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Editor says, what if San Francisco was chosen as UN headquarters? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the April 2013 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1945, on this day fifty nations gathered in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations. The goal was to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It would contain multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions.
New World OrderSeven years later, the UN's head-quarters was opened in the Bay Area. It was a controversial choice of location by the U.N. Interim Site Committee. They had been lobbied intensely by East Coast power-brokers who argued that New York City was a world capital with international transport routes. However their logic was self-defeating because the political elite wanted a structure that faced eastwards towards Asia.
The decision had a number of profound consequences. The development of infrastructure to support the UN was indeed a boon to the local economy. However this was matched by a fast-growing counter-culture. By the late 1960s, the UN headquarters was the focal point of anti-war protests and demonstrations that the U.N. Interim Site Committee had not anticipated. Nor had they considered the conspiracy angle, with many of the protestors starting to believe that the UN had been located to suite the needs of a shadowy government - a true New World Order.
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~ Can you imagine the confrontations between San Francisco's gay population and the culturally conservative UN delegates? The mind BOGGLES!
~ A lot of New Yorkers would be delighted not to have to put up with UN delegates and their "creative" approach to things like parking laws---diplomatic immunity means they can't be ticketed. Personally, I think the best Bay area place for the UN would be Alcatraz Island.
~ I like that. After all, the Star Fleet Academy will eventually be in San Francisco.
Comment from John E. Bredehoft on Google+ So would the Bay Area then become the home of a very tall World Trade Center? After all, why build a world center in New York when the world's leading organization was based elsewhere
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~ Wouldn't have taken much to make this scenario a reality...
~ What a party!
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Editor says, what if the actuary tables didnt get John McCain, but a man-made disaster did? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 2010, on this day Sarah Louise Palin was sworn in as the first woman President of the United States after John McCain suffered a heart attack at the Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana where he had been overseeing the crisis management of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.
Woman solves man-made disaster
Characteristically, McCain had been honouring a campaign pledge that had he been president during the Hurricane Katrina Disaster, he would have flown to the nearest Air Force base to oversee the response.
The Deepwater catastrophe had begun with the initial rig explosion on April 20. "And, unlike an earthquake or a hurricane, it is not a single event that does its damage in a matter of minutes or days" ~ former President Candidate Barack ObamaThe subsequent fire on a semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit created a massive ongoing offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest in U.S. history and an environmental disaster.
Doubtless, what was required over the coming months was the deft crisis management of a national leader such as John F Kennedy. Instead having charged down to Louisiana McCain could hardly disengage with the crisis worstening.
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~ And the liberal half of the population lifts hemlock to their lips rather than have to say "President Palin.." :)
Comment from Margo Barotta on Facebook: When john mccain choose sarah palin to be his vice president it was a great choice it show us that he is free in his politics he is not under presure of powerfull vice president like obama make : biden is a powerfull man and he has long history in politics .and sarah palin will be for the interior subject ,the foreign policy and the diplomacie will ... See Morebe in his hand .but if this accident happened to mccain (if he was president)i dont think sarah palin will succes to take the charge and she is not forge in politics like mccain or hilary clinton .she has not the politic karisma to stand in face of global issues.
Comment from Norton James on Facebook: Bush spent 1.5 trillion dollars to kill Sassam Hussein and his administartion caused the worst finacial crisis since the Great Depression. Military spending represents 53.3 percent of the US budget. Bush TOLD people to go spend money, buy stuff thereby not saving.
He started the bailouts and stimulus waste of our ...tax... dollars, he did nothing ... See Moreto address the trade deficit, loss of jobs, HC and so on. Clinton had a surplus, Bush deficit. Bush started two wars. Bush didn't construct any road. Bush didn't reform the schools. Bush let the financial sector implode. Obama' ll end Bush's wars and so we ll have money to finance Obamcare.
Comment from Dennis Schneider on Facebook: Bush didn't start the war, Clinton's weak foreign policy emboldened Muslim fanatics (al queida) into attacking us. And the whole world agreed that Sadam was hiding WMD's so you pinheads can stop trying to blame Bush for that one too. Obama has sent more troops to die with less funding to help them. He has spent more money than every president in our history combined!!! Not to mention dividing this country almost beyond repair. Wake up!!
Comment from James Hyman on Facebook: Dennis, your Limbaugh-Hannity-Palin tin-foil hat is on WAY too tight. You need to get out and take a break from all TV and radio for a month and make some human contact.
