Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Do not worry, the state department is creating fascinating new enemies for you to direct your rage at! Incredible narratives will soon emerge! Exotic new digital currencies released!




It has begun...


Silicon Valley Bank was closed today by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (Protecting your interests!) LMAO!




This is why I'm a RogueCaster and not a...



Damn, horrible ending. Hmmm, Redmond. That is Bill Gates territory.
Daily Mail as usual has the scoop.


A 1982 forgotten "comedy thriller" about "the theft of two suitcase nukes", political double-speak, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, hilarious and frightening look at the possibilities in today’s (the hot 80s)  political arenas. It's like a goofy satire mashup of Network (1976) and Dr. Strangelove.

Starring Sean Connery, Katherine Ross, Robert Conrad, John Saxon, George Grizzard, Leslie Nielsen, Dean Stockwell. IMDB



This movie's original American movie poster showed Sean Connery in the foreground with an atomic bomb exploding into a mushroom cloud in the background.

This movie has been said to have possibly anticipated future world events. James Plath at "DVD Town" said of this movie that, "it's impossible to watch it more than twenty years later without seeing a ton of eerie similarities to the Bush White House", while Paul McElligott at "Celluloid Heroes" wrote: "The idea of the U.S. going to war in the Middle East over dubious claims of terrorists possessing weapons of mass destruction, specifically atomic bombs, is central to the plot. The discovery of the aforementioned bombs dangling from an antenna on top of the World Trade Center is probably far more chilling now than the filmmakers could ever have intended."

Writer, producer, and director Richard Brooks described this movie during the time it was released as "a movie about the craziness of today. It enables you to laugh at the insanity that is about to explode the world." LOL, hold my beer, welcome to the 2020s.

Sir Sean Connery, Robert Conrad, and John Saxon all passed away in 2020.



IF you're in the right mood you can find the movie on various streaming platforms such as Tubi TV.

The UK video release versions entitled "The Man with the Deadly Lens" were cut first by 2 seconds, then re-released cut by 7 seconds to reduce footage of a bomb being made from a light bulb. However, the DVD released in 2004 entitled "Wrong is Right" is uncut.

The international release tried to sell this as imitation Bond.




Transport for London, 2002:


Hmmm, this came out before the 2005 terrorist attack. I guess the sky eyes failed?


The White House Military Office Navy aide was on "Football" duty for President Biden’s return from Philadelphia (March 9). The ~45-lb. satchel accompanies Biden 24/7, enabling him to authorize the use of any of our ~1,770 deployed nuclear weapons—up to 900 on alert at any time. The nuke bag aides are rotated daily between all military branches. (I'm not sure if Space Force is included)




Carrying on the tradition of Captain Edward Latimer Beach Jr. "Run Silent, Run Deep" (April 20, 1918 – December 1, 2002):

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Not to be a Debbie Downer in a time of humour, but Mayor Khan's use of his city's money on posters
may have to be re-looked at. He may have cameras all over the place, but the crimes go unresolved.

'London Underground: Man 'sexually assaulted young boy, 10, at Leicester Square Tube station'
The victim's mum chased him through the station but was unable to catch him...'

Source1:

'London Underground: Police hunt man after sex attacks on 2 women on Tube station escalators
Police would like to speak to a man in connection with two separate incidents...'

Source2:

'Man 'exposed himself on train' from Clapham Junction and 'masturbated in front of woman'
British Transport Police officers have released this image and have appealed for information...'

Source3:

'London crime: Police hunt man on bike who 'masturbated' in front of 4 women in South West London
Four women saw the man in the 'linked' series of indecent exposure offences...'

Source4:


(Left to right with Source1, 2, etc)

[Ninurta]

Not to be a Debbie Downer in a time of humour, but Mayor Khan's use of his city's money on posters
may have to be re-looked at. He may have cameras all over the place, but the crimes go unresolved.

I don't think it's really the criminals that they are watching, or concerned about...

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The infamous "3.11" Day.

WHO declares COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the CV-19 PlanScamDemic aka Corona shamdemic (& many other names) was declared 3 years ago on this day, March 11 or 3.11 or 11.3.


Tonight's beverage...



Got a light?



Quiet Riot released their third studio album ‘Metal Health’ (Bang Your Head) 40 years ago, March 11, 1983. Back in my high school days I'd stand up on the desks in study hall and sing this song. Sometimes I'd act out the video scenes. Teachers absolutely hated me for it and got extra detention. Good times!



Still working out the math on this one...




Elon Musk open to the idea of buying Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) after March 10, 2023 collapse. LOL!


Tonight's movie...

March 11, 2008 - Reporter Angela Vidal, her cameraman, and a fire crew were kept in Quarantine by the CDC inside an apartment block.



"Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability.
One quarter of them turn reasonable and become your enemies."
DayBreak (1993)




Mar 11, 1962 - Neo's date of birth according to his criminal record. His passport has it as Sept 13th 1971.




March 11, 2011, the massive Tōhoku earthquake (magnitude 9-9.1) caused a 15-meter tsunami that official figures released in 2021 reportedly killed 19,747 people, injured 6,242, and left 2,556 missing. It also swamped and ultimately led to the meltdown and destruction of three of the six Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant reactors.




THE ATOMIC CAFE docu had its world premiere at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City on March 11, 1982. It is a compilation of clips from newsreels, military training films, and other footage produced in the United States early in the Cold War on the subject of nuclear warfare. Without any narration, the footage is edited and presented in a manner to demonstrate how misinformation and propaganda was used by the U.S. government and popular culture to ease fears about nuclear weapons among the American public. In 2016 it was selected by the Library of Congress for induction into the prestigious Nat'l Film Registry.





After 75 years of R&D the von Neumann ENIAC program is near complete to replace all humans. 11.3 or 3.11 was confirmed on Mar 11, 2020 + "1776" days = SkyNet takes control on Jan 20, 2025.

Good night.

P.S.: Google "Aliens 2025"

Sweet dreams.

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Banks... the best one I knew was called Gordon.

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"Stanford Torus" space habitat housing 10k to 140k residents proposed by NASA in 1975 by Rick Guidice.



That very picture was in the World Book Encyclopedia in the early 80's underneath "Future" and by God, every kid thought we'd have one of those by now. But, instead we got the movie Elysium.

Artist Depiction by Rick Guidice




The cylindrical space station dates back to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1903. Herman Potocnik expanded on the idea in 1929, and in summer 1975 NASA proposed the torus shape colony at Stanford. Gerald O'Neill presented an alternative, the O'Neill cylinder, a year later in 1976. Other people/influences and the idea may go even further back than the 1900s.



Electricity from Space: The 1970s DOE/NASA Solar Power Satellite Studies, NASA began expressing interest in a SPS (solar power satellite) fleet. In this concept art, automated OTVs (orbital transfer vehicles) deliver rolls of solar cell "blankets" to the SPS worksite.


Looks like the ESA is talking about doing it again:
"To prepare Europe for future decision making on Space-Based Solar Power, ESA has proposed a preparatory programme for Europe, initially named SOLARIS, for the upcoming ESA Council at Ministerial Level in November 2022."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ScTbb-43A4


Construction of a Dyson sphere via ion thrusters moving asteroids into place by Rick Sternbach; from future life, February 1979:




Cover art by Bob Larkin, 1978

The Starless World


Bob Larkin for the cover art of "Death's Angel" by Kathleen Sky, 1981.




Bruce Pennington cover art for "The Weapon Makers" by A.E. van Vogt, 1970 reprint (London). Canadian sci-fi writer, named the 14th Grand Master in 1995 by the "Science Fiction Writers of America", who influenced Philip K. Dick. A novel written in 1943 to enlarge the story of human immortality, the conflict between a controlling government, The House of Isher, the mysterious Weapon Shops and man's place in the universe:




"STOP militarization of SPACE!" (Soviet propaganda poster, 1984)



Cetacean Intelligence Ops


Alan Gutierrez cover art for "Home From The Shore" (1988) by Gordon R. Dickson.


I bet this op was a trip to attend...


Dolphins & Teleportation Symposium 2011

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On March 12, 1933, eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first national radio address from the White House. In this first ‘fireside chat,’ the President discussed the banking crisis.




On March 12, 1894, Joseph A. Biedenharn, owner of a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi, became the first person to serve Coca-Cola in glass bottles.




Art by George Underwood from the book Futuropolis (1978):


Search for that image and the only 2 links Google offers is the Vatican Museum. Weird.








March 12, 1989, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project that would lead to the creation of the World Wide Web.





'The Andromeda Strain' premiered in theaters 52 years ago, March 12, 1971.




On March 12, 2002, the George W. Bush Administration unveiled a color-coded warning system to help Americans identify the risk of a terrorist attack. The color-coded terror alert system was discarded in 2011. Threat levels Green (Low Risk) and Blue (Guarded Risk) were never used.




I'm chowing down a bucket of Buffalo Wings tonight and for the British see this esplainer:

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On March 13, 1997, thousands observed the ‘Phoenix Lights’ between 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm MST, in a space of about 300 miles (480 km), from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson.


Phoenix Lights (newspaper clippings PDF)



The 4203 Operational Data Processing Squadron, Strategic Air Command (SAC)  also known as the Joint Coordination Center, circa 1991 at the Raven Rock Bunker tunnel entrance.


