Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

In British folklore, brambles (blackberry vines) are associated with protection and boundary-setting. It was believed that passing under a bramble arch could ward off evil spirits and bring good fortune.




"You don't have to think—you think after the line. Not before it or during. The line is the thought. This is the point of iambic pentameter."
— Peter O'Toole excerpt from the program "Monitor" (recorded in October 1963 at the BBC) with Orson Welles on Hamlet. Starting at 21:50




Happy Birthday to U.S. Air Force on their 77th Anniversary. Their full white-phase Gyrfalcon “Nova” born in 2020 is one of the coolest working animals of all the military branches.




September's Harvest Moon rises above St Michael's Mount, seen from Penzance, Cornwall, England.





Earth will temporarily have a mini-moon for two months. On Sept. 29th an asteroid known as a "mini-moon" is expected to make a single orbit around Earth and leave on Nov. 25th.

A new study suggests that a passing rogue star may have kicked the solar system’s weirdest moons into place. More mainstream science relying on simulations/computer models.


Twitter / X is a weapon system...


Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine

Remember, advanced weapons systems cost $$$ to decommission and that's not $$$ wasted, that’s money well spent. Vintage twitter was one of the most powerful weapons democracy ever used for coercive nonviolent political action overseas, but as these things happened, the weapon then got used at home.


Hezbollah has identified the mastermind behind the pager attacks:




Imagine a nameling who also happens to be your doppelgänger.
Back in the day my wife had a great propensity for emacity.

Mid week words with no beeps...







Remember to remove pagers, phones, any electronic devices from your nightstand or beneath your pillow before bedtime. May wanna inspect your alarm clock just to be sure. Israeli intelligence will be monitoring. Sweet dreams.

[sailorsam]

hope you don't mind if I make one
   

[EndtheMadnessNow]

sailorsam - No problemo! Your posts are always welcomed here.


September 19, 1819: English poet John Keats, inspired by the beauty of the changing season, wrote "To Autumn", a three-stanza ode to the splendor, bounty, and melancholy of fall.

Born in London, England, on Halloween 1795, he trained to become a surgeon before devoting himself to poetry in 1817. John Keats died of tuberculosis on February 23, 1821. Just twenty-five years old, his death cut short the life of a great poet.

To Autumn
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
  Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
  With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
  And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
    To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
  With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
    For summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
  Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
  Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
  Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
    Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
  Steady thy laden head across a brook;
  Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
    Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
  Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
  And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
  Among the river sallows, borne aloft
    Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
  Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
  The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
    And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.




Sept. 18, 1924: J.D. Tippit, (some sources claim he was christened Jefferson Davis) the Dallas police officer who became the second man shot to death in that city on Nov. 22, 1963, is born in Annona, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for Tippit’s murder before being charged in President Kennedy’s assassination. One could do an endless thread on Tippit murder.




September 19, 1928: Adam West was born in Walla Walla, Washington State. He’s best known for his dual role as Bruce Wayne and Batman in the US-ABC series from 1966 to 1968 and the 1966 feature film version. He played the role of Batman in a self-deprecating tongue in cheek manner.


Walla Walla the garden city is home to wine and Jurassic park size Walla Walla sweet onions.


September 19, 1940: Using the alias of Tomasz Serafinski, Witold Pilecki, a member of the Secret Polish Army, deliberately allowed himself to be arrested by German police in Warsaw in order to be sent to the German run Auschwitz Concentration Camp to collect & smuggle out information and start a resistance movement there. Serious badass with iron cast balls.


He escapes in 1943. Five years later, he'll be executed by the communists for uncovering details of Soviet atrocities in Poland during the war.



Swedish power metal band SABATON dedicated a song about him - Inmate 4859

Pilecki would stay in the underground army and fight in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, he was later interned in prisoner of war camps, and after liberation in 1945 was assigned to the II Corps of the Polish Army in Italy, where he turned in his report about Auschwitz to the British.

For Pilecki, Auschwitz was the symbol of the Polish struggle for existence. He himself could never go back to a normal civilian life after his experience. He maintained contact with the underground resistance – now against the Soviet Union – after the war, and indeed returned to Poland in late 1945 to report on the Soviet occupation.

He lived and worked undercover, but on May 8, 1947 the Ministry of Public Security captured him. He was tortured and dragged before a kangaroo court and accused of many things, including espionage and planning an armed uprising. The sentence was death. On May 25, 1948, in the Mokotow Prison in Warsaw, Witold Pilecki was executed. His final resting place is unknown. In 1990, Pilecki – and others from that show trial – were rehabilitated and today, he is celebrated, and for good reason, as a Polish patriot and hero.

The Story of Extraordinary Polish soldier, Inmate 4859

Captain Witold Pilecki - Witold’s Report from Auschwitz (300 page PDF book; horrors beyond belief)


Sept 19, 1947: The National Association of Broadcasters meeting in Atlantic City adopted a code which reduced broadcast advertising, banned dramatic presentation of "controversial issues" and set standards for treatment of certain topics including race, religion and marriage.


The National Association of Broadcasters Reports Q3 1947 (PDF; pages 759-763)



Happy 75th Birthday to the Brit who made "skinny an inny" Lesley Lawson aka Twiggy!


Dame Lesley Lawson DBE, widely known by the nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress, and singer. She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model during the swinging '60s in London.

Twiggy was initially known for her thin build and the androgynous appearance considered to result from her big eyes, long eyelashes, and short hair. Her gamine teenage frame had earned her the nickname 'Twigs' and she was henceforth known as Twiggy. She was named "The Face of 1966" by the Daily Express and voted British Woman of the Year. By 1967, she had modelled in France, Japan, and the US, and had appeared on the covers of Vogue and The Tatler. Her fame had spread worldwide.

Defining Beauty: New Rutgers Course to Explore an Ancient Ideal

Lesley "Twiggy" Lawson at 75 (German media "Stern")


As Pfizer demonstrated, Israel is the techno-Franken scientific lab of the globalists. Whatever weapons globalists want to deploy against dissidents are tested by Israel first. That is why globalism dissidents who support all violations of international law by Israel such as explosive tech, are literally shooting themselves in the foot, if not a bit higher up...

"THE GREAT RESET" aka "The New Normal"



Imagine what terrorists, aka governments and globalist governance will be able to do to you once you've been forced into the age of Bio-convergence. Assuming they get their way.

IoB = Internet of Bodies
IoE = Internet of Everything


Bio-Convergence


Tricorders or pagers. The Pagercide memes just keep exploding.




The first floor boutique at The 007, Burlington Arcade, London is open for business. Discover collaborations and shiny collectibles to purchase, including a range of world exclusive pieces. The 007 is now open at House 12-13 Burlington Arcade, Mayfair, London until 31 December 2024. Bring your gold Bond card.




USA #1 on this day in 1970: Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

[EndtheMadnessNow]

International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.  It has since been adopted by the Pastafarianism movement as an official holiday. The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism, a social movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion.



The accent that people associate with pirates is modeled after actor Robert Newton's portrayal of Long John Silver in TREASURE ISLAND (1950). Newton (a Royal Navy vet) grew up in Cornwall and used an exaggerated West Country accent for the role. A distinct feature of the West Country accent is the rhotic "r".

West Country Yap:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjTIFkWJctY

West Country Yap is a short film consisting of snippets of conversation and anecdotes from five elderly gentlemen of south west England. A particular point of interest is the regional dialect - Somerset and mid Devon - which is changing and diluting with younger generations. The strong dialect is a result of growing up in an age where mobility was limited, and travel out of the region or community was unnecessary. Now, with cars and transport taken for granted we are able to move around the country at will, and as a result, regional populations are slowly becoming homogenised and regional accents gradually being lost to a bygone era. Certain words, peculiar to the region, are heard less and less among younger inhabitants, and gradually the rich dialects of the West Country will disappear over the coming decades. It is my hope to record many speakers of the genuine dialects before this generation passes on, and before all that is left is a modern diluted version.

Note: The traveller, John Treagood, is not a native of the west country, but hails from Kent. He travels around the south west and has been included for his interesting take on life and the fact that he is a rare character.

Footnote: 
Sad to report that the two gentlemen in the first segment, Bill and Marcus, both passed away within two days of each other. Marcus died on Sunday March 4, 2018, and Bill apparently left us on the previous Friday. More of them from my archive when time permits.

R.I.P. Bill and Marcus.

Further footnote: I recently heard that another of my subjects, Peter Isaacs, passed away around May 9, 2018, at the age of 93.

March 21, 2019:
Sad to learn today that another gentleman from my West Country Yap film has passed away.

Paul Isaac, whose brother Peter died last May, died on Tuesday March 19, 2019, at the tender age of 93.

All have now left us, except for John Treagood, the gentlemen of the road - as far as I know. So glad I met these wonderful gents and captured their dialects on video. Truly, an era is passing.

February 9, 2020:
John Treagood passed away on the evening of Feb 9, 2020. All the subjects of this film have now left us.

Astronaut Ed White’s spacesuit cover during Gemini 4 training. Auctioned at Christies, $50,400.




An IBM 360 for astrophysics research

‘This was a really fast computer used by scientific institutions, including NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. In the 1960s, the IBM System/360 series, particularly the Model 91, set a new standard for computer architecture, influencing the design of modern computing systems. It’s because of machines like this we can send astronauts to the moon. It was also one of the first beasts to get connected to the ARPANET, the proto-internet. These things are rare – only six of these operator’s maintenance panels are known to exist – and the fact that this one comes to life through the use of emulation makes it really quite special. This particular machine comes from Princeton University, where it supported astrophysics research. More recently, it appeared in the movie Tomorrowland, starring George Clooney.’

AN IBM SYSTEM 360 MODEL 91 CONTROL CONSOLE

When things get serious in the immediate transition to war from peace, the one common thing since the invention of gunpowder is that those who are facing the enemy realize that they do not have enough guns, or large enough caliber guns.


The War Zone


We see you, we hear you...your claims are unfounded...


