Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

March 26, 1902: Cecil Rhodes died at age 48. He gained a fortune in diamond mining and founded Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Rhodes scholarships at Oxford are funded from one of his Will's. He was so wealthy he left 5 or 6 separate Wills. Recently there has been a student campaign in Oxford to remove his statue for "white supremacist views". He was but so what, them were different times. His dream was to conquer America (diplomatically) and bring her back under England.




March 26, 1937: Spinach growers in Crystal City, Texas, USA, erected a statue of Popeye. At the time Crystal City produced 10,000 cans of Spinach a day thanks to the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man and called itself “World Spinach Capital”. Today is National Spinach Day.




UK #1 on this day in 1969: Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine





March 26, 1997: A tragic event, and an example of what can go wrong with UFO zealots. Rancho Santa Fe, CA: Two deputies find 39 bodies of identically dressed, androgynous-looking men and women. Autopsies establish that each had drunk a lethal combination of vodka and barbiturates then smothered themselves with a plastic bag.


Videotaped statements left behind explain that the suicides, members of a religious millenarian cult called Heaven’s Gate, were leaving their “earthly vehicles” behind and expect to board a spacecraft trailing Comet Hale-Bopp. It was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles (formerly called Bo and Peep).


One year ago today the Francis Scott Key Bridge was destroyed by Singapore-registered container ship MV Dali. Another disaster in a long line of disasters courtesy of ex Secretary of Transportation Pete Bootyjuice.




This dude is outta his league. Big girls!




The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer announced today that four Royal Navy warships will be fitted with DragonFire laser directed energy weapons by 2027 as part of a £2.2 ($2.8) billion boost to defense spending. The energy needed to fire the DragonFire costs about $10 a shot. Looks impressive:




March 26, 2025: Haze gray & underway. USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier leaving San Diego on her final deployment.


After deployment tour she will arrive at her new homeport of Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia no later than April 12, 2026. At that point she will begin the one-year STOP process before shifting to the Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News shipyard for initial defueling and deactivation.


Our flippant government's are in a flushbunking state of disorder.



"Heraclitus said the world would end in fire, in the end it was moisture that did him in, he died smeared in cow shit."
— Attributed to Marcus Aurelius

[EndtheMadnessNow]

March 27, 1794: President George Washington signed the 1794 "Act to Provide a Naval Armament" which allowed for the construction of the original six frigates of the US Navy.

Of the six original frigates, only USS Constitution remains and is the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat and the world’s oldest sailing vessel still capable of sailing under its own power.




March 27, 1854: The British government, supported by France, Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire, declared war on Tsarist Russia in a conflict that became known as the Crimean War. Britain and France were unwilling to allow Russia to gain territory at expense of the Ottoman Empire. In total, over 500,000 died in the 2.5 year war and all cases, death by disease exceeded the sum of "killed in action" or "died of wounds".


Some members of the Russian intelligentsia saw defeat as a pressure to modernize their society. Grand Duke Constantine, a son of the Tsar, remarked:

"We cannot deceive ourselves any longer; we must say that we are both weaker and poorer than the first-class powers, and furthermore poorer not only in material terms but in mental resources, especially in matters of administration."

"Iron Maiden - The Trooper" song is based on The Crimean War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcdDmS68hTY



March 27, 1943: HMS Dasher (D37), a British Royal Navy Avenger class aircraft carrier sank after an internal explosion. The death toll of 379 out of 528 crew, was one the highest in British home waters. The British blamed the bad design of the stowage and handling, while the US blamed the disaster on poor RN petrol-handling procedures.


The government of the time, eager to avoid damage to morale and anxious to avoid any suggestion of faulty American construction, tried to cover up the sinking. For two years the local media were ordered by the gov't to make no reference to the tragedy. Decades later, controversy still surrounds the incident because the cause of the explosion has never been determined, and there have been allegations that the recovered bodies of crewmen were secretly buried in mass graves.

