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Group: historic battlefields threatened
Post Date: 2008-03-12 17:24:47 by robin
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The site of the single bloodiest day in American history is under siege — threatened by a 120-foot cell phone tower, says a preservation group. The vast field in western Maryland is where the Battle of Antietam was fought on Sept. 17, 1862. It's one of the 10 most endangered Civil War battlefields, according to an annual report released Wednesday from the Civil War Preservation Trust. The list includes other historic sites in Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee. "In almost all cases, it is suburban sprawl that threatens these battlefields," said Jim Lighthizer, president of the trust. "We're not against development, but ...
'Gilligan's' Mary Ann caught with dope
Post Date: 2008-03-11 18:56:47 by X-15
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DRIGGS, Idaho - Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," is serving six months' unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car. She was sentenced Feb. 29 to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving. Under a plea agreement, three misdemeanor counts — driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance — were dropped. On Oct. 18, Teton County sheriff's Deputy Joseph Gutierrez arrested Wells as she was driving home from a surprise birthday party that was held for her. According to the ...
National brotherhood week
Post Date: 2008-03-10 18:15:43 by gord
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Mysterious pits shed light on forgotten witches of the West
Post Date: 2008-03-09 20:53:06 by robin
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Mysterious pits shed light on forgotten witches of the West Simon de Bruxelles Evidence of pagan rituals involving swans and other birds in the Cornish countryside in the 17th century has been uncovered by archaeologists. Since 2003, 35 pits at the site in a valley near Truro have been excavated containing swan pelts, dead magpies, unhatched eggs, quartz pebbles, human hair, fingernails and part of an iron cauldron. The finds have been dated to the 1640s, a period of turmoil in England when Cromwellian Puritans destroyed any links to pre-Christian pagan England. It was also a period when witchcraft attracted the death sentence. Jacqui Woods, leading the excavations, has not traced any ...
Inflation Fools a Lot of People
Post Date: 2008-03-07 06:54:24 by YertleTurtle
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"Inflation fools a lot of people. Like the proverbial frog in the pot set to boil, they don’t pay attention to the slow, inexorable erosion of their buying power over time. If you earn $100,000 per year today, you may feel OK about your middle-class lifestyle, but that pre-tax money only had the buying power of $39,037 in 1980, and $16,486 in 1968, roughly my father’s gross earnings that year."
Poster Comment:My parents were high-school dropout, although they later got their worthless GEDs. My father was a general contractor who built houses, and my mother an admitting clerk in the ER. I remember my dad making $14,000 in 1968, and the house cost $14,000. I never lacked ...
Aviation Loses a Legend: Donald Lopez Passes Away
Post Date: 2008-03-07 00:02:31 by X-15
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March 5, 2008 — Donald S. Lopez, legendary World War II Ace fighter pilot, died after suffering a heart attack on Monday, March 3, at the age of 84. Lopez, EAA 283291, was a longtime EAA AirVenture Oshkosh attendee and presenter, including last year when he took part in a special Fighter Pilots forum. (Listen to the program: Part 1; Part 2) Lopez served in the 23rd Fighter Group of the 14th Air Force - successors of the Flying Tigers - in China. During his two years there under Col. Tex Hill and Gen. Claire Chennault, Lopez flew Curtiss P-40s and North American P-51 Mustangs totaling 101 missions and tallied five victories, the required number to be recognized as an “Ace.” ...
WWII Black Propaganda Leaflets
Post Date: 2008-03-05 08:03:41 by buckeye
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The allied also used postcards and feldpost for their purposes. You can see examples in this slide and the next. Here you see the front and back of a postcard with the face of Party member Dr. Walter Scheiber. The title under it is 'This german man is free'. On the back a description is given of the meaning of the title. It states to the normal German citizen that party members like Scheiber are free from front duties, free from rationing, and so on. All things the 'normal' Germans were suffering from. Very special of this card is the affixed 'FORGED' stamp. In fact, Delmer and his men made different types of forged stamps of which this is a good example. These ...
The Original Taiwanese
Post Date: 2008-03-03 07:51:37 by YertleTurtle
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The Original Taiwanese Until just four centuries ago, the main island of Taiwan was home to mainly Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) peoples. Although they have left no written records or reliable oral history of their origins, archeological evidence indicates that their ancestors came to the main island of Taiwan several thousand years ago (see chapter 2, "People and Language"). Beginning in the early 17th century, lowland tribes were inexorably driven into the island's mountainous interior, overwhelmed by alien conquerors from both Europe and Asia, and by wave upon wave of immigration of Han peoples fleeing poverty and war in China. Over the centuries, many indigenes have ...
Slaves of the Bitch/Queen of England
Post Date: 2008-02-21 02:01:50 by noone222
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Poster Comment:You don't have to believe this guy but if you disagree just shut up and pay the bitch, send your kids to protect her Royal ass-etts, and explain why your name is always spelled in all capital letters when you are addressed by any government or corporate entity. Right or wrong ... Jordan Maxwell is stellar.
