Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy National Pumpkin Day!

When USNS Point Loma (T-AGDS-2) did not have any pumpkins available for Halloween in 1986, the crew made giant jack-o'-lanterns with the Low Altitude Surveillance System (LASS) missile tracking radar.


https://x.com/GWR/status/1850143589856350476

The "Pumpkin Capital of the World" is Morton, Illinois or so they claim. Home of Libby’s pumpkin industry. Illinois grows the most pumpkins and harvests about 12,300 acres of pumpkins annually.


October 26, 1929: All of London’s buses began to be painted predominantly red (pictured is a 1930 model). In fact, the bus roofs remained largely white or silver, to reflect sunlight, and thereby reduce heating in the summer.




In October 1992, Congress enacted the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act that mandated all the CIA & FBI documents on JFK's Assassination were to be declassified on October 26, 2017. Which was again postponed to October 26, 2021 which of course was denied again. To date the USGOV is in violation of the law. That pesky "national security" clause always gets in the way.



Bon Appétit.



Jacqueline Kennedy hired French-born René Verdon (1924-2011) to be the White House chef in 1961, where he revolutionized the way food was prepared for the first family and their guests, and introduced Americans to French cooking.


October 26, 1963: JFK in rented open car, Amherst, Mass., with low security, lavish space between vehicles, motorcade route past open hill, no Secret Service agents next to President's car, opposing random traffic allowed on adjoining lane of street...27 days before Dallas:




Once upon a time for a short period where PBS aired this and Robert Parry's October Surprise Frontline documentaries.

The Secret Government (November 4, 1987)



The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis

Journalist Robert Parry: America's Hidden History | On Point - WBUR

October 26, 2015 | Investigative reporter Robert Parry on American journalism, now, and what we’re not being told about the living history of our country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYO1me7L-g0


"Investigative reporter Robert Parry (June 24, 1949 – January 27, 2018) is the kind of relentless digger that no small part of the American news media find too hot to handle. He went deep, back in the day, on American hostages, the “October surprise,” and the election of Ronald Reagan. He went deep on Iran-Contra and the adventures of the CIA in the cocaine trade. He’s still at it, writing and publishing unpopular truths. And talking about how too often we don’t know our own living history. And the news media’s not telling us. He just won the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. This hour On Point, tough reporter Robert Parry."
— Tom Ashbrook

Journalist Robert Parry

Related: I doubt the TV networks would air this today about Gladio:

BBC Timewatch 1992 - Operation Gladio



October 26, 2001: The nightmare begins. The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act (Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) into law.




Semiotic Apocalypse / Ghost of Burning Man? Not so sure I would have wanted to witness this in person...


It's a photo taken during the demolition of the Cockenzie Power Station in in East Lothian, Scotland, 2015.

You can witness the spooky imagery for yourself:




Here's a moment when you realize that a large number of people long for a totalitarian police state, provided it only targets their enemies. You can hear the voice, can’t you?


Who is "we"? Olbermann has always been a nasty little cry baby fascist.



‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump

The Pendulum of Peril persistently pounding, propelling us toward the pit of perpetual pandemonium!

"Destiny’s powerful hand has made the bed of my future, and it’s up to me to lie in it. I am destined to be a superhero, to right wrongs, and pound two-fisted justice into the hearts of evil-doers everywhere. You don’t fight destiny. No sir! And you don’t eat crackers in the bed of your future, or you get all… scratchy. Hey, I’m narrating here!" — The Tick, 1994