MK-ULTRA: Ottawa, McGill seek to dismiss Montreal brainwashing experiment lawsuit

Really sordid piece of Canadian history that never gets resolved.


Having the 2024 election may be decided by a scandal about posts a governor made on a site that looks like this? Turn up your winamp this is the millennials election baby. It really whips the llamas ass.



More if you're curious from CNN, no less. Archived here. The whole swamp needs a good nuclear cleansing. Really amazing the filth some people dig up on the Interwebs.


No surprise that human actors will soon be fading away as many seen the writing on the wall 4 years ago. Lionsgate has signed a deal with AI firm Runway. Runway will train a new generative AI model on Lionsgate content to help creatives at the studios “augment their work” on future film and TV projects.


Lionsgate Inks Deal With AI Firm to Mine Its Massive Film and TV Library

Does Lionsgate not know that Runway is being sued in a class action for copyright infringement, and that the lawsuit has just moved onto discovery phase?


Case 3:23-cv-00201-WHO Document 223

Lionsgate has deep pockets & an army of lawyers.
Lionsgate founder: Frank Giustra (Clinton cohort & Uranium One scandal)




I'll be in the library if you need me. The Monks have kindly disabled my phone & beeper.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 20, 1944: Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, part of Allied Operation Market Garden, the last pockets of tenacious British troops holding the north end of this bridge in Arnhem were killed or captured.

Their last radio signal: "Out of ammunition. God Save the King."


Although the bridge survived the battle, it was bombed and destroyed by B-26 Marauders of the 344th Bomb Group on 7 October 1944. It was done to prevent the Germans from using it.

John Frost Bridge (John Frostbrug in Dutch) is the road bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem, in the Netherlands. The bridge was inaugurated after the end of World War II, and is named after Major-General John Dutton Frost (1912–1993), who commanded the British forces that reached and temporarily defended the pre-existing Rijnbrug ("Rhine Bridge") at the same location during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. This was the bridge referenced in the 1977 Anglo-American film A Bridge Too Far, although the IJssel bridge in Deventer was used for the actual shooting of the film.

Major General John Frost was an advisor on A Bridge Too Far. Advising Anthony Hopkins that he ran too fast under enemy fire:

Two soldiers killed during Operation Market Garden laid to rest after DNA identification

Two British soldiers who were killed 80 years ago during the Battle of Arnhem have finally been laid to rest with full military honours.

Private Henry Moon and Lieutenant Dermod Green Anderson died fighting in Operation Market Garden, the major airborne offensive aimed at securing strategically important crossings in the Netherlands.

They were buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, which is the final resting place of more than 1,700 Second World War service personnel.

Sept 20, 1954: John Backus & team at IBM run the first FORTRAN program, which was developed to aid use of the IBM 704 computer.

In Nov 1954, the team will release spec for prospective customers which states that FORTRAN stood for "FORmula TRANslating system".

Sept 20, 1983: RSA Algorithm Patent Is Awarded


Computer History Museum | EDN - Voice of the Engineer

Computer History 1954 - IBM 704 vacuum tube based computer (floating point, scientific, mainframe)




A reprint of the New York Times 1956 piece on "Snark infested waters of the Amazon"— a hilarious sidenote in the saga of the Northrop SM-62 Snark missile.

Because “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.”


Air Force Magazine Jan 1957: Vol 40 Issue 1



Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

The Northrop SM-62 Snark is an early-model intercontinental range ground-launched cruise missile that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead (yield: 3.8 megatons).

The Snark was the only surface-to-surface cruise missile with such a long range (6,300 miles) that was ever deployed by the U.S. Air Force. Following the deployment of ICBMs, the Snark was rendered obsolete, and it was removed from deployment in 1961.

Northrop was selected to study two concepts, the sub-sonic MX-775A Snark, and the super-sonic MX775B Boojum. The defense budget cuts of what was called the Black Christmas of 1946 drastically reduced the number of Army missile programs.


September 20, 1963: US President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint US-Soviet expedition to the Moon.


JFK Speech Sept 20, 1963



Sept 20, 1965: Barry McGuire performed "Eve of Destruction" on "Hullabaloo." Dig the apocalyptic set and mutated dancers.



Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdARD9Qi8w0


Sept 20, 1973: Billy Jean King defeated the former US Open champion Bobby Riggs, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, in what was billed as the Battle of the Sexes Tennis match in Houston, Texas. Riggs had confidently predicted that he would win easily beforehand.




October Surprise: BORN AGAIN (Oct, 1978). "A reason to go the movies AGAIN!" And, yes, there was a comic book adaptation of Chuck Colson's book published by Spire Christian Comics.


Born Again comic - Issue # Full (The story you are about to read really happened!)

Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012), generally referred to as Chuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. Once known as President Nixon's "hatchet man", Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal, for being named as one of the Watergate Seven and also for pleading guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg. In 1974, Colson served seven months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama, as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges.

Colson received 15 honorary doctorates and in 1993 was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, the world's largest annual award (over US$1 million) in the field of religion, given to a person who "has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension". He donated the prize to further the work of Prison Fellowship, as he did all his speaking fees and royalties. In 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George W. Bush.

Colson served in the United States Marine Corps from 1953 to 1955, reaching the rank of captain. From 1955 to 1956, he was the assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Material).

While in prison, Colson had become increasingly aware of what he saw as injustices done to prisoners and incarcerates and shortcomings in their rehabilitation; he also had the opportunity, during a three-day furlough to attend his father's funeral, to pore over his father's papers and discover the two shared an interest in prison reform. He became convinced that he was being called by God to develop a ministry to prisoners with an emphasis in promoting changes in the justice system.

After his release from prison, Colson founded Prison Fellowship in 1976, which today is "the nation's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families".

In 2000, Florida Governor Jeb Bush reinstated the rights [of course] which were taken away by Colson's felony conviction, including the right to vote.

On March 31, 2012, Colson underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain after he fell ill while speaking at a Christian worldview conference. CBN erroneously reported on April 18, 2012, that he died with his family at his side but Prison Fellowship later (12:30 am on April 19 and again at 7:02 am) pointed out that he was still alive as of that moment.

On April 21, 2012, Colson died in the hospital "from complications resulting from a brain hemorrhage". [Falls Church, VA]

Wiki

I guess God decided Chuck had done enough, time for judgement.



Chuck Colson and the Power of the Gospel - Emily Colson (CultureWatch)


HERBIE GOES TO PRISON. Dean Jones '77/'78.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 20, 1997: the syndicated series PENSACOLA: WINGS OF GOLD premiered. A mashup of TOP GUN and BAYWATCH, the series follows an elite naval task force based in Florida (never mind the frequent appearance of mountains). It ran for three seasons and aired in almost forty countries.




Sept 20, 2002: Tor was launched by MIT students for 'anonymous' communications.



The original technology behind Tor was developed by the US Navy and has received about 60% of its funding from the State Department and Department of Defense, although its other backers have included digital rights lobbyist the Electronic Frontier Foundation, journalism and community body Knight Foundation and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

When it launched in 2002, the Tor project's emphasis was on protecting internet users' privacy from corporations rather than governments.

Never mind "onion routing". I still see people online asking what is Tor; what is it used for? LOL. Ok, not everyone is a computer geek.

In the 1990s, the lack of security on the internet and its ability to be used for tracking and surveillance was becoming clear, and in 1995, David Goldschlag, Mike Reed, and Paul Syverson at the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) asked themselves if there was a way to create internet connections that don't reveal who is talking to whom, even to someone monitoring the network. Their answer was to create and deploy the first research designs and prototypes of onion routing.

The goal of onion routing was to have a way to use the internet with as much privacy as possible, and the idea was to route traffic through multiple servers and encrypt it each step of the way. This is still a simple explanation for how Tor works today.

Tor history

Sept 20, 2006: JERICHO premiered on CBS. This started out as a really good show with high expectations, especially for that time era with Bush crusade on terrorists, it got a lot of people really spooked, but like so many other shows the screenwriting went into the dumpster. The show is currently stream on Paramount Plus (they want your location), among other platforms.




September 20, 2011: The United States military ended its "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" policy, thereby allowing gay men and women to serve openly in the armed forces for the first time.




Clandestine Command Center and one of the four missile-subs of the Four Horsemen of Tomahawkalypse.




One more shot as the Navy waves goodbye - USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser being decommissioned this morning in Norfolk, Virginia - September 20, 2024. Her motto: Arrayed For Victory.
With all the Decomm'ing lately the Navy will even donate some barely used hulls to USSF.




How Republicans used to deal with neo-Nazi gubernatorial candidates...


NY Times

The more things change, the more politicians stay the same.

"Have you ever studied what happens when the government does something compared to what happens when they don't do anything?"


For 150 years the gov't of the United States did nothing when there was a depression. No depression during all those 150 years was ever as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s in which the gov't did more than it had ever done before in its entire history. The stock market crash occurred in October 1929, two months later unemployment peaked at 9% and then it started declining. And by June 1930 it was down to 6.3%. That was when the first gov't intervention took place and within 6 months it was in double digits. It stayed in double digits for the entire decade of the 1930s."
— Thomas Sowell


From the mainstreams darling to being cancelled for straying out of lane.
The strange case (sarc) of the media reaction to Greta Thunberg once she is old enough to have opinions of her own...




A pro photographer traveled to the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii to capture this: 



Saturn briefly covered by the moon.
The largest print shows the entire moon, with the planet just a distant light. Saturn's Ingress


Bread crumbs left in Austrian library led me to a German city library where previously unknown Mozart music was just discovered.



No, really...

Unknown Mozart string trio discovered in Germany

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 21, 1866: Celebrate the 158th birthday of author H.G. Wells with this 1927 edition of Amazing Stories containing his classic story, "The War of the Worlds".



