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Dec 16, 1773: members of the underground Sons of Liberty movement disguised as Mohawk Indians dump 342 chests of imported tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation. It won't be for another 50 years that Americans refer to the incident as the "Boston Tea Party." For decades it was remembered simply as The Destruction of the Tea.


The Tea Act actually lowered the price of tea in America, but the colonists stood on the principle that it was unjust for Parliament to tax them at all, because they were not represented in Parliament. Seven tea ships left England for America that year. Patriots at Philadelphia and New York successfully prevented the ships from unloading, while the ship at Charleston, South Carolina was confiscated by patriots and the goods resold to aid the patriot cause.

To punish Boston, the British Parliament passed a series of punitive laws called the Coercive Acts. Instead of isolating and intimidating colonists as intended, the Coercive Acts united Americans in a "Common Cause," leading to the First Continental Congress.



Actress Valerie Perrine Bares All - "I've experimented with almost every drug known to man...But now I don't even smoke grass..." (TIME, Dec 16, 1974)




Dec 16, 1977: the Charles Bronson Cold War thriller TELEFON opened. "Dial 800 (Toll Free) T-E-L-E-F-O-N for the secret of The most explosive picture of the year!" MGM couldn't follow through on their cheesy TELEFON promotion gimmick. Fortunately, Vince Staten of the Dayton (OH) Daily News called the number and preserved his findings for history. The number had been disconnected by Dec. 20, 1977.



The name of the poem used as the code spoken over the telephone to activate sleepers was 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost. This poem was originally published in 1923 in his collection titled 'New Hampshire'. The exact lines from the poem heard in the movie each time were: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."


Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka; ad in NUCLEAR TIMES, June & March 1984.


Warday is a novel first published in 1984. A fictional account of the authors traveling across the U.S. five years after a limited nuclear attack in order to assess how the nation has changed after the war. The novel takes the form of a first-person narrative research article and includes government documents, interviews with survivors and aid workers, and present-tense narration.


8 days till lift-off! NORAD’s North Warning System long-range radars are among the first to detect Santa’s sleigh as he lifts off on December 24th. Amazing how the US Air Force knows the second Santa's sleigh goes airborn before it even enters American air space, but those damn elusive Chinese balloons are able to evade our trillion dollar air defense system.

Claus: NORAD Tracks Santa (1975) Cool video!



NORAD even provides an App so you can track Santa on your phone. Which of course they in turn track YOU! Getting on Santa's naughty list is one thing but getting yourself added to NORAD's list is a whole other story.



Dec 16, 2024: President-Elect Donald Trump: "There will be a period of intense economic activity, and investment unlike anything our nation has ever seen."  “The Golden Age of America — it's begun.”




This is an interesting back and forth between embassies on X.

On 12 July 2016, the Arbitral Tribunal in the South China Sea Arbitration (The Republic of the Philippines v. The People’s Republic of China) issued a unanimous award largely favourable to the Philippines. China has rejected the ruling, but it may nonetheless be a stepping-stone on the way to a peaceful resolution of the conflict.

Legal Victory for the Philippines against China: A Case Study (2017)

Nuttyanyahu giving us a "history" lecture...


https://x.com/RT_com/status/2000976391748370741


Big red ice nukers...


Russia Deploys All Eight Nuclear Icebreakers for First Time to Keep Arctic Export Routes Open



Houthis versus the United States Regarding Vessel Takedowns and Attacks in the Red Sea and Caribbean:
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses the difference between the maritime operations conducted by the Houthis in the Red Sea versus the United States in the Caribbean Sea.





FDA is contemplating adding "black box" warning on COVID-19 vaccine, warning of severe harm, serious side effects including death...


Covid Shots May Get FDA’s Strongest Warning

Reuters


The director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center was shot to death last night in his home. Wonder if he had a fusion breakthrough.


MIT professor fatally shot at his Brookline home

Another mystery homicide and no arrests so far.