Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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The First World War recruiting billboard The Sea Calls You by American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth features Neptune signaling men to join the U.S. Navy and help protect the freedom of the seas. The original 6'x10' canvas has been lost.


"In early May, 1917, less than a month after the United States entered World War I, N. C. Wyeth wrote to his family in Needham that “the publicity Department of the U. S. Navy has asked for work--it must be rushed to be of service....Today I completed a large mural poster, 6 x 10 feet, of the call of Neptune to protect the freedom of the seas. The canvas has at least the virtue of being compelling.”

On October 19, 1945, Wyeth and his grandson were killed when the automobile they were riding in was struck by a freight train at a railway crossing. N. C. Wyeth


Sept 5, 1972: In an incident that shocked the world, 8 members of the Palestinian terrorist group, Black September, killed 2 Israeli athletes and took 9 others hostage in Munich’s Olympic Village during the 1972 Olympic Games. The 9 hostages were killed on the following day.




Sept 5, 1975: Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme broke the glass ceiling in the field of presidential assassination attempts by women. A former cult follower of Charles Manson, she attempted to kill US President, Gerald Ford. She pointed a gun at him near the California State Capitol building, but the gun did not fire. Nevertheless, she was given a life sentence. Sara Jane Moore would follow her lead just 17 days later. Both women have since been paroled.


Both Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore escaped (briefly) from the same federal prison in West Virginia. Moore in 1979 and Fromme in 1987.


USA #1 on this day in 1976: Bee Gees- You Should Be Dancing




UK #1 on this day in 1981: Soft Cell- Tainted Love




I think international law was buried when the USGOV helped to establish the ICC, but then did not become a state party to the Rome Statute which further confirmed suspicions of the ICC being a tool of the US empire disguised as impartial justice. And its biased prosecution history.


https://x.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/1830854112226787744

The International Criminal Court and the United States

Amnesty International


All aboard the trainbow...




A fierce battle took place here long ago...


A cut like that will get you in a jam everytime. Kinda reminds me of the Dems spending 8 years going after Trump. LOL.


For over 800 years Clan MacLeod has occupied Dunvegan Castle, off the west coast of Scotland on the isle of Skye.


Mary Anne MacLeod Trump of Clan MacLeod, mother of Donald Trump has lineage to this castle. There can be only One.


Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Well, it's a start. Good luck.


Trump says he’d create a government efficiency commission led by Elon Musk



Grinning Vladimir Putin suggests support for Kamala Harris as U.S. accuses Russia of election interference

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Happy National Read a Book Day!




With the war over and his job done, Admiral John S. McCain Sr. returned to his home in California and died Sept 6, 1945, just four days after witnessing the Japanese surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. He had earlier joked that he was planning to celebrate the Allied victory in the Pacific by creating three new cocktails named "Zeke," "Jill," and "Judy" after types of Japanese planes. "Each time you drink one, you can say 'splash one Judy' or "splash one Zeke," McCain said.




"Tonight we launch..." VARIETY ad for TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING (1977).




September 5, 1981: The women’s Greenham Common peace protest, against the storage of cruise missiles at the US Air Force base in Berkshire began. It was led initially by a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, who were the first to arrive at Greenham. The protest lasted until 2000.


Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

The Gates of Greenham (1985) by Tony Biggin



How the Greenham Common protest changed lives: ‘We danced on top of the nuclear silos’ (The Guardian; Mar 20, 2017) Lengthy interview article with lots of photos. What a scene that must have been and sure is different today with all the Karens & female wokesters. Those women of 40 years ago were damn tough & resilient.

Near the market town of Newbury in The United Kingdom is a Country Park like no other, with an amazing back story. Greenham Common - Britain's Nuclear Cold War Country Park:

Near the market town of Newbury in The United Kingdom is a Country Park like no other,  with an amazing back story.

Greenham Common Country Park was formerly a Royal Air Force and United States Air Force air base during World War 2, that was instrumental in both D Day and Operation Market Garden ( "A Bridge Too Far") in 1944.

Then at the start of The Cold War in 1952 it became a base for the US Strategic Air Command , in to the  late 1960s. Before becoming one of the UK's most infamous military installations  in the early 1980s,  as the site of 96 United States Ground Launched Nuclear Cruise Missiles.
It was seen on TVs throughout the world as a scene of mass anti nuclear protests in the mid 1980s.

In 2021 3 decades after The Cold War ended in 1991, it is now a gentile country park and nature reserve ... a place to walk your dog, go for a jog, or take the family for a day out. It has even been featured  as the setting for a major Hollywood Blockbuster movie in 2015.

Join me for an in depth tour and history lesson of this under rated park in the English Countryside.

501st Tactical Missile Wing

The 701st was redesignated as the 501st Tactical Missile Wing on 11 January 1982 and consolidated with the 501st Bombardment Group. It was activated on 1 July 1982, at RAF Greenham Common, England, to operate the Gryphon (BGM-109G) Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM). The 501 TMW was inactivated on 31 May 1991 after ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty resulted in decommissioning of the BGM-109G. The USAF's first GLCM wing when it stood up, it was the also the last GLCM wing to be inactivated.

RAF Greenham Common; 501st Tactical Missile Wing era 1982-1991:
(5 min slideshow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydx5HPYtNak



Greenham Common Base History 1941-1992

Mothers of the Revolution (2021) – documentary narrated by English actress and politician, Glenda Jackson.




So, space is now a "team sport"??? It's one giant bee hive above our heads.


Beehive.govt.nz


Well, when you tell a group of people you do not value them and openly state you will actively discriminate against them, don’t be shocked fewer of them look elsewhere to invest their life.


Full article: DEI Is Sinking the U.S. Navy

Duty, Honor, Country | Douglas MacArthur | May 12, 1962 | West Point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42_aLGkRpg


We are replete with toxic politics. Be a sluberdegullion for the weekend and don't worry about it. Words for the weekend...




Stay ahead of your moderate to severe eczema with Dupixent, ask your dermatologist about Skyrizi; undo your stomach stress with Pepto plus; use Wal-Mart+ for all your home delivery, pop tarts, toasted; Consumer Reports recommends Subaru. What I’ve learned from Morning News this morning.




As imperceptibly as grief
  The summer lapsed away, —
  Too imperceptible, at last,
  To seem like perfidy.
  A quietness distilled,
  As twilight long begun,
  Or Nature, spending with herself
  Sequestered afternoon.
  The dusk drew earlier in,
  The morning foreign shone, —
  A courteous, yet harrowing grace,
  As guest who would be gone.

  And thus, without a wing,
  Or service of a keel,
  Our summer made her light escape
  Into the beautiful.

Emily Dickinson

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December 1945 was a good time for beer lovers to be in Manila. The war was over and the city was awash with Australian lager after U.S. Navy divers salvaged 1,000 cases from a sunken ship. Sailors could buy a case of 48 bottles for $1. Happy National Beer Lovers Day!




Sept 7, 1795: John William Polidori was born in Westminster. In 1810 he went to the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking and received his degree as a doctor of medicine on August 1, 1815, at the age of 19. In the horrible year of 1816 he became the long-suffering personal physician to Lord Byron. Dr. Polidori is also the creator of the first modern vampire story. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story.

The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire

By Andrew McConnell Stott

From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake Geneva villa in 1816, as well as Frankenstein's monster, there arose that other great figure of 19th-century gothic fiction - the vampire - a creation of Lord Byron's personal physician John Polidori. Andrew McConnell Stott explores how a fractious relationship between Polidori and his poet employer lies behind the tale, with Byron himself providing a model for the blood-sucking aristocratic figure of the legend we are familiar with today.

A vampire is a thirsty thing, spreading metaphors like antigens through its victim’s blood. It is a rare situation that is not revealingly defamiliarized by the introduction of a vampiric motif, whether it be migration and industrial change in Dracula, adolescent sexuality in Twilight, or racism in True Blood. Beyond undead life and the knack of becoming a bat, the vampire’s true power is its ability to induce intense paranoia about the nature of social relations to ask, “who are the real bloodsuckers?”

This is certainly the case with the first fully realized vampire story in English, John William Polidori’s 1819 story, “The Vampyre.” It is Polidori’s text that establishes the vampire as we know it via a reimagining of the feral mud-caked creatures of southeastern European legend as the elegant and magnetic denizens of cosmopolitan assemblies and polite drawing rooms.

In the summer that never came (1816) at the Villa Diodati, a house Lord Byron rented by Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the pair met with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, her husband-to-be, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their companion (Mary's stepsister) Claire Clairmont.


They all spent three days together inside the house writing & telling stories to each other in a contest, two of which were developed into landmark works of the Gothic horror genre: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Vampyre, the first modern vampire story, by Polidori.


The tale was first published in book form by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones in London, Paternoster-Row, in 1819 in octavo as The Vampyre; A Tale in 84 pages. The notation on the cover noted that it was: "Entered at Stationers' Hall, March 27, 1819". Initially, the author was given as Lord Byron on the title page. After Polidori protested, later printings removed Byron's name from the title page but did not replace it with Polidori's.

Read/Download sources:

Standard Ebooks

Project Gutenberg

Google Books PDF

Public domain audiobook at LibriVox

The Vampyre by John Polidori | full audiobook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ4Djs_7AqM


The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori (1816) (PDF) Relating to Byron, Shelley, etc. Edited and Elucidated by William Michael Rossetti.

