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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
December 1:
1980 - U.S. Justice Department
sues Yonkers citing racial discrimination.
December 2:
1954 - The Senate finally did something right...U.S.
Senate censures foot soldier of The Man Joe McCarthy (Senator-R-WI)
for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
December 3:
 1984
- 4,000 died immediately, while hundreds of thousands of other residents
wre disabled, blinded and injured from Union Carbide's poison gas emission
in Bhopal, India.
The Indian government sued Union Carbide
in a civil case and settled in 1989 for $470 million. Because of the
great number of individuals affected by the disaster, most Bhopal victims
received just $550, which could not pay for the chronic lung ailments,
eye problems, psychiatric disorders, and other common illnesses they
developed. The average compensation for deaths resulting from the disaster
was $1,300. The Indian government, famous for its corruption, has yet
to distribute roughly half of Union Carbide's original settlement.
Union Carbide, which shut down its Bhopal plant after the disaster,
has failed to clean up the site completely, and the rusty, deserted
complex continues to leak various poisonous substances into the water
and soil of Bhopal. (More
Info)
December 4:
1969 - At 4:00 a.m., thanks to information
from an FBI informant, Chicago police raid the Black Panthers' Chicago
apartment, murdering Fred Hampton while he sleeps in bed. He is shot
twice in the head, once in the arm and shoulder; while three other people
sleeping in the same bed escape unharmed.
Mark Clark, sleeping in the living room chair, is also murdered while
asleep. Hampton's wife, carrying child for 8 months, is also shot, but
survives. Four panthers sleeping in the apartment are wounded, while
one other escapes injury . According to the findings of the federal
grand jury, 90 bullets were fired inside the apartment. One came from
a Panther who slept with a shotgun in his hand. All surviving Panther
members were arrested for "attempted murder of the police and aggravated
assault". Not a single cop spent a moment in jail for the executions.
(More
Info)
1991 - In a gesture that renders the phrase
"Too Little, Too Late" pitifully inadequate, Congress declares
1992 to be the "Year of the Indian."
December 5:
1988 - North Carolina federal grand jury
indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud and conspiracy.
2002 - I want to say
this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted
for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed
our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years,
either." -Senator Trent Lott, Evil henchman for the Man and Senate
Majority Leader.
Strom Thurmond, of course, ran for president on a platform
of keeping race segregation alive;. or, as he put it in a campaign speech,
"there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people
to break down segregation and admit the Nigra race into our theaters,
into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches."
So exactly what are "all these problems" that
would have been avoided had Thurmond beaten Truman? You know - black
people voting, civil rights, desegregation, tragic things like that.
(See November 3 and More
Info)
December 6:
1980 - Televangelist Jim Bakker of the PTL
ministry has A 15 minute quickie in a motel room with Jessica Hahn.
The Minister reportedly said "When you help the shepherd, you're
helping the sheep." PTL later pays Hahn hush money, but seven years
later the incident becomes public and Bakker resigns into disgrace.
Nice use of donated funds. All in the name of God, right?
 December
7:
1941 - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
 CBS'
John Charles Daly Reports of the Pearl Harbor Attack (12/7/1941)
NBCR's
First Bulletin on the Pearl Harbor Attack (12/7/1941)
December 8:
1941 - Representative Jeanette Rankin casts
the only vote in Congress against American entry into World War II.
1969 - Los Angeles police raid local Black
Panther Party offices.
December 9:
1994 - In the ongoing effort to keep our
heads in the sand, General Surgeon Joycelyn Elders was dismissed after
suggesting a discussion of masturbation in school classes on sexuality.
December 10:
1520 - The heretic Martin Luther burnt the
papal bull issued by Leo X, titled "Exsurge Domine", demanding
an end to his heresies. Luther had published 95 points against the practice
of granting indulgences. Luther was subsequently excommunicated.
1993 - Adolf Hitler is baptized into the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Mormons use this retroactive baptismal
ritual to ensure ancestors of other relatives may join them in heaven.
See the baptism certificate.
December 11:
1997 - A blow to The Man's plot to control the universe....A
Federal judge orders Microsoft
not to bundle IE4 in Windows.
December 12:
1994 IBM said it would halt shipments of Pentium computers
because of a flaw in the Pentium chip. The November 7 issue of Electrical
Engineering Times announced the "floating point" bug in the
Pentium chip, which could produce mathematical errors. Intel officials
admitted they had known about the flaw for some time but thought it
so unlikely to cause problems that they did not disclose the problem,
creating an uproar among computer users. Intel said it would replace
flawed chips only if users showed they engaged in computer work that
might be affected by the error. Consumers attacked Intel for its position,
and later, the company agreed to replace any chips that were returned.
(More
Info)
December 13:
1989 - Win one for the people! "The Queen of Mean"
Leona Helmsley receives a four-year prison sentence, 750 hours of community
service, and a $7.1 million tax fraud fine in New York.
For many,
Helmsley
became the object of loathing and disgust when she quipped that "only
the little people pay taxes." Yeah, but jail is for everbody!
(More
Info and Even
More Info)
December 14:
1503 - Nostradamus is born. If you write
vague enough prophesies, you can fool anyone. (More
Info)
1942 - The first complete, documented, and
authoritative story on tobacco as a cause of diseases and a shortener
of life appeared in the December 14, 1942 issue of George Seldes' IN
Fact. (More
Info)
December 15:
1953 - Tobacco executives meet to find a
way to deal with recent scientific data pointing to the health hazards
of cigarettes. Participants included John Hill of Hill & Knowlton,
his key aides, and the following tobacco company presidents: Paul D.
Hahn (ATC), O. Parker McComas (PM), Joseph F. Cullman (B&H) and
J. Whitney Peterson (U.S. Tobacco Company). The memo from the meeting
is below:
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