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November 2, 1903: The Daily Mirror was launched. Founded by Alfred Harmsworth (later 1st Viscount Northcliffe) of the Daily Mail making it the UK’s oldest surviving tabloid newspaper. It was described as "a newspaper for women, run by women". It was the only major British daily newspaper to be aimed specifically at women, but it failed to attract enough readers and was relaunched as a popular tabloid.


Daily Mirror 1st Issue


Nov 2, 1924: "The Last Man on Earth" a sci-fi comedy film imagining a female-ruled world, is released. Earle Fox plays a hermit who, in the year 1954, learns a disease called "masculitis" has killed off all other males past age 14, and women of Earth compete for his affections.



Regarded as the first film to portray a female president of the USA. She lives in a White House whose grounds are overrun by weeds, since only men know gardening. Women are also doctors, boxers and gangsters. Fashions run to bloomer-ish dresses and flamboyant hats. The premise of a future matriarchy is fascinating but only exploited for cheap gags, as the women characters are ditzy and undeveloped. Still, one writer judges this to be the first true U.S. science-fiction movie.

It is nothing short of a culture scandal that the first US science fiction feature film STILL hasn’t had any sort of home video or online release. There’s a perfectly good copy of the film sitting in the archives of MoMa in New York, and it’s even dragged out every now and then for film festivals and exhibitions. But for some reason MoMa seems allergic to letting the general public get its hands on the movie.

A Journey in Science Fiction Movies

Film should be in Public Domain, but the quality may vary.

Although filmed as a regular comedy, The Last Man on Earth was banned by the Virginia State Board of Censors for having women contending over a single man. As stated by the Board in a 29 October 1924 memorandum:

Although "The Last Man on Earth" is a comedy which has somewhat elaborately been staged, and does not purport to carry a serious message, the picture is of such a nature as to justify its total rejection in its present form. It is full of suggestive situations and questionable sub-titles calculated to convey a double meaning. The dignity of womanhood is flouted in almost every reel and an effort is made to win the laughter of the beholder through indecent scenes and salacious or smutty sub-titles. Even if the sub-titles and situations depicted could pass muster, there would still be a question as to whether or not the costumes worn by the actors come within the bounds of propriety.

The story of the comedy represents women of various ages contending in the most shameless fashion for the possession of a young man. Little, if any, attempt is made to conceal the fact that they are impelled by sex impulse. In some of the scenes the suggestion is so broad as to give one a positive shock.

Virginia’s Board of Censors

The film was also banned by the British Board of Film Censors. Well of course they did!



November 2, 1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman gained a surprise victory over Thomas Dewey in the Presidential Election. A Chicago newspaper had wrongly printed a banner headline stating Dewey had won, based on an exit poll. The famous jubilant Truman photo, the entire front page, and note the upside-down type in the lede story (right-side column).


‘Dewey Defeats Truman’: The Election Upset Behind the Photo



Nov 2, 1962: The Koven Fallout Shelter company had a "short-circuit" in their telephone service at during the Cuban Missile Crisis. They published an apology (after the crisis). It appears two years earlier they seen a fallout market for the home owner besides their "steel" swimming pools, heating boilers and water heaters.




An Escape Room Called Humanus By Bernard Louis De Koven (1941-2018)

Humanus is a "simulation game" (what we call "serious games" nowadays). It was designed by Paul A. Twelker and Kent Layden, and published, in 1973, by a company then called SIMILE II, and now known as Simulation Training Systems.

The game consists of a handbook and a cassette tape, and I happen to have one of the few remaining tapes (but not the handbook).

The game allows us to explore some of the hard issues that would befall people in a bomb shelter after a some kind of biological war or plague. The audio is relatively brief, but the questions it raises are profound, provocative and timeless.

Gather a small group of deep thinking players (middle-school-age on up) around your audio source. Once you start the audio, you'll hear what sounds like strange computer sounds followed by a computer-generated voice - uninflected, echoey. It announces its presence: "You are the survivors. This is a voice printout of your survival computer. You may call me Humanus."

Elon Musk: ..."by any means possible."


https://x.com/politvidchannel/status/185...3134939178

So, Elon just gave a reason for a lot of people to vote for her. LOL. Besides nobody is going to shutdown X/Twitter. It's a mega datamine harvesting machine that serves all alphabet agencies world-wide.



Inside America’s UFO Cults: A Look at Manipulation and Misinformation in the UFO Counterculture...

In the perplexing subculture of UFO beliefs, individuals with cult-like followings and frequent claims associated with dubious “whistleblowers” aren’t uncommon. But how can you separate genuine voices from those leveraging UFO lore for personal or financial gain?

In a new documentary, Dark Alliance: The Inside Story of the Cosmic Con, filmmaker Darcy Weir dives into one section of the UFO counterculture, narrowing in on two well-known figures: David Wilcock and Corey Goode, presenting them as case studies in manipulation and the spread of misinformation within the UFO community and its associated areas of belief.

In Dark Alliance, Weir takes his viewers on a journey of exploration into how these two controversial figures came to fool not only the community they serve, but also some of the people who brought them to the top.

However, the cautionary tale Weir presents is far from new: the events he chronicles echo the actions of cults and similar groups from over the years, many of which bear a resemblance to some of today’s alleged UFO whistleblowers, self-proclaimed insiders, and cult leaders.



Inside America’s UFO Cults: A Look at Manipulation and Misinformation in the UFO Counterculture

The Docu is streaming on AppleTV, TUBI, Amazon.




Simply replace "aliens" with "decepticon humans" doing dark magic.


Your UFO Message of the Day!





Weekend words...



Yesterday's Gossip
She raced down the perquage, all bustle and flurry,
To relay the gossip at this week’s muffin-worry.
But exulansis loomed large, and her tales all fell flat,
Deemed pisspotical prattle and a little old hat.


If you're wondering what is all the squirrel pisspotical about...


Peanut The Squirrel's Owner Rips New York for Seizing, Killing Social Media Star

I suspect the reason the Peanut story is resonating so much is that it's such a clarifying example of how mundane and pervasive petty tyranny has become.


"Will this wonderful civilization of to-day perish? Yes, everything perishes. Will it rise and exist again? It will -- for nothing can happen that will not happen again. And again, and still again, forever. It took more than eight centuries to prepare this civilization -- then it suddenly began to grow, and in less than a century it is becoming a bewildering marvel. In time, it will pass away and be forgotten. Ages will elapse, then it will come again; and not incomplete, but complete; not an invention nor discovery nor any smallest detail of it missing. Again it will pass away, and after ages will rise and dazzle the world again as it dazzles it now -- perfect in all its parts once more. It is the Law of Periodical Repetition."

- Mark Twain, "Passage from a Lecture" published in Fables of Man