Thursday, January 30, 2025
Despite what you’ve heard, the Freedom Caucus ‘Five and Dime’ plan failed
Despite what you’ve heard, the Freedom Caucus ‘Five and Dime’ plan failed: The group's claim isn't true unless you count passing a piece of legislation that does nothing, Rep. Karlee Provenza argues.
Thursday, January 30, 1975. Rubik's Cube.
Professor Ernő Rubik applied at the Hungarian patent office for a patent on his cube.
One of the interesting things here is that a person living in a communist country, or at least Hungary, could get a patent.
He is still with us, and is a bibliophile and collector of plants.
The deadline for draft dodgers to apply for amnesty for evading service in the Vietnam War was extended from January 31 to March 1.
Amnesty required a year of volunteer service, which most weren't up for, so not all that many had applied for amnesty.
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Wednesday, January 29, 1975. American terrorism of the 1970s.
Thursday, January 30, 1945. The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
The Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk by the S-13 while evacuating civilians and military personnel from Gdynia. 9,400 people died.
Its the largest single loss of life from a single maritime disaster in history.
Hitler delivered his last public speech. He stated:
GERMAN COMPATRIOTS! NATIONAL SOCIALISTS!
Twelve years ago, when, as the leader of the strongest party, I was entrusted by the deceased Reich President, von Hindenburg, with the office of Chancellor, Germany found herself faced with the same situation internally as the one that today faces it externally. The forces of economic destruction and annihilation of the Versailles dictate led to a situation that had gradually become a permanent one-namely, the existence of almost 7,000,000 unemployed, 7,000,000 part-time workers, a destroyed farmers' class, a ruined industry and a commerce that had become correspondingly prostrate.
The German ports were nothing but ship cemeteries. The financial situation of the country threatened at any moment to lead to a collapse not only of the state but also of the provinces and of the communities. The decisive thing, however, was this: Behind this methodical destruction of Germany's economy, there stood the specter of Asiatic bolshevism. It was there then, just as much as it is there today.
In the years before our assumption of power the bourgeois world was incapable of opposing this development effectively on a small scale, just as it is incapable of doing so today on a large scale. Even after the collapse of 1918 this bourgeois world had failed to realize that an old world was vanishing and a new one being born and that there is no use in supporting and thus artificially maintaining what has been found to be decayed and rotten, but that something healthy must be substituted for it. A social structure that had become obsolete had cracked and every attempt to maintain it was bound to fail.
It was no different from today on a large scale, when the bourgeois states are doomed and when only clearly defined and ideologically consolidated national communities can survive the most difficult crisis Europe has seen in many centuries.
We were granted only six years of peace after Jan. 30, 1933. During these six years tremendous feats were achieved, and even greater ones were planned, so many and such huge ones that they caused envy among our democratic, impotent neighbors.
But this was decisive: That we succeeded during these six years, with superhuman exertions, to restore the German nation militarily-that is, to imbue it with the spirit of resistance and self-assertion rather than to equip it with a material war potential.
The horrid fate that is now taking shape in the east and that exterminates hundreds of thousands in the villages and market places, in the country and in the cities will be warded off in the end and mastered by us, with the utmost exertion and despite all setbacks and hard trials.
But if this is possible at all, it is only because a change has taken place in the German people since 1933. If Germany today were the Germany envisaged by the Versailles Treaty, Europe would long since have been swept away by the hurricane from Central Asia. It is hardly necessary to argue with those eternal blockheads who maintain that an unarmed Germany would, owing to its impotence, not have become the victim of this Jewish international world plot. Such reasoning would amount to a reversal of all laws of nature.
When was a helpless goose ever not eaten by the fox because she was constitutionally incapable of harboring aggressive designs? And when has a wolf ever reformed and become a pacifist because sheep do not wear armor? If there are still bourgeois states who earnestly believe this, that only proves how necessary it was to do away with an era that by its educational system managed to cultivate and maintain such notions, nay, even granted them political influence.
The fight against this Jewish Asiatic bolshevism had been raging long before National Socialism came into power. The only reason why it had not already overrun Europe during the years 1919-20 was that it was then itself too weak and too poorly armed.
Its attempt to eliminate Poland was not abandoned because of its compassion for the Poland of that time but only because of the lost battle before Warsaw. Its intention to annihilate Hungary was not discarded because they changed their minds, but because Bolshevist power could not be maintained militarily. Nor was the attempt to smash Germany given up because this achievement was not desired but because it proved impossible to overcome the natural resistance stamina of our people.
