December 2013 – Horror Report

December 31, 2013.. the final 2013 news roundup, and some deeper thoughts about personal fulfillment

TUESDAY DECEMBER 31 2013

The last day unlucky 13..

STOCKPILES IN THE YEAR 2000

As I write this, Japan and parts of Russia are already greeting 2014.

I recall how news stations covered the millennium changeover back in 2000…they covered each nation live–even though 2000 didn’t even start a new millennium!

And worst yet, everyone with stockpiles of soup and water exited their bunkers on January 2 to find the world was still there.. crazy, insane.. but there..

You have heard enough of the year in review laments by now.. the best and worst.. the nice and bad.. Even the HORROR REPORT gave you our annual review of what we thought mattered –and didn’t–over the previous 12 months..
It is interesting that we do this, too.. That one day, New Years day, can mean so much of a difference to us..
The most meaningless place I think you can be tonight is a dive bar.. cowered in the smoky corner –wait can you still smoke in them!?–listening to some awful band try to recreate magic from 1970s tunes… After the party streamers and noise makers get thrown to the side, you’re still in a dive bar. You’re still in a bad place for your spirit and soul. Believe me, I spent some New Years in dive bars. One in particular when I was in my early 20s and either had too much to drink or got sick from the buffet turkey meat that they served at midnight..
Tonight my new years will be quiet.. My wife and I have dinner tonight at one of the most wonderful restaurants in the world, Martin’s in Hazleton, PA.. After that we will come back home and relieve our babysitter of her duty of watching Ayden watch Woody Woodpecker on Netflix. And then watch a new years eve rock without Dick Clark but with Ryan Seacreast. At 11:59 Seacrest will announce ’13 out’ and we will sing, dance, and kiss our loved ones as the manmade calender switches to a new digit..

And that is how we do it, here on earth. For those keeping track in space above… we celebrate a year that was and make promises to ourselves for the next. And yes, by February those promises are long gone memories .. sometimes by January 2 they are, as a matter of fact..

For the first time, this year, I plan on resolving a few things.. A personal set of mental ailments and roadblocks that have hindered my advancement as a human for a long time… those I want to rid myself of. I am going to attempt to have a clean slate.. and attempt to forge a new path of hope and change. No, I am not running for president. Instead, I am attempting to succeed in this world, change some lives for the better, and add love instead of hate to a planet that is filled with the noise of evil …even though it’s overrun by the quiet of purity and morality.

I hope you stick to your resolution, whatever you choose for it to be.

And now onto the news.. the final news roundup for 2013. As usual, it ain’t pretty:

NEW YEARS 2014.. REVELERS BEGIN MARCHING TO NEW YEAR..

This is how Japan does things; They are recruiting the homeless to help cleanup radioactive Fukushima! And with the new law that passed there, don’t expect many Japanese news agencies to report a word of this..

Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur was told not to warn the public about the danger posed by the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant during his time as a host on the cable network.

Florida officials mapping sinkholes in the state..
Sinkhole swallowed woman’s world, and the Florida community responded..

This could be trouble: The levee around Assumption Parish sinkhole is cracking again..

Big buildings in Santa Monica and LA may sit atop quake faults..

Heartbreaking drama continues over girl who was declared brain dead..
…to remain on ventilator until January 7..
…court blocks hospital from disconnecting life support of Jahi McMath…

There are some good people in this world.. Strangers Donate More Than $70K for Girl’s Life-Saving Surgery..

The world continues to watch the ship rescue attempts in the Antarctic.. there has been another setback..
It is certainly noteworthy that the scientists who are STUCK IN THE ICE were there trying to prove sea ice is melting due to global warming..

Reliable DNA? Three tests have three different results..

A worthwhile question: What happens to comet Ison’s remains? Fringe conspiracy sites tell us the end is nigh and that the remnants are going to strike earth in fast motion.. We know better. but what about those chunks and clunks remaining of the comet that never was? There is no logical reason to panic about the trail of debris..

BUT..
While not associated with anything related to Ison, this is an interesting story nonetheless.. The midwest saw a fireball last week. There has been an assumption that the fireball in the sky was a meteor–but that is not really an agreed upon conclusion! At this point a remains a mystery.. And speaking of fire in the sky.. here’s another story on the Midwest fireball show: This is a video and image of what happens when a meteor falls from the sky above..

Stunning new information is revealed about how the NSA tracks your phone.. Perhaps it’s why your cell battery dies so fast..?