Polidori had an early sudden death "By The Visitation Of God". He died at his father's London house, weighed down by depression and gambling debts. Despite conjecture from his family that he died by suicide by means of prussic acid (Hydrogen cyanide), the coroner gave a verdict of death by natural causes.


Nova et Vetera


Sept 7, 1927: the first fully electronic television system is achieved by American inventor Philo T. Farnsworth who transmitted an image through the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector.

When Philo was 13, he envisioned a contraption that would receive an image transmitted from a remote location—the television. Farnsworth submitted a patent in January 1927, when he was 19, and began building and testing his invention that summer. He used an "image dissector" (the first television camera tube) to convert the image into a current, and an "image oscillite" (picture tube) to receive it. On this day his tests bore fruit. When the simple image of a straight line was placed between the image dissector and a carbon arc lamp, it showed up clearly on the receiver in another room. His first tele-electronic image was transmitted on a glass slide in his S[an] F[rancisco] lab at 202 Green Street. The New York World’s Fair showcased the television in April 1939, and soon afterward, the first televisions went on sale to the public. I guess you could say this is the early origin of operation Mind Crime/Control, courtesy of a Mormon, but it was not his fault as noted below.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made the critical contributions to electronic television that made possible all the video in the world today. He is best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera—which he produced commercially through the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.


J. Willard Marriott Digital Library



The Boy Who Invented Television: A Story of Inspiration, Persistence and Quiet Passion (Amazon link)

Farnsworth hoped to usher in the “high-energy era” with fusion, as a minuscule amount could power a whole city without the pollution of fossil fuels. Pem stated that Farnsworth’s fusion idea “gained solidarity early in 1947,” when a mutual friend set up a phone call between him and Albert Einstein. After discussing scientific theories for about an hour, Pem recalled “Phil reappeared, his face aglow from the excitement of finding someone who understood what he was talking about.”

After self-imposed isolation, he moved to Provo, Utah with Fort Wayne employees to pursue fusion away from ITT’s influence. In 1966, he established Philo T. Farnsworth Associates and collaborated with Brigham Young University on sustaining fusion. Eventually, Farnsworth’s health failed and he cancelled the fusion project. According to Schatzkin, family members suspected he carried the secret of fusion to his grave out of concern that humanity was not spiritually prepared for it.

Farnsworth was reportedly disgusted with television programming for its failure to facilitate his noble goals of exchanging cultures and educating viewers. Pem stated that while watching the 1969 moon landing Farnsworth professed “this has made it all worthwhile.” Ironically, Farnsworth himself appeared only once on the medium he invented on the program I’ve Got a Secret. Farnsworth passed away March 11, 1971 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Philo T. Farnsworth kept a plaque on his desk that read “MEN AND TREES DIE—IDEAS LIVE ON FOR THE AGES.” Farnsworth’s life serves as a testament to this. Schatzkin eloquently summarized his contributions, stating “There are only a few noble spirits like Philo T. Farnsworth . . . who can alter the course of history without commanding great armies.”

Philo T. Farnsworth: Conversing with Einstein & Achieving Fusion in Fort Wayne

W.W Hansen died young from beryllium poisoning. He was a pioneering man whose contribution to RADAR are immeasurable. Also he made this sleek looking X-box in 1937. Rumba anyone?

Just before meeting the Varian Brother's, at Stanford, W.W. Hansen's first microwave cavity oscillator was named "Rhumbatron", presumably because of the back and forth travel of waves inside them. Nothing quite like a Cuban rumba party in a box!


The klystron was combined with the Rhumbatron and one other very special device from yet another wonder child...Philo Farnsworth.

Rhumbatron - 60's super-8 animation showing the workings of a cavity resonator, meant for generating microwave radiation...



Philo invented the multipactor, inspired by a spark of genius while working on the family farm grain fields. Russell Varian worked for Philo just prior to their time at Stanford.



Klystron


Philo Farnsworth aka Dr. X on "I've Got A Secret" (1957) He worked on the Manhattan Project and at time of his death in 1971, he held 300 patents.




GE created RCA with Marconi's patent infringement of Tesla. Something they had been hard at work on for quite awhile. Thanks to JP Morgan's obsession with controlling energy and radio. David Sarnoff, CEO of RCA was also behind stealing the work of Philo T. Farnsworth.

David Sarnoff is a man worthy of a closer scrutiny. Radio and TV were literally hijacked by this man... here's a real Russian Freemason worth looking into.


He died 9 months & one day after Philo T. Farnsworth in 1971.

In 1999, computer scientist David P. Reed coined Sarnoff's Law, which states that "the value of a network grows in proportion to the number of viewers." Sarnoff's Law, Metcalfe's Law and Reed's Law are frequently used in tandem in discussions of the value of networks. See Weapon of Math Destruction.

The very first attempt at creating their microwave amplifier was with Farnsworth's Mulitipactor Tube. Eric Dollard lived with the Farnsworths for a short period of time as well. He's been a great contributor to knowledge.


Eric P. Dollard - Official Homepage


How Orwellian...


Why are so many books listed as “Borrow Unavailable” at the Internet Archive

It also looks like they pulled about every version of Aldous Huxley’s "Brave New World" too. Also the "The Giver", "The Handmaids Tale" - over 500,000 books have been removed.

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September 7, 1964 : “Daisy Ad” Television Commercial for Lyndon Johnson Presidential Election Campaign.



Here is a form letter Rod Serling sent to her in 1965. "There are very few who saw it who will ever forget it." Today is the 60th anniversary of the Daisy ad. Here is a DNC representative's letter to the Daisy Girl's father.




I been thinking it for years & years, that IF the Muslim countries ever set aside their conflicts & indifference's and banded together, the West is doomed! But, I don't see this happening in my lifetime. This to me looks like Autocracy requires deflecting attention away from domestic failure. Erdogan conveniently accuses Israel of doing what Turkey has done to Armenia, Greece, Cyprus, and even Syria.


https://x.com/ragipsoylu/status/1832450639579787508


Your government has:

- Poisoned you
- Implemented immigration measures to replace you
- Created censorship mechanisms to silence and cancel you
- Stolen from you through grift
- Debased your wages through inflation
- Started profiteering forever (proxy) wars on your behalf
- Propagandized your loved ones against common sense

If you think the above is super groovy then vote the "Joy" ticket and carry on with the establishment!

We are at the event horizon.

It's also from a very old, and sadly effective, playbook.



The RINO nobody cares about, not even her home state of Wyoming, Liz Cheney has now endorsed Kamala Harris.


The Democrat ticket is pure TDS, no policy, just angst & Nihilism.



The 33 Strategies of War (2006) by Robert Greene.


Mainstream media catching up with what independent naval sources have been (calmly) reporting for the last couple of years...


Daily Mail


Other than the technical attribution that can easily be faked, the 'Doppelganger' affidavit is almost entirely based on notes made by the supposed conspirators without ever explaining how these were obtained and 'Social Design Agency' documents that were 'lawfully obtained'.


Doppelgange Affidavit

The 'Social Design Agency' is the DOJ's replacement for the Internet Research Agency (aka Glavset, Trolls from Olgino, Kremlinbots) since they dropped their indictment (Robert Mueller's Russian collusion trial) of the latter when asked to provide evidence and Wagner Group mercenary Pavel Prigozhin had an unfortunate airplane accident and supposedly died.


Sounds like Gladio 2.0...


The Sky is Falling (Sky News) | WikiSpooks


Lauren Chen, influencer, YouTuber for Tenet Media. Arrested. Military tribunal. Executed at Gitmo gulag.


Democrats Have Become A Party Of Paranoia And Conspiracy Theories |  BlueAnon (if you never heard the term) Ok, I'm kidding on the execution part, for now.

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Testosterone and young men willing and wanting to fight for a cause 
worth a watch IMO

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September 8, 1727: A fire during a puppet show in a barn in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, killed 78 people (including 51 children). Astonishingly, the door of the barn had been nailed shut after they had gone inside. Click the link above for the sad details.




Sept 8, 1900: The Great Galveston hurricane and the Galveston Flood. Hurricane winds estimated at speeds of up to 120 mph ripped across the Texas coastline of the Gulf of Mexico, killing more than 6,000 people and decimating the city of Galveston. During the storm, water swept through sea-level streets; destroyed homes and buildings and wiped out electricity, roads, and communication systems. The death toll number most cited in official reports is 8,000. In response to the storm, engineers designed and oversaw plans to raise the Gulf of Mexico shoreline of Galveston Island by 17 ft (5.2 m) and erect a 10 mi (16 km) seawall.

It remains the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. As of 2024 it remains the fourth deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, behind Hurricane Fifi of 1974. Wiki


Searching for bodies in Galveston in the aftermath of the storm at the time this film was shot, the stench of hundreds of bodies could be smelled for miles. What a gruesome scene it must have been.


Album of Galveston the day before and the day after the great storm



Short vid clip of Saint Mary’s Orphan Asylum, located just off the Gulf, where dozens of children and their caretakers died.



Sept 8, 1914: 19-year old Private Thomas James Highgate was a British soldier during the First World War and the first British soldier to be convicted of desertion and executed by firing squad on the Western Front in France, 35 days into the war.

On 5 September, as his battalion moved forward to take part in the First Battle of the Marne, he was apprehended in a barn on the estate of Baron de Rothschild at Tournan-en-Brie by the gamekeeper. He reportedly informed the latter, 'I have had enough of it, I want to get out of it and this is how I am going to do it.' He was tried by court martial, convened at Chateau Combreaux, near Tournan in northern France, convicted of desertion and the death sentence was confirmed on 6 September 1914.

