… blame the radiation..
Craze for hamster bottoms hits Japan
Friday, May 23, 2014
The pink skies are falling.. these days it seems like, whenever a large asteroid is near the planet, it seems like it is discovered just a day or two before a potential strike.. And even worse, we hear about how we almost die a year or two after it occurs, like the 2012 solar flare that NEARLY ruined most of our grid on earth.
What I don’t think I will ever forget is that night, while NASA was telling people not to worry about a large asteroid passing by the planet, Chelyabinsk happened and no one knew it until Twitter started flowing with images and videos of this large meteor over the Russian city..
But what worries me about it is this: That not only were we unaware of a meteor that could hit the planet, but also apparently had no clue about this other asteroid, either. Even though we were being told no fear of the skies that very night.. We need to come up with an earth-defensive system soon. It always seems like our luck will run out.
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Jimmy Kimmel nails it..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The alien's not for sale
Remember just about 48 hours ago we and others reported that NASA had a book about aliens potentially being associated with ancient rock art? Well.. NASA has pulled that e-book. Without explanation. … Do we really need an explanation…?
The HAARP playing the last chord
Better late than never? The AIR FORCE is getting ready to dismantle HAARP. The REAL site (though denied by many over the years) has been active since 1993.. some have blamed it for earthquakes and hurricanes..others believed it was less dangerous. Either way funding has been cut..
Either way, we got one last hurricane season to be HAARPed on..
This is a picture from the Berkshire Mall in Reading, PA..
As I wrote yesterday, the Eastern part of Pennsylvania had some pretty massive hail storms..
Parts of Reading, PA’s Berkshire mall skyline broken into pieces.. Parts of Philly’s airport smashed..
One report I got from a friend who works in Reading, PA, said that ‘every car in the parking lot’ at her job was smashed up with broken glass all over the concrete..
With all of these earth changes on the way, we may want to reconsider glass ceilings ..
....but will we program the robots of tomorrow to have the morality of today?
People are very naive about the future.. Most people who I talk to about the robotic wars of the new ages on the way laugh at me.. they think I am a tin foil wearing nutjob when I speak about soldiers who are more machine than man.
If you’re the same, good reading material is here from the UK GUARDIAN, scientists in the United States have created bionic particles inspired by TERMINATOR.
But with all this creating we are doing, are we going to establish a programmable moral code into the machines?
If not… then what?
Machines without mercy on the way.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
The day after today: Hail and high winds deep in the coal region of PA
I swear I was just in a scene from the DAY AFTER TOMORROW. A monster storm just rolled through with tornado warnings and severe storm alerts.. Hail, high winds.. Saw no funnel clouds or dogs floating by my window with witches on brooms, so that’s a plus.. but word on the ‘net’ is that Danville, PA, got socked with so much hail that windshields are broken all over town..
It may sound a little cliche at this point, and you can blame it on global warming or earth changes or manmade chemtrails, but I think weather is getting stronger. Maybe not ‘worse’ in the sense that it’s widespread, but where storms do pop up they gain so much strength so fast that it makes you truly wonder if the tails of tribulation to come across our planet are true.
There was one blast of thunder that was so loud, so deep, it sounded like a train literally tore open the house and ran through .. Mutley the Dog ran from his normal hiding spot under a desk to the closet floor and attempting to squeeze in between a pair of my jeans and the wall…
Safe here in the coal mines of PA still, though. Lots of flooding and broken trees, but life will go on.
Always could be worse.
IMAGE: Twitter / DannyReeseWx
If you want a real change, vote for an atheist in 2016
Christian website are proclaiming a bit of a victory in light of a new poll which seems to show that Americans would take a gay, drug addicted, cheating candidate for president over an atheist in 2016..
But forgive me Lord, but I don’t see the newsworthy nature of this poll..
After all, we had the follolwing the USA: James Buchanan, who was probably the nation’s first gay president.. John Kennedy, who reportedly was so high on meth one night that he pranced naked around the lobby .. Bill Clinton, who did not inhale. Obama, who admitted he did. And an endless trove of presidents who cheated and lied their way through scandals. All of them were Christians. Men of God.
Maybe an atheist would do us well for four to eight years.
It's all alien to us
The Vatican has been publicly commenting about baptizing aliens for years now—the Pope even did it recently in a ‘joking’ comment.. The man behind the original comment, Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno addressed Georgetown University in a commencement address where he specifically talked about his famed alien comments. He admitted aliens are not within our grasp—yet. SETI agrees, as I wrote last night.. they think it will be about 20 years before we realize aliens are among us.. or out there somewhere. Getting closer..
How Facebook Knows What Television Show You're Watching Right Now
Facebook wants to make it easier for users to share what they’re listening to or watching. The company today announced an update to its mobile app that will allow Facebook to automatically detect what song, movie or TV show a user is listening to or watching.
A little creepy..
Facebook also will allow you to instantly post—or post for you —the song you are listening to right or the television show..
And as creepy and privacy-invasive as this is, expect it to be utilized with great ferocity by Facebook users..
It’s either the beginning of big time invasion of privacy or it’s just another example of how much we share, and in this case overshare.
But don’t kid yourself.. it’s not new technology.. Facebook listening to you in 2014 is nothing inventive. Way back last decade in 2006, Google made some headlines because it was finalizing its plans to listen to you through your computer.
Also let’s not forget how often the power to hear you through your device has been abused. In 2010, school children in Philadelphia were being watched through their school issued laptops by officials. You know.. for ‘inappropriate behavior. Also in 2012, then CIA chief (before the sex scandal) David Petraus said that the government will listen to us, the citizenry, through our dishwashers.
So there you have it.. the slippery slope was already traveled .. not Facebook is simply filling the potholes, making it become ‘trendy’ and using Beyonce’s music as a selling point to sell your information to the world. At a very low cost. You’ll do it for free..
Welcome to the cloud. The very overshared and eavesdropped cloud..