Here's a PDF copy of the August 1927 Amazing Stories

His non-fiction book, The New World Order (1940), Wells asserted that a socialist and scientifically planned world government would need to be formed to defend human rights. He states without a revolution in international affairs and the establishment of human rights, then further destructive wars were inevitable. Wells published in The New World Order his first version of a human rights declaration, which was a precursor to his work on the Sankey Declaration of the Rights of Man (1940). In 1947, both declarations became used as advisory works by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).


William Dean Howells' vision of a “one-class” socialist utopia, outlined in his novel A Traveler from Altruria (1894), has all people guaranteed a share of the national product on the condition they work at least three hours a day.

Originally published in instalments in Cosmopolitan, this piece of utopian fiction by William Dean Howells delivers a vision of a "one-class" socialist utopia while at once offering a biting critique of unfettered capitalism. The story centres around a visit to America of Mr Homos, a citizen of a mysterious island called Altruria, which is home to a one-class socialist Christian society, with no monetary system and no concept of the rich and poor. In the course of Mr Homos' visit he is appalled by what he sees occurring in late-19th-century America, a society which he likens to his country's own before "Evolution". He is clearly confused by the class system, continuously embarrassing his hosts — carrying his own luggage, bowing to waitresses, and other such acts — and finds certain activities simply bizarre, for example exercise for its own sake:

To us, exercise for exercise would appear stupid. The barren expenditure of force that began and ended in itself, and produced nothing, we should — if you will excuse my saying so — look upon as childish, if not insane or immoral.

In Altruria, all people are guaranteed a share of the national product on the condition they work at least three hours a day. In 1894, the year in which Howells' story was published, the fiction attempted to become reality when a Unitarian minister Edward Biron Payne — inspired by the Christian socialist principles espoused by Howells' book — founded "Altruria", a community in Sonoma County, California, which he set up with thirty of his followers. A hotel was started, and orchards provided fruit sold to a shop in Berkeley owned by Job Harriman (who himself set up the commune of Llano del Rio in 1913). Unfortunately, "Altruria" ran into unsurmountable financial troubles and it was abandoned in 1896. Howells would go on though, eventually creating an Altrurian trilogy, with the publication of Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1904) and Through the Eye of the Needle (1907).

A Traveler from Altruria (1894)


Sept 21, 1950: the Royal Navy accidentally sank two yachts in Portland Harbour after a dummy torpedo fired from a test range ran amok. The runaway torpedo smashed through the two boats before coming to rest on the shore under the 16th-century Sandsfoot Castle, Weymouth, England.




Sept 21, 1971: The 1st episode of the BBC2 rock series, The Old Grey Whistle Test, was broadcast. The 1st host was Richard Williams, but its best known presenter was DJ Bob Harris ("Whispering Bob Harris"), from 1972 to 1980. It ran until 1988.

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Rutland Weekend Television. Monty Python star Eric Idle impersonating "Whispering" Bob Harris, the host of The Old Grey Whistle Test.



"How long have you been (working) on the album?"

"About 2 weeks on the music and 2 years on title." LMAO!


Sept 21, 1977: Operation Midnight Climax: CIA SOUGHT TO SPRAY LSD-25 ON PARTYGOERS...saved by the WEATHER. Surreal NY Times story for 1977.




Sept 21, 1987: President Ronald Reagan UN speech:
"...If we were to face an Alien threat from outside this world...is not an alien force already among us." Starting around 28:45.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL6PlM24JBQ


Sept 21, 1997: The USS Yorktown (CG-48) had been upgraded through the Navy's "Smart Ship Program" but the propulsion system failed when the computers crashed after trying to divide by 0 when a user entered a zero in the Remote Data Base Manager running Windows NT 4.0 which brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail, resulting in "dead in the water" for almost three hours.


Sunk by Windows NT  I hated that OS more than Win95. It made for a good home network file server, just don't touch the damn keyboard.





It's the 85th anniversary of Batman Day!



The Navy once stated that if Batman had a warship, it would be the stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt. However, when the top-secret experimental Sea Shadow was finally unveiled in 1993, some observers thought it was a prop for a Batman film (or Darth Vader's yacht).



It ended up being acquired by media mogul Elliot Carver where he and the Sea Shadow vanished mysteriously in the South China Sea, circa 1997. Ha.

The US Navy IX-529 Sea Shadow stealth ship was a great idea for the Navy but was scraped in 2012. Sea Shadow IX-529 was an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved and to test high stability hull configurations which have been used in oceanographic ships. Sea Shadow was built in 1984 to examine the application of stealth technology on naval vessels. She was used in secret until a public debut in 1993. In addition, the ship was designed to test the use of automation to enable the reduction of crew size. The ship was created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Navy and Lockheed. Sea Shadow was developed at Lockheed's Redwood City, California, facility, inside the Hughes Mining Barge, HMB-1, which functioned as a floating drydock during construction and testing.

Short news clip about Sea Shadow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IMXQQaf9pA


The Ministry of truth headline department really working overtime...


NY Times Trauma Headline Dept

The silent response is more like, 'look, in case you haven't noticed we're in a war zone and we been tossin DEAD bodies for 11 months, give us a freakin break.' "Deeply disturbing" my ass. Been on Youtube much?


Well, on the surface it looks like one small Win for humanity...


Plans to introduce hate speech laws dropped in Ireland


Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen born Sept 21, 1934 in Westmount, Canada.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 22, 1869: Richard Wagner’s classic opera: Das Rheingold, premiered in Munich. It’s a comparatively short opera, with continuous music and no interludes or breaks. Mr. Wagner was Hitler's favorite composer. Apparently, Putin admires Wagner too if his paramilitary mercenary outfit Wagner Group comes to mind.

Wagner - Das Rheingold - Entry of the Gods Into Valhalla




September 22, 1888: The 1st issue of National Geographic Magazine was published. It’s the official magazine of the National Geographic Society.


The National Geographic Magazine, 1888: Vol 1 Issue 1


George F. Kennan
Feb 22, 1946: The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.

The "X Article" is an article, formally titled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct", written by George F. Kennan and published under the pseudonym "X" in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. It widely introduced the term "containment" and advocated for its strategic use against the Soviet Union. It expanded on ideas expressed by Kennan in a confidential February 1946 telegram, formally identified by Kennan's State Department number, "511", but informally dubbed the "long telegram" for its size.


September 22, 1964: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) was broadcast for the 1st time on NBC-TV. It follows 2 secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for the spy agency, UNCLE. There were 4 seasons and 105 episodes until 15 January 1968.


Very early on, Ian Fleming assisted in the creation of the series. The show was originally to have been called "Solo", but in the year it was due to come out, "Goldfinger" (1964) was released with a villain called "Solo".

The meaning of the acronym T.H.R.U.S.H. was never spelled out in the series, though a meaning was created for one of the U.N.C.L.E. novels published at the time ("Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity").

The end credits for every episode included "We wish to thank the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement without whose assistance this program would not be possible."

This led many people at the time to believe that the statement referred to a legitimate agency. Thousands applied to the United Nations, the US government and agencies in various other countries to become agents. Ha. No doubt this gave a certain alphabet agency psychological ideas to pursue.


September 22, 1975: US President Gerald Ford survived a 2nd assassination attempt, this time by Sara Jane Moore in San Francisco. She fired a single shot at Ford with a .38 caliber revolver near the St. Francis Hotel, but missed. She was sentenced to life imprisonment. She was paroled from prison on December 31, 2007, after serving 32 years. Born February 15, 1930 in Charleston, West Virginia. Squeaky Fromme was sent to prison in West Virginia, later escaped, captured and sent to prison in Texas with an added 15 years. West Virginia, home to lone nut cases, spooks to paranormal to former Strangelove elite class with an unused Nazi bunker; currently up for auction. I'm sure there is some good people in WV, but damn the strangest folks in those parts.



First assassination attempt on president Ford was only 17 days earlier by Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme on Sept 5th. After serving 33 years she was released on parole from the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, Texas on August 14, 2009, and she moved to a small rural town of Marcy, New York where she and her boyfriend Robert Valdner who is also a Manson-obsessed ex-con who killed his brother-in-law and is now working at a nearby correctional facility. Ha, can't make that sh!t up! They live in a house which is decorated with skulls. Talk about a spooky house for Halloween. Wonder if she's ever had trick or treaters stop by. Marcy, NY is home to a mega huge psychiatric prison for the notorious criminally insane.


THE NUDE BOMB (1980)


Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villain who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing. LOL!

Sept 22, 1987: a Navy F-14 shot down a USAF RF-4C during a war game. The RF-4C Phantom, with the callsign "Vodka 51" was conducting a simulated attack on USS Saratoga. The Tomcat crew asked for confirmation of their weapons status from strike control. The response, “red and free,” was given. The F-14 pilot became confused and launched a live sidewinder. The RF-4C crew ejected and were recovered, alive. The F-14 pilot, Lt. Timothy Dorsey, a then 25-year-old pilot managed to keep his wings, but never flew for the Navy again.


Here's the bizarre story with photos & vids. Be sure to read to the end, it's short.

That’s right Ice Man. Weapons "red and free."




Bob Woodward & Steve Bannon both finished out their US Navy service working as hatchet men in the Chief of Naval Operations Program Planning Office (OP-090) at the Pentagon before they moved into their respective (ostensibly civilian) careers influencing the public.


Woodward served aboard the command ship USS Wright (CVL-49), and was one of two officers assigned to move or handle nuclear launch codes.

While in the Navy before he left for a job as a humble newspaperman, this is some of what the "powerful integrating directorate" with special walk-in privileges for the senior Admiral in the Navy was up to...


After Bob Woodward left, a 1980s sailor named Steve Bannon joined OP-090 serving under a CNO who’d once run that same office around the time Woodward was still there. During the early 1980’s, USNavy created the “Perception Management Office” details of which are apparently still highly classified.

Organizing OPNAV (1970 - 2009) (PDF)

Steve Bannon is currently a guest at the Federal Correctional Country Club in Danbury, Connecticut. A popular hang-out with Yale law students.


Opening Scene of THE ARCTIC CONVOY (2023) (July 26, 2024 with limited viewing in USA) - Now streaming the globe.



