Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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"In the Congo you made a promise to me..."

Another oath from that troubled Republic of the last dinosaur...

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It's National Camera Day. This Navy photographer on USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), has an impressive rig as he prepares for a reconnaissance mission in a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver in 1944. He can shoot with the massive aerial camera or with the Helldiver's rear twin .30 caliber machine guns. Chief Petty Officer Hitchcock used this one over Germany in 1944.






June 29, 1927: For the first time in 200 years, a total eclipse of the sun was seen in Britain. Few people were lucky enough to witness the spectacle, but those in Giggleswick in Yorkshire were able to see a perfect, full eclipse, which lasted for less than 30 seconds.




June 29, 1956: Marilyn Monroe married the esteemed US playright, Arthur Miller, in a 4-minute civil ceremony in Westchester County Court House in White Plains, New York State. The bride was 30 and the groom 40. The marriage lasted until 20 January 1961, when John F. Kennedy was sworn in Office as 35th president. No coincidence.




June 29, 1967: Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield (aged 34), was killed in a car accident at 2:25AM on her way to New Orleans, Louisiana. Her boyfriend/attorney Sam Brody and Ronnie Harrison were killed as well. Jayne's three children, Mickey Hargitay, Zoltan Hargitay and Mariska Hargitay survived the crash.

Contrary to media reports that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, although she did suffer severe (scalping) head trauma. Hollywood's "smartest dumb blonde" was allegedly intimately involved with numerous men, including Robert and John F. Kennedy, her attorney Samuel S. Brody, and Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Sardelli.



In America the barriers on the back of all tractor-trailers today are known as Mansfield bars...a safety feature fitted to trucks & lorries after her accident which took the trucking industry years of gov't litigation before finally implementing through years of trial & failure. The crashed car was saved by a private collector in Florida, where it became a roadside attraction in the 1970s, then was on display by the Dearly Departed Tours & Artifact Museum in LA until the COVID-19 pandemic, when it went into storage, and was never seen again. However, you can get a virtual tour. If interested see this Dearly Departed Tours history vid which has a re-enactment of the fatal crash scenario:




Homeless in Texas...

USS Texas Might Be Homeless in Texas

Summary and Key Points: Efforts to preserve the USS Texas, the only surviving battleship to have served in both world wars, are ongoing, but finding a permanent home for the ship remains a challenge.

-The Battleship Texas Foundation has ruled out Seawolf Park due to high dredging costs. Instead, the ship is considered for relocation to Pier 21 in Galveston, though this faces opposition from a local restaurant concerned about obstructing harbor views.

-Despite these hurdles, restoration work continues on the USS Texas, which had previously been docked at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site for over 70 years.

USS Texas: The Historic Battleship's Search for a New Home

Efforts to restore and help preserve the only surviving battleship to see service in both world wars continue—and while the New York-class battleship USS Texas (BB-35) has apparently successfully fended off its greatest post-World War II enemies (time and the elements) for now, another fight continues.

That is, namely, where the honorary flagship of the Texas Navy will next call home.

The Houston Chronicle reported this week that a fight from a popular restaurant could derail plans to see the warship relocated to Pier 21 in Galveston. The "award-winning" Katie's Seafood House launched a viral social media campaign that warned how BB-35's presence would block the postcard-worthy view of the harbor that includes Pelican Island and a "mosquito fleet" of shrimping boats.

The eatery—which is reported to be a Texas institution—even drafted a Change.org petition that urged Galveston Wharves Board of Trustees, the public entity that manages the port including Pier 21, to block the relocation of USS Texas. Apparently, food and a few of the boats that Forrest Gump might own seem more important than finding a home for a historically significant warship.

A couple of 14" or 16" shells could eliminate the restaurant problem. Just sayin.



Several hundred vintage photos of mighty Texas at  Battleship Photo Archive


US Naval tradition dictates that when a pilot mistakenly lands on the wrong aircraft carrier... fellow crew members do their absolute best to remain discreet so as not to embarrass the pilot. Or not! An A-7 from JFK trapped aboard Saratoga that had Hornets.


It happens now & then. When there used to be more than one carrier in a task group, if an aircraft landed accidentally on the wrong ship, some fun was had before sending him "home". In addition, there was always a ransom payment before getting the jet back. Usually tens of gallons of ice cream and the latest reel-to-real 16mm movies.

Remember this? Note how casually they lie...


US cites AI deepfakes as reason to keep Biden recording with Robert Hur secret

No serious person believes what DOJ says here. That’s a problem. Each time the DOJ does things like this, its institutional capital decays a little more. Bit by bit, eventually the balance of the nation has no faith in its Department of Justice. Obviously many people already came to that conclusion years ago, but not yet everyone. That is cancerous in a republic.


Jump in the water’s fine...


LOL, my kids ate apples on his apple farm.


Congo to bongos...

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June 30, 1894: London’s Tower Bridge was officially opened to traffic. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and has become a world-famous feature of the London skyline.




June 30, 1937: The world’s first emergency telephone service “999” was introduced in London. It allowed a caller to contact the emergency services for urgent assistance. All 999 calls are always free.


The system was introduced following a house fire in Wimpole Street on 10 November 1935, in which five women were killed. A neighbour had tried to telephone the fire brigade and was so outraged at being held in a queue by the Welbeck telephone exchange that he wrote a letter to the editor of The Times, which prompted a government inquiry.  999: can somebody help?


"What Price Bikini?" editorial cartoon by Bruce Russell (1903-1963) published June 30, 1946.



June 30, 1946: the goddess "Gilda" went atomic.


"The tradition of tagging some tongue-in-cheek message or name upon bombs has been carried out for the A-bomb. The world's greatest potential for large-scale destruction has been dubbed 'GILDA,' after the recent movie by Hollywood star Rita Hayworth." - Radio announcer, June 30, 1946.


The first test was Able. The bomb was named Gilda after Rita Hayworth's character in the 1946 film Gilda, and was dropped from the B-29 Superfortress Dave's Dream of the 509th Bombardment Group on June 30, 1946 (July 1st in the states). It detonated 520 feet above the target fleet and caused less than the expected amount of ship damage because it missed its aim point by 2,130 feet.

Operation Crossroads radio coverage from this day in 1946...



Part 1 of Operation Crossroads radio coverage of the "Gilda" Atomic Test at Bikini Atoll - 1946:



Part 2 of radio coverage of the "Gilda" (or ABLE) atomic test at Bikini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsx0fRKlZcY


June 30, 1946: Susannah Gregory [1923-1946] jumped off the Arcady building in Los Angeles allegedly after listening to a radio broadcast about the Bikini A-bomb test. In late June of 1946, media hype over the first post-World War II test of an atomic weapon was hitting a fever pitch. News of the imminent Operation Crossroads detonation of the "Gilda" bomb at Bikini Atoll on June 30, 1946 (U.S. time zone) screamed from headlines and blared from radio broadcasts. There was even a (true) story about atomic scientists pasting a pinup photo of screen star Rita Hayworth on the weapon they had named after her hit film.

Two weeks after the Able shot: "Extra Added! ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION AT BIKINI. See for yourself the Most Important Event of a Lifetime!"




BIKINI ATOLL EVACUATION PRIOR TO CROSSROADS ATOMIC BOMB TEST 70594




June 30, 1951: a group of about 30 Japanese soldiers and sailors on Anatahan finally surrendered to the US Navy. The group had been larger but infighting thinned their ranks over the years after they learned how to make coconut wine and began to battle over the island's only woman.

The strange story of the “Queen of Anatahan” and her 33 men

The story of Kazuko and her soldiers was retold in books and films, one of them directed by Josef von Sternberg. The lurid retellings largely paint the “Queen of Anatahan” as a Machiavellian temptress, manipulating men for her own entertainment. A few depict her as a helpless victim. The true story of what really happened on Anatahan will only ever be known to those who were there.

Anatahan is an island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and has one of the most active volcanoes of the archipelago. Although formerly inhabited, the island is currently uninhabited due to the constant danger of volcanic eruptions.


June 30, 1997: Britain handed Hong Kong back to China when the 99 year lease agreed with China expired at midnight. The lavish ceremony on July 1st 1997 was attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Charles and the Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Luckily I got to visit Hong Kong 3 times before this happened. First time I was shocked by how many British girls were living there and all the British pubs/night clubs. I was naive back then, just did not know.


