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April 30, 1947: In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over 100 lives. Not included in the official number of fatalities were deaths that were recorded as pneumonia.

The "official" number of fatalities involved in building Hoover Dam is 96. These were men who died at the dam site (classified as "industrial fatalities") from such causes as drowning, blasting, falling rocks or slides, falls from the canyon walls, being struck by heavy equipment, truck accidents, etc. Industrial fatalities do not include deaths from heat, pneumonia, heart trouble, etc.

The record regarding the number of fatalities that occurred at Hoover Dam during its construction is just not that clear. However, the following information comes from the Hoover Dam Project History, volumes 1 through 5, 1931 to 1935, and provides the best information Reclamation has available on this subject.
Fatalities at Hoover Dam

Bills passed by Congress during its construction referred to it as Hoover Dam (after President Herbert Hoover), but the Roosevelt administration named it Boulder Dam. In 1947, Congress restored the name Hoover Dam.

Lake Mead Water Level

What's up with those Dam sculptures?

One of the highlights for many of the people who visit Hoover Dam each year is the artwork they find. While most people are impressed by these works, they often ask the question, "What do they mean?"

Much of the sculpture is the work of Norwegian-born, naturalized American Oskar J.W. Hansen. Mr. Hansen fielded many questions about his work while it was being installed at the dam. In response to those questions, he later wrote about his interpretation of his sculptures.

Hoover Dam, said Hansen, represented for him the building genius of America, "a monument to collective genius exerting itself in community efforts around a common need or ideal." He compared the dam to such works as the great pyramids of Egypt, and said that, when viewing these man-made structures, the viewer often asks of their builders, "What manner of men were these?"

The sculptor, according to Hansen, tries to answer this question objectively, by "interpreting man to other men in the terms of the man himself." "In each of these monuments," he said, "can be read the characteristics of these men, and on a larger scale, the community of which they are part. Thus, mankind itself is the subject of the sculptures at Hoover Dam."

Hansen's principal work at Hoover Dam is the monument of dedication on the Nevada side of the dam. Here, rising from a black, polished base, is a 142-foot flagpole flanked by two winged figures, which Hansen calls the Winged Figures of the Republic. They express "the immutable calm of intellectual resolution, and the enormous power of trained physical strength, equally enthroned in placid triumph of scientific accomplishment."

"The building of Hoover Dam belongs to the sagas of the daring. The winged bronzes which guard the flag, therefore, wear the look of eagles. To them also was given the vital upward thrust of an aspirational gesture; to symbolize the readiness for defense of our institutions and keeping of our spiritual eagles ever ready to be on the wing."

The winged figures are 30 feet high. Their shells are 5/8-inch thick, and contain more than 4 tons of statuary bronze. The figures were formed from sand molds weighing 492 tons. The bronze that forms the shells was heated to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, and poured into the molds in one continuous, molten stream.

The figures rest on a base of black diorite, an igneous rock. In order to place the blocks without marring their highly polished finish, they were centered on blocks of ice, and guided precisely into place as the ice melted. After the blocks were in place, the flagpole was dropped through a hole in the center block into a predrilled hole in the mountain.

Surrounding the base is a terrazzo floor, inlaid with a star chart, or celestial map. The chart preserves for future generations the date on which President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Hoover Dam, September 30, 1935.

The apparent magnitudes of stars on the chart are shown as they would appear to the naked eye at a distance of about 190 trillion miles from earth. In reality, the distance to most of the stars is more than 950 trillion miles.

In this celestial map, the bodies of the solar system are placed so exactly that those versed in astronomy could calculate the precession (progressively earlier occurrence) of the Pole Star for approximately the next 14,000 years. Conversely, future generations could look upon this monument and determine, if no other means were available, the exact date on which Hoover Dam was dedicated.

Near the figures and elevated above the floor is a compass, framed by the signs of the zodiac.

Hansen also designed the plaque commemorating the 96 men who officially died during the construction of Hoover Dam, as well as the bas-relief series on both the Nevada and Arizona elevator towers. The plaque, originally set into the canyon wall on the Arizona side of the dam, is now located near the winged figures. It reads:

"They died to make the desert bloom. The United States of America will continue to remember that many who toiled here found their final rest while engaged in the building of this dam. The United States of America will continue to remember the services of all who labored to clothe with substance the plans of those who first visioned the building of this dam."

The Story of Hoover Dam

David Horowitz spent the first half of his life as a Marxist dropping banger articles for publications like Ramparts (1960s) about how wealth (and the CIA) shaped the post WW2 university system. Of course, in hindsight it illuminates the David Horowitz Freedom Center's obsession with university "infiltration" by radical leftists and Muslims. There is a certain tendency that attracts people to radical ideas regardless of political affiliation and they'll follow it wherever it takes them, even to the ends of Earth.


20 page pamphlet

Longtime Communist activist turned conservative and author of such books as "Destructive Generation," "Radical Son," "Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes," "Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery," "Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left," "The Anti-Chomsky Reader," "Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey" and "The Politics of Bad Faith." He is also the editor of the conservative online magazine FrontPage.com and the president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture.




Space Force's GSSAP 5 (USA 324) reported to be buzzing Chinese military GEO satellites. This the sort of thing that causes DoD officials to issue outraged comments when China does it to ours...


https://x.com/COMSPOC_OPS/status/1917299841039831248

Trump: Outer space is now renamed Space of America.

Is the U.S. prepared for attacks against our space systems?

Big Ideas Lab


John Foster Jr. was an absolute legend in the nuclear weapons & security enterprise.

Something about these Dr. Strangelovian superior intellect types where it either vaporizes you, torments you with parasitic cancer, Or extends one's life. I guess that is why ET has been so damn interested in our nuke R&D. He was a long-serving member of the Defense Science Board.

He followed in his father's footsteps. As you may ponder, he has a long interesting bio and very few know how many secrets he took to his grave...


Visionary LLNL director and national security pioneer Johnny Foster dies at 102

Welp, the folks in Washington today are beyond help. Not sure what's in store for us over the next 5 years.

Norris Bradbury succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project. Bradbury was in charge of the final assembly of "the Gadget", detonated in July 1945 for the Trinity test.


In the 1950s Bradbury oversaw the development of thermonuclear weapons, although a falling-out with Edward Teller over the priority given to their development led to the creation of a rival nuclear weapons laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

In the mid-1990s, Bradbury had an unfortunate accident with an axe while chopping firewood. Gangrene set in, and his right leg was amputated below the knee. It spread to his left leg, and part of his left foot was amputated, leaving him in a wheelchair. The disease eventually proved fatal, and he died on August 20, 1997.


Final Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Directed Energy Weapon Systems and Technology Applications (Dec 2007) -  97-page report

Obviously, since that report, billions have been dumped into the DEW given what we see today...Drones, fighter & EW jets, satellites, ray-guns, mysterious fires, etc.


A cold chuckle of concern: JASON group physicists, advisors to DARPA all throughout the cold war era until post-9/11. According to DARPA researcher, Annie Jacobsen, when DARPA & the Pentagon wanted to move into autonomonous warfare with hunter/killer self-governing drones AND brain chip implants; the JASON group advised against it. DARPA & Pentagon Strangelovian's replaced the JASONs with an old group called the Defense Science Board (DSB).

Sec of Defense Ash Carter under Obama ordered a program to work on robotics and Ethics. Then it was realized that cyborgs don't have morals so DARPA created a new program focused on "trust" called Narrative Networks or the "N2" program to master the science of propaganda in working with story tellers and anthropologists on how people are influenced by narratives which involves a brain chemical called Oxytocin, sometimes referred to as the brain's moral molecule.

Analyze the neurobiological impact of narratives on hormones and neurotransmitters, reward processing, and emotion-cognition interaction; and Develop models and simulations of narrative influence in social and environmental contexts, develop sensors to determine their impact on individuals and groups, and suggest doctrinal modifications...And that project was from 10 years ago.

So, from DARPA perspective this Oxytocin chemical is what humans use as a trust mechanism and the potential to mass manipulate populations along with DARPA transhumanism for the military. Remember, these DOD types have zero boundaries when it comes to morale & ethics. (NOT the transhumanism flavors you see in msm)

Donald Trump in his first term defunded the JASON group. I'm not sure if that was later reversed or they got re-funded from private interests groups.

Nobody reads these DSB reports except other DOD academics, the Russians, and probably the Chinese.



My Atomic ray gun for restoring peace in the Middle East and dealing with certain EU leaders...


A blast from the Atomic Age! The Atomic Disintegrator cap pistol by Hubley wowed 1950s imaginations with its sleek design and red grips—back when atomic ray guns felt less like sci-fi and more like a real possibility.


Nuclear bomb photo ops like this one crack me up, but it is serious business.
Bomb worshiping photo taken at the Pantex nuclear weapons manufacturer in Texas. Nice touch with the Psalms 91 hoodie. God help us.