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New Netflix docu dropped this mornin - "Rael The Alien Prophet" will tell the story of Claude Vorilhon and his controversial UFO-inspired religion Raëlism.



The Scotsman


Typecasting...


The Hollywood Reporter

Keyser Söze with a comedic darkly twist...




The characters (not necessarily human) I come across in X-verse never cease to amaze me, LOL...




SOL (Shit Outta Luck) food for thought?






Huh, what a coincidence. I see melons/Mellons everywhere...


Harvard astronomy professor Avi Loeb thinks he has new evidence of alien spacecraft





I need a cup of LZ.



More down to Earth opinion:

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Hello Down There! Martin Scorsese directs a UFO themed Super Bowl ad for Squarespace. The ad references the 1952 UFO wave over Washington, DC. Going to be a hot manufactured UFO summer!

"What does a highly advanced civilization have to do to get noticed around here?"



A friend of mine flying down to Las Vegas for the big game and he's paying $1,000 per night at the Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa. Crazy!!


Feb 8, 1820: William Tecumseh Sherman born. Some Southerners continue to hold grudge. The US disclosure movement against Deep State secrets and laundry list of crimes is akin to the Civil War. Truth will only emerge if we take the fight to them, Sherman-style.



Sherman occupied Atlanta over a week prior, at the start of September of 1864. Sherman offered a clear warning for civilians to evacuate Atlanta. Sherman had a message for our time:

"You have heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers, that live by falsehood and excitement; and the quicker you seek for truth in other quarters, the better."

Quote from a Letter of major general William T. Sherman to James M. Calhoun, E.E. Rawson, and S.C. Wells, September 12, 1864.


Today is National Boy Scouts Day! FADM Chester Nimitz said that during the war in the Pacific, he had commanded more than 1,000,000 men who had been Boy Scouts. This group constituted 40% of the forces and earned 60% of the decorations awarded for valor.

When the Commander of USS Barb (SS-220), CDR Eugene "Lucky" Fluckey, chose men to sneak onto Sakhalin Island to blow up a train, he picked former Boy Scouts. Nimitz chose Fluckey, an Eagle Scout himself, as his personal aide when he became Chief of Naval Operations. Fluckey was awarded the Medal of Honor along with the highly decorated USS Barb, officially credited with sinking 17 enemy vessels, including the Japanese aircraft carrier Un'yō.


Most oddly, Fluckey became an Eagle Scout in 1948 at the age of 34. He did it because there was grave concern that communists were trying to undermine the organization.


USS Alexandria (SSN 757) Los Angeles-class Flight III 688i (Improved) attack submarine coming into San Diego - February 8, 2024.



Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun Pre-Surrender to US Forces:


"Kurt Debus and I vill get you to ze Moon and Mars viss our antigravity torsion black box. Heil Deutschland!" Debus was the 1st center director of NASA and later in charge of the UFO desk office at NASA. It is still active and now known as Patrick Space Force Base in Brevard County, Florida.


Feb 7, 1984: Bruce McCandless became the first human to fly untethered in space. Bruce on an untethered spacewalk, freely maneuvering up to 320 feet away from the Shuttle Challenger:


Possibly the first person to imagine this was Garrett P. Serviss, in "Edison's Conquest of Mars", published in 1898.


These are the masks they had in the 90s. So what do you think they're working with now? Nano-skin, throwaway clones?


https://twitter.com/ReedCooley/status/17...9380119741


Feb 8, 1968: This movie premiered in NYC:




Coming in May 2024...




Surreal day on the media stage...


The real Tucker/Putin interview if interested. Worth a listen to hear the big bear tell it like it is.


The Swedish Prosecution Authority announced on Wednesday that its investigation into the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions is closed, with no culprit found. The explosions, which took place on Sept. 26, 2022, destroyed the pipelines built to transport gas from Russia to Germany.
Their excuse: "We don’t have jurisdiction." We wish to join NATO and do not want to rock the boat further. LOL!

Sweden closes probe into explosions on Nord Stream pipelines

Great quote from Ken Loach's 1990 film, "Hidden Agenda": "Anything that threatens the government, is a threat to the state. Let the historians discover it in 50 years time."

Flashback...




2024 the year of pushback? Be ready...the 'Beast' system grows ever closer...

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Feb 9, 1950: Sen. Joseph McCarthy gave his infamous "Enemies from Within" speech at the McLure House Hotel in Wheeling, WV. The Lincoln Day event was hosted by the Ohio County Republican Women’s Club.

Excerpts from McCarthy's Speech to the Ohio County Republican Women's Club -February 9, 1950

I have in my hand 57 cases of individuals who would appear to be either card carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party, but who nevertheless are still helping to shape our foreign policy….

I know that you are saying to yourself, “Well, why doesn’t the Congress do something about it?” Actually, ladies and gentlemen, one of the important reasons for the graft, the corruption, the dishonesty, the disloyalty, the treason in high Government positions—one of the most important reasons why this continues is a lack of moral uprising on the part of the 140,000,000 American people. In the light of history, however, this is not hard to explain.

It is the result of an emotional hang-over and a temporary moral lapse which follows every war. It is the apathy to evil which people who have been subjected to the tremendous evils of war feel. As the people of the world see mass murder, the destruction of defenseless and innocent people, and all of the crime and lack of morals which go with war, they become numb and apathetic. It has always been thus after war.

However, the morals of our people have not been destroyed. They still exist. This cloak of numbness and apathy has only needed a spark to rekindle them. Happily, this spark has finally been supplied.

Happy Birthday to Frank Frazetta (Feb 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010): the Michelangelo of Machismo, the Titian of Testosterone, and the Leonardo of Lust.



Sixty years ago today, the Beatles were introduced to the American public on the Ed Sullivan Show. Nine days later that event was depicted in this cartoon satirizing the 1964 presidential primary in New Hampshire and showed the cultural impact the legendary group was making on the world.






Feb 9, 1971: the "Judging Books By Covers" episode of ALL IN THE FAMILY aired on CBS. Anthony Geary and Philip Carey guest star. Archie is irritated at Mike's offbeat friend, who dresses and behaves in a way that leads him to mistakenly conclude he is a homosexual. But Archie soon learns that one of his best friends is gay. When the episode was rerun on May 11th, it caught the attention of President Nixon.






Feb 9, 1977: Robert Aldrich's nuke thriller TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING opened in theaters. The film is based on the 1971 novel "Viper Three" by Walter Wager, and part of a wave of political conspiracy films produced in the wake of the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War.




Name a Nuke:

Retired Los Alamos Test Director from 1988 to 1998, Ron Cosimi, chose names for tests sponsored by the Lab during that time. “If [the Lab] was planning to run 10 tests in a fiscal year, I would choose 10 names of Texas cities, for example,” Cosimi said, including Abilene, Laredo and Waco, adding that this was his favorite category because he enjoyed creating logos for the Texas city names. “I named about 30 tests and experiments and was responsible for about 100 logos for tests.”

At one time, there was a “Name a nuke” suggestion box in the Albuquerque DNA facility hallway, recalled Byron Ristvet, a retired DoD scientist. The “Name a nuke” suggestion box provided the starting preassigned and alphabetical letters to be used for an upcoming test. “Some of the suggestions were actually used for tests,” Ristvet said.

How nuclear weapons tests were named (PDF)

Brianna Ghey: Peace in Mind (Goal achieved)



https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1754957713333739810

Good for the King. Surely Merlin or John Dee must still be on the payroll. Maybe they can help. I suspect all those natural herbs & potion charlatan's will soon be kicking off massive Ad campaigns. Hopefully, the real doctors of holistic medicine will gain more attention away from the corrupt big pharma.

Investigating the King’s potion recipes...dandelion and artichoke based 2009 predictor of GMO and nanotechnology doom.


'Make-believe and outright quackery' - expert's verdict on prince's detox potion


Meanwhile, the Dept of Energy, Office of Science wants you to know about their World Cancer Moonshot...


Capturing the Chemistry of Radium-223 for Cancer Treatment

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It's Saturday night...Do you have your meds?




How the media views America...and the world:




"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 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.




Feb 10, 2011: Donald Trump announced that he may be considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination. He was a surprise speaker at the annual conservative event saying that America had become a laughingstock to the world and was lacking in leadership.


Feb 10, 2017: That 19-second handshake between Donald Trump and Japan’s Shinzō Abe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWbP8eC-SIw


Due to a clerical mix-up, Columbo is mistaken for a pathogen specialist and dispatched to Antarctica...


The background is traditional watercolor scanned. The rest is digital (Corel Painter mostly) by @Readful_Things.


Super Bowl preview...




I placed my bet on the Chiefs over the 49ers based on...


Secret Chiefs


When Daddy comes home from the Space wars where he lost his limbs, trunk, etc...

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Sen. Joe McCarthy, February 11, 1950: "I have in my possession the names of 57 Communists who are in the State Department at present." And the epic Reply from President Harry S. Truman to Senator Joseph McCarthy (Probably Unsent).


Telegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Truman

Two days earlier the number was 205.







Super Bowl!




What a coincidence...




John Carpenter on his movies reaching cult status: "It’s great. It’s better than people calling me a piece of shit all the time."




Wake up babe, a new government-observed ethnic holiday just dropped! We're going back to Moon worship, CCP style.




Mutant wolves roaming the deserted streets of Chernobyl appear to have developed resistance to cancer - raising hopes the findings can help scientists fight the disease in humans.


Chernobyl's mutant wolves appear to have developed resistance to cancer, study finds


"Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

The masses became Mass Consumers of Shiny Objects while secret and not-so-secret societies & institutions stole their rights, privileges and wealth.



We took our eyes off the prize, and the unethical Mob moved in.

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Over in 'the things we did to pass time'...In 1961, USS Spinax (SSR-489) became the first submarine to fly a kite while submerged. The 5'x7' kite was fashioned from bamboo sticks, a garment bag, cellophane tape and 1500 feet of nylon line. It served no purpose other than to entertain the crew who watched it through the periscope during a Pacific crossing.


Never trust a group of bored bubbleheads. LOL.


Ingmar Bergman's 1984 Wendy's Super Bowl Ad, at approximately the 4 min. mark...





"HOWARD DUFF SPEAKS"...


Howard Green Duff (November 24, 1913 – July 8, 1990) had a tempestuous relationship with actress Ava Gardner in the late 1940s. In October 1951, he married British actress Ida Lupino.


After he was listed in Red Channels as a communist subversive in 1950, he lost his radio work and might have forfeited his entire career had it not been for his marriage. Duff and Lupino had a daughter, Bridget Duff (born April 23, 1952). The couple separated in 1966 but did not divorce until 1984. He subsequently married Judy Jenkinson. Like former wife Lupino, Duff was a staunch Democrat.


Ida Lupino, Hollywood Renaissance Woman (Vanity Fair archived)



Researchers are working on using a bubble to develop technology called supercavitation that would allow a submarine to achieve supersonic speeds of up to 3600 miles per hour. The bubble reduces the drag effect of going through water.


And Lockheed Martin has a patent for it from 2009. To some degree this already exists, as the Russians have it on a certain type of torpedo. Of course having a patent on anything does not mean the technology actually exists let alone actually work, but they say the mil-industrial complex is often 25-50 years ahead of what the public thinks they know. Maybe a resident "bubbleologist" knows more about this luxury feature.

Anyways, it's always fun to fantasize about such futuristic tech. Besides, it is the US Navy that runs the world or rather keeps the "system" flowing no matter the cost.

