10/24 - United Nations Day
~~ UN BLDG NYC
It is United Nations Day. The UN was founded on this day in 1945. It's utility and efficacy, however, are premised upon the member states and their mouthpieces acting with honesty and goodwill, which may be the case in some other dimension, but which is not even remotely true in this one.
On a related note, it is International Day of the Diplomats. This is an annual gathering of "diplomats" from various nation states that began on October 24, 1917. It is clear from looking at the list of participating countries that just as a "terrorist" is anybody that the leadership of some nation state declares to be one, so too a "diplomat is anybody that the leadership of some nation state declares to be one. That's why, for example, US diplomats have included the merely rich, spooks, rabid war mongers and war criminals. Actual diplomacy is very much like the board game of that name, rife with treacheary, betrayal, sneak attacks, alliances, open and sekret, and, of course, constant warfare.
I'll let Da Wiki explain Food Day:
Food Day in the United States is celebrated annually on October 24 and often throughout the month. The celebration was started in 1975 by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in an attempt to create an event similar to Earth Day. Food Day in the U.S. was created to raise awareness about the increasing industrialization of American agriculture, rising food prices, hunger, and the American diet and health crisis.[1] Food Day in the U.S. only lasted until 1977, until 2011, when CSPI revived the National Food Day campaign. The Food Day initiative is now run by Food Day.org within CSPI.
That, in a nutshell, is food day.
We mustn't forget World Polio Day. Insofar as this is 2022, I'll pretty much leave it at that. I will note that it appears that in the US there are no longer large numbers of hospital wards chock full of iron lungs. When I was a kid polio was pretty common, and this appears not to have been the case for some time. To the best of my knowledge, no population ever aquired a natural herd immunity to polio. Caveat: I am neither a medical expert nor an epidemiologist and these are just opinions and I don't give any advice on such matters.
Much to My Surprise, it is National Bologna Day. Hey, I grew up here in the late forties, fifties and sixties and spent my whole life here. You can't shit me, every damn day is and always has been bologna day.
On October 24, 1947 Walt Disney ratted out some of his employees to the House Un-American Activities Committee, allegedly because he thought that they might be guilty of wrong-think. Pretty Mickey Mouse stunt if you ask me
On October 24, 1990 Giulio Andreotti ratted out Gladio, sekret NATO paramilitaries who conducted false flag attacks and attacked and harassed left wing political parties and organizations. The US responded in 2006 with a form of the triple-r retort (Russia-Russia-Russia), admitting that Italy's Gladio and similar organizations in other NATO states existed, but asserting that any accusations of any wrongdoing of any kind were Soviet disinformation. This stock "explanation" ranks right up there with "the dog ate my homework" and "the devil made me do it", but, there you have it.
On this day in history:
1260 -- Chartres Cathedral was dedicated
1648 -- The Peace of Westphalia was signed
1812 - Napoleon had a tactical victory and a strategic loss at Maloyaroslavets
1851 -- William Lassell discovered the Uranian moons Umbriel, and Ariel
1861 -- The first US transcontinental telegraph was finished
1901 -- Annie Edson Taylor went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, a first
1911 -- Orville Wright stayed airborne in a Wright Glider for nine minutes and 45 seconds
1917 -- Bolshevik Red Guards helped kick off the October Revolution by seizing assorted buildings.
1929 -- Black Thursday
1931 -- The George Washington Bridge opened
1945 -- The Founding of the United Nations.
1946 -- The first photograph of earth from space
1947 -- Walt Disney ratted out some of his employees to the House Un-American Activities Committee
1954 -- Ike pledged US support to the newly invented fascist renegade state of South Vietnam. Part of a wider pattern.
1964 -- Northern Rhodesia gained independence and morphed into Zambia
1975 -- 90% of Iceland's women joined in a national strike to protest gaps in gender equality. Well ladies?
1990 -- Giulio Andreotti ratted out Gladio, sekret NATO paramilitaries who conducted false flag attacks
2003 -- The last commercial flight of the Concorde
2008 -- Bloody Friday, much like Black Thursday for many of the world's Casinos stock exchanges
Some people who were born on this day:
If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.
~~ Sonny Terry
1632 -- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, biologist and microbiologist
1891 -- Rafael Trujillo, rotten authoritarian SOB and useful pawn of the US who nonetheless popularized the merengue
1903 -- Melvin Purvis, Feeb
1911 -- Sonny Terry, singer and harmonica player, Piedmont blues, mostly
1917 -- Marie Foster, civil rights activist
1925 -- Willie Mabon, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1927 -- Gilbert Becaud, singer, songwriter, pianist, and actor
1930 -- J.P. Richardson (aka The Big Bopper), singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1934 -- Sanger D. Shafer, wrote "All My Exes Live in Texas" and other such songs
1935 -- Malcolm Bilson, pianist, musicologist, and educator; fortepiano specialist
1936 -- Jimmy Dawkins, singer and guitarist
1936 -- Bill Wyman, singer, songwriter, bass player, and producer
1938 -- Odean Pope, saxophonist
1943 -- Corky Siegel, singer, songwriter, and pianist (Siegel--Schwall Band)
1944 -- Ted Templeman, singer, guitarist, and producer (Harpers Bizarre)
1950 -- Pablove Black, singer, songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1953 -- David Wright, New Age keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
Some people who died on this day:
“Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...”
~~ G.E. Moore
1537 -- Jane Seymour, one of Henry VIII's wives
1601 -- Tycho Brahe, astronomer and alchemist, Kepler's mentor
1655 -- Pierre Gassendi, priest, astronomer, and mathematician
1725 -- Alessandro Scarlatti, composer and educator
1852 -- Daniel Webster, lawyer and politician; no friend of the devil
1935 -- Dutch Schultz, US businessman famous for his last words & treasure. *
1958 -- G. E. Moore, philosopher and academic
1970 -- Richard Hofstadter, historian and author
1971 -- Carl Ruggles, composer, practitioner of dissonant counterpoint
1974 -- David Oistrakh, famous fiddle player
1979 -- Carlo Abarth, awesome automobile designer
1991 -- Gene Roddenberry, trekkie grande
2002 -- Harry Hay, gay rights activist, Mattachine Society co-founder
2005 -- Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
* Transcript here: https://www.babyfacenelsonjournal.com/last-words.html
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Food Day (United States) For real, honest.
International Day of Diplomats
United Nations Day
World Polio Day
National Bologna Day
Today's Tunes
The Battle of Maloyaroslavets
Orville Wright
Ike
Sonny Terry
with Brownie McGee
Willie Mabon
Gilbert Becaud
J.P. Richardson (aka The Big Bopper)
Sanger D. Shafer
Malcolm Bilson
Jimmy Dawkins
Bill Wyman
Odean Pope
Corky Siegel
Ted Templeman
Pablove Black
David Wright
Jane Seymour
Alessandro Scarlatti
Carl Ruggles
David Oistrakh
Rosa Parks
Just for grins:
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Comments
Good morning...
Gates is trying to buy the UN
Not to mention its org, WHO
And now going after food ...
https://www.tldm.org/news54/bill-gates-davos-elites-pushing-global-food-...
So instead of living up to its potential, the UN has become another organ of western control. So sad considering some of its initial goals like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Well thanks for the OT. A nice collection of music today! Have a good one.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout, thanks for reading.
The UN is sadly very much an organ of "western" control and power, an generally toothless when not fulfilling that mission. To the extent that there may be winds of change, it is ignored and NATO's ugly head pops up in its place.
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 --
Gads...
Gates buying everything, everything. It's so sick and so disappointing.
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
The UN sounded like
a real achievement in global cooperation. I can't say it has devolved into some prop for US hegemony, or if it was created for that purpose at inception. Either way, it does way more harm than good. I am for its' dissolution, sooner, rather than later.
I have been struggling, no, warring!, with numerous online accounts. Everything from banks, credit cards, Paypal, even my travel booking accounts. I have whittled down the problems, only one problematic account left to re-establish.
It didn't have to be this way.
I just visited a museum that featured a display of all things Big Bopper. Gone too soon.
I have spent hours around the world enjoying Gypsy street music. Thanks so much for posting some Gypsy tunes!
Take care, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc. I hear you, straight across the board.
