Raven

Hari Seldon	In 926 Foundation Era, on the Planet Terminus, a vault opened and Hari Seldon emerged. This time, in flesh and blood, not the holograms of the previous eight crises. His prediction of the eventual fall of the Galactic Empire, and the apocalyptic predictions around that event, was the reason behind his nickname 'Raven' Seldon. By 20,069 Galactic Era, Seldon had decided that his initial plan was insufficient. He required a panic button.
Psychohistorian

Biographer Gaal Dornick reported that 'had been working up until his last moments on psychohistorical equations; his activated Prinie Radiant was discovered clutched in hand. According to Seldon’s instructions, the instrument was shipped by his colleague Gaal Dornick who had recently emigrated to Terminus.' This was a lie, Gaal Dornick brought Hari Seldon's cryogenically frozen body to the periphery of the galaxy, to be activated by the Prinie Radiant nine hundred thirty years later.

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In 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower addressed the nation for the last time in office, issuing a strange warning.

'We face a hostile ideology [communism] global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method ... [warning about what he saw as unjustified government spending proposals] [that] we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by [Ike leans forward for emphasis] the congressional military industrial complex... Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.'

Richard M Nixon was seething with angry. Not only had Ike failed to back him during the campaign, not his former boss was trying toreally spoil things for him.

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In 1596, there were so many black people in England that Queen Elizabeth I demanded that they be expelled from the country. An edict from the Queen, at first it brought no action. However it was then followed up by a Royal Proclamation, issued in 1601.

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In 1776, the defeated General George Washington is astonished by the generous final settlement terms being offered to from King George IV at Buckingham Place. Prepared for the humiliation of crushing terms for the vanquished republicans in the Colonies, rather King George IV proposes a genuine partnership for Anglo-America based on local representation and self-governing taxation. 'No victors, no vanquished' chips in his shadowy adviser Ernest Shackleton by way of explanation.

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In 1819, Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Baja California, the predecessor nation to a twenty-first century mega state on the west coast. Today Spanish speaking citizens enjoy the world's highest per capita income and literacy rates.

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In 1942, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. Was born in Louisville, Kentucky on this day. Aged just eighteen, Clay, Jr. won the Gold Medal at the Rome Olympics. Four years later Clay beat Sonny Liston to take the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Clay had driven to Sonny's home in Denver at one o'clock in the morning, shouted for Sonny to come out and fight him on the spot, and set up a huge bear trap on the lawn. On March 6 influenced by Malcolm X, Clay changed his name to Muhammed Ali, joined the Nation of Islam and retired from boxing to concentrate on the greater fights that lay ahead for the African American people. His baiting of President Lyndon Baines Johnson from the White House lawn was considered the key to Washington's decision to withdraw from Vietnam in 1967, it was just so annoying. Just like Arthur Ashe, draconian measures would be taken by the Division to prevent Clay giving the game away. He really had the establishment on the ropes.

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In 2232 AUC, the Empire of Mali in Africa declared war on its northern neighbors of Rome. The Republic had been encroaching on Malian territory for decades, and the settlement of a small town on Mali’s eastern border by Romans was the final straw. The war between Mali and Rome lasted almost seventeen years, and killed millions in Africa and Europe.

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In 1775, following the example begun by the witch-hunters of Salem, Polish Christians burn 9 women at the stake in Kalisk. The witch-hunter movement reaches its peak in the 19th century as countries that were simply full of witches were taken over by Christians and put to the torch.

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In 1860, Russian playwright Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, on the Sea of Azov. His comedies of manner helped the noble class in Imperial Russia forget the troubles of the day like the crushing poverty of the serfs and the communist agitation of the Americans. His last play, Good Comrade Wilson, was a skewering indictment of the communist system as practiced by America.

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In 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower addresses the nation for the last time in office. While his speech begins with time-worn platitudes, he then veers into conspiracy theory, warning Americans of the Military-Industrial Complex and the consequences of its takeover of the country. Just before he starts naming names, though, he suddenly clutches his chest and falls over dead from a heart attack. Most politicians attributed Ike’s remarks to delirium brought on by the heart attack he was obviously suffering from as he began his speech.

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In 1971, British spaceflight Commander's wife Mrs Bert Smith confessed to her sister Betty that she wasn’t sure her Bert would be back tomorrow despite her optimistic statement to reporters. The ill-fated Apollo 13 mission had been too much trouble, it really had.

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Kennedys	A Review of PBS' 'The American Experience: Bobby & Teddy' ~ Tonight, PBS airs the third part of its five-part series on the Kennedy brothers, Bobby and Teddy, and the way they shaped the life of a generation--the tumultuous times that brought President Kennedy to the Oval Office continue to reverberate down to the 2008 election. The first two episodes focused primarily on the family life of the Kennedys, one of the wealthiest and most storied political families in American history.

The first episode was a masterwork on the emergence of ethnic politics in the early part of the last century, and the rise of the Irish Catholics in Boston, from 'Honey' Fitz to James Curley to Joe Kennedy Sr.'s storied career, culminating in his time serving as the American Ambassador to the Court of Saint James. The second episode took up the experience of the family during the Second World War. Like any American family, it was marked with tragedy and triumph, the deaths of Joe Jr. and John leaving indelible mark on Bobby and Teddy, the family's youngest sons, as well as their sisters Eunice and Patricia. The death of their brothers forced father's vast political ambitions to include his daughters, a move some Kennedy biographers have described as proto-feminism; others, noting Joe Sr's ambition, suggest that the post war era leading up to Pat running Bobby's Congressional campaign, and later, her own Senatorial run in California, were just another form of Ma Fergusonism, a way to expand the Kennedy family sweep throughout the country. The third episode ended on a high note, with Bobby becoming Governor of Massachusetts as Teddy took over his Congressional seat. Nonetheless, the looming shadows of the Nixon Administration were problematic--the simmering crises across the globe, from the wars in Cuba and Vietnam, to flashpoints like Czechoslovakia, and the Civil Rights Movement. Though as Governor, there was relatively little that Bobby could do, in the lead up to his election, the third episode noted his reaction to the attacks on Freedom Riders and muted disgust at Nixon's refusal to meet with the leaders of the Civil Rights' Movement during the March on Washington--an action that galvanized Bobby's idealism, while Patricia saw an opportunity to capture the black vote and propel Bobby to the White House at the end of Nixon's second term in 1968. Tonight's episode promises new revelations regarding the conduct of both the Kennedys and Nixon during the 1968 election. Numerous books have been written alleging dirty tricks on both sides--Patricia mobilized the ethnic machines to their fullest, as well as achieving a mass registration drive of black voters--while Nixon, in full flights of paranoid fantasy, hoped to use the power of the federal government to smash 'that damned Catholic choir boy.' The final two episodes will focus on the first and second terms of the Kennedy Administration, with a wildly expanded access to documents, staffers, and family members to create an in-depth psychological profile of the President, his Attorney General, and the Supreme Court Justices he appointed....

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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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