Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.



Mario: Wherever there's oil there's Americans.

Dick: When I was a kid, I used to see men go off on this kind of jobs... and not come back. When they did, they were wrecks. Their hair had turned white and their hands were shaking like palsy! You don't know what fear is. But you'll see. It's catching, it's catching like small pox! And once you get it, it's for life! So long, boys, and good luck.

The village was the former "Camp de Saliers", a concentration camp near Arles, where gypsies were captured from 1940 to 1944. It has been demolished after the film was finished.

First release in France, April 1953 and was the 4th-highest-grossing film of the year in France. UK Feb 1954 and finally came to American theaters on Feb 16, 1955.

The film was cut for U.S. distribution in 1954, in part due to key scenes that denounced crooked U.S. business interests in Latin America. The Criterion Collection laserdisc restored the film to its uncut version with 21 minutes of footage removed from other versions of the film. 4k Criterion master coming in June. Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die".



On March 14, 1964, for the first time in British recording history, all of the Top 10 singles in the UK were by British acts.

1. "Anyone Who Had A Heart," Cilla Black
2. "Bits and Pieces," The Dave Clark Five
3. "Little Children," Billy J Kramer
4. "Diane," The Bachelors
5. "Not Fade Away," The Rolling Stones
6. "Just One Look," The Hollies
7. "Needles and Pins," The Searchers
8. "I Think Of You," The Merseybeats
9. "Boys Cry," Eden Kane
10. "Let Me Go Lover," Kathy Kirby

Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), better known as Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author.








March 12-14 Superstorm of 1993 "Storm of the Century" was one of the most intense mid-latitude cyclones ever observed over the Eastern United States. In terms of snowfall accumulation it broke the record of Blizzard of '66. NOAA later recognized it as the worst snowstorm to ever strike the USA!

The 1993 Superstorm moved across the densely populated eastern portion of the nation, with around 40% of the population of the United States directly affected by the storm. Upwards of 10 million electrical customers lost service due to the storm. An event summary from the National Climatic Data Center records the following death toll by state:

            Florida: 44
            Alabama: 16
            Tennessee: 14
            South Carolina: 1
            Georgia: 15
            North Carolina: 19
            Kentucky: 5
            Virginia: 13
            West Virginia: 4
            Maryland: 3
            Pennsylvania: 49
            New York: 23
            Maine: 2

Every major airport on the U.S. East Coast was closed at one point by the storm. The volume of water dropped by the storm was immense: 44,000,000 acre-feet. (enough water to flood 44 million acres of land one foot deep) The volume of snow dropped by the Superstorm was computed at just under 13 cubic miles. [around 14 trillion gallons]

Superstorm of 1993 "Storm of the Century"

14 trillion gallons is roughly the amount of water that flows over Niagara Falls for about 140 days, or enough to fill over 28 million Olympic-sized swimming pools or supply water to 154 million households for a whole year.

Here's some memories...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44cHhoU0mwc




Former US Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who bridged partisan gaps with his quick wit, dies at age 93

In late ’80s and early ‘90s, Simpson and Ted Kennedy debated the issues of the day in a  2-minute radio show called "Face Off." Hundreds of episodes are on JFK Library website.

Here they discuss whether Simpson was, in fact, an extraterrestrial.



There goes the Office of Net Assessment into the history books...

Hegseth ‘disestablishing’ Office of Net Assessment, Pentagon’s strategic analysis specialists

The memo, dated today and signed by Hegseth, directs the Pentagon’s Performance Improvement Officer and Director of Administration and Management to reassign all civilian employees to other “mission critical positions” inside the department, while military personnel will return to their service to receive new billets.

Simultaneously, the Pentagon’s top acquisition official is directed to “ensure that the necessary steps are taken” by department contracting authorities to terminate “all ONA contracts awarded for ONA and ONA-related requirements.” A number of DC think tanks and research organizations will likely be impacted by these cancelled contracts.

However, it appears ONA will live on in some manner: The memo directs the deputy secretary of defense to provide a plan in 30 days to rebuild the office in a manner “consistent with [Hegseth’s] priorities.”

...
On Feb. 7, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, (R-Iowa), sent a letter to Hegseth questioning whether the office was still necessary and asking for information related to ONA’s production net assessments since 2007 and the last decade of contracts.

“I remain concerned that ONA is not performing its mission for the taxpayer and has engaged in financial waste,” he wrote at the time.

Andrew Marshall, the "Pentagon’s Yoda" was like a permanent fixture, the  strategic geopolitical think tank librarian, served for life. He served as director of ONA from its creation in 1973 under Nixon to his retirement in 2015, at age 94. He died 4 years later.

Presidents come & go, but old crusty relics like Andrew Marshall have immortal influence.

Sen. Grassley: A Case in Waste, Fraud and Abuse: The Office of Net Assessment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFr3Ent-byM



"Bro, quit screwing around. Someone's going to see that and think it's rea..."





Spinal Tap II



Dutch empire making a comeback...apparently the Euro's are taking SecDef Hegseth orders quite seriously and probably also a little intoxicated on their own propaganda.


Royal Netherlands Navy Frigate Fires First Tomahawk off East Coast; U.K., Italy Prepare for Carrier Operations


Just a tad narcissistic...



The irony is this guy used to be a real life trauma surgeon, then somehow got mixed up with David Rockefeller's "Disclosure" project and a decade or so later his mind was taken over by ETs and now for past 7, 8, 9 years has been performing trauma surgery on the minds of many. I'll give him an A- for persistence.





Today's mind cleanser...