Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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The orange cornflour attention deficit bandits strike again...

In quotes provided by Just Stop Oil, Miss Lynch, said to be a student from Oxford, said the continued burning of oil, coal and gas was leading to 'death and suffering'.

'It's time for us to think about what our civilization will leave behind - what is our legacy?' she said. 'Standing inert for generations works well for stones - not climate policy.'

Miss Lynch's social media profiles reveal that she has a keen interest in birds as the current president of the Oxford Ornithological Student Society and a Youth Representative at the British Trust for Ornithology.

Others said the heroic woman who can be seen wrestling with the Just Stop Oil protesters is a staff member who works at Stonehenge.

Tourists also said after the incident they were banned from walking around the stones and that staff 'hosed down' the powder paint but couldn't remove it all.

A druid was also seen 'cursing' the 'two idiots' who staged the protest.

Daily Mail for the pics, text, and angry videos of furious visitors.

Hmm, Oxford student with "Lynch" as a surname...yes, very suspicious. Damaging priceless historical landmarks is not going to win people over to your cause. On second thought, they don’t want to win people over, they want to be the privileged few, and the goal is the emotional reaction. Assign her to an oil platform in the North Sea, cleaning the toilets. These are shock troops and they’re paid to be, in fact they are not paid unless they specifically target the public, it's psyche ops, and institutions - rules for CEF grantees the major funder of the A22 Network. Only public disruption & activities that are protected under 501c3 status are allowed.

There needs to be a public display of punishment for these nuts. Perhaps a dousing of Cerulean oil paint (that does not wash off), then forced to parade butt naked down a shanty skidrow section of London. Perhaps that would awaken the brainwashed activists. Meh, probably not. Just Stop Oil is financed by the Climate Emergency Fund, founded by oil scion Aileen Getty. (yea, that Getty) Go figure.

Naimh Lynch is ready to spray paint whatever it takes to insure sub-Saharan Africans never get their hands on refrigerators.

In light of the Just Stop Oil shenanigans at Stonehenge, I'll say this: Beware the druids!







Stepford Biden's $42.5 billion rural high-speed Blackhole

Biden's Billions

I been hearing rural broadband high-speed internet since Bill Clinton era. Stuck in red tape... like stuck in DEI & climate change nonsense and is government speak for laundering that money to pay for other things like the illegals crossing the border.

Over in Wiki drama wars...


Suddenly all the anti-ADL people are now pro-Wiki. In other news, Wikipedia to be banned soon by Congress.

ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism


October Surprise Rising...


I'm sure the overlords have some sorta shock event planned, but probably nothing like what some people think.


Saturn has arrived...



Wednesday words...and naturally Merriam-Webster would choose this word for the Juneteenth day.



Cerulean skies are a welcomed, but very rare sight in England.

One famous reference in modern pop culture for Cerulean is the "Cerulean sweater speech" in the movie The Devil Wears Prada. In the scene, the fashion editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) explains to her assistant the significance of cerulean in fashion and how it works its way down from high-end designers to lesser retailers.

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June 20, 1687: Captain Blood set some basic ground rules, before he and his men start a life of piracy.




June 20, 1970: USS Tautog (SSN-639) collided with Soviet sub K-108. Chunks of K-108's propeller became embedded in Tautog's sail. The U.S. was convinced that K-108 had been sunk in the accident but later learned that the sub managed to return to port. The incident was kept secret till 1991 and the full details were finally made public in 1999 in the book Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage.




June 20, 1975: Steven Spielberg's shark classic JAWS was released becoming the first movie to make $100 million... in just 38 days... creating the summer blockbuster, changing cinema (and sharks) forever. To say Jaws was a success is an understatement. Costing $9 million, it grossed $470 million.




R.I.P. Donald Sutherland



To quote a line from one of his films:

"For as they say in Ireland, 'We have known the days.'"





Happy 72nd birthday John Goodman...




Gifts exchanged by Putin and Kim revealed...and a road trip around the palace...



Putin and Rocketman spin around the palace:
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1803811170492506202

West has plan to replace Zelensky – Russian intelligence - It believes Zelensky will be used as a scapegoat “once Russia solidifies its successes on the battlefield, and exhausted and demoralized Ukrainian troops find themselves with no way out.”


Meanwhile, on FOX...


Surreal Griffing Amnesiac Media Idiots

Doomsday Machines is a new Substack newsletter from Alex Wellerstein that is launching in July 2024 which will explore the post-apocalyptic imagination in fact and fiction.


Wut???


French first lady transgender libel case goes to trial





Four wooden chests are presented before you.

Each contains a collection of 19th-century novels.

But which one do you choose?




Filmed on the beach last July in Washington and Oregon...

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June 21, 1942: the Japanese submarine I-25 fired seventeen 5.5-inch projectiles at Fort Stevens on the coast of Oregon. Because of incorrect charts, the Japanese thought they were attacking a U.S. sub base. The attack left a few craters but the only damage was to a baseball backstop.


This minor Bombardment of Fort Stevens contributed to the 1942 full-scale West Coast invasion scare. Thereafter, rolls of barbed wire would be strung from Point Adams, near the mouth of the Columbia River, southward in case of an invasion. The wrecked British barque Peter Iredale that ran ashore October 25, 1906 was entangled in the wire and would remain so until the war's end. Wreckage is still visible today, making it a popular tourist attraction as one of the most accessible shipwrecks of the Graveyard of the Pacific.




JFK Orders "One of Those Blue Pills"


June 21, 1967: The Summer of Love arrives.

From the next day’s San Francisco Chronicle...

At dawn on June 21, another enormous crowd gathered to usher in the official start to the season with a summer solstice celebration at Golden Gate Park. But even as the “Summer of Love” formally commenced, the scene had already started to spoil. By July, San Francisco was overwhelmed with the new influx of visitors, including a burgeoning population of teenage runaways. And the district’s latest occupants brought a harder edge. TIME noted that “[m]ost of them—perhaps 80%—are steadily high on drugs ranging from LSD to such synthetic stimulants as Methedrine, Dexedrine and Benzedrine, which are known collectively as ‘speed.’” The siren song that took over top-40 radio that summer, Scott McKenzie’s “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” proved to be a death knell, and by the fall, many of the summertime pilgrims returned home. On October 6, members of the district’s remaining counterculture community, tired of the commercialization and publicity of their alternative lifestyle, marched along Haight Street for a “death of hippie” funeral service. Written on the side of their faux coffin was the phrase “Hippie, Son of Media.”

When the “Summer of Love” Took over San Francisco

U.S. top 40 for June 21, 1969:




Snapper Matt's (@s_nappe_r) Drone photo of Horatio Nelson’s statue on top of Nelson’s Column at Trafalgar Square, London. (authorised by the Met Police) Nelson’s Column was erected to commemorate Admiral  Nelson's victory over Napoleon in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805; a battle in which he died. Building of the monument started in 1840 and took 3 years to build. It’s 170 ft tall, around 52 metres.




Room 237


The overlooked sibling of the more-popular hallway carpet from The Shining. Mega huge wallpaper by Louie Mantia


Kamandi comic book character created by artist Jack Kirby and published by DC Comics. The comic series Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, which ran from 1972 to 1978. He is a young hero living in a post-apocalyptic future. Following the Great Disaster, humans have backslid to savagery in a world ruled by intelligent, highly evolved animals.




Former special envoy Angelina Jolie sporting a Totenkopf belt buckle in a major Hollywood summer release about the British aristocracy raiding tombs in 2001. Re-watching Tomb Raider and noticed the belt buckle with skull & crossbones. Skimming through the movie posters & publicity shots I then noticed how the belt buckle was softened and the crossbones removed (different belt buckle) in the advertising.



"Looks like another threat to world peace... send the envoy."






A London punk band did a song & sketch about the orange bandits.
And Now, The Weather!

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Pathetic, but par for the course...


Department of Defense Office of Inspector General

Literally, billions spent on software & databases. Poof, an unknown glitch. Sorry Dave, I can't show you those records.

Suddenly, my tracker hit me with a $2.3 trillion flashback:




That one time a UFO was flying the Jolly Roger.




Friendly reminder that you can read this whole book for free on the CIA library website because it was on...


...Osama Bin Laden's computer at the Abbottabad compound.

THE 2030 SPIKE - COUNTDOWN TO GLOBAL CATASTROPHE (PDF from CIA site)


The strawberry moon rising & setting yesterday morning at ST0NEHENGE.




Photo of the ISS by Maxar. Shows 6 different spacecraft docked for the first time ever: SpaceX Dragon, Boeing Starliner, Cygnus, Soyuz, Progress 87 & 88.


They did it by taking one of their Legion satellites which normally does Earth observation, and pointing it up towards LEO. This is one example of "Space Domain Awareness."

Despite the CNN commies & all the other media jackals concerning Starliner "stuck" in space, the official word is NASA is delaying the return of Boeing Starliner to some time in July to study more data from the spacecraft's propulsion system.


TGIF / Weekend words...

The original meaning of parasite is "a person who exploits the hospitality of the rich and earns welcome by flattery.” (1539) The biological meaning of ‘parasite’ didn’t occur until 1728.


The word has its origins in the Latin word 'parasitus’, that word being from Greek 'parasitos.’

‘para’ = grain
‘sitos’ = food

The human parasite must have been a somewhat familiar figure in ancient times because it became a stock character in Greek and Roman comedy. The comedic Parasite endears himself to a patron by various means...in exchange for food.



The sound of dolorifuge...coming in at #1 is "Weightless" by Marconi Union and Lyz Cooper as the most relaxing song of all time, according to the British Academy of Sound Therapy.




Until next time. Stay off my desert sandbox...


...somewhere in Morocco.

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June 22, 1911: The Coronation of George V and Queen Mary, as king and queen of the United Kingdom & Ireland, the British Dominions, and as Emperor and Empress of India, took place at Westminster Abbey, London.




June 22, 1941: Three million German troops invaded Russia, launching Operation Barbarossa. Mobile killing units began the mass murder of Soviet Jews. German military policies led to the deaths of millions of Soviet POWs and civilians. It was the largest land offensive in human history, with over 10 million combatants taking part lasting 6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days. The operation, code-named after Frederick Barbarossa ("red beard"), a 12th-century Holy Roman emperor and German king, put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union to repopulate it with Germans. It proved to be Hitler’s biggest military mistake.



The German map is to be expected. You show a German a map of the Ukraine, and they have flashbacks to Operation Barbarossa and start fantasizing about how to invade it. LOL. This is why Putin's codename in German is "Einkesselungmeister" (containment master).


June 22nd happenings from BBC...

BBC On This Day for June 22


June 22, 1948: 1,027 Passengers disembarked from HMT Empire Windrush, at Tilbury Dock, London, after a voyage from Jamaica. Of these, 802 came from the Caribbean. The majority were West Indian immigrants seeking a new life in Britain. They were known as the "Windrush Generation".

HMT Empire Windrush, originally MV Monte Rosa, was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched in Germany in 1930. She was owned and operated by the German shipping line Hamburg Süd in the 1930s under the name Monte Rosa. During World War II she was operated by the German navy as a troopship. At the end of the war, she was seized by the British Government as a prize of war and renamed to Empire Windrush. In British service, she continued to be used as a troopship until March 1954, when the vessel caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crewmen. HMT stands for "His Majesty's Transport" and MV for "Motor Vessel".



British Pathé newsreel showing the ship on fire, and the passengers and crew embarking on aircraft carrier HMS Triumph in Algiers.


The Windrush scandal was a British political scandal that began in 2018 concerning people who were wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation, and in at least 83 cases wrongly deported from the UK by the Home Office. Many of those affected had been born British subjects and had arrived in the UK before 1973, particularly from Caribbean countries, as members of the "Windrush generation".

Home Secretary admits 63 Windrush migrants may have been deported and brands hostile environment 'un-British'

Windrush generation: Home Office ‘set them up to fail’, say MPs

Who were the Windrush generation and what is Windrush Day?

Genome-wide research of Afro-Caribbean people have shown that the grouping, on average, have 77.4% African, 15.9% European, and 6.7% Asian DNA. This 2010 study represented African Caribbeans living within the Caribbean...

African and Non-African Admixture Components in African Americans and An African Caribbean Population

Within the United Kingdom, men and women of African Caribbean origin or ancestry were also found to have around 13 percent of their DNA from sources other than Africa. In the research, only volunteers who had all four grandparents of Afro-Caribbean origin were sampled...

One British black man in four 'has white ancestor'

Researchers have been able to attribute this partly to historic European males' sexual exploitation of enslaved African women...

Genetic impact of African slave trade revealed in DNA study

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JFK Assassination Songs (Spotify)


June 22, 1963: the U.S. Navy launched USS Tecumseh (SSBN 628) "United for Freedom", USS Flasher (SSN 613) "Best in the West", USS Daniel Boone (SSBN 629) "New Trails to Blaze", and USS John C. Calhoun (SSBN 630) "For Peace, Ready" as part of the accelerated nuclear submarine construction program.




June 22, 1967: The drug possession trial of Rolling Stone members, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, began in London. 7 days later, the judge sentenced Jagger to 3 months and Richards to 1 year in jail. In August 1967, these sentences were quashed by the court of appeal. On the right is Allen Klein, the shady operator as the ruthless money manager who became one of the most powerful individuals in the music industry during his era. He also managed the Beatles and many other bands.



In June 2015, American journalist Fred Goodman published a biography of Klein, Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll.
Google Books


June 22, 1998: That time a fishing boat disabled a North Korean submarine. The Sokcho submarine incident. Fishermen spotted a manned North Korean submarine tangled in nets in South Korean waters. South Korean Navy ships placed the disabled sub under tow at which point it sank after possibly being scuttled by the crew. When a salvage team was able to recover the sub, it was discovered that the crew of five had been executed by officers who then committed suicide. Items found in the sub also indictated that the sub was carrying members of North Korean special forces who had recently infiltrated the South Korean mainland.


Rocketman is always in the media for his missile launches, but what is seldom reported on is his massive & growing submarine fleet. Never under estimate your enemy, just sayin.


Apex predators Seawolf; Motto: Cave Lupum ("Beware the Wolf") and Seahawk:


USS Seawolf (SSN-21), Seawolf-class nuclear-powered fast attack sub.
The Sikorsky SH-60/MH-60 Seahawk based on the Army UH-60 Black Hawk.


