Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 7, 1940: In a memorandum, Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum, director of the Office of Naval Intelligence’s Far East Asia section, advised US naval captains to "provoke Japan to attack the USA". It’s unclear whether Roosevelt saw the memo or endorsed the policy. The McCollum memo or "The Eight-Action plan" proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States...A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H.



Memorandum for the Director: Estimate of the Situation in the Pacific and Recommendations for Action by the United States by Arthur H. McCollum.


October 7, 1943: British author and poet Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall pen name "John", died (aged 63). She’s best known for the novel, The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in Lesbian literature first published in 1928. In the United States, the book survived legal challenges in New York state and in Customs Court. The book entered the public domain in the United States in 2024.


Her first partner was Mabel Batten.

Radclyffe Hall was a member of the PEN International club, the council of the Society for Psychical Research and a fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Hall was listed at No. 16 in the top 500 lesbian and gay heroes in the former Pink Paper. She died of colon cancer, and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in North London.


October 7, 1954: "This is the part where I almost assassinate the president." - Frank Sinatra and Nancy Gates have a few laughs while filming SUDDENLY. The film opened in New York City 70 years ago today.


In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.



October 7, 1964: Sidney Lumet's FAIL SAFE opened in theaters in New York City. This followed its premiere a month earlier at the New York Film Festival.


[FINAL CREDIT]: "The producers of this film wish to stress that it is the stated position of the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force that a rigidly enforced system of safeguards and controls insure that occurrences such as those depicted in this story cannot happen."


October 7, 1983: NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN was released.




October 7, 2001: The U.S. Operation Enduring Freedom commences with the invasion of Afghanistan beginning with air strikes on 31 high-value targets across the country, Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from the USS Philippine Sea (CG-58), along with the CIA conducting the first-ever air strike with a Predator drone, and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest war in American history.

7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021
(19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Result: $8 Trillion expended. Taliban victory.

In 2001, Afghanistan had already been at war for over 20 years.



President Bush gave a final warning to the regime in Kabul, stating, “The Taliban has been given the opportunity to surrender all the terrorists in Afghanistan and to close down their camps and operations. Full warning has been given, and time is running out." According to one report, on the eve of the US military offensive, the Taliban offered to try Osama bin Laden in an Islamic court. However, the US Government quickly rejected this compromise.

In a televised address to the nation on 8 October, President Bush announced, “On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.”28 The first night of bombing was far from overwhelming in either scope or effect. Only 31 preplanned strategic targets in the vicinities of Kabul, Kandahar, Shindand, Herat, Mazar-e Sharif, and Sheberghan were hit. These targets did not include frontline Taliban positions. The opening-round attacks were conducted by Air Force B-2 stealth bombers from Whiteman, the B-1B and B-52 bombers from Diego Garcia, and by Navy F-14 and F/A-18 fighters from aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea. Joining the ordnance dropped by the aircraft were Tomahawk missiles fired by US Navy cruisers and destroyers as well as submarines belonging to both the United States and the United Kingdom.

Source:
The United States Army in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF)
October 2001–September 2005
A Different Kind of War (PDF) by Combat Studies Institute Press; US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, KS.

On a blistering summer day in 2011, I stood with members of 10th Mountain Division’s Task Force Spartan on the ramparts of the caravansari in Maiwand, long-abandoned alongside the Ring Road west of Kandahar. President Barack Obama’s time-bound surge had put enough troops on the ground to take back most of the Taliban heartland, and the grizzled former mujahedeen commander with us was pointing out their remaining pockets. “Give me 100 guns and I’ll clean them out for you,” he said. We had heard that boast many times, the Afghan way of war tinged with the evanescent promise of Western riches.

Less than a quarter-mile away, a high mound rose from the desert floor, eroded walls of mud brick visible through binoculars — one of “Iskandar’s Towers,” erected by Alexander the Great in the 3rd century B.C. to guard the southern arm of the Silk Road against Persian marauders. When one of us said something about how long it was since Operation Enduring Freedom began after Sept. 11, 2001, our mujahedeen companion politely chided, “Ah, we have been at war for over 30 years and now you are back.”

Afghanistan: Remembering the Long, Long War We Would Rather Forget

The Story of America's Very First Drone Strike

Obama & John O. Brennan are forever known as the Drone assassination kings.



Been 24/7 Hurricane coverage today, on every msm channel.


https://x.com/NWSTampaBay/status/1843319452160671777



There is a precedent for Milton.

The "Tampa Bay Hurricane" of 1848 — it formed in the Bay of Campeche and then tracked eastward, making landfall near Tampa, Florida as a category four with a maximum sustained wind speed of 130 mph and a MSLP of 948 hPa.

The reconstructed track below on the left was done by Emily Cerrito (2018).


Reconstructing Historical Hurricane Tracks in the Atlantic Basin: Three Case Studies from the 1840sThree Case Studies from the 1840s

So, no, this wouldn’t be the first time that a major hurricane tracked across the Gulf of Mexico and struck the Sunshine State.

The so-called Great Gale of '48, and was described by survivor, William Henry Whitaker, as “the granddaddy of all hurricanes.” The storm destroyed nearly every building at Fort Brooke and was the storm that created John's Pass in Pinellas County and New Pass in Sarasota. Incredibly no one was killed, but it remains the worst hurricane on record ever to have hit Tampa.

"Never before" is a popular but misleading term when it comes to weather and climate because our period of modern records is very limited. But, we do know similar Gulf-forming storms are not rare. Since 1850, there have been 10 hurricanes and 11 tropical storms. The hurricane #3 from 1852 Atlantic hurricane season in the Gulf traveling in near same path as Milton.

If anyone in is prepared for Hurricanes, it is the people of Florida.