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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-04-2026

March 3, 1923: TIME publishes its first issue. It lacked the distinctive red border for which the magazine has come to be known. The cover subject was the now-obscure Joseph G. Cannon (the former House Speaker). The whole thing was only 32 pages, including the front and back covers. There are only a few photographs or illustrations, and nary a chart or graphic.

The magazine contains word of the first helicopter, a possible change in divorce laws, the release of the film Adam’s Rib, a new one-cent cigarette tax in Indiana, the British Empire, the latest figures in German reparation payments, legal battle on West Virginia natural resources, Boys will be boys, a "floating school" for the children of the unfortunate rich, and other amusing tidbits from 103 years ago.

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TIME magazine, March 3, 1923



March 3, 1938: There be Blood! At Dammam Well No. 7, known as the "Prosperity Well"  after years of drilling by Standard Oil of California (SoCal) struck oil in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. What would soon be identified as the largest source of petroleum in the world. The discovery radically changed the physical, human, and political geography of Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, and the world. 18 months later, WWII started.

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The Saudi government established a subsidiary, the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), to oversee exploration and initial surveys suggested the potential for oil deposits near the village of Dammam.  In 1944, CASOC was renamed the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco), reflecting its growing role in global oil production.  Aramco valuation today is hovering around $1.6 trillion to $1.7 trillion.


Doomsday Movies... By Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder with Jack Davis and Larry Siegel. (1965)

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So, here’s German delegates laughing at Trump in 2018 when he warned they were becoming too dependent on Russian oil.

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EU urges Ukraine to allow access to pipeline carrying Russian oil


Trump stated that the U.S. is cutting off trade with Spain over the decision by Sánchez’s far-left government to ban the use of Spanish military bases for strikes on Iran.

Trump: "Spain has been terrible. I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. They said we can't use their bases. We could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody is gonna tell us not to use it. So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain."

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https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2028885069301940372

Full vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocFJL5jRLXM


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https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/2028845927914492070

Anyone who still trusts Bill Gates for anything needs a lobotomy.


The mushroom cloud caught my eye. Gotta be one of the strangest tombstones I've ever seen. Interesting 15 min documentary on Vimeo about this by Robert Sickels.

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Quote:Sterling Hallard Bright Drake (2012)

Through the process of challenging the old maxim “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” Sterling Hallard Bright Drake parses the line between truth and memory in solving the mysteries surrounding one of the world's most notorious and talked about tombstones. The result is a surprisingly funny and unexpectedly profound meditation on the seemingly inexhaustible optimism and promise of youth, the subsequent inescapable mortal realities of aging, and the bittersweet double-edged sword that comes part and parcel with true love.


Flashback...

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US run by Nazi space aliens, Iran claims


What you're looking at is not a sunrise...

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...it's the Russian LNG tanker ARCTIC METAGAZ (IMO 9243148) struck by a massive explosion in the Mediterranean this morning. Photographed by crew aboard a merchant vessel. Photos were taken ~04:00 local (03:00 UTC), looking towards Libya. ARCTIC METAGAZ had been running dark (AIS off according to @MarineTraffic) but had traveled southeast of Malta before the explosion. Photos above were taken about 80 nautical miles from the ship.

Russian LNG Carrier ‘Arctic Metagaz’ Reportedly Ablaze Off Malta as Maritime Patrol Aircraft Circles


"The Touch of Terran Skies" is an ultra high dynamic range photo of this morning's Total Lunar Eclipse, which I captured using a number of instruments to reveal not just the incredible color on the lunar surface, but the deep space in the Cosmic Background." By Andrew McCarthy - https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/2028916518973784116

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-05-2026

Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen. In the pilot episode, which aired on March 4, 2001, 191 days before 9/11, there is a hijacked plane remotely controlled that is being targeted at the World Trade Center. The last episode aired May 11, 2001.




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R.I.P. Marine Master Gunnery Sgt. Juan Jose Valdez. The last American serviceman to leave Vietnam has died, on  Feb. 15 at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He was 88. During the 1975 fall of Saigon, he helped evacuate thousands, and was nearly left behind.

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NY Times


Two famous Russian pranksters make Reza Pahlavi believe they are advisors for German chancellor Merz. Pahlavi approvingly calls the Israeli-US war on Iran a crusade.

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https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2029299488112697741


Meet Rabbi AI...

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https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2028533076117078252


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Actually, I think this war is all about constraining China.


