Paracalendar June 26

[Mark Thibodeau]

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On this day in the year *1945*, President *Franklin Delano Roosevelt* and
Prime Minister *Winston Churchill*'s plot to replace the doomed *League of
Nations* with a new international organization to force their pinko-liberal
agenda on ostensibly free nations in the postwar world came one step closer
to reality when representatives from fifty nations gathered in the Herbst
Theater auditorium in San Francisco (figures!) to sign the *United
Nations* charter.
The charter called for the U.N. to enforce international treaties, promote
vile socialist programs, destroy national sovereignty by establishing
international law, promote the dubious and sinister notion of so-called
"human rights," and terrify many fine, upstanding Americans by building *secret
concentration camps* <http://www.cuttingedge.org/ce1075.html> right under
our noses and flying *black helicopters*
<http://www.sss.org/lbh/helos.html>over
empty fields throughout the Homeland's Heartland. Despite this endless
parade of crimes against freedom and the*Lord God Jesus*, since 1945, the
Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations, its organizations
and officials a grand total of ten times, proving beyond a shadow of a
doubt that this shadowy cabal of egg-head Swedes are totally in cahoots
with these fascistic, would-be international overlords.

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On this day in *1948*, things were looking bleak in post-war Europe. The
Soviet Union, upset over having been cut out of the decision-making process
regarding Germany's economic future, had recently taken the rather bold,
bullying move of imposing a military blockade, choking off all roads and
rail-lines leading into the city of West Berlin, which was located entirely
within the Soviet-controlled, East German zone of occupation. Figuring it
would be bad form to spark *World War III* so soon after the end of World
War II, President *Harry Truman* put the kaibosh on his Joint Cheifs of
Staff, who recommended military retaliation. He opted instead to institute
a massive airlift effort, flying in food, supplies and -- we can be pretty
sure about this -- decks of cards with nekkid ladies on 'em to the city
besieged. It was a public relations master-stroke that pretty much glued a
black hat on the USSR, as far as Cold War role-playing game was concerned.

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On this day in *1974*, the Universal Product Code (UPC) stripey-bar thingy
is scanned for the first time to sell a package of *Wrigley's* chewing gum
at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. Next up? RFIDs!

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On this day in *1975*, two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian
Movement (AIM) are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in South Dakota. *Leonard Peltier* is later convicted of the
murders in a controversial trial.
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