05/04 Open Thread - Global World Theofascism Day
Today is devoted to recollection of the unspeakable evil and horrors perpetrated by, among others and very much particularly, Roderic de Borja aka Rodrigo Borgia. From August 1492 until 1593 he was the supreme leader of a religious sect whose followers believed it to be right and proper that one chosen for the role of supreme leader by some of the sect's more exalted members should be the suzerain and master in all things of not only all lesser ranking members of the sect, but, more particularly of all human beings across the entire globe who were not already ruled by his vassals. All were bound in all things by said leader's interpretations of the sects religious dogma and there was really no clear separation between what was religious and was secular, the religious took primacy over all, and this was seen as how things should be. The edicts of the supreme leader and his assorted underlings and vassals plus all of the rules, rites, rituals and dogma handed down from earlier times were the law as to all matters and they were strictly and brutally enforced. Today we call this theofascism.
On May 4, 1493, acting as supreme leader under the alias Pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo issued an edict which came to be known as the papal bull
Inter caetera This divided ownership of and rule over all hitherto undiscovered or unclaimed lands in the entire world and all of the peoples and resources therein or thereon excepting only such as were already ruled by a Christian monarch between two of his vassal states, Portugal and Spain. This edict, amplified and modified by other later ones, loosed wave upon wave of horror on humankind. Wars of conquest, arbitrary slaughter, rape, murder, torture, theft, and enslavement of humans across the globe. Worse yet, it blessed and justified it. This day should forever be remembered as a day of unconscionable evil
Today is, among other things, also known as Star Wars Day May The Fourth Be With You
It is also Dave Brubeck Day, so, whatever you're doing, take 5.
This is the anniversary of the Haymarket affair in Chicago in 1886. Very little is really known about the event. There was a strike and a pro-labor demonstration. There was an assemblage of cops sent to disrupt and disperse the rally. A makeshift bomb went off among the police. Nobody knows who made it or set it off. Nobody knows how it got where it was, whether it was thrown or accidentally dropped by one of the cops. The cops opened fire hitting friend and foe alike. Several non-cops were tried and convicted for conspiracy and 4 were hanged. Nobody got a fair trial, quelle surprise
On this day in history:
1415 – Religious reformer John Wycliffe was condemned as a heretic at the Council of Constance.
1493 – In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI divided the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrived in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1776 – Rhode Island became the first North American English colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon arrived at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1859 – The Cornwall Railway opened across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England.
1886 – Haymarket affair: In Chicago, United States, a homemade bomb went off among officers trying to break up a labor rally, killing one officer. Ensuing gunfire leads to the deaths of a further seven officers and four civilians.[16]
1904 – The United States took over construction of the Panama Canal after first constructing Panama
1919 – Student demonstrations took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
1926 – The United Kingdom general strike began
1938 - The Vatican recognized the regime of Francisco Franco as the legitimate government in Spain.
1945 – Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg was liberated by the British Army.
1945 – The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath was signed, coming into effect the following day. It encompassed all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
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1961 – The "Freedom Riders" began a bus trip through the South.
1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attained a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
1970 – The Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State killing and wounding nine others.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1989 – Former White House aide Oliver North was convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions were later overturned on appeal.
1990 – Latvia declared independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a peace accord, putatively granting limited self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas iwa almost completely destroyed by the 2007 Greensburg tornado, a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
Some people who were born on this day:
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
~~ Thomas Huxley
1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, instrument maker, invented the piano
1733 – Jean-Charles de Borda, mathematician, physicist, and sailor
1796 – Horace Mann, educator and politician
1825 – Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist, anatomist, and academic
1852 – Alice Liddell, model, THAT Alice
1905 – Al Dexter, country singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1928 – Maynard Ferguson, trumpet player and bandleader
1937 – Ron Carter, n bassist and educator
1937 – Dick Dale, surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter
1941 – George Will, journalist and author
1951 – Colin Bass, bass player, songwriter, and producer
1951 – Jackie Jackson, singe, songwriter, and dancer
1954 – Ryan Cayabyab, pianist, composer, and conductor
1959 – Randy Travis, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1961 – Jay Aston, singer, songwriter, and dancer
1972 – Mike Dirnt, bass player and songwriter
1972 – Chris Tomlin, singer and songwriter
1979 – Lance Bass, singer, dancer, and producer
1981 – Dallon Weekes, singer, songwriter, and musician
1998 – Alexander O'Connor, musician
Some people who died on this day:
I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.
~~ Paul Butterfield
1604 – Claudio Merulo, organist and composer
1677 – Isaac Barrow, mathematician and theologian
1859 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, mathematician and philosopher
1912 – Nettie Stevens, geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes
1916 – Ned Daly, rebel commander (Easter Rising)
1916 – Willie Pearse, rebel
1916 – Joseph Plunkett, rebel and writer
1938 – Carl von Ossietzky, journalist and activist,
1955 – George Enescu, pianist, composer, and conductor
1972 – Edward Calvin Kendall, chemist and academic,
1980 – Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson, pianist and composer
1983 – Nino Sanzogno, conductor and composer
1987 – Paul Butterfield, singer and harmonica player
1990 – Emily Remler, guitarist
2013 – Christian de Duve, cytologist and biochemist,
2013 – César Portillo de la Luz, Cubanguitarist and composer
2014 – Dick Ayers, author and illustrator
2024 – Ron Kavana, singer, songwriter, guitarist and band leader
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Anti-Bullying Day (United Nations)
Bird Day (United States)
Cassinga Day (Namibia)
Coal Miners Day (India)
Dave Brubeck Day (United States)
Death of Milan Rastislav Štefánik Day (Slovakia)
Greenery Day (Japan)
International Firefighters' Day
May Fourth Movement commemorations:
Literary Day (Republic of China)
Youth Day (China)
Remembrance Day for Martyrs and Disabled (Afghanistan)
Remembrance of the Dead (Netherlands)
Restoration of Independence Day (Latvia)
Star Wars Day (International observance)
World Give Day
Youth Day (Fiji)
Today's Tunes
It's 5/4 time
Kent State Shootings
Alice Pleasance Liddell
Al Dexter
Maynard Ferguson
Ron Carter
Dick Dale
Mike Dirnt
Joe "Mr. Piano" Henderson
Paul Butterfield
Emily Remler
César Portillo de la Luz
More Butterfield (East-West full album)
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. What's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, Rodrigo Borgia, Inter caetera, Haymarket Affair, Kent State, Dave Brubeck, Alice Liddell, Dick Dale, Paul Butterfield
Comments
A great music memorial day
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Beginning with Take Five followed by Brubeck as a chaser.