Dasher was built by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Chester, Pennsylvania. The ship was originally named Rio de Janeiro, intended for passenger/cargo service with Moore-McCormack Lines. She was converted to an escort aircraft carrier in the Tietjen & Lang shipyards New Jersey and commissioned into the Royal Navy on July 2, 1942 under the ‘Lend Lease’ scheme.



On a spring morning at Fort Meade in 1990 a group of Army psychics funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency in project SUN STREAK channeled their post cold-war psychic energy into seeking the future schedule for drug boat called SITHVUER from Honduras to California on contraband run.

The declassified stuff about the CIA/Pentagon/SRI remote viewing program is something that continually blows my mind. I've often wondered just how far they've got in the psychic business & paranormal phenomena.

I always thought it was weird as to why SRI did govt psychic spying & also invented SIRI for your iPhone.


Project SUN STREAK

Project GRILL FLAME

SIRI, you beautiful woman who leads me to victory, please use DARPA funds to apply your sophisticated machine learning techniques to telling me what long short-term memory is before your software is planted as a convenient personal digital assistant on everyone's spyphones in partnership with the Swiss! No trouble there since the congress of Vienna proved that Switzerland could make more money by simply converting mercenaries into bankers minus their minions who still hold onto the guns in the Vatican, wearing clown costumes.

A successful model of neutrality

ROME (AP) — The Vatican secretary of state has intervened personally to shed light on one of the most sensational Vatican scandals of recent times: The 1998 murder of the Swiss Guard commander and his wife, purportedly by a disgruntled younger Swiss Guardsman who then took his own life.




We've gone from Pentagon funded psychic spies to long buried Swiss Guard Vatican murder mysteries, with creepy silicon valley technologists sandwiched in between.


Tom Clancy discusses the Pentagon's Remote Viewing program in Red Storm Rising and the Swiss Guard in the Sum of All Fears.


Why don't government psychics ever do anything useful like stopping money laundering or drug trafficking or human trafficking. They're always finding the Ark of the Covenant, or pyramids on Mars. I wonder why that is? It's almost like the "research" was a counterintelligence honeypot. If their own counterparts in the USSR started picking up chatter about the Ark, or Martian pyramids, then it provides vectors for them to track down the leaks.



CIA confirmed Ark of the Covenant’s existence using remote viewing, resurfaced declassified docs claim


Course, we can't count on the Gov for anything. I guess we'll have to rely on A WORKING MAN, The Beekeeper on steroids!


Written by Sylvester Stallone, David Ayer (Director) and Chuck Dixon.
Releases tomorrow. Filmed in London.




March 27, 2007, Zbigniew Brzezinski: "This notion of secret societies controlling people, but of course in any political system there are sort of over the table and under the table arrangements. As far as the organizations that you have mentioned, they're all on top of the table organinzations. We know what they are. We know what they do. We probably exaggerate their influence in many cases. But most important of all THEY OPERATE OVERTLY. Anybody who wants to know what the Council on Foreign Relations does can very easily find out."




Russians die in a "Yellow Submarine" in the Red Sea.




Watch this mom, going to see my friend Lil X...


https://x.com/tyler5mith/status/1905026132069785715

[Bally002]

USS Constellation.  What a savvy smart looking design.  Bit of a navy theme going on throughout.  Like it.

HMS Dasher.  Tragic for those on board.  My thoughts are an ammunition explosion caused by the 250 lb or 500 lb bombs below the lift.  Bomb booster and/or fuse contacted within the hanger space setting off a massive chain reaction.  Possibly caused by a failure to secure the bomb loads after de-ammunitioning the aircraft.  

Ship movement in swell.  Bomb stowage and trolley stowage poorly contained.  Movement causes an object, albeit a trolley handle contacting a booster or fuse.  Just one of those mothers going off would be enough to set all aircraft and munitions ablaze.  

Kind regards,

Bally) ex R.A.N.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Gotta light?


March 27, 1954: A new sun arose. Castle Romeo thermonuclear explosion, 11 Megatons, Bikini atoll, 6:30 a.m.


Signalgate sure has kept the comic left illustrators busy.






https://x.com/RT_com/status/1905319950388265246


US Navy leaves a souvenir behind in Saada, Northwest Yemen.


