Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

"Dak to 67" illustration by Noriyoshi Ohrai inspired by a photograph taken by French photographer Henri Huet during the Vietnam War. On Feb 10, 1971 he and 10 other photojournalists were being transported in a UH-1 Huey, which the Vietnamese pilots inadvertently strayed off course and were shot down over the Ho Chi Minh trail area. All 11 were killed.



The photo in question was featured in Life magazine, February 11, 1966:





Noriyoshi gained fame in 1980 when George Lucas commissioned him to do the international poster for "The Empire Strikes Back" after being impressed by an earlier Star Wars piece he did for a Japanese sci-fi magazine.


A version of this scene found its way into the music video for "Do You See What I See" / "Behind the Barrier" (1984) by Planet P Project (one of my favorite sci-fi story albums of the 80s).





IN THIS MAD HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:
POLITICS IS A SIDESHOW FOR THE RULING CLASSES
"SCIENCE" IS MANIPULATED BY PROFIT FOR GLOBAL CORPORATIONS
THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST ARE BEING CULLED FOR EASIER HERD MANAGEMENT
RITUALISTIC ALCHEMICAL AND ESOTERIC FORCES INFLUENCE WORLD EVENTS
AFTER THIS GLOBAL SATYR PLAY COMES GLOBAL TRAGEDY
POPULAR CULTURE IS PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE


You'll notice the virtue signalling hashtag specifically chosen for inclusion and on this DAY. Hey Cruz, how about concerning yourself with America, Veterans for example!



I miss when we'd randomly deploy Lindsey Graham to Iraq and Afghanistan for a week every so often.












That time when we found out the government actually passed regulations in 1926 requiring industrial alcohol manufacturers to add deadly poisons to their products, knowing it would wind up in bootlegged alcohol during Prohibition. Chem flavorings such as benzine, mercury, and more methanol. Numbers are hard to track, but it has been estimated some 10,000 Americans died from this evil insanity.


Newspaper clipping fullsize (PDF)

From this article:

Again, this affected poor people. This was a poor man's drink.

GL: Another thing that's interesting about this story is that the government did something similar with marijuana in the 1970s.

DB: Right. The Paraquat spraying. The government was trying to get rid of marijuana plants in Mexico, and they sprayed plants with this herbicide that they thought would kill them. But it didn't kill them all. What it did was load the plants with poison.

The government basically said, "Oh well." This was basically the government response to the poisoning in the 1920s. "Oh well, you're an evil lawbreaker. If you get poisoned, that's your problem."

GL: What do you think this all says about prohibition and the war on drugs?

DB: It shows that moral crusades are really dangerous. People really do believe that they're on the side of the angels, and that the ends justify the means.
The US government once poisoned alcohol to get people to stop drinking

100 years later we have the (engineered) Fentanyl epidemic.


Ok, boys, so we need a large fighting force in central Asia to counter the Ruskies, the Chinese & the Iranians...last weapons transfers were a little too obvious and caused problems in logistics. So, what can we do to avoid that this time?? I have an idea. I've got some frens from the 1980s.



Meanwhile...


https://twitter.com/__0HOUR1_/status/166...0187794434

Luckily they don’t have equipment. <sigh>