A Thought for the Day               

Bearing witness must eternally typify, simultaneously, one prime responsibility of the human condition at exactly the same time that, because it represents an attack on those whose rule will ever constitute the criminality of accumulated exploitation, even the thought, let alone the real prospect, of any such ‘speaking truth to power’ will terrify most members of the human clan into proffering as their standard commentary on life’s passing fancies merely glib jibes and arch dismissal instead of accurate and comprehensive indictments of those who depend on fearful silence and distracted displacement to continue the reigns of error that their plutocratic potentates ultimately and always deliver.

                    This Day in History                  

Today is International Biodiversity Day; in what is now Western Turkey, two thousand three hundred fifty-one years ago, Macedonian fighters under the leadership of Alexander crushed the forces of a third Darius of Persia at the Battle of Granicus; eleven hundred sixty-four years prior to the present pass, Byzantine naval forces attacked and plundered Damietta, a port at the mouth of the Nile that Byzantium’s rulers had long wish to conquer and control; six hundred forty years ahead of today’s beginning, an eleventh Pope Gregory issued five pronouncements that denounced the work and ideas of the English Catholic reformer, and predecessor to a Protestant movement, John Wycliffe; two hundred thirty-four years in advance of this moment in time, a baby boy was born who grew up to become the engineer, thinker, and inventor William Sturgeon, who patented an electromagnet and electric motor in England; two centuries and ten years in before the here-and-now, a grand jury agreed to indict the former Vice President, Aaron Burr, for treason; MORE HERE

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