Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

February 27, 1925: The first-prize winner and runners-up in a bobbed-hair beauty contest in Coral Gables, Florida.




Here's a live look at the Epstein files as they are prepared for public release:



As part of operation Wet Fart, the so-called Epstein Files were given to the influencers today.



How Pam Bondi was "surprised" is simply not possible.

These have been made available for years: FBI Files on Jeffrey Epstein

For some other links and archives, in January 2024, numerous records were unsealed by the courts:
Unsealed Court Documents in Jeffrey Epstein Case; Roughly 150 Names Unredacted

In November 2019, other released records were unsealed. Those records are here.

If you're curious the Epstein Flight Manifest (Unredacted) aka The Lolita Express Flight Manifest. In original form with two transcribed versions. They been floating around the interwebs since 2015.

How the CIA rigged the Epstein case. In another 3-4 years this will be headline news:

The Pottinger Ultimatum



"This is the story... the plot thickens..."

An important concept for recognizing psyops comes straight out of film school: Setups & Payoffs



Hey, you!
Out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?

Hey, you!
Standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?

Hey, you!
Don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight

Hey, you!
Out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?

But it was only fantasy
The wall was too high as you can see
No matter how he tried he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain

Hey, you!
Out there on the road
Always doing what you're told
Can you help me?

Hey, you!
Out there beyond the wall
Breaking bottles in the hall
Can you help me?

Hey, you!
Don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand
Divided we fall.
— Pink Floyd


The More You Know...




Meta has been testing the Parallax Algorithm on its users over on Instagram...


Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

I don't doubt there are probably material circumstances causing mass shootings and other random acts of violence, but tech companies running psychological experiments on their users seems like an avenue that warrants investigation.


Hung Cao, Under Secretary of the Navy. It seems like if you're in your 30s to early 40s, ex-military & have 5 or more kids you're in the Trump club. Ten kids or more and you get the keys to the golden treasure.




USA #1 song today in 1984:




LOOK: Someone or some thing is on the moon right now.


It's actually the ISS.
Source



The film plot reminds me of those two astronauts still stranded up in space.


Gene Hackman in "The Conversation" poster art by Bernard D'Andrea, 1974.


Super-size


BAT 21 over & out.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

February 28, 1942: Brian Jones was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. He was best known as the founder and original leader of the Rolling Stones. He sunk into alcohol and drug problems and was found dead by drowning in the swimming pool at his home at the age of 27 on July 3, 1969.


Brian Jones is supposedly the 14th member to join the pop culture conspiratorial 27 Club.


February 28, 1966: Liverpool’s original Cavern Club on 10 Matthew Street, known as "The birthplace of The Beatles" was forced into liquidation. The club reopened under new management but closed permanently in March 1973 and was demolished on 5 June 1973. The Cavern Club opened on January 16, 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 50s and early 1960s. Soon after the Cavern club closed again in '73, a new Cavern club opened at 7 Mathew Street, later renamed the Revolution Club. This club would later shut down and be reopened as Eric's Club in 1976, which itself became a notable local music venue in the late 1970s. However, a replica was built on the same site and reopened in 1984. Cavern Club was temporarily closed again from 1989 to 1991, and has been open ever since.

The club hosted its first performance by the Beatles on Thursday, 9 February 1961. Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager who secured the group's first recording contract, first saw the group perform at the club on 9 November 1961. Inspired by the group, Epstein made moves to take over their management.


Confusing as directly across the narrow walkway street is the Cavern Pub.



Above VIDEO: Sign outside the Liverpool's Cavern Club 'where it all began'. GV. Crowd outside. CU. Boys combing long hair. SV. Crowd carrying banners against Beatles. SV. People going into club, & CU. SV. Prime Minister Harold Wilson arriving with Socialist MP for Liverpool, Mrs Bessie Braddock, Mrs Wilson and son Giles. SV. As they go into club. LV. Interior as Prime Minister comes in and onto stage LV. Crowd in the club. CU. Jimmy Saville. CU. Comedian Ken Dodd. LV. Mr Wilson speaking, & CU. SV. Crowd. SV. Mr Wilson unveils plaque. CU. Plaque. SV. Pan, the Hideaway group playing. SV. Girls dancing. CU. Black girl dancing, & CU. CU. Group playing. CU. The girl with her hands over her ears. CU. Girl with very brief bikini top. CU. Another girl dancing. SV. The girl dancing with her back to camera. SCU. Jimmy Saville, Mr Wilson and Bessie Braddock watching. Got freaked out when Jimmy's face popped on screen.


February 28, 1973: Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow was published. Best obscure one-volume history of the 20th Century, but the most difficult to read. C-ya on the outer side.




February 28, 1975: A Northern Line underground train crashed at Moorgate station, killing 43 people. The train, arriving from Drayton Park, was packed with commuters when it overshot the platform and ploughed into a dead-end tunnel. It remains an unresolved tragedy.


Moorgate tube crash (BBC)

1975: Dozens killed in Moorgate Tube crash

Moorgate tube crash (wiki)

B&W Photos from London Transport Museum

A brief history of the Underground



Feb 28, 1985: 40 Years ago today, John Connor, future leader of the human resistance against the machines, was born. Happy 40th John!




Feb 28, 1991: USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS Wisconsin (BB-64) ended their bombardment of Iraqi targets in Kuwait after firing a combined 1,102 16-inch rounds during the war. The Wisconsin's final salvo was the last time that a battleship fired her big guns in anger.



USS Missouri Documentary - BB-63 - Desert Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C2aHUYxKJs


Feb 28, 2018: The X-Files S11E07 "Rm9sbG93ZXJz" aired.
At 42:23 Scully's mobile displays the following text: From Harry Reid/ Subject UFOs/ Message: NYT knows about Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. If they find you... DENY EVERYTHING.


"VGhlIFRydXRoIGlzIE91dCBUaGVyZQ=" is a base64 string that decodes to "The Truth is Out There". The artificial intelligence bot that was tricked into posting racist and insensitive tweets on Twitter on March 23, 2016, as described in the opening prologue, is Microsoft's Tay chatbot. The title "Rm9sbG93ZXJz" is a base64 string that decodes to "Followers." The sushi restaurant where Mulder and Scully eat is named FOROWA, which is the word for Follower in Japanese.


Earlier today on the world stage (Oval Office), Trump got into quite a heated discussion with Zelensky.


VP Vance: "Do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?"

Trump: "You don't have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards ... You're gambling with the lives of millions of people! You're gambling with World War III!" (My guess is Trump was actually referring to China, not Russia)

Trump: "I gave you the Javelins to take out all those tanks. Obama gave you sheets... You got to be more thankful because let me tell you, you don't have the cards. With us, you have the cards — but without us you don't have any cards."

Trump: “You either make a deal or we are out.”

Ukraine without U.S. support?




Full vid from the White House Reality TV show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmgHM7oxVIw

Fox news reporting on Zelenskyy getting kicked out of the White House: "That was so disrespectful! You go right to your room this instant, mister! No lunch for you! And don’t you come back out until you are ready to talk about peace! The White House staffers ate the lunch." - Jacqui Heinrich, Senior White House Correspondent.

Trump had announced a strategic economic partnership deal will be signed with Ukraine on rare earth elements, but Zelensky left the building before signing.

Zelensky's appearance at the Hudson Institute in DC was abruptly CANCELLED after he was kicked outta the big house.

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy is heading to London tomorrow.

Sec Marco Rubio: "There's real concern that Americans' speech... could fall under the hands of British — or any country's jurisdiction... What unites us with Europe is these shared values, and one of them being free speech. And so, if Americans are threatened by it, we're going to need to take action."

Rubio sounds like classic D.C. doublespeak. "Shared values" with Europe on free speech? Last I checked, the UK was arresting people for tweets. If Rubio is serious about protecting American speech, he should take action on the real threat: government overreach right here at home.

The Free Speech Protection Act would actually stop bureaucrats from colluding with Big Tech to censor Americans. But I guess it's easier to point fingers across the pond than clean up our own backyard.

VP Vance: on conversations with UK officials about free speech: "We believe Americans have the right to speak their mind. Even if we in this room disagree with them, they have the right to speak their mind in the public square, which is often online these days. And we are going to defend that right as it pertains to American companies and American citizens."

Trump is planning to sign an executive order making English the official language of the United States. Huh? Why is an EO needed for that??

Time for that song once more...




Time to step outside and look up...


A rare planetary alignment of 7 planets is happening tonight (Feb 28).
Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars will line up after sunset. Visible anywhere with clear skies. If you miss it tonight don’t worry: you can still catch it tomorrow. Best viewing date from London is March 2. If you don’t see it, don’t worry: you can see it in 2040.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Fiery but mostly peaceful at the Oval today. Trump ensured the media will put that scene on loopback all weekend. Tropic Thunder meets Mission Impossible Rogue Nation. LOL.




Update on the Parallax Algorithm I mentioned yesterday.
Facebook used to openly run non-consensual psychological experiments on users to measure how the company could influence the emotions and real-world responses of its users and I see no reason to presume they ever stopped (or that other tech companies surely do the same).


Facebook says sorry about that


When you ask AI a question, you’re doing this: the oracle inhaled gas that allowed her to achieve a trance like state and answer questions with cryptic responses. The Silicon Valley sorcerers use DMT, get inhabited by evil spirits, and then transmute that to a computer aggregation of mysticism.



