And the embarrassment from the right continues
The article has a little throw away reference to one of the coolest things ever if you’ve never heard of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)?wprov=sfla1
You can go see it in person in the spy museum in Washington DC!
Came to share this too, as it was one of my favorite things from the museum. Their website says it’s a replica though.
Ah dang. Very cool though. Crazy collection. They also had the ice pick that killed Trotsky and an ENIGMA machine… (I think maybe both of those are the real things)
We had a great time there.
I scrolled through my pics quick looking what other whacky stuff there was and the best I got is:
Satellite Drop / Ariel Recovery Film Container
Fake Nutsack Radio 😆
Lol at the nutsack
That is bugged, I guarantee it.
Must have been a hard choice between a picture of Putin or Trump. on which trump would like better.
Welp, wrong choice! Trumpet could have seen his reflection on the glass of the cover
I’m sure the wires hanging out of it are just LEDs
Since the story of The Great Seal has already been shared in the article and the comments here, I just recently read a book on the Soviet space dogs.
Strelka’s puppy, Pushinka, was given to Caroline Kennedy, but only after a thoughrough exam!
Pushinka (Russian: Пушинка, lit. ‘Fluffy’) was a dog given by the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. Pushinka was the daughter of Strelka, who had travelled into space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2.
Pushinka arrived at the Kennedy White House after Jacqueline Kennedy had spoken to Khrushchev about Strelka at a state dinner in Vienna. Mrs. Kennedy asked about Strelka’s puppies, and one was subsequently sent by Khrushchev to the White House. Pushinka was examined by the Central Intelligence Agency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center over fears that she might be concealing an implanted listening device. Pushinka was x-rayed, screened with a magnetometer, and inspected by sonogram. She was found to be free of subversive devices.
The White House electrician and kennel manager, Traphes Bryant, trained Pushinka with peanuts to climb up a ladder to Caroline Kennedy’s playhouse and slide down the other side.
Probably gave the poor pup cancer :(
As far as I know, Belka and Strelka got to live nice lives afterwards as celebrated space pups. I’d think they’d have gotten far more radiation up in space than Pushinka would have gotten from a couple exams, so I’d think she was fine. The wiki page says at least up to 2015, her descendants were still around being good puppos.
I think it’s a warning. Didn’t epstein have some weird portraits that showed him behind bars?
Edit: It appears the picture vanished from the Internet, I can only find text references.