"... It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."....I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
The South Korean crime action film "Master" starring top actors Lee
Byung-hun, Kang Dong-won and Kim Woo-bin has been sold to 31 countries
before its release, according to its local distributor Friday.
The movie's distribution rights have been sold to companies in the
United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Taiwan, Thailand,
the Philippines and other countries, CJ Entertainment said.
The
action flick had reportedly garnered huge interest when it was
showcased at the American Film Market (AFM) held in Santa Monica from
Nov. 2-9.
The film's foreign release will kick off in the U.S.
in December. Then it will hit Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore in that
order starting the following month.
We just had a tsunami-triggering 8.2 earthquake off of Chile’s north
coast, a 5.8 earthquake off the coast of Panama, a 5.1 earthquake in
southern California, and a dormant volcano in Peru has awakened for the first time in 40 years, but scientists assure us that none of these events are related and that we don’t have anything to be concerned about.
Image: Ring of Fire (Wiki Commons).Even
though all of these events took place on the Ring of Fire, which is the
most seismically-active area of the entire planet, the “experts”
promise us that “the odds are overwhelming” that they are not related to
one another. So do you believe them? A few days ago, I wrote an
article entitled “12 Signs That Something Big Is Happening To The Earth’s Crust Under North And South America“.
This was before the earthquakes that struck off the coasts of Chile and
Panama. It appeared to me, as a “non-expert”, that seismic activity
was really starting to heat up in North and South America – especially
along the Ring of Fire. But it turns out that I and everyone else that
was concerned about all of these earthquakes was flat wrong. According
to the experts, it is just a giant coincidence that earthquakes are
popping off like firecrackers all along the west coasts of North and
South America.
A driverless bus has been tested on a public road for the first time in Japan.
An IT company was contracted to carry out the trial run in Senboku City, Akita Prefecture.
The city is designated as a special zone for promoting deregulation and economic revitalization.
An electric bus from France was used for Sunday's experiment. It has no
driver's seat or steering wheel, and uses GPS to travel along a fixed
route.
The bus automatically stops when it detects a human being or an obstacle.
Thirty-six people took turns to ride on the bus, which traveled back and
forth 3 times along a 400-meter stretch of road near Lake Tazawa.
A flotilla of Russian
warships arrived off the coast of Syria on Saturday, readying for a
large-scale land and sea assault on the city of Aleppo.
The eight-strong battle group, led by Moscow’s only aircraft
carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and accompanied by a nuclear-powered missile
cruiser, had provocatively travelled through the English Channel to reach the eastern Mediterranean.
Sergei Artamonov,
commander of the Kuznetsov, confirmed to Russia-1 television station via
videolink on Saturday that aircraft were already taking off from the
ship's deck for reconnaissance flights.
"Flights are being carried out from the deck... they are working on coordination with the shore port," he said.
Asked whether foreign aircraft were flying over the ships,
Vladislav Malakhovsky, commander of the Peter the Great missile cruiser,
said: "they are afraid to come closer than 50 kilometres away,
realising very well how powerful the nuclear cruiser is."
The warships will be deployed to the Mediterranean for at least six months, the pro-government Syrian website al-Masdar News reported, quoting a military source.