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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-04-2026

March 3, 1923: TIME publishes its first issue. It lacked the distinctive red border for which the magazine has come to be known. The cover subject was the now-obscure Joseph G. Cannon (the former House Speaker). The whole thing was only 32 pages, including the front and back covers. There are only a few photographs or illustrations, and nary a chart or graphic.

The magazine contains word of the first helicopter, a possible change in divorce laws, the release of the film Adam’s Rib, a new one-cent cigarette tax in Indiana, the British Empire, the latest figures in German reparation payments, legal battle on West Virginia natural resources, Boys will be boys, a "floating school" for the children of the unfortunate rich, and other amusing tidbits from 103 years ago.

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TIME magazine, March 3, 1923



March 3, 1938: There be Blood! At Dammam Well No. 7, known as the "Prosperity Well"  after years of drilling by Standard Oil of California (SoCal) struck oil in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. What would soon be identified as the largest source of petroleum in the world. The discovery radically changed the physical, human, and political geography of Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, and the world. 18 months later, WWII started.

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The Saudi government established a subsidiary, the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), to oversee exploration and initial surveys suggested the potential for oil deposits near the village of Dammam.  In 1944, CASOC was renamed the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco), reflecting its growing role in global oil production.  Aramco valuation today is hovering around $1.6 trillion to $1.7 trillion.


Doomsday Movies... By Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder with Jack Davis and Larry Siegel. (1965)

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So, here’s German delegates laughing at Trump in 2018 when he warned they were becoming too dependent on Russian oil.

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EU urges Ukraine to allow access to pipeline carrying Russian oil


Trump stated that the U.S. is cutting off trade with Spain over the decision by Sánchez’s far-left government to ban the use of Spanish military bases for strikes on Iran.

Trump: "Spain has been terrible. I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. They said we can't use their bases. We could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody is gonna tell us not to use it. So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain."

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https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2028885069301940372

Full vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocFJL5jRLXM


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https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/2028845927914492070

Anyone who still trusts Bill Gates for anything needs a lobotomy.


The mushroom cloud caught my eye. Gotta be one of the strangest tombstones I've ever seen. Interesting 15 min documentary on Vimeo about this by Robert Sickels.

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Quote:Sterling Hallard Bright Drake (2012)

Through the process of challenging the old maxim “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” Sterling Hallard Bright Drake parses the line between truth and memory in solving the mysteries surrounding one of the world's most notorious and talked about tombstones. The result is a surprisingly funny and unexpectedly profound meditation on the seemingly inexhaustible optimism and promise of youth, the subsequent inescapable mortal realities of aging, and the bittersweet double-edged sword that comes part and parcel with true love.


Flashback...

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US run by Nazi space aliens, Iran claims


What you're looking at is not a sunrise...

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...it's the Russian LNG tanker ARCTIC METAGAZ (IMO 9243148) struck by a massive explosion in the Mediterranean this morning. Photographed by crew aboard a merchant vessel. Photos were taken ~04:00 local (03:00 UTC), looking towards Libya. ARCTIC METAGAZ had been running dark (AIS off according to @MarineTraffic) but had traveled southeast of Malta before the explosion. Photos above were taken about 80 nautical miles from the ship.

Russian LNG Carrier ‘Arctic Metagaz’ Reportedly Ablaze Off Malta as Maritime Patrol Aircraft Circles


"The Touch of Terran Skies" is an ultra high dynamic range photo of this morning's Total Lunar Eclipse, which I captured using a number of instruments to reveal not just the incredible color on the lunar surface, but the deep space in the Cosmic Background." By Andrew McCarthy - https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/2028916518973784116

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-05-2026

Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen. In the pilot episode, which aired on March 4, 2001, 191 days before 9/11, there is a hijacked plane remotely controlled that is being targeted at the World Trade Center. The last episode aired May 11, 2001.




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R.I.P. Marine Master Gunnery Sgt. Juan Jose Valdez. The last American serviceman to leave Vietnam has died, on  Feb. 15 at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He was 88. During the 1975 fall of Saigon, he helped evacuate thousands, and was nearly left behind.

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NY Times


Two famous Russian pranksters make Reza Pahlavi believe they are advisors for German chancellor Merz. Pahlavi approvingly calls the Israeli-US war on Iran a crusade.

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https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2029299488112697741


Meet Rabbi AI...

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https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2028533076117078252


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Actually, I think this war is all about constraining China.


The USAF test-launched a Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg into the Pacific. The missile carried two unarmed Mk12A reentry vehicles for the 335-kiloton W78 warhead. The MIRV test comes as US is considering increasing deployed warheads.

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ICBM Test Launch Verifies Multiple Reentry Vehicle and System Reliability


DARK11, DARK12, DARK13 RTB. B-1B (BONE) returning from a bombing mission over Iran.

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A space jellyfish was seen far and wide across the U.S. east coast this morning as a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with 29 Starlink satellites from Florida at 5:52am ET and climbed into the rising sun.

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SPACE JELLYFISH PREDICTOR


What a day, time to relax.

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What a day. Time for some songs. U.S. top 20 for March 4, 1967.

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - Freija - 03-05-2026

Buffalo Springfield? Wow, some of the best music evar! Haven't listened to them since I dunno, two weeks ago? On vinyl even on my new turntable!!

What a group this was and what careers some of these guys went on to have. Richie Furray and Jim Messina, who later paired with Kenny Loggins to form Loggins and Messina went on to form the group Poco I have two of their albums.

Stephen Stills went on to pair up with David Crosby of the Byrds and Graham Nash from the Hollies to be later joined up with another former Buffalo Springfield member, Neil Young to become Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Stills released some solo stuff and then was part of the group Manassas. Neil Young is still Neil Young. I've got several CSN&Y albums, Logging & Messina albums, Stephen Stills albums, a Manassas albumn and a couple Neil Young albums.

True legends for us old folks!

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Seems appropriate for the times


RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-06-2026

March 5, 1947: THE BEGINNING OR THE END, "the long-awaited dramatic story of the atomic bomb" opened at the Grove Theater in Oak Ridge, TN. The film had already opened in many cities across the US weeks earlier. We're only 79 years in and that's an awfully optimistic date for a time capsule given our current times...

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March 5, 1953: Eileen Keenan, a waitress at the 1203 Restaurant at 1203 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, DC. celebrates the death of Stalin.

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Listen to Ray Anderson's celebratory country song, "Stalin Kicked the Bucket" (1953): 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7doMD89NI


U.S. top 20 for March 5, 1966. Green Berets, boots and Batman.

