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Friday, August 17, 2007

Anarchy

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I am an antichrist, I am an anarchist
Dont know what I want but I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer by cos i I wanna be anarchy !
Sex PistolsAnarchy for the u.k its coming sometime and maybe I give a wrong time stop a trafic line
Your future dream is a shopping scheme cos i I wanna be anarchy !
In the city


~ Anarchy in the UK - Click to Watch
Anarchy in the UK
To watch the Sex Pistols singing "Anarchy in the UK" in Airstrip One the summer of 1975 was a shocking, profoundly shocking experience. In particular, the contorting rage of John Lydon's face, and the very definition of dysfunctionality in his dance was an open challenge to the norm of civilised British society.

A time traveller from 1917 would be appalled, would demand an explanation of what had happened in Britain? To Britain. And yet the profound changes that were bubbling under British society were on naked display even in 1917. The French lesson that Alduous Huxley delivered to Eric Arthur Blair and his colleagues at Eton showed all of the tell tales signs of a society in meltdown. Both men would describe the dystopian futures in "Brave New World" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

The lyrics are available at at Lyricsfreak
~ quotation by Co-Historian Steve Payne from Counter-history – You're the Judge!

Harry Truman"As President of the United States, I proclaim Sunday, September the second, 1945, to be V-J Day -- the day of formal surrender of Japan. It is not yet the day for the formal proclamation of the end of the war nor of the cessation of hostilities. But it is a day which we Americans shall always remember as a day of retribution -- as we remember that other day, the day of infamy."
~ Harry S Truman, 34th Vice President and 33rd President of the United States
Harry Truman - President
President
Speaking on 1st September 1945. By refusing to announce the end of the war, Truman dropped a large hint regarding the forthcoming war with the Soviet Union which was to follow a few short months later. The full text of the speech is available at American Rhetoric
~ quotation by Co-Historian Steve Payne from Counter-history – You're the Judge!

In 1975, in Panama, Robert Neville had been bitten by a vampire bat. After the war, he guessed that his immunity was due to his body's unique defence system. What other explanation could there be?


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


Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh
In 1998, Seymour M Hersh published the controversial “Light Side of Gomorrah” based on his investigations into the presidency of John F Kennedy. Hugely sympathetic to the impeached and discredited playboy, the cover jacket reads “If the Kennedys are America's royal family, then John F. Kennedy was the nation's crown prince. ..
.. Magnetic, handsome, and charismatic, his perfectly coiffed image overshadowed the successes and failures of his presidency, and his impeachment cemented his near-demoniacal status in American culture and politics. Struck down by Congress in his prime, he represented the best and the brightest of America's future, and when he died, part of the nation's promise and innocence went with him. That, at least, is the true version of the story.

~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!


In 2127/2003, a dramatic scene is played out in a deep cell of Paddington Green Police .. Paddington Green
Paddington Green..
.. Station. Being interviewed are twenty-second century fugitive Brent and first Asian QC Kim Hollis. Urgent investigations are being pursued in relation to the apparent suicide of the Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith. To a disbelieving audience, Brent says the world of 2127 is most definitely not a Newt Gingrich pipe dream. The UN has been reconstructed and is run by first nations. Indigenous control has been re assumed of the Turtle Island (America), the Dreamtime (Australia) and Eurasians have returned to semi-barbarism, starving in the unlit and unheated city slums.

~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!


Sopot Incident
Sopot Incident
In 1939, the opening strike of the Second Great War occurred on this day as German soldiers destroyed Polish border checkpoint in Sopot. Molotov's failure to agree a neutrality pact with the Russian Government ensured that Sopot was viewed as an act of war, provoking the Red Army into entering Eastern Poland to preserve the ..
.. buffer state. The Wehrmatch had to face the brilliance of Marshal of the Soviet Union Mikhail Tukhachevsky. Appointed by Trotsky to the Bolshevik Defence Commissar, Leon Trotsky gave Tukhachevsky command of the 5th Army in 1919, and he led the campaign to capture Siberia from the White forces of Aleksandr Kolchak. He also helped defeat General Anton Denikin in the Crimea in 1920. Both the Kronstadt rebellion and the Tambov peasant revolt were crushed by forces under Tukhachevsky's command. And by early 1940, he would enter Berlin at the Head of the Red Army crushing the Third Reich.

~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!


In 1939, in Harry Turtledove counter-history masterpiece, the Guns of the East the Border Defence Corps is supplied with AK-47's by early-21st century Polish time-travellers. In this far-fetched alternative history, Polish Forces repulse the initial Wehrmacht attach, .. Edward Rydz-Śmigły
Edward Rydz-Śmi..
.. but face a two front war with both the Russians and Germans, ending in their ultimate defeat.

~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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