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Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of The Day Of The Dolphin.



Director/producer Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky who escaped the Nazis, aka Mike Nichols (1931-2014) by Mark Harris, "at thirty-five, he lived in a three-story Central Park West penthouse, drove a Rolls-Royce, collected Arabian horses, and counted Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Leonard Bernstein, and Richard Avedon as friends." 



My Science & the Dolphin Frontier thread.


In the late 1970s and early 1980 the US government accused the USSR of using illegal chemical weapons in Laos, Cambodia, and Afghanistan, a phenomenon that became known as Yellow Rain. During his 1981 visit to West Berlin Alexander Haig claimed to have "significant evidence."



NY Times

In the following years there was a world wide media campaign around the allegations, including illustrated brochures and ads in newspapers, with very specific claims about the toxins found in thousands of samples obtained from alleged victims.

In the annual 1985 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report (695 pg PDF) finally concluded that the samples contained pollen - and bee shit.



The US never officially retracted the accusations. Accusing the USSR while themselves pouring tons of Agent Orange on Vietnam.

Sterling Seagrave (April 15, 1937 – May 1, 2017), named as an "expert" in the 1981 NYTimes piece, was really a journalist who later went on to become a "historian" and had a decent career writing books on clandestine aspects of Asia. The blurb for his 1981 book "Yellow Rain: A Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare" is... interesting.


Archive.org

He & his wife also wrote "Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold" (2003)

Believe it or not, "Yellow Rain" a few inner circle (Fauci) people, one who wrote her thesis on it were involved with...Covid planscamdemic.

Weird cross-connection between odd events: a series of sudden cardiac-related deaths of Southeast Asian immigrants in the late 70s and early 80s (dubbed Pokkuri Disease in Japan, inspiration for A Nightmare on Elm Street) was initially tied to the CIA-promoted Yellow Rain theory.




Just think, they could took all that $$$ and put it into NATO.


Politico

You literally don’t have to be held captive by that grubby little man, throw him and his collaborators in the gulag where they all belong.


According to the sorcerers over at the CDC:
"Overdoses have replaced suicide as the leading cause of death for Americans under 45 years of age." Fentanyl: America’s struggle to contain a deadly drug (Financial Times story from Feb 2023)


I went back to St. Francis High School and learned...

"By 2019, the government found itself storing cheese blocks in numbers greater than ever seen before. The United States now possessed 1.4 billion pounds of cheese, and they needed a place to store it. They decided on converting limestone mines in Missouri to store the cheese."

Keeping us safe, the illuminati of cheese.


Cheese Caves

Never forget there is a literal Illuminati of cheese secret society and that is why everything is triple stuffed crust and 5,000 calories now.


US Dairy Management Inc.



What Will the U.S. Government Do With 1.4 Billion Pounds of Cheese?

Are you a "Craver" or an "Enhancer"?
Warning: If you're craver the following 3 min educational vid may "trigger" you to re-think!

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"I'm opposed to it myself..." The people of Lebanon, PA in 1974 weigh in on the topic of streaking. LOL....






Politics is simple, it's about the haves and the have-nots.





Woke X-Files...


New X-Files being developed by Disney with Black Panther director

- Shadowy white men pulling strings behind climate change

- Black & multi-colored people with supernatural powers

- Inbred Southern Baptist weirdos running a cult to de-trans children

- Right-wing eugenics program with ties to... trans Nazis!

I don't think it can work and neither does Mulder & Scully. Conspiracy theorists are inherently "non-woke". However, given these strange inverted times if they lean into it hard enough, it would almost work out as a terrible parody and create a new X-Woke cult. That's kind of where we're at right now, where everything is a Rorschach test.


I love America's economic idiocy here...





We're gonna do a second General William Tecumseh Sherman's march to liberate Waffle House!





^ Alot going on ^ Wow, entire planets doomed to the naughty list? I like that rocket tea kettle.


OSI echoes from the past...Six Million Dollar Man - Christmas Lights (LP Only, 1978) by Peter Pan records. Alien message!

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Jan 1, 1946: The Atomic Bowl: Marines Football Game Played in Post-Atomic Bomb Nagasaki. "A band played the fight song, “On Wisconsin!” The rules were changed from tackle to two-hand touch because of all the irradiated glass shards from the atomic blast remaining on the turf." Talk about surreal!



With Japanese women recruited as cheerleaders...



Susan Southard writes about the event in "Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War" (2015):



Here's a short article on it:
The 'Atomic Bowl': Football on a Killing Field in Nagasaki (January 1, 1946)

QB Angelo Bertelli's [1921-1999] strangest football game ever was the Nagasaki 'Atom Bowl' played on the nuclear fallout ashes. The New York Times sports writer didn't mention it in his 1999 obit.



The Chicago Tribune sports writer didn't mention the Atomic Bowl in QB Bill Osmanski's [1915-1996] obit either.




Atomic City by Exferno - Come out of your fallout shelters and dance across the radioactive landscape.




While the site was on break(down) I came across this domain for sale:



One bad Rogue...


Sources tell KOBI in Medford, Oregon that 9 or 10 patients died at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center when a "nurse injected multiple patients with tap water in an attempt to cover up their misuse of the hospital’s supply of pain medication, specifically fentanyl."


The original Mickey Mouse entered the public domain today. Mickey has a long history with the Navy, appearing in the insignia of the Curtis  O2C-1 Helldivers from Naval Air Reserve Base New York that were used in KING KONG (1933) for the Empire State Building attack scene. During WWII, Disney artists helped boost morale by designing over 1,200 insignia for the U.S. military including one for Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 245 that featured Mickey with guns blazing.


When Howard Hughes "RKO Pictures" camera crews traveled to the east coast to film location shots for King Kong, an RKO representative contacted the Commanding Officer of NRAB Floyd Bennett Field with an offer: RKO would donate $100 to the Officer's Mess Fund and pay the pilots $10 each to fly around the Empire State Building. The C.O., not knowing his superiors had previously denied RKO's request, accepted the offer.


Debbie Does New Years:




I'll Be Back later...

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Continuing on Day 1...

In honor of New Year 2024:
Maureen McGovern singing "The Morning After" in “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972):



Sci-fi movies that take place in the year 2024:

- The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
- Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
- A Boy and His Dog (1975)
- Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) [We all become sterile]








Sputnik Girl 1958:




German born actress does NYE '69:




Miss photogenic blonde starlet of the 1950s, petite, buxom Vera Day was once touted as Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe. Having dropped out of school at the age of 15, she had tried her hand in retail and hospitality before finding steadier employment as a beauty parlour assistant and hairdresser's model. Modelling then became her full-time occupation, but Vera had loftier ambitions.



Future-gazing analysis, predictions and speculation...


The world ahead 2024




Friendly reminder on their 2012 Christmas special:



Mass: Planetfall, 1979, by John Harris.

Image from the book "The Art of John Harris: Beyond the Horizon" (2014).

Which gave me a flashback to...

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Jan. 2, 1924: The book publishing house Simon & Schuster is formed in New York by Richard Simon and Max Schuster. Their first title is "The Crossword Puzzle Book," also marking the first time the puzzles have moved from newspaper to book format, and becoming a bestseller.



View/download the Cross word puzzle book. 1st series (1924)

Simon & Schuster is among several publishers formed by Jewish bookmen in this era, a group that also includes Random House, Viking and Knopf. But whereas the others appeal to literary sophistication, Simon & Schuster is known for mass marketing and aggressive promotion.



The publishing house is the first to accept returns from booksellers, and in 1939 starts the paperback revolution with the introduction of Pocket Books. Its imprints have won a combined 56 Pulitzer Prizes; its colophon (logo) is a sower, symbolizing the spread of knowledge.



Simon & Schuster is acquired by Gulf & Western in the 1970s, later becoming a unit of Viacom. Its proposed merger with rival publisher Penguin Random House was blocked in 2022; it’s now owned by private behemoth octopus investor KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.


100 years ago...




JFK on cover of Look Magazine January 2, 1962


50 years ago, "Stalingrad", the ninth episode of the ITV/Thames Television documentary The World at War, premieres. This is the only episode of the series that features no interviews, a deliberate choice given that most people present at the battle were killed or died in captivity. Possibly the best episode for its pacing, narration, imagery, and music come together in a perfect storm of real-life horror.




And some Nixon nonsense from 50 years ago today:




Psychic gossip for January 2, 1996:



25 years ago a massive blizzard hits the Midwestern United States on Jan 2-4, 1999, impacting Illinois the hardest. 28 inches of snow fall in Chicago and the temperature drops to -30°F (-35°C). It is the second-worst blizzard to hit Illinois in the 20th century. 78 people are killed. Passengers at Detroit Airport are stranded on planes for up to nine hours.




There is a hybrid orchid called the Gomesa Jiaho Queen Orchid, and this is what it looks like:


I call it the alien Queen.

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Jan 3, 1944: USMC ace Gregory "Pappy" Boyington was shot down after recording his 26th victory. He would later write about his exploits in "Baa Baa Black Sheep". The Japanese pilot who claimed to have shot down Boyington published his own account as "Bye Bye Black Sheep".




"The American Society of Auctioneers Lauds Your Courageous Action. We are 100 percent behind you." - Telegram to Jack Ruby that was sent shortly after he murdered Lee Harvey Oswald on 11/24/63. Jack Ruby died of cancer complications at Parkland Hospital on Jan 3, 1967.




Jan 3, 1968: the Cold War sex comedy THE WICKED DREAMS OF PAULA SCHULTZ premiered in New York. A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom. Starring Elke Sommer, Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, and John Banner (Sgt Schultz).




Domain thieves & DNS hell...mood:




Robot server at the Two Panda Chinese deli in Pasadena, Calif. Photo by Lowell Georgia, 1985...


The restaurant owner mentions how they’re great because they can’t unionize:









Bob Haberfield cover art for "The Committed Men" by M. John Harrison, 1973:

The Committed Men is a science fiction novel by M. John Harrison. It is Harrison's debut novel, and was originally published in 1971. The book is dedicated to Michael Moorcock and Moorcock's wife Hilary Bailey.

In a dystopian Britain, social organization has collapsed, and the survivors, riddled with skin cancers, eke out a precarious scavenging existence in the ruins of the Great Society. A few bizarre communities try to maintain their structure in a chromium wilderness linked by crumbling motorways. But their rituals are meaningless clichés mouthed against the devastation. Only the roaming bands of hippie-style situationists have grasped that the old order, with its logic, its pseudo-liberalism and its immutable laws of cause and effect, has now been superseded. Among the mutants are a group of reptilian humans - alien, cancer-free but persecuted by the 'smoothskins'. When one of them is born of a human mother in Tinhouse, a group of humans sets off to deliver it to its own kind - a search of the committed men for the tribes of mutants.
Wiki

"The Voice of the earth" Divine vocals and flute soar above the earth.
The author of the musical work is Aleksey Boychenko.
Vocal: Ethera Gold.

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Do you know what day it is?







Jan. 4, 1924: A Civil War relic causes a bomb scare in the Massachusetts State House. Passers-by call police after seeing a cannonball that was moved out of the adjutant general's office, where it was an "ornament." It still contains gunpowder and is dumped in Boston Harbor.




The Rogues...




Checking under the hood...


She's reading "Why Shoot a Butler?" published in 1933 by Georgette Heyer, a very popular and prolific British author. She's known for romances in the Georgian and Regency eras and detective fiction genres. Her novels sold millions and spawned many imitators, notably Barbara Cartland, Queen of romance.


Jan 4, 1978: While on the launch pad ready for take-off, the crew of the Capricorn One were removed from the spacecraft. The launch then continued, with the public unaware the ship was empty. The crew were later forced to stage a fake Mars landing.




After watching Nic Cage in Dream Scenario I came across this...


A stoic zebra gazes from an Egyptian landscape on the cover of Omni, Feb 1982. New York City artist Bob Giusti painted this unusual and surrealistic tableau of mixed symbols, entitled Mysteries of the World. Originally a fine-arts painter, Giusti now adds his bizarre vision to illustration.


On January 3, 2000, Charles Schulz published his final daily "Peanuts" comic strip...

5 weeks later he died at age 77.


Houthis blockade the Red Sea. The mighty Yemeni Armed Forces was not on my bingo card.


https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/17...2724358364


Relax and have some earthly ice cream.

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Today is National Bird Day. Parrots were popular ship mascots until 1930 when the Navy prohibited them due to concerns over the spread of psittacosis. Many sailors suspected that the true reason for the ban was that parrots were being taught to swear and insult officers. McHale's Navy. LOL!


The US Navy's first aircraft carrier housed pigeons to assist in communications, USS Langley was built with a large coop in the fantail that was maintained by the Pigeon Quartermaster. Advances in wireless ended the need for pigeons.


Container for transportation of 0.15 grams of Californium-252:


Possibly the most expensive synthetic element at $27 Million Per Gram. The synthetic chemical element was named after the university and the state of California.

Cf-252 has a half-life of about 2.645 years, is the most common isotope used and is produced in only 2 laboratories in the world - Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Russia. Aside from nuclear weapons & cancer radiation therapy as a last resort, one of it's primary applications is to kick start a new nuclear reactor. Californium-252 is a very strong neutron emitter, and will seriously disrupt the formation of your red blood cells leading to death.


Niklaus Emil Wirth (15 Feb 1934 – 1 Jan 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including EULER and Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. During his Turing Award lecture, he noted that "one learns best by inventing." In 1984, he was the first and so far only person from a German-speaking country to receive the Turing Award.


In 1995, he popularized the adage now named Wirth's law, which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. In his 1995 paper "A Plea for Lean Software" he attributes it to Martin Reiser.


Jeff Bezos demos Amazon’s website on this day in 1997.




Jan 5, 1900: George invites 4 friends to dinner. He tells them about the time machine he built and the things he had seen.







Maersk appears to have very low confidence that the US Navy can wrap up the Houthi threat within the "foreseeable future." But, but, the Biden Administration released a strongly worded statement to the Houthis!


Maersk Operations through Red Sea

US may also be playing economic wargaming strategy here as a ploy to force Egypt to accept all the Palestinian refugees since they are losing rent money from the lack of shipping trade.

Just a recap on how Maersk is driving this narrative:

On Dec 15 they suspended passage through because of the attack on Maersk Gibraltar.

On Dec 22 they added a $700/TEU surcharge from Asia-Europe.

On Dec 24, following the escort of three US-flagged Maersk Line Ltd ships, they announced the limited resumption of service through the Red Sea with about a dozen ships headed that way.