Exactly one minute before midnight the Flag of the United Kingdom and the flag of British Hong Kong were slowly lowered to the British national anthem "God Save the Queen", symbolizing the end of British colonial rule in Hong Kong as very final and last time. A hiatus of exactly twelve seconds occurred between the British and the Chinese anthems due to a timing misunderstanding.

The missing ten seconds during the Hong Kong handover


Congratulations to James Donovan who was presented with the Arctic Star on his 105th birthday last week. Donovan is one of the last men to see Bismarck in action. He was serving aboard HMS King George V when the Royal Navy hunted down the dreaded German battleship in 1941.


One of the final sailors to witness the destruction of Hitler’s flagship Bismarck

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June 29, 1974: in music history, "Sundown" rises to the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The song will remain at the top spot for one week and would become Gordon Lightfoot's best-selling single. It is about infidelity, but Sundown is not the woman, but the other man who is pursuing her!





LA City Council saves Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood home from demolition

Troubling updates about the "saved" Marilyn Monroe house: in an exclusive with gossip blog TMZ, “sources close to” property owners Milstein-Bank say they “feel violated by the ruling and don't want to be forced to sell,” intend to fight the designation in court, and allege the property has a leaky roof which the owners do not intend to repair, as “the new designation makes it very complicated.” However, doing structural work that does not change a landmark’s appearance is not complicated: one need only apply for a standard LADBS permit and Office of Historic Resources will sign off. Not repairing a leaking roof would, in effect, lead to demolition by neglect.



TMZ blog

On Tuesday afternoon, the New York Post broke a most unusual Exclusive: a demolition permit was being sought for 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, a lovely 1929 Spanish Colonial hacienda with old trees on a large plot of land. But that’s not why it has its own Wikipedia page. It’s because Marilyn Monroe lived, and died, there…. (continues below)

One of the best sources on the Internet for this type of LA stuff refer to:
Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles



The Amazing Raze: Why Big-Money Buyers Are Demolishing Historic Homes


To end Pride month I give you a gay bar in Terre Haute, Indiana:




June 30, 1973: U.S. top 40 for. The artists at 1-2-3 finally get taste of success. Hadn’t been that long since they were doing a free concert on a nondescript rooftop somewhere.




June 30, 1974: Mrs Kintner posts a $3,000 bounty on the shark that killed her son the day before. Quint says he'll find the shark for $3,000, but kill it for $10,000.





The wait is over, America...





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The Biden Crime Family is supported by Joe on the taxpayers dollar. They will ride Joe like a Weekend at Bernies.

Ever since Joe Biden’s senior moments were broadcast nationwide in the first Presidential Debate of 2024, everyone has been talking about replacing him as the Democratic nominee.

And I mean everyone.

Forbes, CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, the BBC, the Evening Standard, Bloomberg, The Independent, The Economist, the New Yorker, Sky News, the Financial Times, Reuters, Politico, the Telegraph (the list goes on), all headlining some variant of…

Who could replace Joe Biden? Debate performance has Democrats in crisis talks

Of course, the weird thing here isn’t that Biden went senile, he does that all the time.
In 2019, before he was even “elected”, he was sucking on fingers and ambling around like a care home resident for all the world to see. He’s been like this everyday of his four years of Presidency.

The difference isn’t that Biden has suddenly gone senile, it’s that – for some reason – the media have decided to (finally) take notice.


Which means an agenda is in the offing.

But why?

They don’t need to replace him because he’s senile, as we already established he’s been senile this whole time. They don’t need to replace him to win the election either, because (whoever wins) the election will almost certainly be rigged.

The whole thing reeks of a set-up to be honest. They put him up on that stage knowing he could (and probably would) make a fool of himself so they could float replacing him.

With in 24 hours of the debate, The FT, the Guardian, Sky News, Politico, the Economist and the Specator had already published lists of possible replacements.

Popular names included California governor Gavin Newsom, Michelle Obama and good old Hillary (which would be hilarious).

There’s probably a lot of backroom negotiating over who gets to replace him right now, if that wasn’t decided months ago.

Or maybe it’s all psych-out and they stick Ridin’ with Biden.

Quick Take...Are they going to replace Biden?

Print edition...


NY Times & other media are now doing the same as what they did with Trump... publishing photo's of their backsides.


They reanimated the big guy for this case. So if you or anyone you know has information, perhaps you can help solve a mystery.

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July 1, 1908: SOS was adopted as the international distress signal. In Morse code, SOS, is signified by 3 dots, 3 dashes, then 3 dots (· · · – – – · · ·). SOS was chosen because it could not be misinterpreted as being a message for anything else.



I don't know when/who started it, but when I was in the Navy, "SOS" stood for "Shit On a Shingle", military slang for chipped beef on toast. It sucked, I hated it, we all did. I always opted for peanut butter & jam sandwiches.


July 1, 1914: the ships of the U.S. Navy officially became DRY under General Order No. 99 signed by Secretary of the Nay Josephus Daniels. Most ships spent the previous night having parties and mock funerals. British, French, German, and Dutch sailors rushed to any nearby American ship to help consume the last of the booze.


Grape juice was once the unofficial drink of the Navy


Editorial cartoon that appeared on the front page of the Chicago Tribune on July 1, 1946. Cartoon by Casey Orr [1890-1967].




PHOTO OF THE DAY: The Ice Cube Mask, used as a hangover cure in America (1947).


You might need one for summer nuclear politics. Originally invented by none other than Max Factor Jr., to cool down hot Hollywood actresses.

For the HOT summer I recommend the dunk & diet regiment...




July 1, 1989: Cher began shooting the video for "If I Could Turn Back Time" on board USS Missouri (BB-63). The Navy's hopes of using it as a recruiting tool were dashed when Cher changed into a revealing leather strap outfit that caused the video to be banned by several TV networks and the Navy admirals decided no more thinly dressed celebrities onboard warships.




Well, with their recruitment quotas at a historical low, maybe they should rethink that idea.


Today is Indiana Jones Day! The Indiana Jones franchise began when George Lucas and Steven Spielberg met to discuss making a movie based on the classic adventure serial DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY. Lucas wanted to make a B movie modeled on those serials and conceived The Adventures of Indiana Smith, featuring a daring archaeologist named after his Alaskan Malamute dog. Spielberg hated the name Indiana Smith. Lucas shelved the Indiana Smith project to focus on creating his own space opera, Star Wars (1977). Lucas and Spielberg ultimately decided to create the original character of Indy.


Don Winslow of the Navy is a 1942 Universal Pictures Serial film based on the comic strip Don Winslow of the Navy by Commander Frank V. Martinek. It was theatrically released in January 1942. IMDB | The 4 hour film is on Youtube.

Don Winslow of the Navy (comic strip) was an American comic strip created by Frank Victor Martinek and was distributed mostly by the Bell Syndicate from 1934 to 1955. The title character was a spy-chasing lieutenant commander in Naval intelligence. The comic strip led to a radio adventure serial that began in 1937, as well as film serials that began in 1942. Original comic book stories also appeared in Fawcett Comics titles starting in 1943. Although created primarily as a Navy recruitment and propaganda tool, the strip received high marks from Coulton Waugh for “excellent suspense, and ingenious, spine-joggling situations.” Ron Goulart credits Don Winslow with "intrigue, spychasing, beautiful women, and villains with names like Dr. Centaur, the Dwarf, and the Scorpion."

Maybe the Navy should resurrect this comic as a recruitment tool!

You can read the Feb 1943 comic issue here

Don Winslow of the Navy (radio program) was an American old-time radio juvenile adventure serial. It was broadcast on the Blue Network from October 19, 1937, until May 26, 1939, and was revived for a second run from October 5, 1942, until January 1, 1943.


July 1, 2007: Smoking in England was banned in all public indoor spaces, including, pubs, restaurants, nightclubs, and most workplaces. The smoking ban had already been introduced in Scotland (March 2006), and Wales and Northern Ireland (April 2007). Naturally, Australia implements a similar ban in 2007.




It's July, but look what Frieja's sis across the pond made me do...


July 1, 1972: The 1st Gay Pride march in England took place in London. The date was chosen as it was the nearest Saturday to the anniversary of the Stonewall riots of 1969. The crowd taking part was estimated as 200 people. In 2022, Royal Mail issued stamps in commemoration.
You can view the Royal Mail Pride stamps here.


