The Third Millenium -- An Outrageous Beginning

Twin Towers

Once upon a time, ... the World Trade Center

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1794, Ohio, The Battle of Fallen Timbers

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1846, Oregon, "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight"
---- Mexico, "Remember the Alamo"

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1898, Havana Harbor, "Remember The Maine"

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1950, Korea, "Better Dead than Red"
(1953 -- The U. S. overthrows the government of Mohammad Mossadeq in Iran.)
(1979 -- The Islamic Republic of Iran is established taking 400 U. S. Embassy officials hostage.)

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2001, New York City, Twin Towers,
"Bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies"
(2003 -- The U. S. overthrows the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.)

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7-25-10: Problems of 9-11-2001
5-27-10: TRANSCRIPT of President Obama's oil spill press conference
3-15-10: President Obama's Strongsville Speech
1-27-10: Radical judicial activism threatens U. S. elections
11-30-09: Cold Fusion, the Defense Intelligence Agency report
1-20-09: President Obama's Inaugural Address
1-19-09: The Bush Legacy
10-22-08: Bailing Out
10-15-08: A small-town crooked politician?
9-11-08: The Surge wins for Iran
8-28-08: Obama-nomics
7-31-08: The Pickens Plan
7-20-08: The Oil Law and Other Updates
6-23-08: Turning the Middle East into a Ball of Fire
3-21-08: Admiral Fallon is out
2-23-08: Kosovo Update
1-26-08: The 7 billion dollar French bank robbery and the Bin Laden Trades
1-16-08: Another Iran Alarm
12-13-07: Shell Announces Oil from Algae
11-4-07: Bin Laden Trades Update
10-14-07: Ron Paul says Cut Back Our Empire
10-1-07: There is No Peak Oil
9-11-07: Bin Laden Trades
7-3-07: Kick the U.S. addiction to oil
5-24-07: Stop The Oil Law
1-11-07: Orders for al-Maliki
1-5-07: Oilgae
12-11-06: A Way Out?
9-15-06: 9-11 predicted in X-Files spinoff?
7-10-06: Should we keep on playing the China card?
1-31-06: Is the world safe yet for the owners of oil wells?
11-4-04: Imperial Hubris
9-8-04: Confronting Disinformation
7-19-04: And the winner is --- Iran
3-28-04: Who knew What When?
3-21-04: The Baghdad Boil
3-11-04: 9 1 1 days later
12-13-03: Saddam captured on 12-13-03
11-11-03: Fire the perfumed princes now
3-19-03: Liberation of Iraq begins
2-14-03: From Avon to Iraq, with Duck Tape
10-25-02: The D.C. Sniper -- a Gulf War Connection
8-20-02: An October Surprise?
7-11-02: "If the United States starts to crumble ..."
12-24-01: Chronic Anthrax
11-2-01: Diamonds are a girl's best friend
10-10-01: Josh Stell
9-16-01: A note on methanol

BITTER WARS

1812, End of the Napoleonic Wars

1861, End of slavery in the United States, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

1914 (to 1945), This war lasted 31 years, similar to the Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648) in savagery and fanaticism (from trench warfare slaughter to the death camps) -- End of the state system formalized by the Congress of Vienna in 1815

1964, Vietnam, End of the struggle in south-east Asia for the remains of the Japanese, French, and British empires

2018 - 2023, Start of next war of bitterness. What ends?

Avon to 1974

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