Shootings reported in front of Empire State Building
A gunman believed to be responsible in the shooting of at least five people in front of the Empire State Building in New York was shot and killed by police, New York police said.
Authorities converged on the building around 9 a.m. after reports of gunfire.
A witness told that the gunman ran after and shot a man in the head. An unarmed guard chased the gunman away.
Additional details were not immediately available.
A dispute between coworkers exploded into gunfire outside the Empire
State Building this morning — with the guman killing an innocent
bystander before he was fatally shot by police, sources said.
There
were a total of 10 people struck — and the 9 a.m. shooting sent
panicked pedestrians scrambling from the jam-packed intersection of 34th
Street and Fifth Avenue.
Lance Armstrong continued to deny ever doping, “an unconstitutional witch hunt” to deal with his matter was “one-sided and unfair.”
Armstrong said “There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say, ‘Enough is
enough,’ " “For me, that time is now.”
Armstrong “finished with this
nonsense.”
According to the World Anti-Doping Code, means he
will be stripped of his seven Tour titles, the bronze medal he won at
the 2000 Olympics and all other titles, awards and money he won from
August 1998 forward.
Armstrong said the case against him was flimsy without that physical evidence.
“Regardless of what Travis Tygart says, there is zero physical evidence
to support his outlandish and heinous claims,” Armstrong said. “The only
physical evidence here is the hundreds of controls I have passed with
flying colors.”
removed, video, AL-qada , Syrian rebels, pulled
prisoner tricked into being a Suicide Bomber. A War Crime
from: Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, August 23, 2012
"The BBC has sensationally censored a news story and a video showing Syrian rebels forcing a prisoner to become a suicide bomber, a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, presumably because it reflected badly on establishment media efforts to portray the FSA as glorious freedom fighters."
Two of Austin Texas's talented creatives, Paul Beck and The Zellner Brothers hit Manchester England in the festival department.
Paul Beck's animated short, A Thousand Pound Bomb explodes the never ending wars. Animated characters change how we look at war. Ominous music also created by Paul Beck adds to the sad carnival atmosphere of war and how it is reported.
A Thousand Pound Bomb. Paul Beck
The Zellner Brother's, Kid Thing is a romp. I laughed until tears blew out of my face.
Dir. David Zellner / US 2012 / 83 mins / In English / Cert 15 Starring: Sydney Aguirre, Susan Tyrell, Nathan Zellner, David Zellner Ten year-old tearaway Annie spends her time making prank calls,
shoplifting and hurling dough balls at passing cars, making Bart
Simpson seem like an angel in comparison. Devoid of any firm parental
guidance (two male guardians hurl fireworks indoors and pass out over
cheap beers), she wreaks destruction throughout the neighborhood.
But her routine is broken when she hears an old woman calling from
the bottom of an abandoned well, having fallen and in need of help.
Untrusting of the unseen stranger, little Annie’s actions will have
momentous consequences.
A hit at Sundance Film Festival.
“The
revolution will be televised, digitised, analysed and theorised if this
festival for ‘anarchists of the imagination’ is anything to go by.”
- The Guardian
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is an energetic
regional festival of new cinema, digital culture and art. The festival
takes place annually in Liverpool and Manchester on alternate years,
with an extended regional programme.
Our mission is to push the boundaries of audience experience through a
programme that spills out of galleries and screens into the streets of
the Northwest.
With a curatorial attitude of participation and innovation, AND has
enabled collaborations across the UK’s pioneering digital, science,
design and media sectors.