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Sept 16, 1920: The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon filled with scrap metal explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.


The bombing was never solved, although investigators and historians believe it was carried out by Galleanists, a group led by Italian insurrectionary anarchist Luigi Galleani, responsible for a series of bombings the previous year.


Sept 16, 1953: the first nationwide test of the emergency broadcast system known as CONELRAD.

Dateline: "ABOARD PLANE "ATTACKING" NEW YORK, SEPT. 16 (U.P.)" Sept 16. 1953, the first nationwide test of the emergency broadcast system known as CONELRAD. Henry Logeman of United Press was aboard a mock "enemy" plane attacking NYC.



And of course it was called a "success."




Sept 15/16, 1979: Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon. The feat was dramatized in the 1982 John Hurt Disney film "Night Crossing."



East Germany balloon escape


Lee Majors overpromises the purpose of a Saturday morning show: "...plus learn how people handle prejudice and other problems on THE NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN." At the 21:30 mark:




North Korea state media images of Kim Jong Un visit to Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation plant, Russia. North Korea's Air forces is in desperate need of modern weaponry. The MiG-29 is their 'youngest' combat type entered service over 30yrs ago and other types like the MiG-15 and Il-28 are obsolete, delivered 1950s and long withdrawn elsewhere.




MacArthur wanted to take out North Korea completely. He also wanted to take out Communist China, in one fell swoop. But of course, as we all know, he was fired. Analysts often debate whether MacArthur was right - perhaps we should have dealt with *both* North Korea + China together at once while we had the chance. Sure, it would have been bloody and catastrophic, but look at what we have now with modern China + North Korea. Nuclear Weapons Superpowers fighting head to head = matter of time before Conventional War flips instantly over into Strategic Nuclear War. Not saying that will happen, but it's a high risk.

What Do Weapons Sales to Russia Mean for North Korea’s Economy?

North Korea’s ties with Russia are in their steepest upswing since the Cold War. On Wednesday, September 13, Kim Jong Un held a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two are believed to have discussed expanding North Korean weapons exports to Russia. It is no coincidence that Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Kim Jong Un visited a weaponry exhibit together when Shoigu was in Pyongyang in late July of this year.

38 North

Kim Jong Un took a bulletproof train to visit Vladimir Putin in Russia this week. Jenny Town at the Stimson Center explains how the two leaders have little to lose and much to gain from each other.
From North Korea with Love (Spotify podcast)


Sept 16, 1985: veteran stunt pilot and aerial cameraman Art Scholl died during the filming of TOP GUN when his Pitts S-2 camera plane failed to recover from a spin and plunged into the Pacific Ocean. The credits of TOP GUN state that the film is dedicated to the memory of Scholl.

High-containment labs have layers upon layers of protection for scientists, the environment and the public. Machinery inside the labs keeps tainted air from being recirculated and thermal waste decontamination systems ensure that there’s no pathogens lurking in scientists’ trash. And though it may sound more like one of the Plum Island myths, it’s true that wild animals found on the island - such as the deer that sometimes swim there - are killed on-site by a sharpshooter employee that some call Grandma Deadeye.


“It sounds to me like what they are trying to do is take a gamble on getting a lot of money or maybe foot-and-mouth disease getting loose,” Democrat John Dingell of Michigan said in a 2008 congressional hearing titled “Germs, Viruses and Secrets.”

The Homeland Security Act of 2002, enacted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, transferred control of Plum Island to DHS, while the USDA maintained its research and diagnostic programs. Two years later, a presidential directive issued by President George W. Bush tasked the heads of the USDA and DHS with developing a plan for “state-of-the-art agriculture biocontainment laboratories that research and develop diagnostic capabilities for foreign animal and zoonotic diseases,” according to the directive. To comply with that, it was announced that a new facility, to be called the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, or NBAF, would be erected.

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The group reached a very different conclusion: They put the probability of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak originating from the lab at 70% over the next half century. “Ultimately, policymakers will need to decide whether the risks of constructing the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas are acceptable,” it said.

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“In the end, DHS assures us that modern technology will make it perfectly safe to handle foot-and-mouth disease in a high-tech biolab in the heart of livestock country,” Dingell said during the 2008 hearing. “I wonder if history will confirm their judgment.”

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