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A post shared on social media purportedly shows an image of protestors living in the home of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Scenes from Sheikh Hasina’s Bedroom?#Bangladesh pic.twitter.com/9vC5d0PX5f — Newton (@newt0nlaws) August 5, 2024 Verdict: False The image dates back to 2022 in the Sri Lankan presidential palace. Fact Check: Hasina resigned from her position as Bangladesh’s Prime […]

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Clifford LaBrecque states he had been watching a creature for about two and a half months on the outskirts of Des Moines, Iowa in 1977. Over the years, Iowa sightings have increased.That night LaBrecque decided to shoot the creature. "It was about 25 feet away from where I was parked in my pickup truck." LaBrecque said. "Two of the creatures walked up from behind a hedge. One stopped but the other went to a woodpile, bent down and started to eat with it back towards me. I stayed in the car and waited for it to turn around but it just kept on gnawing at the wood. Finally I decided to shoot it from behind. When the animals turned and saw me, I got buck fever and couldn't shoot. As it came towards me, I couldn't get the window rolled up fast enough. It was really close." LaBrecque was petrified with fear as the creature advanced. He tells what happened next."It loomed over the car. It was about 8 feet tall. It reached through the window, grabbed me and shook the daylights out of me. It was terribly strong. I could feel its face about 6 inches away from mine and believe me I was in a state of tremendous fear. I could feel my whole body shaking. I felt a sensation of being twisted around and pushed down onto the floor. The creature's eyes were burning with fury. I was angry, very angry at me for trying to shoot it. Then I pass out. When I regained consciousness it was gone.LaBrecque who owned a truck brokerage fir in Cameron is also president of Bigfoot Research Inc. He's been researching Bigfoot reports for about 49 years. He describes the thing that attacked him as "terrifying and enormous." He said that after the attack his memory was vague because of his terror as the thing shook him around. He decided to visit a hypnotherapist who had bought a vehicle from him. Eric Elster of Knoxville, Iowa. Elster stated that he hypnotized LaBrecque so that he would go back to the time of the attack. LaBrecque designed and constructed a life size model of the creature on the basis of the details that came to him under hypnosis as well as what he consciously remembers.The model is made of fiberglass and covered with artificial hair. He said it represented a typical young adult male. The model stands 7 ft 6 inches and if it were a real creature, would weigh 600 to 1,000 pounds. Its feet, of course, are what gives the creature its name, LaBrecque states. They are 18 inches long and 9 inches wide and they leave a flat impression in the ground about 2 inches deep. LaBrecque said that Bigfoot's fur is dark brown in color and that it has a foul smell. On the model, the shoulders measure 4 feet across! The arms, which are 47 inches long, reach down to almost the creature's knees. Its biceps measure 27 inches around and the short massive neck has a circumference of 40 inches. LaBrecque says Bigfoot can make a wide variety of sounds. It has the ability to mimic other animals, he claims, Its typical voice is a low guttural growl, but at times it can sound like a hooting owl or even a barking dog. LaBrecque estimates that there may be as many as 5 thousand Bigfoot creatures in the United States and more in Canada. LaBrecque believes that no remains are ever found of dead Bigfoot because they bury or hide their dead. During LaBrecque's search for the elusive Bigfoot, he has investigated numerous reports of sightings."I searched 15 years before finally meeting Bigfoot face to face," he says. "The animal exists and it's thriving in great numbers and increasing all the time." LaBrecque thinks that the Bigfoot is a very