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Happy Acktober 4th!




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The tragic story of James Tilly Matthews, a former peace activist of the Napoleonic Wars confined to Bedlam asylum in 1797 for believing that his mind was under the control of the “Air Loom” — a terrifying machine which was brainwashing politicians:

In 1810 John Haslam, a London apothecary, published the first ever book-length description of a mad person’s delusions. Until this point most medical case histories of what we now refer to as mental illness had amounted to a line or two at most, and more often just a single word such as “frenzied” or “melancholy”. But the opinions of James Tilly Matthews resisted any such summary. He described a previously unimagined world of futuristic machines, “magnetic spies” and mass brainwashing, woven into a bizarre but undeniably well-informed narrative of the high politics behind the Napoleonic Wars.

Haslam titled his book Illustrations of Madness, and it was full of lessons for the nascent profession of “mad-doctoring”, later to be known as psychiatry. But it was also written to settle a personal score. Haslam was the apothecary at the Royal Bethlem Hospital — in popular slang, Bedlam — where James Tilly Matthews had for the previous decade been confined as an incurable lunatic. Not everyone, however, believed that Matthews was mad. Haslam’s diagnosis had been contested by other doctors, and the governors of Bethlem had distanced themselves from it. He wrote his book in retaliation against his superiors; but as it turned out, his patient would have the last word.

Although Haslam has been relegated to a footnote in the history of psychiatry, his account of Matthews’ inner world is still cited as the first fully described case of what we now call paranoid schizophrenia, and in particular of an “influencing machine”: the belief, or delusion, that a covertly operated device is acting at a distance to control the subject’s mind and body. For everyone who has since had messages beamed at them by the CIA, MI5, Masonic lodges or UFOs, via dental fillings, mysterious implants, TV sets or surveillance satellites, James Tilly Matthews is patient zero.

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Mindcraft from the Wellcome Collection

Lobster-cracking:




The above animation from Beakus is part of of the Wellcome Collection’s new online and digital exhibition titled Mindcraft, which explores a century of madness, murder and mental healing, from the arrival in Paris of Franz Anton Mesmer with his theories of ‘animal magnetism’ to the therapeutic power of hypnotism used by Freud.

Hit the link to read more: Illustrations of Madness


October 4, 1957: Toy With Lead Paint Found in Store Here.
This article made the front page, just before Sputnik buried every other story. Back then it was Japanese toy-makers. Today it's the Chinese. Round & round we go, only Sputnik knows!




At 7:28pm tonight (GMT) on Oct 4, 1957 at the Tyuratam Test Range in Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Prosteyshiy Sputnik 1 (Elementary Satellite 1) into low-Earth orbit, giving shock 'n awe revelation to the Pentagon generals and igniting a Cold War space and ICBM race. For 21 days the 184-pound, basketball-sized orbiter transmits a constant radio signal back to Earth: "Beep... Beep... Beep!"

Sputnik was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On that day a story circulated in the Pentagon that a junior officer rushed to tell a U.S. Air Force general that the enemy had just launched the first artificial satellite. The general blurted out "Which enemy, the Army or the Navy?"

The Beep Heard Around the World

As the sun rose on October 4, 1957, many Americans were talking about baseball. The headlines reported that for the first time in nine years, a team from outside of New York had won a game in the World Series. The day before, in front of 65,202 fans filling Yankee Stadium, Hank Aaron launched a fly ball to center field. Mickey Mantle misplayed it, allowing Aaron to stretch the hit into a triple. The play sparked a rally for the Milwaukee Braves, and the Yankees were unable to recover, losing 4 to 2.

By the time the sun set that evening, however, a completely different topic dominated conversations. On the other side of the world, almost 6,000 miles from Yankee Stadium, another ball had been launched and its effects were both more dramatic and long-lasting.

At the Soviet Baikonur complex in what is now Kazakhstan, at 2:12 in the afternoon New York time, the world suddenly changed. Thirty-two rocket boosters ignited, the desert steppe shook and a three-stage rocket shot skyward, accelerating to over 17,000 miles per hour. At 142 miles above the earth, the rocket’s protective cone released its cargo. Humanity’s first satellite, called Sputnik, started to orbit the earth.

The birth of NASA and [D]ARPA came the following year.



October 4, 2006: Wikileaks was launched by Julian Assange. It released secret information from governments around the world. Over 10 million documents were released in its first 10 years. Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its new editor-in-chief.


Could Tony Blair run Gaza?


FEMA cold chills flashback: "This is a test. This is only a test. But it's going to be one very big test."

Nationwide test of US Emergency Alert System to be sent to all cellphones on Oct 4th 2:20pm EST. 10/4, missile inbound, over & out.


Massive emergency alert test will sound alarms on US cellphones, TVs and radios


Amazon Prime Video has gone full retard by editing the key art for James Bond films to remove guns from the posters. The name is Soy. Diverse Soy. Burn Amazon to the ground and drop a nuke just to be safe. Oh FFS, the 007 logo itself has a *literal* gun in it! An abomination. Pathetic! C'mon, WTF next? Welp, we all knew Amazon would destroy Bond and it's already starting. On the bright side this will finally end violent crime in America. [sigh]





You'd think the BBC would be embarrassed to air such patent nonsense. Hysterical clowns.



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