Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Hmm.  My gaydar went off the grid in that last pic.

Cheers,  like your work,

Bally.

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Atomic energy via atomic cocktails - "Jokingly called by her friends as the "atomic woman" & "Dixon's gift to Yucca Flat." Mrs Thompson is generating enough radioactivity to make a geiger counter needle flutter like a nervous butterfly." "The cocktails are flown to the hospital daily from the Oak Ridge atomic energy plant." (The Dixon Evening Telegraph; Mar 24, 1953)




August 9, 1945: Military grade censorship!
"The 33-year-old bushy-haired physicist was warned by the War Department that he could be imprisoned for 10 years for writing for newspapers what he did about the atomic bomb. Dr. Jacobson collapsed... "The Army took over from there, Only the War Department knows exactly what the play was about. But there's no doubt it was about the bomb because it was entitled 'U-235'."




Atomic Cocktail by Slim Gaillard and His Quartette (Dec 1945)




August 8, 1961: USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608) was commissioned at Electric Boat Corporation of Groton, Connecticut. During Operation Dominic (shot Frigate Bird), the first-in-class boat performed the ONLY submarine launched nuclear warhead detonation test, a Polaris A-2 with a 600 kT warhead, detonating 1,020 nautical miles away as an airburst over the South Pacific ocean at an altitude of about 8300 feet on May 6, 1962.



In Tom Clancy's novel The Hunt for Red October (published 1984), the USS Ethan Allen is blown up as a decoy in order to convince the Russian Navy that the Red October has been destroyed.


"Relocation Sites." "Relocation Facilities." Poking around the Nixon Library again for COG gold.


Nice cushy bunkers while the sheeple are left to melt & burn. Nice.



Reagan: "Is it true I can reach someone on the USS William V. Pratt?

Susan Watters of "M" Magazine Interview with President Reagan in Oval Office on August 8, 1983:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMZ_Ft7nO18


The current Reno Arch, the third rendition, was dedicated on August 8, 1987 with 20,000 people on Virginia Street (per the Reno Evening Gazette). This arch did receive a facelift with a celebration on June 25, 2018.


IMAGES of America: Reno (2012) by Guy Clifton.


Opened July 1, 1969 by Howard Hughes, the troubled Landmark Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV closed its doors on August 8, 1990 after only 21 years. Its 1995 implosion was used in the movie Mars Attacks!



The Landmark was also featured in such movies like Viva Las Vegas, Diamonds Are Forever, Casino, and The Cooler. Also seen in TV Shows like Vegas and Crime Story.


Controlled Demolition, Inc. worked closely with Warner Bros. Studios, Director Tim Burton and their special effects team to coordinate the implosion with their filming operations for the major motion picture “Mars Attacks!”




August 8, 1969: 55 years ago, Rick Dalton & Cliff Booth returned from Italy, and went out to celebrate. Sharon Tate dined out with friends. After midnight, with everyone back home, members of the Manson Family broke into Dalton's house.




Marco Rubio has a job for you and it pays big bucks!!


Reward Offer Increase of Up to $50 Million for Information Leading to Arrest and/or Conviction of Nicolás Maduro

Even InsightCrime, the State Dept cutout that invented the "Cartel de Los Soles" in this article admits that the "cartel" is more a vibe than a real organization, a "network of networks" that "in some cases" might be "directed by political actors."
Cartel of the Suns


Meanwhile... Trump is making plans for the Panama thing.


Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels

    Rudi Gunn: [Dirk wants Al to pull a "Panama"] What's a Panama?
    Al Giordino: It's a Navy thing.
    Rudi Gunn: I didn't know you were in Panama.
    Al Giordino: We weren't in Panama, we were in Nicaragua.
    Rudi Gunn: So why do you call it a Panama?
    Al Giordino: Because we thought we were in Panama!


Britain will not be included in the talks between Trump and Putin according to both American and Russian sources that Washington and Moscow see the Europeans as spoilers, who should sit in the corner until a deal is reached.
The US - in its current state cannot be negotiated with. The better an offer proposed by the US, the bigger the trap laid. Putin has been playing this political war game longer than most. It will likely be just a photo op.


Ben Wallace: Invite Britain to peace talks or Zelensky will be bullied

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'August 7, 1882: the simmering Hatfield-McCoy feud erupted into warfare, claiming the lives of dozens of
people over the following decade.

While serving on the submarine USS Barb In 1945, descendant Billy Ray Hatfield went ashore in Japan with
a landing party and used his knowledge of explosives to wreck a train. It was the only ground raid on Japan's
home soil during WWII...'


This explains a lot about genetics (Especially Ninurta's) !!

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Indiana State Board of Health. Monthly Bulletin, 1912.
Remember: coffee in moderation... and don't neglect them.




August 9, 1945: 11:02am Nagasaki time, the B-29 "Bockscar" bomber callsign "Dimples 77" dropped "Fat Man" a 21-kiloton implosion-type with a solid plutonium core weighing approximately 13.6 pounds detonated 43 seconds later at an altitude of 1,650 feet above a tennis court situated midway between the Mitsubishi Steel & Arms Works to the south and the Nagasaki Arsenal to the north. By a bizarre coincidence, Fat Man detonated almost directly over the factory that had made the torpedoes used in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The original target was the city of Kokura, but weather prevented its doom.

The explosion released energy equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT. Within milliseconds, a blinding fireball erupted, unleashing searing heat, a violent blast wave, and an intense burst of gamma and neutron radiation. The population at ground zero was subjected to radiation doses approaching 200,000 rad. The bomb’s total energy output was distributed roughly as 35% thermal radiation, 50% blast energy, and 15% ionizing radiation. The human toll was catastrophic—approximately 70,000 people were killed, with as many as 30,000 of these deaths linked directly to radiation exposure, and some 75,000 additional injuries were recorded.



The mushroom cloud depicted here was originally captured in a photograph taken by one of the mission’s B-29 bombers. William L. Lawrence, the Manhattan Project’s official correspondent, witnessed the detonation from The Great Artiste and later described “a pillar of purple fire” surmounted by "a giant mushroom" that climbed to 45,000 feet.

In this reimagined artistic rendering, the Nagasaki mushroom cloud is transformed into a vivid, spectral vision—its blazing yellows, deep oranges, and spectral purples conveying the unseeable reality of the event. Embedded within the roiling column is an invisible, deadly "radioactive soup," a complex fission-product mixture of short- and long-lived isotopes that would haunt Nagasaki long after the cloud itself dissipated.




This artwork reinterprets a rare historical artifact, the warning leaflets dropped by American aircraft over Japanese cities in the final days of World War II. These leaflets, part of a psychological warfare campaign, urged civilians to evacuate in advance of impending air raids. In this composition, the central image is not Nagasaki, but the Hiroshima mushroom cloud, the most recent and, at the time, unprecedented display of atomic destruction, rendered in a searing thermal palette of incandescent yellows, molten reds, and deep purples.

Surrounding the image, columns of Japanese text are preserved from the original leaflet design. In their original context, these words carried a charged duality: a humanitarian warning entwined with an unmistakable threat. By framing the Hiroshima cloud within this textual grid, the work underscores how the leaflets sought to project the fate of Hiroshima as both a cautionary example and a psychological weapon, an implicit warning of what could come next.

The reimagined color treatment strips away the archival detachment of black-and-white photography, thrusting the viewer into the heat and violence of the blast. The glowing spectrum suggests the overwhelming thermal radiation of the detonation, while the darkened border evokes the deep shadows of destruction that followed. In this way, Nagasaki Warning Leaflet becomes a work of visual testimony, capturing the grim reality that, even as such warnings fell from the sky, they could not avert the devastation that soon followed in Nagasaki.


"NAGASAKI WARNING LEAFLET" by David A. Wargowski, April 12, 2019.



August 9, 1945: Samuel McCrea Cavert [1888-1976], the general secretary of Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, sent a telegram to President Truman stating that "many Christians are deeply disturbed over the use of atomic bombs on Japanese cities." Truman's reply follows...




Atomic Power short docu film produced by The March of Time, released to theaters August 9, 1946, one year after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.



"Atomic Power" narrated by Westbrook Van Voorhis (1903-1968)




Apparently, in a bizarre twist, the weather gods had other plans for Dr. Tetsuya Fujita which created his moniker, Mr. Tornado...

Fujita was residing in Kokura during World War II. The city of Kokura was the primary target for the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, but on the morning of August 9, 1945, the city was obscured by clouds and smoke from the neighboring city of Yahata, which had been firebombed the day before. As a result, the bomb was dropped on the secondary target, Nagasaki. Studying the damage caused by the nuclear explosions contributed to Fujita's understanding of downbursts and microbursts as "starbursts" of wind hitting the Earth's surface and spreading out.


Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Spotlight: Dr. Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita

Dr. Ted Fujita's Presentation At The Third Tornado Symposium, Norman Oklahoma April 4, 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XVT-ovzRo0



Nagasaki’s twin bells ring in unison for first time in 80 years to mark atomic bombing



August 9, 1965: at Titan II launch complex 373-4 11 miles north of Searcy, Arkansas, as 55 civilian contractors were modifying the missile silo to better survive a nuclear attack, a flash fire and dense smoke asphyxiated 53 men, the deadliest accident involving a US nuclear weapon system. Only two of the 55 workers who were inside the silo at the time survived.


The missile’s massive 6,200-pound 9-megaton W53 warhead had been removed for the duration of the modifications, which is why the Strategic Air Command did not consider this a Broken Arrow, per se, and why it is not included on official lists of US nuclear weapons accidents.

The 103-foot tall, 330,000-pound Titan II ICBM, however, remained in the silo, fully loaded with volatile liquid fuel and oxidizer. Had the fire caused temperatures and pressures to rise too high, it could have exploded.

The Titan II in silo launch complex 373-4 was one of 18 built in Arkansas. First deployed in 1962, 54 Titan IIs were kept on constant alert in Arizona, Arkansas, and Kansas. Because the ICBM in Searcy was undamaged by the fire, it was put back into service about a year later.

Survivor recalls 1965 Titan II missile silo fire that killed 53

Human error in a nuclear facility nearly destroyed Arkansas


Panther's distinctive range of James Bond covers (1977-85).


The cover photos were taken by Beverley le Barrow, who made the best use she could of the huge prop gun (with a different grip colour on each side) Panther had purchased for the shoot.

Panther Books Ltd was a British publishing house especially active in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, specializing in paperback fiction.

Triad/Panther UK Paperbacks 1977-1985

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August 9, 1974: Richard Nixon, the only President to resign from the office.
Vice President Gerald Ford becomes president.


Reading text: SWEARING IN CEREMONY - THE WHITE HOUSE

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWbsEFl5upc

Richard Nixon flew home on Air Force One after resigning. As Gerald Ford was sworn in, Air Force One (over Missouri) was redesignated to "Special Air Mission 27000" - meaning no President was on board.


Gerald Ford's Presidential Proclamation 4311:
The Pardon of President Richard Nixon.

"I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon."
- Gerald Ford




August 9, 1981: Pres Reagan reversed Carter’s 1978 cancellation of the "neutron bomb" and without consulting NATO, authorized production and stockpiling of enhanced radiation versions of the W70-3 (for the Lance missile) and the W79 (for the 8-inch artillery-fired atomic projectile).



NY Times

Although Carter effectively canceled the neutron bomb program in 1978, the United States still produced and stockpiled 308 1-kiloton enhanced radiation versions of the W70 warhead for the Lance surface-to-surface missile, but we are told they were never deployed to Europe.

Physicist Sam Cohen (1931-2010) inventor of the neutron bomb and considered it "the most discriminate weapon ever devised", explaining how he sought to use nuclear radiation "as an effective means of waging ground warfare in a relatively moral way" ...morally superior to "regular" nukes. A true madman that you can listen for yourself in this short clip:





Harold Brown, former director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (which designed the W70 warhead) and Carter’s secretary of defense, nicknamed the neutron bomb the "capitalist bomb" because it killed people but left property/infrastructure intact. Soviet leaders used his moniker to denounce it.



The United States did briefly deploy one version of the neutron bomb. From Oct. 1975 until Jan. 1976, 70 Sprint anti-ballistic missiles armed with 1-kt W66 enhanced radiation warheads were fully operational at the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex in Nekoma, North Dakota. The $6 billion dollar missile complex was shutdown the very next day by Congress...due to fears of radiation exposure. 6 billion down the toilet.

China became interested in developing its own neutron bomb in 1977, in response to the US decision to do so that same year, and successfully tested such a device on September 29, 1988. However, we are told there is no evidence China ever deployed such weapons.

Source: Red China’s “Capitalist Bomb”: Inside the Chinese Neutron Bomb Program (PDF)


August 9, 2002: At a Press Conference a salvage firm "In Depth Consulting" of Fort Lauderdale, Florida confirmed their find of the B-29 bomber that had crashed into Lake Mead on July 21, 1948. The crew had survived. The Air Force report attributes pilot error as the cause. The report only briefly mentions the bomber's top-secret mission and the classified gadget, called a "sun tracker" it was carrying.


Article from Boating magazine of April 2005.



One person got a thrilling icon ride on the world's largest cruise ship, "Icon of the Seas" that he/she will not soon forget.





Speaking of cruise ships, my folks are going on a week long cruise somewhere off the coast of Maine in a few weeks. I remember my dad saying back in 2021, "there is no-way I would go on any cruise ship ever again." What changed? "I'm too old to give a damn anymore and you only live once so might as well try to enjoy it." This probably stems from their planned month long Alaska cruise in 2020 that was abruptly CANCELLED due to Covid.


Is Avi Loeb Set To Reveal The Coming Jewish Messiah?

Avi Loeb, who claims to approach the various interstellar objects he observes through the steady, objective gaze of science, seems to be contradicting himself as of late. On one hand he claims the authority of a gifted, and well seasoned Harvard scientist, trained to the highest degree by the Israeli intelligence community. Yet on the other hand he includes clear religious propaganda in his analysis.

In his recent mission to awaken the public to the idea that we are not alone in the universe he injects the idea that an extra-terrestrial entity is actually the Jewish Messiah. In an article he wrote for Medium in 2023, titled An Extraterrestrial Messiah?, he recalls his conversation with Rabbi Zev Brenner about the coming Jewish messiah saying:

Since a peaceful future is part of the Messianic forecast, I suggested that perhaps the Messiah will not be coming from Brooklyn in New-York, but rather from another planet.

The theologian and existential philosopher Martin Buber noted that Christians claim that the Messiah has already come and are now awaiting his second coming, while the Jews maintain that the Messiah has yet to come. So, it’s simple, reasoned Buber. When the Messiah finally gets here, as both sides agree, we’ll just ask him/her: “Have you been here before?” Similarly, there is no point in arguing about classified data or testimonies and fuzzy images from pilot cockpits as evidence for extraterrestrials. If the evidence for extraterrestrials will be absolutely clear in the future, we can check whether they visited us already, just as in the case of the Messiah.

What exactly is Avi Loeb looking for in outer space? Is he operating from the perspective of science and science alone, or his he using his authority in the field to introduce his own occult ideologies of an AI, alien messiah to the public. Certainly, Avi Loeb is free to do all the scientific analysis he desires, however, once he begins to conflate his personal religious themes, it is no longer science that he is engaging in, instead it becomes religious propaganda cloaked in the objective authority of natural science.

In the coming years we will see that outer-space is primarily the realm of occultism, and that scientific exploration is a guise to both exploit and explore certain spiritual forces that become more obvious once the magnetic forces of the earth are abandoned.




We better put the AI-Alien-Messiah-Chat Bot in the Third Temple!




August 9, 1958: Dr. Jung Says Flying Saucers Are a New ‘Savior Myth’
Carl Jung issues a denial to the Associated Press about his "extraterrestrial" statement, saying that witnesses are "in need of fantasy." He thinks "something is being seen," but his interest is more in what they think they are seeing.

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It's corn on the cob season! Cat on the Cob: 1951




The USS Neshaminy, a US Civil War steam frigate, was launched on Oct 5, 1865. In May 1869, it was changed to the USS Arizona, but on August 10, 1869, it was renamed the USS Nevada.


USS Neshaminy was a large 3,850-ton screw frigate with a length of 335 feet that was under construction at the Philadelphia Navy Yard when she was surveyed by Navy officials who found her construction work to be shoddy, piss poor craftmanship. Construction was halted by the Navy, which eventually sold her for scrap. In June 1874, she was sold to John Roach for $25,000 (equivalent to $694,779 in 2024), in partial payment for rebuilding monitor USS Puritan (1864).

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (1921) by United States Naval War Records Office.



Captured by Hiromichi Matsuda just 15 minutes after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, this image—taken from Koyagi-jima Island is one of the earliest known ground-level photographs documenting the immediate aftermath.




BIKINI "PIN UP"
"The high flying "Dave's Dream" has laid its egg of destiny over the coral of far Bikini. And so "Gilda" with its blow-up girl has been strewn to interstellar space."
Motion Picture Herald, Jul 6, 1946 / August 10, 1946: Australia Asks State to Cede Censor Power




August 10, 1974: “The world in the past 24 hours has seemed to mark time as the US presidential succession worked itself out.”


- The President's Daily Brief for August 10, 1974, the first full day of Gerald Ford’s presidency.


August 10, 1975: A long-anticipated episode of 60 Minutes featuring an interview between Morley Safer and First Lady Betty Ford airs on television. Ford is surprisingly candid in the conversation, saying that she “wouldn’t be surprised” if her daughter was having premarital sex and that “she smokes marijuana, but all young people should experience that.”


