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[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 15, 1888: The letter "From Hell" along with part of a human kidney preserved in wine was sent to George Lusk, the Chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee. The author of the letter claimed to be serial killer "Jack the Ripper".

From hell.

Mr Lusk,
Sor
I send you half the Kidne I took from one woman and prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer.

signed
Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk

Ripper Letters

British Q-ship Cymric (schooner) during WWI failed to sink any German U-boats, but did manage to sink a British submarine by friendly fire.

October 15, 1918: Fog of War: the British Q-ship Cymric attacked and sank the submarine HMS J6 after the crew misread the hull number as "U6" and thought it was a German Uboat. Only 15 of the crew of 34 were rescued by Cymric and only then was the tragic mistake realised. Damn, less than month away from end of WWI.

The incident was classified under the Official Secrets Act until 1969. The wreck of the J6 was discovered in 2011 off Seahouses on the North Northumberland coast in England.

Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, decoy vessels, special service ships, or mystery ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks.

Their guns were concealed, when a U-boat approached, a "panic party" would abandon the ship, while the gun crews waited for their target to come into range. The expectation was that the U-boat would approach the apparently abandoned ship and would be surprised and sunk when the guns were revealed and opened fire. Great successes were claimed and medals awarded.

Cymric built in 1893 for British > acquired by Ireland in 1906 > acquired by UK in 1915 > acquired by Ireland in 1919.
Fate: Vanished with all hands in 1944 during World War II somewhere off the coast of Dublin. Neither the Cymric nor any wreckage nor her crew of 11 was ever seen again.



World War One: The sinking and secrecy of submarine J6

HMS J6 (1916 - 1918)

Upon realising their mistake, Lieutenants Peterson and Mutch dived into the water in order to save the floundering submariners..

One of the crew of Cymric later wrote:

“The first thing I noticed was the marking ‘HM Submarines’ on the bands of the men’s hats. We had sunk a British submarine by mistaking the ‘J’ for a ‘U’. I can remember a big red headed chap who was badly wounded shouting at us from the boat ‘Come on you stupid ##### these are your own ###### side! Give them a hand’.

We pulled over to the sinking men. One man was holding up his commanding officer. He yelled come and help me save Mr Warburton. Others were drowning. We dived in and rescued all that we could. One we took out of the water was too far gone and died on board…We sent a signal to Blyth that we were making for the port with the survivors of J6 aboard. I will never forget entering the port. As we rounded the pier and worked our way into the basin where the depot ship Titania and the other submarines were moored, we could see the wives and children of the submarine gazing with anxious eyes to see if those dear to them were among the survivors”

T.M. Jones in ‘Watchdogs of the Deep’ claimed that some of the crew of J6 had felt a premonition of disaster prior to the boat’s departure. Jones knew the crew of J6 personally and was present when the survivors were landed at Blyth.

The Inquiry October 16, 1918

The Inquiry conclusion delivered that day was never in doubt:

‘We have this day held careful enquiry into the loss of H.M Submarine J6 on 15th October 1918 and find that –

We attribute blame to:

The Commanding Officer of Cymric in that he was not justified in opening fire before he had established her identity, J6 being in full buoyancy, men on conning tower, mast up, ensign flying, gun unmanned and not acting in any way suspiciously.’

Best website of info on HMS J6: Blue on Blue – The sinking of HMS J6

Attacks on merchant ships by pirates originating on the Somalia coast have brought suggestions from some security experts that Q-ships be used again to tempt pirates into attacking a well-defended ship.





October 15, 1925: Virginia Leith was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She later achieved cult status as the disembodied fiancée in the cheapjack sci-fi film "classic" The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962). According to FindaGrave, she left her body to science at the UCLA Medical School.




U.S. top 40 for October 15, 1966:




Oct 15, 1970: the Ceaușescus visited Disneyland.



Nicolae Ceaușescu, President of Romania from 1974 to Dec 22, 1989 and his wife Elena Petrescu (also a Romanian communist politician) were sentenced to death on charges including illegal hoarding of wealth and genocide. After the trial they were both immediately escorted out of the courtroom and executed by firing squad on Christmas day, 1989.

Several hundred photos of them with US presidents to Margaret Thatcher to well known dictators at this site.

Disneyland was a particularly popular destination for VIPs from communist countries. Eleven days later they hosted two more cosmonauts.


October 15, 1971: The 1st episode of the BBC drama series, The Onedin Line, was broadcast. It was set in Liverpool from 1852 to 1886, revolving around a fictional shipping company. James Onedin marries Anne Webster in order to get his hands on a ship. However the marriage turns out to be one of true love. James is ruthless in his attempt to get a shipping line started in Liverpool of the 1860s. There were 8 series, totaling 91 episodes until 26 October 1980.

The show was praised for its locations and use of genuine historical vessels. Along with day-to-day drama, romance, and business dealings, the series also tackled social and economic issues of the time, such as slavery.


Peter Gilmore (1931-2013) (James Onedin) and Anne Stallybrass (1938-2021) (Anne Onedin) were married in real life as well as in The Onedin Line. They owned a cottage which they called Onedin House, in Dartmouth, Devon. It was used as a filming location for the series. They both later starred on the Doctor Who TV series.






October 15-16, 1987: The UK "Great Storm of 1987" occurred, mainly over southern England, bringing hurricane-force winds, resulting in 22 deaths and extensive structural damage. BBC weather forecaster Michael Fish had failed to indicate a storm of such severity.

The apparent suggestion by the BBC's Michael Fish of a false alarm is celebrated as a classic gaffe, though he claims he was misquoted. As a result of this storm, major improvements were later implemented in atmospheric observation, relevant computer models, and the training of forecasters. The storm has been termed a "weather bomb" due to its rapid development.


Great Storm of 1987: Michael Fish's Great 'white lie'

Lessons learned from Great Storm

LOL, this is good...


The wrong man



October 15, 1991: The "Oh-My-God particle", (Not to be confused with the "God Particle", or Higgs boson) a ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory by The Fly's Eye camera in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. As of today, it is the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed.


The Fly's Eye (1981-1993)

NewScientist

The Particle That Broke a Cosmic Speed Limit (Quanta Magazine)






The Land of Story-Books

At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
They sit at home and talk and sing,
And do not play at anything.

Now, with my little gun, I crawl
All in the dark along the wall,
And follow round the forest track
Away behind the sofa back.

There, in the night, where none can spy,
All in my hunter’s camp I lie,
And play at books that I have read
Till it is time to go to bed.

These are the hills, these are the woods,
These are my starry solitudes;
And there the river by whose brink
The roaring lions come to drink.

I see the others far away
As if in firelit camp they lay,
And I, like an Indian scout,
Around their party prowled about.

So, when my nurse comes in for me,
Home I return across the sea,
And go to bed with backward looks
At my dear land of Story-books.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

[Freija]

There is something wrong with me. 



LOL

[BIAD]

October 15-16, 1987: The UK "Great Storm of 1987" occurred, mainly over southern England, bringing hurricane-force winds, resulting in 22 deaths and extensive structural damage. BBC weather forecaster Michael Fish had failed to indicate a storm of such severity...

What does one call a collection of TV Weather Presenters...?

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 16, 1901: President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute who was perhaps the best known African American of his day, to a meeting in the White House. When the meeting went long, the President asked Washington to stay for dinner, the first Black American to do so. The President’s act drew harsh criticism from many white Americans.

“The outrage was just unbelievable,” said Deborah Davis, author of “Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation.” “‘Dining,’ and I put it in quotation marks, was really a code word for social equality.”

That outrage continued, she said. “There was hell to pay, first weeks, then months, then years, then decades. This story did not go away. And, you know, an assassin was hired to go to Tuskegee to kill Booker T. Washington. He was pursued wherever he went. Theodore Roosevelt was criticized in ways that presidents were not criticized. There were vulgar cartoons of Mrs. Roosevelt that had never been done before. This was all new territory.”


Booker T. Washington dinner at the White House  | Book excerpt


October 16, 1958: Britain’s most popular children’s television programme, Blue Peter, was 1st broadcast on BBC TV. Its first presenters were Christopher Trace (1933-1992), a relatively unknown actor, and the model, Leila Williams (born 1937-still with us), best known for winning the 1957 Miss Great Britain contest. It has the status as the country’s longest-running beauty pageant.





She was the cover girl on Tit-bits (famous British magazine) May 12, 1962.

British children's-magazine program is aimed at 6-to-14-year-olds. 40 seasons, 67 years later the show is still running. It is the longest running children's television show in the world. Of the period 16th October 1958 to 5th November 1962, only two clips from the show are known to be archived.

The series was used by the BBC as a platform to launch several upcoming programs aimed at children, in particular Doctor Who (1963). Long-running presenter Peter Purves had played a companion to William Hartnell's Doctor before joining Blue Peter and Janet Ellis had also acted in a Doctor Who (1963) serial starring Tom Baker before joining as a presenter.

The "Blue Peter" referred to in the title is a flag flown by Royal Navy ships to indicate they are about to leave port.

Blue Peter became the children's programme most watched, copied, studied, parodied and pilloried. The young audience was encouraged to be active - to make, to care for animals and help others. It was also an early adopter of environmental issues in the late 1980s ('green' badges were issued). Despite this, critics complained about its 'bourgeois ideologies'.