"Thought the internet needed a better copy of this quote from the 1977 Nixon-Frost interviews. We've kept the video rolling after the quote for you to see the rest of Nixon's argument defending his statement."

Nixon - "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal" (7 min):




Look, this is progress... before, only the directors of the CIA and FBI could sign off on that.


The Nation |  Supreme Court Rules on Presidential Immunity, Requiring a New Hearing to Determine Which Acts of Trump's Were "Official" Acts

This I think will push the DC trial way past the election.


Monday's Joe Boketto Biden on regime vorfreude words...

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Happy World UFO day! "It's not just drones and balloons."




July 2, 1996: Aliens positioned their ships at major cities around the world.




Due to confusion over whether "M"-rated films (Mature-not recommended for children under the age of 15) were suitable for children, "M" was renamed to "GP" (for General audiences, Parental guidance, in 1971. On February 11, 1972, "GP" was revised to "PG." Frogs (1972) was one of the first films to earn a "PG" rating.


Many of the 500 Florida frogs and 100 South American cane toads purchased for use in the film escaped during production.


Drive like an Egyptian...




Prince & Princesses of the Holy Roman Empire



During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain in 1776 actually occurred on July 2, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia declaring the United States independent from Great Britain's rule.

July 2 was the day the Declaration was adopted but the 4th was the day it was published and first signatures were attached to it. John Adams thought July 2 would be marked as a national holiday for generations to come. The late historian Pauline Maier also said that arguments over the how to celebrate the Declaration arose between the Federalists (of John Adams) and the Republicans (of Thomas Jefferson) and that the Declaration and its anniversary day weren’t widely celebrated until the Federalists faded away from the political scene after 1812. Jefferson and Adams both passed away two days later, on the Fourth of July, 1826.
When is the real Independence Day: July 2 or July 4?


1902 American cartoon about celebrating the Fourth of July Caption: "A False Alarm on the Fourth" Uncle Sam tells Lady Peace: "It's all right. There's no fighting. The noise you hear is just my family celebrating!" Other information From the Library of Congress prints and photographs division Library of Congress description: Illustration shows Uncle Sam, holding a firecracker, trying to reassure a concerned-looking female figure with wings and wearing a gown labeled "Peace" that all the noise she hears is for the celebration of the Fourth of July. Celebrating with Uncle Sam are several figures labeled "Alaska, New York, Texas, Mass., Hawaii, Porto Rico, North, South"; one disgruntled figure labeled "Philippine" is climbing over a wall, also an African American is sitting near Uncle Sam. Some are lighting strings of firecrackers, "Texas" is shooting guns, and "Mass." is firing a cannon in the direction of the wall "Philippine" is climbing over. The U.S. Capitol building is in the background and a dove with olive branch hovers over the figure of "Peace".


Stepford Biden's house of cards appears to be crumbling...


President Trump's sentencing postponed by Judge Merchan until Sept 18 in NYC

If by chance Kamala Harris is the next president of the United States, we deserve to be taken over by China, Islam or Aliens, whichever is quicker.



(Non) compos mentis:

The Latin expression compos mentis literally means "master of (one's) own mind". It is used to express that one is "in possession" of one's mental capacities.

The word Latin word compos (perhaps derived from the adjective indeclinable potis, 'capable', 'he who can') is generally used with the genitive of that which the subject is in possession of: the mind (mentis), the soul (animi), the self (sui).

In today's speech, and especially in the field of law, the expression is used with the negation 'non compos mentis' to indicate a person who is insane or who is in defect of his full mental capacities and, therefore, cannot be held responsible for his actions.





(Good movie)


Ms. magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, July 1972

Holy voter suppression, Batgirl! What comics reveal about gender and democracy

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Happy 4th!




July 3, 1982, HMS Conqueror arrived in Scotland while flying a Jolly Roger to signify the sub's successful operations during the Falklands War.






In the new documentary "THE CONQUEROR: HOLLYWOOD FALLOUT," Utah resident Mary Dickson shares some gems from the A.E.C. prepared book "Atomic Tests in Nevada" (Government Publishing Office, 1955).




I was walking around these parts in 2016-17, barefoot. I'm sure they cleaned it all up by then, right?!



A former FEMA director Louis O. Giuffrida introduces a pre-broadcast screening of ABC's THE DAY AFTER to FEMA staff on Nov 14, 1983.



In 1970 while at the US Army War College, Giuffrida wrote a thesis (PDF) titled "National Survival—Racial Imperative", outlining a military contingency plan for the forcible relocation of some 500,000 black militant Americans to concentration camps in the event of a national emergency involving racial strife. Though debatable as the thesis states it would take 14 years to relocate them forcibly and appears to question if this is even realistic given the history of Japanese internment camps. His thesis became available after a journo filed a FOIA in 2014. He resigned as FEMA director following a congressional fraud investigation. Several years after leaving FEMA, Louis O. Giuffrida consulted on security matters for Lyndon LaRouche's defense team in his mail fraud trial.

Proponents have cited a contingency plan (Rex 84) drafted in part by U.S. Marine Colonel Oliver North calling for the suspension of the Constitution and the detainment of citizens in the event of a national crisis. This was aimed at left-wing activists, not the libertarians and right-wingers generally associated with FEMA theories. This has been linked to a 1970 document by Louis Giuffrida.

Project 908 saw FBI agents, working effectively undercover for FEMA, detailing large warehouses, automobile facilities, Masonic temples, Elks lodges, casinos, camp sites, Coca-Cola bottling plants, Indian bingo halls, country inns, furniture stores, and other potential relocation facilities. In Arkansas, agents lined up a meeting with Walmart executives to discuss using the company’s huge stores for Project 908, explaining as a cover that they wanted to learn crisis management techniques from companies that had large centralized leadership.

In May 1983 under National Security Directive 95 (signed by Reagan), Giuffrida & others established another 'Crisis' management project called "MEDUSA".

CRISIS INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CIMS) : PROJECT MEDUSA (PDF)

1984 correspondence between Louis O. Giuffrida & CIA deputy dir John N. McMahon: (note Project MEDUSA):


Archive.org (FEMA Dir Giuffrida's letter to CIA attached at link about a secure vault constructed for ALL intelligence, but need secure computer terminals within the vault...he recommends a SAFE IBM system)

In another project under same name, "MEDUSA" (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) is a portable directed-energy non-lethal weapon designed by WaveBand Corporation in 2003-2004 for temporary personnel incapacitation. i.e. Crowd Control. In 2005, Sierra Nevada Corporation acquired WaveBand Corporation.

The weapon is based on the microwave auditory effect resulting in a strong sound sensation in the human head when it is subject to certain kinds of pulsed/modulated microwave radiation...according to the Navy — SBIR/STTR Search Database.

SBIR = Small Business Innovation Research
STTR = Small Business Technology Transfer

The project received a positive initial evaluation from the US Navy. However, Sierra Nevada Corporation had discontinued (we are told) the project as of 2008, "possibly because it may have been shown to permanently damage human brain tissue".
Hmmm, Havana Syndrome, anyone?



CIA black magicians also covered in "Military Neuroscience and the Coming Age of Neurowarfare” (2017) by Armin Krishnan, citing Gordon Thomas book "Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse” (1989)

BTW, Sierra Nevada Corporation is of at this moment building the new NextGen National Airborne Operations Centers (NAOC) aka Doomsday plane. Though not expected to be delivered until July 2036. So, the 50 year-old EMP hardened Boeing E-4B "Nightwatch" Doomsday plane will just have to make do.



Here's a nice quote from Paul Linebarger, the father of modern psychological warfare:


Psychological Warfare By Paul M. A. Linebarger (1948). Linebarger studied both Allied and Axis propaganda efforts and concluded that the British were superior, because they disguised their propaganda as news. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966), better known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author known for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a US Army officer, a noted East Asia scholar, and an expert in psychological warfare. Although his career as a writer was shortened by his death at the age of 53, he is considered one of science fiction's more talented and influential authors.


That $2 million defense contractor CEO job with golden parachute must have come through!


Naval news

Bogus polls & headlines. Smells like summer of love 2020.


NY Times

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Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting into the media business hoping to cast his propaganda to connect with voters...


Gavin Newsom and Marshawn Lynch launch Politickin podcast

...and to think they took down the Teddy Roosevelt statue in NYC and the Lincoln statue in Boston, but they'll allow this podcrap.




