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My father Walter “was at Pearl Harbor.” Almost everyone in Youngstown, Ohio, back in 1941 soon knew about that. He had been a football star at Struthers High before turning down more than a half-dozen scholarships to Big Ten powerhouses. Instead, he enlisted in the Navy and forwarded the better part of his pay to support his father, mother, and five younger siblings, struggling through the Depression.
By the time he retired from his twenty-year enlistment in the US Navy, he and my mother Jane had decided to move our family from his last posting at Quonset Point naval station in Rhode Island to the idyllic mountains in Vermont. To build their dream house and live life more fully as civilians.
In 1959 during a family outing to Vermont to scout for potential house sites in the southeastern corner of the state, we had lunch at what we learned later on was the iconic Quality Inn in Manchester.
On the way out to pay for the meal, I tagged along as Walter stopped at the marble-topped soda fountain counter and chatted with the middle-aged waiter at the cash register. Walter eyed the waiter, gazed at a large painting prominently displayed behind the counter and then suggested that the fellow looked like a dead-ringer for the young soda jerk in that very painting. The waiter smiled and admitted that indeed, he was that young fella’. In fact, that Mister Norman Rockwell, the painter down in Arlington, had asked him to pose from behind the counter, recreating the time he had been listening to the radio on that fateful day, December 7th, 1941.
Walter just nodded in recognition, “I was there that morning.”
Although I had come to know some bits and pieces of Walter’s service in World War II, Walter had never mentioned Pearl Harbor. I was 12 years and found myself in shock. It would be another 35 years before Walter would refer again to that Day of Infamy.
And it would be another 64 years before I managed to identify that painting as Norman Rockwell’s ‘War News’ and begin to unravel its own mysterious role in the efforts to sell war through the dual strategies of myth-making — censorship and propaganda.
Walter, like so many of his WW II comrades, had never really talked about his war experiences while I was growing up. Like so many veterans who have survived wars’ multiple forms of evil, he lived in a prison of secret torment. Only Walter’s family and painfully few close friends acknowledged privately that my dad, the man who returned from the War, was not the same person they had known growing up. From the scattering of comments over the years, I gathered that consensus had it that Walter left Struthers, Ohio in 1939 at the top of his game. Fun? Walter was the life of the party. Telling stories, center of attention, just being himself. It didn’t hurt that your dad was — whoaa — handsome! Better looking than that Paul Newman, more like a cleaner, sharper version of Marlon Brando. Athletic? Unbelievably gifted and tough. A shifty halfback on offense, a hard-hitting safety. He went both ways, back when football was the real deal. He collected scholarship offers, all Big Ten schools.
And he had money. He owned a truck for delivering coal. That was during the Depression, mine you. Without him, we don’t know how his family got by. His dad only worked now and then. Six children. Your Aunt Micky told me once that if not for Walter, she and her sisters would never have had money for even one new dress. Walter chose the Navy over college because he could send most of his pay home. Steady, one month at a time. And the Navy boasted a couple of dozen football teams that were all tougher than those college kids’ squads. Men against boys, he’d laugh.
After putting in his twenty years, Walter retired from the USN and atrophied into the anonymity of civilian life, first in Vermont and following my mother’s passing, later on in Meadville, Pennsylvania. I watched Walter’s limited, uneven interactions with ‘civilians’, he would often respond with annoyance to everyday interactions with politely preoccupied neighbors, busy sales clerks or officious town employees; he would excuse himself and quietly grouse about why his generation had made its sacrifices.
Decades later during my conversations with Walter about current events, he would clench his jaw between short outbursts. More often than not dismissing the War in Vietnam as evidence of “the stupidity and arrogance of armchair generals.” When the gruesome fireworks of sophisticated US military might illuminated the television version of Persian Gulf War, Walter shook in head in pity for the Iraqi soldiers. “That’s not a real war. It’s a fake. A turkey shoot. The poor bastards don’t stand a chance. We’re there just to get at their oil.”
By the time the cancer had started squeezing the life out of his 74-year-old body, I had only collected bits and pieces of his role in “the action.” But over the course of my last summer with him in 1997, he opened up. A minute here, 15 minutes there, a couple of days later, four sentences there. So it went for 14 weeks, one continuous stream-of-consciousness with space for him breathing it out and for me to breath in all in, between the sequence of revelations.
The first of our exchanges revealed that on the morning of that Sunday in December back in 1941, Walter was serving as a non-commissioned damage control officer on the Battleship Pennsylvania. But he was better known on-board as the star halfback of the Pennsy’s Pacific Fleet championship football team. In fact, that morning he had dressed up to attend a special event on the sister ship, the Battleship USS Arizona — as the Arizona’s football team’s solo guest of a honor. He never made it.
The Arizona was struck by a 1,700 pound bomb that triggered a massive explosion that sunk the ship and killed 1,177 sailors and marines aboard. Walter lost more than thirty shipmates during the attack. Most to one bomb that came through one of the Pennsy’s imposing stacks. Luckily, she had been berthed in dry dock so the repairs went quickly and the great battleship sailed into the Pacific theater in time for the Battle of the Coral Sea, carrying Walter and those crew members who realized that that the entire Seventh Fleet and the garrisoned army air force at Pearl had been offered up to history as sacrificial lambs. They had been betrayed.
Dad, tell me more. “Pearl? That Sunday morning, I got up early, oh-five hundred hours, not that early back then, showered, shaved and put on my dress whites. The Arizona football team had invited me to their end-of-the-year banquet. Most respected opponent award type-thing since we beat them for the championship and I scored the two touchdowns. But halfway down the gangplank to the launch that would ferry me over there, I got this funny feeling. I thought it was because I felt that sitting down with the Arizona’s team might be disrespectful of my teammates. After all, our Pennsy team won because we were a team. So I had the launch signal the bridge to congratulate the Arizona team and let them know I wouldn’t be coming on board. I walked back to my berth, put on my khakis and grabbed some chow. Some of us were topside when the first planes flew over. As soon as we saw the markings, we looked at each other and said, “hell, we’ve been set up!”
“How did we know — it was no surprise attack. Listen, we were the real Navy, the old-time Navy, we were professional sailors. We knew the Japs had aircraft carriers, big battleships, heavy cruisers. And submarines. If you knew your stuff, you knew they were very capable sailors. They had been sailing the Pacific for hundreds of years. We respected their fleet. They had copied ours. That and we knew they were coming.”
“Just a few weeks before Pearl got hit, the Pennsy led a battle group out into the North Pacific. We were at General Quarters nearly the whole time. Know what that means? Four-hours-on, four-hours-off. Full battle gear, at your station, no matter how cramped. Then grab a few winks. A cook might bring you some hot coffee and sandwiches every so often. It wears you down.
But we all kept our eyes glued to the horizon or looking up for a signal from the lookouts up top. Looking for strange masts or their planes, looking for us. Pretty tense. We figured they would be on the lookout for us and they would have the firepower. Geez, huge sigh of relief every time a plane we spotted turned out to be one of ours returning. We had planes out there all the time, beyond the horizon. You couldn’t tell us we weren’t already at war.”
“Then we get orders to return to Pearl. Not from the Captain, not from the Admiral — it’s his flagship remember. But from Washington. Washington! When we get back to Pearl, our crew was stunned to find our nine sister battleships lined up at anchor in that narrow harbor. Just like some decoy ducks!”
They had emptied the ships. ‘Weekend pass? Take as many as you want. Two week pass? Yup. Wanna’ 30-day leave, wanna’ go Stateside? Sure. Your mom is ill? How about an extended emergency leave?’ You name it.”
“They put the Pennsy in drydock. They kept the other nine battleships up in that sliver of a harbor. No torpedo nets. Skeleton crews. You don’t just sail outa’ there like that. It takes time to build steam, you have to take on a harbor pilot before you make for open water. That would take as much as 36, 48 hours. Even then no destroyers left to run interference for us, to keep the subs away. The carriers were long gone, so forget air cover. But once we’re well out at sea, at least we’d have a fighting chance.”
“See, we were set up. They lined us up like sitting ducks. When a fleet’s in a war, it’s gotta’ be at sea! It can’t be sitting at anchor!”
“The hardest part for me, for anybody onboard, was that when we got Stateside, you couldn’t tell anyone what had really happened. I tried. But it was always ‘the dammed Japs this, sneaky Japs that. Pearl Harbor — the surprise attack. You couldn’t say a thing. It was unthinkable. What our guys died for.”
“The truth? They just covered it up.”
In retrospect, I thanked the gods that I had been preparing for that last summer with Walter. As a history buff I had trolled the literature for years to help get my mind around the Great Wars and the controversial aspects of America’s subsequent military and economic aggression, especially my generation’s war in Vietnam War. Along the way I found Admiral Theobald’s The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor and John Toland’s Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath. Enough information for me to see that the full story around the Pearl Harbor had not been reported, that the truth had been suppressed through a series of three carefully compromised hearings. In short, by the time Walter told his story, I was open, if not hungry to hear about his war experiences.