Supersonic Submarine or underwater UAP / USO.



Secret US Military Projects started after 1947, hide everything from the public and anyone not read into the programs. From that moment on, after the Eisenhower Agreement with aliens at Holloman AF base, (current home of the Guardians & the Reaper), the SSP program began according to some conspiracy researchers, but whatever the case that base is damn spooky.


President Eisenhower, A Dental Emergency, and the (Potential) Alien Cover-Up

And we know how dentists & spooks are like two peas in a pod.



That spook cracks me up. Note that Mr. Area 51 Mellon only uses the broad, all encompassing but safe acro term "USG" and acts like he's totally oblivious (nothing to see here) to the fighting factions within and the secret society members that make up the hidden hand of nefarious actions of guardian gatekeepers.


I often wonder how much of all of this is hocus pocus counterintel gatekeeper nonsense to keep adversaries (and us) guessing and going down rabbit holes that are dead-ends and lead to madness which also generates $$ at your expense, in one form or another, to keep it all a mystery of bizarre vagueness.

When it comes to asking questions within the deep cybernetic space, just make sure it's...

Like the FPP, the Kavli Prize is very recent, first being awarded in 2008.


One of its first recipients was Donald Lynden-Bell of Cambridge University, President of the Royal Astronomical Society.

That in itself is a clue, given that Lynden-Bell is partly responsible for much of the current confusion in astronomy.

Although we are told he was given the Kavli Prize for his work on quasars, he has also been promoting dark matter since the 1980’s, and his influence is one of the many reasons dark matter has gained such prominence.

Several decades ago it was decided to push dark matter as one of the premier open problems, using it to gain open-ended funding for a variety of projects.

Although I have shown the answer to the dark matter “mystery” is quite simple, those in control of physics and astronomy aren’t interested in simple solutions – or any solutions.

They don’t want answers, they want big fake questions that require big fake searches, preferably searches costing in the billions – which they can then milk from the treasuries.

That is why the mainstream never seems to make any headway on the dark matter problem (or any other problems), and why Scientific American is telling you this very week on its cover that “Dark matter may be much weirder than physicists thought.”

Weirdness is very convenient when you are selling open-ended searches for manufactured things: it prevents logical questions and rational critique.

Miles Mathis – Big Fake Questions

Meh, don't worry about it. New band kicking off this summer...David Delonge:


You do want to be in the band, right? Where all the 'stars' are. Free beer or ice cream! No?


Ok, how about...


"The new Apple Pro VR! I'm so happy and content. I can see God...wait, oh damn, it's just Elon Musk."

More options to be continued...

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Still no? How about "the Halo"...



Behold...



More at Lucid LiveScience - Soon you'll need a telepathic Adblocker so you're able to have an uninterrupted dream.

But still No? Congrats, you're a Rogue!


You know how in the matrix anybody can turn into an "agent"?


We saw that reality play out many, many times during Covid warfare.

Most humans are sleeping NPCs waiting to become agents and most that are "unplugged" sadly become Cypher.



Funny book when you realize how often he uses the phrase "invisible government."

"THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
- Edward L. Bernays


Are we on a dark timeline or what?


How was fugitive Kaitlin Armstrong caught?



A deserted piazza is destroyed as a Gothic cathedral rockets into outer space, leaving the village engulfed in its wake of smoke and flame. This month's cover was created by Viennese painter Jörg Huber.


The Gothic Rocket: The Scott Monument



Daisy Sainsbury on the extraordinary life of Eugène-François Vidocq (1775–1857), the founder of modern criminology who had a rap sheet longer than his very tall tales:


If Vidocq’s legacy was contested at his death, it continues to be so today. He enjoys a cult-like status among certain criminologists, not least the members of the Vidocq Society, an American organisation where forensic experts, detectives, FBI agents, and amateur sleuths get together to solve cold cases, inspired by “the father of modern criminal investigation”.

For Michel Foucault, however, he represents “the disturbing moment when criminality became one of the mechanisms of power.”13 Echoing this, Graham Robb, reviewing a 2003 re-edition of Vidocq’s memoirs, applauds editor Robin Walz’s new preface which presents Vidocq “as a forerunner of the ‘scammers and scoundrels’ in giant American corporations who profit from state-funded violence and who advertise their greed as a self-righteous war on evil.” “It is nice to see”, Robb continues, “that, after a century and a half of misinformed adulation, Vidocq is finally getting his just deserts.”

Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective


The Chinese Fairy Book (1921) — compiling seventy-four traditional folk takes from China, making, as the translator notes, "probably the most comprehensive and varied collection of oriental fairy tales ever made available for American readers."


A book compiling seventy-four traditional Chinese folk takes, making, as the translator notes, "probably the most comprehensive and varied collection of oriental fairy tales ever made available for American readers". The tales are split up into the following sections: Nursery Fairy Tales, Legends of the Gods, Tales of Saints and Magicians, Nature and Animal Tales, Ghost Stories, Historic Fairy Tales, and Literary Fairy Tales.


Curious looking planes...


JANET aircraft "Just Another Non-Existent Terminal" at Las Vegas. My late uncle flew on these planes everyday for nearly 3 years.





All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...


Art work by Milo Manara.

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"I'm gonna walk on out of here and there ain't a thing you can do about it" | "American Made" real life double trouble irony looking back on the last 4 years:




February 13, 1960: France conducted its first nuclear test code-named "Gerboise Bleue" atop a 106-meter tower in the desert at the Saharan Military Experiments Center near Reggane, Algeria, during the Algerian War. The plutonium yield was between 60-70 kilotons. Gerboise Bleue was by far the largest first test of an Atomic bomb up to that date, in the world. Gerboise is the French word for jerboa, a desert hopping rodent found in the Sahara.

A few milliseconds after atomic detonation. Kinda looks like a plasma lifeform or biological cell...


General Pierre Marie Gallois (1911-2010) earned the nickname of père de la bombe A ("father of the A-bomb"). Apparently, radiation did not affect his long life.

Despite French military assurances that the test posed no off-site dangers, winds carried radioactive fallout across Algeria and into Libya, Niger, Chad, the Central African Republic, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Morocco, southern Spain, and southern Italy.

Algerians and the French military veterans who participated in the 17 French atmospheric and underground nuclear tests in Algeria from 1960-66 continue to suffer from their exposure to radioactive fallout.

France-Algeria relations: The lingering fallout from nuclear tests in the Sahara

Video: Algerian desert region still struggles with effects of French nuclear tests

In unrelated news, a fatal neuro-degenerative disease was discovered decades later in Algerian camels:

Camels in Africa may have been quietly spreading prion disease for decades


Feb 13, 1964 - Opening this week is "Seven Days in May" a political thriller set in the year 1970 about a military-political cabal’s planned takeover of the U.S. government in reaction to the president’s negotiation of a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union.

The film, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, and Ava Gardner, was directed by John Frankenheimer from a screenplay written by Rod Serling based on the novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, published in September 1962.

The book reflects some of the events of the first year of the Kennedy Administration. In November 1961, President Kennedy accepted the resignation of vociferously anti-Communist general Edwin Walker, who had been indoctrinating the troops under his command with radical right-wing ideas. In the film, Fredric March, portraying fictional president Jordan Lyman, mentions Walker as one of the "false prophets" who were offering themselves to the public as leaders.


The authors of the novel also conducted interviews with another controversial military commander, the newly appointed Air Force chief of staff Gen. Curtis LeMay, who was angry with President Kennedy for refusing to provide air support for the Cuban rebels in the Bay of Pigs invasion. The character of General James Mattoon Scott (Lancaster) was believed to have been inspired by both LeMay and Walker.





I wonder if the Reagan Library has the tech to transfer this to something I can read:


GRIMES, JOHN G.: Files, 1985-1988 (PDF)


A British firm has developed a new welding technique which they claim will reduce the "process time" from 150 days to only just 2 hours! They claim the welds will also be higher-quality.


Sheffield Forgemasters Revolutionizes Nuclear Power with Electron Beam Welding


Joe stood up at a podium and said he had a conversation right after he became president with a man who has been dead since 1996. Now, either our president believes himself to be a spiritual medium OR there’s something amiss with his memory. So, which is it?


NY Times (archived)





Which intern is running Biden's account?








Strange Times...

[Freija]

Sorry, I was in a feisty mood and couldn't help but mess with one of your pictures. LOL !!



Thanks for the inspiration and the best thread on the internet!

I'll go back to my room now and behave but what fun is that?

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Freija tells all! - Ha, yea I luv it!!


Happy Atomic Valentine's Day!




Feb 14, 1939 – World War II: German battleship Bismarck is launched.


Feb 14, 2016: The basic pleasure model replicant, Pris Stratton, was incepted.


Feb 14, 2005: Happy YouTube Day - launched by a group of college students.

YouTube’s founders had worked together at PayPal.

The original plan was an online dating business.

People could upload videos describing their ideal partner.

They didn’t...so it became a place to post all kinds of videos. 



The first video was uploaded in April 2005. Co-founder Jawed Karim posted a clip of himself at the zoo with elephants:



As the team grew, they moved from co-founder Chad Hurley’s garage to an office in San Mateo above a pizzeria and a Japanese restaurant. Over the first year, site traffic surged to nearly 20 million monthly visitors.


Who woulda thunk it...

2024 valuations:

Nvidia: $1.8 trillion
Intel:  $185 billion

2004 valuations:

Intel:  $200 billion
Nvidia: $4 billion

I guess the Alien op is not working out so they're back to Russia again.

Let's get out our bingo card:
1.) Fractional Orbital Bombardment System
2.) Orbital nuclear weapons delivery platform
3.) New orbital ASAT capability (Anti-satellite weapons)
4.) Distraction from current news cycle
5.) Redo Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
6.) GoldenEye is being activated
Take your pick they all fit.

We're gonna redo Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, aren't we? Or GoldenEye is being activated.



When people hear 'anti-satellite capability' it isn't clear to most that these capabilities can be as big of a threat to nuclear deterrence as actual nuclear weapons. Losing your eyes and ears to detect and voice to quickly react can make the biggest nuclear arsenal null or at least degrade reaction times to the point that the other guy has a serious advantage. However, the real threat in this delusional age is probably more propaganda, cover story for something else.

Don't forget China has been buzzing around as well...

China's space plane apparently deployed 6 'mysterious wingmen' in orbit (Dec 18, 2023)

China's reusable space plane just got a little more mysterious.

Just four days after being launched on its third mission, China's Shenlong ("Divine Dragon") robotic space plane seems to have placed six objects into Earth orbit. Amateur spacecraft trackers around the world have been following the objects closely for days and have recorded emissions coming from some of them.

The six mystery objects have been designated OBJECT A, B, C, D, E and F. According to satellite tracker and amateur astronomer Scott Tilley, OBJECT A appears to be emitting signals reminiscent of those emitted by objects that China's space plane has released on previous missions.

"OBJECT A's or nearby emission is reminiscent of earlier Chinese space plane 'wingman' emissions in the sense the signal is modulated with a limited amount of data," Tilley told Space.com via email. "There is speculation that the emission from OBJECT A may be from an object close to it, but this is speculation not based on any evidence I'm aware of." Tilley has referred to the objects as "mysterious wingmen" on X (formerly Twitter).

"Where are the X-37Bs?"



Meanwhile, Soviet Capabilities and Intentions to Orbit Nuclear Weapons! What's old is new again!!