On Dec 30/31, Maersk Hangzhou was hit by a ballistic missile and attacked by four small boats.

On Jan 2, Maersk announces halts on Red Sea voyages "until further notice."

Jan 5, all Maersk vessels will be diverted.

Container costs will now skyrocket. It seems like Maersk is executing economic policy. What's next? Pirates of the Carribean?


"We buy the ship. Load it up with Anduril Industries anti-drone rockets, and we go into the Red Sea guns-blazing."



Need some freight hauled through the Red Sea? I gotcha ya covered...




Want to buy the U.S. Navy's autonomous drone ship?


You can. It's for auction here: GSA Auctions

Meanwhile, the British Royal Navy is so short on sailors they are mothballing two amphibious assault ships to free up personnel to man other ships in the fleet. But this move apparently means the British Royal Navy's ability to conduct amphibious landings becomes non-existent. On the flip-side there is probably a whole other story.


The Times (archive link)

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Sci-fi Psychic Saturday

Alaska Airlines 737 *Max* has a panel break off and depressurizes the cabin over the Pacific Northwest.

Window section blows out of plane, forces Alaska Airlines flight back to PDX

X-Files episode "Max" (1997) depicted the same situation and was filmed in the Pacific Northwest.



Both the real and the fictional planes were new aircraft.

Time to re-watch X-Files series.


2024: The year psychics return?



COMIC RELIEF: So Paula Roberts "the English psychic" goes live on FOX to pull tarot cards for 2024  predictions. For Trump she pulls 5 of Cups, oh dear, for Biden the 10 of Pentacles. Notice how smoothly Paula explains away Trump's bad news. 3.5 mins:
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6344185305112



Introducing Observers "The Age of the Machine Entities," an instrumental heavy metal re-imagining of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 A Space Odyssey. Album art is by Ryan T. Hancock.






"Forging The Fate" - hand painted with acylics on gesso board, inspired by Baldur's Gate 3 by Ryan T. Hancock:













In the year 2024, a city rises in the Amazonian jungle, as seen in GM's Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair, 1964-65.





Witch Fantastic by Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick. Apparently his witchcraftyness violated the establishment narrative as his X/Twitter acct is suspended.



"Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man" by Salvador Dalí (1943) An androgynous figure points to the emerging “new man,” showing the cowering “geopoliticus child” the new historical period he will represent. Collection of The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, FL; Gift of A. Reynolds & Eleanor Morse.

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Valerie... Call On Me!

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Valerie... Call On Me!

Wow! Yes, I just happen to come across that blog via ATS (some thread from 2011) last night after watching some of DJ's show on her.  I found she was mentioned a few times in docs from pres Ford's library when she was in & around the White House back in the 70s.

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Jerry Lewis, the director, writer & star of The Day The Clown Cried finally gets a screening! Story: Controversial Jerry Lewis film to screen in public for first time after 52 years.

One of cinema’s most sought-after films is set to be screened in public for the first time.

Comedian Jerry Lewis’s controversial holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried, shot in 1972 but never released due to myriad issues with the production, has never been made available in any form, leading the project to reach mythical status in the global film community.

The project, potentially in a semi-unfinished form, is set for a June screening due to a stipulation from Lewis himself. Several years before he died in 2017, a copy was given to the Library of Congress in the US with an agreement it could not be screened in any capacity until this year, though it has since been reported that it may be a rough version.

The National News - Arts & Culture

Film summary:

Helmut Doork, a once great and famous clown, is fired from the circus. Getting drunk at a local bar, he pokes fun at Hitler in front of some Gestapo agents, who arrest and send him to a prison camp. Helmut angers his fellow prisoners by refusing to perform for them, wanting to preserve his legend. As times passes, Jews are brought into the camp, with fraternizing between them and the other prisoners strictly prohibited. Eventually, Helmut is forced by the others to perform or be beaten. His act bombs and he leaves the barracks depressed, trying the routine out again alone in the prison yard. He hears laughter and sees a group of Jewish children watching him through a fence. Happy to be appreciated again, he makes a makeshift clown suit and begins to regularly perform. His audience grows, but a new prison Commandant orders Helmut to stop. When he refuses and continues to perform, he's beaten and thrown in solitary confinement. But the Nazis soon come up with a use for Helmut, keeping the children quiet as they are loaded into a boxcar to be sent to another camp. Helmut complies, but is accidentally locked in with the children and arrives the next day at Auschwitz.

Film trivia:

In 2008 Jerry Lewis took questions at a press conference and was asked by one person: "When are you going to release 'The Day the Clown Cried'?" to which Lewis snapped, "None of your goddamn business!"

