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September 21, 1765: Antoine de Beauterne claimed he killed the Beast of Gévaudan, but the attacks continued soon after, showing he was not being truthful. The beast terrorized Gévaudan, France from 1764 to 1767, and was said to resemble a large wolf.

It reportedly killed over 100 people, and the situation became so bad, King Louis XV sent elite hunters to the region. However, the terror persisted until 1767 when Jean Chastel allegedly killed the beast with a silver bullet.

The Beast's true identity is still debated, with theories ranging from wolf, to a wolf/dog hybrid, and even human involvement. Of course there are also those who lean towards a supernatural explanation of...Werewolf.


The land of the Beast of Gévaudan






Sept 21, 1951: HMS Unicorn (I72) became the first aircraft carrier to conduct a shore bombardment when she used her four twin mount QF 4-inch Mk XVI dual purpose guns to shell North Korean "coast watchers" at Chopekki Point.

Coastwatchers

In 1943 Lt. (j.g.) John F. Kennedy of the United States Navy—a future President—and 10 fellow crew members were shipwrecked after the sinking of their boat, the PT-109. An Australian coastwatcher, Sub-Lt Arthur Reginald Evans, observed the explosion of the PT-109 when it was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Despite US Navy crews giving up the downed crew as a complete loss, Evans dispatched Solomon Islander scouts Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana in a dugout canoe to search for survivors. The two scouts found the men after searching for five days. Lacking paper, Kennedy scratched a message on a coconut describing the plight and position of his crew; Gasa and Kumana then paddled 38 miles (61 km) through Japanese-held waters, at great personal risk, to deliver the message to Evans, who radioed the news to Kennedy's squadron commander. The future US president was rescued shortly afterward, and 20 years later welcomed Evans to the White House. Gasa did not make the trip, later claiming he received the invitation to attend but was fooled into not attending by British colonial officials. Gasa left his village and arrived in Honiara, but was not allowed to leave in time for the ceremony.

"After the rescue Kennedy said he would meet us again," Kumana says in The Search for Kennedy's PT-109. "When he became President, he invited us to visit him. But when we got to the airport, we were met by a clerk, who said we couldn't go—Biuku and I spoke no English. My feelings went for bad."

In July 2022, Coastwatchers James Burrowes and Ronald George Lee were still living, and were honoured in a wreath-laying ceremony by U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy (daughter of President Kennedy) and General Mark Milley, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Sept 21, 1956: the pilot of an F-11F Tiger managed to shoot himself down. After going into a dive and test-firing the 20-mm cannons, he inadvertently outraced the rounds and then crossed their path. The fighter took multiple hits, forcing the pilot to crash land.




I would have thought such an accidental feat to be impossible, but this article explains how it happened:

The story of the F11F Tiger Test Pilot who Shot Himself Down by Overtaking his Bullets in a Dive

I bet a special patch was made just for that test pilot. LOL.



Sept 21, 1997: a division by zero error in the "Remote Data Base Manager" aboard USS Yorktown (CG-48) brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail, resulting in dead in the water for almost three hours.


Sunk by Windows NT I hated that OS more than Win95.



King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived at Versailles Palace Wednesday evening for a state banquet. They were greeted by French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron, both Macron and King Charles wore tuxedos.



Menu for last night's state banquet at Palace of Versailles for King Charles/Queen Camilla: blue lobster & pot crab with veil of almonds & peppermint; Bresse chicken & corn + porcini mushroom gratin; 30-month old Comte & Stilchelton English blue cheese; Isfahan Persian macaroon.




Photo of the lunch menu of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un after negotiations at the Vostochny Cosmodrome appeared online:



Menu translation:

Duck salad with figs and nectarine

Dumplings with Kamchatka crab

Grass carp fish

Sea buckthorn sorbet

Sturgeon with mushrooms and potatoes

Entrecote of marbled beef with baked vegetables

Taiga lingonberry with pine nuts and condensed milk

Eastern slope, Divnomorskoye Estate, Russia, 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon, Divnomorskoye Estate, Russia, 2020

Vostochny Cosmodrome September 13, 2023

Citizen, if you didn’t want your car broken into and stripped down you should not have had any possessions within it! We can also drastically reduce home burglaries if you simply remove all furniture and objects and retreat to a subterranean stronghold. The future demoncrat cities is neo-feudalism!




Funny how all the corporate search engines return only links from 2019-2020; including Twitter.




Never forget that the lunatics running this worldwide madhouse want to kill God and replace Nature with their synthetic abomination revolution.

[727Sky]

A first strike from a few Subs off the coast of America equipped with MERVs. By the time people quit scratching whatevers it just might be to late .

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Sept 22, 1958: at 9:00 am Eastern Time, Mount Weather (aka High Point, aka Special Facility, aka Classified Location) the second oldest US continuity of government facility for use by designated officials during and after a nuclear war, began "continuous activation." (The oldest is Site R/Raven Rock Mountain, the backup Pentagon, aka Dick Cheney bat cave, where the Patriot Act was drafted following 9/11)



Built between 1954-58 by the Bureau of Mines and the US Army Corps of Engineers at an estimated cost of about $2 billion (FY 23 dollars), Mount Weather sits on a 400+ acre campus with a 600,000 square-foot underground complex. Today it is run by FEMA.

The underground portion of the facility contains 20 office buildings, a hospital, crematorium, dining and recreation areas, sleeping quarters, reservoirs of drinking and cooling water, an emergency power plant, and a radio & TV studio with green screen that is part of the Emergency Alert System.



The site was connected to the Atomic Bomb Alarm System, a sensor network mounted on telephone poles adjacent to 99 cities and military bases that would detect a nuclear detonation by its intense thermal flash and signal this event to Mount Weather and other command posts.



The Bomb Alarm Display System, operational from 1961-1967, was intended to confirm whether nuclear weapons had detonated in the mainland US or at missile early-warning radar sites in Alaska, Greenland, and the United Kingdom. Knowing whether a nuclear attack had actually happened would help leaders decide how to respond, (assuming they weren't annihilated) and would help avoid launching missiles by mistake. The bomb alarm network, made by the Western Union Telegraph Company, monitored about 100 military sites and US population centers using sensors like the one on display. At Strategic Air Command, the North American Air Defense Command, the Pentagon, and other military headquarters, large electronic maps displayed the whole network. This system has since been replaced by more sophisticated space-based sensors.

The bomb alarm was not sensitive to lightning, sunlight, or electrical surges. Photocells inside the glass lens reacted only to the flash of a nuclear explosion. Western Union designed the Bomb Alarm Display System beginning in 1959, and in 1962 the network was complete. One drawback was that it responded only after an attack - it did not give advance warning. Another drawback was that it relied on commercial telephone or telegraph lines, which could be damaged or vaporized.

The only full-scale activation of the Mount Weather was on November 9, 1965, during the great Northeastern power blackout. The crash of TWA 514 (Boeing 727-231) into the mountain on December 1, 1974, killed 92 people and brought widespread and much unwanted public attention to the top-secret facility. Soviets were probably having a party.

History of The Mount Weather Research Observatory


Sept 22, 1979: a US Vela nuclear-test-monitoring satellite (launched 23 May 1969) detected the distinctive double-flash signature of a nuclear explosion over the South Atlantic near Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean. Although a White House scientific panel later dismissed the possibility, many speculated it was a clandestine Israeli test. President Jimmy Carter initially deemed the event to be evidence of a joint Israeli and South African nuclear test.

Vela incident

In 2018, two researchers published a forensic analysis paper detailing "strong" and convincing radionuclide and hydroacoustic evidence of a low-yield nuclear test that, when combined with the original Vela optical data, pointed conclusively toward a nuclear boom.

For the 40th anniversary in 2019, Foreign Policy magazine published a special section of eight articles by six experts examining relevant declassified documents and data and explaining "the political and strategic objectives of the key players at the time, and argue why a mysterious flash 40 years ago still matters today."


Blast From the Past

On August 31, 2020 the "Cold War International History Project" published a report examining what we know and don't know about this still-unsolved nuclear history mystery, based on a November 2019 oral history conference which included about a dozen people with direct knowledge of the incident:

Revisiting the 1979 VELA Mystery: A Report on a Critical Oral History Conference

A Potential Source of New Information

The discussions shed light on the existence of a source that was previously unknown to the conference organizers. During his remarks, Richard Muller mentioned the existence of a “rather substantial supplementary report [of the Ruina Panel] which was as I recall, it was as big as the initial report.”  Completed in early 1981, it covered “new material, including additional analysis done by NRL, including the sheep thyroids, which I believe are not in the first report.”

The National Security Archive has made attempts to locate this unquestionably important document, but its whereabouts remain obscure. The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library does not have a copy in its collections; whether a copy is in the National Security Council Institutional Files under White House control remains to be determined. Requests for the report have been made to other agencies, but the Covid-19 crisis has, for now, delayed searches for such documents.