Among the many ironies that haunted my father’s life, Walter passed away before a comrade’s reasoned voice corroborated my father’s personal story, validated his theory about ‘Washington’s conspiracy’ to start the war, and echoed his pain at the betrayal. Robert Stinnett’s Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, a superbly researched book was published in 2000. Stinnett, a WWII Pacific Theater veteran, conducted an exhaustive, 17-year study of the pre-Pearl intelligence gathering networks — dozens of interviews with radio operators and reviews of over 200,000 original source materials and recently released FOIA records.
Stinnett proved unequivocally that Walter’s intuitions were straight on. President Roosevelt, with the support of a small group of confidants, including key military personnel, developed an eight-step strategy to provoke Japan into striking first in order to dislodge the American public’s well documented reluctance to engage in another war overseas. Despite the myth of Japanese “radio silence,” US cryptographers listened to and deciphered hundreds of the enemy’s military and diplomatic transmissions. US intelligence tracked the Japanese Task Force across the north Pacific from the time it set sail from Hitokappu Bay on November 26th to its strike position just west of the Classical Composer Seamounts on December 5th. FDR and his inner circle withheld this information from Admiral Kimmel and General Short, the officers in charge of Pearl Harbor.
The deception worked to perfection. The US forces “got caught with their pants down.” Dramatic still photographs and filmed images filled newsprint and theater screens, and the American majority’s isolationism flipped to seamless patriotic outrage overnight. On December 8th Congress declared war on Japan (only one dissenting vote) and three days later Germany and Italy honored their commitment to defend their allies.
Nor did FDR and his inner circle limit their action to nuanced suppression of information. On numerous occasions Washington went as far as to directly intervene and compromise the ability of US Pacific forces to confront the enemy. Washington did, in fact, order Kimmel to break off from Exercise 191 on November 24th — the tense search that Walter had endured at General Quarters and that had positioned his battle group over the exact same Seamounts from which the Japanese launched their planes two weeks later.
Walter, like so many of his WW II comrades, never really talked about his war experiences. Like so many comrades in arms who have survived wars’ multiple forms of evil, he lived in a prison of secret torment. What no one knew was that for 55 years my father would also wrestle with the terrible knowledge that the attack on Pearl Harbor was not a surprise.
There’re more chapters to Walter’s stories of war, but at least I’ve respected his account as a participant, a witness to the events on that Day of Infamy.
It took 59 years before Stinnett cracked the Pearl Harbor myth of an unprovoked ‘surprise attack’ and revealed FDR’s orchestration of initial deceptions and subsequent cover-ups — a litany of shredded documents, kangaroo court hearings, intimidated witnesses and the standard suppression of secrets under the “national security” seal. A process that continues to this day to reinforce that myth, despite the wealth of yet more corroborating information. Evidence that investigative reporters have presented in numerous publications, in print and online, but those efforts have been ignored by mainstream media.
The history of these cover-ups attests to the ability of the Federal government and mainstream media to dismiss objective research and investigations that undermine manufactured myths — as the stuff of crazies and their conspiracy theories,
Not that Stinnett’s impeccable research and subsequent investigations have tarnished, let alone destroyed the Pearl Harbor myth. But what if we Americans had come to grips with FDR’s decision to provoke Japan into an overt act of aggression? How would we, as legitimately informed citizens, have regarded subsequent investigative reporting and so-called conspiracy theories in general?
Would the American public have bought the subsequent mythic distortions that justified:
- Vietnam War (the fraudulent Gulf of Tonkin incident).
- the first Persian Gulf War (invasion of a sovereign state).
- the ensuing UN sanctions against Iraq (WMD’s).
- the fast-tracked response to the attacks on 9/11, the declaration of the unending Global War on Terror that spun out lethal, mind-boggling aggressions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
- the multi-trillion dollar ‘investment’ of US taxpayers monies in delivering terror across swaths of the globe in the name of America’s sovereign right to national defense.
That said, as I write this piece in September, 2023, I have continued to follow additional, definitive evidence revealing President Roosevelt’s strategies to ensure Japan’s first strike, to orchestrate the US involvement in WW II and to replace British as the world’s number one imperial power.
In 2023, we American civilians find ourselves captive to a planned permanent war economy based on perpetual warfare.
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No matter how devastating to the individual WW1 and WW2 was, it was also the making of America.
These wars wiped-out European economic advantages and industry, American technology boomed as well-kept industrial methods of the British empire were shared with the U.S so as to supply the British with needed equipment, particularly in aviation.
Well its happening again, the Ukraine war is as much about destroying German industrial advantages as it is to control Russia through an American fleet based in Crimea (that is why Zalenski is focused there.)
In WW2 the aging general Petain only had good intentions in trying to mitigate the excesses of the Nazis, I don’t think Macron or Sholtz ever serve their nations…but are managers for another power.
Pearl Harbor, just another act of criminal govt deception which continues, as is listed in the article, to the present day.
What would it take to stop this criminality? Probably, as a start a responsible press; also necessary would be “somewhat” honest and responsible politicians.
The likelihood of any of these two requirements occurring is zero. Anyone who suggests otherwise should be met with hilarity and disbelief.
Was “mine you” a typo or did the author mean “mind you”? Works either way in context, really.
To which we can add the scourge of bankruptcy, open Third World invaders pouring into the nation, and a visibly collapsing standard of living.
The Great War ended, leading to the smaller but longer and more expensive wars that followed. And on their heels are a sense of resignation that erodes citizenship, which was being eroded anyway by the fact that new, illegal arrivals are considered more valuable than those already here.
Yes, agreed. FDR’s accomplishment was a classic victory for chaos, anarchy, and the death of the USA.
FDR’s campaign to provoke Japan into a first strike as casus belli was writ large for everyone with a brain in 1940-41. There was a lot of speculation exactly when that war would be begin, projected between Nov ’41 and May ’42.
Alaska’s Joe Vogler, a cantankerous old (former?) lawyer and founder of the Alaska Independence Party, constantly fumed about the Feral government in the 70s-80s-(RIP)1993, where he constantly confronted them. His anti-Feds origin story started with total disgust over FDR’s WWII provocations and the set up at Pearl Harbor.
Stinnett’ book needs careful defense on some points, most of all the Japanese fleet breaking radio silence allegations.
Although I despise FDR, I do think we (the US) were on a collision course with a racist, hyper expansionist Japan. (I’m speaking from older asians views too)
In FDR’s “defense”, I think he had in mind several ideas that didn’t work out.
First, our subs were a key in the plan to prevent western collapse in the Pacific and paralyzing Japan’s initial advance. Except we had subs with dud torpedos for the first 18 months of the war.
Think how different the Pacific War would have been if the US Asiatic fleet subs had started with a turkey shoot around the Philippines, Indochina and Indies. This complacency is part of why McArthur and staff didn’t immediately react with B10s-B17s-B18s over Formosa (in addition to Phils trying to stay out of it).
Second, FDR under estimated the risks and fuck up factors.
We were lucky that the Japanese strategic opening attack wasn’t 8 carriers with 3 waves flattening everything important in Hawaii, along with coordinated attacks to sink ships in inconvenient places on the West Coast, down to Panama.
In September 1941, that is before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt ordered the US navy to attack German submarines on sight. So American sailors were involved in a shooting war even before the Japanese attack. This came after the pathological liar FDR won the 1940 election on a platform of “neutrality” and “non intervention”.
https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7486
Judea declared war on Germany in 1933. Roosevelt and the Jew William “Christian” Bullitt set up Poland for destruction in 1939. ((Bullitt)) had been at Versailles as and had already been to the USSR with Lincoln Steffens in 1919. ((Bullitt)) and ((Roosevelt)) were communist crypto-Jews. Japan, like Germany, was fighting against Judeo-Bolshevic Communists.
Pearl Harbor became necessary when Roosevelt failed to bait Germany to enter into a war with the US, despite all the covert acts of war committed by the US against Germany after 1939. The path to Pearl Harbor went through Danzig.
Walter should have been about to figure out what was going on already in September 1939, but like the rest of the US, he was in a Judeo-Masonic mind control trance.
I hope that viewers of your “No Surprise” video click through to part 2, which is equally revealing. Thank you, as ever, for your labors on behalf of truth in this age where the Satanic lie reigns supreme.
I quite agree with you that Day of Deceit is a very important book, but people also ought to be aware that exposés of FDR’s murderous treason date from as early as 1944, with John T. Flynn’s privately published study The Truth about Pearl Harbor. A follow-up study, The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor, came out in 1945. Both studies had to be privately published because no commercial publisher, even the non-Jewish ones, dared to openly offend FDR.
My hat is off to Mr. Foley for this well written and deeply touching essay.
The vile us empire is expansionist and imperialistic. It has to be. That’s it’s only reason for being. Hence, endless war mongering.
With regard to Japan’s “unprovoked attack”, there’s also the fact that the US government was heavily involved in building, arming, and training the Chinese air force in preparation for a potential bombing campaign against Japan. This kind of backwards dealing was the icing on the Pearl Harbor cake.
