Quote:The first part of this two-part documentary series begins by following young men and women on their way to “earning their Wings.” In a rigorous course of instruction, they learn to lift off and land a supersonic aircraft on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean, still considered one of the most difficult and hazardous tasks. Eugene Ely first attempted the death-defying feat in 1911. Ely’s act of landing a fragile bi-plane on a make-shift wooden deck would eventually transform into a weapon of unprecedented power and influence. The episode concludes with World War II and the U.S. victory in the Pacific, when carrier aviation reigned supreme. However, Naval soon would face a threat to its existence — not from an enemy source, but from a competing technology — the nuclear bomb.

The second part of this two-part documentary series begins with the potential demise of naval aviation, as many in the military establishment promote nuclear weapons and pronounce carrier aviation obsolete. Korea, and later Vietnam, offer a startling reminder of the utility of naval aviation, and undermine the post-World War II conviction that the U.S. will fight all of its wars with nuclear weapons. As the Cold War deepens, the installation of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba brings the nation to the brink of nuclear war. Another important function of naval aviation – reconnaissance – rallies world opinion and helps diffuse the crisis. Photographs of the Soviet missiles taken by low-flying naval aviators provide incontrovertible evidence of the Soviet Union’s lying. Following the age of nuclear terror came a new low in Vietnam, where doubts about the military merged with racial animosities to undermine morale among naval aviators. The episode concludes by exploring the technological evolutions like GPS-guided weapons that continue to transform the field. Interviews and vivid archival footage from Afghanistan and Iraq highlight the new moral challenges of asymmetrical warfare today.

Cognitive Warfare: The Forgotten War with Tanguy Struye de Swielande




Good presentation without being overly detailed.

Quote:Tanguy Struye de Swielande is Professor of International Relations at UCLouvain. He specializes in geopolitics, geoeconomics and the foreign and defense policy of the major powers (USA, Russia and China), the Indo-Pacific region, decision-making analysis, foresight cognitive warfare and the impact of new technologies on world order.

The nature of warfare has evolved, with the result that we are sometimes faced with new wars that do not speak their name. Disinformation campaigns have become veritable weapons of mass disruption, undermining the smooth functioning of our democratic societies. They spread and circulate rapidly, are inexpensive and have a high impact. For Professor Giordano, the human brain has thus become the battlefield of the 21st century.

What is cognitive warfare? Is China the master of cognitive warfare? Why are democracies losing? Are resources and the 4th industrial revolution the missing link? From neuroscience to the metaverse: cognitive warfare 2.0?

00:20 Cognitive Warfare and its Implications
03:01 Social networks have shifted from bringing people together to spreading fake news and polarization.
08:15 Cognitive Warfare is the weaponization of public opinion to influence policies and destabilize institutions.
10:54 Cognitive Warfare involves external and internal forces influencing people and political processes.
16:09 Difficulty in determining ground truth
18:23 Our brain's bias influences our stance on conflicts.
22:54 Boundaries homogenize relational environment
25:14 Social media influences people more through emotions and visuals.
29:57 Chinese diplomats using aggressive tactics on social media for influence.
32:24 Cognitive Warfare aims to destabilize democratic societies.
37:09 Tik Tok is causing concentration and critical thinking problems in young people
39:33 Challenges of post-truth era and shift in authoritarian regimes
43:51 Cognitive Warfare involves complex technological investments.
46:03 Semiconductors, renewables, resources, and international norms play crucial roles in cognitive warfare.
50:34 Metaverse competition between US and China
52:50 Need for cognitive resilience to protect the brain

The Secretive CIA Cold War Corona Project | Upscaled Original Footage

Around 4 minutes in is CIA spymaster, holder of many UFO secrets, Richard Bissell. Some fascinating aspects about the program you may have forgotten about or never heard.





The Corona program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force. The CORONA satellites were used for photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union (USSR), China, and other areas beginning in June 1959 and ending in May 1972.

Now this is entertaining. They are starting to realize they GOT what they voted for. I wonder how many will follow through with ditching the DNC.



Chicago Immigrants Just Got ANOTHER Victory Over African Americans

Thread is for us to post our sightings.  aerial phenomena, out of place animals, unnatural events, anything puzzling worth sharing.

