy's best-known gay sauna', boasts a Turkish bath, Finnish sauna, whirlpools and massages. Its website ironically touts one of its 'bear nights' with a video of a hairy man stripping down and changing into a priest's outfit.
Saudi Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Makes Jaw-Dropping Statement About Israel
"I will side with the Jewish nation and its democratic aspirations in case of outbreak of a Palestinian Intifada (uprising)," bin Talal was quoted as saying by Kuwaiti Al Qabas daily. "I shall exert all my influence to break any ominous Arab initiatives set to condemn Tel Aviv, because I deem the Arab-Israeli entente and future friendship necessary to impede the Iranian dangerous encroachment," he added.
We won't give up Temple Mount, Israeli rabbis tell Obama
Some 70 religious Zionist rabbis and educators issue a petition directed at the Israeli and American leaders, stating that the Jewish ownership of the holy site preceded the existence of Islam. Dozens of rabbis from the Religious Zionism movement say they will not give up Jewish ownership of the Temple Mount and will keep praying and hoping for the construction of the third temple on the site.
Sinai plane crash: Why is Putin so silent?
The Russian president is not afraid of making decisions and taking risks. If he is stalling now, it means that complicated aspects require him to consider his moves before deciding on a response. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who admitted Monday that the crash may have been a terror attack, only emphasized the president's silence.
Tony Blair launches private Mideast peace mission
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he is ready to jump back into the difficult world of Mideast peace-making. Months after stepping down as an international Mideast envoy, Blair said Friday he is launching a new initiative to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace as a private citizen. He says his experience and network of contacts made during eight years of Mideast diplomacy will help him.
British IS leader Jihadi John 'probably' killed in air strike
The United States targeted British Islamic State leader "Jihadi John" in an air attack in northern Syria which Britain said would "strike at the heart of Islamic State" if the militant's death is confirmed. But a U.S. official said Thursday's attack in the town of Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital, probably killed Emwazi and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, quoted sources in Raqqa as saying he had been blown to pieces.
Islamic State makes new threats to Russia & Europe, promising caliphate, bloodshed
Islamic State has released a five-minute video threatening Russia with attacks in the near future and vowing to bring the Kremlin down. The video is awash with graphic images and clips from previously released execution footage.
Worst-case scenarios that are more likely than you think
Consider: Al Qaeda is still fixated on blowing up airplanes, a dream that may have just played out in the Sinai. But other risks include loose nukes in Pakistan, three-stage rockets in North Korea that can hit the United States, radiological weapons on the Russian black market and the possibility that terrorists with a demonstrated interest in biological warfare will make use of the next major infectious disease outbreak to turn human beings into weapons.
MYSTERY OBJECT TO HIT EARTH ON FRIDAY THE 13TH
(Scroll down) A piece of space junk named "WT1190F" is going to hit Earth on Nov. 13th (0620UT). It will burn up in the atmosphere off the coast of Sri Lanka, with some debris possibly reaching the water's surface. According to the European Space Agency, "its mass is not sufficient to cause any threat to the area, but the show will still be spectacular, since for a few seconds the object will become quite bright in the noon sky."
CME MISSES EARTH
A CME expected to hit Earth's magnetic field on Nov. 12th did not. The solar storm cloud apparently missed our planet. Or maybe the CME is moving much more slowly than expected, which would mitigate its impact when it eventually arrives. Either way, the chance of a geomagnetic storm today is low.
NIST Team Proves 'Spooky Action at a Distance' is Really Real
Einstein was wrong about at least one thing: There are, in fact, "spooky actions at a distance," as now proven by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Einstein used that term to refer to quantum mechanics, which describes the curious behavior of the smallest particles of matter and light. He was referring, specifically, to entanglement, the idea that two physically separated particles can have correlated properties…
Experimental drug targeting Alzheimer's disease shows anti-aging effects
As mice age, those treated with J147 showed improved physiology, memory and appearance that more closely resembled younger mice.
Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near Quilino in Argentina
A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Quilino in Argentina on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/11/15 / 2015-11-13 06:04:15 / November 13, 2015 @ 6:04 am.
Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Uchiza in Peru
The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:54:50 / 1:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -75.8865° West, latitude -8.5176° South, depth = 129.63 km.
Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Pagan in Northern Mariana Islands
A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 180 km SE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands (112 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
First genetically modified humans could exist within two years
Humans who have had their DNA genetically modified could exist within two years after a private biotech company announced plans to start the first trials into a ground-breaking new technique. Editas Medicine, which is based in the US, said it plans to…'genetically edit' the DNA of patients suffering from a genetic condition – in this case the blinding disorder 'leber congenital amaurosis'.
Scientists identify new STD that could affect hundreds of thousands of adults – and it often has NO symptoms
Hundreds of thousands of people could unwittingly be carrying a newly-identified sexually transmitted infection, scientists warned today. New research has revealed that an infection called Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) – first identifed more than 30 years ago – is transferred through sexual contact.
Lebanon holds day of mourning after deadly Beirut blasts
Lebanon is holding a day of national mourning after at least 41 people were killed in two suicide bombings in the capital, Beirut. The Islamic State (IS) militant group says it was behind the attacks in Burj al-Barajneh, a mainly Shia southern suburb and Hezbollah stronghold. Hezbollah forces are fighting IS in neighbouring Syria.
Battle for Sinjar: Kurdish forces enter IS-held town in Iraq
Kurdish fighters have entered Sinjar in northern Iraq, a day after launching an offensive to retake it from Islamic State (IS) militants. The Kurdistan Regional Security Council said in a tweet that Peshmerga forces had entered "from all directions" and were clearing the town of IS. The Kurdish offensive is supported by US-led coalition air strikes.
Russia reveals giant nuclear torpedo in state TV 'leak'
The Kremlin says secret plans for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo – called "Status-6" – should not have appeared on Russian TV news. The leak happened during a report on state-run Channel One about President Vladimir Putin meeting military chiefs in the city of Sochi. One general was seen studying a diagram of the "devastating" torpedo system.
US B-52 bombers fly near disputed South China Sea islands
Two US B-52 bomber planes have flown near artificial islands built by China in disputed areas of the South China Sea, the Pentagon has said. Their mission continued despite being warned by Chinese ground controllers. The incident comes ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama to a summit in Manila next week, which China's President Xi Jinping will also attend.
