17 YEARS AGO TODAY

Aug 17 1987

Rudolf Hess found hanged by an electrical cord at Spandau prison, aged 93. He was incarcerated there for 40 years, 21 of those years as the solitary inmate.

Rudolf Hess was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He joined the German Army in August, 1914, and served in the First World War.

After the war Hess joined the Freikorps led by Franz Epp and helped to put down the Spartakist Rising during the German Revolution in 1919.

Hess was one of the first people to join the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) and soon become a devoted follower of Adolf Hitler.

In November, 1923, Hess took part in the failed Beer Hall Putsch. He was arrested and sentenced to 18 months in prison. While in Landsberg he helped Hitler write Mein Kampf.

Hess gradually worked his way up the Nazi hierarchy and in December 1932 was appointed head of the Central Political Committee and deputy leader of the party and minister without portfolio.

On 10th May, 1941, Hess flew a Messerschmitt 110 to Scotland with the intention of having a meeting with the Duke of Hamilton. Hess hoped that Hamilton would arrange for him to meet George VI. Hess believed he could persuade the king to sack Winston Churchill and to make peace with Germany in order to join forces against the Soviet Union.

Hess was kept in the Tower of London until being sent to face charges at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. He was found guilty of actively supporting preparations for war and in participating in the aggression against Czechoslovakia and Poland.

 

Rudolf Hess was sentenced to life and was still in Spandau Prison when he was found dead. Officially he committed suicide but grave doubts have been raised about the possibility of a 93-year-old man in his state of health being able to hang himself without help.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhess.htm

 

 

 

ACTUAL WRITING ON CHARTS IN HOSPITALS

1. The patient refused autopsy.
2. The patient has no previous history of suicides.
3. Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.
4. Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days.
5. She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.
6. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
7. On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it disappeared.
8. The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.
9. The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.
10. Discharge status: Alive, but without my permission.
11. Healthy appearing decrepit 71-year old male, mentally alert, but forgetful.
12. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.
13. She is numb from her toes down.
14. While in ER, she was examined, x-rated and sent home.
15. The skin was moist and dry.
16. Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.
17. Patient was alert and unresponsive.
18. Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid.
19. She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life until she got a divorce.
20. I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.
21. Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.
22. Examination of (BEEP BEEP) reveals that he is circus sized.
23. The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.
24. Skin: somewhat pale. but present.
25. The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor.
26. Large brown stool - ambulating in the hall.
27. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities

From magealita

 

 

 

Suppress the Vote?

By BOB HERBERT

Published: August 16, 2004

Florida state police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd "investigation" that has frightened many voters, intimidated elderly volunteers and thrown a chill over efforts to get out the black vote in November.

Officials said they had no idea when the investigation might end, and acknowledged that it may continue right through the presidential election. The state police officers, armed and in plain clothes, have questioned dozens of voters in their homes.

I asked if all the people interrogated were black. "Well, mainly it was a black neighborhood we were looking at - yes," he said. He also said, "Most of them were elderly." When I asked why, he said, "That's just the people we selected out of a random sample to interview." 

Many of the elderly black voters who found themselves face to face with state police officers in Orlando are members of the Orlando League of Voters, which has been very successful in mobilizing the city's black vote.

 

 

 

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SONNET 60
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked elipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.

 

 

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185 YEARS AGO TODAY

Aug 16 1819

60 cavalrymen charge into a crowd of approximately 70,000 protesters at St. Peter's Field in Manchester, England. The soldiers begin to hack away at the people with their sabers and trample them under hoof. 11 die and 400 are wounded in the Manchester Massacre, also called the Battle of Peterloo.

Universal manhood suffrage was perhaps just a distant dream, but what people were groping toward was an end to the system of Rotten Boroughs, where the electorate could be bribed, and Pocket Boroughs, where seats were at the disposal of a patron or patrons.

More than 300 seats fell into this category, including burgage boroughs, such as Old Sarum - which was only ever populated on election day. Little wonder that the people of Manchester and its satellite towns, who had no parliamentary representation, were desperate for change. Radical speakers commanded ready audiences throughout the summer of 1819.

 

The Government and local authorities were edgy, talking ominously of sedition and revolution and reinforcing the police with special constables. Spies were everywhere, employed both by the Government and local magistrates, and those agents who could find no evidence of dirty doings were not averse to making it up.

It was a glorious summer's day, and contingents from all those satellite towns poured into Manchester for a reform meeting which was to be addressed by Henry 'Orator' Hunt and Richard Carlile.

They were a happy and friendly bunch, determined to enjoy themselves on a great day out, dressed in their Sunday best and with their wives and children walking beside them - hardly the sort of crowd that was likely to turn ugly.

Watching from a house on the edge of the field, Manchester's 10 magistrates  became increasingly nervous as the crowd grew towards 50,000. As their panic mounted, they obtained statements from a few townspeople who claimed the meeting posed a danger to law and order.

The magistrates made a feeble attempt to halt the proceedings by reading the Riot Act from a window of the house in which they were stationed, then called in the military, who were waiting in sidestreets nearby.

At the cry "Have at their flags!" they charged into the crowd. Sabres swinging in murderous arcs, sparing no thought for the women and children caught beneath their horses' hooves, they carved a swathe of blood through the screaming crowd. 

 Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was moved to write a poem so angry and so vitriolic that it could not be published while he was alive.

It was not until 1832 that The Mask of Anarchy saw the light of day.

Ironically, publication of Shelley's poem coincided with the first move by the Government towards the reform for which those Peterloo workers had been campaigning. The first Parliamentary Reform Act of 1832 began the process of dismantling the system of Pocket and Rotten Boroughs and extending the franchise to towns and cities which had never before been represented.

http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/peterloo.htm

 

 

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U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 15 Aug 2004 at 04:38:06 PM GMT is:

The estimated population of the United States is 293,947,383
so each citizen's share of this debt is $24,963.93.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.73 billion per day since September 30, 2003!

From strangeblackcat

 

 

Volunteers with the bodies of Congolese refugees who were killed in an assault by a rebel faction late Friday.

Attack on a Refugee Camp in Burundi Kills at Least 180

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: August 15, 2004

UJUMBURA, Burundi, Aug. 14 (AP) - Dozens of attackers raided a United Nations refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting and hacking to death at least 180 people, witnesses and officials said Saturday. A Burundian Hutu rebel faction, the National Liberation Forces, claimed responsibility for the attack late Friday near the border with Congo, saying that its fighters were pursuing Burundian soldiers who fled to the camp from a nearby military position.

The camp sheltered ethnic Tutsi refugees from Congo known as the Banyamulenge, who had fled the fighting in Congo's troubled border province of South Kivu. The attackers screamed war cries as they rushed into the camp and set it on fire.

"What we have seen so far are many, many, many bodies of children, women and men," said Eliana Nabaa, spokeswoman for the United Nations mission in Congo. "People were sleeping when the attack happened. People were killed as they tried to escape."

 

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Adele Price, 42, sued Air France for discrimination on Friday.

Price, who was born without limbs because her mother took the drug thalidomide during pregnancy, said in the suit she is able to manipulate a wheelchair and has traveled by air many times.

The suit states that she had bought a ticket in 2000 for travel between Manchester, England and New York. After Price had checked her luggage, she alleged that she was stopped by an Air France agent who told her that "a head, one bottom and a torso cannot possibly fly on its own."

Air France let her take another flight to New York but only after she was able to get a companion to go with her. However, Price said she had to pay for the companion's airfare and lodging.

She said the airline also made it difficult for her to return from John F. Kennedy airport to Britain by requiring her to get opinions from four U.S. doctors certifying she was able to fly alone.

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