The USAF test-launched a Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg into the Pacific. The missile carried two unarmed Mk12A reentry vehicles for the 335-kiloton W78 warhead. The MIRV test comes as US is considering increasing deployed warheads.

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ICBM Test Launch Verifies Multiple Reentry Vehicle and System Reliability


DARK11, DARK12, DARK13 RTB. B-1B (BONE) returning from a bombing mission over Iran.

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A space jellyfish was seen far and wide across the U.S. east coast this morning as a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with 29 Starlink satellites from Florida at 5:52am ET and climbed into the rising sun.

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SPACE JELLYFISH PREDICTOR


What a day, time to relax.

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What a day. Time for some songs. U.S. top 20 for March 4, 1967.

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - Freija - 03-05-2026

Buffalo Springfield? Wow, some of the best music evar! Haven't listened to them since I dunno, two weeks ago? On vinyl even on my new turntable!!

What a group this was and what careers some of these guys went on to have. Richie Furray and Jim Messina, who later paired with Kenny Loggins to form Loggins and Messina went on to form the group Poco I have two of their albums.

Stephen Stills went on to pair up with David Crosby of the Byrds and Graham Nash from the Hollies to be later joined up with another former Buffalo Springfield member, Neil Young to become Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Stills released some solo stuff and then was part of the group Manassas. Neil Young is still Neil Young. I've got several CSN&Y albums, Logging & Messina albums, Stephen Stills albums, a Manassas albumn and a couple Neil Young albums.

True legends for us old folks!

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Seems appropriate for the times


RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-06-2026

March 5, 1947: THE BEGINNING OR THE END, "the long-awaited dramatic story of the atomic bomb" opened at the Grove Theater in Oak Ridge, TN. The film had already opened in many cities across the US weeks earlier. We're only 79 years in and that's an awfully optimistic date for a time capsule given our current times...

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March 5, 1953: Eileen Keenan, a waitress at the 1203 Restaurant at 1203 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, DC. celebrates the death of Stalin.

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Listen to Ray Anderson's celebratory country song, "Stalin Kicked the Bucket" (1953): 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7doMD89NI


U.S. top 20 for March 5, 1966. Green Berets, boots and Batman.

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The Green Berets - song & history

You Only Live Twice ( & 'Boots') - Boots LP Vinyl is $302.00 WTF?




March 5, 1980: Ted Striker, an ex-fighter pilot and traumatized war veteran, saved the lives of everyone on-board Flight 209 after the flight crew became sick with food poisoning.

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The date was mentioned in Airplane 2 (1982).


AIRPLANE DISASTERS that occurred on March 5th:

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March 5, 1963: Aeroflot Rossiya Ilyushin Il-18 Flight 191 crashes while landing at Ashgabat International Airport, killing 12 of 54.

March 5, 1966: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Flight 911 (call sign "Speedbird 911"), a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.

Eerie Flight 911 factor: Several booked passengers cancelled their tickets at the last moment to see a ninja demonstration. These passengers, Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Ken Adam, Lewis Gilbert, and Freddie Young, were in Japan scouting locations for the fifth James Bond film, You Only Live Twice (1967).

March 5, 1967: Lake Central Airlines Flight 527 Convair 580 crashes near Marseilles, Ohio, killing 38.

March 5, 1968: Air France Flight 212, a Boeing 707-328C crashes into La Grande Soufrière, killing all 63 aboard.

March 5, 1973: an Iberia Flight 504 DC-9 flying from Palma de Mallorca to London collided in mid-air with a Spantax Flight 400 Convair 990 flying from Madrid to London. All 68 people on board the DC-9 were killed, including music manager Michael Jeffery...of The Animals and Jimi Hendrix. The CV-990 made a successful emergency landing at Cognac – Châteaubernard Air Base.

March 5, 1991: Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45.

March 5, 1993: Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83, 14 survived.


March 5, 1981: The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research, manufactured in Dundee, Scotland by Timex Corporation. It would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.

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Like the ZX80, it took awhile for the ZX81 to be marketed in the US. The official launch was on October 7, 1981 in Boston, with Sir Clive Sinclair coming over for the announcement. The ZX81 was sold only by mail order. Sinclair struck a deal with American Express, so that their customers were the first to be offered the ZX81. At the time the U.S. office was located at 50 Stanford Street, Boston, MA.

