The Road Back From Chappaquiddick

June 2nd, 2007

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The Announcement

in 1891, in the somewhat battered Governor's mansion in Topeka, General Theodore Monteith and Lt. Colonel Mark Wainwright meet with three captured Farmers Council members to discuss how best to get their comrades to lay down arms. One of the councilors, Thaddeus Elridge, offers a truce – “Withdraw your Union soldiers, and we'll let 'em leave without a shot fired. Then, after next year, once we have a real president 'stead of that thief Harrison, we'll agree to rejoin the US as a state.” General Monteith and Colonel Wainwright seriously considered Elridge's offer for a moment, but then the general replied, “I'm afraid that I have to answer to that thief, sir. And, your actions have almost guaranteed his reelection, I believe. You cannot win. All you can do is draw out the bloodshed.” The three councilors regarded each other for a moment before Elridge spoke again. “If that's all we can do sir, then you can rest assured that 'Sockless' Simpson will make that drawing out as long as is humanly possible.” Wearily, Wainwright answered, “Yes, I believe you.”

in 1999, Dr. Archibald Mordred sends an email to Sir Lance du Lac, expressing concern about the queen's behavior. He doesn't mention her pregnancy or the king's sterility, but tells du Lac, “I no longer believe that Queen Gwen has the best interests of her king or kingdom at heart.” He then makes the decision to begin lowering the dosage of Brightol that he is giving King Arthur, replacing several of the pills he is carrying with sugar tablets. That evening, he gives the king a half-dose instead of the usual full dose, and watches the British monarch for any signs of change.

In 1955, American Mandate Commander Dwight David Eisenhower delivered a stark report to US Special Envoy Richard Milhous Nixon. "Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Nationalists have just driven a hundred and fifty thousand Indochinese troops from the Central Highlands. He has twenty thousand of his men at our backs in Saigon." Eisenhower's tone made his contempt for Nixon clear. "We have twenty-five hundred troops holding our perimeter and General Patton's fifteen hundred marines holding the city. If we stay in Saigon and the Viet Cong attack, we die, sir.

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

In 31942, the stranger spoke to the author Robert Heinlein of the Forsaken Ones, the descendants of humanity who had been left behind by the builder of the Time Gate in the High Palace of Norkaal. Heinlein decided to use the Gate to find the High One of whom the stranger spoke.

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

Koquethagechton	In 1760, on the Turtle Island the Lenape chief Koquethagechton witnessed a routine action which disguised an unprecedented event. “White Eyes” as he was known stood fiercely on the quayside at Manna-hata (Manhattan). He was watching a Chinese Junk being loaded with Maize. Cowering on board and unbeknown to “White Eyes” were ..
.. two European stowaways, neither slaves nor commodity. Yet still in mortal terror for their lives; they were fugitives from death itself.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 2005, former US President Edward Moore Kennedy published his auto-biographical epic “The Road Back from Chappaquiddick”. Incredulous readers were simply amazed by his recollection of the events of 1969. A new god fearing Senator Edward Moore Kennedy had emerged from his encounter with a doppelgänger; party ..	Edward M. Kenne..
.. animal Senator Teddy Kennedy had fused with Father Edward Moore Kennedy as the two were caught in a paradox of matter and space. A new day had also dawned for the girl as she escaped from the 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 to the riverbank of Poucha Pond. Whilst unnamed, everyone just ** knew ** it was her.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

MC Millennia	In 2999, “Personality of the Triple Millennia” was all set for mind cast across the networks. The concept was as old as human broadcasting; a re-run of major events and an audience poll with an award ceremony. Technology had brought a number of new innovations to freshen up the format. And most daring of all, the candidates ..
.. themselves would be summoned from the past, to be interviewed by the mega personality MC Millennia. The first five instalments would feature candidates from that most interesting of times, the twentieth century. Trouble was, MC Millennia thought he was the show, and many wondered if the candidates were going to get much air time. Considering their long journey to make the show.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 2008, he filed his lease agreement with the Phase 1 management office. There wasn't too much smiling going on in that office, they liked to keep the residents on the other side of the desk. Whilst condos were still being leased and sold, management wanted to keep the walls unscratched and the carpets clean and therefore ..	Management Offi..
.. austerity of manner was the order of the day. Fun prevention officers, he called them privately. Say, he inquired will Phase 2 be finished before the Canadian winter kicked in? Oh, no was the response. He was surprised, you would think that a gap in the building program of two to fourth months would cost someone big time.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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Milestones

In 1922, the author and anti-war icon Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was born on the eleventh day of November in Indianapolis, Indiana. His birth date, which fell on Armistice Day, would prove to be an omen for his pacifist views. And so it goes.