39.729642, -77.432468


Happy Birthday to Al Jaffee who turns 102 today. That's his very own 1964 fold-in from MAD issue #87.






Radiohead released their second studio album ‘The Bends’ 28 years ago, March 13, 1995.





‘Vanishing Point’ premiered in theaters 52 years ago, March 13, 1971.



The UK version is 7 minutes longer and has the deleted scene with (hitch-hiker) Charlotte Rampling...

Hitchhiker: I like you, Kowalski... I like you...

Hitchhiker: I've been waiting for you for a long time... Oh, how I've waited...

Kowalski: Yeah? Since when? Where?

Hitchhiker: Oh, everywhere... Everywhere, and since forever... Patiently... Patiently... that's the only way to wait for somebody...




On March 13, 1993, a massive blizzard, dubbed "Storm of the Century," impacted the eastern United States, killing over 200 and causing $6 billion in damage.




Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ was released to theaters in the United States 96 years ago, March 13, 1927. Sept 26 for the UK.







All euer Gold gehört uns...

...All your gold is ours.

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High-ranking executives of the world's largest banks cooperating to resolve the problems at the stressed woke regional banks...




Realty check...



Welcome to a very strange thread. LOL


Broken Arrow...B-52 with 2 H-bombs down!

March 14, 1961: the crew compartment in a B-52F on airborne alert overheated, reaching temps of 125F to 160F (51C-71C). After ~14 hours, the exhausted crew depressurized and descended to 12,000 ft. This increased fuel consumption and depleted it before a third aerial refueling, causing the bomber to crash.



The B-52, which was based at Mather AFB near Sacramento, came down just after 10:00am ~15 miles SW of Yuba City, California. The two 3.8-Mt B39 bombs it carried were torn away and broke apart on impact, but the conventional high explosives surrounding the cores did not detonate. The impact crushed the nose of one bomb, caused the primary and secondary to be thrown from the casing (destroying the former and severely damaging the latter), and scattered high explosives widely. Tritium reservoirs from both bombs were also torn loose but recovered intact.



All eight crew members survived, two with injuries. A fireman rushing to the crash scene was killed when his fire truck overturned.

Here is an excerpt from a contemporaneous US Air Force film dramatizing and explaining the causes of this Broken Arrow: a combination of equipment failure, crew fatigue and exhaustion, poor decision making, and human error:



And here is a FOIA'd running log from the Department of Defense Joint Nuclear Accident Coordinating Center (yes, this kind of significant event happened frequently enough to necessitate establishing one) carefully documenting the events of that day.

Here's a great write-up of this lesser-known Broken Arrow accident:

Broken Arrow: B-52 Down With Two H-Bombs in California’s Central Valley


March 14, 1969: President Nixon ended the Sentinel anti-ballistic missile program announced in 1968 by the Johnson administration and intended to protect the entire country from “light” Chinese nuclear attacks and established Safeguard, which would initially just protect ICBMs.



MSR = Missile Site Radar
PAR = Perimeter Acquisition Radar

Safeguard was a two-layer defense system. The long-range Spartan missile (with a 5Mt nuke) would attempt interception outside the Earth's atmosphere. The missile's long range allowed protection of a large geographic area. If the Spartan failed to intercept the incoming ICBM, the high performance and high speed but short ranged Sprint missile (1Kt nuke) would attempt an interception within the atmosphere. The theory was to damage the incoming warhead with radiation rather than heat or blast.

Which was another huge waste of $$$.

"The cost estimates for the Sentinel escalated at a frightening pace. So too are the estimates on the Safeguard." CIA doc from Senate Congressional Record (June 19, 1969)

At some point, coincidence theory becomes so absurd they really should include it in the DSM-6 as a psychotic diagnosis.


For those that don't know "Europa The Last Battle" is a user made 5 or 7 hour vid by a devout Q follower.


William Shatner's son is obsessed with the Bomb in BROKEN ANGEL. The post-TJ Hooker made-for-TV movie aired on ABC March 14, 1988. 









LOL!





Definite No. One big EMP or solar flare and all our brains fry. The chances are slim but not impossible.

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The danger in a world obsessed with succeeding is that we sacrifice the thing we want (happiness) for the thing which is supposed to get it (success).

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once = "do what you like" No limits, no rules, no accountability, few to zero consequences (until Karma comes knockin), "Do what thou wilt"; "Right is Might" which advocates (by various elites & their minions), amorality, consequentialism and psychological hedonism. Which will probably evolve into "The War of All against All" - Rudolf Steiner, 1904.



The CBS network’s first attempt at a morning news program, ‘The Morning Show’ hosted by Walter Cronkite, premiered 69 years ago, March 15, 1954.




The first dot-com domain name was registered on March 15, 1985.