In 1942, the leader of a convoy carrying vital military supplies to a Norwegian outpost decides to proceed through treacherous, enemy-infested waters despite the recall of their military escort. Fighting for their lives against German air and naval forces, the 35 civilian merchant ships brave brutal Arctic seas to bring much needed support to Russian soldiers on the front lines.


TRIGA JSI Mark II research nuclear reactor in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The City of Dragons, childhood home of Melania Trump.

https://x.com/GovNuclear/status/1837666690567381232

The blue glow is caused by Cherenkov radiation which is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium. The phenomenon is named after Soviet physicist Pavel Cherenkov.


TRIGA is a swimming pool reactor that can be installed without a containment building. TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) is a class of nuclear research reactors designed and manufactured by General Atomics. The design team for TRIGA, which included Edward Teller, was led by the physicist Freeman Dyson.


During the early to mid-20th century, cats played an important role on naval ships as skilled rodent catchers. Sailors realized that having cats aboard helped control the population of rats and mice, which were notorious for damaging supplies and spreading diseases. These ship cats became valued members of the crew and were even given passports to acknowledge their contribution and ensure their safety during international travels.


The passports for ship cats were a unique and lighthearted tradition. While they didn't serve any legal or official purpose, they were created to recognize the cats' role and provide a form of identification. The passports typically consisted of a small booklet with pages that included the cat's name, description, and an area for their paw print.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Sept 23, 1952: veep candidate Richard M. Nixon's "Fund" speech (aka The Checkers Speech) was broadcast. According to accused serial plagiarist Monica Crowley, Nixon celebrated the anniversary of the speech every year.


Trivia: Knox Manning was the announcer that introduced then vice president candidate Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech on 9/23/1952. Manning served as president of AFRA (American Federation of Radio Artists), now known as AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) beginning in 1952.


Sept 23, 1984: Happy THREADS DAY! 40 years ago tonight on BBC2. You can watch the original 2 min introduction:




This Sheffield baby (Benedict Cope) saw THREADS 40 years ago at a special preview screening. He was accompanied by his parents Paul and Andrea...village rumor is poor Benedict is still traumatized.

The BBC radio documentary on THREADS is now streaming.



Interesting 60 Minutes segment on the US National Archives and reported by Norah Dora O'Donnell with Dr. Colleen Shogan, 11th Archivist of the United States, head of US National Archives. Aside from the first BS opening due to CBS's toxic obsession with Trump, it's not bad.


The National Archives: a small agency with a big responsibility safeguarding American and world history | 60 Minutes Youtube


Sandia kicked off the ’60s with a visit from President John F. Kennedy, who viewed the Vela satellite. During this time, Sandia began making significant impacts in microelectronics manufacturing, anti-terrorism programs and energy research. Vela was the name of a group of satellites developed as the Vela Hotel element of Project Vela by the United States to detect nuclear detonations and monitor Soviet Union compliance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty. Vela started out as a small budget research program in 1959.  Vela (satellite)


Sandia Labs - Looking Back


The Vela incident was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the South African territory of Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, roughly midway between Africa and Antarctica. Today, most independent researchers believe that the flash was caused by a nuclear explosion—an undeclared joint nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel.

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

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


Sept 23, 1975: newscaster Howard Beale had enough! Announced during a live broadcast, that he will take his own life on next week's live broadcast.




Back in Jan 1987, Robert Budd Dwyer a Pennsylvania politician wrote a letter to then-Senator Joe Biden and Congressman Peter W. Rodino, who were at the time the chairs of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Judiciary Committee respectively, on January 20, asking them to conduct an investigation into the corrupt Justice system & FBI.

Letter excerpt:


Budd Dwyer Final Statements at press conference

On Jan 22, 1987 at a press conference on live TV he put a bullet through his head with a .357 Magnum.




Farewell Princess... Texas-born starlet Kathryn Grant, who played Princess Parisa in 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad' (1958) has died at 90.


Olive Kathryn Crosby (née Grandstaff) November 25, 1933 – September 20, 2024. She typically performed under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff.

She had previously starred in The Phoenix City Story (1955), Mister Cory (1957), Operation Mad Ball (1957) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959). She largely retired from acting following her starring role as the Princess in the fantasy epic; she had married legendary singer Bing Crosby the previous year, and was actually pregnant with their first child during filming. However, she went on to make occasional television appearances, including many Christmas specials with her husband.

Bing Crosby & Kathryn Crosby - The Human Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=610ZAj-EyYU



Deflecting doom: How Sandia research could save Earth from asteroids


Ha, luv this guy...


Louis Elizondo tells PEOPLE that the US government has retrieved “non-human” technology and specimens from crashed spacecraft


Flying hybrid cow taking in the view.


Another udderly amoosing sight from the Weather Boys

[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 24, 1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. During his lifetime he published 4 novels, including The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, and Tender is The Night, four story collections, and 164 short stories. But he only received wide critical acclaim after his death.

[Fitzgerald's] "talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless."
—Ernest Hemingway on Fitzgerald's loss of talent in A Moveable Feast (1964)


Fitzgerald's stories and novels have been adapted into a variety of media formats. His earliest short stories were cinematically adapted as flapper comedies such as The Husband Hunter (1920), The Chorus Girl's Romance (1920), and The Off-Shore Pirate (1921). Other Fitzgerald short stories have been adapted into episodes of anthology television series, as well as the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Nearly every novel by Fitzgerald has been adapted for the screen. His second novel The Beautiful and Damned was filmed in 1922 and 2010. His third novel The Great Gatsby has been adapted numerous times for both film and television, most notably in 1926, 1949, 1958, 1974, 2000, and 2013. His fourth novel Tender Is the Night was made into a 1955 CBS television episode, an eponymous 1962 film, and a BBC television miniseries in 1985. The Last Tycoon has been adapted into a 1976 film, and a 2016 Amazon Prime TV miniseries.

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948) was an American novelist, painter, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920, she married writer F. Scott Fitzgerald after the popular success of his debut novel, This Side of Paradise.

Zelda became known in the national press as the first American flapper.

Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes in public, driving automobiles, treating sex in a casual manner, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.

Flappers were icons of the Roaring Twenties, a period of postwar social and political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange, as well as of the export of American jazz culture to Europe.


Zelda had suicidal and homicidal tendencies and was institutionalized at Johns Hopkins Hospital in her later life, considered a schizophreniac, though it was posthumously posited she had a bipolar disorder. She had endured over ten years of electroshock therapy and insulin shock treatments, and suffered from severe memory loss. In March 1948, while sedated and locked in a room on the fifth floor of Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, she died in a fire. Her body was identified by her dental records and one of her slippers. A follow-up investigation raised the possibility that the fire had been a work of arson by a disgruntled or mentally disturbed hospital employee. Damn, how sad!

On October 26, 1921, she gave birth to her only child, Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald. Frances became a writer & journalist, and worked for The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and other publications. She became a prominent member of the Democratic Party. She died from throat cancer at her Montgomery, Alabama home in June 18, 1986.

The Daughter of… The Frances “Scottie” Fitzgerald Lanaham Smith Papers


I thought I had it bad with miles of CAT5 cable.


Before computers, businesses uses punch card accounting machines for inventory, payroll, etc. It used electro-mechanical counters, relays, and lots of wiring. The IBM 405 accounting machine was introduced in 1934.

The IBM 405 was IBM's first "Alphabetic Accounting Machine," able to print text as well as numbers. It had more complexity than you might expect from the 1930s, able to generate three levels of subtotals, intermediate totals, and grand totals. It could process up to 150 cards per minute; that's remarkably fast for an electromechanical system, reading and summing more than 2 cards per second. The 405 was IBM's flagship product for many years, with IBM manufacturing 1500 of them per year. Like most IBM machines, the 405 was usually rented rather than purchased; it cost over $1000 a month (equivalent to about $15,000 per month in 2017 dollars). Renting out these machines (and selling the punch cards) was highly profitable for IBM, with the IBM 405 accounting machine called "the most lucrative of all IBM's mechanical glories".

Identifying the "Early IBM Computer" in a Twitter photo

“They said Mozart was mad
They said Puccini was mad
They said Louis was mad
Who's Louis? My uncle, he was mad!”
- Jimmy Durante.


He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola and the word became his nickname.


Jimmy Durante sings September Song (1963) in 1972




September 24, 1979: CompuServe launched the world's first consumer internet service, featuring the first public electronic mail. The first print newspaper to publish online was The Columbus Dispatch (founded in 1871) on July 1, 1980 via CompuServe.


45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web


"I made some mistakes."


FROM 1987: BIDEN WITHDRAWS BID FOR PRESIDENT IN WAKE OF FUROR


French nuclear policy/history is a fun, bizarre rabbit hole.


The meme itself is in reference to The Radiance of France by Gabrielle Hecht (1998; 2009). How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or “radiance,” which also means “radiation” in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. Free PDF book download.



On the ancient symbolic date of 9/11 in 1966, French President Charles de Gaulle observed the 120-kt Bételguese nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll. Due to de Gaulle’s reported impatience, the test proceeded despite warnings of adverse winds, showering Western Samoa, Fiji, and the Cook Islands with radioactive rain.


No worries, the American military industrial complex did far, far worse.


Sept 24, 1995: "Space: Above and Beyond" premiered. The show ran for 23 episodes. The series only lasted one season. Fox Mulder was only in one episode.




Forget all yer sorrows and have some nepenthe.



Nepenthes is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae.

The genus name Nepenthes was first published in 1737 in Carl Linnaeus's Hortus Cliffortianus. It references a passage in Homer's Odyssey (Book 4, lines 219-233), in which the potion "Nepenthes pharmakon" is given to Helen of Troy by Polydamna, the wife of the noble Egyptian Thon. It may of actually been opium. "Nepenthes" (Ancient Greek) literally means "without grief" (νη nē = "not", penthos = "grief") and, in Greek mythology, is a drug that quells all sorrows with forgetfulness.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

September 25, 1885: It snowed in London, which was the earliest recorded autumn snowfall in the capital since 1791, according to Dr. Wild. Going to assume BIAD is hoping this record is never broken. Might want to hold off on any 'snow' banners till say, after October. LOL.




