(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . 10/02 is the International Day of Non-Violence [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-02 HEY! It's the International Day of Non-Violence, ain't that a giggle? Anybody try to hold a large scale non-violent demonstration lately? Did it stay that way for over an hour? Internationally? Bwahahaha. I ws born in 1946. Four years and 5 days later, the Korean War broke out. I don't know exactly when we got into Viet Nam, I do know that the CIA was covertly doing resupply and logistics runs for the French at Dien Bien Phu in March of 1954 and that we took over the grand war to prevent free elections in Viet Nam from the French when they left. In the meantime, we also teamed up with the British to instigate and assist in the coup d'etat that overthrew Mossadegh on 19 August 1953. Then there was the Laotian Civil War and the Lebanon Crises and we're still not out of the fifties. And so it went, armed interventions and invasions, proxy wars, coups, color revolutions and regime change operations, drone strikes and economic warfare, right on up to today. And that's just the US. We're not unique and we're definitely not alone. Face it: People always make war when they say they love peace. ~~ D. H. Lawrence This was all pretty damn obvious by at least 1958: x YouTube Video - ********** On this day in history: - 1187 -- Saladin captured Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader control. 1789 -- George Washington sent The Bill of Rights to the States for ratification. 1835 -- The Texas Revolution began 1864 – During the US Civil War Confederates defeated a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensued 1919 -- Woodrow Wilson was partially paralyzed by a stroke 1925 -- The first test of a working TV system 1937 – Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic. 1944 -- The end of the Warsaw Uprising. 1949 -- The Soviet Union recognised the People's Republic of China 1958 – Guinea declared its independence from France 1967 -- Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court. 1980 -- Michael Myers (Abscam) was expelled from Congress 2007 -- South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun met with Kim Jong-il in the second Inter-Korean Summit. 2018 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey - ********** Some people who were born on this day: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~~ Mahatma Gandhi 1452 -- Richard III of England (A man ill shaped, crooked backed, lame armed ... ~Anon.) *** 1800 -- Nat Turner, enslaved, led Nat Turner's Rebellion 1852 -- William Ramsay, chemist who discovered the Noble (Inert) Gases 1869 -- Mahatma Gandhi, freedom fighter, activist and philosopher 1 871 -- Cordell Hull, politician, drafted the UN Charter 1871 -- Martha Brookes Hutcheson, landscape architect 1875 – Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, suffragist 1879 -- Wallace Stevens, poet 1 890 -- Groucho Marx, comedian, wit, actor 1895 -- Ruth Cheney Streeter, colonel, first director of the USMCWR 1897 -- Bud Abbott, comedian and actor 1904 -- Graham Greene, author 1909 -- Alex Raymond, cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon 1921 – Edmund Crispin, writer and composer 1911 -- Jack Finney, author 1933 – Dave Somerville, singer 1937 -- Johnnie Cochran, attorney 1938 -- Nick Gravenites, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1 941 – Ron Meagher, rock bass player 1945 – Martin Hellman, cryptographer and academic 1945 -- Don McLean, singer, guitarist, and songwriter 1947 -- Ward Churchill, author and activist 1949 -- Annie Leibovitz, photographer 1950 – Mike Rutherford, guitarist 1951 -- Coco Montoya, singer, songwriter, guitarist, bluesbreaker 1951 -- Sting, singer, songwriter, bassist 1960 – Django Bates, musician and composer 1967 -- Gillian Welch, singer, songwriter, guitarist 1978 – Ayumi Hamasaki, singer, songwriter, actress, empress of J-pop 1988 – Brittany Howard, singer, songwriter, and guitarist *** Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York ... (Big Willy Shakes) - - ********** Some people who died on this day: It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves. ~~ Samuel Adams 1803 -- Samuel Adams, politician 1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, engineer, built first automobile 1927 -- Svante Arrhenius, physical chemist, did computations for the Arrhenius effect 1947 -- P. D. Ouspensky, follower of Gurdjieff and "the fourth way" 1968 -- Marcel Duchamp, painter, sculptor, dadaist 1973 -- Paavo Nurmi, the Flying Finn 1981 -- Harry Golden, journalist and author 1998 -- Gene Autry, actor, singer, guitarist 2006 – Paul Halmos, mathematician 2015 – Coleridge Goode, bassist and composer 2016 -- Neville Marriner, conductor. 2017 – Tom Petty, musician - ********** Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: International Day of Non-Violence Audiophile Day Day of Unity World Architecture Day Child Health Day - ********** - Today's Tunes - Saladin - x YouTube Video - - Groucho x YouTube Video - Nick Gravenites x YouTube Video - Ron Meagher x YouTube Video - Don McLean x YouTube Video - Mike Rutherford x YouTube Video - Coco Montoya x YouTube Video - Sting x YouTube Video - Django Bates x YouTube Video - Gillian Welch x YouTube Video - Brittany Howard x YouTube Video - Gene Autry x YouTube Video - Sir Nevile Marriner x YouTube Video - Tom Petty x YouTube Video - Bonus: - x YouTube Video - - ********** - ********** Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind? - Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com Open Thread, Saladin, Thurgood Marshall, Don McLean, Groucho, Nick Gravenites, Tom Petty, Sting, Marcel Duchamp [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/2/2194488/-10-02-is-the-International-Day-of-Non-Violence Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/