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President Berzelius Windrip denouncing "Communist criminals" engaging in resistance efforts against the American Corporatist ("Corpo") regime in 1937. Windrip, although a charismatic politician and boasting valuable political ties from his time as Senator (and virtual sovereign) of Missouri, would be deposed in a palace coup in early 1938 by second-in-command Lee Sarason. Although the outbreak of the Second American Civil War in 1939, followed by Allied intervention in support of the Free American Army in 1944, ended the Corpo regime and resulted in the restoration of democracy under President William O. Douglas, the scars of America's period of dictatorship and renewed civil war were a paradigm shift for the collective American consciousness.
(with thanks to Sinclair Lewis)
Thomas27
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Battleship Yamato and Musashi supporting the Mokpo Pocket during the Korean War from my new illustrated alternate history book "Au Bord de l'Abîme: Cycle 2".
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BlackentheBorg
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President Malcolm Little converses with Secretary of Defence Alexander Castro as they both enter the White House on a particularly rainy day, 1964
Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert of House Hohenzollern, the last Kaiser of Germany, with his family in the cellar of the basement of the Königsberg City Museum in Königsberg before their execution by German Red Guards.
Russian troops advancing on Königsberg.
When Tsar Nicholas II learned of where the communists were holding his cousin and his family, via Okhrana agents, he ordered the closest Russian army to attempt a rescue of the German Imperial family. As Russian soldiers advanced ever closer to Königsberg, the local communist party boss there got scared that the tsar’s troops might free the kaiser and his family. So to prevent this from happening, he ordered the Red Guards watching over the desposed monarch and his family to execute them (which they did).
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Two Guardia Generale soldiers survey a neighborhood in Sucre during the Bolivian Revolt of 1993. The first major challenge to the National Centrist Party since the Debt Riots of the 1980s, the Bolivian Revolt would only barely be suppressed and would convince the ruling elite of the need for economic and social--but not political--reforms in the Union of Sovereign Republics of La Plata.
Some Wrestling Content for the thread.
An Interview with GQ Mexico with AAA Legend and superstar John Cena about his wrestling career and his time as a Mexican movie superstar and a star on the telenovela series El Senor de los Cielos, supporting role in netflix Drama Narcos (where he plays DEA Agent Boyd Holbrook) and his role in recent telenovela Ringo. Cena has won the AAA Mega Championship 5 Times as well as the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship 3 times as well as being a 3 time Rey De Reyes and is widely considered the most succesful American by far to have wrestled in Mexico as well as being one of the most recognisable and mainstream stars in Mexico, which has made him noticed in Hollywood.
Seiya Sanada (More commonly known as SANADA) after winning the IWGP Championship over Katsuyori Shibata, seen as the beginning of the new era for the company in a Present vs Future ace match.
CM Punk after Winning his first WCW World Heavyweight Championship in at 2006 Starrcade
An Interview with GQ Mexico with AAA Legend and superstar John Cena about his wrestling career and his time as a Mexican movie superstar and a star on the telenovela series El Senor de los Cielos, supporting role in netflix Drama Narcos (where he plays DEA Agent Boyd Holbrook) and his role in recent telenovela Ringo. Cena has won the AAA Mega Championship 5 Times as well as the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship 3 times as well as being a 3 time Rey De Reyes and is widely considered the most succesful American by far to have wrestled in Mexico as well as being one of the most recognisable and mainstream stars in Mexico, which has made him noticed in Hollywood.
Seiya Sanada (More commonly known as SANADA) after winning the IWGP Championship over Katsuyori Shibata, seen as the beginning of the new era for the company in a Present vs Future ace match.
CM Punk after Winning his first WCW World Heavyweight Championship in at 2006 Starrcade
The Eve Of War: October 30th, 1938.
CBS Newsreader Orson Welles, seen here signalling his crew at the station to remain silent as they hear a Tripod passing by the building. Welles' reporting during the Martian Invasion was highly applauded.
A photo, believed to have been taken in Grover's Mill, New Jersey hours into the Invasion. It is believed that this photo was the first ever taken of a Martian Tripod.
Princeton-based Professor of Astronomy Richard Pierson, whose actions and story of survival would become highly publicised, and his newly acquired fame would assist in his demanding for a government funded organisation to investigate the Invasion, and to ensure that never again, man kind would face such a threat.
CBS Newsreader Orson Welles, seen here signalling his crew at the station to remain silent as they hear a Tripod passing by the building. Welles' reporting during the Martian Invasion was highly applauded.