US lifts decade of sanctions against Liberia
The US has lifted economic sanctions against Liberia as President Barack Obama praised the country's commitment to democracy since the end of the 2003 civil war, the White House has said. The president scrapped sanctions implemented 11 years ago against former strongman Charles Taylor. Taylor is now in a maximum-security prison for a series of war crimes.
Report: Government may resume Ethiopian aliya
The Interior Ministry is pushing for the government to resume facilitating Ethiopian immigration, which ceased in 2013, according to a leaked draft… According to the document…some 9,000 Ethiopians living in camps in the cities of Addis Ababa and Gondar will become eligible to become Israeli citizens and have their arrival facilitated by the Jewish Agency.
Report: Russia deploys missiles in Syria that could take down jets as far away as TA
Russian President Vladimir Putin stationed an air-defense missile system in Syria that is capable of striking aircraft as far away as Tel Aviv, according to a report published on Friday. The S-400 air-defense system has been deployed at the Latakia airbase on the Syrian coast, according to the British Daily Mail newspaper.
Reading, writing and tarot cards in classroom?
A school district in Westminster, Colorado, just north of Denver, is investigating a teacher who allegedly said she wanted to "cleanse" her classroom of "evil spirits" and brought out tarot cards.
Big-Pharma's Latest, Most Sickening Crime Against Humanity
By dangling life-changing cures over people's heads for cartoonish figures of "1 million dollars," pharmaceutical corporations prove when they see sick, desperate, dying people, all they see is dollar signs
How Sweden, the most open country in the world, was overwhelmed by migrants
After months of fretting, police finally introduced border controls on the Swedish side of the bridge: the latest symbol of Europe's unravelling free movement project. There are many others: the razor wire separating Slovenia from Croatia; the border patrols on trains between Germany and Austria.
Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win
Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.
Jihadist cell in Europe 'sought recruits for Iraq and Syria'
he 13 suspected members of a jihadist group arrested in raids across Europe were allegedly recruiting foreign fighters to be sent to Iraq and Syria. The raids in Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland and the UK targeted Rawti Shax, which seeks to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
Get Ready For Crazy
Recently, the Honduras homes and businesses of the family of Jaime Rosenthal were raided by the Honduran government. The properties themselves were seized and other assets taken. The family-owned bank was also seized and has been forced into liquidation, creating potential financial crisis for its 220,000 clients.
'Jihadi John' Believed Killed in US Drone Strike, US Officials Say
The ISIS terrorist dubbed "Jihadi John", who oversaw the brutal executions of American and Western hostages, was hit by a U.S. air strike Thursday night and is believed to have been killed, U.S. officials told ABC News.
Top Headlines – 11/13/2015
White House Official: U.S. Won't Recognize Israeli Sovereignty in Golan
US Jews will abandon Israel over religious exclusion, warns delegation
Saudi Prince: Israeli peace is non-sustainable without a two-state solution
Israeli MK at European Parliament: Labeling makes you an unfair broker in peace process
Indyk: Israel offered Palestinians portions of Area C in West Bank and a building freeze
Three-quarters of British Jews believe settlements are 'major' obstacle to peace
Hamas welcomes EU decision to label settlement products
US: EU's labeling of West Bank products not a boycott
Government set to approve final wave of Ethiopian aliyah
Palestinian Health Ministry condemns 'Israeli terrorism' for Hebron hospital raid
High Court of Justice gives state go ahead to demolish five terrorist homes
Herzog wants 'NATO-like' alliance of Israel, moderate Arab states
MK Begin: There is 'no solution' to the Arab-Israeli conflict
ICC issues first report on war crimes in Palestinian- Israeli conflict
Defense minister to discuss 'smart' barrier on Gaza border
ISIS in Sinai threatens to attack Israel
'Hezbollah weapons warehouses were the target of Wednesday's Israeli airstrikes in Syria'
Suicide bombings kill dozens in Hezbollah-run Beirut suburb, ISIS claims responsibility
White House condemns Beirut blasts, Hezbollah vows revenge
Hundreds of Christian Fighters Battle to Defend Biblical Syrian Town From ISIS
Islamic State video threatens attacks inside Russia 'very soon'
Monitor: At least 100 fighters killed in Syria during storming of besieged airbase
'Jihadi John,' Terrorist in ISIS Beheading Videos, Targeted by U.S. Airstrike
Europe Nears Accord With Turkey to Stem Tide of Refugees
EU council president Donald Tusk says the EU's open border system could be about to collapse
The Latest: Fences sprout up across Europe against refugees
World Food Programme's 'ShareTheMeal' App to Feed 600,000 Syrian Children
Airing their gripes on social media: Western jihadists decry Islamic State's lack of beauty salons, Starbucks, good food
Rouhani says US-Iran ties could be restored but US must apologize
Russian envoy applauds Israel's neutrality on Ukraine
Former Russian cop charged with treason for passing secret documents to CIA
Russia 'accidentally' leaks details of nuke torpedo
Bomb kills four in Thailand's south
U.S. Military Aircraft Flew Close to China-Built Artificial Islands in South China Sea
Students across U.S. march over debt, free public college
Warning: Oil company defaults are coming
Dow dives 254, U.S. oil price around $42
U.S. inflation to rebound next year, says Fed's Fischer
Government adds record $339 billion to debt in first day after budget deal
Greek debt crisis: Clashes during austerity strike
Portugal set to experiment with anti-austerity policies
Billionaire: AI could put workers 'out to pasture'
Vizio Smart TVs Track Viewers' Watching Habits To Work With Advertisers
Space debris to collide with Earth on Friday the 13th
5.8 magnitude earthquake hits near Quilino, Argentina
5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Atka, Alaska
5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Uchiza, Peru
Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador erupts to 25,000ft
Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador erupts to 24,000ft
Colima volcano in Mexico erupts to 18,000ft
Rinjani volcano in Indonesia erupts to 14,000ft
Sheveluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 11,000ft