His execution was almost as hasty as his trial, as senior officers insisted that he be executed "At once, as publicly as possible." He was informed of his fate at 6.22am on 8 September in the presence of a Church of England clergyman. An officer then ordered a burial party and a firing squad to prepare, and Highgate was shot at 7.07am witnessed by men from the 1st Dorset Regiment and 1st Cheshire Regiment.

Pvt Thomas James Highgate

His two brothers were killed in action during the following years. Posthumous pardons for over 300 such soldiers were announced in August 2006, including for Highgate. In his hometown of Shoreham, Kent, the local council voted not to include his name on its war memorial. However, he is included at Sidcup memorial along with his brothers. Damn, sad tough break!



Sept 8, 1944: The world's first long-range guided ballistic missile, a German V-2 rocket (Vergeltungswaffe 2; 'Vengeance Weapon 2') fell on Britain, exploding at Chiswick in London, killing 3 people. During the succeeding months 1,402 V-2's were fired on Britain, 1,358 at London; 43 on Norwich and 1 on Ipswich. Belgium received 1,664; 1,610 at Antwerp.




Sept 8, 1960: The classic Hitchcock thriller Psycho was released. It set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior and sexuality in American films.





Sept 8, 1966: The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap" on NBC-TV.


'Enterprise' Nebulae Seen by Spitzer


Sept 8, 1975: Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (July 6, 1943 – June 22, 1988), a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable.


Matlovich died in Los Angeles of complications from AIDS. His tombstone, meant to be a memorial to all gay veterans, does not bear his name.

Recognizing military officials would not then allow such a marker in Arlington Cemetery, Matlovich chose a gravesite in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. He chose the same row where the graves of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Hoover's longtime lover, Assistant Director and heir Clyde Tolson are, as a kind of last laugh.



Sept 8, 2001: First Lady Laura Bush and Librarian of Congress James H. Billington opened the first National Book Festival in a brief public ceremony on the Neptune Plaza of the Library of Congress. Checkout his book, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (1980).


Billington analyzes the ideas that inspired European revolutionary movements from the 1700s to the 1900s. The book takes its name from Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Demons" (The Possessed) novel, (an allegory of the potentially catastrophic consequences of the political and moral nihilism that were becoming prevalent in Russia in the 1860s.) and it attempts to investigate the passion for revolutionary change which developed strongly in Central Europe and Russia starting with the French Revolution of 1789.

Unlike many other histories of revolutions and revolutionaries Billington does not focus on events and social causes leading to popular uprisings. Instead he follows a sometimes almost invisible thread of incendiary ideas sometimes transferred via occult societies, but all having common genesis in the motto of the French Revolution: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité".

In Billington's historiography he presents the second and third terms as reactions to and expansions of the more rudimentary (and susceptible to egoism) concept of liberty. He describes how the idea of brotherhood was inherited from secret and occult societies such as the freemasons and became an inflammatory idea which led to the Paris Commune, but then was extinguished as far as popular revolutions went (until it resurfaced as national socialism in 1920s Germany). Instead the idea of equality would become the fuel for socialism and communism.

The Library of Congress National Book Festival has annual posters since its opening in 2001. The chosen one for 2024 is absolute crap.


NATOsferatu: terrifying photo of Blinken from his interview with WIRED a few days ago.


Antony Blinken Dragged US Diplomacy Into the 21st Century | Archive link


"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A voice like no other, a true legend in the movie business. Fair winds and following seas to my favorite, on-screen Admiral.




Nobuo Fujita holds the rare distinction of being the only foreign pilot to ever have dropped bombs on the continental United States, near Brookings, Oregon after being launched from submarine I-25 in a Yokosuka "Glen". He arrived on Sept. 9, 1942, just after the Doolittle Raid left Tokyo in shambles. After the war, he presented Brookings with his 400-year-old katana to express his regret.


The Time When The Only Foreign Pilot To Drop Bombs On The Continental U.S. Came Back To Visit


The first operational use was on Aug. 29, 1943 over the Mediterranean and the most famous employment of "Fritz X" was the sinking of the Italian battleship Roma off Sardinia on Sept. 9, 1943, to prevent its surrender to the Allies.


German "Fritz X" Guided Bomb


An excerpt from George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" (1946) that criticised the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time. Published in April 1946 in the Horizon journal.





Sept 9, 1947: a team working on the Mark II aka Aiken Relay Calculator at Harvard University, financed by the US Navy, recorded the first actual "computer bug" when an error was discovered to be caused by a moth stuck to a relay component. The team included RADM Grace Hopper who helped popularize the terms "computer bug" and "debug".


Mark II photos: Guide to the Grace Murray Hopper Collection


Sept 9, 1955: The first episode of the BBC children's series, The Woodentops, was broadcast. The main characters were the members of a family who live on a farm with their dog Spotty. It was created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird with Gordon Murray amongst the puppeteers. There were 26 episodes until 2 March 1956. 'Sawdust and hay for dinner today.'




Sept 9, 1966: The first episode of the science fiction series, Time Tunnel, was broadcast on US channel ABC-TV. It explored the possibilities of time travel. There were 30 episodes pruduced, ending on 7 April 1967.


Sept 9, 1967: Spider-Man debuted on the ABC network.

Theme intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z8N9TTvKeQ


Sept 9, 1988: Sidney Lumet's RUNNING ON EMPTY premiered. It was the better of the two River Phoenix undercover family films released that year (the other being LITTLE NIKITA).




Sept 9, 2020: Apocalyptic Oregon...


Robin Loznak Photography


You know what Port-Au-Prince and New York have in common?



Largest School In Haiti To Be Built With The Support Of The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation

The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation backs Mayor Bloomberg's pledge to finance four new charter schools in NYC

How far down the Haiti rabbit hole have you gone?


Kamala doing debate prep with Philippe Reines, Hillary Clinton’s "Trump whisperer". LOL.


Meet the man who pretends to be Trump for Kamala Harris’s debate prep

Hillary Clinton Aide Philippe Reines Calls Reporter Names

Note: Michael Hastings was a War correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan. On June 18, 2013, Hastings died in a highly suspicious, very horrorific single-vehicle car crash in his Mercedes-Benz C250 Coupé in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. His body was burned beyond recognition. The crash was said to be "consistent with a car cyber attack."


Do you find yourself bambsquabbled every time you logon to the Internet or watch the news?


Angry Boy
A lentiginous boy, fists burning with rage,
Bambsquabbled, he throws down the ink-darkened page.
Storms down the trab, feet pounding the soil,
Curglaff stabbing his lungs, as his world starts to boil.


Good night and USA #1 on this day in 1983:

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Sept 10, 1509: An earthquake known as "The Minor Judgment Day" hits Constantinople. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.2 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. A tsunami and 45 days of aftershocks followed the earthquake. The death toll of this earthquake is unknown; estimates range between 1,000 and 13,000.

The first big earthquake in Istanbul when it came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire took place on Dec. 18, 1488. While the dome of the Fatih Mosque was demolished, different regions of the city were damaged as well. On Sept. 10, 1509, Istanbul was shaken by a big quake at 4 a.m. Before the people understood what was happening, the whole city was destroyed. According to experts, the earthquake in 1509 in Istanbul was the biggest one in the Eastern Mediterranean after the year 1000. It was felt in the area from Bolu province to Edirne province. It was called "Little Doomsday."

Istanbul's nightmare: A timeline of earthquakes that shook the city

Sept 10, 1813: American naval forces under the command of Oliver Hazard Perry defeated and captured an entire Royal Navy squadron of six ships at the Battle of Lake Erie. The battle was a major victory that gave the U.S. control over the strategically important lake.


This painting, which hangs in the U.S. Capitol, is a larger version of Powell's Perry's Victory on Lake Erie (1865) that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse.


Sept 10, 1897: George Smith, a 25-year-old taxi driver, was the first person to be charged with drink-driving. He was fined 20 shillings at Marlborough Street Police Court in London. Smith had been arrested by Police Constable Russell after crashing his electric cab into the front of 165 New Bond Street.




September 10, 1945: Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death, for collaborating with the Nazis during WW2. He led Norway in 1940 and served as Prime Minister, ruling with the German civilian administrator Josef Terboven from 1942 to 1945. His surname became a synonym for treachery.
The term was coined by the British newspaper The Times in its lead of 15 April 1940, titled "Quislings everywhere." Quislers


Quisling was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress at 02:40 on 24 October 1945. His last words before being shot were, "I'm convicted unfairly and I die innocent."



September 10, 1967: 99.6 percent of voters in Gibraltar voted to remain a British dependency, rather than becoming part of Spain, in the Gibraltar Sovereignty Referendum. That sounds rigged.




Some would say that 1982 was the greatest year in movie history.




Space Shuttle Endeavour astronauts of mission STS-54 went full Star Trek for the crew's official gag portrait, June 1992.




Sept 10, 1993: THE X-FILES premiered on this night!

And so it began. The "truth" is a moving target.




How it started vs. how it’s going...


Prepared Remarks before the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Archived link; Image text of the now redacted statement. SEC pulled it off their website. Internal comments were quickly deleted) LOL!


This guy either does not exist or might be in the wilderness living off herbs and creek water.


Any relation to FEMA, Director, DHS Continuity Division Joseph “Andy” Couch who cheers for British sports teams?

Beautiful Old Age

D.H. Lawrence

It ought to be lovely to be old
to be full of the peace that comes of experience
and wrinkled ripe fulfilment.

