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midnight-star-world · 1 year

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The 56th Annual CMA Awards

So today on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), I will be talking about the 56th Annual CMA Awards. This show was hosted by Luke Bryan & Peyton Manning on Wednesday 11/9/22 at 8pm EST (Eastern Standard Time) on channel 9 ABC (Where I am at). So let's get started with the performances first.

Performances (Who played and what they played). Loretta Lynn Tribute. Carrie Underwood - Woman enough to take my man. Miranda Lambert - Don't come home a-drinkin'. Reba McEntire - You're looking at Country. Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, & Reba McEntire - Coal miner's daughter. Ashley McBryde, John Osborne, Pillbox Patti, Brandy Clark, & Caylee Hammack - When will I be loved? Cody Johnson - 'Til you can't. Cole Swindell - She had me at heads Carolina featuring Jo Dee Messina's Heads Carolina, tails California. Miranda Lambert - Geraldene. Carrie Underwood - Hate my heart. Luke Combs - The kind of love we make. Luke Bryan - Country on. Carly Pearce with Ricky Skaggs & Sonya Isaacs - Dear Miss Loretta. Zac Brown band with Marcus King - Out in the middle. Thomas Rhett & Katy Perry - Where we started. Hardy featuring Lainey Wilson - wait in the truck. Kelsea Ballerini featuring Kelly Clarkson & Carly Pearce - You're drunk, go home. Morgan Wallen - You proof. Chris Stapleton, Morgane, & Patti Loveless - You're never leave Harlan alive. Brothers Osborne with War & Treaty - It's only rock 'n' roll (but I like it). (Rolling Stones cover). Elle King & The Black Keys - Great balls of fire (Jerry Lee Lewis cover). Alan Jackson tribute. Carrie Underwood - Remember when. Dierks Bentley - Chattahoochee. Jon Pardi - Drive (for Daddy Gene). Lainey Wilson - Chasing that neon rainbow. Alan Jackson - Don't rock the jukebox. And that's a wrap for the performances on this night.

Awards (Who won and who should have won according to my weekly list). Musical event of the year goes to Carly Pearce & Ashley McBryde - Never wanted to be that girl. Maybe this one could have gone to Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood's - If I didn't love you. Music video of the year goes to Cody Johnson - 'Til you can't. Looking at the choices for the award and that is the correct choice. Song of the year goes to Jordan Davis featuring Luke Bryan - Buy dirt. This one could have also gone to Morgan Wallen - Sand in my boots. Vocal duo of the year goes to Brothers Osborne. We really haven't heard much lately from any of the duos this year lately. Vocal group of the year goes to Old Dominion. This one should have gone with the Zac Brown band. Single of the year goes to Cody Johnson - 'Til you can't. This is truly the song/single of the year. Album of the year goes to Luke Combs - Growin' up. Luke should have won this but maybe another choice should have been Lainey Wilson. New artist of the year goes to Lainey Wilson. Could have also gone to Cody Johnson. Female vocalist of the year goes to Lainey Wilson. According to the stats, she should have won. But second I guess Carly Pearce. Male Vocalist of the year goes to Chris Stapleton. But maybe should have gone to Morgan Wallen. Willie Nelson lifetime achievement award goes to Alan Jackson. Entertainer of the year goes to Luke Combs. But could have gone to Morgan Wallen.

And that's a wrap for the awards. And on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), I would give this show a 3.5 out of 5 stars. It was a good show with some shocking award winners. But I don't see any performances that stood out to me. Maybe Cody Johnson's 'til you can't. But there wasn't any new songs and that is what i truly look forward to. Thanks for taking the time to read this review. See ya all next time.

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alwaysbewoke · 23 days

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#Sudan Conflict #War Crimes #Humanitarian Crisis #Darfur Massacres #RSF vs SAF #International Neglect #Refugee Crisis #Peace Negotiations #Stalemate #Treaty Of Jeddah #Global Responsibility #Rebel Alliances #Civilian Casualties #Sudanese Crisis #Regio

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howlerbat · 6 months

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my scientific rendition of the Treaties of Tilsit

#this is like for 3 other people who will get this joke #history memes #napoleon bonaparte #alexander i of russia #frederick william iii #napoleon #tsar alexander i #treaties of tilsit #napoleonic wars

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wordnerdsworld · 7 months

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If you’re ever insecure about how often you use commas or how long your sentences are I IMPLORE you to read the Treaty of Paris (1783), specifically article two.

