10/24 - United Nations Day

It is United Nations Day. The UN was founded on this day in 1945. It's utility and efficacy, however, are premised upon the member states and their mouthpieces acting with honesty and goodwill, which may be the case in some other dimension, but which is not even remotely true in this one.

On a related note, it is International Day of the Diplomats. This is an annual gathering of "diplomats" from various nation states that began on October 24, 1917. It is clear from looking at the list of participating countries that just as a "terrorist" is anybody that the leadership of some nation state declares to be one, so too a "diplomat is anybody that the leadership of some nation state declares to be one. That's why, for example, US diplomats have included the merely rich, spooks, rabid war mongers and war criminals. Actual diplomacy is very much like the board game of that name, rife with treachery, betrayal, sneak attacks, alliances, open and sekret, and, of course, constant warfare.

I'll let Da Wiki explain Food Day:

Food Day in the United States is celebrated annually on October 24 and often throughout the month. The celebration was started in 1975 by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in an attempt to create an event similar to Earth Day. Food Day in the U.S. was created to raise awareness about the increasing industrialization of American agriculture, rising food prices, hunger, and the American diet and health crisis.[1] Food Day in the U.S. only lasted until 1977, until 2011, when CSPI revived the National Food Day campaign. The Food Day initiative is now run by Food Day.org within CSPI.

That, in a nutshell, is food day.

We mustn't forget World Polio Day. Insofar as this is 2022, I'll pretty much leave it at that. I will note that it appears that in the US there are no longer large numbers of hospital wards chock full of iron lungs. When I was a kid polio was pretty common, and this appears not to have been the case for some time. To the best of my knowledge, no population ever aquired a natural herd immunity to polio. Caveat: I am neither a medical expert nor an epidemiologist and these are just opinions and I don't give any advice on such matters.

Much to My Surprise, it is National Bologna Day. Hey, I grew up here in the late forties, fifties and sixties and spent my whole life here. You can't shit me, every damn day is and always has been bologna day.

On October 24, 1947 Walt Disney ratted out some of his employees to the House Un-American Activities Committee, allegedly because he thought that they might be guilty of wrong-think. Pretty Mickey Mouse stunt if you ask me

On October 24, 1990 Giulio Andreotti ratted out Gladio, sekret NATO paramilitaries who conducted false flag attacks and attacked and harassed left wing political parties and organizations. The US responded in 2006 with a form of the triple-r retort (Russia-Russia-Russia), admitting that Italy's Gladio and similar organizations in other NATO states existed, but asserting that any accusations of any wrongdoing of any kind were Soviet disinformation. This stock "explanation" ranks right up there with "the dog ate my homework" and "the devil made me do it", but, there you have it.

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On this day in history:

1260 -- Chartres Cathedral was dedicated 1648 -- The Peace of Westphalia was signed 1812 - Napoleon had a tactical victory and a strategic loss at Maloyaroslavets 1851 -- William Lassell discovered the Uranian moons Umbriel, and Ariel 1861 -- The first US transcontinental telegraph was finished 1901 -- Annie Edson Taylor went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, a first 1911 -- Orville Wright stayed airborne in a Wright Glider for nine minutes and 45 seconds 1917 -- Bolshevik Red Guards helped kick off the October Revolution by seizing assorted buildings. 1929 -- Black Thursday 1931 -- The George Washington Bridge opened 1945 -- The Founding of the United Nations. 1946 -- The first photograph of earth from space 1947 -- Walt Disney ratted out some of his employees to the House Un-American Activities Committee 1954 -- Ike pledged US support to the newly invented fascist renegade state of South Vietnam. Part of a wider pattern. 1964 -- Northern Rhodesia gained independence and morphed into Zambia 1975 -- 90% of Iceland's women joined in a national strike to protest gaps in gender equality. Well ladies? 1990 -- Giulio Andreotti ratted out Gladio, sekret NATO paramilitaries who conducted false flag attacks 2003 -- The last commercial flight of the Concorde 2008 -- Bloody Friday, much like Black Thursday for many of the world's Casinos stock exchanges

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Some people who were born on this day:

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

~~ Sonny Terry

1632 -- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, biologist and microbiologist 1891 -- Rafael Trujillo, rotten authoritarian SOB and useful pawn of the US who nonetheless popularized the merengue 1903 -- Melvin Purvis, Feeb 1911 -- Sonny Terry, singer and harmonica player, Piedmont blues, mostly 1917 -- Marie Foster, civil rights activist 1925 -- Willie Mabon, singer, songwriter, and pianist 1927 -- Gilbert Becaud, singer, songwriter, pianist, and actor 1930 -- J.P. Richardson (aka The Big Bopper), singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1934 -- Sanger D. Shafer, wrote "All My Exes Live in Texas" and other such songs 1935 -- Malcolm Bilson, pianist, musicologist, and educator; fortepiano specialist 1936 -- Jimmy Dawkins, singer and guitarist 1936 -- Bill Wyman, singer, songwriter, bass player, and producer 1938 -- Odean Pope, saxophonist 1943 -- Corky Siegel, singer, songwriter, and pianist (Siegel--Schwall Band) 1944 -- Ted Templeman, singer, guitarist, and producer (Harpers Bizarre) 1950 -- Pablove Black, singer, songwriter, keyboard player, and producer 1953 -- David Wright, New Age keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

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Some people who died on this day:

“Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...”

~~ G.E. Moore

1537 -- Jane Seymour, one of Henry VIII's wives 1601 -- Tycho Brahe, astronomer and alchemist, Kepler's mentor 1655 -- Pierre Gassendi, priest, astronomer, and mathematician 1725 -- Alessandro Scarlatti, composer and educator 1852 -- Daniel Webster, lawyer and politician; no friend of the devil 1935 -- Dutch Schultz, US businessman famous for his last words & treasure. * 1958 -- G. E. Moore, philosopher and academic 1970 -- Richard Hofstadter, historian and author 1971 -- Carl Ruggles, composer, practitioner of dissonant counterpoint 1974 -- David Oistrakh, famous fiddle player 1979 -- Carlo Abarth, awesome automobile designer 1991 -- Gene Roddenberry, trekkie grande 2002 -- Harry Hay, gay rights activist, Mattachine Society co-founder 2005 -- Rosa Parks, civil rights activist * Transcript here: https://www.babyfacenelsonjournal.com/last-words.html

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Food Day (United States) For real, honest. International Day of Diplomats United Nations Day World Polio Day National Bologna Day

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