Unrep for ice cream!


Vid clip from the Captain of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They're roughly 100 Miles off the coast of Northern-Central Israel so lots of ice cream will make the crew happy. They will be relieved by the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group in next few weeks and returning home to Norfolk. July is shaping up to be a very hot zone month in the Med, assuming Israel is going to lay siege on Lebanon.

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June 23, 1924: Members of the deposed Bavarian royal family gather in Munich for a parade marking the 50th anniversary of the Kriegerbund, or veterans association. "The hit of the parade" is ex-officers wearing blackface to represent the peoples of colonies Germany lost in WWI.




June 23, 1924: "The Awakening," a theatrical production by the Ku Klux Klan chapter No. 25 in Port Arthur, Texas.


Klan members assimilated tropes of the cabaret and the Ziegfeld Follies into entertainments like The Awakening, featuring high-kicking Klan chorus girls. At the same time, the "100% American" ideology of the Klan movement was commercialized by popular entertainments.


The Japanese ship that refused to die.
Admiral Bernard "Chick" Clarey has the unusual distinction of sinking the same ship twice. As executive officer of USS Amberjack (SS-219) in 1942, he helped sink the 19,000-ton ship Tonan Maru No. 2 on Oct 10th. However, the Japanese were able to raise and repair the ship. Hit again by the USS Bonefish on Feb 9, 1944, repaired and as commander of Pintado (SS-387) in 1944, Clarey sank the Tonan Maru No. 2 for the second time on Aug 22, 1942. However, after the war ended the Japanese somehow managed to raise her again, repaired and she served as a whaler during the American occupation of Japan. TONAN MARU was one of the largest merchant ships sunk (twice) by an American submarine during World War II.




June 23, 1943: Rep. (D-Kentucky) Andrew Jackson May (June 24, 1875 – Sept 6, 1959) bragged to reporters that the Japanese were setting depth charges too shallow because they didn't know how deep U.S. subs could dive. VADM Charles Lockwood said the revelation caused the Japanese to make adjustments, costing the Navy 10 subs and 800 sailors.


However, in a 1945 letter to Congressman May, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet wrote: "Everyone in general appreciates the superb job you have done for your country in connection with Army legislation, and Naval officers appreciate in particular the cooperation you have given the Navy."

May was convicted by a federal jury on July 3, 1947, on charges of accepting bribes to use his position as Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee to secure munitions contracts during the Second World War. May would appeal his verdict all the way up to Supreme Court which refused to hear his case. May was forced into prison at the age of 74 and served nine months in federal prison. President Truman decided to grant May a full pardon in 1952.

Nothing has changed since...the corruption has only become much worse.

VADM Charles A. Lockwood (May 6, 1890 – June 6, 1967) known in submarine history as the commander of Submarine Force Pacific Fleet during World War II.


June 23, 1983: the Soviet Charlie-class nuclear submarine K-429 sank near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The sub had been in a shipyard undergoing repairs when it was ordered to participate in an exercise despite protests from the captain. With many of the regular crew members on leave, K-429 was forced to deploy with sailors unfamiliar with the sub. The incomplete maintenance combined with human error resulted in the sub becoming flooded. 16 men were lost in the incident and the captain was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Then one day, Sept 13, 1985, the K-429, now 80% restored, sank again right at the pier of the repair factory.


The incident, caused by worker negligence, mercifully claimed no victims this time. But for the Soviet Navy command it was too much. The K-429 was instantly decommissioned and turned into a training vessel. Several years later, it was scrapped and forgotten as a terrible nightmare.


The ex Korean Air Boeing 747-8B5 that is the first to become the new E-4 "Doomsday" plane is undergoing its transformation. The registration is now N747US after previously being registered HL7630.


The job of building the Air Force's next Doomsday planes goes to Sierra Nevada Corp. The Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft will replace the USAF’s highly specialized 747-based E-4B strategic command post jets. Cargo transport to Balloons to aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance...SNC is like the Home Depot for the military.


Republic of Korea Navy Sohn Won-yil-class submarine ROKS Lee Beom-seok (SS-081) coming into Pearl Harbor - June 21, 2024.




Why after 7 years is Snopes doing this now?


Snopes


The syndicated legacy media wants YOU to be shocked & horrified of this "new" war protocol violation!




Praise be, the American way...


America even takes our winning with us as we travel. Stay envious, Euros - Nation building, but we just parachute in a crack black ops team of HVAC guys. LOL.

France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy. A former administration in 2014, aimed to reduce nuclear share of electricity generation to 50% by 2025. This target was delayed in 2019 to 2035, before being abandoned in 2023. France is the world's largest net exporter of electricity due to its very low cost of generation. France has around 56 nuke plants and building more. So, I don't see how keeping the dorm rooms down to 72F is any problem at all.

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I wonder how this came to be outta the blue after all these years and why. Why now? Smells fishy.




June 24, 1374: A sudden outbreak of St John’s Dance (“The Dancing Plague”), caused people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion.


Apparently, a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time. The mania affected adults and children who danced until they collapsed from exhaustion and injuries.
Dancing plague of 1518


June 24, 1948: Berlin Blockade begins. 1st major Cold War Crisis. The West quickly begins air-dropping supplies. The blockade lasted till May 12, 1949. Look familiar eh?


The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche Mark from West Berlin. The number of different aircraft used in the Berlin Airlift was numerous; 10 US planes, 11 British, in addition to Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and South African air crews assisted the RAF. In total, 692 aircraft.

In aircraft accidents: 39 British, 31 Americans, and 1 Australian were killed. 15 German civilians were also killed. The Allies continued the airlift until September 1949, just in case the Ruskies decided to reinstate the blockade.

On 24 June 1948, all rail traffic into Berlin from the Western Zones of Germany, amounting to 12 or 15 trains per day, was stopped by the Soviet government for "technical reasons, and the strangulation coils which had been slowly tightening about the city since the previous January, took their final hold. Berlin became virtually a besieged city, an island cut off from the rest of the world, entirely surrounded by the Soviet Zone. Official access was permitted only by air, through three 20-mile wide "corridors" extending on straight lines to Berlin from the three westerly cities of Hamburg and Buckeburg in the British Zone and Frankfurt am Main in the American Zone.

Excerpt from General Tunner's report: A Report on the Airlift - Berlin Mission (100 page PDF) - linked from
US Air Force Historical Support Division

Berlin Airlift at 75: The Most Remarkable Supply Operation in Human History



CandyBomber: The Story Behind the Name

Famed ‘Candy Bomber’ of Berlin Blockade, Gail Halvorsen Dies at 101 (Feb. 16, 2022)

Halvorsen grew up in Utah and earned a private pilot’s license at the age of 21, when he joined the Civil Air Patrol. Following the outbreak of WWII, Halvorsen joined the Army Air Forces and flew ferry flights of C-46s and C-47s in the South Atlantic theater of operations.

He stayed in the Air Force after the war and in July 1948 was assigned as one of the pilots in the Berlin Airlift, flying C-54s and C-47s into Tempelhof Airport with crucial sustenance for the citizens of divided Berlin, who were cut off from land resupply by a Soviet blockade. On a sightseeing tour of Berlin during time off, he saw children watching the cargo aircraft operation. Talking to them, he was touched by their appreciation for the airlift and one’s comment that “when the weather gets bad, don’t worry about us. We can get by on little food, but if we lose our freedom, we may never get it back.” He offered them a few sticks of gum, which 30 children shared eagerly but politely. He resolved to do more, and promised to drop candy to them from his plane the next day. He would “wiggle” his wings to let them know which plane to watch for.

