Quote:Excerpts from McCarthy's Speech to the Ohio County Republican Women's Club -February 9, 1950

I have in my hand 57 cases of individuals who would appear to be either card carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party, but who nevertheless are still helping to shape our foreign policy….

I know that you are saying to yourself, “Well, why doesn’t the Congress do something about it?” Actually, ladies and gentlemen, one of the important reasons for the graft, the corruption, the dishonesty, the disloyalty, the treason in high Government positions—one of the most important reasons why this continues is a lack of moral uprising on the part of the 140,000,000 American people. In the light of history, however, this is not hard to explain.

It is the result of an emotional hang-over and a temporary moral lapse which follows every war. It is the apathy to evil which people who have been subjected to the tremendous evils of war feel. As the people of the world see mass murder, the destruction of defenseless and innocent people, and all of the crime and lack of morals which go with war, they become numb and apathetic. It has always been thus after war.

However, the morals of our people have not been destroyed. They still exist. This cloak of numbness and apathy has only needed a spark to rekindle them. Happily, this spark has finally been supplied.

Quote:Retired Los Alamos Test Director from 1988 to 1998, Ron Cosimi, chose names for tests sponsored by the Lab during that time. “If [the Lab] was planning to run 10 tests in a fiscal year, I would choose 10 names of Texas cities, for example,” Cosimi said, including Abilene, Laredo and Waco, adding that this was his favorite category because he enjoyed creating logos for the Texas city names. “I named about 30 tests and experiments and was responsible for about 100 logos for tests.”

At one time, there was a “Name a nuke” suggestion box in the Albuquerque DNA facility hallway, recalled Byron Ristvet, a retired DoD scientist. The “Name a nuke” suggestion box provided the starting preassigned and alphabetical letters to be used for an upcoming test. “Some of the suggestions were actually used for tests,” Ristvet said.

How nuclear weapons tests were named (PDF)

Quote:Like the FPP, the Kavli Prize is very recent, first being awarded in 2008.


One of its first recipients was Donald Lynden-Bell of Cambridge University, President of the Royal Astronomical Society.

That in itself is a clue, given that Lynden-Bell is partly responsible for much of the current confusion in astronomy.

Although we are told he was given the Kavli Prize for his work on quasars, he has also been promoting dark matter since the 1980’s, and his influence is one of the many reasons dark matter has gained such prominence.

Several decades ago it was decided to push dark matter as one of the premier open problems, using it to gain open-ended funding for a variety of projects.

Although I have shown the answer to the dark matter “mystery” is quite simple, those in control of physics and astronomy aren’t interested in simple solutions – or any solutions.

They don’t want answers, they want big fake questions that require big fake searches, preferably searches costing in the billions – which they can then milk from the treasuries.

That is why the mainstream never seems to make any headway on the dark matter problem (or any other problems), and why Scientific American is telling you this very week on its cover that “Dark matter may be much weirder than physicists thought.”

Weirdness is very convenient when you are selling open-ended searches for manufactured things: it prevents logical questions and rational critique.

Miles Mathis – Big Fake Questions

Quote:China's space plane apparently deployed 6 'mysterious wingmen' in orbit (Dec 18, 2023)

China's reusable space plane just got a little more mysterious.

Just four days after being launched on its third mission, China's Shenlong ("Divine Dragon") robotic space plane seems to have placed six objects into Earth orbit. Amateur spacecraft trackers around the world have been following the objects closely for days and have recorded emissions coming from some of them.

The six mystery objects have been designated OBJECT A, B, C, D, E and F. According to satellite tracker and amateur astronomer Scott Tilley, OBJECT A appears to be emitting signals reminiscent of those emitted by objects that China's space plane has released on previous missions.

"OBJECT A's or nearby emission is reminiscent of earlier Chinese space plane 'wingman' emissions in the sense the signal is modulated with a limited amount of data," Tilley told Space.com via email. "There is speculation that the emission from OBJECT A may be from an object close to it, but this is speculation not based on any evidence I'm aware of." Tilley has referred to the objects as "mysterious wingmen" on X (formerly Twitter).