About 10-15 years ago, China apparently recognized that the US could not possibly keep the USD "as good as gold for oil & other commodities" forever, and began cutting out the middleman, buying commodity supplies instead of US Technolgies with their USD surpluses. The Fed cannot print tungsten

Now China has got tung-stenacity!


The U.S. needs more of this critical metal — and China owns 80% of its supply chain

Three countries comprise ~93% of global primary supply:

    China: 84%
    Vietnam: 6%
    Russia: 3%

In other words, 87% of primary tungsten production comes from every Bond villain’s home country.

Deep dive on Tungsten... An Industry Primer on Tungsten


The most patient and persistent man in DC will have the last laugh...



I've been biffsquiggled on this weeks insuperable chaos of Swampington, DC!


Floppy death reincarnate...


Found in "Compatibles PC Magazine 2" 1987 -- of course a French Magazine


Foudroyant karma...


EconomyBen was a CNBC contributor, moderator, public speaker. Former NY Times reporter; FT US Banking Editor; Washington Post, POLITICO.


Media narratives & Time Traveler McAfee...


The CIA had to hit him with the hanging gun to prevent the truth from getting out.

NY Times story

It was the former White House deputy director of photography who leaked. LOL...

Former White House Photographer Joins Call for Biden to Drop Out: Report

Next excuse is they're gonna hide Biden's cognitive decline by saying he was hit by Havana Syndrome, aren't they? If nothing else, America is a circus and you'll be right most of the time predicting the most ridiculous events and character turns.


Vid clip comparison:
https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1807603930601578971


Lede to a story in the Wall Street Journal on donor conversations atop the Democratic Party. This is some truly bizarre galaxy brained stuff.


Biden Is Like Yoda


Waterfall Wednesday words...

This word "foudroyant" also concerns a person suddenly falling ill "une maladie foudroyante" (a devastating illness). Sometimes it’s hidden or a condition that develops. Cancer, for example or those Biden loyalists unable to see Biden's condition from 4 years ago.




It's the darkest hour
Of the darkest night
It's a million miles
From the morning light
Can't get no sleep
Don't know what to do
I've got those midnight blues...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy Independence Day!


























https://x.com/America_2100/status/1795495902661984405





Turn up the radio...
Here is the very first broadcast of "American Top 40" with Casey Kasem that aired on July 4, 1970.



CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP 40 - 7/4/70 DEBUT SHOW
40: END OF OUR ROAD - MARVIN GAYE
39: SILVER BIRD - MARK LINDSEY
38: SPILL THE WINE - ERIC BURDEN
37: GO BACK-CRABBY APPLETON
36: I JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVING-B.J. THOMAS
35: SPIRIT IN THE DARK-ARETHA FRANKLIN
34: MISSISSIPPI - JOHN PHILLIPS
33: WESTBOUND #9 - FLAMING EMBER
32: IT'S ALL IN THE GAME-FOUR TOPS
31: SAVE THE COUNTRY-FIFTH DIMENSION
30: OHIO CROSBY, STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG
29: EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL-RAY STEVENS
28: CHECK OUT YOUR MIND-IMPRESSIONS
27: QUESTION - MOODY BLUES
26: SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED - STEVIE WONDER
25: SUGAR, SUGAR - WILSON PICKETT
24: TEACH YOUR CHILDREN - CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG
23: WHICH WAY YOU GOIN' BILLY THE POPPY FAMILY
OLDIE: LITTLE OLE MAN - BILL COSBY
22: LOVE ON A TWO-WAY STREET - MOMENTS
21: MISSISSIPPI QUEEN-MOUNTAIN
20: MAKE IT WITH YOU - BREAD
19: ARE YOU READY-PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC
18: LOVE LAND-CHARLES WRIGHT & THE WATTS 103RD STREET RHYTHM BAND
17: TIGHTER & TIGHTER - ALIVE AND KICKING
16: MY BABY LOVES LOVIN'-WHITE PLAINS
15: A SONG OF JOY - MIGUEL RIOS
OLDIE: HELLO DOLLY-LOUIS ARMSTRONG
14: UNITED WE STAND - BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
13: GET READY - RARE EARTH
12: OOH CHILD-STAIRSTEPS
11: GIMME DAT DING-THE PIPKINS
10: HITCHIN' A RIDE - VANITY FAIR
OLDIE: SPINNING WHEEL-BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS
9: THE WONDER OF YOU - ELVIS PRESLEY
8: THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD - BEATLES
7: CLOSE TO YOU-CARPENTERS
6: LAY DOWN (CANDLES IN THE WIND) - MELANIE
5: BAND OF GOLD - FREDA PAYNE
4: RIDE CAPTAIN RIDE - BLUES IMAGE
3: BALL OF CONFUSION-TEMPTATIONS
2: THE LOVE YOU SAVE - JACKSON FIVE
OLDIE: SATISFACTION-ROLLING STONES
1: ΜΑΜΑ TOLD ME NOT TO COME THREE DOG NIGHT

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Does everyone still have all their fingers?

July 5, 1943: USS Strong (DD-467) was sunk by Japanese destroyer Niizuki, from a distance of 13 miles and is believed to be the longest-range torpedo kill in history. LT Hugh Miller (Jan 10, 1910 – June 21, 1978) washed up on Arundel Island, a Japanese-held island. Though wounded, alone, and without a rifle, he launched a 39 day-long guerrilla campaign using grenades he found on a dead soldier. He eliminated enemy patrols and several machine gun nests before being rescued. Although he was put forward for the Medal of Honor on two occasions, it remained elusive. He received the Navy Cross bestowed on him by Eleanor Roosevelt for his Rambo style actions plus 2 Silver Stars, 6 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts, and an additional 27 distinct individual and unit awards.


Hugh B. Miller – Left For Dead In The Pacific

Lt. "Rose Bowl" Miller Graduates from Gridiron Glory to WWII Legend


July 5, 1946: National Bikini Day! Or Atomic French Bikini's for Peace!


French engineer Louis Réard introduced the modern bikini, modeled by 18-year-old Micheline Bernardini, wearing the first bikini with a newspaper-print design in Paris 1946, while displaying a matchbox capable of holding the entire outfit. It was assumed that public reaction would be similarly explosive.

None of Paris's fashion models would wear Réard's creation, so he hired Bernardini, a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris. The Paris fashion press suggests that the bikini gets its name because it looked as if its wearer is emerging in tatters from a nuclear bomb blast, wearing what little is left over. Or perhaps the combination of half-naked south sea islanders coupled with the atomic impact strikes a chord in the haute couture, and reminds them that atom bombs reduce everybody to primitive costume. Réard simply states, "Bikini--smaller than the smallest bathing suit in the world."

Named for the famous Bikini atom bomb "Able" test of four days earlier. Bernardini posed at age 58 in a bikini for photographer Peter Turnley, in 1986. She's still alive today at age 96.



Nicki Giles, in The Marilyn Album, Gallery Books, New York, 1991, attributes the two B&W photographs to Bruno Bernard from July 19, 1946; this session was a test to advertise first-aid products. The June 1946 issue of Laff Magazine featured a very early photo of Marilyn Monroe in a modest bikini...




While most people associate the bikini, in all its forms, as a contemporary piece of fashion, surprisingly, there exist close analogs to the bikini that date as far back as 5600 BC in what is known as the Copper Age when human civilization began to first settle into large cities. A period that predates Ancient Mesopotamian cultures, Ancient Egypt, and other early recorded histories by several thousand years.


Afternoon Tea (1912) by Charles Bittinger (American, 1879–1970). A Victorian painter and also one of the artists invited by the U.S. Navy to witness and paint the first atomic explosions at Bikini Atoll. Best have a cup of tea whilst it's still nice and tranquil.




Joint Task Force One Dollar bills, front and back; Bikini & Kwajalein:


A "Short Snorter" issued by USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7), the control ship for Army/Navy Joint Task Force one (JTF-1), Operation Crossroads in 1946. There were 90 ships which participated in the atom bomb test. The Operation Crossroads Short Snorters were part of Joint Operations Task Force One in which 37,000 sailors and 5,000 airmen participated in "watching" the world's 4th and 5th. nuclear explosions at Bikini Atoll on July 1, 1946 and July 25, 1946.

