Old wounds (132 posts)
Post #1
21 Nov 2005
Formerly "Previous Wars". This is the thread to post news about the consequences of wars long past or recently ended.
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quote: Christian Science Monitor
Tokyo teacher embattled over war history
City official said Japan never invaded Korea. Teacher demurs.
TOKYO – Miyako Masuda is a 23-year veteran of public schools here. Like many Japanese history teachers of her generation, she dislikes new textbooks that frame Japan as the victim in World War II. It bothers her that books claiming America caused the war are now adopted by an entire city ward. In fact, Masuda disapproves of the whole nationalist direction of Tokyo public schools.
... when a Tokyo city councilman in an official meeting said "Japan never invaded Korea," her history class sent an apology to Korean President Roh Moo-hyan - an action that sparked her removal from her classroom.
City official said Japan never invaded Korea. Teacher demurs.
TOKYO – Miyako Masuda is a 23-year veteran of public schools here. Like many Japanese history teachers of her generation, she dislikes new textbooks that frame Japan as the victim in World War II. It bothers her that books claiming America caused the war are now adopted by an entire city ward. In fact, Masuda disapproves of the whole nationalist direction of Tokyo public schools.
... when a Tokyo city councilman in an official meeting said "Japan never invaded Korea," her history class sent an apology to Korean President Roh Moo-hyan - an action that sparked her removal from her classroom.
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quote: CNN
Last survivor of 1914 'Christmas Truce' dies
WWI veteran, 109, was Scotland's oldest man
LONDON, England (AP) -- Alfred Anderson, the last surviving soldier to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous "Christmas Truce" of World War I, died Monday at age 109.
Born June 25, 1896, Anderson was an 18-year-old soldier in the Black Watch regiment when British and German troops cautiously emerged from the trenches that Christmas Day in 1914. The enemies swapped cigarettes and tunic buttons, sang carols and even played soccer amid the mud, barbed wire and shell-holes of no man's land.
WWI veteran, 109, was Scotland's oldest man
LONDON, England (AP) -- Alfred Anderson, the last surviving soldier to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous "Christmas Truce" of World War I, died Monday at age 109.
Born June 25, 1896, Anderson was an 18-year-old soldier in the Black Watch regiment when British and German troops cautiously emerged from the trenches that Christmas Day in 1914. The enemies swapped cigarettes and tunic buttons, sang carols and even played soccer amid the mud, barbed wire and shell-holes of no man's land.
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"Prince Charles has paid tribute to Scotland's oldest man and the country's longest serving veteran of World War I, who has died at the age of 109.
Alfred Anderson, who served with the 5th Battalion the Black Watch, died in a nursing home in Angus."
More in link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4456234.stm
Apparently there are now only 9 WW1 veterans still alive in the UK.
Stephen Shevlin
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quote: AP
Agreement set to unify Bosnia
WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of Bosnia's three major ethnic groups have reached an accord designed to unify the Balkan country by remaking the government's constitution a decade after a bloody civil war.
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A decade after a bloody three-year war gave way to an ethnically divided government, the agreement to overhaul the constitutional structure was signed Monday night after three days of negotiations overseen by U.S. diplomats.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of Bosnia's three major ethnic groups have reached an accord designed to unify the Balkan country by remaking the government's constitution a decade after a bloody civil war.
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A decade after a bloody three-year war gave way to an ethnically divided government, the agreement to overhaul the constitutional structure was signed Monday night after three days of negotiations overseen by U.S. diplomats.
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quote: Newsday
Holocaust survivor to be reunited with rescuers' family
Sheltered for eight years, she forgot how to walk
... She said she cried for weeks, confined to the darkest corner of the three Szczygiel sisters' room so she wouldn't be detected by neighbors. She spent nights under a bed as Zalucka slept, stifling her moans, conversations with imaginery friends and her wimpering with a handkerchief wet from tears. Through it all, Zalucka bathed her guest, combed her hair and taught her to read and write.
.. As Ruth Gruener tells it, the Szczygiels took a grave risk by sheltering her, punishable by death. She arrived at the house the day after her father snuck her past murderous guards and out of the Jewish ghetto under his overcoat late in 1941.
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quote: CBC
Brit troops to see 1914 Xmas 'anti-war' film
British soldiers in Iraq will take in screenings of "Merry Christmas", a controversial Oscar-nominated film about the Christmas truce of the First World War.