Jerry Lewis had the only copy locked in a private vault and vowed to keep it from ever being viewed again. However, according to an article in the 8/26/15 issue of the "Los Angeles Times", he allowed this film--along with some of his other movies--to be preserved at the Library of Congress, but part of the deal was that the film would not be screened there until 2024 (as it turned out, this would make its first showing several years after Lewis' death in 2017). The Library of Congress also released a statement that it hadn't decided its specific screening plans, but would neither share the film for viewing with other government facilities nor release it for any kind of home media.

Jerry Lewis hired a former SS guard as a technical assistant in order to ensure that the concentration camp set in Sweden both looked and felt real.

Jerry Lewis spent ten years working on this movie before filming began.

Sourced from IMDB


"(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" was composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup. He acted in the role of Dr. Joe Early with his wife Julie London in the TV series Emergency! (which was produced by Jack Webb, London's former husband).



Bobby Troup with Dorothy Malone & Rosemary Clooney performing Route 66 (1956)





Jan 7, 2092: "Natural" female Ellen Ripley was born.





Jan 7, 1991: the McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 Avenger II program was canceled by Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense. The carrier-based stealth bomber nicknamed "The Flying Dorito" was intended to replace the A-6 Intruder, but production delays and cost overruns (approxr $5 Billion) doomed the program. However, the manner of its cancellation was contested through litigation until a settlement was reached in January 2014. The R&D eventually went into the F-22 and F-35.


The program may have gone 'black' as in black budget Special access program and later painted 'black' and this may have been a source of all those black triangles seen across the world.




Ah, mini-skirts do it every damn time for me.
Sidenote: My dad has a '65 Frigidaire out in his garage that still runs including the ice-box!


Every damn day...


Your Daily EXCLUSIVE Mail

Meet me in the SCIF, I have Amazing Stories to tell you!



Just non-stop...

TMZ Presents: UFO Revolution (Full Length Trailer)
A 3-Part Event Coming Next Week on @Tubi.







Rep (R-Alabama) Mike Rogers showing off his holiday haul!




Off to work tomorrow...

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What was on page 11 I wonder.

I love America's economic idiocy here...

Whatever happened to simply bombing the enemy out of existence ... ya know ... like what the Israelis are doing to the Philistines?

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What was on page 11 I wonder.

I love America's economic idiocy here...

Whatever happened to simply bombing the enemy out of existence ... ya know ... like what the Israelis are doing to the Philistines?

Here's a copy: The American Legion Magazine, Nov 1951 (PDF)

Note: You may receive a warning as it looks like their web certificate has expired.

Yea, no kidding on the bombing.

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Jan 8, 1960: The "Third from the Sun" episode (S1.E14) of THE TWILIGHT ZONE aired on CBS.

Summary:
Two families of Government employees plan to steal a spaceship and travel to another planet just prior to a nuclear war. They must also deal with a stooge who wants to stop them.

The Los Angeles Times TV capsule writer was impressed by THE TWILIGHT ZONE's "many fine scripts."



The background noises heard aboard the ship in the final scene were later reused in Star Trek (1966).

Rod Serling - Narrator: [Closing Narration] Behind a tiny ship heading into space is a doomed planet on the verge of suicide. Ahead lies a place called Earth, the third planet from the sun. And for William Sturka and the men and women with him, it's the eve of the beginning - in the Twilight Zone.

The "Third From the Sun" teleplay was written by TWILIGHT ZONE creator Rod Serling, based on the short story by Richard Matheson published in the Oct. 1950 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.



You can read the Galaxy Sci-fi short story here starting on page 61.


Which three movies should be watched together as an unofficial trilogy?


I think "Hidden Agenda" (1990) is one of the best "conspiracy" movies on how well intentioned people get drawn into a cover up.


News reporters in Israel don’t mess around...



Never know when the Joker is going to be interviewed.





Second-largest U.S. radio company Audacy files for bankruptcy protection

"Social media killed the radio star."

Get ready for the behavioral chips coming at you in near future. Some will be court ordered.


Bizarre brain chip implanted into monkeys to 'stop them taking risks'

The first human trial subjects should be the 535 parasites on Capitol Hill.





Alex Schomburg cover art for Fantastic Universe, December 1954.


Read/download a full PDF copy


Jan 7, 1963: MIT PhD student Ivan Sutherland unveiled his "Sketchpad", which pioneered the CAD technology used in today's computers.

Dr. Ivan Sutherland is the 2012 winner of the Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology. The award, created by Dr. Kazuo Inamori, founder of not one but two major Japanese companies — Kyocera and KDDI — is a Nobel-like honor given to individuals each year for advanced technology, basic sciences and arts and philosophy. Sutherland, who was born in 1938, isn’t a household name, but there’s nobody more deserving of such as honor. I got to chat with him recently about his work and the prize.

In 1963, while a student at MIT, Sutherland created a highly interactive drawing-and-design program called Sketchpad, at a time when the concept of computer graphics barely existed. It used an oscilloscope for a display, allowed the user to draw with a light pen and ran on MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s TX-2, which had a then-remarkable 64KB of memory.

Fortunately for us, MIT produced a TV show about Sketchpad in 1964, featuring several researchers talking about the software and showing it off. Here it is — and even if you don’t watch all twenty minutes’ worth, I suggest you at least skim ahead to the demo section, which begins at 3:30.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_...KRbHwcL1v2

Sketchpad was so clever that it’s still cool today; it must have been unimaginably so almost fifty years ago.

I asked Sutherland if he knew he was jump-starting a revolution which would go on for decades when he created Sketchpad. “Of course not,” he told me. “The future is very hard to see. I had no idea of what would happen in the future, nor did I think of it much. I just wanted to make nice pictures.”

He did know, however, that he was in a good situation to do interesting things. “I had the great good fortune of the most powerful computer in the world,” Sutherland said. “It had input and output devices suitable for doing graphics. I had access to it for hours at a time.”

For someone who denies being able to see into the future, Sutherland has a remarkable record of helping to create it. In the late 1960s, the Bell Helicopter Company used low-light cameras to help pilots land at night, and devised a system which turned the camera when the pilot turned his head. Sutherland, by then a professor at the University of Utah, wondered why the camera couldn’t be replaced with a computer. With the assistance of Bob Sproull, he created a gizmo — with the wonderful name The Sword of Damocles — which let a user peer into a computer-generated graphical display which, like Bell’s remote camera, adjusted automatically to head turns.

“The name virtual reality might be applied,” he said, correctly, “but it didn’t come along until ten years later.”

Full article: A Talk with Computer Graphics Pioneer Ivan Sutherland


Why did Frank Herbert write DUNE? Interesting 16 min compilation.

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"Moonbase Command, this is Lockheed Control, over"..."Hello, Peregrine Lunar Lander? How's the fuel situation, over?!"







Wonderful & whimsical Viking lander scene.










More on contactee Valerie Ransone...


https://twitter.com/darkjournalist/statu...0332137542


1996 pamphlet publication titled 'The Universal Intelligence Consortium: Conversations with an Interdimensional Correspondent on the Coming Earth Changes' by Valerie Jean Ransone. Can't find anywhere, though I did find some other mentions of interest. Nothing new in the UFO research realm, but new to me.



I'm skimming through Gordo's Leap of Faith book and she's mentioned and talked about over 60 times.

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November 24, 1944: The crew of B-29 Superfortress "Waddy’s Wagon", 20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 497th Bomb Group, 869th Bomb Squadron pose to duplicate their nose art on Saipan.


All were KIA when "Waddy's Wagon" was shot down while guiding a crippled B-29 to safety during a mission over the Nakajima aircraft factory in Musashino, Japan on Jan 9, 1945.


Jan 8, 1983: Los Angeles-class submarine USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN-705) was commissioned. The sub's name initially was just USS Corpus Christi but was changed after protesters objected to a warship with a name that translates from Latin as "USS Body of Christ". Home port was Pearl Harbor. She was Decommissioned on 3 August 2017.


The apartment complex at far left background is where I lived back in the 90s.
SSN 705 - USS City of Corpus Christi


Post-mortem Masonic star-god sacrifice...


NY Post





Painting by Dean Ellis for the article "HIGH WIRE ACT" about space elevators from OMNI, July 1981:



Maybe we'd have better luck getting back to the Moon by building one of these.


Concerning!...Luftwaffe Space Guardians...


Ze Germans have a long infatuation history with Space. Much longer than America.

Taking on SpaceX: Why Germany is building its own spaceport


Bizarre Wars: German army goes full Darth Vader at space command launch - No Ewoks in sight as Germany opens orbital defense HQ.


NOooooooooooooooo...I've seen all the movies.


Apple Vision Pro Enslavement for only $3,499!



Coincidentally, the iPhone was unveiled on this day in 2007.


One Year. Paper tigers in an age of mass delusion.




"The tragic crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 exposed fraudulent and deceptive conduct by employees of one of the world’s leading commercial airplane manufacturers,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General David P. Burns of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Boeing’s employees chose the path of profit over candor by concealing material information from the FAA concerning the operation of its 737 Max airplane and engaging in an effort to cover up their deception."


Full Presser: Boeing Charged with 737 Max Fraud Conspiracy and Agrees to Pay over $2.5 Billion

Just like the Int'l cartel banksters...Until fines exceed the profits of corrupt practices & people at the top face long term prison sentences the current iteration of civilization will continue its downward spiral. There must be equitable justice or else human propensity for greed and the financial rewards of collusion will outpace technological advancements. As has happened in the ancient world and will happen again.

And now 3 years later the Boeing 737 MAX has a major mishap. It appears the latest is all about the bolts. 4 bolts (probably at $1500 ea) that are part of the system that holds the door plug in place are unaccounted for. Investigators don’t know if they were ever there or broke or were otherwise sucked out of the plane. Further testing will be needed by NTSB.

