Katie Holmes Removed Wedding Ring

Only days after Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, she has moved into her own apartment with their daughter, Suri. And Katie is now proudly proclaiming a truly symbolic end of her marriage. The New York Daily News reported that, "The actress also didn't try to hide the fact that she has since ditched her wedding ring, casually holding her left hand up in plain view of the paparazzi's camera lens as she sits in the backseat of a chauffeured car."

Is Katie Holmes Being Stalked By Scientology Spies ?

Is Katie Holmes Being Followed By Scientology Private Investigators ?

Ever since Katie Holmes filed for divorce last week, she has been afraid that she is being followed by private investigators connected with the Church of Scientology, according to press reports.

Katie's fears stem from reports that a white SUV has been parked outside of her new apartment building with "suspicious-looking" men inside. (Katie ran away from the apartment she shared with her husband on the day she filed for divorce, and she and Suri have moved into a new apartment building.) NYPD have been called to check on the men in the mysterious SUV, but not charges have been filed.

The New York Daily News has reported that Katie Holmes is no longer wearing her wedding ring.

Les Indignés Faced Expulsion Order In Montpellier

DEVELOPING STORY : Officials in Montpellier, France, last week signed an expulsion order against a collective calling itself "Les Indignés." The group's camp on l'esplasade Charles de Gaulle was the focus of this expulsion order.

2012-07-26 Montpellier Expulsion Order - Les Indignes

Here's a YouTube video about Les Indignés having been removed from their camp on la place de la Comédie. :

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Katie Holmes Moves Into New Apartment

Katie Holmes Runs Away To New Apartment, Taking Baby Suri With Her.

People Magazine reports : "On the morning that Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, the actress made another big decision. Holmes, 33, and daughter Suri, 6, were spotted on June 28 moving their bags from the New York City apartment they shared with Cruise to a new apartment elsewhere in the city. The new digs are close to some of Katie and Suri's favorite places, including a gymnastics studio where Suri takes classes."

Stephanie Block Becomes Reno Sweeney

Stephanie J. Block, Quite Becoming as Reno Sweeney in "Anything Goes"

Broadway veteran Stephanie J. Block ("9 to 5," "Wicked"), who recently took over as Reno Sweeney in Broadway's Tony-winning revival of "Anything Goes," recently gave Playbill an exclusive peek at her transformation from "Stephanie" to the brassy nightclub singer of the S.S. American. Sutton Foster, who previously played the role of Reno, has gone Hollywood.

Katie Holmes Grindr Facebook Photo LOL

This funny photo illustration was posted by former Star Trek actor George Takei on Facebook. Since then, it has been being shared far and wide.

It shows a visibly shaken Katie Holmes, holding a cell phone, and saying, "And then he told me ... Grindr was an app for coffee beans !"

Beth Rudin DeWoody Foundation Funding ?

Is Beth Rudin DeWoody already funneling the obscene profit money from the St. Vincent's Hospital condo conversion to fund her reputation as a contemporary art collector ?

Alan Turing Father Computer Science

One hundred years ago today, June 23, Alan Turing was born. He is widely credited with inventing the modern-day computer.

Mr. Turing was persecuted for being a gay man. He died under suspicious circumstances, which investigations show all these many year later may not have been as a result of a suicide.

''Je Suis Toutes Les Femmes'' by Dalida

The global superstar Dalida sings her hit song, ''Je sues routes les femmes,'' live on the French primetime TV show, Stars. Enjoy !

War on Whistleblowers

Manning and Assange are each just "test case" for Governments' hostile treatment and retaliation against Whistleblowers.

The pre-trial hearings in the case of Bradley Manning, accused of the biggest classified data leak in U.S. history, have kicked off in Maryland. But there's growing concern over their fairness, with the U.S. government withholding more than 200 thousand relevant documents from Manning's defense.

By neglecting whistleblower protection laws and escalating the Manning and Assange cases, the US government is setting a precedent to be applied to journalists, future whistleblowers, activists and bloggers, activist Sibel Edmonds told RT. ­Edmonds is the founder of the National Security Whistleblowers coalition, an independent alliance. The activist believes Bradley Manning and Julian Assange are just the beginning.

Robin Hood Tax Video

George MARTINEZ for Congress

Watch a spontaneous DIY (do it yourself) YouTube interview with George MARTINEZ, who is running for Congress in the 7th Congressional District in Brooklyn. Mr. Martinez talks about how he believes he will take the corruptive influence of corporate money out of politics.

John Sexton (A/K/A Robert Moses)

Years ago, a brave woman named Jane Jacobs stood up to Robert Moses, who planned to build a big highway right across Greenwich Village. Now comes John Sexton, pictured at left, the President of New York University, who wants to build luxury student housing in a broad swath across Greenwich Village. Sadly, Christine Quinn, the woman known to have corrupt morals, always finds a way to take campaign donations from major zone-busting real estate development projects in her district, like the billion-dollar Rudin luxury condo and townhouse development plan for St. Vincent's Hospital. Rumour has it that Christine Quinn will continue to enable the destruction of the fragile neighborhood fabric of Greenwich Village by approving John Sexton's Village-destroying expansion plan.

Livery Taxi Cab Driver Plays Chicken With Jackson Heights Pedestrians

JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS : A livery taxi cab driver threatens to back-up on pedestrians, who were standing on 37th Road, near 74th Street, in Jackson Heights, Queens. The driver was playing ''chicken'' with pedestrians (to see whether the pedestrians would step out of his way), and pedestrians were daring the driver to back-up on them (because the pedestrians were not moving (until a woman in a miniskirt distracted their attention).

Election Year Wall Street and Bank Bailout ?

The Risks Looming in the Repo Market

Peter Eavis, a reporter for The New York Times DealBook blog, has predicted that the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States will bailout Wall Street through an intervention in the market for repurchase transactions.

''Given the importance of the repo market, central banks are likely to step in to bail out banks’ repo borrowing again in a global financial crisis. Banks themselves have lengthened their repo loans — from a rough average of three months to around five months, at some firms — to make themselves less vulnerable to repo runs. In addition, they’ve taken steps to more evenly offset the repo loans they borrow with the repo loans they make to other firms, even if poor disclosure makes it difficult for outsiders to discern.''

In spite of Mr. Eavis's assuredness of the Federal Reserve's willingness to bailout Wall Street, it remains unsaid what will be the political or social implications of another central bank intervention to bail out Wall Street, while, at the same time, the social safety net is being gutted and shredded by austerity-crazed Republicans, who are focused on short-term politician gains during this election year.

And in spite the reforms that Mr. Eavis celebrates, such as enlarging the terms of repo loans from three months to ''around five months,'' maybe those extra two months can, all by themselves, prevent another credit crisis during this presidential election year ?