Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Woke up this morning to world war, again.



Gaza is the most heavily surveilled region on earth. A high tech concentration camp laboratory surrounded by AI machine gun turrets & facial recognition cameras. Breaking out of it, infiltrating bases, and taking IOF officers hostage is a stunning blow against high tech-first warfare. If you asked me which country would be the least likely to have this level of intelligence breakdown/failure, I might have said Israel. Who knows. The post-mortem on figuring out what happened will be ugly, with a lot of finger-pointing & blame shifting.


Oct 7, 1973:





^^^ Brandenburg Gate, Berlin - Oct 7, 2023. Seems quite a statement from the German government.



I have no idea, but I wouldn't doubt it and probably American taxpayer funded too...


https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1...7751671844





Noteworthy that Putin says the West is creating a "new iron curtain" around itself. All the sanctions, "decoupling" and "de-risking" is essentially this, coupled with the extreme level of propaganda (an iron curtain of the mind).

VLADIMIR PUTIN:

"There is no doubt that Russia’s civilisational code is based on Christianity, and so is Europe’s. We certainly have this in common.

But we are not going to impose ourselves on Europe if Europe does not want us. We are not rejecting them, nor are we slamming [this window] shut. You asked if we regret this. Why would we?

It is not us who are slamming the door on communication; it is Europe fencing itself off and creating a new Iron Curtain. We are not the ones creating it, but the Europeans are creating it at the cost of their own losses and to their own detriment."

Excerpt from the discussion between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian foreign policy senior analyst Gabor Stier at the plenary session of the 20th meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled "Fair Multipolarity: How to Ensure Security and Development for Everyone," Sochi, October 5, 2023.


Oct 7, 1964: "Fail Safe" opened in New York City.



"Don’t you see, sir, this our chance. We never would have made the first move deliberately, but Group 6 has made it for us, by accident. We must take advantage of it—history demands it!"
— Prof. Groeteschele (Walter Matthau)

Professor Groeteschele is a coldly calculating civilian adviser who urges the president, the secretary of defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to use a technical glitch to force the Soviet Union to surrender, thereby eliminating the communist threat.

Original trailer for the film:



On April 9, 2000, CBS broadcast a live black-and-white remake of "Fail Safe" starring George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, Brian Dennehy, Harvey Keitel, Hank Azaria, Noah Wyle, Don Cheadle, and others. Although impressive, it did not improve on the original.




Trailer for the remake:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-6xcIUwPto

If director Stanley Kubrick had gotten his way, “Fail Safe,” which opened in theaters a little more than eight months after his similarly-themed film "Dr. Strangelove" did, would never have been made, let alone released.


The book Kubrick originally tried to adapt was the 1958 novel "Red Alert" by Peter George (writing under the pseudonym Peter Bryant and originally titled "Two Minutes to Doom"). "Fail Safe" is an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. Kubrick and George actually sued Burdick and Wheeler, their publisher, and the company that acquired the rights to the book, in an effort to stop "Fail Safe" from being made. The suit was settled out of court, and although Kubrick couldn't stop "Fail Safe" from being made, the agreement called for Columbia Pictures, which was making and distributing "Dr. Strangelove" to acquire "Fail Safe," which was an independent production. Kubrick then demanded Columbia release "Dr. Strangelove" first, which helped bury "Fail Safe."


Source: LIFE, March 8, 1963







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