The UN grew out of the League of Nations, somewhere along the line, the theoretical dependence upon plebescites, among other things, vanished except as a rhetorical device in support of the collective west.
I love Gypsy music in general and especially gypsy flamenco. That first group, originally named "The Barcelona Gypsy Klezmer Orchestra" has a bunch of good you tubes.
Here's their version of the Gypsy "National Anthem"
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 --
I love gypsy music
please more!
question everything
My favorite
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
But of courses
because of the sexy horses.
Relish your plans for a future getaway!
We all need to ..
question everything
Well, the horses were
all that.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Nice!
Am dancing around the room!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
I got my various accounts straightened out today.
The war is over, and I won. It wasn't a blasting quick one. Gaahh!
I went on my travel website, used my account to book a Thanksgiving holiday. New condo, same complex we spent time in last year. I had 2 extra weekdays free and clear of court hearings, so it will be an actual 5 night stay! We went into the ocean last year. What a dreamy place! I am now counting the days! 29 days until launch! Woo hoo!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Beautiful Music
Thanks for introducing me to it!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
My pleasure, glad you like it
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 --
The UN is all over Russia’s self defense actions
while staying silent on Israel’s genocide on the Palestinians and its routine bombing of Syria. And nary a word about the Yemen genocide either. Yeah I’d say that it has been captured. Russia is actually thinking of pulling out of it because it’s so worthless. Who cares that America has 36 bio weapons labs in Ukraine and others elsewhere and is breaking the bio weapons treaty?
Shitlibs are all over every Russian atrocity while they ignore the ones their country is doing. Do they even know that we are in Syria so that we can steal their oil? Of course not because their mainstream media mouthpieces haven’t told them about it. Boy are they gonna be surprised when Ukraine doesn’t win the war. I’d love to be in their heads when that happens. I wonder how the media will spin it?
When I was growing up, it wasn't so apparent.
Even some of my peers thought Viet Nam was all about that Domino Theory of the spread of the dreaded Communism.
Anymore, it is obvious, phony, nothing but theft of others' treasure to keep the US no. 1. We are the No. 1 thieves and murderers of the world. All countries must step aside.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good evening Snoops. Russia needs to stay in the
UN so they can block some of the more insane things proposed by the collective west, not because there is hope for anything positive to come out of it, at least not for a looooong time.
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 --
Yes! Look at the Korean war — officially a U.N. ”police action”…
At a crucial juncture, the USSR’s delegation happened to be boycotting Security Council meetings as a protest, allowing the Western allies to push through the resolution approving the Korean war without a Soviet veto.
China couldn’t veto either, because the Western allies had not yet recognized Mao and the People’s Republic, but instead were still keeping China’s seat occupied by the Chiang Kai-Shek exile regime that had retreated to the island of Formosa (nowadays referred to as Taiwan), having lost the civil war.
Precisely. Thanks for the great example.
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 --
Unfortunately I get UN and NATO mixed up now
If they were to move the UN headquarters to Brussels or maybe Cambodia, it may have a
chance to represent more than the wild, wild west version of peace on earth without
killing all of the indigenous players?
question everything
Good evening QMS. Nice video.
They need to move it to someplace that is non-aligned and seriously threatened by rising sea levels.
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 --
Monday memes
Thanks gj, the eternal, perpetual reminder -
if all you no good lazy bums would only get to work ...
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 --
Hi Mondayers
Hi all, Hey EL! Hope it's all good out there!
Bunch of great stuff ya got here, as always. Thanks!
NATO = Nominally Armed Trade Organization - I guess that was their peacekeepers that bombed Kosovo, and brought peace to Iraq and Afghanistan, and soon Ukraine. They sure seem to leave places a mess with this peacekeeping.
Big hat tip for the Fugs!
When I was crossing the G.W. Bridge a few times most weeks back fall 82 to summer 84, it was $1.50 I think, and like many of the bridges going into Manhattan, only a fee one way, going in. Guess they figured someone probably already got all yer dough by time you were leaving. The locals seemed pretty pissy about the fact that they were told and sold and voted for it based on the lie that it would be free once it was paid for. And they were still paying for it, knowing it was covered a bunch of times over already. That was 40 years ago. Just guessing it is still not free, they got addicted to milking the cash cow, and it is still paid for, and but, how much to use now?
