Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

On February 2, 1887, Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent weather prognosticator named Punxsutawney Phil, was celebrated for the first time at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.



Rather funny how America has an immortal demon rodent that determines the future of its harvests based on the power of clairvoyance and this is all overseen by a cabal of old guys in top hats. Can't think of anywhere else that has a Groundhog Deep State than spooky Pennsylvania.

A paranoid political conspiracy thriller a la The Parallax View (1974) where a popular public figure is assassinated while addressing a large crowd of admirers 6 minutes into Act I but the target is Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, just moments before the annual weather prophecy.


Feb 1-2, 1959: Nine Russian college students went on a ski hike in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union and die under mysterious circumstances that later became known as The Dyatlov Pass incident. Aside from X-Files, this tragic incident may have inspired events in the fourth season of "True Detective".





February 2, 1972: Stanley Kubrick’s "A Clockwork Orange" rated X opened in U.S. theaters.

In 1973, a new version of "A Clockwork Orange" was released to theaters with an MPAA rating of "R".


Feb 2, 1980: Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen. "Abscam" was the FBI codename for the operation, which law enforcement authorities said was a contraction of "Arab scam". The American-Arab Relations Committee made complaints. Hence, officials revised the source of the contraction to "Abdul scam" after the name of its fictitious company.


Of the 31 targeted officials, the following members of Congress were convicted of bribery and conspiracy in 1981:

    US Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-NJ)
    US Representative Frank Thompson (D-NJ)
    US Representative John Jenrette (D-SC)
    US Representative Raymond Lederer (D-PA)
    US Representative Michael "Ozzie" Myers (D-PA)
    US Representative John M. Murphy (D-NY)
    US Representative Richard Kelly (R-FL)

Five other government officials were convicted, including:

    Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, Angelo Errichetti (D)
    Philadelphia, PA City Council President George X. Schwartz (D)
    Philadelphia, PA City Councilman Harry Jannotti (D)
    Philadelphia, PA City Councilman Louis Johanson (D)
    An inspector for the US Immigration and Naturalization Service

In 1980, folk singer Tom Paxton wrote and recorded the song "I Thought You Were an Arab" (pronounced Ay'-rab) on his album The Paxton Report. Apparently, Youtube removed the song as I can't find it.

Saturday Night Live parodied the scandal in a skit titled "The Bel-Airabs" (a spoof of The Beverly Hillbillies), February 9, 1980. Found a copy on Bitchute.



The enemy thanks you for giving forewarning...


Shadow War With Iran Risks Turning Into a Direct Conflict


I'm old enough to remember when we didn't leak these details to the world every day. Let's hope the few Bones left in inventory are ready to roll if/when we need them for the Pacific Rim later this spring.

Maybe it’s like a double triple super bluff.



Daily Wire

Reminder to self: "Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex."
― Frank Zappa


ADVISE = Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement. For the next "community-forming" charismatic cult leader who needs a boost.




DHS ADVISE Report

Lee Tien, a "staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that programs like ADVISE "are about connecting" the dots of the "traces" we leave behind everywhere, "analyzing and aggregating them - in a way that we haven't thought about, ... as we live our lives and make little choices, like buying groceries, buying on Amazon, Googling," Clayton said.

"A major part of ADVISE involves data-mining - or 'dataveillance,' as some call it. It means sifting through data to look for patterns. If a supermarket finds that customers who buy cider also tend to buy fresh-baked bread, it might group the two together. To prevent fraud, credit-card issuers use data-mining to look for patterns of suspicious activity.

ADVISE is "a system that is under 'spiral' development (meaning that it is being deployed simultaneously with development) and will provide a common platform that supports scalable knowledge management across multiple missions."

SourceWatch

After the DHS Privacy Office and Inspector General criticized the privacy practices of the program DHS announced that it had scrapped the $42 million system in favor of [private corporations] commercial software.