It is believed that Betty was intoxicated during the interview. Filming took place in the White House solarium on July 21, 1975.




60 Minutes - The First Lady transcript


August 10, 1975: Australian journalist David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon for a payment of $600,000 plus a 20-percent share of any profits. It was reported that Nixon is effectively broke, and he has only a few hundred dollars in his bank account - he needs this money. His lifestyle is maintained by wealthy friends and former donors. First installment:




August 10, 1984: the John Milius film RED DAWN opened in theaters and was a Timothy McVeigh favorite. "I love the bomb. It's sort of a religious totem to me. Like the plague in the Middle Ages, it's the hand of God coming out indiscriminantly to snatch you." - RED DAWN auteur John Milius, American Film magazine interview, May 1982.


Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (2018) by Kathleen Belew.



August 10, 1992: TIME magazine published Ted Gup's Cold War Continuity of Government (COG) extravaganza. The cover story contains the irresistible tidbit re: the Arthur Godfrey doomsday message. TIME 'Doomsday' cover story and the reporter's appearance with former Mount Weather chief J. Leo Bourassa on LARRY KING LIVE.

"The Doomsday Blueprints" documents Mount Weather AKA "Special facilities Division", headed by retired Air Force Col. Joseph Leo Bourassa [1917-2000], and President Eisenhower learned that the U-2 cat was out of the bag while at Mt Weather during the annual Operation Alert 1960 (Civil defense relocation drill).

It was J. Leo Bourassa that told TIME in 1992 he was the one who broke the news to Ike. However, there are also reports that it was CIA director Allen Dulles.



The TIME magazine COG issue prompted many FOIA requests. The Eisenhower Library archivist David Haight assessed the chances of declassification as "not...good." He was right. Refiled in 2017 and still zero response to this day. The Arthur Godfrey voice recording for the "Doomsday tape" made some time in late 50s has never been found or it's locked in vault for all eternity. Godfrey was a member of "The Eisenhower Ten" (E-10) aka Continuity of government (COG), meaning he was part of the "Deep State."

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August 11, 1934: the first batch of 137 prisoners arrived at Alcatraz from the Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Alcatraz Documentary clip from 1971 narrated by Howard Duff.




August 11, 1942: actress & amateur inventor, self-taught, Hedy Lamarr & George Antheil received U.S. Patent 2,292,387 (issued to Lamarr under her married name, Hedy Markey) for a “secret communication system.” A secure torpedo guidance system that employed a novel technique known as frequency hopping.

Although the invention wasn’t immediately implemented, it did lay the groundwork for technology used to maintain security for military communications, cell phones, WiFi and Bluetooth. This work led to both being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.


Random Paths to Frequency Hopping


August 11, 1950: Make sure to stock plenty of lemon juice in your bunker.
"Lemon Juice May Block Death by Atomic Rays"




Mary Elizabeth Simons [1923-2012] and her children Sam, Sally and Susan at the Trinity Site in 1953. "The pipe in the picture is all that remains of the tower which supported the bomb." Simons husband, Dr. David G. Simons made the cover of LIFE in 1957 for Operation MAN HIGH.



In 1953, the Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945, saw a significant development in its history: the first public open house was held in September of that year. This opening occurred because by 1953, much of the radioactivity at the site had subsided, or so they thought. Today, it can only be visited twice a year, the first Saturday in April and October.



August 11, 2016: Clare Bronfman [and her Ack Group of Companies] purchased Wakaya Ltd, which owns about 80 percent of Wakaya Island, a small [2,200 acre/eight square mile] island in Fiji.

Miss Bronfman already owned a private home on Wakaya prior to purchasing Wakaya Ltd, from David and Jillian Gilmour.

There will always be Fiji: Clare Bronfman purchased most of Wakaya Island last August

You might recall Clare Webb Bronfman (born 1979) in the media headlines for months back in 2019. The American heiress, convicted felon and former leader of NXIVM, a multi-level marketing company and sex slave cult based near Albany, New York. She is the youngest daughter of billionaire philanthropist and former Seagram liquor chairman Edgar Bronfman Sr. After a brief equestrian career, Bronfman began involvement in NXIVM, a business engaged in evil criminal activities during 1998–2018, which led to indictments on federal charges, including sex trafficking. She was released to a halfway house in the Bronx on May 4, 2024.

Story of "Wakaya Island Lost Continent and Relics Found" in the Pittsburg Dispatch April 6, 1890; page 19.