Former Hurricane Kate to Follow Abigail Into UK, Ireland
Drought-Stricken Southeast Brazil Has Lost 15 Trillion Gallons of Water Per Year Since 2012
Thanksgiving Turkeys Cost More Than Ever After Bird Flu Wipeout
Instead Of Killing It, Some Antibiotics Make The Superbug MRSA Stronger
HR 2232: National mandatory vaccination bill enters Congress
Vaccine Against Cholesterol Currently Under Study
Gene therapies offer dramatic promise to cure diseases but shocking costs
Do-it-yourself CRISPR genome editing kits bring genetic engineering to your kitchen bench
Mycoplasma Genitalium: Symptomless STD Making Its Way Through Britain
Lawsuit Alleges Birth Control Packing Error Led to Unwanted Pregnancies
Texas tries to stitch a safety net without Planned Parenthood
Abortion Clinics Fined for Taking Bodies of Aborted Babies to Landfill and Dumping Them
Utah Judge Orders Child Removed From Lesbians and Sent to Traditional Home
ABC reportedly bans gay dancing on 'Dancing with the Stars'
New Mormon LGBT rules ignites frenzy among faithful
New Play Portrays Jesus as Transgender
High school art teacher detects evil spirits, brings tarot cards for 'classroom cleansing'
Pastor Saeed Abedini's Wife Halts Public Advocacy, Citing Marital Woes and Abuse
Comcast Cancels Six Appointments On South Side Of Chicago Due To Violence
Pulpit and Pen weighs in on the Culprit in the Pulpit winner Amanda Wells
Apostolic Bishop Kevin Boyd Sr. Faces Prison Sentence for Molestation of 12 Year Old Boy
Noah's Ark theme park in Kentucky to open July 2016
University of Minnesota Rejects 9/11 Remembrance Because it Might Offend Muslims
Frontrunning: November 13
European shares hammered after commodity rout (Read More)
Euro-Area Growth Misses Estimates as ECB Ponders More Stimulus (Read More)
Slower-than-expected euro zone growth likely to seal more ECB stimulus (Read More)
China Doubles Margin Requirement for Stocks to Curb Leverage (Read More)
IEA Says Record 3 Billion-Barrel Oil Stocks May Weaken Prices (Read More)
GM to Import Chinese-Made Buick SUV (Read More)
China's Troubled Credit Swells to Sweden-Sized $628 Billion (Read More)
LoanDepot Postpones IPO (Read More)
Volkswagen, Offering Amnesty, Asks Workers to Come Forward on Emissions Cheating (Read More)
China apparent steel consumption falls 5.7 percent from January-October (Read More)
Sweden checks trains for migrants in first border controls in 20 years (Read More)
Secretive, Sprawling Network of 'Scouts' Spreads Money Through Silicon Valley (Read More)
Fed's Fischer Says Waiting to Raise Helped Offset Dollar Harm (Read More)
Warren Buffett Has an Image Problem (Read More)
Deputy head of China securities regulator probed for graft (Read More)
Syngenta Shares Rise on Report of Chinese Takeover Interest (Read More)
Is Wall Street Beneath Business Students' Standards? (Read More)
Frontline terminates long term charter for tanker Mindanao (Read More)
El Nino Might Not Save Us From Another Miserable Winter (Read More)
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What to Watch for at the G-20 Summit (Read More)
1) Utah judge separates child from lesbian foster parents affirming importance of father and mother
Order to Take Baby From Lesbian Foster Parents Under Review, TIME (Brady McCombs)
Utah judge removes lesbian couple's foster child, says she'll be better off with heterosexuals, Washington Post (Justin Wm Moyer)
2) Child murder of younger sibling raises horrifying realisty of sin, human nature
Jesse Pomeroy, Wikipedia
'No Easy Answers' in Murder Charge Against 8-Year-Old, New York Times (Alan Blinder)
3) Effectiveness of crisis pregnancy centers alarming abortion supporters
The Stealth Attack on Abortion Access, The New York Times (Meaghan Winter)
Not all gay Catholics are pleased about how Vatican priest came out of the closet, The Washington Post (Anthony Faiola)
Federal appeals court upholds California's death penalty reviews, LA Times (Maura Dolan and Joseph Serna)
Newton seminary plans to scale down operations, relocate, Boston Globe (Peter Schworm)
What a creepy Bloomingdale's ad tells us about America's understanding of rape, Washington Post (Danielle Paquette)
Obama Legacy in State Offices: A Shrinking Democratic Share, New York Times (Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Michael D. Shear, and Alan Blinder)
Why are DraftKings and FanDuel all over your TV? Because they want to be 'too big to ban.', Washington Post (Callum Borchers)
Men Do More at Home, but Not as Much as They Think, New York Times (Claire Cain Miller)
The Bitter, Crushing Poverty Of Appalachia Is A Preview Of What Is Coming To The Rest Of The Country
What do you say to people that have completely lost all hope that things will ever get any better? The mountains of Appalachia stretch all the way from southern New York to northern Mississippi, and nestled within those mountains are dozens upon dozens of little towns that are so impoverished that they look like they have been through a war. Thanks to Barack Obama's relentless assault on the coal industry and the ongoing collapse of our industrial infrastructure, Appalachia has lost millions of good paying jobs over the past several decades. Today, more than 40 percent of the population is living in poverty in some areas of eastern Kentucky, and addiction to "hillbilly heroin" (Oxycontin) is absolutely out of control throughout the region. Yes, poverty is on the rise all over America, but it has especially been cruel to those that make the mountains of Appalachia their home. (Read More….)
Stephen Hawking: There is no God and the theory of evolution better explains the origin of life
For someone that is supposedly so "brilliant", Stephen Hawking really doesn't have a clue. In a recent interview with Spain's El Mundo, Hawking publicly declared that God doesn't exist, that he is an atheist, and that science provides a better explanation of where the universe came from than the Bible does. While I certainly respect much of the great work that Hawking has done throughout the years, I don't think that he has thought through these issues very clearly. As you will see below, it takes a ridiculous amount of blind faith to believe that the theory of evolution is true, and the cold, hard evidence clearly points to a Creator. Unfortunately, to be a respected member of the scientific establishment today one must fully embrace an evolutionary model for the origin of life, and at this point Stephen Hawking has left no doubt as to where he stands. (Read More…)
GOP Terrified That Donald Trump Might Actually Win The Nomination In 2016
Less than three months before the kick-off Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.
