Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy National Pig Day (USA) and Saint David's Day (Welsh: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi) across the pond and Beer Day (Iceland) marking the end of the 74-year prohibition of beer. Damn, that was a long dry generations of sorrow! I'll have a Viking. Make it a double!




March 1, 1925: Inventor of Death Ray Says Found Buyer in America.
(Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.), pg 3, March 2, 1925.


Harry Grindell Matthews (17 March 1880 – 11 September 1941) was an English inventor who claimed to have invented a death ray in the 1920s.

In July 1924, Matthews left for the US to market his invention. When Matthews was offered $25,000 to demonstrate his beam to the Radio World Fair at Madison Square Garden, he again refused and claimed, without foundation, that he was not permitted to demonstrate it outside England. US scientists were not impressed. One Professor Woods offered to stand before the death ray device to demonstrate his disbelief. Regardless, when Matthews returned to Britain, he claimed that the USA had bought his ray but refused to say who had done it and for how much. Matthews moved to the US and began to work for Warner Bros.

Harry Grindell Matthews of Winterbourne


March 1, 1954: Castle Bravo thermonuclear explosion, a whopping 15 Megatons, a cocktail of lithium-6 deuteride mixed with lithium-7 detonated at Bikini Atoll at 6:45am sending super bright light across the pond. It was 250% more powerful than the force calculated by the Strangelovian scientists who had engineered it. It would become known as the worst radiological disaster in history. The test also quickly influenced popular culture in Japan and around the world by spawning one of the greatest (and certainly most durable) Atomic lizard movie monsters of all time: Gojira/Godzilla.




March 1, 1955, the United States conducted the Tesla nuclear test atop a 300-foot tower at the Nevada Proving Ground. Designed by Livermore lab physicist John Foster, the explosive yield of the nuclear howitzer shell (the first miniaturized atomic bomb) was 7 kilotons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypgr9-4Fqww

February 29, 1968 at the Nevada Test Site, the US conducted DORSAL FIN, (part of "Operation Crosstie") its only Leap Day nuclear test. A joint Los Alamos-DOD underground tunnel weapons effects test, the yield was less than 20 kilotons.




March 1, 1959: The last episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood was broadcast on ITV. It starred Richard Greene as the famous outlaw. There had been 143 half-hour, black and white episodes since September 25, 1955.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIXiESqT_jY


UK #1 on this day in 1980: Blondie - Atomic




March 1, 1998: The X-Files "Patient X" S5E13 aired.
MULDER: All this conjecture - the "ontological shock" that you speak of, for which we are so ill-equipped - is not only false but dangerous. This woman presents no good or credible testimony apart from the feel-good message that she promotes.




In a letter dated Feb 25th Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. director of national intelligence, said the U.S. is examining whether the UK government had violated the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, which bars it from issuing demands for the data of U.S. citizens and vice versa.

It's a good sign (I think)that there is open debate over philosophical principles among Western leaders instead of the photo op unanimity of the recent past. No matter which side of an issue you're on this is beneficial. I think it's strange because we're not used to it. What's driving the techno-democratic or techno-libertarian trend is the "techno" part. Social media (e.g., X), data analysis, and open-source information create a flood that can't be economically dammed, short of devoting every cyber warrior and policeman to the task. In a few years direct satellite to phone links will be standard. The bandwidth explosion has just started and that information is gold; it is training sets, innovation, commercial activity. And technonauts are all set to cash in. Censoring it would almost be comparable to the Cuban missile blockade.



While everyone in the news media to influencers emotionally reacts to the recent White House Trump-Vance-Zelensky drama that reportedly caused ontological shock on virgin eyes & ears...



Musings to remember in my opinion:

- Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky likely still doesn't understand he was fighting a US proxy war that US planners knew from the beginning Ukraine was almost certainly going to lose, including "disproportionately large Ukrainian casualties, territorial losses, and refugee flows," as well as "lead Ukraine into a disadvantageous peace."

