Tuesday, October 16, 2012
document, measure, and evaluate superintendents, principals, and teachers alike - and hold them accountable for clearly defined expectations!
By CNu at October 16, 2012 16 comments
Labels: accountability
Monday, October 15, 2012
the REAL reason america used atomic weapons against japan
In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective …. It has been suggested that the second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union. By August 1945, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had deteriorated badly. The Potsdam Conference between U.S. President Harry S. Truman, Russian leader Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill (before being replaced by Clement Attlee) ended just four days before the bombing of Hiroshima. The meeting was marked by recriminations and suspicion between the Americans and Soviets. Russian armies were occupying most of Eastern Europe. Truman and many of his advisers hoped that the U.S. atomic monopoly might offer diplomatic leverage with the Soviets. In this fashion, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan can be seen as the first shot of the Cold War.
The US decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was meant to kick-start the Cold War rather than end the Second World War, according to two nuclear historians who say they have new evidence backing the controversial theory.
Causing a fission reaction in several kilograms of uranium and plutonium and killing over 200,000 people 60 years ago was done more to impress the Soviet Union than to cow Japan, they say. And the US President who took the decision, Harry Truman, was culpable, they add.
“He knew he was beginning the process of annihilation of the species,” says Peter Kuznick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington DC, US. “It was not just a war crime; it was a crime against humanity.”
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[The conventional explanation of using the bombs to end the war and save lives] is disputed by Kuznick and Mark Selden, a historian from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, US.
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New studies of the US, Japanese and Soviet diplomatic archives suggest that Truman’s main motive was to limit Soviet expansion in Asia, Kuznick claims. Japan surrendered because the Soviet Union began an invasion a few days after the Hiroshima bombing, not because of the atomic bombs themselves, he says.
According to an account by Walter Brown, assistant to then-US secretary of state James Byrnes, Truman agreed at a meeting three days before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima that Japan was “looking for peace”. Truman was told by his army generals, Douglas Macarthur and Dwight Eisenhower, and his naval chief of staff, William Leahy, that there was no military need to use the bomb.
“Impressing Russia was more important than ending the war in Japan,” says Selden.
The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, told President Truman he was “fearful” that the US air force would have Japan so “bombed out” that the new weapon would not be able “to show its strength”. He later admitted that “no effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the bomb”. His foreign policy colleagues were eager “to browbeat the Russians with the bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip”. General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project that made the bomb, testified: “There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was conducted on that basis.” The day after Hiroshima was obliterated, President Truman voiced his satisfaction with the “overwhelming success” of “the experiment”.
Though most Americans are unaware of the fact, increasing numbers of historians now recognize the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb to end the war against Japan in 1945. Moreover, this essential judgment was expressed by the vast majority of top American military leaders in all three services in the years after the war ended: Army, Navy and Army Air Force. Nor was this the judgment of “liberals,” as is sometimes thought today. In fact, leading conservatives were far more outspoken in challenging the decision as unjustified and immoral than American liberals in the years following World War II.
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Instead [of allowing other options to end the war, such as letting the Soviets attack Japan with ground forces], the United States rushed to use two atomic bombs at almost exactly the time that an August 8 Soviet attack had originally been scheduled: Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9. The timing itself has obviously raised questions among many historians. The available evidence, though not conclusive, strongly suggests that the atomic bombs may well have been used in part because American leaders “preferred”—as Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Martin Sherwin has put it—to end the war with the bombs rather than the Soviet attack. Impressing the Soviets during the early diplomatic sparring that ultimately became the Cold War also appears likely to have been a significant factor.
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The most illuminating perspective, however, comes from top World War II American military leaders. The conventional wisdom that the atomic bomb saved a million lives is so widespread that … most Americans haven’t paused to ponder something rather striking to anyone seriously concerned with the issue: Not only did most top U.S. military leaders think the bombings were unnecessary and unjustified, many were morally offended by what they regarded as the unnecessary destruction of Japanese cities and what were essentially noncombat populations. Moreover, they spoke about it quite openly and publicly.
