ViSUAL CoMBaT DaiLY (12.2.11) (THe WeeKLY RIP!)
Frank Luntz is terrified by OWS...
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Here is what we should all be terrified about...
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Hillary lectures OBurma about human rights...
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Meanwhile the rock is still flyng...
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And a simple solution is nearing...
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We are in grat shape as allways...
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Meet his excellency Manuel Bloomberg: "I have an Army."
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Have a nice week end...
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Comingula....haaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaa. love it. Cominlingus may also be appropriate.
you are getting better every post!!
"Let them eat pizza" -no we cain't
"We'll be back" - 99ers kicked out by police
"Debt road to serfdom...for dummies"-there is no way like American way
comingulus. roman empire, primary broker and planet of the apes
instant classic. oh my god !
yes but the Zardoz reference is spot on...the castle on the rock floating in the sky reserved for the elite.
The movie Zardoz is a muct see.
i saw that movie way back when. i'll refresh
as i have forgoten nearly all of it. first scene
will bring it all back i bet.
awesome. it all seems to be coming together.
BillyBanzai took his red pill today.
Love the Neighborhood Watch. Hope we don't see those signs.
Debt is the result. Abject materialism and overconsumption are the causes.
Greed and sloth, much of it is rotten to the core.
Have you hugged your Chinese Peasant (slave laborer) today? Did you get him a Christmas Card?
Run down to Walmart and pick one up. Maybe he'll send you one after your job gets shipped overseas.
The Bankers can make more money out of your job overseas than you at any rate. If you default, the government will backstop it.
@Dollar Bill Hiccup Just a thought. Who made over consumption available to the sheeple and why?
Yes the government will pay off the bank. But, if you have money, private debt is Not forgiven.
Even if the sheeple file bankruptcy they must live poor for years.
Banksters, No Way. In the name of saving the system they are back in business in 60 days.
Just ask Lloyd why he got a 100 million dollar bonus right after he got bailed out. Who's the smartest bankster?
Yes, the government backstops you for the banks benefit, not yours. Too bad there are no debtors prisons ... right Lloyd?
As far as the "who", you and I brother. I'm not a big conspiracy theorist but the banks are like the Candyman hooking you up with whatever you want, till its too late. And you're hooked.
Take your money out of the big banks, that's a start. And start voting incumbents out of office. All of them. Ok, maybe Ron Paul can stay.
In case anybody wonders. That's Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs who was bailed out and paid a 100 million dollar bonus.
The Squid lives on.
"The bankers can make more money out of your job overseas." That sums it up.
Yes. YESSSS. Channel your inner Haku Zynkyoku.
The Japanese notice from WWII is very haunting, indeed. It's sad how quickly Americans choose to forget the bad parts of their history.
In East if Eden Steinbeck describes the townspeople turning on their local German citizens in WW1.
The focus seems to be the Japanese internment in WW2, but the sam happened to Germans in WW1. And WW2.
I'll only post about WW1 since that is the one most easily forgotten.
navy62802
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_internment
German American internmentGerman American Internment refers to the detention of people of German citizenship in the United States during World War I and World War II.
World War I [edit] Civilian interneesPresident Woodrow Wilson issued two sets of regulations on April 6, 1917, and November 16, 1917, imposing restrictions on German-born male residents of the United States over the age of 14. The rules were written to include natives of Germany who had become citizens of countries other than the U.S.[1] Some 250,000 people in that category were required to register at their local post office, to carry their registration card at all times, and to report any change of address or employment. The same regulations and registration requirements were imposed on females on April 18, 1918.[2] Some 6,300 such aliens were arrested. Thousands were interrogated and investigated. A total of 2,048 were incarcerated for the remainder of the war in two camps, Fort Douglas, Utah, for those west of the Mississippi and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, for those east of the Mississippi.[3]
The cases of these aliens, whether being considered for internment or under internment, were managed by the Enemy Alien Registration Section of the Department of Justice, headed beginning in December 1917 by J. Edgar Hoover, then not yet 23 years old.[4]
Among the notable internees were the geneticist Richard Goldschmidt and 29 players from the Boston Symphony Orchestra.[5] Their music director, Karl Muck, spent more than a year at Fort Oglethorpe, as did the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Ernst Kunwald.[6] One internee described a memorable concert in the mess hall packed with 2000 internees, with honored guests like their doctors and government censors on the front benches, facing 100 musicians. Under Muck's baton, he wrote, "the Eroica rushed at us and carried us far away and above war and worry and barbed wire."[7]