EDITOR'S NOTE: If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee for president in 2016, I will absolutely vote for him. Why, you ask? Because if for no other reason he will shake up the status quo, get America back to business, and aggravate the fire out of the Liberals. And after 7 years of the Muslim-raised Barack Obama, that's good enough for me. It truly is. If you're reading this, Mr. Trump, you have my vote. Don't quit, make America great again. #Trump2016
Party leaders and donors fear nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands.
Visit the official campaign website for Donald Trump…
The party establishment is paralyzed. Big money is still on the sidelines. No consensus alternative to the outsiders has emerged from the pack of governors and senators running, and there is disagreement about how to prosecute the case against them. Recent focus groups of Trump supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire commissioned by rival campaigns revealed no silver bullet.
In normal times, the way forward would be obvious. The wannabes would launch concerted campaigns, including television attack ads, against the front-runners. But even if the other candidates had a sense of what might work this year, it is unclear if it would ultimately accrue to their benefit. Trump's counter-punches have been withering, while Carson's appeal to the base is spiritual, not merely political. Even if someone was able to do significant damage to them, there's no telling who their supporters would turn to, if anyone.
"The rest of the field is still wishing upon a star that Trump and Carson are going to self-destruct," said Eric Fehrnstrom, a former adviser to 2012 nominee Mitt Romney. But, he said, "they have to be made to self-destruct. . .Nothing has happened at this point to dislodge Trump or Carson."
Donald Trump Speaks to FIRED UP Crowd in Springfield, IL
Fehrnstrom pointed out that the fourth debate passed this week without any candidate landing a blow against Trump or Carson. "We're about to step into the holiday time accelerator," he said. "You have Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, then Iowa and a week later, New Hampshire, and it's going to be over in the blink of an eye."
According to other Republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney — despite his insistence that he will not run again. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans, who were briefed on the talks, though Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.
For months now, the GOP professional class assumed Trump and Carson would fade with time. Voters would get serious, the thinking went, after seeing the outsiders share a stage with more experienced politicians at the first debate. Or when summer turned to fall, kids went back to school and parents had time to assess the candidates. Or after the second, third or fourth debates, certainly.
None of that happened, of course, leaving establishment figures disoriented. Consider Thomas H. Kean Sr., a former New Jersey governor who for most of his 80 years has been a pillar of his party. His phone is ringing daily, bringing a stream of exasperation and confusion from fellow GOP power brokers.
"People usually start off in the same way: Pollyanna-ish," Kean said. "They assure me that Trump and Carson will eventually fade. Then we'll talk some more and I give them a reality check. I'll say, 'The guy in the grocery store likes Trump, so does the guy who cuts my hair. They're probably going to stick with him. Who knows if this ends?'"
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, herself an outsider who rode the tea party wave into office five years ago, explained the phenomenon.
"You have a lot of people who were told that if we got a majority in the House and a majority in the Senate, then life was gonna be great," she said in an interview Thursday. "What you're seeing is that people are angry. Where's the change? Why aren't there bills on the president's desk every day for him to veto? They're saying, 'Look, what you said would happen didn't happen, so we're going to go with anyone who hasn't been elected.'"
Before Tuesday's debate in Milwaukee, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker had a private reception at the Pfister Hotel with party leaders, donors and operatives. There was little appetite for putting a political knife in the back of either Trump or Carson, according to one person there. Rather, attendees simply hoped both outsiders would go away. source
Sweden Brought To Their Knees By Overwhelming Tide Of Muslim Migrants
When it opened 15 years ago, the Öresund Bridge was seen as a glistening symbol of the new Europe
Sweden and Denmark had been joined together by a motorway with no border controls, fusing together economies and even blurring national identities. Many Swedes in Malmö have come to relish the city's growing reputation as a suburb of Copenhagen, just half an hour away by train. It seemed to embody many dreams about the future: a continent where national borders would come to mean nothing.
Sweden's open border dream was shattered at noon today.
This has been painful for everyone, but devastating for Sweden because its main political parties barely know how to respond. Openness is the closest thing the Swedes have to a national religion, this policy is visibly failing – and there is no back-up plan.
The headlines now suggest a country that is coming apart. Just last month, an asylum centre in the picturesque town of Munkedal was set alight, the latest in a series of arson attacks against refugees. Anti-Semitic incidents in Malmö have raised such concern that Swedes have now started "kippa walks", gathering in their hundreds to accompany Jews home from the synagogue in a show of solidarity. The Sweden Democrats, a party routinely denounced by Swedish media as "neo-fascist", is now leading in the national opinion polls. Economically, Sweden remains strong. But politically, it's in crisis. source
The Religion of Environmentalism
Mythic longings for a non-existent paradise.
This summer President Obama visited Alaska, where he stood in front of a shrinking glacier and said, "Climate change is no longer some far-off problem; it is happening here, it is happening now." At a conference in Anchorage, he made the apocalyptic prediction that "submerged countries, abandoned cities . . . entire industries of people who can't practice their livelihoods, desperate refugees seeking the sanctuary of nations not their own, and political disruptions that could trigger multiple conflicts around the globe" would be the wages of failing to act now to stop global warming.
Shariaville, USA: America's 1st Muslim-majority City Council
Hamtramck, known affectionately as "Poletown" by Detroiters and Michiganians for its bustling district of Polish restaurants, markets and beautiful Catholic churches, last week become the nation's first city to elect a Muslim-majority city council – sending three Muslims to join one incumbent who was not up for re-election. In butcher shops that once offered juicy Polish sausages in refrigerated display cases, female customers wearing hijabs now purchase halal meats blessed by an imam………….. Click here for full story
Proxy Wars & The Battle For Syria
What is happening in Syria is an example of the confusion that is possible when countries with a stake in a war use proxies. ISIS is supposed to be the common enemy that everyone is aiming to defeat, but this one united objective is somewhat compromised by several other radically different, and even opposing agendas held by proxy armies and/or their foreign puppet masters……………. Click here for full story
No Place To Hide – Swedes Force Cash Out Into The Open
Developments in Sweden's monetary policy, along with recent trends by banks to discourage cash transactions are putting individuals in a no-win situation where they can no longer hide or save their money, but are increasingly being "urged" to spend it to prop up failing economies. Since July, the Swedish central bank has had an interest rate of -0.35%. Yes, you hear that right, negative interest………. Click here for full story
Feds To School Girls: Transgender Rights Supersedes Your Right To Privacy
The Obama administration has told girls in an Illinois school district that if they feel uncomfortable having a boy undress and shower with them that is just too bad, and they have no say in the matter. Township High School District 211 in Palatine, Illinois, like many schools has been grappling with the issues of transgender students. In an attempt to balance the rights of all students, the district made an accommodation to a boy who said he believed he was a girl. The boy has not yet had sex-reassignment surgery, meaning anatomically he is still a male in every way….………… Click here for full story
What Keeps Jewish People From Seeing Yeshua as the Messiah?
Atoning sacrifice is one of the most basic tenets of biblical Judaism. Today, however, Jewish people by and large have disavowed it. How did this happen? In my last article, I discussed how misguided reverence for the Oral Law was developed and taught by the rabbinic leadership between 516 B.C.-A.D. 70. This view of Scripture interpreted through Oral Law ultimately contributed to Jewish rejection of Yeshua as Messiah. Now we consider the next period of Jewish history, A.D. 70–135—from the fall of Jerusalem to the "Gentilization" of the church. What happened during this time inhibits my people even today from seeing Yeshua as their atoning sacrifice.
The faith of the Jewish people through their history was based on the sacrificial system centered in the tabernacle and later in the temple. One could only approach God by first offering a sacrifice. With that in mind, how could Jewish people today consider sacrificial atonement irrelevant to Judaism? With the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70, the Jewish religious leaders faced an enormous problem: how were they to maintain a people of faith without the prescribed sacrifices at the altar and the temple? Incredibly, the way the religious leaders reinterpreted the meaning of sacrifices 2,000 years ago affects Jewish thought and theology to this day. FULL REPORT
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America and World Ripe for Third Great Awakening
We have reached a point in time when the world sits and waits for the proverbial "other shoe to drop." Something big is going to happen soon. Christians sense it. Students of Bible prophecy can feel it in their bones. Even the unsaved world senses that something ominous is heading our way. The Prophecy News Watch says: "We live in the most dangerous time in world history. What's going to happen in the next year or so? Will there be a war in the Middle East around the blood moon time frame? A global financial collapse on the next Shemitah? A nuclear tragedy? Another terrorist catastrophe?"
As a student of revival, I have read about the impact that past revivals have brought to America and the world. The first and second awakenings of the 18th and 19th centuries as well as the 20th-century awakening were so powerful and far-reaching that they changed the spiritual and moral culture of entire nations. The Welsh revival is a great example of the violent upheaval a Spirit-born awakening can bring down on society. After the initial outpouring in Wales at the turn of the 20th century, the churches were crowded for two years with 100,000 outsiders being converted. Drunkenness was reduced by 50 percent, taverns went bankrupt, crime nearly disappeared that judges had no more cases to judge, and the police became unemployed in many districts. FULL REPORT
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Brazil tests man for Ebola, puts others under observation
A Brazilian man who visited Guinea is being tested for Ebola and authorities have preventively isolated a public health unit where he first sought medical attention, Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Castro said on Wednesday. The 46-year-old man arrived in Brazil on Nov. 6 and developed high fever with muscle pains and headaches two days later, he said. Officials declined to provide the man's name. Guinea is one of three impoverished West African countries, along with Liberia and Sierra Leone, that have suffered with the most deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus in recent years.
The man sought medical help at an emergency room in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the ministry said. That unit is no longer taking patients, the minister said at a new conference. The man was then quarantined and will be flown in a military plane on Wednesday to Rio de Janeiro, where the government has set up a lab to test blood samples for Ebola according to international security protocols. Medical workers and other patients who had contact with the man are being monitored by health officials, according to the ministry's statement. FULL REPORT
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Saudi Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Makes Jaw-Dropping Statement About Israel.
IN A STARTLING STATEMENT, SAUDI PRINCE AL WALEED BIN TALAL HAS SAID THAT HE WOULD SIDE WITH ISRAEL IN CASE OF A PALESTINIAN UPRISING AND THAT HE WOULD ATTEMPT TO BREAK ANY ARAB INITIATIVES SET TO CONDEMN THE JEWISH NATION.
According to the Kuwaiti daily, the prince and entrepreneur urged the Saudi Kingdom to devise a new strategy to combat Iran's increasing influence in Gulf States by forging a defense pact with Tel Aviv to deter any possible Iranian moves in the light of unfolding developments in Syria and Moscow's military intervention. The Saudi prince is on a regional tour, visiting the other Gulf Arab littoral states–Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman–to muster support for Saudi-backed rebels in Syria, reported the daily.
"The whole Middle East dispute is tantamount to matter of life and death for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from my vantage point, and I know that Iranians seek to unseat the Saudi regime by playing the Palestinian card, hence to foil their plots Saudi Arabia and Israel must bolster their relations and form a united front to stymie Tehran's ambitious agenda," Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) reported him as saying on Tuesday. The Saudi prince maintained that Iran sought to bolster its presence in the Mediterranean by supporting the Assad regime in Syria. He added that Russia had become a real co-belligerent force in Syria's four-year-old civil war by attacking CIA-trained rebels which was why there was a need for a Saudi-Israeli nexus to frustrate Russia-Iran-Hezbollah axis. FULL REPORT
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El Nino is about to make Food Shortage even worse
With global food prices spiking thanks to the US drought, El Nino was the last thing the world needed. But now meteorologists are warning that the phenomenon, which sees unusually warm waters in the Pacific cause freak weather from California to Australia, is under way. In the last 10 days, the national weather agencies of the US, Japan, Australia, India and Peru, among others, have confirmed the first effects of El Nino in the eastern Pacific. In the past, El Nino has caused massive disruption to agriculture around the Pacific Rim.