A Symbolics 3640 Lisp machine: an early (1984) platform for expert systems.

It was Symbolics. How symbolic.


Gabe Kaplan of "Welcome Back, Kotter" (TV Series 1975–1979). His Jack Ruby story at approximately the 01:08:00 mark.




Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ opened in theaters 51 years ago, March 15, 1972.





William Shatner as a Dallas P.I. who attempts to take over a blackmail ring in HAWAII FIVE-O, "You Don't Have to Kill to Get Rich - But It Helps," CBS, S5:E3, 9/26/72.





Where was Jeff Epstein in 1971-72? He was teaching kids at a private elite New York Prep school (The Dalton School) in NYC, hired by Bill Barr's dad who was the headmaster. You know who else attended that school in same time period? None other than current Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. It's all one big mafia family affair.


I'm going to the grocery store in 2020..Do you need anything?



Darth Sagan - Michael Sullivan cover art for Future Life #22, November 1980.


One of the greatest TV series ever made.

Mr. X : Carl Sagan on why he liked smoking marijuana

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The economy is great!
Inflation is transitory.
We don’t need to hike.
Inflation isn’t transitory.
We must reduce inflation.
It’s not 2008.
We must hike rates.
The banks are healthy.
The banks aren’t healthy
It’s not 2008.
It’s not a liquidity problem.
We stand by to supply liquidity to banks.


When you normalize schizophrenia, you must do it everywhere.





So, the bank bailing out the bank...



Swiss Bail Out




Reuters




Crack that whip! Just get'r done!


Reuters What BIS says goes, no exceptions!

Ship happens...




It’s a giant CBDC trap, Jack.


(John F. Kennedy sails with his brother-in-law, Peter Lawford, aboard the United States Coast Guard yacht "Manitou" off the coast of Johns Island, Maine. 12 August 1962)



And here it comes...


Financial Times


Everyone waiting for the end of the world while watching the global financial system collapse.

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Modern art was CIA 'weapon'

They even joke about it:




Synchronistic money magic...
Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour opens today in Glendale Arizona, which the mayor actually renamed the city to “Swift City” and SWIFT is also a banking identification system.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) banking system is changing starting MONDAY and in Taylor SWIFT's music video "Look What You Made Me Do", they show you the destruction of paper money; in 2023 the Year of the Cat (which they occasionally use as an alternative to the rabbit). Notice that gold appears untouched.



The SWIFT site: “Financial institutions are therefore encouraged to continue preparation for the 20 March start date and consider all potential scenarios in their planning to ensure readiness for the start of ISO 20022 coexistence for CBPR+ from that date.”





70 years ago this morning, March 17, the United States conducted Operation Doorstep—a civil defense exercise involving the construction and destruction of “Doom Town” at the Nevada Proving Ground—in conjunction with shot Annie, a 16-kiloton nuclear device detonated atop a 300-foot tower.





To allay public fears about nuclear war, 20 reporters were invited to witness the explosion from News Nob, about 6.8 miles away. This test was broadcast live on television shortly after 5:00am local time (although the signal was temporarily disrupted at the moment of detonation).



Some 1,700 troops were also on hand to observe the test. Here is the official Federal Civil Defense Administration 10 min film about Operation Doorstep, which emphasizes how, with a proper home shelter, people are likely to survive even a nearby atomic bombing.

March 17, 1953: Never forget the brave Vegas J.C. Penney mannequins who sacrificed themselves for Operation Doorstep.





Upshot–Knothole Annie was a nuclear weapons test conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole. It took place at the Nevada Test Site on 17 March 1953, and was nationally televised. The live TV coverage was recorded on a kinescope (aka telerecording in Britain), so it is a rare record of the sound an actual atomic bomb makes, sorta given the recording tech.

Operation Doorstep was a civil defense study conducted by the Federal Civil Defense Administration in conjunction with Annie.

Operation Upshot-Knothole Shot Annie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpm6cVbwcQI

What happened to the atomic test dummies?

St. Patrick’s Day always rocks in Las Vegas, but not like it did 70 years ago when a 16-kiloton atom bomb detonated atop a tower at the Nevada Proving Grounds, 65 miles north of the city.

The March 17, 1953 above-ground nuclear test destroyed or damaged various test objects placed at differing distances from ground zero, including houses, cars and mannequins meant to simulate real people who might get caught in a nuclear blast. The explosion sent a shock wave through southern Nevada and left behind an atom-age mystery: What happened to the life-like mannequins used in the test?

Doom Town

The code-name for the test was “Annie,” and it was the first experiment to gauge the effects of an atomic detonation on a mock American city. Among other things, scientists wanted to learn how people exposed to the blast might fare in their homes, cars or basement bomb shelters. This aspect of the test was known as “Operation Doorstep,” and it required the construction of a simulated small town.