The first mention of the ZX81 was in the October 1981 edition of Popular Science, detailing the computer being on sale in the UK for about $150 and $110 for the 16K memory pack. The next issue of Popular Science had a two page ad for the ZX81. The left page advertized the complete ZX81 for $149.95, the kit version for $99.95, the 16K Memory Module for $99.95, and a set rate of $4.95 for shipping. The shipping address was One Sinclair Plaza, Nashua, NH.
ZXzine Issue 1


Trump fires Kristi Noem and appoints her as Special Envoy for The Shield of Americas.
What the hell is "The Shield of Americas"??

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The “Shield of the Americas” Summit and Donald Trump’s Latin America Strategy - looks like a no nothing job so expect she'll be put out to pasture by summer.

Markwayne Mullin our new DHS Secretary was the senator cowering behind a chair like a scared little girl on J6. Yea, we're in good hands now. Sigh.

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North Korea’s Navy conducted tests last Wednesday on the missile destroyer No. 51 Choe Hyon. Kim Jong Un personally observed the trials, which were aimed at assessing the ship’s operational capabilities ahead of its entry into service. The vessel is the lead ship of the Choe Hyon-class, first unveiled in April 2025. So far, North Korea has built two destroyers of this class: Choe Hyon (No. 51) and Kang Kon (No. 52). A third ship is currently under construction. Under Kim Jong Un’s directive and the new five-year plan, North Korea aims to build 12 large-displacement warships by 2030. Go Rocketman!




The Library of Congress has acquired one of the earliest known drawings of Yosemite Valley and Rare 1855 Lithograph from 1855, by artist Thomas Almond Ayres. Ayres’ sketches were the source for the first published image of Yosemite at a time when drawings shaped how people saw the American West.

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The illegal bio lab discovered in an East Las Vegas garage contained "human biological samples," compounds for influenza vaccines, and materials to create test kits, according to an FBI agent. Some of the 1200 samples collected were too degraded for full analysis. "It was the conclusion of the FBI lab that the community could not be harmed by what was contained in that lab" according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Delzotto. Nothing to see here move along. One can find the wildest crazy stuff in Vegas.

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Las Vegas bio lab contained human samples, testing materials, FBI says

RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-08-2026

March 7, 1951: Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by 26-yr old Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran. Razmara was the third Iranian prime minister to be assassinated.
Khalil was described as a "religious fanatic" by The New York Times. In January 1965, Hasan Ali Mansur became the fourth Iranian Prime Minister to be assassinated, also by a Fada'iyan-e Islam member.

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March 7, 1953: No Shortage of Ammunition Here

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March 7, 1955: Biggest A-Blast Of '55 Set Off On Nevada Flat with a 20-second Fireball banger in Area 2 of the Nevada Test Site, Operation Teapot: test shot "Turk" on a 500-foot tower. A primary for the XW-27 Class "D" (light weight) thermonuclear weapon. The device, named LINDA, was a mockup of the XW-27 radiation case and was 30.5 inches by 61.3 inches & weighed 2325 lb. Yield: 43kt




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Just 4 fun... Based on the entirety of this photograph, what is your best estimation of the year it was taken?

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Looking at the TV and spending a bit of time, I think it's either a Zenith Chromacolor or an RCA XL-100 but I believe it matches up with the RCA model's from the early to latter 1970's. Also, the window air conditioner is probably a GE model from the late 1960's to early 1970's. The stereo looks to have a frontloader VHS VCR (tape slot looks wider than Betamax) which weren't widely available till early 80s and few households had them until mid-80s. On second thought maybe it's just an analog tuner with the dial on the top right corner.

The wall panels are definitely 70s. The Miller High Lite logo on the box under the speaker is definitely pre-1975 as that was the change in logos to the gold and white logos with the Red Miller name.

She has hair that was inspired by Charlie's Angels which came out in '76 and went viral in 1977. The photo to me screams typical middle-class American living room from mid 70s to mid 80s. That AC unit dimmed every light on the street when it kicked on. My gut tells me 1978.


Gettysburg’s Blue & Gray Grill totally buying into the Civil War theme.

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I heard they used to put little flags in the burgers to represent which side your burger fought for. LOL!


I can't tell if Trump is troll bombing or he's actually being serious.

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https://x.com/amconmag/status/2030055730330447924


The Trump administration launches the Patriot Act 2.0.
I wonder why they waited until late Friday to drop a policy guide where one of their top priorities is passing legislation to regulate all activity online?