A Little History Lesson... "The Game"
Post Date: 2008-02-19 17:54:53 by Kamala
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Monday, February 18, 2008 A Little History Lesson... "The Game" You have those who Choose to take more power than they give and become richer in power or powerful and those who choose to give more power than they take and become poorer in power or powerless. The ancient power accounting irregularity. The rich getting richer poor getting poorer cycle has a maximum potential. Once the rich in power become as rich as possible in power and the poor in power become as poor as possible in power...Game over. Chop down trees faster than they regrow or club baby seals faster than they are born and it's a certainty that you will run out. Or consume food faster than it can be ...
Hillbillies and Arabs
Post Date: 2008-02-18 15:48:53 by YertleTurtle
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One of the few ethnic groups people still feel free to make fun of without being instantly banished to outer un-p.c. darkness is hillbillies - i.e., the descendants of Scots-Irish immigrants who still hang their (worn out, floppy) hats in rural Appalachia. Wikipedia's "Hillbilly" article even includes an amusing (and rather affectionate) section on "the hillbilly stereotype." Consider, if you will, a couple of the entries under that heading: (1) Inbred and incestuous. (2) Often fight each other along family lines. This is known as a "feud." [thanks for explaining that, Wikipedia!] Now, obviously, (1) and (2) are related. When everybody's marrying ...
The Golden Age of Islam is a Myth
Post Date: 2008-02-18 15:29:26 by YertleTurtle
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The hatred of Western Civilization, and the corresponding urge to glorify anything outside it, especially if it can be depicted as a victim of the West, is a well-known phenomenon of the contemporary liberal mind. One of the forms it has taken in recent years is the attempt to artificially inflate the historic achievements of other civilizations beyond what the facts support. The noble savage myth is a commonplace; what is more complex is the myth that has been bandied about concerning the supposed "golden age" of Islamic civilization during what we know as the Middle Ages. The myth of an Islamic Golden Age is needed by Islam’s apologists to save it from being damned by its ...
Old JFK documents may stir controversy
Post Date: 2008-02-17 20:42:01 by robin
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Old JFK documents may stir controversy Sun Feb 17, 3:06 PM ET A batch of old documents linked to the slaying of President John F. Kennedy has reportedly been unearthed, including a highly suspect transcript of a conversation between assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald's killer Jack Ruby, the Dallas Morning News said on Sunday. The newspaper said the Dallas County district attorney's office, which uncovered the documents, would display its discovery at a news conference on Monday morning. The Morning News said the items found in an old safe in a Dallas courthouse included personal letters from former District Attorney Henry Wade, the prosecutor in the Ruby trial. Ruby shot ...
Redneck Scapegoats
Post Date: 2008-02-17 08:32:54 by YertleTurtle
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Cultural critic Jim Goad explains that the redneck and white trash stereotypes fit all of the traditional scapegoat requirements: rednecks and white trash have biological differences (buck toothed, inbred, and stupid); geographic and regional differences (rural areas and trailer parks); economic differences (sick, lazy, and dirty); cultural differences (loud, superstitious, and excessive); and moral differences (racist, violent, and alcoholic). Full article
Poster Comment:The full article is far too long, and covers too much ground, but the author is pointing out something very true: while we're not supposed to say bad things about any minority, be they black or Mexican or gay or Jew, ...
Oscar winner reveals the secret of pro-Nazi traitor
Post Date: 2008-02-16 21:50:32 by robin
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A new play suggests John Amery rebelled against his father's concealment of his Jewishness Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent Sunday February 17, 2008 The Observer The Oscar-winning writer Ronald Harwood is to re-examine a wartime story of treachery at the heart of the British establishment. Using fresh documentary evidence, his play will tell of the fate of the privileged Nazi sympathiser John Amery, the son of a Tory cabinet minister, who was hanged for treason in 1945. Harwood, who won a Bafta last weekend for his Oscar-nominated screenplay The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, has tried to solve the puzzle at the centre of the Amery case - a mystery that had troubled the ...
Canada sends ex-SS guard to Italy
Post Date: 2008-02-16 12:54:37 by robin
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Canada sends ex-SS guard to Italy Seifert was an SS camp guard in Bolzano An 83-year-old former Nazi prison camp guard has been transferred to Italy to serve a life sentence for murder. Michael Seifert arrived in Rome from Canada where he had been fighting a battle against extradition. An Italian military tribunal convicted him in absentia in 2000 of 11 murders at a prison camp in the northern city of Bolzano. Seifert admits to having been a guard at the camp but denies being involved in atrocities. Seifert arrived shortly before dawn from Toronto on a military jet. The military prosecutor behind the case, Bartolomeo Constantini, described him as "a ...
Scots-Irish Shaped America, But Did They Make It Free?
Post Date: 2008-02-15 20:00:21 by YertleTurtle
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Long dismissed as rednecks, crackers, and hillbillies, the Scots-Irish--also known as Scotch-Irish, Ulster Scots, or Borderers, because they hailed from Northern Ireland and the border counties of Scotland and England--have provided a disproportionate share of America's political leaders, military brass, writers, and musicians. As an ethnic group, James Webb argues in Born Fighting, they "did not merely come to America, they became America, particularly in the south and the Ohio Valley, where their culture overwhelmed the English and German ethnic groups and defined the mores of those regions." For Webb, a descendant of Scots-Irish immigrants who has written novels, fought ...
