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[EndtheMadnessNow]

Italian illustration (1907) mocking the US Navy's 'Great White Fleet' that sailed the world between 1907-1909.


Illustration is by Giorgio Ansaldi and was published on the cover of the satirical magazine Il Fischietto ('The Whistle').

The Great White Fleet set sail on 16 December 1907, travelling first to South America before moving onto Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe. The battleships were painted white (hence the name) and were intended as a demonstration of the United States' naval strength.


The aesthetics of Austin Powers was derived from turn of the century Italian propaganda.




Nov 16, 1955: Donald Campbell of England broke his own water speed record with a speed of 216.2 mph in his Bluebird K7 on Lake Mead, east of Las Vegas, NV.

Crashing the Water Barrier:




Nov 16, 1961: The Way To Oblivion
"A man from Mars listening in on world arguments as to freedom & peaceful coexistence would be completely confused."




Nov 16, 1962: "The nearest such "people" are light years away, says Dr Carl Sagan... The starship will need a hydrogen-fusion ramjet engine & will have to be built in orbit."




Nov 16, 1962: Bill Mauldin's Cartoon and Potomac Fever...President Kennedy has trouble finding a new foreign aid boss. There's one obvious candidate: Richard Nixon-who already has no political future.




Nov 16, 1962: 'Big Brother' Knows What You Think
The Brain Watchers by Martin L. Gross
"It is especially recommended to anyone in danger of running out of things to be against."


In an interview with People magazine in 1993, he said of his audiences: “I am their hero. I always know what people need and why, because I’m Mr. Joe Sixpack with a good brain.”



Nov 16, 1963: Atomic warfare has struck the British Islands, the story goes. Children have been evacuated from the war-torn islands, and the group we meet on the Virgin Islands beach is made up of some typical school boys who have crash landed their plane and have survived.




Nov 16, 1973: Skylab-4 crew is launched with Astronauts Gerald P. Carr (Commander), Edward Gibson (Science Pilot), and William R. Pogue (Pilot) as the 3rd crewed 84 day mission. With three rookies, Skylab 4 was the largest all-rookie crew launched by NASA.




Nov 16, 2004: the St. Andrews and Palms Towers of the closed Desert Inn on the Vegas Strip were imploded. The Augusta Tower had been imploded with little fanfare in October 2001. Steve Wynn and Encore now occupy the site.

Quick Takedown!





60% of Russian causalities occurring since Jan 2024 is an incredible hard to believe statistic. Smells of rotting UK gov propaganda.




This is extremely difficult to believe... decaying Kyiv propaganda.


70% of ammunition used by Russia made in N. Korea: Ukraine analysis