The United Nations voted to decline South Korea's application for membership in the UN.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for ten years with one day to spare.
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Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 5, 1975. Ford restores Lee's citizenship. South Africa enters Angola.
President Ford signed a Senate resolution restoring the citizenship of traitor Robert E. Lee.
South African forces drove ten miles into Angolan territory in reaction to the increased presence of Cuban troops in the country.
By Sam van den Berg - Image courtesy of Sam van den Berg, from Port Elizabeth, CC BY 2.5 za, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38327611
This is one of those news stories I can recall watching on the nightly news when I was a kid.
Fairfax County, Virginian K9 Officer Bandit was killed in the line of duty chasing a suspect.
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Friday, August 1, 1975. The Helsinki Accords.
Wednesday, August 5 1925. Plaid Cymru.
The Welsh independence party Plaid Cymru was founded. At the time its goal was to make Welsh the official language of Wales.
Sefydlwyd y blaid annibyniaeth Gymreig Plaid Cymru. Ar y pryd ei nod oedd gwneud y Gymraeg yn iaith swyddogol Cymru.
Turkey's President Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) divorced his wife of less than two years, Latife Uşaki, after her public efforts to in favor of women's rights and to encourage their independence on choice of clothing.
She'd retreat into life long seclusion, passing away in 1975.
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Tuesday, August 4, 1925. Marines leaving . . .
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 99th edition. Sydney Sweeney has great jeans, and genes.
Sydney Sweeney in American Eagle denim, part of the ad campaign causing all the furor. The outfit itself is very 1970s retro, which is more than a little ironic in context. Given the commentary, this is posted with the fair use exception.
Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color. My jeans are blue.
Sydney Sweeney in American Eagle ad.
Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad shows a cultural shift toward whiteness.
CNBC headline.
Q: Your administration has been very open about the fact that American women are not having enough babies. There was an ad this week. Sydney Sweeney, an actress, was in an ad for Blue Jeans. Does America need to see more ads like that? And maybe fewer ads with people like Dylan Mulvaney on the cover?
Rob Finnerty in an interview of Donald Trump.
First, let us state something plainly.
Sydney Sweeney is hot.
Way hot.
And she looks good in the American Eagle Jeans, which are sort of retro 1970s denim really.
Really good.
So why are people having a fit?
Well, it's a really interesting tour through the culture, really.
Using attractive women to sell clothing is nothing new. Shoot, using attractive women to sell anything, is in fact not new.
So what's the big deal.
Basically, when you get right down to it, the big deal is two things. First of all, Sweeney is white. Secondly, this is a return to an obvious sex sells approach to selling that we haven't seen since the early 1990s.
The peak of the sex sells approach was really the 1970s. Coincident with the rise of feminism was the absolute exploitation of women in advertising. Calvin Klein really went to town with Brooke Shields, who was sexualized so young in her career that her image, in the movie industry, was basically a near example of child pornography. But in advertising, he wasn't the only one. There were in fact advertisements that would outright shock most Americans now as they used young teenage girls in sexualized poses. It was repulsive.
That seemed to have run its course by the mid 1980s, but even then, in the 1990s, Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith modeled jeans, in her case Guess jeans.
The 90s, however, also saw the really fruity elements of the American come into cultural power, and a lot of that gave us, unfortunately, what we have today in terms of a massive right wing populist reaction. In modeling, left wing media masters insisted that models not be, if possible, smoking hot young women and that instead they should be culturally diverse, and in some cases, fat.
Now comes this, in the midst of a real swing to cultural conservatism, but not culturalism of the Patrick Dineen type, but of the Dukes of Hazzard fan type.
What Sweeney said, quite frankly, is actually completely true. Genes are passed down from parents to offspring. Genes in fact determine external traits like hair color and eye color. That is a fact.
And, more than we like to admit, they determine a massive amount of our personality traits. If you hang around a family gathering and don't find people who have the same deep interests as you do, the same sense of humor, etc., you might wish to check to see if you are in the right place. Sure, some of that might be due to environment, you are all from the same family, but some not. It's well known that many of the traits that impact our personalities are in fact genetic.
