71 Replies to “Aug 9, 2018: Reader Tips”

  1. https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-bombing-of-nagasaki-august-9-1945-unwelcome-truths-for-church-and-state/5394853

    The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945. Unwelcome Truths for Church and State

    Excerpts;

    69 years ago an all-Christian bomber crew dropped “Fat Man”, a plutonium bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan, instantly annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, a disproportionate number of them Japanese Christians, and permanently or mortally wounding uncountable numbers of others.

    Prior to the bomb exploding over St. Mary’s Urakami Cathedral on 11:02 AM, Nagasaki was the most Christian city in Japan. The Nagasaki cathedral was the largest Christian cathedral in the Orient.

    Nagasaki was where the legendary Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, established a mission church in 1549. The Catholic community at Nagasaki grew and eventually prospered over the next several generations. However it eventually became clear to the Japanese rulers that the Portuguese and Spanish commercial interests were exploiting Japan; and soon all Europeans – and their foreign religion – were expelled from the country.

    From 1600 until 1850, being a Christian was a capital crime in Japan. In the early 1600s, those Japanese Christians who refused to recant of their new faith were subject to unspeakable tortures – including crucifixion. After the reign of terror was over, it appeared to all observers that Japanese Christianity was extinct.

    However, 250 years later, after the gunboat diplomacy of Commodore Matthew Perry forced open an offshore island for American trade purposes, it was discovered that there were thousands of baptized Christians in Nagasaki, living their faith in a catacomb existence, completely unknown to the government.

    With this humiliating revelation, the Japanese government started another purge; but because of international pressure, the persecutions were stopped, and Nagasaki Christianity came up from the underground. And by 1917, with no help from the government, the re-vitalized Christian community had built the massive St. Mary’s Cathedral, in the Urakami River district of Nagasaki.

    So it was the height of irony that the massive Cathedral – one of only two Nagasaki landmarks that could be positively identified from 31,000 feet up (the other one was the Mitsubishi armaments factory complex) became Ground Zero for the infamous bomb. The Bock’s Car bombardier identified the landmarks through a break in the clouds and ordered the drop.

    At 11:02 am, during Thursday morning mass, hundreds of Nagasaki Christians were boiled, evaporated, carbonized or otherwise disappeared in a scorching, radioactive fireball that exploded 500 meters above the cathedral.

    Most Nagasaki Christians did not survive the blast. 6,000 of them died instantly, including all who were at confession. Of the 12,000 church members, 8,500 of them eventually died as a result of the bomb. Many of the others were seriously sickened.

    What the Japanese Imperial government could not do in over 200 years of persecution (destroy Japanese Christianity) American Christians did in 9 seconds.

    Even after a slow revival of Christianity over the decades since WWII, membership in Japanese churches still represent a small fraction of 1% of the general population, and the average attendance at Christian worship services has been reported to be only 30. Surely the decimation of Nagasaki at the end of the war crippled what at one time was a vibrant church.

    1. The bombings on Nagasaki, Hiro, Tokyo or Dresden were great contributions to humanity. They should have been used as a blueprint for future dealings with savages. Let enemy set rules of engagement, then apply said rules to them.

    2. Many more innocent civilians died in the Rape of Nanking (read a book by that title)alone than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. And that had no strategic or tactical value, and was up close and personal, perpetrated by soldiers against unarmed civilians, including women and babies.

      Nanking was exceptional, only in that it was the capital city, and so many foreign diplomats actually watched the atrocity from their office or apartment windows. Many embassies, including the Germans!, gave some civilians refuge. Multiply Nanking by thousands and you may get an idea of the kind of atrocity Japanese occupation committed in China.

      I was born on the Burma Road, in a house converted into a temporary civilian hospital. The whole family (I can’t even imagine my mother, the day after giving birth) had to escape an air raid by Japanese bombers by hiding in a ravine. Miraculously we survived. That raid served no purpose except to terrorize the people, and because they could. I give my eternal gratitude to the brave American volunteer fliers of the Flying Tigers, who provided the only air resistance to the Japanese war planes. Those Americans fought, and some gave their lives, for no other reason than to protect innocent civilians from the savage and unnecessary attacks of the Japanese war machine.

