Author: polistra
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Fast service!
The CryptoMuseum, primary source for my last three animations, has scored a scoop. After pestering the government for many years, they finally got a FOIA release. Fast service! Only 70 years! In 1945 KGB built a remarkably elegant ‘RFID’ responder microphone into a big wooden Great Seal sculpture. As part of the mutual admiration ceremonies…
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Peilempfänger
Part 3 of a vaguely defined theme on obscure spy equipment. Part 1 was the first American radar. Part 2 was the Russian Tenzor portable spy rig. Today I’m featuring a Kraut portable direction finder or Peilempfänger. (Peilen = take a compass bearing; Empfänger = receiver.) It’s not as interesting as the other two, so…
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Gets it
The Enid Buzz fb page asked who had CB radios. Here’s a reply that GETS IT: The FCC did regulate CB indirectly. CB radios had to be prepackaged. The manufacturers had to keep the power below 5 watts ‘gross’, and had to maintain accurate frequency. Homebrewers who built 1 kilowatt amplifiers got caught pretty quickly.…
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More on vanished knowledge
Continuing from previous item on mass forgetting… We do know a few things now that weren’t known, or weren’t easily available, in the ’60s, and these new bits of info should inform our discussion now. The earlier UFO thinkers were reluctant to conclude that the devices were ours, because (1) Nobody can keep a secret.…
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No excuse
For a month or two I’ve been pleasantly marinating in UFO discussions, mainly from the mid 60s. Thanks to archivist Wendy Connors, we have a huge well-organized selection of radio programs and interviews. Earlier today I was reminded of Avi Loeb’s pet UFO, and watched some of his recent interviews. He hits the failings of…
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Wish I could find this again…
Every profession and guild occasionally has a spasm of soul-searching, sometimes prompted by a defeat, sometimes more general. Science journals publish these fake pieces fairly often, and EVERYONE KNOWS that nothing will change. We need to persuade the filthy three-toothed Christer Trumper Birther Hillbilly Neanderthals. Why can’t we persuade the subhuman brainless fascists? The problem…
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Indirect ping
I just noticed something while reading Greenwald’s latest piece on the completely irrelevant Taylor Whatever Doxing thing. Greenwald bounces off the original subject into the big problem with “journalism”, and tells about his own awakening in the Vietnam era when journalism switched from 80% DNC to 100% DNC partisanship. Here’s the sudden ping, which isn’t…
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Poor comparison
Let’s try a comparison of the clubs and interest groups in the 1950s UFO craze vs the 2020 “virus” holocaust. The comparison is messy from the start because the government’s experiments were opposite in form and scale. So I can’t draw a proper analogy. I’m just looking at the organizations. UFO: Government was experimenting with…
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As usual the reason matters more than the content….
According to Vice, Deepstate has “released” a bunch of documents about its UFO research programs. Skimming some of the links, it appears that nothing much has changed since the ’50s. The government was “trying” to achieve antigravity propulsion in Project AVRO back then, and it’s still “trying” the same thing. The beta tests of these…
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Classy Spokane
Bank robbers in the meth era just don’t measure up to the old Dillinger standard: Uhaul trucks have governed engines. You can’t achieve a “high rate” in a Uhaul, unless they mean a “high rate” of absurdity.
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First day of freedom
A couple observations from the first UNGAGGED bus trip in two fucking years. 1. I had been rigorously minimizing Time Under Ballgag, with only two hellish storetrips per week. Before the Nazi takeover I was generally doing three trips, because they were enjoyable. Now I can return to three when needed, but the concomitant changes…
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An old contrary view
Not immediately topical, just an item I’ve been wanting to highlight. In this short clip, commentator Raymond Gramm Swing covers two trials that were happening in 1938. Swing points out that our conventional view of both trials was (and still is) flat wrong. Pastor Niemoller was NOT a rebel. He was a ferocious Kraut soldier…
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Pithy again
Another pithy point from Kirn: “Belief” or “disbelief” are no longer relevant concepts to use in relating to digital content, verbal or pictorial. You have no reliable way to render such assessments. Instead, ask what narrative is being served, what resources were spent on serving it, and who it might benefit. Well, digital has nothing…
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ALL FREE! (for a while)
I was totally discouraged and disgusted last night when the Trump-appointed “judge” ordered TSA to drop ballgags, and the airlines eagerly went along, but the bus system refused to follow. Today they apparently got word from the federal demons. I don’t know why they decided to go along; presumably it has more to do with…
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Rhetorical
Kirn’s latest pithy point: How comes there’s an official psychiatric Oppositional Personality Disorder diagnosis but not one for compulsively going along with every order you receive and then wanting more orders to go along with when those run out? How come they’ve medicalized dissent but not compliance? Of course it’s a rhetorical question. Freud was…
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