How Facebook Knows What Television Show You're Watching Right Now
A broken garden gnome is a good garden gnome.. but what about when the gnome contains a secret? The broken garden gnome is the talk of the town of Lynnsville Tennessee.. The gnome smashed to pieces but inside was another statute .. Heather Andrews has acquired local fame and now, somehow, worldwide attention with her broken gnome.. some have hinted that they think there is a religious overtone to the statue hidden within the hideous gnome.. The woman even broke open more of her garden gnomes to see if any more Jesus-like figures were hidden within. While this may not be the next plot of an INDIANA JONES movie, it’s causing quite the headlines in the small town .
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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Let’s see you top THIS, Mr. Colbert..
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
CBS MIAMIA REPORTS: Miami VA Whistleblower Exposes Drug Dealing, Theft, Abuse
When asked why he would risk his job and speak publicly, Detective Thomas Fiore considered the question carefully before answering.
The nation professes its love of veterans.. they tie yellow ribbons on trees.. they use their mouths to praise them.
Then they let them commit suicide, die, and become slaves to the VA system which is designed to help, but apparently has failed .. Big time.
CBS MIAMIA REPORTS: Miami VA Whistleblower Exposes Drug Dealing, Theft, Abuse
President Obama on VA scandal: ”If these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it.”
More: http://nbcnews.to/1sUwpnn
But.. it was known for months.
If not years..
Hell, even CNN managed to report this in between its breaking news segments on flight 370..
To act surprised now is a little disingenuous..
Ebay asks users to change passwords after cyberattack
Ebay: EBay asked users Wednesday to change their passwords after a reported cyberattack on a database containing passwords and non-financial data.
Follow the latest at Breaking News.
Oh boy..
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
Cannes: Movie-maker courts controversy with MH370 thriller
So much for the question: “Too soon?”
We may never find the wreckage of signs of flight 370, but someone sure will make money of it.
But maker of THE VANISHING ACT, Rupesh Paul, told CNN this:
"The movie is based on an investigative report by a journalist which was rejected by the media so it is definitely controversial. The movie will answer two questions: one is what went wrong with MH370 and where is MH370 on this earth?"
Sounds like the maker of this film knows more about the whereabouts of the plane than any government on earth??
HOORAY FOR BOLLYWOOD.
Cannes: Movie-maker courts controversy with MH370 thriller
Thousands of Dead Fish Found in Marina Del Rey
So far the blame is a lack of oxygen..
Lots of fish calls lately .. lots.
Thousands of Dead Fish Found in Marina Del Rey
Data mining your children
The NSA has nothing on the ed tech startup known as Knewton. The data analytics firm has peered into the brains of more than 4 million students across the country
A little creepy for my taste. But common sense would tell us this is where we would have been by now..
The brave new world has been here for some time, it’s not just beginning.
Beer ads target kids really early.. sexualized products have robbed them of their childhood.. Sex ed, for all of its benefits, also teach things way too early. Sure, all the kids are doing it (And always did, evidenced by the syphilis cases a century ago) .. but something seems to be taking everything that is innocent from children.
Everything is tracked, traced, and delivered to a behemoth computerized spying apparatus. Some of it is government. It’s also corporation. Which scares you more?
Data mining your children
What you see is not real.. such as the creepy Michael Jackson hologram last night on the Billboard Music Awards.
There was a dance group.. the curtains opened.. and there sat Michael Jackson on what looked to be a throne fit for a king. The hologram danced and moonwalked across the stage like it was the 20th century again.
But it was not. Obviously what we were seeing was not real—a ghost of Jacko purposely made to make headlines today..
Jackson was brought back from the head with the help of technology—people were crying as they saw the computerized former human.. There was sun symbolism..
Equally creepy: Miley Cyrus attempting to re-do a Beatles song.. but she wasn’t a hologram.. I don’t think..
Sunday, May 18, 2014
The Billboard yawnfest
These music awards are probably duller than watching ink dry on Robin Thicke’s prenuptial agreement..
All of the performers are just horrendous live, with the exception of Luke Bryan, but he’s just horrendous ..
ABC.. It’s easy as 1-2-3.. Get some excitement.. And excitement is not Brad Paisley making arm wrestling jokes.
Inside the 9/11 museum’s offensive gift shop
The New York Post goes in depth.. Apparently a lot of really tacky but expensive items are for sale in the shop.. Hoodies with the twin towers and $39 heart shaped rocks with overused slogans on..
One woman who lost a son was quoted in the Post article.. She said, “To me, it’s the crassest, most insensitive thing to have a commercial enterprise at the place where my son died”…
WE have all seen these gifts, whether it’s in your local thrift shop or on the corner being sold by a street vendor. Some has been …ok.. others? Nah.
Be proud, US of A. Tacky is America. Come on, we still sing “Proud to be an American” more often than the national anthem.. no matter what Lee Greenwood did, he made a bundle off of the weird emotions of Gulf War I ..
We sell tacky things here.. You’d have to think those Chinese slave laborers who put together such profoundly graceless items are wondering what the hell the people in the free world are buying them for..
But the question really remains: Should profits be off the list of what the 9/11 memorial is tasked with? After all, they have quite a hefty debt to pay back.
In fairness, it’s a debt so high that overpriced ground zero hoodies will never pay back..
Inside the 9/11 museum’s offensive gift shop
I am about to sound crazy... But here we go:
Tin foil hat time.
Something very ‘out there’ happened last night—I cannot explain it nor will I subject any readers to the stupidity of assuming what it was..
I simply can convey what occurred. . I took Mutley the dog out for a midnight bathroom session.. It was profoundly quiet, with the exception of one bird in the woods singing, something I didn’t expect since you really don’t hear the sounds of birds at night. There was a very deep chill in the air, the temperature was already below 50, cold for this time in May.
