Month: December 2014

President Obama goes to the hospital–and the media chooses not to have a feeding frenzy

I am apparently uniquely surprised that news networks are not going wild in a feeding frenzy about President Barack Obama being whisked away to a hospital and being admitted for a sore throat that has been present for weeks.. he has been diagnosed with acid reflux, mainstream talking heads tell us. The Saturday news affair didn’t get much attention besides a few blips on media sources, small links on news websites.. Drudge picked it up but spun it a different way, with a mock on Obamacare:

But should this not be a bigger deal?

I recall when George W. Bush choked on a pretzel during a football game, the media went wall to wall. Partially because it seemed like such a bonehead way to have an accident, and also because he was the leader of the free world.. grimacing in pain and losing air on the floor while choking on a pretzel..

In this instance, during a rainstorm in Washington D.C., a motorcade lined the street to take President Obama to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland.. he had to undergo a series of tests, including a CT Scan .. finally, we are told that that tests showed the President was being hit with acid reflux.. Again, they tell us.

According to reports, the President was at the hospital for over an hour.

There are comments on a multitude of stories mocking the President’s mile long motorcade as overkill, others are claiming that the President overreacted and that his acid reflux was not a serious thing.. I say it’s fine for an over abundant testing regiment any time the President even has as much as a headache..

I also doubt the mainstream story on this. I really do.

I don’t know what gut instinct, or acid reflux belch, tells me this, but I think there is more to this story.. It seems like overkill on one hand.. but ont he other should the media not be asking more about the tests, wondering if the President was awake for all of them, getting information on whether Joe Biden was on standby just in case anything occurred at the hospital? Yes.

But instead we are just given a little snippet of news with a talking point medical paragraph about what acid reflux is and how you get it.

Trust me, media; This is America. We smoke, drink, and eat too much. I think we all know what acid reflux is..

But what we do want to know more about why now for the President’s medical treatment.. Sore throat for weeks.. but the motorcade decided to pick a drenched Saturday morning–the same one when a botched rescue mission left an Al Qaeda hostage dead— to take the President to the hospital.

December 7, 2014
Another time slip on an icy Sunday morning sidewalk

There are a few unbelievable things in life. First off, the very fact that life exists is unbelievable and remarkable. Why does it exist? How does it exist? And why does it end? All of these questions have defied logic for as long as humans were alive to think about them. There is more a chance of life not existing than existing. Or so we think. That theory could also be wrong.. instead it could be a universe littered with life.

The second thing that is unbelievable, and one I have written about a number of times, is the amazing way that time passes, the fast paced way that clocks churn and calender pages turn..

This year is no different. 2014 will mark what I feel to be one of the fastest years in memory. But that may also be he product of something else occurring in my own life: Aging. I am 34 now, an age and time I never thought I’d see. Not because I didn’t think I’d be alive, but instead because there is this certain sense in your 20s that your 20s are lasting for a long enough time that they will never end.

End they do. The 30s will end, too.. and the 40s..

My own father just turned 70 years of age today. That is monumental for a number of reasons.. First, anyone turning 70 means you’ve hit the milestone. You’re close to the government statistic but you’ve also be a lot of odds getting to that age. For my father, he beat a many more odds, which is the second reason his birthday is quite important. Last year at this time he was nearly dead and getting worse, being taken to the hospital for almost 8 straight days of intensive care. This year he is happily watching black and white movies on his chair in the comfort of his home, something that you’d never think would have happened again if you saw him on his birthday last year when Sunday morning was coming down..

I have no good segway for what I am about to say, nothing which couples it perfectly with any statement previously made on the passage of time or the fruitlessness of the 20s.. So here it goes. Beginning December 2013, I believe that me and my entire family experienced a large scale time slip in which we were seeing things that did not exist in this time, but at times were propelled back into it. I don’t doubt that it will sound insane in some way to hear that.. you may discount it altogether. That’s fine. But as I have said many times over, the paranormal is never real until you experience something paranormal..

My sister and I were discussing events of 2013 just last night. Either we have been wrong for an entire year, or another slip occurred. We all recalled December 8 as the time my dad’s issue began. So did my own father–he recalled it being the 8th as well. We were either wrong for an entire year or this is just another symptom of the global time slip that I think we have all been in since Nelson Mandela, the real time traveler among us, died in December 2013.

Time never makes mistakes, perhaps. However, do times slip? Do timelines intertwine? Can we enter one and leave another without realizing it even took place?

