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Happy National Pig Day!


Dating back to the early 60s, a prank played by aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean was to surprise their relieving carrier by releasing greased pigs on the flight deck. This 1986 video is of a helicopter from USS America (CV-66) dropping off pigs on USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67). Three pigs painted with Red, White and Blue food coloring and lathered in grease. LOL!



The holiday celebration in the USA was started in 1972 by sisters Ellen Stanley, a teacher at All Saints Episcopal School in Lubbock, Texas, and Mary Lynne Rave of Beaufort, North Carolina. According to Mary Rave the purpose of the National Pig Day is "to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place as one of man's most intellectual and domesticated animals."
The Virgin Islands Daily News - Feb 23, 1980


Happy Birthday to EC Comics publisher, William Maxwell "Bill" Gaines (March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992) was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics.


William Gaines became one of the most important figures in comic book and humor history by accident. Gaines' father, M.C. (Max) Gaines, was the publisher of Educational Comics (EC). When the elder Gaines died in 1947 as a result of a freak boating accident, the younger Gaines found himself publisher. At the time, EC put out a wide variety of titles. Gaines noticed that the most popular sellers were the horror and SF titles. He canceled all the educational comics, changed the E in EC to Entertaining, and focused his efforts on developing the remaining lines. By the early 1950s, EC was a top performer, featuring such titles as "Vault of Horror", "Tales from the Crypt", "Crime Does Not Pay", and "Weird Science".

By 1955, however, a backlash against these types of comics developed, spearheaded by Dr. Fredric Wertham who, in his book "Seduction of the Innocent", argued that comic book violence led to juvenile delinquency. This was followed by a Senate investigation, and the founding of the Comic Code Authority, which made publication of the old style EC comics all but impossible.

In 1954, Gaines testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. In the following exchanges, he is addressed first by Chief Counsel Herbert Beaser, and then by Senator Estes Kefauver:

Beaser: "Is the sole test of what you would put into your magazine whether it sells? Is there any limit you can think of that you would not put in a magazine because you thought a child should not see or read about it?"

Gaines: "No, I wouldn't say that there is any limit for the reason you outlined. My only limits are the bounds of good taste, what I consider good taste."

Beaser: "Then you think a child cannot in any way, in any way, shape, or manner, be hurt by anything that a child reads or sees?"

Gaines: "I don't believe so."

Beaser: "There would be no limit actually to what you put in the magazines?"

Gaines: "Only within the bounds of good taste."

Beaser: "Your own good taste and saleability?"

Gaines: "Yes."

Kefauver: "Here is your May 22 issue [Crime SuspenStories No. 22, cover date May]. This seems to be a man with a bloody axe holding a woman's head up which has been severed from her body. Do you think that is in good taste?"

Gaines: "Yes sir, I do, for the cover of a horror comic. A cover in bad taste, for example, might be defined as holding the head a little higher so that the neck could be seen dripping blood from it, and moving the body over a little further so that the neck of the body could be seen to be bloody."

Kefauver: "You have blood coming out of her mouth."

Gaines: "A little."

Kefauver: "Here is blood on the axe. I think most adults are shocked by that."

Luckily for Gaines, EC had one other comic that was untouched by the CCA; a little humor comic called "MAD". Gaines changed the format of MAD from full-color comic to B&W magazine in order to be completely free from the supression of the CCA. Along with editor Al Feldstein and "the usual gang of idiots", publisher Gaines made MAD a touchstone of satire and humor for young people throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s. Gaines was still publishing MAD Magazine when he died in his sleep on June 3rd, 1992.


March 1, 1950: Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs found guilty of violating Official Secrets Act, sentenced to 14 years in a UK prison. He served 9.

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and, later, early models of the hydrogen bomb. After serving nine years in prison he then migrated to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader. He was later appointed deputy director of the Central Institute for Nuclear Physics in Dresden, where he served until he retired in 1979.

As of 2014, British official files on Fuchs were still being withheld. As of 2020, the National Archives listed one dossier on Fuchs, KV 2/1263, including the "Prosecution file. With summary of early interrogations ... and details of the scientifical/technical information passed to the Russians". The date of release of this material was not stated.[43] According to an October 2020 book review, author Nancy Thorndike Greenspan "appears to have had access to some of the Fuchs files that have been withheld at Kew, such as the AB/1 series, which has been closed for access for most human beings".

In 2022 Fuchs was the primary focus of the second season of the BBC World Service's podcast The Bomb.

He is portrayed by American actor Christopher Denham in the 2023 film Oppenheimer.

March 1, 1953: the notorious Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke after an all-night dinner with Lavrentiy Beria & Co. Hilarity does not ensue. He never regained consciousness and dies March 5th.




March 1, 1954: Rand Corp completes project FEED BACK extensive study on feasibility of satellite reconnaissance.


Project Feedback Vol I  |  Project Feedback Vol II


March 1, 1954: Four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party opened fire on the House Floor in a violent act of protest demanding immediate independence for the island. Wounding 5 congressmen; all survived.





25 years later their life sentences were commuted by President Jimmy Carter and all four were returned to a hero's welcome in Puerto Rico and later same year were all awarded the Order of Playa Girón in Cuba.

Officer John Allen Murphy started his shift with a corned beef sandwich & coke. Minutes later he responded to a shooting at the Capitol.

"I was in the Republican cloakroom…All of a sudden I hear pop, pop, pop…and the phones suddenly started, ring, ring, ring, ring. Everything was lighting up." Joe Hillings recalls the cacophony as the shooting began.

1954 Shooting in the House Chamber (House Gov history with audio, transcripts, pics & vids)


March 1, 1991: American scientist and inventor, Edwin H. Land died. Key player in development of spy tech, including Genetrix balloon borne cameras, optics for the Lockheed U-2 spy plane & reconnaissance satellites (CORONA), the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, advisor to President Eisenhower on photographic reconnaissance matters, AND the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation in 1937. His Polaroid instant camera went on sale in late 1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in 60 seconds or less.


He was a fellow member of the Royal Society, The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, and honorary member of The Royal Institution of Great Britain. Land resigned from his role as Presidential Advisor during Nixon's Watergate scandal in 1973. He was one of the names in Nixon's "political opponents" (following the original top 20 enemies). He was often referred to as "Dr. Land" despite never acquiring a PhD nor any college degree.

Land's family, his wife, Helen, and two daughters, Jennifer and Valerie declined to disclose the cause of his death. Land himself disliked being written about, wanting to leave behind a legacy of published scientific work, rather than a cult of personality, and so, on his death, Land's family had a laboratory associate shred his personal papers and notes, a task that would take three years to complete.




More cold war spies, Hang'em high...


Career US diplomat abruptly admits to spying for communist Cuba for decades

Cuba again. Goes all the way back to Nixon and JFK. In more recent times we've been infiltrated by Chicoms, Russians, Ukrainians, Pakistanis, Iranians, Saudis, etc., hell probably North Korean operatives too recruiting Americans in high level positions, especially those with diplomatic immunity.

While the so-called 'honey trap' is a Hollywood cliché, it is also an enduring piece of tradecraft in the real-life world of spy versus spy. Employed by virtually every intelligence service in times of war and peace, the work of femme fatales and Romeo spies have shaped policy and history through seduction, betrayal and scandal. Perhaps the most well known though least understood element of espionage, the use of honey traps can be found throughout history in religious texts, lurid headlines and pop culture mythology.



Given all the spies and honey traps the past 80 years, how in the hell does the deep state MIC keep the UFO secrets, secret??? Weird.