Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Today is National Green Peppers Day!




'Not a beauty spot' — American anti-Russian cartoon (8 May 1890) showing the personified 'Civilization' attempting to scrub Russia off the globe.


'The real trouble will come with the "Wake" — American illustration published in Puck magazine (15 Aug, 1900) showing the European powers battling over the sleeping Chinese dragon. Artist: Udo Keppler. Published during the Boxer Rebellion, the countries represented are the US (bald eagle), Russia (bear), Japan (leopard), France (rooster), Germany (eagle), Britain (lion), Austria (vulture) and Italy (wolf).

German propaganda leaflet from the Second World War (ca. 1944) showing a woman preparing to go on a date while her husband is in the grips of death at the front. The reverse includes a story, titled 'Mirror-Wise', about 'Joan's dream of infidelity and the vision of her husband John in 'the arm's of Death'.



"Germany's Fight for Western Civilization" — Nazi German pamphlet, ca. 1933.




Printed for distribution abroad, the cover shows Hitler above communist Karl Liebknecht (killed during the Spartacist uprising in 1919) as he delivers a speech, with the communist flag flying.

The pamphlet apparently contained anti-Jewish propaganda, describing Liebknecht as a 'half breed lawyer ... inciting Bolshevism and Jews as 'apostles of communism'.

This article from 1934 reports on the pamphlet appearing in Canada, the US and Palestine by the crews of German ships loading oranges for export to Germany.



August 5, 1929: Letter from Arthur R. Boyden of Howard Hughes RKO Studios to the President describing the effect of unemployment on crime.


National Archives Catalog


The Rod Serling statue is on its way to Binghamton, New York.


Rod Serling Memorial Foundation


Another coup in Bangladesh...without the usual media twist, yet some of the pics look eerily similar...


Bangladesh PM Hasina flees country, military takes over


August 5, 1999: a judge ruled against a man who had sued Pepsi to claim a Marine AV-8 Harrier II offered as a prize in a 1996 commercial. The man had accumulated the 7,000,000 "Pepsi Points" needed to win the jet featured in the ad, but Pepsi said the offer was an obvious joke. Netflix did a mini docu series on it in 2022. It's interesting.



Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? Johnny wants that jet!




I got tinfoil, but I'll need to start a GoFundMe for this one...




Monday words...




Election season race

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CIRCA 1949 - Men and women are seen working in the stacks of the US National Archives.




CIRCA 1949 - Policemen pat down people attending a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York, where an anti-communist protest is expected.




CIRCA 1949 - Demonstrators gather to protest a concert in Peekskill, New York by communist sympathizer Paul Robeson. Battle of Peekskill




New York Times science reporter and in-house Manhattan Project historian (or propagandist, some would say) William L. "Atomic Bill" Laurence (March 7, 1888 – March 19, 1977) thought he owned the copyright on Enola Gay co-pilot Robert Lewis's log book because he asked him to write it and because his book "Dawn Over Zero" (1946) was copyrighted. He was the only journalist to witness the Trinity test and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. He is credited with coining the iconic term "Atomic Age," which became popular in the 1950s. Infamously, he dismissed the destructive effects of radiation sickness as Japanese propaganda in The New York Times. Even though he had seen the effects first-hand, he had been on the Deep State Department payroll, and was asked by United States military officials to do so in order to discredit earlier reports by independent journalist Wilfred Burchett, the first reporter on-site after the bombings.




Atomic Bill: A Journalist's Dangerous Ambition in the Shadow of the Bomb (2022) By Vincent Kiernan.


From 1950: Enola Gay co-pilot Robert Lewis reads aloud an excerpt from the log he kept during the Hiroshima mission.




Gen. Leslie Groves's wife and daughter react to news of the atomic bomb in posed photos.




"I think it is a disgrace that America should be involved in such a diabolical thing." "The picture of Tibbets wife...receiving congratulations...for this ghastly thing." Little, Brown and Company (1837 to present) publicity director Anne Ford's (1901-1993) protest letter to President Truman regards to Hiroshima:




Marilyn Monroe and second husband Joe DiMaggio visited Hiroshima during their honeymoon in February 1954.




August 6, 1966: (the 21st anniversary of Hiroshima), Luci Baines Johnson married Patrick J. Nugent. The union lasted until 1979.




THIS IS YOUR LIFE "reunion" episode (I think from 1955). Has to be seen to be believed.

Kiyoshi Tanimoto: a Methodist minister educated in the United States at Emory University was 3,500 yards from the center of the explosion;

John Hershey's "Hiroshima" Ranked Number One in the Top 100 American Journalism of the 20th Century. One of the main characters, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, travels to America to treat 25 young women who were victims of the atomic bombing. The program that appeared at that time.

The feelings of koko Kondo, Tanimoto's daughter, who met the crew of the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb, were quoted in a speech by US President Barack Obama when he visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

For the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima, TV NATION host Michael Moore presented reenactments of the "battle of Hiroshima" and the "battle of Nagasaki." At approx. the 11:08 mark:
TV Nation S02E03 War Night FOX, August 4, 1995.

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"Berlin Bedrooms" by Roger Blake. Epic Books #148, 1962. "Roger Blake" was a pseudonym for John F. Trimble (1925-1993). Trimble's day job was radio news broadcasting. Blake's other Cold War sleaze pulp novels include "Commie Sex Trap" (1963) and "Caper at Canaveral" (1963) and more.


Some books also credit the author as Roger Blake PhD, "a noted sexual psychologist."


The Journal of Sex Research

I'll assume this is the same Trimble...




Kamala got nearly as many votes as Saddam.




And we're back to fire & ice.




JFK Jr.'s comments regarding the Secret Service in 1998 are rather revealing:

"Uncle Bobby opened a clandestine investigation into the Secret Service and their role in my father's assassination; not one shot was fired to protect my father. They knew what was about to happen and they not only allowed it, they participated.

When my father was president, key members of the detail were corrupted, they subverted his protection, and the rest followed orders to stand down. I always believed that certain Secret Service agents had to be complicit in his murder, so did my mother. Now I know for sure." (As told to author Christopher Fulton)

Quote is from...




Donald Trump sits in JFK's rocking chair in 1997 after announcing the auction of special JFK items from his secretary Evelyn Lincoln at Trump Tower. Trump organized the auction and I've heard he ended up with some interesting JFK memorabilia.




The Globalist cronies "Wild Cards" section of 2052 a report to the Club of Rome...




(four or five of the wild cards described in that book are in play)
Seems we are going through a series of disruptions to break resistance.

2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years (2012) by Jørgen Randers.




I can't believe this vid only has 14 views. Weird.

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Considered the oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot deck in existence, the 15th-century Sola Busca — named for the family of Milanese nobles who owned it for some five generations — is also one of the most mysterious.

The Latin motto TRAHOR FATIS (I am drawn by Fate) appears but four times in the Tarot masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, the Sola Busca deck, and yet it hangs unmistakably over the cards’ entire colorful procession of ancient Greek and Roman heroes. Armored in the style of late-fifteenth century northern Italy, they bear bagpipes, shields, lyres, pennants, staffs, and torches, while accompanied by basilisks, crows, falcons, doves, and eagles. Every single card is a miniature drama — the expressions of the highly individualized figures inviting us to speculate, like the Tarot itself, on the past and future of this cryptic world.

See this link for more: A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)


Operation Plumbbob was a series of nuclear tests that were conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site.

Test: Stokes
Time: 12:25 on 7 August 1957 (GMT)
Location: Nevada Test Site, Area 7b
Test Height and Type: 1500 Foot Balloon
Yield: 19 kt


Test of the LASL XW-30 multi-purpose warhead; used in TADM (tactical atomic demolition munition), and Talos SAM (surface-air-missile) warhead. All oralloy (highly enriched uranium) DT gas-boosted system. Predicted yield 10-20 kt. Device diameter 22 inches, length 45.8 inches. Nuclear system weight 317 lb., total device weight 448 lb.


Fallout Shelter Sign and some guys who just finished testifying for the Warren Commission in Washington, DC. March 25, 1964.


