Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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The power of the meme.

Writers and artists can achieve more: they can CONQUER FALSEHOOD! In the struggle with falsehood art always did win and it always does win! Openly, irrefutably for everyone! Falsehood can hold out against much in this world, but not against art.
And no sooner will falsehood be dispersed than the nakedness of violence will be revealed in all its ugliness — and violence, decrepit, will fall.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nobel lecture (1970)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

An essay on how cannabis travelled from the streets of Machilipatnam, Krishna district India to 17th-century London's scientific circles, including the very 1st recorded description in English of a cannabis high.

In the 17th century, English travelers, merchants, and physicians were first introduced to cannabis, particularly in the form of bhang, an intoxicating edible which had been getting Indians high for millennia. Benjamin Breen charts the course of the drug from the streets of Machilipatnam to the scientific circles of London.

Not long after he arrived in Machilipatnam, Thomas Bowrey began to wonder what it was that the people of Machilipatnam were smoking.

The bustling port city on India’s Coromandel Coast felt fantastical to the young East India Company merchant. During the first days of his visit in 1673, Bowrey marveled at wonders like “Venomous Serpents [which] danced” to the tune of “a Musicianer, or rather Magician”, and “all Sortes of fine Callicoes . . . curiously flowred”.1 Above all, Bowrey was most fascinated by the effects of an unfamiliar drug. The Muslim merchant community in the city was, as Bowrey put it, “averse [to] . . . any Stronge [alcoholic] drinke”. Yet, he noted, “they find means to besott themselves Enough with Bangha and Gangah”, i.e. cannabis. Gangah, though “more pleasant”, was imported from Sumatra (and as such was “Sold at five times the price”), whereas Bangha, “theire Soe admirable herbe”, was locally grown. The word Bangha came to be more commonly transliterated as bhang, and nowadays generally refers specifically to an edible preparation (usually a drink). It is not clear whether Bowrey uses the word with such a specific meaning in mind but either way it is this liquid form, “the most pleasant way of takeinge it”, which he opts to experiment with, as opposed to smoking it, which he describes (with perhaps some trepidation) as a “a very speedy way to be besotted”.

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Even if these religious biases were overcome, a final challenge was in store for a drug like cannabis. How to prove, conclusively, that it had any value as either a medicine or as a recreational high? Assessing the “occult causes” of a drug’s virtues came to be a signature goal of the Royal Society and of early modern natural philosophy as a whole. It was a goal buoyed by Iberian-mediated links to pharmacological knowledge in the colonies. But it was also one that depended on the erasure of these links. The sorts of witnesses that the Royal Society deemed trustworthy, after all, tended to be elite, Protestant, and British. Too strong a reliance on figures like Petro Loveyro, or Bowrey’s unnamed bodyguard, was epistemologically unacceptable. On both a cultural and a chemical level, British scientists sought to “purify” pharmaceuticals of their Iberian Catholic, indigenous, tropical, or colonial roots.

Continue reading at “Theire Soe Admirable Herbe” - How the English Found Cannabis


Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection.


The Latin at bottom reads: "Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing." A few dozen more at link above sourced from the British library.

Note: the British library after past few weeks is still showing "Sorry, page not found" - We're continuing to experience a major technology outage as a result of a cyber-attack." Must be a helluva cyber artillery attack.


Remembering that time William Odom almost got sliced and diced by a helicopter during a COG drill. From the NSArchive's latest:


New State Department History Details Nuclear Targeting and Continuity of Government, 1977-1980 (Document 2A). And, no, the Odom close-call with death is not mentioned in Bill Gulley's 1980 memoir BREAKING COVER.



Today is National Look Alike Day! The Chinese military is full of weapons that look a lot like systems developed by other nations, namely the USA. The Shenyang J-31 is an attempt to copy the Lockheed Martin F-35.


More Chinese clone weapons:
China’s Military Built with Cloned Weapons


Did the Overton window momentarily crack open and let the light in! Or did  someone hack the teleprompter?


Biden Delivers Remarks at the IBEW Construction and Maintenance Conference


Apparently, the narrative on nuclear energy is changing. Then again, Biden has always been nuts about nuke$. Nuke corporation Exelon was Obama's biggest donor for much of his political career, and Biden continues to take money from them, not to mention Bill Gates. As long as the money flows, Biden will be pro-nuke. And gotta get those votes!

Revolving Door Project


I don't know why some people are criticizing Biden for this. He's reaching out to QAnon'ers on one of their key issues. Ha.


Biden: cannibals ate my uncle

Wasn't there a Rockefeller who was eaten by cannibals?



The 1st Southern auto factory to vote to unionize since the 1940s.


Tennessee workers at VW plant vote to unionize with UAW


I guess it's time to upgrade...


End-Of-Life For Z80 CPU And Peripherals


What a dope...


The Guardian


Happy 75th Birthday to Jessica Lange.


Set in 1962, Carly (Lange) moves with her military husband (Tommy Lee) nuclear engineer and their two daughters to an isolated army base, only to quickly become part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests in Nevada.


USA No. 1 on this day in 1980:

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Today is National Look Alike Day! The Chinese military is full of weapons that look a lot like systems developed by other nations, namely the USA. The Shenyang J-31 is an attempt to copy the Lockheed Martin F-35.

You can copy the aircraft and weapons but you can't copy the battle trained aviators and operators on the ground.

Love me some Blondie,

Thanks

Bally)

[SomeJackleg]

Today is National Look Alike Day! The Chinese military is full of weapons that look a lot like systems developed by other nations, namely the USA. The Shenyang J-31 is an attempt to copy the Lockheed Martin F-35.

You can copy the aircraft and weapons but you can't copy the battle trained aviators and operators on the ground.

Love me some Blondie,

Thanks

Bally)

their stuff and piolts are so good at copycatin they even use top gun footage to show how good their copyicatin is.


video at the link

China's state broadcaster CCTV is under fire after Internet users noticed striking similarities between news footage of a Chinese J-10 fighter destroying another jet with a missile and a scene from the movie "Top Gun."

China's state broadcaster CCTV is under fire after Internet users noticed striking similarities between news footage of a Chinese J-10 fighter destroying another jet with a missile and a scene from the movie "Top Gun."

you know the the cctv team just didn't decide to use top gun footage on their own.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Logging back on...




Evening of April 20, 1964: BBC 2 attempts to air...



BBC 2 launched, but did not get off to a good start as programs were interrupted due to a power cut at Battersea Power Station in London. It was Play School at 11:30 AM on the following day and that was the first official program on BBC2.

An impromptu news report was hurriedly put to air instead, from Studio A at Alexandra Palace, which was unaffected by the power cut. The abortive attempt at a launch of BBC2 was thought never recorded. However, in 2003, this recording was discovered. It was recorded, off-air, at the BBC Research Department at Kingswood Warren in Surrey. There is no sound for the first 3 minutes - and this is as transmitted.




April 20, 1969: The last episode of ITV series, Joe 90, was broadcast on Joe's 10th birthday. It follows 9 year-old Joe McClaine, who becomes a spy after his adoptive father invents a device capable of transferring expert knowledge to a human brain, enabling him to become a secret agent code-named "Joe 90".



There were 30 episodes and you can watch them all on Youtube.



Sally Field as The Flying Nun (TV Series 1967–1970), in S2E7 "Two Bad Eggs" she gets mistaken for a UFO. Vid playlist


What's this? Barbie-themed, mayo-based BBQ sauce in the UK:


https://twitter.com/HeinzUK/status/1779799333015097534


Huh, ya'll think it would help my job prospects if I list a PhD in Extraterrestrial Studies on my resume? Asking for a friend. Grifters gotta grift...


Ubiquity University

Or maybe spend a semester abroad taking some credits in Psychic Grifter Studies.


https://twitter.com/MiddleOfMayhem/statu...8986354890


1970s tax schemes funding New Hollywood and Canadian B-movies vs. 2020s tax schemes funding nothing and killing new releases.


Variety - We used to have a proper criminal class.


The payout gives me a headache...


DOJ outlines benefits rule for Havana syndrome victims


They should allow every American to report symptoms of Havana Syndrome. We need universal coverage. Oh yea, the NIH in a recent study said there is no link with HS victims to brain injuries.






Actually, I believe it is a nova, not a supernova.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Put the kettle on... it's National Tea Day in...


Americans: fire up that microwave! LOL.

Tea was broadly introduced to England in 1662 when King Charles II married Catherine of Braganza from Portugal. A large stock of tea was included in her dowery and afternoon tea soon became popular with the British people.

In 1707, tea appeared for the first time in a department store in London, England at Fortnum & Mason, an upscale retail location in operation to this today.


One of the greatest (and oldest) special effects in History can be witnessed today in Rome. Every 21 April (traditional date of birth of Rome) at noon the sun perfectly shines on entrance of Pantheon. The Emperor would be bathed in the sun's rays as he entered the building.




April 21, 1926: Queen Elizabeth II was born. When she passed away in 2022, she was the last head of state to have been a veteran of WWII, having served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a driver/mechanic. She also became Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom in 1964. She was also the longest-serving female head of state in world history.




April 21, 1952: "Pre-Atomic Blast Show From Last Vegas Tonight..." Published in the Los Angeles Times.




The Marines have a manual for literally every situation...


Lost a good shipmate buddy to a Filipina exotic dancer.

Mr. billionaire Elon Musk is obsessed with the planet Mars. His space exploration company SpaceX was actually born from Musk’s dream of the future colonization of Mars. Musk shocked many people in 2015 when he suggested we drop thermo-nukes on Mars. "It is a fixer-upper of a planet".

3 min clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hP9wpMW8


April 21, 1986: Happy 38th anniversary to Geraldo Rivera's historic live syndicated special, "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults."