Sept 22, 1975: just 17 days after Squeaky Fromme had broken the glass ceiling on attempted presidential assassination - An Accountant from West Virginia, Sara Jane Moore fired a .38 caliber revolver at President Gerald R. Ford in San Francisco. Former Marine Oliver Sipple foiled her second shot and possibly saved Ford's life. Sara Jane Moore was taken into custody, where she told police: “If I had had my .44 with me I would have caught him.” “We were saying the country needed to change,” Sara Jane Moore explained. “The only way it was going to change was a violent revolution. I genuinely thought that [shooting Ford] might trigger that new revolution in this country.”
https://allthatsinteresting.com/sara-jane-moore




Ford died Dec 26, 2006. Dec 31, 2007, at the age of 77, Moore was released on parole after serving 32 years. She's 93 and still alive far as I know.


The nuclear "Football" has been spotted in some incongruous locations over the decades (Moscow, Hiroshima, the Vatican, Three Mile Island, aboard a SSBN). But, I doubt many have ever seen a US president actually holding it...in the Oval Office, no less, until now.



George W. Bush shakes hands with Air Force Lt. Col. John T. Quintas while the Marine Corps, Army, and Navy aides look on. Quintas was assigned to the White House Military Office from Nov. 2003 to Jan. 2006.

Best guess is this photo was taken near the end of his (Quintas) tour.



Could that be the "Biscuit" in Bush's left hand? The laminated card with the unique alphanumeric challenge-response codes a president must use to confirm his identity to the senior officer on duty at the National Military Command Center before he can authorize a nuclear strike.

However, it's more likely a challenge coin he's about to hand over to the military aide. The "Football" carriers are usually promoted directly after their tour.




Sept 22, 1961: "We use a camera like an X-Ray." At the conclusion of THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "The Arrival," Rod Serling gave a preview of next week's show, "The Shelter."




Next week has arrived...




Time to hit the beach...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Before LOST, there was Rod Serling's THE NEW PEOPLE. It premiered Sept 22, 1969 on ABC and lasted 17 episodes.




A rare sight/photo...
Kennedy’s military aide Capt. Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr., is standing next to Kennedy aboard the USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) holding the football... Which if you think about it is rather quite remarkable.


JFK Library

Thomas A. Edison was the first and only submarine to have an elevator. In 1962, an elevator was added to the sub so that President Kennedy could access the submarine. Kennedy had a back injury which prevented him from using vertical ladders. The addition was known as the "JFK Submarine Access Elevator" and allowed the President to enter the submarine through one of its deck hatches while standing. Wonder what the cost was for that feature?!

USS Northampton at dock, and John F. Kennedy with others boards USS Thomas A Edison in Norfolk, Virginia: (cool vid)



Four days earlier during ASW exercises, the Edison had collided with the destroyer USS Wadleigh (DD-689) while surfacing...and wouldn't be its last collision!!

Fun fact: On 29 November 1982, 40 miles east of Subic Bay, Philippines, Thomas A. Edison collided with USS Leftwich (DD-984) while conducting Anti Sub Warfare (ASW) exercises. Years after that collision I served on the Leftwich for 2 yrs.

Navy investigates collision

Thomas A. Edison was decommissioned on Dec 1, 1983, struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 April 1986, and went through the Navy's Nuclear Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, and on Dec 1, 1997 ceased to exist as the recycling was completed.

USS Leftwich fate was sunk as a target on August 1, 2003 and now sits at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, about 50 miles off the north coast of Kauai at 22.813056, -160.566667. Damn, had a lot of good memories, best camaraderie & tall sea stories onboard that Destroyer. RIP:




Gamerz & Nukes takin over the world:


Boeing is using Fortnite’s game engine to upgrade B-52s





Ken Burns is likely never to be invited back as a guest at Bohemian Grove after what appears to be a courageous breach of their omertà.


Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events



While everyone online is shocked to see Burns photographed with Koch and Thomas, contemplate how the images probably came to light. And the likelihood that Burns can’t count on the Koch Foundation to fund any future projects used to cleanse the Kochs philanthropic reputation.




LMAO...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy Checkers Day!

"Dogs are winners." - Roger Sterling. MAD MEN on CHECKERS. Nixon's famous speech was broadcast Sept 23, 1952.



Vice Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon delivered his televised Checkers Speech. Or, as Nixon always referred to it: "The Fund Speech." The @Variety review was titled "Just Plain Dick." R.I.P. Checkers [1952-1964].




Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech - Sept 23, 1952: As a candidate for vice president, Richard Nixon gives a televised address to the public after being accused of accepting illegal gifts. Nixon provides a detailed account of his and his family's finances to remove any suspicion. The title of the speech refers to the Nixon's family dog, Checkers, who was a gift but one which Nixon declines to return.

I am sure that you have read the charge and you've heard that I, Senator Nixon, took $18,000 from a group of my supporters.

Now, was that wrong? And let me say that it was wrong—I'm saying, incidentally, that it was wrong and not just illegal. Because it isn't a question of whether it was legal or illegal, that isn't enough. The question is, was it morally wrong?

I say that it was morally wrong if any of that $18,000 went to Senator Nixon for my personal use. I say that it was morally wrong if it was secretly given and secretly handled. And I say that it was morally wrong if any of the contributors got special favors for the contributions that they made.
And now to answer those questions let me say this:

Not one cent of the $18,000 or any other money of that type ever went to me for my personal use. Every penny of it was used to pay for political expenses that I did not think should be charged to the taxpayers of the United States.

It was not a secret fund.
Full "Checkers" Speech Transcript

Sept 23, 1949: Pres Truman announces the First Atomic Explosion in the USSR.


The American Presidency Project

The NSC-68 report of 1950 will call for a massive increase in military spending as well as hydrogen bomb development. The Truman Administration almost tripled defense spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product between 1950 and 1953 (from 5 to 14.2 percent).


"Some of the scenes that follow may distress you." THREADS aired for the first time on Sept 23, 1984 on BBC 2. "Made in and with the cooperation of the people of Sheffield." You can watch the somber talking head intro here:






It aired for the first time in the United States on January 13, 1985, on WTBS, thanks to station owner Ted Turner III.


Sept 23, 1992: at the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted "Divider" a low-yield underground (1,115 ft) nuclear weapon test (less 20 kt). Bipartisan legislation imposing a 9-month moratorium signed by Pres. George H.W. Bush 9 days later made this the last full-scale US test—so far.

Operation Julin was a group of 7 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1991–1992. These tests followed the Operation Sculpin series, and were the last before negotiations began for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Shot Hunters Trophy was Lawrence Livermore's last nuclear test and the second to last nuclear test conducted by the United states. Its purpose was to evaluate the radiation hardness of space and high altitude systems, such as optics, sensors and materials for the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the hardness of Sandia detonators. The test consisted of a 850-foot (260 m) HLOS pipe and "stub pipes" to simulate different nuclear battlefield environments.

Hunters Trophy included the experiment Hydroplus. The Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) developed a means of verifying non-standard nuclear tests using ground peak stress and velocity at several ranges from a possible detonation point using computer hydrocodes. These codes required calibration data which was gathered at Hunters Trophy. Further Hydroplus experiments were conducted in shot Distant Zenith of Operation Sculpin.

Between July 1945 and September 1992, the United States conducted 1,054 nuclear weapon tests (including 28 joint tests with the United Kingdom), 210 in the atmosphere, 839 underground, and 5 underwater, involving 1,149 individual detonations (63 tests included more than one device).

The now heavily-pockmarked Nevada National Security Site (formerly the Nevada Test Site) sits on the traditional lands of the Western Shoshone Nation, land the US government does not own, but which it illegally took and contaminated in contravention of the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley.

The site has also sparked controversy. More than 536 demonstrations were conducted at the site between 1986 and 1994, leading to almost 16,000 arrests. Astronomer Carl Sagan, singer Kris Kristofferson and six Democratic congresspeople were arrested, according to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Historical Archives.
Las Vegas Review-Journal

For more details on US nuclear weapons testing, see this 2015 official Department of Energy chronology, United States Nuclear Tests: July 1945 through September 1992 (129 pg PDF listing all 1,054 bOOms)

For more on the history and lethal legacy of US nuclear testing in Nevada, the Pacific Proving Grounds (Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, Christmas Island, and Johnston Atoll), and many other locations, see this 2022 article with spectacular photos in NatGeo:

U.S. nuclear testing's devastating legacy lingers, 30 years after moratorium or the Archived copy.


Although the United States has not exploded a nuclear device underground in more than 30 years, the nuclear weapons laboratories have never given up hope that testing madness could one day resume. Russian and Chinese scientists have not forsaken testing either...


Exclusive: Satellite images show increased activity at nuclear test sites in Russia, China and US (Sept 23, 2023)


A real tweet from stepford Biden:



-Sky rocketing fentanyl deaths.
-Open borders.
-Inflation.
-High gas prices.
-Increased crime.
-Suppression of free speech.
-loss of individual liberties.
-increased suicide.
-home values tanking / Homelessness rising.
-savings accounts declining.
-Pending WWIII.
- On & on, etc.

And Biden wants to talk "ticket service fees." Pathetic!

Meanwhile, more invasion: "The Homeland Security Department is granting protections to nearly half a million Venezuelan immigrants who came to the U.S. before July 31 in a move that will allow them to legally work and apply for protection from deportation."
Just the News


Illustrations from "Destinies, Winter 1981 (Vol. 3, No. 1)" accompanying the story "Shall We Take a Little Walk?" by Gregory Benford. Interior artwork for the issue as a whole is credited to Rick Sternbach, Broeck Steadman, Janet Aulisio, and Steven Fabian.

Destinies, Winter 1981 (PDF)


And now for tonight's episode... "Clown of Death" (S4E20) Karl Malden in THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO, A QM Production.

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Sept 24, 2023: TOUCHDOWN of OSIRIS-REx at 10:52 AM ET, sample from asteroid Bennu back to Earth. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid. First US sample return from space since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The capsule was intact and not breached, keeping its 4.5 billion-year-old (no idea how they came up with age) samples free of contamination. Within two hours of touchdown, the capsule was inside a temporary clean room at the Defense Department's Utah Test and Training Range, hoisted there by helicopter.


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Sept 24, 1940: HMS Wellesley, a 74-gun third rate, named after the Duke of Wellington, and launched in 1815, was sunk by a German air-raid. She captured Karachi for the British, and participated in the First Opium War, which resulted in Britain gaining control of Hong Kong. Thereafter she served primarily as a training ship at the outbreak of WWII before gaining the almost surely unwanted distinction of being the last British ship of the line to be sunk by Germans and the only one to have been sunk by an air-raid.

Some of her timbers found a home in the rebuilding of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, while her figurehead now resides just inside the main gates of Chatham Dockyard.


Northumberland Archives

Had to grow up fast back in those days. Meanwhile, today...




Meanwhile, our defense budget is going to balloon to the moon...


U.S. revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China

Solar-powered high tech Orbs on the way!! Actually, an interesting article.


Sept 24 1975:



Sept 24, 1920: British cryptographer Leo Marks was born. Chief of codes office supporting Special Operations Executive (SOE).


Was This the UK’s Worst Spy Failure of World War II? - "Failure to detect a long-running Abwehr counterintelligence operation cost the SOE numerous secrets—and lives."

It took him nearly 20 years to get approval to publish his wartime memoirs. After WWII, he turned to writing: In addition to writing the controversial Peeping Tom (1960) he also wrote/co-wrote The Girl Who Couldn't Be Quite! (1950), Cloudburst (1951), Espionage (1963), Sebastian (1968), among others. Leo Marks was portrayed in Churchill's Secret Army, "A Call to Spy" (2019). He died in London on Jan 15, 2001.

Follow the White Rabbit...




"The only indecipherable code in the world is a woman." - Leo Marks


If only all ufologists were this cool. Ufology went downhill when guys stopped wearing cool hats.




Lue? Does not wear cool hats. Grusch? No hats at all.

[Snarl]

Happy Checkers Day!

Nixon's famous speech was broadcast Sept 23, 1952.

If I was capable of performing miracles, I'd resurrect that bastard ... just so he could be whipped to death the way he deserved. And screw Ol' Gerry for pardoning his sorry ass.

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Had to grow up fast back in those days. Meanwhile, today...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 25, 1789: United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights. Congress proposes The Congressional Apportionment Amendment that addresses the number of seats in the House of Representatives. It was never ratified by the requisite number of state legislatures. As Congress did not set a time limit for its ratification, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment is still pending before the states. As of 2023, it is one of six unratified amendments.


Sept 25, 1956: TAT-1 Opening Ceremony, of the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, marked the beginning of the modern era of cable communications. The TAT-1 ocean cable from Oban, Scotland, landed at Clarenville, Newfoundland and the signal was then carried by an overland line to Terrenceville, then on to Sydney Mines in Nova Scotia via a subsea cable.



The opening ceremony was broadcast by Canadian radio station CFCF of Montreal from the banquet hall of the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa. The approximately 53-minute broadcast was recorded on a set of three transcription discs, of which two survive and are in the archives of the Atlantic Cable website. These include much of the three-way telephone conversation between London, Ottawa, and New York.

You can also listen to an MP3 audio file & transcript of the first phone call (7 minutes, 1.8MB) and whole lot more at:

History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network.


Sept 25, 1959: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev posed for photographers with President Dwight Eisenhower at Camp David, unaware the flagstone deck he was standing on was hastily built to conceal the recently enlarged presidential emergency relocation bunker beneath Aspen Lodge. Bottom image is an excerpt from Garrett Graff's 2017 book "Raven Rock":




Also, on this very same date, Sept 25, 1959, this happened:

A U.S. Navy P-5M aircraft, assigned to NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, crashed in the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles west of the Washington-Oregon border. It was carrying an unarmed nuclear antisubmarine weapon ("Betty"), a nuclear depth bomb containing no nuclear material, minus its plutonium capsule. The weapon was lost at sea. The seaplane sank in 8-10-foot seas, the entire crew was able to deploy life rafts and was rescued by a Coast Guard cutter about 12 hours later. The Mark-7 or B7 warhead at the heart of the "Betty" was the first US tactical nuclear warhead and was used in five weapons.


The Mark 90 "Betty" nuclear depth bomb was designed at Los Alamos, 225 were manufactured and deployed from 1955-60. It had a variable yield of 8-61 kilotons and was used in Operation Wigwam (Nuke video), an underwater nuclear test off the coast of Baja, California, on May 14, 1955.


Sept 25, 1961: President John F. Kennedy addressed the UN General Assembly and warned:

Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

But to halt the spread of these terrible weapons, to halt the contamination of the air, to halt the spiraling nuclear arms race, we remain ready to seek new avenues of agreement, our new Disarmament Program thus includes the following proposals:

• First, signing the test-ban treaty by all nations. This can be done now. Test ban negotiations need not and should not await general disarmament.
  
• Second, stopping the production of fissionable materials for use in weapons, and preventing their transfer to any nation now lacking in nuclear weapons.
  
• Third, prohibiting the transfer of control over nuclear weapons to states that do not own them.
  
• Fourth, keeping nuclear weapons from seeding new battlegrounds in outer space.
  
• Fifth, gradually destroying existing nuclear weapons and converting their materials to peaceful uses; and
  
• Finally, halting the unlimited testing and production of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, and gradually destroying them as well.

13 months later, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of disaster. And US nuclear bomb tests were detonated for the next 31 years afterward.

JFK went on to say:

We shall propose further cooperative efforts between all nations in weather prediction and eventually in weather control. We shall propose, finally, a global system of communications satellites linking the whole world in telegraph and telephone and radio and television.

President John F. Kennedy's address before the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in New York City or Youtube




King Charles ‘piloted UFO’ with powerful ‘blue plasma’ in secret Canada project


Weaponized AI BS...


NASA Looks to Weaponize the Heavens


G. Edward Griffin in 1969 reading Communist playbooks & showing how they falsely labeled people fascist, Nazi & anti-Semitic if they opposed communism. This is a formula for public manipulation, it has been around for a long time, and they wouldn't keep doing it unless they thought it worked.





AI works cannot be copyrighted


The Writers Guild has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its strike after nearly five months. The parties finalized the framework of the deal Sunday when they were able to untangle their stalemate over AI and writing room staffing levels.

WGA & AMPTP Reach Tentative Agreement To End Writers Strike


The Ninth crusade...


Daily Mail






Unofficial Commercial for 2023: The Smashing Pumpkins "Cyr" + "You and Me and ABC" Promo (1980) Mashup:

[EndtheMadnessNow]

"Necessity will soon oblige and justify an insurrection of the poor against the rich."
- Royal Governor of Massachusetts Francis Bernard's letter on the likelihood of anarchy if the Stamp Act went into effect, written to the Earl of Halifax, Sept. 7, 1765



The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London which included an embossed revenue stamp. Printed materials included legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies, and it had to be paid in British currency, not in colonial paper money.

The purpose of the tax was to pay for British military troops stationed in the American colonies after the French and Indian War, but the colonists had never feared a French invasion to begin with, and they contended that they had already paid their share of the war expenses.

Video summary:

In the third and last part of this series, we explore the actions of sailors and slaves during the Stamp Act Crisis. In the late fall of 1765, colonists wearing “soot, sailors habits and slouch hats” harassed Crown officials, tore down houses of prominent merchants, and violently hounded those suspected of involvement with the “damned stampt paper.” Descriptions of these disorderly, drunken protestors contrasted with accounts of symbolic protest scenes, such as funerals for “Liberty.”

Molly Fitzgerald Perry, Lecturer at Christopher Newport University, will analyze the descriptions of Jack Tar sailors alongside those of free and enslaved people of color, highlighting questions of these individuals as both social actors and political icons. Tracing the spread of news and heated debates between residents of New England port towns and plantation ports across the Lower South and West Indies, Ms. Perry will recreate the central role played by mariners and African Americans during this moment of imperial disruption.

Sept 26, 1960: Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee Richard Nixon participate in the first-ever televised presidential debate from Chicago.




Happy 40th to Stanislav Petrov Day to all who celebrate (and everyone should).