NSN 1336-01-324-2015
High Explosive Guided Missile Warhead
Mk12 mod 1
Part(s):
3123AS921
WDU-36(XCL-1)/B
1336-V987
Special Features: Pbxn-107 loaded (RDX 86%; polyacrylate binder; BGM-109 Tomahawk missiles)

RDX (Research Department Explosive or Royal Demolition Explosive) or hexogen is common military explosive used since WWII by US, Britain, terrorists, controlled demolition. RDX has been used as a rodenticide because of its toxicity.

Note the Saudi's carried out relentless carpet bombing in NW Yemen for nearly 7 years using American bombs. They finally gave up.



Now you know that "leak" was intentional given all the media attention from both sides. Takes the media heat off certain subjects and I'm sure something else that we will probably never know. Signalgate media mocking on the Colbert Late Show...




Weaken Hezbollah (done), Annihilate Syria (done), neutralize Houthis (in-progress)... the proxy hornets are all are pissed at Iran for not doing more when Israel went scorch earth on Gaza...Iran's Operation True Promise III never happened...Iran is next? Oh wait, the phone is ringing...

Iran responds to Trump's letter, voices readiness for indirect talks

DUBAI, March 27 (Reuters) - Iran has sent a response through Oman to U.S. President Donald Trump's letter in which he urged Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was cited as saying by the official IRNA news agency on Thursday.

"Our policy is still to not engage in direct negotiations while under maximum pressure and military threats, however, as it was the case in the past, indirect negotiations can continue", IRNA cited Araqchi as saying.

Meanwhile...

Putin issues Arctic warning to NATO

The US-led NATO bloc views the Arctic as a “bridgehead” for future conflicts and is actively training troops to operate in the far north, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

Speaking at the International Arctic Forum in Murmansk on Thursday, he stated that Russia would do its best to uphold its national interests and sovereignty in the region.

The number of Russian forces deployed in the Arctic is bound to grow to meet the growing challenges there, Putin said.

“We are, of course, concerned by the fact that NATO countries as a whole are more frequently designating the far north as a bridgehead for possible conflicts, practicing the use of troops in these conditions, including their new recruits from Finland and Sweden,” he declared.

Moscow has been “closely monitoring” the situation in the region, and has taken “an adequate response approach by increasing the combat capabilities of the armed forces and modernizing military infrastructure facilities,” the president explained.
Putin calls for developing cities in Arctic Circle READ MORE: Putin calls for developing cities in Arctic Circle

“I would like to emphasize that Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic,” he said, adding that Russia will not tolerate any encroachments on its sovereignty and will “reliably protect” its national interests.

Putin has said US President Donald Trump's plans to take control of Greenland are "serious."

Putin has expressed concerns regarding increasing geopolitical competition in the Arctic, particularly in light of U.S. intentions toward Greenland. Speaking at an Arctic forum in Murmansk, Putin noted that U.S. interest in Greenland has historical roots, referencing past American attempts to acquire the territory. He emphasized that the U.S. is likely to continue advancing its geopolitical, military, and economic interests in the Arctic region.

Putin highlighted Russia’s apprehension about NATO countries viewing the Far North as a potential zone for future conflicts. He stated that Russia would respond by bolstering its military capabilities in the Arctic to safeguard its sovereignty and national interests.

Putin says US 'serious' about Greenland at Arctic conference

Putin greenlights launch of "Perm" nuclear submarine to be first carrier of Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles at Atomflot ceremony. Putin says new submarine will take on Arctic missions.






MESA is Evolving Combat Identification in the Battlespace


Forsythia and magnolia in full bloom at 800 year-old St Peter's Church, Limpsfield, England.







The Role of Destiny (1882) and The Bridge of Life (1884) by Walter Crane (1845-1915)...




"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death."
— Ernest Hemingway.

I'll edit that quote to: "Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, never end."

Opening to Sid Meier's Civilization VII - "Rediscover Hope".




Proxy insert for nature's cleanser...

[F2d5thCav]

How come the dude with the bat wings in the last image looks like Putin ?