intelligent animal and tries very hard to avoid contact with humans. It's almost as if the beast has some form of primitive telepathy or instinct that warns it when man is nearby. But despite the attack, LaBrecque is still not afraid. "I harvested what I sowed," he said. "It's like picking a fight and then getting the heck beaten out of you."He offers some tips on where to look for Bigfoot. "The easiest place to look is around a small town or on the outskirts of a big city he says. There's plenty of foot for them there. If you think Bigfoot is in a certain area and there is only one water supply in that area, that is the best place to look.Finding Bigfoot is difficult enough, states LaBrecque. Catching them or getting close enough to take a picture is almost impossible. The run very fast and they mostly come out at night. LaBrecque remains determined to investigate Bigfoot sightings. "I just got a call the other day about a sighting," he said. "I'll be going up there next weekend to check it out.LaBrecque feels that one day somebody will come up with positive proof that these creatures exist. Unless we can find the remains of one, the only way we will ever prove that Bigfoot exists is to shoot one. Then the world will have to believe that these creatures to exist. "Authorities won't accept anything like photos, casts of footprints and other evidence that has been presented so far. - The Examiner - Independence, Missouri - 2003Other Iowa reports from the '70's:1974 near Stone State Park, Sioux City, Iowa: A man claimed to have wounded a bigfoot with a deer rifle. Published in the Des Moines Sunday Register 12 Nov. 1978.1978 February 25th: Pella Bridge near Harvey, Iowa: A boy age 10-11 saw Bigfoot on road near bridge; it looked at him, then went into woods Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday Register 12 Nov. 1978.1978 July 27th: Ottosen, Iowa: Young Donette Henkins, age 9 saw 'short, hairy, apelike animal with fangs and deep-set eyes' which stood in shadows a few inches away and growled / Omaha, NE, World-Herald 2 Aug. 1978, Algona, IA, Algona Upper Des Moines 3 Aug. 1978, Algona, IA, Algona Kossuth County Advance 7 Aug. 1978, Humboldt, LA, Independent 5 Aug. 1978.1978 27 July Ottosen, Iowa Mrs. Jan Henkins & two others - after Donette's sighting, saw similar creature between 2 buildings while walking downtown / Algona, IA, Algona Upper Des Moines 3 Aug. 1978 & Humboldt, IA, Independent 5 Aug. 1978.1978 30 July Ottosen, Iowa Dawn Henkins, age 11, Mrs. Henkins & neighborsaw apelike creature with wide forehead walked from between buildings on Main Street at night / Omaha, NE, World-Herald 2 Aug. 1978 & Algona, IA, Algona Kossuth County Advance 7 Aug. 19781978 31 July Ottosen, Iowa - Three or four boys aged 10-12 saw Bigfoot in shed, and again later. It did not attempt to attack. Omaha, NE, WorldHerald 2 Aug. 1978, Fort Dodge, IA, Messenger / & 3 Aug. 1978, Humboldt, IA, Independent 5 Aug. 1978, Algona, IA, Algona Upper Des Moines 3 Aug. 1978.1978 11 September Ottosen, IA / Anna Dodrill & Elery Lynch / Red-eyed, blackfaced Bigfoot stared in at kitchen window / Des Moines, IA, Sunday Register 24 Sept. 1978, repr. FN Nov. 1978 p.18; Fort Dodge, IA, Messenger 14 Sept. 1978 & Algona, IA, Algona Kossuth County Advance 18 Sept. 1978.1978 September/ Ottosen, IA / Robert Newell IV (18) / Watched tall, hairy, hunchback Bigfoot exploring farm buildings early in the morning / Des Moines, IA, Sunday Register 24 Sept. 1978, repr. FN Nov. 1978 p.18; Algona, IA, Algona Kossuth County Advance 18 Sept. 1978 & Humboldt, IA, Independent 16 Sept. 1978.1978 27 September a farm south of Renwick, Iowa. Forty high-school students sawtwo Bigfeet in cornfield, one with red eyes and one with blue eyes / Des Moines, IA, Register / Oct. 1978.1978 27 or 28 September Northwest of Renwick, Iowa. Mark Thompson (16) saw 7-ft, brownish-black-haired Bigfoot in soybean field. Moved away when witness flashed pickup lights and honked horn / Des Moines, IA, Sunday Register / Oct. 1978.1979 Sept. Near Manchester, Iowa