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Shortly before his death General George C. Marshall quietly defended the decision, but for the most part he is on record as repeatedly saying that it was not a military decision, but rather a political one.
By CNu at October 15, 2012 18 comments
Labels: unspeakable
Sunday, October 14, 2012
how do you survive an economic collapse caused by the contraction of credit, where credit is the medium of exchange in everyday transactions?
By CNu at October 14, 2012 0 comments
Labels: History's Mysteries
no wonder we've heard scant little about her...,
By CNu at October 14, 2012 2 comments
Labels: bushido , you used to be the man
Saturday, October 13, 2012
will the military "war on drugs" hold up politically as well as the military "war on terror"?
By CNu at October 13, 2012 22 comments
Labels: clampdown , warsocialism
why war against our origins and our possibilities?
By CNu at October 13, 2012 0 comments
Labels: entheogenesis , History's Mysteries
Friday, October 12, 2012
wait, why no comparable mainstream backstory on the cia selected sinaloa syndicate?
By CNu at October 12, 2012 0 comments
Labels: agenda , elite , establishment
NRC whistleblowers warn of nuclear accidents caused by dam failures and effort to suppress disclosure
By CNu at October 12, 2012 5 comments
Labels: unspeakable
for "those deemed" essential
By CNu at October 12, 2012 0 comments
Labels: governance , History's Mysteries , unspeakable
Thursday, October 11, 2012
the hunted and the hated...,
By CNu at October 11, 2012 2 comments
Labels: American Original , as above-so below
why has the cia given the sinaloa cartel the dope franchise in chicago?
By CNu at October 11, 2012 3 comments
Labels: agenda , elite , establishment
american moral degeneracy
By CNu at October 11, 2012 0 comments
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
why IS Newsweek indulging make-believe?
1) Newsweek Cover Story "Heaven Is Real" or Ayahuasca Experience "The Din of Celestial Birds"?
2) Newsweek Cover Story "Heaven Is Real" or Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Experience "Rebirth and Translucent Beings"? "A sound, huge and booming like a glorious chant, came down from above, and I wondered if the winged beings were producing it. [... T]he joy of these creatures, as they soared along, was such that they had to make this noise — that if the joy didn't come out of them this way then they would simply not otherwise be able to contain it."
3) Newsweek Cover Story "Heaven Is Real" or DMT Experience "The People Behind the Curtain"? "As I walked deeper, I could see, standing in the middle of the room, [...] an object similar to an hour glass. It was slowly turning over. I became aware that this vessel, as it tipped over, transferring its contents from the small red end to the larger blue end, was transforming me."
4) Newsweek Cover Story "Heaven Is Real" or LSD, DXM, Dimenhydinate & Cannabis Experience "In Search of a Meaningful... Something"? "If the head is the center of vision, what I saw encompassed a field extending to behind the ears. A fury of colors came into focus throughout this field, and out of the overwhelming mass of color a being emerged. Although the origin and nature of this being were not known to me, I was in awe of it, and I knew that I was powerless in its presence. It both hated and adored me and communicated through ambient noise which held my undivided attention."
By CNu at October 10, 2012 45 comments
Labels: magical thinking , propaganda
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
9 million elderly at risk of an empty pantry...,
By CNu at October 09, 2012 16 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , gerontocracy
the largest economy in the world is imploding right before our eyes....,
By CNu at October 09, 2012 2 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , What Now?
Monday, October 08, 2012
who destroyed the economy: the case against the baby boomers
By CNu at October 08, 2012 15 comments
Labels: conspicuous consumption , parasitic , What Now?
stop using the unemployment rate!
By CNu at October 08, 2012 1 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , contraction
since the end of world war II, the economy has not been faced with such a large employment slack
Any solution to stimulate employment is in fiscal policy and regulation - and possibly a revisit to policy utilized post WWII to create jobs for the returning soldiers.