Mutley and I heard something .. it sounded like the rolling of chains together, or perhaps even something heavy being drug across the forest floor. Mutley’s hair spiked up high as he started to form his body into an attack mode.. I ran into the house quickly to turn on the outside lights and grab a flashlight, about 5 seconds in time.. Upon the return to the outside air, the noise of chains clanging had gotten louder as though it was coming directly to and my dog. Here is the odd part: I heard nothing walking in the woods.. no noise of footsteps on dry leaves.. nothing. Perhaps adding to the bizarre flavor of the event, in the distance, what seemed like a pack of wild dogs, began barking. My dog at this point couldn’t contain himself.. He went crazy, and the midnight air was filled with the noise of Mutley the dog trying to scare away whatever it was..
I controlled Mutlery a bit. As I did, the noise slowly got more muffled as though it was leaving .. But again, as it quieted down in volume, no other sounds accompanied it. Not even the sounds of something or someomne walking ..
And then, it was gone. The only sound heard after the event was that lone songbird chipring in the cold midnight air. I still found that so be the creepiest ..
I tried explaining this to my wife.. As I am doing here, I did with her: I offered no explanation. I told her that I know I heard something but yet lacked any knowledge on what it was I heard..
Did my ears deceive me?
Does a bird, the singing bird, make a noise that may be similar to the clanging chains?
It was less like I was hearing a real event taking place before me, and more like I was witnessing a recorded event. The only logical way for me to explain this was that it seemed like the noise was not of nature or animal, and the lack of walking compels me to ask if something was being ‘played’ .. maybe an endless loop of something. I am attempting to stay away from the paranormal, because despite my love of it and all things weird, very few ‘weird’ things of note have happened to me. And I would like to sort of keep it that way..
And on a final note, to make matters weirder, I have been hearing those famed booms lately—I am not ready to call Linda Howe yet but I sure have her email at Earthfiles if necessary. Last night, while hearing some of the ground rumbling noises, a small meteor looped in the sky above me. I think it was a meteor..
It wasn’t a typical Saturday… things did go bump in the night. If I had to make a guess, the only thing I kept thinking as I closed my eyes and went to sleep was that the ghost of Marley doesn’t know it’s not Christmas yet.. Am I Scrooged?
Mutley and I heard something .. it sounded like the rolling of chains together, or perhaps even something heavy being drug across the forest floor. Mutley’s hair spiked up high as he started to form his body into an attack mode.. I ran into the house quickly to turn on the outside lights and grab a flashlight, about 5 seconds in time.. Upon the return to the outside air, the noise of chains clanging had gotten louder as though it was coming directly to and my dog. Here is the odd part: I heard nothing walking in the woods.. no noise of footsteps on dry leaves.. nothing. Perhaps adding to the bizarre flavor of the event, in the distance, what seemed like a pack of wild dogs, began barking. My dog at this point couldn’t contain himself.. He went crazy, and the midnight air was filled with the noise of Mutley the dog trying to scare away whatever it was..
I controlled Mutlery a bit. As I did, the noise slowly got more muffled as though it was leaving .. But again, as it quieted down in volume, no other sounds accompanied it. Not even the sounds of something or someomne walking ..
And then, it was gone. The only sound heard after the event was that lone songbird chipring in the cold midnight air. I still found that so be the creepiest ..
I tried explaining this to my wife.. As I am doing here, I did with her: I offered no explanation. I told her that I know I heard something but yet lacked any knowledge on what it was I heard..
Did my ears deceive me?
Does a bird, the singing bird, make a noise that may be similar to the clanging chains?
It was less like I was hearing a real event taking place before me, and more like I was witnessing a recorded event. The only logical way for me to explain this was that it seemed like the noise was not of nature or animal, and the lack of walking compels me to ask if something was being ‘played’ .. maybe an endless loop of something. I am attempting to stay away from the paranormal, because despite my love of it and all things weird, very few ‘weird’ things of note have happened to me. And I would like to sort of keep it that way..
And on a final note, to make matters weirder, I have been hearing those famed booms lately—I am not ready to call Linda Howe yet but I sure have her email at Earthfiles if necessary. Last night, while hearing some of the ground rumbling noises, a small meteor looped in the sky above me. I think it was a meteor..
It wasn’t a typical Saturday… things did go bump in the night. If I had to make a guess, the only thing I kept thinking as I closed my eyes and went to sleep was that the ghost of Marley doesn’t know it’s not Christmas yet.. Am I Scrooged?
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Teacher caught on video grabbing kindergartner by face, could face charges
An investigation is ongoing after a Hancock County teacher was caught on video aggressively grabbing a kindergartner.
If you’re a parent, teacher, or person with a soul, this video should horrify you. This is exactly how to ruin a child, and how to make a further mockery of the school system—one that really doesn’t need much more help ..
Every time I see a bus driving a load of children off to the nearest indoctrination camp, I always hum ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL by Pink Floyd in my head.. And this video of this rotten woman who claims to be a teacher should be the bus driver, taking the kids off to be churned into sausage while they beg for their pudding.
Even if a child is doing something that needs attention or discipline, common sense would dictate that it’s not something you grab a child by the neck as his head slams against the wall.. That’s not discipline, it’s torture..
Little 6-year-old Ian did not deserve to be chocked for going to the bathroom.. Time and time again, adults seem hellbent on stealing the innocence from our children..
Luckily a surveillance camera caught it all on tape.
Imagine the countless hallways where this happens and no surveillance camera exists…?
Teacher caught on video grabbing kindergartner by face, could face charges
So how about that.. the internet is filled with porn and perversion, but one exposed nipple on Madonna’s nearly ancient body and everyone goes crazy..
But we all know how people get touched up for magazines. And call me crazy, but I seriously think they pasted on a plastic nipple.
Even with that said, it really is not a pleasant photo..
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
Woman's Strange Attack On Edmonton Train Passenger Caught On Video
Avoid trains if you see this passenger:
Woman's Strange Attack On Edmonton Train Passenger Caught On Video
This is an amazing photo—and an even more amazing story. The picture was posted by an Ohio hospital.. in it: Very rare ‘mono twins” named Jenna and Jillian. They were born on mother’s day.
