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November 18, 1307: According to a legend, Swiss folk hero William Tell shot an apple off his son’s head on this date. It was supposedly at the command of the "evil" Austrian governor of his province in Switzerland as punishment for refusing to salute him.







In today's 100 year old news...

The Cordele Dispatch and Daily Sentinel of Cordele, Georgia, November 18, 1924. Andrew William Mellon, US Secretary of the Treasury (1921-1932) & Arthur E. Sixsmith, former Canadian pro hockey player was Mellon's personal assistant...late for a meeting. And The Washington Times Surrenders!

Fears of overpopulation are overblown, says G. Udny Yale, the new president of Britain's Royal Statistical Society. Giving his inaugural speech, he dismisses predictions by Malthus of a mad scramble for resources and says population is rising at a sustainable clip.




Time on this 322 day!

On November 18, 1883, precisely at noon, North American railroads switched to a new standard time system for rail operations, which they called Standard Railway Time (SRT). Almost immediately after being implemented, many American cities enacted ordinances, thus resulting in the creation of time “zones.” The four standard time zones adopted were Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific. Though tailored to the railroad companies’ train schedules, the new system was quickly adopted nationwide, forestalling federal intervention in civil time for more than thirty years, until 1918, when daylight saving time was introduced.


March 15, 1918 The Standard Time Act is passed by Congress, creating Daylight Saving Time in the United States.

March 19, 1918 The Standard Time Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.

March 31, 1918 Daylight Saving Time goes into effect in the U.S. for the first time.

The SRT system was based on geography, economics, the locations of major cities, and the habits and needs of the populace. The one-hour difference in zones was a result of the fact that fifteen degrees of longitude corresponds to one-hour difference in solar time. It was decided that official time would correspond to the mean solar time of the closest meridian of longitude that could be divided evenly by fifteen degrees and was referenced to the meridian at Greenwich, England. There are twenty-four meridians fifteen degrees apart that circle the globe, beginning with Greenwich, the “prime” meridian.





November 18, 1983: The world’s first all-girl sextuplets were born to Janet Walton at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. The 6 girls, Hannah, Lucy, Ruth, Sarah, Kate and Jennifer were born in the space of 4 minutes between 7:56 PM and 8 PM. The Walton sextuplets were born to Janet (née Leadbetter) delivered by Caesarean section and Graham Walton and grew up in the family's seven-bedroom home in Wallasey, Merseyside.


Hannah: The oldest sextuplet and a primary school teacher
Lucy: An airline steward
Ruth: Public relations
Sarah: On maternity leave
Kate: Works in HR
Jennifer: Runs a retro sweet shop in Leeds

The Remarkable Story of the Very First All-Girl Sextuplets

Remember The World's First Surviving Sextuplets? This is What They Look Like After 40 Years!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTBJaPc4bYI


RADIOACTIVE DREAMS "Now in Production." Variety ad, March 1984. It was finally (and barely) released in September of 1986. Now on YouTube.


After a nuclear war, Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent fifteen years on their own in a bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, nineteen-years-old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks, and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.


Nov 18, 1998: On this 322nd day 'Enemy of the State' premiered in NYC.





Trump confirms plans to use military to deport migrants after declaring national emergency

A pattern I've noticed with Trump since post election win is some of the things he says, appoints, nominates, confirms, he only posts on his Truth Social platform, while others he posts on Twitter and sometimes both platforms. Kinda like a trial balloon to see how people react and how much support he garners. For now it's all talk, talk, talk and no action. Chances are at most it will be National Guard only with active military personnel taking a advisory role only which they've done in the recent past. But, Trump can be highly unpredictable, so who knows.


Coming soon: True Detective, season 5. Three more LA sheriff's deputies have been relieved of duty over this WILD investigation into a crypto mogul who allegedly hired deputies and others in law enforcement to do crimes for him.


Crypto ‘godfather’ of Bel-Air: Probe widens into L.A. deputies’ alleged links to mogul


Another 'message' to Germany? Enhanced satellite surveillance footage reveals the culprit as Casey Ryback.


The C-Lion 1 submarine cable is 728 miles long (1172 kilometers), has 8 fiber pairs and a total capacity of 144 terabits per second.

Sabotage Not Ruled Out in Break of Communications Cable in Baltic Sea

A major submarine communications cable running between Finland and Germany has been broken, Finnish media reports. The break was discovered early Monday morning, and a repair ship is reportedly on its way from Calais, France, to the breakage point. The break is located about mid-point, in Sweden’s economic zone, south of the island of Öland.

