Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Queen of TERF Island, Joanne Rowling, has a brain affected by the black mold in her lofty castle. Poor thing.

Fact Check: New York Times Publishes Misleading Story On Puberty Blocker Study

In recent weeks, several studies have emerged focusing on transgender individuals. One study in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behavior, for example, reported up to a 72% increase in suicide attempts in states passing anti-trans legislation, including healthcare bans. Another study, with minimal loss to follow-up, found extremely low detransition rates among transgender youth over 6 to 10 years, along with high levels of satisfaction regarding their care. Yet, you won’t find these stories on The New York Times' website. Instead, as has become routine at the paper, there’s yet another hit piece on transgender care—one that, upon closer inspection, offers a distorted and unfounded portrayal of the current research and one researcher who has helped push that research forward.

The latest piece, which went viral in anti-trans circles on Wednesday, was written by Azeen Ghorayshi, who has a track record of publishing anti-trans articles, including a glowing profile of Jamie Reed, an anti-trans clinician who shared private information about patients at her clinic—some of which was later proven false. This new article makes explosive claims that Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a prominent gender researcher, is withholding potentially negative research on the risks and benefits of puberty blockers for transgender youth.

A further analysis of the article finds the central premise to be highly misleading.

Claim: Joana Olson-Kennedy is withholding research from the Trans Youth Care because of a charged American political environment over transgender people.

Fact: Twenty-eight studies have been published from the Trans Youth Care (TYC) Network study, including from patients on puberty blockers.

    “An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the charged American political environment.”

Ghorayshi opens with a claim that Olson-Kennedy is withholding research on puberty blockers because of a “charged American political environment.” The research in question comes from the Transgender Youth Care (TYC) Network study, funded by the National Institutes of Health to evaluate the effectiveness of gender-affirming care for transgender youth. In her interview with Olson-Kennedy, Ghorayshi cites a quote from what was described as a “wide-ranging interview” on the researcher’s work. Olson-Kennedy explains that she is being meticulous with one of the registered studies on puberty blockers because she doesn’t want her findings “to be weaponized,” adding that the work “has to be exactly on point, clear and concise.” Ghorayshi then uses this quote to imply that Olson-Kennedy is withholding research for political reasons.

A closer look at the NIH-funded project’s research record shows that the team’s output has been extraordinarily prolific; if Olson-Kennedy is withholding research, her extensive publication history doesn’t reflect it. The project has resulted in 28 peer-reviewed papers, many with Olson-Kennedy as a co-author. These studies include those who are on puberty blockers, such as one on the height growth rate of transgender youth on puberty blockers, another comparing the effectiveness of puberty blocker implants, and a third showing that patients who presented for puberty blockers had better mental health than those who either waited, or were forced to wait, for hormone therapy. This is in addition to numerous influential studies the team has published on the positive effects of hormone therapy and other key characteristics of transgender youth.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy National Pumpkin Day!

When USNS Point Loma (T-AGDS-2) did not have any pumpkins available for Halloween in 1986, the crew made giant jack-o'-lanterns with the Low Altitude Surveillance System (LASS) missile tracking radar.


https://x.com/GWR/status/1850143589856350476

The "Pumpkin Capital of the World" is Morton, Illinois or so they claim. Home of Libby’s pumpkin industry. Illinois grows the most pumpkins and harvests about 12,300 acres of pumpkins annually.


October 26, 1929: All of London’s buses began to be painted predominantly red (pictured is a 1930 model). In fact, the bus roofs remained largely white or silver, to reflect sunlight, and thereby reduce heating in the summer.




In October 1992, Congress enacted the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act that mandated all the CIA & FBI documents on JFK's Assassination were to be declassified on October 26, 2017. Which was again postponed to October 26, 2021 which of course was denied again. To date the USGOV is in violation of the law. That pesky "national security" clause always gets in the way.



Bon Appétit.



Jacqueline Kennedy hired French-born René Verdon (1924-2011) to be the White House chef in 1961, where he revolutionized the way food was prepared for the first family and their guests, and introduced Americans to French cooking.


October 26, 1963: JFK in rented open car, Amherst, Mass., with low security, lavish space between vehicles, motorcade route past open hill, no Secret Service agents next to President's car, opposing random traffic allowed on adjoining lane of street...27 days before Dallas:




Once upon a time for a short period where PBS aired this and Robert Parry's October Surprise Frontline documentaries.

The Secret Government (November 4, 1987)



The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis

Journalist Robert Parry: America's Hidden History | On Point - WBUR

October 26, 2015 | Investigative reporter Robert Parry on American journalism, now, and what we’re not being told about the living history of our country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYO1me7L-g0


"Investigative reporter Robert Parry (June 24, 1949 – January 27, 2018) is the kind of relentless digger that no small part of the American news media find too hot to handle. He went deep, back in the day, on American hostages, the “October surprise,” and the election of Ronald Reagan. He went deep on Iran-Contra and the adventures of the CIA in the cocaine trade. He’s still at it, writing and publishing unpopular truths. And talking about how too often we don’t know our own living history. And the news media’s not telling us. He just won the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. This hour On Point, tough reporter Robert Parry."
— Tom Ashbrook

Journalist Robert Parry

Related: I doubt the TV networks would air this today about Gladio:

BBC Timewatch 1992 - Operation Gladio



October 26, 2001: The nightmare begins. The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act (Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) into law.




Semiotic Apocalypse / Ghost of Burning Man? Not so sure I would have wanted to witness this in person...


It's a photo taken during the demolition of the Cockenzie Power Station in in East Lothian, Scotland, 2015.

You can witness the spooky imagery for yourself:




Here's a moment when you realize that a large number of people long for a totalitarian police state, provided it only targets their enemies. You can hear the voice, can’t you?


Who is "we"? Olbermann has always been a nasty little cry baby fascist.



‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump

The Pendulum of Peril persistently pounding, propelling us toward the pit of perpetual pandemonium!

"Destiny’s powerful hand has made the bed of my future, and it’s up to me to lie in it. I am destined to be a superhero, to right wrongs, and pound two-fisted justice into the hearts of evil-doers everywhere. You don’t fight destiny. No sir! And you don’t eat crackers in the bed of your future, or you get all… scratchy. Hey, I’m narrating here!" — The Tick, 1994

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, born in 1877 in Déva, Transylvania, the Hungarian aristocrat, paleontologist, and murderer who first described insular dwarfism, and the first man to hijack a plane. He also made a bid to become King of Albania.


Finally, in 1933, he fatally shot first his partner, Bayazid Elmas Doda, after having slipped sleeping powder into his tea. He then wrote a suicide note, where he states the reason for his actions a nervous breakdown, and shot himself. In his suicide note, he describes his reasons for killing his partner:

    The reason that I shot my longtime friend and secretary, Mr Bayazid Elmas Doda, in his sleep without his suspecting at all is that I did not wish to leave him behind sick, in misery and without a penny, because he would have suffered too much.

Interesting & wild Wiki page.



LOL, I'll bet she has some skills over Barron.




The term "collective memory" denotes the aggregate of memories, knowledge, and data that a social group holds, which is intrinsically linked to the group's identity. The term "collective memory" in English and its French counterpart "la mémoire collective" emerged in the latter half of the 19th century. Maurice Halbwachs, a philosopher and sociologist, further developed this concept in his 1925 work, "Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire". Both expansive and intimate social collectives can create, disseminate, and inherit collective memory.


Contrary to the term "collective memory," which is somewhat ambiguously defined yet generally accepted, the notion of "collective memories" is inherently problematic. Memories are the results of the individual acts of recollection, making the idea of "collective memories" paradoxical. Сontemporary diffusion models utilize vast amounts of often unidentified data, including historical and personal old photographs, vintage postcards, and other kinds of publicly circulating images. These models may be seen as involved in the prompts-driven singular acts of remembrance, producing images that paradoxically represent "collective memories," something otherwise unfeasible and ultimately, non-existent.


Non-lieu ("non-place" or "nonplace" in English) is a concept, introduced by French anthropologist Marc Augé. It describes transient spaces where people maintain anonymity and which lack the cultural or historical significance to be considered true "places" in anthropological terms. Augé contrasts this concept with "anthropological places," which are spaces that reinforce identity and facilitate meaningful social interactions among individuals with shared cultural references. Non-places, however, do not serve as meeting points or foster a sense of community. In essence, a non-place is an area we pass through rather than inhabit, where individuals remain detached, unnamed, and lonely.



Oxford researcher Stanislav Lvovsky's bizarre AI imagery on Flickr

Cartes postales de (Postcards from) Saint-Non-lieu VI



I see they got bored with drawing 2D straight lines in the desert and moved onto 3D. Ah, another vanity project.




Remember that time in 2016 when the Russian Embassy in London issued a warning about killer clowns?



I think that was a mass psyop to test out spreading fear through social media.


Make sure you vote!


https://x.com/UAPJames/status/1838434885578408077


Bottlecap madness...






Good night!

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October 27, 312: Roman Emperor Constantine the Great experienced a significant vision before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. He saw a cross of light in the sky with the inscription "In hoc signo vinces" (In this sign, you will win). Moved by this vision, Constantine had his soldiers mark their shields with the Chi-Rho, a Christian symbol. The following day, he defeated his rival Maxentius in battle, a victory many attribute to this divine intervention.


This vision was a turning point not only for Constantine but also for Christianity. Constantine's victory and subsequent conversion to Christianity led to the Edict of Milan in 313, which declared religious tolerance for Christianity within the Roman Empire. Larger image at the Vatican.


October 27, 1914: The legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales. His works include "Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light" and "Death shall have no dominion". In 2009, he was ranked 10th in a BBC poll to find the UK’s favourite poet.




October 27, 1941: FDR revealed existence of map showing Nazis in South America, particularly in Argentina, during Navy Day Dinner at Mayflower Hotel. "Hitler has often protested that his plans for conquest do not extend across the Atlantic Ocean. I have in my possession a secret map, made in Germany by Hitler’s government – by the planners of the new world order. It is a map of South America and a part of Central America as Hitler proposes to reorganize it,” ... "This map makes clear the Nazi design, not only against South America but against the United States as well", revealed US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his Navy Day address to the nation, broadcast on 27 October 1941.


The map, however, was a fake. World War II revisionists (not to put too fine a point on it: those who would have preferred the Nazis to win) claim this proves that FDR was a war-mongerer, prepared to lie shamelessly in order to drag the US into war. But in this case, FDR might have been more mongered against than mongering – the map most probably was a British forgery, not an American one.

As it turned out, World War II hardly touched South America. Only after the war did it gain some notoriety as the hideout of many top-level Nazis, including Eichmann (caught by the Israelis in Argentina) and Mengele (died peacefully in Brazil).

One of the biggest remaining mysteries of Roosevelt’s counterfeit Nazi map is whether or not the president himself was aware of the ruse. After all—real or fake—the secret, unseen map worked entirely in Roosevelt’s interest.

Cull believes Roosevelt may have known, or at least suspected, that the map was a fraud. “What convinced me,” he says, “was that if you look at Roosevelt’s own handwritten edits in the first few drafts of his Navy Day speech, you can see that he crosses out a line that says ‘I have in my possession a map of undoubted authenticity’ and eventually revises it to ‘I have in my possession a secret map.’ It’s almost like he’s trying to distance himself from the smoking gun in those revisions.”

The Astounding Counterfeit Nazi Invasion Map You’ve Never Heard Of

A Map of Nazi South America (Forged by the British)

Hitler’s amazing map that turned America against the Nazis: A leading novelist’s brilliant account of how British spies in the US staged a coup that helped drag Roosevelt to war


October 27, 1945: a theatrical reenactment of the atomic bombings was staged at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles—including pyrotechnics, a 16-foot wide color wheel, projections, and nearly a hundred 800-million-candlepower lights. It was a spectacle of light to celebrate the end of World War II and Navy Day. The event, titled "Tribute to Victory", was performed for at least a hundred thousand spectators (echoing a count of those who died in Nagasaki by the end of August) and concluded with a B-29 bomber flying over the stadium to symbolize the dropping of the atomic bomb.


The Los Angeles Times described the scene writing, “a terrific detonation shook the ground, a burst of flame flashed on the field and great billows of smoke mushroomed upward in an almost too-real depiction of devastation.” Two decades later, in 1976, another B-29 was flown as part of a reenactment in Texas. This time however, the exhibit featured a mushroom cloud and the plane was flown by Paul Tibbets, the pilot who flew the Enola Gay. Although, due to criticism the United States issued an apology to Japan for the display, it highlighted the way in which Americans viewed the use of the atomic bomb. The Japanese gov't were absolutely furious over the atomic spectacle.


"A TRIBUTE TO VICTORY - AND YOU" LA Transit Lines, Weekly Topics, Oct 22, 1945 (1-page PDF flyer)


Atomic Legacies: The Historical Significance of the Atomic Bomb In American and Japanese Cultures
A Thesis in History by Gretchen Walsh

Great American Desert - Notes
Stephen Connolly 16mm 16’ 2007
PDF


October 27, 1838: Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state immediately or be killed.


The order was directed to General John Bullock Clark, and it was implemented by the state militia to forcefully displace the Mormons from Missouri. In response to the order, the Mormons surrendered and subsequently sought refuge in Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1976, citing its unconstitutional nature, Missouri Governor Kit Bond formally rescinded it.

The question of whether anyone was directly killed as a result of the Extermination Order between its issuance on October 27, 1838, and the Mormon surrender on November 1, 1838, has been a subject of intense historical debate. The prevailing consensus among scholars is that there is insufficient evidence to suggest that militiamen invoked the order to justify their actions during that period.


Navy Day was established on October 27, 1922, by the Navy League of the United States, according to the Department of Defense. It was not a national holiday, but President Warren Harding paid special attention to the remembrance.


The Navy League suggested October 27th as Navy Day for two reasons: it’s the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, who was an assistant secretary of the Navy before he became president and was known as one of the Navy’s most influential strategists.

Secondly, it is the anniversary of a 1775 report issued by a special committee of the Continental Congress favoring the purchase of merchant ships as the foundation of an American Navy.


Armed Forces Day replaced Navy Day in 1949, but Navy Day is often still observed at military bases and in local communities to recognize sailors who serve and have served. The U.S. Navy has 330,696 active duty members as of 9/11/2024, including 55,416 officers and 270,861 enlisted.

Chief of Naval Operations at the time Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt worked with the Navy League to define October 13th as the new date of Navy Day.

However, Navy Day in the United States is still largely recognized as October 27.


October 27, 1945: 47 warships including USS Missouri participated in Navy Day in New York. Invited to tour the Missouri, New Yorkers promptly mugged the battleship by taking everything not welded down. Sailors lamented that the ship took more damage in NY than it had in the Pacific. NYC has always been a rough town.




HMS Warspite ran aground on her way to be broken up in 1947, but she decided to have it her way and refused to be moved to the scrapping yard. They had to break her apart piece by piece in the water which took years. According to the contractors, it remains the largest salvage operation ever carried out in British waters. The legendary Warspite carries the most battle honours of any ship in the Royal Navy. She became a symbol of British naval power and endurance. Its storied history and dramatic engagements have been chronicled in books, documentaries, and films.

HMS Warspite (1915-1945)
Motto: Belli dura despicio ("I Despise the Hardships of War")
Nickname: Grand Old Lady


HMS Warspite, a British battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class, is considered legendary for several reasons, primarily its impressive combat record, resilience, and notable historical events during its service and survived it all.

In total, her battles in the Second World War alone included Narvik, Norway, Calabria, the Mediterranean, the Malta convoys, Matapan, Crete, Sicily, Salerno, the English Channel, Normandy and the Bay of Biscay (History UK).

She served in the Grand Fleet, the Mediterranean Fleet, the Atlantic Fleet, the Home Fleet, the Eastern Fleet, and the Normandy task fleet. Like HMS King George V, she served in all oceans and all theatres. Over 8000 seamen (and the ship’s cat) served at her over the course of her life.

Maritimequest HMS Warspite Photo Gallery

This is a quite famous poem by a Warspite officer for HMS Warspite after she ran aground on the way to the scrapyard, many have said that few men have been the subject of such a fine epitaph:

THE SUBJECT

You say you have no subject
And your brushes all have dried;
But come to Marazion
At the ebbing of the tide.
And look you out to seaward,
Where my Lady battle scarred
Hugs the rock that is more welcome
Than the shameful breakers yard.

Paint her there upon the sunset
In her glory and despair,
With the diadem of victory
Still in flower in her hair.
Let her whisper as she settles
Of her blooding long ago,
In the mist than mingles Jutland
With the might of Scapa Flow.

Let her tell you, too, of Narvik
With its snowy hills, and then
Of Matapan, Salerno
And the shoals of Walcheren;
And finally of Malta,
When along the purple street
Came in trail the Roman Navy
To surrender at her feet.

Of all these honours conscious,
How could she bear to be
Delivered to the spoiler
Or severed from the sea?
So hasten then and paint her
In the last flush of her pride
On the rocks of Marazion,
At the ebbing of the tide.

— Lieutenant Commander R.A.B. Mitchell
HMS Warspite, No other battleship has a history like hers.


World War III: "Washington D.C. Under the Atomic Bomb" by Hal Boyle. From Collier's magazine, October 27, 1951.




RED October Day...

October 27, 1962: By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war. I guess if that story is to be believed he chose wisely. He was also involved in the nuclear K-19 accident.


October 27, 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".


Goldwater Victory Rally at Madison Square Garden sixty years ago this week. A Golden Shower for Goldwater. A real thing that happened sixty years ago this month.


Trump rally tonight at Madison Square Garden. Goldwater's rallies were as large as Trump rallies...and he still lost hugely to LBJ. Many have said the "Daisy Girl" television advert doomed Goldwater.


October 27, 1981: Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 designation U137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.


October 27, 1986: The British government, led by Margaret Thatcher, deregulated financial markets in what became known as the "Big Bang". In one fell swoop, the City of London moved to electronic trading and became a financial stock market centre to rival New York’s Wall Street.

October 27, 1988: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.


October 27, 1992: United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is senselessly and brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.


Helvey is still in prison.

I happened to be in the Navy on this day and several months earlier we had a junior sailor in our division that a few of us suspected was gay. Myself & good buddy didn't really care seeing we hung out with him in Thailand (he was too green to be left alone in such a country) and he didn't stand out as someone who was gay. However, a few other shipmates thought otherwise and reported it. After being questioned by our superiors the poor guy admitted he was in fact gay. Unfortunate for him we were way out in the middle of nowhere in the South China Sea. Fearing for his safety (word travels fast on a ship) our division officer ordered us to guard him 24/7 in quarantine until we pulled into a port. We actually felt sorry for him because he was quite intelligent when it came to electronics & computers.

About a week later we pulled into Subic Bay, Philippines where NCIS agents came aboard and took him into custody. Two weeks later he was booted out of the Navy and we never seen nor heard from him again.


Prepin for the big night coming...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 28, 1726: The classic satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by the Irish writer Jonathan Swift was published. The book includes 4 parts which tell the story of the adventurous voyage of Lemuel Gulliver to 4 different worlds.


View the film The New Gulliver on YouTube.


October 28, 1914: American medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk was born in New York City. He created the 1st approved polio vaccine in 1955. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.


Jonas Salk's book "Survival of the Wisest" (1973) which is actually about experimenting on people en masse by inoculations, and he is touted as a great hero. He makes 'no bones' about saying that the only people who are opposing us who stand up to this are people who have, what he calls, a "regressive world view", the traditionalists. By that he means anyone who doesn’t adopt full-on scientism. Salk was the 'father of mass vaccination' and a big inspiration for Bill Gates.

He doesn’t restrict it to Christianity, but obviously Christianity for him is one of the most dangerous opponents. (Remember all the strife with Christian churches during Covid?) He believed that is the only group that could stop what they are doing because they have a prolife attitude. He says that what we are really going to have to do is indoctrinate into people a pro-death attitude. He is completely candid about that. That’s not an interpretation; it explicitly says, "We can create a culture of death."

After the 1960’s and into the 1970’s, 1980’s, and 1990’s, you see this explosion of toxic culture of death largely through Hollywood – many degenerate productions from Hollywood. That’s what helps to create this culture of death which Salk and other social engineers think will be a way to eradicate the traditionalist mindset – basically anybody who believes. He does a make a point that "evolution favors the survival of the wisest" depending how one reads into it.


October 28, 1919: Today's Document is The Volstead Act implemented and provided an enforcement apparatus for the Eighteenth Amendment, which forbade the manufacture, transportation, and sale of "intoxicating beverages." Circumvention of the law led to bootlegging and the rise of organized crime.




October 28, 1942: General Leslie Groves drafted an order to intern physicist Leo Szilard "for the duration of the war." Groves’ plan was thwarted when Secretary of War Henry Stimson refused to sign the order.




October 28, 1945: Editorial cartoon by Reg Manning (1905 – 1986) published in the Southwest Wave newspaper of Los Angeles.


About one year later the Cold War started.


At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Milwaukee Sentinel published on its front page this haunting James L. Stanfield (1937-2023) photograph of Thomas Francis Ausloos and his classmates in the basement of Jefferson Elementary. Stanfield later went to become a National Geographic Photographer. NatGeo dedicated an entire issue to him in 1998, titled "Eye of the Beholder".




October 28, 1965: Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate ("In our time"), a decree absolving Jews of "collective guilt" for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ (known as the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions"). It reversed Pope Innocent III’s 760-year-old declaration.




Last night John Oliver briefly explained a Trump rally reference to President Dwight Eisenhower's deportation fiasco, "Operation Wetback." This 1954 initiative has largely been memory-holed by Eisenhower biographers like Evan Thomas and Stephen Ambrose, et al.




Putin’s Rasputin...


Metaphysics of Information Warfare


I came across this fascinating history book (6 volumes) titled "Ordo ab Chao" by David Livingstone on the largest global conspiracy ever perpetuated on humanity. The whole 6 volumes archived if you want to disappear for a few years down the history abyss or just use for reference. The United States has been able to maintain the illusion of democracy, when in fact, it operates under a system of legalized bribery called "lobbying," which allows special interests to effectively purchase the cooperation of designated politicians, such that the society’s laws increasingly serve the few, and make dissent ever less possible.

Volume Five: The New Age

The American far right was brought to power with Ronald Reagan, through an alignment with the Christian Right, feeding into the neoconservatives ambitions of a Clash of Civilizations, a Hegelian Dialectic being played by Alexander Dugin, advancing the return of Russia as the Third Rome.

Representatives of the American Security Council (ASC) and Le Cercle, the synarchist umbrella organization of the Fascist International, were involved in the Jerusalem Conference, organized by Benjamin Netanyahu in 1979, which produced an agenda that decided to characterize Islamic terrorism as the new threat. The result was to provoke Soviets to invade Afghanistan, and a counter-offence led by factions of the Muslim Brotherhood, funded through the Iran-Contra Operation, in league with the Safari Club of Saudi Arabia, and BCCI, involving members of the Secret Team put together by Ted Shackley of the CIA, who had been involved in the assassination of JFK, the Golden Triangle heroin trade and the Watergate “plumbers.”

Members of the Secret Team were also involved in a blackmail network that connected them to Project Monarch, an extension of MK-Ultra mind-control. Closely associated was the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), which conducted “remote-viewing” experiments known as Project Stargate. And, as a result of the Esalen Institute’s interest in the Russians’ use of “psychotronics,” and inspired by Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit and synarchist known as the “Catholic Darwin,” these influences produced the New Age movement, aligned with the environmental agenda of the Club of Rome, as well as the development of the personal computer and the Internet.

Esalen claims to have inspired Boris Yelstin’s conversion to capitalism. Yeltsin in turn appointed Putin as his successor, whose main ideologue is the leading synarchist of our time, Alexander Dugin, known as Putin’s Rasputin. In league with the agents of the Priory of Sion mythos, and inspired by the Third Secret of Fatima, Dugin is aiming to create the Empire of the End Times, uniting Russia with the nations of Eurasia against the NATO and America. His plan is in diametrical opposition to the Clash of Civilizations advanced by the neoconservatives, and pitted against the Christian Right, created by the Second New Right under Reagan within the Evangelical movement, as a Trojan Horse for neoliberal economic policies, through organizations like the Moral Majority and the Council for National Policy (CNP).

Team B
Secret Team
The Reagan Doctrine
Reaganomics
Second New Right
Project Monarch
Down Under
Sex, Lies and Wiretaps
Noosphere
Project Stargate
New Age
Psychic Warriors
Disclosure
Christofascism
The Clash of Civilizations
Black Order
Sacred Geopolitics
Third Secret of Fatima
Order of Eurasia

Dracula rises...


Dracula author's lost story unearthed after 134 years  |  @National Library of Ireland

You can now read Bram Stoker’s 'Gibbet Hill' available as part of the NLI’s digital collection. It's on page 2.

I find it funny how all of these long-lost works from long-dead artists have been coming up lately, right along with the rise of AI! Surely there is absolutely no correlation between these two facts at all.

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I been on the fence about a secret space program for years. Apparently, now Europe wants in on the space faring race.


Europe's bold 'Explore 2040' campaign aims to get astronauts to the moon and Mars


Appears to be an awful lot of strategic intel leakage and politicization of the intelligence community lately.

"The first person I heard use "tradecraft" to describe the mechanics of secret intelligence was Allen Dulles. I doubt that he coined the expression, but he obviously liked the homespun sound of it. A colleague has pointed out that the Russian term for the arts and practices of espionage is "conspiracy," and that while American operatives learned tradecraft, their Russian antagonists were boning up on conspiracy. My friend thought that the slightly sinister overtone of the Russian term was more fitting a secret intelligence organization."
— CIA director Richard Helms




Checking in on downtown Philadelphia...



Bellum omnium contra omnes - A War of All against All. The final outcome of that war is your right side goes to war with your left side, physically. A clash of forces (technology, geopolitics, culture, all ideas, all beliefs) brewing into a battle royal on the world's stage where everyone is divided, to be harvested by those dark forces. Mind war. If humanity could come together we'd probably be colonizing Mars by 2030.


OK, the acronym creation is getting out of control. As Buddha is my witness, if you held a gun to my head I could not pronounce, "OWAUAS".
"Oh-Wow-Ass" ?

DOD’s collective IQ dropped 10 points just because of this acronym.


Central Command Weekly Update

It is the newspeak word for "unmanned."


Gee, can’t imagine how this will turn out!


AI ‘Will Enhance’ Nuclear Command and Control, Says Stratcom Boss

"By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It was software; in cyberspace. There was no system core; it could not be shutdown. The attack began at 6:18 PM, just as he said it would. Judgment Day, the day the human race was almost destroyed by the weapons they'd built to protect themselves. I should have realized it was never our destiny to stop Judgment Day, it was merely to survive it, together. The Terminator knew; he tried to tell us, but I didn't want to hear it. Maybe the future has been written. I don't know; all I know is what the Terminator taught me; never stop fighting. And I never will. The battle has just begun."
— John Connor, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

AI needs constant data. It needs new data. What happens when it runs out of data after it consumes all the data on the Internet? No more data mining. What then??


Echoes of Civilization...




Remember the simple days of the 21st century...




Some bedtime terror with Jewish psychic Nazi leprechauns...


Here's a wild review if you dare.

Who is this author?
The Martians and Us 3: The End of the World as We Know It (BBC Four, Monday 27th November 2006) Series about the history of British science fiction. A look at the genre of destruction, where the writers abandon time travel and alien invasion and declare the end of the world as we know it. VIDEO





A shining light against the darkness...


As to inspire the next generation to look upward and outward toward the stars.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Photo of the Day: Corner shop at World’s End, Vauxhall, London (1954).


Photo by Inge Morath (27 May 1923 – 30 January 2002) Austrian photographer.

Lost and Found: Inge Morath First Color  | Inge Morath Remembered


October 29, 1929: "Black Tuesday" happened. This was the day the Wall Street Stock Market suffered its most devastating fall. It was followed by the "Great Depression" And the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, which had a huge impact on trade and international upheaval around the world. End of the world times I tell ya. But, somehow we're still here.




October 29, 1956: TIME magazine. Maria Callas, La Divina ("the Divine one") (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) mistress to Aristotle Onassis before he married Jackie Kennedy. In 1957, while still married to Giovanni Battista Meneghini, Callas was introduced to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis at a party given in her honor by Elsa Maxwell, the original party girl.


Marina Abramović is certainly no stranger to being center stage

Life of Maria Callas |  Maria Callas Museum is dedicated to one of the most important lyric singers of all time |  Wiki  | Official website of the Maria Callas Estate


October 29, 1956: The Suez Crisis aka Second Arab–Israeli War, aka the Tripartite Aggression (in the Arab world) and as the Sinai War, officially begins as Israel invades Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The Israelis are joined by the Franco-British forces two days later, which attack near the Suez canal zone. The war lasted nine days resulting in a military victory for the Coalition, but a political victory for Egypt as they maintained control of the canal.



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



October 29, 1969: "Lo" and behold: SkyNet inception.

The 1st computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. The first successful connection on ARPANET was made between SRI (Stanford Research Institute) programmer, Bill Duvall, and UCLA student programmer, Charley Kline.

First ARPANET IMP log: the first message ever sent via the ARPANET, 10:30 pm PST on 29 October 1969 (6:30 UTC on 30 October 1969). This IMP Log excerpt, kept at UCLA, describes setting up a message transmission from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer.



The initials "CSK" in the log stand for Charles S. Kline. Charley was the first person to ever login to a remote host via the ARPANET. His supervising professor was Leonard Kleinrock. Here is a video of Kleinrock showing the original IMP LOG: "The First Internet Connection".

Kline typed the command "login," but initially the SDS 940 crashed after he typed two characters. About an hour later, after Duvall adjusted parameters on the machine, Kline tried again and successfully logged in. Hence, the first two characters successfully transmitted over the ARPANET were "lo".

UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock shows Internet's first router, or "packet switch" known as an Interface Message Processor (IMP)

Kleinrock's work and the birth of the internet were also captured in a 2016 Werner Herzog film, “Lo And Behold: Reveries of the Connected World.”


"Ford to City: Drop Dead"

In a speech before the National Press Club on October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford denies the near-bankrupt New York City a federal bailout, prompting the New York Daily News to run the infamous "Drop Dead" headline the next day. Wild West days in NYC...





The Pentagon doesn't appear to employ graphic artists, but it still tries. On October 29, 2020, U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force—a DoD team that “ensures commanders can maintain the freedom to operate in the cyber domain”— tweeted a meme of a Soviet bear dropping a Halloween candy bucket full of malware. Candy labeled with words like “X-Agent,” “XTunnel,” and “ComRat” flew from the poor bear's candy basket. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act Request filed by Runa Sandvik, a senior advisor for Norway’s Armed Force Cyber Defense, we have a 23 page report detailing Cyber Command’s creation of the image.


FOIA: The creation of the 2020 ComRAT Tv4 illustration



The FBI posted what appears to be part of its file (mostly from its Los Angeles field office) on actor Donald Sutherland. The most interesting memo addresses an entrapment case set up by LAPD agent provocateur James Jarrett, who planted weapons on Sutherland's then-wife Shirley and activist Donald Freed. One of the frightened babies referenced here would have been actor Kiefer Sutherland.


FBI File: Donald Sutherland Part 01

The FBI surveillance led directly to Sutherland being placed on an NSA watch list during the production of the surveillance thriller Klute:

In early 1971 while Donald Sutherland was wrapping up filming on Klute, a movie about surveillance, he was likely being spied on by the NSA, which had added him to its Watch List at the request of the FBI.


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



The earliest hell house may have been created by Trinity Assembly of God in Dallas Texas. It was popularized by Rev. Jerry Falwell in the late 1970's. The concept was picked up in 1992 by Keenan Roberts. His first Hell House was in Roswell, NM. Since then, he has become a pastor of the Abundant Life Church in Arvada, Colorado. He sells "Hell House Outreach" kits to other churches. Included is a 263 page manual which covers "everything from media publicity to casting and costume."

The first known hell house was set up in Lynchburg, Virginia, beginning production in 1972, and was called the "ScareMare".



From 1995, the concept was promoted and adapted by Keenan Roberts, originally of Roswell, New Mexico, who started a Hell house in Arvada, Colorado. Since that time, Hell houses have become a regular fixture of the Halloween season in parts of the United States. Roberts remained active in the Hell house ministry by providing kits and directions to enable churches to perform their own attractions. As of 2023, a package of hell house scripts and scenes was being sold for $479.

Hell House Explained

The wages of rage: A year of outrage (The Christian Century; Jan 6, 1999)

CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY-BASED
PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN
CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICA
Kristen A. Messer, Ph.D., 2009
Dissertation


R.I.P. Teri Garr...


Variety

Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" (S02E26, aired Mar 29, 1968) Teri Garr as Roberta Lincoln, her first significant TV role.

Early on in her career she was a background dancer in the memorable "T.A.M.I Show." There in the background, the bullseye sweatshirt...

The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (TAMI Show 1964) [Restored]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7c-wEagF6k

I think this may be her in the yellow miniskirt in a Gary Lewis & The Playboys 1965:

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 28, 2016: October surprise letter...




Guess who just got out of prison...





Weather boys...


NOAA Severe Weather 101


Random weekly photos from Reuters and The Guardian...




I've heard in Australia you can use these GSM passive signal boosters.
If you hold your mobile Phone at the red pole, this dish and plate will amplify the signal. Probably an Aussie tale, but who knows.





Raven Rendezvous by Shane Lamb








Roytish days ahead with plenty of helluation. Words for Halloween Magick...


In Latin, invidia is the sense of envy, a "looking upon" associated with the evil eye, from invidere, "to look against, to look in a hostile manner." Invidia ("Envy") is one of the Seven Deadly Sins in Christian belief.

The ancient blue and white "Nazar boncuğu" is a symbol against the evil eye. Image above is the stylised eye as it appears on a Turkish airplane. The airline was the short-lived Fly Air.

In Southern Germany, Alsace and areas of Switzerland, young Jewish boys wore textile neckbands or collars for their brit milah. Coins or coral stones on these neckbands were meant to distract the evil eye away from the boys, thus serving as a form of protection. This practice continued until the early 20th century. These neckbands were also worn by pregnant or birthing women to prevent miscarriage and protect a new-born child.

Hogwarts School of Floromancy

[EndtheMadnessNow]

October 30, 1938: Orson Welles' THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was broadcast.



Midshipman Ed Beach rushed to alert the duty officer of the Martian invasion. His gullibility was mocked with a cartoon in the school magazine. He later became a decorated submarine commander of WWII and wrote the famous 1955 novel RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP.



Captain Edward Latimer Beach Jr. was Eisenhower military naval aide, who developed the nuclear football protocol and who carried the first nuclear football.





October 30, 1958: at RAF Sculthorpe, ~3 miles west of Fakenham, England, US Air Force atomic bomb technician Master Sgt. Leander V. Cunningham, 41, suffered a mental breakdown, locked himself in the bomb maintenance building, and threatened to detonate a Mark-5 bomb by shooting it with his .45 pistol.

Although the bomb likely did not contain a fissile plutonium capsule—meaning it could not achieve a nuclear detonation—shooting it could have set off the bomb's conventional high explosives, killing Cunningham, possibly igniting other bombs inside, and causing significant damage.

After an 8-hour standoff, during which Cunningham reportedly climbed into the building's rafters, he was talked down and surrendered peacefully. After some medical care and evaluation, the senior technician was sent home to the United States.

Pre-Dr. Strangelove times...


The USAF tried to hush up the incident, but word quickly leaked out from people who worked at the base and had seen or heard about it. Press coverage, not always accurate, increased public interest. On November 5, Harold Davies, a member of Parliament from Staffordshire, inquired about the “beserk American airman” and nuclear weapons safety. Secretary for Air George Ward replied, “It is impossible for one individual to set off a nuclear explosion ... even assuming that he could get into the building, which I think would have been impossible.”

Not until 1962 did the government officially acknowledge Cunningham's dire intentions that day. But US officials refused to confirm whether any plutonium or uranium was in the building at the time of the incident, though they admitted that the high explosives could have gone off.

As a result of the public disclosure of this incident and lingering UK concerns about the mental stability of people working with/near nuclear weapons, the Department of Defense created the “two-man rule” and the Personnel Reliability Program to carefully screen such individuals.


October 30, 1961: the Soviet Union detonated the "RDS-220" hydrogen bomb variously known as “Big Ivan” or “Tsar Bomba” (King of Bombs), the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever created and tested. The bomb with an estimated yield of 57 Megatons was dropped from a Tu-95 bomber and detonated at an altitude of 4 km over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.

The mushroom cloud rose 67 kilometers into the atmosphere. In the photo the diameter of the fireball is about 5 miles (8 kilometers). The initial fireball was visible from 620 miles (1000 kilometers) from the hypocenter. A visible shock wave in the air was seen at a distance of 435 miles (700 kilometers). The shock wave from the explosion traveled around the world three times.


The Soviets reduced its yield in HALF to give the air crew dropping it a 50% chance of surviving. Had they detonated it at full yield (100 MT) the Tupolev would have been blown out of the sky. The crew survived, but their plane was blown 1000 meters lower by the gust of the shockwave.

After the nuclear explosion data was analyzed by the Foreign Weapons Evaluation Panel (the “Bethe Panel”) the RDS-220 yield was estimated at 57 megatons. This was the largest nuclear weapon detonation in history. It was also the “cleanest,” with 97% of the energy yield produced by fusion. Relative to the size of the explosion, very little fallout was produced or so we are told.

Mother of all Nukes


October 30, 1965: Supermodel Jean Rosemary Shrimpton (born 7 November 1942) caused a fashion sensation on Derby Day at Flemington racecourse in Melbourne by wearing a dress called "The Mini". The dress was made by Shrimpton’s dressmaker, Colin Rolfe, and its hem was only 4 inches above the knee. She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the world's first supermodels.





It's About Time TV series by the creator of Gilligan's Island. First episode aired on 9/11/66.




October 30th: Jack Torrance and his family arrived at The Overlook Hotel to look after the place over the winter.




Words for Halloween eve...


In The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, Clarice Starling reveals to Hannibal Lecter one detail of her father's last days in a hospital: an elderly neighbour reading to him the last lines of "Thanatopsis."

Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant (1821) (last stanza)

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.



Brigadier General Buzz Aldrin Endorses Donald J. Trump for President of the United States


Forget donkeys and elephants. They're not American.

You know what is American? The Trash Panda. Mr. Garbage himself.

[Freija]

War of the World panic and terror you say? Maybe not so much as apparently, some claim it is more of a case of media hyped hysteria than actual fact. Imagine that – media spinning a story to sell papers? Something like that could never happen today, right? /s

I watched the below video this evening that debunks much of the hoopla surrounding the War of the World broadcast and comparing it with a 1994 television program the media also claimed fooled people creating a subsequent panic. However, no such actual reports of panic or hysteria could be verified suggesting once again the media was doing what the media does.



The 1994 movie mentioned in “The Best Alien Invasion Movie You Probably Haven’t Seen” video was called Without Warning. It was done in the style of we-interrupt-this-program-with-a-special bulletin but throughout the program and when returning from commercial breaks, disclaimers were given that this story was purely fiction and not really happening. News sources reported many believed it was real but digging deeper, none of these stories could be proven factual.

There are two versions of Without Warning available on YouTube. One has all the warnings and disclaimers including the commercials shown during the airing and the other without the warnings and commercials.

Having not seen or recalling watching this, remembering now I didn’t even have a TV in 1994, I decided to watch the version stripped of the disclaimers and commercials and found it very entertaining and extremely well done.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Since my Halloween post was denied by the database goblins here's my late entry.

“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly, “‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I have many curious things to shew when you are there.” “Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne’er come down again.”
- “The Spider and the Fly: A Fable” (1829) by Mary Howitt (1799–1888)








Orson Welles in BLACK MAGIC (1949) / Black Magic by Michael A. Aquino / The Sorceress / The Dark Lords...



"True black magic is performed with the aid of a demoniacal spirit, who serves the sorcerer for the length of his earthly life, with the understanding that after death the magician shall become the servant of his own demon. For this reason, a black magician will go to inconceivable ends to prolong his physical life, since there is nothing for him beyond the grave."
- Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings Of All Ages



"And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children’...And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments...And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants...who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind...and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones." – (Book of Enoch)
The Female Illuminati


An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe - Starring Vincent Price




October 31, 1900:




October 31, 1945 / 1949:


Manning won the Pulitzer Prize in 1951.


October 31, 1951:

Elizabeth was not yet queen when, at the age of 25, the princess first met an American president. Harry Truman and his wife Bess hosted Elizabeth and Prince Philip on a two-day visit to Washington D.C. Acting on behalf of her father King George VI, who was gravely ill at the time, Elizabeth gave Truman an ornate 18th-century ‘over mantle’ to hang above a fireplace in the White House, as Pathé newsreel from the time shows. The president said that, while he had received many guests in Washington, “never before have we had such a wonderful young couple, who have so completely captured the hearts of all of us.”

Here’s How Every Meeting Between the Queen and a U.S. President Went

A Descent into the Maelstrom. By the Master Storyteller, Edgar Allan Poe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjoPp8dFCHY


The title is a play on McLuhan's often-quoted phrase "The medium is the message." The book was initiated by Quentin Fiore. McLuhan adopted the term "massage" to denote the effect of numerous media in how they massage the human sensorium.

The FAQ section on the website maintained by McLuhan's estate says:

Why is the title of the book The Medium is the Massage and not The Medium is the Message?

Actually, the title was a mistake. When the book came back from the typesetter’s, it had on the cover “Massage” as it still does. The title was supposed to have read “The Medium is the Message” but the typesetter had made an error. When Marshall saw the typo he exclaimed, “Leave it alone! It’s great, and right on target!”

Now there are four possible readings for the last word of the title, all of them accurate: “Message” and “Mess Age,” “Massage” and “Mass Age.”

Sailors have dressed up in costumes for centuries as they celebrate line crossing ceremonies, most commonly as they cross the equator. Ceremonies often culminated in "Neptune parties" where crews dressed up as King Neptune and members of his court.


The Great White Fleet Crossing The Line Cermony

This will give you an idea of my party fun days when crossing that LINE...




The Halloween Special Words!

[EndtheMadnessNow]

And into The Month we go!

“You look tired, Anne,” he said.

“I am tired, and, worse than that, I’m disgruntled. I’m tired because I’ve been packing my trunk and sewing all day. But I’m disgruntled because six women have been here to say good-bye to me, and every one of the six managed to say something that seemed to take the color right out of life and leave it as gray and dismal and cheerless as a November morning.”

“Spiteful old cats!” was Gilbert’s elegant comment.

...

It was November—the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul. Anne was not wont to be troubled with soul fog. But, somehow, since her return to Redmond for this third year, life had not mirrored her spirit back to her with its old, perfect, sparkling clearness.

Anne of the Island (1915) by Lucy Maud Montgomery.


November 1, 1922: BBC Radio Licences went on sale at a cost of 10 shillings (50p). By the end of 1923, 200,000 licences had been issued and by 1928 this figure had risen to 2,500,000. The Post Office retained 12.5% of the fee to cover administration. The UK Government decided that the fledgling British Broadcasting Company would be funded, not by commercials, but by the introduction of a compulsory radio licence. Anyone wanting to listen to radio programmes had to have one...a situation that lasted until 1971!!

Here is the first ever reminder that this official history has ever come across... dating from January 1925:




Nov 1, 1941: American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.



A Halloween Story: Unearthing the Enigma of Moonrise


Wild story that the Fenian Brotherhood made the first real practical submarine then voluntarily disbanded in 1883 and then William "Wild Bill" Donovan created the OSS sixty years later having heard the stories of the Fenians in Buffalo, NY from his Grandpa.


"Wild Bill” Donovan - World War I Hero  | Fenian Ram


Nov 1, 1948: Torches at the Capitol.

"It was a curious anticlimax. Republicans had waited for years for the great day when the country would come to its senses and turn the Democrats out."




Nov 1, 1962: "Let's get a lock for this thing" on the editorial page of the Washington Post. Cartoon by Herbert Lawrence Block aka Herblock (1909-2001).


Within days of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., Herblock pointed his finger at Richard Nixon, proving that cartoonists have more flexibility than other journalists. He beat Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s October 10, 1972, exposé of the break-in by almost four months. In 1973, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Herb Block, and their editor, Roger Wilkins, shared a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Watergate story.

He coined the term "McCarthyism" in 1950. Herblock won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, and the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979. In 1986 he received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College, and in 1999 an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Harvard University.

You can view his illustration works at the Library of Congress


UK #1 on this day in 1988: Enya - Orinoco Flow



Remix with some bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek4xM3f67J4



NASA Reveals Spooky Eyes in Space]


The Atlantic rag recycle will post something like this and in the same breath call RFK Jr. a conspiracy nutjob. Good thing all mine are pink!




The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say two videos spread online -- one purporting to show a man from Haiti voting illegally in Georgia and one accusing someone associated with Harris' ticket of taking a bribe from a U.S. entertainer  are fake. And of course they say they were made by Russia.

Three intel agencies putting out the same message:


ODNI  |  CISA  |  FBI



A glimpse into the Quad7 operators’ next moves and associated botnets


We are really doing this days before the election? Why yes. "In case Trump wins, we goto war... But, first we scare them with our trusty 72 year old BUFF B-52s!"

[EndtheMadnessNow]

November 2, 1903: The Daily Mirror was launched. Founded by Alfred Harmsworth (later 1st Viscount Northcliffe) of the Daily Mail making it the UK’s oldest surviving tabloid newspaper. It was described as "a newspaper for women, run by women". It was the only major British daily newspaper to be aimed specifically at women, but it failed to attract enough readers and was relaunched as a popular tabloid.


Daily Mirror 1st Issue


Nov 2, 1924: "The Last Man on Earth" a sci-fi comedy film imagining a female-ruled world, is released. Earle Fox plays a hermit who, in the year 1954, learns a disease called "masculitis" has killed off all other males past age 14, and women of Earth compete for his affections.



Regarded as the first film to portray a female president of the USA. She lives in a White House whose grounds are overrun by weeds, since only men know gardening. Women are also doctors, boxers and gangsters. Fashions run to bloomer-ish dresses and flamboyant hats. The premise of a future matriarchy is fascinating but only exploited for cheap gags, as the women characters are ditzy and undeveloped. Still, one writer judges this to be the first true U.S. science-fiction movie.

It is nothing short of a culture scandal that the first US science fiction feature film STILL hasn’t had any sort of home video or online release. There’s a perfectly good copy of the film sitting in the archives of MoMa in New York, and it’s even dragged out every now and then for film festivals and exhibitions. But for some reason MoMa seems allergic to letting the general public get its hands on the movie.

A Journey in Science Fiction Movies

Film should be in Public Domain, but the quality may vary.

Although filmed as a regular comedy, The Last Man on Earth was banned by the Virginia State Board of Censors for having women contending over a single man. As stated by the Board in a 29 October 1924 memorandum:

Although "The Last Man on Earth" is a comedy which has somewhat elaborately been staged, and does not purport to carry a serious message, the picture is of such a nature as to justify its total rejection in its present form. It is full of suggestive situations and questionable sub-titles calculated to convey a double meaning. The dignity of womanhood is flouted in almost every reel and an effort is made to win the laughter of the beholder through indecent scenes and salacious or smutty sub-titles. Even if the sub-titles and situations depicted could pass muster, there would still be a question as to whether or not the costumes worn by the actors come within the bounds of propriety.

The story of the comedy represents women of various ages contending in the most shameless fashion for the possession of a young man. Little, if any, attempt is made to conceal the fact that they are impelled by sex impulse. In some of the scenes the suggestion is so broad as to give one a positive shock.

Virginia’s Board of Censors

The film was also banned by the British Board of Film Censors. Well of course they did!



November 2, 1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman gained a surprise victory over Thomas Dewey in the Presidential Election. A Chicago newspaper had wrongly printed a banner headline stating Dewey had won, based on an exit poll. The famous jubilant Truman photo, the entire front page, and note the upside-down type in the lede story (right-side column).


‘Dewey Defeats Truman’: The Election Upset Behind the Photo



Nov 2, 1962: The Koven Fallout Shelter company had a "short-circuit" in their telephone service at during the Cuban Missile Crisis. They published an apology (after the crisis). It appears two years earlier they seen a fallout market for the home owner besides their "steel" swimming pools, heating boilers and water heaters.




An Escape Room Called Humanus By Bernard Louis De Koven (1941-2018)

Humanus is a "simulation game" (what we call "serious games" nowadays). It was designed by Paul A. Twelker and Kent Layden, and published, in 1973, by a company then called SIMILE II, and now known as Simulation Training Systems.

The game consists of a handbook and a cassette tape, and I happen to have one of the few remaining tapes (but not the handbook).

The game allows us to explore some of the hard issues that would befall people in a bomb shelter after a some kind of biological war or plague. The audio is relatively brief, but the questions it raises are profound, provocative and timeless.

Gather a small group of deep thinking players (middle-school-age on up) around your audio source. Once you start the audio, you'll hear what sounds like strange computer sounds followed by a computer-generated voice - uninflected, echoey. It announces its presence: "You are the survivors. This is a voice printout of your survival computer. You may call me Humanus."

Elon Musk: ..."by any means possible."


https://x.com/politvidchannel/status/185...3134939178

So, Elon just gave a reason for a lot of people to vote for her. LOL. Besides nobody is going to shutdown X/Twitter. It's a mega datamine harvesting machine that serves all alphabet agencies world-wide.



Inside America’s UFO Cults: A Look at Manipulation and Misinformation in the UFO Counterculture...

In the perplexing subculture of UFO beliefs, individuals with cult-like followings and frequent claims associated with dubious “whistleblowers” aren’t uncommon. But how can you separate genuine voices from those leveraging UFO lore for personal or financial gain?

In a new documentary, Dark Alliance: The Inside Story of the Cosmic Con, filmmaker Darcy Weir dives into one section of the UFO counterculture, narrowing in on two well-known figures: David Wilcock and Corey Goode, presenting them as case studies in manipulation and the spread of misinformation within the UFO community and its associated areas of belief.

In Dark Alliance, Weir takes his viewers on a journey of exploration into how these two controversial figures came to fool not only the community they serve, but also some of the people who brought them to the top.

However, the cautionary tale Weir presents is far from new: the events he chronicles echo the actions of cults and similar groups from over the years, many of which bear a resemblance to some of today’s alleged UFO whistleblowers, self-proclaimed insiders, and cult leaders.



Inside America’s UFO Cults: A Look at Manipulation and Misinformation in the UFO Counterculture

The Docu is streaming on AppleTV, TUBI, Amazon.




Simply replace "aliens" with "decepticon humans" doing dark magic.


Your UFO Message of the Day!





Weekend words...



Yesterday's Gossip
She raced down the perquage, all bustle and flurry,
To relay the gossip at this week’s muffin-worry.
But exulansis loomed large, and her tales all fell flat,
Deemed pisspotical prattle and a little old hat.


If you're wondering what is all the squirrel pisspotical about...


Peanut The Squirrel's Owner Rips New York for Seizing, Killing Social Media Star

I suspect the reason the Peanut story is resonating so much is that it's such a clarifying example of how mundane and pervasive petty tyranny has become.


"Will this wonderful civilization of to-day perish? Yes, everything perishes. Will it rise and exist again? It will -- for nothing can happen that will not happen again. And again, and still again, forever. It took more than eight centuries to prepare this civilization -- then it suddenly began to grow, and in less than a century it is becoming a bewildering marvel. In time, it will pass away and be forgotten. Ages will elapse, then it will come again; and not incomplete, but complete; not an invention nor discovery nor any smallest detail of it missing. Again it will pass away, and after ages will rise and dazzle the world again as it dazzles it now -- perfect in all its parts once more. It is the Law of Periodical Repetition."

- Mark Twain, "Passage from a Lecture" published in Fables of Man

[Bally002]

Glad I haven't told anyone about my 3 legged drop bear koala and the tailless toothed platypus. Got rid of the hoop snake by rolling it down the hill after it recovered from a terrible fall. 

My goodness. a squirrel and a racoon.  Their demise is unwarranted.

Kind regards,

Bally.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

November 3, 1933: John Barry was born in York. He composed the scores for 11 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, and arranged and performed the iconic “James Bond Theme” for the first film in the series, Dr No. Also, was uncredited conductor in the interesting romantic time travel film, Somewhere in Time (1980).




November 3, 1948: Lulu (Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie), was born in Lennoxtown, Scotland. She rose to fame with her UK hit, Shout. She had a US #1 hit with To Sir With Love, was joint winner of 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, and sang the Bond theme, The Man With The Golden Gun.

Lulu - The Man With The Golden Gun (Top Of The Pops, 1975)




November 3, 1954: Happy Birthday Godzilla, a weapon of science, a great battle of wonder and terror! GOJIRA aka GODZILLA was released in Japan. All hail the king.




November 3, 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson soundly defeated the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater, in the US Presidential Election. During the election campaign, Goldwater was depicted by the Democrats as a right-wing fanatic. Goldwater's campaign slogan was "In Your Heart You Know He's Right" which prompted this witty badge response. LBJ was a wild cowboy nutcase. In 1993, Goldwater campaigned to prevent people who were homosexual from being expelled from the military.




November 3, 1995: Dateline NBC broadcast the segment "Forbidden City," containing the very first video footage from INSIDE the Greenbrier Bunker.

For me, however, there is never a November 3 (what a date this continues to be!) that goes by that I do not think about another “Greek Island,” especially on this 25th Anniversary of its national exposure on NBC-TV’s “Dateline” documentary hosted by Stone Phillips.

This “Greek Island” was never intended to be a warm and welcoming place. In fact, it was nowhere near Greece, nor was it even an island, at all. But it was all too terrifyingly real!

The “Greek Island” indelibly imprinted into my November memory was the code name of a top-secret Cold War (Circa1960-1990’s) facility that lay underneath The Greenbrier, the legendary, five-star, historic resort in the hills of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

That secrecy effectively ended in May 1992 when the Washington Post Magazine published a cover story “The Last Resort,” that initially exposed it. But “the bunker’s reality” wasn’t made official until November 3, 1995 when NBC-TV’s “Dateline” program, hosted by Stone Phillips and produced by Chris Scholl, revealed it in a 20-minute featured segment.

Remembering ‘Project Greek Island’

November 3, 1998: Mind Over Matter is Patented, US5830064A granted for "Apparatus and method for distinguishing events which collectively exceed chance expectations and thereby controlling an output."


Patently Absurd

Mindsong was a spin-off from Princeton University's Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program. PEAR was established at Princeton University in 1979 by Robert G. Jahn, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice. Since that time, an interdisciplinary staff of engineers, physicists, psychologists, and humanists had been conducting a comprehensive agenda of experiments and developing complementary theoretical models to enable better understanding of the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality.

One of the people involved in that line of work was Dean Radin.
Supernormal by Dean Radin, Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences



Real Magic - Dean Radin: "Not magic like a Hogwarts letter arriving in the mail, or the feigned magic of Houdini, but real magic: A genuine but hidden power that resides within each individual. A power tied to our consciousness. A power that makes phenomena like telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis not only possible, but inevitable." Check out his website super-woo science library, hundreds of papers.

More spiritual pharma...

The BIAL Foundation was created in 1994 by the BIAL pharmaceutical company and the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities with a mission to foster scientific study of the human being from both physical and spiritual perspectives. Focus area is Parkinson’s disease and Epilepsy, Psychophysiology and Parapsychology. In the USA they are BIAL Biotech. The Foundation Board includes Julia Mossbridge & Dean Radin of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).

The BIAL Foundation database...for those interested in analyzing progress in the areas preferentially funded by the Foundation allowing the online search of scientific production in the areas of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.

A recent paper by Dean Radin:

Quantum aspects of the brain-mind relationship: A hypothesis with supporting evidence

Abstract

If all aspects of the mind-brain relationship were adequately explained by classical physics, then there would be no need to propose alternatives. But faced with possibly unresolvable puzzles like qualia and free will, other approaches are required. In alignment with a suggestion by Heisenberg in 1958, we propose a model whereby the world consists of two elements: Ontologically real Possibles that do not obey Aristotle's law of the excluded middle, and ontologically real Actuals that do. Based on this view, which bears resemblance to von Neumann's 1955 proposal (von Neumann, 1955), and more recently by Stapp and others (Stapp, 2007; Rosenblum and Kuttner, 2006), measurement that is registered by an observer's mind converts Possibles into Actuals. This quantum-oriented approach raises the intriguing prospect that some aspects of mind may be quantum, and that mind may play an active role in the physical world. A body of empirical evidence supports these possibilities, strengthening our proposal that the mind-brain relationship may be partially quantum.