“The construction people who were out there called it ‘Doom Town,’” remembered retired test site technician Al O’Donnell.

Before he passed away in 2015, O’Donnell spoke to the author about Doom Town and the people who put it together.

“They weren’t building it to be occupied,” O’Donnell said. “They were building it to be destroyed.”

Private industry furnished the materials to assemble Doom Town. Ford, Chrysler and General Motors donated cars to be blasted. The L.A. Darling Company of Michigan provided the mannequins to pose as people, and JCPenney of Las Vegas supplied clothing to dress the mannequins, although not all of the dummies were initially clothed, according to O’Donnell.

O’Donnell said some test site workers, during a free moment when the bosses weren’t looking,  placed “mom” and “dad” mannequins in compromising positions in the bedroom of a test house. The joke was that if nuclear armageddon was expected, this is what Mr. and Mrs. America would be doing the night before.

However, O’Donnell said a high-ranking test official, inspecting the site shortly before the blast, discovered the undressed dummies in their connubial positions.

“He went ballistic,” O’Donnell said. “He ordered us to put the dummies back where they were originally, with Dad sitting by the window reading his paper, while Mom worked in the kitchen.”

With the dummies dressed and in their original places, the atomic detonation went off as planned.
....
But where are the test dummies that faced a nuclear blast on St. Patricks’ Day, and later posed for shoppers at JCPenney? Did any of these mannequins survive? Are any resting silently, long forgotten, as macabre souvenirs in someone’s basement?

Without records regarding their fate, no one can be certain. We only know the mannequins left the test site for a brief stint as window dressing at JCPenney’s, where they stood in mute testament to the destructive power of the bomb.

What happened to them after that remains an enduring mystery of the atomic age.

Las Vegas Review-Journal


55 years later, in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” Indiana Jones found himself in “Doom Town” (or the more elaborate “Survival Town” built for the 1955 Apple 2 test) and, unbelievably, escaped the fate of all those mannequins:



They don't build refrigerators like that anymore. LOL.

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An Old Sufi Proverb For Caturday...

A traveler asked a teacher, "What is the secret of life?"

The master replied, "The secret of life is to make wise decisions."

The traveler then asked, "How can I make wise decisions?"

To which the master replied, "You will make wise decisions based on your experience."

"How do I gain experience?" the traveler asked.

"Poor decisions."



Fun coupon...


LOL, I never ate that shit.


Crazy times...




This week's energy...






Huh. Will you look at that?

Weird, right?






Computer-grown humans by Shusei Nagaoka, 1969:


The original Matrix architect? What the hell did that guy know?

The Japanese characters say at top left:
"Futuristic society of fear
Humans cannot have children of their own!!
Microcomputer made human"

Top right:
"The Maki are gestated in a glass tube for 21 months. It's to help you grow. So when she comes out of the gala, she is 1 year old."

("Maki" is common feminine Japanese given name which can also be used as a surname.)

Bottom left (computer operator):
"Humans in a row
Childcare computer"

Found it here: "We don't need humans anymore!! Computers will wipe out humanity"

According to UN pop statistics (& lord Elon) the Japanese human population is in rapid decline.


Mar 18th 2263: In a New York City lab, Leeloo Dallas Multipass was resurrected from the remains found in the Fifth Element's sarcophagus. She escapes confinement, jumping off a ledge and into the back of a taxi driven by Korben Dallas.

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20 yrs ago tonight, 9:34pm EDT, Operation Iraqi Freedom began when the US, UK, and other “Coalition of the Willing” partners launched a "Shock and Awe" aerial bombing campaign and invasion of Iraq to find and destroy nonexistent WMDs. The total cumulative cost exceeded $2 trillion. Recall that $2.3 trillion went mysteriously missing on Sept 10, 2001, according to testimony by Donald Rumsfeld.



320 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired by US warships deployed in the region.




Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023 (PDF report by Oxford professor Neta C. Crawford)



Larry Blake, born March 19, 1915, (d. 1971) the auteur behind the 1961 Civil Defense scare album, "The Complacent Americans" that you gotta hear it to believe it.



"The H-Bomb! The H-Bomb! The H-Bomb! Flash of brightness. A tremendous roar... And I, the complacent American, thinking that no one would ever dare attack an American city. And I told my friends that nuclear war would never happen... but it did. I always thought I was a good American - patriotic and civic minded. But I was wrong. I failed myself and my country." The album ends with these comforting, yet difficult to believe, words:

"Follow all these rules and you WILL survive!"

The Office of Civil Defense, a sub-branch of the U.S. government was later replaced by FEMA.


Future Life #27, June 1981:

Solid black areas represent primary targets; open circles represent secondary targets. Yep, my ass would of been blown off this map.