By CNu at October 08, 2012 0 comments
Labels: contraction , What IT DO Shawty...
Sunday, October 07, 2012
watch, read, google - "after next-gen technology" - and other fascinating breadcrumbs....,
“We thank the US government and Department to of Homeland Security for making available these advanced capabilities. It is our hope, in what we deep a “ploughshares” effort, to provide a bank of data that will inspire a generation of scientists of every discipline.
This project, we predict, will have an immediate impact on securing both wildlife resources and, at the same time, supply a wealth of previously unavailable data to ensure responsible and productive land management and resource development.
In many cases, we begin with a ‘blank slate,’ we have little idea what we will find but, for certain, our ‘after next generation’ imagery and sensor capability will open, not only new vistas for investment but tourism as well.”
By CNu at October 07, 2012 16 comments
Labels: Farmer Brown
voting for death
By CNu at October 07, 2012 1 comments
Labels: Obamamandian Imperative
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Friday, October 05, 2012
not one word about poverty...,
By CNu at October 05, 2012 4 comments
Labels: Obamamandian Imperative
Thursday, October 04, 2012
I squinted and failed to see the air gap...,
By CNu at October 04, 2012 0 comments
Labels: agenda , elite , establishment
real unemployment reaches 20% in colorado...,
By CNu at October 04, 2012 8 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , contraction , truth
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
is all of japan radioactive?
fukushima-diary | Iodine 131 was measured from sewage sludge in Kumamoto city. Kumamoto city is about 1070 km from Fukushima plant.
7/24/2012 33 Bq/Kg, 31 Bq/Kg
7/25/2012 120 Bq/Kg
7/25/2012 150 Bq/Kg ,11 Bq/Kg
By CNu at October 03, 2012 10 comments
Labels: unspeakable , WW-III
humanzee religion in action...,
By CNu at October 03, 2012 0 comments
Labels: magical thinking , What IT DO Shawty...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
strike point senkaku....,
By CNu at October 02, 2012 4 comments
Labels: resource war , The Great Game , WW-III
a genial fellow with whom almost anyone would like to have a beer...,
It happens that his opponent, Mr. Obama, is a genial fellow with whom almost anyone might like to have a beer. Despite his winning smile, though, the president has managed to cripple due process of law, make war on the nation's own citizens, let Wall Street criminals run amok, and sell out the electoral process to a corrupt corporate oligarchy. I wouldn't vote for him again if he water-boarded me in a Jacuzzi full of Schorschbräu's Schorschbock 57 beer ($275 a bottle). But he's welcome to come over to my house and watch the baseball playoffs if he brings his own six-pack and a bag of Cheetos.
By CNu at October 02, 2012 4 comments
Labels: Obamamandian Imperative
lesser evilists convince themselves that evil looks like something good...,
"Tell certain liberals and progressives that you can't bring yourself to vote for a candidate who opposes gay rights, or who doesn't believe in Darwinian evolution, and they'll nod along. Say that you'd never vote for a politician caught using the 'n'-word, even if you agreed with him on more policy issues than his opponent, and the vast majority of left-leaning Americans would understand. But these same people cannot conceive of how anyone can discern Mitt Romney's flaws, which I've chronicled in the course of the campaign, and still not vote for Obama. Don't they see that Obama's transgressions are worse than any I've mentioned? I don't see how anyone who confronts Obama's record with clear eyes can enthusiastically support him. I do understand how they might concluded that he is the lesser of two evils, and back him reluctantly, but I'd have thought more people on the left would regard a sustained assault on civil liberties and the ongoing, needless killing of innocent kids as deal-breakers."
By CNu at October 02, 2012 2 comments
Labels: Obamamandian Imperative
Monday, October 01, 2012
more impressed with this boy than I am with myself....,
By CNu at October 01, 2012 6 comments
Labels: as above-so below
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