A short snorter is a banknote which was signed by various persons traveling together or meeting up at different events and records who was met. The tradition was started by bush pilots in Alaska in the 1920's and subsequently spread through the growth of military and commercial aviation. If you signed a short snorter and that person could not produce it upon
request, they owed you a dollar or a drink (a “short snort”, aviation and alcohol do not mix!).

The Short Snorter Project


July 5, 1865: Happy birthday to the Secret Service, guardians of the green pyramid. The U.S. Secret Service began operation under the Treasury Department to aid in the prevention of counterfeiting.

July 5, 1937: SPAM - SPAMtastic! According to the company’s Spam Museum, Ken Digneau, the brother of a Hormel executive, came up with the name — a portmanteau word for “spiced ham” — in a naming contest and got $100 as a reward. The new product was introduced on this day. Austin, Minnesota is "Spamtown, USA".

To keep up Spam sales postwar, the company hired singers to tout the product, and even had a radio show Music With the Hormel Girls. Whatever the reason, it worked: Hormel produced its billionth can in 1959, amid rising sales. And yet the Spam-eating Vikings in the 1970s Monty Python’s Flying Circus skit is the pop culture Spam reference most people will remember.

TIME magazine

Music with the Hormel Girls

Have a listen...

Jay C. Hormel was the SPAM Man. Head of Hormel Foods, he was the canny heir to his father’s canned-meat business. Under him, the company introduced the smooth, spiced pork product known as SPAM right on the cusp of the Second World War. But there was a problem. By wartime’s end, 90 percent of Hormel’s inventory was shipped overseas, as food for American troops and allies. The company now needed to market wartime, tinned food to a peacetime audience.

So, in 1946, the Hormel Company started hiring for the Hormel Girls, a drum and bugle corps of female musicians who had served in the war. As a veteran himself of World War One, Hormel was concerned for his employees who served. During the war, according to authors Jill M. Sullivan and Danelle D. Keck in their paper The Hormel Girls, he had sent letters to enlisted male employees assuring them that their jobs were waiting. When two managers devised a marketing strategy of an all-female, military-style band to promote Hormel products, Jay Hormel was quick to support it. As Sullivan and Keck point out, it was designed to push a “quasi-patriotic” button for consumers, who associated Hormel with the American military.

The requirements to be a Hormel Girl reflected the times. Most of the performers were white, and all were unmarried. They also had to play instruments.

Twenty girls from the original 48 agreed to stay on, and those numbers soon grew. They marched in parades, played in shows, and sold Hormel products (especially SPAM) door-to-door. Advertisements proclaimed that when “talented ex-G.I. Drum and Bugle Girls” came to town, they distributed free SPAM or chili in stores. Driving 35 matching white Chevrolets, the performers proceeded like a caravan, drawing attention wherever they went.

In 1948, the Hormel Girls went to Hollywood and took to the airwaves. According to Sullivan and Keck, they changed their style for radio. While before they had played a mix of military and popular music, the Music with the Hormel Girls show featured big-band music, punctuated by regular reminders that Hormel’s chili and ham was the best. It proved a good combination. By 1953, the show was “number four in the yearly [Nielsen] rankings.”

In the early 1950s, the show expanded to include dance. The Hormel Girls wore elaborate costumes and performed for locals and grocers. Jay Hormel, channeling his inner bandleader, decided who would sing and play which instrument. (Some of the musicians considered him nitpicky, but he may have just been passionate about music. Several of his children and grandchildren became performers.) As the group reached its peak, many newer Hormel Girls were photogenic professional musicians, instead of G.I.’s.

But in 1953, the show came to an end. The caravan was costing the Hormel Company $1.3 million dollars a year, and Jay Hormel was sick and would die in 1954. As television proved to be cheaper advertising, the last performance was held on December 13, 1953. Laverne Wollerman, one of the final performers, told Sullivan and Keck that the curtain was quickly pulled to hide that many of them were crying.

Hormel Girls went on to other jobs at the company, or in music. But there was no denying their effectiveness. In the years that the Hormel Girls performed, Hormel’s sales doubled, and SPAM successfully made its transition from food of necessity to classic Americana. Still, in a 2010 interview, Hormel Girl’s announcer Marilyn Wilson Ritter noted that SPAM wasn’t even her favorite. “I liked the chili con carne,” she said.

The Rise and Fall of the Hormel Girls, Who Sold America on SPAM

SPAM is extremely popular in Hawaii. It's literally everywhere and mixed in just about every dish you can imagine. WHY?
Post WWII the US Gov placed sanctions on Hawaiian residents, restricting the deep-sea fishing industries that were mainly run by Japanese-Americans. Because islanders were no longer allowed to fish, one of the important sources of protein for the islands vanished. So, Spam along with other canned luncheon meats and sardines took its place and apparently still going strong. Had it a few times as a kid and ate it once in Hawaii, never again.


Are you not entertained?!

A First Look at the Epic Gladiator II


DOJ seeking six months in federal prison for Jonathan Bonney, who prosecutors noted operates a zoo in Wisconsin. Seems like there's a lot to sort out yet about the culpability of those influenced by the requests.


Court case Case No. 24-cr-17 (APM)

Ya think he got his wakeup call?? Poor millennial dumb-ass. Wasn't that a movie, "We bought a zoo"?

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July 4, 1986: 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Howard Foote Jr., a Marine aviation mechanic at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) El Toro, Calif stole an A-4M Skyhawk, an $18 million military jet, for a 45 minute joyride during which time he performed several impressive aerobatic maneuvers. He had wanted to be a fighter pilot but an injury prevented him from qualifying. He then landed it after making five passes of the runway. His stunt cost him over four months in the brig and an other-than-honorable discharge.

Before entering the Marines in 1984, Foote was a record-holding glider pilot as a teen-ager. His soaring continued in the corps until February, 1986, when he suffered an aerial embolism, a form of the bends, while attempting to set an altitude record.

A Marine that deserves to be remembered.


Foote tried to fly for Israel and Honduras after his discharge. He later qualified as a test pilot in more than 20 different military and civilian aircraft, and became a contractor to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He holds patents in aviation design and engineering technology.

The following video by The History Guy tells Foote’s story.




Elon loves to influence that algo...LOL



On a more serious note back 3-4 years ago when all this mocking the president when into high pitch fever (which the whole world sees) is actually being driven by big corporate special interests to convince the public that a president is not required anymore. The president is just a person whereas the Office Of The President is where all the power is held. Something that big corporate techno empire has had their eyes on for a long time. Regardless who gets installed for the next 4-year term will end up being the same BS and mass fighting within the degenerate political class. While the real controllers sit in their ivory towers sippin tea (or Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac) & mocking the sheep. I dunno, too much going on in the world to pin-point anything solid and you only end up a reductionist missing all the important stuff. And if you're content then why bother at all, just ignore it all. But, some things I would just really like to know.


Hmmmm....




Fitting words for the Weekend...think I already know BIAD's chosen word; actually probably two. LOL.

Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

      And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

      The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;

      Long time the manxome foe he sought—

So rested he by the Tumtum tree

      And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,

      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

      And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through

      The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

      He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

      Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

      He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

      And the mome raths outgrabe.

The adjective "abderian" describes excessive laughter. The word alludes to Democritus, "the laughing philosopher," who was a native of Abdera. He was among the first to develop the atomic theory of the universe. I liked this guy until I found out his nickname came from his hobby of publicly mocking people.

Pre-Socratic philosopher Democritus, known as the Laughing Philosopher (presumably because he laughed at man's foolishness) was from Abdera. He is considered by some to be the father of modern science because he, along with his teacher Leucippus, developed an atomic theory of matter that was, as they say, way ahead of its time.


You have to laugh right. I mean what else can you do...


Biden Stumbles Over His Words as He Tries to Steady Re-Election Campaign


Putting to rest The Week That Was with some Robert Louis Stevenson...



"No generation learns from the previous one. No individual learns from another. He may receive certain teachings, but he must experience it to make it part of his own consciousness. Therefore to know life we must live all of life and as we grow wiser we live it joyously, we live with intent and purpose.

We ask nothing else. We ask no favors, we beg nothing, but live well at all times, doing the best we know. We know we live in the Law and will be protected by it. There is no injustice. In that realization we have a great spiritual hope. But we have to grow up to it before we realize it."

