A picture is worth 1000
words as Chuck Schumer and NYC Mayor Adams are seen at an event with recently arrested
Chinese Government (CCP) spy Lu Jianwang who in recent revelations contributed
at least $32,625 to Adams’ and Hochul’s campaign (Blues evidently have learned
nothing from the Fang Fang Eric Swalwell scandal). Matt Taibbi the journalist
who has exposed the influence of the FBI in trying to censor conservative
voices and news damaging to the White House on Twitter in the pre Musk free
speech revival days and who has been threaten by a leading Blue House Member
with a bogus and unfounded perjury claim asked the MSM what their reaction
would be in Reds had threatened Jim Acosta with perjury—total meltdown. The
negative fall back from Anheuser Busch’s relationship with Dylan Mulvaney
continues unabated as Republican women governors are introducing “Real Women” koozies
blasting those who do not know difference between “real” and “fake” as the
brilliant marketing guy who dreamed up the promotion with Dylan has taken a
leave of absence. In a rare bipartisan event the House voted to reverse Biden’s
executive order waiving tariffs on Chinese solar panels for 2 years which signed
bowing to environmental groups making us more of a hostage to China’s near
monopoly on solar panels. The cracks in the dam supporting a Biden reelection
are getting more pronounced each day as the NYT intoned that he should
seriously take into consideration voters’ growing concerns over his age as he
is expected to announce his decision on running tomorrow. The FBI is in
hot water once again, accused of stalling the release of the Nashville shooter,
Audrey Hale’s journals and the information on 5 laptops and suicide note.
April 24, 2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
Noted Holidays: Armenian Genocide Remembrance
Day: Commemorating a heinous
genocide of Armenians living in Turkey which began on this day in 1915 when the
Turkish government arrested 250 Armenian intellectuals and executed them and
then commenced a genocidal program to kill Armenians and/or force them to leave
the country on foot in journeys that would result in their deaths. When
genocide ended in 1923, some 1 million Armenians had been killed in the
genocide which the Western World barely condemned or paid attention to which
Turkey today still refuses to acknowledge its complicity.
Word of the Day: The word of the day is “anabasis” which means a military advance
or difficult retreat which describes to a tee what Putin thought he would
encounter on his march to seize Kviv only to be halt in his armored column tracks
retreat.
Number
1 Song: The number 1 song on this
day in 2006 was “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter on a run of 5 weeks. The song
shared with 18 other songs that achieved number 1 status while 20
acts including Daniel Powter, achieved number 1 status for the first time. Here is a music video of Daniel
Powter performing “Bad Day”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH476CxJxfg
April 24 Famous Birthdays: Barbra
Streisand, born on this day in 1942 in New York City, is a very successful
singer, actress, director, and film maker with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony
award to her credit, one of the few performers to claim that feat. She is a
strong supporter of liberal and progressive causes.
Noted Events on April 24:
1. 1895—Joshua Slocum set sail in his sloop Spray to commence his solitary
circumnavigation of the globe which he successful completed when he arrived
back in Newport, Rhode Island on June 27, 1888.
2.
1967— General Westmorland after
crushing the Tet Offensive and inflicting large number of casualties on the
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese seeing the writing on the wall announced in a news
conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives
him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily".
3. 1980—8 U.S.
servicemen were killed died in Operation Eagle Claw in the Iranian desert after
aborting the rescue mission since 3 of the 8 helicopters to be used failed to
make it to the staging area in the desert and having one of the helicopters
crash into the cargo plane on the ground. The disaster plus the fact that the
hostages seized in the American Embassy takeover in Tehran were still being
held contributed heavily to the Reagan landslide against Jimmy Carter.
4.
1996—In response to the Oklahoma
City Bombing and the World Trade Center
Bombing, The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act was passed by the
House and Senate by overwhelming bipartisan majorities which curtailed the
right to seek habeas corpus, gave the U.S. the power to designate
foreign terrorist organizations, gave
victims the right to sue terrorist organizations, and prevented the funding of
terrorist organizations.
5. 2014—WikiLeaks started to publish the
Guantanamo Bay files which revealed abuses by the U.S. of holding non terrorist
Afghans for years without being charged and included some 750,000 classified
documents that Chelsea Manning had illegally leaked to WikiLeaks.
Famous Quotes on Events and Issues:
Perry Anderson, noted British
historian on the Armenian Genocide: “Not
coincidentally, another who noted their extermination was Hitler, who had a
first-hand witness of it among his closest associates in Munich. The former
German consul in Erzerum, Max von Scheubner-Richter, reported to his superiors
in detail on the ways they were wiped out. A virulent racist, who became
manager of the early Nazi Kampfbund and the party’s key liaison with big
business, aristocracy and the church, he fell to a shot while holding hands
with Hitler in the Beerhall putsch of 1923. ‘Had the bullet which killed
Scheubner-Richter been a foot to the right, history would have taken a
different course,’ Ian Kershaw remarks. Hitler mourned him as ‘irreplaceable’.
Invading Poland 16 years later, he would famously ask his commanders, referring
to the Poles, but with obvious implications for the Jews: ‘Who now remembers
the Armenians?’ The Third Reich did not need the Turkish precedent for its own
genocides. But that Hitler was well aware of it, and cited its success to
encourage German operations, is beyond question. Whoever has doubted the
comparability of the two, it was not the Nazis themselves.”
© April 24, 2023 Michael P.
Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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