I will not labor over further talk of time slips.. you can search the HORROR REPORT archive on that topic should you wish to go back to any previous articles written about (in particular here is my 2013 article referencing my father’s fate and time slips)

But that’s life on the Sunday morning sidewalk.. time is relative to the time slip you’re in. Which one are you in today?

Me First and the Gimmies are heralding in this week’s Sunday morning sidewalk tune.. it’s quick and in your face compared to the other more mellow versions. I choose this because time itself is quick and in your face.. Especially when it slips.

Welcome to your Sunday, all..

December 7, 2014

SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS

The news of the world, as told by different sources from the planet we inhabit. It’s a weekend, a Saturday. It’s the season of Christmas.. but so many things point to reasons to not be optimistic about the future of our world.. A sampling of the cull I have done, the season of the witch is over. But it may as well keep on going..

Welcome to the age of the supermouse! It’s four times smarter than the average little vermon.. it had human fetal cells injected into it to get its status.. I personally feel very uncomfortable about celebrating the ‘supermouse’ .. But before you get your extra strength cheese traps out, we’re not trying to create super rodents–they are fine at that tthemselves We are instead just attempting to make a mouse brain closer to the human to study it better. Makes sense. I guess.

Welcome to the creepy town of Sunnywide, Washington.. a place where tens of thousands of crows descend on homes every single night.. And yes the comparison is obviously being made to Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS.. but this comparison is one I’d certainly agree with after reading the story and seeing the photos..

This is a more religious perspective on Christmas but interesting nonetheless: Here are some little known tales about Saint Nick..

Meanwhile: Krampus has come and gone. In Europe, big parties and parades celebrated the devilish Christmas demon that the HORROR REPORT wrote about just a few days back.. The DAILY MAIL reports on the bizarre parade in eastern Europe that sees beasts grapple with men and children who have misbehaved..

Closer to home, a few people I have seen posted FACEBOOK messages that they have resumed the tradition of having their children put shoes outside to see if St. Nick delivered candy or treats .. They are not telling their children about Krampus, however..

Stephen Hawking things so, but does ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE really threaten the future of the human race?

Clearly the fears expressed by Hawking has caused quite a debate. And maybe a much needed one. We are about to experience a societal shift. We need to talk about it, mentally prepare ourselves, and know the landmines before that change in our world occurs.

Taylor Swift’s rep denies she is consorting to lesbian acts..

Justin’s Bieber’s mission to look just like Miley Cyrus is almost complete.. he’s gone bright blonde..

INDIE WIRE says ‘found footage’ horror movie THE PYRAMID is the worst of any so far..

Paper calls THE PYRAMID ‘silly in the extreme’ ..

Waco Texas newspaper celebrates THE PYRAMID creator Scott Silver..

Ghost hunter claims camera attack at Lizzy Borden house..

Another rescue attempt fails: Luke Somers, American Hostage, Is Killed During Rescue Attempt in Yemen.. Even more: The New York TIMES reports, “In a statement, President Obama said the hostages had been “murdered” by militants belonging to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula during the rescue operation. A senior United States official said that the American, Luke Somers, 33, was badly wounded when commandos reached him. By the time Mr. Somers was flown to a United States naval ship in the region, he had died from his injuries, the official said Saturday.”The New York POST spins it this way: A drone kills 9 militants on serach for Somers.. Still does not change the fact that the intended goal of getting back Somers did not play out the right way.. And it should also be noted; President Obama said that Al Qaeda had been decimated during his most recent campaign.

The death of Eric Garner in New York has revived a spirit of protest across the United States.. the way Garner died is atrocious–being slowly killed as he lost air, and having the entire thing on video.. But an explosive report now appearing in the New York DAILY NEWS could make tensions even worse between the badges and the blues: After the police officer shot Akai Gurley once in the chest after being startled in a dark housing development stairwell, he spent six minutes or more contacting his union representative while Gurley was bleeding on the floor.. His union rep, instead of 911..?

As demonstrations of the police state continue in the United States, here’s a piece of knowledge protesters should know: An audio recording leaked by the hacktivist group Anonymous appears to prove that Chicago police used an IMSI catcher, commonly referred to as a Stingray, to intercept phone calls during an Eric Garner protest Thursday evening…

Man dies after being shot to death in Hollywood in front of tourists.. The police did it.. Police say he was carrying a knife. Cops say they found a combination knife at the scene and posted Twitter images to prove the dangers..

One Tweet that has been seen around the world many times over now was from someone who wrote “The LAPD JUST MURDERED AN UNARMED MAN RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME #LAPD”

Video proof! The original STAR WARS will never be beat.. As proven by this fan who used original movie footage to the audio of the new FORCE AWAKENS trailer.. I loved the ending of the fake trailer: “May 1977” as the release date. But the faux video also reminded me of something, something I have previously written here on the HORROR REPORT: The villain in the newest trailer looks different. We will take some getting accustomed to him… but will he be the villain this generation wants or needs? Darth Vader in so many ways just can’t be beat..

Google now targeting the under 13 crowd!

December 6, 2014

8mm creepy: PORTRAITS OF A NIGHTMARE may cause uneasy sleeping

December is a time for happy songs and pale ales.. however, as I have written, Christmas is also a very paranormal time of year. One way to celebrate it may be with an extraordinary new video from JILL TRACY. The video has been uploaded to YouTube, it has received links on various message boards and other websites, including BLOODY DISGUSTING.

The video itself is low key.. It is titled ‘Portraits of a Nightmare’ .. The music is by Jill Tracy, it is directed by Jeremy Carr.

The interesting aspect of this video is in the description: It was created by 8mm footage. It was filmed after fan support from Kickstarter allowed it to be made.. The never before seen footage featured, along with additional 8mm vintage archive shots, create an actively frightening scene. The video is not jump out of your seat scary, but instead much more subtle. And maybe even in that sense more disturbing.

The first thing it reminded me of was the footage from the movie THE RING, the black and white scenery that created the tension in the film.. But this, PORTRAITS OF A NIGHTMARE, seems more brilliant than anything of Hollywood fiction.

This short film could be considered frightening, disturbing, even erotic in some sense depending on your viewpoint on the imagery.

What I took from it was the same feeling I’d have when I awaken from a bad dream: A little confusion, a little strangeness, and a little relaxation. All thrown together..

I highly recommend viewing this during the night.. It’s effect would be so much stronger..

Three cheers for a great little video ..

December 6, 2014
PRAYERS FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Typhoon Hagupit now striking
Typhoon Hagupit will cause destruction as it slams into the Philippine islands–the main island is being affected already as the storm begins to hit land..

Wind and rain has already triggered a small landslide in Eastern Samar.. Provinces are expected to further lose power as the monster storm drives itself inland..

This is a NASA flyover from December 6–note the enormous eyewall and vast amount of oceanic real estate that the storm takes up..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40wuadU1I9I

The Philippines has been through other massive typhoons this season.. While the nation is simply prone to such activity due to its location, these storms of 2014 have been frightening.

Now, with this new massive system churning its way onto land, over a half a million people have desperately fled and have taken shelter..

They are pouring into churches, schools, and other makeshift safe houses. The evacuation that has just occurred in response to the Hagupit has been one of the biggest in peacetime.. While war itself may not have caused the massive people movement, what is about to happen may be as frightening as a battle. Winds will howl and rains will deluge.. The world just prays that those houses of God and ‘safety’ are truly safe during what is about to occur in that nation.

For perspective, this storm–also being called ‘Ruby’ in the homeland it will hit–will be the equivalent of a large and powerful Category 4 hurricane in North American language. ACCUWEATHER is calling for one particular part of the nation to face catastrophic dangers:

THE HORROR REPORT will continue to follow the storm..

It would be suggested that you follow these news links should you want to see radar and other information about Hagupit:
- ENHANCED SATELLITE
- WEATHER CENTER
December 6, 2014
Keeping the creepy in Christmas

I posted the thought that Christmas can be creepy.. Krampus certainly helps in that regard.. even more, there are reasons to believe that Christmas was once celebrated by telling host tales and weaving intricate paranormal webs of night time stories by fireplaces with chestnuts roasting in our history.

I have argued before that we should bring the creepy back to Christmas and let it endure in the pagan paranormal way it should..

Today I offer up some visual reasons that Christmas can also be creepy: Old fashioned long ago holiday cards.. There are some weird ones now.. But the antiquated offers of yesteryear may be even stranger than any current incarnation of yuletide cheer..

A sampling of some I have found online that made me think twice about allowing St. Nick to enter my house through a fireplace this holiday season:

This photo reminds me more of Krampus than it does Santa. It appears the jolly old St. Nick is taking a child. But look close, it appears to be a doll. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to see Santa ditched the sleigh for a rattly old truck..

Christmas pigs.. I can’t say much to add any more oddity to the card..

A depressed moon is welcoming the first day of a new year.. He’s clearly unimpressed with the planet’s celebration. That or his image represents the massive hangover people feel around the holiday?

A child holding alcohol.. not the best idea.

Something very odd about this one.. It appears to be two town drunkards counting down to something. The implication is that they spent their begged dollars on liquor. But what explosion of fireworks are they waiting for exactly?

