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Album Reviews: Jimi Hendrix Experience "Hollywood Bowl: August 18, 1967" / Scream "DC Special"

Jimi Hendrix Hollywood Bowl: August 18, 1967

Another year, another Jimi Hendrix Experience release just before the holiday season! Since beginning this blog, I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing loads of Hendrix albums including the posthumous album Both Sides of the Sky, the 50th anniversary Deluxe Edition of Electric Ladyland, the 50th anniversary re-release of his live album Band of Gypsys, his live box set Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts, the live album and movie Live in Maui, 2021’s Record Store Day release Paris ‘67, and last year's Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969. This week Legacy is releasing a never-before-released (or bootlegged) live album of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's concert at Hollywood Bowl just before they became famous with Hollywood Bowl: August 18, 1967.

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At this concert, the Experience were opening for The Mamas and the Papas. Attendees were mainly there to see the headliners. Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut album Are You Experienced would be released in the U.S. five days later on August 23, 1967 (it had been released in the U.K. on May 5, 1967). By this point, the band had played a legendary show at the Monterey Pop Festival and opened for The Monkees. This is literally the moment just before they got famous. The trio were bigger than the sum of their parts: Hendrix on guitar, Noel Redding on bass, and Mitch Mitchell on drums. There were quite a few songs from Are You Experienced, but there are also loads of covers including favorites by The Beatles (“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”), Howlin’ Wolf (“Killing Floor”), Bob Dylan (“Like a Rolling Stone”), The Troggs (“Wild Thing”) and Muddy Waters (“Catfish Blues”). A live album would pretty much be enough to please a lot of fans, but this one is cool because it's not some overly-bootlegged concert so there's a sense of discovery, but also the covers make this feel like you're getting something new and different. There's nothing like hearing a band the very second they became famous and here it is!

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4 out of 5 stars

Scream DC Special

Bursting out the DC hardcore punk scene in the 80s was the legendary Scream. The Reagan administration gave the Washington DC punk community quite a bit to rant about in the 80s and Scream were among the biggest of that whole scene, along with Fugazi, Bad Brains and Henry Rollins (the list, of course, goes on). In my friend Scott Crawford's 2014 documentary Salad Days about the DC punk scene in the 80s, he interviewed multiple members of Scream. Singer Pete Stahl and his brother / guitarist Franz Stahl, bassist Skeeter Thompson were a tight knit unit with original drummer Kent Stax. After Stax left the band in 1986, his replacement was teenage drummer Dave Grohl, who truly brought it. I was a big fan of the band's albums No More Censorship and Fumble and I have them in my record collection. After the band broke up (as we all know), Grohl joined Nirvana and brought that punk energy he honed in Scream to the masses. The Fumble album had been recorded in 1989 but was finally released in 1993. There were a few reunions here and there and Grohl has continued to work with the members of Scream (i.e. Franz was in Foo Fighters from 1997-1999). In 2009, the original lineup of Scream reunited and they even recorded with Stax on drums at Grohl's Studio 606 for an EP. But we haven't actually had a studio album from Scream since Fumble, which was 30 years ago. This week, Dischord Records is releasing DC Special featuring the original lineup. In September Stax died at age 61, making this his final album with Scream.

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With the Fumble album it felt like the band was really evolving. The punk sound was there, but there was also a post-punk sound coming through. With all of their collective outside projects, i.e. Franz in Foo Fighters and DYS, Pete and Franz in Wool, Pete in Goatsnake and Earthlings?, Skeeter's solo work, etc - this band is way more than just an 80s punk band. This album incorporates a lot more styles and even some melodic tendencies. It's a nice full circle moment that this album got recorded with Stax before he died and that Grohl made a guest appearance. There's loads of other DC punk veterans appearing here including Dischord Records founder and Fugazi / Minor Threat singer Ian MacKaye. This is album is a treat for fans and enough to make you want to, well, scream!

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4 out of 5 stars

#album reviews #jimi hendrix #jimi hendrix experience #live album #1967 #noel redding #mitch mitchell #scream #pete stahl #franz stahl #dave grohl #kent stax #skeeter thompson #dc punk #classic rock #music nerd

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ladysophy · 2 years

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The Dark Side of President Lincoln and the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Note: You may have a few symptoms of cognitive dissonance. However, I will not tolerate hate mail nor trollish behavior. So if you don’t like what you see in this post, stop reading it and go along your way.

In American public schools, American kids from various societal backgrounds were and are still being taught that President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was a hero who saved the Union from those evil, backward and slave owning Southerns who seceded illegally in the name of abolishing slavery. I was certainly taught this when I was in school from the late 90s to the late 2000s.

Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s unfortunately a bunch of BS. First, Lincoln was indifferent to the plight of slaves/free blacks at best and thought whites were superior to blacks at worst. In fact, he would have had all blacks deported to either Africa, Latin America and/or the Caribbean if he hadn’t been assassinated. He also didn’t campaign against slavery despite popular belief! He also wasn’t a huge fan of Native Americans/Indigenous Americans either.

Second, Lincoln had people in the North imprisoned if they criticized him, his policies, the war, and/or just wanting peace all together. Some sources mentioned that some people were jailed for not saying his name in church! This included some elected officials too. One elected official was placed on some kind of house arrest for criticizing Lincoln overturning Habeas corpus. Another one was deported to Canada for being vocally against his policies. Former President Franklin Pierce’s reputation was ruined in the press’s eyes when he criticized Lincoln’s policies and was corresponding with the Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis during the war. Lincoln even had his portrait removed from display in the White House! Even former President Millard Fillmore’s reputation took a nosedive too when he too criticized Lincoln and mentioned that the South needed help after the war ended. Lincoln also had the oppositional newspapers shut down too and put their owners and editors in prison during the early stages of the war. If this is not proto-Stalinist behavior, I don’t know what is. Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William H. Seward, boasted that he could place elected officials in the North in prison for criticizing Lincoln and his policies or something to that effect. You see how messed up this is?

From across the pond, many European powers were very concern about the conflict that was engulfing the United States. In fact, they (especially the United Kingdom and France) considered Lincoln and his administration acting in a very despotic manner. They were very close to recognizing the Confederacy when Lincoln (and Seward too) threatened them with war if they dared send any form of humanitarian aid to the South. Unsurprisingly, they backed off, but I’m sure it left a bad taste in their mouths.

Finding out Lincoln had racist views didn’t shock me at the least. Most Americans did back then. He was being a typical hypocritical politician. What really shocked me was the way he and his administration handled Northerners and two former Presidents who criticized him. Yes, Fillmore and Pierce had their own share of flaws and problems, but to have the press to smear campaign them like that? Makes you look like a totalitarian who despises opposite viewpoints like all totalitarians do.

Lastly, the primary cause of the American Civil War wasn’t slavery. It was actually a purely economic reason: the ongoing tax disputes between the North and South. Decades before the American Civil War, the South was producing the majority of goods in America. For some reason or another, the North decided to put taxes on the South. One such tax was called the Black Tariff of 1828 or the Tariff of Abominations. Under this tariff according to Mighty Taxes, the South had to pay about 75% of all taxes in America! Unsurprisingly, the North benefited from this tariff economically. Also according to Mighty Taxes, the South couldn’t buy anymore European imports because they were too expensive. They could only buy from the North. Not surprisingly, this caused a lot of resentment from the South and the North basically did little about it. The tax that started the American Civil War was called the Morrill Tariff of 1861 and it was the highest tariff at that time that benefited the North again! Pissed off, the South decided to secede by drafting their own constitution that included banning high taxes on imports. Even the famous English author Charles Dickens and the father of Communism Karl Marx saw the American Civil War was about money and taxes, not slavery!

The South was willing to negotiate with the North one last time before the first shots rang out, but Lincoln was not having none of it. And the rest is history.

In conclusion, this just puts Lincoln and his administration in a really bad light. It makes him a two faced hypocrite at best and a despot at worst. This makes them warmongers who only cared about money and f**k everyone else (including women, children and the elderly). While there were some not so good people in the Confederacy too, there were some not so good people in the Union too. My lesson here is that there is two sides of the coin when it comes to history. The American Civil War is of no exception.

