Around the World 2014
AUGUST
Argentina defaulted for the second time, unable to pay debts ... Portugal's Banco Espiritu Santo closed ...Birth control pills linked with breast cancer ... Toledo, Ohio water toxic due to algae, not fit for drinking ... Ebola virus death in West Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea) up to more than 900 cases ... Ceasefire on the bombing of Gaza by Israel; started with the kidnapping of 3 schoolboys by Hamas and found dead. Hamas denied the kidnapping ... Walgreen's to stay in Deerfield, Illinois headquarter ...US 2-star Major General Harold Green killed in Afghanistan August 5 by an Afghan pretending to be a soldier, 15 injured ... US fighter jets bombed ISIS (Islamic State) terrorists hideouts who are after the beheading of Christians who escaped in the mountains of Northern Iraq if they don't convert to Islam ... Oscar award winning actor and comedian Robin Williams. 63, found dead of apparent suicide, August 11, in his Northern California home ... Oscar-nominated actress and 2-timesTony-award winner Lauren Bacall died of stroke at the age of 89, August 12 ... Texas Governor Perry indicted of corruption by Grand Jury in trying to remove out of office a repeated drunk women DA, August 19 ... Ferguson, Missouri black riots due to deadly force ? killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown ... Photojournalist James Foley beheaded by Iraqi jihadist as a revenge retaliation of US air strikes, August 20 ... Dr. Kent Brantley, Ebola virus survivor, released from Emory University Hospital, August 21 ... Nancy Writebol also survived the Ebola and was released, August 19 ... Angelina Jolie and Brat Pitt tied the knot in their Chateau Miraval, France, August 23 ...6.0 magnitude earthquake in Napa, California, August 24 ... MGM Lion's Share slot machine spewed $2.4 million after 20 years, August 25 ... South Korea Little League World Series Champion, August 24 ... Welcome parade in honor of Little League baseball national champion Jackie Robinson West of Chicago, August 26 ... Comedian and Fashion Police Joan Rivers in drug-induced coma after cardiac arrest during throat surgery, August 28 ...
SEPTEMBER
United Nations to fund war-torn Gaza Strip, September 1 ... Kidnapped journalist Steven Sotloff beheaded by Islamic militant, September 2 ... Over 800 Filipinos jailed for drugs worldwide, including 45 on death row according to Department of Foreign Affairs, September 3 ... Guilty verdict in former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell case, September 4 ... Fast-food workers protesting for $15 minimum wage, September 4 ... Joan Rivers dead at age 81, September 4 ... Scotland referendum from independence ... Burundi killings of three Italian nuns, September 8 ... Remembering 9/11 ...
Philippine UN peacekeepers in Golan Heights, September 17...
55% of Scottish voted no to referendum not to be part of UK, September 19 ...
Airstrikes of ISIS in Syria, September 21 ...
March for Global Warming/Climate Change, September 22 ...
140 Heads of States at UN General Assembly, September 24 ... Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters: Umbrella Revolution, September 29 ... Ebola in Texas, first case in US, September 30 ... Secret Service Director Pierson testifies in Congress, September 30 ...
OCTOBER
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un not seen for a month, October 7 ... Thomas Eric Duncan, first US case of Ebola, died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, October 8 ... Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize, October 10 ... Nurse who took care of Duncan got the Ebola, October 11 ... 50% of Iraq under ISIS, October 13 ... Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta to First Ladies and celebrities dead at age 82, October 21 ... Oscar Pristorius sentenced to 5 years in prison ... Recent Islamic convert killed an honor guard at the War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada, October 22 ... Unmanned rocket carrying supplies for International Space Station (ISS) blew up upon lift up in Virginia within 6 seconds, October 28 ... NATO intercepted Russian warplanes off European coast, October 29 ... San Francisco Giants won the World Series, October 29 ...
