Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

March 25, 1973: Master spy Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov died. He was a high ranking NKVD officer who secretly defected to U.S., eluding former colleagues and FBI for years. He pulled off THE HEIST of the century, by stealing Spain’s entire gold reserves of 510 tons for the USSR. Way to go bro! In 1938, Orlov refused to return to the Soviet Union due to the Great Purge by Stalin and fears of execution, he fled with his family to the United States. He went by many names and had many passports.

Leiba Lazarevich Feldbin (he adopted the name Alexander Orlov in 1936) was born in Babruysk, Belarus on August 21, 1895 to an Orthodox Jewish family. His father, Lazer Feldbin, worked in the timber industry.

After the death of Stalin in March 1953, the following month he published his memoir The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes with four excerpts in LIFE magazine issues of April 1953. Afterward he was forced to come in from the cold. However, both the CIA and the FBI clowns were sorely embarrassed by the revelation that a high-ranking NKVD officer (Orlov was a Major of State Security, equal to an Army Brigadier General) had been living underground in the United States for 15 years without their knowledge. Until he resurfaced in the US with his revelations in the Life Magazine, Orlov had lived in the US under the name Alexander L. Berg. As the FBI was searching in vain for him and his wife, "two unidentified Russian aliens", he was studying business administration at Dyke College, Cleveland, Ohio. The College and the local FBI division were located in the same Standard Building on 1370 Ontario Street and St Clair Avenue, occupying the third and the ninth floors, respectively. Ironically, the FBI officers "never paid any attention to the student who had long figured on the FBI’s most wanted list and who rode the elevators with them every day." LOL! Just like in the spy comedy movies.


Orlov was eventually interrogated by the FBI and twice appeared before Senate Sub-Committees, but he always downplayed his role in events and continued to conceal the names of Soviet agents in the West.

Orlov and his wife continued to live secretly and quite comfortably thanks to CIA protection and they helped him publish another book, The Handbook of Counter-Intelligence and Guerilla Warfare, including getting him a job as a researcher at the Law School of the University of Michigan. His last book, The March of Time: Reminiscences, was published in the US in 2004 by the former FBI Special Agent Ed Gazur.


Father of psychological warfare::


Paul M.A. Linebarger had the international pedigree and double life of a John le Carré character. Born to Sun Yat-sen’s American adviser, Linebarger grew up in China, Germany, and the United States, spoke six languages, and received his doctorate at twenty-three. After teaching at Duke, he was hired by the US War Department to serve as the Far East Asian specialist of the Psychological Warfare branch.

Linebarger studied both Allied and Axis propaganda efforts and concluded that the British were superior, because they disguised their propaganda as news.

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966), better known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author known for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a US Army officer, a noted East Asia scholar, and an expert in psychological warfare. Although his career as a writer was shortened by his death at the age of 53, he is considered one of science fiction's more talented and influential authors.

Linebarger's father, Paul Myron Wentworth Linebarger, was a lawyer, working as a judge in the Philippines. There he met Chinese nationalist Sun Yat-sen to whom he became an advisor. Linebarger's father sent his wife to give birth in Milwaukee, Wisconsin so that their child would be eligible to become president of the United States. Sun Yat-sen, who was considered the father of Chinese nationalism, became Linebarger's godfather.


Throngs of himself "Paul Linebarger wrote science fiction as Cordwainer Smith. His multiple selves did not stop there." (Johns Hopkins University magazine)

The official Cordwainer Smith website run by his daughter, Rosana Hart.

A year of wrangling produced the solution, after a Joint Psychological Warfare Committee had been set up under the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and had failed to fulfill an effective policy-supervising function. On 13 June, 1942 the President created the Office of War Information. This agency was given control directly or indirectly over all domestic propaganda, and over white propaganda abroad, except for the Western Hemisphere, which remained under the Rockefeller Committee in the State Department. The FIS was taken from the COI, and the COI took on the new name of OSS—Office of Strategic Services—under which it retained three major functions:

    (1) continuation of scholastic and informal intelligence;
    (2) black propaganda operations (given explicit authority only in March, 1943);
    (3) subversive operations, in collaboration with regular military authority.

The OWI was placed under Mr. Elmer Davis, a Rhodes scholar and novelist who had become one of the nation's most popular radio commentators. The FIS was perpetuated under the control of Mr. Robert Sherwood, who had a most extraordinary coterie of odd personalities assisting him: Socialist refugees, advertising men, psychologists, psychoanalysts (of both the licensed and lay varieties), professional promoters, theatrical types, German professors, a commercial attaché, young men just out of college, oil executives, and popular authors (novelists, slick writers, Pulitzer winners, pulp writers, humorists, poets and a professional pro-Japanese writer, fresh off the Imperial Japanese Embassy payroll).

The War Department agency, under the Military Intelligence Service of G-2, had been renamed Psychological Warfare Branch and had executed within the G-2 structure the equivalent of a knight's move in chess, ending up at a new place on the TO with no observable change in function or authority; it had passed under the authority of Colonel (later Brigadier General) Oscar Solbert, a West Pointer with wide international and business experience; he had been out of the Army as a top official with Eastman Kodak, after a cosmopolitan army career which sent him all over Europe and gave him one tour of duty as a White House aide. With the establishment of OWI, Colonel Solbert's office fissiparated like an amoeba; the civilian half of Psychological Warfare Branch, with a few officers, went over to OWI to be a brain-trust for the foreign broadcast experts, who failed to welcome this accession of talent; the military half remained as an MIS agency until 31 December, 1943, when OWI abolished its half and MIS cooperated by wiping out the other, leaving the War Department in the middle of a war with no official psychological warfare agency whatever, merely some liaison officers.

Psychological warfare became the responsibility of designated individual officers in OPD—(the Operations Division of the General Staff), an outfit celebrated for conscientious overwork, as well as in MIS and the War Department got along very nicely. Meanwhile OWI and OSS fought one of the many battles of Washington, each seeking control of foreign propaganda. The D.C. and Manhattan newspapers ran columns on this fight, along with news of the fighting in Russia, Libya, and the Pacific. For one glorious moment of OSS, it seemed that the President had signed over all foreign propaganda functions conducted outside the United States to OSS, cutting the OWI out of everything except its New York and San Francisco transmitters; the OWI was stricken with gloom and collective indigestion. The next day, the mistake was rectified, and OWI triumphantly planned raids on the jurisdiction of OSS. Meanwhile, the following things were happening:

Highly classified plans for psychological warfare were being drafted for both the Joint and Combined Chiefs of Staff. These were discussed at various meetings and then classified a little higher, whereupon they were locked up, lest the propaganda writers and broadcasters see them and break security on them by obeying and applying them.

Broadcasts—thousands of words in dozens of languages—were transmitted to everyone on earth. They were written by persons who had little if any contact with Federal policy, and none with the military establishment, except for formal security. The plans at the top bore no observable relation to the operations at the bottom.

Source: Psychological Warfare By PAUL M. A. LINEBARGER; School of Advanced International Studies at Project Gutenberg.

The Psyop godfather with one eye...




Cordwainer Smith free Audiobooks


From 1934:


The first print newspaper to publish online was The Columbus Dispatch (founded in 1871) on July 1, 1980 via CompuServe.


March 25, 1999: FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko arrested in Moscow. Sent to Lefortovo Prison. Acquitted and moves to UK for safety where he worked as a journalist, writer and consultant for the British intelligence services. Later poisoned with polonium-210. The plot's mastermind is still at large.

Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (1962 - 23 November 2006) was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised in tackling organised crime. A prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he advised British intelligence and coined the term "mafia state".

In the 2021 case Carter v Russia, (his widow Marina Litvinenko aka Maria Anna Carter) the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia assassinated Alexander Litvinenko and ordered the country to pay 100,000 euros in damages.

The inquiry report was released on 21 January 2016. The report found that Litvinenko was killed by two Russian agents, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun and that there was a "strong probability" they were acting on behalf of the Russian FSB secret service. Paragraphs 10.6 - 10.16, page 245 of the report stated: "The FSB operation to kill Mr. Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev and also by President Putin."



Andrey Konstantinovich Lugovoy, wanted by British Police. Dmitry Vladimirovich Kovtun (born Sept 25, 1965) reportedly died at a Moscow hospital on 4 June 2022, from COVID-19, or possibly a window incident.




The owner of multiple Dominos pizza franchises in DC could tell when the US was about to go to war based on the number of pizzas delivered to the CIA, Pentagon, & White House in the nights leading up to the event. Domino condition one!

The Pizza Meter


According to the media & the medical carnival barkers, Cancer rates are quickly increasing across the entire West. Reports of Turbo Cancers & even never seen before Cancers. Kate Middleton announced to the world she has cancer. If only there was an mRNA Vaccine to prevent Cancer...

BBC & Bill Gates - "Hold my beer"



British Royals on my right and Biden's Cancer Moonshot program under NIH ARPA-H modeled after DARPA on my left...stuck in the middle with you.

You won't hear me, But you'll feel me
Without warning, somethings dawning, listen.
Then within your senses,
You'll know you're defenseless
How your heart beats, when you run for cover
Your cant retreat I spy like no other.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

The container ship MV "DALI" hit the Francis Scott Key bridge outside Port Baltimore early yesterday morning, destroying it completely.



The Ship’s Master is Ukrainian (although allegedly not at the helm at the time of the incident) and the Port of Baltimore is responsible for 25% of all US Coal exports.

The symbolic bridge was named for the guy who wrote the Star Spangled Banner. It was erected at the approximate point where the British anchored to shell Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.