As ships in the mothball fleet began to become obsolete in the 1960s, NY wanted to convert them into drug rehab centers, MA planned to use them as garbage incinerators, and California proposed they become sewage treatment plants. The plans proved to be too expensive. Aerial photo of the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Francisco unit, in early 1958:


By 1962, the entire assemblage (except for two) were stricken from Navy List and subsequently sold for scrap.


Nice to see the (mis)administration of Bai Den Jao and cackling Kamalarkey have their priorities in order. How do we cancel them?



Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule


In 1990, neither the federal government or any liberal organization would help the newly-freed Nelson Mandela visit the United States. And just like that, point made about Trump's historic lack of racism.


Trump Takes Mandela Under His Wing


Another military training abduction got 'zapped' over Mount Rainier...


Navy Growler crashes near Mount Rainier; 2 crew members missing


The launch tower that SpaceX used to catch the heavy booster was built in a matter of months. NASA is trying to build a much more simpler launch tower in Florida, which doesn't catch rockets, and hired Bechtel Corporation to do it. The latest estimate is $2.7 billion and it won't be ready until 2027 or maybe 2029. When the incentive is to maximize cost, cost will surely be maximized. Bechtel as the second largest construction company in the USA. The super billionaire Bechtel construction dynasty deeply rooted in the military industrial complex has a very shady deep state past.


Space Launch System is still a national disgrace


Our resident Space Force Guardians are thirsty for praise.




The NY Times vulpine virulent newspeak disseminate propatainment across the globe like no other.




C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) or simply Comet A3 from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023.
ATLAS = The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System

Here's a few better shots I scrapped out of the millions...


If humans are still around we'll see it again in about 80,000 years.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 17, 1091: The 1st recorded tornado struck London. The wooden London Bridge was completely demolished and over 600 houses were destroyed. It has been estimated by modern assessment as possibly an F4 on the Fujita scale.


Tornadoes in Mediaeval Britain

Given today's weather modification boys and lord knows what they might unleash next, BIAD is digging a bunker beneath the garden shed. Ignore the dirt piles.


October 17, 1918: Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino aka Rita Hayworth was born in Brooklyn, New York. She appeared in 61 films over a 37 year career and was one of the most glamorous screen idols & dancers of the Hollywood Golden Age, becoming the top pin-up girl for American GIs during World War II and a Hollywood legend. She died May 14, 1987 of Alzheimer's disease. Since 1981 she had been under the care of her second daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, (her second husband was Prince Aly Khan; daughter-in-law to Aga Khan III, the spiritual leader of 9 million Ismaili Muslims in Pakistan) who by publicizing her mother's tragic illness had drawn national and international attention to Alzheimer's disease, about which little was known.

The definitive Hayworth film is undoubtedly Gilda (1946), in which she appeared opposite Glenn Ford, her frequent costar. A classic of film noir, Gilda featured Hayworth as the quintessential “noir woman,” a duplicitous temptress and an abused victim in equal measure. A daring, quirky film for its time, Gilda was rife with sexually suggestive imagery and dialogue (such as Hayworth’s “If I’d been a ranch, they would have named me the Bar Nothing”) and featured Hayworth’s striptease to the song “Put the Blame on Mame,” perhaps the actress’s most famous film scene.

A few months before Pearl Harbor was attacked, LIFE magazine ran a black-and-white photograph of an up-and-coming movie actress named Rita Hayworth. The redheaded beauty was kneeling on a bed made up with satin sheets, her silky nightgown is white, with black lace trimming the low-cut top.

Bob Landry, the photographer, took many photos of Hayworth, but his favorite was an accidental one – his flash was too bright and this is mirrored in the black silhouette reflected at Hayworth’s back. However, Landry thought this added more depth and mysterious allure to the picture and submitted it to the magazine.

Four months after Hayworth’s photo was published, America went to war. And soldiers took the silk-and-lace picture along to remind them of home. Eventually, the picture became one of the most famous and most frequently reproduced American pinup images ever.

By the end of the war, more than 5 million copies of this photo were sold. The US Navy named her, “The Red-Head We Would Most Like to be Ship-Wrecked with”.

World War II was the golden age of pinups. For the first time in history, the US military unofficially sanctioned the creation and distribution of pinup pictures, magazines, and calendars to troops in order to raise morale and remind young men what they were fighting for. These vintage WWII pinup posters adorned servicemen’s lockers, the walls of barracks, and even the sides of planes.

The story behind Rita Hayworth’s iconic pin-up photo, 1941

October 17, 1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington premiered in Constitution Hall in Washington DC 85 years ago today, starring Jimmy Stewart and 'birthday girl' Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 - 1991).




October 17, 1968: Peter Yates' Bullitt was release. A landmark film that redefined the police thriller not only with respect to its procedural realism but also through setting the bar with its thrilling automotive pursuit sequence. According to Peter Yates, Steve McQueen made a point to keep his head near the open car window during the famous chase scene so that audiences would be reassured that it was he, not a stunt man, who was driving. The famous car chase lasts ten minutes and fifty-three seconds.

Several items of clothing worn by McQueen received a boost in popularity thanks to the film: desert boots, a trench coat, a blue turtleneck sweater and a brown tweed jacket with elbow patches.

According to McQueen, "The thing we tried to achieve was not to do a theatrical film, but a film about reality."

Frank Bullitt's car is a 1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2 Fastback. The bad guys drive a 1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum.


After the filming was complete, '559 was repaired and repainted with a single coat of Highland Green, and sold to Warner Bros. employee Robert Ross. Ross drove it until 1970, then sold it to Frank Marranca, who had it shipped from California to New Jersey. In 1974, Marranca sold the car to Robert Kiernan through an ad in Road & Track. In 1977, Steve McQueen attempted to buy it back, but was refused. The Kiernans drove it for 46,000 miles as their family car, then hid it away for decades in storage in 1980. Kiernan's son, Sean, began to restore the vehicle in 2014, and had it authenticated in 2016, with documentation that included McQueen's letter offering to purchase it. In January 2018, the original green Mustang GT from the film was brought out into the spotlight (after being in hiding for decades by the NJ owners) on stage at the Detroit Motor Show with Ford to introduce the new 2019 'Bullitt' Mustang.

On January 10, 2020, the car was sold by Mecum Auctions for $3.74 million to an unidentified buyer.

In February 2022, it was announced that Steven Spielberg will be directing and producing a new film centered on the Frank Bullitt character for Warner Bros. Pictures, with Josh Singer writing the screenplay. The film will be an original story, not a remake of the original film. Chad McQueen and niece Molly McQueen (son and granddaughter of Steve) will be executive producers.[69] In November 2022, it was announced that Bradley Cooper was cast as Frank Bullitt. Apparently, still in development, no word on release.



October 17, 1978: The 1st episode of the innovative 10-part scientific documentary series, Connections, written and presented by science historian, James Burke, was broadcast on BBC1. It attempted to show how major scientific changes were interconnected...interlinked.




October 17, 1983: Making Music with a Joy Stick / End of the Ride - Severing the ARPANET. The Gov't put an end to the joyride. It broke ARPANET into 2 separate systems. MILNET for military users and RADNET for civilians.




October 17, 2016: during a speech on ethics reform, Donald Trump announced, “It is time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.” A day later, he repeated the phrase in a tweet, adding the hashtag #draintheswamp for good measure. It was late in the campaign for a new slogan, but soon audiences around the country were chanting it.


Draining the Swamp And the beat goes on.


Election interference? GTFO, you bloody parasites. You sure you wanna do this again?



Well, I guess to be fair we used Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey to help Labour influence British politics regarding the Iraq War. They made a little jaunt over after *that Africa trip* on *that plane*.


BBC Today



Amazon UK

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Yesterday's strike mission against the Houthis in Western Yemen was carried out by B-2A Stealth bombers with the 13th Bomb Squadron of the 509th Bomb Wing stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, as well as several B-2As with the 131st Bomb Wing of the Missouri Air National Guard. "no matter how deeply buried underground, hardened, or fortified."

Hmm, no word on what the payload was, but possibly the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, better known as the MOP, weighing in around 30,000lbs, which can only be carried by the B-2.


Air Force B-2 bombers Strike the Houthis in Yemen

Watch:



On the flip-side we're using our 2nd most advanced bomber on guys in sandals... are we winning?



U.S. Special Operations Command is seeking the ability to create AI-generated social media users that "Appear to be a unique individual that is recognizable as human but does not exist in the real world" for intelligence-gathering purposes. Trust me bro, says the friendly human-like avatar. You remmber the movie AVATAR, which came out in 2009, right. Well, it stands to reason the military industrial-intelligence complex started working on this even earlier. Now you know why NVIDIA today is valued at near $3 TRILLION!!


The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users

Ethical AI: "We need to protect against deepfake attacks."

US Gov't: "Hold my beer."


The Age of AI: And Our Human Future (2021) by Daniel Huttenlocher, Eric Schmidt, and Henry Kissinger...



In late 2016, Oxford Dictionaries selected "post-truth" as the word of the year, defining it as "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."

The old world had critical thinking; the brave new world has critical feels.











R.I.P. Star of screen, There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), Anything Goes (1956), South Pacific (1958), stage and in her final years, Twitter (yes, she was here in person), there was no-one like Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber – aka Mitzi Gaynor – who has died at 93.

Watch her shimmer, dressed (barely) by Bob Mackie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs-1HZrvg8s




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Crikey!!! Never knew about this site. My cart's already full.  Oh No's'!!!