Jerry Erwing saw 7-8-ft Bigfoot with 'topknot' walking bent over / Waterlook, IA, Courier 24 Feb. 1980.1979 12 October Near Webster City, Iowa Bryon Davis saw saw 7-ft, reddish-brown Bigfoot in woods. It got up and left, as if disturbed while sleeping. It was 3:30 am. Webster City, IA, Freeman-Journal 19 & 30 Oct. 1979.1979 15 November in Minburn, Iowa Larry Wilson saw dark, hunched Bigfoot in farmyard; officers found prints in grass but no creature / Quincy, IL, Herald Whig 18 Nov. 19791980 Early January Adel, Iowa Larry Wilson / Farmer went outdoors when dogs barked and saw'hunched over, dark thing' in yard; police found foot-long prints in grass. This article was picked up by the tabloid Weekly World News 22 Jan. 1980.1980 13 January Edgewood, Iowa Tim BuShaw & friend / Saw 8-ft Bigfoot with 'topknot' and long hair within 6 ft of their car / Waterloo, IA, Courier 24 Feb. 1980.1980 15 January Near Manchester, Iowa Cyrii O'Brien a railroad engineer on train saw strange creature on all fours eating carcass; 6-toed tracks found in area / Waterloo, IA, Courier 24 Feb. 1980.-----Originally posted on July 19,2011, the Iowa Bigfoot video (aka Basswood) purports to capture evidence of a Bigfoot in Northwest Iowa. Click for videoNOTE: I recently received and reported on this account as well: Possible TREE-KNOCKING BIGFOOT Encounter in Warren County, Iowa. Lon**********PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? 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News Star Wars: Skeleton Crew The Kids of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Escape the Space Suburbs for Adventure The space suburbs seem to be set in the space 1950s which makes a twisted sense when you consider that this is a post-war recovery period in the Star Wars… By Molly Templeton | Published on August 12, 2024 Screenshot: Lucasfilm Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Lucasfilm Every time a new Star Wars series happens, we learn something new about the galaxy far, far away. In the trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, the family-friendly adventure coming this December, we learn that space, apparently, has suburbs. And they look just like our Earth suburbs! They seem designed for cars, just like our Earth suburbs! I just don’t know why you would inflict these choices on a whole ‘nother planet, let alone a different galaxy. But, in the grand tradition of many curious kids raised on a street where all the houses look the same, at least one of the four youths of Skeleton Crew is hungering for adventure—which they find via a curious hatch in the ground. It is not, as one guesses, a lost Jedi temple, but a spaceship which whisks them off to some distant location. Things get hairy, and they meet a space owl in a glorious cloak; I feel the space owl should maybe be the star of this series. Instead, we have Jedi Jude Law, who makes only a brief appearance at the end of this trailer and, to be honest, looks quite impressive; he’s got that I-am-very-seious-but-also-kind-of-smiling Jedi face down pat. Law’s character is named Jod Na Nawood; the kids he winds up in space jail with are Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), KB (Kyriana Kratter), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), and Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). Their reluctant new droid friend, SM33, is voiced by Nick Frost. Skeleton Crew, which is set in the same post-Return of the Jedi time period as The Mandalorian, is created by Jon Watts and Christopher Ford. Its eight episodes were directed by a star-studded bunch of directors: Daniels (Everything Everywhere All at Once), David Lowery (The Green Knight), Lee Isaac Chung (Twisters), Jake Schreier (Beef), and Bryce Dallas Howard (The Mandalorian). The series also stars Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Tunde Adebimpe (Twisters, TV on the Radio). The adventure begins December 3rd.[end-mark] The post The Kids of <i>Star Wars: Skeleton Crew</i> Escape the Space Suburbs for Adventure appeared first on Reactor.