To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson



Those redheads!!




Gotta go with your roots.



Words for the Weekend...as we venture into March.


Fernweh = wanderlust
Dromomania was once considered a medical condition. In the 19th century, doctors diagnosed "pathological tourism" in people who compulsively traveled without reason.

When Doctors Thought ‘Wanderlust’ Was a Psychological Condition


Friday night cool down scene with some HEAT!

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy National Pig Day (USA) and Saint David's Day (Welsh: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi) across the pond and Beer Day (Iceland) marking the end of the 74-year prohibition of beer. Damn, that was a long dry generations of sorrow! I'll have a Viking. Make it a double!




March 1, 1925: Inventor of Death Ray Says Found Buyer in America.
(Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.), pg 3, March 2, 1925.


Harry Grindell Matthews (17 March 1880 – 11 September 1941) was an English inventor who claimed to have invented a death ray in the 1920s.

In July 1924, Matthews left for the US to market his invention. When Matthews was offered $25,000 to demonstrate his beam to the Radio World Fair at Madison Square Garden, he again refused and claimed, without foundation, that he was not permitted to demonstrate it outside England. US scientists were not impressed. One Professor Woods offered to stand before the death ray device to demonstrate his disbelief. Regardless, when Matthews returned to Britain, he claimed that the USA had bought his ray but refused to say who had done it and for how much. Matthews moved to the US and began to work for Warner Bros.

Harry Grindell Matthews of Winterbourne


March 1, 1954: Castle Bravo thermonuclear explosion, a whopping 15 Megatons, a cocktail of lithium-6 deuteride mixed with lithium-7 detonated at Bikini Atoll at 6:45am sending super bright light across the pond. It was 250% more powerful than the force calculated by the Strangelovian scientists who had engineered it. It would become known as the worst radiological disaster in history. The test also quickly influenced popular culture in Japan and around the world by spawning one of the greatest (and certainly most durable) Atomic lizard movie monsters of all time: Gojira/Godzilla.




March 1, 1955, the United States conducted the Tesla nuclear test atop a 300-foot tower at the Nevada Proving Ground. Designed by Livermore lab physicist John Foster, the explosive yield of the nuclear howitzer shell (the first miniaturized atomic bomb) was 7 kilotons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypgr9-4Fqww

February 29, 1968 at the Nevada Test Site, the US conducted DORSAL FIN, (part of "Operation Crosstie") its only Leap Day nuclear test. A joint Los Alamos-DOD underground tunnel weapons effects test, the yield was less than 20 kilotons.




March 1, 1959: The last episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood was broadcast on ITV. It starred Richard Greene as the famous outlaw. There had been 143 half-hour, black and white episodes since September 25, 1955.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIXiESqT_jY


UK #1 on this day in 1980: Blondie - Atomic




March 1, 1998: The X-Files "Patient X" S5E13 aired.
MULDER: All this conjecture - the "ontological shock" that you speak of, for which we are so ill-equipped - is not only false but dangerous. This woman presents no good or credible testimony apart from the feel-good message that she promotes.




In a letter dated Feb 25th Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. director of national intelligence, said the U.S. is examining whether the UK government had violated the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, which bars it from issuing demands for the data of U.S. citizens and vice versa.

It's a good sign (I think)that there is open debate over philosophical principles among Western leaders instead of the photo op unanimity of the recent past. No matter which side of an issue you're on this is beneficial. I think it's strange because we're not used to it. What's driving the techno-democratic or techno-libertarian trend is the "techno" part. Social media (e.g., X), data analysis, and open-source information create a flood that can't be economically dammed, short of devoting every cyber warrior and policeman to the task. In a few years direct satellite to phone links will be standard. The bandwidth explosion has just started and that information is gold; it is training sets, innovation, commercial activity. And technonauts are all set to cash in. Censoring it would almost be comparable to the Cuban missile blockade.



While everyone in the news media to influencers emotionally reacts to the recent White House Trump-Vance-Zelensky drama that reportedly caused ontological shock on virgin eyes & ears...



Musings to remember in my opinion:

- Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky likely still doesn't understand he was fighting a US proxy war that US planners knew from the beginning Ukraine was almost certainly going to lose, including "disproportionately large Ukrainian casualties, territorial losses, and refugee flows," as well as "lead Ukraine into a disadvantageous peace."

This is the part of the plan the US and Ukraine are now at - not "make peace."

- The plan was always to provoke war with Russia at the expense of Ukraine's very existence, fight Russia to the last Ukrainian as part of "Extending Russia" within the wider strategy of containment and eventual regime change in Russia itself.

- The ploy has run its full course with the US moving to the next phase, attempting to lower Russia's guard and convince it to - just like Ukraine - trust the US at its own detriment.

- At one point during the argument, US President Trump repeats the fact his administration was the first to supply Ukraine lethal aid in the form of anti-tank weapons (Javelins!), almost certainly the last red line crossed convincing Russia to launch its military operations into Ukraine in the first place.

- US special interests have a simple formula - gain trust, rob/destroy, repeat process.

If you do business with the US and let your guard down, you will be hit over the head, robbed, and your house burnt to the ground every time - Ukraine has just realized this  truth too late - will Russia and China learn from Ukraine's example, or will they need to learn (again) the hard way?

This continuity of agenda concerning Russia and Ukraine has been going on since 2014 with Obama.



Zelensky will probably do a circuit of European NATO capitals and emerge with the missing "security guarantee". Armed with that he can return to Washington "ready" for peace in semi triumph. I mean he already has a signed 100 Year security partnership deal with the UK which appears vague.

The EU obediently begins the US dictate of "division of labor" (specified by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth) meaning Europe continues Ukraine war while US pivots to the exact same sort of conflict, but with China in Asia. Europeans will soon lose social programs to increased military spending.

This pivot to China, already manifesting itself in the form of continued backtracking from Washington's "one China" agreement, continued militarization in Asia-Pacific, recent meddling by Secretary Rubio in Thai-Chinese relations, and continued preparations for further decoupling, encroachment, and encirclement of China, is proof in and of itself the US is disingenuous about real peace with Russia.

The US cannot fight both conflicts on its own. Democrats, Republicans, think tanks, Neo-Cons and SecDef Pete Hegseth himself have all taken turns admitting this. Arms production is expanding on both sides of the Atlantic in the hopes that it will be enough to delay China breaking out of US encirclement in Asia, and ensure success during the next round of aggression vs. Russia.

Extending Russia (Published Apr 24, 2019)


What would it take? A new Field Marshal Kitchner.


What it would take to get Britain ready for war with Russia

There is just no way Europe can maintain low population growth, net zero, mass migration, generous welfare and high military expenditure without some gasket blowing. Everything costs money.


Yes, we truly live in extraordinary times...


Fascinating fine print about how that will be dispersed in three annual £752 Million payouts.

UK reinforces support for Ukraine with £2.26 billion loan to bolster Ukrainian defence capabilities

This will ensure Russia remains an extraordinary enemy for the next 100 years...Or until one side is defeated.


Hey everybody, America now has an official language called English!

Accordingly, this order designates English as the official language of the United States.

(b)  Executive Order 13166 of August 11, 2000 (Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency), is hereby revoked; nothing in this order, however, requires or directs any change in the services provided by any agency.  Agency heads should make decisions as they deem necessary to fulfill their respective agencies’ mission and efficiently provide Government services to the American people.  Agency heads are not required to amend, remove, or otherwise stop production of documents, products, or other services prepared or offered in languages other than English.

THE WHITE HOUSE,
    March 1, 2025.

The choice.

In a 17-minute video announcing his run, Mr. Cuomo, 67, attempted to reintroduce himself to New Yorkers on his preferred terms: as a tested manager, law-and-order moderate and forceful leader capable of rescuing a city that he said “feels threatening, out of control, and in crisis.”

He blamed “failed Democratic leadership” but did not explicitly mention Mr. Adams, and said he would try to work with President Trump where he could.

Sex Pest Enters NYC Mayor's Race

I was not expecting to see this joker to come back. The amazing brain-twister is that no matter how bad their politicians are, democrats won't even contemplate voting for someone else. That is the power of identity politics. Better dead than red.


"THE CHOICE"

[EndtheMadnessNow]

If you analyse USAID's top funding destinations from top to bottom, here's what you see:

Ukraine/US Proxy War
Ethiopia/US Proxy War
Jordan/US Proxy War with extra steps
Afghanistan/US Direct War
Somalia/US Proxy War
Syria/US Proxy War
Congo/US Proxy War
Nigeria [Nigerians speaking English and asking for "empirical evidence" despite having already made it to world #3 in conflict deaths in 2022]
Yemen/US Direct War
South Sudan/US Proxy War


Where USAID Is Going

USAID cancelled actual evidence-gathering projects within Nigeria on first day of Biden admin.



Tom O'Neill's Manson/CIA book, CHAOS, is the basis of a new Errol Morris documentary (Netflix, March 7) - "Chaos: The Manson Murders"


Werner Herzog promised that he would eat his shoe if Morris ever completed Gates of Heaven (1978), which he actually did at the movie's premiere. Les Blank's short documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) shows the whole story.



The woman who helps Werner Herzog cook his shoes is the famous chef Alice Waters. The shoes were cooked in the kitchen of her restaurant, Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, California. There are shots in the film of Herzog entering the restaurant wearing his shoes, and leaving it barefoot.