Thereupon Judaism began systematically to undermine our nation from within, and it found its best ally in those narrow-minded bourgeoisie who would not recognize that the era of a bourgeois world is ended and will never again return, that the epoch of unbridled economic liberalism has outlived itself and can only lead to its self-destruction and, above all, that the great tasks of our time can be mastered only under an authoritarian coordination of natural strength, based on the law of same rights for all and, thence, of same duties. On the other hand, the fulfillment of the same duties must necessarily entail an equality of rights.
Thus National Socialism, in the midst of gigantic economic, social and cultural reconstruction work, has also educationally given to the German people that armor without which no military values can be created.
The power of resistance of our nation has increased so tremendously since Jan. 30, 1933, that it cannot be compared any more with that of former times But the maintaining of this inner power of resistance is by the same token the safest guarantor of final victory. If Europe today finds itself stricken with a severe illness, the stricken countries will either overcome this illness by exerting their full and utmost power of resistance or they will succumb.
Yet the convalescent and survivor overcomes the climax of such an illness only in a crisis, a crisis that utterly weakens him, but in spite of all, it is all the more our immutable will not to shrink from anything in this battle for the salvation of our people from the most dreadful fate of all times and unflinchingly and faithfully to obey the law of the preservation of our nation.
God the Almighty has made our nation. By defending its existence we are defending His work. The fact that this defense is fraught with incalculable misery, suffering and hardships makes us even more attached to this nation But it also gives us that hard will needed to fulfill our duty even in the most critical struggle; that is, not only to fulfill our duty toward the decent, noble Germans, but also our duty toward those few infamous ones who turn their backs on their people.
In this fateful battle there is therefore for us but one command: He who fights honorably can thus save his own life and the lives of his loved ones. But he who, because of cowardice or lack of character, turns his back on the nation shall inexorably die an ignominious death.
That National Socialism succeeded in awakening and strengthening this spirit in our German people is a great achievement. Only when this mighty world drama will have died away and the bells of peace are ringing will realization come of what the German people owes to this spiritual renaissance: No less than its existence in this world.
Only a few months and weeks ago Allied statesmen openly outlined the German fate. Thereupon they were warned by some newspapers to be more intelligent and rather to promise something, even though nobody intended to keep this promise later.
As an inexorable National Socialist and a fighter for my people, I now wish to assure these statesmen once and for all that every attempt at influencing National Socialist Germany through slogans, lies and distortions presupposes a simple-mindedness unknown to the Germany of today. The fact that political activities and lies are inextricably linked in a democracy is of no consequence. Decisive is that every promise given by these statesmen to a people is today quite meaningless, because they are not in a position ever to fulfill any such promise. This is as if one sheep promised another sheep to protect it against a tiger.
I herewith repeat my prophecy: England will not only not be in a position to control bolshevism but her development will unavoidably evolve more and more toward the symptoms of this destructive disease.
The democracies are unable to rid themselves now of the forces they summoned from the steppes of Asia.
All the small European nations ,who capitulated, confident of Allied assurances, are facing complete annihilation. It is entirely uninteresting whether this fate will befall them a little earlier or later; what counts is its implacability. The Kremlin Jews are motivated only by tactical considerations; whether in one case they act with immediate brutality or, in another case, with some reticence, the result will always be the same.
Germany, however, shall never suffer this fate. The guarantor thereof is the victory achieved twelve years ago within our country. Whatever our enemies may plot, whatever sufferings they may inflict on our German cities, on German landscapes and, above all, on our people, all that cannot bear any comparison with the irreparable misery, the tragedy that would befall us if the plutocratic-Bolshevistic conspiracy were victorious.
Therefore, it is all the more necessary on this twelfth anniversary of the rise to power to strengthen the heart more than ever before and to steel ourselves in the holy determination to wield the sword, no-matter where and under what circumstances, until final victory crowns our efforts.
On this day I do not want to leave any doubt about something else. Against an entire hostile world I once chose my road, according to my inner call, and strode it, as an unknown and nameless man, to final success; often they reported I was dead and always they wished I were, but in the end I remained victor in spite of all. My life today is with an equal exclusiveness determined by the duties incumbent on me.