A press release from state-owned communications company Cinia said that the cause of the break, which is affecting international communications, was not known but was under investigation. The company had no information about potential sabotage, but company CEO Ari-Jussi Knaapila said outages like this “do not occur in these waters without external impact.” No seismological observations have been made that could point to an underwater explosion, Yle said.

The double-armored cable has two steel reinforcements protecting the communications cables inside. Each year, about 200 submarine cable breaks happen worldwide. Cinia suspects it has been completely broken, as all fiber connections have been cut, Knaapila said in a press conference.

Finnish National Cyber Security Center Traficom communications chief Samuli Bergström said disruptions can occur from time to time, and there may be various reasons for them, such as exposure to weather and damage caused by maritime activities. The main cause of cable breaks is human activity, like fishing or anchoring.

Cybersecurity professor Tapio Frantti told the state broadcaster that intentional sabotage is more likely than an accident, based on the information he’s received from the media. “It raises suspicions when a cable breaks, prompting questions about why it happened. Quickly, attention turns to who might have a motive to do such a thing.”

Frantti said one suspect is Russia. “They even believe that they have special rights to do these kinds of things. The motive for sabotage is generally that it is done simply because it can be done.”

While the cable break takes quite a bit of communications capacity off the table, Finland has other connections, among them, through Estonia and Sweden, and most internet users are unlikely to notice, the professor said but pointed out that if the cable has been damaged intentionally, that is cause for concern.

Commissioned in 2016, the C-Lion1, which runs from Helsinki to Rostock, is the only Finnish submarine cable with a direct connection to Central Europe and is owned by the Finnish government together with a pension insurance company.

Awful quick to blame Russia once again. Maybe a Russian fisherman, by accident. Lots of speculation.


Meanwhile, the cable layer CS Fu Tai, owned/operated by China's SB Submarine Systems but Panama-flagged, is now operating just outside of Philippines' Subic Bay naval base. A May 2024 WSJ report raised undersea cable security concerns around this ship.

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The crook of a bishop's crozier depicting the archangel Michael slaying the dragon at the end of time. The crozier was made in central France around 1220-1230 before being brought to Gloucester Cathedral, crafted in gold and bright champlevé enamel.


Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Monday night movie: WING AND A PRAYER, THE STORY OF CARRIER X (1944) about a U.S. aircraft carrier on a decoy mission to entice the Japanese into a false sense of confidence prior to the Battle of Midway. Scenes were shot on USS Yorktown (CV-10) during her shakedown cruise in 1943.




British Orange Punch for Freija:




Morning Mika & Joe made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago this weekend. They went from calling him Hitler (and a hundred other names) to let's be friends in less than a week! Pathetic desperation, LOL...


https://x.com/yashar/status/1858483707730174370


LOL!



In the UK the tabloid press will call you "woke" if you prefer chicken in your sandwich over Billy Bear ham.


Daily Woke Fillings


"Specifically, the United States added about 1 million square kilometers to its territory. That’s approximately 386,000 square miles—roughly the size of two Californias."


The United States Grew By 1 Million Square Kilometers In Size Last Year


I wonder if Rocketman Kim thought through what happens when these troops spend however long in Russia (with internet access) then come home to North Korea? That's got to be a big societal shift incoming. Wars are invariably transformative.


North Korea May End Up Sending Putin 100,000 Troops for His War


The AI simulation is wonky...




Found a rare exit from the Matrix...







Monday words...




On the doorstep of Winter...

Speak of the North! A Lonely Moor by Charlotte Brontë

Speak of the North! A lonely moor
Silent and dark and tractless swells,
The waves of some wild streamlet pour
Hurriedly through its ferny dells.

Profoundly still the twilight air,
Lifeless the landscape; so we deem
Till like a phantom gliding near
A stag bends down to drink the stream.

And far away a mountain zone,
A cold, white waste of snow-drifts lies,
And one star, large and soft and lone,
Silently lights the unclouded skies.

[Bally002]

I liked the term "Mulligrubs".

Also coined in Australia as a cricketing term describing a ball bowled below delivery height and keeping to the pitch at a low height or rolling along the pitch itself.  Often bowled by accident, the Mullygrub delivery can sneak under the toe of the bat and catch a batsman by surprise.  Always good for a laugh  but spelt "Mullygrubber"  in Aust slang.