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Editor says, what if Anzac victory at Gallipoli had delivered an early Allied victory? This story is dedicated to the young men of all nations who died in this tragedy. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1915, on this day Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops landed on the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula; the Ottoman Dardanelle forts soon ran out of ammunition and within fourteen days Constantinople was in Allied hands.
Anzac DayThe fateful decision to open a second front at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles profoundly shaped the national leaderships of at least three nations. First Sea Lord Winston Churchill entered 10 Downing Street in 1924 and just two years later the Brigade Commander, and later Field Marshall John Monash became the Prime Minister of Australia. Together, they would lead the transformation of Imperial Defences. And of course it was Churchill and Monash who took the first step by bringing Mustafa Kemal to power in post-war Turkey.
But the true significance of the mission was the opening of the sea route to Russia which had been closed since October 1914. Without victory in the Dardanelles Campaign, the Tsar's Regime was surely doomed.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Alternate Nations Source: Wikipedia Labels: Gallipoli, Australia, New Zealand, Great War, Allies. ~ A lot of this was hoped for in respect to knocking Turkey out of the war, although defeating the Central Powers would have still been a hard slog. Good point, though, in respect to the Tsar still around, but I'd doubt that Monash would become PM as he was interested in politics.
Comment from Mia Amani on Facebook: Even if the Turks had been defeated at Gallipoli, I still think that the war would have dragged on in one form or the other for a long while. Turkey was by this stage "the sick man of Europe" but they still had a huge army and a very proud and nationalistic population. It might have been a blessing in disguise for the allies that they had lost and so were able to concentrate on parts of the Ottoman Empire that were much further from the central control of Constantinople.
~ This would have required the ANZACs and British and French to have good commanders, which they didn't---they didn't think the Turks would be a real threat. Shows how much _they_ knew.
~ Not likely due to terrain. Gallipollie is a campaign to study for what not to do. The turks had ample infantry who were quite ruthless, the terrain was bad, british maps were not just flawed but often wrong on what they were supposed to represent. The turks had ample supply of sea mines. In short, this really was SNAFU wherever one looks. Still, if the allies were able t take the Dardenelles and nock turky from the war, they would be able to supply the corrupt czar's army and probably crush Germany by 1917 if not earlier.
Comment from Margo Barotta on Facebook: the hall idea was to help the russian regime who was stuck into the revolotion ,and to make shure that the german and their allies dont put their feet into a strategic region.
Comment from Ahmad Desai on Facebook: Ummm....I agree with you but "IF" the Allies were able to conquer and subdue Constantinople, you have to wonder what Turkey would have looked like today. It might have been much smaller for sure and definitely less assertive (with its colonial baggage).
I think Gallipoli also played a big part in Ataturk's rise so that would lead to so many scenarios about secularism in the Islamic world.
~ This victory was entirely possible, but would have been followed by the immediate evacuation of half a million Turks from Constantinople. The Bulgarians would have left the Central Powers and made peace with the Allies. Greece would have occupied the territory of Thrace and the Ionian coast. Cut off from military supplies, the Turks would have given up quickly. The only question is, would they have given up Syria?
~ Opening the sea route to Odessa solves half the problem. The other half was of course the Russian rail net or lack thereof. To keep the army supplied meant not providing enough food and coal for the industrial cities of north Russia. More supplies only magnify this. The 'February Revolution' started as a bread riot, latest in a long series of bread riots. Changed when the garrison defected to the mob over rumors they were to be sent to the front. So more supply helps but other moves are still required. Of more interest is what it does to the campaigns in Asia. With the supply lines to Germany cut Baghdad and Damascus fall faster. Russians probably break into Anatolia and there is a fair chance the Greeks enter the war on the allied side to get Inoia.
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Editor says, What if Nelson Mandela died on Robben Island?
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In 1997, following the agony of impeachment, Archbishop Desmond Tutu paid tribute to Mandela. South Africa's AgonyEmphasising of course the importance to the anti-apartheid struggle, at the same time he begged the former President to apologize and to admit mistakes. Graciously, the former President confessed that things went horribly wrong after her husband's death in custody a decade before.
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| Pres Candidate | In 2008, on this day Arizona senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain introduced a bill in Congress which made provisions for Zimbabwean political refugees to immediately receive political asylum in the U.S. |
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In 1980, President Nelson Rockefeller suffers a severe heart attack. He is rushed to Walter Reed Hospital, where he will remain in intensive care for the next eight days. | US President |
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| US Champion | On this day in 1982, Rick Steamboat, in a bid to thwart the Enforcers' agenda, joined forces with former NWA world champion Ric Flair, second-generation wrestler Barry Windham, and Scottish brawler Roddy Piper to form the Four Horsemen. |
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April 24
Editor says, what if Chicago had maintained its second city status until 2000? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the April 2013 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1942, on this day Richard Michael Daley was born in Bridgeport, an historically Irish-American neighborhood located south of the Chicago Loop. He was the fourth of seven children and eldest son of Richard J. and Eleanor Daley, the late Mayor and First Lady of America's Second City, Chicago.
