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April 29, 1952: the Arthur Godfrey civil defense special, IT CAN HAPPEN HERE aired on CBS.


The Arthur Godfrey voice recording for the "Doomsday tape" made some time in late 50s has never been found. Godfrey was a member of "The Eisenhower Ten" (E-10) aka Continuity of government (COG) aka part of the "Deep State." Frederick Gary Dutton (June 16, 1923 – June 27, 2005) was Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy, who discovered the existence of the Eisenhower Ten letters.

Exactly one month earlier in 1952, Arthur Godfrey was the mystery guest on the game show What's My Line? (16 min mark)


WARNING! IT CAN HAPPEN HERE! April 1952 ad for THE WHIP HAND (1951).


The ridiculous movie plot produced by Howard Hughes RKO studio: Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it, but Corbin learns that a group of former-Nazis-turned-Communists have purchased a lodge on an island in the middle of the fish-killing lake, and have built some kind of laboratory. Never one to pass up a chance to sell a story to a magazine, Matt decides to investigate. His only ally is Janet Keller, the sister of the local doctor who has been caught up in whatever those nefarious Commie-Nazis are up to. What they are up to, with Soviet financing, is the development of diseases to use in bacteriological warfare against the United States, starting right there in Minnesota.

The Whip Hand (1951), which was shot in great secrecy in May and June of 1950, was first set in postwar New England. The original story line was a plot to hide the still-alive Adolf Hitler, and germ warfare by Nazis (which is why many of the characters have German names). However, in viewing a rough cut in November 1950, producer Howard Hughes had a change of heart, deciding that Communists were more of a menace than crazed Nazi scientists (it was also the height of the McCarthy "Red Scare" era) and ordered extensive re-shooting in November and December 1950 and May 1951, with the villains now becoming former Nazis but current Communists. Film was a dud and Howard Hughes lost money on it.


Happy Birthday to Richard Carlson (April 29, 1912-1977) star of I LED 3 LIVES and much more! Richard Carlson as Chief Pilot Bob Shea in The Doomsday Flight (1966). A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land. This early made-for-TV movie only received one NBC network airing as opposed to the usual two. The network cowered away as it was thought that it was too detailed and could serve as a textbook for airplane terrorism. They weren't wrong.


5 years later... life imitating art, inspired by the movie, The 1971 Qantas bomb hoax was an extortion and robbery committed by Peter Macari and Raymond Poynting on 26 May 1971, where Macari, under the alias of "Mr. Brown", extorted $500,000 from Qantas by informing officials that he had hidden a bomb onboard a Boeing 707 Qantas Flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong, and that the device would explode if the plane were to descend below 20,000 feet. They got away with $500,000 but were caught a few months later after buying too many cars, a butchers shop and a penthouse. LOL.

The 1986 Australian television film Call Me Mr Brown, written and directed by South Australian director Scott Hicks, is based on the events of the bomb hoax. Qantas actively tried to stop the film being made and despite failing to do so, Network 10, which had invested A$250,000 in the film, refused to air it. The film was eventually released on video in 1990.

So when authorities realised in 1985 that the whole Macari-Qantas saga was being made into a film, all hell broke lose. Questions were asked in the Senate, and Qantas actively tried to stop the movie being made. They failed, but Network 10, that had invested a quarter of a million dollars into Call me Mr Brown, refused to screen it. It remained unseen until it came out on video in 1990.

You can find it on YouTube, as well as the 1971 Peter Hiscock song A certain Mr Brown, that told the story (“a shocker in your locker”) to the tune of Click go the sheers. But still, it wasn’t the end of it. In 1998, a cold case was reopened into the disappearance of a young Ten-Pound Pom called Billy Day. He had migrated to Australia in 1969, travelled a bit and then disappeared. His last known address was with Peter Macari, who had used his identity in the 1980s to open bank accounts in Britain to safeguard some of the ransom money. A coronial inquest was held, but nothing conclusive came out of it. Macari was not extradited and allowed to continue to live his life in Britain. Billy Day has never been found. It was a nasty end to an otherwise weird and wonderful episode in Australian history.

The bomb on the Qantas flight, and what happened next

April 29, 1975: SVAF Maj. Buang-Ly stole a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog and landed on USS Midway with his wife and 5 children to escape North Vietnamese forces. The Midway's captain ordered $10 million worth of helicopters to be pushed overboard to clear the deck for Buang's landing. Look mom, no tail hook and no naval flight training!




Cessna O-1A Birdog marked as 51-4981 of the South Vietnamese Air Force. Photo is from the hangar deck of USS Midway at San Diego in California. Painted to represent 51-4981 / 5L14981 - that landed on the USS Midway in 1975 after the fall of South Vietnam piloted by Major Buang-Ly accompanied by his wife and 5 children. Maj Ly Bung’s aircraft, still in its VNAF markings, is now displayed in the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida.

