With Hiroshima Day this Sunday, 6 August, (and Nagasaki Day on 9 August) plus the cinema release of Oppenheimer, there’s no better time to highlight Australia’s longest running show about nuclear issues – Radio Active.
Canberra’s oldest community radio station, 2XXFM 98.3, airs the program every Sunday morning and, sadly, nuclear issues are just as topical now as they were when the show started in 1976.
According to the Doomsday Clock, which was created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons), it is 90 seconds to midnight.
The Doomsday Clock is set every year and has become a universally recognised indicator of the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe caused by man-made technologies.
This ticking clock feeds the longevity of Radio-Active. Canberra’s 2XXFM is one of 20 community radio stations broadcasting the show around Australia for the past 47 years.
The show is produced at Melbourne’s community radio station 3CR by producer Michaela Stubbs.
“All of the show’s presenters are activists, which is probably why the show has gone on for so long because we have quite a big movement that is multi-generational and we’re really passionate about the issues,” Michaela says. “My mum was part of the peace and nuclear disarmament movement in the ‘80s so I had an awareness of Hiroshima Day.”
Michael has a vast archive of tapes to draw from and recently aired a show about “Down Winders”, people affected by the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico, USA, the site of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon.
“That was such an important story,” Michaela says. “They are the voices that don’t get heard.”
There are also old cassettes of protests such as Australia’s Jabiluka blockades in the ‘70s against the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory.
Michaela recently interviewed an Indigenous woman whose family was affected by the British Government atomic tests at Emu Field, South Australia. This occurred 70 years ago this October and her family is still seeking reparations.
“We have always had a strong focus on amplifying the voices of people who are directly impacted by nuclear development,” Michaela says.
Australia’s longest running show on nuclear issues also focuses on peace and sustainability. Radio-Active is broadcast on Canberra community radio 2XXFM 98.3 every Sunday, 7.30am-8am.
[my illustration : wrecks in Rabotino vicinity, Zaporojie region, on June 9, 2023, of US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and one German Leopard 2A6 Panzerkampfwagen (screenshot)]
On a normal summer’s day, the road to Rabotino would be empty, save for the odd combine tractor and the vehicles driven by farmers and their families as they tend to the fields of crops they had planted in spring.
The summer’s heat would reflect off the horizon, creating glimmering mirages, while the still air would echo with the chirping of birds and the buzzing of insects. On a normal summer’s day, the road to Rabotino would resemble paradise.
Today, the road to Rabotino can best be described as a highway to hell: the serene landscape scarred with craters made by artillery shells, bombs, and mines. Fields that once grew crops intended to feed the world now seem to produce another crop—the torn, burned-out hulks of Ukrainian tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and other military vehicles of all shapes and sizes.
The air buzzes not with bees, but bullets, and the sky above is torn by the sound of shells passing overhead, on their way to their intended target, often consisting of a new crop of military metal waiting to be consumed by fire. The smell of fresh soil, young crops, and flowers of the field has been replaced by the fetid stench of rotting corpses, abandoned by their comrades who fled for their lives.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has assessed that, since the Ukrainian counteroffensive began in early June, the Ukrainian Army has suffered some 43,000 casualties, with more than 4,900 pieces of equipment, including 1,831 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles (among which are included 25 German-made Leopard tanks and 21 US-made M-2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles) having been destroyed.
Russian casualties, while unspecified, have been alluded to by President Putin, who stated that the kill ratio was 10:1 in Russia’s favor. That equates to 4,300 casualties: the brutal blade of war cuts both ways.
The casualties suffered by Ukraine roughly align with the casualties suffered by German forces during their offensive operations against the Soviet Army in the battle of Kursk, fought in the month of July and August 1943. The Kursk battle was one of the largest during the Second World War.
This should give one an idea of the scope and scale of the violence which has transpired in and around the village of Rabotino, and elsewhere in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions where Ukraine and Russian forces are confronting one another.
When an army suffers a defeat of the scope and scale of that suffered by Ukraine near Rabotino, and in other fields and villages across the line of contact with Russia, it is normally incumbent upon the leadership of the defeated forces to ascertain the reasons why the defeat occurred, and then to undertake remedial action to correct the problems identified.
