I have always struggled to know why I, along with many others, watch footage of 911 every year ... also several times throughout the year. It seems ghoulish, it seems like we just relive a snuff film in real time every moment. For me, there is a sense of guilt that comes with it because of how it can also induce nostalgia. 

For me, I become nostalgic for the year I turned 21, the moment when my youth seemed the most buoyant and yet obnoxious.. and a time when things seemed much more simple.

Ever since the events of that day occurred headlines about it have been taken over by Xenaphobia, warmongers, and conspiracy theories of all nature.  If you were listening to the talking heads and pundits, then you most likely have been told the exact reason why 9/11 occurred.  Some will give you the backstory on the government officials that they believe were actually behind it. 

Others will tell you about how we should have bombed Middle Eastern countries to smithereens because of their support of the terrorists.  A few may point out how inept American leadership was in the summer leading up to the event. Remember that memo given to Bush during his August vacation ??  

We do this all the time, we relive the nasty events and try to shad them in a civilized way.  People strive to bring some common sense and normalcy of thought progression as to why things occurred.

But I don't believe that is why we watch footage of 9/11, and not why we relive the same 102 minutes time after time.

I actually think the reason is quite simple.

For the raw emotion.

The true and visceral raw emotion that it brings, it seems real. We can relive those days when commercials along with TV coverage of the mundane and trivial was all we cared about. September 11 was the end of the Seinfeld era, the conclusion of the decade about nothing. Stock markets were strong, mortgage loans being given out like candy.. the conclusion came, though, and the piper was paid.

I can recall the footage of the today show one Bryant Gumbel was cautiously curious as to why some would say the second plane flying into a building was a purposeful act.  Because we were naïve, because we were innocent. A generation that grew up lost in space forgot the space that they were in. The dotcom bubble was first, then everything burst at 9 AM on September  11th..

 

When I watch coverage from those moments, when I view the footage again, and when I relive my own emotions and memories from that day, I don't do it in any joy of those who perished.

When viewing those television moments prior to the breaking news, I actually feel in some strange way like 911 will not happen. When I watch the footage of the 'Everybody loves Raymond' interview on CBS before the first plane hit, or the fact that Nokia stock was up 5% and Motorola was closing on CNN, I feel like the next moments actually will not occur. 

An impossibility..

Because we all know what occurs next, we all know the planes crash and that the Pentagon is it in that building is fall down, that President Bush is flown around the nation and Dick Cheney is in a bunker in no mans land. We all know that the speaker of the house is rushed out of DC and that news coverage comes to grips with the fact that their world, along with ours, has been changed forever with them only mere seconds.

But we still watch, and I don't believe we watch because it's fun. I believe we watch because even to this day we have not come to grips with this moment and we have not been able to actually make sense of what we saw.

We've gone to war, we debated who is behind the events, we have become divided as a nation and almost 20 years later a much more racist and bigoted world. None of it had to happen, but it did. And we watch the coverage of this day to feel that true and raw emotion because somehow perhaps we get united in our sadness in our anger. Even if it's only for 102 minutes and it goes away once the replay on YouTube has ended. 

Dwayne Johnson Sounds Pretty Serious About Running for President »

There are times I think I should be on the TEE VEE..




I told several friends about a year ago that Donald Trump would be president. And them after he won in November, I told people that it paved the way for fame in the White House.. that OPRAH would be next.. but the wild card woulds be the ROCK from WWE fame.

Since that time, there have been countless experts and pundits who said that the Dwayne Johnson could be the next president.

He was on Jimmy Fallon’s show.. and did not disagree..

Yes indeed… Watch for me any time on a political tube near you.

Get Out producer Jason Blum is teaming up with acclaimed writer-director Dee Rees for a horror film about black lesbians in rural America.


In an interview with the new york times, Blum revealed that the pair will be working together on the as-yet-untitled movie based on Rees’s own experiences. 

Blum met Rees, who scored a major success at this year’s Sundance film festival with Mudbound, at an event in March, and she pitched him an idea about a small-town scary movie based in one location.

“You’ve got me and my wife, two black lesbians, and when we first moved in, we fought every day over all these little things: ‘Why is this over there? Did you move that?’” she said to him. “Maybe it was a ghost. Or maybe it was some other force – like us not wanting to be there or fitting in.”




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HERE IS HIS LIST OF ‘DEMANDS’ AS REPORTED BY *potentially* RELIABLE SOURCES

1. A convoy of 10 luxury sedans and two Volvo buses at his entourage’s disposal.

2. A Rolls-Royce for personal commuting.

3. A shipment of a ping-pong table, PlayStation and a hover-board for his backstage recreation.

4. A couch, a washing machine, a refrigerator, upholstery, wardrobes, and a massage table.

5. A private jet to travel around India.

6. A chopper to fly into the stadium on the day of his performance.

7. Three floors of a luxury hotel exclusively cordoned off as his private villa.

8. A suite stocked with 100 hangers, cans of wild berries, vanilla-room fresheners, and bath supplies.

9. A separate lift reserved for Bieber’s movement in the hotel.

10. A special Jacuzzi for Bieber to de-stress in.

11. A licensed female masseuse flown in from Kerala.

12. Renowned culinary experts to supervise his five-course gourmet meals all renamed after his popular songs.

13. Thirteen green rooms for Bieber and his entourage backstage.

14. Silverware, fresh flowers (barring lilies), scented candles, coconut water, almond milk, raw organic honey, decaffeinated herbal teas, fresh fruit, and vegetable platters in Bieber’s room.