P.S. Before anyone calls me a racist or a Confederate, I’m not. I’m actually have some ancestors who were slaves in the South.

Sources:

Dilorenzo, Thomas. The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War. 2003.

“How Taxes Caused the Civil War.” Mighty Taxes. www.mightytaxes.com.

#thoughts #american history #stuff that teachers don’t tell you in school #my longest post yet

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zooterchet · 6 months

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Tek War (EON Entertainment)

The drug war, is hard. We will always have drugs. People need drugs. But they need to be clean. Clean and pure.

The CIA, is an elite agency, with five branches; officer, the child of a priest as a female dominatrix on top, Halloween. Instructor, the child of a priest as a female dominatrix on bottom, Halloween. Spymaster, the child of a priest with an FBI prostitute on, New Years. Agent, the murder of a cleared IQ exam, of mother, through father. Fraud, a financial scandal on draft to the Food and Drug Administrator, combat instructor farce.

This is the story, of Dave Charlebois, Delta Force Criminal Warfare, Kara Williamson Daignalt, United Nations Anti-Sniper, Lloyd Ahlquist, Annapolis Psychiatric Torture.

NSA/IRA, undercover cop, espionage history. "Chet".

CIA/UN, liquor sales, poverty investment, "Crux".

FBI/Psychiatric Union, forensic specialist, prisoner repeal, "Mercy".

The Hague, Man Mar Plaza, Beth-Deaconess Hospital.

The Bridgewater Triangle, and the Carolina Panthers.

You each, will receive a cultural landmark, on the world created by your parents, for your epic ballad, through the MI-6 unit you are to oppose, as SIS.

The Matrix, the story of the internet. "Cypher", faces "Trinity".

Final Fantasy, the story of the apocalypse. "Terra", faces "Cid".

James Bond, the story of economic hitmen. "Felix Leiter", faces "007".

Garfield, Fillmore, Kennedy.

The Masonic Lodge, the Alchemist's Book, the Sewer Unions.

You will all meet, off your homes. Cypher was on Gamespy, Terra was on Spam, Felix Leiter was on the Satanic Network.

We met at SW1, Parris Island.

This is the story, of "Goodnight Saigon", the legacy of the Vietnam War.

Beach Head, the story of Diamonds Are Forever. Cover Girl, the story of Fox News. Flint, the story of INTERPOL.

Our mutual enemy, South Park, the most hated construct we have ever faced and never watched, out of Hopkinton Public, Faye Private, and Dunaway Academy, in a sleepy town with a Freemasonic Temple and a grocery store.

Chet, was selected to develop his father's brand, the National Crime Syndicate, into cyberspace writing, DC Comics. Crux, was selected to take Physics, to the level of interstellar communications, the iPhone. Mercy, was selected to turn the entire planet, into a single forest, of marijuana on taxed debt.

The three of them, enlisted in their secondary units, through Sandi MacDonald, on behalf of MI-6 headmaster, Ronald Reagan; Chet, the IRA, Crux, the UN, and Mercy, the Psychiatric Union.

Each was contacted privately by Raven Laventi, "Black Widow", and assigned to a secondary mission.

Chet, was assigned to clean a STARS team, for the Nixon Presidential Society. Crux, was assigned to make contact with Carlos the Jackal, for the ACLU. Mercy, was assigned to develop medications with the illicit narcotics developed inside Princeton labs, for use on field tests on animals to harvest corn, tuna, and cotton.

The key to winning, isn't staying in close contact, it's being willing to work on poverty.

Your family stole billions of dollars of credit, furniture, music, real estate, liquor, tax dollars, and political handmanship, from Richard Milhouse Nixon, with Comedy Central. The ZODIAC Commission, George Soros.

Thanksgiving approaches, and we all know how fond Safin Lucypher, Alex Gaetano, is of the holidays. She's a Capone, and Vermont State Police, put a badge on her, during the Roaring Twenties, through President Coolidge.

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snarp · 1 year

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"This map was compiled by Koyano Ishun, a Neo-Confucian scholar with a keen interest in the still esoteric fields of geography and cartography. He produced a series of well-known maps, made famous by their mass production as woodblock prints for educational and administrative purposes. One of Koyano’s most famous maps was a world map printed in Osaka in 1809, which was widely used as a didactic tool for Neo-Confucian scholars. Our map offered here constitutes the hand-drawn prototype for that 1809 map and is as such both unique and seminal.

The map in its current configuration consists of a joined folding-screen in two panels. It was painted in polychrome ink on paper, which was then joined before being applied to the screen and equipped with a brocade silk border. The reverse of the screen has been papered with Japanese accounting sheets from the 1920s, a clue that provides us with the likely decade in which the map was mounted in this particular form. Additionally, the conversion of the map to a form of decorative art aligns well with the modalities of Japonisme: a high trend of the early 20th century.

In 1852, American president Millard Fillmore ordered the U.S. Navy to force Japan to open her ports to American trade. A fleet spearheaded by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan with orders of using ‘gunboat diplomacy’ if necessary to achieve their goal. After Japan had been closed to the outside world for more than two centuries, the country was opened under American pressure in 1854, and as a consequence Japanese society underwent a rapid and dramatic change from feudal society to industrialized nation. Following the opening of Japan there was an intense global interest in all things Japanese. This trend also manifested itself in the arts, where Japanese arts and crafts were celebrated, collected, and emulated by Westerners.

It was the French art critic Philippe Burty who in 1872 first coined the term ‘Japonisme’ to describe the trend. The impact of and interest in Japanese art exploded in the following decades, and famous European artists such as Van Gogh began emulating the traditional ukiyo-e woodblock prints. In time, the interest transcended into the sphere of collecting and interior design as well, creating intense demand for Japanese antiques among European and American dealers at the beginning of the 20th century.

In this light, and following our analysis below, we believe that the story of our map can be summed up as follows: It was conceived and compiled in the latter part of the 18th century, probably during the 1790s, constituting Koyano Ishun’s response to the perceived inadequacies of available cartographic materials at that point. Considering the artistic qualities of the map, its execution presumably took several years. Once finished, around the year 1800, Koyano probably used this map for his own teaching purposes. Demand for Japanese world maps was nevertheless on the rise and during the first decade of the 19th-century arrangements were made to have the manuscript map transferred to a woodblock for printing. With the printed version being issued in 1809, the original manuscript was probably archived or eventually stashed somewhere. A century or so later, during the height of Japonisme and with the demand for Japanese antiques soaring, our hypothesis is that this map was ‘rediscovered,’ sold to an antiquities dealer, and then mounted on the present folding screen to become one of the iconic Japanese items that were being incorporated into the decor of ateliers and homes across Europe and America.

In this way, the creation of the map and the subsequent object it became represent two processes that are complete opposites: closing and opening. In other words, the two great developments that shaped Early Modern Japan — its isolationism and its subsequent re-entry onto the world stage — are encapsulated in this one single work."

(snarp editorial: Despite its inescapability in the modern conception of Japanese history, many historians take issue with the narrative of sakoku - the alleged "intentionally closed Japan" of the Edo era - for the reason that, for most of the period, at least one of those three words did not actually apply to the political/cultural/economic situation.)

#art #maps #edo era

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davidmalcolm · 2 years

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US Hegemony

The US has used its political, economic and military power to dominate world affairs since at least it’s emergence as a global power. 1898, and its war with Spain is deemed to be it’s first step onto the world stage with subsequent leaps after WWI and WWII. Already in 1854, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, under orders from his president Millard Fillmore, forcibly caused the end of Japan’s isolationist policy and opened it up to American trade. It’s true that the Dutch, who apart from the Chinese and Koreans were the only foreigners allowed in Japan, already had a trading post in Nagasaki and this is where the Japanese officials at Edo (modern Tokyo) wished Perry to dock, but he refused and threatened the use of force if not immediately allowed to present his letter from the President. In the end the Japanese conceded, unable to resist the military superiority of the Americans. He returned with a larger fleet months later and was met with a largely favorable response to Fillmore’s requests. These were ratified in the March 1854 Convention of Kanagawa which afforded trade between the US and Japan, guaranteed US property and safely of citizens. This method of negotiating foreign policy was coined ‘gunboat diplomacy’ and has been the main method of negotiating by subsequent US administrations to the present day.