I'm buyin the dolly.

Cheers for this.

Bally

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy Alaska Day!!

October 18, 1867: The USA took possession of Alaska after buying it from Russia for just two cents an acre at $7.2 million in gold ($126.4 billion on today’s value) from Tsar Alexander II. This day is now celebrated annually as Alaska Day.

One primary reason America got Alaska so cheap is because Russia knew they wouldn't have the resources to defend that much land after they learned of the ever expanding American railway and the Hudson's Bay Company was pushing inexorably west.


USS Alaska (CB-1) was the first of a class of large cruisers designed as a compromise to achieve a fast cruiser with a heavy main battery. Commissioned in 1944, Alaska was awarded three battle star during WWII. She was decommissioned in 1947 and scrapped in 1960.



October 18, 1922: British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is founded by a group of leading wireless manufacturers, including the Italian radio inventor, Guglielmo Marconi. The British Broadcasting Company was formed using a blueprint that the United States Navy and the General Electric Company had attempted to institute in the USA. Daily broadcasting by the BBC began in Marconi’s London studio "2LO" radio station at 857 kHz on 14 November 1922. The first news bulletin is read by Arthur Burrows, the company's founding Director of Programmes. Later reformed and called British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927.


History of Marconi House where 2LO first broadcast

Early in World War I, all of the ship-to-shore and transatlantic radio stations controlled by a US subsidiary company of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited in Chelmsford, England, were seized and handed to the US Navy for the duration of the War. After the War, the US Congress forced the US Navy to divest itself of the stations and they turned to the General Electric Company which in 1919 formed a subsidiary called the Radio Corporation of America. With the US Navy on its board, RCA then absorbed the former Marconi stations. In 1926 RCA created the National Broadcasting Company, the first network in the United States. Peaking in the 1930s, there were unsuccessful attempts to bring all radio communications in America back under single monopoly control by using the patent laws.

Interesting to note that RCA worked on a secret project during WWII for the US Navy that was ABOVE the Manhattan project in cloaked secrecy.

History of the BBC

Daily broadcasting by the BBC began in Marconi's London studio, 2LO, in the Strand, on November 14, 1922. John Reith, a 33-year-old Scottish engineer, was appointed General Manager of the BBC at the end of 1922.

November 1922 - 2LO launched

Following the closure of numerous amateur stations, the BBC started its first daily radio service in London – 2LO.

After much argument, news was supplied by an agency, and music drama and 'talks' filled the airwaves for only a few hours a day. It wasn't long before radio could be heard across the nation.

London Calling... 2LO Calling

Broadcast entertainment really began in the USA in 1920. There, many hundreds of stations were soon in operation, swamping the airwaves. In Britain, the approach was more cautious. Experimental stations were tried at the Marconi site at Chelmsford, Essex, in 1920 and in 1922 at Writtle, a village nearby. The Writtle transmitter had the call sign 2MT.

Another Marconi station was licensed in 1922, based at the company head office, Marconi House in the Strand, London. Its call sign was 2LO. The transmitter was located in an attic room and the aerials were strung between towers on the roof. The building is now the Marconi Wing of Citibank House, and is close to Bush House, home of the BBC’s World Service.

The 2LO transmitter was designed by Henry Round and Charles Franklin of Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company, and brought into use in May 1922. It remained in its original configuration for only a very short time; within weeks it was rebuilt to take advantage of new regulations allowing increased transmitting power.

October 18, 1926: Chuck Berry "Father of Rock and Roll" was born.
Carrying his guitar in a gunny sack... ever deeper into space, aboard Voyager 1 and 2.


The Golden Record  | Music from Earth  | Current location of Voyager 1 and 2


October 18, 1962: President John F. Kennedy met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (seated closest to JFK) in the Oval Office.


“Could you sit through a two-hour meeting with a man who was lying to your face without letting on that you knew he was lying?”


Andrei Gromyko Lies to JFK (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Three)


UK #1 on this day in 1979: The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star. Also, the very first song/video aired on the debut of MTV, August 1, 1981.





Damn, 10 year-olds? Returning to the old penal colony? Once again stupid politicians not addressing the root cause. Even 14 year old is way too young, imo. They need to all look into the mirror.


Australian territory resumes jailing 10-year-olds


Other than, about damn time I'm not sure what to make of it. Why now?
Aristocrat blood has been poisoned now looking for new blood?


Hereditary nobles have sat in Britain’s Parliament for centuries. Their time might be up


TIME Black "X" for 1945; Red "X" for 1945, 2003, 2006, May 20th 2011 (RARE), 2020, 2024.


The History Behind TIME’s Use of a Red ‘X’ on Its Cover



Clint Hill Secret Service Agent from 1958 - 1975.


It's going to happen again...




Words for the Weekend...


Oxford Word of the Year


Friday night mash-up...



Music used in this mashup:
Guns N' Roses - Rocket Queen
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Who is this badass??


Answer at bottom.


Army soldiers glowed back in the 50s...


The Army demonstrated its new atom-powered X-ray unit designed for combat use. It weighs only 48 pounds, is powered by radioactive thulium and can produce an X-ray picture without electricity, water or darkroom. Dr. Stanhope Bayne Jones, (right) technical director of research and development, Army Surgeon General's Office, adjusts the portable unit carried by Captain Eugene W. Coleman, of Monroe, Michigan. (1955)


For the first time, quarks and gluons were used to describe properties of atomic nuclei, which until now had been explained by the existence of protons and neutrons. The temporary pair of correlated nucleons is highlighted in purple.


First coherent picture of an atomic nucleus made of quarks and gluons


October 19, 1931: John le Carré, one of the greatest spy novelists, was born in Poole, Dorset, England. His 3rd novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became an international best-seller and was followed by others including: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Smiley’s People, and The Constant Gardener.

Michael Dean interviews John le Carré (pen name of David John Moore Cornwell) in 1974.


https://x.com/BBCArchive/status/1847518038746419221

Le Carré: "The notion of secret service is that they do with their left hand what the government would like to do with its right hand. The gov't lays down its policy and the secret service, by secret means furthers that policy."

"And what has happened with the CIA in particular, is that you have frequently a weak, fumbling gov't where your chief executive is absorbed by all sorts of other activities. And you have a lot of experts in a hothouse, hacking out policy and then carrying it out. So, they're doing both jobs. And you abdicate to a secret service, the CIA, which is heaven knows how many times the size of the American State Dept. and has an appropriation which would be larger than our own national budget, I should think. You delegate to that organisation not only the execution, the clandestine execution of policy but alas, for want of a better one, the formation of policy."

Interviewer: So the secret service is strong when gov't is most weak?

Le Carré: "That's right - is at its most autonomous when the gov't dithers. And jeepers, we know about that."

That right there is a very good description of the "Deep State" and what it does behind the shadows.

Le Carré died at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, on 12 December 2020, aged 89. An inquest completed in June 2021 concluded that le Carré died after sustaining a fall at his home. His wife Valerie died on 27 February 2021, two months after her husband, at age 82.

In 2023, biographer Adam Sisman in The Secret Life of John le Carré identified 11 women with whom le Carré had affairs during his second marriage.

Le Carré's son Timothy died on May 31, 2022 at the age of 59, shortly after he finished editing A Private Spy, a collection of his father's letters.

There is the other kind of book where you take one character, you take another character and you put them into collision, and the collision arrives because they have different appetites, and you begin to get the essence of drama.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story, British writer John Le Carré has said. “But the cat sat on the dog’s mat is the beginning of an exciting story.”
John le Carré: The Writer Who Came in From the Cold, BBC Interviewer: Michael Dean, 1974.


I guess it's high time to abolish the Department of Education.


It appears the increase in spending on public schools went entirely towards empowering local Karens with administrative positions, and those Karens proceeded to spend all their time demonizing little boys and trying to force them to behave like little girls.


This AI depiction of purgatory is terrifying. Even Kubrick would have vomited at the thought of it.



All of these clowns are on their way out, whether they admit it or not. Meanwhile Poland, increasingly the military heart of NATO, was suspiciously uninvited, even when led by a pliant Donald Tusk. (Prime Minister of Poland)

Smoke 'n Mirrors show...


Biden urges Western allies to keep aiding Ukraine during meeting with Europe leaders before election

Approval ratings at a glance:
- Scholtz: 18%
- Macron: 30% (link above)
- Starmer: 26%
- Biden: 39%



Have you noticed when plugging in search terms into the machine that Google now responds first with a crafty AI overview.


I've also noticed (actually for quite awhile) that almost anything old you search on the machine only coughs up links to articles within the 21st century...for endless pages of search results. ANYTHING in politics and you'll spend hours searching for what you're actually trying to find. Then spend even more hours on trying to find respectable sources to give credence to said articles. The Ouroboros of Futility.

More recently, depending on your search terms the first or second link will be to a tweet. LOL!! Back during the Covid Op, Google was blocking twitter. When searching for providence on a old quote or an old photo you get nothing but BS, like a tweet from a bot! Not always but damn too often.

Also, that 2 trillion dollar machine is now funding nuclear reactors to provide the much needed energy to serve you more of that AI BS!!



October 19, 1987: the U.S. Navy destroyed two Iranian oil platforms during Operation Nimble Archer. The operation was in retaliation for Iran's missile attack on a reflagged Kuwaiti tanker. Iranian forces had been using the platforms as command-and-control posts to track shipping.