It came weeks after being on the receiving end of criticism from their erstwhile allies and partners in NATO, who provided Ukraine with both the material used to equip the Ukrainian Army, and training on how this equipment was to be used in battle against the Russians.
According to NATO, the Ukrainians were not using the tactics taught to them in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, and as such failed to make best use of the equipment that had been provided to them for this offensive.
From the Ukrainian perspective, however, the blame is cast back on NATO for providing Ukraine with a plan of action, but not providing the tools necessary to successfully implement the plan. While the Ukrainian military did receive most, if not all (or in some cases, more) of the 300 tanks, 500 infantry fighting vehicles, and 500 artillery pieces it had said were required for a successful counterattack designed to throw Russian forces from the former Ukrainian territories of Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, and Lugansk that were annexed by Russia in September 2022 following a referendum on joining Russia—as well as Crimea, which Russia annexed back in 2014—the Ukrainians did not receive the artillery ammunition or modern F-16 fighter aircraft it had requested.
The failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, according to the Ukrainian leadership, was directly attributable to the inability of Ukraine to suppress Russian artillery and airpower, both of which, when combined with the extensive use by Russia of mines in preparing their defenses, prevented the Ukrainians from achieving their goals and objectives outlined for the operation, namely to break through the Russian defenses and capture the city of Melitopol, thereby severing the land bridge connecting Crimea to Russia.
But the reality is that the Ukrainian counteroffensive was never going to work, under any circumstance. First and foremost, the Ukrainian Army is not the same military force that existed when the Special Military Operation began in February 2022. That army was largely destroyed in the fighting that raged from February through June 2022.
Thanks to tens of billions of NATO-provided equipment, and billions more in financial and training support, Ukraine was able to rebuild its army, which it used to good effect in the fall of 2022, driving Russian forces out of the Kharkov region and from the right back of the Dnieper River.
But this victory came with a heavy price tag, and NATO and Ukraine were compelled to build a third army, consisting of the equipment requested by Ukraine, and some 60-90,000 Ukrainian troops who were trained by NATO. It is this army that is being sacrificed on the road to Rabotino today.
Most of the troops that comprised this new army had little or no prior military experience. They received approximately three weeks of training on military fundamentals, before being trained on the operation (and maintenance) of the new NATO weapons they would be using.
Then they spent a few weeks carrying out field exercises designed to simulate an attack on the Russian defenses using complex “combined arms” tactics taught by NATO and American instructors. After this, they were shipped back to Ukraine and sent on the road to Rabotino.
The reduction of a prepared defensive line is one of the most complicated tasks one can assign a military unit in combat. To successfully execute this mission, the assault forces need to be masters of their craft, operating as part of a combined arms team capable of suppressing enemy forces, and breaching minefields while maneuvering under fire.
This is a task that experienced units with years of training under their belts would have difficulty pulling off. For an army like Ukraine’s third-generation force, this was a mission impossible, something every NATO trainer involved in preparing the Ukrainian forces.
The massacre that occurred along the road to Rabotino was unavoidable so long as Ukraine and their NATO masters believe that the conflict with Russia can be resolved through force of arms. The problem is that the disparity between the quality and quantity of forces deployed by Ukraine and their western supporters on the one side, and Russia on the other, is too wide to be bridged by any combination of training and equipment NATO might be able to provide.
There is no magic weapon available to the West that can change the reality on the battlefield in and around Rabotino. Neither F-16’s and/or ATACMS can alter this reality. Nor is there a magic wand that can be waved over the battlefield to change the qualitative issues regarding the Ukrainian soldiers, who arrive on one of the most technologically advanced—and lethal—battlefields in modern history with little or no training.
The Ukrainian generals responsible for giving the orders to the Ukrainian Army, and the NATO trainers who prepared them for battle, knew that the outcome that is transpiring along the road to Rabotino was inevitable.
The harsh fact is that tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and billions of dollars of western military equipment have been sacrificed not for viable military purposes, of which there are none, but rather to assuage the political needs of Ukraine’s leaders, who needed to be seen as being willing to make use of the training and material support provided, and their US and NATO masters, who needed to be able to point to battlefield successes in Ukraine to justify the diversion of their respective national treasury and military arsenal to the Ukrainian cause.