The initial cause of the isolationist policy of the Japanese ruling shogunate was triggered by an insurrection encouraged by the first foreign travelers to Japan from Europe, the Portuguese, who were expelled in 1639 together with the banning of Christianity, execution of Japanese Christian converts and the banning of gunpowder weapons. It was Portuguese Jesuit missionaries who had caused the troubles and thereafter only the protestant Dutch were allowed trade residence on an island offshore from Nagasaki.

The US had a war with Spain in 1898 which led to Spanish territorial losses in the Pacific (Philippines and Guam) and the Caribbean (Cuba and Puerto Rico) and ended their empire in the Americas and Pacific.

The conflict between the US and Japan was largely economic. Japan had become aggressively expansionist after it’s previous period of isolation. Japan also saw the need to become a naval, military and industrial power, fuelled by it’s historical military past and realization of the need for a navy helped in part by Great Britain who aided them in providing the technology and skills to built both merchant and naval ships. The US viewed Japan’s expansionist ambitions with alarm given their newly acquired influence in the pacific region. After the invasion of northern China was condemned internationally, the US imposed economic sanctions on Japan who saw conflict as the only way to combat these. Faced with being a natural resource poor country, Japan needed access to the precious resources of coal, oil and other raw materials which were the bedrock of modern first world countries. Invading and acquiring the resource-rich parts of the asian mainland would provide those necessary raw materials for economic and political expansion. Failed and stalled negotiations with the US on sanction lifting led the Japanese to plan their attacks on key US/European military centers including Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong. Previous defeats of large countries - China and Russia - had instilled some confidence of success in the Japanese leadership but there were those who saw salvation for Japan only if the Americans would make more favorable terms in the face of a defeat to a pre-emptive strike by Japan rather than all out war.

Japan wanted to annex all of China, Malaysia, Burma, Korea, Thailand, India and Ceylon, and all of the islands in South East Asia including some of the far eastern Russian islands and part of the far eastern Russian mainland to the morth of China/Mongolia. It would also have commandeered mid-Pacific islands to counter US naval influence.

In one of the latest outrages against Europe, being blamed on Russia by the US-funded social media and mass media, is the deliberate sabotage of Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. Although initial evidence, discovered by the Danes and the German operators, is of leakage from both pipelines, it is thought that this cannot be other than deliberate sabotage. Nord 1 has 2 pipelines and Nord 2 has one. The method looks like a submarine attack. The depth of the pipelines rules out any other method - although deep water depth charges could be a possibility.

To look for likely suspects we have to consider motive and means. It is thought, of the European powers, that only the UK and Germany have the capability and might be involved indirectly through American proxy. It is unlikely that the French, whilst having the means, would enter into such action. The UK has a much closer US partnership than Germany, so of the two would indicate they may be involved. Damaging the pipelines, which initially were initially set up to supply Germany with natural gas, seems an unlikely action by the Germans and not in their interests in the event if a resolution of the conflict in Ukraine.

It is felt that the US was fiercely against the Nord Stream natural gas supply from the beginning because the hawks in Washington felt it would lead to stronger partnership between Russia and Germany/the EU which is against US interests.

As for the action being Russian instigated… the Russians control the flow of gas, so would not have to damage the pipelines in order to disrupt delivery. It simply is not in their interests. As with the shelling of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, the instigators based in Kiev, constantly blamed Russia for shelling the facility which was under it’s control and attempted to seize it by force when the IAEA inspectors were due to visit. In both cases blaming Russia is a red herring in the disinformation war surrounding the Ukraine conflict.

Ukraine could be a suspect but lacks the means. Their only submarine was seized by Russia after the Maidan and annexation of Crimea in 2014. Nevertheless they could be given the means by the US and used as a proxy as they are in the conflict on Ukrainian soil.

This puts focus on the US as being responsible for the sabotage whether directly or through a proxy agency. They clearly have the means having the largest submarine fleet in the world and the motivation of destroying any links between Russia and Germany/the EU. Policy decisions seem to be taken or rather made by the US and relayed to the UK and EU, in Washington, London and Brussels. Individual European states don’t seem to have the opportunity to discuss far less influence this strategy and these policies. So, again, it looks unlikely that Germany got to have a say in the plan, if indeed it was one, to sabotage NS1 and 2.

The Kremlin has suggested that nothing can be ruled out and that the underwater pipelines were intentionally damaged and demanded an immediate investigation.

Germany is blaming Ukraine or Russia (reported in Tagesspiegel newspaper) and suggesting it will push energy prices even higher. Nord Stream 2 was functional but unable to deliver gas due to political pressure and sanctions from the US. Nevertheless Nord Stream 1 could potentially have delivered gas to the EU.

A commentator, Gonzalo Lira, has suggested that the US deliberately wants to damage Europe, even though as an American ally, European countries have acquiesced to US policy. He suggests that it does not want Europe to benefit whilst its own situation is in decline and is happy to bring Europe down with it. In fact he described the American leadership as ‘evil’ a word, he suggested, he does not use lightly. The extremely negative consequences of all this will lead to, yet to be determined, levels of suffering by the majority of people in Europe not experienced for centuries. There will be dire shortages of gas, electricity and food over the coming months and possibly years as the existing ‘world order’ disintegrates and the dangers of political and social unrest, financial and welfare insecurity and poor outcomes for trade and industry in Europe and the US increase. The US is facing a major loss as mainly Eurasian countries move away from using the US$ as an international exchange currency in a move being described as ‘de-dollarisation’.

The US is also facing the advent of new alliances between non US/EU aligned countries such as The Russian Federation, People’s Republic of China, Pakistan, India, Iran and Turkey. This is a separate development from BRICS, the trade and economic partnership between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

It looks like Pakistan is keen to have a natural gas pipeline supply from Russia. Quite possibly China is already benefitting.

The US has ‘persuaded’ the German car industry not to supply the Chinese market with their products. Given that Chinese demand from the likes of BMW, VAG and Mercedes Benz was around 40-50 per cent of their output, this is a massive loss of sales for them.

The US has options that I believe they cannot succeed in: agitating for regime change (colour revolutions) in China, Russia, Turkey and the Baltic and western asian states. As well as the Russia/Ukraine conflict, the US already seem to be implemented in the Armenia/Azerbaijan, PRC/Taiwan, Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan, Serbia/Kosovo conflicts as well as having a working group dedicated to undermining the leadership of Erdogan in Turkey. In other words, the US is firmly in the jaws of a Thucydides Trap.

The European Union (and the United States) are angry with Serbia given it’s cooperation with Russia. Both Russia and China does not recognise Kosovo. Furthermore, as stated by Ursula von der Leyen, the EU are unhappy with the outcome if the Italian elections. This is in addition to Hungary and Poland. The threat seems to be blocking EU funds to countries deemed to be ‘difficult’ ‘damaged democracies,’ countries that have governments democratically elected! These EU funds are given to help countries recover from the negative economic effects from the Covid pandemic. There are scenes in Italy of crowds protesting against these threats by the EU and replacing the EU flag with that of Italy.

In the UK, the pound has slumped against the US dollar to almost parity. Seven years ago I could buy 10 Renmin Yuan for £1. Today it’s 7. The ‘new’ UK government headed by Truss and Kwarteng seems to have triggered the slump by announcing large borrowing in conjunction with tax cuts in a ‘mini’ budget 23 September 2022 which caused widespread investor loss of confidence in the UK economy.

In fact the EU, supported by the US, held a summit to discuss the division, or Balkanisation, of the Russian Federation into 5 zones. It would have been a ‘Navalny’ plan of grabbing Russian natural resources first - in a similar way to the post Gorbachov de-Sovietisation era when nationalised resources were ‘privatised’ and made a lot of both Russian oligarchs and western individuals and organisations very, very rich.

