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This Day in History - July 22

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:17:33 GMT

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July

July 22, 1756

The "The Friendly Association for gaining and preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures." was founded in Philadelphia. It was comprised primarily of Quakers

1877

A general strike, part of the railroad strike that had paralyzed the country, was called in St. Louis, where workers briefly seized control of the city

1966

Federal Judge Claude Clayton issued a sweeping injunction ordering the police of Grenada, Mississippi, to stop interfering with lawful protest, ordering them instead to protect demonstrations, and requiring certain rules to be set down for the conduct of marches

followed weeks of arrests and beating of demonstrators who had been attempting to integrate all the businesses and other institutions

1987

Ronald Reagan signed into law the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (named for a member of Congress from Connecticut) which provided emergency relief provisions for shelter, food, mobile health care, and transitional housing for homeless Americans

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This Day in History-July 21 "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo"

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:44:43 GMT

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1976

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Since 1983, on the Thursday closest to July 21

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Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

an association of Argentine mothers whose children "disappeared" during the Dirty War, the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

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are joined by others, and walk the 7 km (4.3 miles) from Calilegua to San Martin, demanding answers about their loved ones

supported by Amnesty International and the United Nations Human Rights Commission

A military junta under

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Jorge Rafael Videla

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Pinochet y Videla

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he was prosecuted for large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that took place under his rule, including kidnappings or forced disappearance, widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of activists, political opponents

their families, at secret concentration camps. The accusations also included the theft of many babies born during the captivity of their mothers at the illegal detention centres

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Dirty War

state-sponsored violence against Argentine citizenry from roughly 1976 to 1983

30,000

"disappeared

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Iran vs U.S.A. in pics

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:33:06 GMT

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November 21 1979, Tehran, Iran: Hundreds of thousands of women demonstrate against the US. They shout for the Shah in return for the hostages who are in their 19th day of captivity

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An American hostage

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Jimmy Carter prepares to address the American people

following the failed mission to rescue the Iran hostages

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group of hostages give the victory sign as they emerge from an Algerian aircraft

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Reagan admits in a television address that he and his staff traded arms for hostages with Iran and funnelled profits to the Nicaraguan Contra armies

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a message to viewers about Reagan's role in the events leading to the Iran-Contra hearings

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July 1 1988, Tehran, Iran: Iranian mourners attend an anti-US demonstration after the USS Vincennes accidentally shot down an Iranian Airbus plane

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hristianne Amanpour interviews president Mohammad Khatami.

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US decision to lift a ban on imports of Iranian luxury goods

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'axis of evil'

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child is treated by doctors at the American field hospital

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anti-US slogans

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former US embassy

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Crocker

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24 hours in pictures - July 17th

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:22:18 GMT

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Nampa, Idaho: 'Mutton Buster' Gracie Schmitt is crushed when the sheep she was riding flipped on her back during the Snake River Stampede

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Hefei, China: Children attend a dance class during their summer holidays

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Haiti

People bathe in the waterfall as they believe it cleanses their souls

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Eritrea: A welder uses a homemade cover

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USA: Dancer Philippe Priasso with Compagnie Beau Geste hangs from a digger as part of Dance Out, a free outdoor dance festival

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Saut D'Eau, Haiti: Believers attend an annual voodoo festival

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Beijing, China: Men wearing suits with lights wait to take part in rehearsals of the Olympic Games opening ceremony

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burning tyres outside the Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISE)

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China

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Dhaka, Bangladesh: People walk on a makeshift bridge built by joining boats, to cross a canal covered by water hyacinths

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Beijing, China: Workers clean the exterior of the National Aquatics Centre

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ingapore: A dancer from Italian company Studio Festi performs in the air

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Rotterdam,

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Argentina: Farmers celebrate

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This Day in History - July 16th

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:13:37 GMT

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16, 1099

The Sacking of Jerusalem

Soldiers from all over Catholic Europe, known as Crusaders, overtook the defenses of Jerusalem and slaughtered both the Jewish and Muslim populations

Urban II initiated the effort to wrest the Holy Land from the hands of the “Infidel” (the city had been under Islamic rule for 460 years)

1877

A contemporary artist’s rendering of the clash in Baltimore between workers
and the Maryland Sixth Regiment during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
The governor had called out the troops on behalf of the railroad company.