Twenty minutes before the surface action group opened fire, USS Thach radioed the platforms, telling the crews to abandon them, you are about to be bombed.

Four U.S. destroyers lined up — USS Hoel (DDG-13), USS John Young (DD-973), USS Kidd (DDG-993), and USS Leftwich (DD-984) — at 2 p.m., Gulf time, the ships began firing hundreds of naval gun shells at the platforms. The facilities stubbornly refused to crumble; their steel lattice proved almost impervious to the blasting shells. But the incendiary effect eventually set them afire. I was stationed on the USS Leftwich, except years later. Which ironically we did same shelling in the Persian Gulf and had a SEAL Team onboard to place explosives on the oil platforms.




One full year and we still haven’t stopped the Houthis from attacking US warships nor cargo & oil tankers. You gotta be joking me. From forever wars to low level perpetual conflicts. This has to be by deliberate choice - there's no reason why the ragtag Houthi forces should still be allowed to pose a threat to anyone unless we decided to allow it.


How one warship thwarting a Houthi attack a year ago changed the Navy


The answer to top photo:

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Good day, England.


Oops, no, not England. This is a view from a roof top this morning as Cuba enters a third day of no power. Other than those with generators, everyone still in the dark.


PHOTO OF THE DAY: Piccadilly Circus, London. John Hinde (1960).


John Hinde Ltd postcard printed in the Irish Republic showing a bird’s eye view of Piccadilly Circus looking northeast. It is 1960 and the London Pavilion is showing “The Fugitive Kind” starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward. It was directed by Sidney Lumet and was the first film in which an actor, in this case Marlon Brando, was paid $1,000,000 for his performance; the film was a reworking of Tennessee Williams’s play “Orpheus Descending”. The film ran from 2nd September until 6th October. The bus is advertising the Food Fair at Olympia, here is a taste of what was on offer "with no credit required" in this black and white British Pathé clip.


October 20, 1720: Captain "Calico Jack" believed to have been born in Bristol, England as John Rackham, the notorious pirate of the Caribbean, was captured by the Royal Navy. He was nicknamed Calico Jack, as he often wore flamboyant, brightly-colored calico (cotton from India) clothing.


Rackham was active towards the end (1718–1720) of the "Golden Age of Piracy". He is most remembered for having two female crew members: Mary Read and his marriage to ferocious fellow pirate Anne Bonny, and his ship flew the Jolly Roger pirate flag, which was designed by his 1st ship mate Karl Starling.


Indeed, Calico Jack faced the gallows and was executed in Port Royal on 18 November 1720, his body was then tarred and gibbeted, left on display on a very small islet at a main entrance to Port Royal, Jamaica as Deadman's Cay now known as Rackham's Cay. He was 37 years old.

The written publications after his death contributed greatly to the rise of his fame, and the eventual rise of the movement that romanticized pirate life enabled the myth of Calico Jack to grow. Another important impact that Calico Jack had on the modern image of pirates is his Jolly Rogers flag. While the majority of pirate crews used designs that had a depiction of full human skeletons using some weapon, Calico Jack promoted an iconic pirate flag design that today represents a synonym for a naval piracy - black flag with white human skull and two white crossed swords beneath it.

Jack Rackham is one of the main characters in the 2014-2017 Starz tv series Black Sails, portrayed by Toby Schmitz. Really good top-notch show.



Up with the roger, the vessel is close
Cannons are loaded the weapons prepared
Set up more sails the distance grows
They try to escape but we shan't care

Calico Jack Listen and hear my command
Calico Jack I lead you to victory
Calico Jack We shall win in the end
Calico Jack You may believe what I foresee...




October 20, 1822: The 1st edition of The Sunday Times was published. There were no photographs just five columns of overly dense spaced type. At the time, it had no link with The Times. The 1st editorial promised to evoke a spirit of "When the press was free and honest" in its readership, and to uphold the freedom of the press against those "emperors, kings, and their ministers" who would stifle it.



The paper was bought in 1887 by Alice Anne Cornwell, who had made a fortune in mining in Australia and by floating the Midas Mine Company on the London Stock Exchange. She bought the paper to promote her new company, The British and Australasian Mining Investment Company, and as a gift to her lover Phil Robinson. Robinson was installed as editor and the two were later married in 1894.

From 1981 to present day the paper is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp UK & Ireland Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp.


Oct 20, 1944: "I have returned", General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines after being ordered to leave by President FDR in March 1942.




October 20, 1962: Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers "Monster Mash" creeps to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The catchy tune continues to be a perennial Halloween favorite.




October 20, 1983: The Beaver Examiner reported the arrest of Bob and Doug McKenzie in "Strange Brew" (1983)




October 20, 2011: Muammar Gaddafi, age 69, the deposed autocratic leader of Libya, was brutally killed during mob violence west of Sirte. Footage of Gaddafi’s death was broadcast extensively across media networks internationally.

The "disinformation" as a term was popularized in the '80s to describe a Reagan administration propaganda campaign targeting Gaddafi with false stories about Libya's "terrorist" intentions.


DISINFORMATION - AN EXAMINATION OF SIX YEARS OF INCREDIBLE LYING


October 20, 2016: Flashback of Trump witch burning with over 17,000 comments.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOUFsCS7xYE

2020s: Hold my beer.


Meanwhile... what a guy! LOL


https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1848065250911998133

[EndtheMadnessNow]

The Sunday Times funnies.




It's raining free ice cream in London.




The famous "Milkman in the Blitz" photo. The keep calm and carry on spirit.


It was a staged photo after a German aerial raid by the Daily Telegraph (Oct 9, 1940). The milkman was a journalist.

The London Milkman iconic photograph, 1940


Sorry Roswell citizens, the saucers have been washed away and the aliens are not coming to save you.



Roswell, New Mexico Flood 10/2024. A 100 year flood. Wow, never heard of Roswell getting flooded like this...








The Empire State Building, a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Manhattan. The design planning started in 1929 and was changed fifteen times until it was ensured to be the world's tallest building. Construction started on March 17, 1930, and the building opened thirteen and a half months afterward on May 1, 1931. Yes, that quick. Also, a B-25 Mitchell bomber named "Old John Feather Merchant" accidentally crashed into the Empire State building at the 79th floor in 1945, causing a massive explosion and engulfing the building in flames...and it didn't fall down.



Meanwhile It’s been 7 months since the Baltimore Bridge collapse, and still no approval from Secretary Pete on the new bridge plans. With today's regulations & bureaucratic red tape your grandkids might live to see a new bridge.





R.I.P. John Kinsel Sr. who passed away on Saturday at the age of 107 was one of the last of the USMC's Navajo Code Talkers who used the Diné language to develop an unbreakable code. He enlisted in 1942 and served with the 3rd Marine Division during the Battle of Iwo Jima.


John Kinsel Sr., one of the last Navajo code talkers, dies at 107


What a ride its been...




Down in Wester Holler, where the country folk plot,
Ned’s king of the porch, but his seat’s gettin’ hot.
Jon’s the half-son, his roots are kinda crossed,
Sansa’s dreamin' of a man whose teeth ain’t all lost.
Arya’s in the yard, swingin' knives at a tree,
And Bran’s rollin' ‘round since he fell from that ol' TV...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Starting the week off right with a FOIA/Mandatory Declassification Review for files from an Eisenhower Library folder titled "World War III."


Response expectation: October 2030s.


October 21, 1951: UNKNOWN WORLD premiered in Hollywood; opened in theaters on October 26th.



Dr. Jerimiah Morley (Victor Kilian) becomes convinced that the world is headed to an inevitable worldwide nuclear war. He organizes an expedition made up of a team of expert scientists and an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle called a "cyclotram" to find a subterranean environment where holocaust survivors could live indefinitely. When funding falls through, independently rich adventurer Wright Thompson underwrites the project under the condition that he be allowed to go. As the group goes deeper beneath the Earth's crust, personalities clash, tempers flare, and the dangerous journey claims the lives of several expedition members. When they come upon an enormous underground expanse with its own ocean and phosphorescent light, it appears that their goal has been achieved.

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) and star Victor Killian (1891-1979) were both blacklisted, did not receive on-screen credits. Killian was blacklisted for his political beliefs during the Communist witch-hunts of the 50s. On March 11, 1979 he was beaten to death by robbers burgling his Hollywood apartment. Suspiciously, he was murdered five days after Charles Wagenheim died under very similar circumstances...beaten to death by burglars in his Hollywood apartment. The very last appearance of both actors was on an episode of All in the Family (1971) in S09E24 The Return of Stephanie's Father", which aired 2 weeks after their deaths.


By the time of America's entry into World War II, Dalton Trumbo was one of the most respected, highest paid screenwriters in Hollywood. He had also established a name for himself as a left-wing political activist whose sympathies coincided with those of the American Communist Party (CPUSA).

Shortly after the German invasion, Trumbo instructed his publisher to recall all copies of "Johnny Got His Gun" and to cease publication of the book. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war against the U.S. catapulted the U.S. into both the Asian and European theaters of World War II, the book - always popular with peace-lovers and isolationists who opposed America's involvement in foreign wars - suddenly became popular among native fascists, too. However, it proved hard to get a copy of the book during the war years.

