Quote:From hell.

Mr Lusk,
Sor
I send you half the Kidne I took from one woman and prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer.

signed
Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk

Ripper Letters

Quote:Upon realising their mistake, Lieutenants Peterson and Mutch dived into the water in order to save the floundering submariners..

One of the crew of Cymric later wrote:

“The first thing I noticed was the marking ‘HM Submarines’ on the bands of the men’s hats. We had sunk a British submarine by mistaking the ‘J’ for a ‘U’. I can remember a big red headed chap who was badly wounded shouting at us from the boat ‘Come on you stupid ##### these are your own ###### side! Give them a hand’.

We pulled over to the sinking men. One man was holding up his commanding officer. He yelled come and help me save Mr Warburton. Others were drowning. We dived in and rescued all that we could. One we took out of the water was too far gone and died on board…We sent a signal to Blyth that we were making for the port with the survivors of J6 aboard. I will never forget entering the port. As we rounded the pier and worked our way into the basin where the depot ship Titania and the other submarines were moored, we could see the wives and children of the submarine gazing with anxious eyes to see if those dear to them were among the survivors”

T.M. Jones in ‘Watchdogs of the Deep’ claimed that some of the crew of J6 had felt a premonition of disaster prior to the boat’s departure. Jones knew the crew of J6 personally and was present when the survivors were landed at Blyth.

The Inquiry October 16, 1918

The Inquiry conclusion delivered that day was never in doubt:

‘We have this day held careful enquiry into the loss of H.M Submarine J6 on 15th October 1918 and find that –

We attribute blame to:

The Commanding Officer of Cymric in that he was not justified in opening fire before he had established her identity, J6 being in full buoyancy, men on conning tower, mast up, ensign flying, gun unmanned and not acting in any way suspiciously.’

(10-16-2024, 02:58 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: October 15-16, 1987: The UK "Great Storm of 1987" occurred, mainly over southern England, bringing hurricane-force winds, resulting in 22 deaths and extensive structural damage. BBC weather forecaster Michael Fish had failed to indicate a storm of such severity...

Quote:A few months before Pearl Harbor was attacked, LIFE magazine ran a black-and-white photograph of an up-and-coming movie actress named Rita Hayworth. The redheaded beauty was kneeling on a bed made up with satin sheets, her silky nightgown is white, with black lace trimming the low-cut top.

Bob Landry, the photographer, took many photos of Hayworth, but his favorite was an accidental one – his flash was too bright and this is mirrored in the black silhouette reflected at Hayworth’s back. However, Landry thought this added more depth and mysterious allure to the picture and submitted it to the magazine.

Four months after Hayworth’s photo was published, America went to war. And soldiers took the silk-and-lace picture along to remind them of home. Eventually, the picture became one of the most famous and most frequently reproduced American pinup images ever.

By the end of the war, more than 5 million copies of this photo were sold. The US Navy named her, “The Red-Head We Would Most Like to be Ship-Wrecked with”.

World War II was the golden age of pinups. For the first time in history, the US military unofficially sanctioned the creation and distribution of pinup pictures, magazines, and calendars to troops in order to raise morale and remind young men what they were fighting for. These vintage WWII pinup posters adorned servicemen’s lockers, the walls of barracks, and even the sides of planes.

The story behind Rita Hayworth’s iconic pin-up photo, 1941

(10-18-2024, 04:22 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Hurry Bally...




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Quote:History of the BBC

Daily broadcasting by the BBC began in Marconi's London studio, 2LO, in the Strand, on November 14, 1922. John Reith, a 33-year-old Scottish engineer, was appointed General Manager of the BBC at the end of 1922.

November 1922 - 2LO launched

Following the closure of numerous amateur stations, the BBC started its first daily radio service in London – 2LO.

After much argument, news was supplied by an agency, and music drama and 'talks' filled the airwaves for only a few hours a day. It wasn't long before radio could be heard across the nation.

Quote:London Calling... 2LO Calling

Broadcast entertainment really began in the USA in 1920. There, many hundreds of stations were soon in operation, swamping the airwaves. In Britain, the approach was more cautious. Experimental stations were tried at the Marconi site at Chelmsford, Essex, in 1920 and in 1922 at Writtle, a village nearby. The Writtle transmitter had the call sign 2MT.

Another Marconi station was licensed in 1922, based at the company head office, Marconi House in the Strand, London. Its call sign was 2LO. The transmitter was located in an attic room and the aerials were strung between towers on the roof. The building is now the Marconi Wing of Citibank House, and is close to Bush House, home of the BBC’s World Service.

The 2LO transmitter was designed by Henry Round and Charles Franklin of Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company, and brought into use in May 1922. It remained in its original configuration for only a very short time; within weeks it was rebuilt to take advantage of new regulations allowing increased transmitting power.

Quote:    “Supporters of the bill insist there’s no problem, because $30,000 isn’t that much money. They even laughed about it. We know the reality: when nearly half of this country would struggle to afford an emergency $400 expense, the penalties in this bill are deadly serious. What’s worse, they’ll be imposed not by an experienced judge, but instead by a committee of unaccountable bureaucrats.

    The CASE Act creates a new tribunal separate from the federal judiciary (this is part of the constitutional problem) and places it within the Copyright Office. This agency has a sad history of industry capture, and often takes its cues from major content companies as opposed to average Americans. The new tribunals will receive complaints from rightsholders (anyone that has taken a photo, video, or written something) and will issue a “notice” to the party being sued.

    We don’t actually know what this notice will look like. It could be an email, a text message, a phone call with voice mail, or a letter in the mail. Once the notice goes out, the targeted user has to respond within a tight deadline. Fail to respond in time means you’ll automatically lose, and are on the hook for $30,000. That’s why EFF is concerned that this law will easily be abused by copyright trolls. The trolls will cast a wide net, in hopes of catching Internet users unaware. Corporations with lawyers will be able to avoid all this, because they’ll have paid employees in charge of opting out of the CASE Act. But regular Americans with kids, jobs, and other real-life obligations could easily miss those notices, and lose out.”

Quote:The Biden-Harris Iranian Spy Problem Blows Up

Irangate just landed on the White House, shortly before our election – but will voters notice this significant espionage-influence scandal?

It’s happened again. Somebody stole highly classified U.S. intelligence documents and posted them on the open Internet, exposing America’s sensitive spy sources and methods to the world.

If this sounds familiar, it should. In recent years, the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community have been plagued by leakers stealing highly classified intelligence and exposing it to the public – and our enemies. First came Bradley (later Chelsea) Manning, an Army junior intelligence analyst who in 2010 stole more than a half-million classified documents and passed them to WikiLeaks. Worse arrived in 2013 when National Security Agency IT contractor Edward Snowden stole then fled to Russia, via Hong Kong, with over a million classified documents from NSA and a host of DoD and IC agencies. In early 2017, Reality Winner, a former U.S. Air Force enlisted Persian linguist who was working as a contractor at an NSA facility in Georgia, stole a TOP SECRET-plus NSA report on Russian election interference and leaked it to The Intercept, which published it. Most recently, there was Jack Teixeira, the junior analyst assigned to an intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, who chose to purloin classified information, including TOP SECRET reports from DoD and IC agencies, then post them to Discord in early 2023. All these cases raised fundamental questions about DoD and IC security vetting procedures as well as issues regarding the suitability of maladjusted Millennials and Zoomers to hold sensitive national security positions.

What’s happened in recent days is similar, but more politically charged – and potentially much more serious. Last Friday, U.S. classified documents (or what purported to be) appeared on a Telegram channel called Middle East Spectator, which has 170,000 followers and boasts a pro-Iranian take (“independent, but not unbiased,” as it asserts) on the news. Its affiliated X (formerly Twitter) account claims to be based in Iran. The channel stated that it had received the documents that day, from “an anonymous source on Telegram who refused to identify himself,” adding that their authenticity could not be verified. Nevertheless, the documents were explosive in their content.

