"That's me interviewing rebels in Sudan's Nuba Mountains. In my newsletter, I talk a bit about the challenges of reporting in a place with no electricity, phones, flights or taxis--as the government is dropping bombs on you." - Nicholas Kristof
Mr. Kristof shouldn't be suggesting he's having bombs dropped on him if that hasn't actually happened. A reporter should not say that he's being bombed because somewhere in the country he's in a bomb, which he's never even seen, has been dropped...allegedly. Brian Williams got fired for indulging in this sort of malarkey. Is there any proof that Kristof has had bombs dropped on him?
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Is the Pope is a Red Diaper Baby
‘Jai Mahakali, Ayo Gorkhali!’
So much for Papal infallibility. According to the NY Times (6/21/2015), the Pope thinks the great powers did nil to stop the Holocaust. Seriously? How did the Pope miss the horrific fighting that went on in WWII and the reasons the fighting started. England, France, Poland and the US suffered 4,000,000 casualties fighting the Axis. The US alone had a million casualties.
In August, 1943, the first long-range bombing raid into central Europe, hundreds of miles south of Auschwitz, was a military disaster for the US. Flying out of recently captured airfields in North Africa 177 B-24 heavy bombers attacked the Ploesti oil refineries -- a 2,000 mile round trip, at the extreme limit of the bombers' capability. The Germans shot down 54 bombers with the loss of over 600 crewmen. Another 53 aircraft were heavily damaged. The US raid caused minimal damage to the oil refinery. The US never again attempted a low level mission against German air defenses, and concentrated its bombing campaign on closer more vulnerable strategic targets in central Germany and in support of the offensive in France where air power was needed to pin down German reinforcements and negate German superiority in armored weaponry.
England and France went to war with Germany to stop the German takeover in Poland. This was actually years before Auschwitz went into operation. The US, which in fact had virtually no army in 1939, began its undeclared war against Germany in support of Britain in 1940. In July of 1941, a US fleet and marines took over the occupation of Danish Iceland, freeing 25,000 British troops to fight in North Africa, equipped with American tanks and artillery. Severe US sanctions against Japan, levied to stop Japanese aggression in China, and US military aid to China, including the famous flying Tiger airmen, resulted in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and formal entry of the US into WWII. All through 1940 and 1941, the United States undertook an immense mobilization, creating from virtually nothing an Army and Navy capable of defeating the Axis. It wasn't until the second half of 1943 that the US was able to begin deploying the results of this astonishing industrial mobilization. The revolutionary long-range P-51 fighter wasn't deployed against the Luftwaffe over Germany until the winter of 1943-44, making a strategic bombing campaign against the German heartland militarily feasible. At that, strategic bombing was still so inaccurate that thousands of bombs had to be dropped to destroy important targets.
The real villain in this tragedy was the Soviet Union, which allied with Germany to carve up Poland. If the Soviet Union hadn't undercut England, France and Poland at the beginning of WWII, millions of lives would have been saved. Indeed even after the Soviet Union ended up on the Allies side, they halted their armies at the gates of Auschwitz for months and in close proximity to the death camp dropped not a bomb on it to stop the Nazis. The red diaper babies, of course, don't want to hear any of this. Not only was the Soviet Union an ally of Hitler in the division of Poland, but the Communist front organizations in the West, at the direction of Stalin, opposed US and Britain going to war over Poland. Among the Left's anti-war crowd: Bertrand Russell, the American Communist Party, and Pete Seeger, famous for the anti-war song Plow Under [Every fourth American boy].
"I will argue that if the Germans succeeded in sending an invading army to England we should do best to treat them as visitors, give them quarters, and invite the Commander in Chief to dine with the Prime Minister. Such behaviour would completely baffle them." -- Bertrand Russell
Who'd have thought the Pope is a red diaper baby.
By the way, doesn't the Pope care about the millions and millions of Chinese the Japanese killed during WWII.
Of course, after its perfidy in Poland, helping Hitler start World War II in Europe, the Soviet Union mounted a massive resistance when Hitler turned on his ally, aided by immense quantities of munitions, tanks, artillery, truck and aircraft from the United States. Indirectly at the very least the Red Army offensive that reached the gates of Auschwitz in late 1944 ended its operations. Nazi leader Himmler ordered extermination operations ended in November of 1944, as the Red Army approached. When Auschwitz was evacuated in January of 1945, the Allies offensive had so degraded Germany's transportation system that the Auschwitz inmates were marched to Germany by foot. 20,000 survived the march and were liberated by the British in the spring of 1945.