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/19/1062091832/flying-tigers-americans-china-world-war-ii-history-japan
It is nice to see illuminating articles about the treachery of governments in general and the USG specifically, which most people of common sense can guess intuitively. The sad fact is that, for the overwhelming majority of the American public, those wake up calls will go unheeded just like what we experienced after the tragic 9/11.
FDR is not a symptom but rather the disease that permeates the whole crooked system.
It’s not often remarked on that FDR was about 22 in 1904 when Japan started the Russo-Japanese War by launching a surprise “sneak” attack on the Russian fleet before declaring war.
Or that FDR was a fanatically enthusiastic student of naval warfare, who boasted that as a young man he had a collection of over 10,000 books on the subject.
What, do you think, are the odds that he failed to notice the Japanese tactic of launching a surprise attack on the enemy fleet in harbour before declaring war formally? What are the odds that he had completely forgotten that by 1941?
To my mind the really big problem – the elephant (or perhaps in this context the whale) in the room – is the willingness of American and other civilians passively to accept the official story, false and improbable as it always has been. Just as with the Kennedy assassinations, 9/11, “global warming”, Iraq, Libya, Syria, “Novichok”, Ukraine, the Uighurs, “Covid”, etc. ad nauseam.
Such cover stories don’t have to be watertight or even probable – they just have to be plausible enough to allow John Q. Citizen to read about it in the paper, hear about it on TV, and think, “Well I guess it must be so”.
From what it seems, all the history books should be changed and a good part of Hollywood’s work should be thrown away.
“… I do think we (the US) were on a collision course with a racist, hyper expansionist Japan”.
True; but of course the USA was every bit as racist and hyper-expansionist. It wasn’t Japan that passed the “Chinese Exclusion Act” forbidding all Chinese people to enter the country. As for “hyper-expansionist”, what were Americans doing on the other side of over 6,000 miles of ocean? Or, for that matter, even in Hawaii? If the Americans had stayed at home, there could have been no clash.
Both in terms of racism and hyper-expansionist imperialism, all the Japanese were doing was copying the example of the USA. Especially after Theodore Roosevelt told the world that he considered the Japanese “honorary Aryans”, they faithfully imitated the Americans and Europeans right up to the point where their vital interests clashed. And at that point they had the door slammed in their face, culminating in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Suckers – they believed what Uncle Sam said. Just like all the other suckers, all the way from the Native Americans to Mr Gorbachev and Saddam Hussein.
The one dissenting vote was Jeannette Rankin of Montana. On the anniversary of PH, she addressed Congress with her concerns about the lead up to the attack.
“Mr. Speaker, we have been at war a year. As a Member of Congress who voted against the declaration of war on December 8, 1941, I wish to raise a few questions of my own as to the meaning of certain activities which led up to that attack…”
Here is a 17-minute video on her address: http://www.kla.tv/24318
A very interesting review and personal insight of the author. I will get to read the book. Myths are very powerful. They conceal the more mundane but dangerous truth. That is, the reason nations fight wars – for interests (power). But the myth creates a deeper danger, it creates the illusion of invincibility: that ultimately victory is assured. The pattern of history begs to differ. The history of imperial conflicts comes down to a simple syllogism: everyone eventually faces the war they are trying to avoid; today, everyone wants to avoid WW III; therefore, that is the fate that awaits us. Paradoxically, the only chance of avoiding it is to accept it.
https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/
Government deception worked for Lincoln at Fort Sumter.
This is indeed a fine article and I suggest we need more of this quality on this site. Thanks.
A question:
“FDR and his inner circle withheld this information from Admiral Kimmel and General Short, the officers in charge of Pearl Harbor.”
So if the father of the story, the non commissioned officer, and others, knew that crowding the ships together in port was the height of stupidity in terms of naval strategy, what did the Admiral and General think of it? Why would they do this? Any record of their justification for their actions?
There are several superimposed layers of deceit here, and it is important – for both historical and political reasons – to maintain a clear distinction between these.
That FDR did deliberately provoke a Japanese attack in order to bring the US into WW2, it is a well-established fact that cannot be doubted anymore. Indeed, even FDR apologists now maintain that, well, yes, he tricked the US people, but this was necessary to overcome the overwhelming public opposition to war and “save democracy,” or other similar BS.
It is also quite possible that there was some foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor being the likely target for a surprise attack, but personally I’m rather reluctant to accept Stinnett’s perception of defences there being deliberately downgraded. FDR had no real reason for wishing the Japanese attack to be so destructive and successful. Irrespective of the outcome of the attack, the Japanese ambassador would anyway have called at the State Department that morning to present the war declaration, and that was all FDR needed. And more: if there indeed was accurate knowledge of the enemy mouvements, it would have been exceedingly convenient to ambush and intercept the Japanese carrier force during its retreat. This would have effectively prevented the initial Japanese expansion, thus starving Japan of oil and other key raw materials. The war in the Pacific would have fizzled down nearly immediately, and FDR would have been free to concentrate the US’ power against Germany, which was his (and Morgenthau’s) main objective.
To try and logically explain while FDR might have wanted for the Japanese attack to succeed (as per Stinnett) and thus the US Navy to remain effectively paralized for several months, one needs to add another possible layer of deceit.
The main objective to be pursued by the US in a conflict in the Pacific was not directed against Japan, but rather at the destruction of the European colonial empires (Dutch, French, British). These could not be attacked directly for a variety of political reasons, and it was thus very convenient to let Japan do so for an initial period – it being quite obvious that any future postwar arrangement would have signalled for Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Indocina etc. to quickly acquire independence. Thus, if (which is a big IF) FDR actually wished for the battleships at Pearl to be sunk or incapacitated, this was in order to grant Japan the required leeway for a quick initial occupation of these regions – at the European, not US’, costs.
Perhaps too convolute a conspiracy theory, but well in line with FDR’ character and behaviour.
Thank you for the link. I have just now downloaded your book read some. Thank you.
An interesting piece. Stinnett’s book is well worth reading, though falls short on espionage by members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association in both Hawaii and California, a few other points.
Three points.
The U.S.N. had hidden its aircraft carriers in the western Pacific Ocean gyre (now garbage gyre) at the time. Thus none at Pearl Harbour at the time of the attack.
Admiral Nagumo was an arrogant fool who was in such a hurry to get back to victory parades and parties in Tokyo that he ignored his orders to repeat attacks and destroy as much port infrastructure as possible.
Scapegoating of U.S. Admiral Kimmel and General Short was very ugly, since both had been deliberately deprived of information.
A very moving and powerful piece, kudos to the author. And a demonstration of the enduring power of well-written oral history to shine a light in dark places.
In 2019 I was engaged in a similar project on Facebook, searching for and sharing as many stories I could find about contemporary US veteran suicides and the stories behind them (yeah, real life of the party stuff lol). One of the posts randomly went semi-viral because my veteran uncle shared it with his huge Mormon friends list, and got almost 600 likes when the most I had ever gotten before was like 80. In the following two weeks I was repeatedly blocked from sharing any more links from Veterans Today (now vtforeignpolicy.com, an “anti-Semitic and conspiracy theory website” per wikipedia lol). Seeing such blatant Big Tech censorship with my own eyes was enough for me to quit Facebook right afterwards, in November 2019.
Two months earlier, my well-used and carefully crafted commenter account on the New York Times page under the Thor Walhovd handle was also shut down for anti-war posts. It’s ironic considering how the script has flipped more recently, and I will never know for sure, but I believe my account was closed because of a brief and jokey post mocking the dystopic techno-futurist cultism and subsidy dumpster recipient status of Elon Musk. And much to my personal and spiritual benefit, I have not read a single NYT story since Friday November 8th, 2020.
The MICIMATT will not stop their Satanic lies, wars of aggression and nonstop propaganda until they are forced to by a superior military, economic, diplomatic, cultural and spiritual force. Which is why I pray to God every day for the success of Operation Z in The Ukraine, and why Russia holds the world in her hand right now. ☮️
Since Napoleon all wars have been downstream directives through various governments/leaders and/or statesmen either sourced or leveraged by the international banking money changers to end up profiting them at the expense of countries and their peoples.
…..all of which was created by small hat usury and their goal of Zionist rule of the world as promised by their desert tribal war God and prophesized through their Old Testament myths.
and all while this all history operates behind our backs.
…. giving him the war he wanted and making him a legend.
racist:
Yes, the actual island fighting became a racial grudge match but…
consider both occupiers record in Philippines *after* established government e.g 1905+ vs 1943+; or, 1941 vs 1945
Consider trying to do several things in Japan vs America, either in 1940, or 2018:
Anglo marrying a Japanese. (difficult in USA with exceptional states, 1940 vs tragic in Japan)
Being the offspring in either country.
Anglo expecting to immigrate to Japan and become a citizen, vs Japanese doing so in USA.
1940 an actual trickle in USA vs laughter and bloodsports?
physical, colonizing hyper-expansionist:
USA: 1790 – 1900; 1945-1960s? in decline since 60s
Japan: 1890s – 1945
currency and banking expansion, its complex with lots of juice…
pressure by births
Japan: 1800s – 1945
USA: 1800s?? more like expanding into a vacuum, and immigrant births.
