Rami Malek speaks out about the allegations of sexual abuse against Bryan Singer

 Rami Malek has spoken about the allegations of sexual abuse against Bryan Singer, who directed Malek's Oscar-nominated new film "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Singer was fired from the film, which stars Malek as Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the iconic rock group Queen. In a recent sit-down at the Arlington Theatre for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Malek was hesitant to speak out against the director, but emphasized the importance of valuing victims' stories, Vanity Fair reports.

“I've sat here and talked about how everyone deserves a voice and anyone who wants to talk about what happened with Bryan deserves to have their voice heard," he said. "In my situation with Bryan, it was not pleasant, not at all. And that's about what I can say about it at this point.” He did not elaborate.

“It's awful, it's remarkable that this happens,” Malek said of Singer's alleged crimes. “I can appreciate so much what they've been through and how difficult this must be for them. In the light of the #MeToo era that this somehow seems to exist after that, it's a horrible thing.”

“My heart goes out to anyone who has to live through anything like what I've heard and what is out there,” he continued.

Jordan Peele's new US trailer revealed: A new nightmare

WE first saw the trailer for Jordan Peele's US before the movie GLASS...

The film looks very Peele.. very creative, amazing.. new and fresh..

The trailer is frightening and gives glimpse to a newfound moment in horror with new faces,  new voices, and new storylines...

It reads a bit like a TWILIGHT ZONE premise.. a family is facing itself, facing its own fears, and its own anxieties.. The concept is brilliant, if you ask the HORROR REPORTER, and the trailer is amazing..


The newest trailer is now revealed..

A new nightmare. Welcome to r/monkeypawproductions. from r/MonkeypawProductions

GLASS cuts through competition for third weekend in a row! Victory for #Shyalaman

Maureen Lenker writes this for EW:

Glass is still slicing through its competitors to hold onto the top spot at the box office.
The M. Night Shyamalan thriller tops the box office for the third week running with an estimated $9.5 million in ticket sales at 3,665 theaters in the U.S. and Canada from Friday through Sunday, bringing its North American total to $88.7 million. Globally, it’s brought in an estimated $199 million. STX Films’ The Upside also holds onto its momentum in its fourth weekend, coming in second with $8.6 million across 3,568 theaters, while the only nationwide new release Miss Bala takes the third place slot with an estimated $6.7 million across 2,203 theaters.
The overall weekend take paints a dismal picture amounting to the worst Super Bowl weekend at the movies since 2000. It’s a rare weekend where every film failed to pass the $10 million mark. Inclimate weather across the United States likely contributed to the steep decline in movie-going.

The HORROR REPORT can attest to the fact that GLASS is a divisive and amazingly imaginative and very M NIGHT SHYAMALAN movie.. It's filled with newfound ways to showcase filmography.. it is coupled with dialogue, twist endings, re-twist endings, and fantastic acting from the main characters in the film.. It is also something that will be debated in the UNBREAKABLE fan circles for years to come.



Personally we loved GLASS for what it was, a culmination of 20 years of comic book heroism... As a stand alone movie, it was bad.. when taken into the context of previous films it was a finale worth seeing..

And yes, the main point of the EW article is the low SUPER BOWL box office numbers.. but people are still seeing GLASS.. some of them repeatedly..


FINAL BOX OFFICE TALLY..


1. Glass — $9.5 million2. The Upside — $8.6 million
3. Miss Bala — $6.7 million
4. Aquaman— $4.8 million
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — $4.4 million
6. Green Book — $4.3 million
7. Kid Who Would Be King — $4.2 million
8. A Dog’s Way Home — $3.5 million
9. Escape Room — $2.9 million
10. They Shall Not Grow Old — $2.4 million

The Holocaust paradox

This article needs to be read and imprinted in minds.. the HOLOCAUST was a period of hell for humanity.. but those who survived went on to live very long lives..

Perhaps this was the message from a higher power.. perhaps the intention of that higher power was to give more time to those who survived to tell their story and how it happened.. and could always happen again..


PETER ORSZAG writes in BLOOMBERG

Sunday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, causing me to think about an assertion I heard from an elementary school teacher. She said that even those who survived the Holocaust were so debilitated that the rest of their lives would be short. As with many things I learned in elementary school, the reality is more complicated, and my 10-year-old self would be glad to know that my teacher was probably more wrong than right.

Living through a horrendous event, like confinement in a concentration camp or prisoner-of-war camp, does create health problems serious enough to shorten most people’s lives. But those who survive also seem to have other characteristics — perhaps a stronger immune system and a more optimistic outlook than the general population — that tend to make people live longer. New research suggests that such resilience can often overcome scarring.

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The results show that the camp survivors had higher rates of hypertension, cancer, dementia and obesity than native-born people of the same age and sex. For example, 83 percent of the survivors had hypertension, compared to 67 percent of the control group. Whether the Holocaust experience caused these differences is unclear, but they are consistent with my elementary school teacher’s statement.
The surprising part is that despite being in worse health, the Holocaust survivors lived 7.1 years longer — their average age at death was 85 years, compared to 78 among the control group. Those differences persist even after adjusting for socioeconomic status (Holocaust survivors tend to be poorer than their contemporaries), sex and other factors. Some other research has similarly found longer lives among survivors.

FINALLY..