So what's up with the upset.
Well she's white, as are 60.5% of the American population. That is who you are trying to sell to much of the time. The liberal left just can't have that.
If the same clothing promotion was being done by Anok Yai, the left wouldn't be having a fit, the right would be, and for the exact same reason.
Which is exactly why, if I ran American Eagle, I'd have Anok Yai join in the campaign.
Of course, that isn't the only reason people are enjoying being upset. They're also upset as the ads openly focus on Sweeney's assets, including having the camera in the jean jacket ad focus on her boobs until she intervenes to instruct the viewer to look at her face.
Well, gentle reader, that portrays reality. All the feminist reactions in the world are never going to stop men from observing cleavage when its right there. We're wired that way, and for a reason.
Which brings us to the next point. In the right wing defense, Trump, in a friendly Fox interview, was asked the bizarre question "Does America need to see more ads like that? And maybe fewer ads with people like Dylan Mulvaney on the cover?" after the pronatalist views of the far right were referenced.
That was weird.
The US, and for that matter the entire Western World, does not have a demographic crisis like the far right pronatalist like to imagine. But the suggestion that men are going to look at Sydney Sweeney and suddenly feel aroused and go out and procreate is truly odd.
But even this does give us a glimpse into how modern Western society has really gone off the rails No man who wants to "transition" is ever going to look like Sydney Sweeney. Nor will any of them suffer from the Girl Flu every month. That's reality.
Anyhow. Givc the woman a break.
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The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Third Edition and Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 98th edition. The Perverts and Fellow Travelers Issue.
Friday, August 1, 2025
Friday, August 1, 1975. The Helsinki Accords.
The Helsinki Accords were signed by the leaders of 35 nations in Finland, including the 15 member states of NATO and the 7 Warsaw Pact nations.
The text: The Helsinki Accords.
The Satellite Instructional Television Experiment commenced in India. It brought television for the first time to 2,500 villages in six Indian states and territories.
"KNM ER 3733", a woman of the species Homo ergaster, assuming that's a distinct from homo erectus, which it probably is not, was discovered by Bernard Ngeneo. She'd passed away 1,750,000 prior.
The Republic of Cabinda declared independence, ineffectively.
Flag of Cabinda.
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Wednesday, July 30, 1975. Hoffa goes missing.
Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa was reported missing.
Hoffa was almost certainly murdered by Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. although that is disputed.
Be that as it may, in this era, certain unions were rather close to the mob.
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Tuesday, July 29, 1975. A Nigerian Coup.
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Tuesday, July 29, 1975. A Nigerian Coup.
The Nigerian government was overthrown in a coup.
The Chinese Army, the Communist one, killed hundreds of rebels and civilians in the Yunnan Province. Most of those killed were Muslim Hui's, of which 900 were killed in the village of Shadian. 400 Red Chinese soldiers were killed in the action.
The OAS voted to lift its embargo on Cuba.
Turkey took control of remaining US facilities in the country.
The US made its first delivery of weapons to UNITA in Angola.
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Monday, July 28, 1975. Turkey acts.
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Monday, July 28, 1975. Turkey acts.
Turkey took control of US bases at Karamürsel, Sinop, Pirinçlik, Bebasi and Karaburun, all intelligence gathering sites, and indicated it was set to take control of twenty more the following day.
American illustrator Donald Mattison died at age 70.
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Study for Martinson mural Indiana Farming (1937).
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Sunday, July 27, 1975. Thailand gives the US military the door.
Thailand terminated military agreements with the US and ordered US forces out of hte country by March 20, 1975.
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Tuesday, July 22, 1975. The beginning of the tragedy of Afghanistan.
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Tuesday, July 22, 1975. The beginning of the tragedy of Afghanistan.
The Mujahideen began an unsuccessful revolt against the government of President Mohammed Daoud Khan in Afghanistan.