Most internees were paroled on the orders of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in June 1919.[8] Some remained in custody until as late as March and April 1920.[9]
[edit] Merchant marine vesselsUntil the U.S. declared war on Germany, German commercial vessels and their crews were not detained. In January 1917, there were 54 such vessels in mainland U.S. ports and one in San Juan, Puerto Rico, free to leave.[10] With the declaration of war, 1800 merchant sailors became prisoners of war.[11]
[edit] Military interneesBefore the U.S. entered the war, several German military vessels found themselves in U.S. ports, where authorities ordered them to leave within 24 hours or submit to detention. The crews were first treated as alien detainees and then as prisoners of war (POWs). In December 1914 the German gunboat Cormoran, pursued by the Japanese Navy, tried to take on provisions and refuel in Guam and the commanding officer, when denied what he required, accepted internment as enemy aliens rather than return to sea. The ship's guns were disabled. Most of the crew lived on board, since there were no housing facilities available. During the several years the Germans were detainees, they outnumbered U.S. marines in Guam. Relations were cordial, and a U.S. Navy nurse married one of the Cormoran's officers. As a result of U-boat attacks on U.S. shipping, the U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany on February 4, 1917, and U.S. authorities in Guam imposed greater restrictions on the German detainees. Those who had moved to quarters on land returned to the ship. Following the U.S. declaration of war on Germany in April 1917, the Americans demanded "the immediate and unconditional surrender of the ship and personnel." The German captain and his crew blew up the ship, taking several German lives. Six whose bodies were found were buried in the U.S. Naval Cemetery in Apra with full military honors. The surviving 353 German service members became prisoners of war, and on April 29 were shipped to the U.S. mainland.[12] Non-Germans were treated differently. Four Chinese nationals became personal servants in the homes of wealthy locals. Another 28, Melanesians from German New Guinea, were confined on Guam and not accorded the rations and monthly allowance that other POWs received.[13] The crews of the cruiser Geier and an accompanying supply ship, which sought refuge from the Japanese Navy in Honolulu in November 1914, were similarly interned until they became POWs.[14]
Several hundred men on two other German cruisers, the Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wilhelm, unwilling to face the British Navy in the Atlantic, lived for several years on their ships in various Virginia ports and frequently enjoyed shore leave.[15] Eventually they were given a strip of land in the Norfolk Navy Yard on which to erect accommodations. They constructed a complex commonly known as the "German village" with painted one-room houses and fenced yards made from scrap lumber, curtained windows, and gardens of flowers and vegetables, as well as a village church, a police station, and cafes serving non-alcoholic beverages. They rescued animals from other ships and raised goats and pigs in the village along with numerous pet cats and dogs.[16] On October 1, 1916, the ships and their personnel were moved to the Philadelphia Navy Yard along with the village structures,[17] which again became known locally as the "German village." In this more secure location in the Navy Yard at Philadelphia's League Island behind a barbed wire fence, the detainees designated February 2, 1917, Red Cross Day and solicited donations to the German Red Cross.[18] As German-American relations worsened in the spring of 1917, nine successfully escaped detention, prompting Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to act immediately on plans to transfer the other 750 to detention camps at Fort McPherson and Fort Oglethorpe in late March 1917,[19] where they were isolated from civilian detainees.[20] Following the U.S. declaration of war on Germany, some of the Cormoran's crew members joined them at McPherson, while others were held at Fort Douglas, Utah, for the duration of the war.
( Fun propaganda poster from WW1.
https://fashionforwardpr.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/destroy_this_mad_br...
http://www.worldwar1gallery.com/propaganda/WWI_poster.jpg
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Fun "Japs keep moving this is a WHITE MANS neighborhood" pic
http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/japan/sign.jpg
so are those camps. and the fact that the Supreme Court sanctioned it. They did overturn the decision however. Justice Felix Franfurter (sp?) as i recall. Now we don't need prisons of course and are acting on a "fear based approach to finance." For some odd reason it is causing money to flee and people to feel that failure is truly the better option here. STOP BAILOUT WORLD NOW i say. Of course i'm not sure what it means...or even how it's possible actually.
I had a Japanese American girlfriend in the 80's. I saw often when other Japanese Americans met the first question asked was which camp were your parents incarcerated. They were all emotionally scared. I can't forget and learned never to trust a government especailly my own.
Note: they weren't Japanese, they were Americans with Japanese ancestry. The racial genetic differences made racism "easy" and so they were persecuted for their country of origin. Pretty sick and only justified by racist hatred which was the disease which infected both the Nazis and the Americans. We are and were not so different from "those Germans" now. History is the proof.
