Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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70 years ago today: "Amazon Annie" put on a booming show at the Nevada Proving Ground, the United States conducted Shot Grable, its first and only live-fire test of the massive M65 280-mm atomic cannon and its 15-kiloton W9 shell. Some 3,300 DOD personnel observed from a distance of 2.84 miles. The W9 shell left the M65's muzzle at 2,060 ft per second and traveled 6.25 miles before exploding at a height of 524 ft.



Here is same-day coverage of the well-publicized test on the front page of the Las Vegas Review Journal, quoting Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson, who witnessed it at the Nevada Proving Ground, as saying, "It was extremely interesting and I am pleased with its success."


The newspaper clipping incorrectly stated 180mm.

Only 20 M65 atomic cannons were built, at a then-year cost of $800,000 apiece. And just 160 280-mm atomic shells were manufactured for it (in two versions—both gun-type, highly enriched uranium weapons): the W9 (15 kilotons, 800 lbs., pictured below) and W19 (15-20 kilotons, 600 lbs.).



Weighing more than 83 tons, with limited maneuverability as you might imagine and a 17-mile range, the M65 was technologically obsolete at birth. Nevertheless, it was deployed to West Germany (Apr. 1955-Dec. 1960), Okinawa (Dec. 1955 or Feb. 1956-Jun. 1960), and South Korea (Jan. 1958-Jun. 1962).

The M65 was part of the Army’s Pentomic concept, which claimed to control costs by nuclearizing the Army to actually fight a nuclear war. Dr. Strangelove insanity. More importantly or insanely, it justified the procurement of large numbers of expensive new nuclear weapons to keep pace with the Air Force and Navy.

Just four months before the Grable test in Nevada, on January 20, 1953, a demonstration model of the M65 280-mm atomic cannon lumbered down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, and past the White House as part of President Eisenhower’s first inaugural parade. Note that Rocketman over in N.Korea keeps up the same parade tradition.



Fun Fact per @atomcentral: "believe it or not, the cameraman who photographed most of the photos and movies from behind the Atomic Cannon test was Jack Cannon."

Octogenarian shares notes, photos of his atomic artillery recovery incident

FORT SILL, Oklahoma July 12, 2021 -- Stationed in the 22nd Ordnance Company, in Munich, West Germany, in the chaotic days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the crash of a decommissioned atomic cannon on the autobahn tested a new Army second lieutenant who was put in charge of recovery efforts.

Now, nearly 58 years later and living in Fox Lake, Illinois, 81-year-old Paul Jakstas was removing paperwork and other items he didn’t believe his family would be wanting when he came upon his notes from that moment in Army history. Being the village historian, he said he dealt with things like this and began checking the internet to see if there was someone or some agency that might appreciate what he’d kept.

That’s when he came upon Fort Sill and realized that Atomic Annie resides here in Artillery Park.
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Nov. 22, 1963, Jakstas played in a platoon basketball game at a neighboring post when the game stopped with word of Kennedy’s death. Although his unit went on alert status, no immediate threat materialized.

Instead, early Nov. 23, Jakstas’ unit received an emergency call about the accident that involved vehicles carrying an artillery piece. Seven Soldiers were injured with two trapped in the wreck. Those two were later removed, and all survived.

Despite serving in his position less than four months, Jakstas earned the trust of his company and battalion commander who selected him for the recovery operation of the atomic cannon.

“As the designated recovery officer, I mobilized some wheels/tracks and headed north on the autobahn,” he said.
Arriving on scene, he found the 84-foot long gun with its fore and aft attached trucks askew blocking traffic. While a warrant officer handled the physical recovery matters, Jakstas managed the public affairs details. This included updating angry West German officials upset about the closed thoroughfare, media queries, and high ranking U.S. Army officers checking on progress of the recovery.

With the world in turmoil over Kennedy’s assassination, Jakstas said media interest was minimal. The wrecked vehicles were removed from the accident scene by Nov. 25 and the autobahn soon reopened.
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Dr. John Grenier, Field Artillery Branch and FA School historian spoke of the value of having these documents. He called the notes “primary source documents,” which means they were made by a person who was at the scene when it occurred.

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“It was a world in which the Cold War was the dominant military threat of the Army and other U.S. military branches,” he said.


Although the U.S. was involved in Vietnam that war wouldn’t escalate for another two years. So, the Army was focused on readiness to counter large-scale combat operations in central Europe brought on by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations, he said.

When the Cold War ended in 1989, that threat dissolved, but Grenier said, “there’s a lot of similarities between the early 1960s and what I believe we are going to see in the early 2020s.”

US Army article

BROKEN ARROW PROCEDURES (1962). USAF training film TF 1-5460.

Film Description:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RrYc2hjh0

This amazing 1962 U.S. Air Force training film BROKEN ARROW PROCEDURES shows  the procedures used in an accident involving a nuclear weapon. In this case, a airborne B-52 has caught fire while carrying a nuclear weapon.  The film was likely made in response to the Goldsboro incident of 1961, in which an atomic bomb survived an airplane crash and fire.  It was one of the most terrifying moments in the history of the Air Force, SAC and the Cold War, since after the incident it was determined that most of the bomb's safety mechanisms had failed and, in a terrifying scenario, the device could have actually detonated.  The incident led to a wholesale reappraisal of safety standards and serves as an enduring lesson to nations that have atomic weapons of the necessity of redundancy with these safety devices. 

The film suggests different scenarios, including a nuclear detonation, or a "dirty" fire that presents a hazard to personnel due to nuclear radiation, or a situation in which atomic material is spread over a large area by a crash.  In these instances a full scale disaster response, including mass evacuation of personnel and civilians in the area, is needed. 

The film includes footage at the 13 minute mark of a B-52 making a hard landing on the runway and its gear collapsing.  It also uses b&w footage of a military accident in 1959, with an airplane aflame and first responders arriving on the scene.

The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on January 24, 1961. A B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot in command ordered the crew to eject, which they did at 9,000 feet (2,700 m). Five men successfully ejected or bailed out of the aircraft and landed safely. Another ejected but did not survive the landing, and two died in the crash. Controversy continues to surround the event as information newly declassified in 2013 reinforced long-held, public suspicions that one of the bombs came very close to detonating.

In 2013, investigative journalist Eric Schlosser published a book, Command and Control, in which he presented a declassified 1969 document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. In the report, entitled "Goldsboro Revisited," written by Parker F. Jones, a supervisor of nuclear safety at Sandia National Laboratories, Jones says that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe," and concludes that "The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52."

Back then, there was FOUR safety redundancy devices. THREE of them failed.



NUCLEAR ATTACK PREPAREDNESS: SURVIVE TO FIGHT (1968) with narration from WWII fighter pilot, William Conrad (I think). Conrad served in the US Army Air Forces during World War II and as a producer-director of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSMcPNGyxME


35mm color original photography of Upshot Knothole Grable (1953) scanned and uploaded in 4K.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3X3qqjKZBk

NUCLEAR ATTACK PREPAREDNESS: SURVIVE TO FIGHT (1968) with narration from William Conrad (probably). Conrad served in the US Army Air Forces during World War II and as a producer-director of the Armed Forces Radio Service.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSMcPNGyxME



The story is based on "The Off-Islanders", a novel by Nathaniel Benchley. Nathaniel is the son of humorist and actor Robert Benchley and the father of Peter Benchley who wrote the novel "Jaws". There was some debate as to whether or not to use English subtitles for the Russians. Director Norman Jewison argued that subtitles were not necessary because their actions made it clear what they were saying. It also saved money for the movie's budget which wasn't that big to begin with. The film had a profound impact on both American and Soviet leaders. It is one of the few films actually mentioned in the Congressional record. Norman Jewison was also personally invited to Moscow, where he reported that the Russian crowd was transfixed by the scene featuring the little boy who falls from the bell tower and whom the Soviets and Americans cooperate to save.