Movies & TV Babylon 5 Rewatch Babylon 5 Rewatch: “A Voice in the Wilderness, Part II” By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on August 12, 2024 Credit: Warner Bros. Television Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Warner Bros. Television “A Voice in the Wilderness, Part II”Written by J. Michael StraczynskiDirected by Janet GreekSeason 1, Episode 19Production episode 121Original air date: August 3, 1994 It was the dawn of the third age… We get a summary of Part I, and then we see that the ship that was coming through the jump gate is an EarthForce ship, the Hyperion. Captain Ellis Pierce says he’s taking command of the situation. Sinclair and Ivanova bring Varn to medlab, where Franklin attempts to stabilize him. Pierce explains that the Office of Planetary Security diverted Hyperion to B5 to make sure that Earth—and only Earth, not any of the other nations represented on B5—stake a claim to the technology on Epsilon III. Sinclair is pissed at Pierce trying to horn in on his command, and at his rather brazen entry into the system, as Sinclair was trying to be discreet. According to an ISN report, President Santiago is facing pressure to quell the rioting on Mars. Garibaldi—still not knowing the fate of his ex, Lise Hampton—sees this report in the Zocalo, and winds up remonstrating with some dudebros who rag on Mars. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Sinclair tries to get Hidoshi to get Pierce to back off, with not much success. He then bluffs Pierce by telling him that he had a jamming device that allowed him and Ivanova to go to the surface by way of getting Pierce to pull back the Starfuries down to the surface. However, the damage has been done. Ivanova reports that after Pierce launched his Starfuries, there were massive disruptions of the planetary core. If this keeps up, the planet will go boom, taking B5 with it. The theory is that Varn was holding all this at bay, but without him inside the machine, it’s going into full defensive mode. Sinclair decides to wait twelve hours, and if the situation hasn’t improved, they’ll start an evacuation. Sinclair visits with Garibaldi to see if he’s okay, having heard about his incident in the Zocalo. He also talks frankly about how there’s no way they’ll be able to evacuate the entire station, even if they start now. But he makes Garibaldi promise that, no matter what, he makes sure Ivanova gets off the station. Delenn is continuing to show Draal around the station, but then the latter starts hearing voices. He goes to medlab and insists that the voice he’s hearing is Varn. Franklin points out that Varn is unconscious and can’t be talking to anyone—but then Varn wakes up. He confirms that the planet is “booby-trapped” and will explode rather than let anyone take charge of it. There needs to be a new caretaker who does what Varn does. Pierce wants to send an expedition down; Sinclair tells him not to, and he’ll shoot at Hyperion if he goes through with it. (With the planet about to explode, Sinclair has nothing to lose.) Pierce reluctantly stands down. A ship comes through the jump gate, belonging to Varn’s people, led by Takarn. They’re outcasts, who’ve been searching for Epsilon III for centuries, and Takarn gives them ten hours to hand over the planet. Varn urges the B5 crew not to give the outcasts what they want. There needs to be a new guardian. But he passes out in medlab before he can explain how that works, exactly. Draal confirms to Sinclair that he saw a vision of Varn much like the one Sinclair saw in the previous episode. Mollari later approaches Draal and Delenn saying he, too, saw a vision of Varn. Sinclair and Pierce agree to launch a preemptive strike on Takarn’s ship. Meantime, a Centauri shuttle asks to depart, but instead of going to the jump gate as stated in their flight plan, they head to Epsilon III. Takarn is outraged and fires, and the battle is joined. The shuttle is piloted by Mollari, with Delenn and Draal as his passengers, and they’re headed down to the planet. Garibaldi takes a shuttle after them. To everyone’s surprise, the planetary defenses leave the shuttles be. Garibaldi catches up to Draal and the two ambassadors (totally the name of my next band) and learns that Draal intends to take Varn’s place as the guardian of the Great Machine. Garibaldi isn’t thrilled at this idea, but it’s the only way to keep the planet from going boom. Draal is installed as the guardian. Immediately, an image of him appears on Takarn’s ship, on B5, and on Hyperion. He says that the planet belongs to no one, and must stay isolated and off-limits. He entrusts the safekeeping of the Great Machine to the B5 Advisory Council and says that any attempt to land on the planet will be met with force. Takarn doesn’t believe it and attempts to land on the planet. He is met with force—Draal destroys his ship. Delenn wishes Draal well, and Varn promises to take care of him and help him adjust for as long as