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Mon, Aug 25

1999—The FBI admits, six years after the fact, that the tear gas canisters it fired into David Koresh’s compound in Waco were incendiary—but still denies they started the fatal fire. 1995—Zany Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) announces his innovative new policy, sure to win the drug war: execute “27 or 30 or 35 people at one time.” 1985—Ronald Reagan admits that, as head of the Screen Actors Guild, he ratted on its members to the FBI. 1967—J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI sets out to “expose, disrupt, misdirect [and] discredit” the Black Panthers. 1967—A former Marine and ex-aide to George Lincoln Rockwell murders the founder …

Sun, Aug 24

2020—Rep. Katie Porter [D-Calif.]: “You don’t know the cost to mail a postcard?” Postmaster Louis DeJoy, laughing, confesses: “I don’t.” 1970—Graduate student Robert Fassnacht is killed and three others are injured when peaceniks blow up a physics lab at the U. of Wisconsin. 1967—Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin scatter 300 one-dollar bills on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Bedlam erupts as greedy capitalists scramble. 1964—I.F. Stone reports the U.S. government and press “have kept the full truth about the Tonkin Bay incidents from the American public.” 1963—The State Department orders Ambassador Lodge to encourage Vietnamese generals to stage a coup. 1954—Genial old Ike signs …

Better Old News Than New Lies, 269/25

The Elbe at Hamburg has crocodiles in it, thirteen having escaped from a menagerie steamer. A large paper mill at Neenah, Wis., took fire at 11:30 p.m. on the 22d inst. While it was surrounded by people the boilers exploded, shattering to atoms the building, which was of brick and three stories high, and killing eighteen persons, fatally wounding seven, and injuring many others. The money loss was $100,000; insurance $52,000. In a fight at a Baptist meeting at Monticello, Ga., Aug. 23d, two men were shot dead, one or two mortally wounded, and several badly hurt. Over thirty shots were fired. Those fellows evidently …

Dumbest Move Since Smoot-Hawley

To the editor; President Trump has issued his list of “final” reciprocal tariffs which became effective Aug. 7th. They apply to almost all goods exported to the U.S. from sixty countries and the European Union with base rates ranging from 10 percent to 50 percent. Along with previously applied sector tariffs, the U.S. now charges an average tariff of approximately 18 percent, the highest rate since the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Bill of 1930. Trump has levied the tariffs on countries that have a trade surplus with the U.S., making the false claim that surpluses indicate unfair advantage. Trump states that countries with a trade surplus have …

Volume 269, No. 25

To download a pdf of today’s New Hampshire Gazette, just click on this link. By way of enticement, here are a few selected items from our “Better Old News Than New Lies” department: The Elbe at Hamburg has crocodiles in it, thirteen having escaped from a menagerie steamer. In a fight at a Baptist meeting at Monticello, Ga., Aug. 23d, two men were shot dead, one or two mortally wounded, and several badly hurt. Over thirty shots were fired. Those fellows evidently belong to the church militant. Ogdensburgh customs officials have been arrested charged with stealing opium stored in the custom house. They are reformers. …

We end one fortnight, and begin the next, full of optimism… or something passing for optimism. And why not? As an apocryphal man once allegedly said, as he fell past the windows of the 33rd floor, we’re “doing just fine, so far.” Having thus established, through forceful assertion, that things are currently just ducky, we can now report that soon, thanks to the most amazing, most stupendous leadership anyone has ever seen—truthfully, there has never been anything like it—things will be Great. Again. And when is this Greatness expected to manifest itself? Our best guess is about two weeks. Why two weeks? Because, in this …