Kind regards.  Bally)

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November 19, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Honoring a request to offer a few remarks, Lincoln memorialized the Union dead and highlighted the redemptive power of their sacrifice. Placing the common soldier at the center of the struggle for equality, Lincoln reminded his listeners of the higher purpose for which blood was shed. The words of the speech are carved in stone on the south wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

…we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

    Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.

In composing the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln must have been reminded of the words of David Wills, a prominent citizen of Gettysburg charged with cleaning up after the grisly battle of July 1-3, 1863. Wills asked the president to attend the ceremony and make a “few appropriate remarks,” stating in his letter of invitation that Lincoln’s presence would:

…kindle anew in the breasts of the Comrades of those brave dead, who are now in the tented field or nobly meeting the foe in the field, a confidence that they who sleep in death on the Battle Field are not forgotten by those highest in Authority; and they will feel that, should their fate be the same, their remains will not be uncared for.

Edward Everett, perhaps the most popular orator of the day, spoke for two hours at the ceremony. Yet, Everett admitted to Lincoln, “I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.” In spite of Lincoln’s disclaimer that “the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,” his brief speech continues to resonate in the American memory.

Gettysburg Address


100 Year Front Page News on this day: "Politicians Are Wondering How Long Before Feminine President Rules Nation" and "SURE CURE FOR SPEEDERS" and "Political Pedestrian Traffic Troubles".




It's National Play Monopoly Day! The battleship token in the classic version of Monopoly was modeled after USS Indiana (BB-1). The game piece was also used in the board games Conflict and Diplomacy. The Indiana was commissioned in 1895 and decommissioned in 1919.


The 1935 die-cast metal battleship token is actually somewhat of a game piece celebrity. The piece was originally used by Parker Brothers in a game called Conflict. When that game failed, it was easy enough for the company to take the pieces and use them in Monopoly.


Stargaze was an event Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly first held privately on the eve of his annual golf tournament, but then invited the public beginning in 1992. That year the event was held at then Pilot Field in downtown Buffalo and among the celebrities and NFL stars was Donald Trump and girl friend Marla Maples. In this video Trump makes a qualifying throw for the million dollar toss, one of a select few to throw the football through the target. Some of the stars competing included Dan Marino, John Elway, Don Makowski, Warren Moon, Randall Cunningham, Paul Maguire, Chris Collingsworth, Frank Reich, Don Beebe and Kirk Cameron.




Vintage image from a world that does not exist anymore.





El Capitan dethrones Frontier to become the world’s fastest supercomputer


H.P. Lovecraft on Big Data...




First step in War: Disable communications & lots of sabotage






Happy birthday to the 911 of radiological incident response!


NNSA celebrating 50 years of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team – NEST


Ahaha yes! The perfect day to cut across a field without permission.




Trump's pick for the four horses of transportation - Road, Rail, Air and Maritime. Serious upgrade from that fruitcake Buttigieg.

Sean Patrick Duffy (born October 3, 1971 in Hayward, Wisconsin) the tenth of 11 children is an American politician, prosecutor, former sports commentator, and reality television personality who is currently a co-host of The Bottom Line on Fox Business, as well as a contributor on Fox News. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 7th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. Duffy resigned his seat effective September 23, 2019, to care for a newborn daughter with a heart defect & Down syndrome.


Duffy also spent time as a professional lumberjack and competed in several events ranging from tree-climbing to logrolling.

Before shifting to politics, Duffy was a cast member on MTV's "The Real World Boston" in 1997. A year later he competed on "Road Rules: All Stars" in 1998, where he met his future wife, Rachel Campos.

His wife is Rachel Campos-Duffy (born Oct 22, 1971; Arizona native) Fox News/co-host on Fox & Friends Weekend. Grew up in a military family. Rachel's father, Miguel, was a CMSgt in the Air Force. Both Sean & Rachel are actors so let's hope for a much better show that actually takes useful action.


If you're freezing your buns off in London, this might warm ya up a bit...or not.

Antarctica

‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’

The others nod, pretending not to know.
At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.

He leaves them reading and begins to climb,
Goading his ghost into the howling snow;
He is just going outside and may be some time.

The tent recedes beneath its crust of rime
And frostbite is replaced by vertigo:
At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.

Need we consider it some sort of crime,
This numb self-sacrifice of the weakest? No,
He is just going outside and may be some time

In fact, for ever. Solitary enzyme,
Though the night yield no glimmer there will glow,
At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.

