Sittard-Geleen – During excavations at the site of where the new apartment block De Dominicaan is planned at the Odasingel in Sittard, spectacular finds were made. The focus of the study was the Geleen river, clogged channels of which from different periods were found at 3 to 4 m below street level. In those former creek channels, large quantities of waste from the Roman era, the Iron Age and the Stone Age were found.
Because the waste is almost always located below the groundwater, organic objects such as bone and plant remains have been well preserved, which is very rare nationally and internationally and in the case of the Stone Age even unique.
Alderwoman Yvonne Baetens-Derks, responsible for archaeology: “We knew that remains from the Roman period would be found. However, that such large quantities were found and that there are also finds of the first farmers in the Netherlands, was a great surprise.”
Oscar-Winning Star Has History of Hot-Headed Tirades About Jews, Women, Gays
By LUCHINA FISHER
July 2, 2010
Mel Gibson is reportedly at it again.
Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend says he left her a vulgar voicemail message.
The Oscar-winning director and actor who caused a media storm four years ago over an alcohol-fueled anti-Semitic rant is again under fire for reportedly using a racial slur during an argument with his former girlfriend.
On Thursday, website Radaronline.com published transcript excerpts the site said came from an audiotape of Gibson telling his ex, Oksana Grigorieva, with whom he’s battling in court over custody of their infant daughter, that the way she is dressed made her look like a “pig in heat”.
“If you get raped by a pack of n***ers, it will be your fault,” Gibson reportedly shouted at Grigorieva, using a deeply offensive expression for African-Americans.
Radar claims to have heard the tape, which it says Grigorieva recorded when her relationship with Gibson was unraveling. The tape reportedly also includes Gibson calling Grigorieva a whore, and other profane names offensive to women, and threatening to burn down her house.
Mel Gibson’s attorney declined to comment and his rep did not return phone calls immediately.
Grigorieva’s attorney Marci Levine told ABCNews.com that it was not her client’s “desire that the tape be released.” She declined to comment further, citing the legal proceedings as confidential.
Gibson, 54, and Grigorieva, 40, split up in April after they’d dated for more than a year. Last week, she filed for a restraining order against Gibson, claiming that he hit her at his Malibu home in January while arguing in front of their now 8-month-old daughter, Lucia. Sources close to the Russian-born singer claim that Gibson punched her in the face and broke her teeth.
But a day after Grigorieva filed for the restraining order, Gibson filed for his own restraining order. A judge upheld their recent custody agreement, which gives him overnight and unrestricted visitation rights.
“Oksana’s deceitful conduct in trying to terminate Mel’s access to his daughter continues,” Gibson’s lawyer, Stephen Kolodny, told TMZ.com Monday. “Making sensational allegations is not the way to resolve this.”
Gibson, however, appears to be his own worst enemy. Here’s a roundup of some of his past comments that have gotten him into hot water:
During his July 2006 drunken driving arrest, Gibson, a traditionalist Catholic
who has talked extensively about his belief in pre-Vatican II values, famously ranted, “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”
His anti-Semitic tirade made worldwide headlines and shocked Hollywood. Gibson later apologized for what he called “despicable behavior” and sought counseling. That October, Gibson told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer that he was “ashamed” of his remarks, calling them “the stupid ramblings of a drunkard.”
Gibson was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to attend an alcohol recovery program. His criminal record was cleared in October 2009.
Gibson’s Reported Remark to Female Officer
After his DUI arrest, TMZ reported that Gibson told an unidentified female sergeant, “What are you looking at, sugar t**s?”
The comment was never found in the arresting officer’s report. When Sawyer read Gibson the quote during the 2006 interview, he remained silent.
But in a 2009 appearance on the “Jimmy Kimmel Show” in which Kimmel told Gibson, “In my opinion the word sugar t**s is the greatest new word in the decade,” the actor said the term had been falsely attributed. Gibson added that he wished he had coined the phrase because it is funny.
Gibson’s Ex-Wife Going to Hell
Though Gibson was married to ex-wife Robyn for 28 years with whom he had seven children before their breakup amid rumors of an affair with Grigorieva, he told Australia’s Herald Sun in 2004 that Robyn was probably going to hell because she was not a traditionalist Catholic like him.