The bald guy is Dallas cop Maurice "Nick" McDonald who captured Oswald at the Texas Theater. The gent holding his hat is Sen. John Sherman Cooper. Man in background is Eugene L. Boone, one of the Deputy Sheriffs who conducted the investigation in the Texas Book Depository afterward. Man with hat on is Marion Baker, a patrolman who was in the vicinity during the shooting.



American attorney and civil rights activist Mark Lane (1927 - 2016) with his new book 'Rush to Judgement', a critique of the Warren Commission's inquiry into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, September 21, 1966.


I wonder if Acting SS Director Ronald L. Rowe, Jr. has ever read it.


Self-proclaimed patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald; and would-be patsy Walter Henke (Kevin Crowley) in THE PACKAGE (1989).




The Arsenal of Democracy grows larger...


New Zealand endorses US push to expand weapons-making defence industrial base


U.S. Navy ships are being strategically placed across the mid east as Israel braces for retaliation from Iran - Technically, this placement is at the Operational Level of war, but nice graphic.







PHOTO OF THE DAY: The BIADmobile:


2 women in a Rytecraft Scootacar in London. It could carry 2 people up to 15 MPH (1936).


UK #1 on this day in 1982: Denys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen




Mid-Week Treat of Interesting Words...

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"H.G. WELLS SEES NEW ATOMIC BOMB AS WORLD ANNIHILATOR." Published August 8, 1945 in the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)...Random UK atomic bomb reactions published in 1945 in the Liverpool Echo newspaper...And Atomic cocktails and "The Atomic Bomb is our latest gift to the Japanese..." - Les Branscome [1898-1978], War Bonds ad, Aug. 8, 1945, the Ada Evening News, Ada, OK.



The eccentric Hungarian, Leo Szilard, physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea in 1936, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.

In 1932 Szilard had read H. G. Wells' The World Set Free (1914), a sci-fi novel describing continuing explosives which Wells termed "atomic bombs" and it was this book that inspired Szilard. He did not want his "nuclear chain reaction" patent to become public.


Leo Szilard, the Reluctant Father of the Atomic Bomb (1947, Leo Szilard Papers. MSS 32. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library)

“If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.”
― Leo Szilard



'The Washington dove' — Soviet poster (1953) showing American agents disguising a bomb as a dove of peace. Artist: Boris Efimov.


The dove's head reads 'peaceful phrases' while the black text above reads: 'Though they disguise it cunningly / They can't hide the vile guns!'


August 8, 1969: Photographer Iain Macmillan took the iconic album cover photo of Abbey Road by The Beatles. The image became one of the most famous and imitated in popular music. Abbey Road is the best selling Beatles album, and it was the last one the group recorded together. The 6 photos taken by Iain Macmillan for the Abbey Road cover (1969). The Volkswagen seen in the Abbey Road cover was owned by a resident of a block of apartments in Abbey Road. It ended up in a car museum in Wolfsburg, Germany.



And many Abbey imitations ever since.




You're the Democratic nominee!
Bill McKay: You make it sound like a death sentence.




50 years ago tonight, President Richard M. Nixon became the first POTUS in history to announce his resignation of the Oval Office, effective at high noon the following day.




Nixon just before resignation and full speech, August 8, 1974




In 1974, after the sequel proved financially successful, American International Pictures re-released Born Losers (1967) with the taglines "The film that introduced Billy Jack" and "Back By Popular Demand: "Born Losers" The Original Screen Appearance of Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack".




"M" Magazine Interview with President Reagan in Oval Office on August 8, 1983:




Jeff Daniels is set to portray President Ronald Reagan in the upcoming film, "Reykjavik." It tells the story of the Reykjavik Summit, the 1986 weekend meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev in Iceland.


Deadline


Sounds like a fun job...


Seeking a Weapons of Mass Destruction Modeler to join Pentagon Force Protection Agency. Strong skills in organizing and delivering briefings; threat data analysis; and comprehensive technical and tactical skills required. Salary: $68,405 - $107,590 per year. Apply by 8/13/24 via USA Jobs

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August 8, 1942: six Nazi saboteurs were executed by electric chair and buried in unmarked graves in a secret cemetery in Washington, D.C. The saboteurs had traveled to the U.S. by U-boat with a mission to create havoc by attacking key infrastructure but were 'caught' by the FBI before they could act.


Supposedly, the graves are near the present Bellevue basketball court in a wooded area on the DC/Maryland border. The American Nazi Party once placed an unauthorized memorial near the site. Some reports state that the saboteurs' remains were quietly repatriated to Germany in the 1960s. Just imagine how many peaceful saboteurs have crossed our border since stepford Biden stumbled into Office.

The famed British historian Mark Felton released a video on this operation just a week ago, there was more than one infiltration:




Dating from the 19th century, the U.S. Navy boat cloak was still an optional item for the evening dress uniform in the 1950s. Decades after falling out of fashion, the cape finally was banished to the back of the closet in 2015.




Technological improvements naturally streamlines established products.




I wouldn't be so sure...


When the Entourage movie came out and Adrien Grenier took to his Instagram to beg women to see the movie because it was tracking for a 2/3 male audience and it was a box office failure: cost $39M, made $49 million.


NASA reported that Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, the two astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station since June due to Boeing Starliner issues may not return until February 2025. The original plan was for them to be on the ISS for one week. I'm sure we're not getting the full story back on Earth.


Imagine if they end up being rescued by the Russians.


I would trust this man with my life & freedom. LOL!


Mississippi Law Dawg


So, JD Vance's 4341 "Combat Correspondence" MOS is pretty much in-line with Full Metal Jacket's, James "Joker" Davis's 4212 "Basic Military Journalism."







One more day till party time in Sin City...



...with some hybrid friends...



...at Oppies Drive-up theater.

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August 10, 1842: The British parliament passed the Mines and Collieries Act, which forbade women and girls of any age to work underground and introduced a minimum age of ten for boys employed in underground work. Many children, as young as 6, had previously worked shifts of up to 12 hours. The Act received Royal assent in June 1843.




August 10, 1897: German chemist, Felix Hoffmann, while working for Bayer recorded in his laboratory notebook that he had finally found a better method of producing acetylsalicylic acid in a purer and more stable form. It became the popular painkiller, Aspirin. He also discovered Heroin at same time.

Today there is debate as to whether this account is complete. Some evidence has surfaced that indicates that Arthur Eichengrün, another Bayer employee, played a significant role in the development of aspirin. It has been suggested that he was left out of the story as it has been told since the 1930s because he was Jewish.

Bayer applied for a German patent but was rejected: as it turned out, acetylsalicylic acid had been synthesized earlier, first by a French chemist and later by a German chemist, although unlike Hoffmann they had been unable to produce it in a pure, stable form. Regardless, the Bayer Company, recognizing that it had a potential blockbuster in aspirin, aggressively marketed the drug worldwide. In the United States, Bayer was able to obtain a patent, giving the company the monopoly on manufacturing the drug from 1900 to 1917.

When Bayer’s American plants were sold in 1919 as part of the reparations exacted from Germany after World War I, Sterling Products of Wheeling, West Virginia, was willing to invest the then unheard-of sum of $3 million for Bayer’s U.S. drug properties. But Sterling was unable to protect the trademark status of aspirin. It thus became a staple of the over-the-counter market in the United States and elsewhere.

More than 100 years after its invention, it continues to be a popular drug, with uses extending far beyond those envisaged by its original creators. SmithKline Beecham eventually purchased Sterling’s worldwide over-the-counter pharmaceutical business and, in turn, sold the U.S. portion, including aspirin, to Bayer for a sum of $1 billion.

Felix Hoffmann

We all know Bayer has had 100+ years of dark history.



Joseph Ward Moore (August 10, 1903 – January 29, 1978) was an American science fiction writer. Perhaps best known for his alternate history novel "Bring the Jubilee" (1953) that tells of a world in which the South won the American Civil War, leaving the North in ruins. Moore also wrote two of the most notable stories describing nuclear holocaust and its consequences, "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954), featuring a great motorized exodus from a doomed Los Angeles, seen through biblical parallelism as the city of Sodom. The hero jettisons his irredeemably suburban wife and his sons and goes on to make a new and incestuous life with his daughter in the mountains. The ironies attached to his monstrous survivalism are savage. The stories were used as an unaccredited basis for the film Panic in Year Zero! (1962), losing much of their power in the cleaning-up process.


