Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra look so young in that photo -- and so healthy.
Here's another cute photo and the person with Judy looks really, really young -- it's Liza Minnelli as a baby!
Judy was, of course, an outstanding actress and a very big movie star. She was also a singer and her classics include "Somewhere Over The Rainbow," "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "The Trolley Song."
Meanwhile, Corey Hart.
Corey Hart releases a new single, with an 5-Song EP and tour to follow in 2019 – theBUZZ
He's going back on tour:
The tour kicks off in St. Johns, NL on May 31 (Corey’s Birthday), with a Toronto stop at the Budweiser Stage on June 14th. Special guests are to be announced soon.
Corey Hart Never Surrender Canadian Tour 2019
Friday, May 31 – St. Johns, NL – Mile One Centre
Tuesday, June 4 – Halifax, NS – Scotiabank Centre
Wednesday, June 5 – Moncton, NB – Avenir Centre
Thursday, June 6 – Quebec City, QC – Videotron Centre
Saturday, June 8 – London, ON – Budweiser Gardens
Monday, June 10 – Sudbury, ON – Sudbury Community Arena
Tuesday, June 11 – Kingston, ON – Leon’s Centre
Wednesday, June 12 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre
Friday, June 14 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
Saturday, June 15 – Montreal, PQ – Bell Centre
Tuesday, June 18 – Winnipeg, MB – Bell MTS Place
Thursday, June 20 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome
Friday, June 21 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
Saturday, June 22 – Kelowna, BC – Prospera Place
Monday, June 24 – Victoria, BC – Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
Tuesday, June 25 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
- Tickets for Corey Hart's Never Surrender tour are now ON SALE! Get yours now
http://canucks.co/WY5F30mUdaS - Put your sunglasses on tonight to celebrate!
#CoreyHart is bringing his ‘Never Surrender Tour 2019’ to@BellMTSPlace, June 18th. Tickets on-sale next Friday, but you can also listen to win some with us next week.
- JUST ANNOUNCED: Corey Hart's Never Surrender Tour 2019 is coming to London, Sudbury, Kingston, Ottawa and Toronto in June! Presales start on December 4 at 10am local time. Get more info here: https://livemu.sc/2FOvU0u
- A couple of “likely lads” who
#sing for their#suppers are finally going on#tour together.@glasstiger is#thrilled to announce that we are joining the amazing coreyhartofficial#coreyhart… https://www.instagram.com/p/BrFsvlCHq47/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=kucf05dd5z … - Tonight, Corey Hart will be in The Lounge at Live Nation for a very special announcement! Tune in to the Facebook live stream at 6PM here: https://livemu.sc/2rbc4m3
- I cried while chatting with Corey Hart about his new music & tour. Grateful for the opportunity to thank an artist for creating songs that feel like a life line. One in particular that helped save my life.
#NeverSurrender - Canadian music icon Corey Hart is heading out on tour for the first time since 1986! Don’t miss his Never Surrender Tour at
#BudStage on June 14! Presales start on December 4 at 10am local time. Get more info here: https://livemu.sc/2FPkxFD - At the Corey Hart album/tour announcement put on by
@LiveNationON - here are the dates. I may host a pub crawl leading up to the Toronto date! - Everything in our Heart tells us YOU could be beating the box office and winning tickets to Corey Hart at the
@CdnTireCtr!#Ottawa https://trib.al/cIDei5q - Sunglasses required: Corey Hart is coming back to Vancouver, June 25th to
@RogersArena! If the 80s are back, hopefully that means we’ll get a new Kevin Bacon movie soon, and we can play Q*bert again.#JUT80s All the details and pre-sale info https://www.jack969.com/events/corey-hart-the-never-surrender-tour-2019/ … - JUST ANNOUNCED: Corey Hart is bring The Never Surrender 2019 Tour to
#PepsiLive stage at Rogers Arena on June 25, 2019. Tickets go on sale December 7 at 10am PST. http://canucks.co/JkLh30mO8C7 - What iconic film role did
#CoreyHart turn down? We’ll discuss that rumour plus give away tickets to see him live when he joins us tomorrow morning at 7:05@QMFM.
, listen to it here. You can win a pair of Beat The Box Office tickets tomorrow morning with Sean Burke! - Jake 
Is it just me or does Corey look f-ing hot in that one photo that keeps repeating above?
EXCITING NEWS COMING SOON!
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Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Friday, December 7, 2018.
Let's start with a bad singer (and a worse actress), Reba.
Let's start with a bad singer (and a worse actress), Reba.
Reba McEntire sings "The Lord's Prayer" at a funeral service honoring former Pres. George H.W. Bush. abcn.ws/2RCHe1m #Remembering41
1. She's honoring using brutal racism aka Willie Horton hysteria ads to win the 88 election
2. She's honoring giving the butchers of Tiananmen a free pass to slaughter their own young people. Then sell out the entire US working class to them so we could all buy cheap stuff at Walmart.