1945

U.S. Army’s Manhattan Project succeeded as its first hand-made experimental atomic bomb, known as the “Gadget,” was successfully detonated at the top of a 30m

1979

largest release of radioactive material in the U.S. occurred in the Navajo Nation

1979

Saddam Hussein became president of the Iraqi republic

1983

10,000 peace activists formed a human chain linking the two superpowers’ embassies
in London

Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

“Bye, Bye, Blackbird”

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This Day in History - July 15th

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:36:29 GMT

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July

15, 1834

The Spanish Inquisition, a centuries-long brutal effort by the Catholic Church to root out heresy, begun in 1481, was officially abolished by King Bonaparte. Spain’s King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella had chosen Catholicism as their religion and asked the pope to help purify the people of Spain. Many thousands were forced to convert, were tortured to encourage confession, or burned at the stake.

1978

Longest Walk, a peaceful transcontinental trek for Native American justice, which had begun with a few hundred departing Alcatraz Island, California, ended this day when they arrived in Washington, D.C. accompanied by 30,000 marchers.They were calling attention to the ongoing problems plaguing Indian communities

lack of jobs, housing, health care, as well as dozens of pieces of legislation before Congress canceling treaty obligations

1919

U.S. War Department announced that it had classified more than 337,000 American men as "draft dodgers."

history of Conscientious Objection in Americ

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This Day in History - July 12-13

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:26:55 GMT

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July 12, 1974

John Ehrlichman

former top aide to President Richard Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate a citizen’s civil rights. Ehrlichman had approved a recommendation for a covert investigation of Daniel Ellsberg in 1971 by writing on a memo: "If done under your assurance that it is not traceable."

1863

Massive New York City protests decrying the first-ever wartime draft lottery led to a bloody riot as a mob of 50,000 burned buildings (including the Colored Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue), stores and draft offices, and attacked police. Some clubbed, lynched, and shot large numbers of blacks, whom they blamed for the war.

1985

The first Live Aid concert raised $75 million for agricultural and technical assistance to Africa

Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof

Bob

The Republic of Ireland (Éire) gave the most donations per capita, despite being in the throes of a serious economic depression at the time. The single largest donation (£1m) came from the ruling family of Dubai

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Cartoons

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:03:29 GMT

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Defiant Iran tests missiles to show strength in face of US warnings

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· Long-range exercise 'not routine', Tehran declares
· Warhead could reach Israel and American bases

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Pictures from Iranian state television show the country's elite revolutionary guards test-firing missiles during war games in the Gulf

Tehran significantly raised tensions in the Persian Gulf yesterday by conducting missile tests and making clear that its weapons could be used against Israel and US forces if Iran was attacked.

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The Tory claim to be cleaner than Labour is already shot

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Brown hints 2p rise on fuel duty will be abandoned

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Tories vow to end Brown's tax 'rabbits from hats'

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Archbishop of Canterbury hits out at breakaway Anglicans

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British and US companies win Iraq oil contracts

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Bush hails Korean breakthrough

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Gordon Brown: one year on

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This Day in History - July 10th

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:46:11 GMT

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July 10, 1976

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members near Georgetown, Illinois, gathered for an ill-fated cross-burning. The meeting started an hour late. When the Klansmen went to plant their cross, it was too heavy to move. Three hours later, after the cross was chopped down to a portable size, it was planted, but would not light.
Finally, the Klan members gave up and went home.

1985

The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior (named after a North American Indian legend), was blown up in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, killing one and sinking the ship.

The Rainbow Warrior then

The Rainbow Warrior today

The attack had been authorized by French President François Mitterand because the environmental organization had plans to protest France’s nuclear bomb tests in the South Pacific.

The ugly history of the KKK

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This Day in History - July 9th

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:41:32 GMT

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July 9, 1917

During World War I, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, leaders of the No-Conscription League, spoke out against the war and the draft. Both were found guilty in New York City of conspiracy against the draft, fined $10,000 each and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with the possibility of deportation at the end of their terms.

1955

Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and nine other scientists warned that the development of weapons of mass destruction had created a choice between war and survival of the human species. The Russell-Einstein Manifesto was published in London and became the basis for the Pugwash Conference of scientists two years later.

“Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war? People will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war.
The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereignty....”

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Palestine: The State History Forgot

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:37:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Is it a joke of history that before there was the states of Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Syria, etc there was Palestine? Now they all exist and Palestine doesn't yet.

You will read that there never was a Palestine from a certain quarter and how can you miss what you never had. How you know they are lying! They'll say that as they are all Arabs that there's enough room for them all. It's like saying that the Scots Welsh and Irish are all Celts and one state would do them all! Yes, there was a time when such thinking was regarded as valid. If we had the Age of Imperialism back then the Brits might validly have a claim on the USA and most of the rest of the world.