It should not be a surprise where the goods aboard the MV Dali came from:



The number of conspiracies already floating around is stunning. Is anyone surprised that armchair experts don't know that the majority of modern large container ships are in some way owned, manufactured, operated, chartered, crewed, or financed by Chinese entities? Or that they have no idea who is involved in the operation of a ship, which systems do what, or how literally any of this works?

Salvador DALI had a painting called "The Broken Bridge and the Dream."




"The English had their grave-robbing rights withdrawn" — German illustration (1924) showing one of Tutankhamun's guardian statues booting a British archaeologist out of the tomb. Artist: Erich Schilling. Published on the cover of Simplicissimus magazine, 10 March 1924.


"The English had their license to desecrate corpses withdrawn."
Leichenschändung means necrophilia. "Corpses withdrawn" is a very soft translation for this word. Haha.

Presumably referring to the dispute between the Egyptian government and archaeologist Howard Carter, who complained that the Egyptian Antiquities Service was interfering in the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb. Carter left the excavation site for a year in early 1924.


The Jolly Roger from HMS E54 (British E-class submarine) will go on display at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum next month. Flown by HMS E54 in 1916, the flag is believed to be the oldest surviving one of its kind. Subs began to fly the Jolly Roger during WWI because the First Sea Lord of the British Royal Navy had stated that submarine warfare was "underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English", and that captured enemy submariners should be hanged as pirates.


At least twice in 2017, the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), (attack submarine) which has been modified to support special forces operations, returned to its home port flying a Jolly Roger. The reason for flying the flag has never been made public. In US silent service lore it means the secret mission was a success, including the rendition of a person and/or object.


What an array of stars. Hitchcock, Lassie, Roy Rogers, Lynda Carter. Two clips from March 26, 1978, when CBS kicked off a weeklong series of specials celebrating the network‘s 50th anniversary.

First up, stars introduced by the day their show appeared.




Ohhh, ouch, punch to the gut...


https://twitter.com/Geiger_Capital/statu...3223690643


The UK has a name for its next nuclear warhead: A21/Mk7 Astraea.


Delivering the UK’s Nuclear Deterrent as a National Endeavour (PDF)

The UK Ministry of Defence subsequently suggested that just like the similarities between the current US and UK warheads, the UK’s replacement warhead will be very similar to the US W93: “It’s not exactly the same warhead but . . . there is a very close connection in design terms and production terms”.
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2021

Astraea, Astrea, Astria or Austräa meaning "star-maiden" or "starry night", in ancient Greek religion, is a daughter of Astraeus and Eos. She is the virgin goddess of justice, innocence, purity and precision. She is closely associated with the Greek goddess of justice, Dike (daughter of Zeus and Themis). She is not to be confused with Asteria, the goddess of the stars and the daughter of Coeus and Phoebe. The main belt asteroid 5 Astraea is named after her, and her name was also suggested for the planet Uranus.



According to myth, (probably British aristocrats too) Astraea will one day come back to Earth, bringing with her the return of the utopian Golden Age of which she was the ambassador.


When you realize that the alternate history is our history. Jumping back to where the Nazis didn't win WWII?
Nobusuke Tagomi Meditates to The United States (The Man In The High Castle, Season 1)




The Words of the Day...Pick your winner:



Think I'll go with "Sarha"


"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory."

― J.R.R. Tolkien


Choose one classic '80s movie from each row to re-watch. Good luck on bottom row!



“As we, like the abductees, permit ourselves to surrender the illusion of control and mastery of our world, we might discover our place as one species among many whose special gifts include unusual capacities for caring, rational thought, and self-awareness.”

― John E. Mack, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens

Remember...

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities." ― Frank Herbert

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Titled 'Strange Tub-Fellows' and drawn by Bernard Partridge for Punch magazine. British cartoon (23 November 1938) showing a 'Marxist Orator' looking on approvingly as Goebbels delivers an anti-British speech.




March 27, 1943: HMS Dasher (D37) suffered a major internal explosion and sank in the Firth of Clyde, taking the lives of 379 of the escort carrier's 528 crewmen. For two years, the British government suppressed news about the Royal Navy's second-biggest loss in UK waters during the war. Decades later, controversy still surrounds the incident because the cause of the explosion has never been determined, and there have been allegations that the recovered bodies of crewmen were secretly buried in mass graves.




Antarctica in the year 2024, as seen in GM’s Futurama exhibit at the New York World’s Fair, 1964-65.




Baltimore Sun's Sunday mag, Dec 12, 1976: "Under a bright sun, a cargo ship clears the new outer harbor crossing for the Bay. The $144 million elevated road-bridge, named in honor of Francis Scott Key, will complete the Baltimore Beltway system and ease harbor tunnel tie-ups." Opened March 23, 1977; Rest in Pieces on March 26, 2024.




Interesting comments from a former Maersk Chief Engineer:




In March 1997, DVD players were released in the United States.



"DVD. It’s a movie on a disc the size of a CD."




Mar. 27, 2024: Michael York, memorable in films like "Cabaret", "Logan's Run", and "3 Musketeers", turns 82...





NROL-70 launching tomorrow.




LOL!

Bill Maher cashing in on conspiracy theories is a sign the end is nigh. I guess Corgan & Durst want some of that Blink-182 pie. Will the UFO money train ever derail?


"Late Night with the Devil" (2023) reportedly made $666,666 domestically on Sunday.




After watching the 3 Body Problem (2024) series I was reminded of the...


The machine in question is called a "Chronovisor" and was built in the 1950s by a Benedictine monk named Father Pellegrino Ernetti.

Ernetti reportedly used the "way back machine" to film Christ's crucifixion for Vatican officials. Ernetti died in 1994 without revealing the secret of the Chronovisor but a guy named John Chambers says some 20 years ago that  evidence is mounting that the Catholic Church is hiding a working model from the rest of the world, supposedly to keep it from getting into evil hands.

Sound crazy?

Chambers says a Jesuit priest named Father Francois Brune believes the Chronovisor must exist because, in the priest's words,

"Ernetti wouldn't lie about such things."

There you have it folks. It's real and we know Jesuit priests don't *lie*.

John Chambers, translator/publisher/editor of New Paradigm Books was on Coast to Coast with Art Bell back in 2002 discussing this device and time travel.

THE MACHINE OF TIME built by Father Pellegrino Ernetti.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

March 28, 1942: the destroyer HMS Campbeltown (the former USS Buchanan) rammed the gates of the Normandie dry dock at St.Nazaire in German-occupied France in a daring raid known as Operation Chariot. Commandos then disembarked to destroy machinery and other targets of opportunity. One of the greatest acts of heroism in the war.


The delayed-action explosives hidden on Campbeltown detonated hours later, knocking the dock out of service for the remainder of the war and killing several senior German officers who were touring the ship.

Of the 612 men who undertook the raid, 228 returned to Britain, 169 were killed and 215 became prisoners of war. German casualties included over 360 dead, some of whom were killed after the raid when Campbeltown exploded. To recognise their bravery, 89 members of the raiding party were awarded decorations, including five Victoria Crosses. After the war, St Nazaire was one of 38 battle honours awarded to the commandos. The operation has been called "the greatest raid of all" in British military circles.

Jeremy Clarkson's The Greatest Raid of All:



The 1952 film "Gift Horse" aka Glory at Sea was loosely based on the actual raid undertaken in 1942 by HMS Campbeltown.


March 28, 1946: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower were awarded honorary degrees from the University of Richmond, Virginia. The two warriors toasted each other with mint juleps.

That’s right. When Nimitz wasn’t busy with trivial items such as breaking the Japanese codes, setting ambushes at Midway, planning island hopping campaigns, and making sure MacArthur didn’t go off the deep end, he was mixing gallons of this stuff.

Admiral Nimitz recipe for the Old Fashioned Mix which he calls “CINCPAC SPECIAL”

    1 clean one gallon jug
    3 quarts Bourbon
    1/4 of a fifth of gold label rum
    Add sugar cautiously until you can just detect the presence of sugar.
    Fill remainder of jug with tap water.
    Desirable, but not necessary: drop two whole vanilla beans into the jug to stay for many refills of the jug. They last for years.
    Pour generous portions over ice and serve it forth:

This recipe was developed by Admiral Nimitz when he was Commander in Chief of the Pacific at a time when liquor was rationed, a bottle a week to a man and frequently rum was the only kind available.

Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: In The Navy

March 28, 1967: the Royal Navy Blackburn Buccaneers and Royal Air Force Hawker Hunters bombed the wrecked supertanker SS Torrey Canyon off the coast of Cornwall in an attempt to burn the oil spill. The environmental impact of the disaster led to new maritime regulations on pollution.

5 minute video on the battle against the oil from British Pathé.


March 28, 1979: This happened...



"It was the first step in a nuclear nightmare as far as we know in this hour, but no worse than that." - Walter Cronkite and CBS reporting on Three Mile Island, March 28, 1979:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev6IJOlROto




Doesn’t seem so far fetched at all anymore. He was so real for this...


"Patient X" S5 E13 aired March 1, 1998 - script excerpt:

MULDER: All this conjecture - the "ontological shock" that you speak of, for which we are so ill-equipped - is not only false but dangerous. This woman ... this woman presents no good or credible testimony apart from the feel-good message that she promotes.

FAZIO: You think she's lying?

MULDER: No, I don't think she's lying. I think that if you prepare people well enough to believe a lie, they will believe it as if it were true. And if you tell them a really big lie, like there are aliens from outer space, much more than a small one, they will believe in it. And if you suggest to them these aliens are doing bad things to them, the ... the power of the suggestion will be to make people believe that certain psychopathologies and neuroses that they're suffering from can now be attributed to that.

LAGERQVIST: Mr. Mulder ... Agent Mulder, she has physical ailments.

WOMAN: Are you discounting any belief in the existence of extraterrestrials?