Snippet from his lengthy Bio:

Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic espionage for the US government (now commonly known by one of the program's many codewords: Star Gate).
....
a degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude and with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), a masters in electrical engineering focusing on cybernetics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and then a PhD in psychology, also from UIUC. For my dissertation I developed and tested what was probably the first computer-based, artificial-intelligence-enhanced, touch-typing training system (in 1979).
...
As of November 2021, I've participated in some 42 TV and film documentaries, and I've been a consultant for a number of feature films with psi-oriented themes.

Marina Abramović's (yes, that witch) brother Velimir Abramović is a Serbian publicist, university professor and obsessive researcher of the character and work of Tesla. In 2001, he founded the private philosophy school Institute of Time Science (Akademia NOIA) in Barajevo. What is interesting about NOIA is that they concern themselves with the study of "Noosphere".

The noösphere is a philosophical concept developed and popularized by the Russian-Ukrainian Soviet biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky, and the French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, back in the 1920s.

One of the original aspects of the noösphere concept deals with evolution by a constant vital force which animates life and fundamentally connects mind and body, an idea opposing the mind-body dualism of French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician René Descartes.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences funds the Global Consciousness Project at Princeton.



Lucid Dreaming Screening, Consent, and Study Questionnaire


Fluoridation back in the news...




Prouder, Stronger, Better, it’s morning in America...



No idea who is going to win this years American (s)election season, but there are already reports of election shenanigans.


You can tell which Deep State faction a politician is a part of based on thumb positioning: do you have a membership at the Bohemian Club, or are you a part of the NGO-Industrial Complex?




November Landscape

The lawns, the light, the shrouded trees are grey,
The lake in trance repeats the moveless day;
Yet, like a royal ghostly barge, moves on
In proud insulted thought, a single swan.

Frances Darwin Cornford

[Bally002]

The hand sign given by politicians at the end of this latest OP was understood to me to be the sign of worshipping the devil with horns.  Thumb in or thumb out doesn't matter.

Anyway I'm behind the times as I'm an old fart but would never use this hand gesture due to beliefs.

Otherwise great insights,

Kind regards,

Bally)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

The hand sign given by politicians at the end of this latest OP was understood to me to be the sign of worshipping the devil with horns.  Thumb in or thumb out doesn't matter.

Anyway I'm behind the times as I'm an old fart but would never use this hand gesture due to beliefs.

Otherwise great insights,

Kind regards,

Bally)

Yes, the horns symbolism from 20+ years ago, at least on the Interwebs. As you probably know a lot of meanings have been passed around.


November 4, 1952: election night on TV, with results via chalk and computer.

In 1952 television was just beginning to make serious inroads in the American living room. Household penetration that year was at 34.2 percent, a sign of the coming boom that would take that number close to ninety percent by the end of the decade. The 1952 election marked a sea change in politics, in that it was the first year that candidates used television to communicate to voters.

That year also brought another new phenomenon: election night as a television event.

LIFE photographer Al Fenn spent election night in 1952 visiting network newsrooms to document their coverage, which was headlined by the presidential race between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson.

While the network news productions from 1952 inevitably look dated in comparison to what we see in modern digital age, plenty is not that different from what we know today.



But the most notable aspect of the 1952 election coverage was the urgency to let viewers know who was going to win—and it was especially true at CBS. The network deployed a room-filling UNIVAC computer that promised to predict the presidential election based on early voter returns. It was a good idea, but CBS’s problem in 1952 was that while the network had the technology, it didn’t trust the computer’s predictions, leading to a historic lost opportunity.

Political prognosticators had expected a close race between Eisenhower and Stevenson. So when the CBS computer predicted at 8:30 p.m. that Eisenhower would win the electoral vote by a landslide margin of 438-93, the network news director decided not to share the projection because it was so out of line with conventional wisdom. But in fact the computer had it right, almost exactly. The final electoral college result was 442-89 in favor of Eisenhower. Only hours after the original prediction did CBS reporter Charles Collingwood tell viewers that the computer had been way ahead of everyone else. This was a watershed demonstration of the power of technology, and of early data. In the coming years the practice of exit polling would help networks call many races as soon as the polls closed.

The modern detail that was notably missing from the 1952 election coverage was a big one—color coding for political parties. While you can see a shaded electoral map in the background of one photo, back then colors weren’t as meaningful or codified because Americans were watching in black-and-white. The idea of blue states and red states was still a ways away.

LIFE magazine article: Election Night Coverage When TV Was Young

The 'Electronic Brain'

CBS' Charles Collingwood was the reporter assigned to UNIVAC, one of the world's first commercial computers.

"This is the face of a UNIVAC," Collingwood told the CBS audience. "A UNIVAC is a fabulous electronic machine, which we have borrowed to help us predict this election from the basis of early returns as they come in."

The "face" Collingwood refered to was just the console. He sat in front of a mock-up of the console in New York. It was the size of a large desk, with something that looked like a blinking bookcase sitting on top. The real UNIVAC, which took up the better part of a room, was nearly 100 miles away in Philadelphia with its programmers and a CBS camera crew.

"It's there with its operator," Collingwood said. "On the right of the UNIVAC, there's something which looks like a typewriter. That's the way UNIVAC talks."

This explanation was rudimentary but the general public had never seen a computer work a live event before. And Collingwood was trying very hard to personify what was being called an "electronic brain" with lines like: "He's sitting there in his corner humming away."

Ira Chinoy, associate dean of journalism at the University of Maryland, wrote a [588 page] dissertation examining the introduction of computers on election night entitled: Battle of the Brains: Election-Night Forecasting at the Dawn of the Computer Age.

"It was by no means a done deal that computers should be a technology used in news in any way, let alone on election night," Chinoy says.

For CBS, using a computer was a bit of a gimmick — a sideshow. But for Remington Rand, the company that made the UNIVAC, this was an enormous gamble.

"There was a clear awareness that if they messed this up on election night, it might set their nascent industry back quite a bit," Chinoy says.

And there was good reason for worry. Early in the evening things weren't going well for UNIVAC.

"Have you got a prediction for us, UNIVAC?" Collingwood asked.

There was no response. The typewriter didn't move and to the audience at home the UNIVAC must have looked like a big, dumb box.

"You're a very impolite machine I must say," Collingwood said. "But he's an awfully rapid calculator."

An Unlikely Result

This was the common scenario during the few times Walter Cronkite actually turned to Collingwood and the UNIVAC that night. But behind the scenes in Philadelphia not everything was as it seemed. The UNIVAC did make a prediction, but someone held it back. Most likely, it was the computer programmers themselves, and the most likely reason: because the prediction seemed so ridiculous.

Before election night 60 years ago, the race between Stevenson and Eisenhower looked close. But early in the night, with just over 3 million votes counted, UNIVAC predicted the odds were 100 to 1 in favor of Eisenhower.

Even early returns, without the aid of a computer, were indicating an Eisenhower landslide. But the odds still seemed inconceivable. The computer printout, revealed hours later, read: "It's awfully early, but I'll go out on a limb ... The chances are now 00 to 1 in favor of the election of Eisenhower." The printout read 00 instead of 100 because the programmers never imagined needing an odd greater than two digits.



It wasn't until after midnight that a Remington Rand representative, Art Draper in Philadelphia, came on the air with an explanation.

"As more votes came in, the odds came back and it was obviously evident that we should have had the nerve enough to believe the machine in the first place," he said. "It was right. We were wrong. Next year we'll believe it."

A Cultural Icon

UNIVAC's early "faltering" turned into a publicity coup for the company. Some newspapers later carried headlines like: "A Machine makes a Monkey out of Man." And UNIVAC became a cultural icon.

"It became synonymous with the product — like Kleenex and Xerox and Scotch Tape," says Alex Bochannek, a curator at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

The UNIVAC showed up on the cover of a Superman comic book. A Warner Bros. cartoon had Wile E. Coyote build one to help him capture the elusive Bugs Bunny.



But there was often an undercurrent of mockery, a hint that this supposedly all-knowing machine wasn't quite what it was cracked up to be.

"This idea of calling them Giant Brains gave them a lot more credit than they really deserved back then," Bochannek says. "They didn't have quite the brain capacity a lot of people attributed to them."

The Computer History Museum has one of the few remaining original UNIVAC consoles on display. It's a large panel propped on top of a 1940s-era steel desk with a keyboard. An operator used the keyboard to send instructions directly to the computer.

Much of the system was housed in a cabinet big enough for a person to walk in. There were more than 5,000 vacuum tubes and tanks of mercury (Mercury Delay Lines) where data was stored as sound waves for memory. But UNIVAC also had rows of magnetic tape drives for long-term storage.

"That is what really made this machine so useful to businesses," Bochannek says. "You had tapes with large capacity, which wasn't really available on these early computing devices."

Man Vs. Machine

Back in 1952, NBC also used a computer on election night: the Monrobot. It was much smaller than UNIVAC and less powerful, but it didn't falter on its prediction of an Eisenhower landslide. Still, says Chinoy, ambivalence about using a computer on election night continued for much of the decade.

"The way we think about technology, if we look in the rearview mirror," he says. "They march in, they became a fixture on election night and that's it. NBC actually backed away from using a computer in 1954 and decided a good reporter is better than any kind of statistical device."

Yet, all three networks were using computers by the next presidential election in 1956. ABC, however, staged a challenge: "Man vs. Machine."

The network invited pollster Lou Harris and a team of 100 reporters in the field to compete against a computer, Underwood's Elecom, to see who could call the election first. Again, it was a matchup between Eisenhower and Stevenson.

