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[EndtheMadnessNow]

Heinz Kissingfool turned 100 today.
Not only has he outlived most of his peers, presidents, eminent detractors and students, but he has also remained indefatigably active in global affairs. How the hell is this war criminal still alive?!





"An enemy A-Bomb Smuggled in to blast America!" The "shock drama" THE 49th MAN opened in Los Angeles (with the comedy THE SIREN OF BAGDAD) May 27 in 1953.


During the Cold War, the Defense Department's War Games team smuggles 48 nuclear bomb parts into the USA to test the nation's readiness for a subversive attack but an unexplained 49th bomb part mysteriously shows up.
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May 27, 1956: Ed Sullivan jolted his television viewers by airing the animated 6 min horrifying anti-nuclear-war film "A Short Vision" during his hugely popular Sunday evening show.



In 2011, Mr. CONELRAD wrote a detailed article about the film and its reception:

A SHORT VISION: Ed Sullivan’s Atomic Show Stopper

    “I’m gonna tell you if you have youngsters in the living room tell them not to be alarmed at this ‘cause it’s a fantasy, the whole thing is animated…”

    -- Ed Sullivan introducing the apocalyptic short film A SHORT VISION on the May 27, 1956 broadcast of The Ed Sullivan Show[1]

    “Years later I met a man from Canada who had shoulder length dark hair, but in the center of his head was a small spot where his hair grew out a silvery white color. I asked him about it, and he told me that he was a medically documented case of a person whose hair had turned white from fright. As a child, he had seen A SHORT VISION while alone in a house, and he experienced extreme panic and terror for some time, and one result was that his hair began to grow out white from that one spot on his head.”

    -- Excerpt from a remembrance written for CONELRAD by Michael Mode, baby boomer, who also saw the end of the world on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1956.



INTRODUCTION: Sunday Night at the Apocalypse

From the vantage point of today’s media-saturated, 24/7, TV-in-every-room, on-demand world, the concept of a must-see, live, prime time television show starring an awkward newspaperman nicknamed “Old Stone Face” is hard to fathom.[3] Throw in the fact that the show was a bona fide institution for over two decades and the premise begins to sound like science fiction. The closest current analog to The Ed Sullivan Show in terms of popularity is FOX’s American Idol, but Idol producers would sell what is left of their souls to get Sullivan’s audience share. The proudly untelegenic host dominated Sunday nights in an era well before TV fractured into 500 channels. But today Ed Sullivan’s significance to broadcasting is practically unknown to Americans born after the baby boom generation.

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Long & lengthy bibliography: A SHORT VISION: Ed Sullivan’s Atomic Show Stopper

The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

Completed with the support of the British Film Institute's Experimental Film Fund. How nice. Probably had a few fellows from Tavistock directing. Voice over by James McKechnie (1911-1964; Glasgow, Scotland) Watch if you dare, right before bed time! LOL (Note the black triangle UFO, I mean bomber)




I got the key, I got the "Football"....



Carrying on the tradition of Captain Edward Latimer Beach Jr. "Run Silent, Run Deep" (April 20, 1918 – Dec 1, 2002) bestselling author and Eisenhower military aide, who developed the nuclear football protocol.

Retired Navy Capt, Edward Beach invented the football during the Eisenhower administration. Actually, he devised a set of footballs containing the presidential orders for a nuclear attack and planned to have them scattered around the country. The rest is history. For more than 30 years new presidents have been given briefings-they last about 15 minutes--on the football. But most show little interest--not even John Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis. As McGeorge Bundy, his national-security adviser, explains it, "He was not the type of man to inquire about how to drop a bomb."

Fumbling The Football: Now It Can Be Told (Newsweek, Oct 6, 1991)

History teaches us nothing is new or changes much.



Today in MAD MEN (TV Series 2007–2015) history...




As Ninurta has said many times over, it's time to open a can of whip-ass, or something along those lines...



Here's the Freija style short info-graphic thread on how that shotgun cannon was fabricated.