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Monday, July 21, 1975. Title IX.
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Monday, July 21, 1975. Title IX.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 went into effect.
Senator Birch Bayh exercises with Title IX athletes at Purdue University during the 1970s.
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Friday, July 18, 1975. Operation IA Feature.
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Friday, July 18, 1975. Operation IA Feature.
President Ford communicated to Congress, secretly, his decision to authorize $6,000,000 for a CIA operation to combat Communists troops somewhere, but he didn't say where.
Angola was where.
Railroad workers and railroads came to an agreement, averting a strike.
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Thursday, July 17, 1975. United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project succeeds.
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Thursday, July 17, 1975. United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project succeeds.
An American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docked in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
Occurring at 3:19 Eastern Time, Colonel Leonov welcomed General Stafford with the English words, “Glad to see you.” General Stafford, replyied in Russian,“A, zdraystvuite, ochen rad vas videt” (“Ah, hello, very glad to see you.”).
Protestors thew a Molotov cocktail and Crown Prince Akihito, and his wife, Princess Michito, on Okinawa.
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Wednesday, July 9, 1975. The start of the Angolan Civil War.
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Wednesday, July 9, 1975. The start of the Angolan Civil War.
Angolan liberation movements broke out in civil war, with the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), attacking the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), led by Holden Roberto. The country had not yet officially received independence.
Dutch photographer and artist Bas Jan Ader left Cape Cod in an attempt to make an unassisted voyage from west to east of the North Atlantic Ocean. He would disappear and never be heard from again.
Rock musician John Anthony Gillis, better known as Jack White, was born.
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Thursday, July 3, 1975. The U.S. Civil Service Commission ended restrictions on hiring homosexuals.
Thursday, July 9, 1925. Money to fight the Rifs.
The French Chamber of Deputies approved an additional 183 million francs to fight the Rif War in Morocco, where France shouldn't have been in the first place.
Oops, not the Riffs, the Riffians.*
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The obscure references is to 1979's The Warriors.
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Wednesday, July 8, 1925. Riffian assault.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Sunday, July 8, 1945. The Camp Salina Massacre.
Private Clarence V. Bertucci murdered nine German POWs at the POW camp at Salina, Utah. He fired a Browning M1917 into their lodgings, only stopping when he ran out of ammunition.
Nineteen were wounded.
Bertucci, who had a previous court martial from his time in the UK, did not deny the killing and was court martialed and found insane. The New Orleans native died in New Orleans in 1969 at age 48.
Australian troops landed at Penajam, Borneo.
From Sarah Sundin's blog:
Today in World War II History—July 8, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—July 8, 1945: Only international sub-to-sub rescue in history: USS Cod rescues crew of stranded Dutch submarine O-19 in the South China Sea.
The USS Saipan was launched.
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She's serve until 1970.
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Saturday, July 7, 1945. Japanese killings.
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Thursday, July 3, 2025
Thursday, July 3, 1975. The U.S. Civil Service Commission ended restrictions on hiring homosexuals.
The U.S. Civil Service Commission ended restrictions on hiring homosexuals.
It's almost shocking to think that there was such a ban, but indeed there was. The stated purpose of the ban was to prevent embarrassment to the agency.
Las Vegas endured a terrible flash flood.
Alex Trebek before Jeopardy, in an example from today:
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Wednesday, July 2, 1975. Dead Savage Spring.
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Wednesday, July 2, 1975. Dead Savage Spring.
A child fishing with his father found the body of Old Faithful Lodge cook Donald Watt Cressey, the senior cook at Old Faithful Lodge in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park.
Cressey had died in the same hot spring in which Yellowstone Park concessioner employee Brian Parsons had been fatally burned in July 1967.
After Cressey's death the hot spring was named "Dead Savage Spring" by the U.S. Geological Survey, "savage" being Yellowstone Park lexicon for a park concessioner employee.
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Tuesday, July 1, 1975. ARPANET.
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