NOVEMBER
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda, November 2 ... Midterm election, November 4 ... Republican Bruce Rauner elected Governor of Illinois ... 1,500 US troops back in Iraq ... Virgin Galactic building an identical aircraft, November 7 ... Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller realeased from North Korean prison, November 8 ... Veterans Day - 23 million living veterans, November 11 ... Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of Obamacare in trouble for having said the American people are too stupid and lack of transparency is a huge political advantage, November 12 ... Jane Byrne, the only female and former mayor of Chicago dead at 81, November 14 ... American Peter Kassig third to be beheaded by ISIS, November 16 ... Comedian/actor Bill Cosby accused by 15 women of sexual harassment and rape, November 19 ... Obama the Lone Ranger of illegal immigration and acting alone without legislation from Congress deferred the deportation of 5 million ... Famed award-winning director Mike Nichols, husband of TV anchor Diane Sawyer, dead at 83 of cardiac arrest, November 20 ... Hitler's painting of Munich Rathaus (City Hall) sold at auction for $162,000, November 22 ... No Grand Jury indictment of white police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of store robber 18 year-old Michael Brown who's black... looting, rioting, burning of businesses of blacks, November 25 ...
DECEMBER
Whitewash! House Intelligence Committee Report on Benghazi: No intelligence failure, December 3 ... Cape Canavera, FL. Orion rocket launched ... Duchess Kate and Prince William visitin New York; staying at Carlyle Hotel, December 7 ... Senator Diane Fienstein: CIA misled Congress on Harsh Interrogation Tactic (HIT) of terror suspects, December 9 ... Peshawar school in Pakistan: 140 schoolchildren killed by Taliban, December 16 ... Swap deal between Cuban spies and Alan Gross, an American jailed in Cuba; Easing of travel restrictions to Cuba, December 17 ... Birthday celebration of Pope Francis, 78, with dancing of Tango at St. Peter's Square, December 17 ... Russian rubles crashed, December 20 ... Former President George H. W. Bush hospitalized for shortness of breath at Methodist Hospital in Texas, December 25 ... 10th anniversary of Indian Ocean tsunami, December 26 ... Burning ferry off the coast of Greece, December 27 ... AirAsia Flight 8501 departing from Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city, flying to Changi International Airport, Singapore missing, December 28 ... AirAsia crash site off the coast of Borneo, bodies and debris floating, December 30 ...
[To be continued]
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I was so sad until now about the murders of the three Italian nuns in Burundi a few days ago, from Sunday to Monday. I remember in the 60's about rapes and murders of nuns in Congo. I wonder what happened to those who survived. Their love and long service to humanity to be rewarded with such evil is so heartbreaking. I hope the nuns at the convent are being protected and extra careful. Pope Francis was very sad also. May they rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteFURY IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI - WHAT A TERRIBLE SITUATION. I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THE HARD WORKING BUSINESS OWNERS WHO GOT LOOTED AND BURNED AND GOT THE BRUNT OF THE BLACK RAGE IN THE SHOOTING OF MICHAEL BROWN BY WHITE POLICEMAN DARREN WILSON. WHAT DID THEY DO TO THESE BLACKS EXCEPT MAKING A LIVING FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES. WHO'S GOING TO PAY THEM FOR THEIR LOSSES? HOPEFULLY THE INSURANCE COMPANIES. THERE WAS NO GRAND JURY INDICTMENT OF WILSON, SO THIS IS ACCORDING TO WHAT'S IN THE LAW. WHY IS EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE BLACK AND WHITE AND CALL IT RACISM? I'M GETTING TIRED OF THE WHOLE THING SO I TURNED OFF THE NEWS AND WATCH MY FAVORITE MYSTERY SHOWS.
ReplyDeleteWHITE POLICEMAN DARREN WILSON REGRETTABLY SUBMITTED HIS RESIGNATION. WHAT WAS NOT RIGHT WAS, FOR SOMEONE WHO HAD A VERY GOOD SERVICE RECORD TO THE FERGUSON COMMUNITY FOR MANY YEARS HE WAS DENIED OF HIS POLICEMAN'S BENEFITS. THIS IS NOT RIGHT. THERE IS A TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCE WHEN ONE DOES NOT OBEY THE LAW. THE LESSON FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, BLACK OR WHITE, IS FOLLOW THE LAW, SURRENDER TO THE ARRESTING OFFICER. THE GRAND JURY DID NOT INDICT HIM. IN MY OPINION HE SHOULD HIRE A GOOD LAWYER AND SUE THE FERGUSON POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE UNION. AMERICA IS A NATION OF LAWS - LET US NOT FORGET THAT. THERE IS NO JUSTICE WHEN THERE'S MOB PROTESTATIONS AND DESTRUCTION OF OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTIES WHO DID NOT DO ANYTHING TO THE BLACK KID MICHAEL BROWN. THERE IS NO JUSTICE TO BE SWAYED AWAY FROM WHAT IS THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.
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