The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1953 (Lot on page 100)

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1954 (Lot's Daughter page 3)



August 10, 1932: The original acting dog, Rin Tin Tin, died. Born Sept 10, 1918 was a male German Shepherd born in Flirey, France, who became an international star in motion pictures. He was rescued from a World War I battlefield by an American soldier, Lee Duncan, who nicknamed him "Rinty". Duncan trained Rin Tin Tin and obtained silent film work for the dog. Rin Tin Tin was an immediate box-office success and went on to appear in 27 Hollywood films, gaining worldwide fame. Rin Tin Tin was responsible for greatly increasing the popularity of German Shepherd dogs as family pets.


Lee Duncan groomed Rin Tin Tin IV for the 1950s television series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, however, the dog failed the screening test and was replaced with Flame Jr. who appeared in 160 episodes of The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954-1959). The viewers were led to believe this was the actual dog named Rin Tin Tin.


August 9-10, 1969: the Tate-LaBianca murders.




Ha, I'm not surprised...


Full JFK doc released in 2017


It's kinda like Invasion of The Body Snatchers...


https://x.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1822295108378563000


It’s 2024 and UK police are using social media to casually remind the king’s royal subjects that carrying a knife for self-protection is illegal. Are swords illegal? What about spears? How about spoons? Death by spoon would be gory brutal. Soon, knives will be illegal in restaurants too. Enjoy your steak dinner, ya filthy peasants. Some of this (a lot of this?) has got to be a test to see how far they can push the people. BYOK to restaurant? Uh, you better think again citizen before leaving your house! It's kinda like all the lunacy restrictions during Covid-apocalypse. I guess this is now phase II or III. One thing all of the big NATO countries have in common is it sure seems like they have declared war on their citizens. Nudging everyone toward that cliff edge. Submit or suffer or die.







The more 'onions' you know and 'droids' are running government here and abroad. Unfortunately, they appear very durable, but they're more like a house of cards.




Father John Misty - I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All

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"The Belligerent Peace Advocate"




August 11, 1934: Application for Registry of an Alien under an Act of Congress Approved March 2, 1929, for Stephan Sevastian Bondareff.


National Archives Catalog


August 11, 1942: U.S. actress & amateur inventor, self-taught, Hedy Lamarr and U.S. composer George Antheil received U.S. Patent 2,292,387 (issued to Lamarr under her married name, Hedy Markey) for a “secret communication system.” Although the invention wasn’t immediately implemented, it did lay the groundwork for technology used to maintain security for military communications, cell phones, WiFi and Bluetooth. This work led to their being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.


An invention notebook in George’s handwriting reveals that he was influenced by Philco’s 1939 Mystery Control, the first commercially available radio remote controller. With the help of Samuel Mackeown, a California Institute of Technology engineer, George ironed out the bugs in their invention, and he and Hedy applied for a patent in June 1941. Considering the familiarity with patent conventions and technical radio concepts on display, it seems likely that Mackeown wrote the patent itself.

Random Paths to Frequency Hopping

In 2019, actor and musician Johnny Depp composed a song called "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" with Tommy Henriksen. It was included on Depp and Jeff Beck's 2022 album "18".




Atomic Bomb Scientists at a US Military Base, August 1, 1945:


These scientists are group leaders in the assembly, research and check up of the atomic bombs at a Mariana base. Left to right: Norman Ramsey (Brooklyn, NY); Roger S. Warner (Boston, MA); Edward B. Doll (Los Angeles, CA); Harold Agnew (Denver, CO); Luis W. Alvarez (Rochester, MN); Lawrence Johnston (Hollywood, CA); Philip Morrison (Pittsburgh, PA; circled); Robert Serber (Urbana, IL); and Bernard Waldman.

Carnegie Mellon educated Philip Morrison (1915-2005) was present at the birth of the A-bomb. He went on to teach at Cornell and MIT. In the late 50s, he first proposed using microwaves as a way to communicate with aliens. He was a founder of the Planetary Society and SETI and received many technical awards.


Hashem Al-Ghaili (born August 11, 1990) is a Yemeni science communicator, director and producer. He is best known for his infographics and videos about scientific breakthroughs. Al-Ghaili's work in science communication gained the attention of science news sources and social media users alike.




August 11, 1984: Ronald Reagan's "we begin bombing in five minutes" joke. Story broken by the late, Ann Devroy [1948-1997] then of Gannett news. 


Press: On and Off the Record  | IT'S NOT THE FIRST JOKE ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR

On August 15, 1984 a coded message was transmitted from Soviet military headquarters in Vladivostok: "We now embark on military action against the US forces." One military unit in the region went on red alert. Soviet ships in the northern Pacific were confused.




That October, just before the 1984 election, the ad hoc duo of Jerry Harrison and Bootsy Collins performing as "Bonzo Goes to Washington" released the single "Five Minutes" inspired by Reagan’s remarks. The song was produced by Harrison and Daniel Lazerus. In the pre-Internet days most people did not hear Reagan's joke until this song release.



A hat belonging to Napoleon when he ruled France was sold for $2.1m at auction in Paris.


Napoleon had 120 hats, only around 16 are thought to remain, and in private collections we have no idea...maybe 2 or 3. Auctioneer Jean Pierre Osenat, said: "People recognized this hat everywhere. When they saw it on the battlefields, they knew Napoleon was there. That was the image - the symbol of the emperor.”


Liberal democracy: jailed for memes

Meanwhile Napoleon the dictator:

[Letter to Fouché, January 15, 1806] "I do not intend that Frenchmen should become slaves. In France, everything that is not forbidden is permitted, nor can anything be forbidden except by the laws, by the courts, or, when morals and public order are concerned, by general police measures. I say it once more:

I do not want any censorship [of books], because every book-seller is made responsible for the works he sells, because I do not wish to take responsibility for every nonsense that comes off the printing press, and, finally, because I do not want some clerk to tyrannize over the mind and to mutilate genius."

However, in 1810 Napoleon did establish book censorship. For his interference with the periodic press.


Source: The Mind of Napoleon, A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words
Edited and Translated by J. CHRISTOPHER HEROLD (1955)



Business owner traumatized by Secret Service

LOL, SS has been doing whatever it takes since 1865. In modern times I'm sure they do this quite regularly. However, after 2003 when they were removed from Department of the Treasury and placed under Department of Homeland Security is perhaps the start of when things started going downhill.


This is what used to pass for "cutbacks" in the media world:



Marcus Aurelius (as usual) said it best...

"No matter what happens, keep this in mind: It’s the same old thing, from one end of the world to the other. It fills the history books, ancient and modern, and the cities, and the houses too. Nothing new at all.”

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August 12, 1944: LT Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was killed when his aircraft exploded while on a top secret mission Operation Anvil (the Navy's part of Operation Aphrodite) to destroy a German V-3 cannon site in France that was intended to bombard London. His explosive-laden (21,170 lb of Torpex) BQ-8 "robot" aircraft (a converted B-24 Liberator bomber) was to be crashed into the target by remote control once he bailed out but it detonated prematurely. The chosen one until fate played her cards.




August 12, 1981: The IBM 5150, the first major product called a 'Personal Computer' was launched. It ushered in an era of enterprise computing that revolutionized software development. The company hoped to sell 241,683 PC’s in the first 5 years. It ended up selling 3 million computers.




Return of the Don...



Any White American caught listening to the Space today with Donald Trump and Elon is at risk of being arrested and extradited to the UK for lashings, torture and a mandatory 50 year prison term on a small unnamed island gulag with one meal a day.

European Union sends letter to Elon Musk, demanding him to censor Donald Trump during today's interview. The EU has threatened Musk with legal consequences if he does not prevent the spread of what they label as "disinformation." LOL, the total fear they have of Trump is mind boggling. Must be something they know and I don't. Now THIS is malignant foreign influence...


https://x.com/thierrybreton/status/1823033048109367549


Meanwhile, in Britain...