Combined, they are but one: To work for my people and to fight for it. Only He can relieve me of this duty Who called me to it. It was in the hand of Providence to snuff me out by the bomb that exploded only one and a half meters from me on July 20, and thus to terminate my life's work. That the Almighty protected me on that day I consider a renewed affirmation of the task entrusted to me.
In the years to come I shall continue on this road, uncompromisingly safeguarding my people's interests, oblivious to all misery and danger, and filled with the holy conviction that God the Almighty will not abandon him who, during all his life, had no desire but to save his people from a fate it had never deserved, neither by virtue of its number nor by way of its importance.
Therefore I now appeal to the entire German people and, above all, to my old fellow-fighters and to all the soldiers to gird themselves with a yet greater, harder spirit of resistance, until we can again-as we did before-put on the graves of the dead of this enormous struggle a wreath inscribed with the words: "And yet you were victorious."
Therefore I expect every German to do his duty to the last and that he be willing to take upon himself every sacrifice he will be asked to make; I expect every able-bodied German to fight with the complete disregard for his personal safety; I expect the sick and the weak or those otherwise unavailable for military duty to work with their last strength; I expect city dwellers to forge the weapons for this struggle and I expect the farmer to supply the bread for the soldiers and workers of this struggle by imposing restrictions upon himself; I expect all women and girls to continue supporting this struggle with utmost fanaticism.
In this appeal I particularly address myself to German youth. In vowing ourselves to one another, we are entitled to stand before the Almighty and ask Him for His grace and His blessing. No people can do more than that everybody who can fight, fights, and that everybody who can work, works, and that they all sacrifice in common, filled with but one thought: to safeguard freedom and national honor and thus the future of life.
However grave the crisis may be at the moment, it will, despite everything, finally be mastered by our unalterable will, by our readiness for sacrifice and by our abilities. We shall overcome this calamity, too, and this fight, too, will not be won by central Asia but by Europe; and at its head will be the nation that has represented Europe against the East for 1,500 years and shall represent it for all times: our Greater German Reich, the German nation.
It was carried on German radio. The Red Army was only 90 miles from Berlin.
The German movie industry released Kolberg, premiering the film in Berlin. It was about the city holding out against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, perhaps missing the point that the French defeated the German principalities by and large and used Germans as troops in their war in Russia. . . which should have taught certain lessons.
Released POWs.
The U.S. Army conducted the Raid at Cabanatuan which freed more than 552 prisoners of war. The raid was conducted, as mentioned here recently, by US Army Rangers, as well as Philippine Alamo Scouts, supported by Philippine guerillas.
Italian women were granted the full franchise.
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met at Malta, in preparation for the Yalta Conference which was to occur the following week.
Churchill had hoped that he and Roosevelt could develop a united front against Stalin in the upcoming Yalta Conference, but it did not occur. Roosevelt was naive about the Soviet Union and Communism and in fact the Roosevelt Administration had been infiltrated at relatively high levels by Soviet sympathizers if not outright agents such that they were capable of some influence on the executive.
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Monday, January 29, 1945. Königsberg taken.
Friday, January 30, 1925. Antitoxin runs out in Nome.
Diphtheria antitoxin ran out in Nome. The serum run had reached Kaltag.
Turkey exiled Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Constantine VI to Greece
The Khost Rebellion in Afghanistan ended with the reign of King Amanullah Khan intact.
A national news media frenzy started when Cave explorer Floyd Collins became trapped in Sand Cave, Kentucky. The story went on for days, but did not conclude happily.
High winds blew a train off of a viaduct in County Donegal, Ireland, killing four people.
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Thursday, January 29, 1925. 裁軍 and Flapper Fanny.
Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1930s, 1940s, Cartoons, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Shanghai, The Roaring Twenties, Women
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 1975. American terrorism of the 1970s.
The Weather Underground bombed the State Department building in Washington, D.C.
Logo of the Weather Underground
The far left terrorist organization came out of the chaos of the 1960s which continued on, now mostly forgotten, into a violent early 1970s. We're on the verge, I fear, of eclipsing that era in violence, although ironically the party attacking the government now is the populist now in power. Given as the path we're currently on, in lots of ways, can't continue, there's real reason for concern about where the Trump interregnum's violence against the United States will lead, and if it will result in further societal violence.
In interesting aspect of this is what Gene Shepherd noted long ago, extremist meet in their extremism. We've never had extremist in power before, however.
