I'm just going to crib from da Wiki here:

Liliʻuokalani (Hawaiian pronunciation: [liˌliʔuokəˈlɐni]; Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha; September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917) was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893. The composer of "Aloha ʻOe" and numerous other works, she wrote her autobiography Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen during her imprisonment following the overthrow.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%CA%BBuokalani]

Though England had recognized Hawaii's sovereignty, that meant nothing to the imported sociopaths like Dole, Thurston and Jones who forced King Kalakaua to sign an illegitimate constitution essentially at gunpoint. This Bayonet Constitution transferred power from the monarchy to a sleazy collection of Americans, Europeans, and selected Hawaiians. When she became queen Liliuokalani abrogated that constitution and began drafting a new one which would restore power to the monarchy and restore the voting rights of the economically disenfranchised. This resulted in a coup d'etat of pro-US interests supported by a detachment of US Marines who were allegedly "supporting US interests". As always and forever, US Interests were not the interests of any normal US people, but of banksters, corporations and corporatists, the very wealthy and the powerful. The queen was placed under house arrest and held in that condition for slightly over 2 years whereupon she was forced to abdicate. She continued to try to work for the good of Hawaii and its people, but it was far too late in the day. The US transition from Manifest Destiny to global Total Spectrum Dominance was well underway and there was no way that a small island nation could remain free and self governing when it was just there for the taking.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal used horribly false and fraudulent advertising to con people into horribly dangerous low-paying work. When the workers began to organize US President Andy Jackson sent in federal troops to suppress the organizing efforts on January 29, 1834. This set a horrible precedent with respect to federal, state and local interactions with labor, labor organizers and organized labor as well as a precedent as to fraud and false advertising so long as the victims were mere hoi polloi and not banksters, brokers, corporations and the like.

On this day in history:

1258 -- Dai Viet defeated the Mongols and drove them out of the country

1819 – Stamford Raffles landed on the island of Singapore

1834 -- Andy Jackson ordered federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute

1845 – "The Raven" was published in The Evening Mirror in New York

1863 -- The Bear River Massacre

1886 -- Karl Benz patented the first successful gasoline-driven automobile

1891 -- Liliuokalani became queen of Hawaii

1907 -- Charles Curtis becames the first Native American U.S. Senator.

2002 -- GW Bush berated the "Axis of evil" in his State of the Union. ***

*** This marked the start of an enormous, outrageous and sustained campaign of lies, deceit, misrepresentation, and propaganda dedicated to justifying a war of aggression against Iraq. It was generally supported, aided and abetted by the press, the pundits and talking heads, and the majority of both political parties' members of the House and Senate.

Some people who were born on this day:

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

~~ Edward Abbey

1860 -- Anton Chekhov, playwright and author
1881 -- Alice Catherine Evans, microbiologist
1920 – Paul Gayten, R&B pianist, songwriter, producer, and record company executive
1923 -- Paddy Chayefsky, author and screenwriter
1923 – Eddie Taylor, electric blues guitarist and singer
1927 -- Edward Abbey, environmentalist and author
1933 -- Sacha Distel, singer and guitarist
1936 – James Jamerson, bass player
1937 – Jeff Clyne, British musician
1937 -- Bobby Scott, singer, songwriter and musician
1939 -- Germaine Greer, author, journalist and feminist.
1939 – Jeanne Lee, jazz singer, poet and composer
1941 -- Robin Morgan, journalist, poet, activist, political theorist and author.
1946 – Geater Davis, singer and songwriter
1946 -- Bettye LaVette, singer and songwriter
1947 -- Linda B. Buck, biologist
1947 -- David Byron, singer and songwriter
1953 – Teresa Teng, singer
1953 -- Peter Baumann, keyboardist and songwriter.
1953 -- Charlie Wilson, singer and songwriter
1956 – Amii Stewart, singer and dancer
1981 – Jonny Lang, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1982 – Adam Lambert, singer, songwriter and actor
1993 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, singer[

Some people who died on this day:

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

~~ H. L. Menkin

0661 -- Ali, cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, principal source of Sunni v Shia conflict
1763 -- Louis Racine, poet
1888 -- Edward Lear, "poet"
1933 -- Sara Teasdale, poet
1934 -- Fritz Haber, chemist
1956 -- H. L. Mencken, journalist
1963 -- Robert Frost, poet
1964 – Vera Hall, folk singer
1965 – Jack Hylton, pianist, composer, band leader and impresario
1969 -- Allen Welsh Dulles, criminal, bankster, first CIA head
1970 -- B. H. Liddell Hart, military historian
1976 – Jesse Fuller, one-man band musician, songwriter
1977 – Johnny Franz, record producer and pianist
1979 – Sonny Payne, jazz drummer
1992 -- Willie Dixon, bassist, singer, and songwriter
2008 -- Margaret Truman, author and singer
2015 -- Rod McKuen, singer, songwriter, and poet
2019 – James Ingram, singer, songwriter and record producer

Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

Curmudgeons Day
Freethinkers Day
Gnocchi Day (Argentina)
National Corn Chip Day (USA)
Seeing Eye Dog Day

Today's Tunes

Queen Liliuokalani, a hero who was deposed and imprisoned because she tried to abrogate the illegal Bayonet Constitution and give the poor rights, wrote:

The Raven

Eddie Taylor

Sacha Distel

James Jamerson

Jeff Clyne

Bobby Scott

Jeanne Lee

Geater Davis

Bettye LaVette

David Byron

Teresa Teng

Peter Baumann

Charlie Wilson

Vera Hall

Jessee Fuller

Johnny Franz

Sonny Payne

Willie Dixon

Rod McKuen

James Ingram

Extra Jessee Fuller

Bonus Willie Dixon

I won't be here when this posts

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

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