What’s the conclusion, beyond answering a question that has stuck with me for four decades? First and most importantly, it’s not that a traumatic time is anything but hideous. It’s instead that those surviving such an event may be sturdier than others, and by so much that it more than offsets the additional ailments they wind up with. In other words, survivors can wind up living longer than average, but they would presumably have lived even longer in the absence of their gruesome experiences. Second, the effects of extreme events may be passed on to future generations: Whatever the effect on survivors, the Civil War evidence suggests their children may wind up paying a price.

New motion filed in the Steven Avery case

A motion filed last week accuses the State of Wisconsin of violating Steven Avery’s rights when it turned over bone evidence to Teresa Halbach’s family. 

Steven Avery was convicted in 2007 of murdering Teresa Halbach, though he maintains his innocence. Avery’s trial and conviction were the subject of a popular Netflix series, Making a Murderer. 

According to the motion, in the original trial, the prosecution argued that Teresa Halbach was murdered and mutilated in Avery's garage and burn pit. In his closing argument, the motion says, prosecutor Ken Kratz told the jury that the location of the bones in Avery's burn pit was the “most important” evidence that Avery murdered Halbach

Meteorite hits Cuba!!

A meteorite hit western Cuba on Friday afternoon, according to eyewitness reports. 

The event sounds like it was pretty dramatic: "We're receiving reports that a meteor was seen in the sky across the Florida Keys," NWS Key West tweeted, adding that the space rock "likely exploded over the province of Pinar del Río." 

CNN's Havana correspondent, Patrick Oppmann, described the sound of a "large explosion" in the town of Viñales and posted pictures of the fragments..

And perhaps adding the oddest part to this... February 1 2019 was rumored since 2002 to be the target date for a meteor to hit earth.. back at the early part of this century there were fears it would be planet ending.

Maybe not the meteor that wiped out earth... but sure a fragment that freaked out Cuba..???

The social network social experiment: Facebook paid teenagers to spy on rivals

The Facebook Research program, which began in 2016, has drawn scorn of critics and parents in the wake of Apple's decision to ban the data-monitoring app from all iOS phones. 

Apple said Facebook's research app was a "clear breach" of their agreement with the Cupertino, Calif. company. 

More.. 

The pushback from Apple, which revoked Facebook's Enterprise Certificate, has escalated the war between the tech companies and wreaked havoc at Facebook because all of its internal, employee-only apps cannot be accessed.

"I find this behavior shameful. Taking advantage of people who do not understand the value of the data they generate. Targeting kids of all people! As a parent I am appalled. I am so happy I stopped using Facebook years ago," Claudiu Musat, a research director for data, analytics and AI at Swisscom, said on Twitter.

Man shot after strange Area 51 incident

 

According to a press release issued, at 5:18 pm local time on January 28, an unidentified male sped through a security checkpoint at the entrance to the secret Area 51 government site. Both the Nye County Sheriff’s Office and the NNSS Security Protective Force Officers pursued the man in a high speed chase for eight miles..

According to the NNSS, the man got out of his car and began approaching security officials carrying an unknown “cylindrical object.” The man did not respond to officers’ verbal commands and was shot and pronounced dead.. 

The FBI is also investigating.. 

The press release is vague and mysterious... no word on the identity of the man or what the cylindrical item in question was... 

Natalia Dyer hypes STRANGER THINGS 3 as "bigger and darker"

Natalia Dyer, or NANCY, on STRANGER THINGS 3

“It does feel bigger, just filming it,” she told MTV News while at the Sundance Film Festival.

“I haven’t seen any of it, but it does feel bigger, darker, scarier. It felt like they noticeably bumped it up to a different level this season.




“So I’m excited to see it, too. I don’t know how they do it, [creators] the [Duffer] brothers, but yeah, I’m excited.”

Dyer is ready to premiere on NETLIX in just days..

In Velvet Buzzsaw, Dyer stars alongside Hollywood heavyweights such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Toni Collette, John Malkovich, Rene Russo and Zawe Ashton.

Based loosely in the art world, the story revolves around a mysterious painter, whose pieces appear steadily through the film even while he doesn't, leading many to theorise on where they came from, how they were created and who the mastermind behind the work could be.

THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES IN A LIFETIME DESCEND ON THE UNITED STATES #PolarVortex2019

Snow is ending in the Northeast... And the POLAR VORTEX mean streak is about to plunge like hell into the United States...

The coldest temps, they tell us, in a generation are going to hit.. frostbite within seconds! Warnings not to talk! News that Chicago will be colder than the Antarctic! All of this happening AS WE SPEAK with cold air immersing down from the North..

FROM ACCUWEATHER, which must be accurate: 

The coldest weather in years will put millions of people and animals throughout the midwestern United States at risk for hypothermia and frostbite to occur in minutes during the final days of January.
The deep freeze has commenced across the Upper Midwest with an AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperature of 75 degrees below zero Fahrenheit reported at Grand Forks, North Dakota, on Tuesday morning.
The worst is yet to come for other parts of the Midwest as the polar vortex gets displaced from the Arctic Circle and dives into the region.
In addition to the risks of frostbite and hypothermia, residents will be faced with high heating costs and the potential for frozen and bursting water pipes, dead car batteries and school closures.

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While this is not the first time, it may be the COLDEST TIME yet in a long time.

GLOBAL WARMING!?

Give us some!!

EMPIRE star Jussie Smollett attacked with chemical substance

DEVELOPING STORY...

“Empire” star Jussie Smollett is recovering from an attack that allegedly went down just as he landed in Chicago and included the use of a chemical substance.