Brain like computers are learning from experiences.. The OBSOLETE MAN.. not just a Twilight Zone episode anymore..

Want to eat some beef? Think again!

One third of Americans reject the theory of evolution..

I bet this man rejected evolution, too: Man Ran Through Bingo Hall with Pants Down Yelling ‘Bingo!’

The new America: Driver arrested not for having drugs, but for having an empty compartment that could potentially store them!

Drive by shooting near the White House..

Millions of Americans undergo needless knee surgeries..

Hands of the future: Do you have iPosture or text claws?

A friend of mine who I trust concerning entertainment tells me to check out BLACK MIRROR: THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.. I just may.. he said the first paragraph of the linked story would hook me.. the paragraph on the Avclub.com ends oinks..err…ends like this: “The premise is devastatingly, horrifyingly simple: A member of the royal family, Princess Susannah (analogous, one imagines, to Kate Middleton) is kidnapped and held hostage. Her freedom is guaranteed on one condition: The prime minister must have sex with a pig, live on national television”. There’s more.. but I bet you’re hooked to.

Kevin Smith getting ready to direct another horror comedy about the rapture..

Justin Bieber movie completely collapses at box office..

Rumors: FANTASTIC FOUR vs X-MEN being planned..

Movies: A decade of cheap new horror..

First look at images of FEAR CLINIC with Robert Englund..

And perhaps the most positive piece of news to end the morning roundup: A new study confirms that spirituality can actually improve the brain. So go out, be positive.. be spiritual.. and attempt to connect your soul to a great force.. Whatever the force is you choose to accept.. It’s probably all the same in the end, anyway.

Sasha Fierce strikes again

A friend of mine is a big Jay-Z and Beyonce fan.. I constantly jab him with jokes about her alleged involvement with the Illuminati.. and he doesn’t even want to listen when I try to play him sound files of Beyonce claiming that she channels an alternate personality named Sasha Fierce for her live performances.

Maybe Beyonce would be smart if she blamed some recent actions on Fierce..

She is being slammed by families of dead astronauts and current NASA employees for sampling audio files from the space shuttle Challenger disaster..

For those who remember, Challenger exploded in 1986 only a little over a minute after it took off. With a school teacher on board, it was being watched on live television all across the United States when it happened–school kids were forever scarred by the memory of seeing the space shuttle begin its long death when that disaster took place. Ronald Reagan addressed the nation..

And now Beyonce chose to use sound clips of the final moment of life for astronauts that fateful January day in her new song XO.. the song is about a troubled relationship .. So I guess that makes sense to use a sound file of heroes dying in a horrid inferno. (Sarcasm there.. it does not translate well in text) …

NASA is angry. Former and current space employees aren’t to happy.. families of those who died that day aren’t smiling. And I am just left scratching my Illuminati fearing head. What was Sasha thinking? She says that she wanted to include the sounds of the disaster in her XO song as a ‘tribute’ to those who died that day.. I just cannot fathom the perplexing logic that made her think people would just fine with her decision to use that audio file..
And if Beyonce didn’t get the offensive nature of it, surely Jay-Z would have..?

Almost 20,000 Indonesians flee erupting volcano

An urgently important story coming out of Indonesia tonight.. Mount Sinabung has been erupting for months.. overnight last night it shot lava into the air nine times. As a result, 19,000 have been forced to flea as the volcano shows more signs it’s ready to blow..

There is a full story here..

The thing I cannot stop thinking about was how it was just nine years ago, around Christmas 2004, when Indonesia was decimated by the massive tsunami resulting from an earthquake.. and now, the same area is worrying about a volcano that is threatening so many..

19,000 flea so far.

Media reports indicate a lot more may need to leave their home..

Mount Sinabung spews ash at Kebayaken village in the Karo district in Indonesia, December 4, 2013. The volcano spewed hot rocks and ash 7,000m in the air last night, displacing more than 19,000 people today. - Reuters pic, December 31, 2013.

I suppose the original Halloween is not ‘cool’ anymore..

My niece and her friend were at our house this weekend, they’re of the age where they want to just watch mindless horror movies.. I put in Halloween from 1978, I expected them to be as amazed as I was when I was a young teenager like them..

They got bored quickly, and their only commentary on the classic movie was that the star of it now does yogurt commercials..

Yes… Jamie Lee is older now. And yes she advertises things that mostly are purchased by senior citizens.. But she wasn’t eating yogurt when she fought Michael Myers, did was she?