Born Sept 7, 1939, Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (died May 19, 2017). Today in Sept 26, 1983, just past midnight, 44 year-old lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces calm assessment of a satellite warning of the launch of five US Minuteman ICBMs was a false alarm, thanks to "a funny feeling in my gut" - may have averted a catastrophic nuclear war.



'I Had A Funny Feeling in My Gut'

Petrov’s story including his treatment by Soviet military authorities after this incident (which was covered up for 15 years until his superior officer published a memoir) is told in the 2014 hybrid documentary-drama "The Man Who Saved the World."



Petrov died in May 2017 in Moscow of hypostatic pneumonia. He was 77.

Spooky irony that "WarGames" opened just 115 days earlier.

Also, today is International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, says the totally worthless organization.



In 1990, Soviet/Russian painter and sculptor Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli presented this 39ft high, 40 ton St George and the Atomic Dragon bronze sculpture to the United Nations to commemorate the signing of the 1987 INF Treaty. Titled "Good Defeats Evil", it sits in a garden outside the UN headquarters visitors entrance in New York City for all to admire.



By comparison, Good Defeats Evil has found a more receptive audience in Manhattan. In the gardens of the UN Headquarters, it shares a home with another dramatic Soviet sculpture, We Shall Beat Our Swords Into Plowshares by Evgenii Vuchetich. In 1959, in the aftermath of the successful Soviet Exhibition of Science, Technology and Culture in New York, the sculpture was likewise gifted to the United Nations as a symbol of the Soviet commitment to nuclear disarmament.

In an ironic twist, since 2001, Good Defeats Evil has stood in the shadow of the Trump World Tower.



Sept 26, 1997: the nuclear terrorism thriller "The Peacemaker", starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, and directed by Mimi Leder, opened in movie theaters.



“I’m not afraid of the man who wants ten nuclear weapons, colonel. I’m terrified of the man who only wants one.”


Sept 26, 1991: Today marks the beginning of the Biosphere 2 experiment in Arizona. Eight people lived in a sealed environment from 1991 to 1993 to research how well a closed ecological system could support human life. They did make it the full two years, meaning today also marks the end of the experiment in 1993. They encountered challenges such as oxygen levels dropping and difficulties in food production. Overall, it was a success and it provided valuable data and lessons for future experiments and space colonization discussions.



It's still open to the public: Biosphere 2

Related:
Built in the early 2000s near Hanksville, Utah, the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is the largest and longest-running Mars surface research facility and is one of two simulated Mars analog habitats owned and operated by the Mars Society.



The Musk Mars Desert Research Observatory

Mars Society establishes institute to advance colony on Mars - The space advocacy movement has announced an initiative to found the Mars Technology Institute, which aims to create the technologies necessary for establishing a presence on the red planet.


R.I.P. David McCallum (19 September 1933 – 25 September 2023).

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WoW, what a Day!!





FEMA Get Repair, Rebuilding Advice in Lahaina Sept. 25-30

I'm reminded of that scene in THE DAY AFTER when the farmers listened to post-apocalyptic agricultural advice from government reps.




The democratic leader of the destruction of New York City...



Mayor Adams named ‘Master Mason’


We are influenced & ruled by cults, secret occult orders, and clowns.

Aliens, demons or PSYOPS? Catholics study, debate UFO allegations

ROME (CNS) -- When former intelligence official David Grusch testified before Congress in July that the U.S. government had retrieved crashed UFOs and covertly attempted to reverse engineer their alien technology, some Catholics already were primed to debate the compatibility of extraterrestrial intelligence and church doctrine.

That is because debate about non-human intelligence is as old as Christianity, according to the director of the Vatican's space observatory.

Whether it is "angels in the Bible or these crazy creatures in Greek mythology," Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno told Catholic News Service in June, there's "nothing new about that."

Paul Thigpen, author of the 2022 book, "Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith," has discussed UFOs on podcasts that have registered more than 100,000 listens. He has argued that Grusch's claims are credible.

Despite denials from Pentagon officials, Thigpen told CNS, "I believe that what he reported is substantially true."

Thigpen said he wrote his book as a "preemptive move" to reassure Catholics who might be perturbed not just by a potential discovery of life on distant planets, but by UFO whistleblowers who say that highly advanced life is already visiting ours.

"I wanted to be able to put a book out there for folks who are going to be hearing, if that happens, 'This contradicts your faith; this disproves your faith,'" he said.

Thigpen's book compiles statements of prominent Catholics throughout history, from church fathers to St. John Paul II, who have said that God may have created intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. The book includes an appendix on UFOs.

He quotes St. Padre Pio, for example, saying that on "other planets, other beings exist who did not sin and fall as we did."

Other Catholics go a step further, saying that both UFO reports and the miraculous stories of saints strengthen their belief in the supernatural realm.

Diana Walsh Pasulka, a professor of religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, explained that her research shifted from Marian apparitions and the ecstatic visions of saints to UFOs because she discovered striking similarities between the two phenomena.

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While the Vatican Observatory does not study UFOs, Brother Consolmagno said he's often asked what he thinks about the phenomenon. CNS joined the queue and asked him about Grusch's claims when they first began attracting media attention in June.

Despite high-resolution cellphone cameras being ubiquitous, "we do not have any better evidence of Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster, or UFOs," he said.

"I don't believe."

Full article: Aliens, demons or PSYOPS? Catholics study, debate UFO allegations

...and Nazi's too...

Russians fought with us against the scourge of the Nazi regime but the Canadian parliament decided to give a standing ovation to a 14th Waffen SS veteran for killing Russians, calling the 98 yr-old a hero.

The media tells us he was part of a VOLUNTEER, Nazi commanded unit, complicit in war crimes.



Canadian speaker only later apologizing, saying he didn't know...and today Canadian House Speaker RESIGNS (news vid clip) after inviting a Nazi SS veteran to be honored in front of world leaders. What a crock of shit. He was probably already on his way out.

When you're overly saturated by hate for Russia that you're willing to call a Nazi SS veteran a war hero, you have journeyed so far away from any sense of morality you intended to project, you are in a fever dream. The Ukrainian war has made strange bedfellows. The enemy of my enemy is my friend? Canada is under a Banderite Occupied Government.

LMAO...


Wiki Ministry of Truth

On the flip-side he was 18 at the time, not a ranking SS Obersturmbannführer.

This is very likely just the beginning. There will be a marked rise in Nazi Esoterica re-packaged as new discoveries and examinations. Especially through ufology, New Age circles, archeology and anthropology. The Swastika, Aryans, Alien Gods, Technology as Power, Antarctica, Space Weapons and Colonization, Eugenics, the days of "might makes right", etc. Expect it all to re-surface, slightly modernized and more 'scientific'.

The sentiment will be: Hitler was a bad guy, but, the Nazi's were right about esoteric truths, including their Aryan Alien God origin story. Ha. This may lead to a stronger push to 'reimagine' (favorite Klaus Schwab word) the Nazi's in a more favorable image. It's hard to believe, but this is already happening. In reality this is an attempt to regain power. On the occult side, their symbols and ideologies must be accepted to feed their egregore. Their egregores are the source of their power and influence. Starve the egregore and the order dies. In order to truly take power it takes more than social and financial controls, their occult ideologies and symbols must be accepted. I think most people don't understand the spiritual beliefs of the Nazi's, nor their obsessions with Space and Genetics. False Dichotomy is key here.

On the flip-side with all this online UFO activity & MIC propaganda, it's like our timeline got diverted and we're all back living in a cold war 2.0, with a 1950s twist, minus the nuke tests, so far.


Russia, Russia, Russia, No, CHINA...


US exploring potential space force hotline with China

Maybe they'll have a threesome party with the Washington-Moscow hotline.


Speaking of Nazis... NASA names new Head of Technology, Policy, Strategy - Charity Weeden - sworn in using Carl Sagan's book titled "Contact". WTF? Really?




Carl Sagan talks with Terry Wogan, 1985: "We are an exploratory species."



Carl Sagan: "To give you an example, in March of next year Halley's comet will be coming by the Earth for the first time since 1910 and it will be greeted by a floatilla of spacecraft from 20 nations including the UK, but NOT including the United States. Why not? ... Because a democratic & republican administration had decided it was too expensive. How expensive would it have been? It would have cost exactly as much as a SINGLE B-1 bomber for which the US has committed to purchase 100. 99 would have compromised national security. [laughter]." So true!





This image, printed in London, is an artist’s imaginative interpretation of the situation in Boston after Parliament’s passage of the Coercive Acts. Bostonians are held in a cage hanging from a Liberty Tree, surrounded by British cannons and troops. In 1774, Boston was an occupied city whose port was closed until its inhabitants paid for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party.



It may all be "theater," but it is a big mistake to underestimate the power of theater.

"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality." -Salvador Dali

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Today is National Drink Beer Day! In 1980, sailors on USS Eisenhower spent 152 consecutive days underway during which time they had three separate beer days. Because sailors were permitted to have two cans of beer on each milestone day, the deployment became known as the "Six Pack Cruise". I was on a two-pack cruise after spending 75 days at sea. Beer never tasted so damn good! 10 days later we pulled into Thailand and drank the town dry.




Sept 28, 1948: the Vought Cutlass flew for the first time. Based on German WWII tech, the F7U became the Navy's first swept wing fighter. Nicknamed the "Gutless" by pilots, the F7U had a short service history because its weak thrust and difficult handling led to a high accident rate. Also, was known to flame out in rain, a very serious fault! Futuristic looking aircraft for it's time.




Lotta nuclear sabre rattling in the world lately.

Kim Jong Un stresses ‘exponential’ nuke production at parliamentary session



Taiwan’s silent service enters a new dawn with the unveiling of the long awaited domestically-built submarine..."On September 28, the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) christened the first Indigenous Defense Submarine (IDS), the future ROCS Hai Kung (SS-711). According to the official explanation, while “Hai” refers to “Sea”, “Kung” refers to the island of Taiwan in an elegant way. It also has the meanings of “big”, “stealthy” and “unpredictable”, a perfect name for a new class of attack submarine."
Naval News





Taiwan unveils first locally built submarine in pushback against China

In a bid to reassure Berlin, senior British officials said that they had briefed their German counterparts in great detail about how they work with Ukraine in deploying their own Storm Shadow missiles, including revealing highly confidential operational procedures.

Ukraine had never hit any targets that the British wouldn’t approve, these officials told their German counterparts, assuring them that they could rely on Kyiv to honor any targeting agreement.

German officials said that if the Taurus is approved, its range would be shortened so as to minimize the risk of it being used to hit Russia. It is unclear whether Berlin would allow Kyiv to strike targets in occupied Crimea.

Germany Stalls Delivery of Long-Range Cruise Missiles to Ukraine

British approved...lol



The Moscow Times



What We Learned From Recent Calls for a Russian Nuclear Attack




U.S. eyes setting up space force unit in Japan amid China's rise


BAE Systems and Malloy Aeronautics have demonstrated the capabilities of the T-600 heavy lift uncrewed air system (UAS) to launch a torpedo.


T-600 Drone Deploys Sting Ray Lightweight Torpedo


Introducing the new lead guitarist/vocalist for Blues Hammer...


https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/17...1528620109

Actually, he's pretty good.

The original: Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man [1954]

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Really a striking sight at European Parliament this morning, with testimony from three former Guantanamo prisoners, including Mansoor Adayfi in his orange jumpsuit.




World’s 1st malicious hack actually occurred in 1903 against Marconi:


History of Industrial Control System Cyber Incidents

Early history of radiochemistry

Abstract

The development of radiochemistry is traced from the discovery of radioactivity in 1896 through its climax in 1913, when the concept of isotopes made it possible to squeeze more than 30 new radioactive "elements" into the half-dozen remaining vacancies at the end of the Periodic Table. The procedures first employed to isolate many of the radioelements are described in detail, frequently through the use of direct quotations from the original research publications. Each stage in the development is documented so that those wishing to examine a particular discovery in more detail can do so with the aid of more than 200 references to primary sources.

The Armenian muskateers:


(L-R) Noubar Afeyan (Moderna, Pfizer, Beam Therapeutics), George Clooney (CFR member), Ruben Vardanian (former CEO of Russia Sberbank) and Vartan Gregorian attend The 100 LIVES initiative.


After 10 years of research, the International Astronomical Union have named the asteroid 2013 TF19, "Fraser", after Elizabeth Fraser.


622398 Fraser (2013 TF19)


Edinburgh News

The last Cocteau Twins single was called "Violaine," meaning purple.

[Snarl]

Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years. So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

How many other BILLIONAIRES can describe themselves this way? I can't think of any. So ... I guess that's how he fights: Attack the messenger ... not the message.

   

Anyone else notice that celebrity net worths are dropping like rocks these days? I guess the glory of flaunting your wealth wasn't really that great of an idea. Or ... maybe they're realizing they can't take it with them ... and spending like crazy.

Those designer handbags he gave away to friends ... stuffed with a million dollars? I wonder if he paid the 'gift taxes' associated with that. 

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I have to ask: When was the last time disputed International Community Laws mattered? Seems like the happy people in the picture above are all in agreement. Their smiles tell me, "Zero fucks given."

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Happy National Coffee Day!



Donald Trump picking coffee beans circa 1967. He would later open a small coffee shop in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market in 1971. He named his coffee shop “Starbucks”.





Sept 29, 1907: The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C. with Pres Theodore Roosevelt attending. It wasn't completed till 1990 when the final "finial" was placed in the presence of Pres George H. W. Bush. Designed in a Neo-Gothic architectural style, it stands as the second-largest church building in the United States, and the third-tallest building in Washington, D.C.



The cathedral was damaged in August 2011 during the Virginia earthquake. Finial stones on several pinnacles broke off, and several pinnacles twisted out of alignment or collapsed entirely. Some gargoyles and other carvings were damaged along with various cracks. 12 years later and restoration work is still ongoing.

Due to cancel culture nonsense, on Sept 23, 2023 the Now and Forever Windows were unveiled...replacing confederate Generals.


Sept 29, 1967: "I am not a number! I am a free man!" Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner was aired in the UK for the first time. Somehow Canada had it first...on Sept 5, 1967. A series which is probably more relevant today than ever, it continues to spark debate. The greatest and most thought-provoking TV series ever made?


The World's largest website dedicated to the cult TV series The Prisoner, its star Patrick McGoohan, and the village of Portmeirion.


Enrico Fermi was born in Rome, Italy on September 29, 1901. On December 2, 1942, 49 scientists, led by Enrico Fermi, made history when Chicago Pile 1 (CP-1) went critical and produced the world's first self-sustaining, controlled nuclear chain reaction. Seventy years later, two of the last surviving CP-1 pioneers, Harold Agnew and Warren Nyer, recall that historic day.


Argonne Nuclear Pioneers: Chicago Pile 1




U.S. Strategic Command


Sept 29, 2007: Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. Calder Hall was first connected to the grid on 27 August 1956 and officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 1956. It was the world's first nuclear power station to provide electricity on a commercial scale to a public grid. The Calder Hall design was codenamed PIPPA (Pressurised Pile Producing Power and Plutonium) by the UKAEA to denote the plant's dual commercial and military role...weapons-grade plutonium.



Boom!





Only two YF-22's exist today:
87-0700 at Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards Air Force Base, California.
87-0701 at Rome Laboratory, Rome, New York. (former SAC Air Force Base)


"By Slim Thinlip and Punch Dunkler" LOL!




Word of the Day:

PATHOCRACY (n). - A system of government created by a small pathological minority that takes control over a society of normal people (from Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes, by Andrew Lobaczewski)

Pathocracy

from Greek pathos, "feeling, pain, suffering"; and kratos, "rule"

A totalitarian form of government in which absolute political power is held by a psychopathic elite, and their effect on the people is such that the entire society is ruled and motivated by purely pathological values.

A pathocracy can take many forms and can insinuate itself covertly into any seemingly just system or ideology. As such it can masquerade under the guise of a democracy or theocracy as well as more openly oppressive regimes.

Characteristics

1. suppression of individualism and creativity.
2. impoverishment of artistic values.
3. impoverishment of moral values; a social structure based on self-interest and one-upmanship, rather than altruism.
4. fanatical ideology; often a corrupted form of a valid viable ‘trojan’ ideology which is perverted into a pathological form, bearing little resemblance to the substance of the original.
5. intolerance and suspicion of anyone who is different, or who disagrees with the state.
6. centralized control.
7. widespread corruption.
8. secret activities within government, but surveillance of the general population. (In contrast, a healthy society would have transparent government processes, and respect for privacy of the individual citizen).
9. paranoid and reactionary government.
10. excessive, arbitrary, unfair and inflexible legislation; the power of decision making is reduced/removed from the citizens’ everyday lives.
11. an attitude of hypocrisy and contempt demonstrated by the actions of the ruling class, towards the ideals they claim to follow, and towards the citizens they claim to represent.
12. controlled media, dominated by propaganda.
13. extreme inequality between the richest and poorest.
14. endemic use of corrupted psychological reasoning such as paramoralisms, conversive thinking and doubletalk.
15. rule by force and/or fear of force.
16. people are considered as a ‘resource’ to be exploited (hence the term “human resources”), rather than as individuals with intrinsic human worth.
17. spiritual life is restricted to inflexible and indoctrinare schemes. Anyone attempting to go beyond these boundaries is considered a heretic or insane, and therefore dangerous.
18. arbitrary divisions in the population (class, ethnicity, creed) are inflamed into conflict with one another.
19. suppression of free speech – public debate, demonstration, protest.
20. violation of basic human rights, for example: restriction or denial of basic life necessities such as food, water, shelter; detainment without charge; torture and abuse; slave labour.

The Pathocracy Blog

Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes (2007) by Andrew M. Lobaczewski. Brzezinski blocked its publication.

"Political Ponerology is fascinating, essential reading." -Philip Zimbardo, author of "The Lucifer Effect", (former US Navy Office of Research & the infamous Stanford prison experiment & mind control essay).


Making the World Safe for Pathocracy


See you in the field.