Birth of Richard M. DaleyHe was elected fifty-fourth mayor at a moment in history when Chicago's Second City status was under pressure as never before. Of course many doom-cryers had predicted that such a decline was inevitable as far back as the 1945 World Series when the National League Chicago Cubs beat the American League Detroit Tigers [1]. However events conspired to transition the blue collar "City of Broad Shoulders" to the modern day white collar mecca "Chi-Town". Firstly, the earthquake of 1964 [2] held back the development of its rival city of Los Angeles. And secondly, his father invested all of his political capital in launching a long-term policy of suburban annexation [3] being forever associated with never-ending highway construction on I-94 through the Windy City and its suburbs [4].
Neverthless, by the late nineteen eighties Los Angeles was fast re-emerging, and Chicagoans began to look nervously at the relative decline of St. Louis. Of course Detroit had only been saved from haunting ruin by the action of local advocates who had lobbied the United Nations into basing their head-quarters on Belle-Isle. The issue was still unresolved when Daley left office and was succeeded by Barry Soetoro. He would govern a mega-city sprawling out into much of Cook County. And the appointment of an ex-Community Organizer was an intriguing development for a city where the term "Chicago Politician" was still being used to cynically describe connections to the Mob, a throwback to the bad old days of Al Capone [5].
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~ The aggressive tendencies of Chicago are a bit clearer here. This AH exaggerates the situation, but illuminates the competitive spirit that is sometimes quite visible. The Cubs are one thing, the city's intentions are another. Clearly, there are those in Chicago that want to be No. 1 -- and enjoy the benefits that go with it.
~ So you're saying LA's rise was aborted by an earthquake? Not impossible, but Chicago's also in the Snow Belt, and the rise of the Sun Belt would hurt it.
~ Huh? Can we try all that again?
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~ As a native Chicagoan again, I must remind you that we are also famous throughout the world for our gangsters, starting with Al Capone. In fact, to this day some of Obama's foes keep accusing him of being a "Chicago Politician"...meaning, cynical and corrupt and with our hands out to the Mafia. AND we're proud of it. I mean, we have to be first in SOMETHING.
~ I support this timeline
~ '64 earthquake? Would it be too rude a question to ask where that idea came from?
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Editor says, what if the "coward of the Alamo" inspired the Confederacy? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1861, the Republic of Texas formally recognised the Confederate States of America in a keynote speech delivered by President William B. Travis on this day in Austin; whilst offering critical diplomatic support to his fellow South Carolinians, Travis carefully avoiding any direct comparison between the sieges of Fort Sumter and the Alamo.
Line in the SandNo longer the hot-headed twenty-six year old Lieutenant Colonel of the Texian Army, Travis had learnt a number of valuable lessons about leadership since he wrote the famous "Victory or Death" Letter on March 3rd, 1836.
Because having drawn a line in the sand, only one of the defenders of the Alamo had refused to cross it - Moses Rose, a French born former soldier in Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armée who insisted that he was not ready to die. And so during the late night hours of March 5th, Rose had snuck through enemy lines, broke into the Old Governor's Mansion and assassinated the Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna. Whereupon his successor, General Castrillon launched a disasterous strike on the east wall which was repelled by heavy cannon fire (that was in fact mostly shrapnel) but which caused the Mexican troops to despair and quit the siege.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Civil War AL Source: Wikipedia Labels: Sam Houston, Confederacy, America, Texas, Civil War. ~ Taking out Santa Ana might not have been a good move---he was always the other side's secret weapon. Also, I do think that the tides of history were such that Texas would have joined the US before Ft. Sumter...the Republic of Texas was generally seen as an interim step IIRC.
~ Considering that the Alamo was not a real fort but a church surrounded by thick indefensible walls with not enough Texans to defend it let alone hold it from the massive Mexican army attacking it , the place was a death trap that could not be held.
No matter what General leads the Mexicans, the Alamo goes down. I don't see how this thing could go the way you are doing it here.