SYFY continues a great tradition: The Twilight Zone marathon set to roll

Here is the full TWILIGHT ZONE marathon schedule from the SYFY channel.. »

It’s been the traditional way I’ve rung in the new year for a long time now.. Thanks to the SYFY channel (*then SCI FI) for all the wonderful memories of the Twilight Zone you’ve given me each and every New Years Eve..

I have already written down the times of my favorites..

Maybe I can get my wife to actually watch some this year if I tell her there will be advertisements for HER favorite show, LOST GIRLS.

Meanwhile.. the Monsters are Due on Maple street at 8:30 pm, the Shelter is prepped for 6:30 pm, and the Obsolete Man will cry at 1130 pm..

But the best happens at 12:00 am January 1, 2014 when the MIDNIGHT SUN blazes.. that one is my favorite.

Hope you find yours on their schedule.

The final case of the Mondays. At least this year.

MONDAY DECEMBER 30 2013

Hope you enjoyed the 2013 year in review here on the HORROR REPORT — there was a lack of a song of the year and movie of the year. Perhaps I was going to be extra embarrassed if I named a Miley Cyrus or Katy Perry song as the song of the year, so I chose not to.. as far as movie of the year, I was going to name the CONJURING but felt a flaw in that since I don’t completely have faith in the ‘real’ story behind the flick. The real movie of the year was probably GRAVITY, at least according to all friends and reviewers who saw it. I did not.. so I did not think I could fairly name a movie of the year ..
And now onto the news.
And usual, it ain’t good.

Can Putin save the Winter Games from terror?
The Winter Games are only weeks away, but this weekend Russia started to look like a war zone.. There were two suicide bombings, scores dead and injured, and fear over whether Putin can prevent further violence before the Olympics.. Security is tightening around the nation, especially near the Volograd–the location of where violence took place.

Look what 2014 is about to bring for the Northeast! This is a model run of a storm system set for Thursday.. cold air is in place and a major accumulating snowfall may occur.. Stay tuned if you’re in the area.. Don’t expect to do much Thursday. Get the pizza and beer now.

There is still fear in 2014.. There have been some interesting and unsettling earthquakes in the Canary Islands over the past few days–this has happened before. When it did, there were rumors that a giant East Coast tsunami would occur. That was helped by people like John Moore on his radio program.. Now that the rumbling is happening again, those same rumors are being told. John Hogue is weighing in on the earthquake swarm and potential ramifications if Las Palmas euptions take place..

From livescience.com: “Two years after a new underwater volcano appeared offshore of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, earthquake swarms and a sudden change in height suggest a new eruption is brewing near the island’s villages, officials announced today”

If a big tsunami did occur, it would cause devastation in the aftermath.. Predictions that it would be 300 feet high, cover islands.. And here is a map of what it could do to the United States.
And it just so happened that this all occurred around the same time of these warnings of increased volcanic and seismic activity: A strong 5.4 shakes the Canary Islands..

“Military style attack” on California power station..
Was the mysterious attack on the station a rehearsal for a larger assault on the United States power grid?

Imagine driving down the road at 65 MPH and your car reacts as though it hit a truck. But it didn’t. Your car just got hacked..

The passengers trapped aboard the Akademik Shokalskiy off the coast of Antarctica have prepared a makeshift helipad on the ice to enable a helicopter rescue after an Australian icebreaker was unable to reach them.

The sun has flipped..

‘Tis the season for the seasonal flu.. but there seems to be a bigger number of H1N1 this year.. 60 cases in Chicago alone at this point, Michigan seeing an increase.. Massachusetts has a dominant strain.. and the South Central United States..

Remember a few days ago, the HORROR REPORT told you about ‘big Bertha’ getting stuck under Seattle? The big drill isn’t moving.. Well, it did not take long for some to come up with some interesting theories: Including aliens! “Possible alien activities” underground .. And we can thank Big Bertha if we uncover a dramatic history-changing event..

Someone who worked in the US drone program writes in the UK GUARDIAN about what she saw..

Interesting article: The effects of nursing on nurses..

Weird: Ted Cruz taking ‘steps’ to renounce his Canadian citizenship..

Fireball lights up Iowa sky..

The best horror in 2013..

With the holidays just about over, here’s a good story for you to study: How to detox your holiday body..

FROZEN beats THE HOBBIT at box office..

AMITYVILLE HORROR reboot gets January 2015 release date.. And as so many movies go these days, a ‘lost footage them’ is going to be present in the new adaptation..