A photo, believed to have been taken in Grover's Mill, New Jersey hours into the Invasion. It is believed that this photo was the first ever taken of a Martian Tripod.
Princeton-based Professor of Astronomy Richard Pierson, whose actions and story of survival would become highly publicised, and his newly acquired fame would assist in his demanding for a government funded organisation to investigate the Invasion, and to ensure that never again, man kind would face such a threat.
NA,NA,NA. The Whacko of Waco.
Vernon Wayne Howell AKA. David Koresh AKA. The Whacko of Waco (1959-2003). In the early 80s, Vernon Howell would rise to power of a small but devoted religious group known as The Branch Davidians. He made frequent claims of divinity, and in 1993 would declare a Holy War against the reign of Lady King. The Davidians would base themselves in Texas, primarily in proximity to the city Waco, and would commit a large number of terrorist attacks, including bombing government buildings and public places, killing untold numbers of civilians, not just within the former United States, but around the globe, thus making them an enemy of not just Lady King, but of the whole world. Koresh would be catured by Lady Kings forces in 2003, and would soon after be executed via a public hanging.
Vernon Wayne Howell AKA. David Koresh AKA. The Whacko of Waco (1959-2003). In the early 80s, Vernon Howell would rise to power of a small but devoted religious group known as The Branch Davidians. He made frequent claims of divinity, and in 1993 would declare a Holy War against the reign of Lady King. The Davidians would base themselves in Texas, primarily in proximity to the city Waco, and would commit a large number of terrorist attacks, including bombing government buildings and public places, killing untold numbers of civilians, not just within the former United States, but around the globe, thus making them an enemy of not just Lady King, but of the whole world. Koresh would be catured by Lady Kings forces in 2003, and would soon after be executed via a public hanging.
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NA,NA,NA. King Asahara.
Shoko Asahara AKA. King Asahara (1955-2011). In late 1980s, the religious organisation of Aum Shinrikyo would gradually gain more and more followers in the seemingly hopeless period, and would soon crawl its way into the 1990 Japanese general election, winning multiple seats, and building Aum Shinrikyo up to not only a religious power, but as a political power. And Shoko Asahara would soon go from becoming a prophet, to a king. After slowly spreading his influence into Japanese parliament, he would soon stage a coup to take power in the early 2000's, after which he would declare himself the King of Japan. Not long after his declaration, he would soon become the most wanted man on the planet...
Shoko Asahara AKA. King Asahara (1955-2011). In late 1980s, the religious organisation of Aum Shinrikyo would gradually gain more and more followers in the seemingly hopeless period, and would soon crawl its way into the 1990 Japanese general election, winning multiple seats, and building Aum Shinrikyo up to not only a religious power, but as a political power. And Shoko Asahara would soon go from becoming a prophet, to a king. After slowly spreading his influence into Japanese parliament, he would soon stage a coup to take power in the early 2000's, after which he would declare himself the King of Japan. Not long after his declaration, he would soon become the most wanted man on the planet...
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A photograph of then former Governor Ronald Reagan and then activist Lyndon LaRouche at a congressional hearing in 1980. Many historians believe this to be their first meeting and the beginning of...
Reportedly a copy of a drawing of what happened on Gene Cernan's Apollo mission to the moon. The late Captain Cernan had supposedly told this to an unknown interviewer and an artist drew it up shortly before Cernan's death. Rumor has it Cernan also said there were ruins and a crashed space ship of some sort on the lunar surface as well.
One of the few photographs later leaked from a NATO SAR mission to U.S. outpost 31 in Antarctica following the winter of 1981. We can only speculate as to the true nature of this photo and its contents, as basically everything related to Outpost 31 is still highly classified.
The Cross and the Rising Sun: The True Story of the Relations between the Vatican and the Japanese Empire.
Pope Pius XII, who was the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church during the whole duration of WWII.
Shortly after the Japanese Home Islands were opened up to the Rest of the World, the mysterious group known as Killer 7 began it's operations outside of the home islands by sending it's agents, disguised as diplomats, into faraway lands such as America and Great Britain to gain information about the outside world. They also worked on infiltrating the various institutions of the West, such as the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and most important of all, the Roman Catholic. Though the Vatican, thru the Jesuit Order, had sent missionaries to Japan before 1854, but it was not until the 1860s, when the Japanese began to learn about the Vatican's secrets. Many of these spies where Catholics themselves, while others were followers of the Shinto faith.
Yoshiko Kawashima, whom was one of the Japanese who had operated in Vatican City between 1949 and 1953, posing as a Chinese born Catholic Nun. She is one of the alleged killers of Pope Pius XII.
