05/09 - Victory Day
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What is Victory Day? VE day, in the west, was and is May 8, however, very late in the day. In fact, the instrument of Nazi Germany's surrender specified an end to combat as of 23:01 Central European Time (UTC +1:00). As a result of this late hour, it was already May 9 in all places as little as one time zone further to the east. Accordingly, many places celebrated and celebrate some variation of "Victory Day", even some places where great numbers of the populace joined and/or otherwise aided and abetted the Nazis in both the conduct of normal military operations and The Holocaust, murdering well over a million Jews, Romani, communists and others.
The Treaty of Windsor was entered into between Portugal and England in 1386 and is still in force, having been respected by both parties for the last 636 years. Get that? None other than Perfidious Albion is capable or respecting and honoring a treaty for over half of a century. Maybe the US ought to consider trying to abide by a few of its treaties now and then, who knows what might happen? Of course, it's far too late for huge numbers of them, such as every treaty with the Indians, but it is never to late to start.
Hernando de Alarcon is the rebuttal to all of those apologists for the conquistadores. Whenever one criticizes them or various "explorers", royalty or popes for their crimes against humanity and barbarity one is told that it was the way things were, that if Cortes didn't do it, then somebody else would. No, Cortes did it not because of some zeitgeist but because he was a sociopath or psychopath. Hernando de Alarcon who set sail up the Gulf of California on this date in 1540 and on September 26 began to ascend the Colorado River. He and his crew are noteworthy for treating the Indians they encountered humanely and with respect.
The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio were deemed to insufficiently comply and comport with the dogma and cant of the Church of Rome and were accordingly banned by same. Said dogma, cant, strictures and the like were, of course, indefensible, unsupported and insupportable, which is why censorship was resorted to. Throughout history those who cannot support or defend their dogma(s) and narratives censor or otherwise eliminate works, speech and persons who challenge or fail adequately to conform to said dogmas, narratives, precepts and the like.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
-- Potter Stewart (h/t Joe Shikspack)
On this day in history:
1386 – England and Portugal formally ratified their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
1540 – Hernando de Alarcón set sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.
1662 – The figure which later became Mr. Punch made its first recorded appearance in England
1865 – President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
1873 – The Vienna stock market crash started the Long Depression.
1877 – Mihail Kogalniceanu read the Declaration of Independence of Romania in the Chamber of Deputies
1901 – Australia opened its first national parliament in Melbourne.
1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio were placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican because those that cannot justify or support their dogmas always resort to censoring everything not in conformity therewith.
1920 – The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Smigly celebrated its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claimed to have flown over the North Pole
1927 – Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opened
1936 – Italy formally annexed Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1941 – The German submarine U-110 carrying the latest Enigma Machine was captured by the Royal Navy
1942 – The SS executed 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast. The Zoludek Ghetto was destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported. (see The Holocaust in Ukraine; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine)
1945 – The final German Instrument of Surrender was signed at the Soviet headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst.
1948 – Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution went into effect.
1950 – Robert Schuman presented the "Schuman Declaration", considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the EU
1960 – The FDA announced it would approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1974 –The US House Committee on the Judiciary opened formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian was executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
1988 – New Parliament House, Canberra officially opened
2020 – The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression, This was blamed on Covid-19 and not on the government's failure to provide meaningful support to the populace because it is recognized in the US that the government's sole function is to serve the wealthy elites.
