Paracultural Calendar for May 15

[jochen stremmel]

you could try this:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20su5f_the-power-of-nightmares-1-the-rise-of-the-politics-of-fear-bbc-2004_news

2015-05-16 12:22 GMT+02:00 Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>:

> Check the PART ONE link and you'll know what I'm waiting for.
>
> -Allan in WV where we value your daily updates
>
>
> On Friday, May 15, 2015, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On this day in *1648*, the first documents of the *Treaty of Westphalia* are
>> signed in Osnabrück and Münster, setting in motion the machinations that
>> would bring about the *Peace of Westphalia*. At the time, this was as
>> huge as huge could be, ending the *Thirty Years' War* in the *Holy Roman
>> Empire*, and the *Eighty Years' War* between Spain and the Dutch
>> Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the independence of the Dutch
>> Republic. Everybody was involved in this. The Holy Roman Emperor, *Ferdinand
>> III*, of the House of Habsburg, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of
>> France, the Swedish Empire, the Dutch Republic, the Princes of the Holy
>> Roman Empire, and sovereigns of the free imperial cities. This was truly a
>> world-historic development, and, for the most part, a good one.
>>
>> *****
>>
>> On this day in *1817*, the first private mental health hospital opens
>> its doors in the United States. It is called the *Asylum for the Relief
>> of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason*. Such a great name.
>>
>> *****
>>
>> On this day in *1829*, *John the Baptist* materializes somewhere in the
>> American mid-west and anoints one Mister*Joseph Smith*, ordaining him to
>> start the *Church of Mormon*. Of course, this is all according to Joe,
>> himself, so you may want to take it with a grain of salt.
>>
>> *****
>>
>> *Mickey Mouse* made his first appearance on this day in *1928*, in a
>> cartoon entitled *Plane Crazy*... and the character still isn't in the
>> public domain. Most people haven't got a problem with this. Should they? I
>> don't know. All I know is, when you work at Disney, nobody fucks with the
>> mouse.
>>
>> *****
>>
>> On this day in *1940*, *McDonald's* opens its first restaurant in San
>> Bernardino, California. Today, the *Golden Arches *are as recognizable
>> as the *Nazi Swastika*, and the role played by *Mickey Dee*'s in the
>> implementation of a population-controlling Genocide Diet cannot be
>> under-estimated or over-stressed.
>>
>> *****
>>
>> On this day in *1972*, In Laurel, Maryland, *Arthur Bremer* shoots and
>> paralyzes Alabama Governor *George Wallace* - called "the most
>> influential loser in American politics" by some - while the latter was
>> campaigning to become the Democratic candidate for President on a
>> segregationist platform. Wallace, after receiving great treatment and
>> loving care form a succession of black nurses, would go on to renounce his
>> racist views before dying in 1998. Bremer served 35 years in jail for his
>> crime, and was released in 2007.
>>
>> *****
>>
>> On this day in *1991*, while former *CIA* chief/then-President *George
>> Herbert "Poppy" Walker Bush* escorts the *Queen of England* to a
>> Baltimore Orioles game (I kid you not), the Defense Department releases
>> documents showing that Central American dictator *Manuel Noriega* was,
>> at one time: "The CIA's man in Panama."
>>
>> *****
>>
>> On this day in *1988*, after more than eight years of fighting, the
>> legendarily hard-ass Soviet Red Army begins its withdrawal from
>> Afghanistan, defeated by a rag-tag assembly of heroic, *CIA*-funded
>> Mujahideen! Or, at least, that's what the neoconservatives used to say is
>> what happened. They don't like to talk about it so much now, after one of
>> those heroic heroes masterminded the *September 11* terror attacks. See
>> Adam Curtis' documentary *The Power of Nightmares* for clarification.
>> Here's *Part One*
>> <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2798679275960015727> to get you
>> started. Seriously, if you haven't already watched this, what the fuck are
>> you waiting for?!
>>
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