Jesse Ventura : Big Brother, Mark of the Beast and ‘Infraguard Junior G-Men’
December 31, 2009
(ChattahBox)—Jesse Ventura, a former pro-wrestler and governor of Minnesota has collected all of the current, apocalyptic New World Order conspiracy theories and turned them into a TV show on TruTV called, “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.” Combined with schlocky production values and the gigantic Jesse “the Body” “investigating” fringe conspiracy theories sporting a black leather coat and a pony tail; the show is extremely thin on substance and high on hype. And with a doomsday Don LaFontaine-esque voice over and outright promotion of the fevered swamps of conspiracy theories, the result is somewhat entertaining in a B-movie sort of way.
Jesse already covered the 9/11 truthers and the global warming deniers, which he proclaimed was a hoax perpetrated by a powerful global cabal of industrialists to take over the world. And with his Big Brother is watching you episode, Jesse paints a scenario of a Nazi Germany society where kids rat on their parents, neighbors rat out neighbors and and we all are implanted with a microchip. And when martial law arrives, “Infraguard Junior G-Men” will have a “license to kill.” Read more
Weather Channel Forecast Calls For Sunny with Plenty of Romance (Video)
December 31, 2009
(ChattahBox) – Viewers who tuned into The Weather Channel earlier this week might have wondered whether they had stumbled upon an episode of “The Bachlorette” or a soap opera perhaps. Weather Channel meteorologist Kim Perez was ambushed on air (video below) recently when her boyfriend showed up to propose.
Police sergeant and boyfriend, Marty Cunningham had conspired with producers who added music and a background with the words, “Will you marry me?”, appearing as Perez was finishing up a segment on New Year’s Eve weather (conveniently titled, “Ringing In The New Year”).
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Iran’s Parliament Orders Arrests of ‘Main Instigators,’ Journalists Also Rounded Up
December 31, 2009
(ChattahBox)— Like any oppressive regime, Iran is taking steps to suppress the voices of opposition, by arresting reform leaders and rounding up journalists in the dead of night. After a weekend of bloody clashes with reform protesters and government security forces that left at least seven dead, including Mir Hossein Moussavi’s nephew, Iranian officials staged a counter demonstration of pro-government crowds on Wednesday that drew hundreds of thousands to the streets of Tehran.
On the same day as the massive pro-government rallies, the Iranian parliament also issued orders for the arrests of opposition leaders, specifically naming three people who “must be arrested,” Mehdi Karoubi, Mir Hossein Moussavi and Fa’ezeh Hashemi. Karoubi and Moussavi challenged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June’s controversial elections, which spurred bloody street protests. And Hashemi is the daughter of the former president, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Read more
News Corp. May Pull Fox Network Channels From Time Warner Cable Starting Jan. 1, 2010
December 31, 2009
(ChattahBox) – If News Corporation fails to reach a deal with Time Warner on a new contract by Thursday night i.e. New Years Eve, millions of homes could see Fox broadcast network dropped from their cable package, including Fox News and big college football bowl games. Prospects are looking bleak for the two sides to reach an agreement before tonight’s midnight deadline as News Corp has refused an offer to enter binding arbitration. “At this time, it looks like we will not reach an agreement, and our channels may very well go off the air in Time Warner Cable systems,” News Corp. president Chase Carey told employees, according to The New York Times. Read more
Bloody Wednesday: Eight CIA Agents, Five Canadians Killed by Afghan Taliban
December 31, 2009
(ChattahBox)—The deadly mire that is Afghanistan, took the lives of eight American CIA agents, four Canadian soldiers and one Canadian journalist on Wednesday during two separate blasts, which the Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the next day. In addition to the deaths, six Americans and five Canadians were injured. The CIA employees were killed by a suicide bomber, whom the Taliban claims was a uniformed Afghan National Army soldier. The Canadians were struck by a roadside bomb, which the Taliban said was exploded near a bridge in Kandahar province. The deaths of the eight CIA agents is the single worst incident, since eight CIA employees, were killed in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut on April 18, 1983. And for the Canadians; it was the worst single day for Afghanistan casualties, since six soldiers were killed on July 4, 2007. Read more
Police find Gunman Who Killed Five in Finland Dead
December 31, 2009
(ChattahBox) — A crazed gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday morning, at a suburban shopping mall near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, killing four people.
Altogether three men and one woman were shot dead at the Sello shopping mall in Espoo, police spokesman Jurki Karlio said. One male victim, was said to be Stefan Soederstroem, head of Espoo police, who had been shot twice in the head. Hundreds of people were at the mall stocking up on food and drink for the New Year holiday at the Prisma supermarket, on the second floor of a mall when the gunman took out a 9mm pistol and started shooting.
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U.S. Warns of New Year’s Eve Attack on Bali
December 31, 2009
(ChattahBox)—With New Year’s festivities about to begin around the world, a new terror alert was issued by the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia warning U.S. citizens of a possible terrorist “attack to Bali tonight.” The chilling warning was delivered in an embassy email and quoted the governor of Bali. However, other government officials pushed back against the warning saying that they hadn’t received an official notification of a threat. Read more
Rush Limbaugh Hospitalized in Hawaii
December 31, 2009
(ChattahBox) – Rush Limbaugh has been hospitalized in Hawaii after suffering chest pains. According to Hawaiian station KITV, paramedics responded to a call at the Kahala Hotel in Honolulu at 2:41 PM and transported Rush to Queens Medical Center. Read more
WH to Cheney: You Lie! ‘Obama Doesn’t Need to Beat his Chest to Prove’ War
December 30, 2009
(ChattahBox)—It’s become an all too familiar and despicable pattern. The former Vice President Dick Cheney, who in a sane world would be in prison for war crimes, dials up Politico to issue his attack of vile lies against our President. And Politico dutifully publishes his angry and hysterical screeds word-for-word and the rest of the media treats the ravings of a madman as news. As noted by Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, the rest of us could merely ignore Cheney’s cowardly rants and treat them the same as the blather of “homeless people sitting in bus shelters.” But vicious attacks and outright lies can’t be ignored and this latest attempt by Cheney to undermine the Obama presidency to score cheap political points, after an attempted terrorist attack has gone too far, even for Cheney.
And today, the White House responded by slapping down Cheney and other shameless Republicans for making “political hay,” from an attempted Christmas terrorist attack that could have killed hundreds of innocent people. Read more
Russians to Save World From Killer Asteroid With ‘Laws of Physics’
December 30, 2009
(ChattahBox)—The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming—to save us from impending doom. According to Russia’s space agency chief, the Russians have their eyes firmly planted on the rogue asteroid Apophis, which missed crashing into Earth during its first voyage towards our planet. But now the asteroid has just a four-in-a million chance of hitting Earth. Still, the Russians believe our planet may be in peril from Apophis in 2030 and they don’t intend to sit idly by and wait to be obliterated by a massive space rock. Read more