Trumbo joined the CPUSA in 1943, the same year Victor Fleming's great patriotic war movie A Guy Named Joe (1943), with a Trumbo screenplay, appeared on screens.

Trumbo voluntarily invited FBI agents to his house in 1944 and showed them letters he had received from what he perceived were pro-fascist peaceniks who had requested copies of "Johnny Got His Gun", then out-of-print due to Trumbo's orders to his publisher. He turned those letters over to the FBI and later kept in contact with the Bureau, a fact that would later haunt blacklisted leftists, urging that the F.B.I. deal with them. His actions conformed to the CPUSA policy of denouncing anyone who opposed the war.

Dalton Trumbo died from a heart attack in California on September 10, 1976. At his memorial service, Ring Lardner Jr., his close friend and fellow Hollywood 10 member, delivered an amusing eulogy. "At rare intervals, there appears among us a person whose virtues are so manifest to all, who has such a capacity for relating to every sort of human being, who so subordinates his own ego drive to the concerns of others, who lives his whole life in such harmony with the surrounding community that he is revered and loved by everyone with whom he comes in contact. Such a man Dalton Trumbo was not."

Long movie bio on Trumbo at IMDB.


October 21, 1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order transferring Nazi rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun from the Army's Redstone Arsenal to the newly established NASA, placing him at the helm of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He went on to play a key role in the Apollo moon landing program.




October 21, 1960: American viewers were riveted to their television sets for the broadcast of the fourth and final debate between Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy.


The first-ever televised debate between presidential candidates was held on September 26, 1960. An estimated total of sixty to seventy million viewers watched the first and the successive debates, which came to be known as “the Great Debates.”



October 21, 1960: COG Memo from Mount Weather stating they need Clergy.




October 21, 1966: Unimaginable Tragedy Struck.


The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, and overlaid a natural spring. Heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused a wave of coal waste to slide down the the Aberfan Valley, killing 116 children and 28 adults as it engulfed Pantglas Junior School and a row of houses. The tip was the responsibility of the National Coal Board (NCB), and the subsequent inquiry placed the blame for the disaster on the organisation and nine named employees. Subsequent inquiries showed it was completely avoidable.


A noise like thunder – then my classroom went black

The dedication plaque at the Aberfan Memorial Garden

Pathé Newsreel footage

BBC Photos of Aberfan disaster



Gee, how wunderful...All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years...


World’s Costliest Weapons Program Failed to Hit Readiness Marks for Six Years, GAO Says


Meanwhile, the U.S. Space Force has awarded National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 Launch Service Task Orders totaling $733,566,001 to SpaceX. The NTO-2 LSTO will support an NRO mission set that will be launched into orbit during 4QFY25 and 4QFY26.


I guess there are some parts of government that Musk likes just fine.

“His companies were promised $3 billion across nearly 100 different contracts last year with 17 federal agencies.” And he was fighting many others.

Elon calls it Lawfare with diagrams...


“The Department of Government Efficiency is the only path to extending life beyond Earth”


When you oppose the globalist swamp narrative, you become the target.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 21, 1967: first of five weeks at #1 on the U.S. charts for this gem.




Before Hurricane Andrew in 1992, an internal House Appropriations report declared FEMA was widely viewed as a "bungling turkey farm" where "large numbers of positions exist that can be conveniently and quietly filled by political appointment" with people who have no experience. Sums up the entirety of USGOV today.


Political Dictionary


Nuclear rush hour! Coinciding with NATO’s annual Steadfast Noon tactical nuke exercise, STRATCOM has started its annual strategic nuke exercise Global Thunder. The purpose is to “enhance nuclear readiness” of bombers, missile subs, and ICBMs.


U.S. Strategic Command to Commence Exercise Global Thunder 25



Because the target was the social engineering of The New Atlantis. Many decades have passed on this project and it's new (old) belief system - it is starting to bear fruit.



https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/1848298179206197500


Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars. Not sure, but I think this would make a nice home for all our political parasites. Then again, we shouldn't contaminate Mars.


Valles Marineris is 1,864 miles (3,000 km) long, 372 miles (600 km) across, and 5 miles (8 km) deep. In comparison, the Grand Canyon in Arizona is 497 miles (800 km) long, 18 miles(30 km) across, and 1.11 miles (1.8 km) deep.


Remember 90% of what you see in public and/or are shown via the media is a Harry Walker agency audition, your emotions are bargaining chips, the stability of society is a bauble, the agents always get their cut and get 2x if their clients are "both sides" of a debate.




I believe the American public was not read in on the full scope of the Manhattan Project. Those famous Idaho potatoes made into McDonald’s French fries were/are grown downwind from the Nevada test site’s 400+ above ground nuclear shots, since the wind Patterns send a lot of that radioactive dust up to southern Idaho’s fields, where the spuds are grown. If you eat sugar from sugar beets, you get the same. Doses vary. Have a nice glowy day.


*Hypernormalisation intensifies* Adam Curtis voice: "But then something strange happened. Although the West believed its vision of freedom could act as a guiding light for the rest of the world, it soon found that radical self-interest led only to chaos."



Anyone else notice how often "new variants" of Covid coincide with the start of vaccine drives?


Independent UK

XEC was first found in Germany.




Mallifuff autumn Monday words...




Harry Lime (Orson Welles): "Don't be so gloomy. After all, it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly."
— The Third Man (1949)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Word of the Day (and everyday till election) is 'malversation' (16th century): corrupt or fraudulent behaviour by someone in a position of power.


October 22, 1910: Walter Stauffer McIlhenny was born. Heir to his family's hot sauce company, "Tabasco Mac" served as a Marine officer during WWII. His helmet and the Japanese shin guntō sword that dented it during the Battle of Guadalcanal are on exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart (2). He retired from the Marines as a brigadier general. He was a co-founder, trustee, and president emeritus of the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas. Served as president of McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand pepper sauce, from 1949 until his death in 1985.

In 1981 the US Army began to issue Meals Ready to Eat, aka "MREs". Each MRE includes a miniature bottle of McIlhenny Tabasco sauce.




October 22, 1962: Pres John F. Kennedy addresses the nation about the Cuban Missile Crisis.



Audio/transcript  | Reading copy  | Video


JFK secret victory map of Soviet missile sites on Cuba, this week 1962.


This item sold at the April 11, 2018 auction for $138,798 – well above its estimated value of $20,000. RR Auction Company described the map’s new owner as “a collector in Los Angeles with a deep appreciation for American history.”

The map’s letter of provenance quotes Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as saying “the President pored over this map before deciding to delay the attack,” the auction house said.

After the crisis, President Kennedy reportedly gave the map to McNamara – calling it the “victory map.”

The letter says it was the only time McNamara “ever heard Kennedy say anything that sounded like gloating about how the crisis ended.”


BEGIN THE THIRTEEN DAYS

Nuclear Crisis Lasted 59 Days, Not Just 13


What do ya know, Mr. holier than thou Comey...


Website in court over sale of JFK map


The GILLIGAN'S ISLAND Packard Bell model AR-851 table-top AM radio tuned to CONELRAD...


The antenna and handle were added for the show, they were not originally part of the radio. The Packard Bell name badge on the lower right was blacked out, but the PB logo on the upper left was left on.

The same week as John F. Kennedy’s speech, the book "Fail-Safe" was published and the movies "The Manchurian Candidate" and "We’ll Bury You!" had their premieres. Tense times!!




October 22, 1964: the controversial Barry Goldwater morality campaign film CHOICE was scheduled to air nationwide on NBC. Goldwater cancelled it at the last minute, but you can watch it below. This is really a wild 'Choice' (NSFW) video for 1964. WoW! Directed by Dinesh D'dsouza's grandfather.





October 22, 1976: The 1st episode of ITV series, The New Avengers, was broadcast. It was a sequel to the 1960s series, The Avengers. The stars were Patrick Macnee as John Steed, Joanna Lumley as Purdie and Gareth Hunt as Mike Gambit. There were 26 episodes.


Secret agent Steed, working for an unnamed branch of British intelligence, is teamed up with two partners to fight evil plots for world domination, dealing with suspended animation, biological warfare, robotics, and other threats.


October 22, 2019: the United States House of Representatives voted 410 to 6 (16 abstained) in favor of the CASE Act- dubbed the "Anti-Meme law" by its critics. The "Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019" was introduced by Representative Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, New York) on January 5th, 2019. The bill’s purpose was to help content creators utilize a small claims court for copyright infringement, as the current law means copyright disputes must go through the more expensive federal courts.

This would create a Copyright Office who would have a tribunal of "Copyright Claims Officers" to work with both parties in an infringement lawsuit. Damages would be $15,000 at maximum for each infringed work, and a total of $30,000.


The Verge: Jeffries stated “The internet has provided many benefits to society. It is a wonderful thing, but it cannot be allowed to function as if it is the Wild West with absolutely no rules. We have seen that there are bad actors throughout society and the world who take advantage of the internet as a platform in a variety of ways. We cannot allow it.”

The Electronic Frontier Federation (EFF) Senior Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon shared his concerns on October 21st:

    “Supporters of the bill insist there’s no problem, because $30,000 isn’t that much money. They even laughed about it. We know the reality: when nearly half of this country would struggle to afford an emergency $400 expense, the penalties in this bill are deadly serious. What’s worse, they’ll be imposed not by an experienced judge, but instead by a committee of unaccountable bureaucrats.