Starting with candy rations pooled with friends, Halvorsen devised small parachutes made from handkerchiefs, so the falling candy parcels wouldn’t hurt the children waiting below. For three weeks, he made candy drops once a week. As the weeks passed, the number of children waiting below grew.

The commander of “Operation Vittles,” as the Berlin Airlift was called, was Lt. Gen. William H. Tunner. When he found out about Halvorsen’s unauthorized airdrops, he approved and ordered them expanded as Operation “Little Vittles.” Soon Halvorsen’s whole squadron was buying candy and gum and assembling the parcels with small parachutes. As word reached the U.S. of the mini-airlift, American schoolchildren and confectionary companies donated candy, and soon many other pilots were making candy drops as well. Halvorsen became known as “Uncle Wiggly Wings” or “The Chocolate Flier,” among other names, by the children of Berlin, and the “Candy Bomber” in the U.S.

“Little Vittles” continued from September 1948 through May 1949, when the Soviet Union lifted its blockade and the larger airlift ended. Halvorsen had rotated home in January 1949, but the operation was taken up by his squadron mate, Capt. Lawrence Caskey. “Little Vittles” had dropped an estimated 46,000 pounds of candy tied with more than 250,000 parachutes, and Halvorsen received international attention for his efforts. In his autobiography, Halvorsen recalled that a Berlin child told him the candy was not just chocolate, “it was hope.”

After the airlift, Halvorsen received a permanent USAF commission and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from in aeronautical engineering from the University of Florida. He worked on cargo aircraft development at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, from 1952 to 1957 then joined the new Air Force Space Systems Division in California. There he worked on the Titan III launch vehicle and the X-20 Dyna-Soar reusable spacecraft programs, serving with Air Force Systems Command through 1962. Subsequent assignments took him back to Germany and technology offices at Headquarters, USAF. He developed plans for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, which would have put a small Air Force space station in orbit for reconnaissance purposes. He commanded the 6596th Instrumentation Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., supporting space launch and satellite operations.

Halvorsen organized or supported candy drops in other war zones during his career as well, in Japan, Albania, Guam, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq. He was also a continuous goodwill ambassador for the Air Force and the United States, making thousands of speeches and visits, especially to schools, to discuss Operation Little Vittles.

He wrote the books “The Berlin Candy Bomber” and “The Candy Bomber: Untold Stories from the Berlin Airlift’s Uncle Wiggly Wings.”

Article continues: Famed ‘Candy Bomber’ of Berlin Blockade, Gail Halvorsen Dies at 101





June 24, 1993: The California band Severe Tire Damage pull off the first webcast in history, live streaming a concert from the Xerox Research Center in Palo Alto to an extremely small audience. As proof of their technology, the band was broadcast and could be seen live in Australia and elsewhere. The next year, The Rolling Stones become the first major artist to do a webcast.


Photo & info from Wiki page | Video


The kid Thomas Brodie-Sangster from Love Actually has married Elon Musk’s twice over ex-wife, Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn (English actress). The Twitter population waits for papa’s reaction.


The couple wedded on Saturday, June 22, at St George’s Church in Anstey, England in a grand ceremony.
US Weekly celebrity news


Over in the clandestine flames...


The Moscow Times

Fire engulfs lithium battery plant in South Korea

A lithium factory and an electronic waste facility in Scotland go up in smoke within hours of each other.

Paisley: Update issued on major industrial fire at Linwood and BBC


Appalachian Aesthetics...




New week, new words...


HMS Alacrity was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by John Cuthbert, Millers Point, New South Wales as the yacht Ethel that the Royal Navy purchased in 1872.

Former mercantile schooner Ethel, hired in April 1872 (purchased 4.11.1872) to help enforce the Imperial Parliament's Kidnapping Act of 1872, which aimed to eliminate the practice of kidnapping Pacific islanders as a labour force for white settles in tropical NE Australia, known in Australia as 'blackbirding'. NavyPedia

She commenced service on the Australia Station at Sydney in 1873 as a tender for HMS Clio. She was later used for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific and also for hydrographic surveys of Fiji and Australia. On 3 June 1873, Alacrity ran aground in Vita Bay, Fiji Islands. She was refloated. She was paid off in 1882 and sold to the Colony of New South Wales, which converted her to a powder hulk guardship. Wiki


U.S. top 40 for June 24, 1967:

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The great comet of 1881 (Comet C/1881 K1). Observed on the night of June 25-26 at 1h. 30m. A.M.
Plate XI from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1881)


Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium - in chronological order - of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars... See Flowers of the Sky


In 1916, American anthropologist Mabel Cook Cole published a collection of folk tales from the Philippines, including mischievous spirits, talking jars, and the antics of personified celestial beings, bickering suns and moons.

Philippine Folk Tales (1916)

According to the American anthropologist Mabel Cook Cole, compiler of this volume, this collection of folk tales from the Philippines was the first of its kind, at least in the English language. There's a huge variety of stories presented, sourced from both the more traditional tribes, including the headhunters of the rugged mountain regions, and from those "Christianized natives" whose examples bear evidence of their European influence. Most of the stories are from the former, however, with many of these hailing from what are called the "first times", involving mischievous spirits, talking jars, and the antics of personified celestial beings, bickering suns and moons. There are also several origin and "pourqoi" stories, such as an explanations as to why dogs wag their tales (which apparently is to show that they are not that dog who lost a magic ring). Cole also includes what she calls "fables", many which share similarities with European stories, and which are "told to children or to while away the midday hours when people seek shaded spots to rest or stop on the trail to rest".

Here's a story from the Igorot, a headhunter tribe, about how the first head was taken.

One day the Moon, who was a woman named Kabigat, sat out in the yard making a large copper pot. The copper was still soft and pliable like clay, and the woman squatted on the ground with the heavy pot against her knees while she patted and shaped it. Now while she was working a son of Chal-chal, the Sun, came by and stopped to watch her mould the form. Against the inside of the jar she pressed a stone, while on the outside with a wooden paddle dripping with water she pounded and slapped until she had worked down the bulges and formed a smooth surface. The boy was greatly interested in seeing the jar grow larger, more beautiful, and smoother with each stroke, and he stood still for some time. Suddenly the Moon looked up and saw him watching her. Instantly she struck him with her paddle, cutting off his head. Now the Sun was not near, but he knew as soon as the Moon had cut off his son’s head. And hurrying to the spot, he put the boy’s head back on, and he was alive again. Then the Sun said to the Moon, “You cut off my son’s head, and because you did this ever after on the earth people will cut off each other’s heads.”

Cole spent four years amongst the traditional Philippines tribes along with her husband Fay-Cooper Cole who was an ethnologist for the Field Museum of Natural History and whose photographs of daily village life are dotted throughout the collection. The stories were apparently noted down first hand, from around campfires, visits to homes, and also as heard "chanted by the pagan priests in communion with the spirits".