This seems to be the plot of a horror movie. A happy living snowman impresses people and animals with his clever hi-jinks and tricks. Suddenly a gorefest ensues and the dog is the only one that survives..

She’s fallen. She can’t get up.

“..and then I will drone attack this nation.”

Come on, family, let’s gather around the pagan tree for this year’s occult festival!

The year the elves went on strike, Santa was forced to learn the trade

A very Merry Christmas. Courtesy of the Black Eyed Children.

December 4, 2014
SONY HACK ATTACK ACK ACK ACK

You ought to know by now..

It seems so many times that once a major company or facility says there was a cyber attack that took place, a dribble of information comes wincing out of the PR department.. There is little news initially, except for the instance of the hack itself. It is downplayed.. in a sense, a full accounting is being conducted.

We learned of the SONY hack attack over a week ago. At that time, North Korea was suspected to be angry over the upcoming comedy THE INTERVIEW–so much so that allegations were made that the country hired on hackers to decimate SONY. If that is what actually took place, the attack went far beyond what was initially known..

The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER tonight is now making the full details public.. Not only did the hack occur, but major celebrities and insiders have had their social security numbers splashed across the world’s widest web: The Internet.. 47,000 to be exact–at least according to this report. As we saw from the original trickle, perhaps more will eventually be known..

But tonight, the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is naming names: Sly Stallone’s SS number is now known.. As is Judd Apatow, and Rebel Wilson’s.. Along with SS numbers: Personal addresses, salaries, and other private information kept on computer file at SONY going back to at least the year 2000…

The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER further mentions North Korea as the suspect nation in massive attack..

Other news agencies are beginning to take the lead from the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER and talking about just how massive this data breach is–historic in every sense.. The SONY attack is exposing stars and their personal information, they are naked the protections of body guards and data filters ..

SONY had mass amounts of data stored in a place where lots of it could be stolen in one lump sum..

We also know that the GUARDIANS OF PEACE, or the GOP, did this.. Whether North Korea was behind the GOP attack or not is still a million dollar question. BLOOMBERG wrote about this very issue hours ago.. They questioned whether North Korea was the villain in the hack attack, namely because one would assume THE INTERVIEW would have been a subject of the attack itself. In this instance it was not.

But North Korea has also not denied the incident being their fault–but why would they? After all, even if they didn’t do it, their would get some kind of potential street cred on the global fear stage if people at least thought they did..

There seems to be something missing in this North Korea theory.. something big. Like common sense..
I don’t think it translates well..

And if North Korea did such a thing, attacking an institution like Hollywood here in the United States, would that not be some form of an act of 21st century war?

That’s the other unanswered million dollars question…

THE INTERVIEW premieres Christmas..

December 4, 2014
THE MIDNIGHT SUN

“Their Sky Has Changed!” Inuit elders sharing information with NASA regarding Earth’s “wobble” »

It seems the Inuit elders are also witnessing strange and unfathomable weather up there in the North.
The elders talk about how their world has changed, how it was then and how it is now.
It is a worrying picture, a picture of melting glaciers and thinning or disappearing sea ice.
Seals with burns on their coats and covered with sores and a thinner hide, the Seal skin has deteriorated and while scientists maintain man made pollution is contributing to climate change the elders are convinced something much much bigger is going on!
Astonishingly what the elders are saying is global warming is not the whole story…

The elders maintain the Sun doesn’t rise were it used too, they have longer day light to hunt and the Sun is higher than it used to be and warms up quicker than before.
The elders who were interviewed across the north all said the same thing, their sky has changed.
The stars the Sun and the Moon have all changed affecting the temperature, even affecting the way the wind blows, it is becoming increasingly hard to predict the weather, something that is a must on the Arctic.

This sun not rising where it used to rise issue is something I am fully aware of.. I have also noted to friends and family my own personal confusion over that very issue, presenting a photo taken at one time years ago and comparing it to the position of the sun in the same place during the same season years later.

There are a variety of sources saying that this sun not rising issue is a myth and that the claims are easily debunked..

However, magnetic north is changing. Airports have had to re-calibrate their runways for global positioning.. and place that would usually get no sun in the summer time at my house were bright this year..

The elders mentioned in this article all think that the earth has tilted to the North..

We also know from science that magnetic north is shifting more than ever..

I know through my own personal observations that there seems to be a change, that the placement of the sun has gone to extreme angles compared to years previous..

And I also know what I read from science journals: That a pole flip could happen within the next 1000 years..

All that said.. does the sun rise and set where it should? I guess there’s peace of mind at least seeing the rise and set to begin with..