Vonnegut

In 1919, Text 1 of the "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" entered the possession of Officer John Bruce of the Tank Corps Regiment. Text I was an accurate record of Lawrence's capture at Deraa in November 1917, yet Lawrence had mislaid the manuscript whilst changing trains at Reading Station. Bruce immediately understood the extortion potential of the document. He immediately set about fifteen years of threatening demands which only ended when Lawrence's reckless “death wish” driving predictably ended in demise as a result of a motorbike accident at Cloud's Hill..

Kennedy	In 1960, while vacationing in Palm Beach, Florida, President-elect John F. Kennedy's was assassinated by Richard Paul Pavlick, a 73-year-old former postal worker. Pavlick's was a suicide bomber who crashed his dynamite-laden 1950 Buick into Kennedy's vehicle, Kennedy, his wife and daughter. Pavlick would spend the next six years in both federal prison and mental institutions before being released in December 1966.

In 1918, on this day an armistice with Germany was signed in a rail road carriage at Compiègne in France where Germans had previously dictated terms to France, ending the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. At 11:00am on November 11, 1918 — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month — a ceasefire came into effect and the opposing armies on the Western Front began to withdraw from their positions. They were unaware that they took with them the Spanish Super flu that would rage through civilian populations, driving Europe to the verge of depopulation by 1920.

Armistice

Edward VIII

In 1936, on this day King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom abdicated. During World War II he was at first stationed with the British Military Mission in France, but after private accusations that he was pro-Nazi, was moved to the Bahamas as Governor and Commander-in-Chief. The rest of the Royal Family arrived in the Bahamas shortly afterwards, exiles after the Battle of Britain in which Hitler successful prosecuted Operation Sealion.

In 1965, a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) was proclaimed in the city of Harare by the leaders of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) Robert Mugabe and Canaan Banana. Lets just say it did not pass without incident.	Ian Smith

Boost

Late post from 30th January ~

Alfred Hugenberg	In 1933, President Hindenburg of the Weimar Republic appointed Alfred P. Hugenberg of the German Nationalist Party as Chancellor. With Wehrmacht troops still in effective control of the country under the emergency decrees of the previous April, the President expects the industrialist-politician to serve essentially as a front man for the military, an arrangement the increasingly senile Hindenburg finds appealing.
Chancellor

He is doomed to disappointment. He has underestimated Hugenberg, who has spent the time since the April crisis cementing his ties to important military officers and his peers in the business community, while maneuvering to seize control of the weakened National Socialists. With SA chief Viktor Lutze in prison along with Nazi Party leader Heinrich Himmler, Hugenberg has been able to quietly take the reins of the SA and SS. The Nationalist leader will be no one's puppet.

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In 2008, in Washington US President George W. Bush was yet to receive a credible explanation as to the mysterious disapperance of WD-5. Only Valentine Michael Smith knew that the Old Ones of Mars would intercept WD-5, just as they had destroyed the fourth planet and created the asteroid belt so many years before.

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In 2003, Dick Cheney suffered a very bad night's sleep. It was one thing to ignore Martin Brundle and recommend the continued military application of his technology. Quite another to be the new Commander in Chief who sent Frankenstein's monster into battle against the objections of Dr Frankenstein.

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Mind Control	In 1977, Senator Edward Kennedy received a visit from two unexpected guests who alleged that America's recent victory in Vietnam was not what it seems. Jacob Singer's former unit in Air Cavalry were amongst the first US troops to receive a chemical boost to their fighting power - without their knowledge. At least, until a week before when they had been contacted by a chemist working with the Army's chemical warfare division in Saigon.

Michael Newman worked on creating a drug that increased aggression in soldiers. Tests of the drug (code-named 'the ladder' in reference to the effect) were first given to monkeys and then to a group of enemy POWs, with gruesome results. Later the ladder was given to Jacob's unit, through the platoons' C-rations. The drug was named for its ability to cause 'a fast trip straight down the ladder, right to the primal fear, right to the base anger'. Positive results in the Mekong Delta in October 1971 had encouraged the Pentagon to mount the decisive campaign that had finally ended the war.

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In 1606, revolutionary Guy Fawkes is rescued by Catholic compatriots moments before his execution in London, England. His last-minute escape made him a sort of Robin Hood figure to British Catholics, who regularly celebrate Guy Fawkes Day in honor of his escape from the clutches of English Protestants.

