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What is the first film you think of when you see...


Judy Garland was born June 10, 1922. Recent FBI records on the FBI applicant investigation conducted on her manager, Carleton Alsop, who worked in a psychological warfare unit for the CIA & became its most valuable Hollywood asset.

An apparent truth of the Carleton Alsop files is that those reported for decades to have abused and exploited Judy Garland seem to have included a man who became a CIA asset, or at least his neglect and complicity potentially factors, even if that is not the primary takeaway of the Carleton Alsop story. One might consider the circumstances somewhat reminiscent of the George White saga, an apparent rogue narcotics squad cop with a drinking problem who became an MKULTRA asset, haphazardly managing Agency brothels under its notorious Operation Climax.

Judy Garland Manager Became CIA Asset


June 10, 1940: With France on the verge of military defeat, Italy, led by Mussolini, declared war on France and Britain, and became Hitler’s ally. Hitler commented privately: "First they were too cowardly to take part. Now they are in a hurry so that they can share in the spoils."



On the same day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.

"Unfortunately to the regret of all of us and the regret of humanity, the Chief of the Italian Government was unwilling to accept the procedure suggested and he has made no counter proposal." ... "On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor." - FDR


June 10, 1942: SS forces killed every male over 15 in the Czech village of Lidice, in a horrific reprisal for the assassination (or justifiable homicide), of the leading SS figure, Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, who died on June 4, 1942 after a bomb attack on his limousine on 27 May 1942.


Czech Radio digitises full archive of trial with key figure in Lidice massacre



June 10, 1944: 642 men, women and children were killed by the German Waffen SS Panzer Division in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France. Charles de Gaulle ordered that the village be left as a permanent memorial. The village was never rebuilt and featured at the opening of the first episode of the classic 26-part documentary series The World at War (TV Series 1973–1974) narrated by Laurence Olivier. The whole series should be required viewing for every school child.




The Tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane: The Slaughter of an Entire Town


June 10, 1957: (TIME magazine) Mind over Matter: Latest findings by psychosomatic medicine men on the interaction of body & soul in causing disease: Monday Morning Virus?





PHOTO OF THE DAY. Norwich City council has a state of the art computer delivered (1957):


Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd was an early computer company of the 1950s and 1960s in the United Kingdom. It traced its descent from a firm of instrument makers founded by William Elliott in London around 1804. The research laboratories were originally set up in 1946 at Borehamwood and the first Elliott 152 computer (developed for naval gunnery control) appeared in 1950. In 1957, the company changed its name to Elliott Automation Ltd.

Elliott 405 (1956) One donated by Nestle to The Forest School, Winnersh and named Nellie. See the vid at Watch Nellie, the British School Computer of 1969


The balloon saga continues... 2024 POO WARS BEGIN - this time North Korean dirty bombs.


Over 330 Balloons carrying Sewage, Trash, and other Objects have crossed the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) from North Korea in the direction of the South, with several Balloon Landings already being reported in and around the Capital of Seoul.

Reminds me of what the Japanese did to the Chinese back in WWII era, dropping a lethal pathogen on the population.


Meanwhile, can we afford to be decommissioning ships at this point in time?
The US Navy seems to have perfected the art of decommissioning ships.

The decommissioning schedule for the U.S. Navy’s remaining 13 Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers has been set. Next to leave service will be the Vicksburg (CG 69) in June 2024, followed by the Cowpens (CG 63) in August, Antietam (CG 54) and Leyte Gulf (CG 55) in September. Overall, the last two cruisers will likely be Chosin (CG 65) and Cape St. George (CG 71), both to be decommissioned in fiscal 2027. The close of their careers will bring an end to the service life of the class, the world’s first to be equipped with the Aegis combat system.

Vicksburg and Cowpens had been two of the seven cruisers inducted in the mid-20-teens into the Navy’s Cruiser Modernization Program, and the cost of their protracted, never-finished modernizations has approached nearly one billion dollars. Although Congress had directed otherwise, the U.S. Navy in early 2024 ordered all further work on the ships to stop and they were placed on the decommissioning list. Of the seven cruisers in the program, only Gettysburg and Chosin have been redelivered, with work continuing on Cape St. George. Two other ships in the program, Hue City (CG 66) and Anzio (CG 68), were decommissioned in 2022 in poor condition and far from completion.

This list presents the 13 remaining cruisers in the order they’re currently scheduled to be decommissioned. Specific projected dates such as these are subject to change, but there is not expected to be any change in the overall order or in the decision to inactivate all cruisers by the end of fiscal 2027, which is 30 September 2027. Unless otherwise noted, all ships are to become Logistical Support Assets – that is, spare parts sources. After that, they presumably will either be scrapped or used in sinking exercises (SINKEXs).

The cruisers are being decommissioned approximately at the end of their planned 35-year service lives. They are being replaced in the air warfare commander role by new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, only one of which currently is in service.

This list presents the 13 remaining cruisers in the order they’re currently scheduled to be decommissioned. The dates are from the most recent Navy directive regarding fiscal 2024 inactivations and an appendix from the 2025 30-year shipbuilding plan, issued in March 2024.

U.S. Navy’s Cruiser Countdown to Decomm

Ship is named after then-super warrior badass Marine Corps Private First Class, later United States Army captain Jacklyn H. Lucas (1928–2008), recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Iwo Jima, five days after his 17th birthday. Let that sink in. He is the youngest Marine and youngest serviceman in World War II to be awarded the United States' highest military decoration for valor. When the keel of USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) was laid in 1997, Lucas placed his Medal of Honor citation in the ship's hull, where it remains sealed.


Potassium boost for the Banana Republic...


https://x.com/pilotsam4/status/1799694458855866716

United Fruit Company, now known as Chiquita brands, has an interesting & sordid bloody past. The absolute best tasty-sweet superior bananas I ever had was in the Philippines.


UK #1 on June 10, 1990: New Order - feat. John Barnes - World In Motion.