3. She's honoring orders to shoot an Iranian civilian airliner out of the sky killing.over 200 innocent people including dozens of children. The refusing to apologise under any circumstances.
4. She's honoring orders to invade Panama killing over 20,000 civilians by the US military in order to capture a foreign head of state, abduct him and incarcerate him in a US prison.
5. She's honoring straight up lying to Congress by Nayira in order to make a pathetic excuse to invade Iraq, killing tens of thousands of civilians, dropping 10,000 year half life uranium across the country causing death & birth defects for thousands more years.
6. She's honoring using the grotesque psychotic attack on Iraq as an openly declared method to "kill the Vietnam Syndrome"...syndrome meaning disease... thereby dehumanizing 1970s successful US anti war protesters. All in service to unaccountable military violence & terror.
He and his son are responsible for so much. In Iraq? Deaths, creating orphans and widows, birth defects.
So many are so quick to ignore that.
George W. Bush has about two or three more times to hand Michelle Obama a piece of candy before y’all completely forget about the Iraq invasion and the 2008 financial crisis altogether.
Exactly.
Here's another cute Bush moment. In the Iraq war, the US military used depleted uranium rounds meant for armor over civilian areas giving rise to a host of birth defects and deformities. THIS CANDY STORY IS GOOD TOO THO!
When you praise George H. W. Bush for his service, remember the took the US into Iraq, destroyed its infrastructure, killed 100s thousands civilians w/sanctions, used chemical weapons leading to widespread birth defects & Gulf War Syndrome among US veterans, & sowed seeds of ISIS
We've frequently covered the use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq under Bully Boy Bush. Let's note this from Barbara Koepel (WASHINGTON SPECTATOR) about Poppy Bush:
The weapons were first used in
1991 during Desert Storm, when the U.S. military fired guided bombs and
missiles containing depleted uranium (DU), a waste product from nuclear
reactors. The Department of Defense (DOD) particularly prized them
because, with dramatic density, speed, and heat, they blasted through
tanks and bunkers.
Within one or two years,
grotesque birth defects spiraled—such as babies with two heads. Or
missing eyes, hands, and legs. Or stomachs and brains inside out.
Keith Baverstock, who headed the
radiological section of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Center of
Environment and Health in the 1990s, explained why: When uranium weapons
explode, their massive blasts produce gray or black clouds of uranium
oxide dust particles. These float for miles, people breathe them, and
the dust lodges in their lungs. From there, they seep into the lymph
system and blood, flow throughout the body, and bind to the genes and
chromosomes, causing them to mutate. First, they trigger birth defects.
Within five or more years, cancer. Organs, often the kidneys, fail.
At one Basra hospital, leukemia
cases in children up to age 14 doubled from 1992 to 1999, says Amy
Hagopian, a University of Washington School of Public Health professor.
Birth defects also surged, from 37 in 1990 to 254 in 2001, according to a
2005 article in Environmental Health.
Leukemia—cancer of the
blood—develops quickly. Chris Busby, a British chemical physicist,
explains: “Blood cells are the most easily damaged by radiation and
duplicate rapidly. We’ve known this since Hiroshima.”
Dai Williams, an independent weapons researcher in Britain, says the dust emits alpha radiation—20 times more damaging than the gamma radiation
from nuclear weapons. The military insists the dust is harmless because
it can’t penetrate the skin. They ignore that it can be inhaled.
Father and son ensured that birth defects and they both should have been held accountable. Poppy Bush is dead so we can consider that both a win and a blessing. But Bully Boy Bush is alive and he should be held accountable. He paints cute pictures! Michelle Obama loves him! He paints hollow bulls**t that will never pass for art and Michelle Obama was greedy and corrupt long before she became First Lady so find a better testimonial for him.
While I'm grateful that one less War Criminal walks the earth, that gratitude does not -- and should not -- translate into silence. Lie after lie has been broadcast non-stop for six or so days now to sell the notion that Poppy Bush was some kind of wonderful.
Bruce A. Dixon (BLACK AGENDA REPORT) points out:
George HW Bush was a one term president who committed committed the usual quota of domestic and foreign atrocities. He put the bloodthirsty Dick Cheney, who’d been Gerald Ford’s chief of staff in charge at the Pentagon, and named Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. He invaded Panama, where US forces commanded by Colin Powell obliterated an entire black neighborhood killing tens of thousands of civilians to prevent inconvenient protests against the occupation. Jimmy Carter had negotiated US bases in Saudi Arabia, and Bush filled them with hundreds of thousands of troops, artillery, armor and aircraft for a planned invasion of Iraq.