Puleeze! We're not so different from "those germans"? Give me a fucking break. Do you know anything about what the nazis did? Jeez...
WeeWilly
Hey there sunshine read Human Smoke and get back to me.
The Nazis had no monopoly on evil acts.
It is my opinion that if there had been no blockade by the British the Jews would have wound up in Madagascar or the proposed Russian Jewish homeland.
The primary difference I see is that the Germans were operating in the industrial age. Hence the emphasis upon iron and steel infrastructure in trains, camps and ovens, and their technology was supported by a cultural value set emphasizing nationalistic, racist celebration of their infamous deeds.
America, in contrast, sends its death and destruction overseas. Very business-like. Note the hundreds of thousands of innocents killed in Iraq. Rather than celebrating the deaths per se, which in American society is still tabu, we just don't think about it. Hey, everybody makes mistakes, eh? But never even a simple "We're sorry" for what we've done in Iraq. Or anywhere else, for that matter. Exceptionalism is a mighty sword, I guess.
Unlike the Germans, Americans prefer to simply ignore the "unpleasantness" of their actions. We're shoppers and insatiable lovers (the credit card bills and viagra sales prove it!) . . . no muderers here!
But a whole lotta dead people suggest otherwise.
Even if it was an "honest mistake" that was sincerely perpetrated by "our boys," who seem to enjoy as much propaganda support in our culture as the Aryan Heros did in theirs.
Now with drones we're transforming war into--can anyone be surprised--an extension of video games . . . on the user end, at least.
What binds us most strongly to the Nazis of history is our complete absence of remorse, imo. I'm not sure that the opposite of love is hate, but indifference has the capacity for at least as much evil.
Do you understand where they got their eugenic ideas? Grow up.
Manifest Destiny.
I'm currently reading a book about Japan's bacterialogical weapons (BW) program in a book called "Unit 731 Testimony". When Japan realized they were losing the war they had a plan to use BW's on west coast cities.
Fortunately the sub carrying plague and other BW's was sunk before it could accomplish its objective of reaching the west coast.
Also in that time, the Japanese looked to the Emperor as God and would willingly die for him without question.
I believe we don't have all the facts regarding the internments of the Japanese population in America. Yes, it was horrible, but was it necessary at the time with the infomration they had?
non_anon
Churchil planned to drop diseased rodents on Germany.
I recall reading many stories about Japanese American WWII heroes. I don't recall reading any case of Japanese American spies.
Pearl Harbor. "They called in the air strike" as they say.
Dig deeper. Of course, that is not a justification for suspension of the Constitution. FDR should have been impeached and put in prison.
One of my friend's father was in 442nd. They were the most highly decorated regiment in the history of the U.S. armed forces. Amazing people still don't understand how wrong it was.
If there is no Apple 'app' then the 'people' can't be bothered. The brain washing has not stopped, but accelerated. Look where 90% of the history books are re-written and printed...not China but Texas, don't believe then look at the cover page.
additionally I have seen nothing that indicates that anyone sent to an internment camp was ever charged with anything.
Japanese were allowed to join the military as a way out of the internment camps, or to accept jobs in national defense. but the entire labor force was under government control at the time.
some of the Japanese who had their farms taken from them were allowed to leave to work in agriculture. the entire system was a form of indentured servitude. you couldn't just change jobs, no matter who you were.
to my knowledge no Japanese who was interned was ever convicted of sabotage or espionage.
there were also camps for German Americans.
http://www.foitimes.com/
WB where can you be emailed??
during the war there were German prisoners at Igloo, SD, which is a uranium processing facility. i always wondered about that, because the US was trying to get the German braintrust over here to build the bomb. it didn't make sense to transport prisoners of war clear across country, although maybe they were just resident aliens.
there was a fair amount of espionage and sabotage by German agents.
good point, there were many heroes of WWII of different nationalities and races. I was also thinking that the Japanese empire of WWII with their plan to use BW on west coast cities would have included Japanese Americans.
You are absolutely right, the psychopaths who ran the Japanese empire showed no concern for human life including their own countrymen let alone Americans of Japanese descent or anyone else.
williambanzai7
I think what you refer to are the last vestiges of the Samurai culture. The same culture Yukio Mishima tried to usher back in, and when failing committed Seppuku.
That would make it a vast difference between a warrior culture mentality and merely Psychopaths in charge.