The mono twins refers to fetuses who share an amniotic sac and remain in near constant contact for the duration of the pregnancy. And that’s why the image is spectacular: When the twins came from the womb, they immediately held hands .. As the story says, there was not a dry eye in the room..
Some past coal region history this weekend. My other website has some more info on why this touched me personally. Sort of.
Girl graduates in front of her terminally ill mother
If you’re having a bad day, look at this photo. You’ll instantly weep if you have a heart and it will put everything ‘bad’ you’re going through into immediate perspective.
Girl graduates in front of her terminally ill mother
Sunday, May 11, 2014
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This was a small snippet I found on YouTube of Fitz and the Tantrums singing Fools Gold at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe, PA, this past Friday night..
I was there—front row too.
It was a Mother’s Day sort of gift—dinner and a show. A great one too
My wife was the Fitz fan before I was.. I think I’ve been tantrummed after seeing a nonstop high-energy performance .. Great time had by all.
I am a fan.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
I just integrated my other website, HORROR REPORT, with Tumblr.
I was using Wordpress to host the site.
Opposed to what 99% of the blogging world says, I disdained Wordpress..
The choice came down to either an FTP based site in which I would update with my own code, or just through a blog service.
I picked Tumblr since it works so well on coal speaker.
I plan on some methods to back up the blog in some way, though.. that’s the one part of Tumblr I hate: The lack of an ability to take the blog and run.
Nonetheless, follow me over there should you enjoy some of my more paranormal and weird stories. The website is www.horrorreport.com and the Tumblr user name is horror-report
Pudding pops
So a website tells me that Jello Pudding Pops were discontinued in the 1990s.. so what was I eating in the early 2000s?
Who's your mommy
Even though most of our celebrated days on the calendar have been commercialized and overdone, Mother’s Day is a day to forego those concerns and just do something nice for the person who brought you into this vast wasteland of confusion..
Ignore most of the lame presents that you may have wanted to get mother, and also try to avoid the restaurant scene being that everyone and their oxygen tanks will be storming in and sitting at over cramped tables paying too much for food.
About this: just do something nice for the person who did everything nice for you her entire life..
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Documents detail how Boston bombings suspect was kept alive
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was so close to death after being shot multiple times by authorities that he had to have immediate life-saving surgery.
Documents show he repeatedly asked for a lawyer.. also indications from the defense team—which wants the bedside confession thrown out—that questioning went on for 36 hours and Tsarvaev was drugged after his arrival to the hospital..
Documents detail how Boston bombings suspect was kept alive
Friday, May 9, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
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Wow… FROZEN would make a pretty scary film.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
A drone drops on St Louis
People in St. Louis want to know whose drone was flying over buildings in the city and why did it crash into one of them..
There’s no drone specific laws in Missouri right now.. Officials better get working on some though . Drones ate relatively inexpensive and anyone can get one.
The future is now.
The future is now: A man wants to marry his machine
Man demands the right to wed his computer..
Something told me this was going to happen.
It somehow makes sense.. the future is filled with transhumanism.. it’s filled with the marriage of the mind and the machine.
And it was just a matter of time before someone initiated the claim that humans have the right to marry machines. In the short term, the man’s porn-laden tablet may not have the ability to survive a lifetime.
But perhaps in the future, when we marry our machines, we will be interlocked for good with technology.. your hand will be your phone and Google will be your brain.
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Videos showing comedy as horror are amazingly well put together on YouTube.. this one caught my eye today.. Imagine FULL HOUSE as a horror flick? Bob Saget has never looked more frightening.. Good fake preview, unnamed internet person who will never get the credit you deserve. Good show.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Building a fence for space to track all the flying debris
“Space Fence” will track more of the orbiting junk that threatens satellites, but some want the focus on cleanup.
Have a company that is willing and ready to fence off space debris from hitting the planet? Here’s your chance.. The Air Force is set to award a contract that will actually give money to a company that does just that: Create a ‘space fence’ to track orbital debris and life-changing manmade chunks of junk..
The WASHINGTON POST reports:
Because it zips along faster than a speeding bullet, the trash poses an ever-growing threat to the satellites that help the military communicate and gather intelligence and serve the world’s obsession with Google Earth and on-demand movies. Until last year, the Pentagon used what was called a “Space Fence” to track the junk and warn of potential collisions that make owners scramble to move their satellites out of the way.
But that system managed to keep up with only a fraction of it all, and it went out of commission last year. Now the Air Force is poised to take a more modern crack at the problem with a new Space Fence.
With a contract expected to be awarded in the next few weeks, the program is designed to be mankind’s best effort yet at tracking space pollution. But the new Space Fence still doesn’t provide what many think is the ultimate solution: cleaning up space.
It’s about time.
As a matter of fact, we should not just stop at space junk.. what about the pink stars as they are falling? Catch them before they do. We should, as a society, be far enough advanced that we are already in place with something that catches more asteroids before they come within a moon’s length—or closer—to the planet earth. We should not be caught off guard a day before a meteor may hit.. We have focused too much on earthly nonsense and pointless hate.. By now the world should have come together with immediate goals: To save ourselves from space, or at least give us a little more time for extra hugs and a last meal..
So the space fence is good. Hopefully it’s a high enough fence that not even Wilson can get through..
Building a fence for space to track all the flying debris
First lifeforms to pass on artificial DNA engineered by US scientists
Organisms carrying beefed-up DNA code could be designed to churn out new forms of drugs that could otherwise not be made
This would seem to be one of the most important science stories to come in a long, long time.. a turning point, perhaps? Artificial DNA.. artificial life.. Apparently, announced with this discovery, scientists have created an entirely new lifeform!
The marriage of the synthetic with the real.. Which one will be real?
First lifeforms to pass on artificial DNA engineered by US scientists
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Nigeria's government defends its actions as more girls are abducted
Nigeria defended its response to the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls by a terror group even as details emerged Tuesday about a second mass abduction.
The newest mass abduction the nation is seeing occurred Sunday when, according to reports, gunmen moved door to door snatching girls and beating anyone who attempted to stop them.