      War is cruel. Some add to the cruelty by deliberate, unnecessary acts of savagery. To begin with, the Japanese started the war in Asia by their grand design to be head of the “Great East Asia Alliance.” On the other hand, other acts have cruel outcomes, but prevent worse ones. The atomic bombs convinced the Japanese to surrender. Prior to that, they were willing to fight the American invasion to the last man. The Kamikaze attacks showed that determination. Think of how many lives, American and Japanese, that would have cost. If your point in posting is trying to suggest how terrible the Americans behaved, no, I cannot buy that at all. That was the best way out of a terrible situation the world was in, caused by insane rulers in Germany and Japan (and Russia, who ostensibly our ally but actually succeeded in expansionism where Germany and Japan failed.)

      1. Well said…Thank you.

        My grand uncle ended up as the officer commanding in Hong Kong. He spent his war in Japanese POW camps. He did not travel to the West Coast for the simple reason he could not bear to see Japanese people.

        We have all moved on but the reality is that war is cruel, savage and evil. Ending WWII with the bomb was both right and a huge preventative for future wars. It was the right, if horrible, thing to do.

      2. Yes. Read the book; WARNING: It takes some fortitude to read it thoroughly.

      3. I read that book. Iris Chan was the author. she was truly traumatized by the stories she heard doing the research, but went ahead anyway to get the TRUTH out.
        even beijing twerps wanted it covered up.
        she allegedly committed suicide but I dont buy it.

        as far as the whereabouts of Bock’s Car on that august 9, I wish to God I was sitting in the bombadier’s seat if THAT is what it would require.

        a sad, terrible day in history. all that loss of life. and a ghastly choice to make instead of an ever far far worse one trying an amphibious invasion to make Normandy look like a practice drill.

        &&^$&#$*#&@#! nips brought it on themselves.

      4. Agreed. Japanese civilian casualties would have been millions ahead of those who died due to Nagasaki & Hiroshima.

        Saw a very old lady on tv, some years ago, talking about WW1, saying people don’t really understand the total destruction of conventional war. One hundred thousand died in one bombing raid on Tokyo in late WW2.

    3. And the Diaspora spread many of God’s chosen people away from the promised land. So what? We are Fallen. Many will follow false teachings. Arguably, those in Nagasaki did. Man’s nature will lead to much evil. Some apparently evil ideas will lead to good. We don’t know His will.

      Or do you think killing the firstborn male child of non-believers should be adopted as a military goal as a good idea, just like in the old testament? Or is attacking their families, as God as done, immoral?

      We cannot win this battle. We’re only human. We can only try to the best of our understanding.

      1. Jas 4:1  From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 
        Jas 4:2  Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 
        Jas 4:3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 
        Jas 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 

        1. And you think that dodging direct questions by quoting words that agree with what I said is an answer?

      2. I guess since I’m not one of God’s chosen people, I must be one of God’s rejected people. Did it ever make you think that maybe people would not like being considered and treated like rejects? If you want people not to hate you and want to kill you, it’s best to keep the superiority complex to yourself.

    4. Odd that you would focus on the deaths of 6,000 Christians when perhaps as many as 80,000 died in the blast.

      It goes without saying that, had the Empire of Japan not decided to embark on a rapacious war of aggression throughout Asia and the Pacific, millions of lives – Chinese, Korean, American, British, Indian, Australian, Japanese and many, many others – would have been saved.

      1. “had the Empire of Japan not decided to embark on a rapacious war of aggression throughout Asia and the Pacific”

        It was Josef Stalin, not Tojo or Mussolini or Hitler who was the chief architect of the Second World War.

        Didn’t I tell you to stop reading victor’s history?

        1. Stalin may have been one of the two chief architects of WWII in the European theater, but Hirohito and Tojo started Japan’s war of aggression in the Pacific theater all by themselves. In fact, since Russia and Japan both had expansionist designs on Manchuria, for a while Japan’s designs were somewhat deterred, until Russia had to bend its attention elsewhere.

        2. well that’s a new one.
          so it was uncle joe put them up to the invasion of Manchuria?
          http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/China/JapanManchuria.html

          clever dude that stalin. let the nips sit right on his eastern border for 14 friggin years until the ‘plan’ unfolded.

          what a doofus. ‘all stalin’s fault’ does that include the battle of britain? n africa? atlantic u-boats?