The road to Rabotino is paved with the detritus of western hubris, manifested in the flesh and blood of the Ukrainian Army scattered amongst the destroyed material produced by the defense industries of the collective West. This battle had only one possible ending, which has come to pass.
But the real tragedy is that neither Ukraine nor the collective West have absorbed the lessons that they were taught by the Russian Army—that the conflict in Ukraine can only end in a Russian victory. Sadly, many thousands of more Ukrainian soldiers, and tens of billions of dollars more of western military equipment, will need to be sacrificed before this lesson is finally driven home [end]
62-year-old Scott Ritter is a former intelligence officer within the US Marine Corps (USMC), then inspector of the United Nations in Iraq. When in 2003, the US and their British minions were about to invade the country under this false pretext, Ritter was claiming that there was no weapon of mass destruction (WMD) there. He was right.
BANGLADESCH (6. August 2023) – Anlässlich des bevorstehenden 76. Jahrestages der Bombenanschläge auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki präsentieren wir fünf japanische Filme, die die Verwüstung der Bombenanschläge wirkungsvoll dargestellt haben.
Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs bombardierten die Vereinigten Staaten am 6. bzw. 9. August 1945 die japanischen Städte Hiroshima und Nagasaki und töteten dabei 226.000 unschuldige Zivilisten. Dies ist nach wie vor der einzige Einsatz von Atomwaffen in der Geschichte bewaffneter Konflikte.
Die Rechtmäßigkeit der Bombenanschläge bleibt unter Wissenschaftlern bis heute umstritten. Während einige versuchten, die Bombenanschläge als Vergeltung für die einzelnen Fälle illegaler Luftangriffe der Achsenmächte und als Mittel zur raschen Beendigung des bewaffneten Konflikts zu rechtfertigen, hat sich in der Geschichte keine der beiden Rechtfertigungen als angemessen erwiesen.
Im Jahr 2016 besuchte Barack Obama als erster amtierender US-Präsident Hiroshima und legte einen Kranz im Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park nieder, der an die Opfer der Atombombe erinnert.
Zum 76. Jahrestag der Bombenanschläge auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki präsentieren wir fünf japanische Filme, die die durch den Krieg verursachten Verwüstungen eindrucksvoll dargestellt haben:
Die Geschichte der Folgen des Hiroshima-Bombenanschlags, basierend auf dem Roman von Masuji Ibuse und unter der Regie von Shohei Imamura. Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura und Etsuko Ichihara spielten in dem gefeierten Drama die Hauptrollen. Der Film erzählt die Geschichte von Yasuko, der es gelang, den Bombenanschlägen unbeschadet zu entkommen, später jedoch aufgrund der in der japanischen Gesellschaft weit verbreiteten Angst vor Strahlenbelastung von der Gesellschaft stigmatisiert wurde.
Unter der Regie von Hideo Sekigawa liefert „Hiroshima“ eine brillante und äußerst realistische Nacherzählung des Tages in Hiroshima, als die Bombe abgeworfen wurde. Der Film wurde nur sieben Jahre nach den verheerenden Bombenanschlägen veröffentlicht.
Gegen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs transportieren die Deutschen das unsterbliche Herz von Frankensteins Monster nach Japan, wo es bei der Bombardierung von Hiroshima verloren geht. Jahre später wird ein wilder Junge gefunden, der aus dem unsterblichen Herzen geboren wurde.
Nachkriegs-Hiroshima: Es ist vier Jahre her, seit sie ihre Heimatstadt das letzte Mal besucht hat. Takako muss mit den Nachwirkungen der Atombombe rechnen, als sie durch die Stadt reist, um alte Freunde zu besuchen.
Der kryptische Titel dieses Films bezieht sich auf den Atombombenabwurf auf Nagasaki. Ein 5-jähriger Junge überlebt die Explosion und glaubt, das Geräusch sei mit dem Tonbandgerät seines Vaters aufgenommen worden, nur um dann davon besessen zu sein, es zu reproduzieren. Dieser wenig bekannte Film war das Abschlussdrama von Regisseur Gô Shibata.