Actor Carl Reiner and soundtrack composer Johnny Mandel both died on the same day; June 29, 2020.

In this 1966 American comedy film directed by the forty-year-old Canadian-bron Norman Jewison tells the story of a Soviet submarine crew that accidentally runs aground on an island off the coast of Massachusetts. When the crew ventures ashore searching for assistance from the locals, fears of a Communist invasion are caused. The Soviets attempt to avert these fears by claiming they are Norwegian. This film not only mocks the intense anti-Soviet paranoia of American society, but also helps to "humanize" the U.S.S.R. The locals and the Soviet crew eventually work together to save a young boy from falling from a church steeple. Ultimately, the Soviets, the "other," are shown as not so different from "us."
The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycLPm3UJhY0


May 25, 1986, Hands Across America happened.

Hands Across America was a public fundraising event on Sunday, May 25, 1986, when 5 to 6.5 million people held hands for 15 minutes in an attempt to form a continuous human chain across the contiguous United States. The attempt to have a complete line of people across the country failed, although the number of participants would have been sufficient to succeed if they had been spread out over the full length of the planned course. The various gaps in the line between participants were filled using ribbons, ropes, or banners.

I remember watching this on the evening headline news at the dinner table. My mom (teacher at the time) thought it was inspiring; me didn't think much of it. Hold hands & sing kumbaya? Crockett & Tubbs holding hands?! WTF, nope, not for macho kid. Watch the music video:



In hindsight, such an event might do this country some good. But, it would probably be lambasted by the parasitical media & Marxist Soros infiltrators and the 'Homeland' Gestapo would issue another state of emergency.



Are the powers-that-be orchestrating all this social chaos to set Ron DeSantis up as a new Caesar who will restore order and get the imperial war machine back on track?



I think that the powers that be are like Bob Ross. They keep a variety of brushes and paints available to them to create the picture they want to see as they go along. Whatever brush they use still creates the painting in their style. Multi polar order so I'm expecting more fragmentation and balkanization with things divided into corporate trading blocs. Ron is currently testing state vs corporate power down in Florida.

[Freija]

May 25, 1986, Hands Across America happened.

Doh! That picture sure looks like Arizona so I had to look close  to make sure I wasn't in it. I did that thing in 1986 and somehow, against his grand wishes not to, I even talked my husband at the time into going too.

I didn't really want to go either but my best friend and her boyfriend insisted.

As always (or mostly always! lol), awesome post and thread ETMN!

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Since mermaid's are trending (due to Netflix) I came across a few vintage one's.

From French weekly magazine La Vie Parisienne (1863-1970). Flustered lesbian mermaid by Georges Léonnec, circa 1925.


The caption is hard to read: "La Paresienne deviendrait-elle économe? Un voit beaucoup moins de patalons, cette année!"

Goog translation: Would the Parisienne become thrifty? One sees a lot less pants this year!

Or maybe..."Parisians became frugal; one can see a lot less pants this year."



Vintage Mermaids



Re-trending for reasons I have no freaking idea...

Perineum worshipper aka wellness influencer Metaphysical Meagan:


Last time I checked her instagram she had 30 weird women out in the desert with her. She’s starting her own taint based butt-hole worshiping cult.





Worried, my ass. It's all part of the same Kabuki theater. Why does DeSantis always look like he's trying on suits for mom at JC Penney?



Jesus been on Twitter too long. LOL.
And on & on it goes... https://twitter.com/OMGTheWhyFiles/statu...6652975104





PC Mag Sept 30, 1986 (The little guy beneath the bench are now the one's running the country off the rails)



Art by selected works of Tim White (1952-2020) - Thousand Star (Grafton, 1983); bottom "Dark Universe", sold for $3,250.


From "Information wants to be free" to "Open the podcast doors please, HAL," the Internet just keeps getting better.




Another wild ride with one of the best in the business...


The Higherside Chats (first hour free)

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Happy THREADS day.





Amazon UK link

How Threads (1984) came into being. Its progress can be traced through The War Game and A Guide To Armageddon. This is an extract from my new book, ATTACK WARNING RED: HOW BRITAIN PREPARED FOR NUCLEAR WAR, and features an interview with the director of Threads, Mick Jackson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYIhJL671Lo

May 26, 1972: in Moscow, President Richard Nixon and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the Interim Agreement on Certain Measures With Respect to the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (aka SALT I), freezing the number of ICBMs and SLBMs deployed by each country.



However, SALT I imposed no restrictions on bomber aircraft or warheads. This enabled both countries to significantly expand their nuclear arsenals by deploying unlimited numbers of MIRVs on their existing ballistic missiles.



MIRV = Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle, is an exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit multiple targets for enhanced first-strike proficiency. Current active MIRV's (that we're told) is USA with the UGM-133 Trident II (8-14 warheads), Russia has several types up to 15 warheads; UK has same as US; China has several types up to 10 warheads; France has 1 type with 6-10 warheads; India has a few under development; Pakistan demo pending; Israel has the Jericho 3 with suspected capability, not announced, 2-3 technically possible.

In 1974, Nixon’s Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, disingenuously told reporters, “I would say in retrospect that I wish I had thought through the implications of a MIRVed world more thoughtfully in 1969 and 1970 than I did.”
Retrospectives on MIRVing in the First Nuclear Age


Nixon and Brezhnev also signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which permanently restricted deployment of antiballistic missiles by each country to 200 at two locations—its capital and an ICBM base. A 1974 protocol further limited this to 100 interceptors at one location.


The Pyramid of North Dakota (48.590623, -98.357114)
The USA's only operational ABM (anti-ballistic missile) site, built within the constraints of the ABM Treaty with the USSR, and operational very briefly in 1975. This central complex includes launch silos for 30 Spartan missiles, 16 Sprint missiles, and a Missile Site Radar (MSR). Five remote sites include four other Sprint missile fields, 10-20 miles away, with a combined total of approximately 54 Sprint missiles, plus one Perimeter Acquisition Radar (PAR) site, 25 miles away. 6 billion dollars to build the complex and after just less than one day at full operational service, the Dr. Strangelove complex was shut down after a vote by the US House of Representatives. They deemed the facility to be ineffective; there was also concern that, because of its location, fallout from destroying missiles in that area could have unintended consequences. Mercy no, really?! WTF did the planning?

In 2012 it was auctioned off for $530,000 to the Hutterite Colony of Forbes, North Dakota. Hutterites aka Hutterian Brethren (German: Hutterische Brüder), are a communal ethno religious branch of Anabaptists, who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the early 16th century and have formed intentional communities.

In the 1994 Leonard Nimoy film "Holy Matrimony", Havana (Patricia Arquette) is on the run from the law and hides in a Hutterite community in Alberta, Canada, led by Wilhelm (actor Armin Mueller-Stahl).

In 2020, portions of the property including the Pyramid were sold to the Cavalier County Job Development Authority (CCJDA) for $462,900.

In July 2022, data center developer Bitzero Blockchain Inc. (NetZero, WEF, ESG-driven 2 yr-old company) acquired the pyramid from the CCJDA in order to restore and renovate the complex and convert it into a data center, with a slated $500 million going into the project. Local news story



May 26, 1970: BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES had its world premiere in Los Angeles. Proceeds went to the City of Hope charity. Russ Meyer and fiancée Edy Williams attended along with Clint Eastwood, Lee Majors, Farrah Fawcett, Tippi Hedren, Sam Elliott and many others!




BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES...Reimagineered poster art by Eric Powell.

The A to Z of Russ Meyer

Russ Meyer is the most cult-iest of cult movie directors.

Films like Faster Pussycat Kill Kill (1965), Vixen (1968) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) still pack out revival houses. His work continues to inspire critical analysis and attract new fans. Artwork from his movie remains in high demand for posters and T shirts.

Here’s an A to Z about the famous auteur.

A is for Alzheimer’s Disease, which afflicted Meyer during the last years of his life prior to his death in 2004, and is a downer of a way to start this article but you can’t ignore it happened. Meyer had an incredible life – lots of sex, fame, money, laughs and a job he loved, even some critical respect. He died a wealthy man with a devoted fan base – there was no Ed Wood/DW Griffith style languishing in obscurity and poverty for old Russ. That doesn’t guarantee you’ll go out well, though, and it didn’t for Meyer, whose health declined in the mid 1990s and developed into full blown Alzheimer’s. (Mental illness ran in the family – his mother and sister wound up in psychiatric hospitals.)
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E is for Eve Meyer, Meyer’s second wife, associate producer, lead model, star of his second film Eve and the Handyman and overall muse. The two drifted apart personally and professionally by the early ‘70s and, like many an auteur director, Meyer was never as good once he broke up with his wife (eg George Lucas, Peter Bogdanovich). She died in a plane crash on the Canary Islands in 1977.

F is for feminism, something Meyer is occasionally accused of, mostly due to having three strong female leads in Faster Pussycat Kill Kill and making a film about female sexual desire, Vixen. But try arguing that feminism after watching Charles Napier beat, strangle, stomp and electrocute Shari Eubank to a lingering death in Supervixens (1975); or Lorna Maitland learning to love sex by being raped in Lorna (1964) and then being murdered for liking sex; or have Alex Rocco in Motorpsycho (1965) ignore looking after his recently raped wife so he can go looking for revenge and flirt with Haji; or all of the comic rape in Up! (1976) and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens. One thing is certain though – Meyer’s films with female protagonists (Faster Pussycat, Vixen, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Mondo Topless) are a hell of a lot more entertaining and hold up much better than those where the action is driven by the men (Blacksnake, Supervixens, Finders Keepers Lovers Weepers). He never seemed to learn that lesson though and kept drifting back to stories with male protagonists.
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H is for homophobia, something Meyer is accused of, mostly because (spoilers) all the LGBTI characters in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls get murdered but also because of the gay caricatures in The Seven Minutes (1971), Up! (1976) and Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens, and Haji being a tragic doomed lesbian in Faster Pussycat. However, Meyer always depicts lesbian lovemaking as a positive, enjoyable thing (especially in Vixen) – indeed the climax of Cherry Harry and Raquel (1970) features two women happily going at it intercut with scenes of two men pointlessly shooting each other to death, making a surprisingly affecting point about sex being more worthwhile than violence. I am aware this doesn’t clear him of homophobia and he films everything very much through a straight male gaze (or leer), but he at least had queer characters in several of his movies when that wasn’t super common – half the characters in Up!, for instance, are bisexual.
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W is for Williams, Edy, who Meyer met during Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and became his wife number three. He overlooked her for lead roles in The Seven Minutes (she played a support) and Blacksnake. Meyer was going to put her in a star vehicle, Foxy but it was never made. Are you surprised to hear the marriage didn’t last? You know something, Edy Williams should have played the lead in Blacksnake – it would have been more fun.

X is for X rating which Meyer alternatively battled and embraced throughout his career. Battles with censors cost him a lot of money but he made it back in the success he enjoyed.
The A to Z of Russ Meyer

Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979, got a Rated X) Writers: Roger Ebert & Russ Meyer.


It was aired in Finland on July 8, 1999 as a TV premiere!


ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES opened May 26, 1971 in Los Angeles.

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Edward Dmytryk's Cold War Hitchcockian thriller MIRAGE opened in New York on May 26, 1965. Starring Gregory Peck, Diane Baker and Walter Matthau. Beware of the Mirage (men).



An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major. Gregory Peck was so happy with the quality of the film, that he gave screenwriter Peter Stone a Rolls-Royce as a post-production gift after the movie came out.



This film, was released on September 23, 1965 in the UK, and it begins with a blackout in New York City. 48 days later, most of New York City, and large swaths of the Northeast including parts of Canada were actually plunged into darkness for 13 hours, beginning at 5:16 pm ET, on November 9, 1965.



This image & caption is featured in the 1989 book Checkerboard Press Computers and Electronics (Encyclopedia Series).

Space colonies are now being considered seriously by some people. The one in the picture [above] is controlled throughout by a big central computer. The colony is positioned 240,000 miles (350,000km) from Earth and about the same distance from the Moon. It consists of a great tube 430 feet (130m) across. This tube forms a ring over a mile in diameter. The tube houses the main living and agricultural areas and can support up to 10,000 people. The big wheel rotates once a minute. This makes an artificial gravity on the surface of the tube away from the center. "Up" is towards the hub and "down" is away from it.

Sunlight is reflected from huge mirrors that can be adjusted to give as much or as little sunlight as required in different parts of the tube. The sunlight also gives the energy to drive the generators which produce the colony's electricity.

Long "spokes" attach the tube to a central hub. At the hub there are docking ports for spaceships and vast antenna arrays for all the colony's communications with Earth.

Any particular movie come to mind?


Romulan invasion! For "Enterprise Incidents" magazine (1979), by artist Ralph Fowler.

Enterprise Incidents is a gen Star Trek: TOS fanzine. It was a joint production of The Science Fiction Comic Association and the Star Trek Federation of Fans. "Enterprise Incidents" mostly contains interviews, articles and clippings.

A bit of an odd duck, this zine straddled the line between semi-pro and fan-created content. Starting in issue #6, it printed fan fiction and fan art, but it is unclear how long this continued, perhaps only until issue #10.

When James Van Hise began adding non-Star Trek articles before changing the title completely and becoming this slick magazine, the zine was called Enterprise.

"Enterprise Incidents" ran for at least 33 issues. From issue #25, the cover banner incorporates a subtitle, "SF Movieland", and this new name begins to grow in size over the next few issues, to help the magazine compete with "Starlog" in the newsstands and comic shops. There also exist Special Collectors Issues that reprint early original issues, sometimes two old zines in one new, that had been long out-of-print.

Some of the artwork by Ralph Fowler can be found here.

It had a short-lived sister zine, a cookbook called, The Alien Cook.

Enterprise Incidents (US Star Trek: TOS zine)

Fun link: If you have an Original Series Communicator fetish, this site will beam you to another world:

The premiere Star Trek classic communicator information center - for Collectors, Hobbyists and Historians

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Heinz Kissingfool turned 100 today.
Not only has he outlived most of his peers, presidents, eminent detractors and students, but he has also remained indefatigably active in global affairs. How the hell is this war criminal still alive?!





"An enemy A-Bomb Smuggled in to blast America!" The "shock drama" THE 49th MAN opened in Los Angeles (with the comedy THE SIREN OF BAGDAD) May 27 in 1953.


During the Cold War, the Defense Department's War Games team smuggles 48 nuclear bomb parts into the USA to test the nation's readiness for a subversive attack but an unexplained 49th bomb part mysteriously shows up.
IMDB


May 27, 1956: Ed Sullivan jolted his television viewers by airing the animated 6 min horrifying anti-nuclear-war film "A Short Vision" during his hugely popular Sunday evening show.



