Tag: Volume 270 | No. 25 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Wed, Aug 26

2016—S.F.49er Colin Kaepernick protests against racial injustice by sitting while the National Anthem plays. 2014—At an Omaha Wendy’s, cops shoot a suspect “armed” with a fake pistol. Also killed: a soundman for “COPS,” which was on the scene. 1980—Ex-Luftwaffe pilot John Birges, trying to recoup his gambling losses, plants a half-ton bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nev. 1969—Five men from New Hampshire’s 197th Field Artillery are killed days before leaving Vietnam when their truck detonates a land mine. 1968—Mayor Richard Daley welcomes Democrats to the 1968 Democratic National Convention while his cops prepare to bust heads outside. 1967—Burt Munro, a 68-year old Kiwi, …

Tues, 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 …

Mon, 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 …

Sun, Aug 23

2010—Gareth Williams, money-laundering investigator for MI6, is found dead inside a locked gym bag in a London “safe house.” Metropolitan Police rule he died accidentally, alone. 2000—The 2nd Circuit Court rules that aspiring cops can be denied a job on grounds that they’re too smart. 1985—San Francisco cops wince as Mayor Dianne Feinstein reveals their evidence in the “Night Stalker” case. 1971—Future Supreme Court Justice Powell releases The Memo: it exhorts billionaires to conspire and, using propaganda, negate the New Deal. 1968—Yippees nominate Pigasus J. Pig for President, saying, “if we can’t have him in the White House, we can have him for breakfast.” 1966—Robert …

Greetings From the Forest

[No salutation necessary.] I’m sending you some stamps in hopes that it will help with the costs of mailing out copies of the Gazette. I don’t have to tell you the cost of one stamp!!! I thought I was going to pass out in the Post Office lobby when they told me! It’s like Old Willie said: “The World’s all going to ‘Pot;’ Whether we like it or not. The Best I can tell the World’s going to hell and we’re sure going to miss it a lot. All the Whisky in Lynchburg, Tenn. ain’t going to hit the spot. I’ve got a hundred dollar …

Ortega, Elections, and the Context Western Media Won’t Print

by Richard Balzano “Crackdown.” “Democratic backsliding.” “Authoritarian grip.” Journalists persecuted, opposition parties crushed—and now, according to the latest eruption from the Western press, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has abolished elections. The peripheral left offers another interpretation: Ortega is preventing U.S.-backed political organizations implicated in subversion from participating in elections, while Nicaragua has restricted media organizations with subversive ties to Washington amid ongoing U.S. hostility. Whether one approves is beside the point. Nicaragua is behaving as though the United States poses a threat to Nicaraguan sovereignty. How could they possibly have gotten that idea? First, the elections. During his July 19th address commemorating the Sandinista Revolution, …