In a statement, the Climate Prediction Center, a US agency of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, said it now expected the early signs to develop into a full-blown El Nino during August or September as higher water temperatures translate into warmer air currents. That is expected to inject new levels of uncertainty into global food markets as heat waves and drought grip the eastern Pacific while increased rains, and some flooding, could hit the Americas. FULL REPORT
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Russia deploys missile system able to hit Tel Aviv planes
Russia has revealed in photographs that it has deployed a highly advanced anti-missile system in western Syria, that is capable of downing planes taking off in Tel Aviv. The S-400 anti-missile system, known to NATO as the SA-21 "Growler," was shown to be stationed in the Latakia Airbase on the Syrian coast of the Mediterranean Sea in photographs released by the Russian military, reports the Daily Mail on Thursday.
In the past there have been Arab media reports of Israeli airstrikes in Latakia against advanced weapons shipments headed for the Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon. Those operations would now be greatly threatened by the Russian deployment. The S-400 is said to have a maximum range of 250 miles, and can bring down airplanes at up to 90,000 feet – more than double the height of a cruising commercial airliner. The range puts most of Syria, southern Turkey, the eastern portion of the Mediterranean Sea, much of Israel and the British airbase of Akrotiri in Cyprus within the scope of the missile system. FULL REPORT
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Russian Intel: ISIS Has 80000 Jihadis in Iraq and Syria
Russian intelligence reports are claiming that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group has amassed 80,000 soldiers in Iraq and Syria for its drive towards the goal of a global caliphate. A senior Russian official told state-run TASS news agency that 30,000 ISIS jihadis are currently stationed in Iraq, and another 50,000 are fighting the jihad in Syria. Some 7,000 militants are originally from states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union, according to the report.
"According to reports, militants now control around 40 percent of Iraqi territory and 50 percent of Syrian territory," said Yevgeny Sysoyev, the deputy leader of Russia's FSB security services, which was formerly the infamous KGB during the soviet-era. "Among members of the group are citizens of 80 countries, including France, Great Britain, Germany, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the US, Canada, as well as Russia and other [Commonwealth of Independent States] countries. Among them are about 30,000 foreign terrorists. Most of them come from the Middle East and North Africa," Sysoyev added from a conference in Sochi, Russia. FULL REPORT
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Iran says it will receive S-300s from Russia by year's end
Iran will receive the bulk of the S-300 air defense missile systems it ordered from Russia by the end of the year, Tehran's defense minister said Wednesday, according to the AFP news agency. "We signed a contract with Russia. It is being done. We will acquire a large portion of the systems by the end of this year," Iranian Minister of Defense Hossein Dehghan was quoted as having said. He said Iranian troops were being trained in Russia to operate the surface-to-air missile systems.
The announcement came two days after Russia's state-run Russian Technologies corporation (Rostec) announced the signing of a delivery contract for S-300 missiles with Iran. The S-300 is a long range surface-to-air missile – manufactured by the Russian firm Almaz – designed to intercept aircraft and cruise missiles, and its most advanced models can also target ballistic missiles. The sale of the S-300, originally conducted in 2007, has been repeatedly delayed due to Western pressure given that UN nuclear sanctions ban the delivery to Iran. FULL REPORT
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Our Time is Short
Read: Recommitting Your Life To God and Jesus Christ – Restoration and Forgiveness With God and Jesus Christ (Updated Version)
God made everything out of nothing, including you and me. His main purpose in creation was to bring him pleasure.
The chief way in which we as humanity do this is through loving, obeying, and enjoying him perfectly.
Instead of this, we have sinned against our loving Creator and acted in high-handed rebellion.
God has vowed that he will righteously and lovingly judge sinners with eternal death.
But God, being merciful, loving, gracious, and just, sent his own son, Jesus Christ, in the likeness of man to live as a man; fulfilling his perfect requirements in the place of sinners; loving, obeying, and enjoying him perfectly.
And further, his son bore the eternal judgment of God upon the cross of Calvary, as he satisfied the eternal anger of God, standing in the place of sinners. God treated Jesus as a sinner, though he was perfectly sinless, that he might declare sinners as perfect.
This glorious transaction occurs as the sinner puts their faith (dependence, trust) in the Lord Jesus Christ as their substitute. God then charges Christ's perfection to the sinner, and no longer views him as an enemy but instead an adopted son covered in the perfect righteousness of his son.
God furnished proof that this sacrifice was accepted by raising Jesus from the dead.
God will judge the world in righteousness and all of those who are not covered in the righteousness of Christ, depending on him for forgiveness, will be forced to stand on their own to bear the eternal anger of God.
Therefore, all must turn from sin and receive Christ Jesus as Lord.
There is no greater message to be heard than that which we call the gospel. But as important as that is, it is often given to massive distortions or over simplifications. People think they're preaching the gospel to you when they tell you, 'you can have a purpose to your life', or that 'you can have meaning to your life', or that 'you can have a personal relationship with Jesus.' All of those things are true, and they're all important, but they don't get to the heart of the gospel.
The gospel is called the 'good news' because it addresses the most serious problem that you and I have as human beings, and that problem is simply this: God is holy and He is just, and I'm not. And at the end of my life, I'm going to stand before a just and holy God, and I'll be judged. And I'll be judged either on the basis of my own righteousness–or lack of it –or the righteousness of another. The good news of the gospel is that Jesus lived a life of perfect righteousness, of perfect obedience to God, not for His own well being but for His people. He has done for me what I couldn't possibly do for myself. But not only has He lived that life of perfect obedience, He offered Himself as a perfect sacrifice to satisfy the justice and the righteousness of God.
The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn't concerned to protect His own integrity. He's a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter. It cost the sacrifice of His own Son. So valuable was that sacrifice that God pronounced it valuable by raising Him from the dead – so that Christ died for us, He was raised for our justification. So the gospel is something objective. It is the message of who Jesus is and what He did. And it also has a subjective dimension. How are the benefits of Jesus subjectively appropriated to us? How do I get it? The Bible makes it clear that we are justified not by our works, not by our efforts, not by our deeds, but by faith–and by faith alone. The only way you can receive the benefit of Christ's life and death is by putting your trust in Him–and in Him alone. You do that, you're declared just by God, you're adopted into His family, you're forgiven of all of your sins, and you have begun your pilgrimage for eternity.
The Gospel on 5 Fingers
If you picked up a hitchhiker (not that I recommend doing that) and he saw a Bible on your car seat and said, "I've heard about this thing called the Gospel – can you explain it to me before you drop me off in one minute up the street?" What would you say?
Can you explain the gospel in 30 seconds? In one minute? In five minutes?