Nov. 5, 1987: Larry 'Bud' Melman parody of the Geraldo "Al Capone vault" debacle, starting at the 29 min. mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfzGQXVjYks


Having the Civil War movie in mind, this concept set in the Gulf War would be fascinating...


Fake News Exposed: Charles Jaco was the CNN reporter made (in)famous for covering the 1991 Persian Gulf War. You can watch the takes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7SJsZNCnws


A handful of high-profile Maltese musicians were asked by the Libyan Government to compose and record funk & disco music for Gaddafi and his theories in the late 70s & through the 80s, to be broadcast on the Libyan Maltese-based Radio "Voice Of Friendship And Solidarity".

During the 1980s, the Overseas Broadcasting Department of the Socialist Jamahiriya, based in Malta, produced two complete funk/disco albums with the aim of popularizing Gaddafi's Third International Theory.

First song is the intro track, "Sail Along Jamahiriya" from the first album, Jamahiriya released in 1980:




As protests intensify on campuses around the country, it's probably good to remember that the Columbia protests of '68 led to university administrators collaborating with the FBI on its New Left COINTELPRO. One example from Temple University. The sad thing about the '68 expansion beyond the obvious gentrification issue is that it led directly to the FBI monitoring activists in Philadelphia. A Temple administrator saw the Bureau as an ally in opposing student protests:


Source with more COINTELPRO files at Archive.org


Game Boy! It was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America later the same year, and in Europe in late 1990. I got mine in early summer of 1989 and was addicted to it for awhile.




Downloading Napster...


Lars Ulrich watching you right now. LOL



Book link

Gary Lachman, an author on mysticism & occultism, lecturer on consciousness, counterculture, and the Western esoteric tradition, and founding member of the rock band Blondie, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. He lives in London.


"If people start thinking that Alexa, or something like that, deserves any kind of respect, that works to Amazon’s advantage – that’s something that Amazon would try and amplify. Any corporation, they’re going to try and make you think that a product is a person, because you are going to interact with a person in a certain way, and they benefit from that. So, this is a vulnerability in human psychology which corporations are really trying to exploit."
Ted Chiang, on AI hype

[EndtheMadnessNow]

April 22, 1940: RADM Joseph K. Taussig (30 August 1877 – 29 October 1947) testified before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan was inevitable. A furious President Roosevelt wanted to furlough Taussig at half-pay. The following year, Taussig's son Joseph K. Taussig Jr. would lose a leg onboard USS Nevada (BB-36) in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Brute toughness must have run in the genes, after having his leg amputated he returned to duty THREE days later! He received the Navy Cross for his actions that day.


His grandfather was also an Admiral and his father was active duty: 1895–1941, 1943–1947; he was promoted to 3-star Admiral.
When his son retired from active duty in 1954, at age 34, he was the youngest captain in the Navy. In 1981 he returned to Navy service as a civilian safety czar. Died December 14, 1999 (aged 79), buried at Naval Academy cemetery. Father buried at Arlington.


Happy Earth Day 2024!

Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made on the occasion of Earth Day 1970.

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
Life Magazine, January 1970

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
Kenneth Watt, Ecologist



“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Keep these predictions in mind when you hear the same predictions made today. They’ve been making the same predictions for 39 years. And they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.

Here we are, 39 years later and the economy sucks, but the ecology’s fine. In fact this planet is doing a lot better than the planet on which those green lunatics live.

Earth Day predictions of 1970

AFAIK, Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is still alive.


Most, maybe all these Stanford types live in whole different world from the rest of society. Funny, thought for sure he'd tweet something today, but nope.


The goalposts keep moving out. Meanwhile, you can bet more green legislation shenanigans.




The weather permitted... Live from Las Vegas! April 22, 1952: The first televised atomic test...



KTLA made the first live nationwide television broadcast of a nuclear test from the Nevada Proving Ground—Shot Charlie, a 31-kiloton airdrop from a B-50 bomber.

Happy birthday to...




April 22, 1954 marked the start of the televised spectacle of Joseph McCarthy’s "Red Scare" hearings.



Hal Block – "The Senator McCarthy Blues" (1954)




Another Air Force exploding head "whistleblower"...


You know we're living in tough times when even UFO Air Force "whistleblowers" can't trust each other. Ha, this drama just never ends.


New Week, New Words!


You'll be doggone daggfrisk after a visit to RN!


Dream Machine - "What Do You Believe?"

[EndtheMadnessNow]

April 22, 1945: In his Berlin bunker, Hitler was told by his generals that Berlin would fall to the Red Army in days. After an angry tirade, Hitler accepted Germany’s defeat was inevitable, and said suicide was now his only option, as he did not want to be captured by the Allies.

April 22, 1983: The German magazine Stern claimed 22 volumes of the “Hitler Diaries” had been discovered in East Germany. They had been forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983, purchased by Stern and then serialised around the world before they were revealed as fakes.




April 22, 2054: 30 years today, after a successful 6 year trial in Washington D.C., a vote will take place on taking the Precrime Initiative national.


BTW Hollyweird, April 22nd 2054 is a Wednesday, not a Tuesday.


April 22nd: On Earth day, Squirrel (Pauly Shore) and Stubs (Stephen Baldwin) accidentally get locked inside a Bio-Dome which was to be sealed from the outside world for a year.


Back in the 90s Steve Bannon (former chief strategist under Trump) was involved in setting up a bio-dome experiment on how humans would live. In 1993, he became acting director of the research project Biosphere 2 in Arizona.

When he was in the Navy he mapped out an entire set of ports & cities where he could access theosophical libraries, societies and meetings. Even stranger is Bannon spent 6 months training with Jacob Needleman (who popularized the term 'new religious movements') in the mountains of Calif and he is one of the top writers on George Gurdjieff (philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher) and runs his own Gurdjieff groups.


On April 22, 1993, students Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the University of Illinois programmed one of the first web browsers with a graphical interface. Mosaic 1.0 (full name NCSA Mosaic) became the first popular web browser.




April 22, 2000: After the fastest federal search warrant to be executed in U.S. history...Clinton & Janet Reno send a commando squad to kidnap Cuban refugee boy Elian Gonzalez...the infamous media photo that was plastered around the world...





USDA Publishes H5N1 Influenza A Virus Genetic Sequences on publicly available site

No idea what any of that means.



https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/1...0073030756 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMdhQsHbWTs


@OmegaLogos enhanced Ghost Shark lifeboat for End of the World...



Ok, here's the real one...

Australia’s Future XLUUV Named ‘Ghost Shark’


The Day the Earth Stood Still, playing at the Mayfair Theatre in New York, 1951.




Cuba and Master Spy Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol presents The Hunter of Deceivers

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy Saint George's Day!

23 April represents the observed 1,721st anniversary of the execution of a Roman Army Officer, punished by the Emperor for not renouncing his religious faith. He came to be known as "Saint George" by the Catholic Church.


Over the years, legends grew that he appeared on horseback to save a village by slaying a Dragon. Centuries later, Saint George has become the patron saint of many, including England. But most importantly, for the U.S. Army Armor Branch, Saint George is the only saint depicted fighting on horseback and thus is the patron saint of Cavalrymen and now modern Tankers and Cavalry Scouts.


Happy World Book Day 2024. The nuclear war novel AMERICA: R.I.P. (Chicago, Novel Books, 1965) by Virginia Fenwick.


Thirty Seconds over New York 1977 - "Written by a Swiss born French journalist, this fantastic novel will take the reader into a plausible air attack on New York." First printing in Great Britain (rice bowl cover) was in 1970.


The Fifth Horseman (1980) techno-thriller novel about Libyan-backed terrorists holding New York City hostage with a hidden 3-megaton nuclear bomb.




April 23, 1917: the German Zeppelin L 23 captured the Norwegian ship Royal in the North Sea. The Zeppelin had dropped warning bombs that caused the Norwegians to abandon ship, then lowered a prize crew who seized the Royal and sailed it to Germany. Them Germans were something else!



Not to be confused with the Zeppelin "LZ" 23 which was shot-down by anti-aircraft fire on August 23, 1914.  Zeppelin Adventures (1932) by Rolf Marben has a chapter on that event.
Page scans: Great War Forum


April 23, 1949: the Truman administration canceled construction of the first supercarrier, USS United States (CVA-58). The Air Force viewed United States as a challenge to their monopoly on strategic nuclear weapons delivery plus having a slice of the defense budget pie taken away.


Looking to cut the military budget and accepting without question the Air Force argument on nuclear deterrence by means of large, long-range bombers, Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson announced the cancellation of United States on 23 April 1949, five days after the ship's keel was laid. Secretary of the Navy John Sullivan immediately resigned, and Congress held an inquiry into the manner and wisdom of Johnson's decision. In the subsequent "Revolt of the Admirals", the Navy was unable to advance its case that large carriers would be essential to national defense.

Ironically, the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) was laid down in 1993 as the USS United States but was changed as part of the compromise (politics of course) to name CVN-76 for Ronald Reagan.


Cold War Trivia: Milton Berle was friends with the judge who sentenced the Rosenbergs to death in 1951.


Photo from 1944: Future judge Irving Kaufman on the left. Middle gent unidentified; Milton Berle, at right.


Robert Lewis's (co-pilot of the Enola Gay) mushroom cloud sculpture in Hiroshima.

    “The piece itself is kind of ugly, but so was the deed.”

    --Dr. Glenn Van Warrebey assessing Robert A. Lewis’s mushroom cloud sculpture, 1983[1]


    “He was an entertainer and would always want people’s attention.”