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The Green Berets - song & history

You Only Live Twice ( & 'Boots') - Boots LP Vinyl is $302.00 WTF?




March 5, 1980: Ted Striker, an ex-fighter pilot and traumatized war veteran, saved the lives of everyone on-board Flight 209 after the flight crew became sick with food poisoning.

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The date was mentioned in Airplane 2 (1982).


AIRPLANE DISASTERS that occurred on March 5th:

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March 5, 1963: Aeroflot Rossiya Ilyushin Il-18 Flight 191 crashes while landing at Ashgabat International Airport, killing 12 of 54.

March 5, 1966: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Flight 911 (call sign "Speedbird 911"), a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.

Eerie Flight 911 factor: Several booked passengers cancelled their tickets at the last moment to see a ninja demonstration. These passengers, Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Ken Adam, Lewis Gilbert, and Freddie Young, were in Japan scouting locations for the fifth James Bond film, You Only Live Twice (1967).

March 5, 1967: Lake Central Airlines Flight 527 Convair 580 crashes near Marseilles, Ohio, killing 38.

March 5, 1968: Air France Flight 212, a Boeing 707-328C crashes into La Grande Soufrière, killing all 63 aboard.

March 5, 1973: an Iberia Flight 504 DC-9 flying from Palma de Mallorca to London collided in mid-air with a Spantax Flight 400 Convair 990 flying from Madrid to London. All 68 people on board the DC-9 were killed, including music manager Michael Jeffery...of The Animals and Jimi Hendrix. The CV-990 made a successful emergency landing at Cognac – Châteaubernard Air Base.

March 5, 1991: Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45.

March 5, 1993: Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83, 14 survived.


March 5, 1981: The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research, manufactured in Dundee, Scotland by Timex Corporation. It would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.

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Like the ZX80, it took awhile for the ZX81 to be marketed in the US. The official launch was on October 7, 1981 in Boston, with Sir Clive Sinclair coming over for the announcement. The ZX81 was sold only by mail order. Sinclair struck a deal with American Express, so that their customers were the first to be offered the ZX81. At the time the U.S. office was located at 50 Stanford Street, Boston, MA.

The first mention of the ZX81 was in the October 1981 edition of Popular Science, detailing the computer being on sale in the UK for about $150 and $110 for the 16K memory pack. The next issue of Popular Science had a two page ad for the ZX81. The left page advertized the complete ZX81 for $149.95, the kit version for $99.95, the 16K Memory Module for $99.95, and a set rate of $4.95 for shipping. The shipping address was One Sinclair Plaza, Nashua, NH.
ZXzine Issue 1


Trump fires Kristi Noem and appoints her as Special Envoy for The Shield of Americas.
What the hell is "The Shield of Americas"??

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The “Shield of the Americas” Summit and Donald Trump’s Latin America Strategy - looks like a no nothing job so expect she'll be put out to pasture by summer.

Markwayne Mullin our new DHS Secretary was the senator cowering behind a chair like a scared little girl on J6. Yea, we're in good hands now. Sigh.

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North Korea’s Navy conducted tests last Wednesday on the missile destroyer No. 51 Choe Hyon. Kim Jong Un personally observed the trials, which were aimed at assessing the ship’s operational capabilities ahead of its entry into service. The vessel is the lead ship of the Choe Hyon-class, first unveiled in April 2025. So far, North Korea has built two destroyers of this class: Choe Hyon (No. 51) and Kang Kon (No. 52). A third ship is currently under construction. Under Kim Jong Un’s directive and the new five-year plan, North Korea aims to build 12 large-displacement warships by 2030. Go Rocketman!




The Library of Congress has acquired one of the earliest known drawings of Yosemite Valley and Rare 1855 Lithograph from 1855, by artist Thomas Almond Ayres. Ayres’ sketches were the source for the first published image of Yosemite at a time when drawings shaped how people saw the American West.

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The illegal bio lab discovered in an East Las Vegas garage contained "human biological samples," compounds for influenza vaccines, and materials to create test kits, according to an FBI agent. Some of the 1200 samples collected were too degraded for full analysis. "It was the conclusion of the FBI lab that the community could not be harmed by what was contained in that lab" according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Delzotto. Nothing to see here move along. One can find the wildest crazy stuff in Vegas.

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Las Vegas bio lab contained human samples, testing materials, FBI says

RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-08-2026

March 7, 1951: Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by 26-yr old Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran. Razmara was the third Iranian prime minister to be assassinated.
Khalil was described as a "religious fanatic" by The New York Times. In January 1965, Hasan Ali Mansur became the fourth Iranian Prime Minister to be assassinated, also by a Fada'iyan-e Islam member.

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March 7, 1953: No Shortage of Ammunition Here

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March 7, 1955: Biggest A-Blast Of '55 Set Off On Nevada Flat with a 20-second Fireball banger in Area 2 of the Nevada Test Site, Operation Teapot: test shot "Turk" on a 500-foot tower. A primary for the XW-27 Class "D" (light weight) thermonuclear weapon. The device, named LINDA, was a mockup of the XW-27 radiation case and was 30.5 inches by 61.3 inches & weighed 2325 lb. Yield: 43kt




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Just 4 fun... Based on the entirety of this photograph, what is your best estimation of the year it was taken?

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Looking at the TV and spending a bit of time, I think it's either a Zenith Chromacolor or an RCA XL-100 but I believe it matches up with the RCA model's from the early to latter 1970's. Also, the window air conditioner is probably a GE model from the late 1960's to early 1970's. The stereo looks to have a frontloader VHS VCR (tape slot looks wider than Betamax) which weren't widely available till early 80s and few households had them until mid-80s. On second thought maybe it's just an analog tuner with the dial on the top right corner.

The wall panels are definitely 70s. The Miller High Lite logo on the box under the speaker is definitely pre-1975 as that was the change in logos to the gold and white logos with the Red Miller name.

She has hair that was inspired by Charlie's Angels which came out in '76 and went viral in 1977. The photo to me screams typical middle-class American living room from mid 70s to mid 80s. That AC unit dimmed every light on the street when it kicked on. My gut tells me 1978.


Gettysburg’s Blue & Gray Grill totally buying into the Civil War theme.

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I heard they used to put little flags in the burgers to represent which side your burger fought for. LOL!


I can't tell if Trump is troll bombing or he's actually being serious.

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https://x.com/amconmag/status/2030055730330447924


The Trump administration launches the Patriot Act 2.0.
I wonder why they waited until late Friday to drop a policy guide where one of their top priorities is passing legislation to regulate all activity online?