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Broadcast on ABC, Sept 30, 1963: THE OUTER LIMITS episode "The Architects of Fear" (S1E3) starring Robert Culp, Geraldine Brooks, Leonard Stone & Billy Green Bush. A secret group of scientists decides to surgically alter one of their members into an 'alien' in order to convince the world that an alien invasion is imminent. They hope that such a threat will force all governments to make peace with one another.


Censor LOL: When this episode first aired, the alien was deemed too frightening to show by several ABC affiliates. They instead showed a black screen whenever the alien appeared and showed footage of the alien later during the evening news. WoW, imagine that!


Peaceful Atoms - Sep 30, 1966: the USSR detonated a 30-kiloton nuclear device 5,026 feet underground to successfully extinguish a natural gas fire that had raged out of control for nearly three years in the Urta-Bulak gas field in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.



The Soviet Union only publicly revealed the specific location and purpose of its first "peaceful nuclear explosion" (officially known as Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy) in an article in the Tashkent newspaper Pravda Vostoka on November 26, 1971.




Sept 30, 1970: COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT opened in New York City.


Universal initially released it as The Forbin Project (1969) and then re-released it about six months later renamed as Colossus: The Forbin Project.


Sept 30th - Charlie Bucket found the last golden ticket. The next day he went to Wonka’s factory.




Sept 30, 1975: the West Coast premiere of THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR was held at Mann's Village Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles. The screening benefited the ACLU Foundation.



Hell yeah, deep state war between the fundies and the theosophists...


Bible-reading Pentagon commanders halted UFO research 'over fears aliens were demons'

The Pentagon funds all kinds of weird, fringe & occult research. What's funny ironic is some of the spooky funding given to Robert Bigelow was used to fund research into poltergeists. Half of the quote tweets are people laughing at the Pentagon, the other half are people saying that UFOs are in fact demons from Hell.

Here's an entire book (2002) which lays out the case that UFOs and aliens are actually interdimensional demons. It's like evangelical Christian apologetic's meets Alex Jones.



This concept has been around in evangelical circles since at least the 1950s.







Speaking of Angels & Demons or Aliens, this just dropped...

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Oct. 2, 1923: An article titled "Is Utopia Really Possible?" appears in Russian newspaper Izvestia, promoting space travel to expand humanity’s horizons. The piece notes that U.S. scientist Robert Goddard’s rocket experiments provide a possible means to escape Earth’s orbit.


This touches off a Soviet science fiction mania. By one count, 250 articles are published in Russian in the next decade on space flight, far more than in the U.S. A 1924 Soviet film "Aelita, the Queen of Mars" imagines a trip to the planet. This movie became such a hit in the Soviet Union that many new parents named their baby girls "Aelita".


Oct 2, 1950: "Peanuts" comic strip, authored by Charles Schultz, makes its debut. Published in seven newspapers, including in his hometown paper the Minneapolis Star.




Oct 2, 1961: Birmingham, Alabama media personality Bette Lee Hanson [1926-2022] ® and her mother, Knudena Johnson (L), began a one-week lockdown in a fallout shelter at the Alabama State Fair.



Born Oct 2, 1920, Louis Onorato "Jeff" Giuffrida (died Nov 20, 2012) former U.S. Army colonel, after a 48 year career as first serving in the Marine Corps as an Infantry Officer in 1943 during the Pacific Theater of Operations as a platoon leader and company commander until 1946. He left the Marine Corps to accept a Regular Army commission and later served with the 7th Infantry Division during the Korean Conflict. He became Reagan era FEMA director serving in the position from 1981-1985 and resigned following a congressional fraud investigation.



In 1970 while at the US Army War College, Giuffrida wrote a thesis (PDF) titled "National Survival—Racial Imperative", outlining a military contingency plan for the forcible relocation of some 500,000 black militant Americans to concentration camps in the event of a national emergency involving racial strife. Though debatable as the thesis states it would take 14 years to relocate them forcibly and appears to question if this is even realistic given the history of Japanese internment camps. His thesis became available after a journo filed a FOIA in 2014.

Several years after leaving FEMA, Louis O. Giuffrida consulted on security matters for Lyndon LaRouche's defense team in his mail fraud trial.


CSPAN: Government and Counter Terrorism Responses (Feb 21, 1986)

1984 correspondence between Louis O. Giuffrida & CIA deputy dir John N. McMahon: (note Project MEDUSA)


Archive.org (FEMA Dir Giuffrida's request letter to CIA attached at link about a secure vault constructed for ALL intelligence, but need secure computer terminals within the vault...he recommends a SAFE IBM system)

CRISIS INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CIMS) : PROJECT MEDUSA

In another 'Crisis' "MEDUSA" project was a directed-energy non-lethal weapon designed by WaveBand Corporation in 2003-2004 for temporary personnel incapacitation...i.e. Crowd Control.



U.S. Strategic Command

That's 14 subs carrying 20 Trident II D5LE SLBMs apiece, each armed with an average of 4-5 warheads per SLBM, the 90-kt W76-1, the 8-kt W76-2, or the crowd pleaser 455-kt W88 totaling 280 SLBMs and 1,120-1,400 warheads.

Yet, USAF for some maddening reason "needs" at least 400 vulnerable new ICBMs armed with up to 1,200 warheads. And this is aside from 300 or so nuclear gravity bombs (10-360-kt B61-7s, 400-kt B61-11s, and the city killers of 1.2-Mt B83-1s) AND air-launched cruise missiles (5-150-kt W80-1s) deployed with 20 B-2A and 46 B-52H bombers. And that's just what is allowed under New START Treaty, which expires on February 4, 2026.

Aside from whatever you think about nukes, you'll be pleased to hear that there is no significant or sustained opposition in Congress to rebuilding and upgrading the entire nuclear arsenal. In fact, we've spent hundreds of billions of dollars over the last decade and we're on track to spend hundreds of billions more.

The Congressional Budget Office (USCBO) published in July its latest update on the costs of US nuclear weapons. Bottom line: US nuclear weapons and some weapons-related programs will consume $52.4 billion in 2023 and $756 billion through 2032, $122 billion more than its last estimate.

BTW, that massive cost excludes costs to manage and "clean up" large amounts of radioactive waste left over from manufacturing 70,000 bombs and warheads, compensation for people harmed by past production and testing activities, nonproliferation/threat reduction, and ballistic missile defenses.


Meanwhile, UK Veterans wear long-awaited Nuclear Test Medals in public for first time:




Oct 2, 1961: the battleship USS North Carolina collided with the floating seafood restaurant Fergus' Ark on the Cape Fear River in Wilmington. It was the second time a Navy vessel almost sank the restaurant (which had been a USCG barracks during WWII). A sub hit it in 1955. Not many can say that they survived a submarine and battleship attack!


The Fergus Ark is part of Wilmington history, but The Boat is a legend in Florida, too


Oct 1990: German re-unification. The CIA allegedly initiates Operation Rosewood, hiring newly unemployed Stasi staff to retrieve files. The Rosenholz files are a collection of 381 CD-ROMs containing 280,000 files with information on persons who were sources and targets or employees and helpers in the focus of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA, “Main Directorate for Reconnaissance”), the primary foreign intelligence agency of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany).



How the Rosenholz files ended up in the hands of the CIA during the German reunification is not known. However, the story goes they were initially analyzed by the United States only, but finally returned to Germany in 2003 after long negotiations. The exact reason for the duration of the negotiations is still debated among scholars.

CIA Booty: The “Rosenholz-Archives” Myth and Reality | The "Rosenholz" files


Oct 2nd: In an effort to prolong his ailing mother from finding out about the reunification of Germany the next day, Alex celebrates the Day of the Republic for East Germany (which occurs on the 7th October) with his mother.

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Harwell Dekatron 1947-51, later known as the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell (WITCH) booting up. (Faster than my last windows update) It takes 10 seconds to multiply two numbers.





The machine - developed by the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, Berkshire is the world's oldest original working digital computer dating from 1951 can be seen at TNMOC, located on Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, UK.

The story of the WITCH, the world's oldest working digital computer:




Desert Bloom (1986) - The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic stepfather. Her memories of Robin, her first love, are much happier, and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr, whose visit is fun, but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Nevada bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story. There was a benefit screening (for KNPR - Nevada Public Radio) of DESERT BLOOM at the Paradise Cinema in Las Vegas on Oct 2, 1986.





Oct 2, 1986, US Naval Institute Books published FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER by Stephen Coonts. Ronald Reagan helped it become a bestseller when Fortune Magazine ran a photograph of the President with a copy of the book on his desk in the Oval Office. Reagan was also a fan of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.




Magazine covers from Oct 2, 19xx...




Oct 2, 1988: While sleepwalking, Donnie Darko met a Frank, who told him that the world will end in...




U.K. Awards BAE $5B for New Royal Navy SSN-AUKUS Attack Submarine


Open all the windows... an unseasonal heatwave is about to hit Russia hard...


