Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples Day

Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples Day

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492 (Julian Calendar; it would have been October 21, 1492 on the Gregorian Proleptic Calendar, which extends the Gregorian Calendar to dates prior to its adoption in 1582).

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a faster route to the Far East only to land at the New World. His first voyage to the New World on the Spanish ships Santa María, Niña, and La Pinta took approximately three months.

Columbus and his crew's arrival to the New World initiated the Columbian Exchange which introduced the transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, and technology (but also invasive species, including communicable diseases) between the new world and the old.

The landing is celebrated as "Columbus Day" in the United States but the name varies on the international spectrum. In some Latin American countries, October 12 is known as "Día de la Raza" or (Day of the Race).

This is the case for Mexico, which inspired Jose Vasconcelos's book celebrating the Day of the Iberoamerican Race. Some countries such as Spain refer the holiday as "Día de la Hispanidad" and "Fiesta Nacional de España" where it is also the religious festivity of la Virgen del Pilar.

Peru celebrates since 2009 the "Day of the original peoples and intercultural dialogue". Belize and Uruguay celebrate it as Día de las Américas (Day of the Americas). Since Argentina's former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner officially adopted "Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural" (Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity) November 3, 2010. "Giornata Nazionale di Cristoforo Colombo or Festa Nazionale di Cristoforo Colombo" is the formal name of Italy's celebration as well as in Little Italys around the world.

Celebration of Christopher Columbus's voyage in the early United States is recorded from as early as 1792. The Tammany Society in New York City  (for whom it became an annual tradition) and the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston celebrated the 300th anniversary of Columbus' landing in the New World.

President Benjamin Harrison called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus's landing in the New World on the 400th anniversary of the event.

President Benjamin Harrison proclaimed it as a one-time national celebration in 1892 — in the wake of a bloody New Orleans lynching that took the lives of 11 Italian immigrants. The proclamation was part of a broader attempt to quiet outrage among Italian-Americans, and a diplomatic blowup over the murders that brought Italy and the United States to the brink of war.

During the anniversary in 1892, teachers, preachers, poets and politicians used rituals to teach ideals of patriotism. These rituals took themes such as citizenship boundaries, the importance of loyalty to the nation, and the celebration of social progress.

Many Italian-Americans observe Columbus Day as a celebration of their heritage, and the first such celebration was held in New York City on October 12, 1866. The day was first enshrined as a legal holiday in the United States through the lobbying of Angelo Noce, a first generation Italian, in Denver.

 The first statewide holiday was proclaimed by Colorado governor Jesse F. McDonald in 1905, and it was made a statutory holiday in 1907.

In April 1934, as a result of lobbying by the Knights of Columbus and New York City Italian leader Generoso Pope, Congress and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed October 12 be a federal holiday under the name Columbus Day.

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The Truth Explained About Columbus Day

The Truth Explained About Columbus Day

Matthew Rozsa  October 14, 2019

Christopher Columbus is a historical figure celebrated as a mythical hero in spite of his genocidal and racist past.  There are many good reasons as to why Columbus Day is such a controversial holiday.

Like Andrew Jackson, Christopher Columbus is a historical figure who is celebrated as a mythical hero in the U.S. in spite of his genocidal, racist and pro-slavery legacy. As a result, a movement exists to replace the national holiday known as Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day.

Here is the truth about Columbus Day, explained:

1. Christopher Columbus enslaved the Taínos he encountered in the present-day Bahamas

When Columbus “discovered” the American continents in 1492 — millions lived there long before Europeans learned of their existence — he encountered a civilization of people known as the Taínos.

By his own description, they were curious and friendly, eager to help the new group of people who had landed on their shores. 

Over time, Columbus enslaved and exploited them, thereby establishing a precedent wherein Europeans would come to the American continents, exploit natives and steal their land.

His actions also laid the foundations for the Europeans to introduce African slavery to the American continents, and Columbus is known to have had an African slave with him on his so-called voyages of discovery.