The 35-year-old actor had traveled from New York on Monday night, as “Empire” is filmed in Chicago where Smollett has a residence.

THE BLAST REPORTS MORE..

Chicago police now say during a follow-up interview with Smollett, he recalled the suspects shouting about “MAGA Country.”
10:45 AM PT: Police are currently searching for video evidence of the alleged attack.
8:59 AM PT: — Smollett told police the chemical substance thrown in his face was bleach. We’re told officials are currently running tests to verify the chemicals.

News media tonight is labeling this a hate crime..

GLASS NUMBER 1 FOR SECOND WEEK

CONGRATS TO M NIGHT ON A SECOND WEEK AT 1 ..

1. Glass
 $19,049,000 Total: $73,589,135
LW: 1
THTRS: 3,844

2. The Upside
 $12,240,000 Total: $63,144,846
LW: 2
THTRS: 3,377

3. Aquaman
 $7,350,000 Total: $316,554,074
LW: 3
THTRS: 3,134

4. The Kid Who Would Be King*
 $7,250,000 Total: $7,250,000
LW: N
THTRS: 3,521

5. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
 $6,150,000 Total: $169,040,116
LW: 5
THTRS: 2,383

6. Green Book
 $5,413,000 Total: $49,003,486
LW: 14
THTRS: 2,430

7. A Dog's Way Home
 $5,225,000 Total: $30,834,525
LW: 6
THTRS: 3,081

8. Serenity*
 $4,800,000 Total: $4,800,000
LW: N
THTRS: 2,561

9. Escape Room
 $4,275,000 Total: $47,915,074
LW: 7
THTRS: 2,192

10. Dragon Ball Super: Broly
$3,600,000 Total: $28,958,823
LW: 4
THTRS: 1,10

Ted Bundy's eyes grew darker as he talked about his crimes

Ted Bundy's own blood-curdling words is being heard in a new docu-series released by Netflix ...

Something else of particular creepiness: One of the experts tells the camera: "He had really blue eyes and when he really got going his eyes went absolutely black."

The documentary features previously unheard audio of interviews with Bundy when he was on death row in Florida... The "blue" to black eye quote was used in trailers for the show and is featured... It adds an extra layer or paranormal to the already "SPLIT" like personality of Bundy..

The four-episode documentary looks at his killings and has become the newest NETFLIX rage..

He was convicted and confessed to murdering more than 30 women in the 1970s..

A few other weird things about Bundy:

Bundy worked for a suicide hotline in Seattle. His coworkers, including author Ann Rule, remember him as a skilled volunteer who helped ease troubled callers and saved lives..

There have been claims made by Bundy’s family that Bundy might have been fathered by his mother’s abusive father, Samuel Cowell..


It is believed that Ted was exposed to his grandfather’s collection of pornography as a young child, which some believe may have sparked his utter fascination and preoccupation with pornography and violent sex...

There is some evidence suggests that he abducted and killed 8-year-old Ann Marie Burr of Tacoma in 1961 when he was 14, an allegation he denied repeatedly. However, there is a bone chilling story about Ted, while he was staying with one of his aunts. That while she was sleeping, he placed several butcher knives under the covers in the bed next to her. When she woke up and discovered the knives, young Ted could not stop laughing...

Bundy died in the Raiford electric chair at 7:16 a.m. EST on January 24, 1989; he was 42 years old. Hundreds of revelers—including 20 off-duty police officers, by one account—sang, danced and set off fireworks in a pasture across the street from the prison as the execution was carried out, then cheered loudly as the white hearse containing his corpse departed the prison..His body was cremated in Gainesville, and his ashes scattered at an undisclosed location in the Cascade Range of Washington State, in accordance with his will.

During Bundy’s time at college in 1967, he became romantically involved with Stephanie Brooks, but she ended their relationship due to his “lack of ambition” and “immaturity. All of Bundy’s victims are believed to look similar to Stephanie, as they all were white females between the age of 15 to 25..

But going back to the EYES for a second, back in 2013 this snippet is interesting:

In PROJECT CAIN and CAIN’S BLOOD, I got to research serial killers, cloning, military science, post-traumatic stress disorder, the genetics of violence, and crime. Interesting topics. Did I get everything right? Doubtful. Difficult to do when even something as basic as Ted Bundy’s eye color becomes arguable. “Blue” says one report, “Brown” claims another witness. “Green,” Bundy replies himself in the court transcript. “They change color depending on the light,” says a reporter following the case. They change color??!! <yanks hair> The FBI said blue, so I went with that. The FBI was a good-enough source for me. Might someone who knew Bundy have a better/different fact? Maybe. But I had two books to write and couldn’t spend the next four years of my life deciding what Bundy’s eye color was.

NETFLIX struggles to cope with subscribers who think TED BUNDY is hot

TWEETS THAT TWEET FOR THEMSELVES..

I've seen a lot of talk about Ted Bundy’s alleged hotness and would like to gently remind everyone that there are literally THOUSANDS of hot men on the service — almost all of whom are not convicted serial murderers

— Netflix US (@netflix) January 28, 2019

where

— Netflix US (@netflix) January 28, 2019

Last Thursday, on the anniversary of Bundy's death, the streaming giant released director Joe Berlinger's four-part docuseries, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, to a captive and eager audience. Two days later, Berlinger's Bundy biopic starring Zac Efron, titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, premiered to a divided audience at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival...

And since then the program has garnered millions of views on Netflix and conversation threads on the socials.. many people believe what women said then: He is "hot"..

In the 70s women were killed.. in the 2000teens it seems "cool" to call murderers hot again.

Make a red hat for that..

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Margot Robbie’s New ‘Birds of Prey’ Harley Quinn look revealed

SHE'S BACK!

Margot Robbie will return as HARLEY QUINN. . . thanks to social media she is releasing a 'new look'of the famed DC character..

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Now filming in Los Angeles, Birds of Prey is being directed by Cathy Yan and also features Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the Huntress, Ewan McGegor as Black Mask, Jurnee Smolet-Bell as Black Canary and Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya. 

From press releases: The dark-edged crime film from director Cathy Yan is part of the Warner Bros. wave of edgy DC Comics adaptations (along with the upcoming Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix) that are more stand-alone than the intricately connected narratives that have become a foundation of rival Disney’s Marvel Studios approach to superhero cinema.

A few onliners have critiqued that the new Look doesn't fully capture the SUICIDE SQUAD version.. that was messier.. grimier.. Harley Quinn is a new lady! She's ready for action.. and Margot Robbie has perfectly captured the role and essence that is the JOKER's leading lady.

Researchers claim lowering blood pressure could help prevent dementia

A new study offers a glimpse into preventative attention one should give blood pressure..

Drastically lowering blood pressure may help protect memory and thinking skills later in life, researchers reported Monday — the first hopeful sign that it's possible to lower rates of mental decline.

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The large blood pressure study looked at more than 9,000 people over the age of 50 years old found that those who lowered their blood pressure to 120 — the top number, or systolic blood pressure — were 19 percent less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment, the loss of memory and brain processing power that usually precedes Alzheimer’s disease. The results of the study, called Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial, or SPRINT, were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

ISRAELI SCIENTISTS SAY THEY THINK THEY FOUND A CURE FOR CANCER!

“We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” said Dan Aridor, of a new treatment being developed by his company, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), which was founded in 2000 in the ITEK incubator in the Weizmann Science Park. AEBi developed the SoAP platform, which provides functional leads to very difficult targets.

MORE..https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/A-cure-for-cancer-Israeli-scientists-say-they-think-they-found-one-578939

“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market,” Aridor said. “Our solution will be both generic and personal.”
It sounds fantastical, especially considering that an estimated 18.1 million new cancer cases are diagnosed worldwide each year, according to reports by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Further, every sixth death in the world is due to cancer, making it the second leading cause of death (second only to cardiovascular disease).

YouTube will stop recommending "conspiracy" videos..

YouTube claims it will stop recommending conspiracy videos.

Following complaints over the number of unwelcome videos appearing in recommendations, the Google-owned site says it plans to try and banish them.

It says 'borderline' videos that come close to violating community guidelines or those which 'misinform users in a harmful way.' will now be excluded...

MISINFORM.. USERS.. IN A HARMFUL WAY...

Who judges? Who determines?

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'We’ll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways—such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11.'


YouTube says the decision affects less than 1 percent of videos - but this will still impact millions of clips.

'We think this change strikes a balance between maintaining a platform for free speech and living up to our responsibility to users,' YouTube said.

However, it will not ban the videos.

'To be clear, this will only affect recommendations of what videos to watch, not whether a video is available on YouTube.'

Model And Actress Kim Porter Died From Pneumonia

Coroner office officials say former model and actress Kim Porter died last year from pneumonia.

The Los Angeles coroner’s office on Friday released the results of its investigation into Porter’s Nov. 15 death. Investigators determined after an autopsy that her death was from natural causes.

The 47-year-old was also a former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs and the pair had three children together. Combs eulogized Porter at her funeral in her hometown of Columbus, Georgia. Numerous celebrities, including Usher, Mary J. Blige, Lil’ Kim and producer Russell Simmons attended the ceremony, which ended with fireworks.

Kevin Smith responds to Bill Maher's comic book attack

BILL MAHER raged back on Additional to the comment, Smith reminded his followers on Twitter of the moment when he appeared on Maher's show..



Maher attacked Stan Lee and comic book fans, and also hurled insults at Kevin Smith.

Smith on Twitter reacted:

"Yes, @billmaher took a shot at me during his show last night, in the midst of his latest rant about @TheRealStanLee and adults who like comic books." Smith wrote in the Twitter post. "No, I’m not mad at all. Bill may talk tough but he’s a stoner like me and a real pussycat when confronted."

The media permitted Harvey Weinstein's crimes to continue, UNTOUCHABLE claims

Dateline 1997: Following a screening of her film Going All the Way, Rose McGowan, then 23, alleges that Weinstein invited her to a meeting at a restaurant that was then changed to his hotel suite. 

He was her boss, since she’d already filmed a sizeable role in the sci-fi thriller Phantoms, which was to be distributed by the Weinstein-owned Miramax..

He was also one of the most powerful men in Hollywood.. his name inspired fear in the industry..

Once inside, she says that Weinstein eventually forced himself on her, raping her at the edge of his Jacuzzi...

A new film called Untouchable is documenting the role the media played in allowing monstrous behavior to go on..

The DAILY BEAST writes

The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta opens up about his lengthy 2002 profile of Weinstein in the magazine, and how he’d failed to include any abuse allegations in the piece—even though he’d managed to track down Perkins in Guatemala, and heard the sex-abuse rumblings. A.J. Benza, the former Daily News gossip columnist who Weinstein is said to have used to help kill negative stories, features prominently, as does New York magazine’s Rebecca Traister, who recounts a bizarre incident where Weinstein repeatedly called her a “cunt” at a glitzy Manhattan soiree before putting her then-boyfriend Andrew Goldman, also a journalist, into a headlock and punching the top of his head in front of a gaggle of partygoers and paparazzi. 