It's National Cooking Day. In the 19th century, a bad cook in the U.S. Navy could be punished with 12 lashes. Today's sailors are fortunate (in my time; not so sure about today) that Culinary Specialists are much more skilled, and that the autodog usually works.


Autodog is the soft ice cream dispenser. When it breaks, we beat the cooks.


The Vought F4U-1 Corsair "Ole 122" of VMF-111 Devil Dogs was the only individual U.S. warplane to be cited officially for "performance above and beyond the call of duty" during WWII. Over a 6 month period in 1944, "Ole 122" flew 80,000 miles in 100 combat missions and spent 400 hours in the air with never once having to turn back because of mechanical trouble. The citation also stated: "Were there blood in her fuel lines instead of one hundred octane, she would be wearing the Purple Heart."



It returned to the U.S. and was put on a display at production plants around the country after the war, but then...disappeared. The fate of "Ole 122" is unknown. Much credit was given to SSgt Howard Miller who was a former coal miner from Pine Knob, West Virginia. He stood by "Ole 122" during the ceremony.

Marine pilot became God’s man after WW II

by Don Moore

Father Bill Magill of Venice, Fla. was a “Devil Dog.” He flew a Corsair, F-4U fighter, in the Pacific during World War II before he began working for the Lord.

The former Marine aviator and retired Episcopal priest was a member of Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-111. “Devil Dogs” is what they called themselves.  He saw action in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in the Central Pacific from December 1943 until March 1945.

“Our job was to bomb and strafe everything and keep the Japanese‘s heads down,” said Magill, 85. “The first thing we did was shoot up their planes on the ground and then we would pound the heck out of them with bombs.”

By the time his tour was finished he logged 89 combat missions. The side of his Corsair was covered with yellow bombs, one for each mission.

In February 1944, Magill’s squadron was flying against Japanese targets on the Island of Jaluit in the Gilbert chain. Jabor Town was an open city on the island. They weren’t supposed to attack it.

Their fighter planes were being shot at by enemy soldiers who held Jabor Town. One of the pilots in Magill’s squadron was shot down over the village.

“The skipper told me to fly over, take a look and see if I could spot our downed pilot,” he recalled. “As I flew over, I saw a Japanese soldier in the middle of a street holding a long bamboo pole with the pilot’s head on the end of it. I became the first one in our unit to fire on Jabor Town.”

....

“Does Memorial Day mean anything today to the average American?” the 91-year-old retired minister and fighter pilot was asked.

“I’m afraid it doesn’t. I think in order to be loyal and a patriotic you have to be taught. Today both parents work and they don’t teach their kids anything about patriotism. We have let the school system go to pot. They don’t teach history like we learned history.

“We were taught to put our hand over our heart when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Kids today don’t know what you’re talking about. They know nothing about World War II or World War I were all about.

“Kids today don’t have any real understanding of patriotism so they’re not patriotic. ”I feel sorry for my grandkids, which I have eight, and my great-grandkids, which I have nine. My immediate family has produced nine Marines starting out with me and my oldest son on down to my grandchildren. All are boys and my daughter married a Marine,” he said with a chuckle.

Magill added, “I think the breakdown in our education system started with FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and all the social stuff we’re doing today. I know a Republic is one thing and a Democracy is something else. Republicans stand for the Republic which has a small government. A Democracy is what the Democrats want which is big government where few people have to work.

Read more of his amazing life story: Marine pilot became God’s man after WW II




"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene V


John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS (5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism. Despite his lack of an academic degree in the field, he taught biology at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Institution, and University College London. Renouncing his British citizenship, he became an Indian citizen in 1961 and worked at the Indian Statistical Institute for the rest of his life.


September 25, 1963: Lord Denning released the UK government’s official report on the "Profumo Affair". Denning primarily blamed Conservative War Minister, John Profumo, for the sex scandal. The story has it all, sex, a Russian spy, and the secretary of state, a war.




The Profumo Affair: Lord Denning's Report (History Hit Audio)


Sept 25, 1964: the sitcom GOMER PYLE: USMC premiered. The Marines gave the show their total cooperation and allowed scenes to be shot at Camp Pendelton. Even though the show was produced during the peak of American military fighting action in Vietnam, the war was never mentioned. The series ran 150 episodes from '64-'69.


Frank Sutton (1923-1974), who played Gunnery Sgt. Vince Carter, did not pass the Marine Corps physical due to his color blindness during World War II and ended up serving in the army making it to Sergeant. During his service, he distinguished himself by taking part in 14 assault landings, including battles Leyte, Luzon, Bataan and Corregidor. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.


Sept 25, 1964: TIME magazine "THE NUCLEAR ISSUE"




USA #1 on this day in 1965: Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction



UK #1 on this day in 1968: Mary Hopkin- Those Were The Days




"Era Of Growing Strife In U.S.: When Will It End?" US News for September 25, 1967.

September 25, 1968: The 1st episode of paranormal ITV series, The Champions, was broadcast. In all, 30 episodes were produced, until 30 April 1969. It featured 3 telepathic agents: Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready & Richard Barrett, who work for "Nemesis" an international intelligence organisation based in Geneva.




THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR premiered 49 years ago yesterday in New York City.



"Instead of looking at the movie screen, what I want to do is to turn around and look the other way. When we look the other way what we see is a little hole at the top of the wall with some light coming out. That’s where I want to go. I want to steal the key to the projectionist’s booth, and then, when everybody has gone home, I want to break in."
— Jacques Vallee

[Freija]

Nice theme you’ve got going today….

the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Queer universe? Resistance is futile. LOLOL



Loved me some Gomer Pyle. Meanwhile Back home in Indiana, Good ol’ Jim Nabors was queer as a $3 dollar bill.



Sorry,  I couldn’t resist having some fun.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

I was expecting a Nabor'ly response on that one. LOL!


Benjamin Franklin's Great Seal Design goes rather hard:


What is pictured is the Israelites crossing the Red Sea to escape the Egyptian Pharoah which comes from the following passage:

Exodus 15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
Exodus 15:4  Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

What is around the sea itself is a quote that is attributed to Rev. John Knox, "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."

Rev. Knox was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

These words would echo into the English Civil War and many of our founders would have been aware of this history since most were Englishmen themselves. The American Revolution wasn’t an accident or simply about taxes but something that swelled up in the souls of man.


September 25, 1975: German techno group Kraftwerk formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 demonstrated Autobahn's "Machinemusik" on the BBC1 programme, Tomorrow's World. It was the group’s 1st British TV appearance which began their huge influence on techno artists and groups around the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmu8LL-K3KM


September 22, 1997: The British Thrust SCC car, driven by retired British Royal Air Force fighter pilot Andy Duncan Green, set a new world land speed record of 714:144 MPH at Black Rock Desert Nevada. The only person ever to break the sound barrier on land. On October 15, 1997, 50 years and 1 day after the sound barrier was broken in aerial flight by Chuck Yeager, Green reached 763.035 miles per hour, the first supersonic record (Mach 1.016). His call sign was "Dead Dog". No American has ever broken the record nor ever came close. That's just not right.



For the past 15 years Green has been working on a new record attempt to break the 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h) mark with Bloodhound LSR. They are currently looking for a new driver & $$$.

Bloodhound LSR 628mph / 1010kmh. If you've not yet seen it, pour a brew or put the kettle on, make a brew and enjoy 5 mins of jet car action:




Today is 9th anniversary of infamous 2015 Rose Garden speech by Xi Jinping


I guess plans changed.
Yesterday China launched a test Inter-continental Ballistic Missile over South China Sea into the Pacific.


China's PLA conducts rare publicized test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile Just a friendly ICBM message to the Philippines.


Apparently, Amazon is looking to boost Ring sales...


Seen any paranormal activity on your Ring device?


First Lady Jill Biden Announces DOD will commit to $500 Million Researching Women's Health at Clinton Global Initiative. Forward to 3:30... (sorry, this is probably restricted to within USA IP borders)



American Democracy is when the First Lady assumes the duties of the President and funnels 500 million in taxpayer dollars from the Department of Defense to a Clinton-created money laundering operation. Is the media gonna ask why Jill is leading cabinet meetings and now making DoD announcements? The Department of Defense. Just nothing to see here? Also, why the hell did PBS disable the transcript and disable close caption? These jokers are just unreal.




Sarfaranga Cold Desert, aka Katpana Desert in Skardu, Pakistan. Looks like a great place to airdrop all the corrupt politicians while they're enroute to Hades.




The Pope posted these one day apart. The first being a form of esoteric magic spiritual occultism. One is culture, the other is bogus religion. Apparently, they are perfectly ok with holding what we would consider two opposing positions.


The Greek word magi is used in the Bible to describe the visitors who came to see Jesus after his birth, and it's often translated as "wise men" or "astrologers": Translation- Greek word magi is plural of magos, which can be translated as "magus," "sorcerer," or "wise man".





Remember the good old days when station wagons came with extra space for tail-gunners.



"It is impossible for a human being, in a “normal” level of consciousness to experience anything of the reality of the world. Language steps in to mediate, explain, and define... While we think ourselves the masters of language, precisely the opposite is true. Language is the master of us, a tyranny from which no escape can be imagined."
— Mark Pesce

[EndtheMadnessNow]

The annual rewinding of the big watch at Dennison watch maker’s shop in Holborn, London (1910).




The only man who can help Eric Adams now.




Sept 26, 1960: the action-adventure TV show THE BLUE ANGELS premiered. The series includes storylines in which the Navy's precision flight demonstration team is needed to lead combat missions. It only lasted one season but gave Burt Reynolds one of his earliest acting gigs.


