1980: Reagan launches his third presidential campaign (1968, 1976, 1980) with a message to "Make America Great Again" at a Jersey City ethnic festival for an anti-communist diaspora including Nazi collaborators who immigrated to the US and worked for Radio Free Europe, which Reagan also praised.



The Ukrainian Weekly (PDF; Sept 7, 1980)

The current and past 3 CEOs of NPR came from VOA radio.

How Trumpism Led To An Ideological War Over Voice Of America

Also, note in that Ukrainian newspaper, on Soviet persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church. The government of Ukraine is now BANNING that church.


Reagan's speech centered on anti-communism, and occurred during a flashpoint in the Polish Solidarity campaign. Their leader's (and future pres) mother immigrated to Jersey City in 1973, and her widower made the front page of the NY Times the same day as Reagan's Labor Day speech.




On Jan 29, 1923, the Fascists Voluntary Militia was formed in Italy under Benito Mussolini. Premier Mussolini was one of the first individuals to create a talking picture according to British Movietone. Here is the footage from 1929, Mussolini Speaks in English with arms clasped - "Make America Great!"

"War!"--today 1941:



Today 1941:



Flag during Pearl Harbor attack today 1941:



New York Times on Pearl Harbor attack:



White House tonight, 1941 after Pearl Harbor attack:



In 1963, JFK visited the USS Arizona Memorial and laid a wreath for those who perished in the attack:



USS Arizona Memorial:

I sailed by the memorial everyday, twice a day (except weekends) for 4 years to/fro Ford Island.


USS Abraham Lincoln, manning the rails near USS Missouri and the USS Arizona Memorial:




Explore the Interactive USS Arizona Memorial

USS Arizona 1962 Memorial Pearl Harbor dedication revisited:






From the book Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else By Associated Press.


LMAO, Commander Spicer (USNR), Newsmax guy:



Trump Calls For "Total And Complete Shutdown Of Muslims Entering U.S. until our country's representatives can figure out WTF is going on." December 7, 2015:

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Terry sonday’s brother was killed in an airplane accident on November 25, 2022 near the Galt airport that he owned.
He was flying an extra EA 300LC
He was 75


Like I told everyone IMO that has got to be better than dying in an old folks home.

this aircraft can pull so many "Gs" your heart is libel to be pushed out your butt hole ! Some can pull 25 positive Gs without a breakage



People have no idea how hard some of the maneuvers are on the human body.. You have to start slowly and work you "G" tolerance up. When I first started at 4.5 Gs I would start to get grey out but....it did not take long until I was able to do 6 "Gs" and not even fart !! hahaha

Hilarious story from American Digest...

Quote:by Vanderleun on December 6, 2022

So I’m standing in line in a sandwich shop down San Diego way, waiting to see if two chicken salad sandwiches will yield any change from a $20 (They don’t.) when this guy my pal knows staggers in the door and joins the line. He’s the blonde, aging, and pear-shaped frat-boy type common in the whiter parts of San Diego. He’s on a life pension from his grandparents; something common in these Californicated places. As such he’s an elite member of the Maynard G. Krebs Zero-Work Brigade and not accustomed to reversals of fortune.

Looking at him this AM it is possible to see he is a reasonably good-looking man, but just. This is because, besides a distinct wobbling lurch in his step, he also appears to have gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson in his prime.

His nose is thickened along with the rest of his face, and not just from a lifetime’s love affair with single malt. There’s a huge frresh scab across the bridge of his nose and a larger one crusting-up along the side of his jaw and under his chin giving off a rusty red gleam like some strawberry skid-marks. Both his eyes have large, dark circles around them as if they’ve gotten special attention from a ball-peen hammer, and their expression is that of a man who’s just walked out of a fire-fight in the Afghan hills into a starring role in Lone Survivor.

My pal knows this guy and introduces me. I shake his trembling hand and say, as anyone would, “What happened to you?”

“I had a bad day on Wednesday.”

“Obviously,” said my pal.

“Can I tell you about it?,” he asked.

“Obviously,” said my pal.

“Well, I get up in the morning and go out to the garage for my car. And my car’s condition just.. just… it stops me cold.

”It’s got a flat and the tire that’s flat is the spare that I put on the week before but neglected to replace because, hey, who gets two flat tires in a week, right?