June 25, 1945: Singer-Songwriter Carly Simon was born in New York City. She had a number of hits in the 1970s, including, the classic, You’re So Vain, a US No.1 and the Bond theme, Nobody Does it Better from the James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me.




June 25, 1950: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), invaded the Republic of Korea (South Korea), to begin the Korean War. The war ended unofficially on 27 July 1953 in an armistice, but without a peace treaty.




PHOTO OF THE DAY. Miss New Zealand faints during the 1954 Miss Universe contest. None of the other contestants moved. Stanley Milgram experiment in real life.

One person's misfortune is another's opportunity—not to mention hilarity. This photo shows Miss New Zealand—Moana Manley—passed out during the 1954 Miss Universe Pageant, staged today that year in Long Beach, California. Manley fainted during an outdoor photo session. Some accounts say heat exhaustion got her, but it was not especially hot that day—about 72 degrees Fahrenheit, or 22 Celsius. It was more likely stress. She was, after all, not only the first woman from her country to compete at Miss Universe, but the first woman of Maori descent to win the title of Miss New Zealand. That'll apply a bit of pressure. You'll often see the photo labeled as a 1957 shot, but that's incorrect. There was no representative from New Zealand in the pageant that year. No, the shot is definitely from 1954, and the winner was ultimately Miss U.S.A., Miriam Stevenson, who was probably like, “Yup, when that Kiwi hit the ground I knew I had it in the bag.”

Found at the Pulp International Blog



Miriam Jacqueline Stevenson (born 1932 or 1933) is an American former actress, television host, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1954. She was the first American to win the title and had previously been crowned Miss USA 1954. Apparently, still alive.




June 25, 1968: Popular comedian Tony Hancock (aged 44), was found dead, after a vodka/drug cocktail overdose in Sydney, Australia. His divorce came 5 days earlier. His show, Hancock’s Half Hour, was hugely popular in the 1950s on BBC radio and became a popular TV sitcom. His career had declined by the late 1960s.


Tony Hancock Discography  |  Tony Hancock Archives  | Wiki  | Hancock's Half Hour (BBC Radio)


June 25, 1973: "Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev casts an admiring gaze at actress Jill St. John, date of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, at a pool party given by President Nixon at Nixon's San Clemente home. Brezhnev's interpreter looks over Brezhnev's shoulder." Jill St. John aka Tiffany Case, the first American Bond girl in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).




Freija Day - June 25, 1978: The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade (as it was called then).


GLBT Historical Society

The flag was created by Gilbert Baker—an activist, drag queen, and artist—who described his rainbow-striped design as “something beautiful, something from us… it really fits our diversity in terms of race, gender, ages, all of those things.”

The same day during the parade, two pride banners replaced the United States and United Nations flags hoisted at the United Nations Plaza in San Fran, and the world saw the first LGBQ+ flags.

The different colors of this flag were often associated with “diversity” in the gay community (but actually have literal meanings), including:

    Red for life.
    Orange for healing.
    Yellow for sunlight.
    Green for nature.
    Blue for harmony/peace.
    Purple for spirit.
    Pink for sexuality.
    Turquoise for art/magic.

Pink and turquoise were removed for production purposes, and the six-band variant, now simply known as the “Gay pride” flag, has been the most well-recognized symbol of the LGBT movement since 1979. It has been built on for them at various times, including with the addition of black-and-brown for people of color in 2017 for the Philadelphia Pride Flag, and white-pink-blue for transgender and queer people in 2018 for the Pride Progress flag.

The original LGBTQ+ flag, a segment of the original Gilbert Baker rainbow flag, was recently rediscovered and donated to San Fransisco’s GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archives.

Did you know that there is an entire 18 hole golf course in between the two runways at Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport. This is the same plane that Vistajet used for Taylor Swift from Tokyo to LA.


Julian Assange
Playback of flight VJT199 from London to Bangkok. From here Assange will leave for the island of Saipan and will appear before a U.S. Federal Court in Saipan on Wednesday, where he will enter a guilty plea on one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents. Damn, half million bucks and I would expect a ride on Air Force One. If all is as it appears, and Assange is indeed being freed after 12 years of confinement without conviction, that is a deserved victory for Assange and his family. The question is, is it a victory in principle for free speech? After all, he has not been declared innocent. The plea deal still admits to wrong-doing. Whatever happens it will be interesting to see the story develop, and to see what role if any – Julian Assange will look to take in the alt-media landscape moving forward.


The Iberian lynx is back from the brink of extinction...



The Iberian lynx is back from the brink of extinction

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

The Iberian lynx is back from the brink of extinction...



The Iberian lynx is back from the brink of extinction

Give it a couple years. If man is allowed to interfere with it, they will be back on the list in short order.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

On the Boardwalk

On June 26, 1870, the first section of the Atlantic City Boardwalk opened along the New Jersey beach. Dr. Jonathan Pitney and civil engineer Richard Osborne began developing the area on Absecon Island in the early 1850s. Long before this time, members of the Lenni-Lenape tribe were the first seasonal visitors to enjoy the summer splendor of the island.

Beautiful beaches, fresh sea air, luxurious hotels, fine restaurants, alluring shops, and a connecting railroad line from Camden, New Jersey, drew visitors from all over the world. Atlantic City soon became a popular summer resort and winter health spa.

Alexander Boardman, a railroad conductor, and Jacob Keim, a hotelier, conceived of the idea of constructing a boardwalk as a means of keeping sand out of the railroad cars and hotels. The city used its tax revenues to build an eight-foot-wide temporary wooden walkway from the beach into town that could be dismantled during the winter.



The rolling chair, introduced in 1884, was the only vehicle allowed on the boardwalk. The boardwalk was soon extended by an enormous amusement pier, Young’s Pier, visible in the background of the photograph above.

Any consideration of the boardwalk demands at least a nod to salt water taffy, a favorite beachside treat. Taffy, a candy made of corn syrup and white sugar is boiled; the confection is pulled and folded, then rolled into a long strip from which shorter (about two-inch-long) strips are cut, wrapped in stick resistant paper, and sold. Along the Atlantic City Boardwalk folks have purchased the product since at least the early 1880s. In 1925, the Supreme Court ruled that the term “salt water taffy” could not be trademarked, a decision which saved candy manufacturers from paying millions of dollars to John R. Edmiston of Wildwood, New Jersey, who claimed to be the originator of the candy and had applied for registration of the term with the U.S. Patent Office.



Early bathers wore bathing dresses of wool flannel with stockings, canvas shoes, and large straw hats. The more daring bloomer suits and stockings worn by these bathing beauties did not catch on until 1907. Censors roamed the beaches monitoring bathers’ self-exposure and looking for offenders who showed more flesh than the local code allowed.

Originally titled “Atlantic City’s Inter-City Beauty Contest,” and traditionally held in Atlantic City since 1921, the Miss America pageant moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2006. The above photograph captures the 1926 contestants vying for the Golden Mermaid trophy.

Atlantic City’s Inter-City Beauty Contest super-size view if you download the TIF image. Tall, short, average height, short & long hair, many look like teens. Out of 63 girls, this cutie on the right I've chosen as the spicy sassafras high society butterfly type...