“No matter how devastating to the individual WW1 and WW2 was, it was also the making of America.”
But it was also the breaking of the “Pioneers’ Spirit” of America. All wars confined to the contiguous United States strengthened the historic nation, whereas all extraneous wars have weakened the original goal of living as a free people. Now we’re merely vassal of the corporate world.
Not germane but not inappropriate to the discussion is that HERE COMES THE NAVY(1934), a film with James Cagney was filmed on the USS Arizona. It’s not a documentary of the ship or anything. I think some of the extras served on the ship but were long gone by Dec. 7, ’41.
It’s probably a B-movie but Cagney gives his typical fine performance, playing sailor and boxer with a chip on his shoulder.
Years of Deceit.
What about the Maine battleship, the Lusitania, Vietnam, 9/11, Iraq, COVID, Ukraine, and many other lies that could take several pages to enumerate?
A keeper and rare speech…
From Congressional Record J Rankin asks questions…she knew it was a rigged deal.
text> https://speakingwhilefemale.co/war-rankin/
excerpt> 1941 – under absolute war orders. Vice Admiral Wm. F. Halsey, Jr., the commander of the aircraft battle force, had given instructions that the secrecy of our mission was to be protected at all costs, we were to shoot down anything we saw in the sky and to bomb anything we saw on the sea. In that way, there could be no leak to the Japs.
Could such orders have been issued by Vice Admiral Halsey except by specific direction from the Commander in Chief, namely, the President of the United States?
In other words, if Lieutenant Dickinson’s account is true, did not the President at least 9 days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, without a declaration of war, authorize an identical attack upon the Japanese — also without a declaration of war? ende
Do read and consider the speech.
FDR and Wilson, the two worst things to ever happen to America.
OPERATION SNOW is an excellent account of how HARRY DEXTER WHITE a Jewish and Communist spy and cabinet member of Roosevelt precipitated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
White’s intent was to distract Japan from attacking Russia.
The FBI finally caught up with White but too late.
Obviously Henry Morgenthau was another subversive in the Roosevelt government who wanted to ethnic cleanse Germans after WWII. Roosevelt was in condition similar to Biden today and agreed to it. Fortunately the State Department still had a few Christians prevented it from happening although it is estimated millions of Germans disappeared and perished into gulags run by Jewish Bolsheviks.
John Tolland was first. He Published “Infamy” in 1982. It was damning to the idiots that were in office in 1941.
“In September 1941, that is before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt ordered the US navy to attack German submarines on sight.”
…which led to the sinking of the USS Reuben James off the coast of Iceland. Torpedoed by U-552 – Kptlnt Erich Topp commanding – the bow was blown off & all compartments vented to the sea. The destroyer dove like a submarine & many who were able to jump into the frigid waters were killed when the destroyer’s depth charges – already pre-set – started cooking off when the pre-set depth was reached.
Look it up.
FDR was but one of the many pathogens in the system.
Like so many, you are clueless about Putin’s war.
Sorry – meant to add sinking took place October 31, 1941.
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A critical examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and its aftermath, edited by Harry Elmer Barnes. A selection of published articles by Barnes, Tansill, Greaves, Jr, Sanborn, Morgenstern, Chamberlin, Neumann and Lundberg. 1953.
Available from IHR (Institute for Historical Review).
Arigatou thank-you for bringing the truth to light. Anticommunist Japan was a US military ally 1854-1933 when FDR-D broke the Treaty of Kanagawa via covert warfare in East Asia in support of Mao and Stalin. Eisenhower-R rearmed us in 1953 to stop communism. We’re still US military allies today.
We really could use two words rather than one to represent these two concepts of “History”.
1) (History1) … “as generally believed be the past and felt as real by a large group of people”. It is necessarily always a very selective cartoon, and so false on many levels and angles.
2) (History2) … “as the past revealed to be the most factual account known from all levels and angles”. It too is selective as it seeks to tweak or rewrite History1.
Let’s talk about Vengeance.
Prior to 9/11 and a year after, we had 26 year old Chines female exchange student renting one of our units near the ASU campus. She was a physics major going for her Phd. She had already had an engineering degree from China. As I got to know her, her understanding of American History1 was thorough. But our American history1 was without any help or concern or feelings FOR CHINA, the thing she loved and cared for most.
Meanwhile her Chinese History1 has America being very cruel and evil and vile. There was no Chinese History2 that she knew of. If there was, it’s minor status alone would tell this ambitious woman to “not waist time” on it. Its existence or non-existence is irrelevant. But what was relevant was the feelings she had gained from History1 in both countries.
Come 9/11… No shock, no empathy, no sympathy…. just calm and perhaps well hidden glee.
One thing that I did learn from her was a thing I call “Vengeance Inheritance”… it can and does get passed down for the generations TO USE “when the time is right”.
For our society, with few exceptions, our Vengeance ends when the person or persons who suffered injustice dies… That is, our Vengeance is generally short term.
But not for her or Chinese apparently. Others know much more than I about chinese people, its History and language and culture. But I can say from her “generational Vengeance” point of view, this is the whole point to History1; to be past down for future use AS NEEDED.
Now we are experiencing today this generational Vengeance today in several areas. We have the chosen J-tribe, masters at nursing and nurturing their own mythological History1 to advance themselves in a multitude of areas.
And we have the chosen J-tribe EXTENDING that notion of generational Vengeance to not only black descendants, but to “people of color and other minorities”. They have gone so far as to stitch together whole cloth from American History1 another History1; 1619.
So again, perhaps we need to learn about the History1 that is being taught in other countries. That to me, would make an historian, an HISTORIAN. That his, he or she should be well versed in History1 in more than one culture.
I think we should call or rename History2 as something else entirely. Why? One to avoid confusion and two to ADD GRAVITAS to this body of knowledge. For the same reason we do have Astrology vs Astronomy….
I’m open to new name suggestions.
FDR, much like Lincoln, should actually be regarded as the American traitors that they were.
Like so many, you are Clueless about the Zionist One World Order War on Russia, and the European and American people. It’s amazing that you have been here sooo long but still don’t – get it. Go read Giraldi’s article – that may help.
But that belies the larger point-
The US wasn’t meant to be an imperial power, fighting in multiple European and foreign wars.
We “lost ourselves” in those endeavors, and we have never been the same since. And not just that, but we now find ourselves on the cusp of the Third, and potentially, final chapter of WWI & WWII.
We also used those wars as premise to erode and destroy all that we stood for, as well as feeding the Central Bankers, huge sums of money, that we effectively paid with the blood of our young men.
Then, the constant state of war that followed, eroded every fundamental freedom that this country was founded on!
We should have stayed out of WWI & WWII, and every war since. We’ll never know what our country could have been otherwise. We’ll never know what “could have been”, and ever since, the forces of evil that are consuming this country have advanced unabated.
You say that “it was the making of America”, but I contend that it was the exact opposite, because nobody can deny that on the heels of those two world wars, we have basically lost everything.
Hell, look at China. They were serious isolationists for all of the time that we were aggressive interventionalists, and who is about to be the largest, most dominant economy in the world? (if they aren’t already based on PPP)
And they didn’t have to sacrifice generations of young men to fight in foreign wars. They made a lot of other mistakes, but assuming that we didn’t involve ourselves in affairs that were none of our business, and DIDN’T make the same mistakes that the Chinese did; Where would we be?
We’ll never know.
And all the time that China was pulling millions of their citizens out of poverty, we’ve been sinking millions here into it.
Just consider this- Where would Germany be if they hadn’t gotten sucked into two world wars? versus, where are they now?
Same for the stupid British! Imagine if they just avoided both world wars?
Just because we sorta came out victorious, doesn’t mean that we wouldn’t be infinitely better off, if we had never been involved at all…
And who knows, maybe Europe wouldn’t be on the cusp of another war, if we had just left them alone for the first one or two?
We
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Exactly.
The American public has been conditioned, for decades, to think it is morally wrong and ignorant to oppose the ruling class leftist anti-Christian agenda. American TV, radio and and now internet sources relentlessly promote this message.
Correct. The main Anglo-American goal for 1942 was the destruction of the French empire, which included attacking French ships and colonies.
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I’ve interviewed one of my uncles, who walked across Germany and was present at German “concentration camps.” Let’s just say his narratives are different than what we hear from the Jewish owned media.
I’m inclined to believe his first person accounting. He is very reluctant to talk. Many of the greatest generation have/had deep seated guilt about what they did to the Germans. You know at a deep level, you are visiting horror, when you are firebombing cities, and strafing civilians with your P-51 mustang.
Other great generation Americans have had their guilt “assuaged” by an Eisenhower provided sop. German “death camps” came with pictures of emaciated bodies, and these pictures were used to guilt shift. Never mind that Eisenhower engaged in a circular argument. We killed the Jews and Germans, and then killed the Germans some more in bombing campaigns. Lets erase Eisenhower death camps from history. The Germans are guilty, not us -because of the German death camps (which really were labor camps at that time in history). The Germans started the war, just like Russia started the war in Ukraine. Never mind the pre-conditions.