The wrinkled smile of completeness that follows a life
lived undaunted and unsoured with accepted lies
they would ripen like apples, and be scented like pippins
in their old age.

Soothing, old people should be, like apples
when one is tired of love.
Fragrant like yellowing leaves, and dim with the soft
stillness and satisfaction of autumn.

And a girl should say:
It must be wonderful to live and grow old.
Look at my mother, how rich and still she is! -

And a young man should think: By Jove
my father has faced all weathers, but it's been a life!

[EndtheMadnessNow]

1960s babes...choose your fav...


For me it's the witch.


Please God, I don't ask for much but do me a solid this one time and make Trump and Kamala debate Havana Syndrome. Oh well, I tried. As expected it was a total sh!tshow.




Regulators, Mount up! We live in an age of miracles and wonders...


Townhall vid: https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1833558178086457536


Just more silly nonsense regards to a few Haitians or according to GOP chairman via Swalwell it's aliens eating cats & ducks in Springfield Ohio. Eric Swalwell, with his Chinese connections, caught sleeping with a Chinese spy, has no problem with eating Ducks. What is Trump up to now?  Anyways, more political theater. Perhaps they should consider getting better actors, because this is really bad. Maybe Trump should go on stage  accompanied by some cats and ducks!

Until last year, except for a four year period in the 1990s, from 1990-2023, the mayor of Springfield, OH was the late Warren Copeland. Copeland since the late 1970s was an associate professor at nearby Wittenberg University, a private liberal arts college. He specialized in religion, with a focus on Social Ethics. He wrote a book on Springfield titled "Updating the Dream" in 1997. He wrote another book about his view of governance titled, "Doing Justice in Our Cities: Lessons in Public Policy from America’s Heartland" where you can get a summary at Amazon.

The present mayor is just having to deal with what Springfield voted for during most of the previous three decades. Those 20,000 Haitians did not show up overnight or uninvited. Though flown in by the federal government, (aviation contractors via NGOs) they were not forced on the city by the federal government.

Elections have consequences. Springfield voted for this. They signaled their virtue, their signal was seen, and virtue arrived. This is what they wanted. This is what they got. They'll have to deal with the consequences.


Haiti's woes root back to the fact that they waged a successful Slave revolt (Haitian Revolution 1791 – 1804) against the French on the principles of the American and French Revolutions — enlightenment ideals that Toussaint Louverture learned in France (and which certain ideologues also spread directly in Haiti). Then after defeating Napoleon’s forces and precluding the disposition of Louisiana purchase lands to US possession, Haiti went on to liberate numerous Latin America nations from slavery.

In retaliation for embarrassment, European powers & U.S. denied formal recognition to Haiti. This was crucial and the French imposed a debt on Haiti for their loss of "property" (including land, resources & slaves) thus holding hostage diplomatic recognition. Taking out loans at a heavy interest rate from French banks that took more than a century to repay, Haiti’s industrial progress and material stability was retarded significantly, driving the population into perpetual poverty and in the power vacuum... giving rise to various despotic regimes and heinous corruption inside Haiti.

Rather than a debt of gratitude towards Haitian revolutionaries for almost eradicating slavery in the new world, Haitians today are mocked for their poverty and superstitions. As the world turns.


Well, you voted for them, so...


https://x.com/scottories/status/1833573657026674742




James Earl Jones generational voice will echo forever through Cooperstown, NY. His iconic monologue from Field of Dreams is preserved in the Hall of Fame collection.




The great Brit bassist Herbie Flowers has passed away at 86. It was his basslines on Lou Reed’s "Walk On The Wild Side," Bowie’s "Space Oddity" and "Rebel Rebel," David Essex’s "Rock On," and Elton’s "Tumbleweed" and "Madman" LPs.


Herbie Flowers, bassist on Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side, dies aged 86


PHOTO OF THE DAY: A storm cloud hovering ominously above New York's Twin Towers (Monday morning, 10 September 2001 by Daniel Brasier)




If Elon Musk can just find a way to power the world on pure cringe, he’s gonna be our saviour. LOL. And replace it with what?




Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I’m a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I’ve seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT... NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU’RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY... NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? You think I’m qualified?

— Beetlejuice (1988)


Apocalypto and the Warning Signs of Societal Collapse...




In Memory Of James Earl Jones...




Good night.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

9/11/1683: this day marks the anniversary of the epic Battle of Vienna, at a city the Islamic troops called "The Golden Apple." King Jan Sobieski led the Winged Hussars in a charge and later wrote a letter to Pope Innocent XI saying, "Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit" - "We came, We saw, God conquered."




Sept 11, 1941: Construction began on The Pentagon.




Sept 11, 1947: Harry Truman was initiated into King Neptune’s "Royal Order of Shellbacks" after crossing the equator while returning from Brazil aboard USS Missouri. Truman was spared from most of the brutal ritual, but his aide was grabbed, shocked, painted, ducked, and paddled.

After the exhausting festivities in Rio, he and his family welcomed the rest. Mrs. Truman spent most of her time in their comfortable quarters in the admiral’s island. Daughter Margaret, in white halter and skirt, sunned herself on the surrender deck (while sailors peered from behind gun mounts) and got in an occasional game of deck tennis.

Vile Landlubber. But around the presidential party, the ship hummed with excitement. Everybody got ready for the traditional ceremony of “crossing the line,” a rite in which oldtimers take savage pleasure in initiating “pollywogs” (sailors who have not crossed the equator before) into King Neptune’s “Royal Order of Shellbacks.” The 350 shellbacks aboard busied themselves fashioning clubs out of canvas stuffed with rags, constructing a throne for Neptune, a ducking pool and other devices of torment for his victims.

At sundown, Davy Jones boarded the ship through a hawse pipe. Grinning, Harry Truman found himself indicted as “a vile landlubber and a pollywog . . . .in that, knowing full well that there are no party politics in this absolute monarchy, you are guilty of practicing the same, this crime being further aggravated by your being a Democrat.”

Gauntlets and Grease. Next day, before breakfast coffee had well settled in pollywog bellies, a full-whiskered Neptunus Rex arrived on the fantail. He was attended by Davy Jones and Queen Amphitrite (a tough, blond Marine sergeant wearing enormous falsies and rope-yarn hair). As No. 1 Pollywog, Truman was first—but was let off easy. He was merely ordered to give his autograph to each member of Neptune’s court, and to furnish his staff with Corona cigars forever. Margaret was directed to lead a group in Anchors Aweigh, which she did falteringly and off key.

But the other dignitaries did not fare so well. Big, jovial John Steelman, the President’s special assistant, had unsuspectingly come dressed in white shirt and pants. As Truman chuckled gleefully, Steelman was laid out on the tin “operating table,” prodded with an electrically charged knife, and given a gargle of quinine and lemon extract from a huge hypodermic syringe. Then he was plastered with paint, run through a gauntlet of shellbacks wielding stuffed canvas paddles, up steps with electrically charged handrails. After another gargle, he was pushed into a tilting chair and dumped backward into the ducking pool, where seven blackened sailors ducked him vigorously. Then he was shoved down a greased slide, belabored through another gauntlet, and pronounced a shellback.

THE PRESIDENCY: No. I Pollywog

After females were allowed to serve aboard combat ships the ritual was more or less banned. The US Navy still holds the Crossing the Line ritual, BUT it is voluntary and much, much more lame & tame. The 400 year old (nobody really knows when exactly it started) Proud Naval Tradition was sunk.


Sept 11, 1997: the infamous Area 51 frantic caller on Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM occurred. As a work of Art, it doesn't get much better than this.




Sept 11, 1998: Rounders opened in theaters.




Sept 11, 2001: Doomsday - the world forever changed.



September 11, 2001: US Strategic Command was one week into its annual Global Guardian nuclear command and control exercise. Bombers had been armed with nuclear weapons, ICBMs and several SSBNs were on alert, and three E-4B command posts were airborne.


On 9/11, StratCom leaders were practicing for a fictional threat when real, unprecedented catastrophe struck


Laura Bush describes the PEOC on 9/11 and describes seeing ancient foldout beds in the White House bomb shelter on 9/11. From her memoir "From the Heart."




On 9/11 USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was headed to a port call in Cape Town & saw the attacks live on a US morning news show. The Captain turned around and was first on station in the North Arabian Sea by the next morning. She is the first ship to arrive on station 100 miles south of Pakistan.


Over the next few weeks, USS Enterprise conducted combat flight operations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom executing primarily night strike flight operations, including a period of 36 hours of continuous flight operations. During the 17 days, aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW-8) flew around 660 missions in Afghanistan and dropped 829,150 pounds of ordnance.


In this video from Sept 11, 2001, Sen. Joe Biden Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee who on Sept 5, 2001 held a Senate hearing on the threat of Bioterrorism and the spread of infectious diseases, speaks on ABC interview starting at 58:45.



Peter Jennings asks the uncomfortable question. Biden is focused on biowarfare and also mentions Senator Tom Daschle who about a month later received one of the Anthrax letters.


A lot going on in this photo...




Stepford Biden's mind was chockablock with so much nonsense, it was nearly impossible to find a single coherent thought amidst the clutter.

Mid week Words...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 12, 1933: Leo Szilard read in the London Times that Ernest Rutherford had dismissed dreams of atomic energy as "moonshine." That afternoon, Szilard recalled, at a street corner on Southampton Row, he conceived the nuclear chain reaction.


