Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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A few pages from Bible Symbols (1908) which has, as the subtitle eloquently explains “the choicest passages of God's word put in the fascinating garb of pictures”.

Frank Beard (1842–1905) led many lives before designing hieroglyphic bibles. A successful political cartoonist by the age of seventeen, he drew one of the most widely reproduced Civil War satires, and was hailed as “the father of the American cartoon” by the Los Angeles Times in 1895. Deaf since childhood, he became a sought-after raconteur, famous for delivering “chalk talks”, lectures illustrated by rapidly drawn visuals. Touring the nation, his “sparkling, genial discourse about the mysteries of picture-making” — as a contemporary brochure described the act — entranced audiences almost as much as his lightning-quick pen. As he aged, politics gave way to an interest in religious education, and his belief in the transparency of visual communication led him to illustrate bibles in a pictographic idiom.

Beard’s first foray into this artform was Picture Puzzles, or, How to Read the Bible by Symbols (1899), followed by the more traditionally illustrated One Hundred Sermon Pictures (1902), and several editions of the volume on display above, Bible Symbols (first published in 1904). He did not invent the hieroglyphic bible — rather, Bible Symbols numbers among the last of this type of book to achieve widespread popularity. According to Benjamin Lindquist, who has written the definitive article on Beard’s life, the earliest known specimen dates to 1687, produced in Augsburg, Germany. As Egyptomania increasingly preoccupied the American mind in the nineteenth century, hieroglyphic bibles became one of the most popular forms of religious literature. The texts and images in Bible Symbols work like a rebus, mixing icons and scripture to provide multimedia access to the word of God. There is an impulse toward the universal here — in a corrupt and fallen world, a new visual language might help recover what was lost when Babel crumbled — and a pedagogic aspect, too. Employed in this way, images become mnemonics, and slow down the eye to inspire deeper contemplation, richer access. Despite questing after timeless truths, Beard was also a fallible man of his era. A hieroglyph of Native Americans stands in for “barbarous people”; a tableau that seemingly connotes “belief” shows people of color crouching before a white missionary. Pictures, just like words, bear a trace of their creator.

Through the Eye to the Heart: Bible Symbols (1908 edition)

June 25, 1969: THE CHAIRMAN premiered in NYC.



Location shooting in Hong Kong was refused by the country's government on the grounds of possible breach of the peace following demonstrations and propaganda campaigns mounted by Hong Kong communists claiming the film was anti Mao and anti Chinese consequently filming was transferred to Taiwan.


June 25, 1975: ROLLERBALL premiered.




June 25, 1980: Hanger 18 premiered in Tucson, AZ




June 25, 1982: BLADE RUNNER was released. Acclaimed as one of the greatest science fiction movies ever made, and among director Ridley Scott’s greatest films. Are you ready for the Voight-Kampf test.


"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave." ― Roy Batty

There was a 1974 novel by Alan Nourse titled, The Bladerunner about smuggling medical equipment. Ridley Scott bought the rights to the title, but not the book. During production, Scott did an interview with where he said he preferred British crews because: "When I ask for something, they say ‘yes guvnor’ and do it. Not the case with American crews." This did not go down well with the American team Scott was working with.

One of the big questions and talking points from the film is whether or not Deckard is a replicant. Harrison Ford has said Deckard isn’t a replicant, and Ridley Scott has said he is. There are some hints in the film. At various points replicants are seen with a red glow in their eyes. The only "human" character who is seen with a red glow in their eyes is Deckard.

The character Gaff makes 3 origami creatures through the film: a chicken, a man, and a unicorn. He leaves the unicorn at Deckard’s apartment. Earlier, Deckard has a dream about a unicorn. How would Gaff know this, unless Deckard’s dreams have been implanted – i.e. he’s a replicant?

There are differences to the novel:
- Philp K. Dick makes it clear that Deckard is human. He takes the Voight-Kampff test and passes it.
- The book is set after World War Terminus which has led to mutants called Chicken heads.
- There’s a religion called the Mercers who are psychic.