The U.S. Navy co-operated in the production of this TV show and the footage of the Blue Angels flying in formation and performing their stunts was film of the actual Blue Angels flying their Grumman F11F Tiger jets.

The Navy Department would have preferred that the show be more realistic and depict the Blue Angels as strictly Naval Officers and precision pilots. The Navy often voiced their displeasure about the more exciting parts of the show where the Blue Angels were crime busting heroes. After one such objection, the series producer, Sam Gallu stated, "How the hell does the Pentagon know what happens to a Blue when he's off duty?"



Sept 26, 1962: B-supernatural horror CARNIVAL OF SOULS premiered in Lawrence, Kansas. After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival. The premise is similar to that of The Twilight Zone episode The Hitch-Hiker (1960).

With a $30,000 budget its original theatrical release in 1962 was a box-office failure. Subsequent airings on late-night television helped it gain a strong cult following. It's now regarded as a landmark in psychological horror. The failure to include a copyright notice on the film's prints automatically placed the picture into the public domain in the US.

The Criterion Collection issued a 2-disc DVD set of the film in 2000, featuring both a 78-minute theatrical version and an extended 84-minute director's cut. In 2016, the Criterion Collection reissued the film on DVD, as well as premiering it on Blu-ray, featuring a new restoration.


From Herk Harvey's filmed-in-Lawrence, Kansas to 21 years later Mr. Harvey had a memorable cameo as Jensen, the post-apocalyptic farmer in the filmed-in-Lawrence THE DAY AFTER.


Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!




Save our official portraits from a nuclear attack! Another COG gem from reporter Ted Gup. From the January/February 1994 issue of Mother Jones.



How the Federal Emergency Management Agency learned to stop worrying — about civilians — and love the bomb


The first Soviet McDonald's in Pushkin Square Moscow, Jan 31, 1990. Big Mac happy girl.


Tiny Soviet flag beneath the arch.
Its first USSR restaurant was a sensation


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



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


We're almost there...



What changes is Russia making to its nuclear doctrine? - Deep strikes by Ukraine and attack on Belarus would now trigger atomic response. (RT news)

Putin reveals new rules on nuclear weapons in Russia's latest warning to the West (CNBC)

Kremlin says changes in Russia’s nuclear doctrine are intended as a warning to the West (Associated Press)

Meanwhile, Russian Air Strikes Pound Ukraine as Zelenskiy to Outline so-called 'Victory Plan' for Biden.


LOL!

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1839368970404856004


Qui est Zorro? Zorro TV Series 2024.

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Fire Power Friday: Six projectiles from the forward turrets of USS Missouri's 16-inch guns can be seen in flight at the right of this 1945 photo. Note the area of turbulence in the water caused by the blast. The Mighty Mo is sending a whole lotta pain down range.




September 27, 1964: The Warren Commission published its 888 page greatest fantasy report ever told to the public on the assassination of President John F Kennedy. It concluded Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin, and acted alone. It also concluded that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald 2 days later.




September 27, 1965: Clara Bow died (aged 60). She was known as "The It Girl" during her heyday in the 1920s Hollywood silent era. She personified the freedom-loving attitude of the "Roaring Twenties" and described as its leading sex symbol.




September 27, 1967: The 1st episode of the ITV private eye series Man in a Suitcase was broadcast. It ran for 30 episodes until 17 April 1968. It starred Richard Bradford as McGill, a former US intelligence agent based in London, forced to resign from the service.





Sept 27, 1992: Gary Jacobs' WOOPS! premiered on FOX. Woops! was an American post-apocalyptic sitcom that aired on the Fox network from September 27 to December 6, 1992.




September 27, 2000: In a memorable speech from former CIA Director George Tenet (1997-2004) at the NRO 40th Anniversary Gala, he told the story of one of GRAB’s (Galactic Radiation and Background satellite) more notorious moments:



GRAB: First Signals Intelligence Satellite



LOL! The NY Post never disappoints...


This is minuscule, as in who cares kind of corruption. Keep digging.


Some heroes don’t wear capes. Keg lives matter!




Poor Zelensky looks tired & defeated.


Fox news



We all have purpose in life. Sometimes it is unknowingly to be a warning to others...


Judge Hehir turns state repression into an art form


A few hours later: Activists throw soup on Van Gogh painting again


USA #1 on this day in 1969: The Archies - Sugar Sugar




UK #1 on this day in 1983: Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

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September 28, 1916: Peter Finch was born in London but brought up in Australia from the age of 10. He’s best remembered for his riveting performance as the ranting and raving TV news presenter, Howard Beale, in the film, Network (1976), for which Posthumously, he won British and American academy awards, as well as a Hollywood 'Golden Globe', for his role as the crazed television anchorman, Howard Beale.


“I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy.”
– Howard Beale


Arthur Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today.

That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

Howard Beale: Why me?

Arthur Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.


Shortly after Raid on Entebbe finished shooting, Finch undertook a promotional tour for Network. On 13 January 1977 he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. George Carlin was also on the show that night; he joked about death. The day after, Finch had a heart attack in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel and died at the age of 60. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

George and his sister Dorothy had assumed custody of Peter before the divorce. They subsequently dispatched him to their mother Laura who presided over a salon of artists and musicians at Vaucresson, near Paris. Abandoning Continental sophistications for sub-continental simplicities, in 1925 she embarked on a pilgrimage to Adyar, the Theosophical community near Madras, India, with Peter in train. His waif-like aura and wafer-thin body proved irresistible, at least in the spiritual sense, for Adyar's twin panjandrums Dr Annie Besant and 'Bishop' Charles Leadbeater. From Dr Besant, Peter had lessons in meditation; 'Bishop' Leadbeater was more noted for his lessons in masturbation. Early in 1926, not unwillingly, the young Finch (without his grandmother) joined a shipload of Theosophists bound for their Australian headquarters in Sydney.

Frederick George Peter Finch (1916–1977) (Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, 1996)

Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), Saturday 27 February 1937, page 36.



September 28, 1923: The 1st issue of the Radio Times was published. It came about because newspapers initially refused to carry listings of daily radio programmes. In response, the BBC decided to publish its own on a weekly basis. The magazine later carried TV listings.


You might be surprised to know from November 2, 1936 - the first program was the weather forecast...which also happened to be the first day of TV. Which of course the service was only available to the comparatively well-to-do in London and the South-East since the signal would only reach so far.

TV programmes were only incorporated into the main magazine after the war when the service still had a limited reach.

1936 BBC Programme Index  | The Radio Times Nov 1936 Issue (PDF)



September 28, 1934: French film icon Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris. She was also a huge style icon during the 1950s, popularising the bikini and choucroute hairstyle (a sort of beehive). In the 1970s, she decided to retreat from the public gaze to promote animal rights.




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




September 28, 1960: Deputy Administrator of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization Lewis E. Berry (1914-2005) sent a letter to his management detailing his efforts concerning billboard messaging with attached "Preattack" and "Postattack" sample text. Needless to say, the latter category is far more amusing (and frighteningly Orwellian).




No "see-through, low cut or revealing clothing" Attire at top secret Mount Weather building. You can forget about Area B, so don't even ask.


FEMA SOLICITATION, OFFER, AND AWARD (PDF) for Construction, Alteration, or Repair.


September 28, 1990: The 1st episode of the topical satirical quiz show, Have I Got News for You (HIGNFY), was broadcast on BBC2. It was presented by Angus Deayton, with team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop. It transferred to BBC1 later same year. The news quiz show offering satirical and surreal comic observations on current events is still airing going into its 68th season.


In a 1994 episode, Angus Deayton read out the following: "The BBC are cracking down on references to Ian and Kevin Maxwell, in case program-makers appear biased in their treatment of these two heartless, scheming bastards." Unfortunately, the Maxwell brothers were about to go on trial, and on July 26, 1996, the BBC and Hat Trick Productions were fined £20,000 in the High Court for Contempt of Court.

Exiled ex-MI5 officer David Shayler appeared as a panelist via satellite link from an undisclosed location.

An episode due to be broadcast on Friday 10 May 2019 was pulled by the BBC at the last minute, as it would have featured Heidi Allen MP, head of the Change UK party. The BBC's publicly stated reason was that Allen's presence would have breached impartiality guidelines, since Change UK were vocally in favour of Britain remaining in the EU and Britain was shortly to take part in elections for the European Parliament. The HIGNFY team sent out a tweet protesting this; several members of the public (and Allen herself) pointed out that pro-Brexit Nigel Farage, due to stand as an MEP, had appeared on Question Time (1979) only the previous evening.


Casey Kasem American Top 40 flashback to 1977, The Emotions take the top spot at #1 - written by EWF's Maurice White & Al McKay.




Somehow never made the jump to 4K UHD...




The U.S. Army JFK Special Warfare Center & School dropped this video a few days ago:



Reminds me of the Army Special Forces PSYOP Group "Ghost in the Machine" from a couple years back. All the world's a stage.


C'mon BIAD, lets go climb aboard!


https://x.com/EduardHabsburg/status/1839239644547895430

You Can Climb Aboard a Massive Reproduction of a 17th-Century Spanish Galleon That’s Sailing Around the World

One of the rare nobility fellows, ambassador to the Holy See and Sovereign Military Order of Malta that engages with us plebs on twitter. I feel so privileged! LOL.

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Sept. 29th: Michaelmas, Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and All Angels. "Supreme Commander of the Heavenly Hosts."

Michaelmas also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a Christian festival observed in many Western Christian liturgical calendars on 29 September, and on 8 November in the Eastern Christian traditions. Michaelmas has been one of the four quarter days of the English and Irish financial, judicial, and academic year.

The name Michaelmas comes from a shortening of "Michael's Mass", in the same style as Christmas (Christ's Mass) and Candlemas (Candle Mass, the Mass where traditionally the candles to be used throughout the year would be blessed).



Up until the mid eighteenth century, Britain used the old Julian calendar, first introduced by Julius Caesar. Over the centuries, Britain became seriously out of touch with reality, err the status quo, whereas the Gregorian calendar was used by the rest of Europe. Consequently, in September 1752, when the change to the new calendar occurred, twelve days were simply wiped out. Tough luck if one of them was your birthday! More to the point, the New Year now started on January 1st, instead of 25th March as it had for centuries. So, all the old holidays and festivals were re-assigned new dates, confusing the hell out of everyone. Sounds like big brother today.

In some parishes (Isle of Skye) they had a procession on this day and baked a cake, called St. Michael's bannock. One of the few flowers left around at this time of year is the Michaelmas daisy (also known as asters). As flowering plants die down in Autumn, one of the few flowers left around at this time of year is the Michaelmas daisy. Hence this rhyme: “The Michaelmas daisies, among dead weeds, Bloom for St Michael’s valorous deeds ...”

Another old rhyme attempts to forecast the unpredictable British weather: “If ducks do slide at Michaelmas, At Christmas they will swim; If ducks do swim at Michaelmas At Christmas they will slide.” In other words, an early freeze means a mild and wet Christmas, and vice versa!

Michaelmas is the bookend to September feasts that celebrate the intersection of theology & the harvest season. The completion of the agricultural year, Michaelmas marked the end of one and beginning of another husbandman’s year1 - the turning point of the farming cycle, as harvest reaches its peak. Rents & debts were paid, new leases taken, positions filled. As an agrarian society prepared their larders & land for a winter of unknowns, they looked to the stories of archangels defeating darkness & dragons to accompany them.

This is the time of year when I feel the autumnal equivalent of “spring cleaning” - a need to take stock, simplify, store, preserve, & refresh for the coming season. I can really see how these ancestors saw the turning of a new year in Michaelmas; we can sense a threshold here if we settle ourselves enough to see it.

To celebrate this angelic harvest feast, a bannock (unleavened quick-bread) hailing from the Scottish Highlands symbolizes the fruit of the field that is (hopefully) so prolific at this time: the Struan Micheil. Baked with a mixture of grains - especially oats, barley, & rye - this cake represents the culmination of the growing season’s abundance.2

Though its ingredients vary, it often included

    “blackberries, bilberries, cranberries, caraway seeds, and wild honey. It was baked on a fire of oak, rowan, bramble, and other woods considered blessed.”3

Traditionally baked by the eldest daughter of a family, a short prayer accompanied her baking:

    Progeny and prosperity of family,
    Mystery of Michael, protection of Trinity.4

These cakes were enjoyed by families, and more were baked in memory of departed loved ones and also gifted to the poor.

If you bake a Struan this year, maybe consider baking some extras to memorialize loved ones; if you have a food bank locally, maybe they’d enjoy this bannock as well, or a donation of flour, oats, etc?

According to legend, St. Michael cast Lucifer out of heaven on Michaelmas (originally, this legend was attached to Old Michaelmas – which was on October 10th or 11th5). Lucifer landed in a blackberry bramble, and being so angered by the prickles, he spat on them – so, it became unlucky to pick blackberries after Michaelmas, since they would be spoiled.

    “On Michaelmas Day, the devil puts his foot on blackberries.”

    Irish proverb

Because of this association, blackberry desserts are a popular tradition for Michaelmas – whether blackberry pie or cobbler, it’s considered the last time of the season to use these late berries.

The Michaelmas Daisy among dead weeds / Blooms for St. Michael’s valourous deeds


Folklore in the British Isles suggests that Michaelmas day is the last day that blackberries can be picked. It is said that when St. Michael expelled the devil, Lucifer, from heaven, he fell from the skies and landed in a prickly blackberry bush. Satan cursed the fruit, scorched them with his fiery breath, stamped, spat, and urinated on them, so that they would be unfit for eating. As it is considered ill-advised to eat them after 11 October (Old Michaelmas Day according to the Julian Calendar), a Michaelmas pie is made from the last of the season. In Ireland, the soiling of blackberries is also attributed to púca, a Celtic creature of Channel Islands folklore. Considered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune.


Sept 29, 1850: Congress banned flogging in the U.S. Navy. The movement to ban the practice had been greatly advanced by the publication of the novel WHITE-JACKET by Herman Melville, first published in London, 1850 followed by publisher Harper & Brothers in NY the same year. Melville included a graphic description of flogging based on his own experiences as a sailor serving on the frigate USS United States for 14 months. The following year his greatest work ever was published, Moby-Dick.


During Melville's time on the USS United States from 1843–1844, the ship log records 163 floggings, including some on his first and second days (18 and 19 August 1843) aboard the frigate at Honolulu, Oahu. Damn! That's only on ONE ship back in those salty burnin days. As one Melville scholar has stressed, "Melville rarely invents..." and "the ship's records bear him out."

Melville described one such brutal scene in chapter 33: "A Flogging"



Judging by the frequency of Navy mishaps & incompetence these days, maybe it's due for a comeback. We desperately need a leader that's not afraid to crack the whip where it's needed.

You can read the pages at Internet Archive or Project Gutenberg or LibriVox Audio Book

At the urging of New Hampshire Senator John P. Hale, whose daughter, Lucy, would later become the fiancée of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, the United States Congress banned flogging on all U.S. ships. Note that back at the time, Harper & Brothers made sure the book got into the hands of every member of Congress.



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



The cathedral was damaged in August 2011 during the Virginia earthquake. Finial stones on several pinnacles broke off, and several pinnacles twisted out of alignment or collapsed entirely. Some gargoyles and other carvings were damaged along with various cracks. 13 years later and restoration work is still ongoing.

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



September 29, 1947: The highly acclaimed historian Sir Richard J. Evans was born in London. He’s one of the world’s leading experts on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. He’s also well known for his often highly critical, but never dull, book reviews. He's also the latest member of the upside down book club.


Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’  | Understanding the Rise of Fascism



September 29, 1954: After the usual lengthy British procrastinating, the convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), was signed. CERN was originally devoted to the study of atomic nuclei, but was soon applied to higher-energy physics, and the study of interactions between subatomic particles. For the past 30 years they been attempting to make contact with extra-dimensional entities on the other side. As of circa 2020 they seemed to have been successful or as some have speculated, the gateway to unimaginable horror has been breached.



CERN purpose has three themes:

The CERN Community; A Mechanism for Effective Global Collaboration?

If you want to read the PDF paper, click here.



History of hadrontherapy

John H. Lawrence received the Enrico Fermi Award in 1983 from the United States Department of Energy for his work in nuclear medicine. I always cringe whenever I see those two words 'nuclear' & 'medicine' used together. Like oil & water or milk in tea. I mean it just doesn't sound/taste right. Meh, who am I to judge. Moving on...

Taking biomedical research at CERN to the next level


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


The Unmutual website dedicated to the cult TV series The Prisoner, its star Patrick McGoohan, and the village of Portmeirion.


September 29, 1972: The 1st episode of the ITV series The Protectors was broadcast in the UK. It featured 3 private investigators who protect innocent victims. There were 52 episodes, all 30 minutes long, until 15 March 1974.


As memorable opening themes go, it's difficult to beat The Protectors!



Here's a Youtube Playlist of all 52 episodes.


September 29, 1979: "The weird world of Dr Tom .." Tom Baker interviewed in the Daily Mirror.




R.I.P. Kris Kristofferson -- June 22, 1936 - Sept 28, 2024. Country singer, songwriter, actor, Army Ranger chopper pilot, Rhodes scholar.

May 6, 1985: The Highwaymen - Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson - released their debut album, Highwayman.

Highwayman (American Outlaws: Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990):



“Money, capital has a life of its own...it’s a force of nature, like gravity, like the oceans it flows where it wants to flow.” ~ Maxwell Emory in Rollover 1981; Kris Kristofferson & Hanoi Jane.

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




Asheville North Carolina had devastating flooding like what we see on the TV news after the 1916 hurricane. If 2024 is climate change, what was 1916? Also a literal illustration of a hundred year flood.


Asheville's 1916 flood: See photos of the devastation (Lots of photos)

What is increasing is that more and more people are choosing to live in flood plains - which of course eventually flood.


"The people of North Carolina will not soon forget the Southern Railway Company's magnificent work in speedily restoring its lines of traffic which were badly damaged in many sections by the recent flood.  But longer than this will they remember the action of the Southern in agreeing to carry free of charge all shipments of supplies from the State Relief Committee to the people of the flood-stricken districts.  Although the Southern has been one of the heaviest losers in the flood, the manner in which it has met disaster and its generosity in helping to relieve those who are in distress have won for that company a warm place in the hearts of the people which will bring rich material returns in the end."

Newspaper Quotes from Asheville Citizen & others, July 1916 (w/photos)



September 30, 1938: at 2:00 AM, Britain (Chamberlain) France (Daladier) Germany (Hitler) and Italy (Mussolini) signed the Munich Agreement, which allowed Germany to occupy the Czech Sudetenland. Later same day British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to Britain from Munich, and waved the worthless "Anglo-German peace agreement" in which Britain and Germany had promised "never to go to war with one another again." He later admitted it was a huge error.




September 30, 1939: Papers please. As part of war-time regulations, a system of Identity cards was introduced in Britain, with a legal requirement that every man, woman and child had to carry one, and if not, to produce it on demand or present it at a police station within 48 hours.




Sept 30, 1954: USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was commissioned, marking a new era in naval warfare. The world's first nuclear submarine could stay submerged longer while traveling farther, faster, and deeper than conventional subs. Nautilus would be the first to pass under the North Pole.
Service life ended in 1980.
Current status: Museum boat at Submarine Force Library and Museum, located on the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut. It is the only submarine museum managed exclusively by the Naval History & Heritage Command division of the US Navy.




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

KABOOM!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHXsv8zxgC8

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





In TV news: The Prisoner typeface is a modified version of Albertus. There are no dots above 'i' or 'j' and the 'e' is left open.



FUN ALBERTUS FACT!
1. The director John Carpenter uses Albertus in his credits.
2. There is a street in the City of London – totally unrelated to him – called John Carpenter Street.
3. The street signs in the City of London also use Albertus, so "his" street is in "his" font.