Photo by Michael Sullivan for the article "Survivalists" ("they're Americans preparing for the worst—nuclear holocaust, economic collapse, race riots. They're taking to the hills, but are their fears warranted?") by Suzanne Weyn from Future Life #27, June 1981.




Painting by Hans Ulrich and Ute Osterwalder for the cover of "Flow my Tears the Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick, 1975.




Observer I by Piotr Baćko:



My cat when I'm 1 second late with dinner.




Patrick McGoohan [March 19, 1928 - January 13, 2009].




Donald Trump said Friday (March 17) that Mar-a-Lago has "bomb shelters" and from a 2007 Esquire article, "we did tests..."


Trump (Jan 2007)


Monkey news...


Monkey Times

[Ninurta]

Just a meme for the Shoutbox folks:




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On March 21, 2003, U.S. and British forces launched a massive aerial assault on Saddam Hussein’s palaces and ministries in what the United States called its ‘shock and awe’ strategy. At the same time, ground troops invaded southern Iraq, beginning their advance towards Baghdad.





Today in 2020, Prof. Jeffrey Lewis at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Calif, also a member of State Dept Int’l Security Advisory Board in his 2018 speculative novel—North Korea fired 62 nuclear-armed ballistic missiles at South Korea, Japan, and Guam after misinterpreting a tweet from Donald Trump sent shortly before a limited South Korean conventional missile strike on North Korea.




From the book:

“The skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21, 2020, were clear and blue.” So begins this sobering report on the findings of the Commission on the Nuclear Attacks against the United States, established by law by Congress and President Donald J. Trump to investigate the horrific events of the next three days. An independent, bipartisan panel led by nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis, the commission was charged with finding and reporting the relevant facts, investigating how the nuclear war began, and determining whether our government was adequately prepared for combating a nuclear adversary and safeguarding U.S. citizens. Did President Trump and his advisers understand North Korean views about nuclear weapons? Did they appreciate the dangers of provoking the country’s ruler with social media posts and military exercises? Did the tragic milestones of that fateful month—North Korea's accidental shoot-down of Air Busan flight 411, the retaliatory strike by South Korea, and the tweet that triggered vastly more carnage—inevitably lead to war? Or did America’s leaders have the opportunity to avert the greatest calamity in the history of our nation?

Although fewer than half of the nuclear warheads reached their targets, 1.4 million people were killed in South Korea and Japan and more than 5 million were severely injured. Following a robust but conventional US counterattack, North Korea launched 13 ICBMs at the United States.

Three missiles each were targeted on the large US Navy bases in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and San Diego, California, the White House in Washington, DC, and Trump Tower in New York City, with a single missile fired at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Six of the 13 failed to reach their targets.

Pearl Harbor was destroyed, as were Honolulu and New York City. Two warheads fired at Washington missed and landed in Northern Virginia. The two aimed at San Diego exploded far enough off the coast that no one died. The one aimed at Mar-a-Lago destroyed Jupiter, Florida, instead.

This (fictional) nuclear attack on the United States killed 1.4 million people. Another 2.8 million people were seriously wounded. Nearly half of the ~9 million people who were severely injured in South Korea, Japan, and the United States “slowly succumbed” within days to weeks.

The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States

March 21, 2009: Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan, entered into force, creating the world’s fifth nuclear weapon-free zone and the only one bordering two nuclear weapon states.


The Origins and Development of the CANWFZ Concept

SAC’s original motto in March 1946 at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was reportedly "War is our profession — Peace is our product." It was changed in 1957 by its third commander, General Thomas S. Power. However, that proved offensive to some, and the slogan was changed to "Maintaining Peace is our Profession." The Air Force changed the motto once more in 1958 (after an artist found there were too many words to paint on a sign that advertised a reenlistment campaign), choosing the pithier "Peace is our Profession."


SAC was disestablished on May 31, 1992, and replaced by the US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM).

Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet on this day in 2006.





Newsweek


More sirens...

UK launches “Emergency Alert System”

Yesterday the UK government announced a trial for its nationwide mobile phone emergency alerts system. On April 23rd, every cell phone in the country will receive a test message accompanied by a loud siren sound. Your phone will not be usable until you have acknowledged the notification.



For some reason, they have included not only the ability to turn off the setting, but also instructions on how to do so:

"People can opt out by searching their device settings for emergency alerts and then turning off severe and extreme ones. Officials say the alerts could be life-saving, though, advising against switching them off."

Which makes me think the test isn’t so much of the system, but of the response to the system...like in the movie "White Noise".

Next Saturday there is a planned demonstration in London on March 25th on behalf of those injured/killed by vaccines.