510 words.

2 periods.

FIVE HUNDRED AND TEN WORDS.

A GRAND TOTAL OF TWO SENTENCES!

SIGNED BY DOZENS OF PEOPLE TO SET UP A TREATY AND AUTHORIZE LAND!!

Like don’t worry babes your 3 commas and semi colon are NOTHING to the revolution era and that’s what truly matters.

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ciderbird · 23 days

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I made that meme like forever ago but it holds up

#history memes #tilsit treaties #napoleon bonaparte #napoleonic wars #alexander i of russia #frederick william iii

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vpofcookies · 8 months

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Have y'all heard the story where hair was a symbol of peace because rulers would cut their hair when they declared war - so long hair represented a peaceful empire, a powerful group that no one dared to threaten, or a ruler that was slow to anger?

Consider: antarctic empire where philza's hair is short to show that he is constantly prepared to battle the threats around them with full military force vs Techno with long hair as a sign that the enemies around them will have no impact on the peace within the empire because the threat they pose is so insignificant he won't even acknowledge it. The threat would be gone before he would finish cutting his hair and so he doesn't.

#constantly thinking of phil nuking random things while techno is being pestered by tommy for war and somehow gets him to sign #a peace treaty that actually benefits him. or being pestered by tommy and getting his allies to turn and join the ae lol #anyways. two emperors. following the same tradition. dually representing the strength and might and peace and power above their enemies #antarctic empire #smp earth headcanons

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xtruss · 8 months

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Native Tribe To Get Back Land 160 Years After Largest Mass Hanging In US History

Upper Sioux Agency state park in Minnesota, where bodies of those killed after US-Dakota war are buried, to be transferred

— Associated Press | Sunday 3 September, 2023

The Upper Sioux Agency State Park near Granite Falls, Minnesota. Photograph: Trisha Ahmed/AP

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back.

The state is taking the rare step of transferring the park with a fraught history back to a Dakota tribe, trying to make amends for events that led to a war and the largest mass hanging in US history.

“It’s a place of holocaust. Our people starved to death there,” said Kevin Jensvold, chairman of the Upper Sioux Community, a small tribe with about 550 members just outside the park.

The Upper Sioux Agency state park in south-western Minnesota spans a little more than 2 sq miles (about 5 sq km) and includes the ruins of a federal complex where officers withheld supplies from Dakota people, leading to starvation and deaths.

Decades of tension exploded into the US-Dakota war of 1862 between settler-colonists and a faction of Dakota people, according to the Minnesota Historical Society. After the US won the war, the government hanged more people than in any other execution in the nation. A memorial honors the 38 Dakota men killed in Mankato, 110 miles (177km) from the park.

Jensvold said he has spent 18 years asking the state to return the park to his tribe. He began when a tribal elder told him it was unjust Dakota people at the time needed to pay a state fee for each visit to the graves of their ancestors there.

Native American tribe in Maine buys back Island taken 160 years ago! The Passamaquoddy’s purchase of Pine Island for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘land back’ campaigns for indigenous people in the US. Pine Island. Photograph: Courtesy the writer, Alice Hutton. Friday 4 June, 2021

Lawmakers finally authorized the transfer this year when Democrats took control of the house, senate and governor’s office for the first time in nearly a decade, said State Senator Mary Kunesh, a Democrat and descendant of the Standing Rock Nation.

Tribes speaking out about injustices have helped more people understand how lands were taken and treaties were often not upheld, Kunesh said, adding that people seem more interested now in “doing the right thing and getting lands back to tribes”.

But the transfer also would mean fewer tourists and less money for the nearby town of Granite Falls, said Mayor Dave Smiglewski. He and other opponents say recreational land and historic sites should be publicly owned, not given to a few people, though lawmakers set aside funding for the state to buy land to replace losses in the transfer.

The park is dotted with hiking trails, campsites, picnic tables, fishing access, snowmobiling and horseback riding routes and tall grasses with wildflowers that dance in hot summer winds.

“People that want to make things right with history’s injustices are compelled often to support action like this without thinking about other ramifications,” Smiglewski said. “A number, if not a majority, of state parks have similar sacred meaning to Indigenous tribes. So where would it stop?”