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hustedsjzashley · 2 years

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<h1>Royal Bobbles Dr Anthony Fauci Bobblehead</h1>

As a side observe, the HOF doesn’t restrict itself to sports activities figures and heroes of the pandemic. You can even get bobbleheads of every little thing from Baby Yoda to a line dedicated to “Neglected Presidents,” including Chester Arthur, Franklin Pierce, Grover Cleveland, James Buchanan, James Garfield, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore and others. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum lately introduced that it was designing a Dr. Anthony Fauci bobblehead. The NBHFM pledged to donate $5 of every sale of the $25 item to assist the one hundred Million Mask Challenge—an initiative of the Protect the Heroes Campaign that's attempting to increase the supply of surgical masks for medical employees in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.

We’re now almost half a yr into the coronavirus pandemic and every other developed nation on the earth has been in a position to flatten the curve, some to the point where life appears virtually like the Before Times. Sklar mentioned he hopes the bobbleheads will give individuals all over the world something to smile about in this time of chaos. "Today we have raised over just over $300,000," Sklar said, noting the bulk of the donated money came from Fauci bobbleheads. That cash will help hospitals and healthcare facilities get PPE that medical skilled and staffers must continue safely serving on the entrance lines of the pandemic.

This is actually the second Dr. Fauci bobblehead created by the museum, which debuted another version in April. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum is paying homage to Dr. Anthony Fauci with a bobblehead doll inspired by the infectious disease professional. They will also increase cash to help healthcare professionals. Only 2020 of these Bubba Wallace bobbleheads have been launched, making them a true collectors piece.

Going via the process sparked an concept for a enterprise and opened their eyes to a possibility. Museum co-founder and CEO Phil Sklar mentioned Fauci was picked due to his status as a coronavirus expert. $5 per bobblehead might be donated to the Direct Relief assist organization.

Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has served as an adviser to every president since Ronald Reagan. President Donald Trump has known as him a star on his administration’s coronavirus task pressure. “Hopefully it does assist a lot of people via the donation and in addition brings a smile to people’s faces as all of us may additionally use one thing to smile about proper now,” he mentioned. And a Rochester, New York, store is selling doughnuts along with his face, surrounded by white frosting and topped off with pink, white and blue sprinkles.

Fauci, seventy nine, the ever-present head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been a constant presence in residing rooms across the nation during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci is no huge head as the nation’s top infectious ailments professional, however he has been bestowed with the “final honor” — getting his own bobblehead doll, according to a report. Sign up for ourspecial version newsletterto get a day by day update on the coronavirus pandemic.

"Then individuals suggested a Fauci for President bobblehead, so we added him to the line of Presidential bobbleheads. And then anyone from the group where we're donating to instructed a Fauci bobblehead Christmas ornament, so we did that," Sklar said. The creation from the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee options Dr. Anthony Fauci carrying a suit as he makes a movement showing how the nation needs to “flatten the curve” within the coronavirus pandemic. MILWAUKEE — The United States’ top infectious disease specialist is getting his own bobblehead. Bobbleheads have been around because the 17th century when temple nodders, as they have been called, were produced of Buddha and different religious figures.

Fauci, 79, is the chief director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. A central determine on world well being issues like HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Zika, Fauci has been the medical professional at the forefront of the U.S. battle towards coronavirus. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has revealed that a bobblehead it produced of Dr. Anthony Fauci has raised more than $200,000 to help in the battle in opposition to COVID-19. Now, Dr. Fauci is about to get immortalized in bobblehead type, as the sports memorabilia site, FOCO has unveiled a Fauci-inspired bobblehead doll based mostly off his look on the Washington Nationals house opener this 12 months.

Bobbleheads have been round since the 17th century when temple nodders, as they had been called, were produced of Buddha and different religious figures.

"Today we have raised over just over $300,000," Sklar said, noting the majority of the donated cash got here from Fauci bobbleheads.

Those are all natural, fairly stunning, instincts that keep grieving people feeling like they are often okay and possibly even that they can turn into bigger and better variations of themselves.

The market is so robust proper now that the unique Bobblehead Fauci is totally offered out, and the proceeds helped elevate over $200,000 for frontline healthcare employees. When it was released again in April by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum , Washingtonian’s top Bobblehead Fauci financial analysts thought its July transport date was a disastrous miscalculation. Surely the demand curve for Bobblehead Faucis could be flattened by then? What our consultants didn’t foresee was how the country would showcase its American ingenuity and perseverance in preserving the Bobblehead Fauci business afloat, from eschewing masks sporting to celebrating science-denying public officials. Washingtonian is preserving you up to date on the coronavirus around DC. "I think everyone seems to be in search of methods to assist our fellow citizens during this pandemic, and we needed to do something that may make a distinction," Sklar stated.

In April, the museum—which is positioned in Milwaukee, Wisconsin—launched its first Dr. Fauci figurine. Although the museum made forty two,020 copies of the figure, it quickly sold out turning into one of the best-promoting bobblehead within the museum's history. Sklar and Novak additionally received requests for bobbleheads of different officials, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who acquired praised for his televised coronavirus briefings, and White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, in accordance with the paper. Museum founders Phil Sklar and Brad Novak informed The Washington Post that 20,000 dolls had been preordered within per week, and all 42,020 Dr. Fauci bobbleheads bought bought out by mid-august. Given the success of the Fauci bobblehead charitable initiative, the Milwaukee, WI-based museum has created two more Fauci bobbleheads that at the moment are available for preorder.

"We despatched an email e-newsletter to people who had purchased the other versions, and I consider offered 1,000 inside a couple of hours after letting individuals know," Sklar shared. There are Dr. Fauci fan accounts on Twitter and Instagram; prayer candles and cookies along with his picture on them; and a numerous variety of Fauci-inspired masks, shirts, mugs, for sale online. The coronavirus skilled has additionally earned one of the highest merch honors an individual can receive. He's been became a bobblehead by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and his miniature likenesses are document-breaking bestsellers. Since the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases started showing on TV screens in March 2020 he is become a symbol of consolation, truth, data, and hope during the coronavirus pandemic.

The first commemorates the Fauci “facepalm” incident from earlier this year, while the second features the original Fauci bobble design with a red tie. The museum will proceed to donate $5 from each buy to Protect the Heroes.

Starting this month, the crew will be visiting children with disabilities or serious sicknesses, bringing leashes and toys to animal shelters for people taking house a new pet, and spreading blessings to unhoused individuals—all while in superhero costume. This will be the third time Yuri and his nonprofit have taken this journey.

Recently the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum launched a seventh Fauci bobblehead that options him sporting his lab coat. The first Fauci bobblehead, which featured a blue tie, had a restricted manufacturing of 42,020 collectible figurines, Sklar defined. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum listed the bobblehead in the online store for $25 and announced that $5 from each sale can be donated to the American Hospital Association's Protect the Heroes Campaign to help the 100 Million Mask Challenge.

More than $200,000 has been donated to the American Hospital Association's "Protect the Heroes" campaign, which distributes PPE to hospitals in need. A portion of every bobblehead sale has been donated to offer personal protecting gear to hospital staff across the nation, based on Phil Sklar, the group's co-founder and CEO. 'As opposed to that being a bobblehead of me, Tony Fauci, it’s really a bobblehead of the image of an individual who they trust, and who they really feel is giving them readability and essential information that they want, he said. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum may even be donating $5 from every Dr. Fauci Bobblehead bought to the American Hospital Association's Protect the Heroes Campaign to assist the 100 Million Mask Challenge. The $30 restricted-version doll was initially offered with both a red tie or a blue tie, but the blue tie version has already sold out. The “facepalm” theme of the one new bobblehead arises from a press briefing in March in which Fauci appeared to chuckle and canopy his face along with his hand in reference to something President Donald Trump mentioned. Fauci mentioned he was only covering his face as a result of a lozenge was caught in his throat, but the picture went viral.