In the North Atlantic, in North Africa, at Stalingrad, on the beaches of Normandy, at Imphal, at Midway and Guadalcanal, at Bataan and Shanghai, the Axis came very close to defeating the "great" powers. US Marines fixing their bayonets for their desperate stand in the darkness on Edson's ridge. Ammunition gone, Gurkhas unsheathing their Kukris, to continue the fight hand-to-hand at the gateway to India; the Gurkhas' martyrdom on Hangman's Hill at Monte Cassino. Russian peasant snipers crawling through the rubble into the German lines. US paratroopers surrounded at Bastogne saying "Nuts" to Nazi demands for surrender. Wave after wave of US aircraft continuing to attack the Japanese fleet at Midway, sacrificing themselves again and again to clear the way for the last desperate attack, which finally won the battle. Today, many, some maliciously, forget the desperate hours of WWII and those who sacrificed their lives to stop Hitler, Tojo and their genocidal agenda.
So much for Papal infallibility. According to the NY Times (6/21/2015), the Pope thinks the great powers did nil to stop the Holocaust. Seriously? How did the Pope miss the horrific fighting that went on in WWII and the reasons the fighting started. England, France, Poland and the US suffered 4,000,000 casualties fighting the Axis. The US alone had a million casualties.
England and France went to war with Germany to stop the German takeover in Poland. This was actually years before Auschwitz went into operation. The US, which in fact had virtually no army in 1939, began its undeclared war against Germany in support of Britain in 1940. In July of 1941, a US fleet and marines took over the occupation of Danish Iceland, freeing 25,000 British troops to fight in North Africa, equipped with American tanks and artillery. Severe US sanctions against Japan, levied to stop Japanese aggression in China, and US military aid to China, including the famous flying Tiger airmen, resulted in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and formal entry of the US into WWII. All through 1940 and 1941, the United States undertook an immense mobilization, creating from virtually nothing an Army and Navy capable of defeating the Axis. It wasn't until the second half of 1943 that the US was able to begin deploying the results of this astonishing industrial mobilization. The revolutionary long-range P-51 fighter wasn't deployed against the Luftwaffe over Germany until the winter of 1943-44, making a strategic bombing campaign against the German heartland militarily feasible. At that, strategic bombing was still so inaccurate that thousands of bombs had to be dropped to destroy important targets.
The real villain in this tragedy was the Soviet Union, which allied with Germany to carve up Poland. If the Soviet Union hadn't undercut England, France and Poland at the beginning of WWII, millions of lives would have been saved. Indeed even after the Soviet Union ended up on the Allies side, they halted their armies at the gates of Auschwitz for months and in close proximity to the death camp dropped not a bomb on it to stop the Nazis. The red diaper babies, of course, don't want to hear any of this. Not only was the Soviet Union an ally of Hitler in the division of Poland, but the Communist front organizations in the West, at the direction of Stalin, opposed US and Britain going to war over Poland. Among the Left's anti-war crowd: Bertrand Russell, the American Communist Party, and Pete Seeger, famous for the anti-war song Plow Under [Every fourth American boy].
"I will argue that if the Germans succeeded in sending an invading army to England we should do best to treat them as visitors, give them quarters, and invite the Commander in Chief to dine with the Prime Minister. Such behaviour would completely baffle them." -- Bertrand Russell
Who'd have thought the Pope is a red diaper baby.
By the way, doesn't the Pope care about the millions and millions of Chinese the Japanese killed during WWII.
Of course, after its perfidy in Poland, helping Hitler start World War II in Europe, the Soviet Union mounted a massive resistance when Hitler turned on his ally, aided by immense quantities of munitions, tanks, artillery, truck and aircraft from the United States. Indirectly at the very least the Red Army offensive that reached the gates of Auschwitz in late 1944 ended its operations. Nazi leader Himmler ordered extermination operations ended in November of 1944, as the Red Army approached. When Auschwitz was evacuated in January of 1945, the Allies offensive had so degraded Germany's transportation system that the Auschwitz inmates were marched to Germany by foot. 20,000 survived the march and were liberated by the British in the spring of 1945.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Misrepresenting Racial Identities
Regarding Rachel Dolezal misrepresenting her racial identity (New York Times, 6/17/2015), while Ms. Dolezal's behavior appears to be that of a disturbed person, it's really not so unusual. For 150 years the New York Times and many otherwise reliable historians have portrayed the victims of the 1863 draft riots as black. In fact, thanks to Adrian Cook's scholarly The Armies of the Streets, we have long, but very quietly known, that the overwhelming majority of the riot dead were white "rioters" and bystanders, a disturbing number of the dangerous rebels women and children. The motivations for changing the racial identities of the riots' dead give rise to very interesting questions that have yet to be answered. The failure of otherwise ethical journalists and historians to object to the distortion of the identifies of the dead raises questions, too.
Draft Riots Death Map (red = "rioter", green = bystander):
Draft Riots Death Map (red = "rioter", green = bystander):
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Child Abuse: Steve Benson
It is very sad that the Arizona Republic and its Steve Benson have joined in the "Progressive" left's vilification of the Duggar family and their children. Not liking someone's religion and politics is no excuse for violating the privacy of juvenile police records, as has happened egregiously in the case of the Duggar children. This sets a precedent that many will regret, and underscores the hypocrisy of the "Progressive" left.
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Steve Benson doesn't get to leave comments here to opinions that the Arizona Republic refused to publish.
Moreover, he doesn't get to say the identities of the juveniles including the girls were legally obtained when they weren't. In any event, a decent man would not have further violated the children's privacy under any circumstances.
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Steve Benson doesn't get to leave comments here to opinions that the Arizona Republic refused to publish.
Moreover, he doesn't get to say the identities of the juveniles including the girls were legally obtained when they weren't. In any event, a decent man would not have further violated the children's privacy under any circumstances.
Monday, June 1, 2015
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere - 2.0
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was a propaganda device used by Imperial fascist Japan at the beginning of World War II. Japan claimed that it was promoting Asian unity and prosperity, but the propaganda was really cover for Japan's racist, fascist agenda of subordinating Asia, its peoples and resources to the Japanese.
"Noting the military usefulness of the islets China is constructing in the disputed Spratly Islands [of the South China Sea], Adm. Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army’s general staff, said they would mainly enable China to provide “international public services,” including maritime search and rescue, disaster relief, and scientific research."
-- Adm. Sun Jianguo, Deputy Chief of Staff People's Liberation Army, Red China
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-military-official-defends-island-building-in-south-china-sea-1433045698
Red China's aggressive island building within the internationally recognized exclusive economic zones of Vietnam, the Philippines and other Asia countries is reminiscent of the Imperial fascist Japan's aggression during World War II. Especially when fascist Red China's aggression is portrayed as a benevolent form of Asian brotherly love.
What is particularly galling about this is for Red China to treat the U.S. as an unwelcome interloper when the U.S. objects to Red Chinese aggression. The U.S. is China's biggest trading partner, and commerce with the U.S. has fueled Red China's era of immense economic progress. Moreover, while the U.S. has legitimate economic and trading interests in the Western Pacific, since the days when Europeans fought wars to force opium on China, the U.S. has been a guarantor of East Asian freedom.
The U.S. entered World War II as a result of protecting China from Japanese aggression. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was direct result of America providing military aid to China and enforcing severe economic sanctions on Japan. America fought a long and bloody war to drive Japan out of China and Southeast Asia, costly in lives and resources. After its defeat of Japan, the U.S. voluntarily withdrew from all of the lands and seas it had conquered and ordered the defeated Japanese to do the same. Japan, the Philippines and South Korea were all granted their independence along with many other island nations.
Red China showed its gratitude by waging war against America in Korea and Vietnam, when the U.S. had no other agenda than maintaining those countries as independent democracies. The economic transformation of Red China hasn't changed much. Instead of a Red China spreading its hegemony across Asia via Maoist revolution, Red China has transformed itself into a corporate socialist state: fascism and The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere - 2.0.
"Noting the military usefulness of the islets China is constructing in the disputed Spratly Islands [of the South China Sea], Adm. Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army’s general staff, said they would mainly enable China to provide “international public services,” including maritime search and rescue, disaster relief, and scientific research."
-- Adm. Sun Jianguo, Deputy Chief of Staff People's Liberation Army, Red China
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-military-official-defends-island-building-in-south-china-sea-1433045698
Red China's aggressive island building within the internationally recognized exclusive economic zones of Vietnam, the Philippines and other Asia countries is reminiscent of the Imperial fascist Japan's aggression during World War II. Especially when fascist Red China's aggression is portrayed as a benevolent form of Asian brotherly love.
What is particularly galling about this is for Red China to treat the U.S. as an unwelcome interloper when the U.S. objects to Red Chinese aggression. The U.S. is China's biggest trading partner, and commerce with the U.S. has fueled Red China's era of immense economic progress. Moreover, while the U.S. has legitimate economic and trading interests in the Western Pacific, since the days when Europeans fought wars to force opium on China, the U.S. has been a guarantor of East Asian freedom.
The U.S. entered World War II as a result of protecting China from Japanese aggression. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was direct result of America providing military aid to China and enforcing severe economic sanctions on Japan. America fought a long and bloody war to drive Japan out of China and Southeast Asia, costly in lives and resources. After its defeat of Japan, the U.S. voluntarily withdrew from all of the lands and seas it had conquered and ordered the defeated Japanese to do the same. Japan, the Philippines and South Korea were all granted their independence along with many other island nations.
Red China showed its gratitude by waging war against America in Korea and Vietnam, when the U.S. had no other agenda than maintaining those countries as independent democracies. The economic transformation of Red China hasn't changed much. Instead of a Red China spreading its hegemony across Asia via Maoist revolution, Red China has transformed itself into a corporate socialist state: fascism and The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere - 2.0.
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