2. Columbus Was Also A Tyrant, Generally Speaking

After becoming governor and viceroy of the Indies, Columbus let the power to go to his head, becoming a brutal autocrat who was eventually loathed by his own followers. When one man was caught stealing corn, Columbus responded by having his nose and ears cut off before selling him into slavery.

When a woman claimed that Columbus was of lowly birth, his brother Bartolomé cut out her tongue, stripped her naked and had her paraded around the colony on the back of a mule.

And these are just two examples of many. Eventually, the Spanish monarchs realized that Columbus had become power mad and ordered him and his brothers to return to Spain. He never regained his power, although his freedom was eventually restored.

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Don't Stop Believin' By Dr. Dinar

Don't Stop Believin'   by Dr. Dinar

Welcome to the middle of October, 2019. The year that should've never been.

The year this GCR rollout would never see the beginning of Summer.

Let alone the end of Summer, rolling into Fall.

No way... no how.

Sure, we heard it was gonna be a slow rollout but c'mon, this is beyond ridiculous.

This slowwwwww rollout is rolling slower than a snail moonwalking backwards, uphill, in the snow.

Slow to the point of thinking it's not actually happening at all.

And for many among us, like it's never gonna happen.

Yeah, we continually hear rumors of all the things supposedly going on behind the scenes and yet, never actually seeing the results of any of those things actually taking place in real life, only adds to the feeling of nothing happening.

I recently received an email update of current going's on in Dinarland and despite one or two keywords here and there, it very well could've been posted in 2009.

Same redundant rumors reimagined for a new-ish crop of currency holders.

And honestly, it kinda freaked me out for a second.

Why on earth would they think we'd still fall for that stuff.

Do they really believe we haven't learned anything whatsoever. I certainly hope not.

I mean, I'd hate to think we haven't gained any ground on the knowledge front in all this time.

After all, we've all had plenty of time to review our notes.

Yes, the landscape has changed, as well as the overall mission.

But the basic game... not so much.

C'mon, don't we deserve better. A little somethin' for the effort.

The least they could do is add a little more trickery, a bit more color to the smoke they're constantly blowin' our way, helping to keep us mushrooms slightly more entertained while we attempt to stumble our way around in the dark..

I'd like to think that they think that we think we've learned something along the way.

They were regurgitating old articles a decade ago. Rinse and repeat.

Isn't it about time they came up with something new.

We've been through more than enough Blue Moons and 3 day weekends and Ramadan's and Black Friday's and ends of quarters and Crazy 8's than even the most superstitious among us can handle. And still nothing.

Nothing tangible. Nothing we can use as a "See, I told you this was real." for all of our doubting family and friends to see.

Not that we need to prove anything to them.

Nope. We did our homework and we know it's real.

Or at least we think we know it's real.

Okay, let's just say we still believe it's real-ish, with a good chance that it very well could be real.

And maybe that's all we get.

Maybe that's all we have to hang on to. Our beliefs.

Our belief in the unseen. The unprovable.

Looking back, that's pretty much the same feeling I had when I first got involved in this made for TV journey.

I really hoped it was real.

Although I must admit that I was a heckuva lot more excited way back when than I am now.

Hearing the screeching brakes of the Fed Ex truck as it pulled up in front of the house totally gave me the warm 'n fuzzies.

The sheer relief I felt knowing my recently ordered dinar arrived just in time to beat the pending last minute RV deadline was a big time rush to say the least.

Unfortunately, after a decade of being imminently ever so close, my excitement level has dropped considerably.

Same with my expectation level. It's dropped accordingly.

When I first bought in the rampant rumors of a $0.10 IQD RV emanating throughout Dinarland was a dream come true.

Sounds insanely lame now but think about it.

I'd just lost everything I owned in the R.E. market crash and somehow the Universe saw fit to introduce me to the RV of the IQD.

Talk about timing, you couldn't have scripted it any better.