    5. What IS your point Strad?

      You certainly have a knack for finding off the chain web sites, I’ll give you that.

      Painful to read but was able to skim it. Basically an anti-war screed/rant trying to put guilt on Christians. Not feeling it. Context matters.

      1. “Basically an anti-war screed/rant trying to put guilt on Christians.”

        Particularly as WWII was not a “religious” war. The ideologies involved – fascism, totalitarianism and imperialism – were racial and political in nature, not religious.

        And I doubt anyone here needs to be patronized by being reminded yet again that war is not a cheery business and results in the deaths of human beings.

        Especially since we’re now nearing the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War.

    6. And what, pray, did a single one of these hypocrites do to stop the murder of the boys of good Christian families killed in the Pacific fighting the Japanese?

      Do you really think God was well pleased with their sacrifices?

      There are Amalekites who style themselves Christian too. When Israel finally carries out God’s commandment to annihilate them, I’ll fall to my knees and thank Him.

      God put the atomic bomb in the hands of his children for a good purpose—to discourage the wicked from making war upon them. It worked. Israel has the option of levelling the financial capitals of Europe in a matter of hours. In 1973 London, Paris, Frankfurt and Zurich came within a hair’s breadth of being levelled, along with their own fine churches. That is why the globalists no longer goad the Amalekites into genocidal war against Israel.

      Seeing off a few Japanese making a mockery of Christianity was a small price to pay to secure the existence of a people of whom the Japanese emperor is not fit to loosen the sandal of the least among them.

      And I’m sure OldBruin would agree that in the rest of Asia, the wiping of Japan off the face of the earth would have been an occasion for rejoicing.

      1. Do not put words in my mouth. As I said before, because I criticize misdeeds of a culture does not give you leave to write racist rants about that culture in my name.
        And, as I also said, in the history of the world, every culture has been ruled by very bad people, and very bad things have been done under them. No one is exempt. I admit, considering the atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese before and during the Second World War, not just against the Chinese but against every one of its enemies, it is extremely difficult to move on.
        We Americans did the least possible destruction to end the war in the Pacific theater. And yet there are still those, obviously, who would criticize our actions and motives. Imagine if we had dropped the bomb in the middle of Tokyo. Apparently it would have made you happy. But then having killed millions of people unnecessarily, we will no longer be the city on the hill, as I fervently believe we are. We chose exactly the right course of action.
        You must take each person as a whole. We all have our good points and bad points, even by our own standards. You make good friends because you find there is a lot more to like than dislike. It is the same with different cultures. Each people have their own cultural traits, and you make your choices accordingly. No, the Japanese culture surely is not one of my favorites. But it is not my least favorite. Among those I like less is the Russian culture, if you must know. But that’s just my personal preference, I surely do not see each individual Japanese or Russian through my prejudiced lens, and I do not vent my dislike of their cultures on nearly every single post of mine.
        And prithee, how do Japanese converted to Christianity “make a mockery of it?” Isn’t that exactly the point of missionary work, to convert us heathens to Christianity? But to you it makes no difference, either we are heathens or we make a mockery of Christianity. (Okay, “we” here refer to us converts.)

    7. The website globalresearch.ca is a renowned garbage site which is left leaning and pro-globalist. If any website should be censored it’s that one. Very disappointed in SDA. Next time you provide a link in anything get some credibility.

      1. It wasn’t SDA that provided that website, it was Stradivarious in his Reader Tips.

    8. Had to nuke them to save killing a thousand times more up close and personal and losing many of ours doing it. Nuke them again if they forgot what it was for.

    9. Interesting piece of history. I don’t have an opinion about the importance of the bombing to the war effort, but the tale is an informative snap shot of the fate of this Japanese Christian community that most people will not know about.

    10. xian, buddist, confusius, agnostic wtfEVER.
      if they were such devout xians, why did they stand idly by whilst hideki ‘toejam’ tojo took over the military AND the civilian gubbamint?
      mebbe blood be thicker than the bible?

      the plain undeniable FACT is the nips started the pacific war in, wait for it, 1931 with the invasion of manchuria where all that coal and neat stuff is.

      you could set yer watch to the time it took after nagasaki for the ‘top hat’ bunch to show up on the deck of the battleship in tokyo harbour.
      hiroshima was the wake up call, nagasaki was the message to whit ‘a rain of ruin the likes of which’.
      that is what ENDED the *&&$*$(()#$! GODDDAMMED WAR finally.