Neutral Particle Beam is critical because you can’t shoot straight in the earth’s magnetic field with charged particle beams. Without neutral beams you will miss your target!





That's why the US Air Force kept the nuclear codes on "floppy disks" until circa 2014.

Screencaps from this slidedeck: Nuclear Command Control and Communication (NC3) - Update on the Status of Modernizing NC3 (July 2019)




Oh no, save us Elon...


Future Uncertain

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Jawed Karim at a zoo. A young Lee Oswald at a zoo.
Coincidence...?

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Logging on to the Roguetrix...

A reading rainbow...


In 'The Tome of Wonderland: A Digital Canvas of Fantastical Realms'


Oliver Frey, Swiss illustrator born in 1948, known since 1969 has produced hundreds of illustrations for comics, magazines, books, and computer games since 1984 to early 90s. They have ranged from war action, adventure, science-fiction, fantasy, history, romance and erotica.

His artistic career started in 1956, when he was almost eight, and the Frey family (he has a younger sister, Lauretta, and brother, Franco) went to live in Britain. On the flight a steward handed the puzzled Oliver a Dan Dare badge. He had never heard of the Pilot of the Future but discovered tucked under the cushions of a sofa in the hotel the family stayed in for a week copies of Eagle comic, and the badge and the Dan Dare strip matched up.



When he started school in Wembley, young Oliver discovered that his classmates were comic-mad, especially for Eagle.

There had been no such comics in Switzerland, and he was immediately taken by the quality of the artwork, immersing himself in the deeds of Dan Dare and the dastardly Mekon. He began copying the drawings of Eagle’s artists, and their styles became seminal influences. The sensation of bodies in movement, often in violent action, captured his imagination—a quality that has never left his work.

Did he inherit his talent for drawing? ‘I wouldn’t say my family was particularly artistic,’ he recalls, ‘although my great-grandfather had been a painter of landscapes and portraits who’d made his way in the USA. I only ever saw a couple of his paintings. My family encouraged me to keep drawing, though.’

After a few years, the Frey family returned to Switzerland. An English friend mailed Oliver copies of Eagle, however, and a weekly dose of comic inspiration arrived in the post.

Oliver most admired the work of Eagle artists Hampson (Dan Dare’s creator), Humphries and most particularly Bellamy. ‘Frank Bellamy’s line and colour work was so dramatic and action-packed. He was one of Britain’s best comic-strip artists.’

Oliver sent several drawings to his favourite comics, especially Eagle, but while encouraging, the responses were all in the negative. He was, however, once rewarded with a reply from Look & Learn’s Don Lawrence, the man from whom he would one day take over the Trigan Empire strip.

Still at school, Oliver’s attention was drawn to an advert for an American correspondence course, operating in Europe from Amsterdam, called The Famous Artists. The course comprised 36 lessons, written by a team of professional illustrators and contained in three huge volumes. He has praised the quality of The Famous Artists ever since. Sadly, for today’s aspiring illustrator, it no longer exists in its original form (there is an online version in the US). From its invaluable lessons, the young illustrator learned composition, use of materials, drawing, shading, colouring and the structure and articulation of the human body.



Like all Swiss males aged 18–60, Oliver had to do his stint in the Swiss Army, in the Signals Division, stationed in the high Alps.

But in 1969 he returned to Britain and attend the London Film School to fulfil his early ambition of directing action films.

As a teenager, with his sister and brother, he had made two James Bond-style action-adventures in Super-8 starring himself as both villains and the Swiss super-spy Apple-Apple 7 James Tell, which in spite of budget and equipment were remarkably sophisticated.

Living in London wasn’t cheap so to support himself he sought work as a professional illustrator.

He approached Fleetway and met the editor of the War Picture Library comics, E.J. Bensberg. ‘A true hero of the back room,’ Oliver later recalled of the man who, more than anyone, put him on the path to his future career.

‘I persuaded Bensberg to let me illustrate a story to show him what I could do. I was given a script and told to go away and draw the first five pages. He liked the result and I was commissioned to do the whole book.

The comics were small-format, 64-page, 150-frame, black and white picture-strips based on fictitious tales from World War II. For two months, working in my Battersea bedsit during the evenings, between mouthfuls of Heinz West End Grill heated on the single gas ring, I pencilled and inked, and my first full-length story was accepted.’

So began an association with the War Picture Library which resulted in dozens of covers and illustrated stories before he stopped doing them in the mid-1970s. Thanks to Bensberg keeping him busy, Oliver earned the then astronomical sum of £4,000 a year.

....

The way that Oliver Frey produces his artwork has changed over the years, from chunky acrylics to inks and airbrush, from brushes to Apple Mac.

There was a time when he asserted that he would never abandon traditional methods for computer-generated art, but the illustrations for the Emperors book were all finished on computer. The advent of Photoshop (Adobe gave a beta copy to Newsfield to test in 1990) began the change, and since then he has produced literally hundreds of illustrations on the Mac.

But at last Oliver has again taken to his inks, acrylics and brushes to begin painting in the ‘old-fashioned’ way, as may be seen in the recent spate of retrogaming books published by Fusion Retro.

More about him & his art work: About Oliver Frey  | Artwork/prints


'Samara' art by Oliver Frey for Crash #55 Adventure pages. (August 1988):



For a clean text free cover image of the "The Great Giana Sisters" click here.





14 day window closing, LOL.


Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros


"headaches and burst blood vessels" - We're getting close to Videodrome.




Treasure hunt...


"This was the art for the Cover of Games Magazine, March 2005. Obviously a little Irish test as to how much Irish lore you know. I believe there are 48 items and then hidden in the painting are an equal number of shamrocks. When you've had enough you can find all the answers here."


Consortium for Hastening the Annihilation of Organised Society, or CHAOS.