~ Kill Santa Anna [unlikely but...] and the Mexican Army probably goes home to fight out who is the next President
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Editor says, what if the Interview at Weehawken had been a court martial? And the congressional-military-industrial complex had been put out of business from the outset? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1804, foiled in their dastardly plans to betray the founding principles of the American revolution, the disgraced Colonel Alexander Hamilton and his fellow Federalist plotters were transported to Hudson County, New Jersey where they were summarily executed on this day at the township of Weehawken.
Traitors to the American RevolutionPrima facie evidence had emerged from a vitriolic letter originally sent from Dr. Charles D. Cooper to Philip Schuyler, Hamilton's father-in-law. Published in the Albany Register, the letter revealed the existence of a vast and insidious conspiracy of soldiers, bankers and lawyers who sought to implement an American version of British mercantilism. Shockingly, the plans for a "congressional-military-industrial complex" had begun almost as soon as the Revolution was over.
"States' rights must be crushed, in the eyes of Hamilton and his followers"Prior to the execution, a charge sheet was read by Colonel Aaron Burr, reminding citizens that the war of independence had removed an evil "system of statism which employed economic fallacy to build up a structure of imperial state power, as well as special subsidy and monopolistic privilege to individuals or groups favored by the state". In short, Hamilton, et all were traitors to the American Revolution, the worst kind of corrupt, power-seeking political scoundrels no better than King George III of England. Because these evil mercantilists sought to introduce numerous taxes and interferences with international trade that benefited American businesses and the Federal Government while treating the American citizens like tax serfs.
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~ Totally misses period mentalities. Short of a Jacobin US this wasn't going to happen. Indeed the US formed because signifigant parts of the US saw in Shay's Rebellion and similar outbreaks a chance of such here.
~ Sir er point is to change all the period mentalties which is why we describe simply an event leaving the reader to guess at the possible historic changes. I know thats not traditional cause/effect, but the point is to examine the characters themselves and their drivers from a different perspective in this case, using revisionist logic that is described in the source article.
~ In our history, of course, it was Burr who was charged with being a "corrupt, power-seeking political scoundrel" for allegedly trying to create his own private empire out West.
~ Without Hamilton-the-martyr, future politics would be very different...and maybe Burr could extricate himself from the midden of politics and go for his proper role, that of educator.
~ Didn't Mussolini start out as a schoolteacher?
~ Yes also Robert Mugabe!
Comment on Facebook from Stan Brin: The founding fathers weren't murderers, so I take it you're being facetious.
Comment on Facebook from Charles Fee: It's alternate history. It's even stated to be FICTIONAL right at the top. Get a clue, Stan.
Comment on Facebook from Samuel Garcia: well technically they were u guys would just know if u read
Comment on Facebook from Charles Fee: Never said they weren't. Just that this piece is known to be and was intended to be fictional.
Comment on Facebook from Stan Brin: I know that it's AH, I just don't buy this premis. Be nice.
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In -70000, year by the pre-colony calendar, indigenous humanoid cousins of the Mlosh lost a battle with extinction, an extensive archeology study suggests.
Indigenous humanoids wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says.The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in the central continent, apparently because of drought.
"Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental conditions, forced to the brink of extinction. Truly an epic tragedy, written in our cousin's scattered remains". says the report.
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Editor says, what if Alexander Hamilton had made it to the White House muses Eric Lipps? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1804, the "Cooper letter" is published in the Albany Register newspaper.
The Cooper Letter by Eric LippsIn private correspondence, Dr. Charles D. Cooper to President Hamilton's father-in-law Philip Schuyler expresses a venomously hostile opinion of Burr, then seeking the governorship of New Jersey, and claims to describe "a still more despicable opinion which President Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr" at a political dinner. When Burr learns of the letter, he will immediately demand an explanation, stating that "political opposition can never absolve gentlemen from the necessity of a rigid adherence to the laws of honor and the rules of decorum".
Hamilton's response will not help matters. "How such a gentleman as Mr. Burr can complain of the private opinions of others, made known to him, when he has taken it upon himself to deliver first from the concealment of an alias and then openly attacks upon this Administration and upon its President assaults of the most inflamed character, I cannot comprehend". His next words will prove fateful: "As to his remarks on honor and decorum, one cannot discern from his record in the matter of the so-called Cicero letters, or indeed from any other source, by what right he is fit to question others".
Matters steadily worsen over the following weeks, with both Burr and Hamilton claiming that "honor must be satisfied" between them. Both men have a history of dueling, and Hamilton's friends and advisers, in particular, try desperately to prevent such a contest between the pair, arguing that for a president to duel would be "injurious to the dignity and indeed the security of the nation, regardless of the result".