Two representatives of the Vatican preparing to meet Emperor Hirohito in Rome during his 1951 state visit to Italy.
The Swiss Guard, the professional soldiers of the Pope, assembled before the arrival of Emperor Showa on August 18th, 1951.
Emperor Hirohito with Empress Nagako in Rome, prior to their visit to the pope, circa 1951.
In 1953*, Pope Pius XII would pass away, and thus, the Japanese saw the opportunity to put into the position of pope, one who is supportive to the Japanese Empire. That one would prove to be Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, who was previously a Cardinal. But thanks largely to the efforts of Benito Mussolini and his Fascists, Montini would be put into power as Pope Paul VI. During his time as Pope, Paul's policies would rather be very pro-Fascist, and also be Pro-Japanese. His critics, both within and without of the Roman Catholic Church, would declare him as a Philo-Japanese pope, in which they would they regard as a traitor to the Catholic Order.
Pope Paul VI in Rome, circa 1964.
The year of 1963 would bring about the 2nd Vatican Council under Paul VI, which usher into being many reforms into the Catholic Church, among these reforms, a handful were of aimed at introducing a few things from the Japanese Religion, Shintoism, into the Catholic Ritual. When the council wrapped in 1965, it created very drastic changes to the structure of the Catholic Church and it's teachings. Many would take this as the final step completed for the Imperial Japanese.
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* = Though Official reports stated that the Pope died of natural causes, conspiracy theories however claimed that the Pope was in fact murdered by Killer 7 via poison in his sleep.
Pope Pius XII, who was the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church during the whole duration of WWII.
Shortly after the Japanese Home Islands were opened up to the Rest of the World, the mysterious group known as Killer 7 began it's operations outside of the home islands by sending it's agents, disguised as diplomats, into faraway lands such as America and Great Britain to gain information about the outside world. They also worked on infiltrating the various institutions of the West, such as the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and most important of all, the Roman Catholic. Though the Vatican, thru the Jesuit Order, had sent missionaries to Japan before 1854, but it was not until the 1860s, when the Japanese began to learn about the Vatican's secrets. Many of these spies where Catholics themselves, while others were followers of the Shinto faith.
Yoshiko Kawashima, whom was one of the Japanese who had operated in Vatican City between 1949 and 1953, posing as a Chinese born Catholic Nun. She is one of the alleged killers of Pope Pius XII.
Two representatives of the Vatican preparing to meet Emperor Hirohito in Rome during his 1951 state visit to Italy.
The Swiss Guard, the professional soldiers of the Pope, assembled before the arrival of Emperor Showa on August 18th, 1951.
Emperor Hirohito with Empress Nagako in Rome, prior to their visit to the pope, circa 1951.
In 1953*, Pope Pius XII would pass away, and thus, the Japanese saw the opportunity to put into the position of pope, one who is supportive to the Japanese Empire. That one would prove to be Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, who was previously a Cardinal. But thanks largely to the efforts of Benito Mussolini and his Fascists, Montini would be put into power as Pope Paul VI. During his time as Pope, Paul's policies would rather be very pro-Fascist, and also be Pro-Japanese. His critics, both within and without of the Roman Catholic Church, would declare him as a Philo-Japanese pope, in which they would they regard as a traitor to the Catholic Order.
Pope Paul VI in Rome, circa 1964.
The year of 1963 would bring about the 2nd Vatican Council under Paul VI, which usher into being many reforms into the Catholic Church, among these reforms, a handful were of aimed at introducing a few things from the Japanese Religion, Shintoism, into the Catholic Ritual. When the council wrapped in 1965, it created very drastic changes to the structure of the Catholic Church and it's teachings. Many would take this as the final step completed for the Imperial Japanese.
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* = Though Official reports stated that the Pope died of natural causes, conspiracy theories however claimed that the Pope was in fact murdered by Killer 7 via poison in his sleep.
Photo taken of the insignia patch of a soldier from the 4th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment, near Birmingham, ca. 2027.
The 4th Alabama would be mustered into service for the State of Alabama shortly after the state's passing of the Ordinance of Secession in 2024. Mostly comprised of volunteers from the Birmingham-Gadsden area, a large number of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans would form a vital core for the regiment helping to train new recruits ahead of the arduous campaigning ahead. The regiment would muster in downtown Birmingham on January 25, where it was first deployed around the city in a population control capacity after numerous protests and bomb threats were delivered to the state government after the controversial passage of the Ordinance of Secession.
