Love and Hatred

Bombing	In 1945, BBC News reported: Thousands of bombs destroy Dresden: 'British and US bombers have dropped hundreds of thousands of explosives on the German city of Dresden. The city is reported to be a vital command centre for the German defence against Soviet forces approaching from the east. Last night, 800 RAF Bomber Command planes let loose 650,000 incendiaries and 8,000lb of high explosives and hundreds of 4,000lb bombs in two waves of attack. They faced very little anti-aircraft fire. As soon as one part of the city was alight, the bombers went for another until the whole of Dresden was ablaze.'
Dresden

Amongst the dead was a twenty-two year old American GI, Kurt Vonnegut. A man of German descent, he had been transferred to Slaughterhouse-Five, a nearby prisoner of war camp. Vonnegut and his colleagues had been hiding below ground, but were killed when the ceiling collapsed from the shock waves of the bombing. And so it goes.

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In 1968, astronomer Paul Oswald Ahnert deciphered an extraterrestrial broadcast indicating that our quadrant of the Galaxy was under quarantine from a lethal space leprosy. At first his warnings were ignored, however reconsideration was duly given when returning Lunar Module Pilot Colonel Buzz Eugene Aldrin lifted his visor at the splashdown point, east of Wake Island on July 24 1969.

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In 1779, during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific Captain James Cook narrowly escaped death at the hand of natives of the Sandwich Islands. He had mistakenly returned to Hawaii in the season dedicated to Ku, god of war, inadvertently upset the equilibrium and fostered an atmosphere of resentment and aggression from the local population.

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In 1956, Malcolm Little received parole and was released from Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown. A dangerous criminal, Little had avoided the draft by telling the examining officer that he could not wait to organize with other black soldiers so he could 'kill some crackers.' Incarcerated for a decade, there was a lot of catch-up to be done.

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In 1956, at the XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow, Premier Nikita Khruschev revealed than Lenin was a shape-shifting Vampire. A number of strokes in the 1920s forced the undead nosferatu to possess the body of Comrade Stalin to permit him to continue his misrule. He had even maintained his corpse in a Kremlin mausoleum just in case a Dracula style exit was necessary.

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In 269, Emperor Claudius II outlawed marriage for young men, in order to make them a better pool to draft soldiers from. The Christian cleric Valentius was known for his defiance of Rome, and many young couples came to him in order to wed. Valentius performed the ceremonies gladly until the local centurion told him that he would be executed after the next one. Valentius relented, but the decree was rescinded in 271 after Claudius' death, anyway, so nothing ever really came of it.

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In, 47421 BCE, Telka the Speaker is wooed by and mated with the father of her first children, the man she names Komar. She learns to count the days in a year by the anniversary of this day each year that she was with him. His love for her led him to throw himself in front of a boar that was charging her; although he saved her and killed the boar, he died from injuries he received. Telka made sure that each of her descendants celebrated this day out of her love for him.

In 498, Pope Gelasius names this day the Feast of Saint Valentine. In his honor, prisoners across the land were given a meal of ox-hearts and red wine, to signify the blood that the saint had shed while a prisoner of the pagan Romans. The traditional feast of hearts and wine continues to this day across Christendom, although the practice has spread from the jailhouse to all those who might need a prayer for more freedom.

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In 2021, a rare form of cosmic radiation enters Earth's atmosphere, concentrated in and around Chicago. 99.9% of the city only feels a slight tingling, but one man, Eddie Valens, finds his reflexes and running speed amplified tenfold - plus, he is now able to evoke feelings of love and peace in nearly anyone with but a word. Putting these two together, and donning a pink costume, Eddie takes the name Saint Valentine and proceeds to fight crime in Chicago for nearly a decade as one of the only real superheroes in the 21st century.

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On February 14, 2003, a group of high ranking Iraqi generals, fearing the disastrous effects of U:S. invasion stage a coup. They know that Sadam as a sentimental guy would be distracted at big party for his family. The succeed in killing their President and his sons. The new junta is composed of Sunni Baathists, but they extend the hand of friendship to the world community and invite weapons inspectors. What would the last half of a decade have brought to Iraq ?

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In 1965, the Soviet States of America bans the unofficial Valentines Day holiday. Comrade Representative O'Hare of Chicago, in her statement calling for the ban, said, 'No other holiday so cheapens the idea of romantic love, or saps the will to fight of our comrades in the street, as this so-called Valentines Day.'

In 1167 AUC, the Lupercalia Festival is finally made a separate holiday from the festival celebrating the founding of Rome. This festival of ritual matchmaking, popular for hundreds of years, was certainly the highlight of the 2-day celebration at the ides of February, and most Romans felt that it deserved separation from the more staid founding ceremony.

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Alexander	In 1974, Soviet authorities executed Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Two days before, Mr Solzhenitsyn was arrested in his wife's Moscow flat and taken away for questioning by the Soviet secret police, the KGB. His charge, under Article 64 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code, was punishable with death by firing squad or a minimum of ten years in prison along with confiscation of property.
Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn had been under investigation for six weeks after his novel Gulag Archipelago depicting life in the labour camps was published in the West. He had already spent a total of ten years in prison under Stalin for his dissident writings.

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French Invasion; Death

The state of TIAH

April 30th, 2007

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in 1891, General Anthony Franklin begins his long journey back east to face his coming court-martial. In the aftermath of the massacre in western Missouri, Kansas City falls to the Kansans, and Missouri's Governor Silas Trent faces some similar rumblings which threaten to topple him if he continues supplying troops to the federals. He embarks on a statewide trip to apologize and shore up support for at least a defensive force on the Kansas border. He asks Lt. Colonel Theodore Monteith to move his base of operations out of Missouri, and Colonel Monteith sends a telegram to Major Mark Wainwright in Nebraska, telling him that the Kansas siege is about to be commanded from that state.

in 1999, Sir Lance du Lac spearheads the invasion of the northern French shores at the head of a combined force of British, Australian, North American and South African troops. The Central European Imperial resistance is minimal for some reason, and du Lac easily takes and fortifies the coast. The formerly French knight sends word to his old labor allies in the country to rise up and join with him to liberate France from the CEE. A hastily assembled meeting of the Illuminati's upper echelons in Switzerland is concerned, but Emperor Pierre assures them, “This is not unexpected, and we have contingencies in place to handle this. Worry not. France will be ours again, as will the United Kingdom, and then - the world.”

In 1989, the author Jon Varley prepared for the movie release of Millennium. Based loosely around a book created from the airline crash experience at Oakland, California, Varley was worried about the quality of the movie. Kris Kristoferson had been caste as Investigator in Charge of a National Transportation Safety Board Go-Team, Bill Smith; Cheryl Ladd as Louise Baltimore, Chief of Snatch Operations. Both were a decade older than the principal characters, and gave the movie a frumpy TV dinner feeling. He need not have worried, during the premier, the real Louise Baltimore arrived back in 1983, snatched the twonky mission report, preventing both the book Millennium and the movie ever being produced.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

In 2000, astronauts sent to explore the "Stone" discovered a hollowed-out, man-made central axis - the "Way". Inside were seven chambers containing abandoned cities from the distant future. The so-called "Thistledown" civilization was built by survivors of the "Death" who had quit the Earth. Political leaders soon realised that the secrets inside the "Stone" made the "Death" inevitable, unless a remarkable woman could somehow save the world.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

Tony Benn	In 1972, prominent trade unionists and socialist politicians were arrested throughout Britain in the night of terror. The former Labour cabinet and members of the Trades Union Congress entered police custody. Absent was 2nd Viscount Stansgate Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn. Until the enactment of the Peerage Act 1963 Benn ..
.. had been unable to sit as a Member of Parliament (MP) and also hold his ancestral title. Shortly after 6 p.m. on July 31, 1963 the enactment was completed and at 6.22pm Benn was able to stand as an MP again. A committed socialist, a pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and landed gentry he was untouchable. But herein lied the problem for the military government, Benn was a very determined individual who would almost single-handedly reverse the actions of the previous five years and return Britain to civilian democracy on socialist terms. There was absolutely no stopping 'Wedgy' as he was popularly known. You cannot keep a good man down.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1983, on this day Hugh Trevor-Roper published the final of three shocking articles in Die Zeitung (The Times) newspaper. Here was the bombshell. Around 1938 Hitler's doctor Doctor Felix Kersten had become self-aware of his Jewish ancestry. He had begun to introduce increasing quantities of powered silver into the Fuehrer's ..	Bormann
.. diet, effectively poisoning him. To conceal this, the silver did not seriously take effect until 1941. It was at this point that the Fuehrer's arm began to shake uncontrollably, and the quality of his decisions deteriorated rapidly. If it was not for Doctor Felix Kersten, Hitler would still be in the Chancery this very day! In simple terms, the Fuehrer's lycanthropy had saved the world from Nazi enslavement.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

George Washingt..	In 1789, on this day from the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington took the oath of office to become the first American Governor General of the United States. Just about everyone in the thirteen colonies were satisfied with a peaceful end to the troubles, as King George III paid tribute ..
.. at Federal Hall. The notable absence was the turncoat Colonel Benedict Arnold. He was cooling his heels in Yorktown, considering his very limited options.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1993, the World Wide Web was born at CERN. Finally, after 501 years of development, Western Civilization had a counter-weapon to strike back at the Mesh, that irresistible group consciousness between First Nations linking the Turtle Island (America) to the Dreamtime (48,000 year old Aboriginal civilization).	World Wide Web
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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