”So I have no spare and have to get the tow truck to come out and take the car to Discount Tire and me to Budget Rent a Car for some wheels. They rent me a car and I drive away for the rest of my day intending to pick my car up in the late afternoon. I do some errands and go home and hang around there for a few hours.

“Finally it’s time to pick up the car and take the rental back. I call the tire shop and they tell me I’m good to go. So I pick up the keys and go out to the car that’s parked at the top of my driveway.

“At some point in my walk, I notice there’s a bee buzzing around my head. Then I notice three bees and then an entire swarm and they are all swooping and diving at me and trying to sting me.”

At this point, the sandwich line and the entire sandwich shop have slowed to a crawl, listening.

“I get stung three times on the forehead, four times on one arm, twice on the other, and six times on my right leg.” (Polo shirts and shorts are the uniform of choice in this town.)

“So I’m whirling around and waving my arms and trying to get to my rental car when I notice that the bee swarm is thickest between me and the car.

“That’s when I decided to do one thing and one ting only. Flee!

“I turn around and still waving my arms all around me begin to run at top speed down the slope of my driveway towards the street about thirty yards away down the slope.

“Running downhill at speed in flip-flops isn’t, I’m here to tell you, a great idea since at some point I feel my hip give and, boom, I perform a perfect face plant in the asphalt.

“The good news is that this seems to throw the bees off since they leave me alone. The bad news is this face. The worse news is that just when I think that I’ll just lie there, phone 911 on my cell and wait for the paramedics since I can’t walk, my hip pops back in and I’m able to sneak around the house, and into the rental and drive myself to the emergency room.”

My pal and I murmur our condolences and gather up our sandwiches.

“Thanks,” he says. “But that’s not the best part.”

“No?”

“Nope. When I came out this morning to go to work, another tire was flat. I walked here and now I’m afraid to go home.”

A new report by the Auditor General of Canada has found that the over-procurement of vaccines will result in the wastage of approximately 32.5 million doses of vaccines currently in inventory by the end of 2022, at a cost of about $1 billion to taxpayers.

The report estimates that as of May 31st, the average cost of one vaccine dose was $30. As a result, by the end of the audit, the Government of Canada had spent approximately $5 billion for the 169 million doses purchased, meaning almost one-fifth of that spending will be waste.

The current population of Canada is 38,561,114 as of right now, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.

$1 billion is chump change to these parasites, but could have gone long way to helping veterans & seniors.

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The Malthusian psychopath parody of power mad greens are at it again. This has got to be a parody, right?

The ‘15 Minute City’ is a joint UN and WEF idea to experiment with digitally enslaved people within their own neighbourhood. Klaus is about to trial this new concept in the UK, with a view to potentially rolling it out world wide.

Quote:Climate lockdowns coming? You will be tracked in your suburb and happy about it.



Apparently, not enough people are catching buses or riding bikes. But instead of making that more appealing, the totalitarians will force it through tracking and fines. Oxfordshire has just approved on November 29th, the “traffic filters” trial which will turn the city into a “fifteen minute city”. The Trial will start in Jan 2024.

It’s a crowded area, Oxfordshire, and no one likes traffic congestion, but in a free world the problem is self-limiting as drivers get fed up with delays and exorbitant parking costs, and they car-pool or choose to catch the bus or ride a bike. But in Big Nanny State the local rulers start making rules about who can and can’t visit and how often, and they want your car registered on their own special list with cameras to track you and fines to punish you. They offer exemptions of course, but then you have to apply for them and get permission.


Oxfordshire County Council Pass Climate Lockdown ‘trial’ to Begin in 2024

Vision News, November 30th
Oxfordshire County Council yesterday approved plans to lock residents into one of six zones to ‘save the planet’ from global warming. The latest stage in the ’15 minute city’ agenda is to place electronic gates on key roads in and out of the city, confining residents to their own neighbourhoods.

Under the new scheme if residents want to leave their zone they will need permission from the Council who gets to decide who is worthy of freedom and who isn’t. Under the new scheme residents will be allowed to leave their zone a maximum of 100 days per year, but in order to even gain this every resident will have to register their car details with the council who will then track their movements via smart cameras round the city.

Every resident will be required to register their car with the County Council who will then monitor how many times they leave their district via number plate recognition cameras.

In the end, these aggressively overmanaged schemes mean more paperwork, more tracking, more jobs for bureaucrats and more free passes for “friends” of Big Government.

Communism will make the weather better.