In the present imperialism, if the existent holder of the gunboat diplomacy role, the USA, decided to sort out Palestine's present difficulties it could in a breath. Hopefully in a more honourable fashion that the last gunboat holder did.

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Mandate of Palestine

was a League of Nations Mandate created after the First World War when the Ottoman Empire was split up by the Treaty of Sèvres.

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The approximate borders of the British Mandate circa 1922. In September 1922 Britain organized the territory east of the Jordan river, "Transjordan," as an autonomous state.

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At the 1920 San Remo conference of the Allied Supreme Council, at which the Mandates were granted, the precise boundaries of all territories, including that of the British Mandate of Palestine, were left unspecified, to "be determined by the Principal Allied Powers"^[1] and were not completely finalized until four years later

However, it was clear that the boundary of Britain's mandate for Palestine was to extend eastward to the western boundary of its mandate for Mesopotamia.

In 1921, following Churchill's negotiations with Emir Abdullah, Transjordan (later Jordan) was accepted into the Mandate

separated from the area on which a Jewish National Home could be establish

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The axioms of evil. Are you sure?

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:05:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mandela: CIA Facilitated the Capture & TERROR Label.

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The axioms of evil

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Church Street bombing

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Mandela is no longer suspected of 'terrorism' - a term so politicised it is largely useless

Nelson Mandela was 44 years old when he was arrested in 1962, and subsequently imprisoned for leaving South Africa without a passport.

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Two years later, while serving this sentence, he was infamously convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to launch violent revolution, and spent his prime in prison as a result

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These facts are frequently rehearsed

More rarely noted is that Mandela's arrest was made possible by the CIA, which effectively handed him over to the South African security police by revealing his whereabouts and blowing his disguise

Mandela was a villain then. His anti-apartheid activism had a vaguely communist hue, and threatened to undermine a friendly South African regime

Thus was he condemned

As a terrorist, no less

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That much was made official during the Reagan era when Mandela and

African National Congress

were added to the US government's terror watch list

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This Day in History - July 8th

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:11:35 GMT

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July

July 8, 1777

Vermont became the first British colony in America to abolish slavery

1917

Women's Peace Crusade organized a protest against the first world war in Glasgow, Scotland

accompanied by bands and banners, wound their way toward the Glasgow Green where they merged into one demonstration of some 14,000 people

1959

Vietnamese guerillas ambushed two U.S. advisors, Maj. Dale Buis and Sgt. Chester Ovnand, are killed by Viet Minh guerrillas at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, making them the first U.S. casualties in Vietnam since 1946

1965

Roy Wilkins became the executive director of NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He had edited the organization’s magazine, Crisis, for fifteen years, and was one of the most articulate of civil rights leaders.

the Roy Wilkins Memorial in Minneapolis

1996

The International Court Of Justice declared that, in almost all circumstances, use of nuclear weapons is illegal.

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A War On Science: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design -BBC documentary - Part 1-6

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:46:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This documentary looks at the current situation surrounding the evolution vs. creationism/intelligent design in the USA.

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A War On Science: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design (1-6)

Some 150 years ago Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution which went against the belief humans and all life on earth was created by God. After years of controversy surrounding his theory evolution became accepted as the dominant scientific explanation for the creation of life and the world. However, a new challenge is launched against Darwin and his theory of evolution: intelligent design.
This documentary looks at the current situation surrounding the evolution vs. creationism/intelligent design in the USA.

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A War On Science: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design (2-6)

A War On Science: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design (3-6)

War on Science - intelligent design - Part 4

A War On Science: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design (5-6)

A War On Science: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design (6-6)

This Day in History - July 7th

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:56:01 GMT

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July

July 7, 1863

The first military draft was instituted in the U.S. to provide troops for the Union army in the American Civil War. Once called, a draftee had the opportunity to either pay a commutation fee of $300 to be exempt from a particular battle, or to hire a replacement that would exempt him from the entire war.

1903

Labor organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones led the "March of the Mill Children" over 100 miles from Philadelphia to Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's Long Island summer home in Oyster Bay, New York, to publicize the harsh conditions of child labor and to demand a 55-hour work week. It is during this march, on about the 24th, she delivered her famed "The Wail of the Children" speech. Roosevelt refused to see them.

1957

scientists held their first peace conference in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada

Bertrand Russell

Albert Einstein

Fifty years later

“Revitalizing Nuclear Disarmament” strategy workshop.

1977

States conducted its first test of the neutron bomb

1979

Black Hills

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