MULDER: No. I just question mindless belief.

FAZIO: But you've cited evidence. You've made claims yourself.

MULDER: What I've seen, I've seen because I wanted to believe. I ... if you look too hard, you can go mad, but if you continue to look, you become liberated. And you become awake, as if from a dream, realizing that ... that the lies are there simply to protect what they're advertising: a government which knows its greatest strength is not in defense, but in attack. It's strongly held by believers in UFO phenomena that there is military complicity or involvement in abductions, but what if there is no complicity? What if there is simply just the military, seeking to develop an arsenal against which there is no defense: biological warfare, which justifies - in their eyes - making an ass out of the nation with stories of little green men - a conspiracy wrapped in a plot inside a government agenda.

[Several people shake their heads in disbelief. Later, when the conference is over, Mulder goes to leave. But a man in the audience catches his eye - his regression hypnotherapist, DR. HEITZ WERBER.]

MULDER: Dr. Werber?

WERBER: It's been some time.

MULDER: Almost five years.

WERBER: I came down expecting to hear how your work had progressed. I'm ... surprised, to say the least.

MULDER: A lot has changed.

WERBER: You seem to have abandoned something you believed so completely. In spite of what I know about you from our work together - the memories I helped you recover about the experience with your sister.

MULDER: Well, I've come to distrust a lot of things. I've - I've come to distrust those memories.

WERBER: I'm sorry.

MULDER: For what?

WERBER: I've taken a lot of criticism for my work with alien abductees, and in the field itself. The regression hypnosis work I did with you ...

MULDER: I'm not questioning your methods, Dr. Werber. I'm questioning myself, and how I was tricked, how I was led to believe through an elaborate staging of events that my sister had been abducted.

WERBER: A man with faith can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

MULDER: I don't think you understand. There's just too much evidence that it's all been a lie. The conspiracy is not to hide the existence of extraterrestrials. It's to make people believe in it so completely that they question nothing.

WERBER: So, you and I have just been advocates of insanity all along? Is this the extreme possibility you believe in now?

MULDER: Yeah. Is Patient "X" any more credible?

WERBER: I hope so. I'm her doctor. I think you should meet her. I think you might change your mind.

The X Files Transcripts Archive


The X-Files - Redux II - The Hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQ_Pf6BROU




TRUTH reversal = remove one T and you get HURT.

T.R.U.T.H. - Taking Real Understanding to Heart


Why is the word LIE embedded in belief/believe? Words are spells.

The reverse of LIES is SEIL, which in old Scottish dialect means happiness, bliss, prosperity, good fortune. Ignorrance is bliss. Come sail/seil away with me...




Nothing like in plain sight:

TRUTH: Transparency and Responsibility for United States Trade Health (Act) of 2001. "To require nationals of the United States that employ individuals in a foreign country to provide full transparency and disclosure in all their operations." Sponsored by (D-GA) Cynthia McKinney, the Bill died in a previous Congress. This bill was introduced on February 6, 2001, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.

Rumsfeld missing $2.3 TRILLION day before 9/11


Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Grills Donald Rumsfeld on 9/11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMG65jYlDU8

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
― Donald Rumsfeld

The relevant Rumsfeld vids on this website.

On same day there was an article posted on a Army study conducted by "Jedi Knights" that called for a US occupation of Israel, of 20,000 well-armed troops to enforce peace plan. Well, we know that plan never happened and instead got 9/11.
The Washington Times

Over the decades, Cynthia McKinney flew far off the reservation by promoting a 2000+ year old myth. On September 11, 2023, McKinney promoted a livestream called "Can Black People and White People Work Together to Defeat Our Common Enemy" with the Star of David, indicating that the "common enemy" is Jews. The livestream was to be hosted by Ayo Kimathi (aka Irritated Genie), the author of Jews Are the Problem and described by the ADL as "antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ+ Black nationalist extremist" and David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and anti-semite. In the livestream, Kimathi explicitly advocated for ties with White nationalists to actively eradicate "the Jew."
I don't have much use for the ADL but there it is.


David Duke & Ayo Kimathi: Can we unite to defeat a common enemy?
The video can be seen here.

Fides was the goddess of trust, faithfulness, and good faith (bona fides) in ancient Roman religion. She was one of the original virtues to be considered an actual religious divinity.


She was also worshipped under the name Fides Publica Populi Romani ("Public (or Common) Trust of the Roman People"). She is represented as a young woman crowned with an olive or laurel wreath, holding in her hand a turtle-dove, fruits or grain, or a military ensign. She wears a white veil.

Rome’s second king, Numa Pompilius began the annual rites to Fides Publica (Public Trust) on October 1. Her temple in Rome held the state treaties. One of the oldest of Roman Gods, Fides holds the same place of importance with Jupiter Optimus Maximus (Jupiter the Best and Brightest) and Dius Fidius, the God of Oathtaking.

Salve Fides!
May we keep the trust of others.
May they keep our trust.
Let us have mutual faith.
Both are needed
For society to thrive.
Salve Fides!

Tired: Kyle Odom was a nut job who watched too many X-Files episodes.

Ultra Wired: Kyle Odom is a seer who foresaw an epidemic of demonic walk-ins possessing humans in high positions of influence.


Kyle Odom, Suspect in Idaho Pastor Shooting, Arrested Outside White House

Pastor Remington is now serving as Republican Party member of the Idaho House of Representatives. Odom was sent to prison for 25 years. He'll be elgible for parole in 2027.

Kyle Odom's Hypersexual Martian Manifesto can be read here. Wild paranoia stuff. Unabomber was #1, and possibly 2nd most impressive was Odom's due to lucidity and consciousnesses of thought. He named some congress critters, senators, and Israeli leaders as "noteworthy Martians" along with an alien illustration in image above is from his manifesto.




Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
― Frank Herbert (‘Dune’)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Hold onto your tin foil, we're jumping to a new timeline!

Is it any surprise that CERN is being reactivated on April 8, the same day as the Great North American Total Solar Eclipse? Supposedly, the particle collider can accelerate protons to a rate that's only 7 mph slower than the speed of light, resulting in 11,000 trips around its ring per second. After CERN started its Awake experiment in 2016, conspiracy theorists were convinced CERN was opening portals in the sky when photos taken near the facility revealed strange electromagnetic storms above it.



LHC accelerator on track to restart in April

To make contact with Aiwass?



ConCERNing Woo woo?

Oh don't mind the fact the main director was at the WEF meet and their biggest shareholder is Vanguard, along with Illuminati queen Christine Lagarde. Nothing to see here, sigh.


CERN at the World Economic Forum


NASA will launch three rockets at the eclipse on April 8, a project called the Atmospheric Perturbations Around The Eclipse Path, or APEP, which is the name of an Egyptian serpent deity that eats the sun and embodies chaos.

Rocket launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to study the disturbances in the ionosphere created when the moon eclipses the sun. The sounding rockets had been previously launched and successfully recovered from White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, during the October 2023 annular solar eclipse.

Apep is also called Apophis, which is where the word Apophenia comes from. Ironically, Apophenia is the name given to the beginning stages of schizophrenia where everything is perceived as synchronistic. Is this ritual causing mass psychosis?

Additionally, at the same time as the eclipse, 12P/Pons-Brooks, now aka "Mother of Dragons" will also be visible overhead. Literally the mother of the Draconids which occurs every October starting around the 8th of the month. We recently entered the year of the dragon.



One can interpret Apep as a comet which in some events did bring chaos OR the double "8" as in 88mph, we're going back to the future! But, in these times it may be we're on the express train to chaos and nothing will change that until something really big, divine happens or it all just fades away and we enter a new realm.

Stranger things happen and will get stranger from April 19 to May 1st. Beware!




Over in the broken bridge dept. the terrorism/sabotage angle is also coming to the fore. Various trope across the Interwebs...

For example, Lara Logan is reporting that her sources believe that this was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack”...

Multiple 'intel' sources: Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure – most likely cyber – & our intel agencies know it. Make no mistake: this was an extraordinary attack in terms of planning, timing & execution....

They have figured out how to bring us down. As long as you stay away from the teeth of the US military, you can pick the US apart. We are arrogant and ignorant – lethal combination...

The footage shows the cargo ship never got in the approach lane in the channel. You have to be in the channel before you get into that turn. Location was precise/deliberate: chose a bend in the river where you have to slow down and commit yourself – once you are committed in that area there is not enough room to maneuver...

Should have had a harbor pilot to pilot the boat. You are not supposed to traverse any obstacles without the harbor pilot...

They chose a full moon so they would have maximum tidal shift – rise and fall. Brisk flow in that river on a normal day & have had a lot of rain recently so water was already moving along at a good pace...

All these factors when you look at it – this is how you teach people how to do this type of attack and there are so few people left in the system who know this.

There's also the "bad shit sometimes happens" factor, especially at sea.

Symbols crashing everywhere. The seven-pointed star of the Dali's operator, Maesrk, and Babalon for instance. Babalon (also known as the Scarlet Woman, Great Mother or Mother of Abominations) is a goddess found in the occult system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law by English author, intel spy and occultist Aleister Crowley. Also, yesterday was the 27th anniversary of the discovery of the Heaven's Gate suicides.



Weirdly, one of Francis Scott Key's descendants was Pauline De Rothschild, a onetime fashion model & designer.


Baroness De Rothschild also worked with Italian fashion maven Elsa Schiaparelli, who was friends with Salvador Dali, who the MV Dali was named after, oddly. Posted earlier his painting titled, "The Broken Bridge and the Dream."

X-Files: Old Memorial Bridge Bethesda Maryland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWuwMbo_cH8


Here's where Francis Scott Key meets Fraser, the Scottish Key to the Apocalypse...