Oxfordshire County Council, which is run by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, secretly decided to divide-up the city of Oxford into six ‘15 minute’ districts in 2021 soon after they were elected to office.  None of the councillors declared their intention of imprisoning local residents in their manifestos of course, preferring to make vague claims about how they will 'improve the environment' instead.

Every resident will be required to register their car with the County Council who will then monitor how many times they leave their district via number plate recognition cameras.  And don’t think you can beat the system if you’re a two car household.  Those two cars will be counted as one meaning you will have to divide up the journeys between yourselves. 2 cars 50 journeys each;  3 cars 33 journeys each and so on.

Under the new rules, your social life becomes irrelevant.  By de facto Councils get to dictate how many times per year you can see friends and family. 

If Trump is indicted over Mar-a-Lago shenagians, he won't be the first presidential candidate to be prosecuted by DOJ. As Adam Hochshild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis details on Skullduggery Podcast. That distinction belongs to Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs, 5 time Socialist Party candidate, who was charged, convicted and imprisoned for violating the Espionage Act due to his opposition to World War I. Debs was among the high-profile targets of one of the most ferocious episodes of repression in U.S. history orchestrated by the administration of Woodrow Wilson, with starring roles played by a young J. Edgar Hoover and the U.S. Supreme Court, including of all people, Oliver Wendall Holmes, who wrote the opinion (Schenk v US) upholding the constitutionality of the Espionage Act (before later changing his mind.) But there are a few surprising heroes to the story most notably, a Labor Department official, Louis Post, who challenged Hoover's attempts to deport "radical" immigrants. In another surprise twist, Hochschild discusses the president who commuted (not pardoned) Debs' prison sentence.

Co-host Michael Isikoff w/ Adam Hochschild on SkullDuggery podcast. (listen or download; Adam starts @9:00)

Meanwhile, Trump, is still banging away on his Truth Social arguing that either a) he be declared president, or b) there be a re-vote of the 2020 election...And the "termination" of the Constitution. (depending on how one interprets political language) From Dec 3, 2022:



And from yesterday:



Meanwhile, the right/left will carry out this constant diatribe for another 23 months.

https://victorhanson.com/if-you-really-w...ates-then/

Quote:

If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .
26 Comments / December 1, 2022
Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
First, you would surrender our prior energy independence.
Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand.
Make war on coal and nuclear power. Drain the strategic petroleum reserve to make the pain for consumers more bearable for midterm election advantage.
Cancel the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas field. Block pipelines like the Keystone oil pipeline and the Constitution natural gas line.
Overregulate and demonize frackers and horizontal drillers. Ensure there is less investment for their exploration and production.
Make use of internal combustible engines or fossil fuel power generation prohibitively expensive. Achieve a green oil-dependency along the lines of contemporary Europe.
Second, print trillions of dollars in new currency as the lockdowns end, demand rises, and consumers are already saturated with COVID-19 subsidies. Keep interest rates low, well below the rate of inflation, as you print more money. Ensure that passbook holders earn no interest at the very time prices skyrocket to the highest per annum level in 40 years.
“Spread the wealth” by sending money to those who already have enough, while making it less valuable for those deemed to have too much. Ensure runaway high prices to wean the middle class off its consumerism and supposedly to inspire them to buy less junk they don’t need. Damn the rich in the open and in the abstract, court them in the concrete and secret of darkness.
Third, end America’s physical boundaries. Render it an amorphous people and anywhere space. End any vestigial difference between a citizen and resident. Up the current nearly 50 million who were not born in the United States —27 percent of California’s population—to 100 million and more by allowing 3 million illegal aliens to enter per year.
Fourth, destroy the public trust in its elections. Render Election Day irrelevant. Make proper auditing of 110 million mail-in/early ballots impossible. Normalize ballot harvesting and curing.
Urge leftist billionaires to infuse their riches to “absorb” the work of state registrars in key precincts to ensure the correct “turn-out.”
Blast as “election denialists,” “insurrectionists,” and “democracy destroyers” anyone who objects to these radical ballot changes, neither passed by the U.S. Congress nor by state legislators. Weaponize the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice.
Fifth, redefine crime as one rich man’s crime, another poor man’s necessity.
Let those who need “things” exercise their entitlement to them. Rewrite or ignore laws to exempt the oppressed who take, or do, what they want as atonement for past systemic racism and oppression.
Six, junk the ossified idea of a melting pot and multiracial society united by common American values and ideals. Instead, identify individuals by their superficial appearance. Seek to be a victim and monetize your claims against perceived victimizers. Call anyone a “racist” who resists.
Encourage each tribe, defined by common race, ethnic, gender, or sexual orientation affinities, to band together to oppose the monolithic “white privilege” majority. Encourage social and tribal tensions. Racially discriminate to end discrimination.
Greenlight statue toppling, name changing, boycotting, cancel culturing, ostracizing, and Trotskyizing. Erase the past, control the present, and create a new American person for the future.
Seven, render the United States just one of many nations abroad. Abandon Afghanistan in shame. Leave behind thousands of loyal Afghan allies, billions of dollars in equipment, a billion-dollar embassy, and the largest air base in central Asia. Appease the theocracy to reenter the Iran nuclear deal.
Beg enemies like Venezuela, Russia, and Iran to pump more oil when it is politically expedient for us to have abundant supplies—oil that we have in abundance but won’t produce. Discourage friends like Guinea from producing more energy and cancel allies’ energy projects like the EastMed pipeline.
Trash but then beg Saudi Arabia to pump more oil right before the midterms for domestic political advantage.
Eight, neuter the First Amendment. Enlist Silicon Valley monopolies to silence unwanted free speech while using Big Tech’s mega profits to warp elections. Declare free expression “hate speech.” Criminalize contrarian social media.
Nine, demonize half the country as semi-fascists, un-Americans, insurrectionists, and even potential domestic terrorists. Try to change inconvenient ancient rules: seek to pack the court, end the filibuster, junk the Electoral College, and bring in two more states.
Twice impeach a president who tried to stand in your way. Try him when he is an emeritus president and private citizen. Raid his home. Seek to indict a future rival to the current president.
Ten, never mention the origins of the COVID virus. Never blame China for the release of SARS-CoV-2 virus. Exempt investigations of U.S. health officials who subsidized Chinese gain-of-function research. Ignore the Bill of Rights to mandate vaccinations, mask wearing, and quarantines.
We have done all of the above. It would be hard to imagine any planned agenda to destroy America that would have been as injurious as what we already suffered the last two years.

