Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 18, 1879: Blackpool Illuminations were switched on for the first time. Blackpool Council spent £5000 (now £330,000), to experiment with electric street lighting. In a time when people lit their homes with gas and candles, the lights were called "artificial sunshine". There you go BIAD! Need some friends to share the sunshine? Visit the Website of Friends of Blackpool.




September 18, 1939: William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw"), broadcasted his first Nazi propaganda radio broadcast. He began his reports of fake news with the phrase: "Germany calling". He was executed for treason in 1946 on the basis he had entered Germany using a British passport.

He was an American-born British fascist, hardcore Nazi propagandist during WWII. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, Joyce became a member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) from 1932, before finally moving to Germany at the outset of the war where he took German citizenship in 1940. He was executed (hanged) for high treason in Wandsworth Prison January 3, 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom. The scar on Joyce's face split wide open because of the pressure applied to his head upon his drop from the gallows. He was 39.

The historian Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 Sept 1990) remarked in his book English History 1914–1945 that "Technically, Joyce was hanged for making a false statement when applying for a passport, the usual penalty for which is a small fine."



English History 1914–1945; pg 534  | Germany Calling


Sept 18, 1944: HMS Tradewind torpedoed and sank the Japanese army cargo Hell ship Junyo Maru about 18 nautical miles south of Mukomuko, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. Unbeknown to the Commanding Officer of the submarine, the Japanese ship was carrying 4200 Javanese slave labourers and 2300-2,500 Dutch, British, American and Australian POW’s from Batavia to Padang. 5620 lives were lost in the sinking. One of the largest, yet most forgotten, maritime disaster of WWII.

The prisoner ships were not required to display a red cross, despite the insistence of the International Red Cross. But because the Geneva Convention did not require this, the parties refused to comply with the request. Thus the Junyo fell prey to the Allied torpedoes.

Two out of four torpedoes hit the Junyo. The ship didn’t sink immediately. Many POWs jumped overboard but many who stayed inside the ship were trapped like rats. Most of the romushas couldn’t swim and stayed on board the stricken ship. In the ocean survivors held on to life boats and loose flotsam and jetsam. Slowly the sinking ship rose vertically until it stood perpendicular on the water. Those who were still on the deck, mainly romushas, dropped to their deaths on the front of the bridge and disappeared under water. The sinking took only twenty minutes.

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Without a moment of rest the survivors were put into the local prison upon arrival in Padang. Circumstances were dire. The prison was overcrowded and medical attention wasn’t available. In the coming days another thirty POWs would die due to exhaustion and dysentery. They are buried at the European cemetery in Soloh, not far from Pandang. The agony of the others was anything but over. Most of them would die eventually during construction of the railroad.

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Many thousands drowned, hundreds of bodies washed ashore on the long coast line, some of them weeks after the tragedy. They were buried without name by the inhabitants of the coast. Some of these graves were moved to “Olo” cemetery in Padang. In the years 1946 until 1950 the remains were transferred to the military cemetery of Padang. After the transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia in 1952 the number of Dutch “erevelden” or military cemeteries was restricted to seven on Java. The remaining fifteen were cleared and the remains transferred to the remaining seven other military cemeteries. The nameless victims of the Junyo were transferred to military cemetery Leuwigadjah in Cimahi in Java and were reinterred in the collective grave “Olo”.

It would take until 1984 before a remembrance service was held and a memorial plaque was dedicated on the military cemetery of Leuwigadjah. Both these were an initiative of the foundation for remembrance Junyo Maru-Sumatra.

For many Dutch people the tragedy with the Junyo Maru remained unknown. Operation Market Garden was closer to home. Fewer Dutch people actually lost their lives during this operation.

Sinking of the Junyo Maru (Traces of war)

The history of HMS Tradewind as compiled on this page is extracted from the patrol reports and logbooks.

The Sinking of the Junyo Maru



HAPPY BIRTHDAY CIA. Established Sept 18, 1947.


I'd send them a card but I'm sure they've already read it.


Coming November 11th! ONE, TWO, THREE (1961) Reissue
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Michael Schlesinger
- Billy Wilder and Volker Schlondorff discuss ONE, TWO, THREE
- Billy Wilder on Politics and ONE, TWO, THREE
- Theatrical Trailer

Hollywood great James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye) gives one of the richest, funniest, most breathlessly paced performances of his career in this comedy that defrosts the Cold War with gales of laughter. C.R. “Mac” MacNamara (Cagney) is a top-ranking soda executive stationed in West Berlin who’s responsible for his boss’ daughter (Pamela Tiffin, The Hallelujah Trail) while he’s away on business. But when he learns that she's gone and married a fierce young communist (Horst Buchholz, The Magnificent Seven) and that his boss will be arriving in town in 24 hours, Mac must transform the unwilling beatnik into a suitable son-in-law or risk losing his chance for advancement! Before you can say "one, two, three," his plans have spun out of control and into an international incident that could infuriate the Russians, the Germans and, worst of all, his own suspicious wife. Legendary director Billy Wilder (Stalag 17, Witness for the Prosecution, The Apartment) directed and co-wrote this hilarious, fast-paced and lighthearted comedy with his twelve-time writing partner I.A.L. Diamond (Irma La Douce, The Fortune Cookie).

One, Two, Three (Special Edition) (Blu-ray)

REMO Corporation director Terrence Crown (Richard Anderson). As seen in THE FRENCH ATLANTIC AFFAIR (ABC, 1979). REMO Corp is a play on the RAND Corporation.




Sounds like the comrade Newsom just declared an election meme war. Just like all their gun laws, it won't work.


Beware if you live in Commiefornia: Laughing at memes is now illegal.


AI accidentally proved the existence of the human soul by showing us what art looks like without one.


https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1836160683374678050


Republican senators write Veep Kamala Harris over her mismanagement of a $42 billion program to expand Internet. After 1,038 days not a single person has been connected to the internet using the $42.45 billion.


"Mismanagement"? How about total incompetence? How about FRAUD? Who else would like to know where that $42,000,000,000 went?

That was supposed to be accomplished with the funds allocated way back in the 1997 Telecom Act. Back when we started seeing all these tariffs & fees on our landline bills. If you live long enough, you’ll see them double and triple dip like this.

The reason it's failed or rather hasn't helped any person is because comrade Kamala & her Marxist minions put a restriction on the $42B package. For example, in order for the telecom/ISP provider in your hometown to receive a piece of that pie to expand internet services they must first agree to hire DEI wokesters, which means they have to fire some qualified workers and replace with unqualified wokesters that includes a certain percentage of blacks, hispanics, illegals based on company employee size. Nobody in their right mind is willing to do that so the money remains undistributed.


Checking in on the funnies...Been a pager LOL all day and a really bad day for others.




Here's a possible metaphor for our reality right now.