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Beasts Source: Wikipedia Labels: Alexander Hamilton, America, Presidency, Early Days of the Republic, White House. ~ If Hamilton had been POTUS (I take it that "President" refers to this title, and not something else?) he might have calmed down on the subject of Burr---he was always terrified that Burr might one day waltz in and take the Federalist Party out away from him, which Burr could have done easily with his background and family ties.
~ Hope Burr does the courteous thing and misses, as Hamilton is said to have done. To kill the president would be a huge blow against the young Constitution.
~ Hamilton might have responded to those who said it was "injurious" to the nation's "dignity" for a president to duel by suggesting they'd say the same of an ex-president, and that to let what he believed to be a slander pass would itself be harmful. Where it went from there would depend on his temper, which was not always even.
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In 2015, on this day fearing for his life if he returned to Britain, entertainer and former Beatle Paul McCartney, who'd been touring continental Europe when David Cameron resigned as prime minister, went to the U.S. embassy in Madrid and requested political asylum in America for himself and his family. | |
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That McCartney had considered such drastic action, much less actually gone through with it, was one of the clearest signs yet just how bad things had gotten in the swiftly and inexorably disintegrating United Kingdom. Indeed, even as McCartney was filing his asylum request dozens of London's top police officers had resigned their commissions in disgust over the sky-high crime rate in the British capital. |
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On this day in 1983, Terry "Hulk" Hogan demolished "Psycho" Tommy Rich in less than nine minutes in the main event at the first Wrestlemania to win the WWF world heavyweight title; in the biggest match on the undercard, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine and Adrian Adonis beat Pedro Morales and Rocky Johnson to win the WWF world tag team titles. | |
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In 1980, after reviewing intelligence reports on the emerging anti-Soviet mujaheddin resistance in Afghanistan, President Kennedy decides to direct U.S. aid primarily to secular Afghan factions. | US President |
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Turner reluctantly gives in. However, he communicates his dissatisfaction to others. From there, word of Kennedy's decision, and of his remarks, reaches Afghanistan, where Islamic fighters are enraged at what they see as EMK's 'betrayal.' Among those angered is a wealthy Saudi extremist named Osama bin Laden who has devoted himself to the Afghan struggle out of religious zeal. |
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In 1961, with U.S. troops ashore in Cuba following the mass landings at Bahia de Cochinos on the 17th, anti-American riots have erupted throughout the Caribbean and in Mexico. In Mexico City, the U.S. embassy is under siege, with angry crowds being kept at bay by U.S. Marines and Mexican federales. | |
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Editor says, what if Leopold and Loeb murdered Adolf Hitler? muses Jackie Rose. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the April 2013 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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It is 1923, and two American boys are enjoying a European tour with a stop in Germany. Their trip was especially enjoyable because it had been so hard to get their wealthy Jewish parents to pay for their journey, especially since they were venturing into anti-Semitic territory.
The All-American BoysEven back in Chicago, though, they had enjoyed themselves by fantasizing
about committing the perfect murder. Hearing about the viciously
anti-Semitic political party organizer named Adolf Hitler, they decided he
was the perfect target for making their fantasies come true.
Since they also knew that he was an aspiring artist, they called on him
saying that they wanted to buy his paintings. He agreed to meet them in a
hotel room, where they had registered in disguise .. after swearing him to
total secrecy, by saying that having two Jews buy his artwork would
embarrass them all. When they showed up they strangled him and hid his body
beneath the mattress.
Their biggest challenge, of course, was getting out of Germany alive. Driving hell-for-leather to the airport, they managed their escape, hours before the corpse was found. One of them had left his glasses on the bed .. but fortunately for them, the other had spotted them just before they left the scene.
Hitler's death was blamed on everyone from the Communists to Kaiser Wilhelm, but it was only years later that the two boys decided to tell their stories.
It was true, they conceded, that Hitler had only been replaced by another Nazi leader named General Erich von Ludendorff, who was just as hateful as Hitler had been. He persecuted Jews and Christians alike, but had to stop short of killing them all, since there were so many Christians around, and they were naturally making common cause with the Jews. Still, the killers felt sure that the world was well rid of their original target .. and that all the world should admire the heroic deed of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Religion Source: Wikipedia Labels: Leopold, Loeb, Hitler, Jew, Semitism. Editor says, in real life - Leopold and Loeb are notorious to this day for killing a
little neighbor boy named Bobby Franks in 1924, partly to commit that
perfect murder .. and also partly to raise the ransom money for their
European trip. Since they had left Leopold's glasses at the scene, they were quickly captured. Saved from execution by the great lawyer Clarence Darrow, they were soon sentenced to life in prison, where Loeb was killed.