    --Dieter Rosellen assessing the late Glenn Van Warrebey, 2010[2]

INTRODUCTION

Decades ago, Dieter Rosellen dubbed an unusual piece of art acquired by his best friend as “The ‘Shroom.” He still refers to the white Italian marble mushroom cloud sculpture by that nickname.[3] The artist’s more formal (and thought provoking) title for the work is etched into its base: ‘God’s Wind’ at Hiroshima?[4] The sculptor, Robert Lewis—the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb in warfare—died in 1983 and Rosellen’s pal, author and psychologist Glenn Van Warrebey, passed away twenty-one years later.[5] The ‘Shroom survives both of them.

This is the story of the sculpture’s evolution: From its birth in the tortured imagination of an atomic veteran to its current state—an unsettling curiosity that has to be seen to be believed. It is also a tale of the intersecting lives of the man who created it and the man who exploited it.

For whole outta of this world story on this bizarre piece of art see:

THE ‘SHROOM: THE ODYSSEY OF ROBERT LEWIS’S ATOMIC SCULPTURE

Here's a Rockabilly classic: A Mushroom Cloud by Sammy Salvo (1961)




Daniel Dennet, philosophical giant who championed naturalism and New Atheism, has died at age 82.

"If we turn this wonderful technology [AI] we have for knowledge into a weapon for disinformation," he told me, "we are in deep trouble." Why? "Because we won't know what we know, and we won't know who to trust, and we won't know whether we're informed or misinformed. We may become either paranoid and hyper-sceptical, or just apathetic and unmoved. Both of those are very dangerous avenues. And they're upon us."
- Daniel Dennett


Daniel Dennett: 'Why civilisation is more fragile than we realised'


Fragile civilisation with sabre rattling nuke nations...

North Korea on Monday conducted a firing drill of short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs), with state media Korean Central News Agency reporting that it was a firing of “super-large multiple rocket units” simulating a nuclear counterattack and marking the first use of its Haekbangashoe nuclear weapon combined management system.

The purpose of the North Korean drill, which was overseen by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was “to demonstrate the reliability, superiority, might and diverse means of the DPRK’s nuclear force and to strengthen the nuclear force both in quality and quantity as a clear warning signal to the enemies,” said KCNA.

North Korea Launches Ballistic Missiles in Nuclear Command and Control Test

China-Russia-Iran-NK vs. USA + NATO, gaming for the prize.


The farthest known computer from the human world after a long distance software update, says hello Earth...


Voyager 1 probe resuscitated, coming back online after wandering in cold lonely abyss speaking gibberish.

Recoding Voyager 1—NASA’s interstellar explorer is finally making sense again


"Feminine Presence" Telephone Operators When Hundreds Of Them Said "Long Distance" (1939)

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PalaeoRogue dinner tonight...

Menu for the 1874 Anniversary Dinner of the UK Palaeontographical Society. Featuring "Sheeps' Brains à la Numa", "Consommé of Trout à la Buckland" (served with "Thick Kangaroo Tail"), "Saddle (Croupe) of Wild Boar à la Danoise, pickled in Beer", and "Gateau Palæontrographie".


The menu sold at an auction last year.


April 24, 1961: the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM) director Franklin B. Ellis (1907-1969) sent a disapproving letter to Operation Alert civil defense drill protester Mary Sharmat (1934-2004). Incidentally, 1961 was the last year that Operation Alert was held.


Yalie Mr. McGeorge Bundy was an esteemed member of 'Skull and Bones' and whole lotta other deep state gov spooky stuff.

"Kennedy reportedly wondered aloud about his ability to survive if he ever ended up in a bomb shelter with Ellis." LOL. Former Civil Defense director Franklin B. Ellis was unloaded from the administration with the offer of a federal judgeship in his native Louisiana.




Naked City (1958-1963) series about the cases of the N.Y.P.D.'s 65th Precinct. The "Carrier" episode of NAKED CITY aired April 24th on ABC in 1963. S4:E29. Guest starring an infectious Sandy Dennis (1937-1992) and a pre-OMEGA MAN Anthony Zerbe.




I never heard of The Champions (1968–1969 TV Series) till today. The re-runs either never made it to America or I missed it because I was outside playing in the dirt. The plot definitely sounds interesting.

Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready, and Richard Barrett were agents for Nemesis, an international intelligence organisation based in Geneva. Their first mission as a team: investigate some potentially lethal experiments in Communist China, but as they were escaping, their plane was damaged, and crashed into a remote part of the Himalayas. When they were rescued by members an unknown society, they came away with superhuman powers; telepathy, superior strength, memory, etc. They returned to the outside world as "Champions of Law, Order, and Justice."

In 2008, when Tom Cruise and his producing partner Paula Wagner took over United Artists, they announced a feature version of " The Champions " with Christopher Mcquarrie scripting, Guillermo del Toro directing and Tom Cruise starring. However following "Valkyrie" and the poor performance of "Lions for Lambs", Cruises ambitious slate was cancelled.



Snippet from her Obit:

She was born in 1946 in Hove, West Sussex and attended Brighton and Hove High School. When she was 16 she entered a competition in the London Evening Standard and won a trip to Hollywood to take part in the spy thriller The Candy Web (1963), directed by William Castle [of Rosemary's Baby fame]. She played a diplomat's daughter at a boarding school, who with her fellow pupils becomes involved in a story of international intrigue.

While the film was not especially well received, the early exposure to Hollywood brought her a number of minor roles in film and television throughout the mid-1960s, including an uncredited role as a radio operator in the spy film The Liquidator (1965), directed by Jack Cardiff, two episodes of The Saint and the 1967 Bond spoof Casino Royale. Bastedo also modelled for Shell posters, but on condition that the images were not displayed in Britain. It was as a result of this modelling assignment that she was fortuitously discovered by the director Cyril Frankel, who saw her picture while on holiday in Austria.

The Champions was conceived during the Cold War amid a fascination with the world of spies and shadowy underground organisations, already popularised in programmes such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Thunderbirds and the James Bond franchise. Bastedo played the super-intelligent and glamorous agent Sharron Macready, starring alongside Stuart Damon as Craig Stirling and William Gaunt as Richard Barrett, on the team of Nemesis, an international spy organisation based in Geneva.

Another Obit from the Telegraph:

Among her more famous admirers were David Frost, Omar Sharif and Steve McQueen; though she entered briefly into relationships with the Frost and Sharif she was distinctly less impressed with McQueen, whom, she recalled, propositioned her with the line: “My wife doesn’t understand me.”

The daughter of a Canadian businessman, Alexandra Bastedo was born in East Sussex on March 9 1946 and grew up in Brighton, where her childhood ambition was to become a vet. At 16, however, she entered a “teenage diplomat” competition organised by London Evening News, beating 4, 000 finalists to a role in a comedy thriller, 13 Frightened Girls! (1963) Despite subsequent offers from Hollywood agents – and interest from Alfred Hitchcock – she returned home to finish her education, before the contracts with Shell and ITV intervened to preclude her university career.

She was also known for her language skills, speaking Italian, Spanish, and French. This ability brought her to the attention of 10 Downing Street, where she was employed to assist with translations, and landed her the role of co-presenter of Miss World competitions with Peter Marshall in the 1980s. From her Bio

She was also a dedicated animal rights activist and co-founded the "Alexandra Bastedo Champions (ABC) Animal Sanctuary" in West Sussex. She and her husband were long-standing friends of King Charles III.


LMAO!!


Goats Trippin on Magic Mushrooms



April 23, 1968: Students angered with Columbia University's affiliation with institutions connected to the Vietnam War, protested and took control of buildings on campus.


April 24, 1968: Students at Columbia University fight one another as one group of students will not allow others to pass and enter Low Library during the Columbia University take over.

How Columbia’s Student Uprising of 1968 Was Sparked by a Segregated Gym

1968 Columbia University protests


Former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation...


Katherine Maher’s Color Revolution  (naturally, her wiki page is locked)

American gov't efforts to control social media... the FBI embedded in pre-Elon Twitter, DHS disinfo board, efforts to divest TikTok that passed last night, I think all stem from the Arab Spring (goes back to Ancient Rome with popular people), the realization that social platforms can manufacture revolutions.
They have been in a non-stop battle against social media ever since. The one thing that always seems to thwart them: The Streisand Effect


The Kardashian women (witches) are kind of the closest thing to the Bene Gesserit we have in America. Poor young Timothée has no idea the bloodline he's now mixed in. You're not in a movie, bro. That family has a curse on men. The ol gossip mill...


Their family tree is a giant twisted sequoia hybrid. As in long lineage of bizarro root origins that mushroomed into what they are today. Tatos Saghatel Kardashian, Kim Kardashian's great grandfather, sponsored Avak Hagopian (was an Iranian "faith healer" conman), Clem Davies (white supremacist and public supporter of the KKK), and William Branham (a "doomsday prophet"), and their faith healings would form the Full Gospel Businessmen's Association International.
When I say bizarro I'm talkin their cult connections with characters as stated above plus Rev. Jim Jones, faith healing, KKK preaching, Russian religious sects konnections, etc.


‘The Tortured Poets Department’ by Taylor Swift, released April 19th becomes the first in Spotify history to surpass 200 and 300 million streams in one day, thus breaking the all-time record for most streamed album in a single day. That's alot of Swifties.


I don't think I've ever listened to any of her songs. Maybe I have in the background and not known it.


There’s a devil in these hollers
My Papaw told me so
He’s hidin’ out, somewhere down
Off Barton Ferry Road
Got that high speed chicken feed
Crystal meth amphetamines
Take’s you high then to your knees
Just like a hilltop church
Shakin’ up a bottle ‘til you’re shakin’ when it’s gone
Then you’re down at River City pawnin’ everything you own
Hopin’ there’s some copper
Hidin’ round these hills
Too proud to beg or borrow
But you ain’t too proud to steal

Alkaline and Sudafed
Paranoia in your head
Used to get it from the seed
Now it’s Appalachian alchemy, yeah
Alchemy

Released April 19th...

[BIAD]

PalaeoRogue dinner tonight...