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In 1990, the retrial of Ray Buckey of the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, brought into the open the hideous ring of Satanists that were running most of America's nursery schools and day-care centers. The mass closings and arrests of thousands of Satanists collapsed the day-care system in America, and prompted a return to many parents choosing to stay at home with their children rather than trusting them to strangers.

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Element: Who row: 3971	In 2000, and bang on schedule according to the Hubbert peak theory the world enters Peak Oil. As described by the bell-shaped production curve suggested by M. King Hubbert in 1956, Peak oil is the point or timeframe at which the maximum global petroleum production rate is reached, after which the rate of production enters its terminal decline. If global consumption is not mitigated before the peak, the availability of conventional oil will drop and prices will rise, perhaps dramatically. Of course global consumption had not been mitigated, far from it, it had been soaring. The vast oil reserves of Russia put that previously failed nation in the box seat for the twenty-first century.
Element: Who_Title row: 3971

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In 1948, the bullet-ridden dead body of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi lay in state in New Delhi. According to his wish, the majority of Gandhi's ashes were immersed in some of the world's major rivers, such as The Nile, Volga, Thames, etc. A small portion was sent to Paramahansa Yogananda from Dr. V.M. Nawle, (a publisher and journalist from Pune (formerly Poona), India) encased in a brass & silver coffer. The ashes were then enshrined at the Mahatma Gandhi World Peace Memorial in the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine within a thousand-year-old stone sarcophagus from China. Paramahansa Yogananda had met Gandhi at the latter's Wardha Ashram in 1936 and Gandhi had requested and received Kriya Yoga diksha from him.

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In 1957, the following notice was published ~ following sworn testimony from his God-fearing sibling Jesse Garon, -
without prejudice of family loyalty, -
Elvis Aaron Presley sentenced to trial by water,-
by magistrates of this good parish of Tupelo, Mississipi, -
persuant to Holy Scripture,-
Make No Music Except With Human Tongue Saith The Lord God refers, -
on this day of our Lord, 1958. Not the potter, but the potter's clay. Amen.

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In 1948, the bullet-ridden dead body of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi lay in state in New Delhi. Bapu ('Father') travelled in serenity to the gateway of worlds where he was met by great soul-deeps. A Navajo guide looked up quizzically; nodding a respectful greeting, 'Ya'aa'tey' ('It is good') by way of explanation. 'Brahmacharya' ( 'Control of the senses in thought, word and deed') replied Bapu in his native Hindu. It was a reference to the one aspect of his worldly existence that required closure. When Gandhi was 16 his father became very ill. Being very devoted to his parents, he attended to his father at all times during his illness. However, one night, Gandhi's uncle came to relieve Gandhi for a while. He retired to his bedroom where carnal desires overcame him and he made love to his wife. Shortly afterward a servant came to report that Gandhi's father had just died. Gandhi felt tremendous guilt and never could forgive himself. He came to refer to this event as 'double shame.' The incident had significant influence in Gandhi becoming celibate at the age of 36, while still married.

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Chimp	In 1961, the North American Space Agency (NASA) reported the good news 'Chimp returns safely after space flight - A chimpanzee sent into space in a United States rocket is recovered alive and well from the sea near Florida.'. Behind closed doors, NASA were desperately trying to understand how the chimp had developed the power of speech, and the location of this Ape City he was describing.
Planet of the Apes?

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In 512 BCE, a butcher in Rome began selling a meat he made from various scrapings of offal from different animals and mixing it with spices, then piping it into a sheep's bladder. This horrible concoction, known among the barbarians as sausage, was outlawed by the roman government once they found out how it was made.

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In 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. Truman needed a quick payback for the new superweapon, American gains in south-east Asia were unravelling very quickly.

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In 1947, the United States made the Greenland purchase.

After the war, the Pentagon was keen to retain control over the world's biggest aircraft carrier' and pressed the Truman administration to buy Greenland from Denmark.U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) were given free reign to use Thule as a launching pad for Armageddon. In the fall of 1956, Thule-based B-47s made repeated deep incursions into Soviet airspace (Operation Home Run) that were designed to push Kremlin nerves to the limit. Later Curtis Le May, the singularly sinister commander of SAC, wistfully recollected that 'with a bit of luck we could have gotten World War Three started back then. '

'Bombs Away' only had to wait five years.

In 1961 SAC commanders ordered a nuclear strike after they lost contact with Thule due to a technical glitch that they misinterpreted as a Soviet attack.

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