~ Ludebndorff wouldn't have got that far.I just hope the boys would've been satisfied with this one murder.
~ I still support the Red alert theory that even without Hitler, there would have been someone to launch the Second World War, whether he was German ,Russian, or even Polish
~ This is good.But,not for mankind.Nazi germany would have lasted longer w/o Adolf.
~ The Nazi party was Adolf plus a lot of nobodies. Without him Nazi Germany doesn't happen - though some other form of right-wing dictatorship may.
~ Answering Mark...If the boys had not been satisfied, they might have wound up going on secret government missions...like killing Castro and bin Laden. Looking at it from the other point of view...It was the Tsarnaev Brothers who reminded me of them, since the Tsarnaevs seemed to me to be rather like the Leopold and Loeb of our time.
~ Great TL. These guys could go evil quickly... what famous person would be next? Lindberg?
~ Didn't Hitchcock base one of his movies on these two?
~ Yes indeed, Brian...the movie was called Rope. A later, much more successful movie was based on a novel about them, called Compulsion.
~ Weimar Germany wasn't more anti-Semitic than the rest of Western Europe. Poland was quite a bit more so, along with Eastern Europe.
~ True no doubt,Eric...but Americans would have been much less likely to visit Poland, and in Germany the Nazis were already making their mark, as witness the Beer Hall Putsch.
~ A Sane Rightist Authoritarian German Leader could have easily come to dominate Eastern Europe. An 'RAGL' with Issues about Jews could have done it easily. An 'RAGL' who looked down his nose at Slavs could have easily co-opted the Jews into their strongest supporters (Yiddish is not that far off from various dialekten aside from the orthography). Even Adolph could have died in bed if he knew how to quit doubling down.
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Editor says, what if the Ostend Manifesto had been acted upon? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the April 2013 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1791, on this day the American statesman James Buchanan, Jr. was born to parents of Ulster Scots descent in a log cabin in Cove Gap, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. During an unstable period of vacillating national leaders, he stood out as as one of the few national politicians willing to take a principled stand on the integrity of the Union.
Birth of James BuchananAfter a successful career in local politics he was elected to the Senate and later became the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Offered a position on the Supreme Court, he declined and served as Secretary of State under President Polk despite objections from Buchanan's rival, Vice President George Dallas. During this term of office he helped negotiate the 1846 Oregon Treaty which establishing the 49th parallel as the northern boundary of the western U.S.
He then served as minister to the Court of St. James's helping to draft the Ostend Manifesto. This document proposed the purchase from Spain of Cuba, then in the midst of revolution and near bankruptcy, declaring the island "as necessary to the North American republic as any of its present .. family of states". Against his recommendation, the final draft of the Manifesto suggested that "wresting it from Spain" if Spain refused to sell would be justified "by every law, human and Divine". When this clause was acted upon by the Pierce administration he resigned and returned to retirement with his beloved wife Anne [1] at his home in the Wheatland. He died in 1868. Of course long before then he had been vindicated because the slave island of Cuba became central to the disputes between the States.
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Editor says, in authoring this article we have re-purposed content from both the Wikipedia and also Alternate History web sites. The Manifesto, generally considered a blunder overall, was never acted upon but weakened the Pierce administration and support for Manifest Destiny. The Democrats nominated Buchanan ("Old Public Functionary") in 1856, for president. [1] see comment from John B.
~ If only....
~ Before pining for an AH in which Cuba belonged to the USA and therefore Castro's revolution didn't happen, consider that (1) it would likely have become another slave state, possibly altering the outcome of the Civil War, and (2) it also might have remained a Mafia haven to the present day.
~ Cuba a Civil War battleground? That would be interesting...
~ My learned friend Mr. Lipps forgets that the _reason_ Cuba was a "Mafia haven" (i.e., offered entertainment that the puritanical US and state governments here forbade or frowned on) was precisely because it WASN'T part of the United States. That said, I am not at all sure that either the Cuban people or the Americans would have been happy about taking in so many Spanish-speakers.
~ Great POD! It'd be an early start to an American Empire.
~ Actually Cuba almost passed into British hands at the end of the Seven Years War. The British occupation was quite well received by the local elites. The same elites were willing to entertain joining the US/Dixie every time they revolted against Spain. The quid pro quo for another slave state would have been Kansas as a free state.
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Editor says, what if the Confederate Memorial Day had been banned? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the April 2013 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1866, on this day Yankee soldiers arrested Mrs. Elizabeth Rutherford Ellis and other senior members of the Ladies Memorial Association in Columbus, Georgia.