In 2011, Mr. CONELRAD wrote a detailed article about the film and its reception:

A SHORT VISION: Ed Sullivan’s Atomic Show Stopper

    “I’m gonna tell you if you have youngsters in the living room tell them not to be alarmed at this ‘cause it’s a fantasy, the whole thing is animated…”

    -- Ed Sullivan introducing the apocalyptic short film A SHORT VISION on the May 27, 1956 broadcast of The Ed Sullivan Show[1]

    “Years later I met a man from Canada who had shoulder length dark hair, but in the center of his head was a small spot where his hair grew out a silvery white color. I asked him about it, and he told me that he was a medically documented case of a person whose hair had turned white from fright. As a child, he had seen A SHORT VISION while alone in a house, and he experienced extreme panic and terror for some time, and one result was that his hair began to grow out white from that one spot on his head.”

    -- Excerpt from a remembrance written for CONELRAD by Michael Mode, baby boomer, who also saw the end of the world on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1956.



INTRODUCTION: Sunday Night at the Apocalypse

From the vantage point of today’s media-saturated, 24/7, TV-in-every-room, on-demand world, the concept of a must-see, live, prime time television show starring an awkward newspaperman nicknamed “Old Stone Face” is hard to fathom.[3] Throw in the fact that the show was a bona fide institution for over two decades and the premise begins to sound like science fiction. The closest current analog to The Ed Sullivan Show in terms of popularity is FOX’s American Idol, but Idol producers would sell what is left of their souls to get Sullivan’s audience share. The proudly untelegenic host dominated Sunday nights in an era well before TV fractured into 500 channels. But today Ed Sullivan’s significance to broadcasting is practically unknown to Americans born after the baby boom generation.

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Long & lengthy bibliography: A SHORT VISION: Ed Sullivan’s Atomic Show Stopper

The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

Completed with the support of the British Film Institute's Experimental Film Fund. How nice. Probably had a few fellows from Tavistock directing. Voice over by James McKechnie (1911-1964; Glasgow, Scotland) Watch if you dare, right before bed time! LOL (Note the black triangle UFO, I mean bomber)




I got the key, I got the "Football"....



Carrying on the tradition of Captain Edward Latimer Beach Jr. "Run Silent, Run Deep" (April 20, 1918 – Dec 1, 2002) bestselling author and Eisenhower military aide, who developed the nuclear football protocol.

Retired Navy Capt, Edward Beach invented the football during the Eisenhower administration. Actually, he devised a set of footballs containing the presidential orders for a nuclear attack and planned to have them scattered around the country. The rest is history. For more than 30 years new presidents have been given briefings-they last about 15 minutes--on the football. But most show little interest--not even John Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis. As McGeorge Bundy, his national-security adviser, explains it, "He was not the type of man to inquire about how to drop a bomb."

Fumbling The Football: Now It Can Be Told (Newsweek, Oct 6, 1991)

History teaches us nothing is new or changes much.



Today in MAD MEN (TV Series 2007–2015) history...




As Ninurta has said many times over, it's time to open a can of whip-ass, or something along those lines...



Here's the Freija style short info-graphic thread on how that shotgun cannon was fabricated.

[Freija]

Here's the Freija style short info-graphic thread on how that shotgun cannon was fabricated.

Well damn, there goes the surprise. I was going to make a giant gun next but now it would just look like I'm copying.

[BIAD]

Since mermaid's are trending (due to Netflix) I came across a few vintage one's.

This one has been sitting in the back of BIAD's shed for a while, so if I may, I'll leave it here.
(Big fan of Higherside Chats and the now slowed-down Cooper Vortex!)

[Bally002]

Since mermaid's are trending (due to Netflix) I came across a few vintage one's.

This one has been sitting in the back of BIAD's shed for a while, so if I may, I'll leave it here.
(Big fan of Higherside Chats and the now slowed-down Cooper Vortex!)

Never got to understand how you'd do a mermaid.  Where would you put the fillet' o'fish roll?
hmm?

Kind regards,

Bally)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

On the morning of May 28, 1957, NATO representatives observed the 12-kiloton Plumbbob Boltzmann test at the Nevada Proving Ground in NTS Area 7c  (37.094700, -116.024500). Detonated atop a 500-foot tower, this shot tested an experimental, lightweight (295-pound), boosted-fission XW-40 warhead 31.6-inches long by 18-inches wide.



Plumbbob Boltzmann nuclear test showing journalists at News Nob illuminated by the fireball (w/o sunblock 1 million), and the radioactive mushroom cloud rising into the sky.




May 28, 2000: the 1959 remake of ON THE BEACH was presented on Showtime, 1 hr longer than the original.



The Los Angeles class submarine in this movie uses a "caterpillar" (silent) drive as was used by the Soviet submarine Red October in The Hunt for Red October (1990). The original 1959 film has the lovely Ava Gardner with Gregory Peck and Anthony Perkins, which was also filmed in Australia.



May 28, 1987: Mathias Rust landed his rented Cessna 172 almost 550 miles from Helsinki, Finland, through heavily-protected airspace and landed about 6:43pm near Red Square in Moscow. Ironically, it was Border Guards Day in the Soviet Union. He served a 14 month prison term in the USSR for the stunt. He was pardoned in August 1988 as a goodwill gesture and expelled to West Germany. In '89 he stabbed a nurse who barely survived and served only 15 months.



Rust’s flight was an unmitigated embarrassment for the reputation of the Soviet military. Within days, Mikhail Gorbachev used it to justify removing the minister of defense, the chief of air defense forces, and hundreds of lower-level officers opposed to Perestroika and Glasnost.




In 2012, the BBC described him as a "financial analyst and a yoga instructor." Rust's stunt was a punchline on THE GOLDEN GIRLS.





2012 Guardian report, largely narrated by Rust. "Part of my character is that I like to push limits. I like to cross lines, to figure for myself out how far I can go. ... That’s why the flight to Moscow is still a good experience for me ...."





Tall, dark and handsome, charismatic rebel of 1960s Hollywood, RIP.


George Maharis, Star of ‘Route 66,’ Dies at 94



Maharis last film was the 1993 romance/horror B-movie Doppelganger starring Drew Barrymore.

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"Dak to 67" illustration by Noriyoshi Ohrai inspired by a photograph taken by French photographer Henri Huet during the Vietnam War. On Feb 10, 1971 he and 10 other photojournalists were being transported in a UH-1 Huey, which the Vietnamese pilots inadvertently strayed off course and were shot down over the Ho Chi Minh trail area. All 11 were killed.



The photo in question was featured in Life magazine, February 11, 1966:





Noriyoshi gained fame in 1980 when George Lucas commissioned him to do the international poster for "The Empire Strikes Back" after being impressed by an earlier Star Wars piece he did for a Japanese sci-fi magazine.


A version of this scene found its way into the music video for "Do You See What I See" / "Behind the Barrier" (1984) by Planet P Project (one of my favorite sci-fi story albums of the 80s).





IN THIS MAD HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:
POLITICS IS A SIDESHOW FOR THE RULING CLASSES
"SCIENCE" IS MANIPULATED BY PROFIT FOR GLOBAL CORPORATIONS
THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST ARE BEING CULLED FOR EASIER HERD MANAGEMENT
RITUALISTIC ALCHEMICAL AND ESOTERIC FORCES INFLUENCE WORLD EVENTS
AFTER THIS GLOBAL SATYR PLAY COMES GLOBAL TRAGEDY
POPULAR CULTURE IS PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE


You'll notice the virtue signalling hashtag specifically chosen for inclusion and on this DAY. Hey Cruz, how about concerning yourself with America, Veterans for example!