I think chancellor Sutler, err, PM Starmer is a Fabian Socialist.
Fabian Socialism is English Socialism.
English Socialism is what Orwell warned about under the name "Ingsoc."

As Marxists the Fabian Society are Globalists/multiculturalists. They support the creation of a 1% jewish master-race and a 99% mixed race, or multi racial, dumbed down race of corporate debt-slaves run by Marxist kapos. The Fabian Society were prime movers in shutting down Grammar Schools for Working Class Children in Britain – the cover story for this dumbing down was “anti-elitism”. Most Fabian Society members, like Diane Abbot Labour MP, send their children to expensive private schools. Fabian journalists and politicians have also been behind branding anyone not supporting Globalisation/multiculturalism as racist – this has destroyed many decent British Peoples’ careers and lives.

The Fabian Society – A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing (literally)

Harris/Walz will fit right in the Fabian club.


It appears that "They" have decided they can’t beat the Trumpians. KaMAla is a washout and isn’t going anywhere, so they are pulling the plug on the global economy, since there’s no reason to keep it afloat, and they can blame it all on Joe Biden. No? The Magicians want us to exist in a frenetic state of high anxiety, because anger, fear and confusion make us pliable conformists, which is what they need us to be to maintain their control.

There is a way to subvert it that is very old and spans multiple cultures. The methodology is always the same: stillness, but the terms and theology vary a bit.


Maybe I'll spend some time as a Postulant in a certain Benedictine monastery practicing Hesychasm which involves controlled and focused breathing, a mantra, and sitting very quietly for a period of time every day. I mean after-all, these monks have their own brewery producing several Ales.

Well, damn. Apparently the brewery has shutdown, at least to the public and their website is offline. Interestingly, the monastery maintains one of the largest private solar power systems in the USA.


Abbey Brewing Company, New Mexico (Archived link)

I've read that anyone interested in this concept should begin at the beginning, with the Desert Fathers. The desert monks in North Africa pre-existed Christianity, and their practices were likely foundational to early Christianity, and certainly the Essenes were.

"They" are throwing everything at us as fast as they can to keep us off balance, afraid, and searching for a savior. This is a dangerous place to be for the masses, since they will glom onto any figure or organization that promises to calm the seas and steady the boat. This is a state of mind that is exploited to great effect by cults and political movements.

Anxiety and uncertainty keep the individual off center, and like someone falling, folks will grab onto anything that looks stable and secure. Leaders who know this and use it to their advantage can get millions to flock to them by projecting an image of being solid and in control.

If you watch the propotainment media in your polished black mirror from a safe distance, you will notice rapid-fire edits during stories about chaos and panic, then long lingering shots of those chosen to be the "leaders". This is one technique used to steer the masses, the color blue is another — the image of calm and steady, versus yellows, reds and browns, shaky handheld cameras, and edits less than two seconds, so we never have time to mentally and emotionally focus and relax. Yes, the color palettes are deliberate and chosen specifically for their emotional impact.

We are living in dangerous times. The old power structures of the last 700 years are collapsing, and "They" are grasping at anything stable and secure to steady themselves, while at the same time trying to project that panic onto us. Our greatest weapon and defense is to find our inner peace and ignore their thrashings. One of the hardest things to do is to watch someone drown and not dive in to save them. A drowning person is in a blind panic and will drag anyone in reach down with them. I think "They" are drowning, and if we get anywhere near them, they will drag us under and the Reaper will get a 2-for-1 discount. We can throw a rope to anyone who will take it, but we must keep our distance or end up in Davy Jones Locker with them. The only way to fight the anger, fear and panic is to nourish and maintain the rational mind: stay balanced, focused, and keep our inner peace. Ok, I'm probably preaching to the choir here, plus it's Manic Monday.


Suggested film of the day: The Name of the Rose (1986) - IMDB.




Words to get you through the week...maybe just an iota...

Here I lie, in a lost and lonely part of town
Held in time, in a world of tears I slowly drown
Goin' home, I just can't make it all alone...

Tragedy
When the feeling's gone and you can't go on
It's tragedy
When the morning cries and you don't know why
It's hard to bear
With no-one to love you, you're goin' nowhere...



Odd word I've never heard before.
"Pulchritudinous goddesses of American girlhood" LIFE Sept 26, 1938



"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
— Arthur C. Clarke

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August 13, 1951: the large scale Cold War era war game Exercise Southern Pine commenced.

In August 1951, before the term “jointness” was widely used, the Air Force and Army worked together to deploy 100,000 soldiers and 400 warplanes to defend North and South Carolina from a Soviet invasion.

Of course, the Soviets didn’t really invade the Carolinas.

It was an exercise, called Southern Pine. It unfolded during a period of heavy fighting in the Korean War and reflected the Pentagon’s priority at the time: Real fighting in Korea took second place behind preparations for war with the Soviet Union.

Exercise Southern Pine, carried out near Fort Bragg, N. C. between Aug. 13 and Sept. 2, 1951, was one of the largest military war games of the era. The exercise tested three Army combat divisions against a Soviet-like foe who was identified simply as “the Aggressor.”

Facts about Exercise Southern Pine are sparse. Donna Tabor, command historian for the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, and Betty Rucker, collections manager for the 82nd Airborne Division Museum, both said their files contain no documents about the exercise, nor do the files of the Fayetteville Observer, the newspaper closest to Bragg. Mark Morgan, historian at the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, found some items that confirm the Air Force’s role in moving troops quickly and supporting them.

Despite the Caribbean context of the war game’s premise, Exercise Southern Pine was meant to prepare American soldiers to defend Western Europe from an armored assault by the Soviet Union and its allies.

The Aggressor made heavy use of armor, just as the real-life Soviets did. The emphasis was on air-to-ground operations, including movement of soldiers by air. “Blue” troops (friendlies) often arrived from the air and nominally waged the mock war partly with nuclear artillery.

New ideas and equipment were tested. The troop-carrying H-12 helicopter was evaluated in Southern Pine, but never became operational. Later, the H-12’s maker, Bell, introduced the Vietnam-era UH-1 Huey, which was initially called the XH-40.

An Associated Press story of Aug. 14, 1951, told of the 28th and 43rd divisions assembling east of Fort Bragg “to prevent this huge encampment from seizure. With the capture of Fort Bragg, the enemy would have easy sailing in its drive toward the Raleigh-Durham industrial area, the objective of Aggressor forces in the operation.” The AP report said the exercise was to prepare these divisions for duty in Europe and was “the armed forces’ biggest training effort since World War II.”

The 28th and 43rd divisions did, indeed, transfer to Europe. In 1951, an atomic war with the U.S.S.R. was a real prospect that seemed as important to Pentagon decision makers as Korea did. In the end, of course, there was no such war – in part because of the readiness fostered by rehearsals like Exercise Southern Pine.

Exercise Southern Pine Illustrated Cold War Era Priorities

Exercise SNOW FALL, conducted in Jan-Feb 1952 in northern New York at Camp Drum, was the first exercise to include atomic play.

USAF Historical Studies: No. 129 [Air Force Participation In Joint Army-Air Force Training Exercises 1951-1954]


In this 2nd Loudspeaker and Leaflet Company training leaflet used in Exercise Southern Pine in August 1951, a Lovely woman is depicted at the left with a microphone. The girl was a local named Gladys Mathews. The text is:

Listen to Lorelei
The velvet voice of aggressor in her nightly broadcasts...
Just for you!

PSYOP HISTORY - Voice of the U.S. and Aggressors The 2nd Loudspeaker & Leaflet Company. By Jared M. Tracy, PhD

From Veritas, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2016

    “Dropping leaflets instead of parachutes and using loudspeakers instead of rifles, psychological warfare [psywar] units are ‘fighting’ side by side with airborne troopers of the [82nd Airborne] Division.”
    –New York Times, 15 November 1953

Supporting that maneuver, Exercise FALCON, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was the 2nd Loudspeaker and Leaflet (L&L) Company, a tactical psywar unit. For most of its brief existence (November 1950-February 1955), the 2nd L&L functioned as the stateside psywar training element for Army Field Forces. It thus ‘filled the gap’ left by the 1st L&L Company (formerly called the Tactical Information Detachment) when it deployed to Korea in late 1950. This article introduces the 2nd L&L in the context of renewed U.S. Army efforts to rebuild its psywar capability during the Korean War.