1946 Charioteers - On The Boardwalk (In Atlantic City)




June 26, 1942: the Grumman F6F Hellcat flew for the first time. The F6F would become the most successful Navy fighter of WWII, with Hellcat pilots claiming 5,163 victories and a 19:1 kill-to-loss ratio. The "Timex" idea of fighter design; built to "take a lickin’ and keep on tickin’" not the most maneuverable or the fastest, but could absorb the most damage without going down. The ability to absorb that first shot and allow your wingman to take out your adversary proved invaluable. Not done purposefully, but statistically seemed to work out that way.




June 26, 1944: USS Mercury was attacked by a Japanese torpedo bomber that clipped the ship's cargo boom and cartwheeled into the sea. It was the first and only "Boom" in the Navy to be credited with downing an enemy plane. A victory mark was painted on it by the ship's winchmen.
Boom, splash one! USS Mercury (AK-42) newspaper article:




June 26, 1948: cover of The New Yorker.

Inside: Shirley Jackson's dystopian short story "The Lottery"



Too bad we can't make this an annual tradition for politicians.


June 26, 1963: President, John F. Kennedy, gave his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Berlin. He meant "I am a citizen of Berlin" not as is often wrongly claimed: "I am a doughnut". The speech aimed to show solidarity to the people of West Berlin in the divided city. Speech card for JFK, with phonetic spelling of "Ich bin ein Berliner."


"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner."

Remarks of President John F. Kennedy at the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin, June 26, 1963
One Day in Berlin, 26 June 1963 - JFK video


LOL, Berlin...


The Capital's Economic Power


June 26, 1987: Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET was released. The film is based on the semi-autobiographical novel THE SHORT-TIMERS by Gustav Hasford. Hasford served in Vietnam as a combat correspondent with the 1st Marine Division during the Tet Offensive.


And filmed entirely in the UK.


RIP to actor Spencer Milligan. He's best known as dad Rick Marshall on the first 2 seasons of the iconic 70's Saturday morning show, "Land of the Lost".  For the past 20 years, he taught acting in Sturgeon Bay, WI. He died April 18, 2024, age 86 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

On the Boardwalk

On June 26, 1870, the first section of the Atlantic City Boardwalk opened along the New Jersey beach. Dr. Jonathan Pitney and civil engineer Richard Osborne began developing the area on Absecon Island in the early 1850s. Long before this time, members of the Lenni-Lenape tribe were the first seasonal visitors to enjoy the summer splendor of the island.

Beautiful beaches, fresh sea air, luxurious hotels, fine restaurants, alluring shops, and a connecting railroad line from Camden, New Jersey, drew visitors from all over the world. Atlantic City soon became a popular summer resort and winter health spa.

Alexander Boardman, a railroad conductor, and Jacob Keim, a hotelier, conceived of the idea of constructing a boardwalk as a means of keeping sand out of the railroad cars and hotels. The city used its tax revenues to build an eight-foot-wide temporary wooden walkway from the beach into town that could be dismantled during the winter.



The rolling chair, introduced in 1884, was the only vehicle allowed on the boardwalk. The boardwalk was soon extended by an enormous amusement pier, Young’s Pier, visible in the background of the photograph above.

Any consideration of the boardwalk demands at least a nod to salt water taffy, a favorite beachside treat. Taffy, a candy made of corn syrup and white sugar is boiled; the confection is pulled and folded, then rolled into a long strip from which shorter (about two-inch-long) strips are cut, wrapped in stick resistant paper, and sold. Along the Atlantic City Boardwalk folks have purchased the product since at least the early 1880s. In 1925, the Supreme Court ruled that the term “salt water taffy” could not be trademarked, a decision which saved candy manufacturers from paying millions of dollars to John R. Edmiston of Wildwood, New Jersey, who claimed to be the originator of the candy and had applied for registration of the term with the U.S. Patent Office.



Early bathers wore bathing dresses of wool flannel with stockings, canvas shoes, and large straw hats. The more daring bloomer suits and stockings worn by these bathing beauties did not catch on until 1907. Censors roamed the beaches monitoring bathers’ self-exposure and looking for offenders who showed more flesh than the local code allowed.

Originally titled “Atlantic City’s Inter-City Beauty Contest,” and traditionally held in Atlantic City since 1921, the Miss America pageant moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2006. The above photograph captures the 1926 contestants vying for the Golden Mermaid trophy.

Atlantic City’s Inter-City Beauty Contest super-size view if you download the TIF image. Tall, short, average height, short & long hair, many look like teens. Out of 63 girls, this cutie on the right I've chosen as the spicy sassafras high society butterfly type...




1946 Charioteers - On The Boardwalk (In Atlantic City)




June 26, 1942: the Grumman F6F Hellcat flew for the first time. The F6F would become the most successful Navy fighter of WWII, with Hellcat pilots claiming 5,163 victories and a 19:1 kill-to-loss ratio. The "Timex" idea of fighter design; built to "take a lickin’ and keep on tickin’" not the most maneuverable or the fastest, but could absorb the most damage without going down. The ability to absorb that first shot and allow your wingman to take out your adversary proved invaluable. Not done purposefully, but statistically seemed to work out that way.




June 26, 1944: USS Mercury was attacked by a Japanese torpedo bomber that clipped the ship's cargo boom and cartwheeled into the sea. It was the first and only "Boom" in the Navy to be credited with downing an enemy plane. A victory mark was painted on it by the ship's winchmen.
Boom, splash one! USS Mercury (AK-42) newspaper article:




June 26, 1948: cover of The New Yorker.

Inside: Shirley Jackson's dystopian short story "The Lottery"



Too bad we can't make this an annual tradition for politicians.


June 26, 1963: President, John F. Kennedy, gave his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Berlin. He meant "I am a citizen of Berlin" not as is often wrongly claimed: "I am a doughnut". The speech aimed to show solidarity to the people of West Berlin in the divided city. Speech card for JFK, with phonetic spelling of "Ich bin ein Berliner."


"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner."

Remarks of President John F. Kennedy at the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin, June 26, 1963
One Day in Berlin, 26 June 1963 - JFK video


LOL, Berlin...


The Capital's Economic Power


June 26, 1987: Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET was released. The film is based on the semi-autobiographical novel THE SHORT-TIMERS by Gustav Hasford. Hasford served in Vietnam as a combat correspondent with the 1st Marine Division during the Tet Offensive.


And filmed entirely in the UK.


RIP to actor Spencer Milligan. He's best known as dad Rick Marshall on the first 2 seasons of the iconic 70's Saturday morning show, "Land of the Lost".  For the past 20 years, he taught acting in Sturgeon Bay, WI. He died April 18, 2024, age 86 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.

Interesting. I just watched a few episodes of Land of the Lost, just yesterday at my brother's.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Chuck Connors' movie SOYLENT GREEN was still in theatrical release when he met Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev at the "Western White House" in San Clemente, Calif, 51 years ago this week. Chuck was a big dude!




Do you recognize this place?


Who or what stood right here, 47 years ago?


He's livin "La vida loca"...


NY Post sister Page Six

Bear in mind, the Senators are the top offenders!




Snowball Vs Slushy...


Snowball Earth hypothesis Vs Slushball Earth hypothesis


June 26, 2013: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.


June 26, 2015: In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled, by 5 votes to 4, that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to marriage, under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.