Matter of fact, I'd lost more than everything because I still owed on things I no longer owned.

Call it desperation but at that point I really had next to no hope of resurrecting my life otherwise. Not any time soon anyway.

However you choose to look at it, the possibility of renting a Condo and leasing a new car post RV were simply impossible to ignore.

After all, I no longer had either, so let's just say the timing was pretty much spot on.

And with that foundation of hope, I gratefully jumped in with every last nickle I had.

Combined with the belief that I would be there at the finish line when the RV was released in the next couple weeks, guaranteed I'd be one of the lucky few.

The few believers that took a chance on that too good to be true so called scam known as the RV of the Iraqi dinar.

Yes, over the years, armed with much more knowledge in the form of a GCR, I've come to believe in a much higher rate.

Along with that, the size of my dreams have increased as well. To the point of allowing myself to dream of a large home, fully paid off, along with helping family and friends fulfill some of their needs as well.

But as time has gone on I've been subjected to situations that have forced me to sell back most of my currency, all in the name of survival.

After all, if I'm not there at the finish line, then nobody wins.

But one thing I will never do is give up and sell out completely.

Doing that only ensures that neither I nor the ones I hope to help will ever reap the rewards of this seemingly never ending journey.

Please remember that no matter how long you've been involved, and how brutal this journey can be at times, you're still one of the fortunate few.

The few lucky enough to even know about this once in a lifetime life changing event.

Whether it happens next week, next month or next year, the one thing we know for certain is that eventually it will happen.

It has to. Many countries, including ours, are depending on it.

Eventually Iraq will be released from the program rate and those of us holding dinar will finally go on to do all of our long dreamed of good deeds.

I've come too far to turn back now and I can only hope you feel the same way.

Hang in there folks, we're getting closer with each passing day.

Sincerely,

Dr. Dinar

Funny, Short and Inspirational Retirement Quotes:

Funny, Short and Inspirational Retirement Quotes:

I have compiled a good number of words of wisdom or better, what I like to call the best retirement quotes that will brighten your day.

This list of retirement quotes has been compiled from various people whose words of wisdom couldn’t go unnoticed.

Inspirational Retirement Quotes

Here are some of the most popular inspirational quotes on retirement that you should read before retiring as well as after.

1. “Just because you are getting older and have retired doesn’t mean that you should have less confidence in your abilities. Think about the experience and knowledge that you have gained by all the years you have worked” -Theodore W. Higginsworth

2. “Retirement: It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.” – Gene Perret

3. “Planning to retire? Before you do, find your hidden passion. Do the thing that you have always wanted to do.” – Catherine Pulsifer

4. “Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.” – Bernard Baruch

5. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Lyrics from “Closing Time” by Semisonic

6. “What does retirement mean now that there are so many opportunities for learning, for caring, for serving? We can redefine aging.” – Rachel Cowan, Wise Aging

7. “Retirement is a new beginning, and that means closing the book on one chapter to begin the next.” Sid Miramontes, Retirement: Your New Beginning

8. “Retirement gives you the time literally to recreate yourself through a sport, game, or hobby that you always wanted to try or that you haven’t done in years.” – Price, Stephen D.

9. “Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering? And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?” by Kahlil Gibran

10. “There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experiences just waiting to happen. Some call it ‘retirement.’ I call it ‘bliss.’” – Betty Sullivan

11. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. “Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick

13. “Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.” – Arthur E. Morgan

14. “You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

15. “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” – T.S. Eliot

16. “Retirement is not a life without purpose; it is the on-going purpose that provides meaningfulness” – Robert Rivers

17. “Retirement is …. a time to experience a fulfilling life derived from many enjoyable and rewarding activities.” – Ernie J. Zelinski

18. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” – Anne Bradstreet

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.How Lincoln Triumphed in an Era Even More Toxic Than Ours

How Lincoln Triumphed in an Era Even More Toxic Than Ours

Allen Barra  Published 09.08.19 5:32AM ET

Biographer Sidney Blumenthal talks to The Daily Beast about a pre-Civil War America where Jefferson Davis demanded both Lincoln and Douglas be lynched.

