December 29, 1890: The Wounded Knee Massacre
We remember Wounded Knee.
December 29 is the anniversary of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, when U.S. soldiers murdered more than 300 Lakota people, babies and elders, men, women, two-spirit.
The U.S. government awarded 20 Medals of Honor to some of the perpetrators. Those medals still have not been rescinded.
Via United American Indians of New England
Evil Dead II: The Mexican TV Cut or “Severely Edited For Television”
In the late 1980s, the Renaissance Pictures team was tasked with creating a cut of Evil Dead II that was suitable for television. The TV edit contains around 16 minutes of alternate or additional footage. Some notable additions are the burning of the Necronomicon and a possessed Ash eating a squirrel. In If Chins Could Kill, Bruce Campbell stated:
“Editing Evil Dead II for television was an absurd endeavor. The film, in its uncut state, races on through carnage and mayhem without so much as a second glance from my character and it all seems like a twisted Warner Bros. cartoon. Cutting the violence down, and lingering on my horrified expression, made the violence seem far more real and disturbing.”
The other things have a share of everything, but mind is unlimited and self-ruling and has been mixed with no thing, but is alone itself by itself. For if it were not by itself, but had been mixed with anything else, then it would partake of all things, if it had been mixed with anything (for there is a share of everything in everything, just as I have said before); and the things mixed together with it would thwart it, so that it would control none of the things in the way that it in fact does, being alone by itself. For mind is the finest of all things and the purest, and indeed it maintains all discernment about everything and has the greatest strength.
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