James Bond and the exploding Archbishop: inside Anthony Burgess’s deranged Spy Who Loved Me script - on Yahoo! site or his personal site: Agent of Chaos


Sandy Salisbury – “Butter Me Over (With Cinnamon Sugar)”

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Almost forgot the land down under. No further down...

What is going on behind the mysterious frozen veil??


Fox News

Hmmm, "last fall" - so why is msm pushing this now.? More manufactured tensions with Iran.

Last year...


'We Have Property Rights In The South Pole'!


Google USA Maps  or Google UK Maps



THE ROLE OF SPACE SYSTEMS IN NUCLEAR DETERRENCE (PDF)



Playing with the bull, you get the horn!


The Hollywood Reporter


Oh no, not again...


NY Poisoned Post







Don't forget your...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Feb 16, 1962: News of Rep. Silvio Ottavio Conte (Nov 9, 1921 – Feb 8, 1991) (R-Mass for 16 terms; somehow never lost an election from 1959 till his death) complaining about junk mail clogging the congressional fallout shelter. Good thing they had a spare bunker in White Sulphur Springs, WV. Mr. Conte died one year before the Greenbrier bunker was exposed.


That little girl is probably part of the mob running the country right now.
He was a passionate advocate for federal funded health research through the National Institutes of Health, the NIH continues to honor him to this day with grants for neurological research awarded in his name.

As a member of the Republican Party, Conte was part of what was then its liberal Northern tradition. Conte was one of only three Republicans in the House that voted against U.S. involvement in the 1991 Gulf War. On social issues, Conte's record was more conservative, also reflecting his Roman Catholic faith; for instance, he was opposed to abortion. He encouraged a generation of young activists whom he hired as staff. For instance, Betty Boothroyd [Baroness Boothroyd, OM, PC (8 October 1929 – 26 Feb 2023)] worked for him as a legislative assistant between 1960 and 1962; she later became Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

He was somewhat famous for wearing a pig mask in a 1983 press conference, as a protest against pork barrel spending.  Pork Barrel 1983



A few years earlier in 1987


LA Times


George Frost Kennan (Feb 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005), legendary American diplomat, super intellectual, linguist, historian, realist, and the grand architect of the "containment" strategy that guided the Cold War era was born this day in Milwaukee. His containment policy was the idea that the United States should stop the global spread of Communism by diplomacy, politics, and covert action - by any means short of war.

Trivia: He hated AMERIKA, the Soviet occupation miniseries that premiered the day before his birthday in 1987.


He has a laundry list of awards and honors and also received 29 honorary degrees and was honored in his name with the George F. Kennan Chair in National Security Strategy at the National War College and the George F. Kennan Professorship at the Institute for Advanced Study.

In his historical writings and memoirs, Kennan laments in great detail the failings of democratic foreign policy makers and those of the United States in particular. According to Kennan, when American policymakers suddenly confronted the Cold War, they had inherited little more than rationale and rhetoric "utopian in expectations, legalistic in concept, moralistic in [the] demand it seemed to place on others, and self-righteous in the degree of high-mindedness and rectitude  ... to ourselves". The source of the problem is the force of public opinion, a force that is inevitably unstable, unserious, subjective, emotional, and simplistic. Kennan has insisted that the U.S. public can only be united behind a foreign policy goal on the "primitive level of slogans and jingoistic ideological inspiration".

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

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

From his NY Times Obit:

At the height of the Korean War, he temporarily left the State Department for the Institute for Advanced Study. He returned to serve as ambassador to Moscow, arriving there in March 1952.

But it was "a disastrous assignment," Mr. Gaddis said. Mr. Kennan was placed under heavy surveillance by Soviet intelligence, which cut him off from contact with Soviet citizens. Frustrated, Mr. Kennan publicly compared living in Stalin's Moscow to his experience as an internee in Nazi Germany. The Soviets declared him persona non grata.

Mr. Kennan had argued for "the inauguration of political warfare" against the Soviet Union in a May 1948 memorandum that was classified top secret for almost 50 years. "The time is now fully ripe for the creation of a covert political warfare operations directorate within the government," he wrote. This seed quickly grew into the covert arm of the Central Intelligence Agency. It began as the Office of Policy Coordination, planning and conducting the agency's biggest and most ambitious schemes, and within four years grew into the agency's operations directorate, with thousands of clandestine officers overseas.

A generation later, testifying before a 1975 Senate select committee, he called the political-warfare initiative "the greatest mistake I ever made."

In February 1997, Mr. Kennan wrote on The New York Times's Op-Ed page that the Clinton administration's decision to back an enlargement of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to bring it to the borders of Russia was a terrible mistake. He wrote that "expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold war era."

"Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking," he wrote. His views, shared by a broad range of policy experts, did not prevail.

Though Mr. Kennan is often grouped among the "Wise Men" who shaped Washington after World War II, he did not share their heritage. "He was not part of the elite East Coast establishment," Mr. Gaddis said. "He was never wealthy. He worked his way through college, and he lost all his money in the Depression. He always felt he was an outsider, never an insider."

From that perch in 1993, Mr. Kennan recommended, characteristically, that the United States needed an unelected, apolitical "council of state" drawn from the country's best brains to advise all branches of government in long-term policies. He proposed the council in a very personal book, "Around the Cragged Hill" (Norton 1993), which revealed his core social conservatism as he reviewed the evolution of America.

He fretted that the population of the United States was growing too fast and that, environmentally, the country was "exhausting and depleting the very sources of its own abundance." He blamed cars and the suburban sprawl they created for the death of not only a magnificent railway network but also the "great urban centers of the 19th century, with all the glories of economic and cultural life that flowed from their very unity and compactness."

"It is not too much to say that the American people have it in their power, given the requisite will and imagination, to set for the rest of the world a unique example of the way a modern, advanced society could be shaped in order to meet successfully the emerging tests of the modern and future age," he wrote in "Around the Cragged Hill."