"Remains of Dead Chiefs" On Wakaya Island:



The tiny island has an airstrip and the 5-star resort is only $2000 per night!




China’s Navy ship & China's Coast Guard vessel collide while chasing after Philippines’ BRP Suluan near Bajo de Masinloc in Zambales. That's not going to buff out.



Incredible video of the collision:  https://x.com/raffytima/status/1954869527080042791

What's truly amazing is DDG 164 continued to maneuver here aggressively AFTER the collision. The idea that you wouldn't stop, reassess, change out the watch team, call home, etc., is just stunning and baffingly reckless.






Found on the Cathedral Rock trail in Mt. Charleston Wilderness of Nevada... 


Pretty but do not touch the Cicuta, commonly known as water hemlock as it's highly poisonous!! Though native Australians may be immune. Not to be confused with the hemlock tree. Just a rub on the skin can cause serious problems. Excessive exposure or ingestion may include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, tremors, confusion, weakness, dizziness, drowsiness, seziures & convultions, amnesia, respiratory failure and finally, kidney failure. Poisoning has been reported following children blowing whistles made from the hollow stem of water hemlock plants. Depending on one's health you may never recover fully. Ingestion of plant material may cause death in animals in as little as 15 minutes.


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HOT SUMMER DAY!
August 12, 2025: Temp hit 120F at 4:30pm on the garage mercury thermometer...that faces the great orange ball! Air temp was 98. Clear blue sky and no chemtrails. It was a rare treat. Cleaned my backyard porch deck with brand new power washer. The mist kept me cool but hours later noticed the top of my feet look like a Mexican. Yea, dark tan clown feet. Just call me two-tone Joe.


Tuesday Thoughts:

And which breed is Ninurta? LOL.


Happy World Elephant Day! While serving as CINCPAC in 1971, ADM John S. McCain Jr. was surprised to receive an elephant as a gift from the prime minister of Cambodia. The elephant had been captured from the Viet Cong who had used it to transport military supplies. Because the value of the gift exceeded $50, the "cincpachyderm" became the property (and logistical problem) of the U.S. government. Not wanting to insult Cambodia by declining the gift, the Pentagon formed McCain's Elephant Delivery Team (MEDT) to arrange for the one-ton animal to be flown to the Los Angeles Zoo by a USAF C-141 Starlifter.




The August 12, 1862 Alta California, via the Carson Age, tells of a "Sea Serpent in Nevada Territory." It referenced a small, deep, salty lake near the Carson River, and 60 miles from Carson City. This is possibly Soda Lake.


Although Nevada's geologic history is replete with volcanic activity, evidence of recent historical activity is absent—except for the Soda Lakes craters. They certainly have erupted since Pleistocene Lake Lahontan, as they're cut into Lahontan sediments, and recent evidence suggests they may have erupted within the last 1,500 years. Although still too alkaline for fish, the water does support aquatic vegetation, which in turn supports a waterfowl population.

Big Soda Lake (or just "Soda Lake") is about 0.7 by 0.9 miles (1.1 x 1.5 km) across, while Little Soda Lake, to the southwest, is about 1,000 feet (300 m) across. The craters are maars (German dialect for "lake"), which form when hot magma boils groundwater to cause a steam explosion.

The U.S. Geological Survey has added these craters to its catalog of potential volcanic hazards. It is the only entry in Nevada. The Soda Lake Geothermal Field is located on the northeast flank of the Soda Lakes volcano, west of the city of Fallon, Nevada.


The Pioche Record of August 12, 1873 adequately described the paper's recurring views on the local weather. "When we have no rain, we growl about the dust; when we have no dust, we growl about the mud..." Still true today.




C A Earle Rinker wrote to his Mom from Goldfield, Nevada on August 12, 1907. Mentioned boxing, mining and whatever this is: "Then the Battle Royal came on. They put four coons in the ring and let them go at each other. The coon that is in the ring last gets the money." I know some old farts in southern Nevada who still talk like this at the bar.


Letter from C. A. Earle Rinker to his mother, August 12, 1907 (Earle wrote a lot of letters to his mom)


August 12, 1939: on a bright moonlit night at 9:33 p.m., Southern Pacific’s ”crack streamliner”, the City of San Francisco, derailed near Harney, Nevada in the canyon just west of Palisade, Nevada. This catastrophe killed 24 people and injured 121. Of those hurt, 32 required hospitalizations.

