Author: Horror Reporter

PANDEMIC PARADES

Variants be damned! NYC to throw ticker tape parade in July to celebrate health care heroes and essential workers

Just as the world was beginning to see the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, American leaders and especially those in New York City were still saying to go to large events, China Town, and Broadway. The inevitible happened.

And now just as the planet is seeing new effects of a much more infective Delta, or Indian, variant, New York decided to throw a massive ticker tape parade to honor essential workers.

Good idea. When the pandemic is over..

Somehow, the media decided it’s finished, while England extends their lockdowns into July and people are heading back into hospitals in various nations..

The event honoring New York City’s “hometown heroes” will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 7 in the Canyon of Heroes.
The parade will kick off in Battery Park and end with a ceremony in City Hall Park.
“This year that we’ve been through, it has literally been the greatest crisis in the history of New York City. We were knocked down, but we got back up and that’s something to celebrate about this city,” de Blasio said at his daily briefing Monday.

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De Blasio said the parade will feature floats with groups of health care workers, first responders, educators, municipal workers, transportation workers, grocery and bodega workers, and delivery people.
“You name it, all the essential workers who made it happen, everyone who kept it together in New York City for all of us and brought us back. It’s a day to celebrate and appreciate the heroes who often go unsung, we’re going to sing about them this day,” de Blasio said.

Today the delta variant is about 10% of American cases. That is about what the UK was a few weeks ago as that strain now surges across the pond.

The Philadelphia Liberty Loans Parade was a parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1918, organized to promote government bonds that helped pay for the needs of Allied troops in World War I.. And it also became the parade known to spread death and make Philadelphia one of the most hard-hit areas during the Spanish flu.

June 14, 2021
Not crisis level ”yet” .. What happened at the Taishan Nuclear Power in China?

What happened at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong, China?

Scientists are busy tracking wind movement for a potential cloud of suspicious gas rising from a presumed nuclear power plant incident in China….

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Scientists are busy tracking wind movement for a potential cloud of suspicious gas rising from a presumed nuclear power plant incident in China. France-based EDF Energy, which partnered with China to build a nuclear power plant to generate electricity for the Guangzhou and Shenzhen areas there, has reached out to the United States for help in dealing with the situation there.
However, official Chinese media outlets are dismissing the seriousness of the situation –or that anything is really wrong. China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group, the entity responsible for the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant, said through state media, The Global Times, that the “nuclear power plant has operated the reactors strictly in compliance with business license documents and technical procedures.” They added that two nuclear reactors at the facility have been operating in line with nuclear safety regulations and the technical requirements of electricity plants.

Its plant operators say everything is “normal” while CNN and other mainstream outlets report that the Biden Admin do not believe the plant potential mishap is at crisis level … yet..

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A French energy company says it is working to resolve a “performance issue” at a nuclear plant in China following claims of a potential leak.

EDF Energy confirmed that gases that had built up in a component of the plant were deliberately released.

A spokesperson said this was because of a fuel rod problem.

“We are not in a scenario of an accident with a melting core,” an EDF spokesman who did not want to be named told AFP news agency.

“We are not talking about contamination, we are talking about controlled emissions.”

June 14, 2021
Whoopsie poopsie on Tank Man

SAVE THIS TANK MAN IMAGE WHILE YOU CAN! DON’T BING IT

Bing, the search engine owned by Microsoft, is not displaying image results for a search for “Tank man,” even when searching from the United States. The apparent censorship comes on the anniversary of China’s violent crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

“There are no results for tank man,” the Bing website reads after searching for the term. “Tank man” relates to the infamous image of a single protester standing in front of a line of Chinese tanks during the crackdown.

Motherboard verified that the issue also impacts image searches on Yahoo and DuckDuckGo, which both use Bing.

On 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, we look to this photo was taken the day before the famous tank man photo. The Chinese regime massacred hundreds of unarmed protesters demanding democratic rule:

And this is a full image of TANK MAN, not just one tank.. no… NUMEROUS:

A Microsoft spokesperson told Motherboard in an email that “This is due to an accidental human error and we are actively working to resolve this.”..

June 5, 2021
USA Today fights subpoena aimed at readers of Florida FBI shooting story!! They want to know everyone that clicked on an article within a 35-minute window

Gannett, the publisher, contends that demand for details on who accessed article violates the First Amendment.

Newspaper publisher Gannett is fighting an effort by the FBI to try to determine who read a specific USA Today story about a deadly shooting in February near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that left two FBI agents dead and three wounded. The subpoena, served on Gannett in April, seeks information about who accessed the news article online during a 35-minute window starting just after 8 p.m. on the day of the shootings. The demand — signed by a senior FBI agent in Maryland — does not appear to ask for the names of those who read the story, if the news outlet has such information. Instead, the subpoena seeks internet addresses and mobile phone information that could lead to the identities of the readers.

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On February 2, FBI agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger were killed and three others were wounded when 55-year-old David Huber started shooting as they approached his apartment in Fort Lauderdale shortly after 6am.

He was suspected of possessing child porn, but the FBI has never revealed why. After killing the agents, he took his own life.

The FBI wants the phone numbers and IP addresses of everyone who clicked on the story during a 35-window that night, between 8.03pm and 8.38pm.

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USA Today is fighting back, saying the order violates the First Amendment.