Lots of Orwellian goodies throughout: to counter the spread of the surveillance state, we must grant the government greater authority to "detect, confront, and defeat cyber adversaries before they breach our networks."

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Repeated references to empowering private sector partners (i.e., the Palantirs of the world) to "defend America in peace and war."

President Trump’s CYBER STRATEGY for America (7-page PDF)

"We will unveil and embarrass online espionage, destructive propaganda and influence operations, and cultural subversion." When the government starts defining threats by "propaganda," "influence,” and "cultural subversion," it is not just targeting hackers. It is targeting narratives.

They're currently pushing an age-verification bill (of British stench) to end online privacy, among other actions, as part of their larger surveillance plan. Both parties are pushing nebulous bills like the KIDS Act, KOSA, and COPPA which rely on vague language to use age verification requirements as a tool to erode digital privacy. Seems like a trend...

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Welcome to the Age of Cyber Warfare Chaos:

Information warfare, information operations, cognitive warfare, psychological warfare, psychological operations, military information support operations, perception management, influence operations, strategic communications, narrative warfare, narrative engineering, narrative shaping, narrative dominance, propaganda, computational propaganda, political warfare, ideological warfare, memetic warfare, memetics, cultural warfare, semiotic warfare, symbolic warfare, information environment manipulation, cognitive domain operations, behavioral influence operations, opinion shaping, public diplomacy operations, strategic persuasion, disinformation, misinformation, malinformation, active measures, reflexive control, maskirovka, deception operations, military deception, operational security, counterintelligence, information concealment, information denial, narrative suppression, reputation warfare, character assassination campaigns, social engineering, social manipulation campaigns, psychological manipulation, rumor propagation, rumor warfare, narrative seeding, narrative amplification, rumor networks, narrative laundering, media manipulation, media framing operations, agenda setting operations, perception hacking, attention warfare, attention manipulation, outrage engineering, polarization engineering, trust erosion campaigns, institutional delegitimization campaigns, legitimacy warfare, legitimacy erosion, cognitive overload operations, information flooding, information saturation, narrative dilution, message jamming, discourse disruption, epistemic warfare, knowledge manipulation, epistemic capture, epistemic sabotage, epistemic destabilization, truth decay campaigns, reality distortion campaigns, belief shaping operations, worldview engineering, ideology propagation, ideology destabilization, cultural narrative manipulation, mythmaking operations, symbolic myth warfare, narrative myth engineering, storytelling warfare, narrative reframing, narrative hijacking, counter-narrative development, counter-propaganda, counter-disinformation, counter-influence operations, information defense, narrative defense, resilience operations, media literacy campaigns, cognitive resilience operations, narrative inoculation, psychological inoculation, pre-bunking campaigns, debunking campaigns, reputational defense operations, online influence campaigns, digital influence operations, social media manipulation, platform manipulation, algorithmic manipulation, algorithmic amplification campaigns, engagement farming operations, virality engineering, astroturfing, sock-puppet networks, botnet amplification, troll farm operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, fake grassroots movements, identity spoofing campaigns, persona management, fake persona networks, digital impersonation operations, narrative swarm campaigns, meme propagation campaigns, meme engineering, meme warfare, memetic payload design, memetic contagion engineering, memetic virality modeling, memetic saturation campaigns, memetic signaling warfare, hashtag warfare, trending manipulation, search engine manipulation, search engine influence operations, search engine poisoning, search engine optimization for propaganda, digital reputation manipulation, review bombing, platform brigading, community infiltration operations, forum manipulation, comment section warfare, narrative reinforcement loops, echo chamber engineering, filter bubble exploitation, recommender system exploitation, platform governance manipulation, algorithm gaming, data poisoning, model poisoning, training data manipulation, adversarial machine learning influence operations, AI generated propaganda, synthetic media operations, deepfake influence campaigns, voice cloning disinformation, synthetic identity networks, automated narrative generation, narrative bot swarms, AI persuasion systems, machine scaled propaganda, automated influence agents, cognitive AI operations, digital persuasion architecture.

Congrats if you made it through that wall of chaos! And sorry if you now feel discombobulated.


Weapons factories into overdrive...
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Months ago? I would think years ago given the Ukraine war and the massive expenditure of bombs & missiles dropped on Iran the past week which the writing was on the wall last June. The MIC execs are going to be trillionaires by this summer. Keep that money printer humming!