“I never saw one photo,” Traister says in the film, even though “hundreds” were snapped of Weinstein manhandling the reporter. 

And The New York Times, the very paper that broke the story of Weinstein’s alleged serial abuse, published what amounts to a Miramax press release on the ugly episode, pinning the blame mostly on Traister and Goldman for being pushy interlopers.
“I’m glad I’m the sheriff of this shit-ass fucking town,” Goldman recounts Weinstein saying before he got physical.

Casey Hathaway, 3, Found Alive 2 Days After He Vanished from His Family's Yard in North Carolina

Casey Hathaway, the 3-year-old boy who went missing earlier this week from his grandmother’s yard in North Carolina, has been found alive.

Hathaway was found on Thursday night by a professional search and rescue team in Craven County, Shelley Lynch, a spokesperson for the FBI Charlotte field office, said in a news release.

Breanna Hathaway, who identified herself in a Facebook post as Hathaway’s aunt, also confirmed the discovery of her nephew on the social media site.

But the money quote that perhaps raises the biggest eyebrow of all: 

“Casey is healthy, smiling, and talking. He said he hung out with a bear for two days God sent him a friend to keep him safe,” she wrote. “God is good God. Miracles do happen”

Laurie Strode is finally an action figure

FROM THE OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

NECA is thrilled to announce a two-way action figure debut from the 2018 Halloween movie! The Ultimate Laurie Strode action figure is not only the first ever figure of the character, but the first to feature the authorized likeness of Jamie Lee Curtis.

Laurie stands over 7" tall and has received the Ultimate treatment, with over 25 points of articulation, and tons of attitude and accessories. The figure comes with 2 heads, shotgun, rifle, revolver, knife that fits into a sheath on her hip, and more. Display-friendly deluxe window box packaging with opening flap.

COMICALLY INCORRECT!? Bill Maher lashes out at STAN LEE and comic book fans!

BILL MAHER, fresh off of hiatus, roared back on Friday night to HBO with comments that are insulting comic books fans everywhere!

"Tonight’s editorial is about Stan Lee who, if you missed it, died in November," Maher explained. "And a few days later, I posted a blog that in no way was an attack on Mr. Lee, but took the occasion of his death to express my dismay at people who think comic books are literature and superhero movies are great cinema and who, in general, are stuck in an everlasting childhood. Bragging that you’re all about the Marvel Universe is like boasting your mother still pins your mittens to your sleeves."

"You can, if you want, like the exact same things you liked when you were ten but if you do, you need to grow up," said Maher. "That was the point of my blog. I’m not glad Stan Lee is dead, I’m sad you’re alive. By the way, if someone says you’re being childish and you react by throwing a tantrum, you’re not Iron Man — you’re Irony Man. Let me tell you, people were pissed about this post, I wasn’t even aware I ruffled so many capes until I saw that forty thousand Twitter followers unfollowed me like that [snaps], to which I say ‘Good riddance, go follow Yogi Bear.'"

"Director Kevin Smith accused me of “taking a shot when no shots are f**kin’ necessary,” except again my shot wasn’t at Stan Lee. It was at, you know, grown men who still dress like kids," Maher said as he showed a picture of Smith wearing a branded hockey jersey."

"Can we stop pretending that the writing in comic books is so good?" he continued. "Oh, please. Every superhero movie is the same thing — a person who doesn’t have powers, gets them, has to figure out how they work, and then has to find a glory thing. Justice League, glowy thing. Iron Man, glowy thing. Spider-Man, glory thing. Captain America, glowy thing."

"I’m sorry, but if you’re an adult playing with superhero dolls, I’m sorry — I mean collectible action figures — why not go all the way and drive to work on a Big Wheel?" Maher said while showing pictures of various social media posts. "Grown-ups these days cling so desperately to their childhood that when they do attempt to act their age, they have a special word for it now: adulting."

The HORROR REPORT firmly believes that INTO THE SPIDERVERSE was the best movie of 2018..



But ... Politically Incorrect is meant to gain headlines. And the HORROR REPORT equally doesn't get offended or triggered.. NO matter how Wrong Maher could be..

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?

A few days ago there were various news reports that scientists gained an ability to transmit a sound to someone without devices.. without anyone else hearing it.. It would just appear INSIDE YOUR HEAD..

In a paper published on Friday in the journal Optics Letters, the MIT team describes how it developed two different methods to transmit tones, music, and recorded speech via a laser.

Getting into the details of how this is happening: For one of their methods, the researchers “swept” a laser beam at the speed of sound, changing the length of the sweeps to encode different audible pitches.

This technique allowed them to transmit sound to a person more than 8.2 feet away at a volume of 60 decibels — about the loudness of background music or a conversation in a restaurant — without anyone between the source of the sound and the target hearing it.

For the other method, they encoded an audio message by adjusting a laser beam’s power. They said this technique produced a quieter but clearer result.

This entire news event has brought up some memories of distant paranoia.. Remember those old MKULTRA allegations? People who said that noises or thoughts were beamed directly into their unsuspecting heads?

Here is a YOUTUBE video on this very topic..
Jian Liang Wall Street Insider's Absolute Mind Control Testimony 19Dec 2018

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This is also NOT the first time this ability has become known..

