A New World Order

Submitted by ub on

It looks out of order from here, but consider this... Each moving point on this map represents 25 people and corresponds to one busload with every other seat taken.

This map of migrants arriving in Europe, shows they’re coming from the world’s poorest and most oppressive regimes, with dramatically different religious and cultural traditions. http://www.lucify.com/the-flow-towards-europe/

TV Era

Submitted by ub on

The history of television produced by RCA in 1956. This is TV history according to RCA, focusing on the technological advances that could be attributed to RCA.

A lot of TV "firsts" are shown: first president to be televised, first televised baseball game, etc. David Sarnoff talks with Vladimir Zworykin about television's early development at RCA. The last third of the film suddenly breaks

The Story of Television https://youtu.be/9A7MN4TjC2Q

Confused?

Submitted by ub on
Images

This NBC show and TV program started in 2013 with a fun premise: rogue, billionaire, murderous ex-FBI Red Reddington surrenders to the bureau after being on the run. Ctch9ng bad guys with information he can provide.

He insists on mentoring newbie agent Liz Keen who may be his daughter and whose husband, Tom, is a double agent. This show grew TO BE confusing and overloaded with extraneous characters, some bailed out @ Season 2.

One confusing show in my opinion NBC "Black List" https://youtu.be/8k6QIx971LM

SANDY Anniversary

Submitted by ub on

Three years have gone by, but she is not forgotten. Super-storm Sandy slammed into the Northeast three ago, destroying property and robbing families of all their possessions in the floods that followed. In its wake, the federal government approved a $50.5 billion aid package to help the people impacted by the storm, and according to US Federal Emergency Management Agency, those recovery efforts are three years ahead of schedule.

Hurricane Sandy: The Documentary https://youtu.be/J-Wj5oLvmSA

Blimp Blooper

Submitted by ub on
Images

Did you hear the one about the blimp that flew away from NORAD? Air command is assigned to the 52nd Combat Communications Squadron and may have lost priceless communications equipment needed for our national defense.

The top secret blimp that was tethered at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland has broken free and no decision on what to do. North American Aerospace Defense Command recently held a celebration commemorating 57 years as a command. The celebration was successfully organized by NORAD and U.S. Northern Command commanders.

Top World Series Moments

Submitted by ub on
Images

The World Series of Baseball... Power went out and the best team came out on top.

Top 10 World Series Moments http://www.realclearsports.com/2015/10/28/top_10_world_series_moments_1…

Fans say: "Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game."

Take Me Out To The Ball Game https://youtu.be/TSYWX7ZXd5I

Calm is intelligennce

Submitted by ub on

When your sense of pleasure and satisfaction are derived from comparing yourself to others, you are no longer the master of your own happiness.

Loud and obnoxious people with high energy who repeat themselves and constantly use superlatives may be showing lower intelligence levels and most decent folks are beginning to realize this.

Haunted House

Submitted by ub on

Just in time for Halloween, this Thursday, a new US House Speaker should be sworn into office to proclaim: Trick or Treat.

The entire nation should watch to see what happens with our Government inaction, while it gives the whole world a front-row seat in the U.S. House of Representatives chambers.

The Clerk’s House Live service also allows everyone to watch streaming live and archived video feeds of House floor proceedings dating back to 2009.: http://houselive.gov/

http://www.house.gov/

What can the new speaker learn from the ghosts of speakers past?

China's two-child policy

Submitted by ub on
Images

Following years of population control, PR China looks to implement an expansive policy that will allow parents to have more than one child.

China is the most populous country today but it has managed to control the population growth by the virtue of the one child policy. China was a ticking time bomb back in the sixties and seventies. After China became relatively stable in the post World War II era, when a hundred years of civil wars, unrests and epidemics had become a thing of the past, there was a boom in its population. It wasn’t much different from how the populations boomed in Europe and Americas but the troubling reality was that China had a huge population to begin with.

The suffering caused by China's one child policy https://youtu.be/H4OWJlyaHt0

Faced with the complicated domestic and international situation, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council lead the people of all nationalities of China to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 18th Party Congress, uphold the general tone of “moving forward while maintaining stability”, adhere to the guideline of “the macro policy should be stable, micro policy be flexible and social policy support the bottom line” while maintaining steady growth, adjusting economic structure and forging ahead with reform, and actively make explorations and innovations of macro-control means, as a result, the national economic and social development realized stabilized and accelerated development and achieved a good start.

Images change lives

Submitted by ub on
Images

Associated Press Photographer Nick Ut captured images of Kim Phuc, when she was a nine-year-old girl running away in pain, following a napalm attack in Trang Bang during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972.

Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut The AP photojournalist won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for "The Terror of War". Ut is the third person inducted by the Leica Hall of Fame for photojournalism. http://us.leica-camera.com/World-of-Leica/Leica-Awards/Hall-of-Fame-Awa…