B*U*S*T* News Day World News 2004 - 2013

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ON HIATUS SINCE AUGUST 2004 ... DATE STARTED DECEMBER 1, 2013.

UNITED STATES   Website http://healthcare.gov  glitches not totally fixed ...

 Dec 2 Four killed in train derailment in Bronx, NY ... Following the footsteps of Nixon in visiting China, Obama is "thinking" of visiting Iran, a country that sponsors worldwide terrorisms ... VP Joe Biden on tour of Japan and China ... Obama, the Forever Food Stamp President, blaming Republicans for all his woes.  Are you sick and tired yet? Since he became president there were 42 million ? on food stamps ...

Because of ObamaCare, Democrats voted to cut $716 billion from Medicare, including $154 billion from Medicare Advantage.  Suck it to me, baby! ...
 

... December 7   A day that will live in infamy: 72nd anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor ... December 9 Merger completed between American Airlines and US Airways making it the world's largest airlines ...  December 10  US Presidents (Carter, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama) and more than 70 world leaders, head of states and royalties to attend Mandela's memorial service in Johannesburg, South Africa - a big security headache ... Job unemployment 7%, down from 7.3% ... Chicago 1985 football champs Da Bears coach Mike Ditka to be honored and his jersey 89 to be retired\ ... Da Bears beat Da-llas ... GM out of government payroll, but has a new lady president Mary Barra.  The US government lost $10 billion with the bailout ... TIME magazine's Person of the Year: POPE FRANCIS - beating wrecking ball singer Miley Cyrus, whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Amazon's Jeff Bezos, a future drone-user ... ObamaScare enrollment watch: 364,000 enrolled (October - November) -  target enrollment - 7 million ...Bipartisan agreement in government budget after 2 years ...  John Kerry to visit typhoon ravaged Tacloban ... New US Ambassador to the Philippines: Philip Goldberg ...

Luck be the lady tonight - $$$$$$$$$$ 425 million in MegaMillion Friday lottery

... No lottery winner - jackpot $550 M ... December 14  First anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut ... Arapajoe school shooting in Centennial, Colorado.  Shooter killed himself, one injured ... Chicago is #19 as murder capital of USA ... December 17 Wednesday 2 winners ( Atlanta GA and San Jose CA) in $648 million jackpot ... No auction starting bid of $13 million in basketball champ Michael Jordan's $29 million mansion in Chicago ...  December 19 Target hacked, 40 million debit/credit card customers angry ...  Popular Reality TV Duck Dynasty's patriarch Phil Robertson suspended by A&E for gay comments ... December 21  PanAm bombing anniversary, Lockerbie, Scotland ... December 30  First Mom Barbara Bush admitted to Methodist Hospital in Houston for respiratory problem ...  Microsoft owned SKYPE hacked by Syrian electronic army .. Freezing in the northeast US and midwest ...

Innovation in snow shovelling ...

National Security Agency (NSA) listens only to Persons of Interest.  No need to be afraid of if you have nothing to hide -- besides, in my opinion, you are not that important.  Leave Mr. Clapper alone! ...

January 4, 2014  '60's favorite singing duo Phil Everly of Everly Brothers (Dream, Dream, Dream, Wake-up Little Suzie, A World Without Love) dead at 74 ...

CHINA  Not contented in sucking the natural resources of the world (Africa and Latin America), land grabbing the shoals of South China Sea, the ChiComs are claiming the airspace also ... The third country to land on the moon after 44 years - lunar rover into geological data gathering ... 

VATICAN CITY  Pope Francis was a nightclub bouncer in Argentina ... Pope Francis, just like his namesake St. Francis of Assisi and a Jesuit priest, told world leaders to help the poor and fight poverty in his first apostolic exhortation.  He's very much aware of homeless people because in his hometown of Buenos Aires they are all over the city and just sleeping near the doorsteps of his former diocese church.  St. Ignatius de Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order, once  belonging to a rich family and who left all his worldly goods, begged his way all the way to Jerusalem.  The Pope should be cut some slack since he's very much aware and grateful that all money being donated to the Roman Catholic every Sunday come from rich capitalist donors.  For God's sake, he's just exhorting, not extorting ...