You can watch Werner eat his shoe:




Naval Proceedings Photo of the Week: U.S. Marines with the Silent Drill Platoon, Marine Barracks Washington, pose for a photo during the Blue Angels’ “Fat Albert” C-130J Super Hercules fly-over at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, 25 February.


4K size


DEI annihilated.


From 2022:
DOD INSTRUCTION 5400.17 OFFICIAL USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS
PURPOSES

MEMORANDUM FOR SENIOR PENTAGON LEADERSHIP (26 FEB 2025)

In accordance with DoD instruction 5400.17, all of my bad comics are being removed from RN... to make room for new worse comics.







Do you know your...




This is a Maned Wolf. However, it is neither a fox nor a wolf.


It is the only species in the genus Chrysocyon (meaning "golden dog" in Ancient Greek) It is the largest canine in South America, weighing 20–30 kg (44–66 lb) and up to 110 cm (43 in) at the withers. Its long, thin legs and dense reddish coat give it a distinct appearance. The maned wolf is a crepuscular and omnivorous animal found in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay, and is almost extinct in Uruguay.

Fun fact: Their urine has a very distinctive odor, smells exactly like weed.

At the Rotterdam Zoo, this smell once set the police on a hunt for cannabis smokers.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Remastered copy of David Lynch's HOTEL ROOM (1993). All three episodes stitched together in one file. Only ever released in VHS and Laserdisc (Japan only).

Download here

Three-part mini-series set during three different eras spanning from 1936 to 1993 in a single room of an odd hotel where employees never age. Every story has a slight twist to it, but the stories are mostly dialogue-heavy psychological and relationship dramas.




UFO party in the holler! No charge!!


Saucers Over Appalachia Festival - Exploring UFO History in Bristol, VA

A Taste of Appalachian Resilience

Few dishes capture the essence of perseverance and ingenuity like Bulldog Gravy. Born from the rugged landscapes of Appalachia during the throes of the Great Depression, this humble recipe served as a lifeline for countless mining families.

With its simple ingredients and stick-to-your-ribs heartiness, Bulldog Gravy is more than a meal—it’s a story of survival, community, and the indomitable spirit of the Appalachian people. Paired with fluffy biscuits, it remains a testament to the creativity that emerges in the face of scarcity.

The Setting: Appalachia in the Post-Industrial Revolution

The Appalachian region experienced rapid changes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as coal and timber industries transformed the area.

Company towns emerged around coal mines, where families worked tirelessly to extract the black gold that powered America’s industrial revolution.

These small communities were isolated, with workers often paid in company scrip instead of cash, restricting their ability to buy food or supplies from anywhere but the company store.

When the Great Depression struck in the 1930s, Appalachia—already vulnerable due to its reliance on mining—plunged into dire poverty. The collapse of coal prices led to widespread unemployment, and families often faced severe food shortages. Stretching every crumb became a necessity.

The 1930s Depression and its Impact on Appalachian Miners

For miners, the Great Depression meant not just economic hardship but physical hunger. Entire families depended on a single income that disappeared overnight. Gardens and wild foraging supplemented meager provisions, but meals were simple and sparse.

The resourcefulness of Appalachian cooks led to the creation of dishes that could make something out of almost nothing. Flour, water, grease, and a pinch of seasoning became staples, transformed into life-sustaining dishes like Bulldog Gravy.

Bulldog Gravy: A Response to Hunger

Bulldog Gravy was born out of necessity. Made from rendered grease (usually from bacon or sausage, if available), flour, and water or milk, it was designed to stretch limited resources.

The name “Bulldog Gravy” likely reflects its bite—a robust, savory sauce that could transform plain biscuits or cornbread into a filling meal. For miners and their families, this dish symbolized resilience, providing warmth and sustenance during cold Appalachian mornings.

The gravy’s simplicity and flavor cemented its place in Appalachian kitchens, even as times improved. Today, Bulldog Gravy carries a legacy of survival, a dish that connects modern cooks to the ingenuity of those who came before.

The Legacy of Bulldog Gravy

Though the hardships of the 1930s have passed, Bulldog Gravy remains a cherished comfort food. It is a reminder of how Appalachian families faced adversity with creativity and determination. Served alongside biscuits—a Southern staple—it represents the heart of Appalachian cuisine: humble, hearty, and rich in history.

Recipe for Classic Biscuits & Gravy

America returning to the Timber & Lumber Industry...


Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production

Addressing The Threat To National Security from Imports of Timber, Lumber

As one example that I seen with my own eyes, the intentional destruction of rural Oregon's timber economy made a lot of sleazy lawyers rich off the angst of Ivy League nepo babies who pretended they were "environmentalists" while the small timber towns turned into meth and opiod slums later resulting in ghost towns.


Sturgeon-class submarine USS Seahorse (SSN-669) escorted through the Panama Canal by a PBR Mark 2 riverine patrol boat from Special Boat Unit 26 (SBU-26) in 1989. The sailors in tan shorts are rescue swimmers.




For those who celebrate...Summary of the total expenses that the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT) billed Paramount Pictures for the assistance provided by various DOD Components participating in the production of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.


$325,215 in 1990 is worth $790,446 today.

DTIC ADA246377: An Examination of the Cost Reimbursement Policies and Procedures Followed by DoD When Providing Services to Private Organizations
by Defense Technical Information Center
Publication date: 1991-06-01


Did you hear the news?! Blue Ghost landed on the moon!!

Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission 1, which launched from Launch Complex 39A on Jan 15, has becomes the First Commercial Company to successfully land on the Moon!


Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon

Through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services or CLPS initiative, NASA is purchasing lunar delivery services from American companies to carry science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon. The CLPS initiative aims to conduct science on the Moon for the benefit of all, improving our understanding of the lunar environment and surface characteristics, in advance of future crewed missions to the Moon as part of the agency’s broader Artemis campaign.

Under this innovative model, NASA is one of many customers, along with commercial companies, universities and international partners, all sending payloads to the Moon. With CLPS, NASA is embracing a higher level of risk tolerance by leveraging commercial solutions to send rapid, low-cost deliveries to the Moon, fostering a growing lunar economy and enabling a long-term presence on the lunar surface.

Source is from CLPS: Firefly Blue Ghost Mission One [Press Kit, 9 page PDF].

Firefly Aerospace is on a mission to make space attainable for everyone, including the next generation workforce. As part of this mission, Firefly’s DREAM (Dedicated Research Education Accelerator Mission) program was established in 2019 to encourage students to dream big and develop an interest in STEM by donating excess payload capacity on our Alpha rocket. DREAM eliminates the cost of entry for launch, allowing educational institutions to focus on developing and operating a small satellite program and training the next generation of aerospace engineers.

Firefly Aerospace Website

Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Touchdown, cued at 1:26:10
https://www.youtube.com/live/ChEuA1AUJAY...bu9&t=5169


Firefly Aerospace business appears to be booming for a young company that went bankrupt and was liquidated in March 2017...

In December 2014, Tom Markusic's former employer Virgin Galactic alleged he had illegally provided Virgin intellectual property to the Alpha development team. Virgin also alleged that Markusic had "destroyed storage devices, disposed of computers, and reformatted hard drives to cover the tracks of his misappropriation of Virgin Galactic information". In August 2016, an independent arbitrator confirmed that Markusic had destroyed evidence. Thereafter, a major European investor backed down, leaving Firefly without sufficient money to proceed. The company furloughed its entire staff in October 2016. According to Markusic, the investor's drawback was not related to the litigation but to Brexit. Within the same month, Virgin Orbit filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Firefly and two of its officers. By December 1, 2016, Firefly Space Systems had permanently ceased engineering work.

In March 2017, it was announced that "virtually all" of the assets of Firefly would be sold at auction, organized by EOS Launcher, Inc., who had previously bought a US$1 million promissory note issued by Firefly to Space Florida and induced a foreclosure.

Why am I not surprised there is a UKRAINE connection here...

On May 17, 2018, Firefly Aerospace opened a Research and development (R&D) center in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine. The Firefly R&D center was announced to become, over time, a place of work for more than 150 employees, and is equipped with the largest 3D-printer in Ukraine, intended for industrial manufacturing of high-quality metal parts.

In November 2018, it was announced that NASA selected Firefly Aerospace as one of nine companies able to bid for Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), where the company would propose a robotic lunar lander called Firefly Genesis.

In December 2019, a group of primary shareholders of Firefly Space Systems filed a lawsuit alleging fraud and intentional bankruptcy of the company by Tom Markusic. According to the defendants, including Polyakov, the lawsuit was provocative and the plaintiffs' claims unfounded, three years after the updated Firefly Aerospace was a significant success. The lawsuit is pending.

In February 2021, NASA awarded approximately US$93.3 million to Firefly Aerospace to develop exploration technologies for Artemis Commercial Moon Delivery in 2023.

In late November 2021, Maxim Polyakov received a letter from the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) asking Polyakov and his investment firm Noosphere Venture Partners to sell a stake in Firefly (nearly 50%) for national security reasons. Polyakov denied the threat to US national security, but agreed to comply. Noosphere Ventures has announced that it will hire an investment banking firm to sell. Even before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the future of the Firefly R&D center in Ukraine was uncertain; after the invasion started, the Dnipro factory was bombed and many of the Ukrainian engineers either joined the army or fled the country.

