[meyer]

I’m very skeptical of Wikileaks these last couple of weeks. They posted against Israel a couple of weeks ago when 50+ Hamas agents allegedly died at the hands of Israeli soldiers. I’m not inclined to believe that Wikileaks, under JA’s leadership, is an antisemitic group.

[Yulee]

“I’m not inclined to believe that Wikileaks, under JA’s leadership, is an antisemitic group.”
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Hasn’t JA been cut off from all access to the Internet?
Is it possible that Wikileaks has been compromised, in his absence?

[STARLIT]

May 29...1917...John F. Kennedy is born

One of America’s best-loved presidents, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is born into a politically and socially prominent family in Brookline, Massachusetts, on this day in 1917. He was the first American president to be born in the 20th century.

May 29...1979...Woody Harrelson's father is arrested for murder.

Judge John Wood, known as “Maximum John,” is assassinated outside his San Antonio, Texas, home as he bent down to look at a flat tire on his car. Actor Woody Harrelson’s father, Charles Harrelson, was charged with the murder after evidence revealed that drug kingpin Jimmy Chagra, whose case was about to come up before “Maximum John,” had paid him $250,000.

May 29...1953...Hillary and Tenzing reach Everest summit

1953 Hillary and Tenzing reach Everest summit At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth. The two, part of a British expedition, made their final assault on the summit after spending a fitful night at 27,900 feet. News of their achievement broke around the world on June 2, the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, and Britons hailed it as a good omen for their country’s future.

May 29...1864...Union Troops reach Totopotomoy Creek, VA.

Union troops lose another foot race with the Confederates in a minor stop on the long and terrible campaign between Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. During the entire month of May 1864, Grant and Lee had pounded each other in Virginia along an arc swinging from the Wilderness forest south to the James River.

May 29...1780..Tarleton gives "quarter" in South Carolina

On this day in 1780, the treatment of Patriot prisoners by British Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his Loyalist troops leads to the coining of a phrase that comes to define British brutality for the rest of the War for Independence: “Tarleton’s Quarter.”

May 29...1988...Reagan arrives in Mascow for summit talks

President Ronald Reagan travels to Moscow to begin the fourth summit meeting held in the past three years with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Though the summit produced no major announcements or breakthroughs, it served to illuminate both the successes and the failures achieved by the two men in terms of U.S.-Soviet relations.

May 29...1848...Wisconsin enters the Union.

In 1634, French explorer Jean Nicolet landed at Green Bay, becoming the first European to visit the lake-heavy northern region that would later become Wisconsin.