    The CASE Act creates a new tribunal separate from the federal judiciary (this is part of the constitutional problem) and places it within the Copyright Office. This agency has a sad history of industry capture, and often takes its cues from major content companies as opposed to average Americans. The new tribunals will receive complaints from rightsholders (anyone that has taken a photo, video, or written something) and will issue a “notice” to the party being sued.

    We don’t actually know what this notice will look like. It could be an email, a text message, a phone call with voice mail, or a letter in the mail. Once the notice goes out, the targeted user has to respond within a tight deadline. Fail to respond in time means you’ll automatically lose, and are on the hook for $30,000. That’s why EFF is concerned that this law will easily be abused by copyright trolls. The trolls will cast a wide net, in hopes of catching Internet users unaware. Corporations with lawyers will be able to avoid all this, because they’ll have paid employees in charge of opting out of the CASE Act. But regular Americans with kids, jobs, and other real-life obligations could easily miss those notices, and lose out.”

Falcon also expressed his concern that how under the current law “if you copy a work that isn’t registered—meaning, the vast majority of things that are shared by users every single day—you’re only on the hook for the copyright owner’s actual economic loss. This is called “actual damages,” and very often, it’s $0. Under CASE, however, every copyrighted work will automatically eligible for $30,000 in damages—whether or not the owner has bothered to register it.”

The proposed bill has similar concern to Europe’s Article 11 and 13, both heavily criticized for using A.I algorithms to detect copyright infringement, and even taxing posting a hyperlink. The US’ DARPA is also developing AI to detect “deep-fake” videos and audio, though  some have expressed concern even memes not intended to deceive (i.e. parody) would be at risk.

Signed into law by President Donald Trump on December 27, 2020.


LOL, Snopes felt obligated to let you know...






Lost in Motion II explores the spectrum of emotions experienced by an Artist as they bare their soul for all to see. The film showcases the Artist's state of mind by depicting her within an ominous yet atmospheric environment where she dances in solitude. Adorned in a vibrant red dress that reflects the iconic stage curtains of the theatre, she pushes herself to the limits of her seemingly solitude performance. As the film draws to a close, we see that the dancer has in fact been performing on stage the entire time, and that the visual world is a fantasy one created by her imagination.
Song: Avalanche (1971)
Artist/writer: Leonard Cohen

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 22, 1945: Russell Nash died during birth. Connor MacLeod took his identity. There can be only one!




October 22, 1993: the inspirational film RUDY starring Sean Astin was released nationwide. The movie's only reference to the fact that Rudy Ruettiger served in the U.S. Navy as a yeoman prior to attending Notre Dame is Rudy's sea bag that appears in several scenes.




The timing of this highly suspect...


"not peeing much" ?? Did a 5 year old write this?

E. coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders - "most illnesses in Colorado and Nebraska." Apparently, anyone or any corporation that sides with Trump is automatic target.



Nuke and a Boeing rode into Hawaii...





Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to "Kill Musk's Twitter" - Just replace Trump with Elon.


The Boeing Corporation just can't stop taking massive Losses...


Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit

Not clear whether this "breakup event" was due to an micro-meteoroid impact (unlucky) or some sort of catastrophic Boeing anomaly (battery?).
Solar weather activity? Maybe the Russians or Chicoms have kicked off Star Wars.


Seems Germany is in trouble which means Europe is in trouble.


International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook




The 5th Column...


https://x.com/EzraACohen/status/1848869269800636732

Context for what Trump said...

The Biden-Harris Iranian Spy Problem Blows Up

Irangate just landed on the White House, shortly before our election – but will voters notice this significant espionage-influence scandal?

It’s happened again. Somebody stole highly classified U.S. intelligence documents and posted them on the open Internet, exposing America’s sensitive spy sources and methods to the world.

If this sounds familiar, it should. In recent years, the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community have been plagued by leakers stealing highly classified intelligence and exposing it to the public – and our enemies. First came Bradley (later Chelsea) Manning, an Army junior intelligence analyst who in 2010 stole more than a half-million classified documents and passed them to WikiLeaks. Worse arrived in 2013 when National Security Agency IT contractor Edward Snowden stole then fled to Russia, via Hong Kong, with over a million classified documents from NSA and a host of DoD and IC agencies. In early 2017, Reality Winner, a former U.S. Air Force enlisted Persian linguist who was working as a contractor at an NSA facility in Georgia, stole a TOP SECRET-plus NSA report on Russian election interference and leaked it to The Intercept, which published it. Most recently, there was Jack Teixeira, the junior analyst assigned to an intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, who chose to purloin classified information, including TOP SECRET reports from DoD and IC agencies, then post them to Discord in early 2023. All these cases raised fundamental questions about DoD and IC security vetting procedures as well as issues regarding the suitability of maladjusted Millennials and Zoomers to hold sensitive national security positions.

What’s happened in recent days is similar, but more politically charged – and potentially much more serious. Last Friday, U.S. classified documents (or what purported to be) appeared on a Telegram channel called Middle East Spectator, which has 170,000 followers and boasts a pro-Iranian take (“independent, but not unbiased,” as it asserts) on the news. Its affiliated X (formerly Twitter) account claims to be based in Iran. The channel stated that it had received the documents that day, from “an anonymous source on Telegram who refused to identify himself,” adding that their authenticity could not be verified. Nevertheless, the documents were explosive in their content.

The first was a classified report titled “Israel: Air Force Continues Preparations for Strike on Iran and Conducts a Second Large-Force Employment Exercise, 15-16 October 2024.” This is current intelligence (released in IC channels on Oct. 16, just two days before it was leaked on Telegram) describing Israeli Air Force exercises in preparation for a major attack on Iran, presumably in retaliation for Tehran’s recent missile barrages aimed at Israel. This report is derived from NSA signals intelligence reporting in mid-October, buttressed by imagery intelligence from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Importantly, it mentions not just covert UAV activity by the Israeli military, but also IAF exercises with two kinds of air-launched ballistic missiles, which rank among the IAF’s most modern and secretive weaponry. This is detailed TOP SECRET intelligence derived from spy satellites and is meant only for U.S. audiences.

If interested there is much more: The Biden-Harris Iranian Spy Problem Blows Up

Our Gov needs a massive blitzkrieg purge. Here's some more fries while we ponder what surprises are in store for us.




Watch/listen on loop mode and all yer anxiety melts away.

[Freija]

In the interest of fair play 

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Freija keep it fair & balanced. LOL.


October 23, 4004 BC: According to the Ussher chronology, published in 1650, the world was created on this day. The book was a chronology of the history of the world, compiled by James Ussher (4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656), the Archbishop of Armagh and the Primate of All Ireland. The claim of course has not been accepted.


Ussher's work is now used to support Young Earth Creationism (YEC), which holds that the universe was created thousands of years ago (rather than billions). Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology.


October 23, 1973: ABC Movie of the Week: The President's Plane Is Missing. Based on the 1967 novel of the same title by Robert J. Serling.


While on the brink of a military confrontation with China, Air Force One crashes in the desert, killing the President. This brings incompetent Vice-President Kermit Madigan to power who, having been left in the dark by the president, must now rely on his predecessor's aides to guide him. But they have markedly different viewpoints and hidden agendas. Will he blunder his way into a nuclear exchange with the Chinese?

Filmed in 1971 but delayed for airing by ABC because that was the year of President Nixon's trip to China and they didn't want to show the Chinese as villains.


The Canadian Conspiracy (1986) CBC Television mockumentary fashioned into a spoof of '50s commie-paranoia of American Cold War propaganda films and tabloid journalism, using archival clips and interviews with notable Canadian entertainers to build a narrative that the Canadian government has for decades been training agents to infiltrate and take over the American entertainment industry for the purpose of subverting American culture in preparation for a Canadian invasion of the United States.


The film stars numerous celebrities as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Eugene Levy, Lorne Greene, Leslie Nielsen, William Shatner, Margot Kidder, Steve Martin, Donald Sutherland, Dave Thomas, John Candy, Anne Murray, Martin Short, Monty Hall, Peter Jennings, Morley Safer and Tommy Chong. It won two Gemini Awards and was nominated for an International Emmy Award. As far as I know it was never aired by American mainstream TV networks, but HBO-Max acquired the rights to it.


Veep 'I'm so desperate' President Psittacistic Harris: "So, yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had."


"It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler...this is a window into who Donald Trump really is from the people who know him best."

Vice President Harris Reacts to John Kelly's Comments About Former President Trump

Classic DC swamp playbook. Plant a fake story with a captured journalist/media outlet, then site the fake story in a political attack. Similar to the fabricated Steele dossier story. Holding a daytime presser in front of the VP residence to discuss an Atlantic article feels a bit like abusing the Walmart intercom to make jokes. As we get closer to election day the palaver grows ever thicker & nuttier.

The political rhetoric & lies is only going to build & build for next few weeks. Next week Steve Bannon gets released from prison. Spicy week coming up next.



7 ‘October Surprises’ That Disrupted US Presidential Elections



Today it's Demons hypnotizing the general public by posing as politicians.



Trove of ancient silver coins unearthed by metal detectorists sells for $5.6 million

BIAD, start metal-detecting! I'll be right over with shovels.





Bill Watterson (the genius behind Calvin and Hobbes) gave a commencement speech in 1990 and I thought it's quite profound in hindsight.


Full Speech


The world is being run by far too many quockerwodgers (KWOK-er-wod-jer).
Mid-Week words...