Dateline early 2018: Non-lethal yet still horribly unpleasant weapons are all the rage these days, from puke rays to pink tasers. What's the next step? How about a beam that inserts voices into your head? Yes, you could be minding your own business looting a Best Buy during a riot and all of the sudden there's a voice coming from inside your own brain saying "We're really disappointed with you." Enter the SCHIZO BEAM..

Traveling WAY BACK into the machine to 2007, this little tidbit of conspiracy was published by WIRED:

Now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is jumping on the bandwagon with their new "Sonic Projector" program:  The goal of the Sonic Projector program is to provide Special Forces with a method of surreptitious audio communication at distances over 1 km. Sonic Projector technology is based on the non-linear interaction of sound in air translating an ultrasonic signal into audible sound. The Sonic Projector will be designed to be a man-deployable system, using high power acoustic transducer technology and signal processing algorithms which result in no, or unintelligible, sound everywhere but at the intended target. The Sonic Projector system could be used to conceal communications for special operations forces and hostage rescue missions, and to disrupt enemy activities.

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Last night GROUND ZERO WITH CLYDE LEWIS hosted a great program with this as the topic.. He titled the show "I HEAR THEM".. 

Clyde Lewis intelligently opined, 

Today, however, this presumption might no longer hold. Sophisticated neuroimaging machines and brain-computer interfaces detect the electrical activity of neurons, enabling us to decode and even alter the nervous system signals that accompany mental processes. Whereas these advances have a great potential for research and medicine, they pose a fundamental ethical, legal and social challenge: determining whether or under what conditions it is legitimate to gain access to or interfere with another person’s neural activity. 

This question has special social relevance because many neurotechnologies have moved away from a medical setting and into the commercial domain. Attempts to decode mental information via imaging are also occurring in court cases, sometimes in a scientifically questionable way. 

The danger is in the fact that these newer “stealth” technologies could be used at any time – and the person being targeted would not even know they were being targeted.
This technology could potentially be used against people who object to mandatory vaccination, medical kidnapping, the nationalization of our private health data, the use of toxic chemicals in food, mandatory indoctrination of children in the public education system, mainstream media brainwashing, the collection of information about our religious and political beliefs, the denial of the right to assemble in peaceful protests against the overreaching power of national and state government, to name just a few.
Brain-reading technology can be seen as just another unavoidable trend that erodes a bit more of our personal space in the digital world. But given the sanctity of our mental privacy, we might not be so willing to accept this intrusion. People could, in fact, look at this technology as something that requires the reconceptualization of basic human rights and even the creation of neurospecific rights. 

I am sure that if there is any reason to create an addendum to the fourth amendment it would be to detail neurospecific rights. We would have to add that beyond unlawful search and seizure of your effects we would have to declare that any and all neurosearches or mental controlling for interrogation or for any reason should be declared unconstitutional.

The future is now. Or was it then?
When did we get the ability to beam me up Scotty.. or at least hear SCOTTY being told to beam up? 

REVENGE OF THE 90S!Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World Set Joint Summer Tour

Third Eye Blind and Jimmy Eat World will hit the road together for what the Nineties rock acts have dubbed the Summer Gods Tour.

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“The most scintillating, inspiring collective moments of my life have been outdoors in the summer exploding with music,” Third Eye Blind singer Stephan Jenkins said in a statement. “Those sensations travel from when I was a little kid and rock music was brand new to our last Summer Gods tour, when everything is magically new again. I seek to create that exact blissed-out state of aliveness on tour this summer.”

Ra Ra Riot will serve as the supporting act on the Summer Gods trek, which kicks off June 14th in Los Angeles and circles the U.S. before concluding August 3rd in Irvine, California.

“We couldn’t be more excited to spend our 25th summer as a band touring the country of our birth to play music for our American fan,” Jimmy Eat World said in a statement. “Thanks to Third Eye Blind for inviting us to be a part of this amazing tour. We can’t wait to hang out with our fans as well as making some new friends!”

Tickets for the Summer Gods Tour go on sale February 1st. A portion of each sale is donated to offset the trek’s carbon dioxide footprint.

Third Eye Blind / Jimmy Eat World Tour

June 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
June 15 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
June 18 – Portland, OR @ Theater of The Clouds at Moda Center
June 19 – Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theater
June 21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre
June 22 – Denver, CO @ Levitt Pavilion
June 23 – Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre
June 25 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
June 27 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion
June 28 – Detroit, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre
June 30 – Indianapolis, IN @ Farmer’s Bureau Insurance Lawn
July 2 – Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion
July 3 – Lewiston, NY @ Artpark
July 5 – Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC
July 6 – Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
July 8 – Boston, MA @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
July 9 – Wallingford, CT @ Oakdale Theatre
July 11 – Wantagh, NY @ Jones Beach Theater
July 12 – Scranton, PA @ The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
July 13 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Pavilion
July 14 – Philadelphia, PA @ BB&T Pavilion
July 16 – Columbus, OH @ Express Live! Pavilion
July 17 – Cincinnati, OH @ PNC Pavilion
July 19 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 20 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE Outdoors
July 21 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
July 22 – Atlanta, GA @ State Bank Amphitheatre
July 24 – Nashville, IN @ Ascend Amphitheatre
July 25 – Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP
July 26 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion
July 27 – Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
July 31 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion
August 1 – San Diego, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
August 2 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Pearl Concert Theater
August 3 – Irvine, CA @ FivePoint Amphitheatre

Studio changes and new release dates announced

Ghostbusters has a July 10, 2020, release date, and Morbius — starring Jared Leto and based on Marvel’s vampire antihero — will come out three weeks later July 31. The July 10 date had been earmarked for a Marvel pic, which turns out was Morbius. Both films have their respective opening weekends to themselves for now.