Lots of Orwellian goodies throughout: to counter the spread of the surveillance state, we must grant the government greater authority to "detect, confront, and defeat cyber adversaries before they breach our networks."

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Repeated references to empowering private sector partners (i.e., the Palantirs of the world) to "defend America in peace and war."

President Trump’s CYBER STRATEGY for America (7-page PDF)

"We will unveil and embarrass online espionage, destructive propaganda and influence operations, and cultural subversion." When the government starts defining threats by "propaganda," "influence,” and "cultural subversion," it is not just targeting hackers. It is targeting narratives.

They're currently pushing an age-verification bill (of British stench) to end online privacy, among other actions, as part of their larger surveillance plan. Both parties are pushing nebulous bills like the KIDS Act, KOSA, and COPPA which rely on vague language to use age verification requirements as a tool to erode digital privacy. Seems like a trend...

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Welcome to the Age of Cyber Warfare Chaos:

Information warfare, information operations, cognitive warfare, psychological warfare, psychological operations, military information support operations, perception management, influence operations, strategic communications, narrative warfare, narrative engineering, narrative shaping, narrative dominance, propaganda, computational propaganda, political warfare, ideological warfare, memetic warfare, memetics, cultural warfare, semiotic warfare, symbolic warfare, information environment manipulation, cognitive domain operations, behavioral influence operations, opinion shaping, public diplomacy operations, strategic persuasion, disinformation, misinformation, malinformation, active measures, reflexive control, maskirovka, deception operations, military deception, operational security, counterintelligence, information concealment, information denial, narrative suppression, reputation warfare, character assassination campaigns, social engineering, social manipulation campaigns, psychological manipulation, rumor propagation, rumor warfare, narrative seeding, narrative amplification, rumor networks, narrative laundering, media manipulation, media framing operations, agenda setting operations, perception hacking, attention warfare, attention manipulation, outrage engineering, polarization engineering, trust erosion campaigns, institutional delegitimization campaigns, legitimacy warfare, legitimacy erosion, cognitive overload operations, information flooding, information saturation, narrative dilution, message jamming, discourse disruption, epistemic warfare, knowledge manipulation, epistemic capture, epistemic sabotage, epistemic destabilization, truth decay campaigns, reality distortion campaigns, belief shaping operations, worldview engineering, ideology propagation, ideology destabilization, cultural narrative manipulation, mythmaking operations, symbolic myth warfare, narrative myth engineering, storytelling warfare, narrative reframing, narrative hijacking, counter-narrative development, counter-propaganda, counter-disinformation, counter-influence operations, information defense, narrative defense, resilience operations, media literacy campaigns, cognitive resilience operations, narrative inoculation, psychological inoculation, pre-bunking campaigns, debunking campaigns, reputational defense operations, online influence campaigns, digital influence operations, social media manipulation, platform manipulation, algorithmic manipulation, algorithmic amplification campaigns, engagement farming operations, virality engineering, astroturfing, sock-puppet networks, botnet amplification, troll farm operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, fake grassroots movements, identity spoofing campaigns, persona management, fake persona networks, digital impersonation operations, narrative swarm campaigns, meme propagation campaigns, meme engineering, meme warfare, memetic payload design, memetic contagion engineering, memetic virality modeling, memetic saturation campaigns, memetic signaling warfare, hashtag warfare, trending manipulation, search engine manipulation, search engine influence operations, search engine poisoning, search engine optimization for propaganda, digital reputation manipulation, review bombing, platform brigading, community infiltration operations, forum manipulation, comment section warfare, narrative reinforcement loops, echo chamber engineering, filter bubble exploitation, recommender system exploitation, platform governance manipulation, algorithm gaming, data poisoning, model poisoning, training data manipulation, adversarial machine learning influence operations, AI generated propaganda, synthetic media operations, deepfake influence campaigns, voice cloning disinformation, synthetic identity networks, automated narrative generation, narrative bot swarms, AI persuasion systems, machine scaled propaganda, automated influence agents, cognitive AI operations, digital persuasion architecture.

Congrats if you made it through that wall of chaos! And sorry if you now feel discombobulated.


Weapons factories into overdrive...
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Months ago? I would think years ago given the Ukraine war and the massive expenditure of bombs & missiles dropped on Iran the past week which the writing was on the wall last June. The MIC execs are going to be trillionaires by this summer. Keep that money printer humming!

On the flip-side if the War Dept waited another 5-10 years, Iran may have been on par with US weapons tech. Every non-nuclear country on the planet is asking their weapons science dept:

Politicians: "When can we expect our first nuke?
Scientists: "Three years if we offer a lot of bribes."
Politicians: "Them crazy Americans will be at our doorstep within a year. What can we offer that lunatic in North Korea."
Scientists: "A very large container ship full of Kimchi & cheese."


I'm almost getting the ambition to make a visit to the White House to find out exactly who is running this account. Whose [AI] child is running that damn account?

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-10-2026

Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) publishes The Wealth of Nations, widely regarded as the foundational text of modern economics and classical political economy. The Wealth of Nations was published in two volumes on 9 March 1776 (with books I–III included in the first volume and books IV and V included in the second), during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution. Seen by many as the "father of economics", or the "father of capitalism".

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Smith fundamentally redefines national wealth not as hoarded gold or mercantile profits (as mercantilism claimed), but as the annual production of goods and services that improve living standards for the population. He argues that the key driver of this wealth is the division of labor, which dramatically boosts productivity by allowing workers to specialize in specific tasks. His famous example of a pin factory illustrates how dividing production into simple operations enables far greater output than if each worker made entire pins alone.

Smith explains that self-interest, when channeled through free markets and competition, leads individuals to produce goods and services that others value, unintentionally benefiting society as a whole via the famous "invisible hand" mechanism. Prices, wages, profits, and rents naturally adjust through supply and demand to allocate resources efficiently toward their most productive uses.The book critiques mercantilism — the dominant economic policy of the time, which emphasized trade surpluses, monopolies, tariffs, and government intervention — as inefficient and harmful to genuine prosperity. Instead, Smith advocates for free trade, open competition, and minimal government interference in markets (though he allows for essential roles like defense, justice, public works, and education).

The invisible hand is one of the most famous metaphors in economics, introduced by Adam Smith and he used the phrase only once in the book, in Book IV, Chapter 2, in a discussion about how merchants and investors allocate their capital. He argued that individuals, pursuing their own self-interest (such as seeking security and higher personal gains), often unintentionally benefit society as a whole.

The key passage is:

"By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it."