I have one.  years ago was on my front deck on a Labor Day evening.  I saw stars being blacked out.  the blackout moved across the sky.  I saw small lights front and back and I think middle.  I concluded it was an airship, too high to see the actual ship but low enough to block stars.  still not %100 sure!

if any of you have seen something, please share.

No, not those black holes... Censored Images From America’s Great Depression.

US Farm Security Administration's (FSA) ambitious project to document the lives of farming families & relocation of families during the 1930s across the USA.

Roy Emerson Stryker of the Farm Security Administration commissioned a small army of photojournalists to travel America portraying the poor, their shattered homes, and a bereft American landscape. The unforgettable results include Walker Evans’s famous portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs and Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother.

This small but outstanding exhibition reveals the brutal cropping of history behind those iconic images. Only a minority of photographs satisfied the FSA. Stryker did not simply put the rejects in a filing cabinet. He and his staff punched holes in the negatives so they could not be printed without the defacing presence of a big black hole. They literally "killed" the unwanted pictures.

But they’re neither objects nor stains, rather punch holes made by Roy Stryker, director of the FSA’s documentary photograph program, and his team of editors. The holes marked pictures as unfit for purpose. But what was the purpose of the Government program if not to show it all?

The holes have become additions, extra points of interest.

Why were these images killed? What is it about each image we see here that caused the editors to act as censors? Looking at the holes in the sky, we might put on our tinfoil hats and look for conspiracy, supposing the images have been redacted to remove traces of flying objects. What is the man picking up from the grass? Why is another man’s face obliterated? Who is the missing face in the crowd?

At the final count, around 100,000 images by photographers like Gordon Parks, Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott had been ‘killed’.



In 1939, Stryker finally put aside his practice of punching holes in negatives, allowing the "bad" shots to live on unscathed.



New York photographer Bill McDowell published a book of a selection of FSA negatives, along with his recreation of the photo without the black spot. The 2016 book called "Ground: A Reprise of Photographs from the Farm Security Administration".

McDowell's site explains the black spots: "The FSA photography division was run by Roy Stryker, who routinely defaced FSA negatives with a hole punch to prevent them from being printed, much to the consternation of the photographers." McDowell wants to make the original vision of photographers whole again. "Each photograph in 'Ground' is the result of three separate acts of picture-making: the original photographer's deliberate compositional and contextual choices, Stryker's hole punch, and my re-contextualization," he said.

Today we can see them all (most of them) at the National Archives. But back then the desire to show the places and faces of America in the mire was controlled to fit a message.

Here's a few photos of what the censors didn’t want you to see: the black hole photographs. These pictures each contain an inky black disc of nothing. A black sun hangs with pendant menace and mystery.

Quote:Another FSA staffer, Ben Shahn, referred to Stryker’s style as “a little bit dictatorial”:

He ruined quite a number of my pictures. . . . Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time. . . . Later on, during the war . . . I went to look for [a] negative and he[‘d] punched a hole through it. Well, I shot my mouth off about that. But, I didn't know what was done with a lot of my negatives, naturally. He learned, then, not to do that, you see, because this was an invaluable document of what life was like in 1935 and when I was looking for it in 1943 or '44 it didn't exist anymore.

The Kept and the Killed Essay by Erica X Eisen for The Public Domain Review.

I recently heard that William Shatner's version of Captain Kirk has quietly been "canceled".

Some more Plague doom porn. The Fungus is going to eat us.



Chef, 29, dies after catching a FUNGAL infection that 'ate huge holes in his lungs' - as killer infection spreads across America

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...lungs.html

Quote:A chef in Michigan has died from a fungal infection that ravaged his body for months - amid signs the strain is growing across the US.


Ian Pritchard, 29, from Petoskey, was taken off life support over the weekend at his own request after weeks of suffering and pain, according to his family who said the fungus 'ate holes in his lungs'.

He was originally hospitalized around Thanksgiving with flu-like symptoms and transferred to a Detroit hospital for more intensive care where he was diagnosed with blastomycosis.

His condition quickly deteriorated as the spores moved deep into his lungs infecting the tissue there, making them look like ‘Swiss cheese’, according to his father Ron.

The fungal infection was brought on by exposure to the blastomyces fungus that lurks in soil, wet leaves, and rotting wood across much of the Midwest.

Health officials have not found the source of Ian's infection but his social media is flooded with images of himself spending time outdoors shooting with friends and running around with his black Labrador Retriever.

Infections in that region have been ticking up recent years, though the true toll of the fungus in the US is not known because the vast majority of states are not required to report them to the government.

Ian was a chef at a Harbor Springs Tex-Mex restaurant called Rodrigo’s before he died.

His father Ron said: ‘He was a good kid. He didn’t get in very much trouble, he was no trouble to raise.

‘People love his food, people love him.’

Ian was in the hospital for months before succumbing to the infection on Saturday.

The week before Thanksgiving, he was admitted to hospital.

While It’s not clear what his symptoms were early on, but the early stages of blastomycosis infection typically resemble a flu-like illness.

Symptoms early on include cough, fever, chills, muscle aches, joint pain, and chest pain.

Mr Pritchard’s condition deteriorated quickly, and he was transferred to the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. It was there that doctors pinpointed the cause of his infection to be exposure to blastomyces.

In all, Ian was in the Detroit hospital for over five weeks.

His father Ron said: ‘They showed us a picture of his lungs, and they literally looked like Swiss cheese.’

The infection occurs when a person inhales spores of the blastomyces fungus, typically found in wet leaves, soil, and rotting wood. Infection from breathing in the spores is rare and only about half of those exposed will experience symptoms.

The infection begins in the lungs, where the spores lodge themselves into lung tissue.

The immune system launches an assault against the infection, sending an army of white blood cells to the lungs. This leads to inflammation in the lung tissue, though, causing lasting damage.

Blastomycosis can spread in the bloodstream to different parts of the body, including the bones, brain, and other organs. It kills between four and 22 percent of its victims.

Antifungal treatments are available, including Itraconazole and Amphotericin B. But the infection evaded anti-fungal medicine, which meant that Ian would not be able to get a much-needed lung transplant.

Ron Pritchard’s coworkers set up a GoFundMe page to help the family defray travel costs to stay with their son in the hospital and the medical bills piling up. Ian’s antifungal medicines alone cost about $7,000 for a month’s supply.

According to an update on the GoFundMe page, Ian was responsive in his final days, and it was his decision to let go, asking his family to pull the plug.

The Pritchards have now lost two children. The first was Ian’s older brother, who was stillborn at eight months. Both boys were survived by their sister Megan, who was by Ian’s side when he passed away.

Exposure to blastomyces is relatively common in the upper Midwest and areas surrounding the Great Lakes.

Quote:UK’s “Online Safety Act” OFFICIALLY grants MSM permission to publish lies

Welcome to the UK where it’s now official government policy that you CAN’T publish “misinformation”, but The Guardian, the BBC, Disney and Netflix CAN.

Yes, it’s true – the recently signed “Online Safety Act” brands the publication of “false information” a criminal offense punishable by up to a year in prison…

…unless you’re an MSM outlet, when it’s totally fine.

Think even the corrupt & bloated criminal class that rules over us would never dare be that blatant?
Take a look at section 179 making it illegal to publish false information with intent to cause harm:



…and then look at section 180, which exempts all MSM outlets from this new law :



…and that’s without even getting into OfCom’s “select committee”, or how they choose to define “misinformation” (s. 152)

Welcome to the modern definition of “freedom of speech”, where the MSM are directly and explicitly permitted to “knowingly publish false information with intent to cause non-trivial harm”, and you can be sent to jail for a year for calling out their lies.

Oh, and it looks like our friends across the pond might not be far behind. The Big Tech Senate hearings started yesterday, and social media executives are already throwing their support behind the new “Kids Online Safety Act”.

With the EU’s own Digital Services Act coming into force later this month, and all the focus on “misinformation and disinformation” at Davos two weeks ago, we can see the real crackdown on internet free speech is about to kick into gear.

Good times.

The double standard shown again.

Anyone surprised??

Special Counsel Robert Hur collected evidence Biden 'willfully retained and disclosed classified materials'


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/no-char...robert-hur

Quote:But Hur said his investigation "uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen."


The materials included "marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods."

Hur said FBI agents recovered the materials from "the garages, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden’s Wilimington, Delaware home."


But Hur said that the evidence "does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." :

"Prosecution of Mr. Biden is also unwarranted based on our consideration of the aggravating and mitigating factors set forth in the Department of Justice’s Principles of Federal Prosecution," the report states. "For these reasons, we decline prosecution of Mr. Biden."

Quote:The special counsel also described Biden as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." 

"We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," Hur wrote in the report. "Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone from whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties—of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness."