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Oct 19, 1925: Brigadier General John Charteris, a former British propaganda chief, is reported to boast that he invented one of the most shocking stories used to discredit the Germans during WWI: That they sent the bodies of their slain troops to factories to render the fat into fertilizer.


He is cited by the Quote Investigator as the source for the saying "Military Intelligence is a contradiction in terms", in his 1931 memoir At G.H.Q.


Back in the mid-50s our boy Vegas Vic had his own root beer, bottled by Seven-Up in Las Vegas. It was only around a short time. In 2022, about a half-century later, his "wife" Vegas Vickie aka Neon Cowgirl got in the act with her own beverage via Able Baker Brew Company.



In 1980, another neon sign, depicting a cowgirl in a fringed outfit seated with one leg kicking outward, was erected across Fremont Street. Standing over the Girls of Glitter Gulch strip club, she was known as Vegas Vickie (sometimes erroneously referred to as "Sassy Sally", for the nearby casino). Vickie was designed by Charles F. "Chuck" Barnard of Ad Art. Vic and Vickie were "married" in a 1994 ceremony during construction of the Fremont Street Experience. Vickie was removed in 2017 in preparation for the demolition of the strip club along with Mermaids Casino, La Bayou and the Las Vegas Club. Vegas Vickie has been restored and now resides inside the Circa Resort & Casino which opened on the same spot in 2020.


If curious, you'll learn a lot from this history vid:




Oct 19, 1953: Abram Room’s Soviet propaganda Sci-fi film Серебристая пыль or Serebristaya pyl (Silver Dust or “silvery dust”) is released in the Soviet Union. Never screened or released in US during the cold war. An American scientist invents a new weapon of mass destruction - silver dust, against the backdrop of racial oppression in the US.

Even though it was never released in the States, Serebristaya Pyl caused outrage overseas, after America’s fiercely anticommunist ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce, was somehow able to attend a screening of it, and attacked it in a column in Time magazine. Luce called it ”vile propaganda”, despite the fact that most of what the film showed was happening in the USA at the time, even down to the secret medical testing of black people, without their knowledge or consent. For Luce (a former senator) and her contemporary conservatives, who must have known quite well about racial discrimination and the (often officially condoned) activities of the Ku Klux Klan, the film seems to have hit a sore spot.

But Luce wasn’t the only one upset about Serebristaya Pyl. According to Charlotte M. Manning’s book On the Performance Front the US delegate to the UN called it ”an extravagant fiction”, and James Reston of the New York Times described it as ”the most venomous anti-American movie in the history of [the Soviet] film industry”.

Meaning there was probably some uncomfortable truth bytes exposed.

Serebristaya Pyl film review.


Oct 19, 1979: tragedy struck Camp Fuji in Japan when an intense cyclone ruptured fuel storage, causing 5,000 gallons of gasoline to flood huts filled with U.S. Marines. A kerosene heater ignited the gas, starting a fire that killed 13 Marines and severely burned scores of others. The Fuji Fire was one of the USMC's worst peacetime disasters.


Fuji Fire: New Book Unearths Forgotten 1979 U.S. Marines Tragedy in Japan


- The meeting between Trump and Zelensky descended many times into a “shouting match”, with Trump “cursing all the time”.
- The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin.
- Trump told Zelenskyy he was losing the war, warning: “If [Putin] wants it, he will destroy you.”
"Yes, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today." While Trump was ringing a change on that very old song, telling Zelensky, "Yes, we have no Tomahawks today."
- C'mon man, I was just kidding about the Tomahawks. You have no warships, no subs what in hell did you expect.


Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia


Meanwhile, apparently Hamas did not disarm per Trump order so Israel has launched 120 airstrikes on Gaza and imposed a blockade, cutting off all humanitarian aid. Not a great start to the peace agreement, but then again they do things differently over there.


Israel says Hamas violated ceasefire with 'multiple attacks' leading to IDF response





Meanwhile, on the America menu I guess Columbia is up next...




Used a crane. Smashed a window.
Stole the French crown jewels in 5 minutes.
No violence. Just precision.

If a world-famous museum can be robbed in broad daylight… what does that say about the guardians of culture?

Time to call the Pink Panther...


Thieves rob priceless jewels from Paris' Louvre in brazen heist

Refer to gortex's thread: https://rogue-nation.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=3118

In screaming woods and empty rooms
or gloomy vaults and sunken tombs;
Where monks and nuns in dust decay
and shadows dance at close of day.

II

Where the bat dips on the wing
and spectral choirs on breezes sing;
Where swords of ancient battles clash
and shimmering shades for freedom dash.

III

Where raging storms at midnight howl
and distant rolls of thunder growl.
Where the hounds of hell take flight
and ghost clouds race across the night.

IV

Where silver webs of spiders weave
and star-crossed lovers take their leave.
Where curses lay the spirits low
and mortal footsteps fear to go.

V

Where death holds life in grim embrace
its lines etched on the sinner's face.
Where e'er the march of time is flaunted
voices cry - "this place is haunted."

31 SPOOKY POEMS FOR HALLOWEEN