Albertus is a glyphic serif display typeface designed by Berthold Wolpe in the period 1932 to 1940 for the British branch of the printing company Monotype. Wolpe named the font after Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth-century German philosopher and theologian.




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


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


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



Here’s the 2024 Election question:
Reagan-Carter Oct. 28, 1980 Debate - "Are You Better Off?"



Continued Reagan remarks:
"This country doesn't have to be in the shape that it is in. We do not have to go on sharing in scarcity, with the country getting worse off, with unemployment growing. We talk about the unemployment lines. If all of the unemployed today were in a single line allowing 2 feet for each one of them, that line would reach from New York City to Los Angeles, California. All of this can be cured, and all of it can be solved."
Transcript

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Red October Arrival - Day 1




October is Bat Appreciation Month! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up at Ernst Haeckel’s Bats (1904)



#4 is the "Lesser False Vampire Bat"


October 1, 1910: Bonnie Parker was born in Rowena, Texas. She was part of the crime duo Bonnie & Clyde, whose crimes were heavily featured in the press. They are believed to have murdered 9 police officers and 4 civilians. They were killed in May 23, 1934, during a police ambush.




October 1, 1946: The main International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced 12 (out of 22) Nazi officials to death, 7 to prison sentences of various lengths, with 3 being acquitted. Hermann Göring committed suicide the night before he was due to be hanged. Martin Bormann was sentenced to death in absentia...the allies did not know he was already dead. And of course Hitler's banker Dr. Hjalmar Schacht was acquitted. Some things never change.





Jimmy Carter hits 100! No other U.S. president has ever lived so long.


And Reagan had the solar panels removed.





Jimmy Carter -- "Why Not The Best?" -- Campaign song 1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUqn3o9_hhk


Jimmy Carter [Democratic] 1976 Campaign Ad “Dream”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgVS1nmhro

The Living Room Candidate - Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2024

"President Carter's arrival at Asheville, NC," October 3, 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgn76PUthbM

President Carter issues economic sanctions on Iran in response to the country's refusal to release the hostages. Dec 21, 1979:
https://youtu.be/qwRsH4C61a4?si=nwA4Y3zc87lEn7xN&t=112


Jimmy Carter turns 100, Saturday Night Live turns 50.

President Jimmy Carter (Dan Aykroyd) takes unscreened calls from the public and demonstrates a knowledge of everything from programming automatic letter sorting machines to reassuring panicky teens on acid. [Season 2, 1977]





Happy 89th Birthday to Dame Julie Andrews.

May we take you to the fair?



RICHARD BURTON & JULIE ANDREWS "Camelot" on The Ed Sullivan Show on March 19, 1961:

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


UK #1 on this day in 1970: Freda Payne - Band Of Gold




October 1, 1971: The world’s first brain-scan, using Computed Tomography (CT), was performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital, Wimbledon, London. It was carried out by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield and Dr Jamie Ambrose. Sir Godfrey was subsequently awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine.




RED October 1, 2017: 58 people were killed when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. The official narrative is he had fired from his suite on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay hotel. He then killed himself before SWAT crashed his room. "The incident is the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in American history." Deadliest, yes. Lone gunman, No.



Dr Dave Collum: Hypothetically Speaking with John Cullen: Las Vegas Shooting - The Full 4 hr. Session. Some interesting speculation regarding the helo's & Saudi's. He does offer some interesting questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4JpBZZu28

Cullen is mentioned by name in at the hearing of the Task Force on the Assassination Attempt of Donald J. Trump on Sept 27, 2024 by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) who questioned other representatives about what the committee should focus on.

Video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcr3ovdM_RA


But will it carry a warhead that will impress or suppress Putin?


Ukrainian R-360 Neptune

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NASA turns 66...



Kurt H. Debus, a former V-2 rocket Nazi scientist who became a NASA director sitting right next to JFK.

“Can you believe they put Nazis like me in charge?”
― Kurt Debus, 1st center director of NASA; later NASA head of the UFO desk! Upon retiring he went back to (West) Germany, became chairman of OTRAG (Orbital Transport and Rockets, Inc.), a rocket company to launch satellites. A small lunar crater on the far side of the Moon to the east-southeast of the crater Ganskiy, past the eastern limb, is named for Debus.

VP Lyndon B. Johnson met with, among others, Wernher von Braun. After that meeting, von Braun wrote a letter saying of a moon landing goal, ’We have a sporting chance. With an all-out crash program I think we could accomplish this objective in 1967-68.’ Johnson quickly reported this judgment to Kennedy, and in effect the die was cast.”

By the way...Patrick Air Force Base mentioned by Debus Management Instruction, is still active and now known as Patrick Space Force Base in Brevard County, Florida.
Source: NASA Management Instruction KMI 8610.4


International Longshoremen's Association union leader Harold Daggett earned $728,000 last year from the ILA, plus $173,000 as President of a local union branch. He drives a Bentley and recently sold his 76-foot yacht, Obsession. I believe the ILA has 14 ports from Maine to Texas.



The International Longshoreman Union was founded in 1892 but by the end of World War II it was a hotbed of organized crime, communist sympathy and corruption.

Lucky Luciano, Capo de Tutti Capi of the Genoese family cut a deal with Naval Intelligence to keep "peace" in the ports during WW II. The ILA was the enforcement mechanism!

In 2008, New York and New Jersey brought in Ronald Goldstock to reform the Waterfront Commission, and he didn’t hold back. He publicly exposed numerous cases of longshoremen earning over $400,000 annually for what was described as minimal, if any, work.

Thanks to an outdated union contract, some fortunate dockworkers were even being paid for an impossible 27 hours of work per day. Ronald Goldstock was Director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force and Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, is one of the nation's leading authorities and theorists on the subject of organized crime.

Weird how there is no wiki page on Goldstock, but plenty of mentions.

Goldstock found other types of corruption and crime and the Union was in big trouble... or was it?

Enter Harold Dagget.



Daggett, a fourth-generation longshoreman, has a checkered past. In 2004, he was indicted with three others on charges of conspiracy to commit extortion, mail fraud, and wire fraud.

George Barone, a self-confessed mafia enforcer, testified that he orchestrated the rise of Daggett—then an ILA official earning $480,000 a year—to union president in order to serve the interests of the Genovese crime family.

During the trial, one of the defendants mysteriously vanished, only for his body to be discovered weeks later in the trunk of a car parked outside a New Jersey diner. Despite the grim development, Daggett and his co-defendants were all acquitted of the charges.

It wasn't the ILA that was corrupt it was the Waterfront Commission!
Dagget didn't hide, he went on the offensive saying basically, yes the ILA is corrupt but only because the WC is bribing them.

Daggett began issuing a litteny of blistering statements, in which he defended his members’ pay and decried the commission’s “reign of terror”.

Not only did Daggett go on to lead the ILA, he has also forged powerful political ties. In 2018, the ILA persuaded Chris Christie to sign the legislation to abolish the Waterfront Commission three years after he vetoed a similar bill.

Today everyone is sharing an old Waterfront Comission report showing high salaries and corruption. But is it true? Or was it a mafia controlled WC publishing intentionally slanderous information? Maybe it was both that were corrupt?

To learn the answer and find out if the WC or ILA is guilty you'll have to read On the waterfront: the political fight over organised crime at the Port of New York

After Rudy Giuliani & crew took down the mafia racketeering, who took it over?

My late uncle was a natural born very talented and intimidating lawyer. He worked for the Genovese crime family. Had a new Cadillac every 6 months and brought me souvenirs from NY everytime he visited. My 10-15 yr old birthdays were awesome...an envelope stuffed with Benjamins! Which always pissed off my dad to no end. I figured he'd drop off a new car on my 16th birthday, BUT then he went to prison for 10 years. Disavowed by my family, barred from ever mentioning his name, certain family members disappeared and later resurfaced with a new name. For my uncle the high life ended and so did he. Even today his name cannot be mentioned. To avoid the family turmoil and potential of getting sucked into that dark underworld, it was arranged to have my file white-papered thanks to an FBI counter-intel regional director, and thereby I joined the Navy and never looked back. Never get that lucky today unless you're in a certain club of shady friends.

A little trivia nugget from my past life.

Sounds like Joe Biden is on the side of the ILA vice USMX in this strike.
Do we remember Biden in LA telling the container lines he would punch them in the nose?

You have to love this SHIP! Apparently, Daggett and the ILA do not mess around as the USMX site is down! LOL. (Last I checked)


Joe Biden on the Negotiations Between USMX and the International Longshoremen’s Association


Dystopian PSA for folks in Atlanta area at 2 in the morning...




This 'reporter' is going viral for her outfit choice during the storm!


https://x.com/MattWallace888/status/1841010935428767776

Fake microphone and apparently she is an Only Fans model. LOL!
She should of hosted tonight’s vice presidential debate.


September 10th test flights of an F-35C carrying a pair of AGM-158C LRASMs.


Note the blue bands indicate these weapons are inert.

The LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile) is a stealth air launch anti-ship cruise missile developed for the US Air Force and Navy by DARPA. They are AI-enabled ship-hunting cruise missiles that can cover hundreds of miles under turbofan power while coordinating with one another to identify and distribute high-value targets, and then deliver a 1,000-lb warhead to the most vulnerable part of a moving warship. The warhead is a WDU-42/B HE blast fragmentation penetrator.

Dropping a pair of these things off of an F-35 is cool, but dumping 45 of them at a time out of a C-17 is cooler. It’s done via palletized munitions systems developed by the Air Force Research Lab and Lockheed Martin, called Rapid Dragon.


Gotta be a sign for his near future...




More history bytes, propotainment news & drama from the Rogue happening bunker tomorrow.



As we wait in anticipation of an October genie to pop out.

For the Dr. Who (Louise Jameson) fans > https://i.imgur.com/TDrTbB0.jpeg