In recent years, some tribes in the US, Canada and Australia have gotten their rights to ancestral lands restored with the growth of the Land Back movement, which seeks to return lands to Indigenous people.

‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo 🦬! Matt Krupnick in Wolakota Buffalo Range, South Dakota. Sunday 20 February, 2022. The Wolakota Buffalo Range in South Dakota has swelled to 750 bison with a goal of reaching 1,200. Photograph: Matt Krupnick

A National Park has never been transferred from the US government to a tribal nation, but a handful are Co-managed with Tribes, including Grand Portage National Nonument in northern Minnesota, Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles of the National Park Service said.

This will be the first time Minnesota transfers a state park to a Native American community, said Ann Pierce, director of Minnesota State Parks and trails at the natural resources department.

Minnesota’s transfer, expected to take years to finish, is tucked into several large bills covering several issues. The bills allocate more than $6m to facilitate the transfer by 2033. The money can be used to buy land with recreational opportunities and pay for appraisals, road and bridge demolition and other engineering.

Chris Swedzinski and Gary Dahms, the Republican lawmakers representing the portion of the state encompassing the park, declined through their aides to comment about their stances on the transfer.

— The Guardian USA

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jamisonwritestf2trash · 8 months

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Medic and Archimedes:

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 medic #tf2 archimedes #text post #i love them #also i treat my pets like that ngl #my dog could start a revolutionary war in a third world nation violate every peace treaty in existence and hed still be my good baby man

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empirearchives · 4 months

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I like that there are two dudes having a moment in the background during the signing of the treaty of Amiens.

(Also, it’s not clear if the dude in the front left is Joseph or Napoleon)

Painting: The Peace of Amiens by Jules-Claude Ziegler

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to-end-all-wars · 6 months

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Okay so I left this a bit late but because I'm in NZ i didn't want to be wildly early and then procrastinated a bit, some of you who I know from TTrpg will have seen this image already but it is my favourite homecoming photo from the end of the war, a father and son celebrating as they ride together through their town, decorated for Christmas.

I imagine many other blogs similar to mine will have made posts lamenting the dead today, and while I share their respect for those who passed, I will be doing something slightly different.

I think that it is just as important to remember those that lived, those who returned to shattered countries, to families ruined by famine and disease, those who left a piece of themselves at the front, figuratively and literally.

Heres to honouring those that came home changed forever, those that never had a good night's sleep again, those that buried their friends at Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele, Gallipoli, Caporetto, Galicia and Tannenburg.

Those who returned to countries that treated them as second class citizens, those who returned home to find the war still going in their little slice of the world, the ones who were lied to, the last ones left and the ones who wished they'd never come home at all.

We need not forget the ones who survived hell and were left to endure its memory to the end of their days.

I love you all, and though we'll never meet, you have my heart forever and always.

#edwardian #ww1 #first world war #1910s #remembrance day #armistice day #November 11th #treaty of versailles #the great war

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alwaysbewoke · 2 months

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#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan

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short-wooloo · 5 months

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There's a lot of people pointing at how the Israel-Palestine ceasefire has ended and fighting has resumed as some sort of "gotcha"

It took 6 weeks to broker this ceasefire (and hamas didn't even really keep to it, surprise surprise, they still kept firing rockets at Israel), 5 days is not much time to broker an extension and/or longer ceasefire

This is the real world people, a ceasefire doesn't just happen by declaring/calling for it, they take time and negotiations and dealings and compromises

And as long as hamas keeps Israeli citizens (and non Israeli citizens) hostage while firing rockets at them, Israel has no reason to keep a ceasefire with hamas

#“iSrAeL sTaRtEd BoMbInG aGaIn OnCe ThE cEaSeFiRe EnDeD”#yeah #no shit sherlock #that's usually how these things go #very obvious that a lot of people on this site use “ceasefire” as shorthanded for “peace” or “end to all fighting forever”#no #that would be a treaty #which btw #take even more time negotiations compromise and dealings to hammer out #a ceasefire means just that #fire has ceased #the fighting has stopped but the war has not its just a pause #ceasefires pause wars treaties end them #i/p #i/p conflict #israel #palestine #israel/palestine #israel/hamas war #and again #hamas was still firing rockets at Israel the whole time during the “ceasefire”#on top of still holding people hostage #maybe Israel would have been open to a longer ceasefire or permanent peace if hamas wasn't threatening the lives of Israeli people #shrug #anti hamas #hamas must be destroyed #wooloo-writes #wooloo writes