In March the regiment would be brigaded with four other Alabama regiments and mustered into service with the Heartland National Army under the condition of maintaining elected officers and HNA grants for fuel and auto repairs (like most volunteer outfits, the 4th's primary means of transportation was by civilian pickup truck). It would muster into HNA service just short of the opening of the Battle of Raleigh-Durham, but took up rear-guard duties around Winston-Salem helping troops from Georgia and South Carolina capture the city from Federal forces. After the Battle of Raleigh-Durham the 4th would be transferred once again to garrison and anti-partisan duty in the Columbus, Georgia/Phenix City, Alabama area until it's brigade was again re-deployed in mid summer to the Covington area to take part in the liberation of Indiana - a liberation that never came.
The regiment would see heavy fighting during the Federal invasion of Kentucky in 2026. During the Battle of Covington the 4th would sustain heavy casualties blocking Federal attempts to encircle the city. Heavy, confused, urban fighting would see much of the 4th's brigade trapped inside the Covington pocket, leaving the 4th with just 678 of it's original 1, 213 men. It would launch a fighting withdrawal back towards Tennessee, serving with distinction at the Battle of Nashville before being sent into a rear guard capacity for refit in autumn of 2026. It would miss the heavy fighting in middle Tennessee, but would come back online just in time for the fighting around Chattanooga. Here the 4th took up positions along the Tennessee River in the Muscle Shoals area.
The heavy fighting had severely depleted the HNA, which now shifted tactics to avoid direct confrontation with it's Federal counterpart. This would fail in the Chattanooga campaign, which ended in a disastrous Heartland defeat as Federal forces encircled Chattanooga in a daring paratrooper attack on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge before sending the bulk of it's armored divisions far to the west - right against Muscle Shoals. The 4th Alabama would serve valiantly defending it's section of the line, but the overwhelming Federal numbers told and the regiment was quickly pushed out of it's riverside defenses into Alabama. Here the regiment's resistance stiffened, inflicting terrible losses on a Federal all-female battalion during a counter attack south of Muscle Shoals.
However this wasn't to be, and the Federals managed to breakthrough HNA lines and cut across northern Alabama, threatening the thousands of men in north Alabama and Georgia with capture. The HNA would fight a hectic, disorganized retreat at Chickamauga Creek, Resaca, and Marietta, before being pushed into Atlanta. The 4th, meanwhile, would be cut off from much of it's brigade in the Birmingham area, fighting a foe twice it's size and lacking in necessary amounts of heavy weapons owing to an abrupt end to Russian arm shipments to the Republic of Heartland. It would make a famous - or infamous depending on a person's allegiances - last stand near the old Sloss foundary before it's positioned was surrounded by Federal troops and the command almost entirely wiped out. What remained limped out to Montgomery and, when the Federals would turn their full attention to the area in the summer of 2027, to Jackson, Mississippi.
In September the 4th would be consolidated with the 5th and 2nd Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiments into the 3rd Alabama Consolidated Infantry Regiment. Still brigaded in it's same brigade, it's new strength was placed at around 550. It would fight briefly at Jackson before being forced across the Mississippi River at Vicksburg after pro-Federal, black guerrillas cut it's supply line. Once across it would be deployed to the New Orleans area, where it helped put down a civilian led insurrection ahead of the Federal advance. During this insurrection many surviving members of the 4th would be accused of crimes against humanity after Instagram footage leaked showing HNA troops executing captured black civilians "resisting arrest."
The Federal crossing of the Mississippi in early 2028 would force the men defending southern Louisiana to retreat or face encirclement, the 3rd Consolidated first retreating to Shreveport before being forced to cross into Texas after Federal forces broke through the hastily put together defenses along the Red River. Once in Texas it would be several weeks before the 3rd again saw action, this time in the Dallas Campaign. As troops and equipment were transferred north to defend the Heartland capital at Kansas City, the 3rd Consolidated was instead continued fighting in Texas, first defending Dallas before it's capture by Federal forces in 2029.
As the men retreated south to Austin, Federal troops would be able to breakthrough the rebel lines in southern Texas, cutting the interstate in the vicinity of Austin as the local population there rebelled against the crumbling Heartland government. The 3rd thus became trapped in the Waco pocket, duking it out with Federal forces in the months long Siege of Waco before surrendering on June 20, 2029 with the rest of the Heartland National Army in the east.
A total of 2, 435 men would serve with the 4th Alabama and it's respective units within the 3rd Consolidated. At the time of surrender it's muster rolls had a total of 297 men and six officers. Of these only a handful were veterans of the fighting in North Carolina.