Nigeria’s government is downplaying criticism.. They are also being accused of downplaying the original abductions. A social media campaign brought attention to the matter and the little action that was initially taken to do anything about the crimes..
A terrorist video released threatened to sell the now 300+ girls ‘on the market.’
The story is unfolding..
And it’s only just begun..
Nigeria's government defends its actions as more girls are abducted
Welcome to the fun new world of Webdriver Torso
Chances are you have yet to hear about the Youtube Channel where a user named “Webdriver Torso” has been busy uploading videos—77,000+ of them to be exact. Each video is an 11-second video of red and blue rectangles along with weird tones..
A new modern Youtube version of a numbers station?
A contact to aliens?
A coded message perhaps for an upcoming movie?
Maybe French spies?
The story has been pretty big in the UK--some suspect that the origin of the weird YOUTUBE account is from France, being that one video was of the Eiffel Tower.
The mystery began in September 2013 when videos being being posted.. hundreds a day in some instances. All 11 seconds.
The BBC discovered a potential French connection to the mystery a few days ago, writing:
The very first video uploaded to the channel, over a month before the first rectangle classic, reveals a completely different side to Webdriver.
Locked behind a 1.99 euro ($2.76; £1.63) paywall and only accessible if you’re in France, is a clip from the cartoon series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, in which the show’s three anthropomorphic fast-food items - Frylock, Meatwad and Master Shake - fail to win a pub quiz.
The second anomalous clip only raises more questions.
In video 1,182 we have what could be our first sighting of Webdriver.
Filmed from a Parisian balcony, the six-second clip shows an Eiffel Tower lightshow followed by a fleeting glimpse of a face.
Below the video, Webdriver has left a comment, their only known communication with the world: “Matei is highly intelligent.”
BOING BOING wondered if this is the modern version of a creepy numbers station.. It actually makes sense. Even spies have APPs now..
The Webdriver Torso account also has some thinking it’s apart of that other weird internet mystery: Cicada 3301—the 2014 net mystery began four months ago with a ‘good luck 3301’ message.
But the bubble of mystery is being burst by the UK GUARDIAN, which claims a bit of a more mundane argument as to what Webdriver Torso’s channel is. The paper writes this:
Isaul Vargas, a New York-based software tester, spotted the videos in a post on BoingBoing and recognised them from an automation conference he had been at a year ago. They were being shown by a European firm that made streaming software for set-top boxes, the kit that sits under a TV and connects to services such as Sky or Netflix.
But the GUARDIAN also had this postscript on their mundane attribution:
But there’s another twist. Isaul has tracked down the presentation he saw, which was given by the British company YouView. While it features similar videos, it is not identical: so although the general principle of using WebDriver, YouTube and automatic image recognition to test software stands, the culprit has slipped off into the night.
When one door closes, another opens. A thousand videos into the series is one six-second clip that breaks the mould. A short video of the Eiffel Tower, it features a comment from the uploader: “Matei is highly intelligent.” Already, readers have been hard at work trying to find someone who fits the bill, but it’s tricky. Matei is a common Romanian name, and even assuming that Matei is the uploader, is based in France, and has a public profile, there are at least two possibilities: Basarab Matei, who works on image recognition at the University of Paris North (suggested by @DAddYE), and Matei Mancas, who works on attention modelling at the University of Mons in Belgium (suggested by @marquis)
So that’s that for now.
You can join the thousands of people commenting on the Webdriver Torso videos…you can be like them and try to unravel the mystery. Or you can safely adjust your tin foil hat and wait for the aliens to beam back their response to the video.
Or just watch the pictures as they FTP through the air.. from France, or some other undisclosed location for reasons of security and therefore insecurity.
Obama Biographer: 'The World Seems to Disappoint Him'
It ain’t easy being Barry O.
He seems sad lately.. the hope is gone. The change dried up..
Replacing it, according to David Remnick, is a disappointment with the world. He’s upset with the Republicans, and more.. as Remnick says, “Bashar al-Assad disappoints him, Putin as well.”
Nothing about himself, though. That department is fine.
It’s just ‘me against the world’..
Obama Biographer: 'The World Seems to Disappoint Him'
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I am quite literally emotionally drained after weeping through this video of “Connor the Crusher” being cheered on by professional wrestlers from the WWE..
Connor died of brain cancer after his amazing day at Wrestlemania.. The WWE put up a tribute video for the little amazing old soul who is not longer with the planet earth.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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William Shatner is cool. Not only is he the face of Michael Myers but he’s also writing a novel about aliens abductions.
In this interview snippet from Larry King and Shatner, he explains why he is writing it, and what he believes about UFOs.
Shatner uses the story of John E. Mack (and his unfortunate early death) as a means to inspire deeper thought about aliens—why don’t they display and what would their intention be to abduct? For those who may not know, John Mack was a Harvard professor involved with interview 62 children from a school house in Africa that claimed they all saw aliens with long hair—aliens who warned them that the planet was in environmental danger.. This 1994 event was called the Encounter in Ruwa. Mack was also a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM when Art Bell hosted.. Like Shatner, I have always been extremely interested in Mack—but particularly in his conclusion that alien life was real, abductions were real, and that UFOs were from another reality..
I love Shatner.
Who doesn’t?
And finally, it’s good to see Larry King on HULU. Makes me feel like it’s the 1990s again.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The image you are looking at was taken by the AP of a person in Brazil suffering from xeroderma pigmentosum, or “XP.” It’s a condition in which, for better or worse as a description, people ‘melt away’ ..
The rare disease stops the skin from being able to heal itself from the sun’s rays.
The AP has more on relatively high amount of people in one village that are suffering from this..
It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress
Monica Lewisnky, in an exclusive VANITY FAIR story..
She expressed regret in the article concerning her affair with Bill Clinton.
She experienced job rejections because of her famed ‘job’ with Bubba..
And she expressed tears when she heard of a 2010 suicide of Tyler Clementi..
She blamed Matt Drudge and the Drudge Report for being “possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet.”