I miss when we'd randomly deploy Lindsey Graham to Iraq and Afghanistan for a week every so often.












That time when we found out the government actually passed regulations in 1926 requiring industrial alcohol manufacturers to add deadly poisons to their products, knowing it would wind up in bootlegged alcohol during Prohibition. Chem flavorings such as benzine, mercury, and more methanol. Numbers are hard to track, but it has been estimated some 10,000 Americans died from this evil insanity.


Newspaper clipping fullsize (PDF)

From this article:

Again, this affected poor people. This was a poor man's drink.

GL: Another thing that's interesting about this story is that the government did something similar with marijuana in the 1970s.

DB: Right. The Paraquat spraying. The government was trying to get rid of marijuana plants in Mexico, and they sprayed plants with this herbicide that they thought would kill them. But it didn't kill them all. What it did was load the plants with poison.

The government basically said, "Oh well." This was basically the government response to the poisoning in the 1920s. "Oh well, you're an evil lawbreaker. If you get poisoned, that's your problem."

GL: What do you think this all says about prohibition and the war on drugs?

DB: It shows that moral crusades are really dangerous. People really do believe that they're on the side of the angels, and that the ends justify the means.
The US government once poisoned alcohol to get people to stop drinking

100 years later we have the (engineered) Fentanyl epidemic.


Ok, boys, so we need a large fighting force in central Asia to counter the Ruskies, the Chinese & the Iranians...last weapons transfers were a little too obvious and caused problems in logistics. So, what can we do to avoid that this time?? I have an idea. I've got some frens from the 1980s.



Meanwhile...


https://twitter.com/__0HOUR1_/status/166...0187794434

Luckily they don’t have equipment. <sigh>

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Directly after the 1983 UK premiere of nuclear drama The Day After, Robert Kee hosted a studio debate on Dec 10, 1983 discussing the impact of the film and the contemporary threat of a nuclear war. Someone found the whole thing on Betamax and just posted it today. (includes original commercials for that vintage 80s experience)





The White House Military Office Marine Corps aide was on "Football" duty for President Biden’s trip to Delaware yesterday evening.



My folks were on vacation last week in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and were astounded on what they witnessed. Banners, flags, t-shirts, ballcaps, coffee mugs, signs, the usual paraphernalia you see in a little resort towns...with one eye popping difference. It was all labeling/messaging of Trump. Not one democrat display nor anything with Biden. Every souvenir shop, store, on the boardwalk, on the beach & street venues was all Trump. Said it felt really good to see, but strange feeling to see so near to the Biden "Summer White House".






Speaking of vacations. Who's in? Let's GOoooooo!



No? How about a spy cruise...



Are you a target? Come find out on the Spy Cruise.

From the people that brought you Spy Cruise, introducing...



Spy Cruise

I knew that Lt. Gen Hayden was a strange one...

I had never gone on a cruise before, never harboured any interest. But when I caught wind of Spy Cruise, I was deeply intrigued.

A lecture series by covert operatives? Spies on a boat? My one reservation – and it was fleeting – was along the lines of "I hope al-Qaeda doesn't find out about this ship."

So I bought a ticket. And that's how, last week, I found myself chatting up American spies in the Caribbean.
I was targeting one in particular: Michael Hayden, a man who has probably forgotten more state secrets than most spies will ever know.

The Air Force general acted as president George W. Bush's eyes and ears while heading an ultrasecretive electronic-eavesdropping agency. Then he was made head of the Central Intelligence Agency, a job that is like being the president's brain – and covert fist.

Once at sea, it wasn't hard to buttonhole Hayden, a featured Spy Cruise speaker.

"I'm as much of a civil libertarian as the next guy, frankly," he told me when we sat down together. He argued that the CIA had been very restrained during the war on terror. "The little voice in your head says be careful whatever you do – you're going to have to live with the consequences the rest of your life."

He was so affable I had to keep reminding myself that spymasters are the most Machiavellian men on the planet. In Langley, Va., he would have helped decide who gets killed in Waziristan and Yemen – the badlands where CIA drone planes blow up presumed terrorists with Hellfire missiles. Recently retired, Hayden had traded his four-star general's epaulets for civilian shirt sleeves.

When we docked, I went on a guided horse ride through a rain forest – the general, I heard, swam with dolphins.

Casino Royale

My unofficial maxim for Spy Cruise was this: "All work and no play makes Jack Bauer a dull boy."
....
Today, Hayden likes to point out that Obama has stuck with many controversial CIA programs. He is outraged, however, that the administration ordered a criminal investigation into the spy service – specifically a probe of the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing "waterboarding" interrogations of top al-Qaeda terrorists.

The general didn't sound like much of a civil libertarian as he expressed fears that "risk aversion" is hobbling the CIA. "When you're operating out there, somebody's got to have your back. And it's got to be your government, not a particular administration," he told me. "What the agency has gone through in the last two years has shaken that trust."

Spies should be encouraged to be aggressive as lawfully possible, he argued.

Story continues... Show girls, sake-tinis and spies on a Caribbean cruise

Gen Hayden retired July 1, 2008 from the Air Force after over 41 years.
In 2020, he endorsed Joe Biden in the presidential election. He was one of the 51 former U.S. intelligence officials who signed the October 19, 2020, letter that said the Hunter Biden laptop story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

"We kill people based on metadata."
- NSA Director General Michael Hayden (2014) Vid clip

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On May 31, 1889, over 2,200 people were killed after the South Fork Dam collapsed, sending a 35-foot wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.




Tonight and tomorrow in 1921, an organized & angry mob of White folks raged through the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma known as "Black Wall Street" — burning and looting 35 city blocks and massacring up to 300 African-Americans, dozens of whites, leaving 10,000 homeless. The death toll estimates are all over the map. Nobody really knows. How it all started was just as stupid as the crap we see today.



Many folks did not became aware of this until HBO's 2019 mini-TV series "Watchmen".

Black Wall Street Massacre: Why Watchmen HBO Opened With the Tulsa Oklahoma Riots of 1921


The prelude to the Tulsa race massacre was the racial strife flaring across the United States known as the Red Summer of 1919...100 years later the George Floyd summer of love festival. The history of these mass violent wild fire events of 1919-1921 is almost beyond belief! 2020 was romper room.


Race Riots of 1919 - The Red Summer - Map journal.



May 31, 1988: President Ronald Reagan's military aide, Lieutenant Commander Woody Lee, was photographed with the "nuclear football" in Red Square during the Moscow Summit.



Contrary to popular football lore, the "football" is attached to his wrist by a leather strap, not metal handcuff.

You can see a very brief glimpse of Lt. Cdr. Lee & the "Football" accompanying President Reagan in and around Red Square in this raw film footage taken that day, from 20:51-20:53 at far right side:





You might notice in the vid that Gorbachev was also very fond of that Masonic pyramid hand signalling (exactly like  Angela Merkel) EVERY time when on camera and so many other political elites to this very day! (Including Trump)


The photographer who took the Football shot is Joe Marquette [1937-2016]. Mr. Marquette won the Pulitzer Prize for his photography of the Clinton impeachment hearings. He's not even credited by the Getty farm of images and found the photo in Newsweek magazine's Oct 7, 1991 issue depicted on Page 17



CSPAN-Photographing the White House


Investigative journalist Ted Gup's Summer of COG started off with a bang with a Washington Post magazine cover story, "The Ultimate Congressional Hideaway" on May 31, 1992 investigative feature on the congressional bomb shelter at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. And finished with a mushroom cloud in TIME on August 10th.





