Tag: Volume 270 | No. 12 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Sat, March 7

1981—Stabbed at Disneyland, Mel C. Yorba becomes the Magic Kingdom’s first murder victim, because Disney employees feared the consequences if they called an ambulance. 1965—Civil rights marchers en route to Montgomery try to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. They’re mercilessly beaten by law enforcement officers and deputized goons. 1960—In front of the Union Leader building, JFK deftly paints the paper as irresponsible and its publisher as a liar. Next day he wins the primary. 1953—Newark, N.J. officials publicly burn allegedly lewd photos, movies, and books valued at $100,000. 1932—Dearborn, Mich. cops fire on Ford hunger marchers; five die. 1908—In Cincinnati, Mayor Mark Breith …

Consider the Source: Expats, Protest, and Imperial Optics

by Richard Balzano Americans are perhaps the planet’s most propagandized population. Exceptionalism, innocence, and decades of propaganda have diluted the general public’s ability to critically process international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The media is complicit, for when Washington sets its crosshairs on another government and primes the public for intervention, the empire’s ambitions are strategically branded in uplifting good-guy savior rhetoric and cheered by flag-waving mainstream media consumers insisting that this time we’ll be greeted as liberators. (Hint: we won’t… .) Protesters recently took to the streets in Iran and Venezuela, but not for the reasons we’re given by the mainstream media. Many of …

Fri, March 6

2011—After heavy rains, the Hooksett water treatment plant disgorges two million two-inch plastic discs into the Merrimack. By August they’re at Campobello Island and Rhode Island Sound, in 2014, the English Channel. 2007—Dick “Dick” Cheney’s Chief of Staff “Scooter” is found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice. 2003—President George W.[MD] Bush claims Saddam Hussein has “biological and chemical agents” that move “every 12 to 24 hours…in vehicles…in residential neighborhoods.” 1991—President George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush claims that his defeat of Saddam Hussein has ushered in a “new world order.” 1974—Russian crank Ayn Rand addresses West Point cadets on the topic, “Philosophy — Who Needs …

Thurs, March 5

2007—In Bloomington, Ill., Dee Riddle is startled by a meteorite crashing through her bedroom window. 2001—A Nor’easter begins which will dump 40 inches of snow on New Hampshire’s Rockingham County. 1963—Patsy Cline, singer of “I Fall to Pieces,” dies when her plane crashes. 1960—Alberto Korda takes “that photo” of Che Guevara. 1953—Car thief and armed robber Pearlie Miller, on the lam since an escape in 1948, on the FBI’s most wanted list for one day, is arrested at a diner in Somersworth, N.H. 1953—Everybody dies; this time, to the relief of many, it’s Joe Stalin. 1933—In Germany, the Nazi party wins a plurality in the …

Wed, March 4

2001—Fox broadcasts a “Lone Gunman” show in which U.S. agents remotely hijack an airliner and try to crash it into the World Trade Center. 1987—Ronald Reagan admits trading arms to Iran for hostages. 1960—La Coubre, a French munitions ship, explodes in Havana harbor. Between 75 and 100 people die. CIA involvement is “suspected.” 1937—The UAW wins a sit-down strike in Flint, Mich. 1933—“We have nothing to fear,” says FDR, “but fear itself.” 1929—Oscar Stanton de Priest [R-Ill.] becomes the first African-American to take a seat in Congress since Reconstruction. 1917—In Congress, Sen. Harry Lane (D-Ore.) prepares to stab Ollie James (D-Ky.) in the neck if …

Tues, March 3

2016—Dolt #45 asserts on live TV that his genitalia are adequate. 1991—LAPD cops savagely beat Rodney King—on tape, it turns out. 1981—Burlington, Vt. elects a new mayor: Socialist Bernie Sanders. 1969—An under-manned company of the 4th Division is sent after a crack NVA battalion west of Kontum; result: 47 percent end up KIA or MIA. 1934—John Dillinger busts out of the Crown Point, Ind. jail with a hand-carved wooden pistol and drives off in the sheriff’s new V-8 Ford. 1931—In Laredo, Texas, 17-year old Harlon Carter murders Ramón Casiano, 15, with a shotgun. Sentenced to three years, Carter does two; 46 years later he takes …