... The French army refused to participate in the making of the film, saying soldiers who participated in the Christmas truce were disobeying orders.
British soldiers in Iraq will take in screenings of "Merry Christmas", a controversial Oscar-nominated film about the Christmas truce of the First World War.
... The French army refused to participate in the making of the film, saying soldiers who participated in the Christmas truce were disobeying orders.
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quote: Financial Times
Poland risks ire of Russia over cold war files
Poland on Friday risked inflaming tensions with Russia when it released 1,700 highly sensitive Warsaw Pact files, including a war game exercise that envisaged massive nuclear destruction in western Europe and Poland.
...The military files handed over to Poland's Institute of National Remembrance also included details of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”.
Poland on Friday risked inflaming tensions with Russia when it released 1,700 highly sensitive Warsaw Pact files, including a war game exercise that envisaged massive nuclear destruction in western Europe and Poland.
...The military files handed over to Poland's Institute of National Remembrance also included details of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”.
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Post #9
27 Nov 2005
quote: Asahi Shimbun
Hu raises Yasukuni issue during talks with Bush
BEIJING--Chinese President Hu Jintao told U.S. President George W. Bush on Sunday that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's recent visit to Yasukuni Shrine has blocked the development of Tokyo-Beijing relations, sources said....
....But Bush told Hu that the United States has forgiven Japan, and that Beijing should promote dialogue with Tokyo because a restored Japan-China relationship would contribute to peace and stability in Asia, and thus mesh with U.S. diplomatic policies in the region.
BEIJING--Chinese President Hu Jintao told U.S. President George W. Bush on Sunday that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's recent visit to Yasukuni Shrine has blocked the development of Tokyo-Beijing relations, sources said....
....But Bush told Hu that the United States has forgiven Japan, and that Beijing should promote dialogue with Tokyo because a restored Japan-China relationship would contribute to peace and stability in Asia, and thus mesh with U.S. diplomatic policies in the region.
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quote: BBC
Bosnia unveils Bruce Lee as universal symbol of peace
The statue is situated in Mostar's central park and faces north
A bronze of martial arts legend Bruce Lee has been erected in the Bosnian city of Mostar - a day before a second statue of him is unveiled in Hong Kong.
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"We will always be Muslims, Serbs or Croats," said Veselin Gatalo of the youth group Urban Movement Mostar.
"But one thing we all have in common is Bruce Lee."
quote: Sky News
Legend's Nunchucks Nicked
A life-size brass statue honouring the martial arts legend in Bosnia had its nunchucks swiped just hours after it was unveiled.
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"Once again we've shown what Balkan savageness is!" a citizen said after.
A life-size brass statue honouring the martial arts legend in Bosnia had its nunchucks swiped just hours after it was unveiled.
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"Once again we've shown what Balkan savageness is!" a citizen said after.
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quote: Baltimore Sun
Rationale for Vietnam faked in 1964, NSA historian wrote
Gulf of Tonkin attacks never happened
WASHINGTON // A National Security Agency analysis released yesterday contends that an alleged 1964 attack on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, which the Johnson administration cited as justification for greater U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, never happened, casting further doubt on the rationale for escalation of the conflict.
The most provocative document is a 2001 article in which an NSA historian argued that the agency's intelligence officers "deliberately skewed" the evidence passed on to policymakers on the crucial question of whether North Vietnamese ships attacked U.S. destroyers on Aug. 4, 1964.
Gulf of Tonkin attacks never happened
WASHINGTON // A National Security Agency analysis released yesterday contends that an alleged 1964 attack on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, which the Johnson administration cited as justification for greater U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, never happened, casting further doubt on the rationale for escalation of the conflict.
The most provocative document is a 2001 article in which an NSA historian argued that the agency's intelligence officers "deliberately skewed" the evidence passed on to policymakers on the crucial question of whether North Vietnamese ships attacked U.S. destroyers on Aug. 4, 1964.
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Hasn't this been known for 30 years? I learned that the Gulf of Tonkin was faked in High School History.
Makes you wonder what the motivation of the NSA releasing old news like that at this moment. Like they're saying, "You see this isn't the only war that was started under the pretest of a lie." "It's just the way things are done around here." "Don't hate the playa."
