Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Starting the week off right with a FOIA/Mandatory Declassification Review for files from an Eisenhower Library folder titled "World War III."


Response expectation: October 2030s.


October 21, 1951: UNKNOWN WORLD premiered in Hollywood; opened in theaters on October 26th.



Dr. Jerimiah Morley (Victor Kilian) becomes convinced that the world is headed to an inevitable worldwide nuclear war. He organizes an expedition made up of a team of expert scientists and an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle called a "cyclotram" to find a subterranean environment where holocaust survivors could live indefinitely. When funding falls through, independently rich adventurer Wright Thompson underwrites the project under the condition that he be allowed to go. As the group goes deeper beneath the Earth's crust, personalities clash, tempers flare, and the dangerous journey claims the lives of several expedition members. When they come upon an enormous underground expanse with its own ocean and phosphorescent light, it appears that their goal has been achieved.

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) and star Victor Killian (1891-1979) were both blacklisted, did not receive on-screen credits. Killian was blacklisted for his political beliefs during the Communist witch-hunts of the 50s. On March 11, 1979 he was beaten to death by robbers burgling his Hollywood apartment. Suspiciously, he was murdered five days after Charles Wagenheim died under very similar circumstances...beaten to death by burglars in his Hollywood apartment. The very last appearance of both actors was on an episode of All in the Family (1971) in S09E24 The Return of Stephanie's Father", which aired 2 weeks after their deaths.


By the time of America's entry into World War II, Dalton Trumbo was one of the most respected, highest paid screenwriters in Hollywood. He had also established a name for himself as a left-wing political activist whose sympathies coincided with those of the American Communist Party (CPUSA).

Shortly after the German invasion, Trumbo instructed his publisher to recall all copies of "Johnny Got His Gun" and to cease publication of the book. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war against the U.S. catapulted the U.S. into both the Asian and European theaters of World War II, the book - always popular with peace-lovers and isolationists who opposed America's involvement in foreign wars - suddenly became popular among native fascists, too. However, it proved hard to get a copy of the book during the war years.

Trumbo joined the CPUSA in 1943, the same year Victor Fleming's great patriotic war movie A Guy Named Joe (1943), with a Trumbo screenplay, appeared on screens.

Trumbo voluntarily invited FBI agents to his house in 1944 and showed them letters he had received from what he perceived were pro-fascist peaceniks who had requested copies of "Johnny Got His Gun", then out-of-print due to Trumbo's orders to his publisher. He turned those letters over to the FBI and later kept in contact with the Bureau, a fact that would later haunt blacklisted leftists, urging that the F.B.I. deal with them. His actions conformed to the CPUSA policy of denouncing anyone who opposed the war.

Dalton Trumbo died from a heart attack in California on September 10, 1976. At his memorial service, Ring Lardner Jr., his close friend and fellow Hollywood 10 member, delivered an amusing eulogy. "At rare intervals, there appears among us a person whose virtues are so manifest to all, who has such a capacity for relating to every sort of human being, who so subordinates his own ego drive to the concerns of others, who lives his whole life in such harmony with the surrounding community that he is revered and loved by everyone with whom he comes in contact. Such a man Dalton Trumbo was not."

Long movie bio on Trumbo at IMDB.


October 21, 1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order transferring Nazi rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun from the Army's Redstone Arsenal to the newly established NASA, placing him at the helm of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He went on to play a key role in the Apollo moon landing program.




October 21, 1960: American viewers were riveted to their television sets for the broadcast of the fourth and final debate between Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy.


The first-ever televised debate between presidential candidates was held on September 26, 1960. An estimated total of sixty to seventy million viewers watched the first and the successive debates, which came to be known as “the Great Debates.”



October 21, 1960: COG Memo from Mount Weather stating they need Clergy.




October 21, 1966: Unimaginable Tragedy Struck.


The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966. The tip had been created on a mountain slope above the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, and overlaid a natural spring. Heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused a wave of coal waste to slide down the the Aberfan Valley, killing 116 children and 28 adults as it engulfed Pantglas Junior School and a row of houses. The tip was the responsibility of the National Coal Board (NCB), and the subsequent inquiry placed the blame for the disaster on the organisation and nine named employees. Subsequent inquiries showed it was completely avoidable.


A noise like thunder – then my classroom went black

The dedication plaque at the Aberfan Memorial Garden

Pathé Newsreel footage

BBC Photos of Aberfan disaster



Gee, how wunderful...All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years...


World’s Costliest Weapons Program Failed to Hit Readiness Marks for Six Years, GAO Says


Meanwhile, the U.S. Space Force has awarded National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 Launch Service Task Orders totaling $733,566,001 to SpaceX. The NTO-2 LSTO will support an NRO mission set that will be launched into orbit during 4QFY25 and 4QFY26.


I guess there are some parts of government that Musk likes just fine.

“His companies were promised $3 billion across nearly 100 different contracts last year with 17 federal agencies.” And he was fighting many others.

Elon calls it Lawfare with diagrams...


“The Department of Government Efficiency is the only path to extending life beyond Earth”


When you oppose the globalist swamp narrative, you become the target.