On August 12, 1939, Southern Pacific's crack streamliner, the City of San Francisco, derailed near Harney, Nevada, killing 24 people and injuring 121. Of those hurt, 32 required hospitalization.

    A coroner's jury and a railroad hearing board (is this the fox guarding the hen house?) both determined that the accident was caused by sabotage - the deliberate moving of a rail to cause derailment. This is a fairly straightforward solution.

    Whoa, there! Although this disaster happened more than six decades ago, doubt still exists in the minds of many area old timers. Some believe it was a railroad cover-up while others accept the sabotage scenario. Neither side strays from their opinion.

HOWARD HICKSON'S HISTORIES -    Recalling a Train Wreck

Luxury described the City of San Francisco streamliner. It was promoted as the fastest, most powerful train ever designed and built. The launch press release stated, “As modern as tomorrow.” Travel time from Chicago to the west coast was less than 40 hours. Almost a quarter of a mile long, it was powered by six giant engines generating an incredible 5,400 horsepower to pull the train’s 1,207,151 pounds. The ultra-modern passenger train symbolized the ultimate in safety engineering.

The City of San Francisco was a streamlined through passenger train which ran from 1936 to 1971 on the Overland Route between Chicago, Illinois and Oakland, California, with a ferry or bus connection on to San Francisco. It was owned and operated jointly by the Chicago and North Western Railway (1936–55), Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (1955–71), the Union Pacific Railroad, and the Southern Pacific Railroad. It provided premium extra fare service from Chicago to San Francisco when introduced in 1936 with a running time of 39 hours and 45 minutes each way.

Newspaper reporters were barred from the hearing. The journalists  bitterly complained of withholding information. Rumors abounded.

An Elko newspaper photographer, Earl Frantzen, was accused by the railroad of taking pictures from an angle which made the wreck look worse than it was. He commented, “God knows, it would have been impossible to make it look worse than it was.”

The railroad investigation only added to the confusion by clearing the railroad of all wrongdoing. Some claim they did this to head off future lawsuits. The final and formal conclusion, after hearing the railroad’s evidence, was that there was no doubt the accident was caused by a moved rail. Who moved it and why was never resolved.

Some passengers claimed that the streamliner was traveling very fast.
A sheriff and a constable both said they could not find any evidence of rail tampering.

The FBI disagreed with the railroad’s decision.

City of San Francisco Streamliner Catastrophe

Weather Window: Train wreck, an unsolved mystery in the Nevada desert

I found a short narrated video, less than a minute, on the fatal City of San Francisco streamliner derailment on Aug 12, 1939 in northern Nevada.
Note: Worth a listen for the classic narrator tone and ominous soundtrack.




A two page article from the August 28, 1939 Life Magazine has a brief story and some images of the derailment crash of the Southern Pacific streamliner City of San Francisco from Aug 12, 1939 west of Elko, NV.

Note: No saboteur was ever found.




August 12, 1950: Seized as Atom Data Thief, Briton Slashes Wrists
"A man charged with stealing a briefcase full of British atomic secrets was held in a hospital today after he slashed his wrists in his jail cell."




August 12, 1950: COME AWAY FROM ATOMIC BOMB DANGER.




A Nation of Finger Pointers
Twin malformations are cropping up in American character: a nasty intolerance and a desire to blame everyone else for everything. (TIME/August 12, 1991)
Remind you of anyone? Or any group that stands out? The bottom piece, "Crybabies: Eternal Victims" is LMAO! 30+ years later and here we are, even worse.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Artifact of the Week: AN-2 Throttle




Atomic glowy American strong!! PM Starmer is jealous and demands new trade deal.


the ONION


Yea, How does this keep happening?


Leaked Logs Show ChatGPT Coaxing Users Into Psychosis About Antichrist, Aliens, and Other Bizarre Delusions

Remember when they said another pandemic was coming? That pandemic is now upon us. I also wonder about the fringe theories about Covid coming from outer space and how Covid helped AI takeover. Alien Invasion = AI, literally!

Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe made some good arguments for arrival from space or at least distribution falls from the upper atmosphere (where it could have been seeded). Weirdly, Covid-19 if you change the numbers to their respective letters, would be Covid-AI. Well, the AI beast system certainly seems to be on the rise, whatever the truth on the virus and jabs. Oddly enough, the Covid-19 scamdemic was largely responsible for accelerating the development of AI in many ways, especially in the medical field.