Structured in five books, the work covers:
The division of labor and factors determining wages, profits, and rent (Book I),
Capital accumulation and its employment (Book II),
Historical economic development in Europe (Book III),
Critiques of mercantilism and other systems (Book IV),
And the role of government revenue and expenses (Book V).

All five books in one: The Wealth of Nations


“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.”

The closing words of Edward R. Murrow, from “A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, March 9, 1954.

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Transcript and video: Bill Downs, War Correspondent


In Hollywood, it was disclosed that Groucho Marx, Dinah Shore, and Pat Boone, among others, were the 'most fallout-proof citizens in southern California.'" - Newsweek, Nov 6, 1961.

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Havana Cabana Syndrome back in the news...

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https://x.com/60Minutes/status/2030788417139687801

60 Minutes transcript

The first thing that came to mind when I heard the victims talk was that "discombobulater" Trump talked about regarding the Venezuela raid. Which IMO is just another shiny adjective to throw people down a rabbit hole.

The reason they're pushing this so hard is because a segment of the National Security community wants war with Russia. And a "CIA whistleblower" saying it outright.

Unsurprisingly, 60 Minutes episode covering Havana Syndrome didn't offer a smoking gun because 1) it's all about narrative control and 2) it was a sales pitch for a book coming out in September. The authors? Two 60 Minutes producers.

Russia has been the boogeyman of all kinds of fantasy plots & weapons since 1946-47.

"Narradigm shift is a narrative of events or things that, lacking well-founded support, are otherwise being pushed or driving into society in the hopes of creating a paradigm-shift in the consciousness of people or experts by creating an artificial consensus or agreement around it."
— Joseph P. Farrell

A complementary piece published by The Insider makes clear that we're in QAnon territory with White-Hat CIA vs. Black-Hat CIA fighting for the soul of the Agency.

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“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear by Michael Weiss (60 Minutes)


Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s:
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The Dark Knight: I'm an agent of chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iwf20t9J1k


Agents of Chaos (2020): Official Trailer | HBO




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Nuclear war fear? The food that protected Japanese people against atomic bomb radiation in Nagasaki

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International Cryptozoology Museum

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If Monday after daylight saving had a face...

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I better not hear one damn sarc comment from Freija!

RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-12-2026

March 11, 1941: President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act: allowing the USA to sell, lease, or lend “Any weapon, munition, aircraft, vessel, or boat” to the WWII allies. It came after Churchill’s plea to the "great Republic," resulting in Congress introducing H.R. 1776.

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Not to be confused with H.R. 1776, the "New Health Options Act of 2025," was introduced on March 3, 2025, by Rep. Gary Palmer [R-AL]. It aims to create a parallel, non-ACA marketplace for health insurance, offering tailored, cost-effective plans. Oh joy.


March 11, 1958: The Mars Bluff 'Broken Arrow' incident occurred near Florence, South Carolina. On the afternoon of March 11, Ella Hudson was nine years old and visiting her cousins' home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. After an otherwise normal school day wrapped up, Ella had the bizarre pleasure of witnessing firsthand the US Air Force accidentally drop a nuclear weapon — with its fissile material fortunately removed — on the woods near her cousins' house.

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This accident occurred after navigator Bruce Kulka was sent to the bomb bay to insert the locking pin—which had not reengaged post-take-off by hand. As Kulka tried to climb the 11' ft long, 5' ft-diameter bomb to find the pin, he inadvertently grabbed the emergency bomb release handle. Oooops! Remind you of that Dr. Strangelove scene.

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An interview with a woman who survived the 1958 atomic bombing of South Carolina

Post and Courier

Esquire Magazine, May 2005

Walter Gregg Sr., World War II Army veteran, retired railroad conductor, and atomic bomb accident survivor, died in 2013 at age 92.

Mars Bluff: Aftermath

1 min newsreel clip about this nuclear weapons accident, which due to strict NATSEC secrecy incorrectly refers to it as “the first accident of its kind in history”:




It's been a week since an American submarine sank an enemy warship with a torpedo, but when was the last time one sank a commercial freighter with a torpedo?



It was actually March 11, 1999 and also a Los Angeles-class submarine. USS Bremerton (SSN-698) sank M/V New Carissa off the Coast of Oregon, firing a Mark 48 ADCAP from 8,000 yards. Dubbed “The Ship That Would Not Die”, New Carissa had plagued the coast for over a month, leaking fuel oil. Prior attempts included an EOD team using 400lbs of high explosives & 69 point-detonating 5-inch, 54-caliber projectiles from USS David R. Ray (DD-971).

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The bow was successfully towed out to sea and sunk. The stern section remained on the beach for over nine years until it was dismantled and finally removed in 2008.

I remember going to the beach to see this odd sight. It was on the local TV news every evening and turned into a hilarious clown show. Every time the local news needed a filler you got the latest snapshots from reporters camped out on the beach. Turned into a tourist spot for years.


Foreign Policy will drop its paywall on all Iran coverage.
Please, please read our propaganda. We are desperate for your clicks.

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https://x.com/AlexandraSSharp/status/2031735568221008128


Fake explosions, fake missiles, fake captured troops, fake downed planes, fake panicked people, fake mourning people… brought to you by your favorite fake news source: CNN. Jake Tapper doing his best to prove fake CNN is real.

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Twitter wants the chaos.
Facebook is incompetent.
YouTube loves the ad views.

Why fix it if it's not broken?

One obvious thing I noticed from this latest war: there's no "freedom of the press" in America. Specifically on social media, especially on X with Elon's heavy censorship. It's a near-total blackout of information from Israel and the Gulf states. Now and then a vid clip leaks and within minutes, poof, gone.


No, Guardian, the Al-Quds Day march isn't a demonstration for Palestinian human rights. It's a display of antisemitic incitement and support for terrorism organized by a group believed to have extensive ties to the Iranian regime. Maybe stop sugarcoating extremism and start exposing the hate. Try that for a change.

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"Al-Quds" is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. In London, the march has traditionally been organized by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC).


The Grim Reaper Patch Circulating Among Guards at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Amazing how some of these journo's make a big deal out of nothing.

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The Lord brought us war so we can learn history and geography.

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The real world does not live in Star Wars fantasy.
1. Boats can't drive on Sand
2. Pipelines are Limited

Given the Strait of Hormuz is under severe restriction & attack, the oil stays in the ground because all the land storage tanks are FULL and sits on ships that have nowhere to go.


Trump declares "we've won" the Iran War.

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-13-2026

Sci-fi novel "Doomsday Eve" by Robert Moore Williams, published as an Ace Double (D-215) in 1957. Plot: The story is a post-apocalyptic thriller set during a global conflict that threatens total human destruction. It follows Kurt Zen, an intelligence officer, who discovers a mysterious "new people" appearing with incredible powers. He must determine if they are the key to humanity's salvation or its final end as a "super missile" prepares to launch.

This book was paired with another novel—in this case, Three to Conquer by Eric Frank Russell on the flip side. Robert Moore Williams (1907–1977) was a prolific American sci-fi writer and considered one of the kings of the pulp era.

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March 12, 1967: an episode of CBS show "The 21st Century" with legendary newsman Walter Cronkite bringing news of what we'd be doing at home and work in the future.




NYC Mayor Ed Koch Reveals "Alien nest under Empire State Building!!" Ancient Astronauts: an Official UFO Special, December 1978.

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New Zealand is considering invoking emergency powers that could limit how often people are allowed to drive. Of course that won't apply to expat elites. NZ Finance Minister Nicola Willis confirming officials reviewed 1979 emergency powers for "carless days" (one no-drive day/week with fines) due to potential fuel shortages from Middle East.

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New Zealand weighing up radical driving laws as fuel crisis looms


Did the Pentagon boys use SCEPTER: Strategic Chaos Engine for Planning, Tactics, Experimentation & Resiliency; and MERLINS-STAFF for kicking off the war on Iran?

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America has become an agent of chaos in world energy markets | Archived link





Has anyone seen Supreme leader or his leg?

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NY Post


This portrait was made in the same year Napoleon commissioned the Arc de Triomphe.
Wearing a laurel wreath like Julius Caesar and bearing the Scepter of Charlemagne, here was a man with megalomaniacal ambition.

After stopping seven wars plus "winning the war on Iran", a triumphal Arc de Trump was only the next logical step...

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Vietnam War veterans sue to block construction of Trump’s triumphal arch


That's right. Go on. Type "Find the sleeper cell nearest to me." There's nobody here but you, and your computer.

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"A heroic ROTC student jumped into action before more damage was done, stabbing Jalloh to death after the crazed suspect gunned down the class instructor, the sources said."

1. My bet is NROTC Marine Option.
2. Bronze Star with Combat V, deserved.

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ISIS-linked Mohamed Bailor Jalloh ID’d as Old Dominion gunman who sought out ROTC before opening fire

No mention of the stabbing instrument nor where in the body. News said he was dead before the cops arrived so I'm going with a stab or slice in the neck. From this local news article > "In a statement issued by the U.S. Army Cadet Command, it was confirmed two victims were members of the university’s ROTC program." Since the Army commented, maybe he is Army. Either branch, Hooah or Oorah!


Charge!!!
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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-16-2026

March 15, 1951: The Iranian oil industry is nationalized.

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March 15th is C-Day or World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), as a day on which all IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space.

The IFSB voted to hold such a day in 1953, theorizing that if both telepathy and alien life were real, a large number of people focusing on an identical piece of text may be able to transmit the message through space. IFSB members focused on the following message during 1953:

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KLAATU TRACK FACTS

Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4IUjjVfng

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Groovie Ghoulies - 50,000 Spaceships  (Watching Over Me)




March 15, 1953: Test Pilots?
Virginia Flyer Dies in Crash Of Tiny Experimental Plane

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March 15, 1963: wire services carried news of fallout shelter booster Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's permit to build a shelter in the basement of the Orangerie on the grounds of the Kykuit estate in Tarrytown, NY.

Kykuit aka John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles north of New York City. The estate has an enormous art collection of the third-generation scion, Governor of New York, and Vice President of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller, it was home to four generations of the family. The house is a National Historic Landmark owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and tours are given by Historic Hudson Valley.

Nelson Rockefeller had a major private art gallery beneath the mansion.

Kykuit (in modern Dutch means "Lookout", from kijkuit (also uitkijk), both compound nouns meaning "lookout, look-out") is situated on the highest point in Pocantico Hills, overlooking the Hudson River at Tappan Zee. Located near Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, it has a view of the New York City skyline.

Nelson Rockefeller's obsession with fallout shelters was perhaps best summed up by prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru: "Gov. Rockefeller is a very strange man."

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THAMES REPORT (ITV, UK), "The Bomb: Would You Survive?" Feb. 28, 1980.
"And we have just received reports that NATO forces have used a limited number of tactical nuclear weapons against Warsaw Pact airfields and supply bases."

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ThamesTV uploaded today:




March 15, 1985: the very first .COM domain, http://symbolics.com, was registered. Symbolics was a spinoff from the MIT AI Lab, one of two companies to be founded by AI Lab staffers and associated hackers for the purpose of manufacturing Lisp machines. Early origins of AI funded in part by DARPA. It marked the beginning of the commercial internet as we know it.

The Symbolics 3640 Lisp Machine is a fascinating piece of computing history, a high-end workstation from the mid-1980s designed specifically to run Lisp, a programming language favored for artificial intelligence  development known as "expert systems". Introduced in 1984 as part of Symbolics' 3600 family, the 3640 was a compact, high-performance evolution of earlier models, built to handle the demands of symbolic processing and AI research. Symbolics, a company spun off from MIT’s AI Lab, aimed to create machines that excelled at running Lisp natively, and the 3640 embodied that vision.

The 3640 ran Symbolics’ Genera operating system, written entirely in Lisp (initially ZetaLisp, later evolving with Common Lisp). Genera was a standout: fully object-oriented, with a presentation-based window system called Dynamic Windows. This wasn’t just a command-line box—it offered a rich, interactive development environment that was years ahead of its peers. Imagine a workstation where everything, from the OS to the apps, was built to feel seamless for Lisp developers, complete with high-resolution bitmapped graphics and networking via protocols like Chaosnet.

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The Symbolics 3640 was a niche marvel—overbuilt for Lisp, a pioneer in workstation design, and a relic of an era when AI dreams drove hardware innovation.

Symbolics.com Museum
Symbolics keyboards & other images.


I have to say on looking back that the 90s was probably my best decade. Young enough to do anything and not care about anything. World traveler and adventurer, dodged the Grim Reaper a dozen times and never thought anything of it. If only I could go back knowing what I know now I'd probably be a super multi-millionaire by 1999. Oh well, that is life and when you're young, never skip an opportunity.

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I sincerely doubt this is his X account...

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Possible X account of missing general William McCasland claimed fellow general was murdered over nuclear material

It has become so tiring of people throwing "Collins Elite" around as a catch-all boogie man for everything happening in the UFO sphere, considering there’s really very little info to go on about this supposed group that was only ever mentioned by one source.