Here's a scholarly paper: MEDITATIONS ON BLADE RUNNER (2005) by Martin, Michael. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies.


43 years today since the crew of US Outpost 31 gave their lives so that we might live. Rest easy, lads.




Happy 100th Birthday to June Lockhart.




Interesting:


https://x.com/AstroTerry/status/1937101647391736111




Map explainer at 37:15

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A giant electrified model of the human brain's control system is demonstrated by Dr. A.G. Macleod, at the meeting of the American Medical Association in New York, on June 26, 1961. The maze of twisting tubes and blinking lights traces the way the brain receives information and turns it into thought and then action.




A thin TV screen (only 4 inches thick!) with an automatic timing device to record TV programs for later viewing is the wave of the future as shown at the Home Furnishings Market in Chicago, Illinois, on June 21, 1961.




June 26, 1987: Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET was released. The film is based on the semi-autobiographical novel THE SHORT-TIMERS by Gustav Hasford. Hasford served in Vietnam as a combat correspondent with the 1st Marine Division during the Tet Offensive.



Val Kilmer audition tape for Full Metal Jacket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb_DE7iSPIw

Matthew Modine got the "Joker" role instead of Kilmer.

Kubrick and writer Michael Herr worked closely but Kubrick only spoke to Hasford on the phone. He wanted to meet Hasford but Herr said “he’s a very scary man.” Kubrick and Hasford did meet and it went so badly Hasford was kept out of the writing process for the rest of the film.


Billy Don Moyers, gone at age 91. He lied extravagantly about Lyndon Johnson, first about his worth and then about his legacy. And then, like many of his contemporaries in the Johnson administration, he simply refused to go away.  In 2023 he told The Guardian exactly what President Johnson said after LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and talked about losing the South.


After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Mr. Moyers, not yet 30, became one of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s lieutenants. Time magazine called him "LBJ’s young man in charge of everything". He was named White House press secretary in July 1965. He was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, from 1967 to 1974. He was also a onetime steering committee member of the annual Bilderberg Meeting. Later a Newsday publisher before becoming an acclaimed television journalist, mostly for PBS.

Bill Moyers: The Secret Government [1987]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4P-69y1nl8



Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine, shows a test demonstration of the GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) 30,000lb “Bunker Buster” Bomb during today’s press conference at the Pentagon.

Gen. Caine stated that 15 years went into working on the bombing plan for the Fordow Nuclear Facility in Iran, adding that PhDs working on classified GBU-57 “Bunker Bursting” Bomb Program were the “biggest users of supercomputers” in the United States. Before concluding with a statement clarifying that the GBU-57s dropped from B-2s on Fordow “functioned as designed” by the U.S. Air Force.



The fact that General Caine said we had a guy watching the construction of the nuclear sites for 16 years, then made a specific bomb to deal with it, just like in the movie STAR WARS or in TOP GUN: MAVERICK, right down the ventilator shaft, except multiple times is rather astonishing. Apparently, The FORCE was definitely with these B-2 pilots.

The video of GBU-57 Massive Ordinance Penetrator Test was released today which I assume was done to hush up the media about the Iran bombing reports. Fox news had this on loopback this morning.


General Caine on GBU-57:

"Unlike a conventional land-based bomb, you won't see a crater from the impact because they're designed to burrow deep and then detonate."

Also:

"One of the pilots who dropped the bombs on Fordow told me it was the brightest explosion he had ever seen. It literally looked like daylight."

Hmmmmmmm.

Gen. Dan Caine gave a step-by-step recounting of how Patriot crews shot down Iranian missiles. US and Qatari air defenses intercepted Iran's ballistic missile strikes on Monday night at Al Udeid Air Base. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said officials believe it's the largest single Patriot engagement in US military history. Sorry Ukraine, all were expended.

The Trump Department of Defense seems to realize that it is not only important to win the war, it is even more important to win the legend. Thus it is retelling stories about recent engagements in the manner elders might have told it by the campfire in the days of old.