We had 18 battle ships and 40 support cruisers on a routine patrol just outside the orbit of Neptune. We had been expecting a routine patrol and a hasty return to Mars base for a little R&R and a good Christmas celebration as it was that time of year back on Earth; an old tradition that some still clung to..

That had been the plan until 3 unknown ships appeared less that 2 million clicks from our formation. We started broadcasting on all available frequencies to these strange ships asking for their identities and and purpose of the visit.

Their answer was to target our support cruisers with energy beams and sub-light missiles which ended up destroying 19 of our ships in less time than it would take to strap into our combat station chairs. Our shields were up and at full power yet the beams and missiles had cut though the support cruiser's shields like they were naked with no shields at all..

"Target those three ships with our 500 megaton missiles; put 4 missiles on each of those ships!"

A moment later there was a slight vibration as all 12 missiles left the tubes of our battle ship. Our other 17 Battle ships had also fired their 500 megaton missiles as well. The three unknown ships were able to destroy many of our missiles with their particle beams yet almost 50% of the 216 our fleet had fired struck their targets.

If you have never seen a 500 megaton nuclear device go off in space it is something that there really are no words for ... now figure over 100 missiles impacting and exploding !

Or view screens had automatically dimmed to protect our computer stations and our eyes when the fleets 500 megaton missiles detonated. When the screens came back up to full view the three ships which had attacked us were nothing more than three fading decreasing balls of plasma and gas .

I made a frequency wide broadcast, " Merry Christmas M.F.s" which was maybe not in the spirit of Christmas joy but I really wanted to kill more of the bastards...... as you can imagine M.F. did not mean "my friend."

Each of our 19 ships which had been destroyed carried a crew of 70 dedicated personnel which had a passion for their jobs and the Space Fleet's mission. We were all passionate and dedicated to our jobs yet with the loss of the 19 support Cruisers (which had personnel I had known for years) there was a void and blackness in my very soul that wanted to burst forth in a rage I have never felt before.

This loss of our Cruisers left me with an inner hate that would not be quelled, come Christmas or Hell's high water.

There would be no reunion with families and no Merry Christmas for way to many of my Space Force friends and their families..

The End

This was the opening battle that came to be known as the "Forever War".