the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he is going to purchase parlor. do you know what por lor is? the word might invoke the image of a fancy room or cute little lady sit and sip their tea from good china. but parlor is decidedly not that. parlor is a far right fringe social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capitol insurrection, january 6, 2021, because many of the violent rioters organized on parlor. podcast host kara swisher that very day asked one of the founders of parlor if he felt any responsibility for death and destruction to which he said this. i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform, considering we re a neutral town square that just add head heres to the law. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset and they felt disenfranchised. not long after that interview, apple and
Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. But the crisis didnt start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didnt start because on october 16th there was some act by the
soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. The reason we can be so specific about when the Cuban Missile Cris
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