      A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G E-L-S-E is conjecture and speculation.

    1. Now that his victim knows who he is, and he has already pleaded guilty of the crime, the victim ought to file a humongous civil suit against him, the city of Berkeley, and the state of California. Somehow or another, these monsters must pay for their crimes.

      1. Having watched that, I will revise my attitude towards Professor POS. A falling piano would be an appropriate punishment.

      2. As one of the youtubers I watch stated, it looks like you can violently assault four people with a weapon in California for the same price as handing out a plastic straw.

    3. POS coward is an educator. That’s just great. He should be going to jail. Hopefully now that he’s been ‘outed’ he gets it good and hard.

  4. ‘Canadian’ groups that oppose the oil sands are showing disloyalty to our country and are doing the bidding of countries like Saudi Arabia.

    Many people have pointed out that the groups that attack the Canadian oil sands and try to destroy our energy industry never protest against Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, the US oil industry, Nigeria, Iran, or any other oil producing nations.

    The groups focus exclusively on attacking Canadian oil, even though it’s by far the most ethical and environmentally responsible oil on the entire planet.

    https://www.spencerfernando.com/2018/08/08/disloyalty-anti-oil-sands-groups-must-be-investigated-for-ties-to-saudi-money/

  6. The Atomic Bombs saved millions of American lives, and tens of millions of Japanese Lives.

    If we continued the war through the Winter and Summer of 1946, millions of Japanese would have starved to death. Their harbors were mined, no ships were bringing foodstuffs, their rail and road transport was being systematically destroyed. Their Military leaders were issuing knives and spears and suicide bombs to the men, women and children living near the invasion beaches.

    Want to know how many US Casualties were expected? After Korea, Vietnam, and the never-ending Islamic Wars, 70 years later, we are still issuing the Purple Heart Medals struck for the expected casualties from the First Landing on Japanese beaches. We stockpiled that many.

    Thank God for the Atomic Bomb. It saved millions of Americans, Britons, Canadians, and saved the Japanese Race.

    1. Ironic that the Japanese were saved and as a nation have thrived for the most part. All have issues with ageing populations. But the freedom fighter’s nations are in turmoil with ‘diversity is strength’ madness instead of a ‘melting pot community’ attitude, not to mention a stable population level.

    2. John Batchelor once interviewed the author of Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945 – 1947. (The podcast shows up on the program list once in a while.)

      The Americans were prepared for a major bloodbath. Like someone mentioned earlier, large numbers of Purple Hearts were produced in anticipation of the high casualty rate. The landing sites had been chosen, but the Japanese already guessed where they were and moved defensive forces in place. All of the previous amphibious invasions previously conducted during the war would have been trivial by comparison.

      An invasion would have been a desperate move by the Americans. Their manpower reserves had been depleted due to every available man either serving or having been killed, wounded, or disabled.

      About a decade or so ago, the BBC World Service had a number of programs in observance of the bombing of Hiroshima (or maybe it was for the one dropped on Nagasaki). The interviewer mentioned that he had been approached by an elderly Japanese man and the gentlemen expressed gratitude for the attack. During the latter days of the war, he was one of the soldiers who would have defended the country against any invasion. He was certain that he would have been killed had the Americans landed. The nuclear bombing of Japan, and the subsequent surrender, meant that the war was over for him and he survived.

    3. the invasion was assuredly NOT akin to d-day.
      *that* one consisted of invading occupied but friendly territory. (well, ‘cept for the asswipe vichy fwench turncoats)
      showing up on the shores of honshu and hikaido was to invade HOSTILE HIGHLY POPULATED areas.
      everything from kids sneaking up in the shadows with a pen knife in the eye to all out TOTAL ‘fight to the death’ by the remnants of the japanese army.
      blood and death over the entire country. well into 1946. THAT is what was avoided.
      150,000 casualties virtually ALL enemy as opposed to m-i-l-l-i-o-n-s including both sides.

      any disagree, please do share with us the exact wording you suggest for all those *telegrams*. m’kay?