Apocalypse at Dresden
Post Date: 2008-02-15 05:48:15 by Zoroaster
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APOCALYPSE AT DRESDEN
by R. H. S. Crossman (Esquire Magazine - November 1963)
The long suppressed story of the worst massacre in the history of the world.
If the British Commonwealth and the United States last a thousand years, men may say that this was their darkest hour.
Were all the crimes against humanity committed during World War II the work of Hitler's underlings? That was certainly the impression created by the fact that only Germans were brought to trial at Nüremburg. Alas! It is a false impression. We all now know that in the terrible struggle waged between the Red Army and the German Wehrmacht, the Russians displayed their fair share of insensate inhumanity. ...
Baphomet: The Secret of the Templar Fortune
Post Date: 2008-02-15 04:35:22 by noone222
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Click URL for interesting article related to the U.S. Dollar, Templars and Popes. (Lots of drawings and pics.) tracyrtwyman.com/blog/?page_id=167
How the Scots-Irish Screwed Up America
Post Date: 2008-02-12 07:55:15 by YertleTurtle
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You may not meet them among your circle of friends, but there are millions of Americans who fiercely believe we should nuke North Korea and Iran, seize the Middle East's oil, and replace the U.S. Constitution with the Christian Bible. They believe the United States will conquer the entire world and convert it to our notions of democracy and fundamentalist Christian religion. And that will happen says my Christian neo-conservative friend Dave Henderson, "when we elect a man with the balls to use our nukes." You may not believe me, and if you don't I cannot blame you for never having been exposed to such folks. Only an idiot or a masochistic observer of the American scene ...
Makow: How The Banksters Ensured US WWII Intervention
Post Date: 2008-02-10 17:17:36 by robin
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How The Banksters Ensured US WWII Intervention (How Americans Were Hoodwinked Once Again) By Henry Makow, PhD 2-10-8 After Britain's humiliating retreat from Dunkirk June 4, 1940, Winston Churchill defiantly declared, "We shall fight on the beaches...we shall never surrender..." His confidence was based on his certain knowledge the United States would back Britain to the hilt.The vast majority of Americans were against intervention. But a covert British propaganda and "dirty tricks" campaign, employing almost 1000 people in NYC (mostly Brits and Canadians), had hijacked democracy with the full cooperation of the FDR administration. It illustrates how London-based ...
1968 Democratic National Convention
Post Date: 2008-02-07 23:07:50 by robin
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The 1968 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to August 29, 1968, for the purposes of choosing the Democratic nominee for the 1968 U.S. presidential election.[1] 1968 already had been a tumultuous year for the United States, with the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April and Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) in June during his campaign for the Democratic nomination, and widespread protests against the Vietnam War. The convention achieved notoriety due to clashes between protesters and police, and due to the generally chaotic atmosphere of the event. The turmoil was widely publicized by ...
Last Iwo Jima flag veteran dies
Post Date: 2008-02-05 21:38:03 by robin
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Last Iwo Jima flag veteran dies Jacobs maintains he was shown in the Leatherback photo A soldier believed to be the last survivor of a group of marines pictured raising the US flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in 1945 has died. Raymond Jacobs died of natural causes at the age of 82 last week, his daughter told the Associated Press. The capture of Iwo Jiwa, more than 1,000km (621 miles) south of Tokyo, followed one of the key battles of World War II. The flag was raised on Mount Suribachi on 23 February 1945. Mr Jacobs had always maintained that he was the radio operator seen looking up at the flag, in a picture of the first flag-raising, taken by a ...
Adolf Hitler's 'lost fleet' found in Black Sea
Post Date: 2008-02-04 15:15:43 by robin
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Adolf Hitler's 'lost fleet' found in Black Sea By Jasper CoppingLast Updated: 1:52am GMT 04/02/2008The final resting place of three German U-boats, nicknamed "Hitler's lost fleet", has been found at the bottom of the Black Sea.In pictures: Hitler's lost U-boatsThe submarines had been carried 2,000 miles overland from Germany to attack Russian shipping during the Second World War, but were scuttled as the war neared its end. Now, more than 60 years on, explorers have located the flotilla of three submarines off the coast of Turkey.On the road: One of the U-boats being taken to IngolstadtThe vessels, including one once commanded by Germany's most successful ...
Death Photo of War Reporter Pyle Found
Post Date: 2008-02-03 14:48:23 by robin
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View smaller image NEW YORK (AP) - The figure in the photograph is clad in Army fatigues, boots and helmet, lying on his back in peaceful repose, folded hands holding a military cap. Except for a thin trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth, he could be asleep. But he is not asleep; he is dead. And this is not just another fallen GI; it is Ernie Pyle, the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II. As far as can be determined, the photograph has never been published. Sixty-three years after Pyle was killed by the Japanese, it has surfaced—surprising historians, reminding a forgetful world of a humble correspondent who artfully and ardently told the story ...
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