It's going to be a good day! What better way to celebrate firefighters
day than to watch coverage of the smoking container ship in the L.A.
basin?
Fire-Hit Container Ship At Port Of LA Towed To Anchorage; All Crew Members Accounted For.
Thanks for the history lesson!
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning Cap'n Q. Thanks for that video, knew
nothing about that event.
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 --
Is the grifting comedian about to become a dead man walking?
goog morning humphry. Thanks for the post. The zeetwit
appears to confuse being civilized with being weak. It is perhaps time to stop it with the drones and use more serious hardware to carter every damn airport and port facility in ukiestan.
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 --
Have no idea about theofacism
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but one of the headlines today that may fit in that category.
In East Jerusalem, ‘a whole Palestinian community is about to be expelled.
Israel is forcing out Al-Bustan’s 1,500 residents to build a biblical theme park.
To avoid paying huge fines, families are demolishing their own homes.
On an unrelated note, Bessent stepped out of bounds again, Awakening the sleeping dragon.
This is not a retaliatory move but a legalized framework in place since 2021. No unilateral sanctions
allowed.
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/global/chinas-rare-defian...
showdown-over-banks?
Zionism is a social disease
Israel is an openly theocratic apartheid state. I think that
its actions probably qualify it as theofascist.
Unilateral sanctions have no standing and are simply illegal acts of war. As to a banking war, I suspect China might do alright, it holds tons of US debt
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 --
Good morning...
Take five for sure, but no theofascism for me. Is that the practice in Israel?
Looks like the war is about to resume in Iran before the end of the week. Ruled by fools I fear.
Y'all take care! Thanks for the music and the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout, the site is really dragging or something
here is. The war nver stopped, there has been no armistace and no formal truce. There was a temporary "cease fire" which was immediately violated by the US with its blockade antics. Shit for brains tried to extend it unilaterally, but that is not a thing and was hence just more meaningless babble intended to confuse. The blockade is was and it continues and now orngeman is trying o provoke a firefight and he will probably get his wish it he hasn't already.
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 --
Japanese version
(Source- KBS 1 History Journal, ep. 199) Yoshida Shoin's memorial tablet is stored at the Yasukuni shrine. The shrine commemorates other heroes and patriots of earlier wars and conflicts associated with the Meiji Restoration and the Meiji government. The shrine also commmemorates WW II war criminals, such as Tojo Hideki. Koreans and other victims regard the shrine unfavorably as veneration of the Japanese imperial tradition.
Nice historical background by Jake Adelstein-
Ad in Asahi Shimbun (good newspaper)
Nice graphic posted by Tim S.-
Thanks for the OT and history lesson EL! Didn't really know anything about Mr. Borgia.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
Good morning Soryang, thanks for the extra info on the
May the fourth movement. As to Mr. Borgia, the whole damn family ws pretty notorious for a while.
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 --
Well, that didn't take long
.
A USN patrol boat was sent 2 missile warning shots strikes near the Straight of Hormuz
while trying to run the restricted zone. Probing or testing the waters?
The ship then was reported to retreat. CENTCOM stated no strikes occurred.
https://www.rt.com/news/639418-iran-hits-us-ship-missiles/
Further, an update found on Mario's tube with Diesen, news of warning shots toward a tanker near Oman.
Again, warning attacks by drones reported by UAE. It rhymes with that weird rescue operation of pilots in
Iran which went south a couple weeks ago. Blundering toward renewed hostilities in typical US fashion.
So much for 'Project Freedom'. The rules of engagement by the US have already changed in the Straight.
Now it is shoot to kill (like Venezuela?).
Zionism is a social disease
Heh, read about the asserted attack and CEntcom's
denial. Either it was hit, driven off by a near miss, or was never there. You can be sure that Iran wouldn't have simply let it cruise on through.
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 gave you a shout-out
for mentioning that this was Star Wars Day. Thank you.
"Kamala Harris would probably have been elected president if she had less time, not more” -- Yasmin Nair
My pleasure
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 --
What could possibly go wrong with trusted advisors like
this guiding Trump's actions?
I thought that his spiritual advison was Satan, the original
father of lies.
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 --
Hey, el!
I am taking 5. Busy office day, but get to relax while you know who grills some burgers. My sousing duties are quick and easy.
Theofascism...might it apply to Mormons?
Thanks for the OT, my friend!
And another shooter near the White House is in the hospital. The Secret Service can hit a target after all.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good evening otc. Enjoy your break.
I think theofascism applies to a lot more sects that we think at first blush. Wherever (whenever) relisious law replaces or supplants seculr law, it is to some extent present.
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 --