She said the public humiliation she experienced altered her life. I am sure Linda Tripp agreed.
Monday, May 5, 2014
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Pretty amazing redo of Giorgio Moroder’s THE CHASE by a band called Kings Love Jacks.
It’s like Art Bell and George Noory on ecstasy near the end. Or the soundtrack to a real alien anal probe.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Russia's Putin outlaws denial of Nazi crimes
By Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday making the denial of Nazi crimes and distortion of the Soviet Union’s role in the World War Two a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in jail. The law, described by critics as an attempt to curb freedom of expression to appease conservative Russians, the ex-KGB spy’s main support base, also criminalizes the public desecration of war memorials. The Kremlin has used World War Two as a pillar to unite a society that Putin has said lost its moral bearings following the 1991 Soviet collapse. The new law would ban “wittingly spreading false information about the activity of the USSR during the years of World War Two.”
Russia's Putin outlaws denial of Nazi crimes
Redick: Donald Sterling ‘Didn’t Want To Pay Me Because I Was White’
Los Angeles Clippers guard J.J. Redick says that owner Donald Sterling was hesitant to sign him last summer because he’s white.
This is going to certainly stir the pot of controversy..
So now we know: Donald Sterling basically just hates people—all people. Maybe he’s another classless member of the ruling class, the lifestyles of the elite rich and famous, who will literally step on the backs of downtrodden on streets just to get ahead? Maybe he’s got the blackest heart of evil..
A crazy old slug-like faced man of misery..
The CBS report:
“I’ve been told both ways: one, that he didn’t want to pay me because I was white, and that he didn’t want to pay me because I was a bench player,” Redick, the former Duke University star told USA Today. “I didn’t know until after the face. I just got a weird phone call from Doc (Rivers) on July 4, and I got off the phone and said to my wife, ‘Something’s going on.’ He’s like, ‘You better play for me (expletive).’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s the plan. We figured this out two days ago, right?’
Redick: Donald Sterling ‘Didn’t Want To Pay Me Because I Was White’
Malaysia Flight MH370: 11 Terrorists Arrested on Suspicion of Involvement in Disappearance of Flight
The suspected terrorists, who reportedly have links to Al Qaeda, were arrested in Kuala Lumpur.
This is amazing stuff.
Amazing. But true??
While CNN and others are slowly forgetting a plane carrying 239 people vanished weeks ago, international news orgs in the UK and are carrying this story of the arrested terrorists and their suspected connection to the missing Flight 370..
While CNN and others are slowly forgetting a plane carrying 239 people vanished weeks ago, international news orgs in the UK and are carrying this story of the arrested terrorists and their suspected connection to the missing Flight 370..
The International BUSINESS TIMES says this:
Explanations for its possible disappearance have been focused on a range of theories, from equipment failure, damage to the fuselage, a suicide mission and a terror attack implicating the pilots.
The mystery of the vanished Malaysia Airlines flight took a new twist with the international team probing the incident, considering the possibility that the plane may have landed rather than ended up in the Indian Ocean.
All of this after months now of changing stories, altered quotes, and weird government actions in connection with the aftermath of a plane gone missing.
Is the terrorism angle possible? I suppose at this point anything is..
I still think about Sarah Bacj—people laughed at her saying she thought people from Flight 370 still may be alive.
We don’t even know half of the half of what happened.. And now this series of terror attests certainly has eyebrows raised.
And really, at this point, do we believe anything we are told regarding this story?
Malaysia Flight MH370: 11 Terrorists Arrested on Suspicion of Involvement in Disappearance of Flight
New Sex Abuse Lawsuit Targets Bryan Singer, Gary Goddard
An anonymous UK citizen has filed suit against Bryan Singer and Gary Goddard, alleging that they both sexually assaulted him when he was a teenager.
It’s probably not what anyone in the production team or advertising and marketing department of X-MEN want to hear.. but this Hollywood wasteland news is getting only deeper.
The DAILY BEAST had a amazingly graphic account of the lawsuit details yesterday.. This new lawsuit is separate from that filed Michael Egan..
The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER writes on the allegations:
Singer had sex with the plaintiff at a Superman after after party in a London hotel room when the plaintiff was 17, according to the suit. (This is presumably a reference to Singer’s Superman Returns, which had its U.K. premiere July 13, 2006.) The boy resisted, the suit continues, but Goddard brought in a “large, musclebound man” who smacked the teenager around, holding him while Singer grabbed him and Goddard, naked on the bed, watched. Singer then allegedly attempted to rape the plaintiff. The complaint, although a civil matter, states or suggests that Singer and Goddard violated federal and state criminal law.
Marty singer is Bryan Singer’s lawyer—no relation though. Team Singer is doing its best to resuscitate the image of the X-MEN director and deny all allegations..
But now, as the movie release date comes closer, it will be interesting to see how they affect the film’s entrance onto the box office scene.. will people see it without concern, or will others be completely offput by the thoughts of SUPERMAN sex and rough looking muscle bound goons slapping a young teenage boy who did not want to have sex with a Hollywood hit?
Sordid tales of Hollywood are not new..
But these allegations—and an upcoming documentary being made by the same person who exposed the Catholic church--promises more explosive fireworks.
With the never ending drip of allegations against Singer and others in Hollywood, it will be interesting to see what other storms brew..
New Sex Abuse Lawsuit Targets Bryan Singer, Gary Goddard
Pipe Explosion at Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant Site
The rest of the world is not paying attention to the ongoing disaster at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state.. I have been, and a brief search in the archives of this site, and you’ll find some mentions.
This link being reported today is actually days old—not to my credit at all, but I completely missed it this weekend.
Apparently a pipe explosion occurred at the plant weeks ago—something the public was never told about. NBC RIGHT NOW reported this from Washington state:
The Hanford union representative says it happened when workers were cutting some pipe as part of the demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant.
The union representative wants to remain anonymous and says workers are concerned management isn’t putting worker safety first."Having a pipe explode at probably the most contaminated facility in the United States. This is one of the most hazardous buildings in the U.S." said the Union representative.
It has gotten to the point now where management called the pipe issue a ‘small pop’ while workers describe it as a shutgun blast.
A blast not heard around the world..
Pipe Explosion at Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant Site
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This is video from Toronto.. a good dashboard camera saw a meteor in the daytime sky. It’s brief but is brilliantly white..
This beautiful image of downtown Toronto with a meteor in the sky is peaceful and serene—and the opposite of what would have happened if HL129 would have struck the planet.
HL129 is an asteroid the size of a bus—it came very close to the planet Saturday morning. While we did not really hear much about it—despite the fact is was closer to the earth than the moon—the planet was obviously in some sort of danger and thankfully it did not hit..
Not that we would have known anyway.
The asteroid was actually discovered on April 28. OF 2014—days before it actually would have made itself known to the planet earth.
Lucky so far..
So far.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Fracking-Linked Earthquakes May Strike Far from Wells
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Fracking may cause earthquakes much farther from the sites of its wastewater wells than previously thought, researchers said here Friday (May 2) at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America. In central Oklahoma, a cluster of four high-volume wastewater injection wells triggered quakes up to 30 miles (about 50 kilometers) away, said lead study author Katie Keranen, a geophysicist at Cornell University in New York. The earthquakes have since spread farther outward, as fluids migrate farther from the massive injection wells, she said. “The pressure is high enough from the injected fluids to trigger earthquakes.”
The money quote:
Because of the recent jump in earthquakes, and their significant size, the USGS plans to estimate the national shaking risk from “induced seismicity” for the first time, Rubinstein said. Induced seismicity refers to any man-made earthquake, including fracking, wastewater injection and geothermal plants
It’s good to see we are finally at a point where people in scientific power are admitting what ‘conspiracy theorists’ have known for years now: Fracking causes earthquakes. Pure and simple.
We need to grips with that premise. Fracking. Earthquakes.
And then evaluate what we are doing.
Is it worth extracting what we are to induce ‘seismicity’?
The quakes are small now. But that’s not. Who in the gas industry ever predicted years back that fracking would lead to mini quakes? And for all those ‘small quakes,’ look at Oklahoma: A 5.7 hit in 2011 and their current levels of activity in that state are higher than even the shaky west Coast California faults. Human actions are having a direct result on the planet..
And is it worth it?
Fracking-Linked Earthquakes May Strike Far from Wells
Sunday, May 4, 2014
DAILY BEAST Exclusive: ‘X-Men’ Director Bryan Singer Faces New Teen Sex Assault Lawsuit
The details are graphic..
The story is unsettling.
I think we’ve only just begun to hear the horrors of the Hollywood elite and underground.. Lifestyles of the morally deficient and infamous..
As X-MEN gets ready for its debut..
DAILY BEAST Exclusive: ‘X-Men’ Director Bryan Singer Faces New Teen Sex Assault Lawsuit
What haven't we been told about the cargo on MH370?
The aircraft was carrying 4.566 tonnes of mangosteens - an exotic fruit - and 200kg of batteries which were part of the mystery consignment weighing nearly 2.5 tonnes.
What haven't we been told about the cargo on MH370?
You don't always know what you're saying
People’s conscious awareness of their speech often comes after they’ve spoken, not before.
Good read from the journal NATURE..
People can actually be tricked into thinking they said something that they did not, and it’s only when they are faced with their actual words that they realize how much their mind can be deceptive ..
Your mind indeed can play tricks on you.
There is also one other thing—something not mentioned in this study. But did you ever notice how you think you sound different than you actually do, and then you hear your voice on some sort of audio and wince at your own sound? So not only do we not know what we are saying but we also think we sound a lot different than we do.. and when we realize our vocal chords don’t give us the Barry White style by instead the Richard Simmons effect, we hang our heads in shame.
You don't always know what you're saying
Florida Airline Pilot Spots UFO at Springsteen Concert
A Florida airline pilot who was outside with family in Sunrise exiting a Bruce Springsteen concert reported watching a “large, pulsating, bright white light” that changed shape and color
Others in the crowd, he said, were also looking at it.. Groups of fans were fixated on the sky, according to his account ,..
The part of this UFO story making headlines is that it was after a Springsteen concert.
Even aliens may be fans.
Dancing in the dark…
Florida Airline Pilot Spots UFO at Springsteen Concert
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Blast from a comedic past.. I still fondly recall watching this segment the first time it appeared on David Letterman’s show in 1996..
Watching this skit again reminded me that I need to transfer all of my 50+ video tapes of old David Letterman shows to DVD before they dry rot..
How fast time goes.
I was 16 when I saw this for the first time.. So many years later, Letterman leaving CBS .. and I am feeling old.
But it’s still as funny to me as the first time..
Hundreds of birds flew into a woman’s home
“I think the most horrifying was how they got in and the mess that they were making while they were here because birds are scared and they are pooping.”
But this new bird story seems to be just a little more intense..
Hundreds of birds flew into a woman’s home
Yes, Those were 'Black Ops' helicopters over Florence
Maybe the next time you want to laugh at someone who says creepy black ops helicopters are flying above their town, take heed. And read about the town of Florence Kentucky, where officials admitted helicopters zooming through were indeed ‘black ops’ …
Yes, Those were 'Black Ops' helicopters over Florence
For people who love goodness —and dogs— here is a little story about a dying boy and his special bond with a dog named Juno.
Boy, 8, Killed Defending Sister From Rapist: Cops - NBC News
This headline gives us a glimpse into how heartless and disturbing the heart of man can be—but how amazing and innocent children are..
To set the scene: A man approached this 8-year-old boy and his 12-year-old sister.. He began to brutally rape the girl. The boy attempted to defend his sister. And for that he was brutally beaten until he was lifeless—an innocent and heroic young man’s light was extinguished by a disgusting coward hell bent on stealing the goodness of a child..