Quote:His artistic career started in 1956, when he was almost eight, and the Frey family (he has a younger sister, Lauretta, and brother, Franco) went to live in Britain. On the flight a steward handed the puzzled Oliver a Dan Dare badge. He had never heard of the Pilot of the Future but discovered tucked under the cushions of a sofa in the hotel the family stayed in for a week copies of Eagle comic, and the badge and the Dan Dare strip matched up.



When he started school in Wembley, young Oliver discovered that his classmates were comic-mad, especially for Eagle.

There had been no such comics in Switzerland, and he was immediately taken by the quality of the artwork, immersing himself in the deeds of Dan Dare and the dastardly Mekon. He began copying the drawings of Eagle’s artists, and their styles became seminal influences. The sensation of bodies in movement, often in violent action, captured his imagination—a quality that has never left his work.

Did he inherit his talent for drawing? ‘I wouldn’t say my family was particularly artistic,’ he recalls, ‘although my great-grandfather had been a painter of landscapes and portraits who’d made his way in the USA. I only ever saw a couple of his paintings. My family encouraged me to keep drawing, though.’

After a few years, the Frey family returned to Switzerland. An English friend mailed Oliver copies of Eagle, however, and a weekly dose of comic inspiration arrived in the post.

Oliver most admired the work of Eagle artists Hampson (Dan Dare’s creator), Humphries and most particularly Bellamy. ‘Frank Bellamy’s line and colour work was so dramatic and action-packed. He was one of Britain’s best comic-strip artists.’

Oliver sent several drawings to his favourite comics, especially Eagle, but while encouraging, the responses were all in the negative. He was, however, once rewarded with a reply from Look & Learn’s Don Lawrence, the man from whom he would one day take over the Trigan Empire strip.

Still at school, Oliver’s attention was drawn to an advert for an American correspondence course, operating in Europe from Amsterdam, called The Famous Artists. The course comprised 36 lessons, written by a team of professional illustrators and contained in three huge volumes. He has praised the quality of The Famous Artists ever since. Sadly, for today’s aspiring illustrator, it no longer exists in its original form (there is an online version in the US). From its invaluable lessons, the young illustrator learned composition, use of materials, drawing, shading, colouring and the structure and articulation of the human body.



Like all Swiss males aged 18–60, Oliver had to do his stint in the Swiss Army, in the Signals Division, stationed in the high Alps.

But in 1969 he returned to Britain and attend the London Film School to fulfil his early ambition of directing action films.

As a teenager, with his sister and brother, he had made two James Bond-style action-adventures in Super-8 starring himself as both villains and the Swiss super-spy Apple-Apple 7 James Tell, which in spite of budget and equipment were remarkably sophisticated.

Living in London wasn’t cheap so to support himself he sought work as a professional illustrator.

He approached Fleetway and met the editor of the War Picture Library comics, E.J. Bensberg. ‘A true hero of the back room,’ Oliver later recalled of the man who, more than anyone, put him on the path to his future career.

‘I persuaded Bensberg to let me illustrate a story to show him what I could do. I was given a script and told to go away and draw the first five pages. He liked the result and I was commissioned to do the whole book.

The comics were small-format, 64-page, 150-frame, black and white picture-strips based on fictitious tales from World War II. For two months, working in my Battersea bedsit during the evenings, between mouthfuls of Heinz West End Grill heated on the single gas ring, I pencilled and inked, and my first full-length story was accepted.’

So began an association with the War Picture Library which resulted in dozens of covers and illustrated stories before he stopped doing them in the mid-1970s. Thanks to Bensberg keeping him busy, Oliver earned the then astronomical sum of £4,000 a year.

....

The way that Oliver Frey produces his artwork has changed over the years, from chunky acrylics to inks and airbrush, from brushes to Apple Mac.