Bill Wyman was a great one, though low-key and overshadowed by the others, he and Charley were one of the best bottom-end pairs in the biz. Impeccable timing. He would bust loose with some great riffage live sometimes. After the Stones the later stuff he did as Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings (some vids on utube) is very good, mostly R & B covers, with guitarists like Albert Lee and Peter Frampton (who is also a good blues player) was great.
Here all the migratory breeding birds have left and the wintering types are not here yet, so a nadir in avian action. I see Pt. Reyes, CA just had a first U.S. record Willow Warbler, an old world Phylloscopus type, like 'Arctic' Warbler. And Long Beach just had a first Lower 48 record Wood Warbler, same genus of old world warblers but a few prior U.S. records out on western Alaska islands. And there seems to be a slew of Red-legged Honeycreepers probably thrown to U.S. by Hurricane Ian which went right over Cuba (where found) on the way. There is one far east Texas at LA border, 2 in Louisiana, and about 6 or more have been found in south Florida the last 10 days. Seems clearly a hurricane displacement event.
Hope all are well out there!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hola Dysto. Glad you liked the tunes.
Thanks for the report. We've got white crowns and at least one butterbutt, possibly a thrush and all the usuals.
Point Reyes gets its share of rarities, its locale has a lot to do with it, but I wonder how much is from all the birders and ornithologists crawling all over it all the time. Now known as Point Blue, and headquartered further inland in Petaluma, the Point Reyes Bird Observatory has been a premier avian science group for ages.
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 --
dead-end south facing points in fall
Hey EL, sorry to be slow getting back at ya.
I hated PRBO changing their name and moving. WTF is Point Blue?
Are they going Audubon's way of moving to 5th Ave. for the lobbyist money? Now Audubon Soc. has survey, to change their name because Audubon bad.
The two best mainland fall migrant traps in CA are Pt. Reyes and Pt. Loma. They are dead-end south facing points. In fall the birds hit the end and have to turn around. Often they get confused and may spend a day or few. But, they get stopped, which gives birders a better chance to find them. On regular (continguous) coast they just keep going.
One big fallout day in Oct. at Pt. Loma you could stand in the cemetary and watch flocks of birds going south down the ocean side of the point, as other flocks were going north having been to dead end, on the inland side, going back to 'mainland' to go around.
Cape May is another dead end south facing point where migrants get stopped, confused, and allow more detections.
Herds of birders doesn't hurt either.
The Palos Verdes Peninsula gets a more minor version of the long finger-shaped points as it is just a stub, but it gets some of the dead-end point effect and can be great for migrants getting stopped.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
We see that here with the Monarchs in the fall
They stop by on the beach before they loft up to to skies heading south.
Huge hordes. It is quite a flight to central / south america, but there is naught
but ocean between. Brave little critters. Fun to watch. Makes one wonder ..
question everything
What are Audubon’s sins against “the Successor Ideology”?
As a life member of the Sierra Club since 1968, I have been grossed out by similar efforts to cancel founder John Muir and expunge his memory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successor_ideology
Good points lot thanks for posting that.
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 --
Hi LL
I grew up in an Audubon Soc. household.
Doing Audubon Soc. Christmas Bird Counts, leading walks and field trips, organizing conservation initiatives, etc. The Society is different from the person. It has been a great driving force in conservation. Like the Sierra Club. Whom I can't believe they went through this with John Muir. A hero like Audubon has been to me.
As I understand it, they say Audubon owned and sold slaves at one point, and they say robbed graves. Which consisted as I get it taking native American artifacts from graves to sell to collectors. These were fairly common practices at the time. There is I hear an article about the issues written by a black professor that was published in Audubon (Mag.) I presume online. There is some resentment there as he was half Haitian (mother) which means African, and passed himself off as white. These are the main points I am reading.
I don't agree with changing the name, it is another 'new coke' move.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Heh, you said it.
I still have a couple of PRBO T-shirts (with the oystercatcher logo), can't imagine getting a point blue one.
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 --