Diagram of a Boeing 737-9 mid-cabin door plug and components (Source: NTSB via Boeing)


https://twitter.com/NTSB_Newsroom/status...9870831016

Helpful video for understanding how the door plugs on the 737 MAX 9 work and what might have gone wrong on the Alaska Airlines flight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhfK9jlZK1o

Alaska Airlines reveals that it, too, has found 'loose hardware' on some of its 737 Max fleet.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Jan 10, 1967: "The nightmare continues!" TV series THE INVADERS premiered on ABC.




The character "David Vincent" was ranked #6 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends" (August 1, 2004 issue).

The show was remade in 1995 as a mini-series. As this was a remake, the David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) character in it is not the same from the old show, despite being played by the same actor. He's "David Vincent II" in the remake.

In interview Roy Thinnes said he was told The Invaders was a study in paranoia, one man knowing something and being unable to convince anyone else what was happening.





Artemis blues...

ABC News

Fulfilling von Braun's dream is delayed yet again. Nobody is going anywhere in this collapsing realm.

Recently failed Moon missions:

1. 2024 US: Peregrine
2. 2023 Russia: Luna-25
3. 2023 Japan: Hakuto-R M1
4. 2019 Israel: Beresheet
5. 2019: India: Vikram lander
6. 2018 China: Longjiang-1

All those engineers that used a slide rule are long gone.


Huh, that a bug or a feature?


Black box recorder Overwritten


2024, Year of the Tunnel...

An initiative that sounds a lot like Jules Verne‘s Journey to the Center of the Earth might mark the first time humans have tapped into magma, the molten rock liquid flowing beneath Earth’s crust. In 2026, Iceland’s Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) project will drill into a volcano’s magma chamber, seeking to tap into its super-hot fumes to generate geothermal energy at a scale that has never been attempted before.

The endeavor promises to power homes across Iceland with a renewable, limitless energy source. And no, this won’t cause the currently active Krafla volcano to erupt, according to John Eichelberger, a volcanologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks interviewed by New Scientist.

Iceland will tunnel into a volcano

Famous last words.

The Year of the Tunnel can't be stopped! West Virginia good old boy came up with a harebrained, Appalachian methrock scheme and dug a Shawshank Redemption-esque tunnel into a used auto dealership to try & steal a car? Everybody’s tunneling in 2024.


West Virginia man breaks into neighboring businesses by making a tunnel


Trust Us...




When you crane up that missing sub onto the deck of your USN aircraft carrier, sometimes it may not be a sub at all...(USS Kittyhawk, 1980s. Courtesy of Richard Doty).

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Jan 11, 1952: President Harry Truman received his civil defense dog tags at the Alert America exhibition in Washington, DC. The actual dog tags photo (bottom) was taken by the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site.




"Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr...a new house, with fallout shelter." Philadelphia Daily News, Aug 24, 1962:


LOL, her "fallout shelter" probably rivaled the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.


R.I.P. Edward Jay Epstein (1935-2024) was an American investigative journalist.



PowerLine Blog  | Edward Jay Epstein Website

Weird, I can't find any Obit and even the wiki has not updated. Apparently, the austere msm, including all the Epstein conspiracy wackos on social media have completely missed this other "Epstein" who at one time interviewed CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton.

Update: The wiki just updated: "Epstein died from COVID-19 at his apartment in Manhattan, New York City, on January 9, 2024, at the age of 88." Ok, sure he did.

One of his professors at Cornell was Vladimir Nabokov (expatriate Russian) and some of his writings, notably "Lolita" (1958) had influenced Jeffrey Epstein and he probably kept a copy under his pillow. Also, one of Nabokov's students at Cornell was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. LOL, go figure.

Then 4 years after his book came Stanley Kubrick's controversial film...



Lolita, this time a 14-year old vice 12. Note, those heart shape glasses have meaning in the Hollyweird pedo club back in those days. Nabokov died in 1977 (aged 78) in Montreux, Switzerland.



"...mental and moral reservations as to his ability to launch nuclear weapons." Jan 11, 1975, U.S. Air Force Maj. Harold L. Hering's military career was formally and irrevocably nuked because of a question he had asked a couple of years earlier.



The question he posed during the Nixon era in 1973: "How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?"

He finally got a response 2 years later on Jan 11, 1975: a USAF board of inquiry ruled 38-year-old Maj. Harold Hering, a decorated pilot who rescued downed pilots in Vietnam, with 20 years of service, be discharged.

Going from from a Minuteman missile crewman, he subsequently became a long-haul truck driver and later spending 19 years with the Salvation Army counseling and helping the indigent and homeless. You can read more about him in a WaPo story which of course they had to update the 2017 story to a hit piece by throwing in Trump:

The same nuclear fears Pelosi has about Trump cost an Air Force major his job in 1973

An Unsung Hero of the Nuclear Age (Feb 2011)

In this 2017 episode of Radiolab, you can listen or read the transcript of Hering discuss what happened to him and learn much more about the US nuclear chain of command and the president’s sole authority over whether, when, and how to use the US nuclear arsenal. Note the Biden regime had wanted to revise that nuclear chain command. Pentagon said No. Not sure where the nuclear protocols stand today and Putin is still trying to ascertain just exactly who is running the White House.

