How many times do I have to tell you: Your television set (and other appliances) are watching you!

The old timers used to say that if you can watch your TV, your TV can watch you.. And watch you it probably is..

The truth is right in front of us.. if we care to understand that today’s science fact was yesterday’s fiction.
Of course hackers can get into your machinery.. and even other forces, such as the United States government or foreign entities all the same..

CNN reporting an exclusive: The CIA was involved with operations on the ground in Benghazi when Ambassador Stevens was being attacked and killed

CNN reports an Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack

This is very interesting to say the least.. CNN has uncovered this information now.. almost one year since the entire thing went down in 2012 prior to the Romney/Obama election..
Equally important is what else CNN says concerning the CIA: They are going to great lengths to keep whatever it was they were doing on the ground a secret..
MORE from CNN:
Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret.
CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency’s Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out.
We can make assumptions .. but those assumptions of what the clandestine efforts that CIA is and was making in this regard are probably incorrect. Maybe.
You can read the CNN story for yourself, but this other quote is noteworthy and should be read carefully:
Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency’s missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency’s workings.
The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress.
It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career.
In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, “You don’t jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well.”
Another says, “You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation.”
I am sure the snooze media will exhibit due diligence and follow up on this story..
Michael Hastings sure would have..
Hmm…maybe he was…?
Nah..

Space Weather contradicts report on big solar flare

This morning’s headlines blazed with  heat: A near miss! The sun ejected a flare that almost hit earth two weeks ago..

And now today the website Space Weather is responding to that with this:

SPACE WEATHER FACT CHECK: Many readers are asking about a report in the Washington Examiner, which states that a Carrington-class solar storm narrowly missed Earth two weeks ago. There was no Carrington-class solar storm two weeks ago. On the contrary, solar activity was low throughout the month of July. The report is erroneous. The possibility of such a storm is, however, worth thinking about: A modern Carrington event would cause significant damage to our high-tech society. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.

The original report that appeared in the Washington EXAMINER this morning came from  Henry Cooper, a former Reagan official who now is pushing for missile defense programs.. And where did he get his information? Peter Vincent Pry–who is pushing for the United States to upgrade its electric grid to help during events of massive EMP attacks of solar events. Which is a noble cause.. But now I am troubled by the SpaceWeather report that all of this was based off of something that never was..

The UK DAILY MAIL picked up this story today, too, running a more dire headline 

I will investigate this matter further..
So far I have yet to see a press release or statement on any of this from NASA.

Please email me at bryan@horrorreport.com if you have more information or useful links..

Dying 2-year-old son to be Pa. couple’s best man 

Every now and then a story actually makes me tear up. This is one of them.. I could not imagine the prospects of losing a child, especially to leukemia.. The AP dispatch reports it this way:
Two-year-old Logan is the son of Sean Stevenson and Christine Swidorsky, of Jeannette. The couple had planned to wed next year, but decided to move the ceremony up to Saturday so the boy, who has leukemia and other complications, could participate.
The boy has already lost one kidney and has a mass on his remaining kidney. He has Fanconi anemia, a rare disease that often results in cancer. Doctors last week gave the boy two to three weeks to live.
Swidorsky says, “We want Logan in our family pictures, and we want him to see his mother and dad get married.”
Again, as a parent, I have so much empathy for these two adults watching their innocent young toddler succumb to such a disease.. 
I cam so sad to read it.. but at the same time so heart-warmed to think of how much joy this will bring this young little brave man.
I have said this before and will again, I don’t know for sure if there is a God above or a devil below, but I will be doing my best version of praying or at least sending positive thoughts towards these three as they share the bond of matrimony with a child who will soon be gone from this natural earthly dwelling..
THURSDAY AUGUST 1 2013

A massive solar flare missed earth by the narrowist of margins.. if it would have hit, there’s a chance an EMP disaster would have taken place.. This happened two weeks ago, and we are only learning about it now.. Could this have been any relation to the big hole in the sun?




UK DAILY MAIL says having an alcoholic mother and being gay led Bradley Manning down the path to leaking information to Wikileaks.. (What about just the fact maybe a human sees something that is morally wrong and wants to tell others)



Iraq death toll in July topped 1,000.. This is the highest figure in years and comes after the worst violence in a long time..

A meteor may have hit Orange County, California.. Even if it wasn’t, a huge explosion was reported by multiple people..










A test for eighth graders in 1912 shows that it’s quite possible kids were smarter a century ago than they are now.. And just try to answer the questions, I dare you. Such as: What are the functions *or uses* of the spinal column?
And kids didn’t have Google and never Binged it.

NETFLIX makes recommendations more personalized by adding individuals user profiles.. But if it’s so much better, then I ask Netflix to explain why my sister wanted Seinfeld but was recommended a movie about a sexually tortured nun to be recommended instead?? *True story*


You’ve heard of Christmas in July? And now you’ll hear about Halloween in August.. Kids get their Halloween nine months after Superstorm Sandy forced it to be canceled.. This is actually a pretty nice story to end today’s update with.. It’s good to see kids happy, especially after the misery that prevailed after Sandy ravaged the entire region..

July is over already!!? Now the summer will fly by, what’s left of it. Happy August. It will soon be the REAL Halloween for everyone.