  7. Mr. No, aka Stupid Liberal Justine, Burns Five-Year Fiddles With Mohammed “as Canada remains on NAFTA sidelines”.

    “They are expected to turn next to a potentially thornier issue, U.S. demands for a sunset clause in NAFTA requiring it to be re-approved every five years.”

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    “Trudeau says Canada will ‘stand up’ for human rights amid escalating dispute with Saudi Arabia” (G-M)

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    “Mexico and U.S. appear close to deal on key auto content rules, as Canada remains on NAFTA sidelines

    The two countries were to meet again on Thursday, again without Canada, while Canadian officials met in Ottawa Wednesday to plot out their strategy”

    “They are expected to turn next to a potentially thornier issue, U.S. demands for a sunset clause in NAFTA requiring it to be re-approved every five years.”

    https://www.recorder.ca/news/world/mexico-and-u-s-appear-close-to-deal-on-key-auto-content-rules-as-canada-remains-on-nafta-sidelines/wcm/86e7ec96-4023-4f6e-8651-aee562212534

  8. Victoria to remove a statue of Sir John A. from the entrance to its city hall as a gesture of reconciliation with natives. I find this offensive. John A. was not a settler or a conquerer. He was a national leader, and the native way of life was already disappearing in 1867. I feel the gesture is along the lines of “Let’s pretend this never happened.” It is also deliberately intended to lay a guilt trip on Canadians. I think it is yet another attempt to undermine nationalism.

    2. Not just nationalism. Worse. It is part of an attempt to rewrite Canada to reflect a Marxist utopia.

    3. John A. is an iconic symbol of our nationhood. Getting rid of these historic markers is an attempt to destroy our sense of nationhood. I guess that is entirely appropriate in a post -national state. It is also nicely in keeping with the UN Agenda 2030. Agenda 2030 signals much about where Canada is headed. Under J. Trudeau, I no longer recognize this once great nation. That seems to be the plan.

  9. This is how it’s done in Bavaria.

    http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/uighur-asylum-seeker-mistakenly-deported-from-germany-has-disappeared-says-lawyer-1.4777534

    Asylum seeker just disappears after being “mistakenly” deported by Bavarian authorities. “They [deportation authorities] just took him, put him in the plane, and the only information we got was, ‘Oh sorry, it’s too late. He can’t go to the interview anymore because we deported him'”.

    1. Well. It’s not as if the Germans were going to put hajji down. Only China, which is exempt from Islamization, is allowed to do that to people plotting the establishment of Islamic states on Chinese territory.

      All the more room in Germany for a family of Boers fleeing real persecution in southern Africa, if a far-sighted German government admits them in time.

    2. There is, of course yet another level of scum we often overlook. The filthy lawyers; who, in this case, abandoned their client after extracting their fee. …“They just took him…” Sure. The fellows in the German office of emigration district # whatever decided to forego their coffee break and nab this guy based on a whim. No papers with deadlines not met etc. These lawyers know that government offices are inefficient. IF he actually had a hearing scheduled those papers should have been stapled to their client’s forehead (figuratively).
      Here’s a winning quote from his lawyer. “How can we search for him? China is pretty big isn’t it?”
      She walked away from the interview in her Gucci shoes dyed with this man’s blood.

  12. The Freeland* File.

    H/T Stupid Liberal Justine.

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    “10/3 podcast: How Canada ended up in this weird spat with Saudi Arabia

    10/3 host Dave Breakenridge is joined by National Post politics reporter Marie-Danielle Smith to discuss the unusual international incident”

    https://www.recorder.ca/news/10-3-podcast-how-canada-ended-up-in-this-weird-spat-with-saudi-arabia/wcm/49debb21-7ba1-4005-951a-7a90159f1b65

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    The Freeland* File.

    “The Freeland-Chomiak Connection: “It takes a village to raise a Nazi””

    “This 24-part online exposé reveals a wealth of new details about Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland’s maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak, and his WWII career as Hitler’s leading Ukrainian-language news propagandist throughout Greater Germany and Nazi-allied/occupied Europe.

    But besides revealing many aspects of her maternal grandfather’s support for the German war effort, this research exposes shocking new information about Chrystia Freeland’s own career as a propagandist.