The man contained in the costume is Yuri Williams, founder of AFutureSuperhero And Friends, a Los Angeles nonprofit that uplifts and inspires marginalized folks with small acts of kindness. The day was scorching hot, but the weather wasn’t going to stop a Star Wars Stormtrooper from handing out school supplies to a long line of keen kids. “You guys don’t have something illegal again there - any droids or something? ” the Stormtrooper asks, making sure he was secure from enemies before handing over a colorful backpack to a smiling boy.

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We didn’t faux to be pleased on these Shabbirthdays. We didn’t throw events to distract or numb the ache. fine custom made bobbleheads found moments of beauty and celebration embedded in and between our deepest ache. We knew we needed the love and assist of our closest folks right there with us, too. Sklar and his associate, Brad Novak, who had churned out bobbleheads of star athletes, discovered themselves with out much to do after skilled and faculty sports suspended their seasons because of the outbreak.

Each one is individually numbered, further adding to their value and authenticity. The Fauci bobblehead is among a number of new collectibles out there at FOCO.com right now. The website also just lately released a limited-version Bubba Wallace bobblehead, which options the race automotive driver posing subsequent to his car, with the observe behind him. Yes, he’s leading the nation through the pandemic and navigating the treacherous politics of Washington and is getting death threats and solely sleeps 4 hours a night, however that’s no excuse for not practicing his curveball. First Pitch Fauci is $40 and ships in November.Bleacher Creature Toys has turned the bobblehead idea on its head with a Dr. Fauci plush toy. Bobblehead Fauci fanatics will find this cuddly, huggable version of the Good Doctor is perfect for children to clutch and sob into at night, and for adults to clutch and sob into at evening knowing they can’t assuage the fears of their sobbing youngsters. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum will donate $5 to the American Hospital Association for each Fauci bobblehead offered to boost money for the 100 Million Mask Challenge.

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Today we remember the passing of Ken Kesey who Died: November 10, 2001 in Eugene, Oregon

Kenneth Elton Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in 1957.

In 1965, following an arrest for marijuana possession and subsequent faked suicide, Kesey was imprisoned for five months. Shortly thereafter, he returned home to the Willamette Valley and settled in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, where he maintained a secluded, family-oriented lifestyle for the rest of his life. In addition to teaching at the University of Oregon—an experience that culminated in Caverns (1989), a collaborative novel written by Kesey and his graduate workshop students under the pseudonym of "O.U. Levon"—he continued to regularly contribute fiction and reportage to such publications as Esquire, Rolling Stone, Oui, Running, and The Whole Earth Catalog; various iterations of these pieces were collected in Kesey's Garage Sale (1973) and Demon Box (1986).

Between 1974 and 1980, Kesey published six issues of Spit in the Ocean, a literary magazine that featured excerpts from an unfinished novel (Seven Prayers by Grandma Whittier, an account of Kesey's grandmother's struggle with Alzheimer's disease) and contributions from such luminaries as Margo St. James, Kate Millett, Stewart Brand, Saul-Paul Sirag, Jack Sarfatti, Paul Krassner, and William S. Burroughs. After a third novel (Sailor Song) was released to lukewarm reviews in 1992, he reunited with the Merry Pranksters and began publishing works on the Internet until ill health (including a stroke) curtailed his activities.

At the invitation of Perry Lane neighbor and Stanford psychology graduate student Vik Lovell, Kesey volunteered to take part in what turned out to be a CIA-financed study under the aegis of Project MKULTRA, a highly secret military program, at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital where he worked as a night aide. The project studied the effects of psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, aMT, and DMT on people. Kesey wrote many detailed accounts of his experiences with these drugs, both during the study and in the years of private drug-use that followed.

Kesey's role as a medical guinea pig, as well as his stint working at the Veterans' Administration hospital, inspired him to write One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The success of this book, as well as the demolition of the Perry Lane cabins in August 1963, allowed him to move to a log house at 7940 La Honda Road in La Honda, California, a rustic hamlet in the Santa Cruz Mountains fifteen miles to the west of the Stanford University campus. He frequently entertained friends and many others with parties he called "Acid Tests," involving music (including the Stanford-educated Anonymous Artists of America and Kesey's favorite band, the Grateful Dead), black lights, fluorescent paint, strobe lights, LSD, and other psychedelic effects. These parties were described in some of Allen Ginsberg's poems and served as the basis for Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, an early exemplar of the nonfiction novel. Other firsthand accounts of the Acid Tests appear in Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson and the 1967 Hells Angels memoir Freewheelin Frank:, Secretary of the Angels (Frank Reynolds; ghostwritten by Michael McClure).

Kesey was diagnosed with diabetes in 1992. In 1994, he toured with members of the Merry Pranksters, performing a musical play he wrote about the millennium called Twister: A Ritual Reality. Many old and new friends and family showed up to support the Pranksters on this tour, which took them from Seattle's Bumbershoot all along the West Coast, including a sold-out two-night run at The Fillmore in San Francisco to Boulder, Colorado, where they coaxed the Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg into performing with them.

Kesey mainly kept to his home life in Pleasant Hill, preferring to make artistic contributions on the Internet or holding ritualistic revivals in the spirit of the Acid Test. In the official Grateful Dead DVD release The Closing of Winterland (2003) documenting the monumental New Year's 1978/1979 concert at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco, Kesey is featured in a between-set interview.

On August 14, 1997, Kesey and his Pranksters attended a Phish concert in Darien Lake, New York. Kesey and the Pranksters appeared onstage with the band and performed a dance-trance-jam session involving several characters from The Wizard of Oz and Frankenstein.

In June 2001, Kesey was invited and accepted as the keynote speaker at the annual commencement of The Evergreen State College. His last major work was an essay for Rolling Stone magazine calling for peace in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

In 1997, health problems began to weaken Kesey, starting with a stroke that year. On October 25, 2001, Kesey had surgery on his liver to remove a tumor. He did not recover from that operation and died of complications on November 10, 2001, at age 66

#November 10 #2001 #R.I.P.#Ken Kesey

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MORTEM AND POSTMORTEM

As the last posting indicates, the final days of the Whig Party were being counted down after the 1852 election. That posting describes that in addition to a trouncing in that election, the political landscape was not conducive for the party to pursue its established policy positions. That included a pro tariff stance that did not match the conditions of a prosperous economy.

The reason for a tariff, beyond securing funding for the central government, was to protect domestic manufacturers. All that could be seen among the electorate was that the tariff added to the prices of imported goods – making domesticated produced goods relatively cheaper – but increasing overall prices that Americans paid. Apparently, during the mid-nineteenth century period, domestic producers were not so dependent on such help. So, with overall high employment rates and rosy economic expectations, the Whig message lost much of its appeal.

1853-1856

With the new Franklin Pierce Administration in place (minus its deceased vice president, William R. King), the first national issue was the debate over what will become the Kansas-Nebraska Act. At stake were the last remnants of the Missouri Compromise. That compromise prohibited the expansion of slavery in the newly created western states (initially attained through the Louisiana Purchase) that fell north of Missouri’s southern border line (36ﹾ30’ N), with the exception of Missouri, as it extended to the Pacific shore.

With the enactment of the newer law, slavery could be instituted if a northern state legislature decided to allow the practice within that state’s borders. This law created a new political environment.[1] How? In the North, a new allegiance arose among “anti-Nebraska Act” Democrats, Free-Soil advocates, and Whigs. In Wisconsin and Michigan, these advocates adopted the name, Republican Party. Its initial aim was not to abolish slavery but prevent its expansion.

Adding to the complexity, the Know-Nothing movement took hold among people who were antagonistic to Catholics or non-Anglican immigrants. Eventually this group organized itself as the American Party. They saw themselves as picking up the Whig identity, but the Know-Nothings were preoccupied with mass immigration the nation was experiencing and bought into the belief that there was a Catholic conspiracy. The parochial nature among many Americans excluded these other Western European immigrants as being welcome.

On the other hand, Republicans were concerned with Slave Power – the perceived political hold Southern slaveholders had over the federal government in the years leading up to the Civil War. Already enjoying their control over their respective state governments, the slaveholders wanted to secure at least their veto power over federal policy – assuming an equal number of senators between slave and free states in the US Senate – if not an inordinate influence over what the US Congress decided to enact. In other words, this small minority was exercising or seeking power way beyond its numbers.