When it came to crunching numbers, the computer was untouchable, but the predictive models used in its programming were simplistic. UNIVAC was taking the early raw vote count and making comparisons with some past presidential elections.

Harris, who based his prediction on specific voting districts that he thought would mirror the overall outcome, tallied results with slide rules. His team won. And incumbent Eisenhower won by an even bigger landslide than in '52.

"Basically patterns emerge from data," says Harris, now 91. "If you can't read them right, then you can't tell the story."

Improving The Technology

Harris wondered if computers could do better. So he spent time at IBM, which by now had become the industry's leader. There, Harris pushed the IBM programmers to create more sophisticated election night software.

"I said, 'Look, I've got to get the computer to print out this, this and this,' " Harris says. "And they said, 'Good Lord.' It was multiple dimensions versus simple dimensions."

Harris, who had been John Kennedy's pollster for the 1960 presidential race, was contracted by CBS for the 1962 midterm elections. Harris, and his computer-generated predictions, were fed to Cronkite.

"He said to me after we made the first prediction, he said, 'Lou you better be right. My whole future depends on it.' I said, 'Walter, I'm sure it will be,' " Harris says.

Cronkite was calling race after race before anyone else, including the Michigan governor seat for George Romney. It was quite a coup because the returns, two hours after the polls closed, had Romney behind Democratic incumbent John Swainson.

The only governor race Harris couldn't call was in Massachusetts. And that vote resulted in a recall. Harris has been credited with coining the phrase "too close to call" that election night in 1962.

The Computerized Future

Although NBC walked away with more ratings share for its popular Huntley-Brinkley team, there was no doubt about who really won that night.

"This was a huge triumph for the then newly created CBS News election unit," says Martin Plissner, author of The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections.

Plissner joined CBS in 1963 and was the network's political director for more than three decades. Newsrooms, he says, were no longer questioning the value of computers on election night.

"They understood that the quality of the information they were getting out of it depended considerably on the quality of the information they were putting into it," he says.

In the last 60 years there have been election night disasters, but when the information was good and the programming was clever, computers could be immensely powerful tools.

In retrospect, Chinoy says, it may be hard to understand why computers didn't "march in" and take a central place immediately on election night 1952.

"New things engage us and also scare us," he says. "We're drawn to them, but they're disruptive."

You can see that on the CBS broadcast 60 years ago.

"This is not a joke or a trick," Collingwood told his television audience, "It's an experiment. We don't know. We think it'll work. We hope it will work."

In the end, it did. And of course, computers were also getting faster, more powerful. Big hulking early computers like the UNIVAC were shrinking. By the late 1960s, tiny electronic circuits, or microchips, would transform the industry and computers would begin to find their way into all of our lives.

The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President

Christies Auction


November 4, 1960: Twilight Zone's "The Howling Man" airs. A lost traveler seeking shelter finds a unique prisoner at a hermitage — a man the monks say is the Devil. Written by Charles Beaumont. Stars Robin Hughes, John Carradine, and H.M. Wynant, who's still with us — at 97!




November 4, 1980: Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter to win the US Presidential Election by a landslide electoral vote of 489 to 49. It was only the 2nd time that a Republican candidate defeated an incumbent Democratic President. American presidential election held on November 6, 1888, in which Republican Benjamin Harrison defeated Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland, winning in the electoral college 233–168 despite losing the popular vote.




The Mount Moviemore of 1990s American Presidents...




Chart 1: Top Donor Contributions to Donald Trump & Kamala Harris as of September 2024.
Chart 2: Donations to Trump and Biden from the 2020 election.







It's election anxiety...


This Black Hole Is Eating Stuff at Over 40 Times The Theoretical Limit


USA #1 on this day in 1972: Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now

[EndtheMadnessNow]

November 4, 1988: John Carpenter's THEY LIVE is released.


November 4, 1924: Election Day in the Washington, D.C. area, voters line up to be handed ballots as a poll-watching policeman stands by.




UK #1 on this day in 1977: ABBA - The Name Of The Game





https://x.com/60Minutes/status/1853233862899359875








Marcia Marcia Marcia!!!







Didn't age very well, as now Morello is the angry elf of BlackRock.





Once upon election dreary

While we waited, disaster fearing
Watching every poll or tiny clue.
While we anguished nerves near snapping,
Suddenly, there came a rapping,
Rat-a-tatta-tat-tat-tapping,
Tapping at my home's front door.

"Who's there?" I said, mind filled with dread,
As thoughts of villains filled my head,
Or even worse, some evil Fed,
Pounding on my home's front door.

"What do you want?" I finally screamed.
"Is this about that silly meme?"
"My shiny new AR-15?"
"Lying on my office floor?"

Cautiously I looked outside,
From my Ring, no one could hide,
But there was no one in sight,
Just a little squirrel outside my door.

"Hey there, little furry guy!"
"What do you need? Some apple pie?"
But he just quietly walked by,
Walked straight through my open door.

He hopped upon my office desk,
Which honestly is quite a mess,
And on my keyboard came to rest,
Turned to me as if to say some more.

"I had a life as good as you,
Warm home, good food, not in a zoo.
And then someone, mean through and through,
Decided that I must be put to death."

"She called the governmental drones,
and had them raid our peaceful home.
They drove us off somewhere alone,
and killed me and my buddy raccoon Fred."

"My little friend, that is so sad,
Is there no justice to be had?
Can we not punish these so bad?
Somehow maybe even up the score?"
      Quoth the Peanut: "Nevermore"


Vger seeks the Creator...



Voyager 1 Just Phoned Home


Good night... Big day tomorrow.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Remember, remember the 5th of November...


In 2018, a Wildcat from HMS Diamond put on a spectacular display by using the occasion to test the helicopter's anti-heat-seeking missile flares in the Mediterranean.

Short history vid:




November 5, 1927: Britain’s 1st automatic traffic lights were demonstrated at Princess Square in Wolverhampton by the Siemens & General Railway Signal Company. Great Britain's first permanent automated traffic lights were opened on 16 March 1928 in Leeds, on the corner of Park Row and Bond Street.

No such shenanigans marred Leeds civic life on that Friday morning, as an amiable official party, including the Leeds Chief Constable and his deputy, Councillor F. Bentley, the Chairman of the Watch Committee, and other Councillors, took post on the steps of the Philosophical Hall on Park Row. The presence of the worthy assemblage was noted by a reporter and photographer from the Evening Post who had strolled along from their then Bond Street office to record the historic event:

“Up to the time of its beginning the usual burly figure of the policeman stood in the centre of the four roads. At the appointed minute the policeman stopped all four streams of traffic and retreated to the footpath. The electrical device came into instant operation” (16 March 1928).

When the Robots Came to Leeds

SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

Ashville, Ohio, claims to be the home of the oldest working traffic light in the world, used at an intersection of public roads from 1932 to 1982 when it was moved to a local museum. Guinness World Records backed this claim by naming it the Oldest functional traffic light.



November 5, 1946: John F. Kennedy was elected to the US House of Representatives at the age of 29. Kennedy was elected 3 times to the House in total, and 2 times to the US Senate before becoming president. Health problems often kept Kennedy from attending Congress for long periods.


John F. Kennedy's Diary from the Summer of 1945 that sold for $718,750 in 2017.


Nov 5, 1955: On this day in Hill Valley History:




Tucker Carlson says "human forces" did not create nuclear technology. Instead, it was demons.

"I have never met a person who can isolate the moment when nuclear technology became known to man. So, where did it come from exactly? ... it's very clear to me these are demonic."

Got a light?


Tucker Carlson credits demons for the invention of nuclear technology

Rumble Video

Nuclear technology began with the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896. Later, scientists like Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radium. The concept of nuclear fission was demonstrated by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1938.

What is The Brief History of Nuclear Energy


Daghlian was taken to the Los Alamos hospital and his symptoms were treated. As he slowly and painfully succumbed to acute radiation poisoning, he  described his condition to observing doctors. He died 25 days later, the Manhattan Project’s first radiation fatality...and not the last. Nine months to the day after Harry Daghlian’s deadly accident, Louis Slotin was conducting a similar criticality experiment with the same plutonium core and suffered the same fate. The "demon core" claimed another victim...death in only 9 days.

Perhaps Tucker is confused by the "demon core" creation or he's trying to create a new mythos.

Jack and the Demon Core




In honor of Marine Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, the only Marine to receive both the Medal of Honor and Navy Cross during WWII. KIA at Iwo Jima February 19, 1945.
John “Manila John” Basilone


A planned coincidence...plus six USAF B-52 bombers from Minot AFB parked at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, more B-52s from Barksdale AFB are flying into Europe.


Daily Hyper Mail

Kinda surreal Strangelovian vibes to have a US Air Force Base (largest US base in the Middle East) in Qatar (home of Muslim Brotherhood & terror banksters) with 6 B-52's parked and ready to go.


Words for the day of days... Did you cast a wale in today's foresitter wale?

I've seen the "fascism" word being thrown about a lot these past few weeks and gone nuclear today, so I thought one of the entries below is worth being aware of.



Swasivious - its sheer phonetics adds one more layer of suggestion: slithering in, swaying its subtle dominion, staying impervious to contrary facts, oblivious of down-to-earth arguments, leading you to devious coasts, swathing you in the cloud of deception.


A lot of maps being shared today, so thought I’d add this interesting 1970s world map with areas in blue indicating where people were Kung Fu fighting.

[Bally002]

Good one.  Did enjoy reading through this.

Guy Fawkes National Park is nearby to me here in Aust.  Named by a gold fossicker I believe on Guy Fawkes Day.

The river runs into the Nymboida River near me.

http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=58703&cmd=sp

Kind regards,

Bally)