A 433rd Airlift Wing C-5M Super Galaxy delivers hope! At Panama Pacifico International Airport, crews offloaded 166,000 pounds of food to Panama under the Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program. An Oklahoma pastor helped collect donations across the country. I guess a gesture of U.S. commitment to global aid.

Team Tinker participates in humanitarian relief mission to Panama

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- Airmen at the 72nd Logistics Readiness Squadron played a major role in delivering humanitarian relief to Panama utilizing the Air Force’s largest airframe.

Following the arrival of a C-5M Super Galaxy at Tinker Air Force Base May 31, 2024, 72nd LRS assisted airmen from the 433rd Airlift Wing in loading 166,000lbs. of food to be delivered to Panama Pacifico International Airport, just outside Panama City, as part of a humanitarian relief mission.

The mission falls under the Department of Defense’s Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program, which moves humanitarian cargo, donated by U.S. based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), to developing nations to ease human suffering. Approved cargo is transported by DOD land, air or sea assets on a space-available basis.

The Denton Program allows private U.S. citizens and organizations to use space available on U.S. military cargo planes to transport humanitarian goods to countries in need, including:

    Agricultural equipment
    Clothing
    Educational supplies
    Food
    Medical supplies
    Vehicles

The program is jointly administered by USAID, the Department of State (DOS), the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) and the Department of Defense (DoD); although DSCA is the primary agency responsible for administering the program.

Note that the last C-5 came off the assembly line 35 years ago. The C-5M Super Galaxy are just upgrades of older units. We have about 50 C-5's in service. We not only have no heavy lift in production, but none in design that could add to the C-5 & Boeing C-17 Globemaster III fleet. Boeing cancelled the C-17 production in 2013 with the last one rolling off the assembly line in 2015, leaving the US with no strategic airlift in production. Apparently, Panama has been selling everything to China...Ports, Islands. Selling it off. And China laughs all the way to the bank every time the US Military sends aid to Panama.



Airbus aircraft of Pacific Skies


Down in the land of coup d'état's...


Military flees Bolivia government palace after coup attempt fails, general taken into custody


Zero-sum sounds like the daddocky Democrat party...Mid-Week Cuasnóg banner words...



Rogue-related alien abductions might just be a case of sloomy days.

Anyways tis the age, err, I mean that month...




Summer of love palace, welcome...

[Freija]

Am I getting "close"?

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Freija - ^^^ for the win!

**********

The Biden-Trump debate hall is next to a frat house, where they were partying under a sign that reads...




Do not fret grasshopper

For you have learned

The Art of the Deal...




June 27, 1912: Playwright Richard Collier arrived in 1912, after using self-hypnosis to travel from the year 1972. Good time travel concept in a romance film.




June 27, 1964: Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. The union lasted 38 days. Ethel Merman's 1978 autobiography devoted one blank page to her brief marriage to Ernest Borgnine. LOL!




June 27, 1982: Space Shuttle Columbia launched up, up, and away to float among the stars on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.


On Day 2, the wake-up call for STS-4 was "Up, Up, and Away" by The 5th Dimension. Wake-up calls usually had a special meaning to the astronauts onboard or were related to their day's activities.


LOL, MTV had a news site?


MTV News website scrubbed from the internet

My imagination tells me MTV went down the toilet like 30 years ago.


Patterns...

ComedyCentral.com, had been home to clips from every episode of "The Daily Show" since 1999, and the entire run of "The Colbert Report," but as of today, the site is gone. Poof! Nothing more to see here.


25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone as Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site

Why are they doing this and why now? During election year. An alternative reason is they removed the archives so their intellectual property isn't being used to train AI models. Once they get legislation around AI it will likely return. And also for their own competing AI coming out soon. Everything will be fake, digital renditions of Hollywood garbage.


"For while we can look with a suitably detached repugnance at the excesses of the witch mania of the Renaissance, we still possess authoritarian structures in our society served by dedicated and sincere men. We are not ourselves transparently immune to the psychological predisposition to judicial carnage."

— Marianne Rodker, in the introduction to a 1968 translation of the Malleus Maleficarum found in a British thrift store.

Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as The Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft.

It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer, and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. It has been described as the compendium of literature in demonology of the 15th century.

The top theologians of the Inquisition at the Faculty of Cologne condemned the book as recommending unethical and illegal procedures, as well as being inconsistent with Catholic doctrines of demonology. The Malleus elevates sorcery to the criminal status of heresy, and recommends that secular courts prosecute it as such.

The Malleus suggests torture to effectively obtain confessions, and the death penalty as the only certain remedy against the evils of witchcraft. At the time of its publication, heretics were frequently sentenced to be burned alive at the stake, and the Malleus encouraged the same treatment of witches.

If anyone is interested here's a Malleus Maleficarum Audiobook (22 hours, in English)


Anyone not see this coming...


69 Democrats call for opening pathways to Palestinian refugees

Memorandum on the Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Palestinians

And here's the list of those 69 democrats who signed the letter

There are 22 Arab nations. They haven’t taken in a single Gazan.
What could 22 Arab nations possibly know that Congresswoman Parmesan Jayapal does not?

Jordan was the only country to take a significant number of them in back in the 1960's. Then they had the black September civil war when the PLO tried to take over the country. Since then Jordan has made it clear that they are verboten!


Guess who...




THE SEEKER

I SOUGHT for my happiness over the world,
Oh, eager and far was my quest;
I sought it on mountain and desert and sea,
I asked it of east and of west.
I sought it in beautiful cities of men,
On shores that were sunny and blue,
And laughter and lyric and pleasure were mine
In palaces wondrous to view;
Oh, the world gave me much to my plea and my prayer
But never I found aught of happiness there!

Then I took my way back to a valley of old
And a little brown house by a rill,
Where the winds piped all day in the sentinel firs
That guarded the crest of the hill;
I went by the path that my childhood had known
Through the bracken and up by the glen,
And I paused at the gate of the garden to drink
The scent of sweet-briar again;
The homelight shone out through the dusk as of yore
And happiness waited for me at the door!

- by Lucy Maud Montgomery


Zager and Evans - In The Year 2525 (1969) (seems more relevant today)

[Freija]

Guess who?

Well, one I knew immediately as most of us old farts probably do but the kid's identity was uncertain. I was surprised to learn who it was when I looked it up.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Tonight was a clear victory ... for memes.




Crewmembers from USS Batfish (SS-310) receive combat awards on deck at the end of a successful war patrol, May 1945, at Pearl Harbor. The submarine at right is not identified. The sub is known primarily for the remarkable feat of sinking three Imperial Japanese Navy submarines in a 76-hour period, in the South China Sea, February 1945. There were no survivors.

The United States Navy and 28 partner nations will begin the 29th biennial Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 exercise on Thursday around the Hawaiian Islands with 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel taking part in the drills that will end on Aug.1 according to a navy release.

Partner nations for RIMPAC 2024 are Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Republic of Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga and the United Kingdom.

Full list: Carrier USS Carl Vinson, International Warships Arrive in Hawaii for RIMPAC 2024

Sights from Ewa Beach...




USS Wasp Transits Through the Strait of Gibraltar


Sending a message... it is rare for a boomer to surface while on operations.


USS Normandy (CG-60) and ballistic missile submarine, USS Tennessee (SSBN-734) overflown by Boeing P-8A Poseidon and Boeing E-6B Mercury (Doomsday plane) for PHOTEX in the Norwegian Sea on June 23, 2024. ICBM sub + Doomsday plane, not exactly subtle.