On the flip-side if the War Dept waited another 5-10 years, Iran may have been on par with US weapons tech. Every non-nuclear country on the planet is asking their weapons science dept:

Politicians: "When can we expect our first nuke?
Scientists: "Three years if we offer a lot of bribes."
Politicians: "Them crazy Americans will be at our doorstep within a year. What can we offer that lunatic in North Korea."
Scientists: "A very large container ship full of Kimchi & cheese."


I'm almost getting the ambition to make a visit to the White House to find out exactly who is running this account. Whose [AI] child is running that damn account?

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-10-2026

Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) publishes The Wealth of Nations, widely regarded as the foundational text of modern economics and classical political economy. The Wealth of Nations was published in two volumes on 9 March 1776 (with books I–III included in the first volume and books IV and V included in the second), during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution. Seen by many as the "father of economics", or the "father of capitalism".

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Smith fundamentally redefines national wealth not as hoarded gold or mercantile profits (as mercantilism claimed), but as the annual production of goods and services that improve living standards for the population. He argues that the key driver of this wealth is the division of labor, which dramatically boosts productivity by allowing workers to specialize in specific tasks. His famous example of a pin factory illustrates how dividing production into simple operations enables far greater output than if each worker made entire pins alone.

Smith explains that self-interest, when channeled through free markets and competition, leads individuals to produce goods and services that others value, unintentionally benefiting society as a whole via the famous "invisible hand" mechanism. Prices, wages, profits, and rents naturally adjust through supply and demand to allocate resources efficiently toward their most productive uses.The book critiques mercantilism — the dominant economic policy of the time, which emphasized trade surpluses, monopolies, tariffs, and government intervention — as inefficient and harmful to genuine prosperity. Instead, Smith advocates for free trade, open competition, and minimal government interference in markets (though he allows for essential roles like defense, justice, public works, and education).

The invisible hand is one of the most famous metaphors in economics, introduced by Adam Smith and he used the phrase only once in the book, in Book IV, Chapter 2, in a discussion about how merchants and investors allocate their capital. He argued that individuals, pursuing their own self-interest (such as seeking security and higher personal gains), often unintentionally benefit society as a whole.

The key passage is:

"By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it."

Structured in five books, the work covers:
The division of labor and factors determining wages, profits, and rent (Book I),
Capital accumulation and its employment (Book II),
Historical economic development in Europe (Book III),
Critiques of mercantilism and other systems (Book IV),
And the role of government revenue and expenses (Book V).

All five books in one: The Wealth of Nations


“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.”

The closing words of Edward R. Murrow, from “A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, March 9, 1954.

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Transcript and video: Bill Downs, War Correspondent


In Hollywood, it was disclosed that Groucho Marx, Dinah Shore, and Pat Boone, among others, were the 'most fallout-proof citizens in southern California.'" - Newsweek, Nov 6, 1961.

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Havana Cabana Syndrome back in the news...

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https://x.com/60Minutes/status/2030788417139687801

60 Minutes transcript

The first thing that came to mind when I heard the victims talk was that "discombobulater" Trump talked about regarding the Venezuela raid. Which IMO is just another shiny adjective to throw people down a rabbit hole.

The reason they're pushing this so hard is because a segment of the National Security community wants war with Russia. And a "CIA whistleblower" saying it outright.

Unsurprisingly, 60 Minutes episode covering Havana Syndrome didn't offer a smoking gun because 1) it's all about narrative control and 2) it was a sales pitch for a book coming out in September. The authors? Two 60 Minutes producers.

Russia has been the boogeyman of all kinds of fantasy plots & weapons since 1946-47.

"Narradigm shift is a narrative of events or things that, lacking well-founded support, are otherwise being pushed or driving into society in the hopes of creating a paradigm-shift in the consciousness of people or experts by creating an artificial consensus or agreement around it."
— Joseph P. Farrell

A complementary piece published by The Insider makes clear that we're in QAnon territory with White-Hat CIA vs. Black-Hat CIA fighting for the soul of the Agency.

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“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear by Michael Weiss (60 Minutes)


Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s:
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The Dark Knight: I'm an agent of chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iwf20t9J1k


Agents of Chaos (2020): Official Trailer | HBO




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Nuclear war fear? The food that protected Japanese people against atomic bomb radiation in Nagasaki

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International Cryptozoology Museum

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If Monday after daylight saving had a face...