From NBC NEWS:
Police hunted for the suspect Thursday night. Initially, he was described as a white male with scraggly facial hair. But Dionne Waugh, a spokeswoman for the Richmond police, told NBC News the description was false because the victim was told her family would be harmed if she gave a true description.
With the help of outraged neighbors, police identified a male teenage suspect. He was being medically evaluated Friday with a warrant for his arrest pending.
"The community’s response has been tremendous," Waugh told NBC News. "They played a very important role in gathering information to lead us to this point."
Waugh called the assault and killing grisly and heartbreaking — “probably one of the most tragic cases” she’s ever encountered.
"Every loss of life here is tragic, [but] whenever it’s a case involving juveniles, it’s especially hard for everyone involved, from our detectives to our fire and ambulance personnel, who are often first on scene," she said. "So it’s been a challenge, I think, for a lot of people here."
Some of my readers and friends tell me that I overwhelm them with bad news.. So often that bad news is about children.. Maybe that’s the case. But I get emotional about crimes against children .. I get truly grief stricken often when reading these types of headlines. And they are very real.
For those who would tell me to ignore them.. for those who say to stop reporting on them or talking about them: No.
Because letting your guard down involves ignoring the demons and black hearted heals that walk the crust of this planet.
The man who did this to this girl and boy, even if he repents, would deserve nothing but hatred .. I find his actions beyond loathsome.
And now a family is going to have to come to grips with this crime—no doubt the horror of it will forever live with them ..
An update: POLICE ARE CHARGING A TEEN IN THE DEATH OF THE INNOCENT YOUNG 8-YEAR-OLD..
Boy, 8, Killed Defending Sister From Rapist: Cops - NBC News
With weird disasters and weather calamities making headlines around the world, it should be notable that past events were often even weirder—one such event occurred in 1919.
The ‘Great Molasses Disaster’ in Boston killed 21 people and injured 150.. It was exactly what it sounds like: A molasses flood.
A large molasses storage tank in the city burst on January 15, 1919.. The wave ran through streets at 35 miles per hour..
The aftermath was sticky ..
Men, women, and horses all perished in this bizarre accident.
The cleanup took two weeks.. 300 people.. and 87,000 man hours.
For years after, historical accounts say, hot summer days also featured the smell of molasses..
The youngest death was a ten-year-old and the oldest was 76.. The people ranged from teamsters to the unemployed to homemakers..
More proof that real news is stranger than fiction—and that events of yesteryear are often weirder than those of today.
Over 2,100 dead in Afghan landslide
This is tragic.. The death toll from this landslide is still climbing higher.. I last knew it to be over 300 .. today it steamed upwards in dramatic numbers to 2,100 *as of now* ..
But the other number that is noteworthy besides the rising death toll: Over 4,000 are now homeless.
This story is the second ‘landslide’ story making headlines this week. In the city of Baltimore, a landslide took out an entire street along with very expensive cars. But in the scheme of things, that seems to be child’s play compared to 2000+ people perishing from the natural disaster..
Numbers set to increase .. an obvious story still developing.
Over 2,100 dead in Afghan landslide
Paul Simon dialed 911 during fight--a call that led to the arrest last week of him and his wife, singer Edie Brickell, on disorderly conduct charges
This is a pretty sad story in all ways, don’t you think?
Paul Simon dialed 911 during fight--a call that led to the arrest last week of him and his wife, singer Edie Brickell, on disorderly conduct charges
A story of local note
Here in Schuylkill County, where the trees even look sad lately, there is an aura of depression.. an aura of sadness, perhaps the raping of the land by coal barons has finally hit, now that the generations are changing ..
The Schuylkill Mall in Frackville, PA, is a symbol of this.. It stands nearly vacant, a few stores peppered about and maybe a handful of people shopping. A new movie theater with an awesome bar has livened things up. And just when you thought there was hope that the giant mall could survive to die another day, this news comes: A SUBWAY is coming to the mall.
How I loathe Subway and its processed meat.. how I despise that smell of the restaurant, which somehow can stick on your clothing for days.. How i disdain their bread—though they removed the rubber, I suppose.
Subway?
Seriously? This is the best that a dying mall can do?
My idea for this mall—and any other mall across this nation where shopping is going down hill in favor of online retail: Let the people have their malls back.
Rent is too damn high—yes a candidate for office in New York said that, but when it comes to malls, he was right. The rent in malls in too high.. it’s impossible to sustain your dream of having your own business when you get little traffic in a dying mall but still pay through the roof to have it.
So why not this: Lower rent for a year—maybe even do rent-free for six months. Advertise to ANY PERSON IN THE AREA who has a dream about owning their own store and their own business. How about getting a farmer’s market of fresh food once a week? A grand experiment to buy local—imagine the idea of NO BIG CHAIN STORES, and no big chain restaurants ?? Instead fresh and locally made, locally sold, and locally grown.. It would be amazing and cool.
And perhaps reinvigorate malls.. Not only in Frackville PA but everywhere else a dying mall threatens to blight the landscape with a giant vacant shell..
What made Bubba bubble?
Bill Clinton was on Jimmy Kimmel in April. By now, unless you have been living with the grays in a underground alien base, you know that the former President opined about aliens. Kimmel asked specific questions, and Clinton answered that life may be out there..
But what else, besides the chipper back and forth, exists..? What other secrets lurk in Clinton’s brain—those not of the sexual nature, but of the other worldly?
Hansen said that Clinton became defensive, locked his jaw, and looked away from Kimmel during his answer.. Hansen claims these are signs of evasiveness.. Signs that perhaps there is more than meets the eye?
But remember this: Kimmel’s program would have supplied Clinton’s team with the questions prior to the appearance. Bill knew that Roswell was going to be discussed.. So be caught off guard by a truly scripted question is no excuse. Perhaps the limelight of talking about such issues to a giant audience made him apprehensive? Though he lied before to America, this time around the issue wasn’t whether oral sex was infidelity, but something that actually mattered: Is there life, and does the government know anymore about it than they say.
Does Bill Clinton know more..?
Lest we forget, the aliens did back Bill in the 90s..
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