    To decide whether Freeland is suitable as a Foreign Affairs minister, Canadians should explore this research which documents her longstanding ties to extremely Russophobic organisations that are deeply rooted in the Ukrainian fascist tradition which predates WWII.
    Canadians should also be aware that during the early years of her journalistic career Freeland wrote for ultranationalist Ukrainian publications linked not only to her grandfather and other fascist collaborators, but to the CIA’s mighty Wurlitzer propaganda machine.

    For example, in 1986 at age 18, Freeland received a Canadian government-funded job writing articles for The Encyclopedia of Ukraine. This project was the postwar brainchild of her grandfather’s WWII boss, Volodymyr Kubijovich. Kubijovich headed the top Ukrainian collaborationist network established and funded by Nazi’s military intelligence agency, the Abwehr.

    Another publication, for which Freeland worked in the late 1980s, The Ukrainian News, had been edited by her grandfather (1981-1982).

    A third was the US-based Ukrainian Weekly, which has used thousands of items from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the best-known propaganda creature of the CIA.

    It featured Freeland’s work on the same page as an ad for a book honouring the Nazi’s Waffen SS Galicia Division as a heroic Ukrainian force fighting Germany’s noble war against Soviet communism.

    But besides showing that Freeland’s ultranationalist-advocacy journalism often turned from the same page as that of her Nazi-propagandist grandfather, this report exposes a host of fascist skeletons still being hidden from public view in the large, interconnected wardrobes of Canada’s postwar Ukrainian émigré community and the Government of Canada.”

    http://rabble.ca/babble/news-rest-us/freeland-chomiak-connection-it-takes-village-raise-nazi-0

    1. “Waffen SS Galicia Division as a heroic Ukrainian force fighting Germany’s noble war against Soviet communism.”

      Yes they were. I don’t suspect that all that many Ukrainians read Mein Kampf and shared Hitler’s ideals. They were fighting for the Ukraine and nothing more.

      1. I have no use for Freeland and the leftist ideology she represents which has become nothing but a gong show. That said, you are right about the Galicia Division. I expect that every Galician Ukrainian member of that division had lost family members to the Soviet regime. First, during the famine deliberately created to bend the Ukrainian peasant to the collectivization period of the 1929-32 period, and then again during the mass roundups of the 1937-39 Great Terror. Young men generally do not concern themselves with ideology, but they do understand the loss of family.

    2. Rald,
      Freeland’s ancestors may have shared (some ) a similar Opinion of Churchill & Le May (SAC General) They both said the A Bomb was used on the wrong Country…They wanted to WAIT and use it on Stalin… Would have resolved years of angst

      Le May had testified to Congress that Fire Bombing the Japanese cities was working (The Manufacturing Factory was actually the whole City & an legitimate target) and that low altitude bombing (not effective with Germany) allowed unlimited targeting… The Japanese had only built High Altitude (Large) Guns….Tokyo was successfully fire bombed…. North Korea was also vulnerable to Fire Bombing, but not undertaken..

      Can’t undo the past, unless the past Insists on rolling it back. Kinda Like Indian Tribal 18th century warfare

  13. BTW Strad’s post has to be one of his dumbest. At Iwo Jima 6800 American troops KIA thousands wounded and few Japanese captured. They fought to the death for the emporer.
    The battles for the Japanese Islands were a foretaste of what was to come with the invasion of the Japanese mainland.
    The bomb was a blessing.

  14. PET POT Cemetery Report.

    Tweet from Stupid Liberal Justine’s Freeland.

    https://twitter.com/CanadaFP/status/1025383326960549889

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    “‘Diplomacy by tweet’ cost Canada in Saudi dispute, former diplomat says”

    “OTTAWA — The federal government should have been more careful when it tweeted concerns about the arrest of human rights activists in Saudi Arabia, a former diplomat says.

    Colin Robertson, vice-president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and a career diplomat, says “diplomacy by tweet” is a bad way to issue policy statements.

    “Diplomacy by tweet is best taken with great care… as we have learned to our cost,” Robertson said in an interview with CTV News.

    “You cannot say in 247 characters or 400 characters the nuance that you want to capture in a diplomatic statement.”

    Robertson says a tweet about Saudi Arabia arresting women’s rights activists is the cause of Canada’s current problems with the kingdom, whose leaders took offence to the call for the activists’ “immediate release.””

