In America - "Tucked in the Appalachian mountains of Southern West Virginia, Oceana, is a small, once thriving coal-mining town that has fallen victim to the fast spreading scourge of prescription painkiller Oxycontin. As the coal industry slowly declined and times got tough, a black market for the drug sprung up and along with it a rash of prostitution, theft and murder. Soon its own residents had nicknamed the town Oxyana and it began to live up to its reputation as abuse, addiction and overdoses became commonplace. Oxyana is a harrowing front line account of a community in the grips of an epidemic, told through the voices of the addicts, the dealers and all those affected. It is a haunting glimpse into an American nightmare unfolding before our eyes, a cautionary tale told with raw and unflinching honesty."
Homeowner catches bear in his hot tub, drinking margaritas
By Associated Press
July 2, 2018
"A bear with a taste for margaritas caused a stir in a Southern California community when it took a dip in a bubbling hot tub.
Mark Hough said he was lounging in his Altadena backyard Friday afternoon with his wife and a couple margaritas when he heard rustling, then saw the bear climbing over a fence into his yard.
They retreated inside, leaving the margaritas behind. Hough later ventured out to discover the bear lounging in the unheated hot tub. After Hough shot some video, he said the bear emerged from the water, walked over to his margarita, knocked it over and lapped it up.
Hough later spotted the bear taking a snooze in an oak tree before it disappeared down the street.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department said it received six bear-sighting calls that day, but were unable to find it" ...
This is strange. The Mists seems dead. The slow posting-activity is now almost at a standstill. There are still posts from a week-ago shown at the left of the welcome-page. It's Independence Day. The Markets are at Critical-Levels. The volcanic-activity in Hawaii seems bizarre (where Carol lives). The West-Coast of the USA seems vulnerable in many-ways. I've reached critical-levels in my realization of forbidden-knowledge, while experiencing extreme physical, mental, and spiritual discomfort and disorientation. 2018-19 is pointed-toward as being ripe for disruptive-disclosure and alien-invasions (fake or real). We seem to have been on the brink for decades. We seem to have walked off the edge of the cliff, but are not yet plummeting (as in the cartoons). The two major sources in my strange research-project are dead or dying (beginning in January of 2018). Disclosure is beginning to go mainstream (after being sequestered to the lunatic-fringe for decades). How close to midnight are we?? Things seem too-quiet in consideration of all the dirt being dug-up by the conspiracy-theorists. Is the 'Time of Trouble' finally upon-us?? Is the end near (again)?? I've been a rather quiet 'Wolf-Cryer' for decades, and I've experienced a 'Time of Trouble' before the 'Time of Trouble', beginning as a child, with my education in a rather harsh religion (especially regarding soteriology and eschatology) and I suppose I've attempted to 'deal with it' by turning it into Religious and Political Science-Fiction on this website (for better or worse, I know not). Yesterday, I goofed-up, and told a wealthy Englishman "Happy Fourth!!" He was NOT amused. "God Save the Queen??"
Here's a spectacular voyage into the flowing history of a magnificent waterway ...
Potomac By Air: Our Nation’s River
"This Emmy-winning program celebrates the Potomac River's incredible natural and man-made history, along with our nation's monuments and memorials, all from an exhilarating bird's eye aerial view."
The story of American poverty, as told by one Alabama county
PBS NewsHour
"More than three million Americans live in “extreme poverty,” according to a report from the United Nations, which ranked poverty in the U.S. alongside some of the poorest areas in the world. The UN Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty paid a visit to the U.S. last year, drawing worldwide attention to his findings. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Simon Ostrovsky followed in his footsteps to report from Lowndes County, Alabama. This is part of an ongoing series of reports called “Chasing the Dream,” which reports on poverty and opportunity in America, and is supported in part by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting."
Bee and Woman Become Best Friends After Garden Rescue | The Dodo Soulmates
Woman and Bee Become Best Friends | When she found an injured bee in her garden, this woman took her in and was surprised when she got so attached to her. Today on Soulmates, watch how Bee and her mom developed such an unusual, special bond. To learn more about how you can help save the bees and protect our world's pollinators, check out: http://worldbeeproject.org/.
With all the immigration/border story headlines peppering the media lately... I thought this well made documentary on past migration into the U.S. might shed some light on what the last hundred years looked like ... This film personally hits home into my father's family first experiences here in finding their America ... And yes some of my father's family were separated then (due to medical conditions) and sent back to southern Europe ... Thus breaking up my grandparents marriage and separating several of my father's other siblings for decades to come ... There were no real guarantees back then, and obviously (and unfortunately) even today there still isn't for those seeking refuge and asylum into this land often referred to as the home of the free.
Forgotten Ellis Island
"This is the first film about the once abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island, 3,500 were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