Menu for the 1874 Anniversary Dinner of the UK Palaeontographical Society. Featuring "Sheeps' Brains à la Numa", "Consommé of Trout à la Buckland" (served with "Thick Kangaroo Tail"), "Saddle (Croupe) of Wild Boar à la Danoise,
pickled in Beer", and "Gateau Palæontrographie"....

It reminds me of 'The Freshman'!

[Bally002]

PalaeoRogue dinner tonight...

Menu for the 1874 Anniversary Dinner of the UK Palaeontographical Society. Featuring "Sheeps' Brains à la Numa", "Consommé of Trout à la Buckland" (served with "Thick Kangaroo Tail"), "Saddle (Croupe) of Wild Boar à la Danoise,
pickled in Beer", and "Gateau Palæontrographie"....

It reminds me of 'The Freshman'!

Well I'd eat it and ask for a doggy bag.  Of interest to me was the  'Gateau Palaeontrographie'

Hope I got that right.   Gateau being French for Cake.

Down the rabbit hole I went.  And Voila!  The most expensive cake in the world is...(Drum roll)

DIAMOND CAKE by Debbie Wingham

This cake has edible Diamonds and is of an 'intricate design.'

Worth - 75 Million Dollaros.

It's top of the list.  

Eat that I guess and I'd be bagging my 'dump'.  As Grandad used to say in a Scottish accent "There be money in shit!"

Princess Kate's wedding cake was a mere 75,000.

Sigh, just a dollar fifty "White Wings"  cake mix for me.

Kind regards,

Bally)
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[EndtheMadnessNow]

April 24, 1988: USS Bonefish (SS-582) was forced to the surface where the crew abandoned the sub off the coast of Florida, due to an intense fire in the battery compartment. The heat was so intense that it melted the soles of the shoes of the crewmembers in the space above. 89 men were rescued by USS Carr (FFG-52) and USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), but 3 sailors died. Bonefish had to be scrapped due to the damage. Northrop Grumman later bought the hull for marine-concept testing.




The name on the transom of the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG-63) is bracketed by a pair of horns. "The Mighty Moo" also features a set of longhorns under the bridge windows.


The ship is named after the Battle of Cowpens, a major American victory near Cowpens, South Carolina, in the American Revolution. In January 1993, Cowpens was one of four ships to launch Tomahawk missiles against a nuclear production facility in Iraq. 10 years later, in March 2003, Cowpens became the first ship to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles in the opening stages of the Iraq War. In March 2024, the Navy announced plans to inactivate Cowpens on 30 August 2024.

In September 2014, Cowpens second-in-command, executive officer, was fired after being found guilty of drunken or reckless vehicle operation and conduct unbecoming an officer. He was the fourth member of Cowpens leadership team to be removed in 2014. Stressful times. Hmmm, guess they got the horn. This time period was during Obama's attack on the Navy; firing a lot of top brass.


Return to nutty tradition...


National Post


Well, what do ya know...looks like a balloon. Prolly launched by the teenage balloon club.

April 18, 2024: AARO released its resolution for the case known as the "Eglin UAP." It presents AARO's analysis of a January 2023 event reported by a military pilot operating in the Eglin Air Force Base training range off the coast of Florida.


Case: “Eglin UAP”


"Our studies of the UFO percipients and contactees are teaching us that these encounters are more hallucinatory than real, that some complex hypnotic process is involved, and that the real phenomenon is hiding behind a carefully engineered smokescreen of propaganda. Those funny lights and their hypnotic waves of energy are part of something that is related to this planet, and to us. But that something may be far beyond our meager powers of comprehension. There are forces that can distort our reality and warp our fields of space and time. When we are caught up in these forces we struggle to find acceptable explanation for them, and then the manifestations begin to conform to that explanation and so reinforce it. 

Every few centuries, however, we abandon the old explanations and come up with new ones. Then the phenomenon obligingly tailors itself to those new beliefs. This factor alone indicates that part of the phenomenon, at least, is directly related to the human psyche, and these events are in part the work of the individual and collective unconsciousness."

- John A. Keel, Disneyland of the Gods (1988)



The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania is an oil on canvas painting by the Scottish artist Sir Joseph Noel Paton. Painted in 1849, it depicts the scene from William Shakespeare's comedy play A Midsummer Night's Dream, when the fairy queen Titania and fairy king Oberon quarrel; Oberon was considered the King of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature. When exhibited in Edinburgh during 1850, it was declared as the "painting of the season". It was acquired by the National Gallery of Scotland in 1897, having initially been bought by the Royal Association for Promoting the Fine Arts in Scotland during 1850.

According to Lewis Carroll, there are 165 fairies are in the painting - you can super zoom-in on the digital copy if you want to try counting them all. Good luck, let us know. Carroll was captivated by it. I can see why as I am too.

According to a leading historian on Victorian art, Christopher Wood in his book Fairies in Victorian Art:

The subject of the couple's argument is the changeling Indian boy, who is cowering behind Titania. A lily pond is at the front of the painting and the woodland setting is made up from leaves, flowers and aged twisted trees. Titania's head is encircled by a group of fairies forming a bright crown of light. A statue of Pan with a set of pipes is placed to the right of the picture with several couples in a state of undress positioned beneath it. Goblins mingle with elves and imps that all cavort among the nude fairies; some other little, ugly figures are scattered throughout together with moths, beetles, spiders and snails.


“As if an angel dropped down from the clouds”, William Blake's 1809 illustration to Henry IV by a certain William Shakespeare whose birthday is celebrated on this day (April 23rd) in 1564 (also his death day in 1616).


Image source: British Museum

See this collection of art inspired by his plays.


"PROSPERO, to Ferdinand
You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismayed. Be cheerful, sir.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
-Shakespeare, The Tempest - Act 4, scene 1

The American satellite intelligence gathering and signal intelligence surveillance base known as "Pine Gap" near the town of Alice Springs, Australia.

Pine Gap codename is (or was) "Merino" so named after the Australian breed, Merino sheep.

Pine Gap = Magic interacting with technology.

The Prospero satellite, also known as the X-3, was launched by the United Kingdom in 1971. It was designed to undertake a series of experiments to study the effects of the space environment on communications satellites and remained operational until 1973, after which it was contacted annually for over 25 years.

Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Based on the Puck of English mythology and the púca of Celtic mythology, Puck is a mischievous fairy, sprite, or jester.

A second satellite was launched from Australia, named "ARIEL" also from Shakespeare, The Tempest.

Ariel, the air spirit out of the cloven pine which made a gap. Pine Gap is in the Tempest as a possible naming mechanism and the idea is this magician (Prospero) freeing an air spirit who was put there by a witch.

Sycorax is an unseen character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). She is a vicious and powerful witch and the mother of Caliban, one of the few native inhabitants of the island on which Prospero, the hero of the play, is stranded.



Prospero and Ariel by Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 Feb 1882 – 17 Nov 1940), BBC Broadcasting House. Controversy & his ideology surrounding Eric Gill kinda explains the Prospero and Ariel sculpture. Just sayin.

Where did the name Ariel originate? (besides the bible)

The spirit name Ariel occurs in Three Books of Occult Philosophy in Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's study of occult philosophy, in which the name could derive from Johannes Trithemius, the father of steganography who mentored Agrippa and Paracelsus and was obsessed with angels and getting their names right.

In a 1951 paper, Johnson W., Stacy. "The Genesis of Ariel." Shakespeare Quarterly (1951): pg 205-210 discusses a scholar:

Abel Lefranc, in his "L'origine d'Ariel," reports having found Shakespeare's very figure in a book written for magicians of the highest order, the Steganographia of Trithemius. This work, according to Lefranc, names the seven angels who control the seven planets of astrology and, subordinate to these angels, twenty-one "spiritus subjecti per quos nunciantur arcana." The idea that magic works through the controlling of spirits who direct natural phenomena (in the cabala, angels who animate both celestial and earthly elements) is in Renaissance occultism a commonplace. But Lefranc emphasizes the fact that in that order of spirits which is said by Trithemius to serve the magician ("per quos intentionis nostrae operamur effectum") appears a spirit called Ariel, one of the three placed under Zachariel, governor of Jupiter; and he goes so far as to suggest that the Steganographia is the direct source for Shakespeare's character.

She also points out:

Another suggestion is that Ariel's name comes from the Bible, Isaiah xxix.
The Geneva Bible (London, I594) uses the term altar in the chapter, but it
adds this prominent gloss:

The Hebrew word Ariel signifieth the Lyon of God and it signifieth the Altar, because your Altar seemed to devour the Sacrifice that was offered to God.

Source: The Genesis of Ariel



I came across some of this Shakespeare/Tempest/Pine Gap esoteric stuff from DARK JOURNALIST X-SERIES EPISODE 158: Pine Gap UFO File Ultra Room Secrets Revealed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S0CACO1jhY



X-Series 167: Kona Blue UFO File vs. Blue Enigma Code Revealed!

DJ is strongly hinting that vast majority of UFOs are hidden technology created by humans; not aliens/ET's from another planet. However, I'm on the fence regards to his KONA decode, though it is interesting.

More BLUE tech...



How many of these past & present scientists directly involved in the UFO phenomena are/were laser & plasma physicists?


An interesting short WWII story with a big reveal I did not entirely know...

A Disaster You've Never Heard of is Still Controlling Our Timeline



For you elder timers you'll probably know straight away, but how he tells it is like no other. Butterfly effects are a strange phenomenon!

I pre-ordered his book.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

April 25, 1915: World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles. National day of remembrance for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served in the Gallipoli campaign, their first engagement in the First World War.



ANZAC Day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by these forces at Gallipoli in 1915 in a pushback against the Ottoman Empire that had been taken over by the Young Turk Movement (CUP Party).

