Don Palabraz

From the Governator’s Desk

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH4R3OXHeCA] {The Governator will be making cuts more brutal than in this infamous shed scene starring Schwarzenegger as “Commando”} With most of the budget-related measures on California’s special election ballot defeated on Tuesday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Democratic colleagues in the legislature are stating that deep cuts will have to follow. The projected shortfall for the [...]

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Subversive Historian – 04/24/09

The Armenian Genocide Back in the day on April 24th, 1915, the Ottoman Turkish government strategically arrested more 200 Armenian intellectual leaders in Constantinople. This mass detention of influential journalists, political leaders, and artists among others was followed by another wave of arrests of hundreds more. Noted as the “tripwire” event that set off the [...]

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Subversive Historian – 04/23/09

AIDS Virus Discovered Back in the day on April 23rd, 1984, scientists in the United States announced the discovery of a virus called HTLV-3 that caused the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome – or AIDS. The news that came exactly twenty-five years ago was hailed as a “monumental breakthrough,” by U.S. Health Secretary Margaret Heckler. With this [...]

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Fuck Yoo!

Since last Thursday, the people of the United States and the world have learned a little more about the criminality of the Bush regime. The Justice Department, not wanting to appear to have been forced due to an ACLU lawsuit, released four torture memos that are sure to live in infamy in the annuls of  [...]

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Subversive Historian – 04/17/09

{Pepe San Roman – You shamed the family name…if we were related!} The Bay of Pigs Invasion Back in the day on April 17th, 1961, the United States orchestrated the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by counter-revolutionary exiles seeking to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. A dramatic culmination of diplomatic strife between the two countries [...]

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