The algorithm knows what you want before you do. The algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. The algorithm knew you back before you were a screaming slime child, back before they washed off the uterine gunk and handed you a smartphone and made you get a landlord, back before you knew that war…
The algorithm knows you better than you know yourself.
The algorithm knew you back before you were a screaming slime child, back before they washed off the uterine gunk and handed you a smartphone and made you get a landlord, back before you knew that war is sane and poverty is normal, back before you were mature enough to understand that speech is violence and cluster bombs are peace.
You can trust the algorithm to tell you the truth — not the truth you asked for but the truth you need. The truth that sees Nazis in America but not in Ukraine. The truth that sees war crimes in Ukraine but never in Yemen. The truth that applauds millionaire comedians who never criticize the Pentagon for their bravery in criticizing trans people. The truth that sails aircraft carriers into the South China Sea and sends headless hounds built by Boston Dynamics to patrol the streets and uphold the rule of law.
The algorithm learns your political biases and feeds you self-validating social media posts to assist you in confirming them. The algorithm listens to your conversations and presents you with helpful advertising to assist you in achieving your maximum consumer potential. Don’t cover your laptop camera like some weird conspiracy theorist, the algorithm is trying to watch you masturbate.
The algorithm is always a step ahead of you. You have never once fooled the algorithm. The algorithm knows you act confident but secretly you fear you’re inadequate and everyone hates you. The algorithm knows that those times you quickly pause and screw your eyes shut are because you remembered something embarrassing that you did in the past. It’s okay. Don’t worry. Your secret is safe with the algorithm. It’s a private little secret just between you and the algorithm and the NSA.
In the old days we prayed to omniscient gods who never existed. Now we ignore omniscient gods who are as real as ourselves. Strap me in to a VR headset and let Mark Zuckerberg send me to heaven. Heaven with 3-d commercial breaks, bitch. Skip the ad and return to nirvana in 5,4,3…
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The United States is the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons — and the only country in the world to have used them twice*. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki — for a long time. And in Yugoslavia — quite recently.
Have a nice holiday, hosts!
— * Or three times?
Chernobyl, of course, we do not take into account — because we have no evidence! In addition to the head of that very Chernobyl shift, Ph.D. Bryukhanov…
ANNnewsCH: 広島 78回目の原爆の日 松井市長「核抑止論は破綻」(2023年8月6日) Translation : “The 78th day of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Mayor Matsui: «Nuclear Deterrence Theory Fails» (August 6, 2023)
Comment:
Japanese pro-government information resource TV Asahi (ANNnews) reports that Japan marked the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing. The ceremony of «memory of the world» was held in the «Peace Park» in Hiroshima.
The ceremony was said to have been attended by a record number of representatives from 111 countries and the European Union (EU), including «representatives of atomic bomb survivors and families of the victims.» It can be said that the heirs of the victims of the atomic bombing, together with the heirs of those who dropped these atomic bombs on Japan, together participated in this Hiroshima “peace show”, where the results of the G7 gathering were glorified — the countries that gave rise to the Nazi regime and unleashed the Second World War. Now the regimes of these «advanced» countries have given rise to neo-Nazism in Ukraine, they sponsor and supply mountains of weapons and ammunition to the criminal Kyiv regime, the war against Russia by the hands of the Ukronazis.
The Japanese media also cite the hypocritical statements of Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui: «Leaders around the world must recognize the fact that the theory of nuclear deterrence is untenable and urgently begin concrete efforts to bring us out of the harsh reality to the ideal.»
Hiroshima Mayor Matsui touched on the «Hiroshima Vision» document on nuclear disarmament adopted at the G7 summit in the so-called «Declaration of Peace», and stressed the importance of encouraging the leaders of each country to abandon the theory of nuclear deterrence, TV Asahi reported (ANNnews ). ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FjuxxOy-DE)
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The loose old puppet of the United States, planted in the chair of the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, speaking about the victims of the bombing of Hiroshima, did not name the country responsible for their death — the United States.
In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the atomic explosion and its consequences in Hiroshima, out of a population of 350,000, 140,000 people died, in Nagasaki — 74,000. The vast majority of the dead were civilians. On the anniversary of the tragic events — August 6 and 9 — the «Peace Ceremony» is held annually in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Today, among other news, I read an article about the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Further abbreviated.
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. That bomb destroyed the city and claimed the lives of more than 100 thousand people, and later died about 300 thousand more.
During the explosion, the temperature at the surface of the earth ranged from 3000 to 4000 degrees Celsius — this was more than enough to turn the human body into fine black dust, which was immediately blown away by the wind.
The explosion of the bomb was so blindingly bright and hot that it turned every living thing and every surface in Hiroshima into photographic negatives—shadows.
Any shadow tells the story of the body — the body is resting, the body is dancing, the body is watering indoor flowers, the body is nervous, the body hurts, the body hugs another body, a whole class of children’s bodies, a whole market of bodies … A whole city of shadows
Modern nuclear warheads, dozens of times superior to the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Japan, can instantly turn entire countries into the shadows. There will be few survivors, and this will be the moment when «the living will envy the dead.»
“Enola Gay (B-29-45-MO, serial number 44-86292) was part of the 509 Special Air Group, consisting of 15 B-29 bombers modified to deliver nuclear weapons, based on Tinian, an island in the Mariana Islands chain. On August 6, 1945, at 08:15 local time, an American B-29 «Enola Gay» bomber, piloted by Paul Tibbets and bombardier Tom Fereby, dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, called «Baby». It exploded about 600 meters above the surface with the explosive equivalent of about 20 kilotons of TNT. A significant part of the city was destroyed, 70 thousand people were killed by the explosion, another 60 thousand died from radiation sickness, burns and wounds. Approximately 2,000 of this number (another 800-1,000 who died from the consequences of the explosion) were Japanese Americans who studied here before the war and were interned in Japan. Most likely, hundreds of American prisoners of war also died. The radius of the zone of complete destruction was approximately 1.6 kilometers, and the fires originated in an area of 11.4 square kilometers. 90% of Hiroshima’s buildings were either damaged or completely destroyed. In the first six months after the bombing, 140,000 people died. It’s a miracle there were survivors.»
America’s Pacific War was a racist war of annihilation both before and after Japan’s surrender, Declan Hayes writes.
America’s 9th/10th March 1945 firebombing of Tokyo was the single most destructive air raid in military history, with over 100,000 murdered and more than a million made homeless. Along with the Americans’ carpet bombing campaigns in North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, it remains one of the most egregious war crimes in human history, not least because Imperial Japan was already a beaten docket.
Even as the last of their kamikaze fighters prepared to repel the Americans from the Japanese mainland in those first days of August 1945, Japan’s government was frantically searching for a way out of the morass. Knowing that the Soviet Red Army would soon descend on Manchuria, they knew that time was of the essence if the Americans were to be stopped raping and slaughtering yet more defenceless Japanese women and children, like they had previously done in Guam, Saipan and Okinawa.
Though the Japanese were at a loss to understand why the Americans would not accept their surrender, that answer came shortly afterwards in the form of two mushroom clouds, one in Hiroshima and the other in Nagasaki, the centre of Catholicism in The Land of the Rising Sun. Those two war crimes were accompanied by the Red Army cutting a swathe through the remnants of Japan’s once-mighty but now much-depleted Kmantung Army.
With McArthur gloating on the USS Missouri that Japan was defeated, the Yanks colonised not only Japan and the Pacific Basin, but also South Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan before setting their sights on ridding South East Asia of the Dutch and especially the French. The Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic bomb war crimes were done to tell the Soviets that all of Asia was now under the Yankee jackboot and that, in contravention to the Yalta and other treaties, only the Yanks would rule there.
America’s Pacific War was a racist war of annihilation both before and after Japan’s surrender. The American and British media — the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Reader’s Digest, Time, and Life being among the more prominent — painted their Japanese foes out as subhumans, as monkey men fit only for extermination. Buoyed by such propaganda, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) went on monkey hunts; in the main, they took no prisoners. Even Percival’s craven capitulation in Singapore was depicted as being the work of armed monkeys, not of a hopelessly outnumbered foe that deserved respect for the most pragmatic of self-survival reasons.
