Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Gonna be a long "unprecedented" night...



"Matter concluded" but Do NOT goto bed (Times of Israel)

Biden and Netanyahu are holding a Phone Call to discuss response options to tonight’s "Unprecedented Iranian Attack" against Israel.

Biden: Da, da, Don't.

Netanyahu: I'm ordering strike package Shock 'n Awe. Click.



Who knows how Israel will respond, but I'm sure we'll know soon. I smell a regime change coming.





The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast or The MOAB was first deployed in combat in the 13 April 2017 airstrike against an Islamic State – Khorasan Province tunnel complex in Achin District, Afghanistan. Ka-effin bOOm shock 'n awe! It would take a barage of high-speed anti-radiation missiles (HARM) and a dozen GBU-43's to knock out Iran's nuclear facilities. Who knows what surprise weapons Israel may have in their secret arsenal. Would you believe they'll probably do a surprise attack that nobody will see coming, as they have done before.

- Nuclear program
- Oil production/refinery ports
- War industry/factories
- Leadership


Happy birthday Secret Agent 86, born Donald James Yarmy. As a Marine in Battle of Guadalcanal he miracoulosly managed to survive blackwater fever after spending over a year at a Navy hospital in Wellington, New Zealand. After his recovery, he served as a Marine Drill Instructor.




April 13, 1953: Headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the MK-ULTRA project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Dulles, "a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program."


Project MK-ULTRA (PDF)

The origins of MKULTRA, however, can be traced to April 5, 1950, when DCI Roscoe Hillenkoetter signed off on Project Bluebird, which evolved into Artichoke and eventually MKULTRA. The DCI would go on to be a big hit among UFO buffs & NICAP fans.

UFOs Shape Legacies of CIA Officers

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently declined to further declassify a heavily redacted 1949 FBI letter to the Director sent from the New York Field Office. NARA explained in a Dec. 2 email it identified biological warfare as the subject of the records composed as part of a domestic security investigation.

The letter is part of a large, partially released FBI file identified as number 100-HQ-93216 and maintained by NARA. The file consists of some 8,500 mostly not yet released pages pertaining to mid-20th century investigations of potential bacteriological warfare threats. It first came to the attention of this writer in 2019 when the Bureau advised that the file contained material responsive to a FOIA request submitted on Col. Joseph Bryan III, a deceased former CIA officer and member of the Board of Governors of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP).

After publishing a blogpost about the records subsequently obtained, an attentive reader pointed out an interesting item they found while browsing the hefty FBI file on bacteriological warfare: A May 31, 1949, FBI memo in which Asst. Director Ladd updated Director Hoover on an advisory committee operating under the Secretary of Defense. The committee consisted of representatives from universities and intelligence agencies, including the CIA, which met at a doctor's apartment on Park Avenue in New York City.

Clearly indicative of the 1949 Project Bluebird, which was a forerunner to Artichoke (1951) and MKULTRA (1953), Ladd informed Hoover that a CIA chief scientist, Dr. Willard Machle, told the advisory committee the Agency was seeking its support “for a program of vigorous exploration” using drugs and hypnosis for “methods of isolation of the subconscious mind.” Of particular historic interest was Machle's apparent claim the 1949 Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense was the first group outside the CIA notified about the ongoing research. Ladd further informed Hoover the Committee reportedly expressed “considerable interest.”

This writer subsequently requested NARA do a Mandatory Declassification Review on the intriguing document, resulting in some further clarification of committee attendees and activity. From the further declassified May 31, 1949, memo:

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In 1951, Ella Fitzgerald recorded a jazzy number written by Arthur Pitt and Elaine Wise called Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer, a satirical catalogue of humanity's off-beat habits, as seen by the little green men of the title: "During their mission / Heard a politician / Making speeches as they travelled by / But they departed / Faster than they started / Because the hot air blew them sky high." (The song has since been simplified into a nursery-school counting song.) But no medium was more besotted by flying saucers than cinema.


April 13, 1966: in the UK, the first invitational theatrical screening of the BBC-banned docudrama THE WAR GAME, depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. The film was shot in the Kent towns of Tonbridge, Gravesend, Chatham and Dover.




Quote lines from the film:

Scientist: Technically and intellectually, we are living in an atomic age. Emotionally, we are still living in the Stone Age. The Aztecs on their feast days would sacrifice 20,000 men to their gods in the belief that this would keep the universe on its proper course. We feel superior to them.

Documentist: Um, excuse me. Er... What are you doing here exactly?

Civil Defense Worker: We're issuing to as many householders as possible a copy of this booklet, which tells them how to prepare their houses against blast and fallout.

Documentist: Have people not seen this booklet before?

Civil Defense Worker: Well, a copy was prepared some years ago but... it didn't sell very well.

Documentist: It wasn't... It wasn't free?

Civil Defense Worker: Oh, no, no. It cost ninepence.

The film finally saw television broadcast in the UK on BBC2 on 31 July 1985, as part of a special season of programming entitled After the Bomb, which had been Watkins's original working title for The War Game.


April 13, 1968: 007 James Bond, agent of the British Secret Service, was born.




April 13, 1970: "Uh, Houston, we've had a problem." Jim Lovell reported that Apollo 13 was experiencing a loss of operating voltage after a "pretty large bang." Overcoming their precarious situation, the crew safely splashed down on April 17 and were recovered by USS Iwo Jima.


A real-time journey through the third lunar landing attempt (very cool site)

The 1995 film Apollo 13 used the slight misquotation "Houston, we have a problem", which had become the popularly expected phrase, in its dramatization of the mission.


44 years later and it's time to play that song again...



Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has led the Islamic regime since 1989. He turns 85 on April 19th. Tick-tock.