…..The strongest of magnitude…4.4 was near the town of Pozzuoli….it was said to be the strongest quake in the region for 40 years….hundreds of tents were erected and some residents stayed on the streets for much of the night…..several families were considering leaving the area all together….due to the number of low level quakes that have occurred in the last few months…the area is home to more than 80,000 people.
36 BEERS TO AVOID THIS MEMORIAL WEEKEND….If they’re brewed by American breweries…..all of them!
SIBERIA’S DOORWAY TO THE UNDERWORLD IS GETTING EVEN BIGGER…..Man, I seriously think…..there are things buried under the permafrost…..we do not want to know about…..not only dead things..…but….germs….a chunk of land roughly the shape of a stingray….has been sinking down into a very large pit…..it’s being called the doorway to the Underworld…..the Batagay Megaslump also known as the Batagaika Crater…..is 200 acres and continues to widen…..the permafrost crater is melting and growing faster than scientists realized….the volume of the bowl-shaped retrogressive thaw slump (RTS) increases by approximately 1 million cubic meters per year….there is enough potential to expand the slump over the adjacent valley in the next two decades…..which will lead to alterations to the riverine habitat….the sediment escaping the slump is even seen in the Yana River…..a major river in the vicinity…..the increasing slump could increase greenhouse gas emissions and previously frozen sediments and nutrients will be released…..climate change is the reason the crater was formed in the first place….scientists believe the rapid growth rate will eventually decrease if the weather returns to normal….but they still expect the slump may grow larger than expected…..now,….Siberia…..do you know how “BIG” that landmass is?…..Russia’s like what….16-18 time zones?…..America is about 9 time zones….if you count all the water between Cali and Hawaii…..anyway,……Siberia has been covered in ice for so long…..Russia doesn’t even know what out there…..Alexander Issajewitsch Solschenizyn might have had an idea since he spent some time out there in a Gulag…..anyway,……imagine of all the ice melted due to climate change…..it’ll take a minute but stay with me…..there are “things” in that ice and under that dirt…. “things” that have been there for how long?….exactly, that long…..and once that permafrost starts melting…..and humans start messing around in it…..I’m sure we’ll be introduced to what put those “things” in the dirt…..and under that ice.
THE HISTORY OF THE OLDEST BLACK COMMUNITY IN EUROPE…..And that would be…..Liverpool, England…..dating back to the city’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade between the 17th and 18th centuries…..African and Afro-Caribbean people were brought to Liverpool as enslaved people…..enduring unimaginable hardships and contributing to the city’s economic prosperity through their labor…..just like America….Liverpool ships embarked on trips to West Africa…..exchanging goods for enslaved Africans….who had to deal with the brutal conditions….just like their cousins going to America…..and the leaders of this inhumane trade….propagated racist ideologies to justify their actions…..leaving behind a legacy of racism….that continues to impact individual in Liverpool to this day…..just like America…..in the aftermath of WWI…..tensions flared between Black and White residents…..just like in America….as returning servicemen vied for employment opportunities…..and this escalated into riots and violent attacks on Black seafarer’s…..just like in America….24-year-old Charles Wooton was chased to Queen’s Dock and was fatally killed….no perpetrators were brought to justice….just like America…..decades later in 1981 the Toxteth Riots ignited a national dialogue on racial inequality…..highlighting the struggles faced by Black residents in the city….like unemployment, pervasive racism and police harassment and both…..just like America….Black and White residents took a stand against it…..overtime, the communities thrived…..while enhancing Liverpool’s cultural fabric with their vibrant traditions, languages and customs…..I think it’s time to ask a few of my friends…..Black and White about the social and cultural advancements being made in England…..and I’m sure their answer will be……just like America.
CHECK THIS OUT…..In October of 1994…..Pulp Fiction…..The Shawshank Redemption….and Jurassic Park….were all in the theatres at the same time.
GERMANY SAID IT WILL ARREST NETANYAHU AS ISRAELI ENVOY APPEALS TO BERLIN TO DEFY ICC…..Well, this will be interesting if he comes to Germany…..and if that happens…..due to their history together…..that’s a real big “IF”……I’ll let you know.
BARK AIR, A NEW AIRLINE FOR DOGS SET TO TAKE ITS FIRST FLIGHT….Now if only we can have an airline for pain in the ass you should’ve first thought about it before parents…..who don’t know how to calm their goddamn screaming kid(s) for eight hours….we’re good to go.