NY Times archive link


Short story:
Where I grew up deep on the Cold War grounds, the Air Force finally admitted back in the 80s that some of our private wells may be contaminated, in fact some were, so they footed the bill so to speak after public outrage to run city water lines out to rural areas in the country side. Luckily, back then long before their admission of contaminants my dad was a sorta of water chemistry expert and tested our water which resulted in some heavy metals & chemicals but extremely minutia. In our basement he had engineered & installed a complex system of water filtration. In took up a 10'x 10' space with a maze of piping, valves, going in/out of filtration contraptions.

After city water was being pumped to all rural dwellers, all private wells were verbooten including any & all wells for the farmers. Also, a little known (except to us locals) Air Force radar site dating to early 60s became a super-fund site in the 90s. It became ownership of the US Army, then years later handed back to the county, except for a tiny plot in the center that is still to this day under ownership of the US Army. Trespassing on this tiny lot is strictly forbidden and a commando squad will appear out of nowhere in black helo's. Yes, literally! Although, probably drones today as they have a drone training & certification school nearby that is conducted by private mil/intel contractors. The county to this day has still done absolutely nothing with the land, only periodically mowing the grass so passerby's see a barb wire fence with a tiny sign...KEEP OUT by order of US Army & County Regulators!!


One-Term Jack Ryan Ben Affleck survives a nuclear blast and later tries to send an email. THE SUM OF ALL FEARS released May 31, 2002.



Backchannels supposedly keep the peace...in film & real life.





Somewhere high above Earth or from a deep underground bunker the summer propotainment agenda is being scheduled.

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Wizard Wednesday!








Alexa, enhance the lower right corner on the slide being shown in the NASA "aliens" lecture.



The Strait of Hormuz, Langley, US military bases in the desert, Hawaii, California, and Florida and the East China Sea. Incredible!

Alexa, do the aliens appear anywhere that isn’t a strategic oil chokepoint or a key US military interest?

Pentagon UFO Czar Says Nothing Indicates Objects Are ET, Some May Be Chinese


The refusal to accept the laws of thermodynamics leading to incredible scientific discourse in "the Age of Enlightenment."


Using pig fat as green jet fuel will hurt planet, experts warn


One from the meme vault...




S.S. Epstein sinks...Robert Maxwell vibes - *Que James Bond theme.*

Four people have died after a houseboat in Italy sank during a birthday party attended by intelligence officials from Italy and Israel.

The incident on Sunday sent some two dozen guests to various hospitals including Israeli officials and guests flown by clandestine private jets back to Israel for treatment, according to an Israeli official.

The dead included two members of Italian intelligence agencies, Tiziana Barnobi, 53, and Claudio Alonzi, 62, as well as a retired member of Israeli intelligence named Shimoni Erez, 60, and the co-owner of the boat, Anna Bozhkova, 50. The Israeli official confirmed, on the condition of anonymity, that about 10 current or former Israeli intelligence officers had been flown to hospitals in Israel via two private jets.

The birthday party on an island in northern Italy’s Lake Maggiore was described in the Italian press as a “convivial meeting,” that mixed official and personal bonding after a series of meetings between the two agencies.

“It was a routine social event mixing business and socialising and a terrible tragedy for both Italy and Israel occurred,” said the official. “Because of the nature of some of the guest’s work, steps were taken to immediately repatriate for medical care and to protect identities.”

Italian police said the 52-foot boat, which was designed for 15 passengers, was badly overloaded with 20 guests and two crew members as it returned guests from a party on a small island to shore. During the short trip, a sudden storm swamped the overloaded boat as it sank, sending guests swimming for shore.

At least five Italian passengers were taken to local hospitals before government officials had them transferred anonymously to other facilities to further protect their covert identities.
VICE

That's the Israeli sheep-dipped method.

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Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926.




June 1, 1952: As part of "Operation Tumbler–Snapper" Los Alamos theoretical physicist and weapons designer Ted Taylor used a parabolic mirror and a 15-kt nuclear explosion "George" (Mark 5 nuclear bomb and W5 nuclear warhead) detonated atop a 300-ft tower at the Nevada Test Site to light a Pall Mall cigarette. Taylor designed the lightweight "Scorpion" device for the test.



Excerpt from "Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing":


Page 154 (1991) by Richard Lee Miller.

A 1955 DoD film clip demonstrated the concept, without using an actual atomic bomb.

Ted Taylor (1925-2004) subsequently recalled that he “carefully extinguished the cigarette and saved it for a while in my desk drawer at Los Alamos. Sometime, probably in a state of excitement about some new kind of bomb, I must have smoked it by mistake.”



Taylor went on to design the highest- and lowest-yield US atomic (fission) bombs: the B18 (500 kt, tested above Enewetak Atoll in "Shot King" on November 15, 1952), and the W54 (.018-.022 kt, tested at the Nevada Proving Ground in Little Feller II and I on July 7 and 11, 1962).

Taylor spent much of his career obsessively pursuing even smaller atomic bombs: "Pursuing these limits became an obsession,” Taylor admitted. “What is the absolute lower limit to the total weight of a complete fission explosive? What is the smallest amount of plutonium or uranium 235 that can be made to explode? What is the smallest possible diameter of a nuclear weapon that could be fired out of a gun?” The answers were surprising. “I was narrowing my focus, getting the quantities of plutonium that one could use to make nuclear explosions down to less than a kilogram. Quite a bit less.”"

"I tried to find out what was the smallest bomb you could produce, and it was a lot smaller than Davy Crockett [the W54 warhead] ... . It was a full implosion bomb that you could hold in one hand that was about six inches in diameter." Quotes are from George Dyson’s 2002...



Or from Strange Love PDF




Note why they say they're doing it (in vid below) - to validate computer code which simulate nuclear detonations. The digital film analysis allows 1% accuracy of interpretation versus 10% accuracy via previous human analysis. Since they have the precise designs of everything detonated we can INFER that they will do a direct comparison of what is seen in the films and what supercomputer simulations of those exact designs produce. Since they are also doing incredibly extensive and detailed non-nuclear and non-critical nuclear testing of every component of nuclear warheads as part of stockpile stewardship (making sure our existing nukes remain viable), the unstated additional likely benefit of that stockpile stewardship is to develop highly accurate computer code to design 4th generation nuclear weapons if that is ever needed:



Amazing what they could do with the Cro-Magnon computing capabilities of 1956.

To Look A Demon In The Eye: Nuclear Tests and Rapatronic Imaging Standard

For the early nuclear weapons scientists, being able to observe the rapidly changing matter in nuclear explosions was vital to their understanding of the phenomena and the effects. Several aspects of the blast (e.g. the blinding light, the speed of the nuclear reaction in the bomb, and the need to be miles away from the detonation) made it very difficult to capture the initial stages on film.

In 1947 the Atomic Energy Commission contracted innovative photographic engineer Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton and two colleagues, Kenneth Germeshausen and Herbert Grier – their mission, improve imaging results.

By 1950 EG&G, Inc. had invented a device capable of capturing images from the fleeting instant directly following a nuclear explosion. Enter the rapatronic (for Rapid Action Electronic) shutter – a shutter with no moving parts that could be opened and closed by turning a magnetic field on and off.