Leo Szilard: The Conscience of a Scientist by Tristram Coffin. (8-page PDF; REPRINTED FROM THE FEBRUARY 1964 ISSUE OF HOLIDAY MAGAZINE)

Hungarian-born physicist and inventor, Leo Szilard conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea in 1936. In late 1939 he wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, and then in 1944 wrote the Szilard petition asking President Truman to demonstrate the bomb without dropping it on civilians.

According to György Marx (fellow Hungarian physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor), he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as "The Martians."

"That rumor in America, There are two intelligent races on Earth: people and Hungarians."
— Isaac Asimov


The unsent shorter version of Albert Einstein’s 1939 letter to FDR, drafted with Leo Szilard, has sold at Christie’s auction for $3,922,000!




Wonder Stories, December 1934, front cover, illustrated.
Frank R. Paul (1884-1963), Take-off from Mt. Everest, c. 1934.
Offered in Over the Horizon: Art of the Future from the Paul G. Allen Collection from 23 August–12 September at Christie’s, $25,200.





PDF copy of Wonder Stories, December 1934



Paul Robeson's June 12, 1956 House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington (HUAC) testimony, (re-enactment) performed by James Earl Jones.

"Why do you not stay in Russia?" 

"Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here, and have a part of it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?"




Candidate Kennedy, September 12, 1960: "I believe in an America" speech.

President Kennedy, September 12, 1962: "We choose to go to the moon" speech at Rice University.




The Longest Night is a harrowing made-for-TV movie based on a real-life kidnapping. Karen Chambers (Sallie Shockley) is abducted from the home of her parents (David Janssen & Phyllis Thaxter) and held for ransom. Her captors (James Farentino & Skye Aubrey) entomb her in a homemade coffin buried several feet underground, with an air hose as her only conduit to the outside world. As the police close in on the kidnappers and search for the girl, she desperately tries to stave off hysteria and to prevent the cutting off of her air supply. This movie (rumored to be a favorite of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino) was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972.



Based on the true story of the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle. Remade in 1990 as 83 HOURS 'TIL DAWN.


“Are we losing the war against infectious diseases?”

- Time magazine, September 12, 1994





Royal Marines from 47 Commando seize 2,000 kilos of coke following a boarding operation involving HMS Trent's sailors, Royal Marines and embarked US Coast Guard Teams.

This photo, of Royal Marines from a Royal Navy patrol ship interdicting a "narco submarine" in the Caribbean perfectly demonstrates how hard they are to see/sea in the vast ocean. Pirates of the Caribbean! Good job boys, the Americans thank you for the spoils.


The Royal Navy has intercepted its first ever “narco sub” in the Caribbean


Why do all of Bill Gates predictions sound like threats? "What are your plans for us plebs, oh Overlord?"


Bill Gates says the world is facing two options: A ‘major war’ or another pandemic in less than 30 years


The Neo mobile aka an aborted DeLorean. Yes, break the system by driving an iPad car that can be remotely disabled by the system. Way to go in 2024, Jersey boy!




'Round and 'round and 'round it goes...Where it stops nobody knows.'
USA #1 on this day in 1982:

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy International Chocolate Day! Celebrate with a bar or two and a read of "When Chocolate was Medicine", all about how when chocolate first arrived from the Americas into Europe in the 17th century it was seen as more of a drug than as a food.




Since cats have been trending lately...

Fortunately for Mrs Freudenberger — nervous about a possible loss of income should this talented assistant leave the studio she had now inherited — the man’s artistic skill was matched only by his biddability. Indeed, his unquestioning nature reflected an unworldliness that in other circumstances might have been alarming. His garret bedroom was described by one “gentleman who had . . . the curiosity to visit” as a scene of abject “misery & filth”. An ungainly figure with a “deformed” appearance, the assistant reportedly wandered round the town in rags, to the jeering of local children, and burst into tears on being asked to add up the price of a few penny drawings. It was only “with difficulty [that he could] be made to write his name”: Gottfried Mind.

...

In his own self-portrait, a version of which is now in the British Museum, Mind depicts himself drawing with a cat on the desk before him, next to a dead frog preserved in a jar. By the first decades of the nineteenth century, these drawings, prints, and watercolours had brought Mind a limited pan-European celebrity, his distinct talents later encapsulated in the moniker mentioned in every obituary and retrospective account that appeared in the English-speaking press, from the Gentleman’s Magazine to the children’s periodical Chatterbox: “Der Katzenraphael”, or, “The Raphael of Cats”.

Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats

New TV series...




September 13, 1899: Henry Hale Bliss after stepping off a trolley-tram, was hit by an electric-powered taxi cab on West 74th Street, New York City. He died the next morning. Bliss is the FIRST recorded American pedestrian killed in a car accident. A plaque was dedicated at the site on September 13, 1999 that marks the spot where he came to an unblissful end.

The unfortunate Bliss, a real estate dealer, had stepped down from the trolley car and turned to assist his companion, Miss Lee. While doing so, he was run over by an electric taxicab driven by Arthur Smith (electric-powered cars were surprisingly common back then). The New York Times, reporting on the incident, said that “Bliss was knocked to the pavement, and two wheels of the cab passed over his head and body. His skull and chest were crushed.”

Gory details aside, the report also managed to squeeze in some juicy social gossip. The passenger in the cab, Dr. David Orr Edson, was the son of former New York City mayor Franklin Edson. Dr. Edson tried to assist Henry Bliss while waiting for the ambulance to arrive, but ultimately to no avail. Upon arrival at the hospital, Bliss was deemed too severely injured to survive.

As for Arthur Smith, the driver of the electric cab, he was arrested and charged with manslaughter. But Bliss’ death was later deemed unintentional, and Smith was acquitted.

Henry Bliss Plaque |  Wiki Jaywalking LOL.


The First Pedestrian Fatality

CNN story from 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIBvJa9-qgo

According to automobile historian Peter Norton in "Fighting Traffic," jaywalking became illegal with a 1925 law in Los Angeles that was copied everywhere.

On January 1, 2023, jaywalking became legal in California with the Freedom to Walk Act, reversing what was once one of the strictest laws against this practice in the country.

If you're blissfully curious about that 'First' Pedestrian Fatality...

World's first road death

The victim
On August 17, 1896, Bridget Driscoll, became the first road fatality in the world.

She was a 44 year old mother with two children who had come to London with her teenage daughter and a friend to watch a dancing display.

The crash
While the driver was reported to be doing 4 mph, witnesses described her at being hit by a car travelling at "tremendous speed".

The crash occurred on a terrace in the grounds of Crystal Palace in London
The vehicle.

The car was owned by the Anglo-French Motor Car Company who were offering demonstration rides to the public.

The driver

At the time of the crash, the car was being driven by Arthur Edsell, an employee of the company,

He had had been driving for only 3 weeks (no driving tests or licenses existed at that time).

He had apparently tampered with the belt, causing the car to go at twice the intended speed

He was also said to have been talking to the young lady passenger beside him.

The inquest

After a six-hour inquest, the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death".

At the inquest, the Coroner said "This must never happen again"

No prosecution was proposed or brought against the driver or the company.

World's first road death

New October Surprise...


The Apprentice | Official Trailer | Exclusively in Theaters October 11




President Donald J. Trump's name will live forever (or at least until the next renovation) at Crystal Palace, Mount Weather.



Visitors can get shitfaced at the Balloon Shed Lounge at Mount Weather - FEMA HQ, an emergency federal government relocation site in Bluemont, Virginia.




23 years living under COG Emergency Powers, Biden renews the Proclamation.



And today...According to Internet Swampington insanity rhetoric & idiot politicians like Biden & Trudeau, nuclear war will commence in October surprise. This is their last card to get Trump. I guess this announcement has ruffled some feathers...

Biden signals openness to using Western long-range missiles inside Russia as he meets Britain’s leader to discuss


In the twilight's last gleaming
This is open season
But you won't get too far
We know you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
But we're on guard this time
Against your final solution




The democrat party of Kamala'ians are callow with important national decisions being ignored.

Words for the Weekend...



Hiding From The Storm
The last glouse is extinguished, stale shadows spill,
A hotch-wotchi curls up in a ball near Merlin's Cave beneath Tintagel Castle.
Hiding from the teannaire that roars past his home,
Werifesteria dreaming of a safer place to roam.


Quote of the Day:

What is more likely: a compression algorithm that suddenly comes to understand the world or one that we mistake for understanding the world — and then come to depend on? The practical risks of AI are not that they become super capable thinking machines. It is building complex systems around machines we falsely assume are capable of greater discernment and logic than they possess.

— Eryk Salvaggio / Cybernetic Forests

[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 14, 1814: Francis Scott Key wrote the poem, Star-Spangled Banner. Francis observed the shock 'n Awe British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814 during the War of 1812. He was inspired upon seeing the American flag still flying over the fort at dawn and wrote the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry"; it was published within a week with the suggested tune of the popular song "To Anacreon in Heaven". The song with Key's lyrics became known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" and slowly gained in popularity as an unofficial anthem, finally achieving official status Set to music as the national anthem more than a century later under President Herbert Hoover on March 3, 1931.


The Star spangled banner Sheet music (full size image)


When a U.S. patrol reached Nagasaki after the Japanese surrender in 1945, they were surprised to be met by retired 82-year-old Marine Edward Zillig. Zillig had served with Admiral Dewey aboard USS Olympia before settling in Japan in the 1920s. He survived the atomic blast because local officials had moved him to a camp outside of the city to hide him from fanatics during the war. Upon encountering fellow Marines, he immediately requested that his pension be restored and then he be allowed to watch a full-dress Marine parade. The Marine Corps approved both requests. Unfortunately, a sad ending...


Oldest Marine on Kyushu


September 14, 1950: Happy birthday to the patron saint of COG reporting, Ted Gup.




Sept 14, 1959: Luna 2, originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and nicknamed Lunik 2, a Soviet space probe, became the first human-made object to land on the moon. It crashed into the surface.




September 14, 1964: Walt Disney being presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House.


The military aide is major general Chester Victor Clifton Jr. (1913-1991). He was in the motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was shot. He was always near the President because the Football included "emergency war orders."


September 14, 1983: Amy Winehouse, was born in London. She was known for her deep, expressive contralto singing voice. Her album Back to Black won 5 Grammy Awards. In 2012, Winehouse was ranked 26th on pop channel VH1’s 100 Greatest Women in Music list. She was big into tattoos. Sadly, like many others, she joined the 27 Club.


She died of alcohol poisoning on 23 July 2011, at the age of 27. After her death, Back to Black (2006) briefly became the UK's best-selling album of the 21st century. Her life and career was dramatized in a 2024 biopic, Back to Black, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.



Sept 14, 1994: USS Eisenhower (CVN-69) departed Norfolk loaded with 58 Army helicopters and 2000 soldiers to take part in Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. It would be the largest Army air operation from an aircraft carrier since the Doolittle Raid in 1942. The art of logistics that we probably can't do today.


The USA invaded Haiti on 19 September 1994, unopposed by the Haitian military. The operation was to reverse a 1991 military coup which deposed the freely-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. During the operation, American forces recovered a large amount of WWII weapons such as M1 Garand rifles which were still in use by the Haitians.



Sept 14, 2001: the German destroyer Lütjens rendered honors to USS Winston S. Churchill to demonstrate support in the wake of the terrorist attacks on 11 September. While flying the American flag, the German crew manned the rails and held a banner reading "We Stand By You".


USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) is the only American warship that flies the Royal Navy White Ensign on special occasions and always has a Royal Navy officer as a member of the ship's company. Nothing like having a legit inside man.


Happy 77th birthday to Sam Neill. The great New Zealand actor played Captain Vasily Borodin in 1990's THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.


Miraculously, Borodin survived and defected to the U.S., where he changed his name and worked as a paleontologist excavating dinosaurs in Montana. But then he went aboard the Event Horizon and lost this mind.



Iran to deport two million Afghans in expulsion programme

[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 14, 1957: Fizeau nuclear test, 11 kilotons, 490 foot tower, Nevada Test Site 14. Part of the Plumbbob series tests and detonations.




Interesting subset of thrillers and action movies from that post Soviet collapse period that reflected America's growing paranoia in the '90s by positioning rogue military, defense contractors, and intelligence agents as villains. This seemed to reach its peak between 1997 - 1999 when the government itself became the villain. The Siege is bonechilling, in light of what came next. The Siege's premise of the Pentagon using CIA blowback to justify repression is like insanely predictive.



In Snake Eyes (1998) has a rogue general frame a Palestinian for an assassination of a governor to cover up a the truth about an expensive and non-functional missile defense system which he had just secured a contract for it. Conspiracy Theory forever changed my thinking and Arlington Road (1999) has never left my mind.


Apparently this is a production still from the upcoming Red Sonja movie. If so, there may be hope for this film yet.


Then again maybe not. She's 5'-7". Brigitte Nielsen is 6'-1".


You know you're dealing with home-schooled kids when they want to have a PG Wodehouse party. This is from about 6 years ago.


The Drones Club is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British humorist P. G. Wodehouse. It is a gentlemen's club in London.


The art of Johnny Bruck (1921-1995)




Saturday Branco toons...




Remember when the Houthis thought it would be incredibly funny to set off not one, but two sets of explosives charges on board an abandoned and anchored oil tanker in the Red Sea on August 21.

Well, MV SOUNION is still burning...The Eternal Flame of the Red Sea.



Some people remember a time when the British government got the wild idea to bomb a stranded oil tanker with napalm off the coast of Cornwall.

French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director Serge Gainsbourg composed and recorded the song "Torrey Canyon" about the incident.

ATHENS, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The operation has started to tow a Greek-registered oil tanker stranded in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants last month, a shipping source told Reuters on Saturday.

Towing the 900-foot (274.2-meter) MV Sounion to safety is the first step in a risky operation to salvage the vessel that caught fire after it was repeatedly attacked on Aug. 21.

The second step is the transfer of its cargo of about 1 million barrels of crude oil. Saudi Arabia, a key player in the region, will offer its assistance with that project, sources have said.

Tugs Set to Tow Fire-Stricken SOUNION in Red Sea

Bridge collapse in Dresden, Germany. The Carola Bridge fell into the waters of the Elbe River on September 11. The span supporting the rails for the tramway is what collapsed, including the bike & pedestrian lanes.

Amazingly, there were no injuries when the bridge collapsed. The collapse occurred in the middle of the night, around 3:00 AM, shortly after a street car crossed the bridge. It appears Germany has the same mysterious infrastructure collapses as the US. Weird.


EuroNews The original bridge at this location was a stone arch bridge, opened in 1877, but destroyed during World War II.





WHITE TEETH CAN LIE - Eat hard foods. Don't forget to brush with Gibbs SR before bedtime.

[BIAD]

...Some people remember a time when the British government got the wild idea to bomb a stranded oil tanker with napalm
off the coast of Cornwall. French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director Serge Gainsbourg composed and recordedthe song "Torrey Canyon" about the incident...

Apparently, there was another solution!

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Blaster Bates, LOL! Good find!


September 15, 1944: USS Shangri-La (CV-38) was commissioned. One of the few U.S. Navy ships honoring a fictional location, the name was chosen after FDR slyly told reporters that the Doolittle Raid had been launched from "Shangri-La"—the secret paradise in the novel LOST HORIZON by James Hilton.




September 15, 1949: The 1st episode of the Western drama series, The Lone Ranger, was broadcast on ABC TV. It ran for 221 episodes until 1957. Clayton Moore took the starring role, supported by Jay Silverheels, who played his Native Indian companion, Tonto. Hi-Yo, Silver, Away!




September 15, 1959: Khrushchev Goes to Washington. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev arrived at Andrews Air Force Base, Washington DC, to begin a 13 day state visit. It was the 1st state visit of a Soviet leader to the USA. His visit attracted extensive media coverage.

Unfortunately, the Disneyland visit was canceled due to security concerns among city leaders and State Department planners. The Americans seemed to hope that tours of 20th Century Fox Studios and a lunch event filled with movie stars would keep the premier from complaining about Disneyland.

But the 20th Century Fox President Spyros P. Skouras put the Soviet leader in a bad mood. Skouras made jokes about an old quote of Khrushchev’s that said that communism would bury capitalism.

Khrushchev was enraged by the Fox president’s comments and said, “If you want to go on with the arms race, very well. We accept that challenge. As for the output of rockets –well, they are on the assembly line. This is a most serious question. It is one of life or death, ladies and gentlemen. One of war and peace.”

And then the enraged Khrushchev was told he wouldn’t be able to visit the happiest place on earth. Instead of enjoying his time with Hollywood icons like Marilyn Monroe and Shirley MacLaine, he gave an angry speech asking why he couldn’t go to Disneyland.



“What is it?” Khrushchev asked. “Do you have rocket launching pads there? I don’t know. What is it? Is there an epidemic of Cholera there or something? Or have gangsters taken hold of the place that can destroy me? And I say, ‘I would very much like to go and see Disneyland.’ For me, such a situation is inconceivable.”

Despite the rocky events in Los Angeles, Khrushchev’s visit was a success. By the end of the trip, Americans’ perception of the leader had improved and journalists were reporting positively on his interactions with U.S. citizens.

World War III nearly started when the Soviet premier was banned from Disneyland

September 15, 1971: The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to to Amchitka island off the coast of Alaska to try and stop a US nuclear weapons test.

The Cannikin test was too large to be conducted safely at Nevada Test Site. Cannikin was detonated on November 6, 1971 as the thirteenth test of the Operation Grommet (1971–1972) underground nuclear test series. The announced yield was 5 megatons (21 PJ) – the largest underground nuclear test in U.S. history. The explosion caused a seismic shock of 6.8 on the Richter scale, causing rockfalls and turf slides of a total of 35,000 square feet.

Though earthquakes and tsunamis predicted by environmentalists did not occur, a number of small tectonic events did occur in the following weeks, (some registering as high as 4.0 on the richter scale) thought to be due to the interaction of the explosion with local tectonic stresses.

The detonation of this nuke was the main motivating factor in the creation of the Greenpeace organization.


Largest Underground Nuclear Test in U.S. History

Terrifying Cannikin test:



Amchitka, one of a string of the Aleutian Islands in the southwest region of Alaska was selected by the US Atomic Energy Commission to be the site for 3 underground detonations of nuclear weapons. The tests were: Long Shot, an 80-kiloton blast in 1965; Milrow, a 1-megaton blast in 1969; and Cannikin in 1971, at 5 Mt, was the largest underground test ever conducted by the United States. The tests were highly controversial, with environmental groups fearing that the Cannikin explosion, in particular, would cause severe earthquakes and tsunamis.

