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100 Years Ago...

October 6, 1924: at 9 pm, the first URI station of San Filippo in Rome, produced by Marconi, broadcast the first regular announcement read by Maria Luisa Boncompagni:

    Italian Radiophonic Union. 1-RO, Rome station. Inaugural symphonic concert.

Shortly after, Ines Viviani Donarelli, an Italian violinist and radio presenter of URI (Italian Radio Union) from the Roman station of Corrodi Palace, presented the first programme:

"URI 1-RO: station of Rome. Radio wavelength 425 meters. Our greeting and good evening to all the listeners. It is 9 pm of 6 October 1924. We broadcast the inaugural concert of the first Italian radiophonic station, for the circular radio hearings service. The quartet formed by Ines Viviani Donarelli, who is speaking, Alberto Magalotti, Amedeo Fortunati and Alessandro Cicognani, will perform Haydn from the Opus 7 string quartet, I and II half."

The programme, which lasted one hour and a half, broadcast opera, chamber and classical music along with a weather report and news about the stock exchange.


The service, also known as Radio Marconi after the inventor who licensed his technology, will be heavily promoted by the Fascist regime.

It wasn't until 1997 that Barbara Scaramucci, director of Teche Rai, will find the original document in the Rai archives in Florence, demonstrating that the voice of the first announcement of the URI was that of Ines Viviani Donarelli.



October 6, 1924: "Waxworks" ("Das Wachsfigurenkabinett"), a German film directed by Paul Leni often cited as the first horror anthology, premieres in Vienna. The thriller is set in a wax museum, where a poet seeks to explore the eerie backgrounds of three historic figures there. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories. This concept threads together three stories, about the Caliph of Baghdad (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss). It was scripted by "Nosferatu" screenwriter Henrik Galeen, and helped inspire future horror films set in wax museums.




October 6, 1924: Louis "Jolly" Jolyon West, a deep state psychiatrist who explored the extremes of the human mind with studies of brainwashing, cults and sleep deprivation, is born in Brooklyn. The colorful academic was linked after his death in 1999 to the CIA's notorious MK-Ultra mind control experiments. West's work on brainwashing techniques allowed him to exonerate U.S. servicemen under suspicion of treason for making false confessions during the Korean War era. This brought him to the attention of the CIA. He pioneered research into the use and abuse of LSD. He is linked to Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, Manchurian Candidates, Charles Manson, Sirhan-Sirhan, Patty Hearst, David Koresh, anumber of military personnel, mostly Air Force and directly linked to most serial killers & bombers from the 1970s through the 90s who were in the media spotlight.


Jolly West worked out of the Haight-Ashbury Free clinic (San Francisco) in the late 60s handing out LSD. Aside from drugs & various chemicals, Jolly West's main focus was on hypnosis which the CIA took a keen interest.

"As the US Supreme Court later noted in CIA v. Sims 471 US 159 (1985) MKULTRA was: concerned with "the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior." As we know it has a long dark history that never really ended.


"If I were a "spy-chiatrist" scouting potential fodder for mind control experiments, I would seek out abused children from military families. (A military background ensures that the "right" doctor gets access to the child.) Abduction researchers should look for such a pattern."

— Martin Cannon


The Controllers: Mind Control and Project MK-ULTRA - Modern Myth, Mass Manipulation, and a New Hypothesis of "Alien" Abductions (PDF) (1990) by Martin Cannon.


October 6, 1927: The Jazz Singer, the first talking movie, starring Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 - Oct 23, 1950), opened in New York City. At the time, Jolson was known as "the world’s greatest entertainer". In the film, he sometimes wears blacked up face make-up and his trademark was Blackface. Back then, this aroused no controversy. First registered human voice heard on film.


Performers such as Sammy Davis Jr., Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Jackie Wilson and Jerry Lee Lewis all mentioned him as an inspiration.

Queen of Hollywood...


Screenland Article Jan. 1928

In 1939 she abandoned her acting career to focus on the war effort and began devoting her time to working with the Red Cross. She was so fiercely outspoken against Adolf Hitler that her name appeared on his blacklist, resulting in her films being banned in Germany. She also helped run a Naval Auxiliary canteen and toured frequently to raise funds for the war efforts. She returned to films with The Thin Man Goes Home (1945). In 1948, she had become a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, the first Hollywood celebrity to do so.

Her fourth and final husband was Howland H. Sargeant, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and president of Radio Liberty, whom she married on June 2, 1951, in Fort Myer, Virginia.


She was a lifelong Democrat, publicly supported the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960. In 1975, Loy was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent two mastectomies to treat the disease. She kept it secret until the publication of her autobiography Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming in 1987.

Myrna Loy "Queen of Hollywood" born Myrna Adele Williams on August 2, 1905 in Helena, Montana. Died December 14, 1993 in New York City, due to complications from surgery. Married & divorced 4 times. No children.

The songwriter Josh Ritter included a song about Loy, called “Myrna Loy”, on his 2017 album Gathering.




October 6, 1940: New World Order Pledged to Jews
Arthur Greenwood, in the British War Cabinet, assured the Jews of the United States that when victory was achieved an effort would be made to found a new world order based on the ideals of "justice and peace."




October 6, 1973: The Yom Kippur War began between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. The objective for Egypt and its allies was to recover all Arab territory occupied by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967. With international pressure mounting, the war finally ceased on October 26. Israel signed a formal cease-fire agreement with Egypt on November 11 and with Syria on May 31, 1974, and ultimately, the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979.

By October 9, following a failed IDF counter-attack against Egypt’s forces, the Israelis requested that America do the same for them. Not wanting to see Israel defeated, Nixon agreed, and American planes carrying weapons began arriving in Israel on October 14.

On October 24, Brezhnev sent Nixon a hotline message suggesting that the United States and the Soviet Union send troops to Egypt to “implement” the ceasefire. If Nixon chose not to do so, Brezhnev threatened, “We should be faced with the necessity urgently to consider the question of taking appropriate steps unilaterally.” The United States responded by putting its nuclear forces on worldwide alert on October 25. By the end of the day, the crisis abated when the Security Council adopted Resolution 340, which called for a ceasefire, the withdrawal of all forces to their October 22 positions, and U.N. observers and peacekeepers to monitor the ceasefire. This time, the Israelis accepted the resolution.

The 1973 war thus ended in an Israeli victory, but at great cost to the United States. Though the war did not scuttle détente, it nevertheless brought the United States closer to a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis. The American military airlift to Israel, moreover, had led Arab oil producers to embargo oil shipments to the United States and some Western European countries, causing international economic upheaval. The stage was set for Kissinger to make a major effort at Arab-Israeli peacemaking.

The 1973 Arab-Israeli War

In colloquial Israeli speech, the words yom kippur have come to denote any shocking comeuppance, so that saying that something was someone’s “Yom Kippur” is like saying in English “It was his Waterloo.” There will never again be a Yom Kippur in Israel without this double sense of it, and the day’s heavy somberness is felt even by those who do not relate to it religiously. It will indeed always continue to haunt.


The 'poet' who wrote this gem is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. Fellowships come with a check for 800,000 dollars. The art world is poisoned.


The last line would disqualify any poet from such an award if the race was changed. That’s a problem. I’m not recommending censorship. I’m pointing out a double standard.

Jericho Brown, MacArthur Foundation


I see hippos are making the rounds...


Despite being semiaquatic, an adult hippo is not a particularly good swimmer, nor can it float. Hippo's are considered to be extremely aggressive and have frequently been reported charging and attacking boats. Hippos cause an estimated 500 deaths annually as compared to only 22 for lions according to BBC Wildlife.