The government did not give reasons beyond Polyakov was Ukrainian and Ukraine and Russia had once worked together on rockets. Despite Polyakov's anger, he agreed, and on February 24, 2022, it was announced that Polyakov and his company Noosphere would sell their stake in Firefly to AE Industrial Partners. [coincidentally, the same day Russia invaded]

On September 14, 2023, Firefly successfully launched the Alpha rocket on its first mission for the United States Department of Defense, placing a spacecraft for Millenium Space into orbit and demonstrating rapid response launch for the United States Armed Forces.

In 2024, it was announced that Firefly would compete with the likes of Rocket Lab and SpaceX for small satellite launch contracts with the United States Department of Defense.

Corruption, fraud, whatever, never mind all that, it's a matter of national security. They got us back to the moon.


Firefly Aerospace News


Also, Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander, named Athena is set to land at Mons Mouton, a lunar plateau near the Moon’s South Pole on March 6th. Carrying  three NASA payloads to the lunar South Pole region - the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) suite and the Lunar Retroreflector Array (LRA). The lander will also carry two commercial technology demonstrations funded through NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate Tipping Point initiative. Furthermore, IM-2 will share its ride to space with NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a SmallSat which will deploy during transit and orbit the Moon.


Commercial Lunar Payload Services IM-2 (Intuitive Machines-2) Lunar Mission [Press Kit, 9 page PDF]

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On the set of DESTINATION MOON (1950), winner for best special effects at the 1952 Academy Awards.




Wow, good to see state reps looking into important issues like figuring out if the Earth is flat or hollow. The Galactic Federation has been taking advantage of America for far too long and this needs to end. Now! Hopefully this conference will finally get to the bottom of Antarctica’s mysteries.


GOP lawmakers scheduled to speak at ‘Galactic Federation’ conspiracy event

Will probably have a line wrapped around the block itching to pay $400+. Crazy times.



CAUGHT ON TAPE: Walz says country stolen ‘by fascists and Nazis’ at nurses event


LMAO!!


https://x.com/Sandford_Police/status/189...2714144229



Germany's interior ministry and left-wing NGOs are launching an "advice compass" for people who think their friends or family engage in "conspiracy thinking" because quote:

"Conspiracy theories are accompanied by lies and disinformation. They are spread deliberately to divide our society and destroy trust in independent science, free media or democratic institutions."


“Advice Compass on Conspiracy Thinking" Launches

Their ability to project what they themselves are doing is mind boggling.
All the Stasi "How To" manuals are still to be found in the nooks and crannies of the German governmental infrastructure. Dusting those off, and doing a little copy & pasta.

Apparently this has been going on for a while. From 2022:


The Conspiracy Label as a Tool of Propaganda, Part I: Origins and Organizations Behind the Conspiracy Label


Comms vs Policy / Sales vs. Legal


Apparently, the UK & Europe bought it.


It's like the whole thing was stage play or maybe partial.

Well, look at that...

"NATO chief says he told Zelenskyy to restore relationship with Trump" as Europe prepares it's package. So there will be a return to Washington.

A return to Washington with a European security guarantee is shaping up. The king will be pleased...

“We are at a crossroads in history,” says U.K.’s Starmer as some European leaders vow to increase defense spending...

Europe's leaders pledge to increase spending, NATO chief says



I guess the U.S. should just invade Europe then...

To unite them.




What’s more probable?

The western alliance collapsing?

Or the 2019 Rand paper that pretty much laid it out word for word?

Oddly, they literally told us what they are doing.

Shock, nostalgia, despair and hope at the end of an era. Is it "a very different world" or has it been different for a long time but the general public just didn't realize it?

What did Zelensky pledge in his campaign?

Peace with Russia, the end of the war. Instead they got war is peace.

Flashback: "The comedian who could be president" - BBC news Feb 7, 2019:



In hindsight it is interesting to look back.

Donald Trump's meanest "The Apprentice" moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ6nOmAiwqo

Mr. McMahon and Donald Trump's Battle of the Billionaires Contract Signing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVeVcVBW_CE

As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII "All the world's a stage". Nothing is as it seems. Especially, when you have professional actors that know how to garner, steer and harvest the energy to sell policy agenda!





Monday is coming...

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March 3, 1923: US magazine Time publishes its first issue. It lacked the distinctive red border for which the magazine has come to be known. The cover subject was the now-obscure Joseph G. Cannon (the former House Speaker). The whole thing was only 32 pages, including the front and back covers. There are only a few photographs or illustrations, and nary a chart or graphic in sight.

The magazine contains word of the first helicopter, a possible change in divorce laws, the release of the film Adam’s Rib, a new one-cent cigarette tax in Indiana, the British Empire, the latest figures in German reparation payments, legal battle on West Virginia natural resources, Boys will be boys, a "floating school" for the children of the unfortunate rich, and other amusing tidbits from 102 years ago.


TIME magazine, March 3, 1923


The Good Old Days 3½-inch High Density Floppy 1.44 MB Collection.



Possibly, the first print use of the word "floppy" (as it pertains to data storage) is from this magazine article, "IBM's 370/145 Uncovered; Interesting Curves Revealed", Datamation, November 1, 1970.


In May 2016, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that covered the need to upgrade or replace legacy computer systems within federal agencies. According to this document, old IBM Series/1 minicomputers running on 8-inch floppy disks are still used to coordinate "the operational functions of the United States' nuclear forces". The government planned to update some of the technology by the end of the 2017 fiscal year. Floppy Use in Japan's government ended in 2024.

"We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!" Digital Minister Taro Kono, who has been vocal about wiping out fax machines and other analogue technology in government. (July 3, 2024)

The British Airways Boeing 747-400 fleet, up to its retirement in 2020, used 3½-inch floppy disks to load avionics software.
Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks


DEF CON 28 Aerospace Village: 747-400 Walk through From a Hacker’s Perspective:



Sony, who had been in the floppy disk business since 1983, ended domestic sales of all six 3½-inch floppy disk models as of March 2011.

Sony Announces the Death of the Floppy Disk


While production of new floppy disk media has ceased, sales and uses of this media from inventories is expected to continue until at least 2026.


"Cave of the Apocalypse" in Patmos, Greece where St. John the Evangelist received his visions and wrote the book of Revelation.

St. Prochorus was one of the 70 Apostles that Christ sent to preach the Good News. Christ told them to take nothing material with them. Their fruits were great. After Christ’s death and resurrection, St. Prochorus was among the first seven deacons in the Church of Christ, chosen by the twelve Apostles because they were full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom. Before going with St. John who was banished to the island of Patmos, St. Prochorus accompanied the holy Apostle Peter and was made by him bishop in the city of Nicomedia. At Patmos, he wrote down the Book of Revelation from the Holy Apostle John the Theologian concerning the final fate of the world. St. Prochorus returned from Patmos and converted pagans to Christ in the City of Antioch. There he received a martyr’s crown. St. Prochorus is commemorated on July 28, along with the Seventy Apostles.

St Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral of Los Angeles - Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.

Monday wake up juice. Worth its weight in gold! I can see clearly now! Did you see today's banner!


Order your Apocalyptic Beans Now!! Political theatre & UFOs will no longer distract you! Guaranteed you'll see clearly after one cup!!




Pour a cup of Apocalypse Joe, sit back at your local kaffeeklatsch and have a listen...




LOL!

Acting Witan of Mercia


Cause and effect. The pain flows both ways...


DOGE and HHS end $18M contract with Family Endeavors for 'empty facility'

"Baseless" my arse. Put another way it sounds like typical gubermint incompetence due to mismanagement because accountability did not exist in the Biden regime.


Tom Rowsell, British historian, Youtuber, apparently has never been on a roadtrip across America. America has more scenic overgrown roads than the UK has roads at all. Granted the UK may hold the title for potholes. I guess to be fair, extremely narrow country roads is not an American thing, unless you're a timber trucker, live in Appalachia or rural Oregon, etc.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: A woman posting letter in London during the Blitz for a photo shoot for Vogue magazine (1940) by Cecil Beaton.




USA #1 on this day in 1974: Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun



UK #1 on this day in 1979: Bee Gees - Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I248-SyRDnU


How he describes it is a mind blower... Anyways, tomorrow is another day.


https://x.com/LibertarianRep3/status/189...9419434399


Horrible.



"Coalition of the willing"? Where have I heard that before... Inviolable borders... sovereignty?.. Boots in the air... where are my bananas?"


Coalition of the willing (Iraq War)

Trump is now forcing a decision on Ukraine by cutting off support. The danger here is that it can arouse the rejection gene in certain mindsets making them choose martyrdom over survival as Hamas so often does. But Europe, unused to the categorical must be writhing in agony. "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

The shock must be immense. One moment you're talking about decolonizing the Chagos islands, paying reparations to the Caribbean, transgenderism, multiculturalism and net zero and in the next fleeting moment about defending Europe. It's like somebody switched the world on them. The horrible realization is slowly dawning that smoke and mirrors might not be enough this time. It's a stark choice between guaranteeing Ukraine and keeping their cherished social policy.

The question we should ask is: which country is transitioning fastest? And toward what is power transitioning? The apparent goal of the Trump admin is toward a cohesive country with secure borders, a healthy demography and space and technological dominance.

Many pundits apparently believe the Trump admin is pursuing ignorant, random goals. But while one may disagree with them, it seems obvious that MAGA is based on a new architecture of power in which national strength is based more on own assets than international agreements. For a period of time, at least on the surface inside America this may sound like good news. However, do not forget that Trump is backed & fully supported by the most powerful technocrat oligarchy the world has ever seen. They want full spectrum dominance over the entire world and that will come at a huge cost. Meaning "America First" is not necessarily in their purview.