Manly P. Hall; Reincarnation and Karma


You want me scared,
You want me weak
You want me brain dead and asleep
You want us trapped while you all laugh behind the scenes

You want us sick
You think we’re dumb
You want us blind and you want us drugged
You want us poor while you get more of everything

But you don’t get to tell me what to think and what to do
No, you don’t get to tell me what is true

‘Cause you’re just liars, cheats, and crooks
You change the rules and you burn the books
And so I don’t believe a single word you say...

2024 theme song: (Five Times August new single)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Pfew, another hot day in paradise...




July 7, 1908: Ensign Chester Nimitz ran the destroyer USS Decatur (DD-5) aground in the Philippines. He was court-martialed, found guilty of neglect of duty and issued a letter of reprimand. It was a different era, so he was still able to make fleet admiral despite the incident.




Blackout, mascot of a Coast Guard-manned landing craft during World War II, shown here wearing his life jacket, participated in the Sicily, Italy, and Normandy invasions.


"Blackout" Has Hit Three European Invasion Beaches


Even during war time, US Sailors had more fun in taking a break and swim off an Aircraft Carrier in 1943. They use the torpedo nets to block off sharks.



For those who don’t know what torpedo nets look like, this is it...


Torpedo nets are physical barriers, often made of metal or strong netting, designed to protect ships from torpedo attacks. They are suspended around the hull of a ship and serve as a defense by intercepting and entangling incoming torpedoes before they can hit the ship's hull.


July 7, 1947: An alien spaceship supposedly crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. It became known as "The Roswell incident". Space scientists reject the idea it really was an alien craft, but many UFO believers still think otherwise.


“See Something, Say Something”

It's really amazing how much of this lore and phenomenon is entwined & interlocked in American life which is connected directly to Germany. Planes, weapons, saucers to rockets, space, Mars, politics, fascism, right & left wing tribes, medical field, science, mathematics, "academia", military intelligence, CIA, religion, cults, conspiracy lore to make a life long carrer from, mysticism even more, domination, you name it, you can trace it back to Prussian Germany. Now that is a conspiracy to chew on. Best conspiracy since sliced bread? I wonder why that is. [sarc]


July 7, 1928: Sliced bread was sold for the first time by the Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. Every major innovation since has been called "the best thing since sliced bread."

Get a load of that marketing verbiage..."Kleen Maid Bread" versus, "Clean Made Bread"!



You might be thinking, but does "sliced bread" also have a connection to German descent?? You bet yer toasted cheeks it does.

Meet Otto Frederick Rohwedder, (1880-1960), "Father of Sliced Bread"...


7/7 date is just a coincidence, lol.

Never heard of him? Well, you can toast his invention (also literally and figuratively!) and celebrate sliced bread. Bread, of course, has been ubiquitous at meal times for millennia, and the fourth Earl of Sandwich had the bread-and-filling lunchtime meal named after him by 1762, but the world would have to wait until the twentieth century for the convenience of pre-sliced bread.

Cutting Edge

Rohwedder, was an American inventor, engineer, and businessman who developed the first commercial automatic bread-slicing machine. His father, Claus Rohwedder was born on March 17, 1845 at Von-der-Geest, Germany, where he completed his education, and arrived in Davenport, Iowa in 1866. A jeweler by trade, first developed the idea in 1912 and had a prototype by 1916. The invention was not without setbacks, however. A fire destroyed his model and the blueprints for the slicer, along with the factory that was going to produce the machines, in 1917. Unwilling to leave his idea half-baked, Rohwedder started from scratch. It would be ten years before he had enough dough to try again, but by November 1928, he had a patent (1867377) for the new slicer.

The next problem was persuading bakers to try out his invention. They believed that sliced bread would dry out faster than the whole loaf and that people wouldn’t want to buy pre-sliced loaves. Undeterred, Rohwedder figured out a way to wrap the bread to prevent rapid drying (and to keep the sliced loaf together), and he finally convinced a baker friend, M. Frank Bench, owner of the Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicothe, Missouri, to try the machine. The first loaf of sliced Kleen Maid Bread hit the shelf on July 7, 1928.

By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom "greatest thing since sliced bread".

Any Way You Slice It

"Television is the greatest invention since sliced bread." — Red Skelton in 1951.

Meet the American who invented sliced bread: Otto Rohwedder, hard-luck hawkeye

"Where Sliced Bread Came From" A short video documentary with rare eyewitness testimony of people who were alive when it happened.



Make sure you have two slices today with wine to cleanse all your problems away.



Remembering that time when America Banned Sliced Bread. Wut?! Yes.

The year was 1943, and Americans were in crisis. Across the Atlantic, war with Germany was raging. On the home front, homemakers were facing a very different sort of challenge: a nationwide ban on sliced bread.

“To U.S. housewives it was almost as bad as gas rationing—and a whale of a lot more trouble,” announced Time magazine on February 1, 1943.



So by January 18, 1943, when Claude R. Wickard, the secretary of agriculture and head of the War Foods Administration, declared the selling of sliced bread illegal, patience was already running thin. Since sliced bread required thicker wrapping to stay fresh, Wickard reasoned that the move would save wax paper, not to mention tons of alloyed steel used to make bread-slicing machines.

By March 8, the government decided to abandon the wildly unpopular measure. “Housewives who have risked thumbs and tempers slicing bread at home for nearly two months will find sliced loaves back on the grocery store shelves tomorrow in most places,” noted the Associated Press. Wickard refused to acknowledge the ire of both housewives and bakers, saying simply that the savings were less than anticipated and that it turned out there was enough wax paper to go around after all.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

July 7, 1957: a 63-foot Redstone missile is hoisted into position for display in New York's Grand Central Terminal. To this day, there is a hole in the ceiling near a gold-leaf depiction of the constellation of Pisces that marks the spot where cables secured the missile.


More details at the Gothamist Newsroom

Short newsreel on the Grand Central Missile display.


July 7, 1965: The 1st episode of the BBC TV series Tomorrow's World was broadcast. It examined new and possible future developments in science and technology. It ran for 38 years until it was cancelled in early 2003 and last episode aired July 16 2003. The Tomorrow's World title was revived in 2017 as an umbrella brand for BBC science programming. The show was created by Glyn Jones to fill a half-hour slot in the 1965 BBC summer schedule. Jones and his wife conceived the show's name the night before the Radio Times went to press.



Here's a clip from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast December 28, 1966



BBC archive material with clips and old episodes.

Tomorrow's World Youtube playlist.


CBS News: "The bizarre ordeal happened at around 6 a.m. when airport officials say that a man experienced a 'mental health crisis,' while inside of Terminal 4. At some point he 'became irate' and ran out onto the  airfield, which prompted a response from LAPD officers." Mostly peaceful early morning jog.


https://x.com/MattSeedorff/status/1809722829224702295


Swampy academia...


Behind the Ivy Intifada


"Inshallah, the bilge pump auto switch will fix itself." Prolly was Jewish dolphins. LOL.


Iranian warship capsizes during repairs in port of Bandar Abbas

Only launched in 2018. Most advanced ship in the Iranian navy.

Iran: Most advanced homemade destroyer, Sahand


Decisions, decisions...


New Plan to Target Russia’s Oil Revenue Brings Debate in White House


C'mon really??


https://x.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1809864693369946433

The evidence is clear. The hybrid aliens are here!


Yes sir, I'll hold the clipboard for you!




"Deus vult" = God wills it. Many want to be part of a feel-good crusade, such as saving the planet from scary climate-change. This is especially alluring to the uneducated. Once indoctrinated, and like the religion-driven Crusades, killing others was a necessary means to an end.




"There is a wonderful time coming. But because it begins in the night, there are many that shall not see it, because of their sleep and great drunkenness; yet the sun will shine to the children at midnight."
Jakob Boehme (1575-1624) ‘The Teutonic Theosopher’




USA #1 on this day in 1982: Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

[EndtheMadnessNow]

GOOoood mornin North Carolina...Wakey, wakey...

HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. (WNCN) — Wake County officials want the public to know there is no emergency, despite sirens going off around the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant Monday morning.

At 8:23 a.m., the county confirmed that there was no emergency after the sirens went off shortly before 8 a.m.

However, they said the reason the sirens went off has not been determined.

“Emergency Management is working with Duke Energy to determine the cause,” they said in their announcement.

A Public Safety Alert was also sent to some cell phones.

Chatham County officials shared a similar message, saying no protective actions are needed by the public.