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ciderbird · 12 days

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was in Hermitage today and found this amazing composition

the exes reunited

#yeah it’s the tilsit treaty painting in the middle #that was not even the only instance of their busts being displayed together #napoleon bonaparte #tsar alexander i #alexander i of russia #hermitage museum #napoleonic wars

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ospreyeamon · 8 months

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some heads are not fit to wear the crown

Houses Ulgo and Rist’s assassination of Price Gaul and Queen Silara Panteer is one of those decisions where – though murder is wrong, though it triggered great strife – I absolutely understand why they did it. Ulgo and Rist removed what they viewed as dangerously incompetent leadership because they believed it was necessary to protect Alderaan.

The Galactic Republic agreed to sign the Treaty of Coruscant because they lost the Great Galactic War. The Imperial fleet had succeeded in occupying Coruscant’s skies, giving them the ability to launch an orbital bombardment at will, while the Republic lacked the means to dislodge them. Imperial troops had taken the Galactic Senate hostage and killed the Supreme Chancellor. Because the Empire had already been winning the war even before they seized the capital to use as a bargaining chip, the Sith Emperor was the one to set the terms of the frosty peace.

The Treaty of Coruscant was a shockingly good deal for the Republic under the circumstances (which is why many in the Empire were so resentful of it). The only territory the Empire demanded they cede which the Empire had not already occupied or was actively contesting was seven uninhabited star systems, when the Republic did not expect to be able to hold most of those fronts. The Empire had Republic representatives followed around by droids to monitor their adherence to the Treaty, but did not demand any Republic citizens be handed over to stand trial in the Empire for crimes real or invented. Crucially, Empire set no caps on the Republic’s ship building or military expenditure and extracted no economic reparations.

Those like Gaul Panteer, Leontyne Saresh and Elin Garza who publicly decried the Treaty, saying that the Republic should have kept fighting rather than accept peace with the Empire, were in denial about the political reality of the situation. At that time, the Republic had no prospect of being able to swing the tide of the war to put themselves in a stronger position in the peace negotiations. If the Republic had refused to ratify the Treaty the Empire could have levelled its capital, killing billions and decapitating institutions like the SIS headquartered on the planet. The only meaningful blow the Republic was dealt by the Treaty of Coruscant was to its pride.

Bouris Ulgo hated the Sith Empire, but he wasn’t an idiot. The Treaty of Coruscant, humiliating though it may have been, gave the Republic the perfect opportunity to rearm itself in the breathing space provided by the Cold War. The Republic was bigger than the Empire – bigger economy, bigger population – so given the opportunity they could out produce and out recruit the Empire. If the Republic was patient, then they could have their vengeance and victory.

But being protected by the Treaty of Coruscant long enough to rearm required remaining part of the Galactic Republic, because the Empire made the Treaty with the Republic. The moment Alderaan seceded, it was no longer protected by the Empire’s promise to withdraw, and the Imperial Military could launch a second invasion without breaking the Treaty. And why wouldn’t the Sith Empire invade Alderaan? What else did all their forces ordered to break off the attacks on Coruscant and other Republic worlds have to do? Gaul Panteer’s very loud and public removal Alderaan from the Republic must have looked like an open invitation for the Empire to come and conquer some beautiful new camping sites.

And for what? Was Gaul Panteer arrogant enough to believe Alderaan so important that he could manipulate the Republic into abandoning the Treaty of Coruscant? Was he so myopic that he imagined he could sit on Alderaan feeling self-righteous with no consequences he hadn’t considered in the heat of the moment? Did he think that he could leverage Alderaan’s status as a Core Founder to extract concessions from the Republic to undo the cessation and stop opposing the Treaty – is that what his secret negotiations with the Republic were about?

Declaring the secession was an act of short-sighted rage. Failing to walk it back was self-absorbed irresponsibly. He placed his people in the firing line of a second invasion without so much as a warning, let alone a consultation.

Gaul Panteer was Alderaan’s senator, not Alderaan’s head of state. He wasn’t the elected monarch, just the reigning Queen’s heir. The decision to take Alderaan out of the Republic never should have been his to make; the question should have been decided by Queen Silara and the aristocratic assembly at the Elysium (and, if Alderaan were actually a democracy during this period, a general referendum).