Later in life, Mr. Kennan turned his attention to support of Russian and Soviet studies in the United States, feeling that scholarship was one of America's most productive links with Moscow. "They are impressed by our work," he remarked in an interview. "It keeps Russian intellectuals from thinking we are all a nation of flagpole-sitters."

In 1974 and 1975, while in Washington as a Woodrow Wilson scholar, he helped to establish the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in the Smithsonian complex. Recalling the ancestor who led him to study Russian, he said, "When my colleagues gave it a name, they had in mind both George Kennans."

Quotes from his lengthy Obit at NY Times (March 18, 2005)

I'm sure Mr. Kennan is spinning in his grave right now.




A mutual acquaintance filed a FOIA/MDR with the Library of Congress 11 years ago for certain withdrawn documents in the Earl Warren papers. Yesterday he  received this document concerning the COG Emergency Evac Plan that was written during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Several noteworthy points herein...A RESORT OF THEIR OWN: The Supreme Court’s Cold War Relocation Plan:


In 1992 the Washington Post revealed to the world the surprising Cold War emergency relocation plan of the United States Congress. A remarkably detailed report told the Strangelovian story of The Ultimate Congressional Hideaway, a massive government bunker built beneath the posh Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia in the late 1950s. The irony of lawmakers riding out World War III under a five star hotel while the public sheltered in place was hard to miss.



RFK Jr. told journalist Megyn Kelly (former Fox news host) that during the Cuban Missile Crisis he and his siblings were all excited to get evacuated to a cool underground site, but his father nixed the idea, knowing that if the Kennedy children were being evacuated from DC, it would set off a major panic maelstrom.


The art of Ed Emswhiller, born on this day, Feb 16, 1925.




Carrie Fisher talks to the BBC, Dec 1977. STAR WARS was "the most expensive low-budget film ever made."



Shake ‘n bake, baby! Oooops!





Pre-IMDB resource...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Feb 16, 1968: America's first 911 emergency telephone system went into service in Haleyville, Alabama.




Feb 17, 1974: That time an Army private went rogue, stole a Bell UH-1B Iroquois helicopter, buzzed the White House & landed on the White House Lawn. Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, entered the White House grounds, the Secret Service opened fire. Preston was lightly wounded, landed the helicopter, and was arrested and held in custody.


Preston pleaded guilty to "wrongful appropriation and breach of the peace" in the plea bargain at his court-martial. He was sentenced to one year in prison, six months of which was time served, and a fine of US$2,400. After his release, Preston received a general discharge from the army, then lived a quiet life, married, and died of cancer at age 55 in 2009.


The story of Robert Preston’s wild ride


I was watching the "The Bricklayer" (2023) the other night and the lead star Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight, 2008) said his favorite jazz player is Miles Davis.

Mati Klarwein album art for "Bitches Brew" by Miles Davis, 1970:




Painting by Wolfgang Hutter for the article "Future Genders" published in OMNI, May 1980:


Full article here


Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman, known mononymously as Zendaya, in a head-turning futuristic trashy ensemble, attends the World Premiere of Dune Part II in Leicester Square, London, England. I assume it’s a weird homage to Maschinenmensch of Metropolis.


Looks really uncomfortable and she's not naked underneath. It's skin tone fabric cloth.

Hajime Sorayama is a Japanese illustrator known, along for his design work on the original Sony AIBO (Artificial Intelligence RoBOt, dogs) for his precisely detailed, erotic portrayals of feminine robots. He describes his highly detailed style as "superrealism", which he says "deals with the technical issue of how close one can get to one's object."








Sudden chill of Andromeda Strain...





Kevin Dahlgren, Portland Youtuber, last November was charged with seven counts of theft greater than $1,000 and seven counts of identity theft. He’s also facing five counts of official misconduct. He pleaded not guilty to 19 different charges. The crimes occurred while Dahlgren was a Homeless Services Specialist with the City of Gresham. If you don't know, Gresham is a suburb of Portland on the east side and is an absolute dumpster fire of crime, sub-humans & saturated with drugs and shootings everyday. And that was 9 years ago.

Speaking of drugs & other content creators...


Fentanyl lollipops

LOL, what the hell kind of BS story is that?!


We are Rogue "Black Sheep"

[Freija]

A pill would have been a lot easier. 

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Today is National Drink Wine Day. Unfortunately for American sailors at sea, they cannot participate because US Navy ships are bone effin dry. However, their French counterparts are allowed two drinks per day. On the Charles de Gaulle, wine is available in the carrier's four bars.




"Nellie Jay" the Flying Cow:


No, not like that, but I like where your head's at.

Feb 18, 1930: Elm Farm Ollie (known as "Nellie Jay" and post-flight as "Sky Queen") was the first cow to fly in an airplane, and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft as part of the International Air Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.



"Sing we praises of that moo cow,
Airborne once and ever more,
Kindness, courage, butter, cream cheese,
These fine things we can't ignore."
-From "The Bovine Cantata in B-Flat Major," by Giacomo Moocini and Ludwig Von Bovine. (Barry Levenson and the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum.)

Check out "Sky Queen" in this 3 min clip:




Feb 18, 1943: The Gestapo arrest the members of the "White Rose" movement. A non-violent, intellectual resistance group against the Nazi regime. Many of them were imprisoned and executed, the leaders got the guillotine.

White Rose survivor Jürgen Wittenstein described what it was like for ordinary Germans to live in Nazi Germany:

    The government—or rather, the party—controlled everything: the news media, arms, police, the armed forces, the judiciary system, communications, travel, all levels of education from kindergarten to universities, all cultural and religious institutions. Political indoctrination started at a very early age, and continued by means of the Hitler Youth with the ultimate goal of complete mind control. Children were exhorted in school to denounce even their own parents for derogatory remarks about Hitler or Nazi ideology.
    — George J. Wittenstein, M.D., "Memories of the White Rose", 1997.



