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March 11, 1916: the Navy's "super-dreadnought" USS Nevada (BB-36) was commissioned. The Nevada would survive Pearl Harbor and go on to provide support at Normandy, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. After the war, the Nevada was painted bright ORANGE and used as a target ship for Operation Crossroads Able Nuclear weapons tests in July 1946 at Bikini Atoll.


It survived the nuke, but was heavily contaminated with radioactivity and was deemed unfit for service. The Navy ordered her to be sunk as a target by Naval gunfire 65 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor on July 31, 1948 by the battleship Iowa and two other ships. Much to everyone's surprise they could not sink Nevada, so she was given a coup de grâce with an aerial torpedo hitting amidships. Down she went.

R.I.P. her final moments:




March 11, 1935: Naval Security Group (NAVSECGRU) formed. Tasked with intelligence gathering and counterintelligence; active 1935 to 2005. The group was then transferred to the Naval Network Warfare Command (NETWARCOM) under the TENTH Fleet Cyber Command with parent being United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). US Tenth Fleet has operational control over Navy information, computer, cryptologic, and space forces.



The 32-character string "9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A", located in the inner circle of the Cyber Command patch is the MD5 hash of their bureaucratic-sounding mission statement:

"USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries."


25 years ago today was the last time a US Navy submarine sank (sort of) a freighter with a torpedo. March 11, 1999, Los Angeles-class submarine USS Bremerton (SSN-698) blew the M/V New Carissa in half off the Coast of Oregon, near Coos Bay by firing a Mark-48 Advanced Capability (ADCAP) heavyweight torpedo from 8,000 yards. They are designed to sink deep-diving nuclear-powered submarines and high-performance surface ships.


Dubbed "The Ship That Would Not Die" by the media, New Carissa had plagued the coast for over a month, leaking fuel oil after running aground in a storm. Prior attempts included an EOD team using 400lbs of high explosives & 69 point-detonating 5-inch, 54-caliber projectiles from USS David R. Ray (DD-971).

The bow was successfully towed out to sea and sunk. However, the stern section became a tourist attraction as it remained on the beach for nine years until it was finally dismantled and removed in 2008.

I remember going to the beach to see this odd sight. It was on the local tv news every evening and turned into a hilarious clown show. Everytime the local news needed a filler you got the latest snapshots from reporters camped out on the beach.

Mk-48 and Mk-48 ADCAP torpedoes can be guided from a submarine by a thin trailing wire attached to the torpedo. They can also use their own active or passive sensors to execute programmed target search, acquisition, and attack procedures. Upon acquiring its target, the wire is cut and the torpedo's internal computers take over, guiding the underwater weapon home with lethal precision.

The "one-shot, one-kill" torpedo is designed to detonate under the keel of a surface ship. The massive pressure bubble that results from the gigantic explosion doesn't just slice through the bulk of the target boat - it also literally lifts the ship out of the water and snaps the keel, essentially breaking its back.
When attacking a submarine, it detonates in close proximity to the pressure hull of the enemy boat, corrupting it immediately with a massive shockwave.

In the event of a miss, it can circle back for another attempt. It was also designed to operate under the ice cap. The Mk-48 torpedo measures 19 feet in length and 21 inches in diameter, and weighs nearly 2 tons. These ADCAP fish run about $5 million each.


The warhead is located directly behind the nose, with a 650-pound barrel of high-explosive material optimized to inflict the maximum possible damage on the target. Following the warhead is the fuel tank, filled with 95 gallons of the liquid monopropellant, Otto Fuel II.

The highly toxic fuel was invented by Dr. Otto Reitlinger (1891-1971).

U.S. NAVY TORPEDO PROPELLANT RESEARCH & OTTO FUEL II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgi4ta5HZjk


On March 8, the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hampton (SSN 767) surfaced through the ice at Ice Camp Whale on the Arctic Ocean, kicking off ICE CAMP 2024. The three-week operation will allow the Navy to assess its operational readiness in the Arctic...so we are told.





Biden's unveils $7.3 TRILLION budget with massive tax hikes

Bukowski died of leukemia on March 9, 1994, in San Pedro, aged 73, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. The funeral rites, orchestrated by his widow, were conducted by Buddhist monks. He is interred at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes. An account of the proceedings can be found in Gerald Locklin's book Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet. His gravestone reads: "Don't Try", a phrase which Bukowski uses in one of his poems, advising aspiring writers and poets about inspiration and creativity. Bukowski explained the phrase in a 1963 letter to John William Corrington: "Somebody at one of these places [...] asked me: 'What do you do? How do you write, create?' You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or, if you like its looks, you make a pet out of it."

Charles Bukowski's influence on popular culture:

Charles Bukowski has been depicted on television as well, namely on the Showtime comedy-drama series Californication. The show's main character Hank Moody, played by actor David Duchovny, is an author based in Los Angeles who subscribes to the same kind of lifestyle that Bukowski became known for. The show depicts profuse indulgence of alcoholism, sex and narcotics, which many critics have described as a television adaption of Bukowski's third novel Women.[15] In the ninth episode of the first season, Moody's girlfriend can be seen reading Sifting Through the Madness For The World, The Line, The Way: New Poems, a collection of Bukowski's posthumously-published work.

Don't Try - The Philosophy of Charles Bukowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMTDAHK-tkE

The Genius of the Crowd by Charles Bukowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSGfTuDWMaY


How can someone who kept writing in the face of failure not try? It doesn’t make sense. Well, here is the first stanza of his poem, So You Want To Be A Writer:

if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don’t do it.
if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it.
if you’re trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.




The Frogs who ask for a King – a request that has unfortunate consequences when they are granted a frog-eating heron – is disturbing in a different way. The frogs were tired of their democracy and asked Jupiter for a king. He threw them a log but the frogs were disappointed by its inaction. They asked for another king and Jupiter sent them a crane, which began to eat them. They asked for another king but Jupiter said they should have stuck with what they had got.

This amplifies how populations are often never satisfied with what they receive, even if the people demand it. More modernly, this story represents how societies want structure and guidance—a government, president, or king—but are unhappy when leaders do not act in their favor or how they imagined.

Moreau’s illustrations of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95) were made between 1879 and 1884 for the collector Antony Roux (1833-1913). There were originally 64, but nearly half disappeared during World War II.
Speaks alot to the Rothschild dynasty's interest in such an illustration and how they view the sheeple.


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What a time to be alive!!



LOL, it's real...

The Roswell Police Department has a new official patch, a symbol of the department worn on the shoulders of officers’ uniforms and the image of which is used on various RPD printed and online materials.

The new patch contains elements connecting it not only to the police department, but also the City of Roswell, the State of New Mexico and the Roswell community’s long association with UFO lore. The patch includes the city logo, a Zia symbol, a pair of small alien faces, and the phrasing, “Protect and Serve Those That Land Here.” The patch also features the year the police department was established (1891), recognizing its 133-year history.

Roswell New Police Badge - And they're hiring too!