What's Left of Iran's Nuclear Bunkers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF3_O7x7IW8


I  thought that looked familiar...







When was the last time the whole US intelligence apparatus pounded home a narrative so hard into your brain that it bleeds?




Trump's omnipotence is so great he shapes reality by assertion. I want to know who his ghost-writer is...

[Ninurta]

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When was the last time the whole US intelligence apparatus pounded home a narrative so hard into your brain that it bleeds?

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In my recollection, it was when they told us the Hunter Biden Laptop was "Russian disinformation".

According to my analysis, that makes Hunter Biden an unregistered Russian Spy, since he is the one who planted the alleged "disinformation", but no one in the intel community noticed that at the time, and to date he has not been prosecuted for his foreign espionage activities.

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[Bally002]

So who the hell is Terry Virst.  Apart from a mouthy astronaut who is no more qualified than Katy Perry.

He wants to be a what?

Bally

[EndtheMadnessNow]

So who the hell is Terry Virst.  Apart from a mouthy astronaut who is no more qualified than Katy Perry.

He wants to be a what?

Bally

It was the first I ever heard of him. In his campaign clip he sounds like a conservative republican.

*****

June 27, 1499: Amerigo Vespucci (9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) sights what is now Amapá State in Brazil.


Chronicle of America

In 1761 between the mystery schools & secret societies were putting forward a kind a female deity that they called "Columbia" which was the actual name for America. Some claim it was Amerigo Vespucci where we got the name "America" but we don't really know and he never personally took credit for the name. He was a traveler but the interesting piece about him is he had his own printing press. Going back into the Templar history their name for their kind of New Atlantis was MERICA. The Egyptian/Templar/Mason name for Sirius is Merica.


Congrats, you won an all expense paid trip to Ipanema Beach in Rio on Rogue Airlines!


A song made the girl from Ipanema famous.

Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes walking. And when she passes, each one she passes goes, ah.

"The Girl From Ipanema" popularized Brazilian bossa nova in the United States and beyond, thanks to the singing of Astrud Gilberto. It was the first song she ever recorded. It brought her worldwide recognition, but not royalties. Astrud Astrud Gilberto born Astrud Evangelina Weinert (March 29, 1940 – June 5, 2023) was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer and songwriter.







Today is National Sunglasses Day. President John F. Kennedy donned a pair of shades when he visited USS Oriskany (CVA-34) in June 6, 1963. Perhaps he needed to protect himself from the bright glare of the "rainbow sideboys" who greeted him!




The most frequently used ship names in US Navy history are USS Ranger (10), USS Enterprise (9), USS Washington (9), USS Wasp (9), USS Hornet (8), USS Morris (8), and USS Niagra (8). The US Navy also has an experimental unmanned surface vessel in Ghost Fleet Overlord named USV Ranger. The Royal Navy and its predecessors have had 39 vessels bearing the name Swallow.


Ghost Fleet Overlord is a U.S. Navy program developing large unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to enhance naval operations through autonomy. Launched in 2018 with the Department of Defense, it tests vessels like USV Ranger and Mariner for surveillance, logistics, and combat roles, reducing risks to human crews. Achievements include long-range autonomous transits, such as 3,200 nautical miles to Japan, and integrating advanced systems like virtualized Aegis. However, full autonomy is not yet achieved, requiring some human oversight, and integrating USVs with manned fleets remains complex. Costs and long-term strategic value are also under scrutiny. The program continues to evolve, balancing potential with many ongoing challenges.


June 27, 1967: Popular comedy actor Reg Varney officially opened Britain’s 1st cash dispenser at Barclays Bank, Enfield, London. The machine was the brainchild of John Shepherd-Baron. Varney was the first member of the public to use the new machine.



TV Theme On The Buses (Reg Varney)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d55a6EDxqAA


June 27, 1971: UK’s 1st National Scrabble Championship was held in London. It was the brainchild of writer Gyles Brandreth and supported by the game’s manufacturers J. W. Spear & Sons. The winner was Stephen Haskell, a teacher, with an aggregate of 1,345 points. The tournament is held annually since its inception in 1971 (except 1995, 2020, & 2021). The youngest champion was 15-year-old Allan Saldanha in 1993.


Gyles Brandreth is a British broadcaster, writer and former politician. He has worked as a television presenter, theatre producer, journalist, author & publisher.
In 1971, author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth visited Bristol Prison whilst conducting research for a book and noticed the inmates playing Scrabble; at around the same time, he also saw the Royal Family playing the game in a British TV documentary. He placed a small ad in The Times inviting anyone interested in taking part in a National Scrabble Championship to contact him. Hundreds replied, and after he contacted the game's owners at the time, J. W. Spear & Sons, the Championships were born.


June 27, 1975: Professional golfers Lee Trevino and Jerry Heard are struck by lightning when a thunderstorm threatens the Western Open PGA Tournament, near Chicago. Both were hospitalized with burns and Trevino suffered spinal injuries. My late uncle practiced with Trevino in the 70s-80s at his upstate NY country club. Both were Marines, Trevino a machine gunner, my uncle a sniper & also shot by a sniper (he lived), both hit by lightning on a golf course, the same golf course, both lived, both had 6 kids, both lived in Florida, both were/are wealthy, Trevino is still with us at age 85.




No wonder the Washington Evening Star went out of business (bankrupt in 1981)... It was announced on June 27, 1980 that 902nd Military Intelligence officer Martin W. Barry, a signal supervisor at Fort Meade, won $3,500 in the Pruzzle contest. 6.5 years earlier he had a close encounter.


The very spooky 902nd Military Intelligence Group at Fort Meade is responsible for carrying out proactive counterintelligence activities worldwide. Its mission includes detecting, identifying, assessing, countering, neutralizing, and exploiting foreign intelligence entities and insider threats to safeguard the Army and Department of Defense forces, information, and technology.

In 1978 Joseph W. McMoneagle was assigned to the Headquarters of U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) in Arlington, Virginia, where he culminated his career acting as a Special Projects Intelligence Officer with the 902nd Military Intelligence Group for the remainder of his service.

The U.S. Army recently marked the activation of the new Army Counterintelligence Command with a ceremony on July 28, 2022. As a result, the 902nd Military Intelligence Group was inactivated in a separate ceremony held earlier that day. This step was taken to align Army counterintelligence efforts with the protection of Army and Department of Defense modernization initiatives. They still exist today, just rebranded under a new name.

As ALWAYS, where you find spooky UFO encounters, you will find human spooks lurking in the shadows.


June 27, 1985: The famous Route 66 also known as the "Mother Road" was officially removed from the US Highway System. It originally covered a total of 2,448 miles from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, It was recognised in popular culture by the hit song (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup.


Nat King Cole, with the King Cole Trio, first recorded the song in 1946 at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles. Capitol Records released it as a single, which reached number three on Billboard magazine's Race Records chart and number eleven on its broader singles chart. Cole later re-recorded the tune for the album After Midnight (1956) and The Nat King Cole Story (1961).
Over the decades numerous cover versions came out. Here's one from 1975:

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June 27, 1950: Destination Moon Premiered. Directed by Irving Pichel, Starring John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore, written by Alford Van Ronkel, Robert A. Heinlein, James O'Hanlon.




Ghost of the Coast, Los Angeles-class (688i) submarine USS Asheville (SSN-758), preparing to undock earlier this month from floating submarine dry dock ARCO (ARDM 5) at Naval Base Point Loma where she's been for maintenance since October of last year. Soon headed back to Guam.




Peter Thiel, in a new interview, says the Antichrist couldn't be an "evil tech genius," but instead would be someone like Greta Thunberg. Thiel's Founders Fund currently has billions invested in AI surveillance firms like Palantir and Anduril.

Naturally, the real Antichrist is the person who would seek to stop Skynet, not the one trying to create it (or the technology itself)! Greta was brought up 11 times!! Thiel’s obviously smart but damn he’s weird. I think his rigid belief in Catholicism limits his world view and as such is a dangerous person to hold power.


Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

I've never seen any super rich dude more obsessed with the antichrist than Peter Thiel. This guy is like a super villain from a movie in real life. Is he trying to sound like this? Or does he just have no self-awareness? Most people at least try to hide that they are pure evil. Incredible that he's linking himself to Francis Bacon. All the world's a stage.

The whole DOGE destruction of government? Thiel wanted to do that during the first Trump term. Curtis Yarvin’s influence over the Republican Party? Thiel funded him and pushed his ideas for decades. Vice President JD Vance? Thiel funded his entire career and political rise.

Unfortunately, the Failing Times does not get into any of this. Instead, he simply gives Thiel a platform to deliver his usual talking points. For example, Thiel brings up Charles Manson and LSD and hippies, as he has been doing for years. But the more relevant pairing in a discussion with Thiel is Curtis Yarvin and LSD & hippies. From a recent New Yorker profile of Yarvin:

Politically and culturally, Yarvin was a liberal—“a big old hippie,” as Tanner [Yarvin’s ex-girlfriend] put it. He had a ponytail, wore a silver hoop earring, dropped acid at raves, and wrote poetry.

And then Yarvin, embraced by Thiel, went on to develop a scary political theory that is proving far more influential than anything Manson ever imagined. The vice president of the United States quotes Yarvin and follows him on Twitter. Manson could never have dreamed of such White House clout.

Here is a sampling of headlines:



Some other real questions the New York Times could have asked Thiel:

Curtis Yarvin, the pro-monarchy extremist who wants to end American democracy, has been getting a lot of attention. You have supported him for decades, and now his ideas are being adopted by the Trump administration. DOGE, for example, was directly inspired by Yarvin’s RAGE (Retire All Government Employees). How do you explain your current relationship to Yarvin, and do you consider DOGE a success? Do you agree with Yarvin that we need a system besides democracy, and what would that be?

And how about, You have said the Antichrist will be someone who speaks about Armageddon nonstop in order to seize totalitarian power. Peter, you talk about Armageddon, apocalypse and the Antichrist with an alarming frequency. Your surveillance company, Palantir, is developing a trove of data on American citizens that resembles the totalitarian Big Brother from Orwell’s 1984. By your own definition, aren’t you a good candidate for Antichrist?

Also, you’ve spent years warning that liberal democracy is collapsing and that Silicon Valley is spiritually bankrupt. Yet you've made billions from both. Is your critique sincere, or is it just another BS branding strategy to consolidate wealth and power while appearing "contrarian" or anti-establishment?

You have invested in Seasteading and Pronomos Capital, which seek to create new corporate-governed cities to compete with existing democratic nations. Trump’s so-called Freedom Cities clearly match this idea, which reflects Yarvin’s idea for "Patchwork" nations and Balaji Srinivasan’s idea for so-called Network States. Why is this idea important to you, and how far do you think it will get under Trump?


AMERICA? You have long warned against the supposed dangers of multiculturalism and democracy. Now, decades later, you're funding candidates and thinkers who openly challenge those same ideals. But the United States is a multicultural democracy. What’s your endgame, and does the USA still exist in that future?

You often speak in religious and apocalyptic terms, but you fund people and movements that thrive on chaos, disinformation, and authoritarianism. Are you trying to save the West, or are you accelerating its collapse in hopes of rebuilding something more to your liking?

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age is one of your favorite books. You wrote the preface to the 2020 reprint of the book — a very apocalyptic work that predicted the rise of crypto and the fall of nation-states. Why is that book so damn important to you? And do you think its prophecies are largely on track?

You seem weirdly terrified of death. Are you going to die someday, or do you have other plans to live forever? Do you believe in reincarnation?