The dark lords over at TIME warn us that "moving on would be a terrible mistake" and Bill Gates is preparing the ground for “the next pandemic”

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
-Leonard Cohen

If you come for Jerome Powell you better not miss...


Medford home owned by son of Mass. Sen. Elizabeth Warren destroyed by raging blaze

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U.S. military conducts "Operation Longhorn" the largest domestic exercise ever to involve a civilian community in Lampasas, Texas. (silent video clip + lots of photos)

News clip published in 1952. Basically Jade Helm on steroids. The massive war game officially began at midnight, March 23, 1952 and ran through April 11th.




BBC goes underground in Edinburgh's secret bunker, the former Regional Seat of Government at Barnton Quarry. Not sure if it is actually Scotland's biggest, but I've heard it goes very deep...

Hidden history of Scotland's biggest nuclear bunker

Scotland's biggest Cold War bunker is buried deep beneath an Edinburgh hill - and its existence has remained unknown to most people for decades.

Barnton Quarry Nuclear Bunker was built in 1944 and expanded in 1951, but by 1955 it was defunct.

The secluded entrance to the building, which lies 100ft below Corstorphine Hill, can only be accessed down a rough private track.

Spread over three storeys, it was once Scotland's first line of defence against the threat of nuclear war.

It was equipped with a BBC broadcasting studio and would have housed Queen Elizabeth if the city had been attacked while she was in residence.

At its heart, surrounded by a maze of corridors and rooms, is the main operations floor, where information would have been gathered in the 1950s to locate any aircraft in Scottish air space.



But a former Home Office bunker official, who wanted to remain anonymous, told BBC Scotland that the radar operations centre only lasted 18 months.

"They spent all those millions on it, but technology in fighter jets then became more advanced than the radar systems in the bunker - so that was the end of that," he said.

The bunker, which is located on the same hill as Edinburgh Zoo, was declassified in 1955.

In 1960 it was taken over by the government and became a protected control centre in event of a nuclear attack.

But five years later this was moved to a bunker in the Kirknewton area of the city, before moving around several other locations.

The military closed the site and in 1983 transferred ownership to Lothian Regional Council for use as an emergency control centre.

However, the council later said the bunker was too big and was never really used.

MacGregor Properties bought it but failed to get planning permission to build retirement flats on the site.

Then in 1996, local businessman James Mitchell bought the bunker for £60,000.

He said: "They couldn't do anything with it because they weren't given planning permission for flats so I asked if I could buy it.

"They said they were in a board meeting and would call me back.

"I was in my car, and by the time I was driving over the Forth Road Bridge I had bought it."



However, when he was able to look inside he discovered "a terrible mess".

"Vandals had got in through the air vents and stolen a lot," he said.

"So I left it for a few years until I worked out what to do with it."

In the following years there were a number of fires, including one in 1998 which raged for two days and burnt out the whole of the bunker.

The former Home Office official said this had been carried out by an anarchist group called Edinburgh Bomby Group.

Its members had been convinced the government would use the bunker again in the event of a nuclear war.

"So they wrote their intentions on the doors of the bunker. They said they would chop down the telegraph poles, which they did, and number 10 on the list was to set fire to it.

"They used angle grinders and sledgehammers and set a motorcycle against the telephone exchange inside and set it on fire."

He estimated it would cost £20m to bring the bunker back to life.

The bunker's owner, Mr Mitchell, said he had spent £1m clearing more than 40 tonnes of debris, with help from volunteers.

Peter Gordon, the director of the Barnton Bunker Preservation Society, said very few people had been inside the bunker.

"When we first came down here there were dead rats everywhere and it smelled damp," he said.

"The fire had been an inferno that even caused the concrete to crack and pop, and you can still very much see evidence of this now."

Mr Mitchell, who also owns Scotland's Secret Bunker in Fife, said he wanted to bring the Category A Listed building back to life as a museum.

He has now secured charity status for the bunker and would like to offer "hard hat tours" to give people the chance to see it before it becomes a museum.

The Home Office advisor added: "I remember it in the days when your face reflected in the polished floors, but now it's a semi derelict building.

"It is unique and very interesting and exciting to visit.

"Although the bunker ceased to be secret in 1955, nobody talked about it."

The article is interesting for the detail from an "anonymous Home Office advisor" about the vandalism in the 1990s being organized by an anarchist gang called Edinburgh Bomby Group. I wonder if there's any evidence for this, or if this is the start of a 'bunker mythology'.?


March 23, 1962, President John F. Kennedy visited Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, CA, where he saw full-size models of US nuclear bombs and warheads and received a stockpile briefing from the Atomic Energy Commission and Los Alamos and Livermore laboratory scientists.



Later in the day, Kennedy flew south to Vandenberg AFB near Lompoc, CA. Together with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, DARPA Director Harold Brown, and Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command (CINCSAC) Gen. Thomas Power, he toured the base, saw missile and reentry vehicle models, and touched an Atlas ICBM RV.