In other words, Eisenhower helped along the Holocaust mythology as a guilt sop. Guilt sops are transference to another object.
White people are evolutionarily adapted to being manipulated by guilt – a flaw in the race.
(Not a flaw when the race is led by a moral and upright leader.)
If you boil Roosevelt down, he was attempting to install the U.S. finance oligarchy over that of London. Wall Street was to supersede London, and world creditor finance would then shift to America.
Hitler was in the way of both London and Wall Street, as NSDAP Germany had became sovereign, and worked for its people, not hidden financiers and creditors.
Stalin had not yet consolidated his power and could not take on the powerful Jewish triumvirate system. Additionally, the Soviet Union still needed sayanim Jews in America, to continue to transfer technology and money to the Soviets. The Soviet Union was seen as the “international” paradise that American Jews loved. American Jews would broker no criticism of the Soviet Union. Besides, Stalin was on the hook for the California Crimea project, which would deliver Crimea to Jews for a second Zion (in addition to Palestine).
https://nationalvanguard.org/category/revilo-p-oliver/
https://nationalvanguard.org/2022/12/the-final-secret-of-pearl-harbor-3/
Oliver had a front row seat to see FDR’s deception. FDR was in alignment with world Jewry and finance. See above links.
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The plan for the sneaking attack on Japan sketched in January 1940 was fully elaborated in the secret “Joint Army-Navy Board Paper 355, Serial 691,” dated 23 June 1941, which described in detail the scheme that Roosevelt obviously had authorized no later than 15 April 1941, eight months before Pearl Harbor,
The Jewish guilt offering is to assuage guilt. If anything Jews suffer from more guilt and psychoses than white people.
The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against the sides of the altar.
— Leviticus 7:2, NIV
In order to get new Zion, the new Jewish homeland, a 6 million Jew sacrifice/burnt offering had to be made.
Burning Jews in ovens is in alignment with burnt offering guilt transference mythology. The Jews are not guilty, but instead victims.
The Germans were also made into a guilt transference sacrifice for many reasons. Germans are now perpetually guilty. The guilt transference is being enlarged in modern times, to now include all white people.
Got to attach guilt and debts, and then have sacrificial lambs. If things go wrong, why then just shift blame and guilt, and create new narratives.
Be on guard against others who want to attach debts and guilt to you. Don’t accept it. If you are a white person, you are evolutionarily adapted to being maneuvered with guilt.
Modern Christianity offers no solution, as it moralizes creditor claims against debtors; and debtors are perpetually guilty and must always pay. Never mind if the debt is sordid gain taking, you are still guilty and must pay.
Sin=Debt=Guilt.
The terrorists all receive US paychecks.
7/4, the actual day of deceit; “independence” from the bloodsucker overclass never happened for taxcattle, a management overhaul did.
One of Amazon’s detailed 1-star reviews covers the “research” part of Stinnett’s book.
Well written, well researched crap
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1P91ZCTD2YBCK/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0743201299
The book has a Wiki of its very own, and it doesn’t fare well there either.
The Archive.org site has multiple copies of the book which can be read online. Make sure you read it there or check it out at the public library before even thinking about buying it. I made the mistake of spending good money for my copy when I bought it years ago. Pitching it into a hot bed of coals was very satisfying – it was that bad! https://archive.org/search?query=day+of+deceit
Also at the Archive site is a GOOD book about the Pearl Harbor fiasco:
Pearl Harbor Warning and Decision
by Roberta Wohlstetter
https://archive.org/details/pearlharbowarnin0000robe/page/n5/mode/2up
The US Government was a disorganized mess 85 years ago, and the infighting among the top ranks of the Navy was ferocious.
Here is that story in a short video:
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Beginning no later than the mid-nineteenth century and all through the twentieth into today – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2022/12/satans-wars-christians-killing.html?m=0 – ‘you and him go fight’ – for the most part WW1 and 2 was about Christians killing Christians. The additional millions in Asia, Africa and the rest of the world are just collateral damage for DaSynagogue of Satan’s war profit machine…….which will continue until IF or WHEN we finally get it!
Admirals and Generals like to see things all nice and neat. Just part of the military mindset. It works most of the time.
Seeing ships tied up helter-skelter, all over the harbor, or planes, parked all over the base, instead of being nicely lined up wing tip to wing tip, just offends their sense of order.
Probably wouldn’t have been any different at Pearl Harbor no matter what Admiral had been in charge.
The bombers were to be manned by “volunteer Americans who were to be paid” by the US government. “They were mercenaries”…
This is precisely what is planned for the F16 fighters by the Jews running US Foreign policy (aka “Neocons”).
It is hard to believe that boobus-americanus is that stoopid. Yet clearly he is.
F16’s for Ukraine are a Flying Tiger repeat. The ((war party)) in the US is repeating the same strategy almost note for note.
” is the willingness of American and other civilians passively to accept the official story, false and improbable as it always has been. Just as with the Kennedy assassinations, 9/11, “global warming”, Iraq, Libya, Syria, “Novichok”, Ukraine, the Uighurs, “Covid”, etc. ad nauseam.”
You forgot probably the biggest and most influential false story of the last 100 years.
This is a great book to understand those events before and after WW2 in East Asia
How the Far East Was Lost: American Policy and the Creation of Communist China, 1941-1949 by Anthony Kubek
There are hundreds of footnotes, sources and the author had access to the private papers of General Patrick J. Hurley, former American Ambassador to Nationalist China. At the Hoover War Memorial Library in Stanford University the author was able to examine in detail the private diaries and correspondence of General Joseph Stilwell and learn the exact role played by “Vinegar Joe” in the China tragedy. Also, transcripts from the Harry Dexter White Papers at Princeton University library and many other sources.
In 1920, the Communist movement in Asia was organized after Lenin sent his secretary, Marin, to establish secretly a Chinese Communist Party as a branch of the Communist International. In 1922, the Soviet government sent the Jew Adolf Joffe to China on the delicate mission of establishing official diplomatic relations with the internationally recognized Chinese government in Peking, while at the same time arranging for Soviet support of the revolutionary movement of Kuomintang, which aimed at overthrowing the Peking government. Joffe did not meet with success in Peking but met with Sun Yat-sen at Shanghai in January 1923, he was able to arrange an entente between Soviet Russia and the Kuomintang. Joffe returned to Soviet Russia and was succeeded by Leo Karakhan, the foremost Soviet expert in Oriental diplomacy. In 1924 he obtained official recognition of the Soviet Union from the Peking government.
In Oct. 1927, a major speech before the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, George Bronson Rea outlined the picture of Bolshevism spreading over China. Friction developed between Russia and China over the administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The two parties had agreed in the Sino-Soviet agreement in 1924 that it would be a joint administration of the railway as a commercial enterprise. There was also an agreement forbidding the dissemination of propaganda inimical to the political and social institutions of either country. On April 6, 1927 the troops of Chang Tso-lin raided the Soviet Embassy in Peking and discovered documents that abundantly proved the Soviets were spreading propaganda and planning to establish Communism in China.
The Japanese Empire saw this situation very clearly, they were facing a red Communist wall on the Asian mainland and Japan to protect her own security, began to take measures to check the flow of the Red tide. The Japanese statesmen understood the Communist threat in the Far East far better than any other nation could have. It was clear to the Japanese that unless bastions of defense were built in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, Communism would spread all of North China and seriously threaten the security of Japan & the Korean peninsula.
The United States had its danger zone in the Caribbean, and since the era of Thomas Jefferson, every effort had been made to strengthen the American position and keep foreign nations from establishing naval and military bases that would threaten American security. So Japan regarded Manchuria. But this fact was not recognized by the American Government after the close of WWI. Why?
Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson directed a long verbal barrage against the Japanese. When FDR became President in 1933, he supported the “Stimson Doctrine” without reservation. It is significant that during the first Cabinet meeting of the Roosevelt Administration, March 7, 1933 the eventuality of war with Japan was carefully considered. On October 5,1937, FDR made a famous address at Chicago, in which he advocated a “quarantine” against aggressor nations. His words of sharp criticism were directed at Japan. He had inaugurated a new policy of pressure that helped drive Americans down the road to war.
On July 26,1939, notice was given to Japan that after six months the Commercial Treaty of February 21, 1911 would expire. This action was a blow to the national pride of the Japanese.
Roosevelt wanted to employ economic sanctions against Japan. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew was against this idea so FDR brought into his Cabinet on June 20, 1940, the Secretary of war, Henry L. Stimson who had convinced him of the efficacy of that policy back in January,1933.
With the arrival of Stimson in the Cabinet, FDR began to forge an economic chain around Japan that foreclosed any hope of understanding between the two countries.
Under these circumstances, Japan was compelled to adopt a new policy. The Japanese Empire began to expand to the south in order to control those areas which would supply not only the necessities of life, but also the products essential to the Japanese war effort- notably oil, rubber, tin and adequate foodstuffs.