...and where "The Star Spangled Banner" meets "The Spangle Maker"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmCx0pUzLKM


One of these women is an incredibly powerful clairvoyant who was closely associated with water and drowning. When working with male Twins, she was able to foresee future deaths with amazing accuracy.


The other is Samantha Morton in the film Minority Report.

The future:

The NYPD is gearing up to pilot metal detectors with artificial intelligence in the subways to keep guns out. "This is our Sputnik moment. Like when Kennedy said we’re going to put a man on the moon," Mayor Adams said just now.


The story: NYPD to test scanners with AI tech to crack down on guns in NYC subway

Only terminal reptilian cop brain is capable of equating the advent of space exploration with attempts to create a cyberpunk police state.
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Radiation


Ok, now for some peaceful ambience:

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March 28, 1774: The British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish Massachusetts Bay Colony for rebellion against the British government - namely, the Boston Tea Party.


Unfortunately for England and King George III, the plan backfired as Burke had suggested. Instead, the colonies became more united through their common hatred of the British, referring to the new acts as the “Intolerable Acts.” After years of acts designed to control the colonists who craved liberty and sovereignty, the Intolerable Acts continued to build the colonists’ fervor and eventually led to the “shot heard round the world.”...

“What a glorious morning is this!”
~ Samuel Adams, after hearing news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.


March 29, 1973: the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam. More than 3 million Americans served and 58,279 men and women made the ultimate sacrifice.
March 29, 1973: The last(?) of the 591 POWs during the Vietnam War were released and flown to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. The men were hospitalized, debriefed, and returned to the United States.


U.S. Forces Out of Vietnam; Hanoi Frees the Last P.O.W.


March 29, 2021: The ship Ever Given was finally freed from the Suez Canal.




It's National Nevada Day! In 2012, USS Nevada (SSBN 733) was boarded by a rogue team of elite seals that tried to take over the submarine. The crew of the Nevada managed to repel the seals (harmlessly) before the marine mammals did any damage.


Dawn Wells grew up in Reno & was Miss Nevada 1959.

Dawn Wells Idaho potatoes cooking tip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4W0qIPJmoo


This slick MIAMI VICE-inspired recruiting commercial for the U.S. Coast Guard from 1990 features Louis Gossett Jr. - Gossett passed away today at the age of 87.

Chesapeake, a 1,000-ton lift-capacity derrick barge – the largest crane on the East Coast – arrived by Friday, as well as Ferrell, a 200-ton lift-capacity revolving crane barge, and Oyster, a 150-ton lift-capacity crane barge. The Navy is also sending another 400-ton lift capacity barge, expected to arrive next week, according to a Navy release.

Cheseapeake is owned by Donjon Marine Company, Inc., and was built in 1972, according to the company’s website.

When built in 1972, Chesapeake was originally called SUN 800.

It is its history as SUN 800 that makes the crane infamous. SUN 800 was built to assist in the construction of the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a deep-sea drill-ship platform, according to an article from Engineering News-Record. The ship was built by the CIA to recover the 3,000-ton Soviet Golf II ballistic missile submarine K-129, which sunk in 1968, called Project Azorian, according to USNI News.

The cover for the operations was that billionaire Howard Hughes funded the crane to use it to mine the seafloor for manganese nodules, according to a 2010 piece in Proceedings.

By using SUN 800, the CIA was able to recover the bodies of 70 Soviet crewmembers and parts of the submarine, the Engineering News-Record reported. The CIA returned to the site of the submarine wreckage in 1975 under Project Matador, according to Proceedings.

Hughes Glomar Explorer was sold for scrap in 2015, USNI News reported.

Following its original mission, the Sun 800 was rechristented the Penn 800. It was renamed Penn 1,000 after an upgrade following damage, according to a historical account of Sunship, the company that built the crane. When it transferred to Donjon, it was renamed Chesapeake.

Crane Linked to CIA Soviet Sub Misson Now on Station at Key Bridge Collapse



Russia’s Project 22800–class guided-missile patrol combatants are known as the Karakurt class, which translates to Black Widow spider in English.


These warships exemplify recent Russian naval attempts to maximize missile firepower on a compact and relatively simple hull. Based on a design by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau in St. Petersburg, the class incorporates stealth characteristics and seaworthiness. Although only a handful of the new patrol combatants—also classed as corvettes—have so far entered service, many more are planned. Units are being built at multiple shipyards across Russia and in occupied Crimea.
‘Black Widow’ Missile Boats for the Russian Fleet


BGM-109 Tomahawk VLS cells of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG-85) anchored at its naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, March 28, 2024:


BGM-109 has several variants, one carries a thermonuclear warhead.


Tories personified in one single photo:


Both MPs who blocked upskirting bill have now been knighted for ‘services to public life’


Let's go in the Helensburgh Glow Worm Tunnel:


Built in 1889 but closed in 1915, because the accumulating soot made it dangerous for trains to pass through, is a railway tunnel that has been abandoned since then and is located in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia.

Officially called the Metropolitan Tunnel, it has become famous because over the decades it has been and still is home to a colony of bioluminescent larvae that illuminate the inner surface of the ceiling with a very striking bright blue constellation of stars.




Words for the Easter Weekend:

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March 30, 1956: "This Tartar woman is for me and my blood says take her!" John Wayne's infamous (and reportedly deadly) film THE CONQUEROR opened at the Criterion in NYC.


The Red hair beauty aka The Brooklyn Bombshell, Susan Hayward (1917-1975) died of  brain cancer, allegedly the result of being exposed to dangerous radioactive toxins on location in Utah while making The Conqueror (1956). All the leads from John Wayne, Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt, Pedro Armendáriz, Hayward and director Dick Powell died of cancer. The case is still a scandal.

Many over the decades have argued that was one of the worst casting decisions ever for John Wayne. However, after Wayne had read the script he insisted that it be made. Director Powell tried to convince Wayne that he shouldn’t make it. But no one could say no to John Wayne. Not back then and not once he'd set his mind to a role.

They really went all out to market this movie including Hollywood bread.



But, what is more interesting and almost downright horrifying is the filming location of the production. Around the same time that Wayne was falling in love with the role of Khan, six hours away in the Nevada dessert an atomic bomb exploded. Eleven to be exact.


The worst affected area, however, was right next door. The wind carried the nuclear fallout from those explosions east and much of it accumulated in St. George, Utah, and the surrounding dessert.

The irony, is today St. George, Utah is an upper class retirement community (many closed gated assisted living suburbs) and has one of the best medical caring facilities in the country. I been there several times as it's a short drive from Vegas and near Zion National Park. My dad was thinking of buying a place here to retire, but after some research on property formerly owned by Howard Hughes he decided against it.

The cast, the crew, and the producers knew about the nuclear tests and were worried about the potential dangers from radiation. Wayne brought a Geiger counter to the set to help. It made so much noise, however, that, according to some accounts, Wayne thought the Geiger counter must have been broken.

Several members of production, including Wayne, brought family members to the set during production. All told, production took several months to complete but not before Mr. Hughes had 60 tons of radioactive Utah sand sent back to Los Angeles to shoot some additional scenes on Hollywood sets. He wanted the sand (texture & color) to match.

All of this could have been avoided and, yet again, it almost was. Howard Hughes was concerned about the radiation. So he asked officials at the AEC if there was any reason to worry. The response Hughes received was identical to the one that all American’s received: There is no need to worry.

"The Conqueror" producer Howard Hughes has called his decision to film in St. George the worst decision of his life.

The film is sometimes called "An RKO Radioactive Picture". It was filmed near an active nuclear test site in Utah, where 11 tests had reportedly been carried out in the year before the production landed there. The set was contaminated by nuclear fallout, but the Atomic Energy Commission assured Howard Hughes and the local population that the area was completely safe. Photographs exist of John Wayne holding a Geiger counter that reportedly made so much noise that he thought it was broken. After location shooting, Hughes had tons of contaminated soil transported back to Hollywood in order to match interior shooting done there. Over the next 30 years, 91 of the 220 cast and crew members developed cancer.

People Magazine researched the cast and crew’s health for an article and found that 46 died, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt, and director Dick Powell. Lee Van Cleef had throat cancer, but died of a heart attack. The count did not include several hundred local Native Americans who played extras, or relatives of the cast and crew who visited the set, including John Wayne's son Michael Wayne.



A "People" article quoted the reaction of a scientist from the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency to the news, "Please, God, don't let us have killed John Wayne". As of June 2011, the article is available in its archive online.

It has however been suggested that many of the cast and crew died of cancer as a result of smoking. John Wayne had smoked 3-5 packs of cigarettes a day since the early 1930s, and many of the other actors and crew members were also heavy smokers.


Sources for the fallout horrors:

RISKY BUSINESS: The Conqueror

The Children of John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Dick Powell Fear That Fallout Killed Their Parents (People magazine; Nov 10, 1980)




That same year, "Film Sparked by Uranium." URANIUM BOOM opened March 30, 1956 in New York (as the second feature to PICNIC). Two star rating in the New York Daily News.





March 30, 1949: Actor Robert Mitchum was released from the county jail after a two-month stay for a marijuana bust in a raid on a house in Laurel Canyon. After Mitchum's arrest, RKO studio chief, Howard Hughes, immediately assembled a powerful dream team to defend him.
'I liked it in jail'


Born March 30, 1908: 33rd governor of Iowa and Eisenhower era civil defense administrator, Leo Arthur Hoegh. After his tenure in government, he went into the fallout shelter business.



TIME magazine


March 30, 1981: the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan occurred in Washington, DC. The event served as the basis for a memorable first season episode of THE AMERICANS. Alexander Haig provided the title: "In Control" - S1:E4, Feb, 20, 2013.