‘A government demand for records that would identify specific individuals who read specific expressive materials, like the Subpoena at issue here, invades the First Amendment rights of both publisher and reader, and must be quashed accordingly,’ lawyers for Gannett, the company that owns USA Today, said.

They added said the subpoena’s vague reference to ‘a federal criminal investigation’ cannot ‘possibly justify such an abridgment of free speech.’

The FBI has not commented on the subpoena or on what grounds it should have the information.

June 5, 2021
What does Batman have in store for himself?

Michael Keaton may be having a rough day during his next role as Batman

June 5, 2021
Residents describe chaotic scenes after Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, erupted and caused hundreds of earthquakes in Congo.

Residents describe chaotic scenes after Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, erupted and caused hundreds of earthquakes in Congo.
Thousands have fled the city of Goma in eastern Congo after a volcano erupted and hundreds of earthquakes followed. These are the apocalyptic scenes on the ground as officials say more eruptions and earthquakes are possible.

Mount Nyiragongo was erupting, for the second time in less than 20 years, and was about to lay waste to one of the poorest and most vulnerable places on earth – a region with few roads and limited infrastructure, and a decades-long conflict that has displaced millions and is monitored by one of the largest U.N. peacekeeping operations in the world.

May 31, 2021
Vietnam signals a variant problem

VIETNAM: WHEN VARIANTS MERGE

Vietnam has uncovered a new Covid-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India(#B16172) & UK(#B117)” Health Minister said. “The new variant is very dangerous” and “spreads quickly by air”.

In Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s largest metropolis and home to 9 million, at least 85 people have tested positive as part of a cluster at a Protestant church, the Health Ministry said. Worshippers sang and chanted while sitting close together without wearing proper masks or taking other precautions.

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Hospitalizations for COVID-19 has spiked up 72% in just 8 days, according to latest UK govt data.

This follows a surge in #B16172 cases. Deaths have also begun to increase. UK is among the most vaccinated countries, with 57% with at least 1 dose, and 35% fully..

Doctors treating patients in India have marked a distinct trend during the 2nd wave—COVID-19 now appears to be impacting children more severely. Children and adolescents are now showing more obvious symptoms such as prolonged fever and gastroenteritis

May 31, 2021
Q is suddenly questioning UFO disclosure according to media

This seems to be a diversion..

QAnon Crowd Convinced UFOs Are a Diversion From Voter Fraud

According to this report, QAnan believers think that the UFO reporting is simply a diversion from voter fraud..

There are a number of layers to unpack here..

First off the layer where there may actually NOT be disclosure.. Sure, Congress is going to find out but will we? Will the same reporting be declassified for all earthlings as much as the Congressman and Senators in D.C.?

Further, if QAnan actually DOES believe this, it shows their loyalty for Donald Trump. This all despite the fact that this entire disclosure notion happened with the help of Trump himself when he signed the COVID relief bill!

Ufologist Steven Greer, for example, has claimed that other UFO promoters were assassinated by intelligence agents to prevent them from telling the truth about UFOs. But with the prospect of some genuine disclosures in the offing, Greer has decided that whatever comes from the government now is in fact a trick meant to hide the genuine facts about UFOs.
“This is the ramping up of the false disclosure that we warned about,” Greer warned his fans in a YouTube video last week, claiming that the UFOs were wrongly being portrayed as a “national security threat.”
Sather and other QAnon conspiracy theorists who have promoted UFOs are challenged by the prospect of more widespread UFO interest, according to Travis View, the co-host of QAnon-tracking podcast “QAnon Anonymous.”
“QAnon promoters gain an audience by claiming that they have access to information that the mainstream media doesn’t,” View told The Daily Beast. “When major outlets report on their pet topic, such as UFOs, it’s actually damaging to their brand because their audience has been trained to distrust everything that comes from the mainstream media.”

May 31, 2021
TRUE HORROR IN CANADA–this gopes far beyond true crime

Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.

The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978, according to the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation, which said the remains were found with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist.

The report documented horrific physical abuse, rape, malnutrition and other atrocities suffered by many of the 150,000 children who attended the schools, typically run by Christian churches on behalf of Ottawa from the 1840s to the 1990s.

It found more than 4,100 children died while attending residential school. The deaths of the 215 children buried in the grounds of what was once Canada’s largest residential school are believed to not have been included in that figure and appear to have been undocumented until the discovery.

Trudeau wrote in a tweet that the news “breaks my heart – it is a painful reminder of that dark and shameful chapter of our country’s history.”

May 31, 2021
THE BOX OFFICE ABOUT TO BECOME A ‘LOUD PLACE’: HORROR SAVES THE THEATER!

This could be the first $100 mil box office weekend I. A year..

Heading into this Memorial Day weekend, more than 70% of theaters are open and Hollywood has two blockbuster releases: “Cruella” and “A Quiet Place Part II.”

The last time the box office topped $100 million over the weekend was March 6, 2020. In non-pandemic times, Memorial Day weekend has averaged around $200 million in ticket sales.

It is very fitting that horror will bring back box office life again!

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MEANWHILE

BLOODY DISGUSTING INTERVIEWS: INTERVIEWS‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Writer/Director John Krasinski on Why Horror is the Best Storytelling Medium

Meagan Navarro WRITES:

Krasinski cites the movies that influenced both A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II, how that journey transformed him into a major horror fan, and why he now believes horror is the best medium for storytelling. “Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.”

May 28, 2021