He takes leave of the earthly pantomime
Quietly, knowing it is time to go.
‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’
At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime.

– Derek Mahon

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Nov 19, 1969: the all-Navy crew of Apollo 12 land on the moon at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms"). CDR Charles "Pete" Conrad and CDR Alan L. Bean became the 3rd and 4th men to walk on the surface while CDR Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit in the Command Module "Yankee Clipper".




Mullygrubber Bragg soon going down...





Hillary Clinton's Uranium Giveaway to Russia Is About to Bite Us



Elton Britt – Uranium Fever (1955)




Don't get too comfy...




U.S. intelligence community issued a classified assessment concluding that nuclear war would be bad for the economy. Wow, thanks for that tip!



Foreign Threats to US Elections After Voting Ends in 2024


Just think, by January this RINO loser will be gone from the Senate.




Why is it called a debt clock?


You ever see a clock run backward? The debt will never go down. Though, WWIII might take care of that pesky problem.





Wow! More Star Trek in ten minutes than we've had in the last ten years!!

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November 20, 1921: lawyer Jim Garrison (Mr. X-Files) was born in Denison, Iowa. He’s best known for his investigation and failed trial into the assassination of John F. Kennedy which featured in the Oliver Stone film JFK. His investigation led him to linking an Aerospace assassination team, but was never able to conclusively prove.




November 20, 1944: After 5 years the nightly WWII blackout ended in London. Blackout regulations began on September 1, 1939. They required windows and doors to be covered at night. External lights such as street lights were switched off or dimmed.




November 20, 1983: The Day After aired on ABC on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. It was watched by 100 million people — half of all American adults — and remains the most-watched made-for-TV movie of all time. It is still the fifth-most watched non-Super Bowl American TV broadcast in history after the series finale of M*A*S*H*, the episode of Dallas where they revealed who shot J.R., the series finale of Cheers, and the 1994 Olympic Ladies’ figure skating contest (which drew interest due to the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan controversy).

“The Day After, ABC‘s much-discussed vision of nuclear Armageddon, is no longer only a television film, of course; it has become an event, a rally and a controversy, much of it orchestrated.”
— The New York Times, November 20, 1983


TV VIEW; 'THE DAY AFTER': TV AS A RALLYING CRY

The Day After (1983 Full, Original - 1:75:1 Aspect Ratio):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyy9n8r16hs


Of course, Scientology tried to make a buck off THE DAY AFTER in 1983. Contact your local mind control church now for immediate purification, anytime!




LASL Panel on Tactical Nuclear Warfare Report of the Fifth Meeting (Short Title: TAC-5)
April 5 - 6, 1977
Note: fascinating yet terrifying read!


LASL panel on tactical nuclear warfare


Russia’s repeated nuclear warnings and latest verbal lowering of threshold for potential use of nukes demonstrate an almost desperate effort to be taken seriously. Whether it will be or actually changes likely use of nukes is another question.


The challenge for the Russians is finding rungs in the ladder that link where they are right now with getting to that Light Brighter Than a Thousand Suns.

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 19.11.2024 No. 991
"On approval of the Fundamentals of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the field of nuclear deterrence" (Russian Gov Official publication of legal acts) It's 8 pages worth if you're really interested.

Electromagnetic Impulse Weapon

Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Permanent Select on Intelligence, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and head of the U.S. delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly delivered a major speech 20 June 2024 about the Russian nuclear anti-satellite threat at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The Biden Administration, only after having been challenged by a group of bipartisan Members of the House Intelligence Committee, reluctantly declassified that Russia is developing a nuclear anti-satellite weapon intended to be placed in orbit in outer space. No additional information has been released. News reports have speculated that the weapon is past development, exists, and is preparing to launch. Additional news reports have speculated that Russia already has a satellite in orbit that is a "test" first phase of Russia's anti-satellite nuclear weapon system. Without confirming or denying the accuracy of any of these reports, the questions they raise must be answered by the Biden Administration immediately.

"Regardless of Russia's timing or the possible immediacy of this evolving threat, this crisis is the "Cuban Missile Crisis in Space," and the Administration is failing. The advances that mankind has made during the Space Age are at risk, and the Administration is sleepwalking into an irreversible "Day Zero."... In order to avoid "Day Zero" the Biden Administration must immediately declassify all known information concerning the status of Russia's nuclear anti-satellite weapons program. Vladimir Putin thrives in secrecy. Putin's plans and weapons programs must be fully disclosed by the Administration and understood by the world.... The Biden Administration is incredibly reluctant to take any action that would appear to be escalatory. However, Russia is the aggressor, and an escalation has already occurred. Now, the United States must stand strong with our allies to stop "Day Zero" and preserve space, as the UN Outer Space Treaty intended, for the betterment of all mankind."