The Arrests in ColumbusThe ladies had called for a Confederate Memorial Day on April 26th, scheduled to coincide with General Johnston's surrender at Bennett Place. The White House considered it a step too far. And to emphasize the point, a draconian ban was also put in place that outlawed the waving of the Confederate Flag, wearing of Dixie Uniforms or engaging in any form of re-enactment or commemoration whatsover.
The suppression of these freedoms would of course have long term effects upon the pursuit of liberty. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, President Michelle Obama would call for the banning of any form of foodstuff considered likely to lead to obesity. That announcement was made from the McDonald's store on Pennsylvania Avenue where the First Family indulged in a sugar free salad without dressing.
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~ Oh, for heavens' sake...
~ This would be seen as going too far, even for Radical Reconstructionists.
~ The Confederates were bitching about the suppression of their liberty? Quelle irony!
~ Extremes. I think most everyone knows that events happen through, or because of. extremes, but rarely are extremes a long-term settling force in any issue.
Here, amid the ironies, are some in this AH. People would be looking for some sort of compromise be it in honouring Confederates, or eating contraband food.
~ Don't forget that shining symbol of liberty, the incandescent light bulb![rolleyes]
~ Taking away fried foods would be the last straw!
~ That would be the last straw indeed, Jeff...since, from what I've heard, Southern fried chicken was invented by a slave woman who threatened her masters with mayhem if they dared to pour sauce over her creation.
~ Jackie -- I think you have that backwards. Fried chicken by itself is typically a southern white dish. Fried chicken with gravy is soul food. Both like gravy on mashed potatoes. While both sub-genres have their culinary advantages, I personally can't stand their heavy use of deep fat and salt.
~ Well, Stan, that is the version I heard. Of course, those white southerners could have learned to love sauce-free fried chicken from the slave cook in question.
~ Many years ago, Dick Gregory, a famous comedian and black racial agitator in the 1960s, went on a hunger strike. Soon after, he announced the contents of a letter in which a man taunted him by reciting the menu of his last dinner. It included a mention of "fried chicken with gravy." The comedian replied, "There's a black man out there who just haaaaates me! Because you know who likes fried chicken with gravy!"
~ Well then, maybe the crotchety cook just wanted to deprive her masters of the pleasure of fried chicken with sauce. Revenge is sweet-and-sour!
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Essentially , every attempt possible has indeed been made to prevent any current Confederate celebrations. The south was destroyed at the hands of Northern soldiers to make sure she never did recover. The opposition to any Southern development was successful until much later when industries moved there for cheap labor.
Banning confederate celebrations would only assure the South that the DC government was without a doubt a gang of thieves , Royalty and murderers. But the status quo would remain the same , the South has maintained a de facto independent government since the civil war , opposing the North whenever possible. It began to crumble when the civil rights movement decided to finish the job that was started in the civil war. This in essence was to drive out all old Southern ideology.
A moot point because the South is now becoming a Mexican state and they in turn are driving out North America as a whole as much as is possible.
Those whose families lost everything to the Northern delinquency and dictatorship , have turned to dust
~ There wasn't much the North needed to do after the war to "keep the South down", the Confederacy bankrupted itself in the war, and Sherman and Sheridan helped it along by torching much of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America#Devastation_by_1865?
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+Marko Bosscher It's true , since the Northerners destroyed every building and barn they could when they left .(..much the North needed to do ...) And yes the Southern bosses decided to wreck what might become Yankee home ground.
There was a great fear that the Yankee upper crust would install themselves in the south and become the new South . It was as much a cultural war as a war of finance.
There is a tendency for folks to become emotional and see the war as racial in nature , the great slave saving war. When in fact it was much an attempt to rearrange upper class ideologues , to establish one nation from Canada to Mexico.
The women of the South ( where this tale begins ) are still carrying the war on in their parlors . They ceased be European and very French and were forced to be Yankee's. Not acceptable all in their eyes.
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Editor says, what if a chance act at the Garden of Gethsemane had abrogated God's Plan? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
"Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the scabbard: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" ~ John 18:10-11
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In AD 33, that agent of the random Simon Peter withdrew his sword and with holy fury attacked the Temple Guards that had arrested his Master in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Off ScriptThe tense, but otherwise peaceful confrontation escalated into a violent armed struggle in which Malchus was killed.
Unable to raise him from the dead, Jesus discovered that he had been stripped of his miraculous powers. Fearing the wrath of God, he was terrified by the prospect that he himself might be cast into the fiery lake. Summoning both the disciples and the Temple Guards, he assembled a mob to march into the city and declare that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand.