The morning of April 25, 1915, when the Allied forces landed on the beaches of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Their mission was to open the Dardanelles to the allied navies and eventually capture Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, an ally of Germany at the time. The hope was to secure a sea route to Russia and knock the Ottomans out of the war.

The landing at Gallipoli was met with fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turkish soldiers. The campaign quickly became a stalemate, with both sides suffering heavy casualties. The rugged terrain and tactical mistakes compounded the challenges faced by the ANZAC troops, leading to a prolonged eight-month struggle that resulted in over 8,000 Australian and nearly 3,000 New Zealand soldiers losing their lives.

While Gallipoli is the most famed, ANZAC forces also played crucial roles on the Western Front and in the Middle East. In 1916, ANZAC troops were redeployed to France, where they fought in major battles at the Somme, Fromelles, and Pozières.

In the Middle East, the ANZAC Mounted Division, part of the Desert Mounted Corps, played a vital role in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire. They were instrumental in victories at Gaza, Beersheba, and Jerusalem. These victories were pivotal in weakening the Ottoman control in the region, which eventually led to their surrender in 1918.

In Australia and New Zealand, dawn services, marches, and memorial services are held, attended by veterans, current service members, and the public. The playing of "The Last Post," a minute of silence, and the recitation of the Ode of Remembrance are poignant reminders of the high price of freedom.

The impact of World War I on Australia and New Zealand was profound, touching the lives of countless individuals and shaping the future of both nations. On ANZAC Day, the stories of the ANZACs are revisited, ensuring that the legacy of those who gave their lives in the pursuit of peace and justice continues to live on in national consciousness. This day reminds us that their sacrifices were not in vain and that their spirit endures in the hearts of all who value liberty and the brotherhood of nations.



Westminster Abbey Marks ANZAC Day 2024

On the 25 April 1916, one year to the day that Australians troops splashed ashore at the Gallipoli Peninsula, 6434 servicemen paraded through the streets of Brisbane before 50,000 onlookers.

This was the first instance of what would soon become an annual national ritual of observance - Anzac Day.

Anzac Day ritual  (State Library of Queensland)

ANZAC is an acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, a grouping of several divisions created early in the Great War of 1914–18. In December 1914 the Australian Imperial Force and New Zealand Expeditionary Force, both of which had just arrived in Egypt, were placed under the command of Lieutenant-General William Birdwood. Initially the term Australasian Corps was suggested for the combined force, but Australians and New Zealanders were reluctant to lose their separate identities.

No one knows who came up with the term Anzac. It is likely that Sergeant K.M. Little, a clerk in Birdwood's headquarters, thought of it for use on a rubber stamp: 'ANZAC' was convenient shorthand, and became the telegraph code word for the corps.

The Anzacs first saw action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. The small cove where the Australian and New Zealand troops landed was quickly dubbed Anzac Cove. Soon the word was being used to describe all the Australian and New Zealand soldiers fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Later it came to mean any Australian or New Zealand soldier.

New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage

April 25, 1976: Rick Monday Great Play! Robert James "Rick" Monday Jr. of the Chicago Cubs snatched a U.S. flag away from two protestors who were attempting to burn it after invading the field during a game at Dodger Stadium. Monday had served, while playing Major League Baseball, a six-year commitment with the United States Marine Corps Reserve as part of his ROTC obligation after leaving Arizona State. He received a congratulatory phone call from President Gerald R. Ford after the game, and was later invited to the White House. Rick still has the flag.






April 25, 1982: The task force is now full steam ahead, and the carrier battle group joins up with the advanced group, consisting of HMS Sheffield, Glasgow, Coventry and Arrow, headed for the Falklands. 

Watch out, Argentina...

The UK looks into gaining further US support, from weapons, intelligence, logistics and political angles, and even provides a shopping list...



April 25 1982: Argentine submarine ARA Santa Fe leaves Grytviken, South Georgia, at 5am, heading for the open sea, but surfaces to avoid icebergs and rocks. Coming through Cumberland Bay, she is detected, and British ships prepare to take her out.

HMS Antrim leads the British force around South Georgia, which has five helicopters; a Wessex (Antrim), three Wasps (Endurance & Plymouth) & two Lynx (Brilliant) and orders are now given to prepare for anti submarine action...



At 08.55 Antrim's Wessex picks up Santa Fe and moves to engage with depth charges. The first one bounces off the deck, but the second explodes, rupturing a fuel tank and ballast tank. Argentine Captain Bicain quickly reverses course and races back towards Grytviken.

A Lynx from HMS Brilliant drops an anti submarine torpedo which passes under the surfaced Santa Fe as the Wasps from HMS Endurance & HMS Plymouth move in with AS-12 missiles... The chase is on.



Wasps from Endurance move in as Santa Fe nears the shore. Argentine troops fire from land as Santa Fe opens up with a machine gun, but an AS-12 is fired, hitting the conning tower, injuring the machine gunner and putting it out of action just as it hits land. The crew of the Santa Fe run for cover as men on shore fire with rifles and someone fires an anti-tank missile skywards, all of which misses. Spotting an early advantage, UK forces now decide to capitalise on the situation.



She was captured by the British at South Georgia after being seriously damaged and subsequently sank along a pier, with just her conning tower (sail) visible above the waterline. The submarine was raised, towed out of the bay and scuttled in deep water in 1985.

A message to London on the fate and present condition of the ARA Santa Fe. Though a thorough inspection is impossible, they state that  "We assess that the internal damage is severe"...



Barring a small garrison at Leith, South Georgia is recovered, a submarine is crippled and 156 servicemen and 38 scrap metal workers are now prisoners, all for no UK losses. As the great lady said: "rejoice!"



April 25, 1982: (Vid above) John Nott reads out on TV the report from South Georgia. When the press push for more answers, Thatcher hits a defining moment:  "Just rejoice at that news... And congratulate our forces and the Marines... Rejoice!"

Built by the US during WWII, the sub operated in the US Navy as USS Catfish (SS-339) until 1971 when she was transferred to the Argentine Navy.


James Bama (April 28, 1926 – April 24, 2022) famous for his western paintings that are in museums around the world was previously known as an illustrator of book & magazine covers.


James Bama – RIP

James Bama was an American artist known for his realistic paintings and etchings of Western subjects. Life in Wyoming led to his comment, "Here an artist can trace the beginnings of Western history, see the first buildings, the oldest wagons, saddles and guns, and be up close to the remnants of Indian culture... And you can stand surrounded by nature's wonders."

In an extremely successful twenty-two year career as a commercial artist, he produced book covers, movie posters and illustrations for such notable magazines as Saturday Evening Post, Argosy and Reader's Digest. In 1968, Bama moved to Wyoming to pursue his love for portraying contemporary Western subjects, saying goodbye to his career as an illustrator.

Big Horn Galleries

More James Bama cover art:



V. is the personification of America or, more broadly, the postmodern global war-scape. First published in March, 1963, it describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveller named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V.".

Funny, yet annoying as hell story about the publishing of "V." by Thomas Pynchon...

Two versions of V. were issued in 1963, one in the U.S. and one in England, because errors that had crept into the first American edition were found and corrected in time for the British edition’s release. Pynchon would be able to get the corrections he had made for the British edition into the American paperback the following year. The fact that the first U.S. edition needed to be corrected was forgotten, and with the exception of those printed by Bantam, the U.S. paperback publisher, all other U.S. editions are reproductions of the uncorrected first American edition. This paper traces the editorial history of V. after its publication, detailing the differences between the corrected and uncorrected editions of the novel.

...

The issue, in any case, should have been settled, indeed had been settled in Britain and in the United States for about twenty years — between 1967 and 1986 — while the corrected Bantam edition was the only U.S. text being reproduced, but the problem resurfaced when Bantam lost the rights to reprint its edition and Lippincott's fiction catalogue was taken over by Harper and Row in the mid-1980s. The text of the first Perennial reprint — which also seems to have been produced using the original Lippincott edition, even though the chapter titles are centered rather than flushed to the left — followed the original American text to the letter and the later reprints continue to do so, with the exception of the introduction of new typos after two resettings, one in 1999 and the other in 2005. Meanwhile, the text that continues to be printed in Britain follows the Cape edition. Consequently, since 1986, the two versions of V. that were issued between 1963 and 1966 have been available to readers, and as in 1963, the corrected, near definitive edition, has only been the British one, a Vintage paperback in its present manifestation, while those in the U.S who have been relying on the Perennial imprints, or the newly released Penguin e-book, have been reading an unauthorized text.

Full paper: The Two V.s of Thomas Pynchon, or From Lippincott to Jonathan Cape and Beyond

And in case you're wondering about the book title... British comics writer, novelist, short story writer, musician, cartoonist, magician, and occultist, Alan Moore the author of "V for Vendetta" is a big fan of Thomas Pynchon's works. The title character V is quoting and reading from Pynchon's book.

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. born May 8, 1937 is still alive. Pynchon is a very mysterious man, said to have an extremely high IQ with deep knowledge on how the US gov/mil complex actually functions and notoriously reclusive from the media; few photographs of him have ever been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s. Pynchon's most recent novel, Bleeding Edge, was published on Sept 17, 2013.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

In what became known as the "Battle of Jutland 1964", USS Essex (CVA-9) managed to thwart a Soviet spy trawler by becoming a giant skunk. Waiting until upwind, Essex blew the tubes from its boilers and covered the trawler with smelly waste. The trawler turned and fled back to mother Russia.




April 26, 1986:




COG god: Journalist Ted Gup on LARRY KING LIVE, the same day his TIME cover story on continuity of government came out. Aug. 10, 1992



The Doomsday Blueprints

Ted Gup (born 1950) has been a prolific writer regarding doomsday scenarios and facilities to provide for continuity of government and the preservation of important assets of civilization, including the Mount Weather facility, as well as intelligence issues.