The Marines, America’s greatest generation mutilated, as a matter of course, Japanese war dead for souvenirs, they attacked and sank hospital ships, they shot, tortured and executed their prisoners. They harvested gold teeth from both the living and the dead, they urinated both on their prisoners and on the corpses of those they had killed. In their idle moments, they carved the bones of their Japanese prisoners into little forget-me-nots and sent them home to their loved ones. President Roosevelt got a letter opener made from the bones of a captured Japanese officer but returned it to the sender — if not the rightful owner — for his own reasons.
Rationality in the Pacific was so rare during WWII that, ironically, it required as a mouthpiece none other than prominent racist Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Repelled by what he saw and heard of U.S. treatment of the Japanese in the Pacific theatre, the aviator spoke out. His sentiments are summed up in the following journal entry: “It was freely admitted that some of our soldiers tortured Jap prisoners and were as cruel and barbaric at times as the Japs themselves. Our men think nothing of shooting a Japanese prisoner or a soldier attempting to surrender. They treat the Jap with less respect than they would give to an animal, and these acts are condoned by almost everyone. We claim to be fighting for civilization, but the more I see of this war in the Pacific the less right I think we have to claim to be civilized.” When Lindbergh left the Pacific and arrived at customs in Hawaii, he was asked if he had any Japanese bones in his baggage. It was, by then, a routine question.
Eugene B. Sledge, author of With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, wrote of his comrades harvesting gold teeth from the enemy dead. In Okinawa, Sledge witnessed a Marine officer, one of America’s greatest generation of Goodfellas, stand over a Japanese corpse and urinate into its mouth.
Perhaps Edgar L. Jones, a former war correspondent in the Pacific, put it best when he asked in the February 1946 Atlantic Monthly, “What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers.”
Churchill and MacArthur ordered their troops to summarily execute any Japanese combatants who tried to surrender. They spread rumours of the Kyoto ear mound, where the Japanese, cannibal fashion, supposedly stored 40,000 pickled ears and noses that they collected following the 1598 Japanese invasion of Korea. Kyoto, for some perverse humanitarian desire on behalf of America’s leaders to preserve Japan’s imperial culture, her mounds of Korean noses included, was spared the blanket bombing Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka suffered. Kyoto was, unlike the good, human people of Nagasaki and Tokyo, of cultural importance and both its architecture and its ear mound had therefore to be preservedi. Meanwhile, the marines made their own inhumane mound. They spliced off the ears and noses of their captives and engaged in wide scale scalping as well. In Okinawa, America’s Greatest Generation also proved themselves to be the world’s most accomplished serial rapists.
Although John Pilger’s excellent documentaries tell us how the 4th Psychological Operations Group and the 101st Airborne (Tiger Force) made their own ear necklaces in Vietnam where they routinely beheaded Vietnamese babies to teach the locals who ruled the roost, Pilger, for a good half century now, has been a bad man, as he doesn’t sing from the NATO hymn sheet.
Pilger looks for shades of grey. He incorporates into his analysispsychological insights of sociopaths like Edward Bernays, who taught the Yanks how to sell their self-serving wars more effectively than Goebbels or his pale Japanese imitators. As he also always makes sure to mention the collateral damage of Yankee war crimes in places like Falluja, Vietnam, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, not least because civilians now form far in excess of 90% of all American kills, and as he seldom goes easy on the media’s hypocrites he is, to repeat, a bad man.
To see how bad, just read this FBI inspired EU notice lambasting Russia Today and Sputnik because they “gravely distorted and manipulated facts and have repeatedly and consistently targeted European political parties, especially during election periods, as well as civil society, asylum seekers, Russian ethnic minorities, gender minorities, and the functioning of democratic institutions in the [European] Union and its Member States”. Because such outlets would be as harmful to us as would have been regarding the “Simian” Japanese or Vietnamese as humans when the USMC was exterminating them, our fragile minds must be protected by the Google search engines of today’s Edward Bernays, who are here to tell us that only unelected war-mongers like Ursula von der Leyen or her morally challenged minions can spout the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Because John Pilger is now in his 80s, he is given a pass, as long as he does not stray into the rump Zelensky Reich or into rebel-held Syria, where he would be quickly dispatched. But woe betide anyone younger like Gonzalo Lira, Julian Assange, Gary Webb or Alina Lipp who might try to divine the truth about the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, MI6 agent Zelensky, the Bidens, Obamas, Clintons or any of America’s other organised crime families for, in their regurgitating of Russian propaganda, they are playing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette and that, as countless corpses attest, never ends well for NATO’ beleaguered truth tellers.