Millions of Iraqis have died since the Bush invasion, millions more have become refugees. Hardly a week has passed from then till now the the US hasn’t bombed some place in that unhappy country. One of Bush’s last acts as a lame duck president in December 1992 was to land a contingent of US Marines in Somalia to keep that country from forming a unified government that might not be to Uncle Sam’s liking. A quarter century later US forces are still in Somalia, backing this or that warlord faction, or the Somali central government whose reach most days doesn’t extend past the capital’s suburbs, sometimes with Rwandan or Ugandan proxies, sometimes with US paid mercenaries, complimented with US special ops forces and drones.
On NPR's MORNING EDITION today, Rachel Martin speaks with Feisal Istrabadi and it may be the closest to honesty that the corporate media has offered.
Imagine that, outside the KRG, there's no real love for Poppy Bush. Maybe next time the US media wants to do one of their 'the world mourns' b.s. stunts, they speak to some of the people in the world.
On the KRG, HURRIYET reports, "Authorities in Iraq's Kurdish-controlled region have dismissed dozens of police officers alleged involvement in human trafficking, local media reported on Dec. 6." One hundred is the number being reported, one hundred police officers fired for human trafficking.
KRG to establish committee to follow up on police involvement in #HumanTrafficking of Syrian Arabs to Turkey
#TwitterKurds
KRG dismisses 100 police officers over alleged human trafficking in Soran #iraq #corruption #crime hozint.com/?utm_source=tw…
A year ago this month, Iraq's then-prime minister Hayder al-Abadi announced that ISIS was defeated and vanquished. No. See yesterday's snapshot. Today, the Norwegian Refugee Council notes:
More than 1.8
million Iraqis are today still displaced across the country. A
staggering 8 million require some form of humanitarian aid. Thousands of
children born under IS rule are still unrecognized by the state. In the
last three months a third of the displaced people who returned home
from just one camp in Anbar were rejected by their local communities and
had to relocate again elsewhere.
“If this is what ‘victory’ looks like, then there is little to celebrate for millions of Iraqis still haunted by the crimes of the IS and the long war to eliminate it. They have largely been forgotten by their own government and the international community,” said Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland. “We work with thousands of ordinary Iraqi women, children and men for whom untold suffering continues, and yet the world seems to act as if Iraq is back to normal. In reality, besides the abject poverty the displaced are living in, thousands face collective punishment for having been at the wrong place at the wrong time, even if they’re just children.”
While violence and fighting have decreased considerably over the last year, nearly two thirds of displaced people have said they are unwilling or unable to return home in the next year. More than half of them had their homes damaged or destroyed. Entire cities like Mosul and Sinjar are still in rubble.
The Iraqi government, together with the international community, particularly members of the coalition, has a responsibility to ensure that Iraq is on a path towards inclusive recovery and reconstruction. This means the rights of displaced people—like all Iraqi citizens—must be respected, for them to be able to rebuild their lives where they choose.
“If this is what ‘victory’ looks like, then there is little to celebrate for millions of Iraqis still haunted by the crimes of the IS and the long war to eliminate it. They have largely been forgotten by their own government and the international community,” said Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland. “We work with thousands of ordinary Iraqi women, children and men for whom untold suffering continues, and yet the world seems to act as if Iraq is back to normal. In reality, besides the abject poverty the displaced are living in, thousands face collective punishment for having been at the wrong place at the wrong time, even if they’re just children.”
While violence and fighting have decreased considerably over the last year, nearly two thirds of displaced people have said they are unwilling or unable to return home in the next year. More than half of them had their homes damaged or destroyed. Entire cities like Mosul and Sinjar are still in rubble.
The Iraqi government, together with the international community, particularly members of the coalition, has a responsibility to ensure that Iraq is on a path towards inclusive recovery and reconstruction. This means the rights of displaced people—like all Iraqi citizens—must be respected, for them to be able to rebuild their lives where they choose.
In Basra, the protests continue.
Iraqi MP from Basra says protests have resumed in Basra Province because government has not kept its promises. Still no clean water to drink & residents will not remain silent.
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Friday's Morning Star:: Basra considering autonomy move after protests ignite again
Demonstrators in Basra don yellow vests like those worn in French protests.
Autonomy? Steve Sweeny (MORNING STAR) reports:
Protesters want to see political and economic autonomy which would allow them a greater share of lucrative oil revenues, enabling the region to invest in jobs, public services and access to clean drinking water.
Iraq’s post-occupation
constitution allows provincial councils to submit a petition which shows
support for autonomy with Baghdad then being responsible for holding a
referendum on the issue.
In other news, ALSUMARIA reports a rumor being denied: that Ayad Allawi was plotting a military coup against Iraq's new prime minister Adil Abdul al-Mahdi
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