Newsweek


The Orwellian Canadian gov't, taken over by Stasi, armed with one of the world's most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all "online streaming services that offer podcasts" must formally register with the gov't to permit regulatory controls:

Quotes

“We are developing a modern broadcasting framework that can adapt to changing circumstances. To do that, we need broad engagement and robust public records. We appreciate the significant participation during this first phase and look forward to hearing a diversity of perspectives at our contributions proceeding in November.”
- Vicky Eatrides, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, CRTC

CRTC takes major step forward to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework


The exponential growth in U.S. wireless data traffic is a glaring testament to our society's insatiable appetite for digital consumption. From a mere 191 billion megabytes in 2009 to a mind-boggling 73.7 trillion in 2022, this surge is not just numbers; it's a narrative of a nation increasingly intertwined, interlinked, and becoming interlocked with the digital realm.

U.S. wireless data traffic in megabytes:

2022: 73.7 trillion
2021: 53.4 trillion
2020: 42.2 trillion
2019: 37.1 trillion
2018: 28.6 trillion
2017: 15.7 trillion
2016: 13.7 trillion
2015: 9.6 trillion
2014: 4.1 trillion
2013: 3.2 trillion
2012: 1.5 trillion
2011: 867 billion
2010: 388 billion
2009: 191 billion

**The Evolution: A Digital Symphony**
In 2009, the digital landscape was still in its infancy, with wireless data traffic at 191 billion megabytes. As we moved into the next decade, a proliferation of smartphones, social media platforms, and streaming services catalyzed a digital revolution. By 2012, traffic had escalated to 1.5 trillion megabytes, highlighting the rapid adoption and integration of digital technology into the everyday lives of Americans.

**The Streaming Era: Bandwidth Bonanza**
2015 marked a pivotal moment, with traffic reaching 9.6 trillion megabytes. The emergence of streaming giants like Netflix and Hulu transformed entertainment, driving an insatiable demand for high-quality content and contributing to the ballooning data traffic.

**IoT and 5G: The Future Unleashed**
Fast forward to 2022, and the landscape is unrecognizable. The advent of 5G technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) has fueled an explosion in wireless data traffic, reaching a mind-boggling 73.7 trillion megabytes. This era is characterized by smart homes, autonomous vehicles, and interconnected devices, painting a picture of a society deeply embedded in the digital fabric.

**A Society Transformed: The Digital Tapestry**
This meteoric rise in data traffic is reflective of a transformative shift in societal behavior and preferences. The way we communicate, work, learn, and entertain ourselves has been fundamentally altered, with digital platforms and services becoming integral components of our daily lives.

**The Underlying Current: Privacy & Security**
Amidst this digital euphoria, there are underlying currents of concern. The explosion in data traffic brings with it challenges around privacy and cybersecurity. Balancing the benefits of digital connectivity with the imperative to protect user data will be a defining challenge for the industry.

**Looking Forward: Uncharted Digital Horizons**
As we gaze into the future, the trajectory of wireless data traffic in the U.S. suggests uncharted horizons. The integration of augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology will continue to drive data consumption to unprecedented levels. (Assuming we don't blow ourselves up or have a revolution)

Source for stats: Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) 2023 Annual Survey Highlights.



In case you're wondering, the quote & year is correctly attributed to Tesla.
An interview with Nikola Tesla by John B. Kennedy


A prediction about phones in 1963:

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Oct 3, 1952: the first British nuclear test with a yield of 25 kt are conducted in Operation Hurricane on the Montebello Islands in Western Australia. The plutonium implosion bomb was detonated inside the hull of the frigate HMS Plym. This made the United Kingdom the third country in the world to develop nuclear weapons.




WarGames: At 0400 on Oct 3, 1979, Col. William Odom, the National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski’s military assistant, was alerted by the Pentagon "War Room" that a West Coast radar had detected a Soviet SLBM in flight which was expected to strike 150 nautical miles off the Oregon coast.



It turned out to be false alarm, but as Odom wrote to Brzezinski in a top secret memo later that day, "It is a very chilling experience to pick up the phone and hear NORAD repeating ‘we have high confidence in the system’ and wonder how to use the remaining four or five minutes."

Two days later, Odom informed (memo above) Brzezinski the cause of the false alarm was still unknown...the radar did not malfunction, but that it may have been a piece of Soviet space debris falling out of orbit which was mistakenly categorized as a SLBM (this was confirmed by a later analysis).

For much more on this pucker factor incident, which could have ended very differently had it occurred during an international crisis, see:
Colonel Odom’s “Chilling” Four A.M. Phone Call

Possibly the first, though cryptic public reference to this incident was in former CIA Director Robert Gates's 1996 book "From the Shadows" on page 114. Gates offers some basic details that a missile was being tracked from the Soviet Union toward the Oregon coast and mentions Odom’s involvement, but provides no date. (likely censored by CIA) The National Security Archive noted Gates's reference in its previous electronic briefing book on nuclear false alarms published in March 2020 (which was actually an update of an earlier briefing on the same topic from March 2012) and then proceeded to track it down.

False Warnings of Soviet Missile Attacks Put U.S. Forces on Alert in 1979-1980

"As many critics have pointed out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes [sic] the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world." "The invasion of Iraq may well turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in American history."
- Lt Gen. William Eldridge Odom

Joe Biden: Hold my beer!


Doomsday was very near...! Dr. Strangelove for real...

Oct 3, 1968: Presidential candidate George Wallace introduced his running mate, Gen. Curtis LeMay, in Pittsburgh, PA.



"Four times governor of Alabama, four times a candidate for president, he was feared as a racist demagogue and admired as a politician who spoke his mind. A lightning rod for controversy, Wallace both reflected and provoked tensions in American society over more than four decades. This film traces the rise of the firebrand politician from his roots in rural Alabama to the assassination attempt that suddenly transformed him. Written by: Steve Fayer, Daniel Mccabe and Paul Stekler. Produced and Directed by: Daniel Mccabe and Paul Stekler. Based, in part, on "The Politics of Rage" by Dan T. Carter."

"Wallace, Settin’ the Woods On Fire": Watch an excellent documentary segment on the "Bombsey Twins" debacle here at about the 1 hr 33 min. mark:



I believe Wallace wanted to ask former Kentucky governor (and baseball commissioner) A.B. "Happy" Chandler to be his running mate, but oil baron mega donor Nelson Bunker Hunt didn’t think he was Xtreme right conservative enough, thus LeMay got the job.



Oct 3, 1984: FBI agent Richard W. Miller (1936-2013) was arrested and charged with giving counterintelligence information to the Soviets. Adam Schiff devotes a few pages to the prosecution of Richard W. Miller in his memoir MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON (2021).

This was no ordinary FBI surveillance operation: The “acquaintance” Grishin referred to was himself an FBI agent—a man who, out of greed, desperation, and spite, had begun an affair with Ogorodnikov and agreed to sell classified information to the Soviet government. Eventually, this man—Richard W. Miller, a 47-year-old Los Angeles-based counterintelligence agent on the Bureau’s Soviet squad—would become the first FBI agent ever convicted of espionage.

And the man who would finally secure Miller’s conviction in 1990—after three trials over the course of six years—was a young U.S. attorney in Los Angeles: Adam Schiff.

“I learned a lot about Russian tradecraft: how the Russians operate, who they target, the vulnerabilities they look for,” Schiff recalls. “They want people with access to information that is of use to them. They look for people who are sort of at the margins at what they do, that have financial problems, who have marital problems that they can exploit. And they found a very good target with Richard Miller.”
...
Miller served a total of nine years and was released in 1994. According to Stanley I. Greenberg, one of Miller’s former lawyers, Miller trained to become a computer technician while in prison, moved back to Utah and remarried. He died about three or four years ago, Greenberg told me.

Good long article, though they just had to wrap the Trump-Russia affair in it.
The Spy Case That Made Adam Schiff a Russia Hawk (May 2019)



Oct 3, 1986: 680 miles NE of Bermuda, the Soviet Yankee 1-class ballistic missile submarine K-219 was on patrol when seawater leaked into a missile tube, triggering an explosion of the missile’s volatile liquid fuel that killed three sailors and crippled the submarine.



Under very dangerous conditions, the crew managed to shut down the submarine’s reactors and stabilize it. Captain Igor Britanov was ordered to have the K-219 towed by freighter 4,300 miles to its homeport of Gadzhiyevo (near Murmansk), but it flooded and sank three days later.

The K-219 including its two nuclear reactors, 16 ballistic missiles, and 32-48 thermonuclear warheads sank in 18,000 feet of water to the bottom of the Hatteras Abyssal Plain. It carried 16 R-27U liquid-fuel missiles powered by Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) with nitrogen tetroxide (NTO). This accident happened eight days before the Reykjavik Summit and just over five months after Chernobyl. Top secret minutes of a Politburo meeting published in 2016 reveal the Soviets learned critical lessons from that disaster, especially not to deny it.



Open U.S.-Soviet communication regarding the accident on the eve of the Reykjavik summit of Reagan and Gorbachev


On October 6, 1986, the Politburo discussed the intelligence value of the submarine if the United States attempted to salvage it. Deputy Defense Minister and Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy Admiral Vladimir N. Chernavin told the Politburo this posed no serious concerns:


It's almost like reading a movie script based on a novel.


In 1988, the Soviet research ship Akademik Mstislav Keldysh sailed to the location the K-219 went down and found the submarine upright on the ocean floor, but broken in two. They discovered that several missile hatches had been pried open and that the missiles and their nuclear warheads were missing. Oh, the horror!



