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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
The Trump/Musk firehose of folly continues, and it’s impossible to review all but the most egregious outrages here. The Associated Press, NBC, Aljazeera, and The Guardian are my picks for keeping up to date. Check out one or two, take a look, and come back here when you’ve had enough.
Aliens are real and there’s a cover-up, new documentary aims to prove. Thirty-four senior officials detail government secret-keeping around UFOs in the explosive documentary “The Age of Disclosure,” which had its world premiere at SXSW. The resulting film asserts that the U.S. government has been hiding evidence of alien encounters for 80 years — as well as a secret program to reverse engineer the technology in retrieved UFO crashes, which has become a cold war arms race with Russia and China in the lead, some interviewees claim — creating an existential threat not just for America, but for the planet. (Washington Post gift article).
His daughter was America’s first measles death in a decade. Meanwhile, Kennedy links measles outbreak to poor diet and health, citing fringe theories.
‘A disruptive effect’: How slashing staff at the Social Security Administration is sparking fears the system could collapse. The loss of experienced employees who manage Social Security’s fragile and interdependent web of computer systems will likely leave the agency vulnerable to technical outages and, potentially, interrupt the benefit payments that are sent to more than 73 million retirees, people with disabilities and others.
Forget about fentanyl- eggs now the most smuggled item from Canada to US.
Man found with a live turtle concealed in his pants by TSA at a New Jersey airport.
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KGB Quote of the Day:
“All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.”
--Jack Kerouac (Wikipedia link)
(More Jack Kerouac quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Among other things, today is- in no particular order of importance-
KGB REPORT STUFF! (Click on link) On This Day:
1365 – The University of Vienna was founded.
1755 – Josiah Hornblower installed the first commercial Newcomen engine in the USA, at the Schuyler Copper Mine in what is now North Arlington in Bergen County, New Jersey, using parts imported from the UK.
1884 – Mississippi established the first US state college for women. The Mississippi University for Women (MUW or "The W") was formerly named the Industrial Institute and College for the Education of White Girls and later the Mississippi State College for Women.
1894 – Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) were founded in the United States.
1918 – Moscow became the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam failed; the resulting floods killed 431 people. (Video)
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi began the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India. (Video)
1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats". (Video)
1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupied and annexed Austria.
1945 – New York’s Ives-Quinn Act was signed into law. At the time of its passing, the bill was the most comprehensive ban on racial and religious discrimination in the United States. Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, used the signing of the bill to plan a racial integration program for his team and went on to sign Jackie Robinson, breaking baseball's color barrier.
1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine was proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. (Video)
1956 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 500 for 1st time (500.24).
1957 – Random House and Houghton-Mifflin co-publish "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss. (Video)
1965 – "Wooly Bully" single released by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. (Video)
1969 – 11th Grammy Awards: "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glen Campbell won best record. (Video)
1973 – Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In last aired on NBC-TV. (Video)
1980 – Columbia Records released "Glass Houses", singer-songwriter Billy Joel's seventh studio album; it features his first number one single - "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me". (Video)
1980 – Jury found John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago.
1986 – Susan Butcher became the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (Video)
1987 – Musical "Les Misérables" opened on Broadway and ran until May 18, 2003 for 6,680 performances. (Video)
1989 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently developed into the World Wide Web. (Video)
1993 – North Korea announced that it would withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuse to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1994 – The Church of England ordained its first 32 female priests at the Bristol Cathedral in Bristol, England
1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO.
2003 – Kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart was found after having been missing for nine months.
2003 – The World Health Organization officially released a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
2008 – Streaming service Hulu launched for public access in the United States.
2009 – Financier Bernie Madoff pled guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history. (Video)
2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant exploded and released radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. (Video)
2012 – "The Hunger Games" premiered in Los Angeles. (Video)
2014 – A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others. (Video)
2019 – Dozens charged in US college admission scandal by federal prosecutors, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman (Video)
2020 – The United States suspended travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read for free with Kindle Unlimited! Quotes by or about persons born on this date (Click on link after name for quotes):
1923 – Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2007)
1928 – Edward Albee, American director and playwright (d. 2016)
1948 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Video)
1968 – Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician
1969 – Jake Tapper, American journalist and author
Other birthdays:1921 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (d. 1986) (Video)
1933 – Barbara Feldon, American actress (Video)
1938 – Ken Spears, writer, co-creator of the Scooby-Doo franchise (d. 2020) (Video)
1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017) (Video)
1946 – Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer (Video)
1960 – Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter (Video)
1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer (Video)
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