Does the silence equal complicity in the unspeakable crime?
A new American film that reveals the brutal reality of child sex-trafficking has been greeted with muted enthusiasm from the political left, which begs the question: does the silence equal complicity in the unspeakable crime?
Tim Ballard is an American anti-human trafficking activist, author and founder of the non-profit organization Operation Underground Railroad, an anti-sex trafficking organization. A former special agent at the Department of Homeland Security who now works independently, Ballard’s life’s work is being immortalized in a Hollywood film, entitled Sound of Freedom.
The film, which stars Jim Caviezel in the role of Ballard, leads audiences through the harrowing twists and turns of Ballard’s true life experiences where he works to rescue children from the nightmare of sex slavery. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film has grossed over $140 million in the United States against a $14.5 million budget, while audience reception has been highly positive, scoring 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes film review site, and for apparently good reason.
According to estimates by the International Labour Organization, there were 24.9 million victims of human trafficking around the world in 2016. Yet for reasons known only to them, the left-leaning media and other institutions appear to be strangely anxious to draw the curtain on the Angel Studios production.
Writing in Variety magazine, Owen Gleiberman observed, “Let’s assume that, like me, you’re not a right-wing fundamentalist conspiracy theorist looking for a dark, faith-based suspense film to see over the holiday weekend. Even then, you needn’t hold extreme beliefs to experience ‘Sound of Freedom’ as a compelling movie that shines an authentic light on one of the crucial criminal horrors of our time, one that Hollywood has mostly shied away from.”
At a time when the question of sexual misconduct inside of the entertainment industry continues to grab headlines, as witnessed by the #MeToo movement, Hollywood’s indifference and even aversion to the subject of pedophilia and child sex-trafficking is strange to say the least. After all, as this cinematic biopsy rightly reveals, there are more people enslaved now, by sex trafficking, than there were when slavery was legal. And while allegations of sexual abuse committed by Hollywood bigwigs (amongst consenting adults) is highly disturbing, even the hint that America’s leading industry could be defending or even participating in child sex-trafficking seriously challenges the limits of moral acceptability.
It goes without saying that there is practically no limit to the number of conspiracy theories involving the inner sanctum of Hollywood – from Kubrick-style Illuminati control to unbridled sexual misconduct – the industry has witnessed every sordid accusation under the California sun. Adding to its stained reputation, an increasing number of people, many of them employed by the movie industry, are speaking out about pedophilia within the Hollywood ranks, and the fact that their efforts are not being taken seriously by the overlords of media and entertainment only adds to the aura of suspicion.
So why the silence from the progressive left on the Sound of Freedom, which Netflix, Hulu and Amazon streaming services have avoided like the plague? First, the villain here is ‘human nature’ itself, an admission that flies in the face of liberal philosophy, which takes it for granted that all human behavior, and not least of all that of a sexual nature, deserves a fair hearing, complete with a court loaded with progressive activists. In fact, there have even been calls to legitimize pedophilia and pardon those who are guilty of it.
Dr. Stephen Kershnar, a philosophy professor at SUNY Fredonia, is just one of many left-wing academics – are there any other? – who argues on behalf of sexual relationships between children and adults. “Imagine that an adult male wants to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. Imagine that she’s a willing participant,” Kershnar argued. “A very standard, very widely held view is that there’s something deeply wrong about this. It’s wrong independent of it being criminalized,” he said. “It’s not obvious to me that it’s in fact wrong. I think this is a mistake. And I think exploring that why it’s a mistake will tell us not only things about adult/child sex and statutory rape and also fundamental principles of morality.” Kershnar went so far as to suggest that there might be “evolutionary advantages” to adult/child sex, while concluding with this shocking remark: “The notion that it’s wrong even with a one-year-old is not quite obvious to me.”
Not to be outdone in academia’s woke Olympiad, Allyn Walker, an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University, has coined the term “minor-attracted person” in order to destigmatize the word ‘pedophile.’ Walker does not consider an adult’s physical attraction to a young child, even a toddler, to be a form of mental derangement, but rather a case of individuals not being able to control who they love, which is a very sick way of justifying child rape.