On July 25,1941, FDR issued an executive order, effective the next day, freezing all Japanese assets in the United States. In effect, it created an economic blockade of Japan. America’s highest military and naval authorities- among them Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations and General George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff- believed that the freezing order would cause Japan to take last-ditch measures.
Six days before the order was issued the War Plans Division warned that an embargo on Japan would possibly involve the United States in an early war in the Pacific. Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, Advisor on Political Relations to the State Department and Secretaries Morgenthau and Stimson strongly advocated the order.
When the Japanese Ambassador, Admiral Kichisabura Nomura, called at the Department of State to inquire as to the meaning of the executive order, he was coolly received. Tojo, then Minister of War, regarded the freezing order by the United States as driving Japan into a corner. Oil was vital to Japan, and from now on each fall of the level on oil brought the hour of decision closer. Historian Louis Morton, Chief of the Pacific Section, Department of Army, wrote that America by adopting a program of unrestricted economic warfare, left Japan the embarrassing choice of humiliating surrender or resistance by whatever means lay at hand. He termed the American order of July 26 “the Japanese Pearl Harbor,” suggesting a degree of provocation in excess of what many have been willing to concede.
President Roosevelt and his advisors seemed to ignore the realities in the Far Eastern situation. They never understood the fact that Manchuria and Inner Mongolia were danger zones for Japan. Japanese statemen of every party had realized for years the significance of Soviet menace to Japanese security.
Churchill said, the first time he met Roosevelt, Roosevelt had told him that,“regardless of whether Japan attacked us or not the United States would go to war” At noon on November 25, Secretaries Stimson and Knox met at the White House together with General Marshall and Admiral Stark. The discussion dealt mainly with the Japanese situation concerning the intercepted message fixing the November 29 deadline. The President brought up the event that we were likely to be attacked perhaps as soon as next Monday. The main question was “how we should maneuver into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.”
Harry Dexter White ( Soviet agent in the US Govt) putting pressure on the Japanese by sending a letter signed “Henry Morgenthau Jr.” to the President Roosevelt on the 24th or 25th of November. In words told of the dire consequences that would come in the wake of any agreement with Japan. Pressure exerted by Communist sympathizers in the Institute of Pacific Relations must also be taken into account when analyzing the reasons for the many rejections of a truce with Japan. On November 25, Professor Owen Lattimore, (Soviet spy in US Govt) the special advisor to Chiang Kai-shek dispatched an anxious cable to Presidential Assistant Lauchlin Currie ( Soviet Spy in US Govt) arguing against any agreement between the United States and Japan on a modus vivendi.
When Congressman Martin Dies, Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, became insistent on digging Reds out of the Administration, he was summoned to the White House, where Roosevelt , in fury, told him, “several of my best friends I’ve got are Communist, You’re all wrong about this….” Roosevelt, indeed, acted as if some of them were. After Earl Browder the head of the Communist Party in the United States had been sent to the penitentiary for passport fraud in making a clandestine trip to Moscow, Roosevelt pardoned him as a contribution to “national unity,” now that Soviet Russia was our ally. Browder boasted, in his testimony before the Tydings Committee in 1950 that in 1942 and 1943 he reported to Roosevelt, and that the information he relayed to the White House had an important in reshaping American policy in China.
Besides, Roosevelt seems to have had an exalted opinion of himself as a diplomat. Frequently his ambassadors were by-passed by his direct personal diplomacy. During the Beaverbrook-Haaiman Mission in October 1941 Harriman said to Marshal Stalin, “I hope you will feel free to cable President Roosevelt directly on any matters that you consider of importance. President Roosevelt would welcome such messages.” So the groundwork was laid for the personal negotiations between Roosevelt and Stalin that were to cause so much difficulty later on.
The President had no doubt that he could enroll Stalin as a member of his circle and could lead the Soviet leader along new paths of accommodation. As early as March, 1942, the President in writing to Churchill had said: “I tell you that I think I can handle Stalin personally better than either your Foreign Office or my State Department.” Later Roosevelt told Ross McIntire, his private physician, “If I can convince him [Stalin] that our offer of co-operation is on the square, and that we want to be comrades rather than enemies, I’m betting that he’ll come in. And,” the President added with a grin, “what helps a lot is that Stalin is the only man I have to convince. Joe doesn’t worry about a Congress or a Parliament. He’s the whole works.”
Roosevelt had little patience with diplomats who were well acquainted with Soviet policy and who warned him against any optimism about establishing cordial Soviet-American relations. Former Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy serving as assistant naval attaché in Turkey. Earle sent frantic dispatches to Washington concerning the alarming situation in that country in regard to the Soviet Union. In May, 1944, he flew to Washington to see the President. While waiting in an ante-room in the White House, he met Secretary Forrestal and conveyed his fears of the Soviet Union. Within the shadow of the President’s desk, Forrestal told him: “My God, I think this is dreadful. We were all alone over here. Russia can do no wrong. It is perfectly dreadful. They just simply are blind to the situation.” When Earle saw Roosevelt, he said: “Mr. President, the real menace is not Germany, it is Russia.” FDR gave Earle a smile and said: “George, Russia is a nation of 180 million people speaking 120 different dialects. When the war is over she will fly to pieces like a centrifugal machine at high speed.” A short time later, Roosevelt wrote a letter to Earle forbidding him to publish an article concerning his critical views of Russia. Commander Earle was exiled as Governor of Samoa, a remote island in the Pacific, “so I could not talk.”
Harry Truman sent Marshall to China. On December 15, 1945 his directive is to form a coalition government between the free Chinese and the Communist. Marshall’s entire mission was one of convenience to the Reds. Before he went to China, the Communist occupied a very small portion of China. Their Army numbered less than 300,000 badly equipped troops. When Marshall returned from China to be rewarded by Truman with an appointment as Secretary of State, the Communist -controlled area had greatly increased. The Communist Army had grown from 300,000 badly equipped troops to an Army over 2,000,000 relatively well-equipped soldiers. The testimony of General Marshall corroborates the conclusion that an arms embargo was used in an attempt to force Chiang Kai-shek to admit Chinese Communist elements into the Government.
The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) probably more than any other single factor, conditioned out people to abandon the mainland of China to the Communists. When Edward C. Carter became the chief administrator, July 1934, welcomed the USSR as a new member. The American branch of the IPR grew rapidly and prospered, boasting over 1,000 members. The Rockefeller, Carnegie foundations gave millions of dollars. J.P. Morgan, Shell Oil, International Business Machines, British Lever Brothers and many others. The IPR has been an organization whose chief function has been to influence United States public opinion on Far East matters. The Senate Subcommittee has concluded that the IPR has been neither objective nor nonpartisan and that since the mid 1930s, the net effect of the IPR activities on United States public opinion has been pro-Communist and pro-Soviet, and has frequently and repeatedly been such as to serve international Communist Chinese Communist and Soviet interests, and to subvert the interest of the United States. The the Japanese branch of the IPR was used as a spy ring for Soviet Communists and the Soviet Red Army. Elizabeth T. Bentley a former operator in the underground movement of the American Communist Party , mentioned that her superior, Jacob Golos, referred to the IPR as “…. Red as a rose….”
It is no longer debatable that Cairo, Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam, and elsewhere the Western World took wrong actions in its wartime and postwar dealings with the U.S.S.R. The Red lava released by these actions has since engulfed the seven hundred million inhabitants of Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, mainland China, North Korea, Vietnam , Cuba etc. These wrong actions gained wide acceptability, if not outright approval, by a controlling percentage of policy-makers, scholars, writers, and other molders of policy and opinion. They had the “wrong thoughts,” about the Soviet Union and Communist China. The wartime activities of the IPR even penetrated the White House when Lauchlin Currie became executive assistant to the President and special advisor on Far Eastern affairs. Currie was responsible for setting up a conference in Washington, on October 12, 1942, between himself Sumner Welles, then Under Secretary of State, and Earl Browder( head of the Communist Party USA) and Robert Miner, then officials of the Communist Party. John T. Flynn made a study of thirty books dealing with the political conditions of China. He found that twenty-three of these books were pro-Communist, seven were anti-Communist. He explains the whole subject with this interesting statement: Every one of the 23 pro-communist books, where reviewed, received glowing approval in the literary reviews…. That is, in the New York Times, the Herald Tribune, the Nation, and the New Republic and the Saturday Review of Literature and every one of the anti-Communist books was either roundly condemned or ignored in the same reviews.
Immediate ancestor among first American soldiers in to liberate the camps. They saw countless dead bodies. In time researchers identified the causal pattern: starvation and typhus. Eventually quantified by International Red Cross as 300,000 total dead in German “concentration camps”. No gas chambers anywhere.
The Jew never expressed appreciation to that ancestor, but has constantly schemed against the descendants.
Now comes E. Michael Jones, THE HOLOCAUST NARRATIVE (2023).
https://www.fidelitypress.org/bookstore
And of course as you know, Michael Hudson has produced this solution
https://michael-hudson.com/2023/05/pepe-escobars-review-of-the-collapse-of-antiquity/
to return Christianity to the roots Divine Jesus planted at Luke 4:16-30 undoing Roman capitulation to the Jew which caused the problem you describe here:
Amen, Mr. Hayes, Amen!!