This is your brain on UFOs... professor is cooked.

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Do you believe in UFOs? It's Not Unusual.

March 15th, USA #1 on this day in 1999: Cher - Believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXRV4MezEw

UK #1 on this day in 1965: Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-HdGnzYdFQ

RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-18-2026

GENETICS: Young Science Studies Continuity of Life (LIFE March 17, 1947)

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"There's Uranium on the Old Homestead..." (if it exists these folks have a better chance of finding the elusive HEU in Iran!)

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MA AND PA KETTLE BACK ON THE FARM (1951).
The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium; Ma and Mrs. Parker, Tom's mother-in-law, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygienically".


March 17, 1953: the US conducted Operation Doorstep—a civil defense exercise involving the construction and destruction of “Doom Town” at the Nevada Proving Ground—in conjunction with shot Annie, a 16-kiloton nuclear device detonated atop a 300-foot tower to determine the effect on 50 automobiles, 2 wood-frame houses, 8 backyard bomb shelters, and a good number of mannequins.

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To allay public fears about nuclear war, 20 reporters were invited to witness the explosion from News Nob, about 6.8 miles away. This test was broadcast live on television shortly after 5:00am local time (although the signal was temporarily disrupted at the moment of detonation).

Never forget the brave Vegas J.C. Penney mannequins who sacrificed themselves for Operation Doorstep.

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The USGOV has been in the overthrowing business a long time and this was back when regime change ops were covert.

March 17, 1960: Secret U.S. plan to overthrow Fidel Castro regime in Cuba was approved by President Eisenhower.

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The plan outlined four major courses of action:

- Propaganda offensive: Create a powerful radio station to broadcast anti-Castro messages to the Cuban people.
- Covert intelligence network: Establish an intelligence and action organization within Cuba responsive to an exile opposition.
- Paramilitary forces development: Train and arm a force of Cuban exiles in secure locations outside the U.S. (specifically Guatemala and Nicaragua).
- Logistical support: Acquire the necessary logistical support for covert military operations on the island.

The CIA organized an operation in which it trained and funded a force of exiled counter-revolutionary Cubans serving as the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, known as Brigade 2506.
The Bay of Pigs |  Formal authorization for action

CIA Historical Review Program Release As Sanitized 1997 (PDF page 160)


Today's conspiracy grifters will never vibrate at this high of a frequency:

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We just do not get this kind of stuff anymore:

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."
― Donald Rumsfeld



Whatever its purpose, I never thought that this line was some kind of ridiculous word salad. It’s a helluva formulation.

In March 2003, next to footage of the US bombing Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said on Live TV that the footage was a kind of postmodern, subjective non-truth that was "not taking place." I don't think the Trump administration have anyone who can operate on this level:

"And what we are seeing is not the war in Iraq. What we're seeing are slices of the war in Iraq. We're seeing that particularized perspective that that reporter or that commentator or that television camera happens to be able to see at that moment. And it is not what's taking place.

What you see is taking place, to be sure, but it is one slice, and it is the totality of that that is what this war is about and being made up of.

And I doubt that in a conflict of this type there's ever been the degree of free press coverage as you are witnessing in this instance."
― Donald Rumsfeld, Pentagon Briefing, Aired March 21, 2003.
Transcript

I guess today they don't need to operate on this level, they just need Trump to tweet 'Iran nukes - NO GOOD!' and it will make the rounds and be objective truth for 30% of the country within a day.


SecWar Hegseth will never live up to Rumsfeld's quibs and one-liners.

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https://x.com/atrupar/status/2032430133353591082

The Pentagon and defense think tanks have been wargaming the Strait of Hormuz since the Ronald Reagan days. Many plans & option scenarios but today's decision makers decided to go with plan, Alpha Mike Foxtrot which read across the top in bold red letters: NEVER ATTEMPT NOW OR IN THE FUTURE! This only works in the movies.

Today we have a two-front war: Iran and the Pentagon's war on the press to dominate the war narrative no matter what it takes. McNamara to Rumsfeld to Hegseth is like a perfect synecdoche for American decline. Just my 2cents.

David Ellison Vows CNN Will Operate Independently as Paramount Buys Warner Bros.: ‘We Want to Be in the Truth Business’


Netanyahu: "In the past 24 hours, we knocked out two of the terrorist chieftains, the top terrorist chieftains of this tyranny.

Our aircraft are hitting the terror operatives on the ground, in the crossroads, in the city squares.


This is meant to enable the brave people of Iran to celebrate the festival of fire.

So celebrate, and happy Nowruz. We're watching from above."


Boom! Iranian state media confirms that Israel has killed Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani. Also, Major General Gholamreza Soleimani, head of Iran’s Basij force, was killed in an airstrike.

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“With these martyrdoms, the revolution becomes stronger. Kill us, our nation becomes more awake” – Ali Larijani


Collecting some opinions/analysis from non-western types on Why did Israel target Ali Larijani:

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https://x.com/Ziadaz26/status/2033685456391454976


More regime change, even as the war against Iran escalates beyond control. When a war goes wrong, shift the focus by starting another war.

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-19-2026

March 18, 1937: The New London School explosion caused by a natural gas leak that destroyed the London School in New London, Texas. An estimated 294 children fell victim to the worst school tragedy in American history. The tragic event is the third-deadliest disaster in the history of Texas, after the 1900 Galveston hurricane and the 1947 Texas City epic non-nuclear disaster.

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In the mid-1930s, despite the ongoing Great Depression, the school district in New London, Texas (formerly known as London) was one of the richest in the United States thanks to big oil discovery in 1930.

When the school was built in 1932, it was built on sloping ground from 3 FT. to 6 FT and containing some 64,000 CU. FT. of dead air space. The school board had overridden the original architect's plans for a boiler and steam distribution system, instead opting to install 72 gas heaters throughout the building. The plans were never adapted to install proper ventilation in the basement area which contained all gas piping and electrical lines.

Walter Cronkite also found himself in New London on one of his first assignments for United Press International.  Although Cronkite went on to cover World War II and the Nuremberg trials, he was quoted as saying decades later, "I did nothing in my studies nor in my life to prepare me for a story of the magnitude of that New London tragedy, nor has any story since that awful day equaled it."

President Roosevelt orders United States to give all aid, no matter the cost to the world's wealthiest rural school.

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Adolf Hitler paid his respects in the form of a telegram, a copy of which is on display at the London Museum. Don't know what the demographics were in this tiny east Texas town or county in 1937, but going to assume Hitler was interested in the OIL.