[Bally002]

How come the dude with the bat wings in the last image looks like Putin ?

Я Бэтмен
As Putin always says,   "Я Бэтмен"

Pronounced  -   "YA Betmen"

Bally)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Wow, I honestly didn't think anyone would have caught that face as Bat Putin! LOL.
BIAD has ya'll trained in banner details! Nothin gets past Rogues!


Logging on...




Powerful earthquake 7.7 originating on the Thai-Myanmar border was felt as far as Bangkok 600+ miles away, reports of serious damage are circulating including footage of collapsed high-rise buildings, particularly at construction sites.


Myanmar-Thailand earthquake live updates: More than 100 dead, 700 injured in Myanmar


Here's a terrifying 90 sec vid:
https://x.com/Top_Disaster/status/1905545455364194747

That one skyscraper collapsing has vibes of 9/11. I never got the cozy appeal of those swimming pools on top of skyscrapers. And now that I’ve seen footage of what happens to them in an earthquake you can have them.  Also reminds me of that Jason Statham movie with the pool scene, guy falling to his death.

Skyscraper under construction collapses as massive earthquake hits Bangkok. Terrifying vid:
https://x.com/BNONews/status/1905515474122637378

People swept away by water from rooftop pool during earthquake in Yunnan, China.
https://x.com/BNODesk/status/1905589597821624563

Multi-story building collapses after earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar.
https://x.com/BNODesk/status/1905570019989127178

Powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocks Myanmar and Thailand and kills more than 150 people




Clip of 1929’s "High Treason" takes us to the hi-tech future of 1940.



Sci-fi film about women who unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war. A glimpse into the future. An imaginative, thrilling, romantic story of life and love in 1940. New York and London bombed from the air. Giant battle cruisers of the skies raining destruction upon earth. Passenger trains blown up in a tunnel under English channel. Marvels of science that would tax the ingenuity of a Jules Verne. (Print Ad-Hepner Gazette-times, Hepner, Oregon; 29 May 1930). The pistols used by both sides are Mauser C96 pistols.

Made in separate silent and sound versions. While a mute negative of the sound version had been kept by the UK National Film Archive since 1981, it was thought that all sound elements were lost. However, a 35mm fine-grain nitrate print of the sound version was found in 2005 on Vashon Island, WA, by the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association and was preserved by the US Library of Congress.


The Adventures of Captain Internet And CERF Boy - No. 1, October 1991
Illustration and layout by Rick Wilkins, General Atomics.




Morris: A Cat For Our Times (1986)




In your pocket vs in the cloud. A thousand songs you like vs 58,999,000 you don't.




Aviation thrills & chills down under...


Plane crashes during performance at international airshow leaving pilot in critical condition

Glenn Collins, critical after plane crashed during aerobatic performance at Avalon Airshow


"Nobody thought it was possible."


Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over Internet For The First Time


So is the UFO congress girl saying that NBC has been sitting on the Zapruder Director’s cut for decades?


https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1905779279029588320

The thing is, on that tragic day and the days preceding there were several Oswald doppelganger's running around Dallas.


Words for the weekend...

[Bally002]

Q. How do you catch a Unique Butterfly?

Bally)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Q. How do you catch a Unique Butterfly?

Bally)

Spot the shimmer. First, recognize what your Unique Butterfly is.

“Anaxia” is a mythic underworld, the likes of which haven’t been seen in a cinema since the surreal, 80s-infused dustbowls of Conan the Barbarian and Dune. In the dark world of Oskexis, The Golden Mystic (Eleonore Toulin) hunts the rogue Oskexian Pixies (Misha and Shaya Keyvanfar), for a rare elixir stolen from her master, Lord Cabirio (Bruno Toulin). The pixies are like the daughters of Xena and Hercules; toying with their male overlords, their spells cast in neon blasts like an old Sega machine, shimmering in and out of view.

In real world: Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing


March 29, 1975: U.S. Senator from Arizona Barry Goldwater announces that he has visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio in an attempt to find UFOs hidden there, but that Air Force officials prevented him from entering one particular building. Goldwater says that he is convinced that the U.S. government is hiding UFOs.


