June 5, 2014 Vic Socotra

None Dare Call It….

“JAP FLEET SMASHED BY U.S. 2 CARRIERS SUNK AT MIDWAY NAVY HAD WORD OF JAP PLAN TO STRIKE AT SEA KNEW DUTCH HARBOR WAS A FEINT” – Chicago Tribune Headline, Sunday 7 June 1942 disclosing ULTRA information. I got stuck on something that might be treason this morning, not the Bergdahl thing, but one that […]

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What the Hell?

It was black when I got up and things didn’t get much better as the sky transitioned to a sort of depressing gun-metal gray. I went through the traffic and took the bad news like a man, whatever that is these days. I saw the Market dropped yesterday, big time. The Dow plummeted nearly 320 […]

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