Aside from the occasional meteor strikes it looks rather peaceful.



"Do not go gentle into that good night", "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"... and into The Week we go!



The quibow laden with blossoms
Spring has come
Flippercanorious for some
The children tantra-bobus sung
The kaffeeklatschers drink and chat
Yet Spring, yet Spring sweetens the pot.

Run for, run for those hills babe
let go of the dark days.
let go of the world

Make it all up as you dance along
just like we all have done,
for all of our lives.

The kingdom is yours
the seas the shores,
it's like you've only just arrived.

Dive in, the water will be lovely,
go keen and go boldly
go wherever they sing

It all comes, it all comes when
it wants to, not when you want it to,
at the strangest times.

By the end of this short song, you will feel different.

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They say, there is a land,
Where crystal waters flow,
O’er beds of quarts and purest gold,
Way out in Idaho
Chorus:
O! wait, Idaho!
W’ere coming Idaho.
Our four ‘hos’ team will soon be seen,
Way out in Idaho


March 4, 1863: President Lincoln signed an act creating Idaho Territory.



March 4, 1953: the destroyer leader USS Norfolk (DL-1) was commissioned, becoming the first major U.S. warship built after WWII. Designed to be a fast anti-submarine hunter killer, the Norfolk-class proved to be too costly and was cancelled in favor of smaller and cheaper Mitscher-class destroyers.




"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea...."


USS Hawkbill (SSN-666) "The Devil Boat" a Sturgeon-class attack sub
Commissioned 4 February 1971; Decommissioned: 15 March 2000.




Boom Times on the Psychic Frontier (TIME, March 4, 1974)
Both in America & abroad, those questions are being asked by increasing numbers of laymen & scientists hungry for answers. The diverse manifestations of interest in so-called psychic phenomena are everywhere:


Full article


March 4, 1974: Lessons for Lana: Please machine give juice.
"Perhaps one day Lana or another chimp can act as an interpreter between their world and ours."





https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1896615936804929992

The same year Brzezinski wrote:
"Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an "anti-hegemonic" coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances." — The Grand Chessboard


Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen. In the pilot episode, which aired on March 4, 2001, 191 days before 9/11, there is a hijacked plane that is being targeted at the World Trade Center. The last episode aired May 11, 2001.






Daily Bombshell

"bombshell" - I am sure his reputation is going to be ruined after this one! Well, I assume his back injury wasn’t that bad. The source for this sensationalized slander attempt is known to have published cheap gossip stories about celebrities including random trolls fanfiction.


Might get this Pulp Fiction style printed on a T-shirt. No words needed. Maybe a few T-shirts and will send them to my lib friends as a Xmas gift.


The Don’s new world order


The NPC puppet choir is screaching to us.


https://x.com/InsiderWire/status/1896965208830308778


I one hand I feel sorry for the old chap who has just been a pawn of the US since day one; on the other hand I don't because, well, too many lies.  Seems like more posturing and "regrettable" is not an apology. It aims to share the burden of the fallout.


The lobbyists & special interest groups knew there was going to be a war so they pushed Trump in his first term to send Javelins and that was part of the policy think tank chess moves that pushed Putin to activate his special military operation.

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March 5, 1947: THE BEGINNING OR THE END opened at The Grove Theatre in Oak Ridge, TN. If you're into this Cold War/Hollywood nuke stuff, Greg Mitchell wrote a great book on the film.




Amazon


Greg Mitchell's "The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero — and Nuclear Peril Today" trailer:





Life March 17, 1947 Vol. 22, No. 11



AIRPLANE DISASTERS that occurred on March 5th:


5 March 1963, popular country singers Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes were killed in a plane crash, 85 miles west of Nashville in Camden Tennessee. Her most famous hits were Crazy, Sweet Dreams and I Fall to Pieces. In 1973, she was the first female inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.  Jack Anglin died in a car crash on March 8 while on his way to Patsy Cline's memorial service.

Jayne was scheduled to play Marilyn Monroe in Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) but she turned down the role because of her pregnancy with daughter Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), and was replaced by Kim Novak. That same year, Mansfield appeared in a pinup book called Jayne Mansfield for President: the White House or Bust, which was promoted on billboards; David Attie, a commercial and fine art photographer, took the photographs.



Rare novelty publication which spoofed presidential elections. It was published during the 1964 presidential campaign, urging voters to consider supporting Jayne Mansfield to be the first female president. With black & white pin-up photos of the voluptuous actress taken for the book by photographer David Attie and accompanying risqué captions.



A communist agent causes a "a small atomic reaction" in a Idaho lab while stealing documents. File #65-57884-U, Lawrence Turner Underwood (Linden Chiles), Espionage. THE F.B.I., "The Contaminator," ABC, S2:E11, 12/4/66.




March 5, 1982: John Belushi dies at 33 the day after the premiere of POLICE SQUAD! (whose writers famously conceived of a scenario for his "cameo" death on the show). According to the AP (3/6/82), the Belushi segment had actually been filmed, but was dropped.





How Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance was Found




Disney to Cut Nearly 6% of Staff Across ABC News, Disney Entertainment Networks

Huh, I never heard of ABC 538 and its Polling Project


March 5, 2022: President Vladimir Putin said that Western sanctions on Russia were akin to a declaration of war and warned that any attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine would lead to catastrophic consequences for the world.

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Macron addressed the nation to discuss "this time of great uncertainty."


https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1897379869379747957


I thought JD was later going for his gun. LOL.







Make a wish...




Mid-week words...



Note: If you Google the word "askew" your screen will tilt to one side.

Words And Phrases From The Past by “A Pilgrim in Narnia” blog about C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, L.M. Montgomery.


Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Morrison - "Gods of Rock N Roll" ft. Steve Stevens

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March 6, 1836: Davy Crockett (age 49) pioneer, soldier, politician, known as the "King of the Wild Frontier" was killed by Mexican forces under General Santa Anna at the Battle of the Alamo, during the Texas Revolution. His death made him a legendary southern folk hero. While the exact details of his death remain a matter of debate among historians—some say he died fighting, others suggest he was captured and executed—what’s undisputed is his larger-than-life legacy.




Didn't have horses back then that broke the sound barrier so News traveled slow back then.



March 6, 1961: Wigan-born entertainer George Formby died at age 56. Over 100,000 people lined his funeral route. He was a mega super star for 40 years. In the 1930s, he was the most popular entertainer in the UK and the UK's highest-paid entertainer. Famous for playing the banjolele (banjo-ukulele hybrid) and his songs were full of risqué double entendres. A typical example was With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock.

    "To overcrowded flats I've been,
    Sixteen in one bed I've seen,
    With the lodger tucked up in between,
    When I'm cleaning windows!

    Now lots of girls I've had to jilt,
    For they admire the way I'm built,
    It's a good job I don't wear a kilt,
    When I'm cleaning windows!"

– Banned by the BBC: "The Window Cleaner", second recorded version.

In May 1941, George's wife and manager Beryl Ingham informed the BBC that the song was a favourite of the royal family, particularly Queen Mary, while a statement by Formby pointed out that "I sang it before the King and Queen at the Royal Variety Performance". The BBC relented and started to broadcast the song.

BIAD can probably relate to this one (LOL) George Formby - When I'm Cleaning Windows (1936)




The George Formby Society Website and its Youtube Channel


March 6, 1962: Ethan Allen-class ballistic missile submarine USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609) was commissioned. Named after Sam Houston (1793–1863), president of the Republic of Texas (1836–1838, 1841–1844). Sponsored by Texas First Lady Idanell Brill (Nellie) Connally, wife of Governor John Connally. In March 1963, she was the first Boomer sub to enter the Mediterranean Sea, where she joined NATO forces. Her insignia, designed by John Wayne, included Sam Houston's honorary Cherokee name "Raven" and his personal motto "Try Me".


In the early 80s she was heavily modified & converted into an attack sub that included conversion of ballistic missile tubes into air locks and stowage for equipment used by SEALs. She was known as the SEAL mother ship.

Sealed reactor compartments are shipped by barge out of Puget Sound Naval Base down the coast and along the Columbia River to the port of Benton. From here the radioactively-contaminated hull sections are transferred to special multiwheeled high-load trailers for transport to the Hanford Reservation in Washington State. The compartments are expected to retain their integrity for more than 600 years. Below image is the burial ground for spent fuel of 77 nuclear reactor submarines (including Sam Houston) as of March 2003:


Disposal site for nuclear submarine reactors



March 6, 1975: Film of the 1963 JFK assassination by Abraham Zapruder was shown on Goodnight America on ABC Television, for the first time hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Viewers were shocked as the film seemed to indicate the fatal shot had not come from behind but from the grassy knoll. Before this broadcast, the footage had been largely kept under wraps—Life magazine owned the rights after buying it from Zapruder for $150,000, and it had only been seen by select investigators and officials.

The original Geraldo vid if you never seen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNrgzkjCNCE


U.S. top 40 for March 6, 1965:



The Temptations - My Girl (looks to be an original from circa '65)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_CSjcm-z1w



March 6, 1985: Tory MP Sir Ivan Lawrence gave the longest House of Commons speech of the 20th century (4 hours and 23 mins). The subject of his marathon speech was on the topic of introducing Fluoride into drinking water.  "I don't know to what extent my involvement achieved anything, but I know that there's no more water fluoridation now than there was in 1985," he added.  But his largest political contribution perhaps comes in the form of the National Lottery, which was put forward by Sir Ivan in a Private Member's Bill in 1991.