Hering, who served SIX tours of duty in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, including 285 air rescue combat missions, never had any moral objections to launching an ICBM. In 1975, he declared, "I do not regret my action, I don't think I did anything wrong." He turns 88 next month.

He's not wrong. On at least one (crisis) occasion, Nixon got drunk and wanted to nuke Pyongyang. An intoxicated President Richard Nixon ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to attack North Korea with a nuclear weapon after its fighter jets intercepted and shot down a US EC-121 reconnaissance plane over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 crew members.



In 2010, NPR interviewed US Air Force veteran Bruce Charles, who was on alert that day at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea and told to prepare to strike his target, a North Korean airstrip. His F-4 Phantom II fighter carried a single 300 kiloton B61 nuclear gravity bomb.



After waiting for several hours that afternoon, Mr. Charles was told to stand down around dusk. Unbeknownst to him, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had convinced the Joint Chiefs of Staff to hold off until the next morning, when Nixon would be sober. ("Drunk in charge", The Guardian, Sept 2000)

For more on the newly-installed Nixon administration’s serious consideration of multiple plans for using nuclear weapons against North Korea in retaliation for its shoot-down of the EC-121, see this declassified document collection from the National Security Archive on FREEDOM DROP.

According to the book "The Arrogance Of Power: The Secret World Of Richard Nixon", Nixon had outbursts like this so frequently that Kissinger told White House aides more than once, "If the president had his way, there would be a nuclear war each week!" (see "Drunk in charge" link above)

At age 70, Harold L. Hering began marathon training and competition at the National and World level. Then beginning at age 72, he qualified for Team USA for 9 consecutive years to compete at the World Duathlon Championship.


THE PEACE ABBEY FOUNDATION

And what if someone in his Chain of Command thought that they could no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids? ...Or suffering from some form of dementia? Then what?!



Funny how this decorated war hero gets fired & discharged, but many think Russian officer Stanislav Petrov was a hero (because he received more msm attention) for doing almost precisely this and NOT launching when the computer told him to do so back in Sept 1983.

And that was 20 years before the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, where AF officers are trained, and became a hotbed of focused evangelical proselytizing.


The other night, YouTube insisted I turn off my adblocker and the moment I did, I was hit with an ad claiming a terrorist attack is imminent to blow up the farms and supermarkets...


Needless to say cookies were nuked and my Adblocker was immediately re-enabled.

Quote of the Day or a reminder we live in absurdly strange times: "Every year for the rest of your life will be one of the hottest [on] record. This in turn means that 2023 will end up being one of the coldest years of this century. Enjoy it while it lasts." - Andrew Dessler, Professor at Texas A&M University.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Dreamy digs...


Pensioner plunges 130ft to his death down hole Imagine if his last name was Moria?






https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/17...5179800725

The manner in which the presenter says the new affectionate smart home will "even show you empathy!" had me LOL, but I don't think it's the reaction they were going for.

"I’m sorry Dave..."



^^^That's why I don't debate anything on twitter. It will get you nowhere waste your time, and drive you mad. These deluded researchers have no idea how the counterintel spooks work & the extreme wild measures they will take in the disinfo game. Hell, most of them don't seek beyond the 21st century. I like DJ but I don't agree with everything he has to say "on the record" referring to his ~500 vids.



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United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Warning Update:




https:// www.ukmto.org/indian-ocean/recent-incidents#report-11FF1A087A2541C0B8487AEAFA0A4116

LOL, the UKMTO website link ^^^ threw me an Error code: SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE
The certificate for ukmto.org expired on 9/6/2023. I guess the clocks across the pond are on a different timeline from the USA. Whatever.

Iran confirms its navy seized tanker in Gulf of Oman

Iran confirms that its forces seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, which was reported earlier in the day to have been boarded by armed men in military uniforms.

The state-run IRNA news agency runs a brief story acknowledging the seizure by Iran’s navy. It does not identify the vessel, but says the seizure came as a result of a judicial order.

Suspicion had immediately fallen on Iran as the ship was once known as the Suez Rajan and had been involved in a yearlong dispute that ultimately saw the US Justice Department seize 1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil on it.

The apparent seizure also comes after weeks of attacks by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea.

Iran and all these other 3rd world menaces are getting more bolder by the day.

"The adults are back in charge."





Although "Snake Plissken" was permanently ingrained in my brain when I was a kid I'd go up one decade and suggest...


Plus it has really nice landscape scenery from Sedona, Arizona and Moab, Utah. However, "Tombstone" ranks very high on my list.


UFOs: Stargate to a New Reality (2022) by Paola Leopizzi Harris.


Here's a PDF Copy of her book.