The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term "Mondegreen" in a 1954 essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen" in Harper's Magazine, recalling a childhood memory of her mother reading the Scottish ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray", and mishearing the words "laid him on the green" as "Lady Mondegreen".

Lady Mondegreen, Ann Warren, and Sylvia Wright

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 24, 1861: the first transcontinental telegraph system was completed by Western Union, making it possible to transmit messages rapidly (by mid-nineteenth-century standards) from coast to coast. This technological advance, pioneered by inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, heralded the end of the Pony Express. Only two days later, on October 26, the horseback mail service that had previously provided the fastest means of communication between the eastern and western United States officially closed.


The Transcontinental Telegraph and the End of the Pony Express


October 24, 1901: Annie Edson Taylor at age 63, became the 1st person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel with a cushioned interior. She was recovered from the bottom of the falls, 20 minutes after the feat, bleeding from the head, but otherwise uninjured, just a little dizzy. Her motives were financial but she never made much money from her adventure. She died penniless on April 29, 1921 at age 82 and her funeral was paid for by public donations.


The cat in photo is believed to be the same cat that went over the falls in a test run. Poor kitty!


October 23, 1910: Birthday remembrance for Dr. Alfred Bellows, USAF. William Henry Rorke known as Hayden Rorke (died August 19, 1987)





October 24, 1926: Escapologist & illusionist Harry Houdini gave his last performance at the Garrick Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was suffering from peritonitis (swelling of the abdomen), possibly acute appendicitis and passed out during the show, but was revived. Afterwards, he was taken to Detroit's Grace hospital and died on 31 October 1926.


The bust has been stolen or destroyed four times between 1975 and 1993. The original was gladly donated to the Museum of the City of New York by wife Bess, but the replica was smashed by sledge hammer in 1975, replaced and then stolen in 1983, only to be recovered in 2003.

It was most recently replaced in 2011 by a group from the Society of American Magicians calling themselves the Houdini Commandos who made a replica bust (cast from one of the other replicas) and installed it in a guerrilla restoration operation. The bust is believed to be the sole graven image found in the Jewish cemetery...extremely rare.

Halloween, October 31st is Houdini Commandos Day.

There is long ongoing theories that Houdini was murdered to an unfortunate incident by a McGill University student who demanded of Houdini if the legends were true of his steel abdomen, but didn’t give Houdini time to prepare for an impact by receiving a surprise punch to the gut that possibly ruptured his appendix. Also, that he may have been covertly poisoned as believed by his great-nephew, George Hardeen.

Houdini made some enemies by trying to expose mediums in the then-popular spiritualist movement, saying their claims to be able to contact the dead were bogus. Houdini worked closely with the FBI to expose spiritualist charlatans. The theory goes that they may have killed the magician.


October 24, 1933: The Kray Twins: Brothers In Arms were born in Hoxton, Middlesex. The notorious gangster duo Reggie & Ronnie were heavily involved in organised crime in the East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s involving murder, armed robbery and various assaults until their arrest in May 1968.

They both went AWOL from the Army, both captured and became among the last prisoners to be held at the Tower of London before being transferred to Shepton Mallet military prison (Britain’s oldest prison) in Somerset for a month to await court-martial. Both were convicted and sentenced to life in prison.



Ronnie was certified insane and committed to Broadmoor Hospital in 1979 and remained there until his death on 17 March 1995 from a heart attack. While his brother Reggie was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2000, and died of cancer on October 1, 2000.

In the 1960s, the Kray twins were widely seen as prosperous and charming celebrity nightclub owners and were part of the Swinging London scene. A large part of their fame was due to their non-criminal activities as popular figures on the celebrity circuit, being photographed by David Bailey on more than one occasion and socialising with lords, MPs, socialites and show business characters, including Frank Sinatra, Peter Sellers, Joan Collins, Judy Garland, Diana Dors, George Raft, Sammy Davis Jr., Shirley Bassey, Liza Minnelli, Cliff Richard, Dusty Springfield, Jayne Mansfield, Richard Harris, Danny La Rue, and Barbara Windsor.

In 1985, Frank Sinatra was said to have hired 18 bodyguards from Krayleigh Enterprises, which was the Kray twin's protection company.

The Kray twins have seeded an extensive bibliography leading to many autobiographical accounts, biographical reconstructions, commentaries, analysis, fiction and speculation.

An extensive Wiki page.

14 amazing facts about the Kray twins

Getty Images for many more photos.



October 24, 1944: Hellcat pilots CDR David McCampbell and Ensign Roy Rushing attacked 60 Japanese aircraft that were approaching U.S. ships during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Together they shot down 15 planes, causing so much chaos that the remaining Japanese aircraft abandoned their mission. By the time McCampbell returned to the carrier, his Hellcat only had 6 rounds left and was so low on fuel that the engine stopped as it taxied out of the arresting wires. For his "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity" on these occasions, McCampbell was awarded the Medal of Honor. He became the U.S. Navy's leading ace, credited with downing a total of 34 Japanese aircraft. After 31 years he retired from the navy in 1964.




October 24, 1962: The Docu film WE'LL BURY YOU! opened in New York City. Yes, right in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis!




October 24, 1962: John Frankenheimer’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE premiered in New York City.


One of the filming locations was Jilly's Saloon owned by Ermenegildo "Jilly" Rizzo (May 6, 1917 – May 6, 1992) who was an American restaurateur and entertainer. He was a long-time friend of Frank Sinatra and his Saloon was a popular celebrity hangout in the 1960s. Rizzo was killed by a drunk driver in Rancho Mirage, Calif on his 75th birthday, May 6, 1992. Ironically, the place today is a Russian Samovar Restaurant and Piano Bar.


In 1990, Rizzo and five other men were convicted of fraud in relation to an $8 million loan scheme. He was given 1,000 hours of community service in a case presided over by judge Jack Bertrand Weinstein (August 10, 1921 – June 15, 2021). As a federal judge, he worked with a number of mass tort cases, including those relating to Agent Orange, asbestos, tobacco, breast implants, diethylstilbestrol (nonsteroidal estrogen medication), Zyprexa, and handguns. He was the last living federal judge appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson.


"Trump is everywhere" I been hearing all week from the media fanfare.
Trump in US News and World Report from 1999:




Flashback: "This Video Will Get Donald Trump Elected" posted October 24, 2016.



This video was originally posted under the account name "Berikande Mångfald". From their website which no longer exists...

We (the founders of this site) have our origins in Sweden and we have seen what the globalists have done to our country.

We started our Youtube channel in 2015 and before being silenced and demonitized we had a big affect on the debate climate in Sweden. The big chance happened when we released our inspiring video “This will get Trump elected” (if you haven’t seen the video, it’s a must watch…). We do believe we had a small impact in the election across the sea as millions of people viewed this video and many got convinced that this is not a battle between the left and right anymore, it’s a battle between the people and the globalists.

Enriching Diversity is translated to “Berikande Mångfald” in Swedish, which is something we use as a joke after e.g reading about things other cultures has brought to us. We see segregated swim times for men and women, we respond with saying -we have been enriched. Reading about all the murders and rapes etc, -we have been enriched. Culturally enriched. Enriched with diversity… You get the idea.

For reasons unknown to me, somehow that video survived the great Youtube purge.

Voice of Yoda: “Confused are you not? You will be. You will be.”

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 24, 2003: The legendary supersonic aircraft, Concorde, landed at Heathrow, after completing its final commercial flight. It carried 100 specially invited celebrities (but of course) from New York and touched down in London at 1605 BST thereby ending 27 years of supersonic flight history. Concorde's final flight: G-BOAF from Heathrow to Bristol Filton Airport on 26 November 2003.



I got to see the British Concorde fly in to JFK airport and take-off once back in the 80s. The size, shape AND noise was other worldly to say the least. I felt like I'd been casted into a sci-fi movie.

Oct 24, 2003: Concorde's last landing at Heathrow filmed by the BBC





I remember when Reagan was Hitler.
I remember when George W. Bush was Hitler.
I remember when John McCain was Hitler.
I remember when Mitt Romney was Hitler.
I remember when Ron DeSantis was Hitler. (2022)
Now Trump is Hitler.

It goes back further, but that was before my time.



Oh yeah, and Nikki Haley was 'Hitler's mistress'. LOL.

"Dick Harpootlian, the colorful chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, landed himself in hot water among Republican circles after invoking Adolf Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, when speaking about South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley."

It's rather amazing that Godwin's Law about all online discussions eventually leading to somebody calling somebody else Hitler or a Nazi was coined in 1990. It's been mocked officially for 34 years now with no signs of slowing down. If anything, it's picked up. It's now got AI legs.

Reductio ad Hitlerum: 60 years of Democrats falsely calling the Republican nominee a fascist



The State Dept will have them transported to America.






Perhaps the more concerning aspect is that while over 10,000 scientific papers were retracted just last year alone, meanwhile big tech companies like Microsoft have been training AI models on, you guessed it, scientific papers. "Trust the science."


Artificial intelligence and retracted science




Bairn is a Northern England English, Scottish English and Scots term for a child. It originated in Old English as "bearn", becoming restricted to Scotland and the North of England circa 1700.







Wisdomlove is categorized into three subfields:

knowinglore, thewlore, & higherkindlore.


Grok on censorship...