There was a time when he asserted that he would never abandon traditional methods for computer-generated art, but the illustrations for the Emperors book were all finished on computer. The advent of Photoshop (Adobe gave a beta copy to Newsfield to test in 1990) began the change, and since then he has produced literally hundreds of illustrations on the Mac.

But at last Oliver has again taken to his inks, acrylics and brushes to begin painting in the ‘old-fashioned’ way, as may be seen in the recent spate of retrogaming books published by Fusion Retro.

Quote:At the height of the Korean War, he temporarily left the State Department for the Institute for Advanced Study. He returned to serve as ambassador to Moscow, arriving there in March 1952.

But it was "a disastrous assignment," Mr. Gaddis said. Mr. Kennan was placed under heavy surveillance by Soviet intelligence, which cut him off from contact with Soviet citizens. Frustrated, Mr. Kennan publicly compared living in Stalin's Moscow to his experience as an internee in Nazi Germany. The Soviets declared him persona non grata.

Mr. Kennan had argued for "the inauguration of political warfare" against the Soviet Union in a May 1948 memorandum that was classified top secret for almost 50 years. "The time is now fully ripe for the creation of a covert political warfare operations directorate within the government," he wrote. This seed quickly grew into the covert arm of the Central Intelligence Agency. It began as the Office of Policy Coordination, planning and conducting the agency's biggest and most ambitious schemes, and within four years grew into the agency's operations directorate, with thousands of clandestine officers overseas.

A generation later, testifying before a 1975 Senate select committee, he called the political-warfare initiative "the greatest mistake I ever made."

In February 1997, Mr. Kennan wrote on The New York Times's Op-Ed page that the Clinton administration's decision to back an enlargement of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to bring it to the borders of Russia was a terrible mistake. He wrote that "expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold war era."

"Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking," he wrote. His views, shared by a broad range of policy experts, did not prevail.

Though Mr. Kennan is often grouped among the "Wise Men" who shaped Washington after World War II, he did not share their heritage. "He was not part of the elite East Coast establishment," Mr. Gaddis said. "He was never wealthy. He worked his way through college, and he lost all his money in the Depression. He always felt he was an outsider, never an insider."

From that perch in 1993, Mr. Kennan recommended, characteristically, that the United States needed an unelected, apolitical "council of state" drawn from the country's best brains to advise all branches of government in long-term policies. He proposed the council in a very personal book, "Around the Cragged Hill" (Norton 1993), which revealed his core social conservatism as he reviewed the evolution of America.

He fretted that the population of the United States was growing too fast and that, environmentally, the country was "exhausting and depleting the very sources of its own abundance." He blamed cars and the suburban sprawl they created for the death of not only a magnificent railway network but also the "great urban centers of the 19th century, with all the glories of economic and cultural life that flowed from their very unity and compactness."

"It is not too much to say that the American people have it in their power, given the requisite will and imagination, to set for the rest of the world a unique example of the way a modern, advanced society could be shaped in order to meet successfully the emerging tests of the modern and future age," he wrote in "Around the Cragged Hill."

Later in life, Mr. Kennan turned his attention to support of Russian and Soviet studies in the United States, feeling that scholarship was one of America's most productive links with Moscow. "They are impressed by our work," he remarked in an interview. "It keeps Russian intellectuals from thinking we are all a nation of flagpole-sitters."

In 1974 and 1975, while in Washington as a Woodrow Wilson scholar, he helped to establish the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in the Smithsonian complex. Recalling the ancestor who led him to study Russian, he said, "When my colleagues gave it a name, they had in mind both George Kennans."

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social media and those thousands of spun up wacko Youtube charlatans that all appear to originate out of
the same names, places, orgs, institutions (SRI), alphabet agencies and the spooky Black Lodge of Aviarian
Adepti of Dark Disciples of Diabolical Disinformation, that nothing is really new.

Yes, I believe there is some truth bits/bytes interweaved, but difficult to discern it all due to layers upon layers
of mysticism, folklore, cryptic puzzle pieces and disinfo/misinfo the deeper one goes in the psychic phenomena
distortion matrix some call The Twilight Zone...