15. Seasoned vegetables, diced fruits, organic bananas, seedless grapes, deli-platters of organic turkey, lettuce, Colby and Provolone cheese, and black olives for Bieber to snack on.

16. Only white drapes in Bieber’s dressing room.

17. A large glass-door refrigerator, clothing shelves, eight power outlets, and 12 white handkerchiefs in the room.

18. Twenty-four still-water bottles, 24 alkaline water bottles, energy drinks, vitamin water bottles, cream sodas, assorted juices, fizzy drinks, and protein drinks in his green room.

19. White sliced bread, white cheddar popcorn, assorted chocolates, vinegar chips, organic dried fruit, and all-berries cereal for the entourage backstage.

20. Bubblegum in a variety of flavours for the entourage to chew on.

21. A “yoga casket” containing aromatic essential oils, camphor incense sticks, and literature on chakras and yoga asanas.

22. And a list of spray tan salons, sushi restaurants, steakhouses, shopping malls, bowling alleys, movie theatres, casinos, nightclubs, basketball courts, and recording studios for the crew.

....this time.



He has a warning: It will happen again..

This from the UK GUARDIAN:

The researcher, who identified himself only as MalwareTech, is a 22-year-old from south-west England who lives with his parents and works for Kryptos logic, an LA-based threat intelligence company.
“I was out having lunch with a friend and got back about 3pm and saw an influx of news articles about the NHS and various UK organisations being hit,” he told the Guardian. “I had a bit of a look into that and then I found a sample of the malware behind it, and saw that it was connecting out to a specific domain, which was not registered. So I picked it up not knowing what it did at the time.”
The kill switch was hardcoded into the malware in case the creator wanted to stop it spreading. This involved a very long nonsensical domain name that the malware makes a request to – just as if it was looking up any website – and if the request comes back and shows that the domain is live, the kill switch takes effect and the malware stops spreading. The domain cost $10.69 and was immediately registering thousands of connections every second.

 One very interesting piece of information regarding WANNACRY: THE NEW YORK TIMES reports:

The connection to the N.S.A. was particularly chilling. Starting last summer, a group calling itself the “Shadow Brokers” began to post software tools that came from the United States government’s stockpile of hacking weapons. 

The attacks on Friday appeared to be the first time a cyberweapon developed by the N.S.A., funded by American taxpayers and stolen by an adversary had been unleashed by cybercriminals against patients, hospitals, businesses, governments and ordinary citizens.
Something similar occurred with remnants of the “Stuxnet” worm that the United States and Israel used against Iran’s nuclear program nearly seven years ago. Elements of those tools frequently appear in other, less ambitious attacks. 

The United States has never confirmed that the tools posted by the Shadow Brokers belonged to the N.S.A. or other intelligence agencies, but former intelligence officials have said that the tools appeared to come from the N.S.A.’s “Tailored Access Operations” unit, which infiltrates foreign computer networks. (The unit has since been renamed.)

a pathway to heaven photos comforts a grieving family after death.

Hannah Simmons, 23, her baby daughter A’lannah, and friend Lauren Buteau, 28, all of Gainesville, Georgia, were killed in a wreck on April 25 when Simmons lost control of her Subaru Legacy and hit another vehicle.

The crash caused a backup on Ga. Route 347, stranding another driver, Anisa Gannon, on her way to work.
Since she was going to be late, Gannon snapped a photo as proof she’d been stuck in a jam, Gannon’s aunt, Tara Noble, told TODAY.
Later, when Noble took a closer look at the picture, she saw something more than just a photo of emergency crews at work.
The image appeared to show a beam of light ascending from the road to the sky. Within that beam, there seemed to be two small orbs.
“Oh, my gosh. It’s a pathway to heaven,” she recalled saying.

Though logic would attribute the light to a windshield glare or lens flare, Noble said that’s not the point.

We all have the notion potentially to just pooh pooh this story with the light from the windshield theory.. That is logical… But the paranormal is illogical until it happens to you.

In such a horrid moment, if this image brings peace and tranquility to a grieving family, let them have that. And stop just trying to tell them how wrong they are.

Nobody likes a Debbie Downer. Or a Bill Nye

THIS HAPPENED:

A Massive Ransomware 'Explosion' Is Hitting Targets All Over the World

And with that, an idea was born.

My name is Bryan, and I have had countless websites since the age of 18.. maybe you heard of the HORROR REPORT.. if not, that is me. I am currently debating if I kill it or leave it be..

Until that time comes, a new idea came to mind with this ransomware attack that struck the entire globe..

“WanaCrypt0r 2.0 ransomware (the new WCry/WannaCry) is spreading like hell,” the researchers behind the MalwareHunterTeam Twitter account tweeted on Friday morning. WannaCry acts like a typical piece of ransomware, locking down computers and demanding bitcoin in exchange for decrypting the files.
But the speed at which WanaCrypt0r has spread is alarming. In a few hours, the malware had already infected victims in 11 countries, including Russia, Turkey, Germany, Vietnam, and the Philippines, according to MalwareHunterTeam.

A new and amazing world of the net.. where videos make us laugh and cry, but a darker internet pervades.. where old and young alike are duped by fake news .. where now ransomware has over taken the typical 'virus' ...
And yet where truth and light is prevalent and you can find things you sought your entire life. Information at your fingertips..
But the more you  search and the deeper you delve the stranger and creepier it gets...
The net is scary.
The faces behind the screens you meet and greet may be the creepiest of all.

Welcome to your creepy FTP world.