Alexander Haig [1924-2010] (4-star General, Sec of State, Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Ronald Reagan’s "I-am-in-control" top aide) was a member of the MGM board of directors. He yearned to develop a movie career. He supervised the development of the movie Red Dawn and made significant changes to it.


Billionaire ego-maniacs: The supercomputer, codenamed "Stargate," would contain *millions* of GPUs and require several gigawatts of power.


$100 billion AI supercomputer codenamed Stargate

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Ivan T. Sanderson's The Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained and their publication "Pursuit". Sanderson founded the Ivan T. Sanderson Foundation in August 1965 on his New Jersey property, which became the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained (SITU) in 1967. SITU was a non-profit organization that investigated claims of strange phenomena ignored by mainstream science.


This t-shirt was a mail order exclusive for SITU members/Pursuit subscribers and was only available for a few months in 1979. If you want one click here.

Ivan Terence Sanderson (1911-1973; brain cancer) was a British biologist/cryptozoologist/UFOlogist and writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sanderson wrote on nature and travel, and was a frequent guest on television talk shows and variety shows of the 1950s and '60s, displaying and discussing exotic animals.

As a teenager he became famous claiming to have seen an "olitiau" (a large cryptid bat) after being attacked by a creature he described as "the Granddaddy of all bats". During World War II, Sanderson worked for British Naval Intelligence, in charge of counter-espionage against the Germans in the Caribbean. In 1968, Sanderson introduced the concept of the "vile vortex". Vile vortices are claimed to be "anomalic regions" regularly distributed on Earth where disproportionately many strange phenomena occur, such as disappearances, UFO sightings, or poltergeist activity.

SITU began publishing Pursuit with Issue No.1 (May, 1967) and the title simply as “Newsletter.” However, with Newsletter No. 3, the title “Pursuit” was added, and this remained the title.


SITU Newsletters 1-5 (has some interesting strange stories)




Bat sketch found at the American Philosophical Society.

Skim the Wiki if you've never heard of him.

Encyclopedia of Strange and Unexplained Physical Phenomena (1993) by Jerome Clark.

THE STORY BEHIND THE COVER

We kept warning and warning them, but people just laughed the way they always do or did, rather...

I'd first gotten interested in Flying Saucers back in the fifties when people started thinking there was something to these constantly recurring reports of strange things hurtling through the sky. If this had been a thousand years earlier, we'd all have been on our knees, no doubt, seeing in these strange shapes warnings of the end of the Earth. But, a thousand years later, we were a more sophisticated people. We didn't have the sense to be afraid of what we couldn't understand. When news came through that a cloud (that's what the reports called it, "a cloud") of shapes in the sky had appeared over Lhasa and that devout Tibetans and Chinese Communist officials were milling around the temples in the thousands, animosities forgotten, celebrating the coming of the men from something they called Shambala, we felt superior over these people who weren't as advanced as us.

And then the next day Ovington Proving Grounds went off the air. And then the state of Texas.

The gentlemen who represented Texas in Congress were quick to demand a bipartisan investigation.

A forcefield seemed to have been thrown around the state. No news was coming out of Texas. No radio stations seemed to be working. No planes were able to cross Texas. Reporters who had flown as far as the Texan border and then found themselves unable to proceed a step further, reported seeing people walking about, on the other side, with an obviously dazed look.

The day before Texas had gone off the air, a commentator in Dallas had chortled over the latest Flying Saucer story. A giant Flying Saucer had been seen heading towards Dallas that morning a fantastic round thing, large enough to cover a small village according to one report and the commentator, paying his respects to what he termed the silly season, had quoted the warning of a local Saucer group that the long anticipated Invasion might be on.

The next day, we in New York began to watch for Their coming. We had warned people, just as the group in Texas had done, that there was no assurance that the coming of the Saucers meant the Millenium was near, and we had attacked the emotional blackmailers who had started cults based upon alleged contacts with the "men" piloting the Saucers. We felt that even if these visits had taken place, they could be interpreted as "softening-up" steps, and nothing more. They came, finally, the morning of the sixth day after Texas had gone off the air.

I was down at the Battery, watching, as the huge Mother Ship landed in the Bay-a shimmering forcefield quickly thrown around it while, from inside the ship, more than a doren smaller scouts quickly emerged and were soon hovering over New York.

There was pandemonium where I was, of course. Men and women were kneeling in the streets. A wild-eyed man near me was shouting about the end of the world. But I could only feel numb. The end of the world that we had known was undoubtedly near. The saucer that was hovering closer and closer above our heads heralded a strange Tomorrow......

Full magazine: Ivan T. Sanderson-Fantastic Universe-Nov 1957


March 29/30, 1974: The Sugarland Express, the first theatrical film by rising director Steve Spielberg, is released. Spielberg shot the prison break where it actually took place: the Jester State Prison, a pre-release facility in Sugar Land, Texas.


Panavision chose this movie for the launch of Panaflex, a compact camera that enabled Steven Spielberg to shoot complex shots inside a patrol car. The hijacked Texas Department of Public Safety patrol car featured in the film is a 1973 Dodge Polara, which Steven Spielberg bought himself after filming, bullet holes and all.

Based on the events of May 1969 when fugitives Robert and Ila Fae Dent kidnapped Texas DPS trooper Kenneth Crone, commandeered his car and led police and other law enforcement officials on a chase from outside Port Arthur, through Houston, up to Navasota and on to Wheelock, where Ila Fae Dent's mother lived. At one point a motorcade of more than 150 police cars and reporters joined the pursuit. FBI agent Bob Wiatt (who retired in 2004) confronted them at the mother's home and was forced to shoot Robert Dent, who was armed, in the neck, killing him. Wiatt wrestled Ila Fae to the ground and handcuffed her.


Nuclear GOP rhetoric, wow!


Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza

In 1964, Walberg served on the Barry "Nuke'm" Goldwater 1964 presidential campaign. Tim Walberg is an ordained Baptist pastor. No surprise, he was also part of the J6 plan! And took a mystery trip to Ukraine. Guess that Christian right neocon mentality of serving hell fire fallout to thy enemy still beats onward.

So, now we're back to raising the American flag, in a strange, weird manner...And the awkward beat goes on?



This isn't a game
Turn the safety off
Still we want more, so the beat gets faster
Everyone must play cause fame will find you
Put your face on the cover of a loaded magazine
We're proud of ourselves
Our greatest inventions, methods of killing, have reached perfection
All the players marching to a different drum
The rhythm of the war dance
And the beat goes on
...
- "Victory Not Vengeance Nation"




Remember that one time when celebrities tried to explain to all the people about the Clinton Whitewater scandal? Proof SNL used to be funny and relevant. Aired 03/19/94. It's a must watch:





3/29/1956 New York – Huge crosses, formed by lighted windows blaze above New York’s skyline as part of an Easter display in Manhattan’s financial district. This scene photographed from the roof of the Municipal Building features 150-foot-high crosses in the following buildings (L-R) the City Services Co.; City Bank – Farmers Trust Co.; and the Forty Wall Street Corp.  (United Press Telephoto)


Nighty night!


"And when thou art weary
I'll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers
To pillow thy head."
  - John Keats

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Fantastic and very interesting, keep it up!

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I like this one so much that even as a meme hater, I had to share. 

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The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possible. Another variation (depicted in many of the images featured here) involved tipping an egg from a bowl, and then trying to flip the bowl over on top of it, all with only using one's feet and staying within a chalk circle drawn on the ground. Although, as shown in many of its depictions in art, the pastime is associated with peasant villages of the 16th and 17th century, one of the earliest references to egg-dancing relates to the marriage of Margaret of Austria and Philibert of Savoy on Easter Monday in 1498. The event was described in an 1895 issue of American Magazine:

    Then the great egg dance, the special dance of the season, began. A hundred eggs were scattered over a level space covered with sand, and a young couple, taking hands, began the dance. If they finished without breaking an egg they were betrothed, and not even an obdurate parent could oppose the marriage.

    After three couples had failed, midst the laughter and shouts of derision of the on-lookers, Philibert of Savoy, bending on his knee before Marguerite, begged her consent to try the dance with him. The admiring crowd of retainers shouted in approval, "Savoy and Austria!" When the dance was ended and no eggs were broken the enthusiasm was unbounded.

The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature

The image above details the aesthetic requirements for achieving the "Ideal English Rabbit", the benchmark of perfect markings for a particular breed of rabbit first developed in the middle of the nineteenth century. The diagram reproduces one of a series of eight images created by the English artist Ernest George Wippell for Fur and Feather magazine in 1893, two years after the founding of the English Rabbit Club (though some sources give the date for Wippell's drawings as 1903). In 1927, Fur and Feather published the colour print pictured below in their "ideal breed" series.

In Search of the Impossible: The Perfect English Rabbit

Easter Parade was the highest-grossing musical film of 1948, and the second-highest grossing MGM musical of the 1940s, after Meet Me in St. Louis.




In the 1870s, Capitol Hill had become a popular spot for children to roll eggs - and themselves - down the hill on Easter Monday. As the event grew more popular, the toll on the grounds was noticeable. In 1876, Congress passed a law forbidding the Capitol grounds to be used as a children's playground. In 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes issued an order that if any children should come to the White House to roll their Easter eggs, they would be allowed to do so. The tradition has been carried on since, and has grown into the major event.





Details on Mrs. Kennedy's dress


Magazine covers for April 15, 1933; March 31: 1951, 1961, 1969:




March 31, 1979: Three Mile Island – “nothing to see here . . .really”.


Continuous news reports – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection.


Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow (March 7, 1934 – November 6, 2001) was an American illustrator of comics, magazine covers and paperback books. He is co-creator of the Marvel Comics muck-monster the Man-Thing, DC Comics Old West vigilante El Diablo and dozens more Sci-fi digests. One of the fantastic "realistic" sci-fi/horror artists. Morrow contributed to "Batman," "Super Girl," "Flash Gordon," "Buck Rogers," "Spider-Man," "Big Ben Bolt" and "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" among dozens of Sci-fi digests.

He took over the 'Buck Rogers' strip in 1979 and illustrated the 'Tarzan' Sunday comic strip from 1983 to 2001.

Gray Morrow was suffering from Parkinson's disease when he died November 6, 2001, reportedly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.


The Art of Gray Morrow


25 years ago today, THE MATRIX released in theaters.




Secret photos of the hunting association by Petr Válek:

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18th century hoax:



Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits


April 1, 1924: The American Radio Association, which advocates on behalf of amateur broadcasters and listeners, opens a campaign against advertising on the airwaves. Radio fans are complaining increasingly about ads, and "the result will be disastrous" to the industry.




April 1, 1945: U.S. Fifth Fleet belted out the Easter Sunday "Hymn of Hate" by bombarding Okinawa in support of the invasion. The fleet included 40 carriers and 18 battleships. This is USS Tennessee firing her 14/50 main battery guns as troops approach the beach in LVT-4 Amtracs.







April 1st - Jimmy Bond's birthday. Jimmy Bond (aka Dr. Noah) is the nephew of Sir James Bond.




April Fools Day prank that occurred in January 1980, by legendary hoaxer Alan Abel fooled the NY Times Obits section into running his obituary. The tiny retraction ran a couple of days later.




Alan Abel's 1980 death hoax made the first paragraph of his very real 2018 obituary, but was not mentioned in the 2016 Times-fluffing documentary, OBIT. Go figure...




April 1, 1984: The nascent Internet's first April Fools Day prank. Konstantin Chernenko joins the Usenet.




Some have speculated that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has disrupted the flow of the space-time continuum. Remembering Salvador Dali and "The Broken Bridge," it may help by pointing out that Dali's most famous work is "The Persistence of Memory," depicting melting clocks, symbolizing - you guessed it - the disruption of the space-time continuum. Note CERN's giant Watcher eye there.




The Bob Lazar episode is at 56 million views. Unreal.


JRE Library

So, yes, Rogan is huge. But now we can compare his podcast following to that of his other platforms. His Spotify following is still smaller than his subscribers on YouTube, which come in at 16.4 million, and his personal Instagram followers, which are at 18.9 million. But it’s worth noting that Rogan accumulated these Spotify followers over just four years – his show wasn’t on the platform until he signed an exclusive deal in 2020.

Now, there are caveats to this figure. Podcasters’ audiences span platforms. These days, Rogan is back on YouTube and Apple Podcasts, as is Alex Cooper of Call Her Daddy , and video clips from podcasts like New Heights travel far and wide on the internet. Plus, not all followers listen to every episode. Some might never tune in.

But that said, following a podcast is a specific action taken by listeners to show just how much interest they have in hearing content from these creators.

“This number represents the number of users who have decided to ‘follow’ a show on Spotify — it doesn't represent a show’s total audience or the performance of an episode,” Spotify said in a comment. “The early feedback from both creators and users has been encouraging. We have no further details to share at this time.”

Spotify Reveals Joe Rogan’s Podcast Numbers

Also, Spotify was founded on this day in 2006. And Gmail was launched today in 2004...and Apple was founded this day in 1976.

We all have Reptilians brains according to Maersk.

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Typo on 1947 ad for the atomic bomb film THE BEGINNING *OR* THE END anticipates the Peter Graves grasshopper film by ten years.




1950: Portly short character actor Eugene Pallette (July 8, 1889 – Sept 3, 1954) denies he built a "ranch fortress" in Oregon to escape an atomic war.


In 1946, convinced that there was going to be a "world blow-up" by atomic bombs, the hawkish Pallette received considerable publicity when he set up a "mountain fortress" on a 3,500-acre ranch near Imnaha, Oregon, as a hideaway from universal catastrophe. The "fortress" reportedly was stocked with a sizable herd of prize cattle, enormous supplies of food, and had its own canning plant and lumber mill. When the "blow-up" he anticipated failed to materialize after two years, he began disposing of the Oregon ranch and returned to Los Angeles and his movie colony friends. He never appeared in another movie, again.

One summer we decided to go explore remote northeastern Oregon and do some camping with my kids. We drove to Imnaha, Oregon on our way to Hells Canyon at the Snake River. This place is eXtreme as in you better be prepared for life in the remote high desert, though very scenic landscapes. My kids called it "the dead zone" because no WiFi, no cell service. LOL. The very few people we did meet were friendly and of course absolutely knew we were from a city suburbia. Best keep an eye on your kids out here...Nobody will ever find you out here if you wanted to disappear we were told by the few townsfolk.

The Spiritual Science Mother Church

The history of the Mother Church was never set down in any writing in the past. When the founder, Rev. Julia Forrest, passed away, her family burnt her personal and church papers. In 1978-79 Rev. Laura Smith, Pastor of the Second Spiritual Science Church of Rochester, NY,, attempted to write a history but Rev. Glenn Argoe (who succeeded Rev. Forrest) and the senior ministers at the time, refused to cooperate with Rev. Smith and give her any information. When Rev. Lillian Corbin (who succeeded Rev. Argoe) passed, the persons who were living in her house at that time destroyed the existing church records that were stored there.

April 2, 1968: "2001: A Space Odyssey" premiered at the Uptown Theater in Washington, DC. Premiered the following day in NYC. Arthur C. Clarke pictured in May 1968:




April 2, 1972: Captain Badass John W. Ripley, US Marine, single-handedly halted an NVA offensive by destroying Dong Ha Bridge. Facing heavy enemy fire, he spent 3 hours swinging under the bridge to place 500 lbs of TNT. He received this "bill" from Hanoi for the cost to replace the bridge. Seriously, von Fluffy? lol




April 2, 1982: HMS Iwo Jima? In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falklands.  Revealed years later, Reagan had secretly prepared to give Margaret Thatcher the USS Iwo Jima if the Royal Navy needed it. The crew would have included U.S. "contract advisors" to operate the systems.




Drones...



Mellon's article referral:
Mysterious Drone Incursions Have Occurred Over U.S. THAAD Anti-Ballistic Missile Battery In Guam - "It’s yet another reminder of just how vulnerable highly strategic assets, even air defense systems, are to low-end drones." by Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick | UPDATED Nov 27, 2020.

More drones...




New/old words for April...




Nicole Shanahan: American technologist and attorney. Championed unconventional research that she believes might allow women to have children into their 50s, suggesting, for example, that exposure to sunlight might aid fertility. A Gaia-Worshipping Pagan, Silicon Valley investor, Soros DA-funder, DNC Philanthropist, Member of the Carbon Royalty Corporation, married in a Druid NeoPagan ceremony to second husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Divorced in 2023. Rumor she had an affair with Elon Musk.


She is the running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his 2024 independent presidential campaign. Can't make this shit up.


Final words...

"Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.

“This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."

— William Shatner




Are we there yet? "I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected..."

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy National Find A Rainbow Day! Hawaii is the rainbow capital of the world. Better than a pot of gold? An A6-E Intruder on the flight deck of USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) was at the end of this rainbow in 1991.




Causes of death in London, 1632. Anything stand out?


Bills of Mortality


TV Guide published its 1st issue on April 3, 1953 featuring "Lucy's $50,000,000 Baby,” Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV.




"I Led 3 Lives" (TV Series 1953–1956) brought to you by Weil Cleaners on KNOE-TV in Monroe, Louisiana in 1954, And guess who was watching?




April 3, 1973: The first mobile phone call was made on this day. Martin Cooper, using a prototype of the Motorola DynaTAC, placed a call from the streets of New York to Bell Labs in New Jersey. The device was 9 inches tall, had a talk-time of 35 minutes, and took 10 hours to recharge.




H5N1 has jumped species now? Not good news. Weaponized bird flu?

"Five Ten Fiftyfold" song released Halloween 1983. H5N1 appears 1959 but not as pathogen until 1996. Weaponization begins 2011. NIH lifts ban on engineering viruses in 2017, with FIVE flu strains of TEN projects overall. One of which is H5N1, which could HALF humanity IN HALF.


A Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted

Man-made super-flu could kill half humanity

Five Ten Fiftyfold song from Scottish singer, and note the image...




H5N1 first appears in farm outside Aberdeen, Scotland. LITERALLY "just up north" from where "Five Ten Fiftyfold" is recorded. H5N1 is one of FIVE of TEN pathogens that could be engineered to kill off FIFTY percent of humanity.


Influenza Report

Countering a toned-down alert from the Centers for Disease Control over a new “bird flu” case, survivalists who have long seen the H5N1 virus as more threatening than COVID-19 this week stepped up their warnings about it.

“This is a real threat,” a national prepper and survivalist organization warned on its app.

“This is a warning to prepare for a potentially severe pandemic and collapse,” added the statement on the “Collapse Survivor App” recently featured in Secrets and produced by the founder of Fortitude Ranch, a chain of survivalist resort camps.

The administration on Monday reported in an alert that a Texas dairy worker was struck by the bird flu, which actually spreads in birds and mammals.

“This infection does not change the H5N1 bird flu human health risk assessment for the U.S. general public, which CDC considers to be low,” the CDC said.

But Drew Miller, the Fortitude founder, said the CDC was being too dismissive. A former government intelligence officer, retired Air Force colonel, and Harvard Ph.D. graduate, Miller told Secrets, “The Center For Disease Control is endangering Americans with false assurances that H5N1 is ‘low risk.’ The opposite is true: H5N1 is a clear, growing risk of a pandemic that could kill billions.”