The group took its name from Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues, which ironically is associated in my mind with well to do old lawyers who came of age in the 1960s singing it, as if any of their later lives reflected what they claimed to have believed in earlier days.
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Monday, January 29, 1945. Königsberg taken.
The 3d Belorussian Front attacked Königsberg, or "the Kings Mountain" in German. The Lithuanian city is now occupied by Russia as a Baltic access enclave and called Kaliningrad.
Dresden was taken by the Red Army.
The U-763 was scuttled after being damaged in a Soviet air raid.
"Four scouts of a reconnaissance squad of the 14th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, 87th Infantry Division, 3rd U.S. Army, race through snow-covered field to avoid enemy small arms fire near Malscheid. They are headed for protection of bomb crater in the field. L to R: Tec 5 Ralph Case, Cpl. Edwin Kral, Pvt. Charles Goddard and Cpl. Richard Christensen. 29 January, 1945. Malscheid, Belgium. 87th Infantry Division."
The US 1st Army took Bullingen.
Erich von Manstein attempted to meet with Hitler, who refused to receive him. Von Manstein was now himself part of the refugee Prussian population.
Tom Selleck was born in Detroit.
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Sunday, January 28, 1945. Katowice and Leszno and Roza Shanina dies of her wounds.
Labels: 1940s, 1945, Artillery, Burma, Burma Road, China, Eastern Front, Italian Army, Ledo Road, Red Army, Ruhr, The roles of men and women, U.S. Air Force, War Crimes, Women, World War Two
Thursday, January 29, 1925. 裁軍 and Flapper Fanny.
About 20 people were killed when representatives of the Fengtian Clique met resistance attempting to disarm about 1,000 defeated Jiangsu troops, who apparently weren't quite as defeated as thought.
Flapper Fanny Says was on day three of its new syndicated run. The cartoon would run until 1940, during which time Fanny ceased being a flapper. It had two different cartoonist illustrate it, both of them women.
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Wednesday, January 28, 1925. Russian Mercenaries
Labels: 1920s, 1925, China, Chinese Warlord Era, It was because of the Russian Revolution, Mercenaries, Shanghais in Shanghai.
When my father was almost old enough to retire, my mother became severely ill, ending that for the time being.
Now Trump is going to ruin it for me.
Well, in my family, the men die young. There's always that.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Medicaid Portals are down in all fifty states.
This due to Trump's funds distribution freeze.
Not quite apparent how that is making America great again.
Tuesday, January 28, 1975. Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown.
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, premiered.
Japan and the Soviet Union signed an agreement for a joint venture of drilling for oil on Sakhalin Island in which Japan was to receive "a significant discount on half of the pumped oil" for ten years in exchange for funding the project.
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Thursday, January 23, 1975. Failed tariff.
Sunday, January 28, 1945. Katowice and Leszno and Roza Shanina dies of her wounds.
The Red Army took Katowice and Leszno.
Female Red Army sniper Roza Shanina died of wounds sustained from artillery fire the prior day. She is reported to have killed 50 Axis soldiers during her service. She was 20 years of age.
While not really well depicted in film, artillery was the great killer of the Second World War, not rifle fire or close combat. This was so much the case that for a long period of time after the war artillery came to be seen as the predominant conventional combat arm, with this really only changing after the US began to appreciate the lessons of the Vietnam War which showed a shift back to close combat wounds.
The Germans killed Italian generals Giuseppe Andreoli, Emanuele Balbo Bertone, Ugo Ferrero, Carlo Spatocco, Alberto Trionfi, Alessandro Vaccaneo in Kuźnica Żelichowska.
The 8th Air Force conducted raids over the Ruhr.
The first supplies to cross the Ledo Road enter China.
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Saturday, January 27, 1945. Auschwitz Liberated.
Labels: 1940s, 1945, Auschwitz, Burma, Collaborators, Philippines, Raid at Cabanatuan, Red Army, The Holocaust, World War Two
Wednesday, January 28, 1925. Russian Mercenaries in Shanghai.
Russian mercenaries captured Shanghai for the Fengtian clique.
Displaced Russian military forces were a menace in China for some time. The refugee population was relatively large, and there's still a population of Russians in China.
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Tuesday, January 27, 1925. The 1925 Serum Run.
Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1925 Serum Run, Alaska, Animals, Chile, Disease, Dogs, Heroes, Iditarod, Medicine
Monday, January 27, 2025
Saturday, January 27, 1945. Auschwitz Liberated.