Some people who were born on this day:
“Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. ”
~~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, composer and educator
1746 – Gaspard Monge, mathematician and engineer
1800 – John Brown, activist
1836 – Ferdinand Monoyer, ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart & diopter
1845 – Gustaf de Laval, engineer and businessman
1850 – Edward Weston, chemist
1860 – J. M. Barrie, novelist and playwright
1874 – Howard Carter, archaeologist and historian
1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, philosopher, author, and critic
1893 – William Moulton Marston, quack who invented the so-called "lie detector"to the great harm of many, but who also created Wonder Woman
1895 – Lucian Blaga, poet, playwright, and philosopher
1905 – Lilí Álvarez, tennis player, author, and feminist
1906 – Eleanor Estes, librarian, author, and illustrator
1909 – Don Messer, violinist
1909 – Gordon Bunshaft, architect, designed the Solow Building
1912 – Géza Ottlik, mathematician and theorist
1914 – Patricia Swift Blalock, librarian
1914 – Denham Fouts, prostitute
1914 – Hank Snow, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1916 – William Pène du Bois, author and illustrator
1918 – Mike Wallace, journalist, media personality and one-time game show host
1920 – Richard Adams, novelist
1921 – Daniel Berrigan, priest, poet, and activist
1921 – Sophie Scholl, activist
1921 – Mona Van Duyn, poet and academic
1924 – Bulat Okudzhava, singer, poet, and author
1927 – Manfred Eigen, chemist and academic,
1928 – Ralph Goings, painter
1930 – Kalifa Tillisi, historian and linguist
1935 – Nokie Edwards, guitarist
1935 – Roger Hargreaves, author and illustrator
1937 – Sonny Curtis, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1937 – Rafael Moneo, architect, designed the Valladolid Science Museum
1937 – Dave Prater, singer
1939 – John Ogbu, anthropologist and professor
1941 – Danny Rapp, musician
1942 – Tommy Roe, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Anders Isaksson, historian and journalist
1943 – Colin Pillinger, astronomer, chemist, and academic
1944 – Richie Furay, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1945 – Gamal El-Ghitani, journalist and author
1945 – Steve Katz, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1946 – Ayse Nur Zarakolu, author and activist
1948 – Hans Georg Bock, mathematician, computer scientist, and academic
1949 – Billy Joel, singer, songwriter and pianist
1961 – Sean Altman, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Dave Gahan, singer, songwriter
1962 – Paul Heaton, singer, songwriter
1968 – Graham Harman, philosopher and academic
1971 – Dan Chiasson, poet and critic
1975 – Tamia, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress
1979 – Pierre Bouvier, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Andrew W.K., singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, motivational speaker, and music producer
Some people who died on this day:
“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice”
~~ Friedrich Schiller
1707 – Dieterich Buxtehude, organist and composer
1745 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, violinist and composer
1805 – Friedrich Schiller, poet, playwright, and historian
1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, chemist and physicist
1850 – Garlieb Merkel, author and activist
1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist and academic
1935 – Ernst Bresslau, zoologist
1944 – Han Yong-un, poet and social reformer
1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, mathematician and engineer
1957 – Ezio Pinza, actor and singer
1959 – Bhaurao Patil, activist and educator
1965 – Leopold Figl, engineer and politician
1968 – Mercedes de Acosta, author, poet, and playwright
1970 – Walter Reuther, union leader
1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction
1977 – James Jones, novelist
1978 – Giuseppe Impastato, journalist and activist
1979 – Eddie Jefferson, singer and lyricist
1980 – Kate Molale, activist
1986 – Tenzing Norgay, mountaineer, took Edmund Hillary up the mountain
1993 – Penelope Gilliatt, novelist, short story writer, and critic
1994 – Elias Motsoaledi, activist
2004 – Brenda Fassie, singer
2010 – Lena Horne, singer, actress, and activist
2018 – Per Kirkeby, painter, poet, film maker and sculptor
2020 – Little Richard, singer, songwriter, and pianist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
National Women's Check Up Day
Europe Day, commemorating the Schuman Declaration. (European Union)
National Tear the Tags off the Matress Day
Victory Day observances, celebration of the victory over Nazi Germany.
Today's Tunes
Howard Carter
Giovanni Paisiello
Don Messer
Hank Snow
Bulat Okudzhava
Nokie Edwards
Sonny Curtis
Dave Prater
Danny Rapp
Tommy Roe
Ritchie Furay
Steve Katz
Billy Joel
Tomaso Antonio Vitali
Eddie Jefferson
Brenda Fassie
Lena Horne
Little Richard
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Good morning...
Quite the collection of music today, whatta variety.
The big parade was in Moscow today, and Putin spoke. Too bad we didn't use the opportunity to talk peace and celebrate our combined defeat of the Nazis. Instead we continue to support and fund Nazis, while not informing Americans of the nature of Ukraine's government.
No matter, let's have a good day! Thanks for the OT.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning LO. Of course we didn't celebrate our
"joint victory over the Nazis" because the US immediately hired them and put them to work a) in out conjoined space & military race and b) in spying on and subverting the USSR and its allies. It seems that we recently declassified and released some documents on all that, though it is pretty old news, since I recall reading a book on Gehlen and the Gehlen Organization decades ago.