He and others who help the public prepare for disasters have long warned about the threat of the virus once it reaches human-to-human spread levels.

“The recent human case in the U.S. is not from human-to-human transmission of H5N1, but the risks of this are clearly rising,” Miller said. “H5N1, which historically has been about 60% lethal to humans, had a major mutation last year, enabling it to spread in many mammal populations around the world.”

He added in a memo to members, “We cannot know when human-to-human transmissible H5N1 pandemic will happen, but to say it is low risk is wrong. An H5N1 pandemic is coming. It could start tomorrow, or a few more years from now. The CDC must stop reassuring people that H5N1 is low risk; it is a looming huge disaster that will kill billions if we are not prepared for it. The CDC should be publishing the message the Collapse Survivor App just released: H5N1 is a huge risk, and you need to be prepared for a bad pandemic and collapse.”

Survivalists warn about H5N1 ‘bird flu’ spread: ‘Threat is real’

What we know about H5N1 bird flu in cows — and the risk to humans

The discovery of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. cattle — and the news that at least one person in Texas has been infected, apparently through contact with infected cows — has taken scientists who study influenza by surprise.

Cows from 12 dairy herds in five states have tested positive for H5N1. Those states are Texas (seven herds), Kansas (two), Michigan (one), New Mexico (one), and Idaho (one).

...
Is this picture likely to change?

Almost undoubtedly.

“We’re doing science here. And science changes. And when the science changes, then our assessment may change,” said Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Well, at any rate, Forewarned is forearmed.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Speaking of arming...



I thought we were all told for decades that nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

Excerpt from page 54:

However, the question remains how many nuclear weapons would be needed to meet U.S. military objectives if deterrence fails (including, for example, counterforce targets and damage limitation objectives). Current numbers appear sufficient to fight one nuclear war while deterring another. No changes in U.S. numbers will be needed before the 2030s as China builds up its arsenal over a decade to its goal of at least 1,500 nuclear weapons by 2035. Nearing 2035, the current objectives for nuclear weapons employment in the event of escalation to a large-scale nuclear war with China and Russia may require higher numbers to cover additional targets. The value of meeting these objectives should be evaluated critically against adversary reactions to new capabilities.

There is no evidence that additional low-yield options (including more prompt options for using low-yield nuclear weapons) would deter Russia from using low-yield nuclear weapons. Instead, managing deterrence of limited nuclear war requires credibly signaling that an adversary will not gain any military or political advantage from using nuclear weapons.

Page 55 first para is a WoW...

...it is not in any way realistic for the United States to fight two nuclear wars to acceptable outcomes—one large-scale nuclear war would end civilization as we know it. ... Amid or after a major nuclear war with Russia or China, it is highly unlikely that a U.S. president would have any plausible incentive to fight a second large-scale nuclear war. Thus, a scenario where the United States fights one nuclear war and deters another nuclear war is realistically sufficient.

Project Atom 2023 (100 page PDF)


Oh my, more signs we're surely doomed this time! Illinois is definitely doomed by that lovely natural maddening Havana Syndrome tune...


The World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803


Skip Homeier (1930-2017) for civil defense PSA. He was in 2 episodes of Star Trek.




April 3, 1995: the first item was purchased on Amazon. It just happened to be a book about artificial intelligence.


Here's the backstory.


From drones to cannabis to money laundering to “useful idiots” from Hollywood...same as it's always been:


CIA Front Companies


Just over 2 years ago, (2 weeks prior to invasion) Putin had said, strongly hinted that the use of nuclear weapons may be inevitable if:

Ukraine joins NATO + Ukraine attacks Crimea.

Welp...the psychopaths in charge are inching closer.


https://twitter.com/Liberacrat_/status/1...6303187254


Royal Australian Navy Anzac-class frigate HMAS Stuart (FFH 153) leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - April 3, 2024.  Looks like the party is over, the Aussies are leaving.



U.S. Navy Mobile Aerial Target Support System (MATSS-1) IX-524 towed barge going into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - April 3, 2024:


Mobile At-Sea Sensor (MATSS) barge (IX-524) provides advanced remote telecommunications capability that extends the reach of the 42,000 square-mile Pacific Missile Range, the world's largest instrumented multi-environmental range capable of supported surface, subsurface, air, and space operations simultaneously.



The SR-91 Aurora Mach 5 Spy Plane Was Never Real

I remember the days reading dozens of "Aurora" threads on ATS.

Weird times as 2 days later, Aurora unveiled...


Aurora unveiled its new "goddess" logo


Get your UFO facts direct from Scientology! Only 4 dollars!




So was Warren Zevon's 1989 album, "Transverse City" about the End of History?



and it's worse when I try to remember,
when I think about then and now;
I'd rather see it on the news at 11,
sit back and watch it Run Straight Down.
Run Straight Down.
Run Straight Down.
I can see it with my eyes closed.
Run Straight Down.

[BIAD]

It was a new word to me... Chrisom and there seemed to be a lot of it.


Wikipedia:
Chrisom.
'Anciently, a chrisom, or "chrisom-cloth," was the face-cloth, or piece of linen laid over a child's head
during baptism or christening. Originally, the purpose of the chrisom-cloth was to keep the chrism,
a consecrated oil, from accidentally rubbing off.

With time, the word's meaning changed, to that of a white mantle thrown over the whole infant at the
time of baptism. The term has come to refer to a child who died within a month after its baptism—so
called for the chrisom cloth that was used as a shroud for it.

Additionally, in London's bills of mortality, the term chrisom was used to refer to infants who died within
a month after being born...'

Collins Online Dictionary:
1.  Christianity -A white robe put on an infant at baptism and formerly used as a burial shroud
if the infant died soon afterwards
2.  archaic -An infant wearing such a robe
3.  A variant spelling of chrism

 Based on the above, some may suggest the word 'suffocation' could be used too.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

The Bewitched History Book - 50th Anniversary Edition (700+ pages worth)


Brilliant Pebbles - SDI kinetic-kill vehicles:
Magazine article on US anti-ballistic missile program attempts, with a depiction of a 'Brilliant Pebble' kinetic interceptor ejecting the shroud that held it in orbit.




The IBM 1401 was the most popular computer of the early 1960s, with over 10,000 built. Renting for $2500 a month, or about $26,000 in current dollars it made a computer affordable to medium-sized businesses. IBM charged for extra features: $333/month for multiply and divide, $76/month for greater than and less than, $20/month for bit test, etc.


You can see the IBM 1401 in operation at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Or a short video:




April 4, 1975: teenage geeks Bill Gates and Paul Allen established Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. From humble beginnings to global innovation, here's a short story showcasing the roots of a revolution:




Yes, MV DALI. It's still there and likely will be for a while.

There's a few salvage divers working in zero visibility and 3-5 knot currents, with two smaller cranes. Limiting constraint on the cranes is that the steel has to be cut into relatively small sections for the cranes to lift. Salvaged metal just now got a laydown space but there's not a lot of barges on hand to move it away from the site.

DALI is grounded in the riverbed, pinned by about 4,000 tons of steel bridge wreckage on top, and sitting on a natural gas pipe. It's a huge effort and the current chaos is largely a result of captured interests on the procurement side plus lack of common operating picture on the incident command side.

Fact: The US Navy is in charge of the Baltimore Bridge salvage effort.

Fact: The US Navy has more Admirals that warships.

Fact: there is not one Admiral in uniform today who is a salvage master.

Fact: salvage masters were once among the Navy’s most respected officers.

Fact: during the Navy’s biggest crisis in history it made a salvage master it’s top Admiral and gave him 5 stars.

Fact: for practically winning the entire F’n war, Fleet Admiral King was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.

Fact: King already had TWO Distinguished Service Medals for salvage operations

Opinion: this operation in Baltimore is going to be a painstaking long process costing mega billions of dollars. It will be plagued with bureaucratic nonsense.

Opinion: If the US Navy had not divested all its salvage equipment, subcontracted most of its salvage work to an overseas company, and still promoted experience hardened salvage masters to the rank of Admiral... this bridge could have been cleared in a few weeks.



But today’s Admirals won’t be found on the decks of shipwrecks wearing wrinkled khakis. The hundreds of Admirals in today’s Navy prefer wearing starched Army camouflage to office jobs.

Aside from the Navy, the Army’s in charge of waterways and bridges. Just 5 years ago the Army had salvage cranes and tugboats in Baltimore harbor. Not anymore.

Guess where the Army’s most decorated 5-Star general of WWII came from?

The Army Corps of Engineers!


If this was 1947, the Seabees would already have a replacement temp dock system ready to go while the salvage operation was underway. I'm not sure how we get back to that kind of point in our society.

April 3, 2024 | Governor Wes Moore Press Conference on the Collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge introduces the Navy Salvage master and discussed their role in depth:
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1jMJgmPrWNwKL



There are people alive today that couldn’t dial 9 1 1 on this if their life depended on it. Today we rent modems/routers. (Yes, I know not everyone).


NY Times sent this to all subscribers today:




The CDC released final birth data for 2022 today. Mississippi leads the nation in births among girls age 15-17 and 18-19.




Oh joy, the weather boys are already preppin the names...Alex, I'll take "Ronin" for $500.

The hurricane season is still nearly two months away but Dr. Phil Klotzbach and his research team at Colorado State University released their forecast for the 2024 hurricane season today.

Unfortunately, it's likely to be a very active season. The forecast calls for 23 named storms, 11 of those becoming hurricanes and 5 of those becoming major hurricanes (category 3 or higher). In an average year, we expect 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes.