I have to concur with radio talkshow host Rush Limbaugh that Pope Francis would not have gotten the TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR if not for his socialistic apostolic musings on treckle-down economics and capitalism.  There is no doubt the magazine is leftist and liberal, totally the extreme opposite of the Pope's Catholic belief  (religious freedom, abortion, gay marriage etc. etc.)  I betcha you if Limbaugh didn't "criticize" and albeit "disappointed" with him, the magazine would have given the award to the traitor and whistleblower Edward Snowden.  It's in the DNA of the magazine to honor people of dubious personalities ...

December 17  A blessed 77th birthday to Pope Francis ...  Esquire magazine voted Pope Francis as Best-Dressed Man of 2013 ...

BRUSSELS  My number 1 commercial video pick of 2013 of my favorite action actor JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME- The Muscle from Brussels does the "Epic of Splits"  http://yout.be/j-b1q-Ea9E8 
hmmmm...I wonder why the uploader closed the YouTube account???  Replaced with-

http://youtu.be/7cbVFQP4y2U

THAILAND  This country has constant demonstration and wild protests - this time to oust the lovely lady Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra ...

Demonstrations interrupted to wish the beloved King Bhumibol a happy 86th birthday (December 5, 1927) ...

UKRAINE  The Kievs were disappointed in the government saying nyet to the European Union ...  December 14 Sen. John McCain joined protestors ...

NORTH KOREA   Where is Kim Jong Un uncle Jang Song Thaek?  According to Seoul's spy network - National Intelligence Service (NIS) - Uncle Jang has not been seen for a month and two of his associates were publicly executed ... US veteran Merill Newman released from jail ... What happened Thursday December 12 - Uncle Jang executed by firing squad   hanging (how about that, not the usual punishment?) for being a traitor ... Auntie promoted to the evil hierarchy by nephew Kim ...

MEXICO  Radioactive load missing in Mexico City ... PEMEX, a national oil corporation, to go public ...

PHILIPPINES  Jordanian journalist held captive for a year and a half  by terrorist militant  Abu Sayyab released in southern Mindanao ... Three aspiring Filipino astronauts now at Kennedy Space Center ...
Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) death toll: 5,759 ... Italy gives 3 new helicopters ... No new military base in the Philippines but US troops are welcome to help in cases of devastating natural disasters and future confrontation with China and other aggressors , foreign and domestic ...  Canadian singer Justin "Bieb" Bieber visited typhoon-ravaged Tacloban after a concert in Australia.  Thanks for the help, eh.    When asked what's his favorite food, he said  roast duck (bibe in Tagalog).  Bibe, bibe, oh! http://youtu.be/k9lLbBOnh30 ...

  
YEMEN  A suicide bomber detonated an explosive laden-car at the gate of the Defense Ministry in Saana.  A western doctor and a Filipina nurse were killed at the hospital compound and 70 injured ... December 11  Kin of Filipina nurse killed to receive PhP 600,000 ($ 13,636) ...

LIBYA   American chemistry teacher Ronnie Smith shot while jogging in Benghazi ...

SOUTH AFRICA  Nelson Mandela, First black President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died in his sleep at the age of 95 ... December 15 burial in Madiba's ancestral home of Qunu ...

HUNGARY    Established in 1973, the Hungarian embassy in Manila, Philippines closed its diplomatic mission in the 1990s due to financial constraints.   Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi told Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario  it plans to re-open.  It was one of the first countries to offer assistance the day after typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan - international name) struck.  The total trade in 2012 was $156.5 million - food, beverage, components of slow conductors devices, electrical data processing, pharmaceutical, metal auto parts, petrochemical, intermediate and fabricated products.  Filipinos love Hungarian goulash .  There was this Austro-Hungarian restaurant in Vienna that makes the best goulash soup ...

ARGENTINA  Demonstrations in some provinces because of police strikes asking for increase in wages ...


INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION  Faulty cooling system, astronauts not in danger ... December 18 ISS space walks, six hours, to fix the problem ...

UNITED KINGDOM  December 14 Prince Harry completed 200 mile trek with military veterans in Antarctica after 2 weeks.  The coldest weather on the planet of -133 degrees ... Actor Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia, Lion in Winter) died at the age of 81 ...

AUSTRALIA  Gay marriage law overturn after just a week of being a law ...