The Red Army liberated Auschwitz and the full horror of the German murderous oppression came into very sharp focus.
The Red Army also took Memel.
It was within 100 miles of Berlin.
The US 3d Army crossed the Our and took Oberhausen.
Charles Maurras, editor of Action Francaise, was sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration. He was released shortly before his death in 1952, but remained very far right in his views.
The Ledo Road was cleared in Burma.
"Men of C and E Cos., 6th Ranger Bn., are shown advancing toward the Japanese prisoner of war camp at Cabanatuan, Luzon, P.I. 27 January, 1945. 6th Ranger Battalion." The story of the behind the lines raid has been committed to a book and movie, The Great Raid. This Ranger Battalion was unique in that it was not an all volunteer Ranger unit from the onset, but rather started off partially as a pack mortar battalion.
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Friday, January 26, 1945. Audie Murphy.
Tuesday, January 27, 1925. The 1925 Serum Run.
Two mushers and 150 dogs began the relay transportation of diphtheria antitoxin to the remote town of Nome, Alaska
Gunnar Kaasen with his lead dog Balto.
The event became the basis of the Iditarod sled dog race.
Leonhard Seppala with his dogs, lead dog, Togo, on the far left. Togo was the lead dog in the most dangerous portions of the trial.
The January Junta was established in Chile to restore Arturo Alessandrio to power.
Thursday, January 27, 1825. Origin of the Trail of Tears.
President James Monroe approved a plan for Native American removal approved by the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun.
Native Americans east of the Mississippi were to voluntarily exchange their lands for lands in the west, with the government seemingly failing to appreciate that there were already Native Americans in the west, and that voluntarily under those circumstances wasn't very voluntary.
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Thursday, January 20, 1825. The Treaty of Washington City.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: If Trump isn't demented, what is he?
Lex Anteinternet: If Trump isn't demented, what is he?:
And Trump himself proposes an answer, albeit one with in the questioned range.
To this:
He's a GoodfellaNot literally, but rather by association.Trump developed his real estate business in New York at a time at which if you were going to get by, you were going to deal with the mob. If he has just as big of "big brain" as he claims, then he would have picked up how mobsters work, which to some extent is on bluff and threat.The best example is from the movie The Godfather, which was closely based on the real behavior of the New York mafia. When they wanted Jack Wolz to do something, they put a severed horse's head, from a beloved horse, in his bed. Wolz, who wasn't harmed himself, caved to their demands.Trump constantly makes bluffs and threats, and in fact quite often his adversaries give him what he wants. That may be his undignified and reprehensible negotiation style. If a person is immoral enough, and unprincipled enough, that works. . . right up until it doesn't.There's no "art" to this deal. It's brutish.And, of course, sooner or later, it doesn't work.And when that day comes, you have no friends.Indeed, somebody ought to give Trump the test now. When he says "I need this" somebody ought to say, come and get it.Harold Hardrada asked Harold Godwinson "How much of England will you give me?". Godwinson replied "six feet, because you are bigger than other men". In this administration, and soon, somebody is going to tell Trump "fuck you, and the horse that you rode in on", and the whole bluff thing just goes down the tubes. Once you can't back a bluff up, it's implodes really quickly.And then, you have no friends at all.Here, for example, Denmark ought to tell the US to get its Space Farce base out within a few days. We'd have to. And if I governed Panama, the Canal would actually be run by the Chinese within a few days.Whatcha Gonna About It?Not much.And his supporters?They'll just all claim they were never actually for him.That's not the only possibility.
He gives us this:
January 26, 2025
Okay, there is now this by the person who (illegitimately and illegally) claims to be the head of the most powerful nation on Earth.
No serious nation does this. The man is a dangerous fool.
25th Amendment.
Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Of course, this is aimed at the American public, with the presumption that being a mob tough guy is cute or admirable, rather than this depiction being childish and repressible.
The American public may disagree, in which case, truly, it has become childish.
When we are past this era, and it won't be soon enough, the long lasting American anti intellectual streak in the culture has to end. Yes, some people really are smarter than other. No, collective widom doesn't trump intellect. People need to get educated.
The thing is, being a pretend mobster doesn't cut much in the real world. And most people, even in American society which childishly admires criminals, don't want to be one.
This will not end well.
What happened, in the fictional world he makes reference to?
Everyone died. Everyone's life was destroyed. And their souls were destroyed as well.
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