New London School Explosion

Despite the tragic horror event, and early death toll headlines of 1937, nobody to date at least in print knows the exact number of deaths. The fatality toll from 1937 newspapers vary wildly. I spent a ridiculous amount of time researching this tragedy and nowhere is a confirmed number of deaths specified anywhere. The general consensus is 293-294. Stories from the late 30's through the 1940s have frequent remarks by survivors and witnesses that the tragedy shall not be spoken about due to fear of traumatizing a family victim. In a tiny town I can understand but the school attendance was ~1200, meaning the entire county plus neighboring counties.

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The New London School Disaster Photos

A sobering 2.5 minute Universal Newsreel from March 20, 1937 states 425 children died.

Wiki page on the explosion states an estimated 294 killed

New London, Texas states "270 children and 24 adults" killed.

A 2009 documentary, "When Even Angels Wept" states 293 students died.

Disasters Of The Century | Season 4 | Episode 6 | New London School Explosion states "killed more than 295 students and teachers".



The school name was changed to West Rusk High School in 1965. Two memorial plaques, one at the cemetery reads 293 students and teachers were killed. The memorial plaque at the new school built in 1939 on the same property reads, "an estimated 296 students and teachers."

Amazing back then they built a whole new school on the same property in about 2 years despite major new building safety protocols mandated and obvious long term trauma. Definitely an ultra wealthy school district judging by the photos taken in 2006. Knowing what happened on this spot 89 years ago would feel creepy haunting and depressing to me.


Scientific Blueprint for Atomic Survival - Illustrations from LIFE magazine, March 18, 1957:

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March 18, 1957: "In Phoenix or anywhere else in the U.S., it was hard to detect much worry about falling last week. The week’s two long-awaited banner-headline events, Israel’s pullback from Gaza and Sharm el Sheikh, and congressional approval of the Eisenhower Doctrine, brought no deep, nationwide sighs of relief because few Americans ever really got tensed up much about either issue. The economy showed scattered patches of anemia—layoffs in the home-appliances industry in Ohio, four-day weeks in West Coast plywood mills—but even people in the patches seemed confident of its basic health."

"The U.S. seemed to feel that peace, however fitful, and prosperity, however spotted, would last. And with that mood prevailing, reported TIME correspondents across the nation, Americans were devoting their time, their energies and their conversation primarily to affairs domestic and local." In the New Normalcy, a tolerance of twitches and twinges.

MIDDLE EAST: Mother Goose & Propaganda

"In Mother Goose’s story of bringing home the bacon, the cat, as soon as it got its saucer of milk, began to kill the rat, which began to gnaw the rope, which began to hang the butcher, who began to kill the ox, which began to drink the water, which began to quench the fire, which began to burn the stick, which began to beat the dog, which began to bite the little pig—which then in fright jumped over the stile so that the old woman brought it home from market that night after all."

"It was not possible to bring home the bacon in the Middle East last week, but when the Arab cat tasted the milk of Israeli withdrawal, the process at least got started. The Syrians let the Iraq Petroleum Co. start repairing the pipeline pumping stations which Syrian soldiers blew up during the Suez-Sinai invasion last November. In ten days, by laying temporary pipes around the blasted stations, the oil company plans to begin pumping oil at 44% capacity—enough to replace nearly all of the crude oil that Western Europe has had to buy from the U.S. since the Suez landings."

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Like I've said before, if you monitor too long the situation, the situation will also monitor you.

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Someone's version of the Harlem Shake—a tribute to Don Luis Buñuel, and also to all the Simons of the world who don't want to dance it.
A remix version from the 1965 surrealist film Simon of the Desert, directed by Luis Buñuel, depicting a tense interaction in a modern dance club where the character Simon tries to resist temptation. The film explores the surreal conflict between religious asceticism and modern temptations.


I'm getting Fawn Hall flashbacks...

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United States v. BCCI HOLDINGS (LUXEMBOURG), S.A. Notice of Attorney Appearance

25 years is a long time for a case to remain on active docket without any status updates.

As you might recall, BCCI was the giant international bank shut down in 1991 for massive fraud, drug/arms money laundering, and ties to covert ops. The U.S. forfeited over $1.2B in assets here, mostly distributed to victims by the mid-90s; the case has been dormant since around 2001.


I don't believe it. There's no way a full .07% would be suicidal enough to vote against!!!

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https://x.com/Currentreport1/status/2034002694755811570


Deploy one of your new carriers to the other side of the planet for 10 months and then we can talk. Until then, piss off commie...

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Reminder: this is PRC state propaganda that’s never acknowledged that one of IT’s new platforms apparently sank at the frickin’ pier.


Not again?!
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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years

Well, we’ve renamed one USNS auxiliary ship (the former Harvey Milk now named USNS Oscar V. Peterson (T-AO-206)) that used to be named after a guy who had a predilection for underage boys, so… how much longer will we keep USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14)? We live in stranger revealing times as Chavez was always against ILLEGAL immigrants. He was pro American workers and beat the living shit out of illegal border crossers with bike chains. The guy had issues.

RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-20-2026

March 19, 1831: First(?) documented bank heist in U.S. history, when burglars steal $245,000 (1831 value) from the City Bank (now Citibank) on Wall Street, using a set of copied keys. $5000 REWARD offered!

The theft is regarded as one of the first bank heists in U.S. history. Most of the money was recovered. The amount stolen would come to over $9.1 million in 2026 USD currency. I have no idea how Saturday Evening Post (2013 article) came up with $52 million.

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Initial reports variously reported the names of the culprits as Edward Smith, Edward Jones, James Honeyman and James Murray. A modern source, drawing on period newspapers, identifies the thieves as James Honeyman and William J. Murray. Both were captured, convicted, and sentenced to five years in Sing Sing Prison.

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America’s (Not Quite) First Bank Robbery


March 19, 1959: Operation Argus, a top secret experiment was revealed by the New York Times (with the quiet assent of the Eisenhower administration)

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Behold, Burning The Sky with a shorter version, excerpted/adapted from his 2018 book, How the World Learned About the Pentagon’s Sky-High Nuclear Testing.

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Operation Argus was conceived and executed in just five months in order to complete it before a multilateral moratorium on atmospheric nuclear testing began on October 31, 1958 (so-called good-faith gesture accompanied by the start of US-UK-Soviet negotiations on a nuclear test ban).

Physicists didn't really begin to grasp the nature and ensuing problem of EMP until a series of high-altitude tests over the Pacific Ocean three years later, in 1962.