While unusual, this divided anti-Democratic Party coalition proved effective in the 1854 mid-term election. The Democrats suffered significant loses. And regardless of a few exceptions, the winners of those individual congressional contests did not identify as Whigs. Instead they ran independently or took up association with one of the other identified groupings – such as the Know-Nothings. Northern and southern Whigs were beyond reconciliation to form a national presence and so leaders from the two regions of the country simply abandoned the party.

For example, former Whig president, Millard Fillmore joined the Know-Nothing partisans even though he openly disagreed with that group’s xenophobic notions and he encouraged others to follow his lead into that movement. That happened in 1855. A big move occurred when in that same year New York senator, William H. Seward, encouraged a good number of Whigs to follow him into the Republican Party.

And with that one can consider these developments as being the death knell of the Whig Party. That set up, in effect, a three-way race in the 1856 presidential election: the Democrats, the Know-Nothings, and the Republicans. The Know-Nothings, at its convention, nominated the ill-fitting Fillmore (who would also be nominated by a scarcely attended Whig party convention) and promoted a less than cohesive platform but that generally decided to downplay slavery as an issue. The Republicans nominated John C. Fremont. This party, at this point, was mostly a northern phenomenon and was helped by defecting northern Know-Nothings.

In the confusing campaign that followed – for example, while the Know-Nothing candidate, Fillmore mostly ignored that party’s nativism and really ran to reenergize whatever remained of Whig support – the result was that the Democratic candidate, James Buchanan, won. He received 45 percent of the popular vote (174 electoral votes). Fremont took 33 percent (114 electoral votes), and Fillmore garnered 22 percent (8 electoral votes). All and all, one can judge the Whig party was dead although former Whigs attempted a run for president in 1860.

Addendum, 1860

A postmortem note can be added by describing the remnants of the party and how they went about their dealings in 1860. Led by Senator John J. Crittenden, a group of Whig unionists, conservatives, formed the Constitutional Union Party and it nominated John Bell, a long-time Whig, who was anointed as the “ghost of the old Whig Party” by a Southern newspaper.[2] While not taking a stand on slavery, this unionist “party” ran on a preserving the union platform. The party won pluralities in three states.

And with that election, this timeline ends. What follows in this blog will be a rundown of what the Whig Party stood for and how it affected America’s development. Of primary concern in this blog is the way the party operated within the espoused values of federalism. Generally, federalism is a governmental/political construct which holds that a polity should be organized and maintained by a federated populous – one that defines its shared citizenship as a partnership.

While the US Constitution sets up structurally and legally such an arrangement, it does not guarantee that the nation’s people will hold to it emotionally or cognitively. Again, this blog’s claim is that the Whig Party along with its competing entities – other parties and organized interest groups – held as dominate a cultural bias for a version of federalism.

That version is called, by this blogger, the parochial/traditional version and in its most simplistic terms holds that only Western European descents should be allowed to enter that partnership. But, as this posting indicates, the level of parochialism could be more exclusive. For some Americans, these newer immigrants – for example Irish immigrants – were illegitimate and unwelcomed.[3]

[1] Michael F. Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1999).

[2] Jack P. Maddex, Jr., The Virginia Conservatives, 1867-1879: A Study in Reconstruction Politics (Chapel Hill, NC: 2018). Quoted phrase found on p. 13.

[3] This level of exclusivity is depicted dramatically in the feature film, Gangs of New York. See Martin Scorsese (director), Gangs of New York (Buena Vista Pictures, 2002).

#Whig Party #Franklin Pierce #federalism #Kansas-Nebraska Act #slavery #civics education #American history #social studies

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also. unsure if i ever explained WHY i made fillmore’s family wealthy in americana. if you look at gallup poll records regarding the johnson’s administration and it’s handling of the war in vietnam, you’ll notice this weird trend where, consistently, the upper-middle classes were among the first to oppose the war. i’d really love to look into WHY that is (another research topic for me!!!), but it was an interesting finding that i wanted to include.

indeed, the upper-middle and upper classes are not synonymous; BUT, as i wrote fillmore’s father as being a democratic senator in liberal new york, i figured that it would be generally natural for a family of such standing to at least oppose the johnson administration’s involvement. the progression that im getting at is that (a) because fillmore was raised in a wealthy liberal POLITICAL family, he already had a lot of knowledge on why the war was an absolute mistake. then, (b), he got further radicalized at berkeley during the time of the student rebellion, dropped out, and went from there.

#pov historian #when i tell you EVERYTHING in americana has a historical motive. i fucking mean it #y’all could come into my ask box and ask why i wrote a scene Like That and there’s probably some obscure historical fact that i’ll cite

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AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth). 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources. 938 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs. 1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany. 1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'. 1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam. 1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland. 1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV. 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean. 1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth. 1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter. 1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. 1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England. 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston. 1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. 1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility. 1791 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario). 1791 – Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state. 1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress. 1797 – John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States of America, becoming the first President to begin his presidency on March 4. 1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales. 1813 – Cyril VI of Constantinople is elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. 1814 – Americans defeat British forces at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario. 1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated. 1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia. 1849 – President-elect of the United States Zachary Taylor and Vice President-elect Millard Fillmore did not take their respective oaths of office (they did so the following day), leading to the erroneous theory that outgoing President pro tempore of the United States Senate David Rice Atchison had assumed the role of acting president for one day. 1861 – The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted. 1865 – The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress. 1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London. 1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 8,094 feet (2,467 m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII. 1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300. 1908 – The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people. 1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State. 1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later. 1913 – The United States Department of Labor is formed. 1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives. 1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd President of the United States. He was the last president to be inaugurated on March 4. 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet. 1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree. 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid. 1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end. 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena. 1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin. 1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90. 1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100. 1962 – A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7. 1966 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people. 1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now". 1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew. 1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament. 1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania. 1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister. 1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States. 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus. 1996 – A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days. 1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex. 1999 – Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu is crowned as Sultan of Terengganu (Malaysia) 2001 – BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA. 2002 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission. 2009 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002. 2012 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people. 2015 – At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine. 2018 – Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved. 2020 – Former Daredevil Nik Wallenda is the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua. 2021 – According to some QAnon supporters, former US President Donald Trump will be inaugurated, putting guards at the capitol on high alert, out of fear of another attack on the US capitol.

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The killing of Rhonda Hinson Part 49

James "Flash" Pruett and his wife Rhonda, as they embark upon a trail conducting them to the petroglyphs discovered near their home at Pahvant Butte in Fillmore, Utah. It was snapped in July, 2015 by Ruth Riddle Jones.

An Encomium

By LARRY J. GRIFFIN

Special Investigative Reporter

For The Record

Editor’s note: This is the continuation of a series on the Dec. 23, 1981, unsolved murder of Rhonda Hinson.

To James “Flash” Pruett—a foremost champion of the law of his generation…whom I shall ever regard as one of the best and wisest men whom I have ever known.—Adapted from, “The Final Problem,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

As a tear trickled down his cheek, Detective James “Flash” Pruett silently slipped away into perpetuity on Saturday, March 14, 2020. The time was 7:15 p.m.

His wife, Rhonda, was by his side, as she has been over the last heart-rending months, weeks, and final days of her husband’s life struggle. “I know he heard us,” Rhonda Pruett averred during conversation with this writer. “He had been out of it the entire time. So yes, I talked to him and gave him jobs to do when he left….”

Ironically, the 69-year-old lawman died on the birthday of the Pruetts’ beloved dog, Paiute, that they lost just weeks ago. “He died on her 14th birthday, Pi day,” Rhonda informed friends on her personal Facebook page.

The former detective will be missed by a plethora of appreciative admirers for the impeccable, incomparable investigative work that he did relative to the Rhonda Hinson murder case—the proof of which can be found on the Remembering Rhonda Hinson Facebook page. As of press time, over 9,400 friends and followers of the page have read the post announcing his demise, with over a hundred respondents offering their commiserations to Flash’s family and friends. And condolences continue to come.