IMPORTANT - None of these preseason forecasts CANNOT tell you where any storm will go

Dr. Klotzbach indicates record warm tropical and eastern subtropical Atlantic water temperatures as the primary factor for a busy season. Additionally, El Nino is likely transition to La Nina by the peak of hurricane season.  In years with La Nina, the wind shear is typically lighter. When wind shear is lighter, there is generally an increase in hurricane activity.

Remember, whether there are 5 or 25 named storms, it only takes one hitting us to make it a bad year. That's why it's important to prepare every year!

https://twitter.com/EdPiotrowski/status/...3220692177

The worms of Chernobyl have apparently conquered radiation. Chris Carter, thou shalt be vindicated!

A new study led by researchers at New York University finds that exposure to chronic radiation from Chornobyl has not damaged the genomes of microscopic worms living there today—which doesn’t mean that the region is safe, the scientists caution, but suggests that these worms are exceptionally resilient.

In recent years, researchers have found that some animals living in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone—the region in northern Ukraine within an 18.6-mile radius of the power plant—are physically and genetically different from their counterparts elsewhere, raising questions about the impact of chronic radiation on DNA.

Tiny Worms Tolerate Chornobyl Radiation

Quote of the Day: "It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people but care more about their opinion than our own." ― Marcus Aurelius

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Today happens to be The International Day of Conscience AND First Contact Day!

April 5, 2063: Humans met Vulcans for the first time, despite the Borg's attempts to prevent that via time travel.







Weird how lightning struck The Statue of Liberty yesterday and an earthquake hit nearby NYC today and the solar eclipse is yet to come. The signs are everywhere!

Notable earthquake: M 4.8 - 7 km N of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. 4th largest EQ since 1737 in this area. Really fueling the doom conspiracies given the solar eclipse is just a few days away.


USGS Earthquake Map

Earthquakes in the eastern U.S. are felt over a MUCH bigger area than the West Coast due to older rocks. They were subject to extreme pressures and temperatures and they're denser and so shaking travels much farther. 

The DHS EAS is called the National Public Warning System, aka Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), aka Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA, formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS). I see reports saying some folks didn't get an earthquake phone alert. If that is true, then it's not fit for its purpose. Congress spends big $$$ on this and obviously it's supposed to work flawlessly. The Gov just updated FCC EAS rules in 2022 for radio and TV - PDF. It's an engineering headache. The FCC has changed the EAS rules dozens of times since 9/11 and it would be nice if it actually worked to warn the public in congested urban areas and hi-rise buildings as to an earthquake and either evacuate or shelter in place. And this same gov wants to hand over this digital mess to AI. LOL, good luck!


My brother said this morning he thought he was having earthquake Munchausen's or something because he was reading this when his table started shaking...


That's gotta be a signal or omen or something. Probably nothing.


April 5, 2012: the U.S. Coast Guard sank the "ghost ship" Ryou-Un Maru. The Japanese fishing vessel had drifted for over a year after being swept away by the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan. The Ryou-Un Maru had entered a busy shipping area 180 miles from Alaska when the USCG sank it.




USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) Arleigh Burke-class Flight III guided missile destroyer leaving Pearl Harbor - April 4, 2024. Homeport is San Diego, California. The warship is brand new, Commissioned on Oct 7, 2023.



The ship namesake is after legendary super badass indestructible Jacklyn Harold "Jack" Lucas (1928–2008) was a U.S. Marine, and later U.S. Army airborne officer, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Iwo Jima, at the age of 17. He is the youngest Marine and youngest serviceman in World War II to be awarded the United States highest military decoration for valor. When the keel of USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) was laid in 1997, Lucas placed his Medal of Honor citation in the ship's hull, where it remains sealed. I hope the ship lives up to the name.


1950s all over again...FOX News report on luxury bunkers...




Well, it would be a shame if FEMA hasn't contained the mold outbreak at Mount Weather...



Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC) Capital Infrastructure Investment Plan

More FEMA related...


Effectiveness of the Program to Prepare Communities for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks and the Countering Violent Extremism Grant Program






How recessions have predicted presidential elections


Quote of the Day:
I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness. It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.
Dr Sam Parnia on the new science of death.


More to come.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

It's easy to forget how relatively recently it was that Florida (and Texas) grew into very high-population states. Check this Electoral College map from 1948: FL had 8 EVs! NY had 47, PA had 35, OH 25, MI 19. Iowa had 10! Compare to the 2024 map.



Why did this happen? A lot of reasons.
1. "Pent up demand" - Economist term that refers to a situation where demand for a service or product is unusually strong.

2. Cheap land and labor

3. Low taxes & regulations

4. New infrastructure

5. Defense & technology

6. Vacationers & Retirees

7. Migrant Farm workers

8. Oil

9. Climate & comfort.

Hotel/motel & residential air conditioning came to the sun belt. While air conditioning of public buildings in the north began to take root in the late 1920s and 1930s, it was not until post WWII that it became more commonplace in the south. Roughly 70% of my relatives now live in Florida.


April 4, 1924: British radio makes its first broadcast intended for schools, a music appreciation talk by a professor, Walford Davies. The program is a precursor to BBC School Radio, which supplements the primary school curriculum with lessons and entertainment.




LOL, tweet of the year so far...




2024 vs. 1921:





The literal translation from arabic:

"From here rose the first written letter, (finding its way) to every point on earth." - Uruk, Iraq


Ha, Lord Pickles...

Katharine Viner, the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, said: “Hella was an incredible force and an inspiration. She had unrivalled contacts and immense knowledge about world affairs and was always steely in her determination to find out the facts.

Pick was born in Vienna in 1927, and spent her early childhood in what she described as a “very conventional middle-class environment”. But after the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, and attacks on Jews rose sharply, her mother decided to put her 11-year-old daughter on a Kindertransport train for the UK.

Simon Tisdall, another former foreign editor of the Guardian, said: “Hella was a force to be reckoned with. Fiercely intelligent, passionate about all she did, incredibly well connected in the exclusive world of international diplomacy – and ever courageous in navigating a male-dominated journalistic profession that feared powerful women.

“Well into her 90s she was writing elegant long-form pieces for Prospect magazine, including an article drawing sobering parallels between the war she fled as a Kindertransport child in 1939 and the rise of Putin. She was one of a kind.”

Describing her as a “trailblazer for a generation”, he wrote: “Pick is testament to the necessity of having a broad intellectual hinterland and an open mind, the value of cultivating sources and finding things out. There is no better manifesto against the current clickbait culture and narcissistic social media obsession.”

“She was probably the oldest working journalist in the UK, and was deeply engaged with the world, even as she was leaving it. The days before her death, weak and in hospital, she still wanted to talk about her horror at the situation in Gaza and her fear for Ukraine’s future, with Europe and America distracted and divided.

Hella Pick, pioneering Guardian journalist, dies aged 96

Gordon-Michael Scallion was a futurist, spiritualist, and self-proclaimed "prophet" who had an "awakening" after losing his ability speak and becoming restricted to a hospital bed. During that time, he had a vision of a lady who told him apocalyptic earthquakes and astronomical events would reshape the earth. After he healed from his strange condition, he made this map:

Offered here is Scallion’s Future Map of North America, which “illustrates the way I see North America by 2012, with many of the more significant changes occurring by 2002.” The map is a “before and after” image, the base a relief map of North America and part of Latin America with national, state and provincial boundaries shown in white. Vast areas are overprinted in blue, reflecting Scallion’s prophecy that by 2012 much of the region would be inundated following “three separate magnetic pole shifts… each comprised of a six to eight degree westerly shift.” Surrounding the map are long blocks of text summarizing Scallion’s predictions of the geophysical, climactic and demographic consequences of these successive shifts.

This parade of cataclysms will cause mass migrations, with much of the population ending up concentrated in huge “survival camps”. Making things worse, these survivors will be afflicted by “new plagues… as the body’s electrical system becomes imbalanced by changes in the Earth’s magnetic field and electromagnetic pollution”. Further, “infrasonic waves” from shifting tectonic plates will leave humans “vulnerable to pronounced mood swings, depression and even something akin to possession”. On the other hand, there’s also some really good news, at least for those who’ve had it with the patriarchy: The magnetic pole shifts will (somehow) “cause the moon to orbit closer to the Earth. This will cause a move towards a lunar society with more feminine than masculine overtones. As a result, both men and women will experience increases in intuitive capabilities.”

On the off chance things don’t work out as expected (hoped?), Scallion gives himself an out: “Predictions are given as probabilities. Even at this time, consciousness can alter an event, modify changes in a particular area, or at the very least, help prepare for what is to come.” It’s worth noting that similar hedging appears on his 1992 Future Map of the United States, which predicted that the magnetic pole shifts and attendant cataclysms would occur in 1993-95. It’s all reminiscent of the Millerites’ recalculation of the Second Coming of Christ after the “Great Disappointment” of 1844.

Boston Rare Maps with larger map with readable text and his related Prophecy Maps.


Words for the Weekend:




I must live a certain way...


McCarthy was a trustee for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), a multidisciplinary research center devoted to the study of complex adaptive systems. Unlike most members of the SFI, McCarthy did not have a scientific background. There was another person of interest who had deep involvement with SFI concerning genetics...Jeffrey Epstein. The name that won't die.


"I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger! A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!" - Heisenberg.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

It's easy to forget how relatively recently it was that Florida (and Texas) grew into very high-population states. Check this Electoral College map from 1948: FL had 8 EVs! NY had 47, PA had 35, OH 25, MI 19. Iowa had 10! Compare to the 2024 map.

I bet you would be even more surprised to know that I grew up with White and Colored water fountains. It was so normal and accepted that it was foreign to us, and confusing, why anyone would think there was anything wrong with it.

Nobody was offended by it. Not the coloreds or the whites. We learned by our mistakes. And we made a Hell of a lot of them.