March 6, 1992: The Michelangelo computer virus activates and begins to affect computers on Michelangelo's birthday. The virus first came to widespread international attention in January 1992, when it was revealed that a few computer and software manufacturers had accidentally shipped products, for example Intel's LANSpool print server, infected with the virus. Although the infected machines numbered only in the hundreds, the resulting publicity spiraled into "expert" claims, partially led by anti-virus company founder John McAfee, of thousands or even millions of computers infected by Michelangelo.

Michelangelo Madness.

The Michelangelo Virus

The Michelangelo virus was first discovered in February 1991 by Roger Riordan; an Australian anti-virus expert. Riordan realised that this new, then unnamed, virus was a variant of the Stoned Virus; a fairly passive little piece of code that utilised the randomness of your system clock to throw up the message “Your PC is now Stoned!” approximately 1 in every 8 boots. However, with this new virus, there was no message, no warning, it just did it’s thing and disappeared into the night. Unfortunately its thing was a lot more nasty than Stoned.

During a virus meetup in the Netherlands during April 1991, a date the media often touted as its discovery date, it was discussed by the community and identified as a possible strong future threat. Its payload was designed to activate on March 6th every year, Michelangelo’s birthday, the reason why Roger Riordan would name it the Michelangelo Virus. Of course, 1991’s March 6th had been and gone, but the virus by then, hadn’t had much chance to propagate, and therefore very minimal damage was done. However March 6th 1992, what would have been Michelangelo’s 517th birthday, could be a different matter. By October of ’91, most new anti-virus software of the time was able to detect and remove the virus, but back then, software didn’t automatically update, and most people weren’t even aware they should be using Anti-Virus. However with computers becoming ever more popular, disk sharing and file copying was rife, making for the ideal circumstances to spread chaos.

Now just like Stoned, and in fact, the real Michelangelo, who apparently slept in his boots, Michelangelo is a bootsector virus. This means that it doesn’t actually execute from within the operating system, which would have been DOS at the time. Instead it executes at BIOS level on AT based IBM PC Compatibles.

When you turn your computer on, there’s a small period of time where the BIOS is actually in charge of proceedings. The BIOS is really the gateway to your computer’s hardware, but at some point, it passes control over to operating system, and it does that by going to the first sector of your hard-drive, or floppy disk if one is inserted, and running whatever it finds.

The Virus Commeth

On 28th January 1991 various news outlets reported that American computer manufacturer Leading Edge had shipped up to 500 computers between December 10th and 27th infected with the Michelangelo virus. Warning of it’s dangers, Leading Edge had stated they planned to send customers special software designed to track down and eradicate the virus. Apparently the virus had spread from the driver disk of a modem vendor. The New York Times had also contacted John McAfee, president of McAfee Associates, who stated “It’s an extremely common occurrence. It just doesn’t happen all that often to companies the size of Leading Edge”, in what certainly would not be the last words we hear from him. In a fantastic move of foresight, Osicom Technologies also announced it would bundle an antivirus package with all personal computers on the same day.

The next day United Press reporter Jack Lesar stated that “Michelangelo could erase data of hundreds of thousands of computers around the world”, whilst Winn Schwartau, director of the International Partnership Against Computer Terrorism stated “usually a virus can’t be propagated by just reading a data disk. But it appears to no longer be true”, making Michelangelo seem like some kind of magical nefarious being. McAfee also piped up again stating “The Michelangelo Virus is the third most common in terms of reports of infection. It accounts for 14 percent of infection reports – a total of about 6,000 last year, each which may be one machine or 100”.

As February rolled around, things only got worse. On the 3rd, it was reported that Da Vinci systems had distributed 900 infected disks during January and by the 11th McAfee was back again, this time stating that 5 million computer around the world were infected. Something that Reuters reporter Wilson da Silva would relay to the masses.

By the 13th, the rest of the Anti-Virus world, was getting a little jealous of McAfee’s spotlight and decided to do something about it. Microcom announced a free problem to disinfect the virus, and by the 19th Symantec had announced their free program, which they advertised to the readers of Computerworld in a full page spread. Users could download a copy via Compuserve, go to a local dealer, get one delivered or use a Bulletin Board System. The only problem with the latter was that lots of the media were now incorrectly suggesting that Michelangelo was spread through Bullet Boards. Gotta love the media. Reporting news accurately since, well, since the dawn of time.

By the end of February, the hype was insane. Various “Anti-Virus” experts had piped up, along with computer columnists such as Lawrence Magid who suggested leaving your computer on from the 5th of March to the 7th in order to evade the pesky virus. All good Lawrence, unless you have a power cut on the 6th, and your computer automatically reboots.

On the 28th Seattle Based Egghead Software had offered to ship a copy of the Norton AntiVirus Michelangelo Edition for just $4.99, unfortunately, they wouldn’t actually ship most copies until after the 6th March, rendering it, a little bit useless.

March...

As Judgement day loomed, McAfee was back, this time on the today show, repeating his claim that 5 million systems are now infected globally. He doesn’t even use the word estimate. Apparently, now, this is a cold hard fact. It sends the media into further meltdown, as broadcasters and publishers rush to get last minute stories out, warning people of the global pandemic threatening life as we know it.

On March 3rd, Poland woke up to the headline “Michelangelo, The Mass Murderer, Will Attack on Friday”. Back in the States, not only had the Associated Press reported the Michelangelo had invaded Capitol Hill, but even Intel had problems, having to cease shipment of their LANSpool networking program, after discovering 839 disks infected with Michelangelo. They had been using anti-virus software, but it failed to detect the Stoned variant.

If Intel were having problems, then that didn’t bode well for the rest of us.

4th March: Ross Greenberg, the programmer behind Microcom’s Virex-PC Package disappears for four days. He won’t return until after the 6th.

5th March: Scattered reports from around the globe indicate Michelangelo had triggered a day early in some computers, who internal clocks failed to detect the leap year this February.

McAfee and Charles Rutstein argue on the News Hour Show about reports of how many will suffer.

V-Day Arrives. *panic* *confusion* *screaming*

As dawn broke on 6th March, the first news stories started rolling in. Most of them were just talking about the virus, what was expected to happen, etc. An acknowledgement of the day more than anything, after all, how can you have a printed article about events which are currently taking place. This wasn’t the internet.

But what we did have, even then, were timezones, with places like Asia and Australia able to report back just in time for Western media.

AP: “Personal computer users reported scattered outbreaks today of the Michelangelo virus, but no widespread damage from the much-hyped software invader”

UPI: “The long awaited Michelangelo virus struck around the world Friday, though it did not appear to be the data disaster that some had predicted”

These weren’t the frenzied, chaos laden headlines we were expecting. These sounded more like sedate weather reports than the dawn of a global pandemic. But maybe things would be different in the States, in Europe, maybe the virus had taken a stronger foothold in these technological havens.

At around midday, 1,200 automated teller machines in New York shut down. Shortly afterwards 3/4s of New Jersey’s lottery machines went offline. The New York Hilton’s systems went down, and Philadelphia cable TV subscribers found their sets locked to the channel they had been watching the prior day. Maybe Michelangelo really had taken hold here. Maybe sh*t was about to get real.

It turned out that CitiBank had suffered a power outrage affecting cash machines, a computer glitch had affected the lottery systems, a power lead had been knocked out at Hilton and cable TV was, well being cable TV. Although residents were quick to blame the virus, these turned out to be unrelated incidents, with the day rolling on with not so much as a harsh word being uttered.

Based on reports to his company, McAfee himself rapidly changed his estimate from 5 million to 10,000 computers worldwide, and sure, just like Y2K, some of the damage would have indeed been limited by the hyperbole and people taking anti-virus precautions, but .2% of the original estimate is quite a drop.

Symantec claimed that a quarter of a million users around the world had obtained a copy of their disinfector program, clearly helping to deaden the impact. But the actual shouts of infection were pretty limited. AT&T reported that two of their company computers had gone down, out of their quarter of a million machines worldwide. A bowling centre in Swanton lost their bowling league information, and Rev. Stan Wilkins of the New Salem Baptist Church lost his congregation records.

Further reports the following day would indicate that damage was a little more widespread, 750 computers in South Africa, responsible for managing the country’s pharmacies succumbed to the villainy. Scotland Yard reported that two British companies suffered considerable losses and three computers at Boston University were DOA.

What didn’t happen was 5 million machines needing a full reinstall.

McAfee would chime in with “The biggest loser in this whole thing is going to be the anti-virus community”. Which given the amount of sales they made from this escapade didn’t really seem to be a problem, and really, was nonsense anyway.

and Scotland Yard Reported that two British companies suffered considerable losses, and three computers at Boston University were dead upon boot.

Although the entire Anti-Virus world received some backlash, with some even claiming that anti-virus companies were to blame for planting the destructive code in the first place, it was McAfee who took the brunt of it, with countless newspapers jumping on his 5 million computer claim; a claim that McAfee himself refuted, noting that he had estimated between 50,000 and 5 million machines, with the media running with the upper limit. Perhaps the real problem here was actually the hypocritical media for being so damn sensationalist, in a bid to sell more of their own product; newspapers.

