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August 24th in history includes King Alaric of the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410AD, 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, Germany after being blamed for the bubonic plague in 1349; Washington DC was burned in the War of 1812; Panic of 1857 begins. NATO was founded this day in 1949. Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. Cat5 Hurricane Andrew wipes out Florida, Microsoft dumps a turd on the world, First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the UK, and...


Seems like a significant day!!

Did you know the Waffle House Index is the U.S. government's (FEMA) alternative measure of disaster impact.

In 1920, a U.S Marine defeated a U.S Army soldier and earned the title "Champion Waffle Eater in the World" by consuming 26 of the corrugated pastries in 30 minutes. He warmed up for the match by having a porterhouse steak, fries, doughnuts, and coffee. Beat that Royal Marines!!


August 24, 1814: British troops led by Major-General Robert Ross invaded Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812. The Burning of Washington ensued, with British forces setting fire to key government buildings, including the Presidential Mansion (White House), United States Capitol, and Washington Navy Yard. Less than four days after the attack began, God decided to save Washington and drive out the British troops by sending a heavy thunderstorm, possibly a hurricane and a tornado (the facts seem to have been muddied in the midst of chaos) which extinguished the fires, though it caused further destruction, but it did send the British packing back to their storm beaten ships. The British occupation of Washington only lasted for roughly 26 hours. This event marked a significant episode in the war, leaving the US capital in ruins. Today, some delusional wacky commie politicians believe the J6 insurrection circus was worse.


Also, the assassination of UK PM Spencer Perceval had taken place in 1812 on the floor of the UK Parliament and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The UK had lots going on.

Tony Blair: "In 1814, British burnt the Congress Library. I know this is kind of late, but: Sorry." (2003)




August 24, 1923: The Somerset, PA., PTA is bitterly divided over a proposed school dress code banning short skirts and bobbed hair. "Flappers" walk out of the meeting, chanting:

"I can show my shoulders,
I can show my knees.
I’m a free-born American
And can show what I please."




August 24, 1954: The Communist Control Act went into effect in the USA. It called for the outlawing of the Communist Party in the USA, but the Communist Party of the USA continued to exist, though the law was used to provide to the FBI and the Department of Justice 'much more effective weapons' to help destroy the Communist menace.



Communist Control Act of 1954

Weird how this mixed bag of commie/marxist/socialist party still exists in the USA.

How to Spot a Communist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkYl_AH-qyk


August 24, 1991: following the day after the Soviet coup ended, Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union // Ukraine Independence Day Declared. Recognized by the USA on Christmas day, 1991.

On August 24, 33 years ago, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Act on State Independence and the creation of an independent Ukrainian state. The Ukrainian edition of Radio Liberty was one of the first to inform this news.

On December 1, 1991, a referendum was held in Ukraine to confirm the Independence Act. The bulletin had only one question “Do you confirm the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine” and more than 90% of Ukrainians answered yes. Ukraine has gained independence in a peaceful, legal way.

The first state sovereignty of Ukraine was recognized by Poland. Why was the neighbor so dependent on being first? Who was the final decision for? Was Poland afraid of the Kremlin’s reaction? How Poland recognized Ukrainian independence of Radio Liberty was told by direct participants in this historical process.

Ukraine’s declaration of independence for Poland was no surprise, then Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Belecki says. The politician recalls the secret meeting initiated by the Ukrainian side.

The Secret Meeting

“In the first days of January 1991, we met in Davos at the economic forum with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Kravchuk and this meeting, the meeting of our delegation was not planned. One evening, our deputy minister came to me and said that the Ukrainian delegation wants to meet. And we had such a secret meeting. During the conversation, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Leonid Kravchuk asked us if we are ready to recognize the independence of Ukraine. Then, I admit, I was a little surprised, because nothing like this has happened yet, and then there was a conversation about what conditions, what will be the calendar of events,” Beletsky recalls.

Already in the summer, on August 24, 1991, when the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Act on State Independence, Poland was ready and only waited for the results of the referendum to be the first in the world to recognize Ukraine's state sovereignty.

“Why is it important to be first? Because it was in line with the way people think from Solidarity, because our first governments of independent Poland since 1989 left the Solidarity movement and I think we are still proud of them,” says former Polish Prime Minister.

Jan Belecki recalls how in 1981 at the Solidarity Congress, a message was adopted to the working people in Eastern Europe, which said that all people of labor in Eastern Europe have the right to freedom and fundamental rights.

According to the former prime minister, it was then announced in the Soviet Union that Solidarity is “a revisionist organization that wants to destabilize the situation throughout Eastern Europe.”

“We were very proud, and then this message to the people of Eastern Europe became the main slogan of the activities of the first governments of Solidarity. So as soon as this chain reaction began to declare freedom and independence by the countries of Eastern Europe, we were very sensitive to this that our neighbor, a great neighbor, which is Ukraine and not a simple neighbor with whom we historically had many misunderstandings and even dramas to see that the people of Solidarity with hope and optimism welcome the expansion of the zone of freedom in Eastern Europe, expansion to such a great country.

Due to the time difference, the Poles were several hours ahead of Canada with a diplomatic note, which had already "steppermed five".

“Because we managed to get ahead of Canadians for a few hours, we still remember this. The then Prime Minister Malruni remembered that there is Poland and Belecki,” adds the former Polish Prime Minister.

According to Beletsy, Poland was no longer afraid of the reaction of the Kremlin:

“We were waiting for this moment with great hope, as well as with great determination that no matter what the Kremlin says, no matter how much Gorbachev has been grunting, we are firmly set.”

...

“Despite the Soviet propaganda, which constantly mentioned Lviv, trying to quarrel us, we had no territorial claims. To this day, Russian propaganda is trying to use territorial resynthetics, they, of course, fail. For several decades of our relations, we have never been a problem and that Poland shows its openness to Ukraine recognizes its independence,” Zhochovsky said.

How Poland was the first in the world to recognize Ukrainian independence

Lviv Now Media


August 24, 1991: Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the head of the Soviet Communist Party (CPSU). Five days later, the Supreme Soviet indefinitely suspended all CPSU activity on Soviet territory, effectively ending Communist rule in the Soviet Union.



3 years earlier TIME named him...


Re-occurring pattern with TIME and dictators.


August 24, 1995: BSOD was unleashed on the public. Microsoft released Windows 95.




How about No & NOooooooooooooooo!


FDA OK's new COVID vaccine shots for fall 2024 from Pfizer and Moderna

Meanwhile...


Universal Flu Vaccine

Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney for Philip Hobsbaum

Late August, given heavy rain and sun
For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it
Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking.
Then red ones inked up and that hunger
Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam pots
Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.
Round hayfields, cornfields and potato drills
We trekked and picked until the cans were full,
Until the tinkling bottom had been covered
With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned
Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered
With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard's.

We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.
But when the bath was filled we found a fur,
A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.
The juice was stinking too.
Once off the bush
The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair
That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.
Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.