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October 22, 1844: Millerites, followers of Baptist preacher William Miller anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.



As historian Paul Boyer observes, quoting from David Rowe, a commentator on the Millerite experience: “Millerites are not fascinating because they were so different from everyone else but because they were so like their neighbors” (When Time Shall Be No More, page 82).

Actually, the October 1844 debacle was the second great disappointment for followers of Miller’s chronology and prophecy blueprint. He had previously announced that the coming of Jesus Christ would occur in about the year 1843. The year came and went without Christ’s return. Miller’s prophetic claim had failed and disappointed many people.

Then someone pointed out that he had neglected to take into account the transition from B.C. to A.D., so that his calculations were one year off. Miller then moved the expected return of Jesus forward by one year, this time to Oct. 22, 1844. But the great disappointment happened once again to the thousands of followers who had given away their possessions and waited in expectant belief — for nothing.

William Miller, as all Christians do, yearned for the coming of God’s kingdom. However, this yearning was translated by him into a misguided belief that Christ’s return would occur in his time on a specific date. Miller thought he had discovered in the Bible certain prophecies, which if rationally studied, could provide him with a certain date for Jesus’ return. His study and calculations of various prophecies, such as the 70 weeks prophecy of Daniel 9 and the 2300 days of chapter 8, brought him, he believed, to Oct. 22 as the date for Christ’s return.

The Great Disappointment

Oct 22, 1943: German submarine U-537 reached the coast of northern Labrador and sent a team ashore to erect an automatic weather station. Weather Station Kurt's location was so remote that it was not discovered until 1977. It was assumed to be a Canadian Meteorological experiment until 1981 when a researcher revealed documents connecting it to U-537's secret mission. The station is now on exhibit at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

Wetter-Funkgerät Land–26 (WFL-26), which was placed on Labrador, was a simple array of ten one-meter-high drums. One of the drums contained the meteorological instruments and radio transmitter. Out of that canister sprouted a 33-feet antenna and a weather vane. The other drums contained nickel-cadmium batteries weighing 220 lbs each. The batteries were designed to power a two-minute broadcast every three hours around the clock for six months.

Weather Station Kurt never lived up to its promise. The Germans stopped receiving transmissions after about a month. No one knows what went wrong. Perhaps the batteries drained, or maybe the transmissions were jammed. There’s no record of the Allies discovering and disabling Kurt.

“Weather Station Kurt”: The Only Armed German Operation on North American Soil in WWII

Weather Station Kurt (Wiki)

U-537 was sunk in the Java Sea on Nov 10, 1944 with all hands, crew of 58 by torpedoes from USS Flounder (SS-251).




So if Dept. of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta was forced to resign for prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein, what should happen to a Democrat Senator who confesses to be a kindred spirit with Jeffrey Epstein?


In fact, the highest ranking in Senate seniority, Senator! And senior-most member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Leahy was the 3rd longest-serving U.S. senator in history at 48 years, (1975-2023) and was the longest-serving member of the United States Congress to serve solely as a senator. Leahy was the presiding officer at Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, becoming the first senator to preside over a former president's impeachment trial.

Dr. Henry G. Jarecki (born April 15, 1933) is a German-born (family escaped the Nazis and fled to the UK and then to US) American psychiatrist, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist who comes from a wealthy family. On June 3, 2024, a woman ("Jane Doe #11) who says she was a victim of sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit against Jarecki accusing him of rape and sex trafficking, after Epstein allegedly sent her to Jarecki for psychiatric treatment in 2011. The same woman voluntarily dismissed her civil lawsuit in April 2025.


Oct 22, 2012: A New Perspective...

That strategy, part of a “build Haiti back better” vision, took a crowning if controversial step this week. On Monday, Haitian President Michel Martelly, joined by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a host of political and business luminaries that included her husband (and U.N. special envoy to Haiti) former U.S. President Bill Clinton, inaugurated the Caracol Industrial Park, a $300 million, 600-acre (246-hectare) facility near the country’s north coast, east of the seaport city of Cap Haitien. The Caracol inauguration was the first joint trip to Haiti by the Clintons since they visited the Caribbean nation shortly after they wed in the 1970s. Now they’re hoping Caracol will be the start of a more productive marriage between Haiti and the international donors and investors it so desperately needs just to build back, let alone build back better.

A mock Haitian village was erected for the occasion, as celebrities like British tycoon Richard Branson looked on beneath banners proclaiming “A New Day in Haiti.” Martelly, whom Hillary Clinton gushingly praised as the “chief dreamer and believer,” declared the modern plant and the 130,000 jobs it’s expected to create as proof that despite the usual “sad images of Haiti,” the country “is open for business, and that’s not just a slogan.”

Like Martelly, the U.S., which is leading the international effort to rebuild Haiti, has been eager to present an accomplishment of Caracol’s magnitude amidst what critics have called a slow reconstruction effort. Reassuring evidence of progress is crucial to getting the billions of dollars that international donors have pledged to Haiti—but half of which has yet to be delivered, largely because of the uncertainties on the ground—into the pipeline. “The people of this country have made real progress in a short time,” Hillary Clinton told investors after touring the park, “and we’ve reached a critical moment.”

The Clintons in Haiti: Can an Industrial Park Save the Country?

In October 1984, Ken Thompson publicly revealed his experiment with a self-replicating backdoor in a compiler during his Turing Award lecture, "Reflections on Trusting Trust". He demonstrated how a compromised C compiler could insert a backdoor into the UNIX login command and then replicate the malicious code into any new version of the compiler it compiled.

This was not a hostile attack, but a proof-of-concept to illustrate a fundamental problem in computer security: you cannot fully trust code unless you built it entirely yourself. Thompson’s point was that no amount of source code review can protect you if the compiler itself is compromised.

Ken Thompson is one of the co-creators of Unix and the B programming language (a predecessor to C), and his fingerprints are all over modern computing.


When he was awarded the Turing Award, often called the “Nobel Prize of Computing”, the expectation was that he’d speak about his contributions to Unix. But he used the stage for something else.

Thompson's fundamental point: UNIX, and every system like it, can NEVER be "secure". It doesn't matter how many layers of anti-virus software, "internet worm protection", "firewall" or any other buzzword -- systems like UNIX (including all versions of Linux, Macintosh OSX, and all versions of WinXP; (all versions of Windoze to date) will NEVER be secure. Thompson published his paper and revealed his hack in order to demonstrate this point.


October 22, 2009: Windows 7 became generally available.




Oct 22, 2012: Meet the new boss... Xi Jinping



President Xi Jinping’s old friends in Iowa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUjJSRnNxOY


Making humans more irrelevant everyday...


Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents

LOL, "Leaked documents" my arse. Everybody knows this was coming for years. "We can't let the peasants take control of our narrative." Dozens of companies are currently developing "cobots" which as we know will eventually replace humans for most jobs.


LOL! Go Otters!


‘Feisty’ Otters Are Once Again Hijacking Surfboards in Santa Cruz