Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

August 14, 1945: WWII ends after the Japanese announced their intent to surrender, the U.S. Navy revealed that it had been planning the most intense and destructive concentration of carrier airpower in history called Operation Downfall by launching more than 10,000 sorties in support of the invasion of Japan. This invasion operation would have dwarfed D-Day. Luckily, X-day was cancelled and instead Operation Magic Carpet was rolled out.



August 14, 1945: celebrations erupted across the United States after news of Japan's surrender was announced. This is the original CBS News radio broadcast reporting the end of the Second World War.




August 14, 1945: military hardliners in Japan attempted a coup to prevent the broadcast of Emperor Hirohito's declaration of surrender. The incident is depicted in the 1967 film JAPAN'S LONGEST DAY, and the Japanese remake THE EMPEROR IN AUGUST was released in 2015.





Meanwhile, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will resign next month. "Politics cannot function without public trust," he told a press conference to reveal his decision not to seek re-election as the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).


August 14, 1961: “Two little girls in a West German street chat with their grandparents in the window of their home in the eastern zone, separated only by a barbed wire barricade.”


We all got a taste of how they felt (with imaginary barb wire) in 2020-21.


August 14, 1964: News of Norman Bryan Chastain [1934-2023] receiving a suspended sentence for ripping down Fallout Shelter Signs at San Francisco City Hall. And "I Will Serve With Pride Your 30-Day Sentence" by Norman Chastain. Apparently, he was a very busy activist.


The Movement - Student Newspaper (Sept 1965; 8-page PDF)

[CITIZENS' COMMITTEE FOR DISARMAMENT] CHASTAIN, Norman
Typed Letter, Signed. May 24, 1963:




I couldn't help notice this article on the front page of that Sept 1965 Student newspaper:




The White House’s first ever creator economy conference.
Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of the White House Creator Economy Conference, in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House on August 14, 2024, in Washington, DC. The White House is hosting 100 digital content creators and influencers for its first-ever conference about the "creator economy."

Biden says there is a "decline of trust" in the media and that there are no "editors" anymore while he’s also repeated "I'm not joking" a million times. He’s saying this to a group of digital creators, whilst the corporate woke media that has sowed the majority of this distrust.



CNBC | President Biden visits the White House Creator Economy Conference in the Indian Treaty Room

Do you remember this year's theme from the powers that ought not be? That's right...



According to the unreliable Google Ngram, the term TRUST peaked in 1933.


TRUST: The meaning "businesses organized to reduce competition; an organization for the control of several corporations under one direction" by a set of majority shareholders in all of them, is a legal sense attested by 1877 which exploded as a U.S. political issue, hence trust-buster, recorded by 1903.


IARPA TRUST (from 2010)  A teaspoon of TRUST helps the medicine go down.


I think one of the biggest problems with the future being built is how much trust it will require... a level of trust that has not been earned. The consent of the governed isn't a suggestion or a footnote to be buried in some 8,000 pages of terms and conditions that nobody reads. It will be paramount.


"Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex."
― Frank Zappa