Jill Turner-Mull—Rhonda Hinson’s best friend and lifelong activist for obtaining resolution for the 38-year-old murder case—was one of them. “This saddens me deeply but I do find comfort in knowing heaven gained an angel. Big hugs and prayers sent to Rhonda and the family.”

Connie Barnes—Rhonda Hinson’s friend and indefatigable advocate for justice for the slain 19-year-old—agrees with Jill, “Heaven gained an angel for sure.” Then she adds, “Thinking of his family and praying for their comfort in the days to follow. You are our hero, Flash…your dedication to Rhonda’s case was the best.”

Mark Perrou—a friend of the Hinson family and activist for justice—directly addresses the detective who worked diligently to solve Rhonda’s case: “Thanks, Flash for being a loyal servant to the community. Godspeed, Sir.”

Janis Mullis—a Hinson family friend and outspoken advocate for the resolving of Rhonda’s case—offers, “Many, many prayers for his family and much appreciation for his hard work that will live on!”

Others write descriptively of Mr. Pruett’s professional prowess:

“--Absolutely the very best, trustworthy awesome intelligent detective I have ever known and I had the honorable luck of calling him and his equally precious beautiful and talented RN wife for my friends.”

“--I had the pleasure of working with Flash at BCSD. He was a Great Detective and a very honorable man. This world needs more men like him. He will be missed greatly.”

“--So sad to hear this. I met Flash and worked with him as an electrician. A very smart and proficient individual not to mention a great guy.”

“--He was a very caring and kind officer, enjoyed working with him.”

“--I’m sorry to hear this. He tried hard for Rhonda and her family to solve this murder. God Bless you Flash—you were one of the good guys for sure!”

Still other respondents—far too numerous to enumerate—sent condolences, prayerful commiserations, and expressions of love to Detective Pruett’s wife, Rhonda, and the rest of his family.

For Bobby and Judy Hinson, the detective was more than just a lifeline back to the investigation into the murder of their daughter, he was a friend. Judy Hinson writes articulately about the man whom they felt cared the most:

“Flash was one of the finest people we have ever met. There was never a time that he was too busy to talk to us. He always answered any questions that we had. He never made us feel like we were bothering him when we called the department and the times we called him at home. Flash was always so kind and so caring. Not only his family but all the people who knew him have lost someone that can never be replaced.”

Detective Pruett’s comprehensive investigation into the killing of Rhonda Hinson has become legendary. As previously reported, Flash was officially assigned the case by Major Robert Lane and Lieutenant Greg Calloway on Friday Jan. 20, 1995, during the Richard Epley administration. Gene Franklin was tasked with the responsibility to assist Detective Pruett in the continuation of the investigation.

Over the next five-years, Flash applied a systematic, logical approach to the conduction of his investigation—in contrast to the often inconsistent, inconstant efforts of most of his predecessors, as reflected in case documentation. In an interview with News Herald staff writer, Jen Pilla, three-years after his assignment to the post of lead investigator for the Rhonda Hinson case, the detective articulated the course he would pursue throughout: “When I was assigned to this case three-years ago, I decided it was time to go back to the basics and back to the crime scene itself.”

And back to the basics it was as he conducted interviews, tracked leads, and continuously examined and re-examined the totality of accrued evidence. Moreover, on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1997, he initiated and assisted in the performance of an SBI ballistics assessment for the expressed purpose of ascertaining the trajectory of the projectile that killed Rhonda Hinson on the early morning of Dec. 23, 1981. He, along with a team of SBI agents, utilized a 1982 Datsun 210—similar to the 1981 Datsun 210 driven by the decedent—that the Hinsons had acquired and ceded to BCSD to be used to perform whatever testing deemed necessary.

The results obtained from the ballistics assessment, as reported in the summary, forever dismissed any possibility that the shooting was done from Interstate 40, from Elmer Buff’s property, or from either embankment along Eldred Street/Hwy 350. The conclusion? Only a person standing on ground level and behind Rhonda’s car could have fired a shot that matched the calculated trajectory of the missile that extinguished her brief life.

There were some “firsts” accomplished by Detective Pruett: the assignment of significance to the articles found in Rhonda Hinson’s Datsun 210 that were not present when she left her parents’ residence to attend a company Christmas party on Tuesday evening, Dec. 22, 1981, and the first-ever interview of Mark Turner—Jill Turner-Mull’s boyfriend and Greg McDowell’s friend—over fourteen-years after Rhonda’s murder. Flash seemed convinced that the gray-hooded sweatjacket, belonging to Miss Hinson—that she left in Turner’s automobile, yet managed to be prominently displayed on the sundeck of Rhonda’s Datsun 210 on the morning she was murdered—was as a key to cracking this case. Turner, however, told the detective that he could not remember how it got out of his car and into that of the slain 19-year-old—an asseveration that Flash clearly did not believe.

Detective Pruett also applied surveillance equipment to the investigation, as he leveraged the relationships that Mark and Faith Turner and Jeff Hinkle had with Greg McDowell, in an effort to capture incriminating statements offered by Rhonda Hinson’s former boyfriend while engaged in casual conversation.

On Tuesday afternoon Dec. 23, 1997, Detective Pruett—along with Sheriff Richard Epley and an entourage of others—interviewed Greg McDowell in his engineering office in Hickory. He noted that the 34-year-old engineer admitted—for the first time—that he knew that Rhonda had called him from Sherry Pittman Yoder’s house, in contrast to his statement to law enforcement, proffered immediately following the murder, in which he maintained that he thought Rhonda was at home. McDowell also informed Flash and the others that a pink snake, acquired during a Myrtle Beach trip and among the items found in Rhonda’s Datsun 210 on the day of her death, “stayed on his dresser at home.”

Unfortunately, subsequent to a near-fatal automobile accident that occurred during Winter 2000, Detective Pruett’s days as lead investigator and employee at the BCSD were numbered. While he was having back surgery to repair damage sustained in the accident, Flash was supplanted by Sheriff John McDevitt when he hired former SBI agent, John Suttle to head his criminal investigations division. It was News Herald staff writer Cheryl Moose Bollinger [Shuffler] who reported the action in a Nov. 19, 2000, article entitled, “Retired Agent Back in Law Enforcement.”

Shortly after his return to the BCSD and not completely rehabilitated, James Pruett was afforded the option to resign or face the prospect of termination, according to statements that Flash made to this writer across several interviews. A similar scenario was recounted by former Sheriff McDevitt when he admitted to the Hinsons, at a local restaurant in the Fall 2019, that he had to get rid of Flash because he didn’t think that he could do the work any longer.

Though Mr. Pruett admitted to being treated badly under McDevitt’s administration, he refused to castigate his fellow law enforcement colleagues who were instrumental in effecting his departure from the BCSD.

One singular feature of Detective Pruett’s investigation that distinguishes it from those conducted by others, was his detailed notes that he assiduously recorded at the conclusion of every day that he worked the Hinson case. They not only offer descriptions of actions, procedures, and factual summaries of interviews with principals, they also provide insight into the detective’s hypotheses and questions yet to be answered.

Whether intended or not, Flash’s notes are reflective of the measure of the man himself—his characteristic dedication and compassion; and his respect and caring concern for Bobby and Judy Hinson. Sometimes they bespeak his own very human, personal feelings which were otherwise masked beneath the stoic façade of a seasoned law enforcement officer. None illustrates his inherent character better than the final paragraph of his detailed description of activities on what would have been the day of Rhonda Hinson’s birthday –Wednesday Dec. 13, 1995:

“The last thing I did today was to go by Rhonda’s gravesite. I spent about five minutes there in prayer. I could see the pain in Judy and Bobby’s faces when I was with them today, Rhonda’s 33rd birthday. I could feel the weight of that pain on me at the gravesite. It was especially hard on all of us today.

Though he was criticized for his “obsessive” attachment to the “most investigated case in Burke County history,” Detective James “Flash” Pruett persevered. Some of his last sentiments expressed to this writer indicated his desire to leave the rehabilitation facility and continue—on his own time—the investigation into the killing of Rhonda Hinson.