Leading the U.S. Army psywar resurgence was Brigadier General (BG) Robert A. McClure, who orchestrated the strategic psywar campaign in Europe during WWII. Heading the Psywar Division, Army G-3 starting in September 1950 and the Office of the Chief of Psywar (OCPW) after January 1951, McClure prioritized activating, manning, training, and deploying psywar units to the Far East and Europe. By spring 1951, the Army’s active duty tactical psywar inventory consisted of the 1st, 2nd, and 5th L&L Companies. The mission of these permanent, table of organization and equipment (T/O&E) units was “to conduct the tactical propaganda operations of a field army and to provide quality [psywar] specialists as advisors to the army and subordinate staffs.”

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During Exercise SOUTHERN PINE, the 2nd L&L designed and printed some 485,800 leaflets that Aggressor forces employed against U.S. units. Loudspeaker appeals complemented printed messages. In addition, the 2nd L&L introduced “Lorelei, the Velvet Voice of Aggressor.” Promoting her nightly local radio broadcasts on Aggressor News Network, a mock enemy news station, one leaflet offered a written sample of Lorelei’s messages: “I hope you’ll like me, fellas… Will you listen to me each night? Please? I promise you, fellas, you won’t regret it.” The detachment recruited local girls to pose for leaflets and to speak on air as Lorelei.

Bonus link: PSYOP Training Leaflets


The following decade they went from "Atomic play" to "Biological Weapon Play"...


Army Report Details Germ War Exercise In N.Y. Subway in '66  (I wonder what interest the Church of Scientology had back then)



Cats Fight Like People - 1950s Government Film Preaches... You Can't Guess What!...Unless you're British!



In the 1950s, particularly around 1955 when this was produced, the concept of fallout shelters became increasingly popular in the United States due to the escalating Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. This period marked a significant rise in the public's fear of nuclear warfare, leading to a surge in the construction and sale of fallout shelters by various companies and entrepreneurs aiming to capitalize on these fears.

This film took an unusual approach to selling American citizens on fallout shelters. An immigrant comes to town. The US Government (as in this film) and several companies and rich individuals, began to pitch and manufacture and sell fallout shelters.


August 13, 1961: The Berlin Wall begins with barbed wire.




August 13, 1966: debuting on the Hot 100 at No. 81 ... the B-side to "Wouldn’t It Be Nice."






Colorado passed the first law in the US to include bio and brain data in the State Privacy Act to protect people's thoughts from mind-reading tech. Those sci-fi movies from the 70s-80s era keep coming true. Make it stop!


As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts

Next up will be a bill for Neurorights and Neuromarkets riddled with loopholes & congressional kickbacks. Invest in tin foil!


Modesty Blaise (1966) Stylish ex-con Modesty Blaise and her partner Willie Garvin are tasked by the British Secret Service with preventing her rival Gabriel from stealing diamonds that are to be delivered to her adoptive father, a Sheikh.

Modesty, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers, is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist.


In 1978, a businessman claimed he was negotiating with a European navy to lease a submarine that would take Scottish fans known as the 'Tartan Army' to the World Cup in Argentina. He said he could not reveal the name of the country, but its navy needed to generate revenue due to defense budget cuts. The undersea journey would be limited to 180 male fans, each paying £595 for a ticket. However, the deal fell through.


Jim Tait, Bookmaker, greyhound trainer, bon viveur


Excerpt from last night's X Games:


Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Full Transcript) - August 12, 2024


R.I.P. Paramount Television Studios — the current iteration of Paramount’s TV division will shut down amid cost-cutting. Projects will be absorbed into CBS Studios, the successor to the original Paramount TV, formed after the 1967 acquisition of Desilu. Good luck trying to track the Paramount history of acquisitions, mergers, un-mergers, re-mergers, and name changes.

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August 14, 1945: WWII ends after the Japanese announced their intent to surrender, the U.S. Navy revealed that it had been planning the most intense and destructive concentration of carrier airpower in history called Operation Downfall by launching more than 10,000 sorties in support of the invasion of Japan. This invasion operation would have dwarfed D-Day. Luckily, X-day was cancelled and instead Operation Magic Carpet was rolled out.



August 14, 1945: celebrations erupted across the United States after news of Japan's surrender was announced. This is the original CBS News radio broadcast reporting the end of the Second World War.




August 14, 1945: military hardliners in Japan attempted a coup to prevent the broadcast of Emperor Hirohito's declaration of surrender. The incident is depicted in the 1967 film JAPAN'S LONGEST DAY, and the Japanese remake THE EMPEROR IN AUGUST was released in 2015.





Meanwhile, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will resign next month. "Politics cannot function without public trust," he told a press conference to reveal his decision not to seek re-election as the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).


August 14, 1961: “Two little girls in a West German street chat with their grandparents in the window of their home in the eastern zone, separated only by a barbed wire barricade.”


We all got a taste of how they felt (with imaginary barb wire) in 2020-21.


August 14, 1964: News of Norman Bryan Chastain [1934-2023] receiving a suspended sentence for ripping down Fallout Shelter Signs at San Francisco City Hall. And "I Will Serve With Pride Your 30-Day Sentence" by Norman Chastain. Apparently, he was a very busy activist.


The Movement - Student Newspaper (Sept 1965; 8-page PDF)

[CITIZENS' COMMITTEE FOR DISARMAMENT] CHASTAIN, Norman
Typed Letter, Signed. May 24, 1963:




I couldn't help notice this article on the front page of that Sept 1965 Student newspaper:




The White House’s first ever creator economy conference.
Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of the White House Creator Economy Conference, in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House on August 14, 2024, in Washington, DC. The White House is hosting 100 digital content creators and influencers for its first-ever conference about the "creator economy."

Biden says there is a "decline of trust" in the media and that there are no "editors" anymore while he’s also repeated "I'm not joking" a million times. He’s saying this to a group of digital creators, whilst the corporate woke media that has sowed the majority of this distrust.



CNBC | President Biden visits the White House Creator Economy Conference in the Indian Treaty Room

Do you remember this year's theme from the powers that ought not be? That's right...



According to the unreliable Google Ngram, the term TRUST peaked in 1933.


TRUST: The meaning "businesses organized to reduce competition; an organization for the control of several corporations under one direction" by a set of majority shareholders in all of them, is a legal sense attested by 1877 which exploded as a U.S. political issue, hence trust-buster, recorded by 1903.


IARPA TRUST (from 2010)  A teaspoon of TRUST helps the medicine go down.


I think one of the biggest problems with the future being built is how much trust it will require... a level of trust that has not been earned. The consent of the governed isn't a suggestion or a footnote to be buried in some 8,000 pages of terms and conditions that nobody reads. It will be paramount.


"Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex."
― Frank Zappa

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Highlights from the photography collection of the 19th-century sexologist and author of Psychopathia Sexualis (1896), Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, who was born August 14, 1840. His full name: Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing.

Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902) was a German-Austrian psychiatrist and early sexologist, whose book Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie, first published in 1886 (and translated into English in 1892), became a great influence within the emerging study of sexology. The book, which Krafft-Ebing continued to expand throughout twelve editions until his death, is a scientific study of sexual deviation consisting of over 200 case studies. Intended for the use of physicians, psychiatrists and judges (and written partly in Latin in order to discourage the general public from reading it), the book explores fetishism, sadism, masochism and homosexuality, as well as nymphomania, necrophilia, and incest. For Krafft-Ebing, any desire for sex unrelated to procreation was a deviation from the heterosexual norm, making, for example, gay sex a "perversion" of the sexual instinct.

The photographs featured here are part of Krafft-Ebing’s personal collection. It is unknown where they came from or who the people featured in the photographs are, although, at least the first two photographs appear to be unusual specimens of the "French postcard" which was so popular in the late-19th century. One assumes the photographs are linked to Krafft-Ebing’s studies, but as for how or where they were produced and procured is a mystery.

August 14, 1967: The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act became law. It banned off shore broadcasting by pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline. Most of the pirate DJs ended up on BBC Radio 1.



On 20 January 1966, a force 8 storm blew up and Mi Amigo's anchors broke and the ship started to drift. This went unnoticed by the crew, who were watching a programme about the singer-songwriter Donovan, broadcasting having ended. The final song played that night had been Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Shipwrecked at Frinton-on-Sea

Part Five: The North Sea fights back

Official Radio Caroline website | Radio Caroline - Official Youtube


Hilarious British humor film, The Boat That Rocked (2009), US version "Pirate Radio" (also censored) loosely based about pirate Radio Caroline. A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.




"Hunter Biden Sought State Department Help for Ukrainian Company...After President Biden dropped his re-election bid, his administration released records showing that while he was vice president, his son solicited U.S. government assistance...His outreach to the U.S. Embassy in Rome on behalf of Burisma, which has not been previously reported, echoes other episodes for which he has been criticized for implicitly leveraging his father’s political clout to try to advance his foreign business."


Hunter Biden Sought State Department Help for Ukrainian Company

"Which has not been previously reported" but which has been known since 2019/2020 tells you all you need to know about the press. They buried the story with disinfo and are now congratulating themselves for reporting on it when it's politically convenient and won't help Trump. Kinda feels like leverage over Joe to keep him in line and not raise a stink over his own party’s soft coup. The Biden-Ukraine-Italian-Israeli-Russian mob, it's all one giant connected crime family.


Did you know Tyler Perry built a replica White House with a full-scale re-creation of the oval office at his 330-acre former military base production studio in Atlanta?


White House




The Center for Independent Thought established the Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties. One of the recipients was Edward Snowden.

"Myth of mental illness"

"Mental illness" is an expression, a metaphor that describes an offending, disturbing, shocking, or vexing conduct, action, or pattern of behavior, such as packaged under the wide-ranging term schizophrenia, as an "illness" or "disease". Szasz wrote: "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic."[18]: 101  He maintained that, while people behave and think in disturbing ways, and those ways may resemble a disease process (pain, deterioration, response to various interventions), this does not mean they actually have a disease. To Szasz, disease can only mean something people "have", while behavior is what people "do". Diseases are "malfunctions of the human body, of the heart, the liver, the kidney, the brain" while "no behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. That's not what diseases are." Szasz cited drapetomania as an example of a behavior that many in society did not approve of, being labeled and widely cited as a disease. Likewise, women who did not bend to a man's will were said to have hysteria.[19] He thought that psychiatry actively obscures the difference between behavior and disease in its quest to help or harm parties in conflicts. He maintained that, by calling people diseased, psychiatry attempts to deny them responsibility as moral agents in order to better control them.

Szasz believed that if we accept that "mental illness" is a euphemism for behaviors that are disapproved of, then the state has no right to force psychiatric "treatment" on these individuals. Similarly, the state should not be able to interfere in mental health practices between consenting adults (for example, by legally controlling the supply of psychotropic drugs or psychiatric medication). The medicalization of government produces a "therapeutic state", designating someone as, for example, "insane" or as a "drug addict".

"Today's lesson: Explaining how 8-tracks work to young people is like trying to explain alchemy." — Gov Walz

https://x.com/GovTimWalz/status/1530664474092441600


Billboard Hot 100 for August 14, 1965 at #11, "The Strangeloves - I Want Candy"




August 14, 2015: The United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba, re-opened after 54 years. It had been closed after Cuba–US relations were broken off in 1961. Shortly after re-opening the intelligentsia club conjured a weird illness called Havana Syndrome. Naturally, the CIA officers who were supposedly inflicted were compensated by stepford Biden on top of millions (billions?) dumped into finding the bogeyman.



The Havana headache banger... LMAO!




The Taliban are holding a major military parade the former U.S. military base in Bagram to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of taking over Kabul. Chinese and Iranian diplomats attended the ceremony. Thanks Kamala...the last person in the room.


It reminds me of the movie "The Dictator" (2012)


As you avoid those gadabouts whenever possible, beware of vampiric flittermice on those warm evenings as you smyster while tip toeing through the puzlock minefield seeking that fruitful cuddy.


Die Fledermaus - This is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II, which translates to "The Bat" in English. The term "flittermouse" is a historical reference to bats in German, and the operetta premiered in 1874. It remains a significant work in the operatic repertoire.

When a grain of sand gets into the fleshy folds of an oyster, the oyster begins secreting nacre, a mixture of calcium carbonate and protein, to coat the irritant. This eventually creates a pearl.

We are the oysters, fear is the grain of sand, and the surveillance-security matrix is the pearl — from "their" perspective. It seems no one ever questions the need for security, we just complain about how it’s implemented. We are fooled into exposing our tender flesh, so the grain of fear can be planted.

The powers that ought not be will continue to annoy and irritate us until we spit pearls at them, and we will be thankful to rid ourselves of the sand grains. Through eugenic breeding programs and selective indoctrination centers, entire generations will appear that have no clue that things were different once. They won’t have the intellectual tools to conceive of any other way to live. They won’t have the skills to survive outside the system, because robotics have taken over carpentry, plumbing, and farming.

It’s all good. Just remain complacent and compliant, and "they" will handle the details for us. All we have to do is perform our assigned tasks, accept that "security" is absolutely vital to our existence, and for the environment’s sake, don’t dare complain. Just keep oozing nacre like a good little oysterling.

[BIAD]

It's strange how on such a small stretch of land, a word changes from one region to another.




In regards of the north-eastern folk ballad 'Blaydon Races', Wikipedia suggests:

'...Although the account of the trip to Blaydon is fictional, the heavy rain was noted in the Newcastle Daily Chronicle,
as were the missing "cuddy" (horses). These were unable to ford the river due to an unexpected rise in the water level,
meaning that only one horse was present when racing was scheduled to begin...'

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Back across the pond... Cuddy (cabin), a small cabin or cupboard, especially on a boat. Sometimes a cuddy refers to a small but cosy hut. The origin of the term is not clear. Cuddy was in use in colonial America as early as 1655. The term may derive from the Dutch kajuit, meaning a small cabin, or from the French cahute, meaning a hut.

And Oxford's second definition:

noun dialect: Scottish
noun: cuddy; plural noun: cuddies

    1. a donkey.
    2. a stupid person.
    "you great soft cuddy!"


August 15, 1933: Leading US psychologist Stanley Milgram was born in New York City. He’s best known for his highly controversial electric shock experiments on obedience, conducted in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University in 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. He was influenced by trying to find out why people carried out orders during the Holocaust. Milgram died on December 20, 1984, aged 51, of a heart attack in New York City. It was his fifth heart attack. 


10 years later American psychologist Philip Zimbardo (born 1933, still alive) carried out the Stanford prison experiment. You can read all about it in his 2007 book, "The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil" and he wrote papers on MKULTRA and how to protect yourself from media brainwashing.


War and peace, San Francisco Chronicle, 1941 and 1945:




V-J Day in Times Square Iconic Kiss


For decades the photograph was mis-attributed in popular culture as being that of a nurse, (the sailor assumed she was a nurse at the time) however, Friedman was wearing a white uniform because she was a dental assistant. She had escaped the Nazi's and emigrated to the United States at age 15.

The identity of the two was a heated controversy for decades. Especially the sailor and a number of males over the decades claimed they were that lucky sailor. I did not know the two photos above were taken by TWO separate photographers. The two photo's (including the later sculptures) are a rabbit hole that you'll find hundreds of sources & commentary.

In 1987, George Mendonsa filed a lawsuit against Time Inc. in Rhode Island state court, alleging that he was the sailor in the photograph and that both Time and Life had violated his right of publicity by using the photograph without his permission. Citing legal costs, Mendonsa dropped his lawsuit in 1988.

Mendonsa was identified by a team of volunteers from the Naval War College in August 2005 as "the kisser". His claim was based on matching his scars and tattoos to scars and tattoos in the photograph. They made their determination after much study including photographic analysis by the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who were able to match scars and tattoo spotted by photograph experts, and the testimony of Richard M. Benson, a photograph analysis expert, professor of photographic studies, plus the former dean of the School of Arts at Yale University. Benson stated that "it is therefore my opinion, based upon a reasonable degree of certainty, that George Mendonsa is the sailor in Mr. Eisenstaedt's famous photograph."

The identity of the sailor as George Mendonsa has been challenged by physicists Donald W. Olson and Russell Doescher of Texas State University and Steve Kawaler of Iowa State University based on astronomical conditions recorded by the photographs of the incident. According to Mendonsa's account of the events of the day, the kiss would have occurred at approximately 2 p.m. However, Olson and Doescher argue that the positions of shadows in the photographs suggest that it was taken after 5 p.m. They further point to a clock seen in the photograph, its minute hand near the 10 and its hour hand pointing virtually vertically downward, indicating a time of approximately 5:50, and to Victor Jorgensen's account of the circumstances of his own photograph. They concluded that Mendonsa's version of events is untenable. Mendonsa died on February 17, 2019, aged 95, two days shy of his 96th birthday.

Must have been two really bored physicists. Friedman died at age 92 on September 8, 2016, in Richmond, Virginia. Her ashes are inurned beside her husband at Arlington National Cemetery.

A copyright-free Victor Jorgensen photograph, held in government archives and cited by Seward Johnson as the source for Unconditional Surrender, only extends to just below the knees of the subjects, failing to show the unusual stance of the woman—that is shown fully in the iconic Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph—and that nonetheless, appears in the statues.

Unconditional Surrender (sculpture)

More From the Scene of That Famous V-J Day Kiss in Times Square (LIFE magazine)


From the front page of The New York Times, August 15, 1945:




UK #1 on this day in 1956: Doris Day - Que Sera Sera




U.S. top 20 for August 15, 1964: Dean Martin providing a break from the British Invasion.




August 15, 1969: The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opened on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of Woodstock. It attracted an audience of 400,000. 32 acts performed, despite sporadic rain, including Jimi Hendrix, Santana and Joe Cocker. The first act on the first day of Woodstock: Richie Havens.




August 15, 1986: Corporal punishment was officially banned in British state schools. It was not ended in private schools until 1998 in England and Wales, 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in Northern Ireland.


Brexit Britain to Bring Back Caning in Schools


Peter Marshall, Host of ‘The Hollywood Squares,’ Dies at 98. I think my grandma had watched all 1900+ episodes from 1965-1980.


Marshall was born Ralph Pierre LaCock on March 30, 1926, in Clarksburg, West Virginia. His dad was a pharmacist (he died when Marshall was 10) and his mother a costume designer. He was raised in Huntington, West Virginia, by his grandmother.
The Hollywood Reporter | Peter Marshall Official Website



Greg Kihn

R.I.P. Kihnspiracy

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August 15, 1935: Will Rogers died in a plane crash piloted by aviation pioneer Wiley Post. The last 41 for Freedom boat, USS Will Rogers (SSBN 659), was named in his honor. She was the only submarine named for a comedian and was commissioned on April Fools Day. Benjamin Franklin-class and the last ballistic missile submarine built before Ohio class. That's a no foolin' boomer!




August 15, 1945: VADM Matome Ugaki rejected Hirohito's announcement of surrender and posed for this photo before leading 10 planes on one of the last kamikaze sorties of the war. No ships were hit. 3 planes returned with "engine problems" while the fate of the other 7 is unknown.



After receiving word of Japan's surrender in 1945, Fleet Admiral William Halsey was still wary of kamikaze attacks so he sent this message to Third Fleet...



Ernest Joseph King (23 November 1878 – 25 June 1956) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy who served as Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) during World War II. He directed the United States Navy's operations, planning, and administration and was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Combined Chiefs of Staff and was the U.S. Navy's second-most senior officer in World War II.

He was intolerant and suspicious of all things British, especially the Royal Navy, but he was almost equally intolerant and suspicious of the American Army. War against Japan was the problem to which he had devoted the study of a lifetime, and he resented the idea of American resources being used for any other purpose than to destroy the Japanese. After the war ended he softened up and didn't badger the British so much.


So the claimed hack of every American's social security number was released on the dark web on April 8th, the same day as the total solar eclipse. Are you kidding me? C'mon man.


Personal Data of 3 Billion People Stolen in Hack, Suit Says

I wonder what BS this will be used to justify... Digital Biometric ID tied to CBDC? "For your Safety" of course.



Oh, looky here... The US Office of Biometric Identity Management plans to "improve facial recognition technology," for minors, by collecting biometric data from immigrant children “down to the infant.”


The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age

I wonder how many minors under 14 as well as all teens the military/DARPA/private Corps. had collected biometric data in Afghanistan. They been beta testing & workin out the bugs for at least 10 years now. Welp, we know what's coming for all Americans, and right soon. Surely, that "database" can never be hacked. Sigh.



The paint is dry on Banksy’s animal-themed street art that appeared across London over 9 days


Getting worried about the red bear & Pooh bear to the east?


US drops technology export bans for Australia and United Kingdom


As I was slaving away cutting trees & hauling brush, sweating like a race horse in the hot sun, drinking a gallon of gatorade I had sitting on a tree stump, two butterflies landed on it and appeared to be drinking it. I guess this explains it...


Florida Museum


Nice night for a walk...


Peace Bridge is a bridge that accommodates people walking and cycling across the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The bridge, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, opened for use on March 24, 2012.


We Are [Rogue] Family

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August 16, 1942: U.S. Navy blimp L-8 returned from patrol without anyone aboard. The crew had vanished. The "ghost blimp" was found to be in total working order and none of the parachutes or life rafts had been taken. The fate of the 2-man crew remains a mystery to this day.




August 16, 1977: The King died. Since Elvis had played a key role in raising money for the USS Arizona Memorial, the U.S. Navy floated a wreath at Pearl Harbor in his honor. During his career, Elvis secretly visited the Memorial several times to pay his respects.



How Elvis Helped Save the USS Arizona Memorial


"STAR WARS and SDI: Defending America and the Galaxy" via Reagan Library billboard in Hollywood.




August 16, 1995: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." The Usual Suspects was released.


Another inspiration for the character of Keyser Soze was John List – a real-life murderer who killed his family in 1971 and went on the run for 17 years before he was finally apprehended. This backstory is similar to Soze’s.


Watching a German general analyze the battle of Kursk on YouTube wasn't on my 2024 bingo card. The Bundeswehr has been releasing incredible content throughout this conflict. They finally have an outlet. LOL. Of course Fräulein, everyone-whether military or civilian, can be considered guilty either because of their action or inaction.






And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful PANZER.




But, but...


Germany zeroes in on Ukrainian suspect in Nord Stream pipeline explosions


Oh this brings back memories...


Knighthawk Down


Up on billboards in North Carolina and Pennsylvania...what's old is new again...




Artist behind Obama's "Hope" poster unveils his latest work to support Kamala Harris's White House bid.

Forward... To where?


Obama ‘Hope’ designer unveils Harris ‘Forward’ artwork


Words for the weekend...


Tchotchke - The word has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere. It is borrowed from Yiddish and is ultimately Slavic in origin. A common confusion is between the terms tchotchke and tsatske or rather tsatskele, with the diminutive ending -le. Both terms have the same Slavic root, but the tch- version stems from Russian, while the ts- originates in Polish. Tchotchke usually references trinkets, while tsatskele is more likely to mean a young girl or woman who uses her charms to reach her goals. Being Yiddish, the meaning can change by the use of gestures and a change in tone, so that tsatskele can become the favorite child.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

August 17, 1896: Leslie Richard Groves Jr. the third son of a U.S. Army chaplain, future Manhattan Project director was born.




August 17, 1943 – World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

August 17, 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.

August 17, 1945 - 1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.

Augist 17, 1945 – The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.

August 17, 1959 - 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park. Whoa, we're all still here!

August 17, 1988 - Nevada Test Site - Area 19. As a symbol of international good faith and cooperation, the Soviet Union flag is raised to the top of the emplacement tower to be flown beside the U.S. flag for the Touchstone Kearsarge test on Pahute Mesa. The Joint Verification Experiment brought Soviet scientists and technicians to the Test Site for most of 1988. Kearsarge was detonated at 10 a.m., August 17, 1988.