VENOM 3 is likely for October 2, 2020 ..

MORE changes..

Sony moved Greyhound back 14 months in the schedule from March 2019 to May 8, 2020, a date that marks the 75th anniversary of V-E Day — which makes sense for the fact-based movie about a WWII battle led by Commander Ernest Krause, played by Hanks. Meanwhile, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was shifted from this October 18 to November 22, which puts it in the potentially lucrative Thanksgiving Week frame. Hanks plays the iconic Rogers

RONDA ROUSEY TELLS THE WWE THAT IT'S HER LIFE AND HER VAGINA!

Raw Women's champion Ronda Rousey commented Friday on rumors that she may leave WWE following WrestleMania 35 in April to start a family. '

According to ESPN's Ramona Shelburne, Rousey took exception with those who are speculating on her desire to have children: "I honestly don't know why [anyone] feels [they're] an authority to speak on plans for my uterus. It's my vagina, my life, keep the speculations to yourself. Leave me and my reproductive organs alone."


For now, Rousey is still the Raw Women's champion, and she is set to defend the title against Sasha Banks at the Royal Rumble on Sunday.

Rousey is widely expected to retain before going on to face one or both of Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch at WrestleMania.

Sad songs.. sad songs: Music has gotten increasingly sad and angry

This according to a new study..



The US study team looked at lyrics of more than 6,000 songs from Billboard Hot 100 in each year.

Researchers analysed lyrics in best-selling songs from the 1950s to 2016 to find expressions of anger and sadness had increased, while words about joy had dropped.

The analysis showed the expression of anger in popular music lyrics has increased gradually over time.
Study co-author Lior Shamir, of Lawrence Technological University in Michigan, said: 'The change in lyrics sentiments does not necessarily reflect what the musicians and songwriters wanted to express, but is more related to what music consumers wanted to listen to in each year.' Songs released during the mid 1950s were the least angry and the anger expressed in lyrics has increased gradually until peaking in 2015.
The analysis also revealed some variations with songs released between 1982 and 984 being less angry compared to any other period, except for the 1950s.
In the mid 1990s, songs became angrier and the increase in anger was sharper during that time in comparison to previous years.
The expression of sadness, disgust and fear also increased over time, although the increase was milder compared to the increase in the expression of anger.
Disgust increased gradually, but was lower in the early 1980s and higher in the mid and late 1990s.
Popular music lyrics expressed more fear during the mid 1980s and the fear decreased sharply in 1988.

MORE..

Kathleen Napier and Lior Shamir conducted research on the emotions in songs since the 1950s. Napier, a graduate student and Shamir, a professor at Lawrence Technological University, concluded that songs have gotten angrier over the years....

Napier and Shamir’s analysis was accepted for publication in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, an academic journal published by the University of California. It is included in the December 2018 issue at http://jpms.ucpress.edu/content/30/4/161.

DO we consume what we are...? Do we create the reality that we live in?
Fear and loathing is not confined to LA.. it's earthly at this point.

And sadly sine 1988--back when Communism was busy falling and a new tech age was emerging, we seemingly got fearful .. got sad.. got angry?

NIRVANA summed that up for us best in the 90s when Kurt Cobain killed the 80s before he killed himself..



And since then?
9/11... disease...hate.. division.. sowing the seeds for future music that will only get angrier than the music of our age!

The only hope may be A I making songs for us..
.....but will AI be happy?

Perhaps going back to the 1930s and changing the MEGAHERTZ that the Nazis created would be a good place to start.

MICHAEL JACKSON SEX CLAIMS SHOCK SUNDANCE!

FROM AN AP REPORT ON THE MOVIE THAT IS ROCKING NEVERLAND

It's not uncommon for audiences at the Sundance Film Festival to give standing ovations, but the ceremonial act took on a solemn air as two men who accuse Michael Jackson of molesting them as boys walked onstage following the festival's only screening of "Leaving Neverland," a documentary about their stories

Wade Robson, who says Jackson abused him from ages 7 to 14, and James Safechuck came forward as adults with their abuse allegations after Jackson's death in 2009.
The four-hour film, which will air in two parts on Britain's Channel 4 and HBO this spring, is a sprawling account of how their lives intersected with Jackson's at the height of his fame in the 80s and early 90s, and then later as adults when the trauma of what happened in their youth started to emerge in serious ways 

In addition to accounts from Robson and Safechuck themselves, the film also interviews family members including the boys' mothers, wives and Robson's brother and sister. Jackson's voice is heard in the film, through voicemails he left for Robson and an "interview" Safechuck did with Jackson aboard his private plane, and the film also shows some of the many faxes he sent to Robson. 

"We can't change what happened to us. And we can't do anything about Michael," Robson said in a Q&A with the audience. But he said he hopes it makes other survivors feel less isolated and raises awareness for anyone who is responsible for children.

Scientists drill deepest hole ever in Antarctica

Scientists have been planning the project, called BEAMISH (Bed Access, Monitoring and Ice Sheet History), for the past 20 years. On Jan. 8, after 63 hours of continuous drilling using a hot-water drill (a large tool that melts the ice), they broke through the base of the Rutford Ice Stream in West Antarctica.