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And actually this bit of news came up last year too.
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quote: BBC
Honouring Austerlitz's 'brave men'
Four thousand military enthusiasts in full historical uniform came from all over the world to take part in the reenactment of the battle of Austerlitz. Some marched for days to reach Slavkov, camping in the snow-covered fields of South Moravia.
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It was dubbed the Battle of the three Emperors. On 2 December 1805, 75,000 soldiers of Napoleon's Grande Armee outwitted a larger Russo-Austrian force of 90,000 on fields near the town of Austerlitz, in what was then the Austrian empire.
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quote: The Guardian
Croatian war crimes suspect arrested in Canaries
Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general wanted by the Hague war crimes tribunal for the mass murder of Serbs has been arrested in the Canary Islands, the UN chief prosecutor said today.
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The charges hold the general culpable for the murders of 150 Serbs by men under his command in the 1995 campaign to retake territory held by Serb forces since the 1991 outbreak of war.
Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general wanted by the Hague war crimes tribunal for the mass murder of Serbs has been arrested in the Canary Islands, the UN chief prosecutor said today.
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The charges hold the general culpable for the murders of 150 Serbs by men under his command in the 1995 campaign to retake territory held by Serb forces since the 1991 outbreak of war.
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quote: Reuters
Film relives horror of Lebanese camp massacres
DUBAI (Reuters) - Twenty-three years after hacking to death Palestinian refugees, the Lebanese perpetrators show no remorse recounting the massacre in a chilling documentary film showing in the Middle East this week.
... In passing, they give details of the links between Israel and the militia it had helped train. The men describe trips in 1980 to Israel, where they were shown films about the Nazi attempt to annihilate European Jews in World War Two.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Twenty-three years after hacking to death Palestinian refugees, the Lebanese perpetrators show no remorse recounting the massacre in a chilling documentary film showing in the Middle East this week.
... In passing, they give details of the links between Israel and the militia it had helped train. The men describe trips in 1980 to Israel, where they were shown films about the Nazi attempt to annihilate European Jews in World War Two.
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quote: The Scotsman
Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors
THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia's top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.
THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia's top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.
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Is that related to this?
From The New York Times:
"The young Soviet Union, in its effort to stamp out religion, was determined to prove that men were descended from apes. In 1926, a Soviet scientist named Ilya Ivanov decided the most compelling way to do this would be to breed a humanzee: a human-chimpanzee hybrid."
"....Next Ivanov wrote a Cuban heiress, Rosalia Abreu. Abreu was the first person to breed chimps in captivity and had a large menagerie outside Havana. Ivanov asked if any of her male chimpanzees might be available to inseminate a Russian volunteer known to posterity only as 'G.""
More in link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/opinion/12wynne.html
Stephen Shevlin
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Interesting article about the son of the Nazi architect, Albert Speer. Speer Jr. himself became an architect. He talks about how he was able to make a career for himself even with his father's name.
Speer talks later about how Germany has been attempting to rebuild some pre WWII structures.
quote: Reuters
Albert Speer Jr emerges from Nazi father's shadow
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - As the son of one of Hitler's closest aides who spent much of his childhood at the dictator's mountain retreat, Albert Speer knows more than most Germans what it is like to live in the shadow of the country's Nazi past.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - As the son of one of Hitler's closest aides who spent much of his childhood at the dictator's mountain retreat, Albert Speer knows more than most Germans what it is like to live in the shadow of the country's Nazi past.
Speer talks later about how Germany has been attempting to rebuild some pre WWII structures.
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Although he is against rebuilding, Speer is critical of the decision by German planners in the aftermath of World War Two to rip down many old buildings in what he said was the flawed belief that they could create a "new society".
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quote: UPI
U2 to retire
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A classified budget document approved by the Pentagon Dec. 23 calls for the termination by 2011 of one of the most heavily relied-upon reconnaissance planes in the Iraq war.
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The U-2, built by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, would likely be supplanted by the Northrop Grumman's high-altitude Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle; and champions of the venerable spy plane believe the U-2 termination is meant to hasten the transition away from manned toward unmanned reconnaissance. As long as the U-2 is performing these missions and is available, there is less impetus to develop unmanned platforms and space systems, the high-tech systems heavily favored by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon.
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Two co-workers and I were giddy because of that headline.