Abraham Lincoln doesn’t make much of an appearance in Sidney Blumenthal’s All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume III, 1856-1860 until around page 180, entering his own story almost as if through a side door.

Then, with rapidly gathering momentum, he becomes the story, which is Lincoln’s masterful negotiation of the political, economic, and social currents that swept him into the White House in 1860 and inevitably took America into the Civil War.

All the Powers of Earth is the third of a proposed five volumes unique in American historical writing. focusing on the rise of Lincoln as a political animal in a national climate shaped by early 19th century giants Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and Henry Clay with increasing tensions over slavery—tensions exacerbated by such men as Jefferson Davis, Stephen Douglas, and John Brown.

Blumenthal has written more than a dozen books on American politics and history, beginning with the prescient The Permanent Campaign about politicians who campaign for reelection throughout an electoral cycle, leaving little time for governing. (Sound familiar?)

He has written extensively about politics for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and the New Republic, often using insight gained from the inside of the political world as an aide to President Bill Clinton.

He took time to answer at length 15 questions on the massive (757 pages) fascinating volume.

Early in All the Powers of Earth, you write about “The great Triumvirate of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun, the representative political men of their age.” Clay,you write, “invented the power of Speaker of the House.” I did not know this—can you elaborate a bit?

Also, I like your phrase that Clay was “Lincoln’s beau ideal of a statesman.” What do you think was Clay’s biggest influence on Lincoln?

Yes, Lincoln had a hero, but then he cast him aside, and finally he vindicated him. Henry Clay, the original “self-made man” in American politics, came from a poor family in Virginia, moved to Kentucky, and proclaimed himself the “Western Star.”

Lincoln, another self-made man, emulating his “beau ideal,” dubbed himself the “Lone Star of Illinois,” but over time his hero worship became complicated even as he deployed Clay’s legacy for his own purposes.

After serving as Speaker of the House in the Kentucky legislature, Clay was elected to the U.S. House, where he was immediately chosen Speaker and became the leader of the War Hawks that engineered the War of 1812. He revolutionized the office, which previously had been a parliamentary one settling points of order.

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.A Labor Day Lesson... From a 98-Year-Old Bag Boy

A Labor Day Lesson... From a 98-Year-Old Bag Boy

By Andy Snyder, Founder Mayward Digest

Liberty

What's more important... industry or education? Several states have passed laws that prohibit schools from ending summer vacation before Labor Day. Proponents argue that it's important for families to have one more weekend to spend their cash on fun.

In Virginia, it's referred to as the "Kings Dominion Law," after the amusement park that benefits greatly from the rule. Clearly, America has her priorities straight. Right?

 Why in the world do we celebrate work?

That stuff hurts.

What's Labor Day really about, anyway?

For most folks, it's bad news. It means the end of summer... back to school... and the boss is back from vacation.

Are we to think we're really celebrating the little guy today... the guy who gets just a few bucks an hour to do the dirty work nobody else wants to do?

If so, why haven't the social justice warriors caught on? Where's the "woke" crowd taking to the streets begging for more of its fair share?

We figure they're at the beach getting their last bucket of fries and one final stroll down the boardwalk.

That's okay... we don't need them.

Paper or Plastic?

If we really want to learn about work and why it's something that many in our culture treat as though it were a dirty, four-letter word... we need to hear from Bennie Ficeto.

As we continue our series of essays on the World War II generation, we can't help but celebrate the former B-25 pilot's work.

He's a bag boy.

Pardon us... he's a bag man. Or, better, a bag veteran?

It doesn't matter. The point is the 98-year-old still ties his shoes and goes to work twice a week at the local grocery store.

He doesn't have to. Nobody is going to kick him onto the streets.

From what we can tell, he does it merely to prove a point.

He's our kind of man.

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