This is the part of the plan the US and Ukraine are now at - not "make peace."

- The plan was always to provoke war with Russia at the expense of Ukraine's very existence, fight Russia to the last Ukrainian as part of "Extending Russia" within the wider strategy of containment and eventual regime change in Russia itself.

- The ploy has run its full course with the US moving to the next phase, attempting to lower Russia's guard and convince it to - just like Ukraine - trust the US at its own detriment.

- At one point during the argument, US President Trump repeats the fact his administration was the first to supply Ukraine lethal aid in the form of anti-tank weapons (Javelins!), almost certainly the last red line crossed convincing Russia to launch its military operations into Ukraine in the first place.

- US special interests have a simple formula - gain trust, rob/destroy, repeat process.

If you do business with the US and let your guard down, you will be hit over the head, robbed, and your house burnt to the ground every time - Ukraine has just realized this  truth too late - will Russia and China learn from Ukraine's example, or will they need to learn (again) the hard way?

This continuity of agenda concerning Russia and Ukraine has been going on since 2014 with Obama.



Zelensky will probably do a circuit of European NATO capitals and emerge with the missing "security guarantee". Armed with that he can return to Washington "ready" for peace in semi triumph. I mean he already has a signed 100 Year security partnership deal with the UK which appears vague.

The EU obediently begins the US dictate of "division of labor" (specified by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth) meaning Europe continues Ukraine war while US pivots to the exact same sort of conflict, but with China in Asia. Europeans will soon lose social programs to increased military spending.

This pivot to China, already manifesting itself in the form of continued backtracking from Washington's "one China" agreement, continued militarization in Asia-Pacific, recent meddling by Secretary Rubio in Thai-Chinese relations, and continued preparations for further decoupling, encroachment, and encirclement of China, is proof in and of itself the US is disingenuous about real peace with Russia.

The US cannot fight both conflicts on its own. Democrats, Republicans, think tanks, Neo-Cons and SecDef Pete Hegseth himself have all taken turns admitting this. Arms production is expanding on both sides of the Atlantic in the hopes that it will be enough to delay China breaking out of US encirclement in Asia, and ensure success during the next round of aggression vs. Russia.

Extending Russia (Published Apr 24, 2019)


What would it take? A new Field Marshal Kitchner.


What it would take to get Britain ready for war with Russia

There is just no way Europe can maintain low population growth, net zero, mass migration, generous welfare and high military expenditure without some gasket blowing. Everything costs money.


Yes, we truly live in extraordinary times...


Fascinating fine print about how that will be dispersed in three annual £752 Million payouts.

UK reinforces support for Ukraine with £2.26 billion loan to bolster Ukrainian defence capabilities

This will ensure Russia remains an extraordinary enemy for the next 100 years...Or until one side is defeated.


Hey everybody, America now has an official language called English!

Accordingly, this order designates English as the official language of the United States.

(b)  Executive Order 13166 of August 11, 2000 (Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency), is hereby revoked; nothing in this order, however, requires or directs any change in the services provided by any agency.  Agency heads should make decisions as they deem necessary to fulfill their respective agencies’ mission and efficiently provide Government services to the American people.  Agency heads are not required to amend, remove, or otherwise stop production of documents, products, or other services prepared or offered in languages other than English.

THE WHITE HOUSE,
    March 1, 2025.

The choice.

In a 17-minute video announcing his run, Mr. Cuomo, 67, attempted to reintroduce himself to New Yorkers on his preferred terms: as a tested manager, law-and-order moderate and forceful leader capable of rescuing a city that he said “feels threatening, out of control, and in crisis.”

He blamed “failed Democratic leadership” but did not explicitly mention Mr. Adams, and said he would try to work with President Trump where he could.

Sex Pest Enters NYC Mayor's Race

I was not expecting to see this joker to come back. The amazing brain-twister is that no matter how bad their politicians are, democrats won't even contemplate voting for someone else. That is the power of identity politics. Better dead than red.


"THE CHOICE"