MORE..

The team reached a depth of 7,060 feet (2,152 meters) and threaded instruments through the hole to record water pressure and ice temperature, and to measure how much the ice has deformed.
By drilling down deep, the team hopes to find out how long ago the Antarctic ice sheet last disappeared and how water and sediments may be nudging the ice toward the sea, according to the project's webpage.

The team drilled a second hole on Jan. 22, and the project is expected to continue until mid-February.

DEVELOPING

Stone Zone blown! Roger Stone arrested in Florida by the FBI

US special counsel's office: Trump ally Roger Stone arrested in Florida..

A breaking news event occurring Friday before sunrise in Florida..

Developing

In an indictment returned in Washington on Thursday, Mr. Stone was also charged with obstructing an official proceeding and trying to persuade a witness to lie to investigators. 

Mr. Stone was arrested in Fort Lauderdale, and will make an initial appearance in federal court there Friday, the special counsel’s office said.

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Afternoon update: Roger Stone is out of jail on bail..

And the government may be soon open.

The weird voices in your head may have been aimed right at you!

Prepare to be creeped out at the potential here ..

In The Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory report using two different laser-based methods to transmit various tones, music and recorded speech at a conversational volume.

"Our system can be used from some distance away to beam information directly to someone's ear," said research team leader Charles M. Wynn. "It is the first system that uses lasers that are fully safe for the eyes and skin to localize an audible signal to a particular person in any setting."

That means the messages can be targeted.. to specific people.. voices in your head may be purposely on their way..

MORE : https://phys.org/news/2019-01-technology-lasers-transmit-audible-messages.html

Bryan Singer hits back after ATLANTIC piece derailed more sexual abuse allegations

A bombshell report unleashed a wave of news coverage on BRYAN Singer again... the new ATLANTIC report detailed more young men who said they were sexually abused by the Hollywood director..

"The last time I posted about this subject, Esquire magazine was preparing to publish an article written by a homophobic journalist who has a bizarre obsession with me dating back to 1997," Singer said in a statement via a representative to news organizations.. "After careful fact-checking and, in consideration of the lack of credible sources, Esquire chose not to publish this piece of vendetta journalism. That didn't stop this writer from selling it to The Atlantic. It's sad that The Atlantic would stoop to this low standard of journalistic integrity."

Developing..

Smile for dementia

Poor oral health is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. What’s not clear is whether gum disease causes the disorder or is merely a result—many patients with dementia can’t take care of their teeth, for example. Now, a privately sponsored study has confirmed that the bacteria that cause gum disease are present in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s, not just in their mouths. The study also finds that in mice, the bacteria trigger brain changes typical of the disease.

More..

The new study, published today in Science Advances, was sponsored by the biotech startup Cortexyme Inc. of South San Francisco, California. Co-founder Stephen Dominy is a psychiatrist who in the 1990s became intrigued by the idea that Alzheimer’s could have an infectious cause.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23 2019 news roundup

Nancy Pelosi tells Trump there will be no state of the union speech until the government has reopened.. Trump said he is coming anyway! A showdown on LIVE TV set.. the epic battle of ratings. . . for the ages..

Modern day reality show playing out..

Guthrie is being slammed by both the left and right over interview with Covington Catholic student MAGA TEEN..

Rumor has it: Guiliani went on TV after drinking..

VACCINATION POLICE ARE COMING NEAR PORTLAND! A quickly escalating measles outbreak around Portland, Oregon, has led health officials in nearby Clark County, Washington, to declare a public health emergency as they warn that people infected with the highly contagious virus since the beginning of the year have visited schools and churches, a dentist's office, an Amazon locker pickup station, a Costco, and an Ikea...

Microsoft builds "Fake news" filter right into its browser..

Massive booms heard in three Kentucky counties.. .. In a Facebook post, Jackson County 911 said "No it's not a 'conspiracy' and no we are not hiding anything."..

Bryan Singer accusers speak out! Faces new allegations of sex with minors..

Singer calls it a 'homophobic smear piece'

Planetary Scientists Continue to Puzzle Over the Mysterious Slope Streaks on Mars. Liquid? Sand? What’s Causing Them?..

A new study on social media suggests that even if you avoid it to protect your privacy your friends have ruined it..

The future is now! Amazon Starts Testing ‘Scout’ Delivery Robots Near Seattle..

NASA wants to knock an asteroid out or orbit by 2022.. The asteroid in question, informally known as Didymoon, is a moon asteroid about 150 meters tall. It's part of a double asteroid system — named after the Greek word for twins, Didymos — in which it orbits another 800-meter asteroid about a kilometer away...

During the Lunar Eclipse, Something Slammed Into the Moon..

Paranormal explained: New science can explain old phenomena..

Family says that Instragram helped killer their daughter..

Late shift, long after it was battled: Jay Leno opens up about David Letterman and Conan O'Brien.. MORE: "We don't hate each other," Leno said of Letterman. "The media makes a big thing about it. I am a huge fan." ..

21st century: Conan O'Brien revealed new format and new look..

Miley gets a new tattoo..

Nicolas Cage to Star in Horror Movie ‘Color Out of Space’

SCIENTISTS have discovered the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is pointing its radio jet emissions directly towards Earth.

When asked about his most "memorable encounter" with Zuckerberg, Dorsey revealed that not only did Zuckerberg once invite him over for an (undercooked) goat dinner, it was a goat the Facebook CEO killed himself... with a knife and some kind of taser...