“There is no salvation for those outside the church,” Gibson said. “I believe it. … Put it this way: My wife is a saint. She’s a much better person than I am. Honestly. She’s, like, Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, she knows Jesus, she believes in that stuff. And it’s just not fair if she doesn’t make it. She’s better than I am. But that is a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it.”
Gibson: Women ‘Not Equal’ Comment
In a 1995 Playbody interview, Gibson said he was against women priests because “men and women are just different. They’re not equal.”
“I have tremendous respect for women. I love them,” he said. Women in my family are the center of things.”
But he also called a female business partner that didn’t work out a c**t and said he and feminists had a mutual dislike for each other.
“Feminists don’t like me, and I don’t like them,” he told Playbody. “I don’t get their point. I don’t know why feminists have it out for me, but that’s their problem, not mine.”
Gibson’s Anti-Gay Comments
During a 1991 interview with the Spanish newspaper El País, Gibson was asked what he thought of gay people. “They take it up the a**,” he responded.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, accused the star of homophobia, but Gibson later defended his comments on “Good Morning America.” “If someone wants my opinion, I’ll give it. What, am I supposed to lie to them?” he said.
In his 1995 Playbody interview, he said he would not apologize to GLAAD, but he did join the organization in hosting 10 lesbian and gay filmmakers on the set of “Conspiracy Theory,” a 1997 film. And in 1999, when asked about the original comment, he told an interviewer he shouldn’t have said it but was “tickling a bit of vodka during that interview, and the quote came back to bite me on the a**.”
Mel Gibson: ‘I Want Jew Blood On My Hands,’ Oksana Claims: here.
Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for government and public policy at the American Family Association (AFA), has expanded his astounding bigotry to include not just Muslims and LGBT people, but Native Americans as well: here.
Catholic League’s William Donohue’s Rage Against the Jews: here.
An electrician was crushed by coal-hauling equipment at a Massey Energy-owned mine in West Virginia on Thursday, bringing the year’s total of US coal mining fatalities to 40—31 of them at Massey sites: here.
A coal miner was killed in a southern Illinois underground mine June 9, bringing the US death toll to 41 this year. The mine, owned by billion-dollar company Peabody Energy, has a substantial history of violations: here.
The death toll in mining accidents in South Africa has fallen by nearly half in the past 10 years, according to a report by the Chamber of Mines published at the weekend: here.
US miners demand the legal right to refuse to work in unsafe conditions: here.
Coal industry’s rush to increase production w/o hiring more workers is increasing deaths on the job: here.
This video, the fourth in a series, explores the environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Experts say the disaster is likely to wipe out whole species, and may put an end to fishing and shrimping in the gulf for decades.
For 75 days now, crude oil has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Estimates of the amount of oil that has spilled out range as high as 150,000,000 to 200,000,000 gallons: here.
Gulf Oil Spill: A Bleak Holiday for Tourism: here.
Researchers have found droplets of oil inside crab larvae in the Gulf of Mexico. Although preliminary, the findings represent the first sign of hydrocarbons from the Deepwater Horizon well entering the food web. “So many things feed on larvae, that’s the disturbing part,” says Darryl Felder of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. But Felder and others say it’s too soon to predict what the larger effects on the ecosystem might be: here.
BP Oil Spill: Birds Face Danger as They Migrate to Gulf – ABC News: here.
Last report oiled bird numbers: 881 captured alive; 1248 collected dead: PDF report: here.
Qualifying farmers will be paid to flood fields, providing alternative habitat for waterfowl: here.
Sylvia Earle: Swimming with sharks and oil – Deep sea explorer Sylvia Earle has seen the Gulf oil spill: here.
EnviroCentric: Oil spills raise arsenic levels in the ocean, says new research: here.
Coast Guard bans media access to spill, boom, cleanup sites & oil cleanup workers under threat of a felony: here.
Relocating the mess: oil-contaminated sand being put in Alabama landfills: here.
Shades of Valdez: BP oil is being found beneath the sand on “cleaned up” Pensacola beaches: here.