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Around that time there was also evidence of renewed Russian interest in their Novaya Zemlya nuclear test range, silent since the end of the Cold War. Then on 03 October 2023 Margarita Simonova, editor-in-chief of the Russian Today propaganda empire, proposed using a nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon.

This plan might proceed in eight stages:

    description of the concept, already in progress.
    Denunciation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, already in progress.
    Announcement of an intention to resuming testing.
    Conduct an underground nuclear test in the Arctic.
    A nuclear test in space above Siberia, creating a damaging EMP over Russian territory and crippling many satellites in space.
    A nuclear attack against the US, with a nuclear detonation in space, over Manhattan, which could cause a blackout across the Northeastern United States and damage or destroy electronic devices.
    A nuclear attack against the entire US, with a nuclear detonation in space, over the central USA, which could cause a blackout across the whole USA, and damage or destroy electronic devices.
    further escalation

Simonyan said the EMP taatcks over Siberia, which would render all iPhones and iPads useless, would take us "back to the year of 1993 or so, corded phones". She added: "I'll tell you. It was a wonderful life." It would be the “most humane” and “harmless” form of nuclear blackmail, she claimed, but her outburst appeared too extreme even for her paymasters in the Kremlin.

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Nov 20, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis formally ends... The worldwide US Forces DEFCON 3 status was returned to DEFCON 4 on this day. The world is saved, although General Curtis LeMay was not a happy camper and told the President that the resolution of the crisis was the "greatest defeat in our history"; JFK told'em to F'off. 62 years later... Nuclear doctrines & Panic Attacks.


The same day JFK was delivering his historic address on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Ray Milland's PANIC IN YEAR ZERO! was replaying at the Congress theater in Washington, D.C. (it was playing in other cities as well).


November 20, 1963: US Congress member Hale Boggs warned President John F. Kennedy concerning his upcoming motorcade through Dallas on 22 November: "Mr. President, you’re going into a hornet’s nest."

Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (February 15, 1914 – disappeared over Alaska in October 16, 1972; declared dead December 29, 1972) was an American Democratic Party politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the House majority leader and a member of the Warren Commission.


In 2020, Boggs's disappearance was investigated in a podcast produced by iHeartMedia called Missing in Alaska.

U.S congressional representative from Louisiana (1941-1943, 1947-1973).

November 22, 1963 - Congressman Hale Boggs' statement following President John F. Kennedy's death.




Meanwhile...




Fox News

The Guardian (Ursula von der Lunatic doesn't look happy)

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In case you're wondering, this is my office of Hieronymus Bosch, where I post from...




Eduard Habsburg in knightly outfit...




Nov 20, 1996: LAPD Sergeant, John Spartan, was frozen in a cryo-prison. He was framed for the deaths of 32 hostages, which Simon Phoenix had already killed.


Nov 20, 2019: Blade Runner Rick Deckard first met Rachael. Rick performed the Voight-Kampff test on her in Blade Runner, determining her to be a replicant. Date revealed in Blade Runner 2049 (2017).



Take a trip down a rabbit hole with alt media cast of characters...


It's currently streaming on Amazon. I'm sure it will be free on other platforms in near future.

Mark Devlin interviews filmmakers Ryder Lee and Jay Weidner about the new documentary: A Clockwork Shining.






5th-century amulet depicting Solomon defeating the devil found in Turkey


Like so many others... what happened to George Knapp? Kinda sounds like he went the way of the fools & spooks he was originally criticizing in this news report.




Solve the RIDDL and win a prize...


Rapid Inhibitor Discovery and Development pipeLine (RIDDL)


LOL, this will be fun to watch...




I'm just a joskin living in apanthropy while some in England are wark & sniveling with kogarashi while pondering nullibicity Anglish banners and the Scots chasin langlugs in the Loch Awe skafer.

Words for Wodan's day...




The ghost of Emily Brontë is whispering...

The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.

Clouds beyond clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me;
I will not, cannot go.


I'm off to Nullibicity Ranch...


...And my friends keep me safe. Attempt no entry.

According to this map I'm also in a nuclear safe zone.


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