BUZZ KILL.
- Marz
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You bacon eating hockey loving bastard.
Also, I'm shocked to learn U2's were still around. That Roswell tech must have been good stuff.
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One of history's true heroes dies.
Pilot who stopped My Lai massacre dies
New Orleans — ...
Early in the morning of March 16, 1968, Hugh Thompson, door-gunner Lawrence Colburn and crew chief Glenn Andreotta came upon U.S. ground troops killing civilians in and around the South Vietnamese village of My Lai.
They landed the helicopter in the line of fire between U.S. troops and the fleeing Vietnamese civilians and pointed their own guns at the U.S. soldiers to prevent more killings.
quote: AP
Pilot who stopped My Lai massacre dies
New Orleans — ...
Early in the morning of March 16, 1968, Hugh Thompson, door-gunner Lawrence Colburn and crew chief Glenn Andreotta came upon U.S. ground troops killing civilians in and around the South Vietnamese village of My Lai.
They landed the helicopter in the line of fire between U.S. troops and the fleeing Vietnamese civilians and pointed their own guns at the U.S. soldiers to prevent more killings.
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quote: The Space Review
Photo of secret facility at Groom Lake taken by the US Geological Survey in 1968. (credit: USGS)
Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident
Far out in the Nevada desert, miles from prying eyes, is a secret Air Force facility that has been known by numerous names over the years. It has been called Paradise Ranch, Watertown Strip, Area 51, Dreamland, and Groom Lake. Groom is probably the most mythologized real location that few people have ever seen. According to people with overactive imaginations, it is where the United States government keeps dead aliens, clones them, and reverse-engineers their spacecraft. It is also where NASA filmed the faked Moon landings.
... This secrecy was threatened in early 1974 when the astronauts on Skylab pointed their camera out the window and took pictures of a facility that did not officially exist. They returned to Earth and their photographs quickly became a headache for NASA, the CIA, and the Department of Defense. That story has never been told before.
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and to think, you can now pull the site up on Google Maps
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quote: BBC
Hidden history of US germ testing
... In the 1950s, the Seventh-day Adventist Church struck an extraordinary deal with the US Army. It would provide test subjects for experiments on biological weapons at the Fort Detrick research centre near Washington DC.
The volunteers were conscientious objectors who agreed to be infected with debilitating pathogens. In return, they were exempted from frontline warfare.
... In the 1950s, the Seventh-day Adventist Church struck an extraordinary deal with the US Army. It would provide test subjects for experiments on biological weapons at the Fort Detrick research centre near Washington DC.
The volunteers were conscientious objectors who agreed to be infected with debilitating pathogens. In return, they were exempted from frontline warfare.
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Amazing. I can't see them at all:
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WW1 Sniper tree - I'm fooled!
Cath
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I saw a fascinating documentary (The Big Break - CBC) about these Indian workers, families most of them, who day by day break apart huge rusting ships, exposing themslves to toxins with many of them dying in accidents. Greenpeace has a minisite devoted to this issue.
Mighty French Warship Ends Its Days
PARIS -- When it first took to the seas nearly 50 years ago, the Clemenceau was the crown jewel of French naval prowess. Today, the decommissioned aircraft carrier is an albatross for France amid an uproar over the toxic waste the hulking ship carries.
... Environmentalists insist the Clemenceau should have been cleaned up before leaving port and say France's transfer of the vessel violates the Basel Convention, an international accord on trade in potentially hazardous waste.
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quote: Washington Post
Mighty French Warship Ends Its Days
PARIS -- When it first took to the seas nearly 50 years ago, the Clemenceau was the crown jewel of French naval prowess. Today, the decommissioned aircraft carrier is an albatross for France amid an uproar over the toxic waste the hulking ship carries.
... Environmentalists insist the Clemenceau should have been cleaned up before leaving port and say France's transfer of the vessel violates the Basel Convention, an international accord on trade in potentially hazardous waste.
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Keith Loh www.keithloh.com
The New Medievalism Forum
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The FS Clemenceau debacle is just the latest installment, as you've noticed, in an ongoing story that continues to vex me as it has since I first that article on shipbreaking practices in Wired a few years back. Even Paul Martin's old shipping line has been caught sending olden vessels off to such breakers as you currently find on the shore of India/Bharat.
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