Atomic Rogue Propaganda Booster



Cold War Chrysler V8 180hp Air Raid Siren at 138dB. Don Garlits Museum in Florida...cover yer ears:




June 1, 1988: the INF Treaty signed by Reagan and Gorbachev on Dec. 8, 1987 entered into force. Less than three years later, we were told 2,692 US & Soviet nuclear missiles had been verifiably destroyed. INF ended on Aug. 2, 2019, after Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from it. I recall something Trump had said back in May 2020 while at Kennedy Space Center, that we have something better, nukes are obsolete. Just his manner of remarks gave me the tinfoil impression he got a private tour beneath Area-51 or one of the many secret underground labs out in the desert. All those billion$ appropriated in annual NDAA budget (that nobody reads) for nuke maintenance could just as easily be re-routed to other more advanced black project weapons. I mean, on paper it's just a matter of switching out project numbers in the databases. That's how they roll.



For more on the negotiating history of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, including its so-called unprecedented on-site verification system, see this collection of declassified documents from the National Security Archives:

The INF Treaty, 1987-2019

In 1990, Soviet/Russian painter and sculptor Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli (AFAIK still alive) presented this 12 metres (39ft) high, 40 ton St George and the Atomic Dragon bronze sculpture to the United Nations to commemorate the signing of the 1987 INF Treaty. Titled "Good Defeats Evil", it sits in a garden outside UN headquarters visitors entrance in New York City for all the sheeple to admire.



By comparison, Good Defeats Evil has found a more receptive audience in Manhattan. In the gardens of the UN Headquarters, it shares a home with another dramatic Soviet sculpture, We Shall Beat Our Swords Into Plowshares by Evgenii Vuchetich. In 1959, in the aftermath of the successful Soviet Exhibition of Science, Technology and Culture in New York, the sculpture was likewise gifted to the United Nations as a symbol of the Soviet commitment to nuclear disarmament.

In an ironic twist, since 2001, "Good Defeats Evil" has stood in the shadow of the Trump World Tower.


The football is carried to Marine One, May 31, 2023:


She is the same Space Force officer who was also on Football duty at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan on May 19. The satchel (football) reportedly weighs ~45lbs (20 kilos).

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Good Friday Evening!




If you're curious about which particular Spider-Verse we live in, it's the one where there was a Spider-Man/Al Gore/Captain Kangaroo crossover event.




If you own stock in the MIC, this is your pride month of celebration. Raytheon & brothers want you to know their guided missiles don’t discriminate on the basis of gender or sexuality.





ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards) LOL! The acronym used as a political slogan associated with dissidents who are opposed to the police. It is typically written as a catchphrase in graffiti, tattoos or other imagery in public spaces. Also, sometimes spray painted numerical fashion around cities as "1312".

Not just here in the USSA, but British punk band 4-Skins, popularized the initialism A.C.A.B. in their 1982 song of the same name.



https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status...1372941312

Hard pass.



^^^June 1993.


Coming soon!


Read about him here.



Softline computer mag, Sept 1981 Vol 1 No. 1


Used to be just ONE. What happened? LOL






A Real Layabouts Dream – Luxury High Tech Bed: A Gadget Lover’s Fantasy. Check out this £2,500 high tech luxury bed from 1959! It is chock full of gadgets and everyday conveniences from the headboard to the foot of the bed, most importantly a space for your cup of tea. Oh my, eat your heart out Freija!

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Today in 1983, “WarGames” premiered. In 2008, screenwriter Lawrence Lasker recounted to "Wired" how he arranged a special screening for President Ronald Reagan, who was a family friend, at Camp David the following evening.





At a White House meeting the next week to discuss the MX ICBM with his national security advisers and 16 members of Congress, Reagan eagerly recapped the plot, as former Washington Post correspondent Lou Cannon described in his 1991 book, “Ronald Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime.”

In his 2016 book "Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War", Fred Kaplan revisited this episode, adding that when Reagan finished, he asked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Vessey, "Could something like this really happen?"

One week later, the general returned to the White House with his answer. “WarGames,” it turned out, wasn’t far-fetched. “Mr. president,” he said, “the problem is much worse than you think.”

Reagan’s question set off a series of interagency memos and studies that culminated, 15 months later, in his signing a classified national security decision directive, NSDD-145, titled “National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security.”

The first laptop computers had barely hit the market; public Internet providers wouldn’t exist for another few years. Yet NSDD-145 warned that these new machines — which government agencies and high-tech industries had started buying at a rapid clip — were “highly susceptible to interception.” Hostile foreign powers were “extensively” hacking into them already; “terrorist groups and criminal elements” had the ability to do so, too.

General Vessey could answer the president’s question so promptly — and national-security aides could compose NSDD-145 in such detailed language — because, deep within the bureaucracy, a small group of scientists and spies had been concerned about this looming threat for more than a decade.

....
The main author of Reagan’s NSDD-145 was Donald Latham, the Pentagon’s liaison to the National Security Agency — and a former N.S.A. analyst himself. General Vessey had assigned him to answer Reagan’s question on “WarGames” (Could something like this really happen?). Mr. Latham answered as he did (The situation is much worse than you think.) because he knew that the N.S.A. had long been hacking into the communications systems of the Soviet Union and China — and what we were doing to them, they could someday do to us.

Mr. Ware had been among the first to draw this conclusion. Mr. Latham knew about it early on because the two were longtime friends, Mr. Ware having served on the N.S.A.’s scientific advisory board. The N.S.A. was the most secretive branch of the American intelligence community. Reagan’s screening of “WarGames” brought Mr. Ware’s concerns into high policy-making circles for the first time. And it sparked the first public controversy over the tensions between security and privacy on the Internet, as well as the first public power struggle about the subject between the N.S.A. and Congress — a debate and a struggle that persist today.

‘WarGames’ and Cybersecurity’s Debt to a Hollywood Hack

Surprisingly, "WarGames" was not inspired by the major nuclear false alarms at NORAD on Nov. 9, 1979, and at NORAD and SAC on Jun. 3 and 6, 1980. It originally concerned a dying Hawking-like scientist and his relationship with a smart, rogue teenager.


Someone went to the effort of converting "WarGames" into a 36-second GIF. SHALL WE PLAY A GIF?

Ironically, three years to the day before "WarGames" opened nationwide, this unsettling nuclear false alarm happened at NORAD:

June 3, 1980, at 2:26am EDT, warning displays at the Strategic Air Command suddenly indicated that a Soviet SLBM attack on the United States was underway, first showing 2 and then, 18 seconds later, 200 inbound missiles. SAC ordered all alert air crews to start their B-52 bomber engines.

About 20 seconds apart & the B-52's are near empty fuel on take-off and refueled in-flight once clear of the nuclear blast zone. MITO are exercises. Alerts are the real thing, meaning the bomber crews assume this is a ONE way mission and do NOT know if this a real nuclear bombing mission to wipe USSR off the map or an exercise. They assume it is REAL and do NOT know until they are called back...sometimes not for several hours of flight time. Watching this for real as a kid is something you never forget...Old clip from a SAC base in 1985 which doesn't do justice for the earth shaking, heart stopping & extreme roar that can be heard 5 miles away. Rolling down the runway they have lead shutters that cover the cockpit windows. In this vid they are taking off toward my house and over my house 10 seconds later. The massive exhaust trail is water injection 'smokin it up' which gives them extra thrust to get the hell outta dodge.

Minimum Interval Take Off (MITO) launch of 9 B-52s and 5 K-135s (tankers) in under 5 minutes:




Circling back to real life WarGames scenario 43 years ago, Launch officers for 1,000 Minuteman ICBMs were also alerted to be ready to receive an Emergency Action Message (a coded launch order). 3 minutes later, duty officers at NORAD determined this was a false alarm because early-warning satellites and radars indicated no attack.



Before that happened, however, Gen. William Odom, National Security Advisor (Zbigniew Brzezinski’s military asst.), called him at home, telling him 220 Soviet SLBMs were hurtling toward the United States. Brzezinski told Odom to call back with a confirmation and the likely targets.



This is according to former CIA Director Robert M. Gates 1996 memoir, "From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War", the only place where this anecdote as recounted by Brzezinski to Gates, appears.

When Odom called back, he informed Brzezinski that 2,200 missiles were now on their way, practically the entire Soviet nuclear arsenal. As Brzezinski was preparing to call President Carter with the horrific news, Odom telephoned a third time to convey it was all a false alarm.

We don’t know whether Brzezinski ever went back to sleep that night. But we do know that he did not wake up his wife, Emilie (below), to tell her anything, because he later confided that he preferred she should be asleep when the nuclear warheads rained down on Washington, DC.



As it often takes 40 years (and longer to eternity) to discover/debunk mil/gov events some declassified contemporaneous notes taken by Gen. Odom published in 2020 by the National Security Archives raise questions about whether the early morning phone call described by Brzezinski ever happened. Brzezinski may have conflated two different (June 3 & June 6) nuclear false alarms.

Even after NORAD declared a false alarm, displays at SAC, the National Military Command Center, and the Alternate National Military Command Center (Site R, aka Raven Rock) continued to intermittently indicate SLBM and ICBM launches. So at 2:39am, the NMCC convened a Missile Display Conference.

10 minutes later, with NORAD still assessing the warning data as false, the NMCC escalated to a Threat Assessment Conference. At this point, Pacific Command prepared to send its emergency airborne command post into the air. At 2:53am, Commander-in-Chief United States Atlantic Command (CINCLANT) incorrectly reported SLBM launches.

At 2:54am, NORAD continued to report no indications of any actual launches. At 2:56am, US Pacific Command (PACOM) for reasons that remain unclear—scrambled its EC-135 airborne command post, "Blue Eagle" (part of Operation Looking Glass, aka Doomsday plane) based at Hickam AFB, Hawaii which would remain aloft for 3.5 hours for "routine airborne alert."




NMCC terminated the conference at 2:57am. The entire incident lasted 31 minutes. A subsequent investigation traced the cause to a defective 46¢ integrated circuit in a NORAD communications multiplexer, which sent test messages on dedicated lines from NORAD to other command posts.

Big OOooops:

Supposedly causing the incidents in June 1980 was the failure of a 46¢ integrated circuit ("chip") in a NORAD computer, but Secretary of Defense Brown reported to a surprised President Carter that NORAD "has been unable to get the suspected circuit to fail again under tests."

About seven months later, U.S. warning systems generated three more false alerts. One occurred on 28 May 1980; it was a minor harbinger of false alerts on 3 and 6 June 1980. According to the Pentagon, what caused the malfunctions in June 1980 was a failed 46¢ micro-electronic integrated circuit ("chip") and "faulty message design." A computer at NORAD made what amounted to "typographical errors" in the routine messages it sent to SAC and the National Military Command Center (NMCC) about missile launches. While the message usually said "OOO" ICBMs or SLBMs had been launched, some of the zeroes were erroneously filled in with a 2, e.g. 002 or 200, so the message indicated that 2, then 200 SLBMs were on their way. Once the message arrived at SAC, the command took survivability measures by ordering bomber pilots and crews to their stations at alert bombers and tankers and to start the engines.

Yet, defense officials have been reluctant to acknowledge organizational failings, instead blaming mistakes on 46¢ chips or individuals inserting the wrong tape. Treating the events of 1979 and 1980 as "normal accidents" in complex systems, Sagan observes that defense officials are reluctant to learn from mistakes and have persuaded themselves that the system is "foolproof."

The 3 A.M. Phone Call

Later that month, the Department of Defense tried to downplay the incident—and a second similar false alarm three days later when technicians recreated the June 3 incident in order to diagnose it—and reassure the public by arguing that ~50 previous alerts in 1979 were all valid. Nothing to worry about, go back to sleep.






In 1960, a military test pilot is caught in a time warp that propels him to year 2024 where he finds a plague has sterilized the world's population.Filmed on and around Carswell Air Force (SAC) Base (closed in 1994) near Fort Worth, Texas.



Have we tried group singing yet? Did it work for the French?



I am here...

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They roll these stupid bots out every 5 years or so with more air brushing, make-up & slight vocabulary level increase.


AI robot: The world's first humanoid robot to design products using 3D printer

8 years ago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlHrvQ7D5OU

12 years ago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF39Ygp53mQ

16 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-sYhT10ti4

No wonder, Japan has a declining 'human' population issue...now it's gone global.




The illegal domestic psychological warfare will continue until morale improves!



Politico magazine


We've swung from Taylor's best friend is problematic to Taylor is MKULTRA'ing her fans.



^^^LOL. Hmmm, could it be drugs?! A more reasonable explanation is that perhaps her show just isn't that memorable. Now watch, someone will wrap this up under the umbrella of Havana Syndrome for Swifties. Maybe we'll get another Sirhan Sirhan after her tour is over.

Everything being said here was said about the Beatles by crank right-wingers in the 1960s.


Communism, Hypnotism And The Beatles (PDF, 1965) By Rev. David A. Noebel - "An Analysis of the Communist Use of Music - The Communist Master Music Plan."



Guess I should include...



Drifting off into psychic wunderland...


Life imitates Akira: the NSA’s fear of psychic nukes


Make your dawn golden. Love is the Law in Mystery Babylon!


Cinemagician – Conversations with Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927 – May 11, 2023)


One of these geezers is a delusional sci-fi addict who believes in ridiculous nonsense like mind consciousness uploading to the 8th realm and wants a global fascist police state, mass depopulation, digital currency and abolition of ownership in favor of permanent rent-seeking destitution of mind, body & spirit.


Just kidding. They both are.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy Monday!



Damn, it's Monday again.



Choose your fighter...


WTF is that tattoo? It kinda looks like a Quetzalcoatl deity in Aztec culture.



The European Union's delegation to China has become a joke on Chinese micro-blogging platform Weibo. Its official Weibo account was titled "EU in China" (欧盟在中国）, but its IP address indicates that it is operated in the United States. What a blow to the claim that "EU represents European nations" benefits and is not the USA vessel/vassel organization." LOL.



The German embassy in China also manages its official Weibo account from the United States. After learning that they had become the laughing stock on Chinese social media, both the EU delegation to China and the German embassy in China quietly switched their IP addresses back to Beijing. What a spectacle.



Then again, the German's (gov't) are lap dogs of the American Imperial Empire.

Say wut...?!


Source: The Coming 'ET Threat' Will Be A Lie and links to old ATS threads:

Wernher von Braun on false flag alien invasion to justify NWO | false flag alien invasion... IT'S ON!


Oh lordy, WTF is going on! Prof Cornel West: "In these bleak times...I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself - fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for all! Join the movement."


https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/16...1551548416


Cornel West and his incredible part in a fantastical piece of gonzo journalism...


The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[Snarl]

Today in 1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger’s mission STS-51-L external fuel tank exploded and the shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, FL, killing all six crew members, and New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe. Investigators found failure of O-ring seals in the right solid rocket booster was the cause.

The crew on board the Challenger:
Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnick, Mike Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ronald McNair.



My mom was a teacher then and was quite ecstatic to hear this news AND she knew Gregory Jarvis. She had a tv in her classroom and watched in horror with her class. School was promptly cancelled and remained closed the next day. I remember my mom went into shock & deep depression from this tragic day forward.

Two events I will never forget: The Challenger blowing up and 9-11. I was (thumbnail) when I heard the Challenger exploded. I pulled over and just sat there stunned.