Actually, a lot of helo's got pushed over. These scenes were repeated on other Navy ships. Helicopters would land, refugees would jump off and sailors would quickly push the helicopters overboard to make room for more. That happened on carriers USS Hancock and USS Midway, and the USS Blue Ridge, the headquarters ship for the Navy's 7th Fleet. It also happened on other smaller ships, like the USS Cook, another destroyer escort like the USS Kirk.

Forgotten Ship: A Daring Rescue As Saigon Fell

That time a South Vietnamese O-1 Bird Dog landed aboard USS Midway



Wondering if this book covers the POLICE SQUAD! LOL



https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1...7772661904

The representative of the Russian Federation, noting that the Council is again involved in “a dirty spectacle prepared by the US and Japan”, said:  “This is a cynical ploy.  We are being tricked.”  Recalling that the ban on placing weapons of mass destruction in outer space is already enshrined in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, he said that Washington, D.C., Tokyo and their allies are “cherry-picking” weapons of mass destruction out of all other weapons, trying to “camouflage their lack of interest” in outer space being free from any kinds of weapons.  The addition of the operative paragraph proposed by the Russian Federation and China does not delete from the draft resolution a call not to develop weapons of mass destruction and not to place them in outer space, he emphasized.

By a vote of 13 in favour to 1 against (Russian Federation), with 1 abstention (China), the Council then rejected the draft resolution, owing to the negative vote cast by a permanent member.

The representative of the Russian Federation said the only reason Washington, D.C., introduced this amendment is to tarnish the Russian Federation.  Addressing the United States’ delegate and highlighting the thrust of the proposed amendment, he asked:  “If the United States is really so much in favour of using outer space for peaceful purposes, why did you vote against our amendment calling for a ban on weapons of any kind being placed in space, not just weapons of mass destruction?”

Russia vetoes UN resolution against nuclear weapons in space

DOE's former commando crash retrieval team...


They all took the Omertà oath.



China’s New Aircraft Carrier CV-18 Fujian

Chinese Aircraft Carrier Fujian Prepares For First Sea Trial (Updated) (29 April 2024)

Update: Against initial reporting in this article Fujian currently remains stationary in the Yangtze River Delta off her original berth. The rationale for this remains speculative and the beginning of a proper trial therefore is to be confirmed. This article will be updated with further information as it becomes available.

Fujian today, April 29, vacated her moorings at Jiangnan on Changxing Island in the Yangtze River Delta under her own power, as evidenced from social media imagery. The anticipated first sea trial represents a significant milestone on getting China’s first supercarrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults ready for service. The carrier moved out of berth assisted by several tugboats as covered in moving footage circulated on Chinese social media and on “X”, formerly Twitter.

Job Of Building The Air Force's Next Doomsday Planes Falls To Sierra Nevada Corp. The Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft will replace the USAF’s highly specialized 747-based E-4B strategic command post jets.


Next Doomsday Planes Falls To Sierra Nevada Corp

Sierra Nevada Corp. has 34 locations in 19 U.S. states, plus UK, Germany and Turkey. Unlike Lockheed, Northrop, and Boeing (who wisely dropped out), they don't have deep pockets, and spread across 19 states you know this project will go way over budget.

Fatih Ozmen & his billionaire wife Eren Ozmen are owners CEO/President of SNC. Eren is known for the Dream Chaser mini space shuttle. Fatih is a member of the National Space Council Users Advisory Group, established in 2018 under VP Mike Pence. SNC also established a spin-off in April 2021 called Sierra Space Corp. with facilities in 6 states including Colorado, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Florida, Texas, and Alabama. They have their hands in a lot of pie$... In August 2023, Sierra Space announced that it would be collaborating with BioServe Space Technologies to grow hematopoietic stem cells in microgravity to research undergoing treatment for blood cancer. The same month, the company also partnered with Redwire on a biotech experiment platform that will be installed on Sierra Space's commercial space station Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) module.

In 2014, Fatih Ozmen was awarded the “Ellis Island Medal of Honor”. Apparently, this a special club given the 2024 Honor Recipients.

Owners of SNC Aerospace & Defense Corp. since 1994, Eren and Fatih Ozmen

Cargo, drones to Balloons to aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance...SNC is like the Home Depot for the military.


Lighter-Than-Air High-Altitude Platform Station

Army’s Theater Level High-Altitude Expeditionary Next Aerial–Signals Intelligence (ATHENA-S), SNC’s RAPCON-X