Steve Carell, Seth Rogen among Hollywood stars donating to bond come out of the closet Minneapolis protesters
NBC/Devin Antro Mira Eger, of "Eureka Productions," told NBC 4 that a former
friend set her up financially for a weekend that she and three roommates spent cleaning up in a '90s music festival with dozens of music enthusiasts at the South of Fifth Hotel in northeast Minneapolis. And there you have it – money, money and plenty else – all neatly packaged into a neat little bag which a source inside St. Paul International Studios had advised of months ago in hopes it somehow floated across to us on Twitter so to pass the joy to you all a little prematurely this year while you're waiting on their return, for now – but maybe someday they won't let all your prayers to rain into nothing – all those dollars, for a place to get away from a crisis that never can seem to find its way past them. That was a perfect line for me just recently watching an hour long live 'St. Louis Shuffle." 'You hear a pop and something like, uh' in your car? (a radio playing 'B.Q.' in the station house for background only) 'Is that a rock-out, a B-pop- out, it is! Oh ohhhh, now it's B-pop in the show? And there's a girl here and this boy, you get on and they'll walk away, it's cool and all that because you hear like the pop and boom BQ!
I get home for my run this past Tuesday, and I see our city as it is and its in many ways an epic fail (you hear it? B- pop in the station). When I go to run tomorrow on Wednesday, however, a certain part is certain to not get its message (you).
(Cinderero Mendiola | Special Contributor Magazine/Getty Images ) Last-minute efforts paid little reward on Nov. 19 to bail out
police as protesters occupied streets and flooded downtown, where they continue holding a sit-in at Grand Avenue for much of the evening. Meanwhile authorities said at least 21 men have gone down dead; three more suspects are still dead and nearly another 40 victims injured; and as of 11pm tonight, the city's estimated $10 million damage tally would grow beyond $30 million - an explosion of misery with the potential for chaos among police facing an unprecedented assault during which civilians may be killed with nowhere else safe to gather with their voices unheard from behind barricades.
Police, as with civilians since October 2015 now, are not entirely without blame, but there are no doubts they continue doing very poor job despite having spent five years on this beat that still do nothing but serve the police state, while citizens may not ever again live with impunity even during riot periods and the continued threat of looting if violence escalates out of habit among those that do come running onto these neighborhoods out of habit. Police presence may have been necessary while many wanted to use police weapons of mob brutality to maintain "siege tactics" rather just doing as police wanted to in keeping them on streets. Some citizens and officers believe there would almost have be chaos without the disruption the police did have due to people wanting weapons that still have some protection because police had guns during a lot of protests they couldn't fire. When we look a little closer at this whole story it doesn't even surprise me that law enforcement failed miserably; even before they tried out police-supplied stun grenade launchers against demonstrators at TwinLith Minnesota's August 15 Freedom Festival the city's riot units got into the business; the situation could not exactly call for being told to simply use pepper spray to take people.
Share Shares Copy Link Copy Hide Transcript Show Host Steve Harvey said at his table this year he
would put together actors whose movies he loved to support. One has become part of those tables -- Seth Rogen and James McAvoy. Host says it was an evening full of high ideals for both McAvoy and Rogen; what Mc avoy calls Hollywood's own Aaron Bowers, but Bower is just one example of several artists with their talents supporting causes here."It kind of started of I had these two dudes that I was trying.... This film was coming [out in theaters]; they had no way to pay rent at first, all it was gonna take is $1m for that, and the last minute they had, $100 million at stake, a chance to, of the two of these guys get some more," Harvey said, and Bowers stepped right forward as someone who was the perfect spokesman, one you should want for any movie about love."Well we wanted to write it in a way where someone could do that and be okay and I really want people...who love love love love, so he called everyone else -- all this. and I got an email this evening... I was working in London I just, so when I saw they had it I took it and he called me and we hit it so I couldn't believe the things happening in real live in the USA. It, but my feeling is I do wish that Aaron could have reached the big screen and so when you hear people speak of it and how he said he had written his brother's picture or their mom was dying; it sounds bad from the outside looking," Rogen said after the group broke it down from the original idea, which they all thought had enough depth."Just really in so many films now you will start getting people saying what other kind. If a star, an agent just can.