Or maybe, like most things, it’s a bit of both. Always both.

McAfee would resign from the National Computer Association the first business day after the Michelangelo media fiasco, concentrating on selling more and more McAfee product. His company would go public in October 1992, raising $42 million in its initial public stock offering, and of course, remains with us today, even if McAfee himself doesn’t, having allegedly been found hanged whilst inside a Spanish prison cell, just hours after a court ordered his extradition to the United States on tax charges.

Funnily enough Michelangelo is also still with us, with detections still happening in the wild. It appears that a few floppy disks are still very much infected and attempting to do their thang.

The main lesson the media learnt was that they should probably speak to experts instead of anti-virus salesmen when trying to gather facts and foresights. However, given a similar scaremongering tale had happened only a few years prior with the Datacrime II virus, which also wiped out hard drives on Friday 13th, although not very many at all, it seems like lessons take a few attempts before they’re learnt.

It’s no wonder that the next Friday 13th Virus, which funnily enough was due just a week after Michelangelo, went pretty much unmentioned by the embarrassed media.

The Michelangelo Virus (Great article, has it all including newspaper clippings)

The Victoria Advocate, March 7, 1992

How the Michelangelo Virus Infected Us and the World Learned the Name "McAfee"



What 'if' the origin of the mysterious "Men in Black" meme in ufology is actually... clergy?

And if so, could they have been Episcopi Vagantes, "wandering bishops"?


The Man in Black by F.M. Lehman (1913)

The connective tissue between the wandering bishops and ufology seems to be comprised of sociopathy, con artistry, far right politics, occultism, heavy use by intelligence agencies, and a nauseating large amount of kiddy diddlers in their ranks.


Jim Keith talks about the history of Men in Black during this Art Bell interview from 1997:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iVpHVlW78Q



March 6, 1998: The comedy film The Big Lebowski, starring Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey ("The Dude") Lebowski, a Los Angeles free spirit and avid bowler was released. It was a dud at the box office, but it took on a life of its own after that. The Big Lebowski has subsequently become a cult classic and ardent fans call themselves "achievers". This movie is a pop culture phenomenon. It's influence has spawned festivals, art, philosophy, academic analysis and even religion, you can now be ordained as a Dudeist priest. The Dude is simply an icon.

The Dude writes a cheque for 69¢, dated 9/11/91. He watches Bush Sr. say "this aggression will not stand" a line he lazily repeats later in the film.



Lebowski-land - Big Lebowski Dream

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Ha, is anyone actually surprised? The Epstein files or rather the Epstein Network is a giant octopus that engulfs the entire globe. We will never know what is in those files.



Meanwhile, this National Archives web page is where new JFK documents will be posted. Whether the first disclosure will be the 2,400 recently discovered FBI documents or the 3800-plus documents already in the JFK collection is of course, not clear.


A question on the minds of most people for past 4 years...


State AG Urges Trump DOJ To Investigate Who Was Actually Running The Country Under Biden




D.O.G.E should be renamed to Federal Agency for Financial Oversight or simply...




Propaganda aside, On one hand I feel sorry for these guys. War is absolute hell. On the other, well, you know.


https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/189...3071316193


"That Escalated Quickly" - Ron Burgundy.


I think more and more that there is in fact a mysterious "hidden hand" of enormous power that slithers through western governments that acts or is the top echelon of the pyramid with uncanny ability to control many of the world leaders. Possibly, likely, whomever they are have control files on many of them.

I mean 17 or was it 22 congress critters all repeating the same message the other day and likewise with the EU leaders. This same demon group was running the Covid planscamdemic. Who or what (are they even human?) has such power & control to dictate across major world governments where all these puppet leaders act & talk lock 'n step with the same repeated message to the sheeple?? Also, gives some credence that we're stuck in a simulation that's gone off the circuit rails.


Heck of a front cover for The Economist.



Despite the futile media oligarchs constant, continuous attacks, I think Trump has more support than they are willing to admit. I guess time will tell.



https://x.com/DanScavino/status/1897845855702434115


Might have to sell some body parts to get this one...


Bushmills 46 Year Old – Secrets of the River Bush Irish single malt whiskey


Home sweet home.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

March 7, 1778: Captain John Barry (March 25, 1745 – September 13, 1803) led 27 men in row boats to capture two British supply ships and an armed schooner in the Delaware River. The Americans also took 116 prisoners. Barry sent a captured jar of pickled oysters and a large wheel of cheese to George Washington. Tasty spoils of war.


Barry was the first captain placed in command of an American warship commissioned for service under the Continental flag. After the Revolutionary War, he became the first commissioned American naval officer, at the rank of commodore, receiving his commission from President George Washington in 1797.


March 7, 1933: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, unemployed salesman, Charles Darrow, completed the invention of a board game he called Monopoly. It was based on a design for a game called, The Landlord's Game by Elizabeth Magie but it was Darrow who took the credit and the money.

The Landlord’s Game was meant to teach people about the dangers of wealth concentration.


Magie held her 1923 patent (refiled due to expiration) until 1935, when she sold it to Parker Brothers for $500. In 1933, unemployed salesman Charles Darrow made his own version called Monopoly. Magie then did two interviews showcasing copies of the original board, with The Washington Post and The Evening Star, to show that Darrow was not the inventor of the game.

He sold it to Parker Brothers and became a millionaire. Surviving copies of The Landlord's Game manufactured by Parker Brothers are considered by many the rarest of all 20th century board games. If you have one up in grandma's attic, don't throw it out!



RIP Pearl Harbor survivor Jessie Alton Mahaffey who passed away on March 1 at the age of 102 in Alexandria, Louisiana. Mahaffey was serving on board USS Oklahoma when the battleship was sunk by the Japanese on 7 December 1941. 20 Officers and 395 Men were lost with the ship and remain on eternal duty. He also survived the sinking of USS Northampton during the Battle of Tassafaronga in the Solomon Islands, Nov. 30, 1942. According to the Navy, only 14 veterans of the attack on Pearl Harbor are still alive.


Ill-Fated Oklahoma (BB-37), All or Nothing
Experts said the attempt to tow the huge ship to the mainland was recognized beforehand as a big gamble but the buyers would have made a big profit on their investment if they had succeeded. The sale was on a "where is and as is" basis. Since there were no passengers, formal certification of seaworthiness was unnecessary. The venerable warship left Pearl Harbor in tow of two big seagoing tugs on 10 May. She was due in San Francisco Bay on Memorial Day. Six days out, the captain of the tug Hercules radioed that the Oklahoma had begun to list heavily. He was ordered to head back for Pearl Harbor but a little later the battleship parted the tow lines and plunged to the bottom on 17 May 1947, 540 miles out, at that point the sea is about three miles deep. The tugs stood by until daybreak, but so cleanly had the Oklahoma died that not even a scrap of debris was seen.



The B-1B aka BONE, nicknamed the Dark Knight after the DC comic books hero Batman, landed at Bodø Main Air Station in northern Norway on March 7, 2021. This bomber is one of four from the 7th Bomb Wing out of Dyess Air Force Base in Texas that arrived at the Royal Norwegian Air Force's Ørland Main Air Station last month. This is the first time B-1Bs have ever deployed on any basis to this country, which is also a NATO member, though these bombers have flown long-distance missions to train with Norwegian forces and other American allies and partners in the region in the past.


Just aft of the forward landing gear is the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod, an electro-optical sensor pod capable of detecting and tracking both air and ground targets, providing two-way full motion real-time video via datalink, and marking targets on the ground with a laser designator. Sniper would allow Dark Knight's crew to detect targets marked by JTACs with lasers, providing precision bombing support to ground forces.



Scientidiots finally catching up with 50 years of Electric Universe research, showing the direct influence of the Sun on Earth's Geology and Weather:


The Sun's Activity Can Trigger Earthquakes, And Now We Know How


Sundowning, you better take care: Trump late yesterday afternoon cited the two astronauts stuck in space for a few more months: "Maybe they'll love each other, I don't know. But they've been left up there. Think of it. And I see the woman with the wild hair. Good solid head of hair she's got. There's no kidding. There's no games with her hair." He said Elon Musk promised to send his rocket to bring them back. Then, a few minutes later: whoops. The NY Times:

    Air traffic was disrupted across Florida when a SpaceX Starship, a prototype of the spacecraft that Elon Musk says will one day take people to Mars, disintegrated during its latest test flight.

    For the second consecutive time, the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built malfunctioned. It started spinning out of control after several engines went out and then lost contact with mission control.

"rapid unscheduled disassembly" - well, you know sh*t happens.





Cartoon depicts President John F. Kennedy beating Premier Nikita Khrushchev with a stick in an effort to protect Berlin. Cartoon drawn following President Kennedy's July, 25, 1961 speech to Congress on the crisis in Berlin in which he asked for a six-step program in preparation for a showdown with the Soviet Union over Berlin. President Kennedy stated that the United States would defend Berlin if the Soviet Union tired to drive out the Western Powers. Following Kennedy's speech, Khrushchev responded by threatening to sign a peace treaty with East Berlin and stated that western access to Berlin would be severed and if the West utilized nuclear warfare it would ensure the destruction of United States allies.


RadioFreeTom from that NATO rag mag gifts us with his latest hit piece "this-is-too-insane-to-be-real" act of the Trump reign...


The Pentagon’s DEI Panic

He does raise a good point and the Pentagon has a long track record of often going way too far (spending) or not far enough (spending cuts). On the flip-side it is often those who raise the greatest panic are the media.


