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Rad Geek, to-day: Article posted 5 May 2016 @ 8am / revised 4pm 22 May 2016

Happy día de la Batalla de Puebla. If you feel like celebrating, shoot a French revenuer in honor of the event.

Rad Geek, to-day: Article posted 4 May 2016 @ 8pm / revised 9am 5 May 2016

Early Christians believed all kinds of crazy things. Like, we talk about the breakdown of rigid controls in the Reformation, but modern Christianity has absolutely positively nothing on the insanely wild diversity of early Christianity.

Ooh, you disagree about whether the Pope or the King is in charge of the Church. Okay, dude, I believe that Jesus only appeared to be a man, but actually is a bodiless angel who came to earth in order to overthrow the evil Creator God. My neighbor Basilides over here believes that there are 365 gods.

Rad Geek, to-day: Article posted 4 May 2016 @ 8pm

R.I.P. William Schroeder, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller and Sandra Lee Scheuer. Murdered by the Ohio National Guard, 4 May 1970, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

06 May 1970, Kent, Ohio, USA --- Kent, Ohio: William Schraeder, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, and Sandra Lee Scheuer, (L-R), four Kent State University students killed on campus when students battled with Ohio National Guard troopers. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

Article posted 3 May 2016 Disobey posted 11am

Here's a black and white photo of a group of black youths, standing in a park with their arms outstretched, facing the blast of a water cannon from the right. — Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Ala.
3 May 1963

Fifty-three years ago today, — one day after the start of the Children’s Crusade marches, — black youth were in the streets in Birmingham to march on City Hall and protest Jim Crow in one of the best-known protest marches in American history. They stood up against Mayor Art Haynes and Public Safety Commissioner Eugene Connor and his police and his fire department and the whole violent system of Jim Crow. They filled the jails and they kept marching. Desperate, Bull Connor ordered police and firemen to turn police dogs and water cannons on the kids in the street.

In the end, the kids in the street won, and the white power establishment, the segregationist politicians and the Public Safety Commissioners and the police lost.

This photograph is from Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963. It was taken by Bob Adelman.

Article posted 20 December 2015 Roman Civilization Was Awful, The Forensic Evidence posted 8am

Shared Article from archaeology.org

Evidence of Roman Battle Discovered in The Netherlands - Archaeo…

archaeology.org

Archaeologist Nico Roymans of the Vrije Universiteit announced in a press release the discovery of skeletal remains, swords, spearheads, and a helmet in the modern area of Kessel, at the site where Roman general Julius Caesar wiped out the Tencteri and the Usipetes, two Germanic tribes, in 55 B.C. Caesar described the battle in Book IV of his De Bello Gallico. After he rejected the tribes' request for asylum and permission to settle in the Dutch river area, his force of eight legions and cavalry conquered the camp and pursued the survivors to the convergence of the Meuse and Rhine Rivers, where he slaughtered more than 100,000 people. The Late Iron Age skeletal remains represent men, women, and children, and show signs of spear and sword injuries. Their bodies and bent weapons had been placed in a Meuse riverbed.

— Evidence of Roman Battle Discovered in the Netherlands
Archaeology (17 December 2015)

This is an amazing find, in the sense that archaeologists hardly ever find remains from known ancient battles, especially not on open battlefields. It’s a thoroughly unsurprising find, in the sense that it reinforces, once again, that Roman civilization was awful, and Julius Caesar one of the most celebrated genocidaires of history.^[1]

^[1]Beware Caesar. Celebrate the Ides of March.↩