Operation Touchstone, US nuclear test series, 13 nuclear tests conducted in 1987–1988. The series included Touchstone "Kearsarge" 140Kt underground nuke detonated, a joint US-Soviet test as part of the Joint Verification Experiment (JVE). The JVE's purpose was to provide yield data to both parties about each other's nuclear test sites so that accurate remote measurements could be taken to verify each other's compliance with the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT). This was the 1,013th nuclear test by the US out of a total 1,054 nuclear detonations, ending on Sept 23, 1992.

I'm not sure why the Kearsarge was chosen as a mascot for the sticker, but the USS Kearsarge (1861) was a famous steam sloop-of-war launched on 9/11/1861, best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider Confederate States Navy (CSS) Alabama off Cherbourg, France during the American Civil War. 17 of Kearsarge's crew received the Medal of Honor for valor during this action.

USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship commissioned in 1993 and remains in active service.

August 17, 1988 - Poppy Bush nominated for President.

August 17, 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.


Just ahead of DNC 2024, enjoy this Saturday Evening Post cover from 1968, by John Huehnergarth. The details are great - cops and tear gas, GOP spy balloon and (my favorite) the guy with the peace sign punching somebody out, with the cameras rolling.




Pay scale for those who played at Woodstock 55 years ago in 1969.


Santana’s astronomically low fee ($750) doesn’t come as much of a surprise. When he began his 45-minute Saturday afternoon set, he and his group were relatively unknown; their debut album had not yet been released, and he’d only begun to gain an underground following. But as the group’s Latin percussion ricocheted off the crowd, Santana quickly gained approval — and by the end of the set, the guitarist had launched himself into the echelons of rock history.


The 404 page on the Financial Times is a work of genius...




National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), "WE OWN THE NIGHT", patch commemorates the August 17, 2000, NROL-11 launch of a "classified NRO payload" atop a Titan IV rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California.


"IF I TOLD YOU I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU... then cut your head off and put it in a safe."
NRO LAUNCH A PICTORIAL HISTORY 1996 - 2021




Do we still have the same monkeypox czars? And are they still referred to as the monkeypox czars?



"Imagine a virus, the most terrifying virus you can... 

and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon?

Well, it's at this point in our story that along comes a spider. He's a man seemingly without a conscience for whom the ends always justify the means. He suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country, but rather, the country itself. 

Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks.

Three Waters has, in fact, been contaminated. Authorities are attempting to control its deadly spread. Sent destruction through the Underground. Fueled by the media, fear and panic spread quickly fracturing and dividing the country until, at last, the true goal comes into view. 

Before the St. Mary's crises no one would have predicted the results of the election that year. No one. And then not long after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some believed it was the work of God himself. But it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members that made them all obscenely rich.

A year later, several extremists are tried, found guilty and executed while a memorial is built to canonize their victims.

But the end result, the true genius of the plan, was the fear.

Fear became the ultimate tool of this government. Through it, our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of high chancellor.

The rest, as they say, is history."

"Can you prove any of this?"

"Why do you think I'm still alive?"

— V for Vendetta




Some humans have no respect...






If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
— Hannah Arendt

[EndtheMadnessNow]

August 18, 1966: George stops his time machine in the middle of an impending atomic attack. As people rush to the shelters, he meets James Filby again, who he last encountered in 1917.




August 18, 1969: The last song of the last day of Woodstock: Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe."




Delegation seating chart for 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago:




After completing baseline radiation measurements ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, US Dept. of Energy's Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) Sniffer chopper N411DE has returned to it's staging location in the National Capital Region as of yesterday.
AW139 Nuclear Detection Helicopters Join Department Of Energy Fleet, Replace Bell 412s




Happy World Helicopter Day! In 1956, USS Sealion (APSS-315) participated in exercises to test the feasibility of using submarines as platforms for helicopters during reconnaissance missions. Marines were shuttled between the sub and the shore on a Sikorsky HRS-3.




I used to wear my motocross helmet when I watched this show. LOL.





Poland buys 96 Apache helicopters from U.S.


August 18, 2000: Dr. Delia Surridge wrote in her diary "Of the original four dozen [injected with the virus], over 75 percent are now deceased. No controllable pattern has yet emerged."




Strike Fighter Squadron 113 (VFA-113), also known as the "Stingers," is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron based at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. They are an operational fleet F/A-18E Super Hornet squadron attached to Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2). Their tailcode is NE and their radio callsign is Sting.


https://x.com/cencio4/status/1824697386742292629


“the weapons of containment"


Orthodox Church explains nuclear missile blessing rules


Going out on limb here, but I expect some recidivism...


‘USSR citizens’ sent to Siberia


My next visit to Antarctica I shall pray for them in the southernmost Eastern Orthodox church in the world.

Don't Quit

"When things go wrong, as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low and the debts are high;
And you want to smile but you have to sigh.
When all is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don't you quit
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are;
It may be near when it seems far.
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things go wrong that you must not quit."

-JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

[EndtheMadnessNow]

August 18, 1783: Depiction of the unusually bright meteor seen over the UK on this day. At the time such phenomena were not well understood and the meteor was the subject of much discussion, and also works of art.


The caption reads:
"An accurate representation of the meteor which was seen on Aug.t 18th. 1783. At first it appeared as one ball of fire, but, in a few seconds, broke into many small ones. It's course was from N.W. to S.E. This extraordinary phaenomenon was of that species of meteor which the great phisiologist Dr. Woodward and others call the Draco volans or Flying dragon. The above view was taken at Winthorpe near Newark upon Trent, by Henry Robinson, schoolmaster. - and published by him as the Act directs, 14. Oct.r 1783. This plate is inscribed to Roger Pocklington Esq.r by his much obliged humble servant Henry Robinson."


Portents of death and destruction. Gouache, ca. 1910 (?)


Description: Heavy rain, clouds, thunder and lightning falling on a deserted landscape; left, a great skull and cross bones in the sky; centre, a falling star; right, a bier in the sky marked with the heads of three Middle Eastern men.

XVIIth International Congress of Medicine: handbook of the Historical Medical Museum organized by Henry S. Wellcome (the Museum of the Section of the History of Medicine), London, 1913, catalogue no. 267, p. 62 (possibly this item, described as "Death, famine and pestilence as forecast by a comet. From a MS of the 15th century")

See more meteors and comets in art here: Flowers of the Sky


August 19, 1945: pilot Lt. Tetsuo Tanifuji decided to take his wife on a kamikaze mission to attack Soviet tanks in Manchuria. They were joined by another pilot who had his fiancée sitting in his lap. They never returned and it is unknown if the pilots reached their targets. They took ride or die together, literally.



"There's a woman on the plane!"


August 19, 1983: Rodney Dangerfield's EASY MONEY premiered.




Happy World Photography Day! Celebrate with a peruse through Public Domain Review photography collection which features a huge range of subjects, from falling cats and chameleon bones to naked tennis and Charles Babbage's brain:




Of Chickens, Eggs, and Cannonballs: Roger Fenton’s Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)


August 19, 1991: Soviet coup d'état aka August Coup was attempted by hardliner commies. State of Emergency was declared by GKChP (The State Committee on the State of Emergency) members who became known as the "Gang of Eight". The GKChP cut communications to Gorbachev's dacha, including telephone landlines and the nuclear command and control system.




Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea. The coup ultimately failed, with the provisional government collapsing by 22 August 1991. All members were arrested for treason, except one... Boris Pugo, Interior Minister. However, he died from two gunshots to the head on August 22 and his death was ruled a suicide. Naturally. On 23 February 1994, the State Duma declared amnesty for all GKChP members and their accomplices, along with the participants of the October Surprise of 1993...a constitutional crisis. Come November we might see a similar coup...with clowns. I put nothing past the swamp psychos.

Photos are from the Russian political ephemera (late 1980s-1990s). Soviet coup d'état attempt 1991 ephemera, Slavic Division, Harvard College Library

American weaponry to protect the Swiss gold!



James Bond 007 Goldfinger Film Location: Furka Pass Then & Now




135 days to cybergasm doom...


Sex & the machine


Luke Combs – Ain’t No Love In Oklahoma (From Twisters: The Album)