Although I have lived in Japan, am familiar with the culture and have read a great deal, my primary source of opinion is my Mom who lived there during WWII and to this day constantly reminds me of the criminal way the Japanese government treated it's own countrymen in furtherance of the so called empire.
Is it really a vast difference?
What kind of respectable warrior culture could you have without individual psychopaths to direct and impose its will? Sure, unlike the lone wolf psychopath, who is typically very organized in his activities toward his goals in isolation, the warrior culture provides a larger cultural matrix that provides similar actions and goals the imprimatur of legitimacy of collectively held values and traditions putatively justifying the psychopathy, but is it vastly different?
I'm not seeing it.
Bob
The only reason you are not seeing it is you don't understand it. By your light every general would be a Psycopath.
I watch a lot of Asian film and there are themes which run through all. No matter what nation. The Psychopath tends to be the outsider who needs to be destroyed for the whole to unify and function as an entity. The idea of fighting until you are the sole person standing is common to all. It's a matter of honor, it's about not only personal honor but honor of the culture.
We don't have that kind of depth in the west, that kind of community think. We don't have the same pride.
Maybe in some of the more traditional groups, closer immigrants who haven't been subverted by the western culture of the individual, that mindset still exists.
Once you narrowly define people using terms like "Psychopath" you fail to perceive their real nature. You fail to comprehend the nuance and drive which burns like a fire in their bellies.
It's that "Will to power" most people lack. And because most people lack it they can't understand it or the people who apply it.
The difference between an Arnold and some guy pumping iron in his cellar.
That particular expression of the "Will to Power" is indeed lacking in most people, although there are examples through history where a culture (Germany as the classic case) successfully elicits a fair approximation in the majority through what appears to be a primitive collective identification with a powerful leader. Although I have done little formal study of this phenomenon, I view it as a collective psychological regression. Not any different from religious fundamentalists dancing with rattlers and speaking in tongues. I expect that it could happen anywhere that those who hold a different vision of honor are not sufficiently vigilant about holding the psychopaths in check.
But there's gotta be a good deal of psychopathy in generals. Killing people for a living speaks for itself, don't you think?
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I have a copy of Manzanar, a photo essay book compiled from Ansels Adams work, about the internment camp in Independence CA during WW2. There are stories my relatives tell, about hiding their (Japanese) neighbors personal things under the porch until the war was over. The government stole the farmland from these people, which resulted in nearly immediate loss of production. Few ever saw the land again, survivors were given money in the 1970s I believe.
Just like now the government persecuted its own citizens in the name of national security.
by the way my favorite (and only film I can stand) Spielberg film is 1941, just for the part where the Japanese submarine shells the amusement park on the end of the pier, thinking it is Hollywood.
As I recall, that 1970's payment was trivial considering that detainees lost any property - including homes, land, and life savings - that they couldn't carry on their backs to the camps. And even then there was much public outrage at the idea of any reparations made to "those people who bombed Pearl Harbor."
here's a quote..
Ansel Adams first published the book under the title Born Free and Equal, the book was "publically burned in protest". He did not renew the copyright. America was closed to Japanese immigrants in 1924, and they were not allowed to become citizens until 1952. A law had been passed in 1913 which prevented Japanese aliens from owning land. One man owned a farm his family bought before 1913, but when he returned from the camps the farm had been mortgaged (probably for taxes) and he was forced to sell. He received $700 in the 1948 Evacuation Claims Act, on a $24000 claim.
a lot of Mexicans in this country are probably in the same legal limbo as the Japanese were at the time. and George W. Bush built a number of internment camps (sitting empty today) ostensibly to take care of immigrants, and any Mexicans who came over the border in case the government in Mexico failed. (one point of note, the camp at Manzanar was built six months before Pearl Harbor...
Those are FEMA camps. Search Jesse Ventura and FEMA camps on youtube.
Great post. And there fat Amerikan entitlement a$$holes who sit around and opine that it can never happen here, that is if you can peel them away from Dancing with Krispy Kreme long enough. History is a severe teacher.
No coffee per instructions. Just Vodka. Worked! Always Excellent Sir William. ;-)
One Sam Adams Holiday Porter for me please!
V will be back - better, smarter, stronger than ever. Now is the winter of our discontent.
2012 will rock the 2nd American Revolution.
Great way to end a rough week WB7.
Much thanks for the thoughtful art.
I've got "news" for Bloomy the newsman. Many members of his "army" will not do his bidding. There a million ways to monkey wrench a bureaucracy.