"The national security complex became, in the Eisenhower years, a fast-growing apparatus to allow us to do in secret what we could not do in the open."
— David Halberstam, The Fifties

“Once, when Senator Taft called for a reexamination of American foreign policy, Acheson retorted that the idea reminded him of a farmer “who goes out every morning and pulls up his crops to see how they have done during the night.”
― David Halberstam, The Fifties

“One reason that Americans as a people became nostalgic about the fifties more than twenty-five years later was not so much that life was better in the fifties (though in some ways it was), but because at the time it had been portrayed so idyllically on television.”
― David Halberstam, The Fifties

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Uranium Rush board game from 1955. Game board, Geiger counter, and pieces included. With its oversized Geiger counter and promises of getting rich, Uranium Rush packaged the dangerous and exploitative uranium industry as family-friendly entertainment. Geiger counter produces a buzzing sound if uranium is discovered.The information to the left of the cactus on the top of the box indicates that this was an "Educator Approved" Prestige Toy.

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March 19, 1928: Patrick McGoohan, American-born Irish actor, writer, and director (The Prisoner, Secret Agent/ Danger Man), is born in Queens, New York. (but grew up in Ireland and England).

The Prisoner episodes in which No. 6, after torturous effort, believes he's escaped The Village, only to discover it was a demoralizing psyop. Obama voters who expected healthcare and no more wars or Trump voters who expected a drained swamp and no more wars should check them out.

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March 19-25, 1966: "What’s So Bad About Television".
March 19, 1979: the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) launched.
March 19, 1984: Inside His World
March 19, 1990: NEWSWEEK, always on the cutting edge...

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40-year-old Brittany Hudson's crime spree started with $10 million in fake Amazon invoices and ended with a forged Federal judge's signature.

Secret Service posted these pics. I'm guessing the Lamborghini & others will be going up for auction this summer. Even if she gets a lenient judge she's looking at 20 years to life. Each wire fraud count has a 20 year max prison term, 30 years if it involves a financial institution.

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Jury convicts owner of Amazon delivery business for fraud schemes and forging federal judge’s signature


SSR-eyes stay undefeated...

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These fraudsters need to be sent to a slave labor camp for 10 years.


In honor of Markwayne Mullin...



RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-21-2026

March 20, 1922: USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) nicknamed "Covered Wagon" was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, Recommissioned on this day. She was converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3), and also the US Navy's first turbo-electric-powered ship. Langley was named after Samuel Langley, an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer (a device for measuring radiant heat by means of a material having a temperature-dependent electrical resistance.)

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An unusual feature of Langley was provision for a carrier pigeon house on the stern between the 5-inch guns.

World War II: On the entry of the US into World War II, Langley was anchored off Cavite, Philippines. On December 8, 1941 following the invasion of the Philippines by Japan, she departed Cavite for Balikpapan in the Dutch East Indies. In the natural state of alarm & trigger emotions (the attack on Pearl Harbor had happened the day before) 300 rounds were shot at an object in the sky before it was realized that it was the planet Venus.

As the Japanese advance continued, Langley proceeded to Australia, arriving in Darwin on 1 January 1942. She then became part of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) naval forces.

Due to unfortunate miscommunication about her escort arrangements to Java port Tjilatjap left her without escort, and the resulting confusion would soon doom the Langley. Survivors were rescued by USS Whipple and Edsall and transferred to the oiler USS Pecos, however many of Langley's crew were lost when Pecos was sunk en route to Australia by Japanese carrier aircraft.

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Out of over 630 total crewmen and Langley survivors on Pecos, 232 were rescued while more than 400 were left behind and died due to Japanese submarines in the area hindering rescue efforts. Exact casualty numbers for the doomed ships of the United States Asiatic Fleet and American-British-Dutch-Australian Command are impossible to ascertain because so many Allied warships were sunk in the Dutch East Indies campaign (at least 24 total) and many of those ships had already picked up survivors of other sunken ships and then were also sunk by the Japanese hours or days later. Absolute hellish nightmare beyond words, but it gets worse.

31 of the 33 pilots assigned to the USAAF 13th Pursuit Squadron (Provisional) being transported by Langley remained on Edsall to be brought to Tjilatjap, but were lost when she was sunk on the same day by Japanese warships while responding to the distress calls of Pecos. According to the Bureau of Naval Personnel a total of 288 U.S. Navy officers and crewmen from Langley were missing in action and later declared dead following the sinking of Langley and Pecos. Including the 31 USAAF pilots that were originally on Langley a total of 319 from Langley were killed.

This is almost cartoonish comical, but was the early origin of learning the new art of landing on a carrier.




Langley was featured in the 1929 silent film about naval aviation, The Flying Fleet. Produced with the sanction of the US Navy with "thrilling stunts". Full film with sound effects (no audible dialogue) and over the top Navy melodrama with two Navy officers as rivals for the love of the same woman (Anita Page at 18), on Archive.org. The film was the first major Hollywood production to use Naval Air Station North Island.

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Anita Page nickname: The Girl With the Most Beautiful Face in Hollywood.

MGM bought the rights to the tune "Anchors Aweigh" for its extensive use in this film. This turned out to be a very profitable move on the studio's part as it then had free use of it for all of its Navy-related films for decades, and other studios had to pay MGM big bucks to use it in their pictures.


There were no atomic bombs at Sculthorpe according to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The cover of their 1955 yearbook would indicate otherwise...

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NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. March 1998 WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR DEPLOYMENTS says the UK could have been Nuclear Armed as early as 1953!


Wow, those are tiny coffin racks!
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March 20th, a cursed day for submarines... in 1993 a US Navy Sturgeon-class boat USS Grayling (SSN 646) just coincidentally happened to be in the same location in the Barents Sea as Delta IV class submarine RFS Novomoskovsk (K-407) and put a little ding in the Russian SSBN. "Crazy Ivan"!!!

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March 20, 2009: USS Hartford (SSN 768) pulling into Bahrain after rolling 85° while running up under the keel of USS New Orleans (LPD-18) while at periscope depth in the Strait of Hormuz. Had to transit all the way back to the US on the surface for the $120 million repairs.


R.I.P. Chuck Norris
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Mark Twain is vomiting in his grave.

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Bill Maher has been chosen to receive the Mark Twain Prize


"They call it an alpine divorce." Have a fun weekend, drama ladies!

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‘he left me alone to test me’

What's the problem? I thought women didn't need men, according to lamestream media. What happened to "hear me roar" and "I can do anything?" My guess is this has been happening since the early days of Jeremiah Johnson and I assume on the Appalachian Trail as well and every wilderness region in between. That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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