This post is a variant ending to The Last Temptation.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Religion Source: Wikipedia Labels: Jesus, Judas, Malchus, Caiaphas, Golgotha. Editor says, in the Gospels, Malchus has his ear cut off. But Jesus stops the fight with a miracle, by healing his severed ear.
~ Interesting take. :-) Some folks might think it's blasphemous, but I'm a devout Christian myself and I think it's fine. Nice out-of-the-box thinking.
~ If God's Plan can be derailed so easily, is He truly omnipotent?
~ It's fatuous not blaphemous.
~ Comments in the "What If..." collection are interesting in that the Romans liked Jesus' policy of "pay your taxes." Maybe he'd join up with Pontius Pilate and overthrow the Pharisees?
~ Jeff, you are talking about a nice patriotic Jewish boy. Join up with Pontius Pilate? In this AH, he would have been much more likely to join up with the Sicarii!
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Editor says, what if Shakespeare had encountered copyright issues? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1616, on this day the playwright William Shakespeare died of a heart attack after an uproarious night out drinking with the poet Ben Jonson.
Death of the Bard
By Ed, Eric Oppen and Jackie SpeelThe cause for this excessive celebration was the resolution of a long-running dispute with the King's Men. Twenty-five years before, he was the lead playwright of the first tetralogy comprising Richard III and Henry VI Parts 1-3. In the spirit of collaboration, other actors of the playing company had become involved. Soon members of the Elizabethan Court wanted to be part of the merriment, and even Good Queen Bless contributed a few lines of dialogue.
But the fun stopped abruptly when King James ascended the throne and became the company's patron. Some fast back tracking was required on the political satire in the new Stuart Court. Shakespeare lost control of his own material, and the new house playwright John Fletcher managed to force him out.
He returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to focus on his poetry. However he was recalled to London to participate in the translation of the King James Version of the Bible, and the successful publication of the KJVB in 1611 restored him to favour. Five years later, he finally recovered his rightful ownership his plays. But the Elizabethan age had long sice passed, and he was just too old to keep up with the quoffing.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Actors Source: Wikipedia Labels: William Shakespeare, Robert Greene, Plays, Sonnets, Poem. Editor says, in this article we re-visit ideas from Eric Oppen and Jackie Speel.
~ I'm not sure if playwrights in Shakespeare's time had control of their plays, or if they were always the property of the company, or what. Interesting idea, though...what would Shakespeare have done with the KJV of the Bible?
~ What we call "intellectual property" today was pretty communal; even citation didn't matter very much. For example, Isaac Newton's famous "standing on the shoulders of giants" or Francis Bacon's "Knowledge is power" were , thus it's hard to get an exact attribution 'cause they didn't care who said it as long as it was insightful and true. Once the Enlightenment gets going and a lot of censorship gets discusses (John Milton's era), we'd see more specific ownership. P.S., Shakespeare's Bible would've been something very interesting to read. A lot more tongue-in-cheek jokes.
~ Shakespeare borrowed his stories from other sources without attribution. He would have no right to complain if another company produced them. By the way, I can imagine that a Shakespearean Song of Solomon would have been fascinating, but how creative and humorous can you be with Leviticus? On the other hand, "Uriah, I knew him well..." might be interesting. or a version of the 'Band of Brothers' speech before the Battle of Jericho. But I doubt if the bishops would have approved.
~ It may make no difference.
Instead various unpublished manuscripts are "discovered" after Will Shakespeare of Strattford's death.
This is because of the old literary debate to whicj i was usbjected at schol- who was the author of the plays, the nobleman for whom Will, the theatre impersario form Stratford fronted?
But this would depend on how favoured such a person was with James I and VI.
~ Minor nitpick: I think it's supposed to be "Ben Jonson", not "Johnson". Fixed - thanks. Ed
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Editor says, what if the elder Brontë sister had lived? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1814, on this day Maria, the first of the Brontë children, was born at Clough House, High Town in Hereford.
Birth of Maria BrontëThe family later moved to Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the romantic setting for the sister's works of literary genius. Because during a relatively short period spanning 1845 to 1850, the Brontë sisters used male pseudonyms to publish a series of highly successful novels.
In each, the male protagonist was a Byronic hero of pure sexual magnetism who demonstrated barely disguised arrogance to women. However this misogyny was handled somewhat differently in Maria's own work. Because Shagwell Park was driven by a thinly disguised raciness that is conspicously absent from Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey.
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Now we know where Austin Powers got his start...
~ Scandal! The Prince Regent would have loved it.
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