he lives (which won’t be much longer). Credit: Warner Bros. Television Pierce buggers off with Hyperion, apologizing for overstepping his authority. They finally get a signal through to Mars, and Garibaldi is able to talk to Hampton, who is alive, albeit injured. However, it turns out that she’s married and is expecting a baby, which dumps a whole lot of cold water on Garibaldi. The security chief goes to the Observation Deck, where Delenn approaches him. She explains that she and Draal went off with Mollari in secret because Delenn knew that Sinclair would volunteer to be the new guardian. She also knows that Mollari will call in the favor she now owes him… Nothing’s the same anymore. In a fit of tiresome paternalism, Sinclair makes Garibaldi promise to get Ivanova off the station in their theoretical evacuation. I guarantee that that scene would never have even been considered if Sinclair’s first officer was male. Ivanova is God. When Mollari attempts to find out what’s going on from Ivanova, her answer is, “Boom. Boom boom boom. Boom boom. Boom! Have a nice day.” The household god of frustration. Garibaldi gets into a bar fight, helps the new guardian happen, and finally gets in touch with his ex only to find out that she’s married someone else. Busy and not great day for him… Also: this is the second time one of the command staff has gotten into a bar fight. How do these people still have their commissions??? If you value your lives, be somewhere else. By becoming the new guardian of the Great Machine, Draal is able to find the purpose that he’d lost (and was seemingly leading to his ritual suicide) last time. Credit: Warner Bros. Television In the glorious days of the Centauri Republic… Back in the day, Mollari led a raid on Frallis 12, and he gets to dust off his piloting skills in this episode. No sex, please, we’re EarthForce. Garibaldi finds his ex and loses hope of a reconciliation. At least for now… Looking ahead. Delenn is very firm in her desire to keep Sinclair from volunteering to replace Varn in the Great Machine. The reason for that desire will be made clear before too long. Welcome aboard. Back from Part I are Louis Turrene as Draal and Curt Lowens as Varn. Lowens will return as an Old One in Crusade’s “Patterns of the Soul.” Denise Gentile debuts the recurring role of Hampton, who will return in the very next episode, “Babylon Squared.” Aki Aleong makes his final appearance as Hidoshi, Michelan Sisti plays Takarn, and veteran character actor Ron Canada plays Pierce. Trivial matters. This obviously continues from last week’s Part I. When Draal returns in “The Long Twilight Struggle,” he’ll be played by John Schuck. Turrene will return in the recurring role of Brother Theo in “Convictions,” a human role that doesn’t require the complicated Minbari makeup and prosthetics. The echoes of all of our conversations. “So if we go down there, it blows. If we don’t, it blows anyway, just a little later.” —Ivanova, summing up the hoplessness of the situation. Credit: Warner Bros. Television The name of the place is Babylon 5. “He discovered something inside that he thought was buried long ago.” I am absolutely struggling to find anything to say about this episode or this two-parter. Thank goodness this is a rewatch, because that means I intellectually know that there’s some important stuff here. The turmoil on Mars, the Great Machine, and Garibaldi’s tumultuous relationship with Hampton are all threads that will continue to be pulled on in the future. But this two-parter that sets them all in motion is absolutely nowhere as an actual episode of television. For one thing, there really isn’t enough story here for two parts. We have the addition of the Hyperion to introduce artificial conflict, and hoo-boy is it artificial. Ron Canada can be a good actor when given quality material, but he is not given that here at all. Pierce is a straw man for Sinclair to tiresomely knock down, and his presence in the episode mostly serves to just drag it all out. Garibaldi’s mooning over Hampton is spectacularly uninteresting, and ends with one of the oldest clichés in the book—he finally gets in touch with her, but she’s married now! Oh noes! Worse, what should be a huge catharsis for Draal doesn’t have any emotional heft to it in the least. It feels more like he’s getting into the Great Machine because the script says he does. Delenn’s declaration to Garibaldi that Draal finally found meaning in his life has more emotional weight than anything the script or Louis Turrene did in the previous hour. As usual, it’s left to Peter Jurasik to inject some entertainment into the proceedings, as Mollari’s pleas to Ivanova to know what the hell’s going on and the joy he takes in reviving his old piloting skills are a delight to behold. And also the only delight in the entire episode. Next week: “Babylon Squared.”[end-mark] The post <i>Babylon 5</i> Rewatch: “A Voice in the Wilderness, Part II” appeared first on Reactor.