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/diplomacy-by-tweet-cost-canada-in-saudi-dispute-former-diplomat-says-1.4044633

    1. Can Canada not apologize and issue a more nuanced statement regarding human rights? It seems to me to be rather important to acknowledge the Saudi governance by Sharia. Sharia does not fit with our values but it fits with their values, and in KSA, their values take precedence, so the Tweet was out of line. Digging in our heels on this is likely to cost us dearly.

  16. Our Enemy, the State*.

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    “Ontario’s basic income plan was the welfare state on steroids — but it didn’t have to be

    Opinion: While the Liberal scheme was a disaster, many basic income supporters have the right goal”

    https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/ontarios-basic-income-plan-was-the-welfare-state-on-steroids-but-it-didnt-have-to-be

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    Our Enemy, the State*.

    If we look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely: a great redistribution of power between society and the State.

    This is the fact that interests the student of civilization. He has only a secondary or derived interest in matters like price-fixing, wage-fixing, inflation, political banking, “agricultural adjustment,” and similar items of State policy that fill the pages of newspapers and the mouths of publicists and politicians. All these can be run up under one head. They have an immediate and temporary importance, and for this reason they monopolize public attention, but they all come to the same thing; which is, an increase of State power and a corresponding decrease of social power.

    It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can there be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

    Moreover, it follows that with any exercise of State power, not only the exercise of social power in the same direction, but the disposition to exercise it in that direction, tends to dwindle. Mayor Gaynor astonished the whole of New York when he pointed out to a correspondent who had been complaining about the inefficiency of the police, that any citizen has the right to arrest a malefactor and bring him before a magistrate.

    “The law of England and of this country,” he wrote, “has been very careful to confer no more right in that respect upon policemen and constables than it confers on every citizen.” State exercise of that right through a police force had gone on so steadily that not only were citizens indisposed to exercise it, but probably not one in ten thousand knew he had it.

    Heretofore in this country sudden crises of misfortune have been met by a mobilization of social power.”

    https://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/albert-jay-nock/our-enemy-the-state/

  17. The intentional targeting of civilians for political or military purposes is terrorism. E.g. Dresden (Feb 45), Tokyo (Mar 45).

    Those of you who are supporting the firebombing or nuking of urban Germany or Japan are open supporters of terrorism.

    Double standards — twice as good.™

    WHY AREN’T HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI WAR CRIMES?
    by Jacob G. Hornberger

    I don’t get it. On the one hand, we’re told that the intentional targeting of civilians in wartime is a war crime. On the other hand, we’re told that the intentional targeting of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs was not a war crime.

    Which is it?

    https://www.fff.org/2016/05/12/arent-hiroshima-nagasaki-war-crimes/

    1. Not hard to understand at all. All war is a crime, so once you’re enemy does it to you, retaliation in kind is perfectly justified. You will lose every time if you are not prepared to do what your enemy is prepared to do.

    4. Rizwan.
      War crimes are for losers.
      Pretty obvious that the winners of a war seldom chose to penalize themselves.
      War breaks all the rules.
      To speak of “rules of war” is as asinine as “Fighting forest fires”.
      Nice mouth noises but stunningly stupid.
      War is to be won,by any means necessary, watch when the placid citizens of The West discover they are at war and have always been at war with the Sons of the Desert Pedophile.
      Will not be pretty but it will be war.

  18. Here’s to Ontario Conservative Premier Doug Ford.

    …-

    “Samuel Adams CEO: Trump Tax Cuts Helps Us ‘Kick Ass’ of Foreign-Owned Beer” (bbart)

    …-

    “‘Buck-a-beer’ to be available in Ontario beginning Aug. 27”

    “Speaking at a brewery in Picton, Ont., the premier said the program, which was one of his promises during the spring election campaign, will not cost taxpayers anything.”

    https://globalnews.ca/news/4373758/ontario-buck-a-beer/

  23. Don’t miss Faith Goldy’s tweets — y ou will learn a lot about Toronto. Among other things, it looks like several suspiscious packages have been found around Danforth. Hmm. Our boy Trudeau shows up there tomorrow. Anyway, here is a link to Faith’s tweets. It seems the media is boycotting her.: https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/with_replies

  24. I have been reading this blog for mebbey 6 months..

    But, this is the FIRST self landing of a rocket. Yes, amongst of the trash of life, we must remember where we need to go!

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