J. Leo Bourassa (1917-2000), former chief of Mount Weather "Special Facilities Division" super-bunker, reacts to a caller's question about Strangelovian re-population rumors. LARRY KING LIVE (8/10/92).


I'm glad he cleared up that rumor. I can sleep easy. Sigh.


Bob Clark (1922-2015) of ABC News calls in to Larry King Live and talks about going to Mount Weather with Presidents Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson. "Off-the-record"...


He is most remembered for reporting the assassinations of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Clark was riding in a press car in President JFK's Dallas motorcade in 1963. He witnessed RFK's 1968 murder at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Clark was the only person to see both Kennedy brothers after each was shot in Dallas, Texas, and Los Angeles, California, respectively.


72nd Emmy Awards: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Wins for Outstanding Variety Talk Series... David Letterman Chernobyl joke "from 1986" at about the 1:15 mark:




John Oliver's piece from last Sunday about UFOs...




The ghost of deceased network executive Lew Hayward (John Forsythe) visits IBC president Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in SCROOGED (1988). Cross blames the apparition on Russian vodka poisoned by Chernobyl. And a bonus Trump Tower joke.




Scientology news from the 1970s. As glimpsed in episode 4 of THE SYNANON FIX on HBO MAX. Wild mini-docu series on that Synanon drug rehab house (first of it's kind in the USA) started off really nice & helpful and then evolved into a new agey utopian "lifestyler" cult and then devolved into an eXtreme violent cult that boggles the mind.


Note: the celebrities frequented the club in the 60s when they were rehab'ing drug addicts, before it went off the rails at the end of the Vietnam War. The "non-profit" cult was disbanded and shutdown in 1991. A branch supposedly still exists today in Germany, however similar rehab centers in other countries under different names using the same Synanon playbook.


Yemeni printers work fast!! Almost as fast as US money printers. BRRrrrrr!


His boxers saying "American" is such a perfect symbol for the message, but still, the Yemenis cut off that part of the image. I dunno, maybe they have ethics about that. Ha.


"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
~ Roald Dahl (1916-1990) British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace, AND member of British Security Coordination; a covert organisation during the cold war, part of MI6 setup in NYC.

Photograph of a squirrel held spellbound by a tiny white fairy:

[EndtheMadnessNow]

April 27, 1986: Those living on the USA east coast and had HBO back in 1986 might remember this "Signal"...



"Good evening HBO from Captain Midnight. $12.95/month? No way!"

Electrical engineer and business owner John R. MacDougall (using the pseudonym "Captain Midnight") jammed the Home Box Office (HBO) satellite signal on Hughes Communications Galaxy 1 after becoming frustrated about the new prices, satellite operator John MacDougall sends out a little message to HBO, which interrupts its presentation of the film The Falcon and the Snowman. The message, broadcast for four and a half minutes, was seen by the eastern half of the United States (accounting for more than half of HBO's 14.6 million subscribers at the time) protesting HBO's rates for satellite dish owners, which he considered too expensive. MacDougall was working at his second job as an operations engineer at the Central Florida Teleport uplink station in Ocala, Florida, and vied with a technician at HBO's communications center in Hauppauge, New York, for control of the transmission. The technician attempted to increase uplink power but gave up because of the risk of damaging the satellite. MacDougall eventually abandoned his control of the satellite.

That bad Florida man was eventually arrested & fined. Only $5K to become a legend:



Today, an American folk hero.

His website: Just Who Is Captain Midnight


"A state holiday" means "Confederate Memorial Day," but a lot of state agencies like the Mississippi Department of Archives are justifiably too scared & embarrassed to mention it by name.





The Power of Christ compels you! I cast you out! Unclean ET spirit!

Techniques for Resisting Alien Abduction



Fr Ripperger: "Demons HATE Gregorian Chant!" - Interview w/ an Exorcist
Youtube



Ancient Artists Left Signs For us to Decode. Did they Witness UFOs?


"All of these astral exponents who invoke human consciousness may be sincere, but many of their theses may be framed to propagate some special phantasm, perhaps of an earlier incarnation, or to indulge an inveterate and continuing technological urge toward materialistic progress, or simply to astonish and disturb the gullible for the devil of it."

- RAF Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard, public lecture at Caxton Hall in London, May 3, 1969. Quoted from - John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, 1970.

Continuing from Keel's book:

Sir Victor’s remarks are, admittedly, even harder to believe than the claims of the various UFO cults. If you are not familiar with the massive, welldocumented occult and religious literature, his words may be incomprehensible to you. In essence, he means that the UFO phenomenon is actually a staggering cosmic put-on: a joke perpetrated by invisible entities who have always delighted in frightening, confusing and misleading the human race. The activities of these entities have been carefully recorded throughout history, and we will be leaning heavily on those historical records in this book.

Goddard is perhaps best known for his interest in paranormal phenomena; he claimed to have witnessed a clairvoyant incident in 1946 on which the feature film The Night My Number Came Up (1955) was later based. He encouraged Sir George Trevelyan to set up the Wrekin Trust, a body promoting "spiritual education" in 1971. It occupied much of his time in retirement. Through it he became convinced of the reality of the world of the spirit. He spent many years investigating, and lecturing on, flying saucers. On 3 May 1969, he gave a talk on UFOs at Caxton Hall in London, which has been interpreted as an expression of the interdimensional hypothesis.

ALIENS publicity still with Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn, born May 7, 1976 in Panama City, Florida. She was awarded the 1987 Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actress as Rebecca "Newt" Jordan in Aliens (1986) with absolute zero acting experience. Check out those Reeboks!



Seeing ALIEN with kids in Texas, 1979. That second dad was awesome! LOL. Listen to the end...



Filmed outside the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, Texas. Bobbie Wygant (1926 – Feb 18, 2024) is the reporter. She was known for her filmed interviews with hundreds (perhaps thousands) of celebrities for over 70 years.



They're Looting The Internet (Lengthy article that I'm sure you'll find amusing & relatable)


A Guardian investigation found that private companies have made $100 million clearing homeless encampments in California.


Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

I think Homelessness in America is tied to the escalation of a security state. People are allowed to exist in various states of deprivation because it creates the perception of a threat that can only be solved by more policing, more surveillance, more privatization of spaces & resources, and of course diversion of funding pools.


Words for the weekend...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

April 28, 1789: The crew of HMS Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, mutineed against the harsh regime of Captain William Bligh in perhaps the most famous naval mutiny in history. Most of the mutineers were captured on Tahiti but Christian and several of the crew settled on Pitcairn Island where their descendents still live today. After being set adrift by the mutineers, Bligh and his loyal remaining crew members reached Timor alive, after a journey of 3,618 nautical miles. The mutineers later burned Bounty while she was moored at Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean in 1790.




April 28, 1961: CONELRAD was on the air for about a half-hour as part of the annual civil defense drill, Operation Alert. Starting in 1954 the annual national civil defense exercise called "Operation Alert" extended over several weeks to months, and would culminate in a one-day public drill simulating a nuclear attack. Opposition to the drills increased; young mothers with children joined the protests in 1960 and were finally stopped after the 1961 protest. However, the FBI took a dim view of the new administration's Operation Alert '61 participation (or lack thereof).

Here is that broadcast in full. JFK can be heard praising CONELRAD at about the 13:20 mark.




FOIA on FBI, Operation Alert 1961



April 28, 1983: 3,000 friends and family of the crew of USS Enterprise waited on a pier in the rain for the carrier to return from a very long 8 month deployment only to see it get stuck in the mud 1,000 yards out in San Francisco bay. The crew lined the port side in an effort to shift weight and dislodge the carrier. Ha, unreal!


After 5 hours, the Enterprise was finally freed by tugs, the incoming tide, and the weight of the crew. On board was guest George Takei. He later remarked that the event should be marked with a new drink named "Enterprise on the Rocks".

Even though groundings and collisions are usually career-ending events for U.S. warship captains, the captain at the time, Robert J. Kelly, who had already been selected for promotion to commodore, eventually became a four-star admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet. All the stars were aligned for that captain on this day.


April 28, 1985: Royal Canadian Navy HMCS Nipigon (DDH 266) became known as the "Trawler Mauler" after rescuing the crew of the floundering Lady Marjorie and then blasting the fishing vessel with 28 three-inch shells on the pretense that it was a navigation hazard. Though Lady Marjorie was a total loss, the insurance company refused the captain's claim, stating that damages resulting from navy gunfire were not covered by his policy. The captain later reached an out of court settlement with the Canadian Navy.


HMCS Nipigon was sunk for an artificial reef north-east of Rimouski, Quebec in 2003.


April 27, 1981: Say Hello to the First Personal Computer Mouse. The first integrated mouse intended for use with a personal computer makes its appearance with the innovative, yet very expensive, Xerox 8010 Star Information System. USD $16,595 (equivalent to $57,000 in 2024)!


"I am Emperor Xerox! This is STAR, my wife!"


XEROX ALTO - First workstation with Windows mouse & network
"Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak stole the idea from Xerox"




Apple acquired Siri on April 28, 2010.


Siri derives its name from the Scandinavian name Siri, inspired by creator Dag Kittlaus's Norwegian heritage. "Siri" is a Swahili word which means "secret"!


Kids these days cannot comprehend the power of vertical stacks. LOL


Retelling the stories from early tech history... the glory of DOS, Windows 3.11/95, BSOD's of screamin horror and the beauty of IRQs and Abort Retry Fail.

My beloved gaming card...for a short time, about 20 years ago.



Behold, the prestige S3 Virge DX; 3dfx Voodoo; Nvidia...



Think I had every gaming card that came out on the market from late 90s to 2012. Spent thousands of company money and always ordered two...one for work, one for home.

2024: Nvidia, the third-largest company in the U.S. by market capitalization, with a valuation north of $2.2 trillion. A $10,000 investment in Nvidia made in March 2004 would have grown to a stunning $5.23 million today.


Come join me at the grotto. LOL

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April 29, 1952: the Arthur Godfrey civil defense special, IT CAN HAPPEN HERE aired on CBS.


The Arthur Godfrey voice recording for the "Doomsday tape" made some time in late 50s has never been found. Godfrey was a member of "The Eisenhower Ten" (E-10) aka Continuity of government (COG) aka part of the "Deep State." Frederick Gary Dutton (June 16, 1923 – June 27, 2005) was Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy, who discovered the existence of the Eisenhower Ten letters.

Exactly one month earlier in 1952, Arthur Godfrey was the mystery guest on the game show What's My Line? (16 min mark)


WARNING! IT CAN HAPPEN HERE! April 1952 ad for THE WHIP HAND (1951).


The ridiculous movie plot produced by Howard Hughes RKO studio: Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it, but Corbin learns that a group of former-Nazis-turned-Communists have purchased a lodge on an island in the middle of the fish-killing lake, and have built some kind of laboratory. Never one to pass up a chance to sell a story to a magazine, Matt decides to investigate. His only ally is Janet Keller, the sister of the local doctor who has been caught up in whatever those nefarious Commie-Nazis are up to. What they are up to, with Soviet financing, is the development of diseases to use in bacteriological warfare against the United States, starting right there in Minnesota.

The Whip Hand (1951), which was shot in great secrecy in May and June of 1950, was first set in postwar New England. The original story line was a plot to hide the still-alive Adolf Hitler, and germ warfare by Nazis (which is why many of the characters have German names). However, in viewing a rough cut in November 1950, producer Howard Hughes had a change of heart, deciding that Communists were more of a menace than crazed Nazi scientists (it was also the height of the McCarthy "Red Scare" era) and ordered extensive re-shooting in November and December 1950 and May 1951, with the villains now becoming former Nazis but current Communists. Film was a dud and Howard Hughes lost money on it.


Happy Birthday to Richard Carlson (April 29, 1912-1977) star of I LED 3 LIVES and much more! Richard Carlson as Chief Pilot Bob Shea in The Doomsday Flight (1966). A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land. This early made-for-TV movie only received one NBC network airing as opposed to the usual two. The network cowered away as it was thought that it was too detailed and could serve as a textbook for airplane terrorism. They weren't wrong.


5 years later... life imitating art, inspired by the movie, The 1971 Qantas bomb hoax was an extortion and robbery committed by Peter Macari and Raymond Poynting on 26 May 1971, where Macari, under the alias of "Mr. Brown", extorted $500,000 from Qantas by informing officials that he had hidden a bomb onboard a Boeing 707 Qantas Flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong, and that the device would explode if the plane were to descend below 20,000 feet. They got away with $500,000 but were caught a few months later after buying too many cars, a butchers shop and a penthouse. LOL.

The 1986 Australian television film Call Me Mr Brown, written and directed by South Australian director Scott Hicks, is based on the events of the bomb hoax. Qantas actively tried to stop the film being made and despite failing to do so, Network 10, which had invested A$250,000 in the film, refused to air it. The film was eventually released on video in 1990.

So when authorities realised in 1985 that the whole Macari-Qantas saga was being made into a film, all hell broke lose. Questions were asked in the Senate, and Qantas actively tried to stop the movie being made. They failed, but Network 10, that had invested a quarter of a million dollars into Call me Mr Brown, refused to screen it. It remained unseen until it came out on video in 1990.

You can find it on YouTube, as well as the 1971 Peter Hiscock song A certain Mr Brown, that told the story (“a shocker in your locker”) to the tune of Click go the sheers. But still, it wasn’t the end of it. In 1998, a cold case was reopened into the disappearance of a young Ten-Pound Pom called Billy Day. He had migrated to Australia in 1969, travelled a bit and then disappeared. His last known address was with Peter Macari, who had used his identity in the 1980s to open bank accounts in Britain to safeguard some of the ransom money. A coronial inquest was held, but nothing conclusive came out of it. Macari was not extradited and allowed to continue to live his life in Britain. Billy Day has never been found. It was a nasty end to an otherwise weird and wonderful episode in Australian history.

The bomb on the Qantas flight, and what happened next

April 29, 1975: SVAF Maj. Buang-Ly stole a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog and landed on USS Midway with his wife and 5 children to escape North Vietnamese forces. The Midway's captain ordered $10 million worth of helicopters to be pushed overboard to clear the deck for Buang's landing. Look mom, no tail hook and no naval flight training!




Cessna O-1A Birdog marked as 51-4981 of the South Vietnamese Air Force. Photo is from the hangar deck of USS Midway at San Diego in California. Painted to represent 51-4981 / 5L14981 - that landed on the USS Midway in 1975 after the fall of South Vietnam piloted by Major Buang-Ly accompanied by his wife and 5 children. Maj Ly Bung’s aircraft, still in its VNAF markings, is now displayed in the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida.

Actually, a lot of helo's got pushed over. These scenes were repeated on other Navy ships. Helicopters would land, refugees would jump off and sailors would quickly push the helicopters overboard to make room for more. That happened on carriers USS Hancock and USS Midway, and the USS Blue Ridge, the headquarters ship for the Navy's 7th Fleet. It also happened on other smaller ships, like the USS Cook, another destroyer escort like the USS Kirk.

Forgotten Ship: A Daring Rescue As Saigon Fell

That time a South Vietnamese O-1 Bird Dog landed aboard USS Midway



Wondering if this book covers the POLICE SQUAD! LOL



https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1...7772661904

The representative of the Russian Federation, noting that the Council is again involved in “a dirty spectacle prepared by the US and Japan”, said:  “This is a cynical ploy.  We are being tricked.”  Recalling that the ban on placing weapons of mass destruction in outer space is already enshrined in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, he said that Washington, D.C., Tokyo and their allies are “cherry-picking” weapons of mass destruction out of all other weapons, trying to “camouflage their lack of interest” in outer space being free from any kinds of weapons.  The addition of the operative paragraph proposed by the Russian Federation and China does not delete from the draft resolution a call not to develop weapons of mass destruction and not to place them in outer space, he emphasized.

By a vote of 13 in favour to 1 against (Russian Federation), with 1 abstention (China), the Council then rejected the draft resolution, owing to the negative vote cast by a permanent member.

The representative of the Russian Federation said the only reason Washington, D.C., introduced this amendment is to tarnish the Russian Federation.  Addressing the United States’ delegate and highlighting the thrust of the proposed amendment, he asked:  “If the United States is really so much in favour of using outer space for peaceful purposes, why did you vote against our amendment calling for a ban on weapons of any kind being placed in space, not just weapons of mass destruction?”

Russia vetoes UN resolution against nuclear weapons in space

DOE's former commando crash retrieval team...


They all took the Omertà oath.



China’s New Aircraft Carrier CV-18 Fujian

Chinese Aircraft Carrier Fujian Prepares For First Sea Trial (Updated) (29 April 2024)

Update: Against initial reporting in this article Fujian currently remains stationary in the Yangtze River Delta off her original berth. The rationale for this remains speculative and the beginning of a proper trial therefore is to be confirmed. This article will be updated with further information as it becomes available.

Fujian today, April 29, vacated her moorings at Jiangnan on Changxing Island in the Yangtze River Delta under her own power, as evidenced from social media imagery. The anticipated first sea trial represents a significant milestone on getting China’s first supercarrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults ready for service. The carrier moved out of berth assisted by several tugboats as covered in moving footage circulated on Chinese social media and on “X”, formerly Twitter.

Job Of Building The Air Force's Next Doomsday Planes Falls To Sierra Nevada Corp. The Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft will replace the USAF’s highly specialized 747-based E-4B strategic command post jets.


Next Doomsday Planes Falls To Sierra Nevada Corp

Sierra Nevada Corp. has 34 locations in 19 U.S. states, plus UK, Germany and Turkey. Unlike Lockheed, Northrop, and Boeing (who wisely dropped out), they don't have deep pockets, and spread across 19 states you know this project will go way over budget.

Fatih Ozmen & his billionaire wife Eren Ozmen are owners CEO/President of SNC. Eren is known for the Dream Chaser mini space shuttle. Fatih is a member of the National Space Council Users Advisory Group, established in 2018 under VP Mike Pence. SNC also established a spin-off in April 2021 called Sierra Space Corp. with facilities in 6 states including Colorado, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Florida, Texas, and Alabama. They have their hands in a lot of pie$... In August 2023, Sierra Space announced that it would be collaborating with BioServe Space Technologies to grow hematopoietic stem cells in microgravity to research undergoing treatment for blood cancer. The same month, the company also partnered with Redwire on a biotech experiment platform that will be installed on Sierra Space's commercial space station Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) module.

In 2014, Fatih Ozmen was awarded the “Ellis Island Medal of Honor”. Apparently, this a special club given the 2024 Honor Recipients.

Owners of SNC Aerospace & Defense Corp. since 1994, Eren and Fatih Ozmen

Cargo, drones to Balloons to aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance...SNC is like the Home Depot for the military.


Lighter-Than-Air High-Altitude Platform Station

Army’s Theater Level High-Altitude Expeditionary Next Aerial–Signals Intelligence (ATHENA-S), SNC’s RAPCON-X

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Tuesday Thoughts...




April 30, 1789: On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States. Rev. Samuel Provoost (1742–1815), newly appointed chaplain of the United States Senate and first Episcopal bishop of New York, officiated at a service in St. Paul's Chapel.


George Washington surprised guests of the nation's first inauguration with a speech after taking the oath of office. The inaugural address has been customary ever since. The Library of Congress is home to the speech manuscript, which still has faint fold lines from being in Washington's pocket. Dear old George if he were resurrected today would probably say, my fellow Americans, the Masonic experiment has failed...assemble the firing squad, now!


