The Coyote On The Cliff

June 28th, 2007

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in 1999, Walton Ray Thermopolous meets with Prime Minister Kay Ector at the PM's insistence. “I have a feeling the queen needs our help,” Sir Kay says to Thermopolous. “But she cannot ask for fear of what may be revealed. Therefore, We must come to her aid stealthily.” Thermopolous, who is doing quite well now that he no longer has to split his profits with either the Illuminati or Queen Gwen, is reluctant to do anything to jeopardize his position. “She seems to be fine with the state of affairs they way they are,” he tells the prime minister. “Why act without orders? Right now, we're on top of the world – the CEE is gone, my old masters went with them, and the queen sits at the side of the king rather than in a jail cell. There is no need for action.” Ector simply cannot bring himself to believe this. “She needs our help. I know this is the case. And if you will not help, your government contracts will be cut off.” Thermopolous reluctantly agrees to supply a small team of professionals for the plan that the prime minister has drawn up for them.

In 1999, the networks ran instalment two of TSEotTC, part two. The Mountbatten Project delivers .. the British bomb the Japanese into an unexpected defeat. On the balcony of Buckingham Palace, the Royal Family wave and smile at the crowds. In Hiroshima, children choke in the radioactive slag.

~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1952, an historian in a fifth-rate 1952 CSA, overshadowed by the USA and the Germanic Union, obtained a position at an academic commune near Gettysburg, and one day he is offered the chance to travel back in time to July 1, 1863. In Bring the Jubilee author Ward Moore casts a fresh perspective on the War of Northern Aggression - for the twenty-six breakaway states would defeat have been worse than stalemate?

~ variant from Steve Payne : to celebrate the author's genius, original text of Ward Moores's 1997 classic "Bring the Jubilee" has been reserviced to present an "in context" alternate ending.

In 2006, the International Mars Mission found an ancient carving of the Coyote on the cliff side of the Canyon where they were hopelessly trapped. Navajo astronaut Jamie Waterman could hear the Coyote laughing in the crystal darkness of the frozen night.

~ variant from Steve Payne : to celebrate the author's genius, original text of Ben Bova's classic "Mars" has been reserviced to present an "in context" alternate ending.

In 1966, Ronnie Harran, the booker from the Sunset Strip Whisky A Go-Go Club watched the house band at the London Fog, a pathetic little nightclub just down the street. She was impressed by Jim Morrison's primal stage-appeal and almost offered the Doors the house-band slot at the Whisky. Morrison who had been tripping on acid then introduced “The End” with some crazy “Oedipus Rex” talk about his parents and Harran walked out in disgust.

~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Grape treaders	In 1761, the seven European stowaways enjoyed fellowship aboard the Arab Dhow. Speakers of Flemish, German, French and Spanish, they struggled to communicate little more than their fierce job of discovery. In fact, they were crying with God-sent joy. All of them were red grape-treaders, that was the connection. Despite their ..
.. ignorance, at some level they grasped that massive doses of the juice had protected them from the plague known as the Red Death. Twenty-fourth century scientists would discover that this was resveratrol, a chemical found in grape skins rather than the juice of the fruit itself. But that was a detail of little consequence to this elated band of survivors. They knew their Old Testament apocalypses well enough to know that Jesus had saved them from extinction. Not a sparrow falls to earth that God does not see. And after all, were these Europeans little more than sparrows, flying from a dreadful storm?
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1984, British Horror Writer Graham Masterton published IKON, a tribute to Philip K Dick's 1964 counter-factual novel Man in the High Castle. Set in America in 1985, the once-proud nation has been reduced to an Oblast of the USSR with a powerless President. All because some twenty years earlier America secretly lost ..	IKON
.. the Cuban Missiles Crises. Like Dick before him, the essence of Masterton's masterpiece is the book within the book, 'The Eagle Lies Heavy', a work of fiction written by a man called Graham Masterton. It describes a world where the Americans won the Cuban Missile Crisis - as a result, it has been banned by the Americans. Given his unpopularity with the world's two great powers, Masterton is said to live in a heavily fortified home and has become known as "The Author in the High Castle". Critics panned the concept but loved the story. After all, it was predicated on the US surrendering to Secretary Khrushchev. Today we know that Mr Kennedy meant it when he said “the problems of the world today are not susceptible to a military solution”. He had already surrendered by then.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

George Washingt..	In 1776, Thomas Hinkey was hanged for mutiny, sedition, and treachery for plotting to kidnap George Washington. Hinkey was one of his bodyguards, and his actions had resulted in the death of the General. This great blow to the Americans assisted in no small way the nation of Great Britain as she brutally suppressed the troubles in the Colonies.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1914, Tsar Nicholas Romanov II and his wife the Empress Alexandra of Russia were assassinated in Warsaw by young Polish nationalist Stanislaw Wasilewska. The Reichwehr had predicted that Russia's military capability would outperform the German Military by 1916. This estimation was drawn from huge French subsidies for railway ..	Tsar Nicholas I..
.. tracks that could deliver the Russian Steamroller into East Prussia at a day's notice. As a consequence, when the Grand Duke Michael took draconian measures in Poland, Kaiser Wilhelm II and his Hapsburg allies seized the opportunity to invade Galicia, the casus belli of World War I.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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