Free your mind...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 25, 1924: 100 years later of elections here & abroad, history appears to rhyme it's ugly head quite often. The Zinoviev Letter was published in the Daily Mail four days before the 1924 United Kingdom general election which humiliated the first ever British Labour government, headed by Ramsay MacDonald, when its political opponents used it to create a "Red Scare" in the media. Labour blamed the Letter for its defeat, insisting there had been a right-wing establishment conspiracy, and many in the Labour Party have never forgotten it.

In the letter, Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Soviet Communist International (Comintern), urged his British comrades to infiltrate and to gain power over the Labour Party.


The letter was widely taken to be authentic upon publication and for some time afterwards, but many historians now agree it was a forgery. British historian A. J. P. Taylor argued that the letter's most important impact was on the mindset of Labourites, who for years afterwards blamed foul play for their defeat, thereby misunderstanding the political forces at work and postponing what Taylor regarded as necessary reforms in the Labour Party.

The letter predicted that the Labour government's attempted normalisation of Britain's diplomatic and economic relations with the Soviet Union would not only profit the latter but also stir the British proletariat to revolutionary action and allow Soviet influence throughout the British Empire to widen. One particularly damaging section of this letter read:

    A settlement of relations between the two countries will assist in the revolutionising of the international and British proletariat not less than a successful rising in any of the working districts of England, as the establishment of close contact between the British and Russian proletariat, the exchange of delegations and workers, etc., will make it possible for us to extend and develop the propaganda of ideas of Leninism in England and the Colonies.

In 2017, the British government claimed that it had "lost" a file on the Zinoviev letter scandal. The government added that they were unable to determine whether copies of the original material had been made.

In 2018, former Chief Historian of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Gillian Bennett published her book The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies.


October 25, 1941: Helen Reddy was born in Melbourne, Australia. During her heyday, in the 1970s, she had 15 singles in the Top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and 3 #1 hits: I am Woman (1972) her signature tune, Delta Dawn, and Angie Baby.





October 25, 1978: Queen Elizabeth II opened the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool. The Foundation Stone had been laid by King Edward VII in July 1904, at a grand open-air service. The building was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed the iconic red telephone box.


It is the largest cathedral and religious building in Britain, and the eighth largest church in the world. It is the longest cathedral in the world with a total external length of  including the Lady Chapel (dedicated to the Blessed Virgin), is 619 ft (189 m), its internal length is 494 ft (150 m).


October 25, 1983: An invasion happened...




More than half of the world population lives within the Valeriepieris circle.



In 2015, Singaporean professor Danny Quah—with the aid of an intern named Ken Teoh—verified Myers's original claim, as well as presenting a new, considerably smaller circle centered on the township of Mong Khet in Myanmar, with a radius of 3,300 kilometers (2,050 mi). In fact, Quah claimed this circle to be the smallest one possible, having been produced from more rigorous calculations and updated data, as well as being a proper circle on the Earth's surface.

Noteworthy – not by design but as outcome – is that Japan is mostly excluded from my circle; it is entirely included in Ken’s.

Image text scrapped from Quah's 2015 lecture, entitled “Using Mathematics: Making Big Economics Visible to the Human Eye” from PDF slides (Archived copy)


I guess the WaPo slunk finally went dark...


Democracy Dies in Darkness

WaPo owner Jeff Bezos picked his new publisher/CEO Will Lewis in part because of his pedigree in dealing with conservative power centers:

- Lewis was editor of  conservative Telegraph in UK
- He was publisher of Murdoch's WSJ
- He was a consultant to Conservative PM Boris Johnson

Here's Publisher/CEO Will Lewis's explanation to readers:

The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.

As our Editorial Board wrote in 1960:

“The Washington Post has not ‘endorsed’ either candidate in the presidential campaign. That is in our tradition and accords with our action in five of the last six elections. The unusual circumstances of the 1952 election led us to make an exception when we endorsed General Eisenhower prior to the nominating conventions and reiterated our endorsement during the campaign. In the light of hindsight we retain the view that the arguments for his nomination and election were compelling. But hindsight also has convinced us that it might have been wiser for an independent newspaper in the Nation's Capital to have avoided formal endorsement.”

The Editorial Board made two other points — ahead of an election that John F. Kennedy won — that will resonate with readers today:

“The election of 1960 is certainly as important as any held in this century. This newspaper is in no sense noncommittal about the challenges that face the country. As our readers will be aware, we have attempted to make clear in editorials our conviction that most of the time one of the two candidates has shown a deeper understanding of the issues and a larger capacity for leadership.”

However, it concluded:

“We nevertheless adhere to our tradition of non-endorsement in this presidential election. We have said and will continue to say, as reasonably and candidly as we know how, what we believe about the emerging issues of the campaign. We have sought to arrive at our opinions as fairly as possible, with the guidance of our own principles of independence but free of commitment to any party or candidate.”

And again in 1972, the Editorial Board posed, and then answered this critical question ahead of an election which President Richard M. Nixon won: “In talking about the choice of a President of the United States, what is a newspaper’s proper role? … Our own answer is that we are, as our masthead proclaims, an independent newspaper, and that with one exception (our support of President Eisenhower in 1952), it has not been our tradition to bestow formal endorsement upon presidential candidates. We can think of no reason to depart from that tradition this year.”

That was strong reasoning, but in 1976 for understandable reasons at the time, we changed this long-standing policy and endorsed Jimmy Carter as president. But we had it right before that, and this is what we are going back to.

We recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility. That is inevitable. We don’t see it that way. We see it as consistent with the values The Post has always stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects. We also see it as a statement in support of our readers’ ability to make up their own minds on this, the most consequential of American decisions — whom to vote for as the next president.

Our job at The Washington Post is to provide through the newsroom nonpartisan news for all Americans, and thought-provoking, reported views from our opinion team to help our readers make up their own minds.

Most of all, our job as the newspaper of the capital city of the most important country in the world is to be independent.

And that is what we are and will be.

The Washington Post

Let the chorus of screeching begin.



The Op-ed has a firestorm of over 23,000 comments. A great many scorned Lefties saying they have cancelled their subscription. LOL. Legacy media has been on their deathbed for quite awhile. It will be funny if their slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness" finally comes true. Perhaps reality has caught up with WaPo and they don't want to go down with the sinking ship named USS Kamala. The LA Times paper is also bowing out. Will the NY Times be next. Then again this election could be a repeat of 2020. Although, it does 'feel' like this may be a signal that the old pendulum is about to swing the other way but that opinion contains a lot of speculative noise between the legacy talking heads, bullhorns & social media hypernormalisation.



Amazingly, one half of the uni-party blatantly installed a nominee who has never received a single vote in any national selection process. Where I came from, we will call that pleurisy, not "DEmockRuhSea".

On the other half of the side, they have this billionaire, whose favorite song is "Ding Fries Are Done" who lives in an ivory tower and flies around in a private jet telling some of everyone he’s a man of the Peepul, while dodging bullets and lawfare from the other half of the side, and being blamed for everything the DEmockRATS are doing.

Voice of Yoda: "Confused are you not? You will be. You will be."

So, the DEmockRATS, who spend a whole lot of some of their time telling almost everyone who won’t listen how much they hate "conspiracy theories" are spreading this conspiralcy theory about Kamala (she’s on record pronunciating it KAmala, kaMAla and kamaLA, so takes your choice) Harris futzing up the count and certification of the Electoral Votes in January. Guess they forgot that they spent an inordinate amount of some of their time stripping the Vice President of any power to do that after the last horse race.


Even more fun, the DEmockRATS have spent most of the nearly past four years telling most everyone that the US selections are the safest, most inclusive, most trustworthy, most secure, most airtight, most sustainable, most hermetically sealed, most infallible, most equitable, most Divinely Inspired in the known Universe, and anyone who disagrees gets thrown in jail. Guess they won’t be able to disagree with the forthcoming results, right?

Right?

Anyhue, I don’t have much excitement about the voting part. American selections have always been a pup-n-pony show. Nosirree, what I'm waiting for is the aftermath. THAT, my friends, is going to be the show of the century! If you think the wailing and gnashing of teeth, the sackcloth and ashes, the pink-is-the-new-purple outrage after the 2016 selection was fun, this here roller coaster is higher, steeper and faster, and there’s no harness belt nor safety lap bar!

Do you think the DEmockRATS are just going to hang their heads, realizing that they are just a bunch of lyin’, cheatin’ ne’er-do-wells who painted themselves into a corner, and just slink away into oblivion, leaving dirty footprints in all that fresh floor paint? Har, I say! Har har! And another "har" just to make it evenly divisible by 2.

Will anything change or just more Möbius loop?

Who knows? I will enjoy watching Elon Musk try to streamline the bureaucracy, and RFK Jr. try to tame the FDA, EPA, CDC and NIH.

Assuming a Trump win, my concern is that the sociopath technocrats will sneak in under the Administration and take full control. As we all know, Trump is surrounded by techno-nerd vipers, parasites, and charlatans.

Today’s docuflick for make the US political system great again is The War Room (1993). This well-produced documentary follows the antics of James Carville and George Snuffaluffagus Stephanopoulos as they manipulate public opinion in the their successful effort to make Bill Clinton seem like a viable presidential aspirant.


Vote for Jack...


Jack the Chacma baboon


Oof, a little over the top. Better have a shot or two or three.




Choice words for the Week-end...