April 30, 1946: USS Solar (DE 221) was berthed at Naval Ammunition Depot in Earle, New Jersey to discharge ammunition when one of the crewmen dropped a hedgehog projectile which detonated and caused a series of three explosions. The blasts were so great that the ship's forward superstructure was folded back. Her number 2 gun was demolished and the bridge, main battery director, and mast were all blown aft and to starboard. Both sides of the ship were torn open. The accident killed 7 sailors and injured 125.



She was towed to New York, decommissioned on 21 May 1946. Solar was then stripped of all usable equipment, towed 100 miles out to sea, and sunk on 9 June 1946, in 4200 feet of water. On July 5, 2022, the last living survivor of the explosions – Seaman J.D. Reed – died at age 95.


April 30, 1905: Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.


Fact, fiction and Einstein Folklore


April 30, 1945: Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (aged 56), committed suicide in his Berlin bunker [official story], along with his wife, Eva Braun (aged 33). Since mid-January 1945, Hitler retreated to his underground bunker underneath the Reich Chancellery, as Germany headed towards military defeat.  In accordance with Hitler’s Will, Admiral Karl Dönitz was named as the new German Head of State. He was virtually unknown outside Germany. Hitler decided to appoint a naval figure to make the point that his generals had let him down during WW2 and betrayed him. Karl Dönitz died on Christmas eve 1980, age 89.


Ironically, post-WWII when the Pentagon was built & established, it was the Navy brass who ran it including the nuclear football & protocols. That all changed when the evil shadow group took out JFK and the insidious umbrella corp we been living under ever since. Not entirely accurate but you get the point.



April 30, 1956: Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. In a keynote address at the Washington and Lee Mock Convention on April 30, 1956, Barkley spoke of his willingness to sit with the other freshman senators in Congress; he ended with an allusion to Psalm 84:10, saying "I'm glad to sit on the back row," he declared, "for I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty." Then, with the applause of the crowd in his ears, Alben Barkley collapsed and died from a massive heart attack. For an old-fashioned orator, there could have been no more appropriate final exit from the stage" at age 78.


Mark Hatfield's biographical sketch of Barkley noted that he was, "the last of the old-time vice presidents, the last to preside regularly over the Senate, the last not to have an office in or near the White House, the last to identify more with the legislative than the executive branch. He was an old warhorse, the veteran of many political battles, the perpetual keynote speaker of his party who could rouse delegates from their lethargy to shout and cheer for the party's leaders and platform. His stump -speaker's lungs enabled him to bellow out a speech without need for a microphone."
Mark O. Hatfield, with the Senate Historical Office


Columbia Daily Spectator of April 30, 1968. And Flyer during occupation of Hamilton Hall, Columbia University, 1968.


1968: Columbia in Crisis


April 30, 1969: The last episode of paranormal ITV series, The Champions, was broadcast. It featured 3 telepathic agents: Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready & Richard Barrett, who work for "Nemesis". In all, there were 30 episodes.







April 30, 1975: The 1st episode of the detective series, Starsky & Hutch, a 70-minute pilot movie, was broadcast on ABC-TV. It was followed by 92 episodes of 50 minutes each, until 15 May 1979. Paul Michael Glaser played Starsky and David Soul, Hutch. The coolest cop car of all: a Ford Gran Torino. Apparently, was a popular show in the UK (at least the paint job) and France too.





Photos from the British GQ magazine and the original 1976 Ford Torino was at The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles last year.


Fr. Mulcahy (William Christopher) and an anachronistic* Fallout Shelter Sign cameo in the "Fallout" S1E10 of AFTERMASH (CBS, Dec 5, 1983).


*The episode takes place in 1953 - eight years before the first shelter sign was posted. I guess some would call this cold war predictive programming.


"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."

― Tom Robbins (novelist; friend of Terence McKenna & Timothy Leary)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Happy May Day, Law Day, Loyalty Day, Illuminati Day, Polio vaccine day, Lei Day, Beltane, Samhain (the end of the harvest season in Southern hemisphere), Maharashtra Day, "Mission Accomplished" Day, Elvis Presley married in Vegas, & "Invisible Aliens living among us".

"NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2020, as Loyalty Day. I call on all Americans to observe this day by learning more about the proud history of our Nation. I urge all Government officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings and grounds on that day."




May 1, 1328: The Wars of Scottish Independence, which had lasted for 32 years and 5 days, ended. England recognised the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state under the terms of the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton. In return, Scotland accepted English primacy in Ireland.




May 1, 1707: The Act of Union, which joined the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to form the “Kingdom of Great Britain” took effect. It implemented terms agreed on 22 June 1706. The 2 states, with separate legislatures, but the same monarch, were now united into one Kingdom.




May 1, 1852: "Calamity Jane" (Martha Cannary), was (allegedly) born in Princeton, Missouri. Explorer, army scout, pioneer, storyteller, sharpshooter, performer, dance-hall girl. Her sharpshooting skills made her a star of Wild West Shows. In 1876, Calamity Jane settled in the area of Deadwood, South Dakota, in the Black Hills. There she became friends with Dora DuFran, the Black Hills' leading madam, and was occasionally employed by her. It's claimed she acquired her nickname as a result of her warnings to men that to offend her was to "court calamity". She died August 1, 1903, from inflammation of the bowels and pneumonia.

No one was better at spinning a good yarn than the imaginative Calamity herself. She had no high regard for truth, particularly when she was “tight as a goat” and cadging drinks in frontier saloons.

Calamity was certainly not noted for her beauty. The Black Hills Daily Times once described her as looking like the “result of a cross between the gable end of a fire proof and a Sioux Indian.”

Despite Hollywood’s later attempts to pretty her up, that description was not inaccurate. Calamity was tall for a woman, just under six-foot when wearing her high-heeled boots. Big boned and muscular, with rough, weather beaten skin and dark, stringy, seldom-washed hair, she was masculine in appearance even when wearing a dress.

Calamity is often referred to as Martha Jane Cannary (sometimes spelled Canary) but the middle name is open to question; she didn’t claim it in her so-called autobiography. Men who patronized prostitutes were called johns and trollops referred to as janes, which may explain the Jane portion of her nickname.

Calamity knew she could count on the kind-hearted people of Deadwood to help with the little girl’s education. According to Estelline Bennett, author of Old Deadwood Days, money raised at a benefit held at the Green Front saloon “was enough to have kept that child in St. Martin’s convent until she was ready for Wellesley or Bryn Mawr.”

GIRLS OF THE GULCH (Deadwood magazine)

Robin Weigert played Calamity Jane in the series Deadwood (2004–2006) and in the HBO sequel Deadwood: The Movie (2019).



May 1, 1908: Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was published in book form in the UK. It became the handbook of the Boy Scouts. Most chapters begin with hints to instructors and include campfire yarns with further sections outlining games, activities, and book recommendations. And of course about the British Empire and duty as citizens with an eclectic mix of anecdotes and unabashed personal observations and recollections.


The website ‘Scouting for Boys ‘Round the World’ database currently contains 487 editions issued in 63 countries in 44 languages.

The highly decorated Cavalry warrior fought in 4 wars.

In June 2020, following the George Floyd protests in Britain and the removal of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP Council) announced that a statue of Baden-Powell on Poole Quay would be removed temporarily for its protection, amid fears the woke zombies may destroy it. Police believed it was on a list of monuments to be destroyed or removed, and that it was a target for protestors due to perceptions that Baden-Powell had held homophobic and racist views. The statue was installed by the BCP Council in 2008.


May 1, 1941: Hollywood classic film Citizen Kane, produced, directed, and starring, Orson Welles, had its world premiere at the Palace Theatre in New York City, USA. In 2015, Citizen Kane was ranked 1st on the BBC’s "100 Greatest American Films" list.




On May 1, 1950, in Mosinee, Wisconsin, a local American Legion outpost staged a mock Communist takeover to illustrate what life under Soviet conquest might be like. Gitlow played the role of General Secretary of the "United Soviet States of America", while ex-Communist Joseph Zack Kornfeder played the new commissar of the newly renamed town of "Moskva." A Soviet flag flew in front of the American Legion outpost.

May Day in Mosinee in 1950 was like none other. Establishing checkpoints, arresting the mayor and the newspaper editor, "liquidating" the police chief, banning some public library books, and opening a soup kitchen...

Here's a brief retrospective from the Wisconsin State Journal in 2014, including an interview with one of the participants:



Here's how a newsreel covered the 24-hour takeover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5oK5nh4A38




Read all about it...


The Small, Midwestern Town Taken Over by Fake Communists

The propaganda event had a tragic footnote: Mayor Ralph Kronenwetter—hustled out of his house at six in the morning in his pajamas, slippers, & robe by "Chief Commissar" Joseph Zack Kornfeder and four armed guards, and also the Methodist reverend...



The June 1950 American Legion magazine notes the passing of Mayor Kronenwetter.


On the cover he's looking at a Lockheed Constellation ("Connie"), a propeller-driven, four-engine airliner built by Lockheed Corporation starting in 1943. The Constellation series was the first pressurized-cabin civil airliner series to go into widespread use.

Joseph Zack Kornfeder was an Austro-Hungarian-born American who was a founding member and top leader of the Communist Party of America in 1919 and Communist Party USA leader. After his wife was arrested by the secret police during the Great Terror (1937–1938), Zack became a vehement Anti-Communist and testified before the House of Un-American Activities Committee in Congress. He died age 65 of a heart attack while checking into a Washington, D.C., hotel on May Day, May 1, 1963.

D-Day in Mosinee Wisconsin

On September 17, 2020, Donald Trump flew to Mosinee, Wisconsin, to campaign for his re-election.

Funny enough, Trump held a rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX2vhFEA3nA