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I better not hear one damn sarc comment from Freija!

RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-12-2026

March 11, 1941: President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act: allowing the USA to sell, lease, or lend “Any weapon, munition, aircraft, vessel, or boat” to the WWII allies. It came after Churchill’s plea to the "great Republic," resulting in Congress introducing H.R. 1776.

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Not to be confused with H.R. 1776, the "New Health Options Act of 2025," was introduced on March 3, 2025, by Rep. Gary Palmer [R-AL]. It aims to create a parallel, non-ACA marketplace for health insurance, offering tailored, cost-effective plans. Oh joy.


March 11, 1958: The Mars Bluff 'Broken Arrow' incident occurred near Florence, South Carolina. On the afternoon of March 11, Ella Hudson was nine years old and visiting her cousins' home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. After an otherwise normal school day wrapped up, Ella had the bizarre pleasure of witnessing firsthand the US Air Force accidentally drop a nuclear weapon — with its fissile material fortunately removed — on the woods near her cousins' house.

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This accident occurred after navigator Bruce Kulka was sent to the bomb bay to insert the locking pin—which had not reengaged post-take-off by hand. As Kulka tried to climb the 11' ft long, 5' ft-diameter bomb to find the pin, he inadvertently grabbed the emergency bomb release handle. Oooops! Remind you of that Dr. Strangelove scene.

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An interview with a woman who survived the 1958 atomic bombing of South Carolina

Post and Courier

Esquire Magazine, May 2005

Walter Gregg Sr., World War II Army veteran, retired railroad conductor, and atomic bomb accident survivor, died in 2013 at age 92.

Mars Bluff: Aftermath

1 min newsreel clip about this nuclear weapons accident, which due to strict NATSEC secrecy incorrectly refers to it as “the first accident of its kind in history”:




It's been a week since an American submarine sank an enemy warship with a torpedo, but when was the last time one sank a commercial freighter with a torpedo?



It was actually March 11, 1999 and also a Los Angeles-class submarine. USS Bremerton (SSN-698) sank M/V New Carissa off the Coast of Oregon, firing a Mark 48 ADCAP from 8,000 yards. Dubbed “The Ship That Would Not Die”, New Carissa had plagued the coast for over a month, leaking fuel oil. Prior attempts included an EOD team using 400lbs of high explosives & 69 point-detonating 5-inch, 54-caliber projectiles from USS David R. Ray (DD-971).

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The bow was successfully towed out to sea and sunk. The stern section remained on the beach for over nine years until it was dismantled and finally removed in 2008.

I remember going to the beach to see this odd sight. It was on the local TV news every evening and turned into a hilarious clown show. Every time the local news needed a filler you got the latest snapshots from reporters camped out on the beach. Turned into a tourist spot for years.


Foreign Policy will drop its paywall on all Iran coverage.
Please, please read our propaganda. We are desperate for your clicks.

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https://x.com/AlexandraSSharp/status/2031735568221008128


Fake explosions, fake missiles, fake captured troops, fake downed planes, fake panicked people, fake mourning people… brought to you by your favorite fake news source: CNN. Jake Tapper doing his best to prove fake CNN is real.

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Twitter wants the chaos.
Facebook is incompetent.
YouTube loves the ad views.

Why fix it if it's not broken?

One obvious thing I noticed from this latest war: there's no "freedom of the press" in America. Specifically on social media, especially on X with Elon's heavy censorship. It's a near-total blackout of information from Israel and the Gulf states. Now and then a vid clip leaks and within minutes, poof, gone.


No, Guardian, the Al-Quds Day march isn't a demonstration for Palestinian human rights. It's a display of antisemitic incitement and support for terrorism organized by a group believed to have extensive ties to the Iranian regime. Maybe stop sugarcoating extremism and start exposing the hate. Try that for a change.

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"Al-Quds" is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. In London, the march has traditionally been organized by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC).


The Grim Reaper Patch Circulating Among Guards at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Amazing how some of these journo's make a big deal out of nothing.

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The Lord brought us war so we can learn history and geography.

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The real world does not live in Star Wars fantasy.
1. Boats can't drive on Sand
2. Pipelines are Limited

Given the Strait of Hormuz is under severe restriction & attack, the oil stays in the ground because all the land storage tanks are FULL and sits on ships that have nowhere to go.


Trump declares "we've won" the Iran War.

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