“Had this been a real emergency, additional information – including any public protective actions – would be provided by this station,” the Harris Task Force said.

The power plant previously alerted the community that testing is scheduled for this coming Wednesday morning, July 10.

No emergency after sirens sound at Harris Nuclear Plant

Hellish temps in Sin City? Perfectly normal. Soccer practice is not cancelled.


Happens every July like clock work. A man has got to know his limitations.


July 8, 1936: The heat wave of 1936 was far deadlier.

Abandoned vehicles sinking into scorching-hot orange silt. Fields of dying crops. Ghost towns cowering under black clouds of dust.

The killer U.S. heat wave of 1936 spread as far north as Canada, led to the heat-related deaths of an estimated 5,000 people, sent thermometers to a record 121 degrees Fahrenheit in Steele, N.D., and made that July the warmest month ever recorded in the United States.

The country and much of the world are currently baking in a brutal heat wave. Britain had its hottest day on record Tuesday, with temperatures hitting 104 degrees at London Heathrow Airport. Much of central Asia has been 20 degrees hotter than normal. And in the United States, more than 100 million Americans were under National Weather Service heat advisories or warnings Tuesday, a day after triple-digit temperatures stretched from Texas to North Dakota.

But in much of the central United States, summer 1936 was even hotter. At their peak, temperatures in North Dakota were warmer than midsummer Death Valley, and hot enough to cook rare steak in the street.

The North American heat wave of 1936 followed one of the coldest recorded winters in the same area.

In the History of United States Heat Waves, 1936 Stands Out

Don't know if 1936 was the actual hottest year on weather records, but it was damn scorchin hot, miserable & deadly, very, very few had A/C or even fans, coupled with black blizzards of the Dust Bowl era. Hell on earth.








Meanwhile, across the pond...




Looks to get even hotter...Warpigs feeding at the endless trough...


Pentagon greenlights $140 billion ICBM program despite cost overruns


Sandia Labs: Creating A Brighter Future


Not exactly my idea of a bright future with a B-61 thermonuclear bomb.




The lying can't be contained...the Biden Regime is burning from the inside. The lies & damn lies are about to burst the damn dam.


https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1810406697812500845


USA #1 on this day in 1972: Bill Withers - Lean On Me



UK #1 on this day in 1965: The Hollies - I’m Alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVJ0jGC_0tU

[EndtheMadnessNow]

July 8, 1853: Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Edo Bay to open Japan to trade. Perry introduced whiskey to the Japanese at a reception and then sent 110 barrels to the emperor. Japanese whisky is now a booming multi-billion dollar industry.




July 8, 1947: UFO History - Wright Says Saucers Are War Propaganda
Airplane inventor Orville Wright tells the press that the saucer craze is propaganda dished up by the government to support the current State Department campaign to get us into another war.





https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1810405202085949612


“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”


– Former President Richard Nixon in an interview with David Frost, 1977.

Transcript of David Frost’s Interview with Richard Nixon


July 8, 1986: Admiral Hyman G. Rickover died. The "Father of the Nuclear Navy" had gained such a reputation for being ornery and contrarian with a touch of British irony that people in the Pentagon joked he would be back in three days. Jimmy Carter was one of his students who he took an interest in.




Chowdah Hill's governing rules for social media


Obviously a smart girl. Chowdah Hill in real life is the Captain of USS Eisenhower (CVN-69).


Warships leaving Pearl Harbor...




After protecting shipping in the Red Sea from Houthi attacks for the past six months, the destroyer HMS Diamond returned to the UK on Saturday with ten new kill markings. The markings represent the seven Samad-2 drones, one Shahed-136 drone, one Mersad-2 VTOL drone, and one missile shot down by Diamond. The missile was the first to be shot down in combat by a Royal Navy ship in more than thirty years.




Ukrainian victory shall be manifested through wishcasting...


New NATO Command Will Assist Ukraine with Training, Equipment Donations - Wishcasting - The act of interpreting information or a situation in a way that casts it as favorable or desired, despite the fact that there is no evidence for such a conclusion; a wishful forecast.


Another hot day tomorrow. I'll be at the cool saloon.

[Bally002]

Had me there for a bit.  "Chowder Hill"  Looked at the young lady and thought 'wtf' capt of the carrier CVN 69.

Good one.

Laughs,

Bally)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

July 9, 1940: HMS Warspite scored one of the longest range gunnery hits from a moving ship to a moving target in history. During the Battle of Calabria, a 15-inch projectile from Warspite hit the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare from a distance of almost 15 miles. Impressive! The ship bombarded German positions during the Normandy landings and on Walcheren Island in 1944, despite not being fully repaired. These actions earned her the most battle honours ever awarded to an individual ship in the Royal Navy. For this and other reasons, Warspite gained the nickname the "Grand Old Lady" after a comment made by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham in 1943 while she was his flagship.




July 9, 1944: 20 year-old Navy Hellcat pilot ENS Kent Rogers was killed in a training flight crash in Pensacola, Florida. Prior to joining the Navy, Rogers had been an impressionist and actor who provided the voice for Woody Woodpecker in several theatrical cartoon shorts. He is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.




DeForest Kelley had excellent taste in music...










This plot shows the average number of days per year with daily maximum temperatures ≥95°, ≥100° and ≥105° per USHCN station since 1895. The trend is down. I doubt you'll see this reported anywhere in the msm.




Transmissions from the future...


Avoid that timeline at all costs.


Germans have bad news for blonde supremacists...


Trump deporting illegals...




How are we all feeling? The first trailer released today...




U.S. top 40 for July 9, 1983.



UK #1 on this day in 1964:

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July 10, 1926: Fred Gwynne was born. Gwynne served as a radioman 3rd class on a submarine chaser in the Pacific during WWII before attending Harvard and pursuing an acting career. His most notably roles were as Herman Munster on THE MUNSTERS and Officer Francis Muldoon in "Car 54, Where Are You?"




July 10, 1952: A rare sight. USS Sea Poacher (SS-406) performed a unique submarine-to-airship rescue when it towed the disabled K-86 blimp and its 10-man crew for 40 miles to NAS Key West.




July 10, 1962: On Nikola Tesla Day the Telstar 1 launched from Cape Canaveral to become first active communications satellite capable of relaying television signals from Europe to North America. Soon after launch, Telstar enabled the first transatlantic TV transmission, linking the U.S. and France. It remained active for only 7 months, but it is still in Earth orbit.


President John F. Kennedy had high praise for “our American communications satellite” launched during the “heat” of the Cold War. “This (is an) outstanding symbol of America’s space achievements,” the president said.

Telstar Opened Era of Global Satellite Television

And inspired a guitar hit by the Tornados which made #1 the same week in USA & UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryrEPzsx1gQ



THE A PLUS SCHOOL (1966).


Narrated by Lorne Greene. The Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense. DOD CD 5-242. The film discusses the then-new South Salem Elementary School that was constructed to protect against fallout in Salem, Virginia. Almost exactly 50 years after its dedication in 1964, the school was razed. A new South Salem Elementary now stands on the property. This film was obtained through the National Archives and Records Administration. The film was just digitized today...




"Everyone isn’t conspiring in the shadows and saying one thing publicly and another privately, that’s a very paranoid and conspiratorial view of the world."


George Clooney, who co-chaired a fundraiser for stepford Biden that raised $14 million dollars just a few weeks ago, calls on him to drop out. George Clooney received his marching orders and now addressing Papa Joe via The New York Times: Bro we are all conspiring against you...


George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee

So laughable. You know who will do just fine if Trump wins? People like George Clooney & his dual Lebanese-British lawyer wife Amal Alamuddin, Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Stephen Colbert, and Jon Stewart.

Always have celebs on both sides, but sometimes a rare few speak some truths, of course depending on which side you lean.

"The democratic party is fentanyl to America."

https://x.com/RobertJohnDavi/status/1811119536411685274


All politicians & celebrities are liars, dumb wankpuffins and leatherlaps...Don't be a clicktivist.


Wrong, Mr. Trunbull. Nuclear reactors absolutely "can" be turned off at the flick of a switch (like this one shown above).

It may not be economical or sensible to do so, but it's a key safety feature in every reactor I've ever heard of according to my cousin who was a chief nuclear engineer at a reactor plant for 25 years who also trained French and German nuke engineers.