Vid sequence of Cannikin test is from the film "Atomic Journeys - Welcome To Ground Zero" with Peter Merlin and narrated by William Shatner. Full docu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fzsk6it-ns


The Greenpeace story (1991)


September 15, 2000: Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, opening ceremony of the Olympic Games took place in Sydney, Australia. The ceremony was described by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch as the most beautiful ceremony the world had ever seen. It covered highlights of Australian culture and history.

Athletes: 10,647 (6,579 men, 4,068 women) / Australia had 617; USA: 586.
Featured 300 events in 28 sports.


In Tom Clancy's thriller Rainbow Six and its video game adaptation, the 2000 Olympic Games are the setting of a plot by eco-terrorists who plan to spread a deadly biological agent through Stadium Australia's cooling system.


Funny how his eyes lit up in this exact moment...


https://x.com/deaidua/status/1834887652027314378


Kamala getting that neocon Enterprise endorsement, but I still do not know who Oliver North is voting for...


"After a haircut I met briefly with 3 leaders of the Contras—Cruz, Robelo & Carello. All these men were leaders against Somoza & helped overthrow him. Then the Sandinistas double crossed them & stole the revolution for Cuba & the Soviets. They were here to be briefed on our peace proposal. Tip O’Neill & his cohorts are already bad mouthing the idea. Indeed Tip sounds irrational. Tomorrow on to Calif."
Ronald Reagan, White House Diary for April 4, 1985.


The crazy nuts are coming out of the bushes...



Snowden’s grandpa, Admiral Edward J. Barrett was in the Pentagon on 9/11 as a senior FBI official after a long career in the coast guard. The family has been in America since before the revolution, and he was born near the North Carolina base where the CIA trains covert operators in creative bomb-making... do some math on that.


Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity

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Sept 15/16, 1945: Cat 4 hurricane Homestead and subsequent fires wreaked havoc on the hangars at Richmond Naval Air Station in Florida. 366 planes and 25 airships were destroyed—which was more than all U.S. aircraft lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The war was over, God decided Japan needed a little payback for the two nukes & a sunken Navy.



Florida Hurricane (1945 Newsreel clip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWQvmGi_apk


Sept 16, 1967: Mannix premiered on CBS, introducing Mike Connors as the tough and determined private investigator Joe Mannix. While the show debuted in the late '60s, it became a cornerstone of '70s TV detective drama, running through most of the decade with its action-packed episodes, including gritty fight scenes and thrilling car chases.

The iconic theme music by Lalo Schifrin added to the suspense, giving Mannix its signature sound. Gail Fisher, who portrayed Mannix’s loyal secretary, Peggy Fair, broke ground as one of the first African-American actresses to have a regular role on a prime-time drama, earning praise and awards for her performance.


Mannix was a defining part of the era, blending intense action with strong characters, and it remained a fan favorite throughout its eight seasons (1967-1975).

The show was before my time & interest, but after listening to Walter's MANNIX: HIDDEN NARRATIVE? which peaked my interest, I started watching a few episodes.


You can never be too paranoid: in early 1971 while Donald Sutherland was wrapping up filming on Klute, a movie about surveillance, he was likely being spied on by the NSA, which had added him to its Watch List at the request of the FBI.


Letter from Frederick A. O. Schwarz to Thomas Latimer, 16 September 1975, with attached Tabs A, "Factual Issues" and B, "Proposed Presentation of Issues," Top Secret, excised copy.


September 16, 1984: Today's the 40th anniversary of the debut of Miami Vice on NBC. "I need to know something, Caroline. The way we used to be together... I... I don't mean lately, but before... It was real, wasn't it?" The medium of television changed with this iconic sequence from episode 1 "Brother's Keeper" of Michael Mann's Miami Vice.



Miami Vice - 4K (1984–1989) NBC - Opening credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuVHkDPensg

Miami Vice 'Going Under' by Devo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_dbZyuG0RU


Sept 16, 2001:

We need to go back to work tomorrow and we will. But we need to be alert to the fact that these evil-doers still exist. We haven't seen this kind of barbarism in a long period of time. No one could have conceivably imagined suicide bombers burrowing into our society and then emerging all in the same day to fly their aircraft - fly U.S. aircraft into buildings full of innocent people - and show no remorse. This is a new kind of  -- a new kind of evil. And we understand. And the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.  And the American people must be patient. I'm going to be patient.

- President George W. Bush, September 16, 2001

The White House

Looking forward to our first Targeted Individual United States Senator. LOL.


https://x.com/Flynn2022/status/1835064344364618143


Binghamton, NY unveils 6-foot-tall bronze statue of Rod Serling at Recreation Park.




Nothing new here but still a striking chart from VisualCap.
Funny how all the political/policy attention remains focused on the blue and yellow regions. Huh.


Visualized: Global Coal Consumption by Region


Maybe "war by McKinsey & Company metrics and RAND Corp op plans" isn't the best move at this point?


https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1835554717780381913

Paint the drones with the Pride flag. The Houthis will leave them alone out of respect. LOL.


The next installment on this season 7 of 'huge' political theater: UFOs. Yes, again!


Daily UFO Mail


Words for scimaunder Monday as we navigate the mainstream nebula.



The Mugwumps

A parody of Phryne before the Areopagus, an 1861 painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.


...Take me to New York right away
When Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps
Called John and Zal and that was the Mugwumps...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 17, 2001: George W. Bush - "This Crusade Is Gonna Take A While"




September 17th is Constitution Day.


On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia to sign the Constitution, shaping the future of the United States. All four pages of the U.S. Constitution are on permanent display in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, alongside the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.
America's Founding Documents


September 17, 1954: Classic novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding was published. It’s about a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. I'm sure you've seen the original (1963) movie and the remake (1990) and maybe read it too.


The novel's title is a literal translation of Beelzebub, a biblical demon considered the god of pride and warfare. Golding, who was a philosophy teacher before becoming a Royal Navy lieutenant, experienced war firsthand, and commanded a landing craft in the Normandy landings during D-Day in 1944. After the war ended and Golding returned to England, the world was dominated by Cold War and the threat of nuclear annihilation, which led Golding to examine the nature of humanity and went on to inspire Lord of the Flies. TED-Ed video

In April 2023, the BBC announced that the British production company Eleven Film would produce the first ever television adaptation of the novel, written by screenwriter Jack Thorne.

A graphic novel based of the book, adapted and illustrated by Aimée de Jongh, was published on  September 12, 2024 in 35 countries. The Dutch version of the book was sold out in a day.

Iron Maiden wrote a song Lord Of The Flies inspired by the book, included in their 1995 album The X Factor.


Weird how this popped up on my search...


Donald Trump's classmates share their memories about his 'Lord of the Flies' days in military school





September 17, 1971: The first episode of The Persuaders was broadcast in some ITV regions. (Sept 18th in USA) It starred Tony Curtis as New York oil baron, Danny Wilde, and Roger Moore as Lord Brett Sinclair. There were 24 episodes until 25 February 1972.



The Persuaders Youtube playlist


Snowden and Gen. Michael Hayden at a gala in 2011 as he worked with the CIA’s account with Dell, Inc. before moving to Booz Allen under the NSA.


The former NSA & CIA director said of Snowden, "a troubled young man -- morally arrogant to a tremendous degree -- but a troubled young man." "I suspect he will end up like most of the rest of the defectors who went to the old Soviet Union: Isolated, bored, lonely, depressed -- and most of them ended up alcoholics." - Michael Hayden (Sept 17, 2013)
Former NSA chief


Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. born May 8, 1937 is a very mysterious man, said to have an extremely high IQ with deep knowledge on how the US gov/mil complex actually functions and notoriously reclusive from the media; few photographs of him have ever been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s. Pynchon's most recent novel, BLEEDING EDGE, was published on Sept 17, 2013.


He also wrote a book titled "Mason & Dixon" (1997) of his interpretation about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon working with ley lines in laying out the boundary stones for the Mason-Dixon line between 1763 to 1768; after first Venus transit and before the second transit, prior to the American Revolution. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and very complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. His own family history was involved in the American Revolution War and one of his ancestors founded Springfield, MA.

Pynchon is a hard nut to crack. Biographical material is hard to come by, but here's a weird documentary about him.



"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
- Thomas Pynchon

“Chryskylodon Blues” 12-minute film by Laura Colella captures behind the scenes filming of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, shot in grainy Super-8 color. Its name comes from the place in the Thomas Pynchon novel called Chryskylodon Institute (“from an ancient Indian word meaning ‘serenity’), an upscale rehabilitation facility.

Time to get Pynchonized...

This is a story about the sixties: it's about me and some friends of mine, it's about Berkeley, and it's about Pynchon. It's about a decade in which we were all young together and thought we would stay young forever. Berkeley was our Vineland, a dream of a perfect new world. The time was ripe, America was ours, and we were going to change the world: Paradise Now or Apocalypse Now.

Neither one happened. As the decades pass, is anything left of that refuge, that Vineland, apart from memory and isolated dreams? Where are the sixties now? Where are we? And where is Thomas Pynchon?

    We are stardust, we are golden,
    We are billion-year-old carbon,
    And we've got to get ourselves
    Back to the garden.

        (Joni Mitchell, "Woodstock")

Ultimately, I suppose this story is all about me. Everything you write always is, disguise it as you may. I don't know what I can tell you about Thomas Pynchon, but I can tell you something about myself, about the impact that the sixties and Berkeley and Pynchon had on me. Vineland looks back on the late sixties, and I'm going to look back on 1964-67, from ages 19 to 22, when I was first going out into the world on my own and when my life became enmeshed with the fictions of Thomas Pynchon. I want to trace some of the parallels between life and fiction.

Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir by Andrew Gordon.

Some 62 years ago we had...


Oswald was conspicuously conspicuous in the months leading up to the assassination.  He played both for and against Cuban groups, and was interviewed on the radio. I think that’s the key: it’s not about being active politically, it’s about BEING SEEN to be active politically. For a couple of lone wolves, both Oswald and Routh seemed to be out in front of a camera, leafleting, protesting, being interviewed, right up to their respective ends.


They were hot in the in the 80's, but are explosive in the 21st century!



The beeperpalooza event should be a warning to any country that outsources its technology, manufacturing, and infrastructure to foreign companies when practically the whole world is at war. You simply cannot have national security when you outsource everything to foreign nations. Every component you outsource—whether it’s for communications or weapons or vehicles or food or medicine—is a potential ticking time bomb. Gives a whole new meaning to "my notifications are blowing up!"


Imagine electronic pulses in space that block signals and replace them with counterfeits. It's not science fiction, it’s science fact. Watch what could happen in our series on the space threats that inspired the creation of the U.S. Space Force. Funny how the US Space Force Space Systems Command put out this infomercial today. Then think about today's pager attack, your phone, any comms device.


Space Threats Episode 2 | ELECTRONIC WARFARE

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Sept 17, 1884: Edith Alice Robertson Macia was born, who worked for six years as an undercover agent in the Communist Party for the FBI.


Edith Alice Macia was a notable pioneer of Arizona that served as postmaster of Tombstone, Arizona and received numerous awards for her work as an undercover FBI agent. Brother-in-law was Col. James Herbert Macia, Jr., Doolittle Raider. She has quite the Wiki resume. Robertson-Macia Family


"Battlestar Galactica" premiered on this day in 1978.




Ha, nice try...




James Cameron is planning for life after Avatar. The filmmaker has purchased the rights to the forthcoming book "Ghosts Of Hiroshima" and intends to direct a feature adaptation of the atomic bomb story.


James Cameron to Direct ‘Ghosts Of Hiroshima’

If that ^^^ sounds familiar... here's a news clip from 2010:




Exciting news if you are blind...I think. I can imagine all kinds of military applications. For now hi-def Atari CGI will have to do. Time will tell...




How many D batteries...





The Top Lithium-Ion Battery Producing Countries by 2030


British poster art by Mike Francis:





Alice Adventuring


UK #1 on this day in 1990: Steve Miller Band - The Joker




A little bit of magic to light up your day...

Due to the "Success Kid" meme's internet popularity, the child was able to raise enough money through a GoFundMe campaign to fund his father's kidney transplant.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 18, 1879: Blackpool Illuminations were switched on for the first time. Blackpool Council spent £5000 (now £330,000), to experiment with electric street lighting. In a time when people lit their homes with gas and candles, the lights were called "artificial sunshine". There you go BIAD! Need some friends to share the sunshine? Visit the Website of Friends of Blackpool.




September 18, 1939: William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw"), broadcasted his first Nazi propaganda radio broadcast. He began his reports of fake news with the phrase: "Germany calling". He was executed for treason in 1946 on the basis he had entered Germany using a British passport.

He was an American-born British fascist, hardcore Nazi propagandist during WWII. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, Joyce became a member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) from 1932, before finally moving to Germany at the outset of the war where he took German citizenship in 1940. He was executed (hanged) for high treason in Wandsworth Prison January 3, 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom. The scar on Joyce's face split wide open because of the pressure applied to his head upon his drop from the gallows. He was 39.

The historian Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 Sept 1990) remarked in his book English History 1914–1945 that "Technically, Joyce was hanged for making a false statement when applying for a passport, the usual penalty for which is a small fine."



English History 1914–1945; pg 534  | Germany Calling


Sept 18, 1944: HMS Tradewind torpedoed and sank the Japanese army cargo Hell ship Junyo Maru about 18 nautical miles south of Mukomuko, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies. Unbeknown to the Commanding Officer of the submarine, the Japanese ship was carrying 4200 Javanese slave labourers and 2300-2,500 Dutch, British, American and Australian POW’s from Batavia to Padang. 5620 lives were lost in the sinking. One of the largest, yet most forgotten, maritime disaster of WWII.

The prisoner ships were not required to display a red cross, despite the insistence of the International Red Cross. But because the Geneva Convention did not require this, the parties refused to comply with the request. Thus the Junyo fell prey to the Allied torpedoes.

Two out of four torpedoes hit the Junyo. The ship didn’t sink immediately. Many POWs jumped overboard but many who stayed inside the ship were trapped like rats. Most of the romushas couldn’t swim and stayed on board the stricken ship. In the ocean survivors held on to life boats and loose flotsam and jetsam. Slowly the sinking ship rose vertically until it stood perpendicular on the water. Those who were still on the deck, mainly romushas, dropped to their deaths on the front of the bridge and disappeared under water. The sinking took only twenty minutes.

...
Without a moment of rest the survivors were put into the local prison upon arrival in Padang. Circumstances were dire. The prison was overcrowded and medical attention wasn’t available. In the coming days another thirty POWs would die due to exhaustion and dysentery. They are buried at the European cemetery in Soloh, not far from Pandang. The agony of the others was anything but over. Most of them would die eventually during construction of the railroad.

...
Many thousands drowned, hundreds of bodies washed ashore on the long coast line, some of them weeks after the tragedy. They were buried without name by the inhabitants of the coast. Some of these graves were moved to “Olo” cemetery in Padang. In the years 1946 until 1950 the remains were transferred to the military cemetery of Padang. After the transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia in 1952 the number of Dutch “erevelden” or military cemeteries was restricted to seven on Java. The remaining fifteen were cleared and the remains transferred to the remaining seven other military cemeteries. The nameless victims of the Junyo were transferred to military cemetery Leuwigadjah in Cimahi in Java and were reinterred in the collective grave “Olo”.

It would take until 1984 before a remembrance service was held and a memorial plaque was dedicated on the military cemetery of Leuwigadjah. Both these were an initiative of the foundation for remembrance Junyo Maru-Sumatra.

For many Dutch people the tragedy with the Junyo Maru remained unknown. Operation Market Garden was closer to home. Fewer Dutch people actually lost their lives during this operation.

Sinking of the Junyo Maru (Traces of war)

The history of HMS Tradewind as compiled on this page is extracted from the patrol reports and logbooks.

The Sinking of the Junyo Maru



HAPPY BIRTHDAY CIA. Established Sept 18, 1947.


I'd send them a card but I'm sure they've already read it.


Coming November 11th! ONE, TWO, THREE (1961) Reissue
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Michael Schlesinger
- Billy Wilder and Volker Schlondorff discuss ONE, TWO, THREE
- Billy Wilder on Politics and ONE, TWO, THREE
- Theatrical Trailer

Hollywood great James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye) gives one of the richest, funniest, most breathlessly paced performances of his career in this comedy that defrosts the Cold War with gales of laughter. C.R. “Mac” MacNamara (Cagney) is a top-ranking soda executive stationed in West Berlin who’s responsible for his boss’ daughter (Pamela Tiffin, The Hallelujah Trail) while he’s away on business. But when he learns that she's gone and married a fierce young communist (Horst Buchholz, The Magnificent Seven) and that his boss will be arriving in town in 24 hours, Mac must transform the unwilling beatnik into a suitable son-in-law or risk losing his chance for advancement! Before you can say "one, two, three," his plans have spun out of control and into an international incident that could infuriate the Russians, the Germans and, worst of all, his own suspicious wife. Legendary director Billy Wilder (Stalag 17, Witness for the Prosecution, The Apartment) directed and co-wrote this hilarious, fast-paced and lighthearted comedy with his twelve-time writing partner I.A.L. Diamond (Irma La Douce, The Fortune Cookie).

One, Two, Three (Special Edition) (Blu-ray)

REMO Corporation director Terrence Crown (Richard Anderson). As seen in THE FRENCH ATLANTIC AFFAIR (ABC, 1979). REMO Corp is a play on the RAND Corporation.




Sounds like the comrade Newsom just declared an election meme war. Just like all their gun laws, it won't work.


Beware if you live in Commiefornia: Laughing at memes is now illegal.


AI accidentally proved the existence of the human soul by showing us what art looks like without one.


https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1836160683374678050


Republican senators write Veep Kamala Harris over her mismanagement of a $42 billion program to expand Internet. After 1,038 days not a single person has been connected to the internet using the $42.45 billion.


"Mismanagement"? How about total incompetence? How about FRAUD? Who else would like to know where that $42,000,000,000 went?

That was supposed to be accomplished with the funds allocated way back in the 1997 Telecom Act. Back when we started seeing all these tariffs & fees on our landline bills. If you live long enough, you’ll see them double and triple dip like this.

The reason it's failed or rather hasn't helped any person is because comrade Kamala & her Marxist minions put a restriction on the $42B package. For example, in order for the telecom/ISP provider in your hometown to receive a piece of that pie to expand internet services they must first agree to hire DEI wokesters, which means they have to fire some qualified workers and replace with unqualified wokesters that includes a certain percentage of blacks, hispanics, illegals based on company employee size. Nobody in their right mind is willing to do that so the money remains undistributed.


Checking in on the funnies...Been a pager LOL all day and a really bad day for others.




Here's a possible metaphor for our reality right now.