The 3rd Consolidated would be one of many HNA regiments whose members were tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity after the war in accordance with the peace treaty signed at Philadelphia. During the trials twenty eight men and two officers would be found guilty of crimes against humanity, a verdict that wouldn't have been possible without the advanced Federal facial recognition software developed in partnership with Google during a wartime contract. Three more officers would be found guilty of lesser crimes, and imprisoned at Fort Warren in California.
A still from a Stormchaser following the infamous 2005 tornado The Mississippi Queen, a EF5 tornado reported to be the largest ever recorded. This picture was taken as the beast crossed Highway 82
The first hit was Carrolton, Mississippi in the early hours of March 12th. The town was caught off guard and completely wiped out with not a single building remaining standing after it moved past. 32 people were killed and another 51 were injured.
The Mississippi Queen then headed South over Highway 82 and seemed to be heading towards Colia and Blackhawk, but then took a sudden turn and plowed through southern Winona. The town was larger and had more time to prepare leading to minimal casualties (20 deaths and 8 injuries)
The Queen then struck SE towards Poplar Springs but made another surprise turn and followed the Big Black River, almost clipping Vaiden as it slowly died, before finally dissolving somewhere East of Beatty, MS. The photo above was one of the last taken of her by a stormchaser outside Vaiden.
Troops from the Heartland National Army fire an artillery piece against Federal forces in east Tennessee, during the Knoxville Campaign, ca. 2027.
Much of the HNA's heavy equipment came from captured Federal inventory. This piece, manned by North Carolina men disgruntled over the state's early neutrality, is likely from Army stocks in Kentucky, as HNA records indicate as such.
Men who manned specialized equipment like this often had prior military experience, usually veterans. In this case none of these men, later captured at Chattanooga, were ever deployed over seas, a fact that Federal officials would believe explained their decision to defect to rebellious South Carolina in early 2025. In Heartland service they would see plenty of service, first engaging in the nearly two year long Siege of Cincinnati where they and their compatriots' fire would lead to the deaths of some 30, 000 civilians, including, ironically enough, several of the city's leading Republican officials when one shell (the HNA often relied on indiscriminate fire owing to a lack in experience and equipment) burst in the organization's meeting room.
Note the men's mismatched uniforms - likely the result of the HNA's constant foraging of "military" supplies from any source available. The man on the far left is perhaps wearing a civilian North Face jacket.
A photo taken by Vice journalists documenting the Siege of Cincinnati. The siege would begin with Kentucky's secession on Warren's inauguration in January, 2025, and continue until the Federal liberation of northern Kentucky was complete in August, 2026. During that time a total of over six million shells was fired against the city in an act that some called "revenge for Indianapolis." The bombardment would severely disrupt civilian life in Cincinnati, destroying homes, office buildings, factories, and roads. To make it worse, heavy partisan activity in rural Ohio, severe fuel shortages, and a lack of funding for a populous still rearing from the Great Recession of 2021 would mean most could not evacuate. A Federal sponsored program to evacuate small children was launched, however, to rather amazing success given the circumstances (though a little known fact was that these missions often involved coordination with sympathetic HNA gun crews who would agree to "fix weapon malfunctions" for a small period of time).
This photo is from a UN website encouraging foreign aid to American refugees fleeing the violence at home. In this case, the woman and little girl are headed north from Cincinnati during the summer of 2026. Poor economic conditions, and massive numbers would see most UN and international efforts fall sadly short of their lofty goals, most infamously when the Canadian government refused to accept some 150, 000 American refugees because, as one controversial MP put it, "we have enough of our own poor, starving, helpless citizens to care for any American." One Brexit Party member would put it more bluntly, "the last thing we need is for some Midwest fundamentalist to come to Britain, sit on our dime." Another would go on to say, "they bring crime, they bring all of their damnable relatives, they bring degradation. They have no place in Britain."
A Cincinnati home burnt out after an artillery strike, ca. 2026. Thousands of homes in the Cincinnati area would be leveled as a result of Heartland efforts to break Federal morale and prevent an easy crossing into Kentucky.
A bombed out factory in Cincinnati, ca. October, 2025. With most of it's infrastructure in shambles, post-war Cincinnati was an inhospitable, economically shattered area with a dwindling population and rising crime.
A man is pictured by a Vice crew in the middle of his looting spree. Looting became a common mode of survival for people during and after the siege.
ceremonial mask worn by the mayan priests of Comozotz, the bat god. They would wear it while dispensing justice.
actually a mask created by a mexican artist for the 75th anniversary of Batman
https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2019/05/camazotz-the-maya-batman/
actually a mask created by a mexican artist for the 75th anniversary of Batman
https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2019/05/camazotz-the-maya-batman/