“There are things that I should tell you,” Flash declared to me. “But I can’t tell you right now and not here.”

In his final two months of life, while in the throes of Parkinson’s Disease, the quintessential detective was ready to resume the work toward achieving resolution to the 38-year-old murder case and obtaining a modicum of peace for the Hinsons.

This is the “stuff” of heroes.

James “Flash” Pruett

August 16, 1950—March 14, 2020

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TURN IT UP! Joe Walsh with The James Gang, “Walk Away”, 1971

The James Gang was one of those bands that hit so much harder live than on their studio records that it’s almost impossible to believe that they’re the same guys. Their two 1971 albums offer the perfect contrast, Thirds (from whence comes this glorious single), and James Gang In Concert, recorded in May 1971 at Carnegie Hall and released later that year.

I’m surprised the hall was still standing when they were done. It’s the loudest slab of vinyl I’ve ever put on a turntable -- even with the volume turned all the way down, the racket coming straight out of the needle scraping through the grooves unamplified was flat out unbelievable. Very much in keeping with the ethos proclaimed in the liner notes of the previous year’s James Gang Rides Again, “Made Loud To Be Played Loud.”

This performance from Germany’s Beat Club, first aired July 24, 1971, somewhat splits the difference between the civilized, if still loud, studio band, and the utter savages (in a good way!) of James Gang on stage. Surely you’ve already pressed play, and heard Joe Walsh absolutely ROAR into this thing. If all you know of him is what you’ve heard on the radio or with the Eagles, you’re in for an eye-opening, and ear-opening delight.

I had once thought of this song as a pleasant bit of science fiction. The MAN in the song is the one who wants to talk about his feelings and where the relationship is going, while “you just turn your pretty head and walk away.” Riiiight. Because that’s how men are. Just won’t shut up about relationships. ‾\_(ツ)_/‾

Well, maybe Joe really IS that way, because the song sounds pretty damn persuasive, and other than being a little condescending, it’s not especially mean, which automatically sets him above most men of the day.

(1971 was the first great year for a wide swath women artists in classic rock, but women as a lot were alas still not faring well at the hands of male writers. Still aren’t, either, which is a story for another day.)

I actually started rethinking this song when I read what Stevie Nicks had to say about Joe Walsh, who she describes as "the great, great love of my life.”

She said of their breakup: “It nearly killed me. We had to break up or we thought we’d die. We were just too excessive. We were busy superstars and we were doing way too much drugs. We were really, seriously drug addicts. We were a couple on the way to hell.

But there was no closure. It took me years to get over it — if I ever did. It’s very sad but at least we survived.

He was the one I would have married, and that I would probably have changed my life around for a little bit, anyway. Not a lot.

[my note: the fact that she concedes that she’d have changed only a little bit, and only “probably”, suggests that she’s maybe not exaggerating the rest.]

There was no other man for me. I look back at all the men in my life, and there was only one that I can honestly say I could truly have lived with every day for the rest of my life, because there was respect and we loved to do the same things. I was very content with him all the time. That’s only happened once in my life.

This man, if he’d asked me to marry him, I would have. There was nothing more important than Joe Walsh — not my music, not my songs, not anything. He was the great, great love of my life.” (more here)

So on top of being better at relationships and rocking harder than you might have thought, he’s also a terrific technical guitarist, and a hilarious storyteller. I heard him tell a story on the radio in 1988 or so, involving him and George Harrison, that I’ve never seen documented, but I dropped everything I was doing to listen.

I even remember exactly where I was -- in the back room of the bookstore I managed in Washington, DC, way past time to go home, but I didn’t want to miss the end of the story during the long walk to my car.

This is paraphrased, but it’s pretty damn close. I started telling this story to everyone within earshot right away, and you’ll get why.

(btw, I don’t have a picture of Joe and George together, although they shared a stage a time or two. There are quite a few pictures of Joe and Ringo, though -- not only did Joe play in some editions of Ringo’s All-Star Band, they’re married to sisters! Marjorie and Barbara Bach, so yeah, they’re brothers in law.)

Anyway, Joe said that the one piece of advice he gives every guitarist trying to learn the instrument, “Learn to play every song The Beatles ever did, and sound exactly like they did. Doesn’t matter if you hate The Beatles or don’t want to sound anything like them when you’re done, but once you can play everything they played, exactly the way they sounded, you can do anything that it’s possible to do on a guitar.”

Well, there was one song that was vexing him, the very last one that he still couldn’t figure out -- “And Your Bird Can Sing” from Revolver. When he finally got it, he was beside himself. He called up George Harrison to make sure he was home (both fellas were living in Los Angeles at the time), said, “Stay there, I got something you gotta hear!”

He packed up his amps and his guitar, drove over to George’s house, and started setting up. “What is it?” asked George. “Just wait,” replied Joe, and kept setting up.

When Joe finally unleashed a note-perfect “And Your Bird Can Sing”, George fell out of his chair laughing. “How the hell did you do that?” “Well, it took me long enough to figure out,” Joe said, “so I was going to ask YOU how YOU did it.”

George said, “The way *I* did it was John and me playing in unison, and then double-tracked! I can’t figure out how you did it by yourself, even though I just saw you do it!”

Well, Joe was left feeling pretty good about himself, managing to sound like the equivalent of four Beatles guitarists all by himself, if a little exasperated to have spent so much time figuring out something that he should have known better than to try -- but he did it anyway. THAT’s Joe Walsh for ya.

I hope you’ve already hit play AGAIN on that blistering take on 1971′s “Walk Away” up top, because Joe really was killing it that year. There’s more to him than you probably think, too, so if you’re into the heavy guitar thing, you should definitely do some exploring.

Led Zeppelin fans in particular, I’m looking at you. Joe and Jimmy were friends from Jimmy’s days in The Yardbirds, and it was Joe who said, man, you’ve gotta quit monkeying around with that Telecaster. When you’re ready to rock, switch to a Les Paul -- and indeed, Jimmy bought his first Les Paul (known as “#1″) from Joe in 1969, for $1200, which Joe says he flew out to hand-deliver to Jimmy. Says Jimmy, “Joe brought it for me when we played the Fillmore. He insisted I buy it, and he was right."

(btw, nifty pic from Joe’s Twitter feed of him and Jimmy hanging out after LZ’s February 12 show at The Garden in 1975!)

I wouldn’t want to say that Led Zeppelin’s approach to live jamming was necessarily influenced by James Gang, but I’m saying that they were similar and Joe got there first. LOL And seriously, if you dig live Zeppelin, you NEED to know more about live James Gang and early solo Joe.

(More details about #1 than anyone but a gearhead would want here, here, here, and here, but hey, maybe you’re a gearhead!)

To give you a head start for exploring more James Gang and early solo Joe, I’ll add one more video, from 1972, “Turn To Stone” featuring Fanny’s Jean Millington on bass absolutely slaying dragons on this monster. As Joe told Rolling Stone,

"Turn to Stone" was written about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War and the protesting that was going on and all of that. It's a song about frustration. Also, I attended Kent State. I was at the shootings. That fueled it, too. In those days it felt like the government's priority was not the population. They had an agenda that was about something other than doing what was necessarily good for the country.

A few years later [in 1980], I decided to run for president myself. [Ed. Note: Walsh pledged to make "Life's Been Good" the new national anthem.] I thought it'd be a great idea and I had fun with it. And the reason I did it is because there was, and there continues to be, a very apathetic attitude toward voting. There's a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don't bother. And that's why it's not working.

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Oh what the heck, and one more from July 20 1971, from the French TV show Pop2, “The Bomber” (from 1970′s Rides Again) which includes a quick little nod to “Beck’s Bolero” along the way. (Well, technically I suppose, Ravel’s “Bolero”, and indeed, Ravel’s estate made them remove the reference from initial pressings of the album!)

And another note for LZ fans: Joe does some crazy stuff with his bare hands at around 2:30-3:30 going into “Bolero” that Jimmy did with a violin bow. THAT’s Joe Walsh for ya.

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