SPAIN  Protests to demolish  a centuries-old "cave" community in Granada in order to build tourist hotels ...

BOLIVIA   December 19  Telecommunication satellite launched with China paying the tab for $302 million ...

RUSSIA  December 22  Dissident Mikhail Khodorkosky released from prison ...  Inventor Kalashnikov dead at 95 ...  December 29  Mission accomplished for Traitor and Whistleblower Ed Snowden in making US counter-intelligence "infinitely weaker" ...  Expeditionary ship stuck in ice in Antarctica with 72 crew members and passengers ...  December 30  Bus bombing in Volgograd (Stalingrad), 39 killed ...

ISRAEL  December 25  A baby boy named Jesus (God saves)  is born in a manger in the little town of Bethlehem ...

A unique and one-of-a-kind statue of a pregnant Mary

  January 1, 2014  Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 85, in coma since January 2006 due to stroke, organs failing ...


THE UNIVERSE   January 2, 2014 Permanent settlement to Mars by 2021 -- MarsOne ...

To continue...

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>Winter Texan: Guest News Contributor August 10 - 31, 2004
>
>Monday 8.16 Pres. Bush to cut troops in Europe and Asia within a period
>of 10 years since the Cold War is long over. The military base in England
>to relocate in Italy. 12,500 troops in So. Korea will be recalled as that
>country has a booming and progressive economy. 70,000 troops to return to
>US...Severe flooding in Cornish towns of England... Hugo Chavez of
>Venezuela voted for 2 more years as president in a referendum. Former US
>president and election observer Carter said the election was "fair."
>Venezuela is the 5th biggest oil exporter but 70% of the population is
>poor...5,000 new Iraqi police graduated after 8 weeks of training in the
>International Police Training Center in Jordan...160 people massacred in
>Burundi reminiscent of Rwandan genocide where 1 million ethnic Tutsis died
>- massacred by Hutu majority...King of Pop Michael Jackson, 45, attended
>pre-trial hearing with family members...8.23 Imam Ali Shrine siege goes
>on. 4 US soldiers died from their wounds...18 months of conflict in Sudan
>killed 30,000 people...American labor unions against eligibility for work
>overtime...8.30 Opening day of the Republican National Convention in New
>York City. Keynote speakers are Sen. John McCain (birthday yesterday - 68)
>and former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani...Cholesterol lowering statin drug,
>ZOKOR (Merck Pharmaceutical), if given on a higher dose of 80 mg. may cause
>heart disease...William Kennedy Smith resigned as chairman of the Center
>for International Rehabilitation due to a lawsuit by a former
>girlfriend...Pentagon mid-level analyst Larry Franklin under investigation
>for spying for Israel...Filipino singer Lani Misalucha singing with Las
>Vegas hit attraction Filipino band Society Of Seven (SOS) ...Olympic Games
>medal tally - 103 MEDALS for the USA - 35 GOLD ...
>
>Tuesday 8.10 Olympic security cost - $1.5 billion. Afghan woman running
>in Olympic Games track and field...He's Fired! Trump Hotel & Casino in
>Atlantic City, NJ on bankruptcy...New CIA top spy - Rep. Porter Goss
>(R-Florida)...US light crude $44.99...8.17 Presidential candidate John
>Kerry announced he's going to bring home the US military out of Iraq in 6
>months to a year if elected...7 Iraqis dead of mortar attack in
>Baghdad...Michael Phelps won 5th gold medal in Olympic swimming...8.24 Two
>Russian planes crashed at the same time upon take off from Moscow airport.
>90 dead...Iraqi cabinet members targeted by radical Islamic
>assassins...Paraguay Olympic soccer team the victor over Iraq...Earthquake
>in Greece...Falling concrete from infrastructure in Chicago's Dan Ryan
>Expressway damaged passing cars...VP Dick Cheney was asked by an obnoxious
>reporter about his gay daughter that everyone already knew
>anyway...Illinois Atty. Gen. office filed a civil lawsuit for $70,000
>against the pro-Kerry Dave Matthews Band, a mediocre but much-hyped local
>group, for allegedly dumping human liquid waste from their bus on the
>Chicago River and showering the people in a passing tour boat below with
>feces. It happened 2 weeks ago...ATA might leave Chicago Midway
>Airport...According to AOL, Chicago is 3rd in the nation in instant
>messaging...8.31 2 bus suicide bombings in Israel after 6 uneasy months of
>peace. 11 killed and many injured...A Chechnyan woman blew herself to
>oblivion in Russia. More than 10 innocent people killed...12 Nepalese
>working as cooks for a Jordanian company brutally executed by Iraqi Muslim
>terrorists. The Nepal ambassador to London was devastated by evil Muslim
>terrorists causing havoc and destruction all over the free world...1 US
>soldier killed in Iraq...Olympic Philippine team in Tae Kwan Do returns
>from the games failing to get a medal and limping (Hey, they tried but it
>was not enough)...Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo going to China without much
>entourage due to lack of money and tightening of government budget...Former
>Chicago Sun-Times newspaper chairman, Lord Conrad Black, accused of
>transferring $400 million for his personal use...Cab drivers in Chicago
>asking for fare hike. Last increase was November 2000...India and Pakistan
>exchanged prisoners...
>
>Wednesday 8.11 Olympic flame back in Athens after circling 6 continents
>and 27 countries...Continuing assault in Najaf...Warning of Al-Qaeda might
>kill a top official in the US or somewhere in the world...Filipino sexy
>porn star Keanna Reeves might testify in Philippine Congress in escort
>service scandal...8.18 Hurricane Charley recovery - 6,000 people of
>Sanibel Island return...Pink slips for Bank of America employees - the
>result of merging with Fleet Bank...Airport scare in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
>Noxious fluid leaked from a luggage and sickened security screeners...8.25
>Plane crash investigation of 2 Russian planes wreckage on-going. Chechnyan
>Islamic terrorists responsible... Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Sistani
>came back from London... Former Sen. Max Cleland, a Vietnam War triple
>amputee and friend of Kerry, arrived in Bush's Crawford Ranch with a letter
>signed by 8 senators for the President to denounce the SwiftBoat ad.
>Another political propaganda by bleeding hearts liberals and Kerry sinking
>to a new low for sending the poor brave man to do what he's supposed to
>do...
>
>Thursday 8.12 Pres. Bush and wife Laura visited Nancy Reagan in
>California. VP Dick Cheney in Dayton, Ohio campaigning and
>fundraising...Gov. Jim McGreedy (D-New Jersey) admits to gay relationship
>with his Israeli homeland security director and resigns...Twin storms
>Charley now in Cuba and Bonnie to hit Florida on Friday the 13th...300,000
>tests for 400 banned substances in Olympic doping. Greek track star in
>motorcycle accident...Vatican shutdown a Vienna seminary because of sex
>scandal with student priests obsessed of downloading internet porn...8.19
>Paul Hamm won the gold in men's all-around gymnastics and Carly Patterson
>of Louisiana won the gold in women's all-around gymnastics...Mortar attack
>the Baghdad Green Zone and injured 2 embassy workers...Chicago Wrigley
>Field owners given an ultimatum to repair the crumbling
>structure...Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy's name in the no-fly list and
>has the same name of a suspected terrorist "T. Kennedy." It has
>inconvenienced him 3 times in a year...8.26 Italian hostage Enzo Baldani
>executed by Iraq Islamic terrorists...Possible peace deal in Najaf...Pres.
>Bush to file a lawsuit on election campaign ads...Arthritis drug VIOXX may
>be linked to heart attack...William Kennedy Smith of the prominent Kennedy
>clan was accused of allegedly raping his personal assistant Audra Soulias
>five years ago in Chicago. They both admitted to dating each for five
>months after the alleged rape. The lawsuit for $3 million was not about
>the alleged rape but about harassing calls he made to her. She said the
>lawsuit is not about the money...US poverty level is 36 million in a
>population of more than 300 million...
>
>Friday 8.13 Opening of the XXVIII Olympic Games in Athens. Started in
>776 BC... Hurricane Charley category 4 Tampa-St. Pete - Ft. Myers...PBS
>Chef Julia Child whose motto is "Above all have a good time" dead at 92 in
>Santa Barbara, California...Ambassador Alan Keyes, an outspoken
>conservative, selected as new Republican senatorial candidate in
>Illinois... I U.S. soldier killed in Najaf...8.20 Jet pilots practice in
>the great weekend Chicago Air & Water Show...Olympic controversy in Paul
>Hamm of Wisconsin winning the gold due to judging error. 3 judges
>removed...Philippine Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Forbes 9th Most
>Powerful Woman. India's Sonja Gandhi is #1...Presidential opponent John
>Kerry sunk into a new low by threatening Pres. Bush about a SwiftBoat ad by
>veterans against Kerry. BOB (Band of brothers) against BOB. Pres. Bush
>did not approve the ad...2 US soldiers killed west of Baghdad...8.27 Pres.
>Bush acknowledged in an interview of miscalculation due to swift victory in
>Iraq...5 Chechnyan suicide bombers of the Islambouli Brigades claimed to
>the simultaneous downing of 2 Russian planes...1,000 protestors in Athens
>against Sec. of State Colin Powell's visit to the Olympic Games...New call
>by the International Federation of Gymnastic Association for Paul Hamm to
>give up his gold medal in gymnastics...
>
>Saturday 8.14 Hurricane Charley devastated Punta Gorda, Florida and
>destroyed thousands of home and killed 15. Pres. Bush declared it a
>disaster area. Damage estimate is $18 billion. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
>met with Russian counterpart in St. Petersburg, Russia...VP Cheney declined
>invitation of France on its other D-Day...Germany apologized for colonizing
>Namibia 100 years ago...Pope John Paul in Lourdes, France - prayed in the
>Grotto of Bernadette with 250,000 sick and infirmed faithful...US fighter
>plane dropped 500 pounds of bomb over Samarrah killing 50...Killing of
>Burundi refugees in Gatumba Camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo...8.21
> Olympic volleyball players Misty May and Karen Walsh won the gold against
>China - score: 21-18...Stand-off continues in Najaf. 1 soldier killed in
>Baghdad...8.28 Pentagon analyst in spy probe for passing sensitive
>information to Israel...2 French journalists missing since August 19 to be
>executed by Islamic terrorists unless France lifts ban on Muslim head
>scarf...Traces of explosives found in 2 Russian planes...Sec. of State
>Colin Powell forced to cancel the Olympic closing ceremony due to pressing
>matters in the Sudan and to avoid angry Greek protestors...80's singer
>Laura Branigan dead at 47. Her most popular song Gloria was the favorite
>of many...
>
>Sunday 8.15 Pres. Bush and brother Gov. Jeb visited disaster area in
>Florida...Day 2 of Olympic Games: US basketball team lost to Puerto Rico.
>In swimming, Michael Phelps of Baltimore, Maryland failed to go for a
>record 8 gold medals...2 US soldiers killed in Iraq...Talk-show host and
>billionaire Oprah called for jury duty in Chicago...8.22 SwiftBoat
>Controversy hitting up against Kerry. Van Odell of Swift Boat Veterans for
>Truth in an interview by FOX NEWS SUNDAY said that Kerry did not come under
>fire on March 13, 1969. And Kerry was not 5 miles inside Cambodia on the
>Christmas Eve of 1968. www.swiftvets.com What
>really made the other vets angry was what Kerry did after coming back from
>Vietnam...Olympic women's marathon in 90 degree heat. US Justin Gatlin won
>gold in the 100 meter run...2 paintings of Edvard Munch, the Scream and
>Madonna, stolen in Oslo museum...1 US soldier killed in Mosul...8.29 The
>XXVIII Olympiad ends with 202 countries participating. International
>Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge gave the Olympic flag to
>the mayor of Beijing, China where the 2008 Olympic Games will be held...VP
>Dick Cheney visited Ellis Island - The Gateway to America by many
>immigrants from Europe...100,000 protestors expected to march in the
>Republican National Convention in New York City...3 US police trainers
>killed in Kabul explosion. The Talibans claimed responsibility...Russia
>refused autonomy for runaway republic of Chechnya. 3 former elected
>presidents all assassinated by Muslim terrorists. The last one killed in
>May...Illegal immigrants apprehended in the tiny island of Lampedusa,
>Italy...Dance floor collapsed in Brazilian nightclub -Ladies Night -
>killing 100...Crop circles appeared in the sleepy village of Wylotova in
>Poland. Tourists are finding out that the truth may be out there...
> ..

Published  9/1/04  ALT MSN Group

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