Even more odd, when the word Covid is reversed, it becomes Divoc, a word that is almost phonetically identical to Dybbuk. In Jewish folklore, a Dybbuk Box is a magical cabinet that contains an evil spirit. The word dybbuk means "possessed by". So, Covid-19 could also mean "possessed by AI".

Techno billionaire Sam Altman reckons within a few short years the AI on devices will be more intelligent than the users, how many people will succumb to AI psychosis in that situation? Seems like trouble ahead in uncharted waters.

Interestingly, the Black Box, or the Black Cube, is an occult symbol that’s used to represent Saturn, Satan, and AI. But what does another planet have in common with Covid-19? Ironically, when the quarantine first started, a few fringe researchers claimed the virus actually came from outer space on a meteor, like a strange form of directed panspermia.

Directed panspermia is a hypothetical situation where an alien race might send their DNA to another planet in order to merge with the organisms there and seed their species. Funny enough, Stella Immanuel, the doctor who told Trump to use hydroxychloroquine in 2020 also said vaccines were dangerous because they contained alien DNA. Others said they contained tiny tentacled creatures called hydras.

At the same time in 2020, there were many UFO sightings. And according to Ufologists, this was because UFOs appear in increasing frequency during periods of global upheaval, like wars, famines, and plagues. Nevertheless, all of this seems to imply the real alien invasion was AI. Perhaps the real alien invaders came through the interdimensional monoliths we call cell phones. Instead of a brain tumor they delivered Goa'uld (pronounced "Go-ah-oold" or sometimes "Goold") in the form of a retrovirus.

Coincidentally, mysterious (marketing) monoliths started popping up all around the world during this time as well. So, maybe Covid-19 was more like a mind virus or even an army of extraterrestrial body snatchers. After all, it changed the way we think forever, and may have even caused some to be injected with an “alien” AI hive mind. This may explain how/why many of our dear world leaders have gone mad.




If that is not enough to worry about, we also have this...


DHS is buying mobile iris scanning tech for ICE's deportation arm

May have to invest in some opaque cosmetic contact lenses. Regardless, it's all connected directly & indirectly, interlinked for full spectrum dominance to control & manage the herd.


There is a discussion in Germany at the expert level with participation of some shady delusional fascist faction of politicians from time to time regarding hypothetical production of nuclear weapons. Various options are being discussed. This means Germany would have to remove itself from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), would have very negative consequences for international security and some would regard Germany as a rogue state that needs to be taught another lesson. Very strange that Germany after the Fukishima disaster got rid of all 17 nuclear power plants due to fear and now are floating the idea of acquiring nuclear weapons because of big red bear fear. They would be in the same party camp as India, Pakistan and Israel concerning NPT.


The FY26 budget request for missile defense/defeat:

-$25 billion for Golden Dome
-$13.1 billion for MDA
-$15.2 billion for regional/strategic capabilities outside MDA
-$14.9 billion for advanced tech defeat/left-of-launch

Total: $68.3 billion. +$40.7 billion over FY25.


Defense Budget Overview for FISCAL YEAR 2026 BUDGET REQUEST

The key takeaway here is the Golden Dome reconciliation request is *on top of* the growing "normal" missile defense/defeat request. How all this fits within Trump's $175 billion Golden Dome cost estimate over 3 years remains to be clarified.



Full article: How industry is lining up for big Golden Dome business

Lockheed is always double-dipping in the cookie jar. Leidos is in fact a division of Lockheed Martin.


On yesterday's post about those two Chinese ships colliding with the destroyer getting T-boned hard, and come out with just some dents and scuff marks. I was expecting to see a major hole in the side of that destroyer when the CCG cutter pulled away (remember the CCG cutter used to also be a warship - it's a former PLA Navy Type 056 corvette). Maybe that Chinese steel/armor is better than what many think in the media. The destroyer may be well built, but the seamanship is highly questionable & reckless.

In photos below note that black area is the anchor recess; Not a large gaping hole as many on social media have screamed. It is painted black to hide rust. This is evident in the vid Ninurta posted in the shoutbox and this one below. The Destroyer is 7500 tons and the Cutter 1500 tons. 1500 tons at 20 to 25 knots is a lot of force against the bow of any ship.

Perhaps the Chinese ships are designed as bumper boats. In a territory dispute, ramming ships is more useful than launching missiles.



The Philippine Coast Guard Cutter even offered medical assistance to the Chinese Cutter.

00:00 Collision Video
05:21 Breakdown of Collision
13:06 Damage Assessment and Rescue Operations
15:16 Why and how are Chinese Naval and Coast Guard ships harassing the Philippines?