Here's one way I have found helpful. The five main components of the gospel can be remembered on 5 fingers of one hand. Here they are:
1) Jesus' birth
2) Jesus' life
3) Jesus' death
4) Jesus' resurrection
5) Jesus' ascension
Obviously each point can be elaborated on depending on how much time you have. Here's the short version:
1) Jesus' birth – Jesus, God himself, the creator of the universe, the Messiah, became a human being – took on flesh, and was born of a virgin.
2) Jesus' life – Jesus lived a life of perfect obedience to his Father. Though he was tempted in every way as we are, he never once sinned.
3) Jesus' death – on the cross, Jesus himself took all our sins and paid for them. God the father counted all our sins to Jesus as if he himself had personally committed them. Then Jesus bore God's wrath towards sin – the punishment we deserved – as a substitute for us.
4) Jesus' resurrection – within 3 days, Jesus rose physically from the dead, proving that his sacrifice for sins have been accepted by God, since the punishment for sin was death. Jesus was seen by numerous people after he rose including 500 at one time (1 Corinthians 15).
5) Jesus' ascension – Jesus ascended physically into heaven where he reigns as King of kings and Lord of lords. And someday he will return to the earth.
That's the gospel, the good news, and if we believe in Jesus Christ and this good news and call upon him he will save us from our sins and give us eternal life.
That's a simple way to remember the gospel – five fingers. Even a child can do it. So ask God to give you opportunities to share his good news today.
Ready to start your new life with God?
Who do you think that I am?
With that brief question Jesus Christ confronted His followers with the most important issue they would ever face. He had spent much time with them and made some bold claims about His identity and authority. Now the time had come for them either to believe or deny His teachings.
Who do you say Jesus is? Your response to Him will determine not only your values and lifestyle, but your eternal destiny as well.
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Shipwreck divers died getting lost in silty water
From Telegraph
David White, 42, and Kaye Moss, 43, ran out of air as they tried to find their way out of a small compartment on the HMS Scylla off Whitsand Bay in Cornwall.
They dived to the artificial reef and entered a room via a hatch but stirred up silt as they went in.
The sediment made it impossible to see and they were unable to find the exit, an inquest in Plymouth, Devon, heard.
Both bodies were later recovered from the room, with Kaye's buried beneath the silt.
Thousands of tonnes of dredged material is dumped near the Scylla from the nearby Devonport Naval Base to keep the River Tamar clear for ships.
An MoD spokesperson confirmed that 40,000 tonnes of dredged material had been deposited at the site last year.
Despite being experienced divers with hundreds of dives between them, Mr White and Miss Moss failed to attach a safety line which could have lead them out of the wreck, the inquest heard.
The couple died during a trip with three other divers from the South Gloucester Sub Aqua Club on August 2, 2007.
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Book Smugglers Publishing Inspirations and Influences Quarterly Almanac
"Nice": A.E. Ash on Inspirations & Influences
"Inspirations and Influences" is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their Inspirations and Influences. In this feature, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their writing overall.
In which we invite A.E. Ash – author of Luminous, a SciFi Romance we published two years ago – to talk about her new short story with Book Smugglers Publishing. "Nice" is one of the original short stories included with The Book Smugglers' Quarterly Almanac Vol IV (out now) and a prequel to her upcoming SciFi Romance novella Temporary Duty Assignment (out from us in the summer)
Please give it up to A.E Ash!
I'm so incredibly excited…excited to see one of the pieces I most enjoyed writing come to one of my favorite publishers, and super!excited to share how it came about. To celebrate the publication of my short story "Nice", I'm here today at The Book Smugglers squeeing about the idea's creation, sharing thoughts on post-dystopian narrative, and introducing the not-all-bleak futuristic megacity I needed, and so created.
About three years ago, I was hanging out with a couple of friends chatting, as we often do, about gaming. One of them mentioned an interactive GPS game that was like laser-tag but with stealth/tactical elements and instead of a cramped, loud arcade, the entire city was the playing field for intrepid, mobile-device soldiers. This led to me forming a strategy for such a game: if you want to sneak up on another player remember to be utterly unremarkable, to look harmless or disinterested, to dress blandly, to move about casually like any other work-a-day person doing their thing.
This idea stayed around enough that I got to pondering what I meant by 'unremarkable.' I thought about all the times I've been shopping or out and about and have felt myself blending into my surroundings, masked by monochrome clothing and the non-threatening mask I wear so as not to scare the folks I encounter with my normally intense, Dredd-like frownyface (seriously–I have resting Dredd face).
I was kind of shocked to realize that in talking about "unremarkable," I was describing my not-so-far-from-middle-age, everyday self. Deferential but not to the point of being noticed, blandly polite in that way I was taught to be back in the day in Charm School when going about one's business, and even likely forgettable unless I showed what I really feeling, or opened my mouth to say anything but "thank you ma'am" and "have a nice day."
This stuck in my craw.
I got to unpacking why I couldn't get these thoughts out of my head. I came to the conclusion that, at least as a woman who is me and grew up where and when I did with the experiences I've lived, I find safety in anonymity and in being relatively unseen. It's harder to be hurt, accountable, harassed, or even just inconvenienced when you're barely a blip on the radar. When I realized that I was also freeing myself up to operate as I wanted, unquestioned and free of social pressures and move about as I pleased, tendrils of narrative sprouted from this notion in the way a philodendron snakes out its shoots so casually it's almost hard to see (that I used a philodendron is important, or at least, relative to my story but you'll have to read it yourself to see why).
Cue "Nice".
IN A WORLD (movie trailer voice-over and dramatic bass-heavy music) where The Big Apocalyptic Thing has gone down but now people are mostly over it as much as people can be in their remarkable resiliency and capacity for hope, everyday heroes rise to the challenge of healing the land. Humans band together in the remaining functional megacities to help one another live the best lives they can. Some of these people are merchants, construction workers, bio-engineers, chefs, transit operators. Some are military police. In particular, Metro Central's best covert operative is never seen, never noticed–is some lady in the grocery line, giant frumpy purse full of prototype ammo and extra socks.
