Watergate reached its climax and President Richard Nixon was forced to resign in a deep state contrived coup. The Vietnam War was still a major event in the early 1970s. Tragic events dominated the era, including the deadliest earthquake of the century, the Jonestown massacre, the Munich Olympics massacre, the taking of American hostages in Iran, and the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. Culturally, disco became extremely popular, M*A*S*H* premiered on television, and “Star Wars” hit theaters. In the landmark case Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court made abortion legal.
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Kinney, Minnesota declares its Secession from the U.S. Frustrated by its Failing Water System
On February 5, 1978, a little northern Minnesota newspaper called the Mesabi Daily News broke a story that had somehow managed to go unreported for more than half a year. The previous summer, the city council of Kinney, Minnesota, had sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance declaring that the village was seceding from the Union. The tiny Iron Range community had tried ...
Gianna Jessen’s 17-Year Old Birthmother Attempted a Saline Abortion, but Surprisingly the Next Day She Miraculously Gave Birth to a Living Baby.
On this date, Gianna Jessen's 17 year old birthmother (Tina) sought a saline abortion at seven months pregnant. Saline abortions involve injecting a caustic saline solution into the amniotic fluid, which (normally) causes the fetus to be scalded to death and then delivered dead. In this case, however, things didn't go according to plan. In the early hours of April 7th, Tina went into labor and ...
Simone de Beauvoir (future feminist icon), Alongside most of the Marxist French Intelligentsia of France, Signed a Petition to Legalize Pedophilia in France
On April 4, 1978, a conversation detailing the reasons for their pro-abolition positions to lower the age of sexual consent to 12 or 13 years of age was broadcast by radio France Culture in the program "Dialogues". The participants, Michel Foucault, Jean Danet and Guy Hocquenghem, had all signed a 1977 petition, along with other intellectuals, demanding the legalization of pedophilia. Simone de Beauvoir (future feminist ...
Suzanne Coleman, another of Bill Clinton’s Mistresses, ‘Commits Suicide’ (According to the Coroner) by a Gunshot Wound to the Back of Her Head
Suzanne Coleman had an affair with Bill Clinton when he was Attorney General in Arkansas. On 15 February 1977, she “committed suicide” with a gunshot to the back of the head. No autopsy was performed, but it has been alleged that she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant with Clinton’s child, although never proven. Hillary Clinton placed Betsy Wright in charge of the "Bimbo Eruptions" operation to locate, ...
John Holdren, Future Science Czar Under Obama, Advocates for Forced Abortions and Mass Sterilization Through the Water Supply for Population Control
John Holdren, later appointed by Obama as Science Czar (2009), in his book "Ecoscience", he advocates for extreme totalitarian measures (such as forced abortion and mass sterilization through water supply) to control the population: "Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the ...
The Beginnings of BCCI’s Arrival in America, the Bank that would Quickly Become a Magnet for Drug Money Laundering and Other Corruption
Two Indonesian billionaires come to Arkansas. Mochtar Riady and Liem Sioe Liong are close to Indonesian President, General Suharto. Riady is looking for an American bank to buy. Riady's agent is Jackson Stephens, who also brokers the arrival of BCCI to this country and steers BCCI's founder, Hassan Abedi, to Bert Lance. Apparently because of pressure from Indonesia, Riady withdraws his bid to buy Lance's 30% ...
The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques
Parties to the Environmental Modification Convention undertake not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party. In July 1972 the U.S. Government renounced the use of climate modification techniques for hostile purposes, even if their development were proved to be feasible in ...
National Weather Modification Policy Act of 1976
S. 3383 (94th): National Weather Modification Policy Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of Commerce to develop a national policy on weather modification, and for other purposes. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That this Act may be cited as the "National Weather Modification Policy Act of 1976". SEC. 2. DECLARATION OF POLICY ...
Swine Flue Vaccination Program is Halted in 9 States as 3 Die After Shots
Nine U.S. states halted the use of the swine flu vaccines after just three people died that year. All of them had heart disease, but back then, that did not matter. The vaccine were considered unsafe and pulled off the market in Alaska, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, New Mexico, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) also halted the injections. The 1960s polio vaccines killed 11 children and ...
Cuba Air Flight 455 Bomb Attack Kills All 73 Passengers. Mastermind Luis Posada Carriles Escapes Prison and Ends up Working for the CIA within a Few Weeks
It was a peaceful Wednesday afternoon in Barbados 35 years ago. Dalton Guiller had just finished a round of waterskiing and was refueling his boat on shore when a roar in the sky startled him. A low-flying and apparently damaged airliner was fast approaching from the west toward the beach. “It didn’t look right. It was too low. I then saw the plane rise slightly, bank ...