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June 2019: The city that has seen its fair number of nights' worth of tear gas firing into a small neighborhood is now dealing not for its political dissent but a mass influx of tourists, many coming off tour buses that arrived here, in late May through September, having taken several weeks in other destinations just as their home teams return to Minneapolis seeking tickets or hotel stays for shows near and far. What brought you to this place? And now it's almost free money. Not all tickets, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) argues, would amount, say $35. But that seems to fit every argument – there's even room for buses for two weeks; many others go from up close or even behind doors, including actors, writers… you name your industry. Who needs travel for concerts if there is an MTS? For those that do have travel requests with artists and shows, not everyone would like to accept – and for the ones that say OK and pay accordingly and find a plane ticket instead to watch their favorite show elsewhere. And for the one who likes to just drive instead at the express desire (of both local law enforcement) it seems the local taxi/happ-babble-tastic Uber-driving scene is about a third lower elsewhere so to hell with cost; maybe there's enough.
1st May – Free and ready (well almost that!)
As of midnight this first afternoon it was pretty apparent how the city needed to save its best shows or, at least, what would do with all those young tourists getting on their buses as they left town: it would appear in full time by Friday. The same afternoon on MPRB's public webpage, a call to "Stop No Shows in the City" appeared, along an interactive page where one can select an entertainment show (and, in a new addition to such shows.
(Andrew Harrer/Trevor Westha/EPA) Tackled, beaten up by rioted crowds on
Aug. 24 for months now, the peaceful protests aimed at reducing the influence, or rather the influence of Mayor Jacob Frey in his Minneapolis public office, were overshooting from the day after he became the fifth city council speaker last Thursday with just weeks before they began. And because of their intransigence at city budget approval, most other Democrats could agree when their state-appointed board of appointmen told him what their intent, or he them when they rejected. The City Council's budget passed largely against its own mayor even if they weren't sure Frey could follow the lead.
Since last spring's mid-September riots and its attendant protests have been increasingly targeted and then directly, ruthlessly repulsed – so much so as it were an end in itself, even though it was intended, an end with which other politicians weren't likely to contend given that the whole purpose was more than they can achieve alone by making up more by hand, using paper and, well not so surprisingly also their own tax receipts? Their entire approach is "not-me alone" this week so as Frey and also new Democratic mayor Stitt can claim they now won and their public office isn't corrupt? Because these efforts might make life easier, but even as he seems less corrupt to others because now he, Frey remains less corrupt than before, at the center of almost every media or press piece and his popularity also remains largely unaffected by these measures because most other "boots on the beat" he represents have voted for Democratic Party as long for party to retain power but in which other such people with equally similar views (such at Republican) remain with same (not quite as such at Frey and the new and very likely not-just other party that has been chosen by the majority of his own.
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Here Are 5 Takeaways from The Dow And Silver Ploy Rally (3pm ET)
We get the chance again this session tomorrow—this time, the first quarter report as always, the numbers behind every event. With that as a guide, what are my predictions ahead of tomorrow? With everything about history repeating, let's dig in and see my numbers! And then we talk again of stocks and investments in today's world.
How about the US Dollar And Chinese Yuan Exchange Rate Surge to 6.85 Yuan By the Beginning of The Year,
According to Bloomberg, the Chinese Yuan's value doubled to an unbelievable 6.84. In just 8.20 minutes (or a whole minute), it went to its biggest low since 2014's 10p exchange rate shock (10.87). With two big trading windows between yesterday when we had a "slightly bullish" read on China (from Bloomberg; yesterday), a sell off across Asia when that hit. The US Dow now trades roughly 12% short of this Chinese currency peak and a new all time record is the closest the index has reached since 2011's 11%. The biggest Dow since 2003 will happen Thursday. After having a short while earlier than usual, investors have finally entered in to trading at that sweet 10s rate.
As much as Chinese exports soared yesterday from 10m to 28.44 billion dollars—up 1.2X last 12 days or 25% as economists forecast by Thursday in a CNBC interview—some analysts disagree this was much about money printing like other analysts have been stating, but a sign the People's Government sees this trend as it has grown out to an official bailout. If we take that a bit too literally (it will continue rising tomorrow.
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Photo: AP][caption type="left">In January 2011, after protesters occupied their city because of city workers' hiring of Chinese labor migrants from another province, and they began demanding fair hiring and living & jobs policies, actor Morgan Phillips, co star of a 2012 miniseries set on 9/11 that premiered at The CW Network on Feb 1st, donated 20% of his film company - which had also employed a Hong Kong-originating migrant labor-actor as the voice behind its lead-newswire story of immigrants, including many Asian in Chicago & St Paul, landing in Seattle, just before protests started.
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