Glad you found the music interesting. I found Brenda Fassie particularly fascinating, reminiscent of "Mama Africa" Makeba, and Steve Katz presented an opportunity to give a nod to The Blues Project which simmered beneath the surface for several years there.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
No surprise here, I suppose:
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
Good morning Pluto. Of course they do, even while
we try to ramp up an economic war against them and engage in military and diplomatic confrontation. It is, as some stupid twit said of ostensibly other things, a conflict of civilizations, though, ab inition, the US has been civilized in name only.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
That's funny
I keep hearing all of this pleading of relief funds for the war ravaged Ukrainians
but nothing about the poverty stricken US citizens, the homeless, the starving,
the families without healthcare, the elderly, the unemployed, the jailed and most
of the entire nation being one paycheck or emergency away from bankruptcy.
China is very generous to offer this assistance, as the US warlords have money to
burn on weapons but congress has nothing for the people in need in their own
damn country.
wake up people!
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
MNorning QMS. Our priorities, as usual, are all
bassackwards, not just the government, but plenty of the populace as will. Ah well, what can one say, the nation was an oligarchy from day one and the national religion is competition with a side of greed.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
That would be embarrassing for the government
if they gave a rat’s ass about we the people. America cannot even feed its babies, but the supremes want every woman to pop one out regardless if she can afford to keep it alive. Or put up with a lifetime of medical bills if it has problems. Or give families any type of help whatsoever. Gotta spend most of the money on weapons of war instead. People should be livid about this, but ho-rah instead.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
RV Living
The big controvrsy right now in my rural Florida county is that the county wants to crack down on people renting RV's in the woods to live in. As it was pointed out by several people, it's rural land with no restrictions, as far as I know. And people wouldn't make that choice if there was adequate housing available. I guess next they will outlaw staying in a tent in the woods.
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Good morning enchantress. That's too bad, though it is
somewhat typical and expected of so much of this country. Nobody want's the drifters, the sporadically employed and the like to live anywhere nearby, but still wants to have a supply of them available for cheap casual labor.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
It’s not just happening in Florida
It’s happening all across the country and the NIMBY's are fed up with it. Moab has no affordable housing for people who work in the tourist industries and one family with a small child is living in a RV that doesn’t have a working fridge or bathroom.
Mayor Adams of NYC has sent the cops to destroy every area where homeless people are living and throwing their stuff in the garbage. After one was recently destroyed the mayor went to the glitzy gala where tickets cost $35,000 per person. The theme was the roaring 20's. How apropos. Just in time for the next Great Depression.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Victory Day celebrations in Kherson and Melitopol
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maxQL13ZSfY]
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-V2Fq0TKn0]
Putin's Victory Day 2022 speech
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJB11eAKyCk]
Transcript: Putin's Victory Day 2022 speech
Good morning CB, thanks for all that and especially
the transcript.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Why does Russia still commemorate Victory Day?
To put things in perspective:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgRwDkP6vk]
Who has a historical memory of WWII
Good afternoon MrWebster - partial answers abound
Off the top of my head
Rome persecuted them.
Various Crusades
Spanish and other inquisitions.
France and Germany ran them out at different times in history, though Prussia, for a time, welcomed them.
The low countries too, iirc.
be well and have a good one
England ran them out at least once
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The majority of Americans
believe it was the US who won WWII. It just goes to show the power of massive propaganda in the western media and Hollywood. There is not one in ten thousand who knows the complicity of America in enabling the Nazis before AND after WWII.
6 million Jews are remembered
whilst 26 million Russians are forgotten. Make it make sense.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
The Western media have completely
forgotten how many Jews were killed when the Nazis invaded the USSR. Hundreds of thousands were killed by Ukrainians.
The complicity after
Bringing the worst of the worst here because of what they learned during the war and installing them into the government is another thing I recently learned. Maybe a decade ago, but did just learn that we also imported Japanese scientists from unit 731 because of their knowledge. The winners get to decide who gets punished and who gets rewarded. I’m betting that quite a few of our people committed war crimes, but got off Scott free because we made the rules.
People who committed war crimes in Vietnam weren’t punished for it and anti war has an article on how one guy was tortured by us with the psychologist's help and Obama said that we tortured some folks but let’s move on.
Trump pardoned people from blackwater who slaughtered Iraqis just for sport and after a few tsk tsks the country moved on.
Biden’s action against Afghanistan is a crime against humanity, but it’s not anything Americans should get upset about because as Obama said we’re the exceptional people and poo doesn’t stink. Yippee America!
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
The years are so much shorter now…
I remember the days when 636 years was over half a millennium.![Wink](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/wink.gif)
Cheers, EL!
“We may not be able to change the system, but we can make the system irrelevant in our lives and in the lives of those around us.”—John Beckett
Tempus fugits faster when one is elderly ;-)
Thanks for the alert!
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --