Suspect in New Year’s Eve Attack on Istanbul Nightclub Captured Alive
Posted: January 16, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Global, Terrorism | Tags: AK-47, Anadolu Agency, Bosphorus, Central Asia, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Istanbul, New Year, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, Turkey, Turkish Armed Forces, İzmir Leave a comment
Suspect aught with his son in a raid in an Istanbul suburb.
The man authorities suspect of being behind the New Year’s Eve attack on an Istanbul nightclub has been captured alive, according to Turkish police sources.
The alleged attacker was caught with his son in a raid on the Esenyurt suburb of Istanbul, sources said.
Thirty-nine people were killed in the attack and dozens more were injured.
Authorities said the gunman fired 180 rounds of 7.62-mm bullets, which are commonly used in AK-47 assault rifles. The attacker also used flares to illuminate the inside of the nightclub during the attack, according to police.
Police said they don’t believe the weapon used in the attack came from inside Turkey. The serial number on the weapon had been defaced. Read the rest of this entry »
‘PLOT AGAINST MARIAH’: New York Post Cover for January 2, 2017
Posted: January 2, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Mariah Carey, media, New Year's Eve, New York City, New York Post, news, Newspaper, Tabloid Leave a comment
Source: New York Post
OH YES SHE DID: Al Sharpton’s Daughter Sues City for $5M After Spraining Ankle
Posted: May 17, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Al Sharpton, Broadway theatre, Broome Street, Christmas tree, McDonalds, National Action Network, New Year's Eve, New York City, New York Post, Pain, Washington DC 1 Comment
The legal shakedown is right out of her dad’s pay-to-playbook
Kathianne Boniello She learned at the feet of a master.
Shakedown artist Al Sharpton’s eldest child wants $5 million from city taxpayers after she fell in the street and sprained her ankle, court records show.
“I sprained my ankle real bad lol.”
— Dominique Sharpton, on Instagram
Dominique Sharpton, 28, says she was “severely injured, bruised and wounded” when she stumbled over uneven pavement at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway downtown last year, according to a lawsuit.
Currently on vacation in Bali, the membership director for her gadfly dad’s National Action Network claims she “still suffers and will continue to suffer for some time physical pain and bodily injuries,” according to the suit filed against the city departments of Transportation and Environmental Protection.
Daily Caller‘s brilliant headline – article by Derek Hunter
“I sprained my ankle real bad lol,” she wrote in a post to Instagram after the Oct. 2 fall.
She was pictured in a walking boot in the weeks following the tumble, but by December, Dominique was good to go for NAN’s Justice for All march in Washington, DC, and for a New Year’s Eve jaunt to Miami Beach.
And despite claiming “permanent physical pain” in a breathless notice of claim, there are social-media shots of her in high heels, and another of her climbing a ladder to decorate a Christmas tree.
The legal shakedown is right out of her dad’s pay-to-playbook.
The corner of Broome Street and Broadway where Dominique Sharpton fell and sprained her ankle. Photo: Helayne Seidman
Al Sharpton has used threats of protests and boycotts against large companies as a way to generate huge corporate donations, his critics charge.
[Read the full text here, at New York Post]
Everyone from McDonald’s, Verizon, Macy’s, General Motors, Chrysler and Pfizer have forked over cash to the elder Sharpton.
The Rev on Saturday said he didn’t know the status of his daughter’s legal claim. “She’s 29 years old. Why would she have to talk to me about that?” he said of Dominique, whose mother is Sharpton’s ex-wife, Kathy. “I just know that she was hurt and that she got a lawyer and she’s a grown woman. [Where] she goes from there, I have no idea.” Read the rest of this entry »
China’s Box-Office Expected to Hit 2 Billion During the New Year Holiday
Posted: February 24, 2015 Filed under: Asia, China, Entertainment, Global | Tags: Adrien Brody, Alibaba, Beijing, China, Chinese New Year, Hong Kong, Jackie Chan, Jaycee Chan, Martial arts film, New Year's Eve, Prison, Renminbi 1 Comment
Driven by the Spring Festival period, one of the golden times for Chinese productions, China’s domestic movies are gaining more momentum
The Chinese New Year is approaching an end, but the country’s movie industry boom seems to have just begun, thanks to record high box-office sales during the New Year holiday.
Statistics show that across the country there were over nine million Chinese going to the movies during that period. On the first day of the Spring Festival, there was a record high intake of 356 million yuan or about $57 million at the box office. That’s about 44 percent up on the same day last year.
Even on New Year’s Eve, a time traditionally devoted to family reunions, home banquets and the grand CCTV gala, Chinese moviegoers still spent 21 million yuan ($3.5 mln) in the country’s cinemas.
By Sunday, box offices for the Spring Festival holiday reached 924 million yuan ($154 mln), a 42.15% increase from last year. Industry experts say that China’s movie market is expected to gross nearly 2 billion yuan ($300 mln) during the period.
There were 7 new movies released on the first day of the Chinese New Year, which could be one reason for the high sales.
The costume action movie “Dragon Blade” starring Chinese Kungfu star Jackie Chan leads the box office charts, creating about one third of the total income. It’s followed by Chow Yun-Fat’s family comedy “The Man from Macao II” and fantasy adventure “Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal”.
Rao Shuguang, the secretary-general of the China Film Association, says the recorded growth is also partly to do with the increased number of screens across the country, now at over 24,900.
Driven by the Spring Festival period, one of the golden times for Chinese productions, China’s domestic movies are gaining more momentum. Last year, Chinese domestic box-office revenue hit $4.7 billion, ranking the second largest in the world. Made-in-China movies accounted for 55 percent of the total. Read the rest of this entry »
Stampede at Shanghai New Year’s celebration kills 35
Posted: December 31, 2014 Filed under: Asia, China, Global, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere | Tags: Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, China, General Hospital, Huangpu District, New Year, New Year's Eve, Shanghai, Xinhua News Agency 2 Comments
A family member (C) cries on a bench at a hospital where some of the victims of a stampede by new year’s revellers were sent in Shanghai on January 1, 2015. A stampede by New Year’s revellers in Shanghai’s historic riverfront area killed 35 people and injured dozens more, the city government said on January 1. AFP PHOTO STR/AFP/Getty Images
LeBron James, Wife Shot Fully Automatic Rifles to Ring in New Year
Posted: January 6, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Guns and Gadgets | Tags: Guns, LeBron James, Miami Heat, New Year's Eve, Recreation, TMZ, Twitter Leave a comment
photo: Lock & Load Instagram
AWRHawkins reports: On New Year’s Eve, Miami Heat star LeBron James and his wife, Savannah, went to Lock & Load Miami, where they shot fully automatic rifles then posed for pictures with the targets they decimated.
According to TMZ, James shot an H&K MP5–a gun popular gun with law enforcement SWAT teams and federal agencies–and “a M-249 SAW.”
The M-249 is an extremely popular weapon with U.S. military personnel and can be shot either by using ammunition magazines or by using linked, belt-fed ammunition. The video of James shooting shows that he used belt-fed ammo while calmly squeezing off an untold number of rounds.
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