But NYT columnist Ross Douthat of "Interesting Times" podcast does not ask any questions about the eXtreme Silicon Valley ideologies which now hold a lot of influence in American politics. Instead, we get a bland repeat of the same bizarre ideas Thiel promotes in all of his interviews. The word "democracy" doesn’t appear once in the transcript.

When "journalists" offer platforms instead of scrutiny, tech-bro billionaires like Thiel get to launder fringe ideologies into public discourse while evading the tough important questions.

The growing cult worship of media propped up characters like Deus ex Elon & his fellow billionaire pals (Bill Gates, Bezos, Peter Thiel), Greta, Dr. St Fauci and the many celebs, to the worship of Pharmakeia is a strong indicator of societal demise into the false light of Lucifer...the master deceiver.

I heard Palantir was at the heart of the IAEA’s program for keeping tabs on Iran’s nuclear compliance.

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Trump mentioned the Paperclip being invented in 1817. However, the so-called modern paper clip was invented in the 1890s. Everyone laughs and fact-checks it.


That’s the bait.

What happened in 1817?

President Trump Participates in the One, Big, Beautiful Event - 6/26/25



Temporal Misdirection: He invokes "paperclip" and ties it to a wrong year on purpose. But 1817 isn’t random, that year marks the reforming of the New York Stock Exchange Board. A lot of what Trump does publicly and clandestinely is about the NY Stock Exchange. He’s connecting Paperclip (covert deep state machinery) with 1817 (the origin of centralized American capital power). He’s collapsing the industrial, financial, and covert into a single symbolic event.

James Monroe was inaugurated as the fifth U.S. president on March 4, 1817, marking the start of the "Era of Good Feelings," characterized by relative political unity and economic progress under the Democratic-Republican Party.

Operation Paperclip Signal:

Most minds will automatically goto Operation Paperclip. The post-WWII operation where the U.S. secretly absorbed Nazi scientists. These were the engineers of the nuclear bomb, Rocketry, MKUltra, Aerospace, DARPA.

That "paperclip" is a symbol of hidden state power, of turning evil into utility, secrecy into empire.

Trump’s invocation is a subconscious red pill:
What began as foreign dark science became the root of our modern shadow state.

1817 as the Genesis of Capture:

1817 marks the first formal fusion of state and market via the NYSE. He’s pointing to the origin of:

- Market narrative control
- Monetary manipulation
- Institutional collusion

So we arrive at Paperclip = hidden control infrastructure
1817 = the seed of financial capture

Together they say: The system you live in was engineered by covert design, through both finance and hidden tech. And it started much earlier than you think.

The Paperclip Is You:

The ultimate message?

You are the paperclip.

A manufactured tool, bent into shape, used to bind things together that should never have been connected - then discarded without thought. Trump is showing that history is not a linear sequence, it’s a circle of loops and callbacks.
And the people - us - are trapped in it unless we decide to decode the hidden agenda and break out of the Matrix.

Final Translation:

Trump didn’t misspeak. He planted a trigger.
And those who laughed missed it.
Those who looked closer woke up.

1817 was not about the paperclip.
It was about who controls the world and how long they’ve been doing it.
The real message isn’t in the paperclip. It’s in the glitch it causes.
That's your weekly wacky conspiracy.


Wenn der Sand "Drecksarbeit" macht. (When the sand does the dirty work)




Great Scot, FIREBALL!


Rare daytime fireball bright enough to be seen from orbit



One of these years in June we're gonna get whacked. Remember the Tunguska event, 30th June 1908?





Before the war restarts with Iran or who's ever next on the menu, How about a nice game of chess?

[Bally002]

So who the hell is Terry Virst.  Apart from a mouthy astronaut who is no more qualified than Katy Perry.

He wants to be a what?

Bally

It was the first I ever heard of him. In his campaign clip he sounds like a conservative republican.

*****

"Congrats, you won an all expenses paid trip to Ipanema Beach in Rio on Rogue Airlines!"

You flamin ripper mate.  Seat 11A please...!


Bally