Also, on that day Kennedy observed a test launch of an Atlas D ICBM, a presidential first.



Source: JFK Library photos


40 years ago tonight, President Ronald Reagan called upon "the scientific community in our country" to develop a defensive shield to render strategic nuclear ballistic missiles "impotent and obsolete." More than $380,000,000,000 later (FY23 dollars), his dream remains just that.

In addition, since fiscal 1962, the US has spent ~$425 billion on multiple ineffective missile defense schemes, including Safeguard, which was operational for less than four months during 1975-76 and utilized nuclear-tipped interceptors to protect Minuteman ICBMs in North Dakota.

In his 1983 Oval Office speech, Reagan notably acknowledged that if ballistic missile defenses are “paired with offensive systems, they can be viewed as fostering an aggressive policy, and no one wants that.” Yet that’s exactly what the United States has been doing since 2004.


TIME-Reagan for the Defense


Here's how Project High Frontier—the advocacy group headed by Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham (US Army, ret.), former deputy director of the CIA and former director of the DIA—chose to sell Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative to the public in 1985:



The story of how this childish advertisement was made is amusing. Here’s the kicker: the father of the seven-year-old girl who provided the voiceover thought, correctly, that SDI would actually be costly, unworkable, and "counterproductive"...

Using Kelty's doodles as a guide, an Austin, Tex., firm called UMA Mirage produced the animation and mixed in the music and sound effects. A Boston company, Soundtrack, found a 7-year-old child actor named Kria Sakakeeny to read the script. "It was a little bit challenging," says Kria, who was paid $250 for her work. "I don't know, it tells you that you're growing up or something."

As for Kria's daddy, when asked, just like in the commercial, what this "Star Wars" stuff is all about, he gives a startling reply.

"I think it's counterproductive, personally," says Khalil Sakakeeny, a Boston documentary filmmaker. "It might be a good bargaining tool, which the president could use as leverage -- but mechanically, financially and politically, it seems to me like a white elephant."

The 'Star Wars' Soft Sell (November 4, 1985)

ABC network promo for "Doomsday Is Tomorrow," THE BIONIC WOMAN, January 1977.




Whole squad ready for war.




Hollywood dying.

Well, that was quick - Marvel fires it's High Priestess of Woke.

Big Banks failing.

Big Tech stumbling.

Something tells me winter might be coming for the Woke Industrial Complex, seeing as how their three primary sugar daddies are running a bit short of FU money. Wokeness or running water and a working internet.

Which will it be, Western man?

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The weekend is here!









Finally rent will be affordable in the Bay Area.





Little is known about the whereabouts of Adam Osborne today.


The 1982 Alice Computer manual. Art by Mœbius.



The 1985 portable hard drive. 20mb is all you'll ever need!



"You know why it's called a hard drive? You try pushing it!" (1979)



I don't always defrag my computer, but when I do...

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March 27, 1954 at Bikini Atoll, the United States conducted Castle ROMEO, its third-largest thermonuclear test (11 Megatons, a proof test of the Mk-17 bomb) and the first set off on a barge because testing was rapidly vaporizing the atoll’s coral islands.



Within a month, the United States had manufactured and deployed five EC-17 (Emergency Capability) prototype thermonuclear bombs based on the Runt 1 device (below). These remained in the stockpile until October 1954, when they were withdrawn and replaced by the 13.5-Megaton Mk-17.



The EC-17 was a free-fall bomb. It had  inherently dangerous arming and fuzing systems and no drogue parachute to slow its descent. Given the bomb’s yield, the lack of a parachute would have ensured the destruction of the delivery aircraft, a B-36 bomber (Peacemaker) had it ever been used.


The Last B-36






What ever happened with that nuclear base where they found the MDMA lab?


Belgium busts illegal drug lab on airbase housing US nukes




At least we have this screen shot:




Someone needs to empty the Guardian Jakes house.




For posterity's sake...


Archived

More ecstasy, less nukes. Nukes and Rave clubs, what could go wrong. Maybe the Belgians were trying to resurrect a Gatecrasher night club. lol. Secret rave at the nuclear arsenal batcave, hit me up for details.



David Mattingly cover art for The World Next Door by Brad Ferguson, 1990 novel.

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"The Movement and the 'Madman,'" a film on the most effective mass protest action during the Vietnam War, perhaps any war. It stopped Nixon’s secret plan to initiate nuclear attacks on North Vietnam.




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The Movement and the “Madman” PBS Full length.



March 28, 1979: THREE MILE ISLAND. The lamp happened later.








Herblock, 55 years ago.



35 years ago...

The Herb Block Foundation


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