Msm politicians are no different. Story on aging senators...


Someone might want to tell them that Sen. Chuck Grassley turned 90 in Sept of 2023.


Waterfall Wednesday words...It's always nice to get a cooling afternoon smurack during hot summer days in Florida.


Shitgibbon is a compound of wank +‎ puffin, coined by journalist David Quantick in British music magazine NME in January 1990.

I'm envisioning a Roguecastic clicktivism banner forthcoming.

The reason the hashtag 'Cory Bernardi Wank Puffin' is trending (Feb 2016)


July 10, 1989: "The Man of a Thousand Voices" Mel Blanc died (aged 81). He’s best known as the voice of numerous cartoon characters, including: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Flintstones, Elmer Fudd, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Wile E. Coyote,The Roadrunner, Yosemite Sam, Sam the Sheepdog, Taz the Tazmanian Devil, Speedy Gonzales, Marvin the Martian, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé la Pew, Charlie the Dog, Blacque Jacque Shellacque, Pussyfoot, Private Snafu and most of the other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons, And Buck Rogers.



Eh Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-“That’s all Folks!”



Blanc was a Freemason as a member of Mid Day Lodge No. 188 in Portland, Oregon. He held membership at the lodge for 58 years. Blanc was also a Shriner.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Terraforming Venus in "New Earths: Restructuring Earth and Other Planets" by James E. Oberg, 1981.




July 10, 1985: "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" was first shown in theaters 39 years ago today.




July 10, 1985: Down she goes! The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was blown up in Auckland harbour, New Zealand, by a bomb planted by agents of French intelligence. The French government at first denied responsibility, but was later forced to admit French secret service agents were responsible.


How Rainbow Warrior was played down

A PHOTOGRAPHER'S DATE WITH A NUCLEAR DEATH

Rainbow Warrior - 30 years on



Flight III Los Angeles-class USS Topeka (SSN 754) participated in RIMPAC 2024. Topeka is loading "Warshot" for RIMPAC SINKEX. Warshot is a Mark 46 torpedo, lightweight compared to the Mark 48. During New Year's Eve 2000, Topeka straddled the International Date Line, thus was famously "in two millenniums at once". After 35 years of silent patrol, Topeka is scheduled to be decommissioned later this year or 2025 at latest.




MADCAP for Warshot Wednesday...


M(k-48)ADCAP Kaboom!


July 10, 2010: Ex-New Orleans (LPH-11) Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship on fire during the RIMPAC 2010 SINKEX, foreshadowing the RIMPAC2024 SINKEX. This year another amphibious assault ship, Ex-Tarawa (LHA-1), will be the target.




USS Sterett (DDG-104), South Korean Navy destroyer ROKS Yulgok Yi I, and the Royal Canadian Navy HMCS Vancouver (FFH 331) depart Pearl Harbor, to begin the Force Integration phase of Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024...




The first time any unmanned aircraft completed an arrested landing at sea occurred July 10, 2013 as "Salty Dog" 502 landed aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). With its distinctive sleek tail-less profile, the aircraft has become something of a poster child for the future of military drone technology.


The X-47B was the culmination of one of the more enduring DARPA efforts in recent history, which began when the US Air Force formalized the Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) development program with DARPA in August 1997. Northrop Grumman's X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) was cancelled in 2015.


July 10th: "Big Red" celebrates 31 years today! USS Nebraska (SSBN 738) was commissioned on this day in 1993. The Ohio-class ballistic missile sub is one of eight SSBNs homeported at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Bremerton, Washington. Nebraska shares her nickname, "Big Red", with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's athletic teams.




The DARPA SHEPARD demonstrator is officially an X-Plane. Meet the Northrop Grumman XRQ-73 Hybrid Electric Uncrewed Aircraft System. Built on human + alien tech. Northrop finally shows original (Howard) Hughes Aerospace X project...

The XRQ-73 SHEPARD program is part of DARPA’s “X-prime” initiative, which focuses on rapidly maturing innovative technologies to meet urgent operational needs. The SHEPARD program draws on the technological advancements and lessons learned from the earlier Air Force Research Laboratory/Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (AFRL/IARPA) Great Horned Owl (GHO) project, which produced the XRQ-72.

The GHO project aimed to create an ultra-quiet, high-efficiency reconnaissance UAS, and the XRQ-72 featured a series hybrid electric propulsion system with two electric generators powered by either gasoline or diesel. This system powered four ducted fans installed on the top of the fuselage, providing quiet and efficient operation.

The XRQ-72 had a wingspan of 30 feet, an overall length of 11.2 feet, and a height of 4 feet, with a weight of 300-400 pounds. The XRQ-73 is expected to be significantly larger, although exact dimensions are not yet known.

The goal of the SHEPARD program is to create a mission-focused, long-endurance aircraft capable of performing a variety of roles, including intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), and more.

The XRQ-73 SHEPARD employs a hybrid electric propulsion system, which builds on the series hybrid electric architecture used in the XRQ-72 and combines a fuel tank, gas turbine, electric generator, and battery in series to power an electric motor. This architecture provides several advantages, including quieter operation, fuel savings, and reduced emissions. These features make the XRQ-73 particularly well-suited for ISR missions, where stealth and endurance are critical.

Northrop Grumman XRQ-73 SHEPARD Demonstrator Breaks Cover

Ending the day with Mexican Food, Cold Beer & Tattoos

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Remember as a kid when you first saw the story of the "Emperor has no Clothes" and you thought it was so funny to laugh at the adults in the story?

Well, here you are.

Congratulations!

Is this the real life?

Or is this just fantasy?



https://x.com/rustyrockets/status/1811528708936859859

https://x.com/rustyrockets/status/1811548915168154032






Bad granny...


Known as the "Giggling Granny" the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow, and Lady Blue Beard for her eerily cheerful demeanor, Nannie Doss was secretly a serial killer who had brutally murdered four husbands, two children, two sisters, her mother, two grandsons, and her mother-in-law between the 1920s and 1950s. 

Poison was her weapon of choice, and she snuck it into everything from moonshine to coffee to prune cakes to discreetly kill her unsuspecting victims. After their deaths, Doss was often able to collect insurance money, and many of her fellow community members were sympathetic and supportive of the supposedly doting housewife who had experienced so much tragedy. 

But when one suspicious doctor decided to perform an autopsy on her final victim, her cover was finally blown.

Nannie Doss: The Brutal Story of the Giggling Granny

The Oklahoman



July 11, 1953: Maj. John Bolt recipient of the Navy Cross for shooting down two MiGs while flying an F-86E Sabre to become the only U.S. Marine to achieve ace status in two wars and the only Marine jet fighter ace. During WWII, he became an ace as a VMF-214 "Black Sheep". He had 12 total victories during his career and he is believed to be the last "double ace," having shot down six Japanese Zeros in the Pacific and six MiG 15 aircraft in Korea. After retiring from the Marine Corps, he went to Law School at the University of Florida, and practiced law for many years before retiring in 1991.




July 11, 1958: British actor Mark Lester was born in Oxford. 10 years later he’s best known for playing Oliver Twist in the blockbuster film musical, Oliver. His career never rose to those heights afterwards, and he left acting to train and practice as a osteopath.




July 11, 1960: Classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was 1st published in the USA. It later became a successful Hollywood film. Lee only published one other book, which was a draft of her first novel. In 2007, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.




July 11, 1969: David Bowie’s classic single, Space Oddity, was released in the UK. The song is about the launch into space of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut, and was released just 5 days before the launch of Apollo 11. It reached #5 in the UK, but #1 on re-release in 1975.




During a Caribbean vacation, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian Agent, in THE TAMARIND SEED, opened in NYC July 11, 1974. Parodied in the Apr. 1975 issue of MAD #174 Bullshevik Department as "The Tommy-Red Seed."




July 11, 1977: Denis Lemon, editor of Gay News, and the newspaper itself were both declared guilty of publishing a blasphemous poem alleging Jesus was gay. Lemon was given a 9 month suspended prison sentence and fined £500 and Gay News Ltd was fined £1000. Whitehouse v Lemon is a 1977 court case involving the blasphemy law in the United Kingdom. It was the last successful blasphemy trial in the UK.




The elites idea of 'med beds' for the rest of us has been denied...


‘Tesla of euthanasia’ banned in Switzerland

Sarco Swiss Precision suicide pods


LMAO!


NY Post