Random News and Notes 10 June
In Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Bridget Bishop, the first colonist to be tried in the Salem witch trials, is hanged after being found guilty of the practice of witchcraft on this date in 1692. In June 1692, the special Court of Oyer and Terminer [“to hear and to decide”] convened in Salem under Chief Justice William Stoughton to judge the accused. Thirteen more women and five men from all stations of life followed her to the gallows, and one man, Giles Corey, was executed by crushing.
In October 1692, Governor William Phipps of Massachusetts ordered the Court of Oyer and Terminer dissolved and replaced with the Superior Court of Judicature, which forbade the type of sensational testimony allowed in the earlier trials.
On this date in 1772, American colonists board and burn the HMS Gaspee after she went aground off the coast of Rhode Island. The Gaspee was pursuing the Hanna, an American smuggling ship, when it ran aground off Namquit Point in Providence’s Narragansett Bay on June 9. That evening, John Brown, an American merchant angered by high British taxes on his goods, rowed out to the Gaspee with a number of other colonists and seized control of the ship. After leading away its crew, the Americans set the Gaspee afire.
When British officials attempted to prosecute the colonists involved in the so-called “Gaspee Affair,” they found no Americans willing to testify against their countrymen.
Norway surrendered to the Invading Germans on this date in 1940. After two months of desperate resistance, the last surviving Norwegian and British defenders of Norway are overwhelmed by the Germans, and the country is forced to capitulate. The country would be led by one Vidkun Quisling – and yes, that is where the modern term comes from – until 8 May 1945 when the Nazi regime collapsed. He was executed a bit more than 6 months later on 24 October 1945.
Also on this date in 1940, the fascist government of Italy declares war on England and France. The reaction by the Allies to the declaration of war was swift: In London, all Italians who had lived in Britain less than 20 years and who were between the ages of 16 and 70 were immediately interned. In America, President Roosevelt broadcast on radio the promise of support for Britain and France with “the material resources of this nation.”
Lidice was a small village in the Bohemian – then part of Czechoslovakia – countryside until this date in 1942, when the Nazis erased it in response to the assassination of SS Obergruppenfurher Reinhard Heydrich by Czech partisans. SS troops herded all the town’s male residents age 16 and older—more than 170—to a local farmstead, and gunned them down. Germans shot seven women trying to flee, and deported the remaining women to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where about 50 died and three were recorded as “disappeared.” Of some 105 children in the village, one was reported shot while running away, approximately 80 were reported murdered in Chelmno killing center, and a handful were reported murdered in German Lebensborn orphanages.
After the massacre, SS agents burned Lidice, blew up what was left with dynamite, and leveled the debris. German thoroughness took on utterly monstrous proportions. Not a single trace of the village remained. The demolition squad did not even stop at the destruction of St. Martin’s Church. All coffins in the local cemetery were exhumed and scattered to unknown places. Of the original roughly five hundred inhabitants, only 143 Lidice women and 17 children survived the war.
We start the news in Texas where a jury convicted 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony of murder and sentenced him to 35 years for stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf once in the chest during a rain-soaked high school track meet on April 2, 2025, at David Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco. Witnesses said Anthony, from Centennial High School, entered the rival Prosper High tent, warned others after a shove, then pulled a knife and stabbed Metcalf.
The jury rejected Anthony’s self-defense claim after just three hours of deliberation.
The reaction is just what you’d expect. Retards gonna retard. . .
I got an assignment for y’all. Post any and all memes about Anthony going to prison you can find. The best one wins this big bag of money 💰
Apparently the Commie Superbowl is coming to the US. The only reason I am aware of that fact is the news that a Somali FIFA ref with direct ties to terror orgs was denied entry into the country. Omar Artan was denied entry due to ‘vetting concerns’ after he Miami International.
Oh no, anyway. . .
The response to the downing of an American Apache attack chopper went down last night. According to a CENTCOM release US “forces struck Iranian air defense, ground control stations, and surveillance radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz with precision munitions from U.S. Air Force and Navy fighter jets. The operation was a proportional response to recent attacks on U.S. forces and international commercial ships transiting regional waters.”
Proportional should not be in the US military lexicon. More, this tit-for-tat bullshite is only emboldening the remains of the IRGC leadership. If Trump – and this is 100000% on him directly – doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to finish what he started, he needs to let slip the Israeli dogs of war so they can finish the task.
More details have come in about the horrific knife attack in Belfast yesterday. We now know the name and background of the sudanese attacker. His name is Hadi Alodid and he hails from Khartoum. That city is under the control of the islamist Sudanese Armed Forces.
We also know the name and condition of the victim. Despite previous reporting, Stephen Ogilvie, 41, is still fighting for his life and in the hospital in critical condition. He suffered significant injuries to his face, neck and back. He has lost his left eye and his right eye has been severely damaged.
The Bhoys on both sides, Catholic and Protestant, reacted badly to the attack. Riots – and I can call them nothing else – broke out across Belfast on both sides of the Peace Lines. Rioters targeted non-irish businesses like Turkish barbershops and ethnic food stores. Several migrant housing units were attacked and burned. At least two PSNI officers were injured.
There are reports of anti-immigrant protests elsewhere in the UK. The people are tiring of this. Will Starmer listen? I doubt it.
