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:: 9/11 Special Edition ::

33rd anniversary of Bush 41's NWO speech, 22nd anniversary of the September 11th attacks, and 11th anniversary of the Benghazi attack.





The 9/11 (or 11/9 for everyone outside the US) day has some historical significance...

Sept 11, 9 AD: The disastrous Battle of Teutoburg Forest ended after four days of fighting. Rome wanted to expand east of the Rhine and appointed governor Varus with the task. Germanic chieftain Arminius, once a Roman ally, secretly united tribes against Rome. Varus was lured into Teutoburg Forest, and his 15,000-20,000 men were ambushed on tough terrain. The loss was devastating, and back in Rome a distraught Augustus would periodically cry out, “Varus, give me back my legions!” The Rhine became Rome's boundary in the northwest for the next ~400 years.




Sept 11, 1297: William Wallace smashed the English at Stirling. One arrogant English commander, Hugh de Cressingham, was killed, skinned & turned into a swordbelt for Wallace. At the Battle of Stirling Bridge, Scottish forces led by William Wallace and Andrew de Moray used a narrow bridge to split and defeat a larger English army. They let part of the English army cross, then the Scottish warriors attacked, trapping them. The Scots won decisively which was a turning point in the war, and Wallace was knighted after the battle and became "Guardian of Scotland."




While they have a long and illustrious string of ass kickings under their heavyweight championship belts, the Winged Hussars' finest hour came during the epic Battle of Vienna when the Ottoman Turkish armies were busting nuts across Eastern Europe looking to conquer all of Christendom.  With the main body of the Holy Roman Imperial army completely surrounded and besieged by over 200,000 Turkish warriors, the badass Polish King Jan Sobieski led the single largest and most balls-out cavalry charge in history.



9/11/1683 marks the anniversary of the epic Battle of Vienna, at a city the Islamic troops called "The Golden Apple." A battle where brave men stood side by side to stop the warriors of Ottoman's expansionist onslaught from entering into Europe. A relief force making up of the Holy League, included the Polish Winged Hussars, a legendary elite cavalry unit the world has ever seen. The cavalry charge of some 18,000 men came to Vienna's aid after Vienna endured 2 months of constant siege by the Turkish armies. The heroic battle that ensued not only saved Europe but Christendom as a whole.

King Jan III Sobieski (he was in his mid 50's at the time), personally led the charge from the front and later wrote a letter to Pope Innocent XI saying, "Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit" - "We came, We saw, God conquered."
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THE LAST HURRAH OF THE WINGED HUSSARS

Movie: Day of the Siege (2012)

American loss at the Battle of Brandywine

On this day in history, September 11, 1777, the American loss at the Battle of Brandywine opens the door for the British to take the American capital, Philadelphia. British General William Howe landed 17,000 troops at Head of Elk, Maryland in late August to capture Philadelphia.

George Washington and the Continental Army were camped between the British and Philadelphia. For two weeks, the two armies maneuvered around one another, with only minor skirmishes taking place. As the British army began moving north, Washington made his stand at Chadd's Ford over the Brandywine Creek on the "Great Road" from Baltimore to Philadelphia.



Washington placed troops at all the fords from Pyle's Ford below Chadd's Ford, to Wistar's Ford north of Chadd's Ford. Washington had covered all the main crossings for several miles up and down the creek and believed this would force the British to cross at Chadd's Ford, which was the best defensible position. Unfortunately, Washington's intelligence of the area was not as good as Howe's.

General Howe's troops gathered at Kennett Square and, early on the morning of September 11th, rather than sending his entire force to fight the Continentals at Chadd's Ford, he split his army in two and sent only 5,000 men to the ford. The rest of Howe's army marched north under Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis and crossed further up the creek at fords Washington was unaware of, then marched south upon Washington's right flank.

The fighting began on the approach to Chadd's Ford when the Americans opened fire on the British. The British soldiers took cover on the grounds of a Quaker meetinghouse, while a church service was underway inside.  The fighting began mid-morning and the British eventually pushed the Americans back beyond the ford.

The great surprise took place, however, when Cornwallis' army fell on the right flank at about 2pm. The Americans were completely surprised and quickly took many casualties. Generals John Sullivan, Adam Stephens and William Alexander quickly repositioned their troops and held off the British for a few hours, while the rest of the army began a retreat. By 4pm, Washington and General Nathanael Greene arrived with reinforcements.

As darkness approached, Greene placed the troops of General George Weedon at Dilworth to block the British from advancing. This allowed the rest of the army to retreat to safety, most of whom arrived at Chester by midnight.

The Battle of Brandywine was a great loss for the Americans, but the Continental Army soldiers were not discouraged after the battle, even though they suffered more than 1,000 dead and wounded. Washington wrote to Congress that his army had survived to fight another day. For the next two weeks the armies continued to maneuver around one another, but on September 26, General Howe marched into Philadelphia unopposed. Congress had fled to York and Philadelphia would be occupied for the next 9 months.

Sept 11, 1927: Gerard David Schine (Sept 11, 1927 – June 19, 1996), son of hotel magnate, he played central role in Army-McCarthy hearings as investigative consultant to McCarthy. Worked closely with Roy Cohn. Schine died in a private airplane accident in Burbank, California. Also dying in the crash were his wife, Hillevi, and their 35-year-old son, Berndt, who was piloting the plane.


Following Schine's death, playwright Tony Kushner, who previously wrote the Pulitzer-prize winning Angels in America, wrote a one-act play titled G. David Schine in Hell. The play takes place on the day Schine died and portrays Schine as he arrives in hell and is reunited with Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon, Whittaker Chambers, and J. Edgar Hoover.





In the lead-up to Chile's 1970 elections, the CIA ran a disinformation campaign to "denigrate" socialist Salvador Allende.

As soon as he won, the CIA used "maximum covert pressure to prevent" Allende from governing.

On September 11, 1973, the CIA helped overthrow Allende in a coup, who later that day committed suicide and installed fascist dictator general Augusto Pinochet...and the dissidents got a one-way free helicopter rides...over 3,000 of them.


CIA’s Covert Action Program in Chile

Just 11 days after Chile's 1970 elections, which leftist Salvador Allende had won, President Richard Nixon met with CIA Director Richard Helms and Henry Kissinger. Nixon ordered the CIA to "make the economy scream", to "save Chile" from socialism. The CIA immediately began supporting right-wing politicians in Chile, funding anti-Allende propaganda in the media, and even backing anti-communist labor unions, which launched strikes to destabilize the country.

Then, on September 11, 1973, the CIA oversaw a carefully orchestrated military coup against the democratically elected president, conspiring not only with fascist General Augusto Pinochet but also neo-Nazis from the Frente Nacionalista Patria y Libertad.


Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXI, Chile, 1969–1973