The Christmas Football Truce 1914

The following article was excerpted from DailyIndia.com.
A letter documenting the famous Christmas Day truce of 1914, when guns fell silent along the Western Front, and feuding German and British soldiers engaged in a friendly soccer match in the icy mud of No Man’s Land in France, has been found 92 years after it was first written.

Christmas 1890

Hearing of Sitting Bull’s death, Dec. 15, 1890, Big Foot, chief of the Minneconjous, decided to bring what was left of his people—all 350, of which only150 were men—to Pine Ridge for whatever protection Red Cloud could provide.
Big Foot and his people had been on the run since the United States War Department had listed him as one of the “fomenters of disturbances” and therefore targeted for arrest.

Iraq: The movie

Beyond the Jessica Lynch fiasco, three other orchestrated events take center stage in the Wag-the-Dog production of the Iraq War.
The most recent one is the capture of Saddam Hussein December 13, 2003.
CNN.com ran a story the next day whose headline read: “Rumsfeld: In the end, Saddam 'not terribly brave’”
Fox’s story proclaimed: “Saddam Captured ‘Like a Rat’ in Raid.”
Yet other media around the world suggested the capture was nothing other than anticlimactic.

Lights. Camera. Action.

Remember watching the flick Wag the Dog back in 1997? Remember thinking how funny and way out it was? Remember the ending scene in which Dustin Hoffman’s character is “heart-attacked” because he wished to go public with his Hollywood production of a war that never was?
The movie was billed as a satire.
It was not.
It was, however, a laugh at us, the little people, because this is exactly how we were propagandized into backing Gulf War I & II.

The murder of Pat Tillman

Two weeks ago, the Pat Tillman incident surfaced again in the mainstream media.
Every broadcast network carried the story; newspapers around the country ran an Associated Press story detailing what happened on and since the day of Tillman’s death: April, 22, 2004.
As usual, Americans are being denied the truth.
The lame account we are getting is that Tillman was shot by three U.S. soldiers, one who had bad eyesight, one who shot in the direction of muzzle flashes, and one just shot where the other two had.

In the wee small hours of the morning

What strange things take place during the ticks of the clock after midnight on Election Day.
Remember the photograph of President-elect Harry Truman jubilantly holding up the newspaper whose headline proclaimed that Thomas Dewey had indeed won the Presidential election?
What makes you think that Dewey didn’t win the election?
How many of us went to sleep the evening of Election Day 1960 believing that the Republican ticket of Tricky Dick Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge had bested John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

The day we nearly lost our Liberty

The date was June 8, 1967.
On that day, the U.S.S. Liberty, a converted civilian freighter, vintage 1940s, was in the Mediterranean Sea steaming off the Sinai Peninsula toward Gaza.
Admittedly, the Liberty was a “listening” ship, a spy ship if you will.
Its mission was to monitor events in Israel, Egypt, and certain Middle East nations, all of which were engaged in the Six Day War that had begun on June 5.

The Helter Skelter Assassination Attempts

The year 1974 was not a high water mark for U.S. politics.
Richard Nixon, the 37th President, who had been methodically destabilized by Henry Kissinger and The Washington Post over a two-bit B & E his henchman had royally screwed up in the forever-famous Watergate building, became the first President to resign from office.

When They Point the Cannon at You

It was probably two years ago, when, while getting dressed for work, I passed by the television set and saw another talking head on the Today Show. However, this talking head belonged to none other than Alan Dershowitz—that acerbic, yapping, ankle-biting, lefty lawyer—who, to my astonishment, was extolling the virtue of torture.

When patriotism goes bad

Patriotism is great. What a wonderful feeling to love and be proud of the nation in which one lives. But given tempestuous times, when a nation’s actions raise questions among its people, is it unpatriotic to criticize or to dissent from the government’s prevailing ideology? If the majority of a nation’s people decide that dissent is indeed unpatriotic or, worse, treasonous, then how does that nation distinguish itself from a fascist state?

An ill draft that blows no good

While those running for Federal offices are telling you how great they are, and while the mainstream news agencies are censored, nobody seems to be informing you that the draft legislation drawn up in 2003 has undergone a second revision. The legislation once known as the “Universal Military Service Act of 2003” has since been re-titled twice across two years as the “Universal National Service Act of 2005” and “Universal National Service Act of 2006.”

All in the name of security

What Benjamin Franklin said over two centuries ago has never had as much import as it had during the Revolutionary War. That is until now. Franklin’s quote was directed to those who were willing to accept the specious assurances of protection from an increasingly oppressive government. So what’s changed?

Promises . . . Promises . . .

It’s that most wonderful time of the year when multitudes of politicians and would-be politicians assail us on television and radio with promises about what they’re going to do for us if only they can get reelected or elected. It’s the same promises year after year. And nothing changes regardless who gets into office. The impotence of these dorks is especially glaring when we look at the track record of the upscale hookers who inhabit the District of Criminals.

Achtung: You will fill out this form

As if there weren’t enough intrusions into your privacy, get ready for what’s coming down the road in 2010: the American Community Survey.
Gone will be the old 10-year census, whose foremost utility was providing information that adjusted representation in Congress.

Strangers in our own land

Firstly I’d like to thank a reader of this column who sent me information regarding the globalization movement and what it really means to United States citizens. For the record: Karl Marx did not invent Communism or Marxism. He was a front man for the economic visions of the Rothschild banking houses of Europe, who funded Marx in France.

The Magic Christian – Part 2

Do not swear “by any other oath” is what the Word commands. For President Bush and John Kerry—who ran against Bush in the 2004 Presidential election—this might pose a problem if indeed they are true Christians because both have taken oaths as members of the most secretive fraternity and society in America.

The Magic Christian – Part 1

Since 1976 it seems the real powerbrokers in this nation realized the best way to get a President elected—at least in the days when voters actually elected Presidents—was to cast the candidate in the role of an evangelical Christian.

Fear and loathing in the West

In response to yet another comic-book scenario, we are to believe that the intelligence apparatus of both the United Kingdom and the United States thwarted a plan by terrorists to blow up commercial airliners through the secreting of liquid components that, when mixed onboard, would result in an explosive cocktail powerful enough to bring down the aircraft.

No one wins. It’s a war of man

Neil Young may not have been completely right. There are most definitely winners in the wars of man. But the winners are not nations or armies or soldiers. The winners are bankers, industrialists, and weapons manufacturers. And during the twentieth century, using the power they wield over governments, they have perfected the scam.

Reaping the whirlwind of WWIII

Two weeks ago, seemingly within a three- to four-day span, the mainstream media— doing the bidding of its masters—began the propagandizing of United States citizens, first mentioning that it was suspected that Hezbollah’s missiles were Iranian made. No more than 72 to 96 hours after the initial allegations that Hezbollah’s missiles were trucked in from Iran, the ultimate revelation was reached: the whole of Lebanon was acting as a proxy for Iran.

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