December 4, 2014
BABADOOK gets high praise from horror director

The HORROR REPORT has been taken off guard by the review roundups for the movie BABADOOK.. The film has been heralded by typical horror sites.. but what made this unprecedented in my opinion was the shear love that mainstream media and entertainment sources showered on the Jennifer Kent film..

Now the director of the EXORCIST is increasing the abundant amount of hype being bestowed on the movie about childhood horrors: William Friedkin stated that he has never seen anything more terrifying that BABADOOK.. He said it scared the hell out of him..

Proof here from the page snap of his Tweet:

But the fanbase of horror has not welcomed this movie with open arms as much as mainstream sources of the lame stream..

What took me off guard even more than the positive reviews was the not so positive statements I have seen on various horror sites and message boards.. People who undertake the grim reality of eating up every bit of horror movie and delving into the devilish details don’t have an over-enthusiastic agreement with Friedkin or others who have given the movie high praise.. Some seem to suggest that, while Kent delivers with a sound film, the movie is far from the scariest film of all time and quite the opposite in many regards.

But there may be something more at play with Friedkin that goes beyond just a mere movie review.. Friedkin has been very critical of IFC Films for their failure to secure movie screens for BABADOOK–Friedkin was so moved to help the film that he also offered to host a screening of it.

And I am surprised by that, too..
Movie companies throw abundant amounts of pure garbage our way throughout any given year, especially summer movie cycle.. It adds up. Sometimes you need to dodge the excrement that pop culture sells.. But when a refreshing horror movie like BABADOOK has the chance to do something different, nothing much is done about showing it to a wider audience..

As for the audience who has seen it? Seemingly positive and glowing reviews still abound. But there is also an underbelly of “sighs” about the attention the movie is getting, and now the hype presented by Friedkin..

Perhaps the best user comment I’ve seen: “Babadook should be renamed Babapuke.” Simply as that.

December 3, 2014
A TALE OF TWO SEASONS

Protesters Swarm West Side Highway, Tree Lighting After Eric Garner Decision »

Some protesters said they planned to disrupt the Rockefeller Center tree lighting — following a decision by a grand jury not to indict an NYPD officer involved in the apparent chokehold death of Eric Garner.

There is high tension on the streets of New York tonight.. only days after the Ferguson grand jury decided not to charge Darren Wilson, this new story emerges from Staten Island..

The grand jury was able to even see the video in which police held down a dying Eric Garner.. his crime was selling loose cigarettes and force of several police officers killed him, as he begged for air before his death.. Garner’s crime was tax evasion.. In a sense, it’s fair to say that Garner was executed by the state for the failure to relinquish tax dollars to the city..

There are people on the TEE VEE sets tonight defending the police and the grand jury non-action.. there are also some demanding more protests.. And the rest of us, the silent majority, are looking on in wonder and sadness.. Sadness over police who go too far.. sadness over a country seemingly becoming disjointed by racial tension and needless division—if only the majority of all races would see how bankers and various high powered institutions of corporate madmen are actually the ones who herald in a police state. The big picture, though, is often difficult to see..

The night air in New York is not filled with Christmas joy, but instead the anger of people who sense more police tyranny

There is one more piece of food for thought on the Eric Garner death.. consider this: The police who killed him this summer will face no criminal penalties for their actions. But 22-year-old Ramsey Orta was indited in August.. Why? Well that is the interesting part.. RAW STORY reports:

As the Staten Island Advance reported, 22-year-old Ramsey Orta was indicted this past August, 13 days after being arrested and charged with charged with felony counts of third-degree criminal weapon possession and criminal firearm possession.

Authorities argued that Orta stuffed an unloaded gun inside 17-year-old Alba Lekaj’s waistband outside a hotel. But Orta has said that the charges against him were trumped up as retaliation for filming Garner being grabbed from behind by Officer Daniel Pantaleo. The city’s medical examiner determined that Garner’s death was a “homicide by chokehold.”

“When they searched me, they didn’t find nothing on me,” Orta said to the Advance regarding his arrest. “And the same cop that searched me, he told me clearly himself, that karma’s a b*tch, what goes around comes around,” Orta said, adding later, “I had nothing to do with this. I would be stupid to walk around with a gun after me being in the spotlight.”

And now tonight, with the seasonal good tidings gone by the wayside, the crowd in New York City is shouting ’no justice no tree’ in the cold night air.. During the heat of the summer, a man named Eric Garner was shouting “I can’t breathe” as police held him down for not giving the city his taxes on loose smokes..

A tale of two seasons..
The best of times.. The worst of times.

December 3, 2014