The Interview now on the web; Sony to stream the movie on YouTube and Google-Play.
NY rep. Grimm plead guilty to tax evasion (felony fraud), refuses to resign.
George H.W. Bush in hospital after shortness of breath.
Violence protests erupt in suburban St. Louis after another black teen is fatally shot by a white police officer in Berkeley, MO.
It occurred about 5 mi NW of Ferguson. The officer stumbled backward but fired three shots, one of which, struck the teen, according to St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar. Belmar said the teen, ID’d by authories as Antonio Martin, 18, was armed with a 9mm handgun. Martin’s mother said her son did not have a gun and had only just left their home to see his GF.
By 7 a.m., the protesters had left Berkeley Mobil, while a few police officers remain, according to KSDK News.
Winter Solstice today, New Moon tomorrow.
Vigil held for two Brooklyn police officers.
Officers Wenjian Liu, who had just gotten married a few months back, and Rafael Ramos, were both
sitting in a patrol car when they were ‘assassinated’ by a man who traveled from Baltimore. A real
thug, the killer tried to excuse his behavior by attaching what he did to the Brown homicide and
subsequent protests, some chanting “A good cop is a dead cop.” Some claim this activity and cases
like this may discourage police from showing up.
N.Korea wants joint Sony cyber probe with U.S., denying involvement in hacking.
Reuters: on the oficial KCNA news agency, an unnamed spokesman said there would be “grave
consequences” if Washington refused to agree to a joint probe and continued to accuse Pyongyang.
Feds say N.Korea was behind the attack/threats.
Sony says Feds are close to finding hacker(s).
Pakistani
officials say siege at school over.
AP: 141 dead, almost all of them students; many played dead. Panic broke out when the
shooting began. “I saw children falling down who were crying and sceaming,” said Abdullah Jamal,
one of the wounded students, in a group of eith, ninth and tenth graders getting first-aid
instructions and training with a team of army medics. Another student said they locked the door
from the inside but the gunman blasted through anyway. Personnel carriers were deployed, and a
military helicopter circled overhead.
Taliban spokesman Mohammed Khurasani claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming retribution for killing ‘our kids’; he advised the attackers not to hit ‘underaged children.’
Sony Pictures cancels relesase of The Interview, due to hacker threats on theater chains.
USA Today: Famed Cuban cigars among goods OK to import.
Tobacco products from Cuba are among goods allowed under rade normalization rules Pres. Obama
announced Thursday.
USA Today: New York magazine duped by supposed millionaire teenager. The magazine apologized Tuesday for publishing an article Sunday about a 17-year-old named Mohammed Islam, a Stuyvesant High School senior in NYC, claiming to be a stock trader worth in the high eight figures, rumored to be worth $72 mn. In reality, the kid is a stock enthusiast, participating in simulated trades as part of an investment club.
We were duped,
they posted on their website. Our fact-checking process was
obviously inadequate; we take full responsibility and we should have known better.
New York apologizes to our readers.
Taliban raids school in Pakistan: 126 killed, mostly children; many injured. Six militants killed; police officials think they’ve killed all of the attackers, but aren’t sure.
Islamic hostage standoff in Sydney quickly condemned by Australian Islamic community; gunman and two hostages dead.
Penn.: 6 separate shooting incidents connected, police believe. A former marine suspected of killing ex-wife, 5 in-laws; he is considered armed and dangerous.
Bob Barker turns 91.
7-hr. black-out/white-out in NY, as a Nor’easter blankets across the region, knocking out power, making roads difficult to travel, and all the rest.
Bracing for backlash across the globe.
Information on CIA methods of torture about to be released.
Rolling Stone pulls back and apologizes for its story of sexual assult on the “character” (the word their journalist used on MSNBC) known as “Jackie,” for the reporter’s lack of integrity, looking for a story at a university, landing on an alleged gang rape case at UVA where no questions were asked of the accused, as asked by Jackie. Since the story UVA, had banned fraternities.
Tear gas and shattered windows in Berkley.
2nd day of protests, initially peaceful, lead to small war zone conditions.
“Kids are dying while you’re buying.”
NY Times Square. As parents and children look for gifts, shopping for Christmas, some
anti-commercialists make their voices heard…
AP—Anderson, IN: disabled girl, nearly 16, at 40 lbs., hospitalized; someone called for ambulance Mon.; 58-yr.-old grandfather and wife charged w. neglect of adependent.
In the affidavit, the grandfather says the girl hadn’t a medical exam in 3 yrs., and that he was unable to afford a “nutritional drink” for the child since Medicaid ran out a year ago. He admits to locking the girl up in a room, with a space heater, blankets and oatmeal, where police found blood on the floor; he says the girl “was very strong,” sometimes weilding a knife, though a woman that lived in the house said the grandfather would sometimes drag the girl by the hair. A 4-yr.-old who lives in the house says the girl stuck her fingers out of the door trying to get out.
Us Weekly: Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi’s new husband Jionni LaValle spent what should’ve been their
honeymoon time in court, pleading guilty to DUI charges just two days after the moment of “I do.”
And she said—or tweeted, rather, Hungover with my husband. (That will not get old)
getting mcdonalds and being slobs together. Waiting for walking dead tonight.
Bank holiday in Scotland.
AP: woman sues Bill Cosby, claming underage abuse. The abuse allegations keep getting worse…
13-yr.-old boy missing for 4 years found stashed in wall as police arrived; Clayton County Police took 30 min. and help from secret txt msgs.
Us Weekly: Haylie Duff pregnant, expecting first child with fiancé Matt Rosenberg.
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