It is unknown whether the United States retrieved some SLBMs and their nuclear warheads from the K-219, but there was precedent. In 1974, the CIA used the purpose-built (Howard) Hughes Glomar Explorer to secretly raise another sunken Soviet missile sub in the Pacific Ocean, the K-129.

"Azorian" (incorrectly identified as Project Jennifer by the media), was the most ambitious ocean engineering endeavor attempted by man. Following the accidental sinking of a Soviet missile submarine in March 1968, U.S. intelligence agencies were able to determine the precise location and developed a means of raising the submarine from a depth of 16,400 feet. The remarkable salvage effort of the K-129, which contained nuclear-armed torpedoes and one nuclear tipped missile as well as crypto equipment, was conducted with Soviet naval ships just a few hundred yards from the lift ship, the Hughes Glomar Explorer.


In the Wake of a Sunken Soviet Submarine

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Continuing...

NY Times coverage:


The 1997 HBO movie "Hostile Waters" (based on the book of the same name) dramatized this accident, showing a US submarine colliding with the K-219 to trigger the leak...a claim the Soviet Union made in 1986 that was disputed by the US Navy and Capt. Britanov.



In 2001, Britanov sued Warner Brothers Studios, arguing they had not asked his permission to portray him in the movie and that the story was inaccurate and made him appear incompetent. Three years later, a court awarded Britanov a settlement of less than $100,000.




It seems the universe is not without a sense of irony. Stories in British media of a fatal accident aboard a Chinese submarine are spreading, again. Here's a non-msm post:

Possible Fatal Accident Aboard Chinese Navy Nuclear Submarine

Flag China Since August 22 there have been persistent rumors that a Chinese Navy (PLAN) nuclear submarine experienced a serious accident. They were first widely circulated on certain Chinese language social media. It has since been reported in Taiwanese media and there has been much wild speculation. However the rumor hasn't gone away, notably in Chinese sources.

Unfortunately I played an unintended role in this. The noise reached a level on August 22 that I tweeted about it in the hope of bringing more information to the surface. My tweet contained clear caveats. Despite this it was picked up by Taiwanese and other non-English language press and misrepresented to 'prove' that the incident occurred. It became a news story for a few days.

These rumors are still unconfirmed and should not be treated as fact. However, in case other information subsequently comes to light, it is worth recording them for reference. Where there is smoke, sometimes there is fire.

Treat with Caution: Unverified Rumors

Early Version Of Story, August 22

The initial telling of the story, reported by 'Lude Media', stated:

"Briefing: At 8:12 a.m. on August 21, 417 was carrying out the submerged survey operation assessment task under loading. The mechanical failure was caught by the anchor chain, which caused the cabin to depressurize and float slowly. It coincided with the thunderstorm in Lianyungang, and the rescue was trapped. After 6 hours of uninterrupted rescue, it surfaced at 14:04 on August 21, and the oxygen in the ship was exhausted, resulting in the sacrifice of 22 officers, 7 students, 9 non-commissioned officers and 17 soldiers who participated in the test mission. The details are still under investigation, and the next report will be at 10:15 on August 22.

This is a report to Xi Jinping and the Central Military Commission."

There are several aspects which raise questions in this account. Two obvious question marks are 1) Nuclear subs don’t normally run out of air for months, they can make it 2) Nuclear boats have a lot of power, anchor chain shouldn’t be fatal. The small crew is also worth noting as unusual, but not out of the question.

However, combined with other sources for these rumors, it was at least an indication that something took place. Media stories in Taiwan generally repeated this version.

Possible Fatal Accident Aboard Chinese Navy Nuclear Submarine

So, of the last ten 774 class subs we have: state, state, state, fish, fish, fish, fish, former SECNAV, island, and now city...Sub is already cursed...


USNI News


New brief on Taiwan's Hai Kun class submarine..."Taiwan's 1st Submarine, What Other Videos Do Not Tell You"



Oct 3, 1993: Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down when the U.S. Army attempted to capture the Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.




Oct 3, 2004: An unidentified heat signature in the Antarctic, was discovered by a Weyland Industries satellite.




When that great orange ball decides to deliver a mega CME for maximum effect it will all come crashing down...




Atoms & electrons are old news. What matters is not matter. Get some plasma physicists on board.



LOL, Pfizer is one of the biggest contributors to the Institute. Had nothing to do with the selection of course...blah, blah...


Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines


Within a couple weeks, Canada and the US both ousted their Speakers of the House.
Adam Curtis voice: "But then something strange happened. Although the West believed its vision of freedom could act as a guiding light for the rest of the world, it soon found that radical self-interest led only to chaos."

[EndtheMadnessNow]

At 7:28pm tonight (GMT) on Oct 4, 1957 at the Tyuratam Test Range in Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Prosteyshiy Sputnik 1 (Elementary Satellite 1) into low-Earth orbit, giving shock 'n awe revelation to the United States and igniting a Cold War space and ICBM race.

Sputnik was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On that day a story circulated in the Pentagon that a junior officer rushed to tell a U.S. Air Force general that the enemy had just launched the first artificial satellite. The general blurted out "Which enemy, the Army or the Navy?"

The Beep Heard Around the World

As the sun rose on October 4, 1957, many Americans were talking about baseball. The headlines reported that for the first time in nine years, a team from outside of New York had won a game in the World Series. The day before, in front of 65,202 fans filling Yankee Stadium, Hank Aaron launched a fly ball to center field. Mickey Mantle misplayed it, allowing Aaron to stretch the hit into a triple. The play sparked a rally for the Milwaukee Braves, and the Yankees were unable to recover, losing 4 to 2.

By the time the sun set that evening, however, a completely different topic dominated conversations. On the other side of the world, almost 6,000 miles from Yankee Stadium, another ball had been launched and its effects were both more dramatic and long-lasting.

At the Soviet Baikonur complex in what is now Kazakhstan, at 2:12 in the afternoon New York time, the world suddenly changed. Thirty-two rocket boosters ignited, the desert steppe shook and a three-stage rocket shot skyward, accelerating to over 17,000 miles per hour. At 142 miles above the earth, the rocket’s protective cone released its cargo. Humanity’s first satellite, called Sputnik, started to orbit the earth.

The birth of NASA and [D]ARPA came the following year.


Just a month later and Sputnik being paraded. LOL.

There were three great shocks to America. Pearl Harbor, 9/11, And Sputnik.

In a brief TED Talk in 2007, filmmaker David Hoffman previewed his excellent documentary "Sputnik Mania," which assesses the negative and positive impacts of Sputnik on American society and the world.

"I made the feature documentary, Sputnik Mania. Critics and supporters told me that I had to tell the story of what happened to American education during that period, how we changed ourselves so radically in science, engineering, and math -- our complete education system really. With the help of one wonderful collector of old footage, I made this story for schools, teachers, educational leaders. It tells what happens, and the footage proves it."



Hoffman also produced and directed "The Story of the Sputnik Moment," which examined how the US reaction to Sputnik transformed its entire educational system by emphasizing the importance of science and scientists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJnt3xW2Fc



We had joy, we had fun...





Kevin McCarthy should have listened to Kevin McCarthy.




LMAO!!



This is one of the best Simpsons gags ever and remains as relevant today as it was 30 years ago.




Oct 4, 1906: Electric Boat Company launched first-in-class Octopus "C-1" (SS-9) at Fore River Shipbuilding. Headlines proclaimed, "Largest submarine ever built for the United States Navy." The C-class boats had a crew of 1 officer and 14 enlisted men, and a diving depth of 200 feet.

USS C-1 (SS-9) was the only real US Navy vessel to be named "Octopus", however, Navy Cross recipient Capt Edward L. Beach Jr. used the name USS Octopus in his novel "Run Silent, Run Deep." He was also naval aide to President Eisenhower, who carried the first nuclear football.



Fast-forward 117 years: (General Dynamics) Electric Boat is building GIANTS!!


Mount Weather director James B. Looney was very grateful to Bunny Mellon for the permission to use her property's airstrip in the event that it was required in an emergency. Her personal pilots were issued "Operations Support Team" photo IDs by Mt. Weather.

Rachel Lambert Mellon—the American gardening and design idol who died in March at age 103 and was universally known as Bunny—believed that style was order and that order brought pleasure. In the 1950s, when I first visited Oak Spring, the Mellons’ 4,000-acre stud farm in Upperville, Virginia, during a boarding-school weekend with her daughter, Eliza Lloyd, I opened one of my classmate’s bedroom cupboards to find shelf after shelf of rigorously color-coded stacks of T-shirts.

Far less known are the remarkable interiors of the dozen-plus homes that Mellon and her family occupied in the U.S., France, and the Caribbean. None were ever published at length—British photographer Michael Dunne snapped this article’s never-before-seen images for the Mellons’ archives—but their lessons left a mark on design professionals as well as admiring friends: Washington Post columnist Maxine Cheshire once noted that Mellon had "more influence in shaping Jacqueline Kennedy’s taste than anyone else in her life."

Tour Bunny Mellon’s Houses and Gardens