On that very same day, German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivered his near 2 hour "Totaler Krieg – Kürzester Krieg" ("Total War – Shortest War") speech at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large, carefully selected audience.


The setting of the speech in the Sportpalast placed the audience behind and under a big banner bearing the all-capital words "TOTALER KRIEG – KÜRZESTER KRIEG" ("total war – shortest war") along with Nazi banners and swastikas, as seen in pictures and film of the event.


Feb 18, 2001: Robert Hanssen, FBI agent & spy for the Russians for over 20 years, was arrested near his home in Vienna, VA. Portrayed in the 2007 feature film BREACH by Chris Cooper. Hanssen received 15 consecutive life sentences without parole for treason and spent 22+ years in ADX super max Florence, Colorado prison until his death in June 5, 2023. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history".


Recent book 'Gray Day' (2019) by Eric O'Neill - A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy.

Hold my beer...Makes ya wonder if another one (Russian or Chicom) will be exposed in about 20 years. Perhaps one who is currently sitting right in the White House.


REMOTE VIEWING: PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL POTENTIAL FOR INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION?


Excerpts from "PSI Soldiers In The Kremlin", August 1985 issue of OMNI magazine (pgs 80-82, 104-108):





Partial sources (out of a hundred) from his thesis and from his bibliography I noticed the OMNI article among a whole lot more:



Then you quickly realize based on all the hoopla & propaganda psyops we see being played today in msm, social media and those thousands of spun up wacko Youtube charlatans that all appear to originate out of the same names, places, orgs, institutions (SRI), alphabet agencies and the spooky Black Lodge of Aviarian Adepti of Dark Disciples of Diabolical Disinformation, that nothing is really new. Yes, I believe there is some truth bits/bytes interweaved, but difficult to discern it all due to layers upon layers of mysticism, folklore, cryptic puzzle pieces and disinfo/misinfo the deeper one goes in the psychic phenomena distortion matrix some call The Twilight Zone.


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[EndtheMadnessNow]

Some anecdotal "Future Perfect" from OMNI mag May 1985:




"First Encounter" OMNI mag April 1979:




"I never shy away from a good conspiracy; they hold valuable lessons about the power structures in our society." - Dorothy Kilgallen


Author Mark Shaw on the radio (June 2021) talking about JFK, Marilyn Monroe, RFK, Dorothy Kilgallen and UFO's. And how the two women were persuading JFK to get it all out to the public. And how it got them all killed.

Mark Shaw - JFK assassination still a mystery


Feb 18, 2010: Hanna Heller escapes from an underground CIA bunker.





The next NASA administrator at Mar-a-Lago.




I see Frank Luntz is trending again...



https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/17...3095497068

...notorious sneaker hoarder and political charlatan has some thoughts...For those that don't know he has an (exact?) replica of the "Oval Office" in his mansion. He got so filthy rich off advising Republicans on how to ruin the country that he has done some very peculiar things with his mad money.



Photo's from The Hollywood Reporter |
Book: The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind (Hardcover – June 6, 2023)


Chi pecora si fa, il lupo se la mangia. (Whoever turns himself into a sheep, the wolf eats him.)

Benjamin Franklin was often quoted as saying there's much truth to this Italian folk logic...




C-ya on the flip-side...

[BIAD]

...Then you quickly realize based on all the hoopla & propaganda psyops we see being played today in msm,
social media and those thousands of spun up wacko Youtube charlatans that all appear to originate out of
the same names, places, orgs, institutions (SRI), alphabet agencies and the spooky Black Lodge of Aviarian
Adepti of Dark Disciples of Diabolical Disinformation, that nothing is really new.

Yes, I believe there is some truth bits/bytes interweaved, but difficult to discern it all due to layers upon layers
of mysticism, folklore, cryptic puzzle pieces and disinfo/misinfo the deeper one goes in the psychic phenomena
distortion matrix some call The Twilight Zone...

"You're not supposed to be working on that level!"

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Calling all Rogues...




Words To Start The Week. Choose your winner...




February 19, 1937: Terry Gene Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon. He was an American science fiction fan, author, editor, and writing instructor. Sadly, died young on April 7, 1987 of congestive heart failure. Here are some of the covers to his original anthology series Universe 1 through 17 from 1971 to his death.




Feb 19, 1942: the Clemson-class destroyer USS Peary (DD-226) named after Robert Edwin Peary was sunk by an intense Japanese air attack at Darwin, Australia. A nearby seaman in the British Merchant Service reported witnessing a U.S. sailor perform one of the bravest acts that he had seen or read in all his life.


In July 2020 a new discovery has prompted the revision of history surrounding Peary's final battle after divers found two 3-metre bronze propellers and drive shafts "some kilometres" from where the ship came to rest, on the bed of Darwin Harbour.


Feb 19, 1942: FDR issued Executive Order 9066, which began the mass eviction, forfeiture of property & incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans into concentration camps. ~70,000 of whom were US citizens.



E.O. 9066 also led the US gov’t to detain roughly 11,500 people of German ancestry and about 10,000 of Italian ancestry—many of whom were US citizens. Another 600,000 Italian-Americans had their movements sharply restricted.


During World War II, the U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security


I could set the building on fire...



You remember the laughs...It opened today in 1999.




Feb 19, 1998: Trinity was ambushed by police and agents while inside the Matrix.




A man once cruised the UK's canal system in a narrowboat that he had converted into a mock German U-boat at a cost of £50,000. U-8047 served as a floating museum until the "captain" was jailed in 2015 for his role in a £1M tax con.


Self-styled U-boat captain Richard Williams Jailed - that must have been quite a sight to see!


Released today...