That was what really started it all. I wrote "Nice", the first story set in my new world in a couple of days, shopped it around, and ended up just sitting on it. I could tell, it needed more. It needed to be populated, thought out, and extended. I decided that another story was going to happen–longer form, probably a novella. T.D.A. was hence born but I'll talk about that another time, muahaha.
I took "Nice" and ran with it. I wanted to create a narrative where the giant, cyberpunk city of the future was beautiful, full of life and highly functional–where people, despite their hardships, were mostly happy and well cared-for. I wanted to show the surrounding wastelands being resuscitated by tireless farmers, mechanical and biological engineers, plant pathologists, and corporations working with all them with humanity's best interests in mind. I'd never heard the term solarpunk back then, but I knew one thing–I was feeling depressed by the concept of the bleak sci-fi dystopian future (even then before the ass-kick that was 2016 into now). I had no word yet for what I wanted to create so I used post-dystopia–the time after the crappy stuff. It might be old hat to some, but I wanted an urban oligarchy that actually served the needs of its people, law-enforcement acting out of humanitarian concern, and almost nobody being okay with cultivating tendencies that would lead to mistakes like the one that caused The Big Apocalyptic Thing in the first place. I wanted a world where green was the best thing ever. I hope I've delivered on at least some of this, and I'm excited to share the teeming Metro and the many people who live there with readers.
You can find "Nice", the first Metro story in the Book Smugglers Quarterly Almanac and on their website. Stay tuned for news about T.D.A – Temporary Duty Assignment, a Metro novella coming later this year. Happy reading, all…have a nice summer!
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THE BOOK SMUGGLERS' QUARTERLY ALMANAC
A quarterly collection of awesome, selected and edited by The Book Smugglers
Collecting original short fiction, essays, reviews, and reprints from diverse and powerful voices in speculative fiction, THE BOOK SMUGGLERS' QUARTERLY ALMANAC is essential for any SFF fan.
IN THIS VOLUME (JUNE 2017):
A.E. ASH
(With a brand new story called "Nice", set in the world of the upcoming novella Temporary Duty Assignment)
FOZ MEADOWS
(An essay, about Slipfic)
OCTAVIA CADE
(A reprint of the author's award-nominated short story "The Mussel Eater")
GABRIEL SQUAILIA
(An essay, on body horror and coming out as trans)
BÁRBARA MORAIS
(An essay, on diversity and language)
YUKIMI OGAWA
(A new short story called "Nini" about an AI, a space station and an old goddess. The cover art is based on "Nini")
BOGI TAKÁCS
(An essay, on superhero registration tropes, power fantasies and Western-centrism)
YOSIA SING
(A new short story, "El Periodista y la Guerrera", a story featuring LGBTQIA superheroes fighting for justice for marginalized groups)
(An essay, on romance, women who lust and The Courtship of Princess Leia)
ANA GRILO
(A review of Bitch Planet volume 2)
THEA JAMES
(An essay, Where to Start With the Star Wars Expanded Universe)
How To Procure Your Copy of The Almanac
The Almanac is available now as an ebook with major retailers and soon, as a Print On Demand paperback! Get your copy by using the links below.
Buy the Book:
Weightless Books ¦Smashwords ¦ Amazon US ¦ Amazon UK
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Guest Author and Giveaway: Sean Cummings on Inspirations and Influences
Supernatural Summer: Melissa Marr on writing the Wicked Lovely Manga (and a giveaway)
A Smugglerific Cover: In Her Head, In Her Eyes by Yukimi Ogawa
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L'oreal is giving away sample for their new product, RevitaLift Laser. I have read lots of positive review about this new product. Can't wait to get my hands on this. And I'm gonna do a full review of it.
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We have had another amazing day in London. This morning we visited the Houses of Parliament, which was almost overwhelming! We even sat in on a debate in the viewers gallery. After that we visited the Tower of London and rounded the evening off with watching Mathilda at the Theatre. It was truly amazing!
The countdown to baby chicks has begun!
We are 'egg-cited' to announce that our chicken eggs are snug in their incubator and are due to start hatching by the middle of March. Early indications are that chicks are growing in every egg. We will publish an update as soon as we spot any cracks appearing!


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Celebrity Marvel Eyes 3 Female Directors For "Black Widow" Solo Film
Marvel Eyes 3 Female Directors For "Black Widow" Solo Film
Black Widow is one of the key characters in Marvel Cinematic Universe. While the character appeared as a support in many Marvel movies, she has yet to have her own standalone film – but all that is about to change.
For years fans has been asking Marvel for a "Black Widow" solo movie, and it looks like their wish will soon be granted as the studio has finally shortlisted three female directors from over 65 candidates to helm the potential movie.
According to Deadline, the three female directors are Cate Shoreland ("Lore", "Berlin Syndrome"), Amma Asante ("A Way of Life", "Belle"), and Maggie Betts ("The Carrier", "Novitiate"), and all of them have already met with Marvel's president Kevin Feige and Scarlett Johansson.
Back in 2017, Johansson said that the studio are waiting for the right time to make the movie.
"I've talked to Kevin Feige about it. We're creatively really compatible. I think we both agree that the character is right for a standalone, it's just a case of timing at this point for both Marvel and myself. Marvel has a really huge roster. They're looking four years ahead. I also have a lot of things that I want to do. If I did it, I would dedicate myself completely to making it amazing. It would have to be the best version that movie could possibly be. Otherwise, I would never do it."
"Nothing lasts forever." See Marvel Studios' @Avengers: #InfinityWar in theaters April 27. #BlackWidow
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Though Marvel has yet to release an official confirmation, it is certain that progress is being made considering that the studio has already appointed Jac Schaeffer to pen the script and Maria Djurkovic to be the production designer.
Filming production of "Black Widow" will reportedly begin next year.
Sources: Deadline, Movie Web, Slash Film
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Under My Documets copy the WS_PLN_26-files to the Flight Simulator X Files folder.
All the flights of the 26th Package take place in Brazil, starting in the humid west over the wide plains to the Atlantic coast. Except for the first flight the distances are rather short and not too difficult to fly. Enjoy the night-flight with the Sikorsky. For the 1681 miles of the 26h Package we need approximately 4 hours. The total flight time for 260 flights and 97,722 miles is 8 days 03:42 hours.
The archive ws-fsx_pack_26.zip has 95 files and directories contained within it.