Threats, Insults, And Kremlin “Robots”: How The BBC Lies That Russian Diplomacy Died Under Putin by Declan Hayes!
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/09/12/threats-insults-and-kremlin-robots-how-the-bbc-lies-that-russian-diplomacy-died-under-putin/
Gone are the halcyon days when Russian diplomats would listen to the wise words of such Western sages as Victoria Nuland, Kamala Harris and Liz Truss (ex British PM, for those of you with the goldfish memory of a BBC journalist). Now we have a new Cold War where Putin puppet Lavrov and that awful Maria Zakharova woman do President Putins bidding.
Ms Zakharova is a particularly bitter pill to swallow as “before her, diplomats behaved like diplomats, speaking in refined expressions.. but with Ms Zakharovas arrival, foreign ministry briefings became a spectacle. Ms Zakharova often yelled at reporters who asked her difficult questions and responded to criticism from other countries with insults”.
So recently ran the main story of NATOs BBC website. I get that, as NATOs BBC hacks can argue neither the facts nor the circumstances, they are left to calling their betters names but Victoria Nuland is a brain-dead thug, Liz Truss was an international embarrassment before Taiwan stupidly adopted her and Karine St Jeanne Pierre, Yankeelands Zakharova equivalent, is so incapable of answering any question that it must be part of her job description to be a complete and utter moron!
That is a joke. British allies for some time, at least until some time in the twenties or thirties.
The Kanagawa Treaty was much later, much post-war, did not mean much, Japan had already been U.S.-occupied for at least 15 years by then. It was a small step in activating the Jieitai, against the Constitution, in a small way, nothing more.
Except that this time we stand with a military-age populace largely physically and even mentally unfit to serve and not nearly enough industry to equip them in time to face adversaries who have all the advantages we had in 1943. Oh, and then there’s that large-scale fifth column we’ve been inviting in the past few decades. The US’ and the West’s “permanent” war footing has roughly sixteen months, at best, when the balloon goes up.
The expansionism of the United States was defined in a specific way and summed up in the concept of Manifest Destiny or, more poetically, “Sea to shining sea. And not more than that.
That Hawaii and Alaska became part of the United States was a contingent consequence of the world balance of power and world geography. It was perhaps inevitable that Alaska would fall the to Anglosphere. Maybe it was more likely that it would have ended up a British territory and then part of Canada, but it didn’t.
The United States was the world power closest to Hawaii and the one capable of colonizing it. The United States never turned Cuba into a colony and held the Philippines as a colony only for the shortest possible period of time given the arc of world history in that era.
You should be more concerned about the overreaches that are occurring today or which are incipient. The thought of expanding the United States beyond the boundaries implicit in the Manifest Destiny concept was one of the issues underlying the Civil War.
Today the same issue is playing out. The Democrats support admitting Puerto Rico as a state. Proposal have even been floated to admit the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Guam and the Northern Marianas as states. In the 1850s it was, expand into the Caribbean for more slave plantations. Today, it’s expand into the Caribbean and perhaps further into the Pacific in search of more vote plantations.
Don’t forget the proposal to admit the District of Columbia as a state. The solution to that problem is to cede most of the District back to Maryland. That will give the residents of the District the right to vote for a congressional representative and in Senate elections. Also in state elections. It is also the solution for which there is a constitutional precedent.
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas can become independent countries with commonwealth status. Commonwealth status means that their citizen have the rights of a U.S. citizen on U.S soil. That means that they can move here if they wish, vote in American elections if they are resident, work here, hold public office, enroll at an American educational institution without a student visa, and be issued a United States passport.
People need to become aware of this issue. It’s the biggest threat to the design of the republic since Dred Scott.
Also, little sign that it was real, just a few hints. Nothing conclusive, and was checking in Japanese.
I see what you mean, the convention with Commodore Perry by the Tokugawa. It became invalid with lmperial Restoration. In no way an alliance. Thrown out, though throwing out parts took time.
I found reference to a later Kanagawa agreement, early 1960s, but I see that is not what you meant, you were referring to the above.
From Jones foreword:
For Jews to become little gods (god’s agents) on earth, they have to become a burnt offering. Six million is a sacred number in their mythos.
If Jews weren’t burnt by the secular devil -Hitler, and the sacred number of six million was not reached, then their religion is shown as false.
Holocaustianity is a false religion. It is non-trivial assertion, as holocaustianity defines the guiding narratives for millions of people, including neo-cons who are pushing for WW3. The entire earth needs to burn, or at least another six million.
Amen!
All populations have a gaussian distribution. Boobus is implied in the statistics. Only a tiny percentage of any population has the mental energy or the proclivity to engage in truth seeking, or read voluminously.
Also, if you push boobus people into debts, they have to work long hours to transfer their life energy to the creditor. The long working hours precludes the life energy needed for investigation.
In other words, don’t blame the victims. Pretty much anybody who comments at Unz. is not in the normal distribution.
Average normies are pre-occupied with survival, and higher level normies are pre-occupied with becoming good at their jobs. We actually want bakers and candle-stick makers who have the ability to focus on their profession. Usurers and grifters fleecing boobus labor with grifting invisible pickpocket hands are indications of a failed government. The government has not trained its population on how to manage their individual affairs. Grifters and usurers are allowed free reign.
You must actively sort the population and then train these special people in the art of governing. Benjamin Franklin was coming to that conclusion at end of his life, but he didn’t transfer it to the constitution. Some of Franklin’s Junto’s went bad, with predators taking over to self-aggrandize themselves.
Hitler had a project whereby this sorting process was being worked out. The Hitler schools were one method, and the other was via the SS.
Hereditary kings are a bad idea, despite the princelings receiving training. Why? Because the personality type for a philosopher king is a very tiny fraction of the population. Boobus types are not equipped by god for the role, and can barely be bothered to vote intelligently.
In other words, the democracy system failed. You either have to restrict who votes, or sort for leadership. Even the founders knew that populist democracy was the worst form of government, so this is not a new idea. Average people can be maneuvered with passions and guilt. The most recent Covid hysteria should be proof enough that most populations are boobus types. It is normal.
I have always been struck by what appears to be a relative scarcity of actual photos of the Pearl Harbor attack.
The iconic ones seem almost too iconic.
Very good information on Rep. Rankin. It’s amazing what’s withheld from history. The ease of persuading 534 idiots to jump into war, since none of them will be fighting is astounding.
No “Lie to war” was ever better demonstrated than in the documentary on the “Incubator Hoax”.
She said she wasn’t going, and thus she wasn’t going to send anybody else!
She also voted against entry into the previous “world” war. One of fifty that time. The new Congress had just been seated five weeks earlier. Otherwise, she’d have been joined in her vote by Charles A Lindbergh, Sr. (Er, no… she was sworn in after he’d left.)
Sadly, it cost her her seat both times. There is a nice statue of her in the capitol in Helena:
Also worth a visit, if you’re in the capital area, is the Merci Train at Ft Harrison five miles outside of town, another inspiring story to come out of the ’40s. If that’s too far, there is such a train car in 42 other states. We’ve been to the ones in or near Helena, Bismarck, Huron, Lindbergh’s Little Falls, and Green Bay.
Funny how the Marxist-Zionist mind control trance does nothing so much as get goyim killed off by the millions.
It’s almost as if their only plan was always: Pit goyim groups against one another and laugh all the way to the bank, forever! We’ll use our Golden Calf fiat currency alchemy scheme to pull their strings until we pull the plug on them all! Ha, Ha! They’ll never figure it out, they’re too stupid! Stupid goyim! Ha, Ha!
Unbelievably, there is no plan B.
Really, is their any people more depraved, self-absorbed, obtuse, and arrogant than kikes? Yes, Zoglodytes are probably more obtuse, but they count as kike mini-me’s.
If you’re really looking for a conspiracy theory…
The biggest error the attackers made is not hitting the fuel tanks, which would have delayed our entry over a year longer than hitting our ships did. They’d need have hit only one such tank, and the rest would have gone up with it.
But was this an error, or according to script?
DeColonization efforts during and after WWII were generally projects of the US government. The best way to ensure American NGO infiltration into the governments of Asia and Africa was to remove France, UK , Portugal etc etc from their legal sovereignty over half the global population. American interests profited profoundly from the collapse of European colonial empires.
NATO getting nuttier and nuttier.
I say bring on WWIII. It’s time for some cleansing.
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Most interesting post on your father, Walter.
I live in the south but keep a place in Greenbelt, MD because I spend time at the National Archive facility in College Park. For the past few months I’ve been looking at Pearl/US entry into WWII documents. If you know where to look, many missing documents can be found not in the files of the sender and recipient but of those who got the CC. Your general insight that the story is not quite as is generally told is correct.
Your fathers specific memories interest me because they seem to be a mixture of the true and the unlikely. If you contact me at my email attached to this message or, if you can’t see it, at MailDaveMiller at the usual G-place, I’ll send you my phone number and fill you in on the details.
In the mean time, if you have not already done so, get your father’s military record (easily done but they like the request in the form of a FOIA).
Put your father’s name and “Pearl” in the subject line so I know what it is.
DBM
Not “allies.” The correct terms to use would be puppets, slaves, or bootlicking toadies. However, I prefer the term “subhuman trash” to describe you American loyalist japs.
Spruance’s assessment: As long as they had not hit the tank farms, submarine base, machine shops, and the Honolulu telephone exchange, “they had not finished the job.” I always attributed this seemingly inexplicable (to an American) failure to a cultural difference: The mission was to attack Pearl Harbor, they completed the mission, now stay within the template; template thinking. But if there was some other “script,” then what would the script have been? I’m very open to that possibility, but I can’t plot it out in my mind.
In all of the past wars countries had time to do things; train troops, build war machinery, etc., etc.!! World War III will likely be over in a week at most!! If all life on this planet is dead there will be no one to pick up the pieces or to blame the idiots that brought it on!! It may be the plan of the heavens for us to exterminate all of humanity forever!!
I guess at the end of the day, the same limitations apply to democracy, communism, royal divine right and national socialism. The bell shaped curve also applies to morality, corruption, lust for power and greed.
Theoretically, all 4 systems could function with a universally moral society.
By eliminating ethnic strife through racial homogeneity, and by expelling the Jews, the NSDAP in Germany came closest to setting up the conditions where a European government could rule for the benefit of the people.
But lets face it, even the leadership of the NSDAP suffered from all the same limitations, perhaps just to a lesser degree, than the US, USSR and UK.
I can tell you from personal experience, Germans can lie and be as selfish, power hungry and greedy as any other people on the planet. I am certain that the same applies to Japan.
In fairness to Nagumo, aircraft take time to recover, rearm, and refuel. Meanwhile, the Americans were aroused, angry, and looking for something, anything, to shoot at. So much so that it is recorded they shot down their own aircraft more than once during that day.
This could easily have been a recipe for disaster had Nagumo chosen to stick around and have another go at the Americans, particularly when he was already at the limits of his fleet’s operating range.
Viewed from his 1941 perspective, the second wave saw the destruction of most of the targets he had been assigned. Meanwhile, he still did not know where the American carriers were, how many airworthy planes the Americans could send on a search for Nagumo’s carriers, and how many more planes would be lost to increasingly accurate AA fire should he send a third wave.
The reason the initial attack worked was because it was sudden and surprising. And while the first wave achieved complete surprise, the second wave found the Americans prepared and ready to fight. A third wave could well have meant the loss of many scarce Japanese aircraft and their highly-trained pilots because it could not have come until after all the aircraft from the first two waves had been recovered, rearmed, and refueled.
Could Nagumo reasonably be expected to do more than he did?
The overall objective was to buy the Japanese some time and, like him or not, that’s what Nagumo did. Like any commander, he cannot be expected to think of everything the way you and I might with the benefit of 80 years hindsight.
They avoided civilian targets, as I understand the Blitz did at first. (CMIIY.)
My own personal Pearl Harbor story is of an elementary school teacher telling us of going to church later that morning– her family lived a short distance away– completely unaware of what had just happened. The pastor told everyone to go home and turn on the radio.
My family visited the Arizona memorial that year. Years later, I got to visit Guantanamo Bay, which is very similar to Pearl Harbor. It was easy to see how all the noise could have been muffled.
Yes, that is very insightful.
The Junker class in Germany held onto their unearned birth “status” and were jealous of NSDAP middle class types. The Junkers were called petit bourgeois by Hitler’s inner circle.
Bolsheviks wanted a classless world, where a plumber in Poland would find common cause with a plumber in Peoria. Plumbers in Peoria, don’t give two shits about plumbers in Poland. People have connections to the lands of their birth.
Man is a status seeking animal. Man also has envy and greed.
It is only a very tiny fraction of the population who is not driven by status, envy, or greed. These people are “Plato’s philosopher kings,” and any other personality type is not suitable for being the “brain” of a civilizational hierarchy. Additionally these “brains” can be screwed up if they receive the wrong philosophy in their early training.
England did a pretty good job of “selection” for individuals in their civil service. These personality types generally were even handed administrators. Of course the administrators were ultimately serving empire, and hence the top of the hierarchy was parasitic creditor class in London.
Below link is a case of black south Africans wishing for the return of apartheid and white rule. Of course, the liberal white author is shocked that 50% of over age 40 black africans would wish for a return to white rule, given that the blacks had lived through apartheid.
The tiny fraction suitable as philosopher kings in the black population is vanishingly small. Liberalism cannot accept that there are different kinds of people, and that there are differences in the races.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1701367717045912010.html
The movie and book, “Starship Troopers,” is Heinlein’s philosophy on sortition. To be a citizen you had to show yourself by self selection. In this case it was joining up into the army to fight in the “bug war.” This would be a twist on Greek sortition democracy.
Good reply, but disagree. The U.S.N. carriers were not going to appear for a surprise show, and Pearl Harbour was largely defenceless after the first two waves.
Almost no U.S. aircraft still up, free-fire on structures and particularly on those for oil storage, docks, etc.
Admiral Nagumo disobeyed orders. Have you had any time in a military? I have. Obeying orders is important. Admiral Yamamoto had little faith in success, but his plan was the best possible, his junior Admiral Nagumo ignored his orders. This was a result of outdated ideas as much as anything. He knew the disposition of forces, himself in charge of a carrier fleet, but ignored the fact that the U.S.N. had nothing in port but obsolete battleships at the time.
Thought sinking a few of them a great triumph, while if he’d thought for a second, he’d have recalled that the U.S.N. had a similar, at the time a little less powerful force, hiding somewhere.
It may have made no difference to the ultimate outcome, but as much destruction to Pearl Harbour infrastructure as possible (according to his orders, which he disobeyed) would have changed the outcomes of several battles at sea.
I think we should give that “first” accolade to George Morgenstern with his Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War, published in 1947. I also believe that it is a good deal better than the Toland book and more trustworthy than the Stinnett book. The journalist John T. Flynn also put out a pamphlet in October of 1945 that contained most of the basic accusations against FDR that were in the later books. See my article, “The Pearl Harbor Betrayal and James Forrestal’s Death,” https://www.dcdave.com/article5/121004.htm.
Rep. Hamilton Fish of FDR’s home district in NY would certainly have joined Rep. Rankin in opposing U.S. entry into WW II had he, like everyone else in Congress, not been deceived by the President. This is from the prologue of his 1976 book, FDR: The Other Side of the Coin:
“The author is one of the very few former members alive who participated actively in the Congressional foreign policy debates between 1937 and 1945. I made the first speech advocating war with Japan on December 8, 1941 (the first speech ever made in Congress over the radio). The speech was heard by over 20 million Americans and it upheld President Roosevelt’s theme of the ‘Day of Infamy.’ I now publicly disavow that speech as a result of subsequent historical evidence. I believe that not only the American people but everyone interested in the truths of history is entitled to know the naked truth: that Roosevelt incited and provoked Japan into war by the issuance of an all-out secret war ultimatum in defiance of the Congress, the American people, and the Constitution of the United States, ten days before Pearl Harbor.” (emphasis in original)
See “The Ultimatum that Gave Us Pearl Harbor,” https://www.dcdave.com/article5/121019.htm
Not to be argumentative, but in light of the savagery and grotesque immorality of the US war effort against Japan, I think that “not A but B”* inadequately characterizes the American objective, at least as it came to maturity. Surely “both A and B” corresponds more closely with history as it played out.
Of course, I do not discount the murderous US and British attacks on French soldiers and civilians after the fall of France, nor do I overlook the central role played by American intransigeance in deliberately causing the Dutch famine of late 1944–early 1945. The Germans were fortunate in being permitted to surrender a few months prior to the planned atomic bombing of the most densely populated parts of their nation.
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* “A” being Japan and “B” being the three European colonial empires.
Why would Walter spend 20 years with a country so corrupt?
Thank you for this, Richard Foley. It makes a terrifying witness to the horror and the tragedy of war, and the poison of the lies that always fuel it, that we are still, at our age, trying to cope with our fathers’ suffering and grief, and the pain it inflicted on their families and our families, and the many decades of lies that have poisoned and subverted our country and our culture and our country’s government. Change for the better is impossible without truth-telling, and truth is painful to tell and painful to hear and resisted by power with more lies and more violence because it threatens the rule of lies and greed and hate. Our great-grandparents called it Mammon. They had it right.
No, it was the unmaking of America, replaced by something else ruled by someones other.
Also, I forget the title of the novel, but your namesake, Charles, made a brilliant description of his total indifference sitting on a park bench, drinking, and watching people running about shouting ‘Go da waah!’.
I’m pretty sure that at least one of the scriptwriters for the Starship Troopers movie must have read C. Bukowski’s account, the ‘Go da waah!’ scene looks very similar to C. Bukowski’s account from 1942.