It should be noted that Goldwater was a Major General in the U.S. Air Force Reserve until 1967.

Barry Goldwater and Curtis LeMay

I thought that I would expand on this disagreement about what Barry Goldwater (seen here)knew and what he said about UFOs and the possibility of a crash outside of Roswell. I published a copy of the letter that Goldwater had sent to Kent Jeffrey in which Goldwater mentioned the Roswell case. Skeptics believe, and I’m not sure they’re incorrect, that Goldwater assumed that the Roswell debris was housed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base but he didn’t know.

Let me take a moment to explain that. Kent’s letter was from 1994, after Roswell had entered the national psyche. Jeffrey had asked about the Roswell case, so we can draw no specific conclusion from this, other than the answer might have been tainted by either the information in general circulation or by the specific questions asked by Jeffrey.

To continue in that vein, we know that in 1994, in an interview conducted by Larry King and broadcast on CNN, Goldwater said, "I think at Wright-Patterson, if you could get into certain places, you’d find out what the Air Force and the government does know about UFOs. Reportedly, a spaceship landed. It was all hushed up. I called Curtis LeMay and I said, ‘General, I know we have a room at Wright-Patterson where you put all this secret stuff. Could I go in there?’ I’ve never heard General LeMay get mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed me out, and said, ‘Don’t ever ask me that question again!’

While this quote does little to confirm the crash at Roswell, and it was conducted in 1994, it does establish that Goldwater asked LeMay about the "Blue Room" as it has come to be known, and that LeMay "cussed him out." Remember, some skeptics (okay, CDA specifically), had questioned this part of the story.

So, it proves that LeMay was capable of "cussing out" a friend and a United States senator. This would suggest that the topic discussed, and here we know that it was UFOs and the "landing" of a spaceship. This would suggest that there was a point that friendship ended and LeMay was talking to Goldwater as a superior officer to a subordinate.

There is another quote, this one from the April 25, 1988 issue of the New Yorker, that is also interesting because it predates the explosion of Roswell information. True, Charles Berlitz and Bill Moore’s The Roswell Incident had been published, but its circulation was limited to those interested in UFOs and its importance to the outside world was confined to UFO enthusiasts.

That doesn’t mean that there couldn’t have been contamination, just that it isn’t as easy to establish. In the New Yorker magazine, Goldwater is reported to have said, "I used to receive a hundred calls a year from people who wanted me to get into the Green Room [clearly he means the Blue Room] at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, because that's where the Air Force stored all the material gathered on UFOs. I once asked Curtis LeMay (seen here) if I could get in that room, and he just gave me holy hell. He said, 'Not only can't you get into it but don't you ever mention it to me again.'"

In a web search I did find a couple of spots where it was reported that Goldwater had said that when he asked LeMay he was told, "Not only no but hell no. And if you ever ask again I’ll have you court martialed." I was unable to establish an original source for this, but I remember seeing it printed in one of the tabloids.

Yes, I know that’s not a good source, but they published a copy of the letter in which Goldwater made the statement. I have not found my copy of that. I saw it a number of years ago.

So, where does this leave us? Well, we have multiple sources which quote Goldwater (including letters he wrote himself) referring to the Roswell case specifically and to a UFO landing generally. We have him talking about it being highly classified, so high classified in fact that he could not gain access as either a United States senator or an Air Force major general. And he confirmed in those sources (I’m thinking the New Yorker and the Larry King broadcast would be hard to dispute) that LeMay cussed him out.

The only thing we can’t establish is if this referred to the Roswell UFO crash. It certainly suggests that there are some highly classified secrets out there that deal with UFOs and some sort of physical evidence from them. It also opens the door for the Roswell case... Goldwater did use Roswell in his later communications.

We also see some of the interesting dynamics at work here. LeMay, as a general (meaning four stars) read the Riot Act to his subordinate, a major general (meaning two stars). He made it clear that the major general would not be allowed to refer the material. Friendship, on this point, did not matter.

Had Goldwater attempted to do an end run by using his power as a senator, he would have had no more luck than he had as a major general. Powerful though he was as a senator, that simply didn’t open the door into this highly classified arena. Goldwater had the grace, and the intelligence, not to push it farther. He knew that was important enough to be kept secret and the moment that one senator was brought in, then others would want to know and at that point the secret was out.

Contrary to what the skeptics say, the situation has been established with a proper documented record. We know the story of Goldwater and LeMay is true, and, according to Goldwater, it concerned UFOs. What we don’t know is if it related directly to Roswell. I suspect it does, and Goldwater suspected it did, but that just doesn’t get us to the end.

March 29, 1975: Jewish-American mobster Shondor Birns is assassinated in a car bombing in Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Astoundingly, despite losing both legs and incurring severe burns all over his body, Birns lived for about an hour after the explosion. The bomb containing C-4, caused Birns to be blown several feet through the roof of the car and his torso landed near the passenger door.

His severed legs landed 50 feet away and other smaller parts of him were scattered all over the place. A chain link fence between Christy's Lounge and St. Malachi Church caught many of the smaller fragments of flesh and bone. At first glance, they resembled steaming pieces of meat. What an epic gory scene that must have been.


Greene was a true Irish badass. After the Waterloo Road bombing failed to kill him, Greene played up the stories of the Mafia's failed assassination attempts to his benefit. His bravado and flamboyant behaviour only added to his growing aura of invincibility and power in the urban legends of the Cleveland criminal underworld. Greene granted interviews to local television stations; for a newspaper photographer, posed proudly in front of a boarded-up window of his destroyed apartment building; and during a televised interview said to one television reporter:

The luck of the Irish is with me and I have a message for those yellow maggots. That includes the payers and the doers. The doers are the people who carried out the bombing. They have to be eliminated because the people who paid them can't afford to have them remain alive. And the payers are going to feel great heat from the FBI and the local authorities ... And let me clear something else up. I didn't run away from the explosion. Someone said they saw me running away. I walked away.

The luck of the Irish ran out. Police suspected hitman Danny Greene planted the bomb that killed Birns however, he too was later killed by a car bomb planted by Los Angeles crime family enforcers Ray Ferritto and Ronald "Ronnie the crab" Carabbia. Greene was a US Marine in the early 50s and taught Marines how to be artillerymen. Greene & his second wife had five children. His son Daniel Kelly is currently serving as a city councilman for the city of Cleveland.

The Life and Hard Times Of Cleveland's Mafia: How Danny Greene's Murder Exploded The Godfather Myth




March 29, 1975: Advertising executive Gary Ross Dahl, born December 18, 1936 launches a new product that he calls a "pet rock." It is simply a rock in a box with holes punched in it. Many of his peers believe it to be an early April Fools’ joke and they don’t take the product seriously.

The pet rocks nevertheless hit stores, retailing at $3.95 apiece. The fad lasted less than a year but was enough to make Dahl a multi-millionaire. Gary died March 23, 2015 in Jacksonville, Oregon. Real nice small historic gold town and first Chinatown in Oregon to visit if you like music & wine.


Decades later along came eBay and Amazon where you can gift wrap paddies of cow sh!t and become a millionaire.


March 29, 2017: The British government, led by Conservative Theresa May, triggered Article 50, the legal process to leave the European Union. It was supposed to become effective on March 29, 2019 but Britain did not actually leave the EU until 11 PM on January 31, 2020.





Demystifying drones: Looking to the future of the new military revolution

Drones, AI weapons ‘third revolution in warfare’


Early stages of Ender's Game...




The longer the war continues, the smaller Ukraine becomes. Meanwhile, the EU leadership is on a suicide pact.




One detail the media rarely mentions in covering events in the Red Sea is the Houthis are NOT the internationally recognized gov't of Yemen. They are the strongest tribe in a divided country.


Who are Yemen's Houthis? (Long detailed article)


Watching time go by...

[Bally002]

Q. How do you catch a Unique Butterfly?

Bally)

Spot the shimmer. First, recognize what your Unique Butterfly is.

A.  Unique up on it mate!