This raises the question of why Queen Silara didn’t countermand her son’s declaration of secession. Maybe Gaul inherited his lack of strategic acumen from Silara. Maybe she disagreed with the secession, but decided that it was more important to avoid undermining the son she had appointed senator than to keep Alderaan in the Republic; that risk of House Panteer losing face took precedence over the risk of the planet being invaded. Or maybe Queen Silara, who suddenly fell ill upon her son’s return from Coruscant, lost control over the situation because Gaul took advantage of her poor health to usurp her authority.

Whatever the reasons, House Panteer was not doing a good job of fulfilling one of the most ancient traditional functions of any monarchy: making sure your lands won’t be conquered by an external power. Alderaan’s other great noble houses were not doing a good job of encouraging House Panteer to take their job more seriously. Probably the Elysium was already bogged down in the gridlock which would later prevent them from electing Queen Silara’s successor.

Bouris Ulgo was the head of the Alderaani military, its planetary defence force. It was his job to protect Alderaan from invasion. Gaul Panteer had made that job impossible. House Rist, infamous as spies as well as assassins, agreed with his assessment. Possibly the Rists had gotten wind of the Imperial Diplomatic Services overtures to House Thul.

Bouris Ulgo was a soldier, who had killed many times before in defence of his homeworld. Everyone and their pet Thranta on Alderaan seems to know the Rists are assassins; the nobility tolerating a house of assassins among their number implies a tactic approval of the occasional convenient murder.

To protect Alderaan, Ulgo and Rist decided, Gaul and Silara Panteer had to die. Only by killing them could they instigate the election of a new monarch – a monarch who would return Alderaan to the safety of the Republic before the Empire could take advantage.

According to his lore entry, Bouris Ulgo didn’t return to Alderaan after the Treaty with any ambitions of becoming king. I suspect he came back to see to the wellbeing of his lands and his vassals as he hadn’t been able to after the Battle of Alderaan, to keep an experienced eye on the planet’s defences during Panteer’s foolishness, expecting to soon leave again to assist in the Republic’s preparations for the anticipated second war. While some sources say he intended to usurp House Panteer, if that were true it would have made far more sense from him to announce the imposition of martial law and declare himself king immediately after the Panteers’ assassination while loudly denouncing the murders as obviously the work of the Sith Empire, not wait until it was clear that the election of Queen Silara’s successor had ground to a holt because of the assembly’s bickering and House Thul had appeared, plainly planning on letting the Empire in by the back door.

To me, Bouris Ulgo is a deeply tragic figure because his assessment that he alone of the heads of the Great Houses cared more for the good of Alderaan than petty politics was correct. Unfortunately, he was a military man with a military mindset who lacked the skill at political manipulation to achieve his desired goal of returning Alderaan to the Republic, falling back to military tactics inappropriate to the problem he was attempting to fix out of desperation. It feels unfair that Ulgo should be saddled with blame for the civil war over Panteer, when Gaul Panteer’s decision to secede was the pivotal domino in the chain of events which resulted in Alderaan becoming the stage for an Imperial-Republic proxy war.

It really says something about House Panteer that in their planetary missions they accept both factions’ solicitations of alliance and can be swayed to either side. Organa or Thul, Republic or Empire, Jedi or Sith – one is as good as the other if vengeance on Bouris Ulgo will be reaped.

Gaul Panteer claimed such outrage that the Republic conceded to a frankly beneficial peace with the Sith Empire that he took Alderaan out of the Republic, drastically increasing the odds the Sith Empire would launch another attack on the planet. The surviving members of House Panteer claim such outrage that the heads of their house were assassinated because they put the planet in incredible danger that they are willing to support the Thul puppets of that same Sith Empire Gaul Panteer deemed it unacceptable to compromise with, even at the cost of billions of lives. House Panteer’s effective foreign policy is that the last attacker to have assaulted Castle Panteer is the devil who must be destroyed, regardless of the potential cost to Alderaan. Truly, some heads are not fit to wear the crown.

#Meanwhile in a Galaxy Far Far Away #swtor meta #Bouris Ulgo #Gaul Panteer #Alderaani Civil War #Great Galactic Cold War #House Ulgo #House Panteer #House Rist #Silara Panteer #the Treaty of Coruscant #star wars the old republic

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