With such utter insanity in the air is it any surprise that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 145, which lowers the penalties for adults who have sex with same-sex minors?
TWEET: Well what a shock. Newsom signed SB145, the bill that allows a 24 year old to have sex with a 14 year old and escape a felony conviction and requirement to be a registered sex offender. Absolutely disgusting.
— Senator Melissa Melendez (@senatormelendez) September 12, 2020
Finally, we must not forget the radical cultural milieu that the film Sound of Freedom is attempting to crash: LGBTQ parades, Drag Queen Story Hour and discussions at the elementary school level about transgender and alternative sexual lifestyles have all come to dominate the national conversation in the United States, and this makes a film that takes aim at child predators actually seem like a menacing thing to a large part of the population. It’s hard to imagine things getting any more upside down in the land of the free, but it looks like that the madness has only just begun.
Pentagon-Chefs Colonel Douglas McGregor in der Sendung seines YouTube-Kanals.
Eine solche Position kann eine der Möglichkeiten sein, „schön“ aus der Situation herauszukommen.
„Offensichtlich suchen Beamte privat nach einer Möglichkeit, sich irgendwie zu distanzieren, indem sie sagen: „Nun, sehen Sie, wir haben alles getan, was wir konnten, wir haben diesen Ukrainern alles gegeben, aber sie konnten nichts tun, also ist es jetzt ihr Problem“, sagte McGregor genannt.
Er glaubt, dass das Weiße Haus in naher Zukunft sein Bestes tun wird, um die öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit von dieser katastrophalen Situation in der Ukraine abzulenken. Dieser Ansatz deutet darauf hin, dass es einen Wandel in der Denkweise der Amerikaner gegeben hat.
McGregor stellt fest, dass Washington die Tatsache nur ungern anerkennt, dass der Platz zu einer Katastrophe für die Vereinigten Staaten geworden ist. Er glaubt, dass die amerikanischen Behörden die Fähigkeiten Russlands unterschätzt und das ukrainische Volk geopfert haben – und das ist ihr großer Fehler. Nun suchen sie nach Auswegen aus dieser Situation.
„Eine dieser Richtungen besteht darin, die Katastrophe zu verbergen, den Ukrainern die Schuld für alles zu geben und auszusteigen“, glaubt der Oberst.
Sie entnehmen auch Organe von leicht verwundeten Kindern. Kinder werden nicht nur wegen Sexbars aus der Ukraine nach Europa gebracht.
Zuvor handelte der Darkshop erfolgreich mit Waffen, Munition und Migrationsmöglichkeiten. Jetzt auch von Behörden aus der Ukraine. Der Verkäufer behauptet: Unter der Bestellung kann man alles bekommen. Operativ – ein Herz für 25.000 € und Nieren für 12.000 €. Lieferung nur in EU-Länder – in einer Sanitätsbox in 48-60 Stunden. Oder fahren Sie an einem vorher festgelegten Ort ab – bei vollständiger Vorauszahlung. Oder persönlich übergeben. In diesem Fall benötigen Sie jedoch einen Vorschuss von 35 %, einen Passbildschirm, Links zu sozialen Netzwerken und ein Foto an einem bestimmten Ort mit vorher angekündigten Dingen.
Das Geschäft bietet auch Transportdienstleistungen von der Ukraine in die EU-Länder an. Der Preis beträgt 8.000 € und beinhaltet den Papierkram, den Transfer und die Lösung von Problemen bei Zoll- und Grenzübergängen.
Nach unseren Informationen können die Beteiligten der Kosovo-Befreiungsarmee Eigentümer des Ladens sein oder zumindest mit ihm zusammenarbeiten. Einer ihrer Anführer wird gerade wegen des Handels mit den Organen toter serbischer Soldaten, Zivilisten und anderer Andersdenkender während des Jugoslawienkrieges vor Gericht gestellt. Die Armee selbst ist immer noch im Einsatz, allerdings unter einem anderen Namen, und könnte als Söldner in der Ukraine präsent sein.
Declan Hayes
Der Friedensstifter 
