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	In 1996, French President Jacques Chirac said France would no longer test nuclear weapons after uproar over Pacific tests. The announcement comes a day after France exploded its sixth and biggest nuclear device in the South Pacific. The scandal had begun with the publication of the biopic expose The Web. This account was written by an Englishman, Arnold Delgrange suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Delgrange had led a failed attempt to establish a utopian colony on an island in the Pacific Ocean remote from civilization, which has suffered fall out and been cursed by the original inhabitants.
Web of Lies

As a result, intelligent and communally acting spiders had evolved on the island, acting in a manner that endangered all life in the vicinity. His companion Dr Camilla Cogent first realised that the spiders inhabiting the island chosen for the utopian experiment had evolved intelligence, it is her actions that allowed Arnold Delgrange to survive. Prior to the Delgrange mission, there had been international protests including boycotts of French products since Mr Chirac announced the resumption of testing last June. In a live broadcast to the nation, Mr Chirac said the tests mean that 'the safety of our country and of our children is assured.' He has stopped the planned programme of eight tests early in the face of the outcry at home and abroad. 'I know the decision I made last June may have provoked, in France and abroad, anxiety and emotion,' he said. 'But in an ever-dangerous world, [nuclear weapons] act as a weapon of dissuasion, a weapon in the service of peace.' France will now sign an agreement for a nuclear-free zone in the South Pacific this year, as well as the international Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty which unconditionally ends all future tests. However, critics of the test programme believe France has damaged the future of the test ban treaty by encouraging nations like India, Pakistan and China to take a harder line. Moreover, they point to the species endangering threat identified by Delgrange and Cogent. Mr Chirac's popularity ratings have fallen to an all-time low for a new president since he announced his intention to reverse the three-year moratorium on testing established by his predecessor, Francois Mitterrand. During the tests at Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls, French naval vessels clashed with Greenpeace campaigners, confiscating their equipment and arresting crew members. As well as being unpopular at home, the nuclear tests have brought French relations with several other countries to an all-time low. Protests in Australia, New Zealand and other South Pacific countries have been particularly vehement, sometimes ending in violence, and Japan and several European countries have also objected strongly. Only Britain has spoken out in defence of France's right to carry out the explosions - ironic, given the citizenship of Arnold Delgrange. The tests made France the only country apart from China to test weapons of mass destruction since 1992. Yesterday's test, carried out at Fangataufa atoll, was equivalent to approximately 120,000 tonnes of conventional explosives, or six times the force of the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945.

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George Bush	In 2008, the morning newspapers reacted disfavourably to President Bush's last State of the Union address. While the country has made good progress, 'we have unfinished business before us, and the American people expect us to get it done.' said Bush. Final status with Richmond had been logg-jammed by years of personal rivalry with Confederate President Al Gore.
Unfinished Business

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In 2003, US President Bush put aside a troubling report from Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice to relax by watching the game alone. Shortly afterwards Bush asphyxiated after choking on a pretzel.

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	In 1820, the madness of King George III came to an end when the rebel Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, deposed and executed him. King Arthur II claimed to be descended from the King Arthur of legend, even going so far as to forge an Excalibur to wield at official occasions. Parliament was unwilling to give up as much power to him as he was demanding, and a new civil war broke out, ending Arthur's reign in 1823.

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In 1968, at 2am a shot rang out in the gardens of Balmoral Castle. Guards rush out to find Queen Elizabeth I holding a rifle and standing over a dying wolf. To their even greater amazement, they watch the dying wolf transmogrify into Prince Charles. Something unspeakable happened in 1946 Her Majesty says, and she has suffered the most dreadful sea change. Now it is finally over and she can get on with her life.

In 1845, more good fortune fell on author Edgar Allan Poe with the publication of his poem The Raven. Poe, the adopted son of a Virginian millionaire, was the luckiest boy at his military academy, always winning at the illicit games he started, and never getting caught running them. With the publication of The Raven in the New York Evening Mirror, he began an unbroken streak of successful novels, story collections and poems.

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In 1958, puritan witch-hunters capture the demon Charles Starkweather ending a killing spree of 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming during a road trip with his under-age girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate.

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In 1977, comic Freddie Prinze, battling overwhelming feelings of depression, checked himself into rehab. His inability to perform in his hit show Chico and the Man led to the show's canceling, which left him looking for work when he checked himself out. He embarked on his Sober tour in the summer, and the live album of his act in San Diego went multi-platinum and gave his career some much-needed resuscitation.

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In 1964, septuagenarian Chancellor Adolf Schicklgruber opened the IX Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria.

	In 1959, in London, England fog brought transport chaos to the Capital City. Dense fog - the worst for seven years - brings road, rail and air transport in many parts of England and Wales to a virtual standstill. The true story was later revealed by John Holman, is a worker for The Department of the Environment investigating a Ministry of Defense base in a small rural village when unexpectedly an earthquake swallowed his car and released a fog that had been trapped underground for many years.

In his account 'The Fog', Holman explained the cause of the disaster - government and military incompetence - these being the reason for the fog's existence, the fog itself being an old self-producing chemical weapon that was buried underground and released during an underground explosion caused by the military while testing arms.

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Thatcher	In 1985, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was snubbed by Oxford dons who refused her an honorary degree. The Iron Lady was generally considered the person most directly responsibile for the countries dramatic turnaround. Yet socialists/academics could not forgive her for the part she played in the Plot to Overthrow Harold Wilson in 1974.
Iron Lady

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Corrie Aquino	In 1987, in a violent coup d'etat, President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino was overthrown by a group of heavily armed rebels. Around 1,000 heavily armed troops wearing gasmasks, surrounded the building just before the attack. The rebels warned that they Aquino she had 15 seconds to surrender over a loud speaker. The rebel leaders Colonel Oscar Canlas and Chief General Fidel Ramos have formed a new military government. Following her resignation President Aquino said: 'Here was a determined attempt to disrupt the affairs of government and those of the people at large. Here was a determined attempt to overthrow the first principle of democracy, which is civilian supremacy by those specially charged with its preservation.'
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In 2002, in his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes regimes that sponsor terror as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. W's determined attempts to dismantle the Axis of Evil lead to the nuclear war of 2008, forcing him to withdraw to a bunker at Camp David where he married Condoleeza Rice, dying in 2026 aged 80 years old convinced he had kept 'a charge to keep'.

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In 1947, comic genius Arthur Miller hit paydirt again with his play All My Sons, which opened to rave reviews and huge audiences on Broadway. A radio show based on the play followed, and it even became a hit television series that ran from 1954-1960.

Nurtured Legacy

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January 26th, 2007

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Winston Churchi..	In 1947 former British Prime Minister Winston Spencer gives a reprise of his famous 1940 'fight them on the beaches' speech in Reykjavik Iceland. The curious use of the inhuman 'them' is at last revealed to the World; rather than dehumanizing the Nazis he was appropriately addressing the ..
.. Bavarian lycanthropes as animals. A pale and visibly distressed Princess Elizabeth maintains a studious silence throughout the celebrations.
~ entry by Steve Payne from counter history in context - you're the judge!

In 1993 one-term US President George Bush prepared for 'the grandfather' business as he returned to a life of retirement following his defeat by Bill Clinton. Its maddening really, by recovering Extraterrestrial Technology from Panama and Iraq he had won the Cold War and set the scene for ..	George Bush
.. the American Century. In fact he had been SO focused on the program he developed as CIA Director in the mid-70s that he had largely ignored domestic concerns. At sixty-eight he was told old for a comeback. There was nothing else for it, he would have to get W elected to nurture his legacy.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Arthur Phillip	In 1788 the British First Fleet led by Arthur Phillip attempts to sail into a harbour on the country's south-east coast to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia. Imperceptible forces turn them back as powerful magicks prevent European missions ..
.. from interrupting the Dreamtime, the 48,000 year old aboriginal consciousness.
~ entry by Steve Payne from counter history in context - you're the judge!

In 1565 in a surprise result the Vijayanagara Empire emerge victorious ..	Lord Rama
.. from the Battle of Talikota, defeating the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan. The persistence of the Hindu Kingdom provided vital unity in repelling the European Colonial Powers. The modern superstate of Hindustan was about to be born.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

in 2002, various plagues begin striking the citizens of the New World Order who have been given the MOTB identification chip in their right hand or forehead. Fortunately, the universal health care provided by the NWO is able to contain or cure even the most virulent pathology, so that the citizens aren't troubled too heavily by the boils, frogs, fire rain and so forth that afflicts them. President and Anti-Christ Morris Appleby, sporting most of the afflictions himself, proudly visits a government clinic each time he must be treated, in order to reduce shame about these diseases/injuries, as well as promote the clinics.

After(cont.)
Senator and President-elect Kerry was very tall. Steph felt like she was a little girl standing next to him as they watched Mike present the material they had brought with them. When Mike was done, the senator said, “We need to get this into some national broadcast.” He turned to an aide and told her, “See what you can do. We still have those contacts at CBS, right?”
“Yes, sir,” she told him, scooping up the disks and tape from Mike. “I'll get him on the cell and see if they can start cutting into the emergency broadcasts.”
“Excellent,” Kerry said, turning back to Steph and Mike. “It's amazing that you were able to get all this together, and then get it to us. Thank you.”
“Do you think you'll be able to help our friends in Crawford?” Steph looked up into the tired face of the older man, and he looked around at his command personnel in the tent.
He asked one of the military men standing around, “Can we feasibly make a move on Crawford?”
“Probably wouldn't be a bad idea,” a man wearing colonel's markings said. “We can finally give those reporters with us something to film. Showing Bush's ranch still standing might not be bad propaganda.”
“How quickly can we get there?”
“Let me check.” He pulled a couple of other men over to a corner and spoke with them quietly.
Mike had been stealing glances at Kerry the entire time they had been brought into his presence, and finally asked the question that had obviously been gnawing at him. “How do we know you're the real Senator Kerry? I mean, I found an expert to identify the Bush double; do I need to find one to do the same to you?”
Several people looked awkwardly away from the Senator and the conspiracy nut. Steph smiled and shrugged when Senator Kerry looked questioningly at her. After a moment in which he was obviously thinking of a careful way to say it, he replied, “I don't have a body double, I'm afraid. I'm one of a kind.”
That didn't satisfy Mike. He narrowed his eyes and took a good look at Kerry, then said, “I'll be keeping an eye on you.”
Kerry decided to ignore that, and turned to Steph. “It's going to be unsafe for you and your children until we can take down the coup leaders. If you'd like, we can send you back to New Mexico with an escort.”
Mike's eyes lit up. “Can we go to Roswell?”
Steph could see the massive effort that the senator exerted not to roll his eyes. “Of course. I'll get some people to organize your trip.”
“Thank you, sir,” Steph said, shaking his hand. “I just hope this'll all be over soon.”
“We all do, Mrs. Morris.” The colonel returned to his side and Kerry looked at the clipboard that was handed to him.
“If we send a small team, they can be there by lunch,” the colonel told him. “If you want a large force, it'll be there tomorrow.”
“Quicker's probably better,” Steph spoke up. “Our friends might need help.”
The senator nodded. “Send the small team, but make sure they have one of the reporters with them, and document everything.” He looked at Steph's hopeful face, and added, “Tell them that speed is of the essence.”
“Yes, sir,” the colonel said, taking his clipboard back and walking off to organize the mission.
Mike, having barely contained himself during that exchange, broke in with, “Can we go to Roswell, now?”

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