The first was a classified report titled “Israel: Air Force Continues Preparations for Strike on Iran and Conducts a Second Large-Force Employment Exercise, 15-16 October 2024.” This is current intelligence (released in IC channels on Oct. 16, just two days before it was leaked on Telegram) describing Israeli Air Force exercises in preparation for a major attack on Iran, presumably in retaliation for Tehran’s recent missile barrages aimed at Israel. This report is derived from NSA signals intelligence reporting in mid-October, buttressed by imagery intelligence from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Importantly, it mentions not just covert UAV activity by the Israeli military, but also IAF exercises with two kinds of air-launched ballistic missiles, which rank among the IAF’s most modern and secretive weaponry. This is detailed TOP SECRET intelligence derived from spy satellites and is meant only for U.S. audiences.

Quote:We (the founders of this site) have our origins in Sweden and we have seen what the globalists have done to our country.

We started our Youtube channel in 2015 and before being silenced and demonitized we had a big affect on the debate climate in Sweden. The big chance happened when we released our inspiring video “This will get Trump elected” (if you haven’t seen the video, it’s a must watch…). We do believe we had a small impact in the election across the sea as millions of people viewed this video and many got convinced that this is not a battle between the left and right anymore, it’s a battle between the people and the globalists.

Enriching Diversity is translated to “Berikande Mångfald” in Swedish, which is something we use as a joke after e.g reading about things other cultures has brought to us. We see segregated swim times for men and women, we respond with saying -we have been enriched. Reading about all the murders and rapes etc, -we have been enriched. Culturally enriched. Enriched with diversity… You get the idea.

Quote:    A settlement of relations between the two countries will assist in the revolutionising of the international and British proletariat not less than a successful rising in any of the working districts of England, as the establishment of close contact between the British and Russian proletariat, the exchange of delegations and workers, etc., will make it possible for us to extend and develop the propaganda of ideas of Leninism in England and the Colonies.

Quote:The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.

As our Editorial Board wrote in 1960:

“The Washington Post has not ‘endorsed’ either candidate in the presidential campaign. That is in our tradition and accords with our action in five of the last six elections. The unusual circumstances of the 1952 election led us to make an exception when we endorsed General Eisenhower prior to the nominating conventions and reiterated our endorsement during the campaign. In the light of hindsight we retain the view that the arguments for his nomination and election were compelling. But hindsight also has convinced us that it might have been wiser for an independent newspaper in the Nation's Capital to have avoided formal endorsement.”

The Editorial Board made two other points — ahead of an election that John F. Kennedy won — that will resonate with readers today:

“The election of 1960 is certainly as important as any held in this century. This newspaper is in no sense noncommittal about the challenges that face the country. As our readers will be aware, we have attempted to make clear in editorials our conviction that most of the time one of the two candidates has shown a deeper understanding of the issues and a larger capacity for leadership.”

However, it concluded:

“We nevertheless adhere to our tradition of non-endorsement in this presidential election. We have said and will continue to say, as reasonably and candidly as we know how, what we believe about the emerging issues of the campaign. We have sought to arrive at our opinions as fairly as possible, with the guidance of our own principles of independence but free of commitment to any party or candidate.”

And again in 1972, the Editorial Board posed, and then answered this critical question ahead of an election which President Richard M. Nixon won: “In talking about the choice of a President of the United States, what is a newspaper’s proper role? … Our own answer is that we are, as our masthead proclaims, an independent newspaper, and that with one exception (our support of President Eisenhower in 1952), it has not been our tradition to bestow formal endorsement upon presidential candidates. We can think of no reason to depart from that tradition this year.”

That was strong reasoning, but in 1976 for understandable reasons at the time, we changed this long-standing policy and endorsed Jimmy Carter as president. But we had it right before that, and this is what we are going back to.

We recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility. That is inevitable. We don’t see it that way. We see it as consistent with the values The Post has always stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects. We also see it as a statement in support of our readers’ ability to make up their own minds on this, the most consequential of American decisions — whom to vote for as the next president.

Our job at The Washington Post is to provide through the newsroom nonpartisan news for all Americans, and thought-provoking, reported views from our opinion team to help our readers make up their own minds.

Most of all, our job as the newspaper of the capital city of the most important country in the world is to be independent.

And that is what we are and will be.

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