Left / Right Friday night memes...




TGIF as I'm dumfungled over political theatre, but also quite Voorpret for the weekend.

I have been reading “The Boys of Summer” (1971) by Roger Kahn. Considered by many to be one of the great sports books, it focuses on the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team who among other things broke down the colour bar in professional baseball in this period through the presence of the legendary Jackie Robinson. I must admit that some of it is hard going for a non-baseball fan but I was struck by the title of the opening chapter- “Lines from the Transpontine madness“. He attributes the phrase “Transpontine madness“ to Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune who complained in the 1940s that sports reporters sent to cover the Dodgers invariably ended up becoming passionate supporters of the team.

So why transpontine? Well if the word was popularised in the 19th century to refer to the south London areas across the bridges of the Thames it has also sometimes been applied in other cities divided by a river. In this case of course, Brooklyn is separated from Manhattan by the East River spanned by the famous Brooklyn Bridge. And as with South London, Brooklyn and the other transpontine boroughs have sometimes been looked down upon from the other side of the river, a condescension summed up in the disparaging phrase “bridge and tunnel” to describe the supposedly less sophisticated travelling into central New York to work and play.

I don’t think that the word Transpontine has really caught in a New York context but it is interesting to see the similarities with London and other cities divided by rivers where the different sides are often perceived as socially and culturally distinct.

Lines on the Transpontine Madness - Brooklyn as South London?

Ramones - "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" - Rocket to Russia

[EndtheMadnessNow]

March 8, 1937: The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell was published.
The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism. Orwell states plainly that he himself is in favour of socialism, but feels it necessary to point out reasons why many people who would benefit from socialism, and should logically support it, are in practice likely to be strong opponents.


The Wigan of George Orwell – in pictures

'Your Questions Answered': Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
BBC Overseas Service broadcast with Colin Wills, 2 December 1943

WILLS: I am going to try some more of these trick questions on somebody else in another programme. And now we've got time for just one more question, asked by Sergeant Salt and Signalman McGrath serving in India. They say: "How long is the Wigan Pier and what is the Wigan Pier?" Well, if anybody ought to know, it should be George Orwell who wrote a book called The Road to Wigan Pier. And here's what he's got to say on the subject.

ORWELL: Well, I am afraid I must tell you that Wigan Pier doesn't exist. I made a journey specially to see it in 1936, and I couldn't find it. It did exist once, however, and to judge from the photographs it must have been about twenty feet long.

Wigan is in the middle of the mining areas, and though it's a very pleasant place in some ways its scenery is not its strong point. The landscape is mostly slag-heaps, looking like the mountains of the moon, and mud and soot and so forth. For some reason, though it's not worse than fifty other places, Wigan has always been picked on as a symbol of the ugliness of the industrial areas. At one time on one of the little muddy canals that run round the town, there used to be a tumble-down wooden jetty; and by way of a joke someone nicknamed this Wigan Pier. The joke caught on locally, and then the music-hall comedians get hold of it, and they are the ones who have succeeded in keeping Wigan Pier alive as a by-word, long after the place itself had been demolished.

March 8, 1958: USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was decommissioned, leaving the Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1895. The Wisconsin was recommissioned in 1988 as part of Reagan's 600 ship Navy, but fired her guns for the last time in Desert Storm 1991 before being decommissioned again on 30 September 1991. Currently a Museum ship docked at Norfolk, Virginia.

Watch & listen to "Big Wisky"





March 8, 1966: U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Angier Biddle Duke [1915-1995], (right), and Manuel Fraga [1922-2012], Spanish minister of tourism, wave from off Palomares Beach, Spain. They took a swim to demonstrate that the crash of a U.S. nuclear bomber at Palomares had not contaminated the sea. LOL. Remind you of a more recent American leader doing a similar PR stunt concerning "contaminated" water?


Diplomatic Dip

1966 Palomares Broken Arrow incident

US to clean up Spanish radioactive site 49 years after plane crash - A B-52 carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed in Palomares in 1966 but now the contaminated earth will be shipped to America, Nevada.


March 8, 1971: This happened...


'Somebody had to do it'

The stolen documents were published in March 1972 issue of WIN Magazine, a journal associated with the War Resisters League. The files were posted on Internet Archive, but for some reason have disappeared.

Noam Chomsky has stated:

According to its analysis of the documents in this FBI office, 1 percent were devoted to organized crime, mostly gambling; 30 percent were "manuals, routine forms, and similar procedural matter"; 40 percent were devoted to political surveillance and the like, including two cases involving right-wing groups, ten concerning immigrants, and over 200 on left or liberal groups. Another 14 percent of the documents concerned draft resistance and "leaving the military without government permission." The remainder [about 15 percent] concerned bank robberies, murder, rape, and interstate theft.

It never really ended. The name was changed countless times over through the ensuing decades to protect the FBI and continue receiving funding from congress.



So, how is that Trump promise to release the JFK/RFK/MLK files going?
The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.


Director Larry Cohen wanted to film at various authentic locations but was repeatedly turned down for permission. However, when First Lady Betty Ford - a former dancer - found out that Dan Dailey was in Washington to make a film, she invited him and Broderick Crawford to the White House for lunch, as she had always liked Dailey's films and work. Larry Cohen then started calling locations such as the FBI's training facility in Quantico, Virginia, and said that he wanted to film there but couldn't do so the next day because the cast was having lunch at the White House. Every location, likely supposing that the film had official backing, soon made themselves available.


March 8, 1978: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 for the first time.

So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear?

You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that
Grow around you

So long, so long and thanks
For all the fish

The world's about to be destroyed
There's no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the planet dissolve.


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC)

The research team has named the period the Adams Transitional Geomagnetic Event, or Adams Event, after sci-fi writer Douglas Adams, who famously declared the number 42 the ultimate answer to life, the Universe, and everything.

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
— Douglas Adams



March 8, 1983: in real life and fictionally (in TV series THE AMERICANS), President Ronald Reagan delivered his "Evil Empire" speech at the 41st Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, FL.


Must to have been true or became true because Reagan used the word "evil" 9 times in his speech.

Transcript (PDF)

The heavily marked up annotated Draft (PDF)

March 8, 1983: "Evil Empire" Speech (VIDEO)


Atomic Flash news update!
Hats off to Robert Friedrichs. It took decades, but he finally got to the bottom of the Cold War MIA case of Miss Atomic Bomb. Historians finally know the true identity of the woman behind the iconic "Miss Atomic Bomb" photo.

We finally know the true identity of the woman behind the iconic “Miss Atomic Bomb” photo.

After 25 years of investigation, the Atomic Museum said in a news release that founding museum member Robert Friedrichs discovered that the woman in the cotton mushroom cloud swimsuit is Anna Lee Mahoney.

The woman in Las Vegas News Bureau photographer Don English’s photo has long been identified as Lee Merlin, but birth records and communication with a relative revealed that Lee Merlin was Mahoney’s stage name, according to the museum.

“‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ captured the imagination of a generation and became a global symbol of the Atomic Age,” Friedrichs said in the news release. “To now put a name and story to her face is a tribute to the enduring cultural legacy of that extraordinary time in history.”

Creating the Atomic Age photo

Mahoney was working as a performer at the Sands Hotel Copa showroom in Las Vegas in 1957 when she was featured in English’s photo.

Inspired by the mushroom cloud that, at the time, was becoming a visual symbol of the atomic bomb and nuclear power, English’s team created the cotton mushroom cloud and attached it to a swimsuit to create a photo that “helped cement Las Vegas a cultural epicenter of the Atomic Age,” the museum said.

The photo was taken on May 24, 1957 — the same day as Operation Plumbbomb at the Nevada Test Site, now known as the Nevada National Security Site.

“We have 7.5 million images in the LVCVA Archive, and the ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ photo is one of the most requested images that we have,” said archivist Kelli Luchs of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Who was Anna Lee Mahoney?

Mahoney was born Aug. 14, 1927, in the Bronx, New York. She trained in ballet and modern dance in Los Angeles and danced in several shows and musicals under the name Lee Merlin.

After years of performing in Las Vegas, she moved to Hawaii in 1962 and worked as a mental health counselor.

She relocated in the late 1990s to Santa Cruz, California, to work for the Cabrillo College Foundation, raising funds for student scholarships.

Mahoney died in 2001 after a battle with cancer, according to the museum.

Exhibit opening to honor discovery

The museum said Friedrichs’ discovery and two-decade search will be honored with a temporary exhibit this summer showcasing how Mahoney’s identity was uncovered, and the image’s evolution through the years.

“Las Vegas played a vibrant and unique role in the Atomic Age, and ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ has always been a symbol of that era’s colorful history,” Joseph Kent, deputy director and curator of the Atomic Museum, said in a news release. “Thanks to Robert Friedrichs’ tireless dedication, we now have the opportunity to connect her story to the history we preserve at the Atomic Museum.”

Who was ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’?

True Identity of Las Vegas’ ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ Uncovered

"Choice Survivor." Ironically, it was the "alternate" shot of Miss Atomic Bomb that appeared in various newspapers in 1957. Not the now famous photograph with outstretched arms.  Wonder if she (Las Vegas Review-Journal) ever watched CRIME STORY on NBC in the 1980s.




The Killers - Miss Atomic Bomb



DOGE killed the UFO weather balloon program...