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[EndtheMadnessNow]

The V-2 No. 13 modified V-2 rocket that became the first object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space taken with a DeVry 35 mm B&W motion picture camera. Launched on October 24, 1946, at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, the rocket reached a maximum altitude of 65 miles (105 km) in 3 min.

Watch the newsreel clip of the launch & photos taken.

The camera and film in an armored case were recovered a few hours after the flight. Very few news releases ever covered this monumental launch at the time as did the photographs of more than 1,100,000 square miles of the earth's surface from Aerobee and V-2 rockets. It was launched by General Electric company with both captured German components and re-manufactured ones. The film proved the Earth was round. Ha.


Oct 24, 1947: Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.




Released October 24, 1962: The Manchurian Candidate and same day amid the Cuban Missile Crisis, WE'LL BURY YOU!




TIME for Oct 24, 1983: Reagan Making His Moves / Antinuke protests begin in Europe & the propaganda war intensifies / The Day After, Kansas City is nuked.




Happy 24th Birthday Wayback Machine!
On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.




Police officers handcuffed what they believed to be a 16 year old student armed with a gun at his high school based on an AI system telling them so. Simon says.


BALTIMORE News  |  Omnilert

For a company that's been around 20 years, dedicated to saving lives, recognized by DHS, after careful consideration I've come to the conclusion that this AI tech is total crap.


Trump ballroom donors...


The corporations and donors footing the bill for Trump’s new White House ballroom

The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, gained fame for co-founding HarvardConnection, which they claimed inspired Facebook, leading to a $65 million settlement with Mark Zuckerberg in 2008. They pivoted to crypto early, investing Bitcoin winnings from the Olympics and launching the Gemini exchange in 2014. Their family name traces to Dutch-German roots, with no notable political donor history beyond recent reports.


New Year's eve at the hotel Prosperity, Dec 29, 1909 by Keppler & Schwarzmann for Puck magazine...


Illustration shows waiters Joseph G. Cannon and James S. Sherman turning away a man labeled "Average Citizen" and a woman at the "Hotel Prosperity" dining room because all the tables have been reserved; there are signs on the tables that read "Reserved for Wool Interests, Reserved for Coal Trust, Reserved for Steel Trust, Reserved for Senator Aldrich and Party, Reserved for Cold Storage Interests, Reserved for Sugar Trust, Reserved for Ice Trust, [and] Reserved for Franchise Grabbers".


Meanwhile, the colossal bubble has exceeded $38 trillion!


The national debt reached $38.02 trillion on October 22, 2025, reflecting a $2 trillion increase since January and the fastest $1 trillion accumulation outside the COVID-19 era, fueled by deficits from Social Security, Medicare, and interest payments.


If there was any indication that the Trump Administration is planning a much larger operation against Venezuela and Latin America — this is it. The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group just entered the Mediterranean earlier this month, and now ordered to reverse course and head all the way back across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and I don't think it's just to strike a bunch of fast boats running drugs for the Cartels.


Hegseth Orders USS Gerald R. Ford to U.S. Southern Command


Trump: "I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We're gonna kill them. You know. They're gonna be, like, dead".




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