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September 14, 1957: Fizeau nuclear test, 11 kilotons, 490 foot tower, Nevada Test Site 14. Part of the Plumbbob series tests and detonations.




Interesting subset of thrillers and action movies from that post Soviet collapse period that reflected America's growing paranoia in the '90s by positioning rogue military, defense contractors, and intelligence agents as villains. This seemed to reach its peak between 1997 - 1999 when the government itself became the villain. The Siege is bonechilling, in light of what came next. The Siege's premise of the Pentagon using CIA blowback to justify repression is like insanely predictive.



In Snake Eyes (1998) has a rogue general frame a Palestinian for an assassination of a governor to cover up a the truth about an expensive and non-functional missile defense system which he had just secured a contract for it. Conspiracy Theory forever changed my thinking and Arlington Road (1999) has never left my mind.


Apparently this is a production still from the upcoming Red Sonja movie. If so, there may be hope for this film yet.


Then again maybe not. She's 5'-7". Brigitte Nielsen is 6'-1".


You know you're dealing with home-schooled kids when they want to have a PG Wodehouse party. This is from about 6 years ago.


The Drones Club is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British humorist P. G. Wodehouse. It is a gentlemen's club in London.


The art of Johnny Bruck (1921-1995)




Saturday Branco toons...




Remember when the Houthis thought it would be incredibly funny to set off not one, but two sets of explosives charges on board an abandoned and anchored oil tanker in the Red Sea on August 21.

Well, MV SOUNION is still burning...The Eternal Flame of the Red Sea.



Some people remember a time when the British government got the wild idea to bomb a stranded oil tanker with napalm off the coast of Cornwall.

French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director Serge Gainsbourg composed and recorded the song "Torrey Canyon" about the incident.

ATHENS, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The operation has started to tow a Greek-registered oil tanker stranded in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants last month, a shipping source told Reuters on Saturday.

Towing the 900-foot (274.2-meter) MV Sounion to safety is the first step in a risky operation to salvage the vessel that caught fire after it was repeatedly attacked on Aug. 21.

The second step is the transfer of its cargo of about 1 million barrels of crude oil. Saudi Arabia, a key player in the region, will offer its assistance with that project, sources have said.

Tugs Set to Tow Fire-Stricken SOUNION in Red Sea

Bridge collapse in Dresden, Germany. The Carola Bridge fell into the waters of the Elbe River on September 11. The span supporting the rails for the tramway is what collapsed, including the bike & pedestrian lanes.

Amazingly, there were no injuries when the bridge collapsed. The collapse occurred in the middle of the night, around 3:00 AM, shortly after a street car crossed the bridge. It appears Germany has the same mysterious infrastructure collapses as the US. Weird.


EuroNews The original bridge at this location was a stone arch bridge, opened in 1877, but destroyed during World War II.





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