US policymakers that offshored defense industrial base to China to bolster corporate profits and crush organized labor are upset about inability to go to war without Chinese components, insufficient skilled labor to reshore defense industrial base, and Chinese influence in Corporate America. WAAHHH!





Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells


Aside from tonight's circus...



I've got good news...

[Bally002]

Did enjoy going over the RIMPAC attendees this year.  Surprised to see the Fitzgerald there,

I do hope one year Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) could host such a flotilla.  I'd be there going over most vessels like I did in the 70's RIMPAC's at Pearl.

Cheers,  

Bally.

@"EndtheMadnessNow"#18 dtheMadnessNow

[727Sky]

Those darn submarines always look so wet without a dry place to stand !!

[Bally002]

Those darn submarines always look so wet without a dry place to stand !!

In Australia we always found time for a BBQ at sea on the subs.  Any excuse would do.  Shorts and T shirts was the dress of the day.  Deck was quite dry.

   

Bally)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

June 28, 1961: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE opened (with William Castle's HOMICIDAL) in Los Angeles.


Debra Paget born Debralee Griffin on August 19, 1933 in Denver Colorado.
Her sultry, seductive gaze got her a starring role in Princess of The Nile and had a supporting role in the Oscar winning The Ten Commandments. In 1956 she worked with Elvis Presley in the musical Love Me Tender. Elvis called Debra "the most beautiful girl in the world" but her mother would not allow them to date. (mom knows best!) Debra's first marriage, to singer David Street, was annulled after four months. She married director Budd Boetticher in 1960 but they divorced a year later. By this time her career had stalled and she decided to leave Hollywood. Her last role was in the 1963 horror film The Haunted Palace. Debra married Chinese-American oil executive Ling-chieh (Louis) K'ung aka Louis C. Kung, in 1964 and had a son named Gregory. Kung is a nephew of Madame Chiang Kai-shek who married Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ('Kai-shek Chiang') in 1927. Madame Chiang died in 2003 at the age of 105!!

The couple divorced in 1980. Debra became a born again Christian and came out of retirement to host a religious show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. As of 2004 she lives a quiet life in Texas. Huh. AFAIK, she's still alive.

The other starlet, Elaine Stewart born Elsy Henrietta Maria Steinberg (1930-2011):



Movie mogul Hal B. Wallis offered the wannabe starlet the small, unbilled role of a nurse in the Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis slapstick comedy Sailor Beware (1952). MGM subsequently signed the glamour girl to a contract with the intention of building her up as a dark-haired Marilyn Monroe type. The build-up was gradual with window-dressing bits as a chorine, stewardess and the like in such MGM films as Singin' in the Rain (1952), You for Me (1952) and Everything I Have Is Yours (1952). She then moved up the movie ladder to more visible parts in Sky Full of Moon (1952) and, most pointedly, as Lila, the sexy lush and opportunist who has a marvelous "descending staircase" bit in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). During this time, she became a popular pin-up and made the cover of Life Magazine.


June 28, 1969: The Stonewall Uprising began at the Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, NYC. They were a series of demonstrations by the gay community, triggered by a police raid on gay bars. The rebellions are now seen as a pivotal moment in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the USA.

The crime syndicate saw profit in catering to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genovese crime family controlled most Greenwich Village gay bars. In 1966, they purchased Stonewall Inn (a “straight” bar and restaurant), cheaply renovated it, and reopened it the next year as a gay bar.

Stonewall Inn was registered as a type of private “bottle bar,” which did not require a liquor license because patrons were supposed to bring their own liquor. Club attendees had to sign their names in a book upon entry to maintain the club’s false exclusivity. The Genovese family bribed New York’s Sixth Police Precinct to ignore the activities occurring within the club.

1969: The Stonewall Uprising

While the events of Stonewall are often referred to as "riots," Stonewall veterans have explicitly stated that they prefer the term Stonewall uprising or rebellion. The reference to these events as riots was initially used by police to justify their use of force.

"The rebellion (it was never a 'riot') lasted five inconsecutive nights (they were not 'riots')..." -STONEWALL Veterans' Association

It is important to note that there were a number of uprisings against police & state brutality, harassment and entrapment of the LGBT+ communities in the U.S. in the years before Stonewall. These events and the people involved have not received as much historical attention as Stonewall, but are just as central to understandings of U.S. LGBTQIA+ histories.

June 28, 1972: LCDR Emory Brown made the first carrier landing of an F-14 Tomcat #13 (158613) aboard USS Forrestal (CVA-59). The last F-14 carrier landing would take place 34 years later when LT Chris Rattigan landed aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) on July 28, 2006.


Tomcat #10 (157989) was delivered to the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland for structural trials and carrier compatibility work. On June 30, 1972, it crashed into the water while preparing for an airshow at Patuxent, killing test pilot Bob Millar, who had survived the crash of the first F-14.

The Tomcat was retired by U.S. Navy on 22 September 2006, supplanted by the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

The remaining intact F-14 aircraft in the U.S. were flown to and stored at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group "Boneyard", at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona; in 2007 the U.S. Navy announced plans to shred the remaining F-14s to prevent any components from being acquired by Iran. In August 2009, the 309th AMARG stated that the last aircraft were taken to HVF West, Tucson, Arizona for shredding. At that time only 11 F-14s remained in desert storage.

LTJG Royal Polk Gordon IV and LT Joesph Pommerer decided to compose and sing this "song" to their KC-135 crew while taking fuel on their Tomcat for the last time Feb. 7 2006. LOL, worth a listen...



His dad was "Flash" Gordon who also flew the F-14 in the 80's.


June 28, 1979: the Australian television drama series PATROL BOAT premiered. The series focused on the activities of the crew of a Royal Australian Navy Attack-class patrol boat. For the second season, the crew was transferred to a newer Fremantle-class patrol boat.



PATROL BOAT Theme clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTkCCn4g5cM


June 28, 2005: 19 U.S. special operators were killed during Operation Red Wings. Lt. Michael Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallant actions during an engagement with the Taliban. SEAL OF HONOR from US Naval Institute Books tells his story.


The only surviving member of the initial SEAL team was Marcus Luttrell.


The austere media has decided that Biden is OUT, and therefore Biden is outta the race. Between now and early August this decision could flip many times. For now it's like watching a Weekend at Bernies.

[Planned] panic in DC clear across the country right now.

Everyone watching the debate last night...


As the old adage goes, Careful what you wish for AND on the flip-side could end up like 2020. Why so many acting surprised? This was by design, not a coincidence. A weak and incompetent government is exactly what big greedy corporations and rich Americans want.

Now they're making up conspiracy theories about conspiracy theories. We have reached conspiracy theory inception. WIRED flood of cope...


Conspiracy Theorists Aren’t Even Bothering With Biden’s Debate Performance (WIRED)


Tom Friedman, who Biden reads and respects: “I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in presidential politics in my lifetime — precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no business running for re-election”. Wow, a double lie conjugated with a truth in a single sentence. But, he does make a few good points, imo.


Full piece archived: Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race (It's short 'n sweet, err bitter sad)



Congo keen on joining BRICS

"In the Congo you made a promise to me..."