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August 2013

MY SAY: HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET AUGUST 6 AND AUGUST 9, 1945

The war with Germany ended on May 8, 1945 but the war in the Pacific raged as the Allies bombed Japan’s cities and demanded a total surrender, threatening Japan”prompt and utter destruction.” The Japanese ignored the warning and threatened death to the allies using every means in their disposal. American airmen dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima on august 6th and “Fat Boy” on Nagazaki pn august 9, 1945.

On 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan surrendered to the Allies, signing the surrender document on 2 September, officially ending World War II.

It was to be, alas, the last time that America would fight a war determined to win with total surrender. We knew who the enemies were, we knew what their evil ideology was and we destroyed them.

Today Hiroshima is a beautiful and thriving city and Japan is an ally and a democracy.

One of the best books on the Pacific War is :

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LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay by Warren Kozak (Oct 17, 2011)

MARION DREYFUS: A REVIEW OF “DRINKING BUDDIES”

Far more amusing than the perfect name implies, the title Drinking Buddies could have been topped only by some variant of Barfly (1987). Beer-fly, maybe?    DB could be the PG version of the scorching relationship takedown film, 2004’s Closer. Buddies takes a sudsy stethoscope to the shifting heartbeats between opposite-sex best friends and unfulfilled […]

MARILYN PENN: BOGUS JASMINE

http://politicalmavens.com/ At the risk of being a critical minority of one, I have to point out that “Blue Jasmine” is a movie in which we are asked to take seriously and empathize with characters who are mostly cardboard paste-ups.  Ginger, the sister of Cate Blanchett’s Jasmine, is a divorced mother who works as a bagger […]

JACK ENGELHARD: CNN AND NBC- HILLARY CLINTON- A PRESIDENT IS BORN

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/novelists-view-world/2013/aug/6/nbc-and-cnn-star-hillary-and-president-born/

NEW YORK, August 6, 2013—Frankly my dear, NBC does give a damn, and so does CNN. Both networks, affiliates of the Democrat Party, have films in development about Hillary Rodham Clinton, and they don’t care what anybody says. Already there is noise from the Republican Party, to which the networks say, “There is a Republican Party? Where?”

Which is why (my guess) the reproachful email from the RNC ended up in the spam file until somebody at the networks pointed out that Reince Priebus was for real and so, perhaps, was the Republican National Committee, complaining that the Hillary movies were “a thinly-veiled attempt at putting the thumb on the scales of the 2016 presidential election.”

In other words, NBC’s four-hour miniseries, starring Diane Lane, and CNN’s docudrama, were sure to favor Hillary, if she planned to run.

There are no plans for any Republican to run for president. Ever. It is over and done.

Next came the threat, saying that if NBC and CNN persisted, why in that case, they would lose their chance to host the 2016 GOP Olympics, or debates, which ordinarily attract a national viewership between four and four million Americans. Both NBC and CNN responded by saying, “Oooh. We are so scared.”

MARK LANGFAN:Dempsey’s Bombshell: No US Attack on Iran, Ever

MARK LANGFAN IS THE NEW CHAIRMAN OF AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL…RSK The writer, who often writes on security issues, has created an original educational 3d Topographic Map System of Israel to facilitate clear understanding of the dangers facing Israel and its water supply. It has been studied by US lawmakers and can be seen […]

Did the Roosevelt Administration Send Uranium and Other Atomic Materials to Stalin?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/08/05/Did-the-Roosevelt-administration-send-uranium-and-other-atomic-materials-to-Stalin
This is the second in a series in five parts based on the new book, “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character” (St. Martin’s Press) by Diana West.

It’s difficult to imagine someone more important in U.S. history than Harry Hopkins, but Americans don’t learn much more than his name, if that, in school.

This means we aren’t taught that Hopkins, FDR’s top wartime advisor, ran what became known as “Roosevelt’s own personal Foreign Office” from the Lincoln Bedroom, where Hopkins lived for three-and-half-years. We aren’t taught that this former social worker in key ways controlled U.S. foreign policy by controlling the distribution of U.S. military materiel to countries at war through his supervision of the massive Lend Lease program. We aren’t taught he attended the famous wartime conferences as de facto “foreign minister.” We certainly aren’t taught that Lend Lease, perhaps even Hopkins himself, pushed uranium and other A-bomb essentials through to Stalin.

These uranium shipments, erased from our historical memory but documented by Congress in 1950, took place at a time when the atomic development program known as the Manhattan Project was, we thought, our most precious secret.

Why would Lend Lease, overseen by Hopkins — who was also, not incidentally, FDR’s liaison to atomic research — do such a thing?

The answer may relate to something else we don’t learn about Harry Hopkins: FDR’s powerful wartime advisor may have been a Soviet agent — and “the most important of all Soviet wartime agents.”

DEALING WITH TERRORISM THE OBAMA WAY: RACHEL EHRENFELD AND KEN JENSEN

Home The State Department’s extended embassy closures in the Middle East and Africa and worldwide alert to Americans traveling abroad, according to ABC News was announced because of fear of al Qaeda attacks by “living (but not ticking) bombs,” i.e. surgically implanted undetectable liquid explosives. Most likely these were developed by AQAP’s expert bomb-maker, Ibrahim […]

RUTHIE BLUM: ERDOGAN’S TRUE TOTALITARIAN COLORS…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=5271 MANY ENJOYED THE MOVIE “ARGO’ ABOUT A RESCUE OF HOSTAGES IN IRAN, MARRED BY AN AHISTORICAL EXPLANATION OF THE CRISIS IN IRAN AND FOULED BY A TRIBUTE TO JHIMMI CARTER AT THE END. FOR THE REAL STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED AND HOW THE CRISIS EVOLVED…RUTHIE BLUM’S BOOK IS A MUST READ. To Hell in […]

MORE MUSLIM KNIGHTS IN TUNISIA….THOUSANDS RALLY TO OUST GOVERNMENT: TAREK AMARA

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/06/us-tunisia-protests-idUSBRE97513220130806

“The imam of the historic Zaitouna mosque in Tunis’s old city also went onto the stage to read verses from the Koran.Opposition leaders hope the move will send a message they are anti-Ennahda, not anti-Islam.”Allahu akbar (God is great),” the crowds chanted back to the imam.”

Tens of thousands of Tunisians crowded the streets of downtown Tunis on Tuesday to demand the transitional government’s ouster, in the largest opposition protest since the country’s political crisis began two weeks ago.

The secular opposition, angered by two assassinations in its ranks and emboldened by the army-backed toppling of Egypt’s Islamist president, is trying to topple Tunisia’s Islamist-led government and dissolve the Constituent Assembly.

Egyptian Govt: McCain ‘Persona Non Grata, An Unwelcome Person’….See note please

Sending Senators McCain and Graham to Egypt is like sending plumbers to a massive electrical failure, and another sign of Obama’s ineptitude.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/08/06/Egyptian-Govt-to-McCain-He-is-persona-non-grata-an-unwelcome-person
The Egyptian Cabinet took offense to comments Senator John McCain (R – AZ) made to the Washington Post about his advice to the new government of Egypt about releasing Muslim Brotherhood prisoners. The cabinet tweeted on Tuesday:

McCain remarks from inside the Egy territory to the W.Post insults the Egy sovereignty.we consider him persona non grata.an unwelcome person
— Egyptian Cabinet (@Cabinet_eg) August 6, 2013

The Egyptian government quickly deleted the tweet.

McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham (R – S.C.) are both in Egypt in an attempt to the push U.S. policy that the current interim leadership should negotiate with supporters of the now ousted president Mohamed Morsi. According to the Washington Post: