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ABC World News interviews three ex-POWs on the occasion of NAMPOWs’ 40th anniversary of freedom
May 19, 2013 | Vanity
Posted on Sunday, May 19, 2013 3:19:49 PM by Mach9
American prisoners-of-war held by communist North Vietnam during the years between 1965 and 1973 will celebrate their 40th year of freedom as a result of the release engineered by Pres. Nixon in 1973.
The Nixon Library, on the occasion of both the 100th anniversary of the president’s birth and the 40th anniversary of the formal dinner he hosted in May 1973 for recently returned American POWs, will recreate that dinner at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA, on May 24.
Hundreds of still-living POWs will attend, and several have already been interviewed by Diane Sawyer to air during the week of May 20. The first such interview will air on ABC World News (check for local stations) at 6:30 p.m., EDT, Monday, May 20 (repeated at 6:30 p.m. on May 27th, Memorial Day).
WE LET THEM DIE… Bob Lonsberry
WE LET THEM DIE
boblonsberry.com ^ | 10/26/12 | Bob Lonsberry
Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:47:10 AM by shortstop
American life must be cheap.
At least in the valuation of the White House and the other big buildings around Washington.
Must be the men and women sent overseas mean nothing. We’ll meet your coffin at Andrews, if there are TV cameras, but damned if we’ll come to your rescue.
That’s what we learned at Benghazi.
As details have come out in dribs and drabs, each new revelation has illustrated the uncomfortable fact that we left those men to fight and die alone.
We did not defend them, we did not relieve them, we just watched them. Our drone circled overhead, providing a real-time video feed, but it did not fire its missiles, it was not used to guide in a relief force, it just took pictures.
Grisly souvenirs of a gutless administration.
For most of a year, our Libyan ambassador and various members of his security detachment warned of danger and pleaded for assistance. Time and time again the people on the ground said it wasn’t safe and they needed protection. Time and time again people in Washington declined the requests. Instead of increasing our security forces there, the administration cut them.
And then the attack came.
Prison Planet.com » Why Are Preppers Hated So Much?
Have you noticed that it has become trendy to bash preppers? For a long time the prepper movement was ignored, but now it has become so large that it is getting very difficult for the mainstream media to pretend that it is not there.
In fact, it has been estimated that there are now approximately 3 million preppers in the United States alone. So now the mainstream media has decided that mocking the movement is the best strategy, and lots of “critics” and “skeptics” out there have picked up on this trend. Instead of addressing the very real issues that have caused millions of Americans to prepare for the worst, those criticizing the prepper movement attempt to put the focus on individual personalities.
They try to find the strangest nutjobs they possibly can and then hold them up as “typical preppers”. The goal is to portray preppers as tinfoil hat wearing freaks that need to be locked up in the loony bin for their own personal safety and for the good of society. The criticism of preppers has really ramped up in recent months, and it will likely get even worse in 2013. The establishment does not like any movement that is outside of their control, and the prepper movement is definitely not under their control.
ROMNEY CAMPAIGN ENLISTS OVER 300 MILITARY GENERALS
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romneyannounced this week he was beefing up his campaign with some top brass:more than 300 retired general and flag officers, who will serve ina consultant role onhis campaign’s military advisory panel.
Thelist, which contains more than twodozen retired four-stars, includes Gens. James Conway and Paul X Kelley, former commandants ofthe Marine Corps; Army Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the initial assault of the Taliban in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11,2001 attacks and oversaw the overthrow of SaddamHussein in 2003; and Army Gen. James Joseph Lindsay, the first commander of U.S. Special OperationsCommand.
A wildcard choice onthe list is retired Army Gen. Hugh Shelton, who endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2008, but made astir four years earlier by pointedly declining to endorse a fellow retired Army four-star onthe Democratic ticket,, Gen. Wesley Clark.
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ATTENTION BLOGGERS: The Regular Folks Need To Be Heard From…Not Just Pro Writers/Bloggers…Start Posting /ReBlogging NOW!!!!!
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Was the TV Show ‘Doomsday Preppers’ Used to Convict Another Prepper in Court? « SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom
A number of times in the past, I have warned about how dangerous I think T.V. shows like Doomsday Preppers are to the prepping community. In my opinion, these prepping shows do nothing to help people prepare and are designed to do only one thing – To make Preppers look like complete Wackjobs!
Don’t Send That Outraged E-Mail by Gary North… (“Blog it instead, I’m going to show you how. It’s free. It’s fast. It’s the way to go. Ask Matt Drudge”)
Blog it instead, I’m going to show you how. It’s free. It’s fast. It’s the way to go. Ask Matt Drudge. He didn’t send an email to Newsweek deploring the spiking of an article. He posted his report — without objections — on his blog in 1998. This eventually got a President impeached. His site gets 6 million visits a day. Meanwhile, Newsweek is up for sale. Here is the great irony: DrudgeReport.com (two employees) is worth more than Newsweek.
So, you read a bonehead article. You’re convinced that what that author really needs is a piece of your mind. You think you can spare it. You have decided to sit down and write him an email.
Here are eleven good reasons not to do it.
First They Came for the Bloggers…
…..Let’s hope so, but I wouldn’t hold your ‘collective’ breath here. I warned about this previously – first they will come for the bloggers using copyright infringement as a weapon, then taxation and fees.
The American government will do anything they can to shut us up and those that believe this does not affect them better wake up and soon.
Why There Is No Justice In America…Dr Ed Rivera…(edrivera.com)
Why There Is No Justice In America…Ed Rivera…
(Re Judge Andrew Napolitano)
LINK BELOW !!!!!!
(Ron Paul – Larry McDonald Connection?) Congressman Larry McDonald – Interesting | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Ron Paul 2012
Congressman Larry McDonald – Interesting
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Has anyone ever researched former Congressman Larry McDonald? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_McDonald
His disappearance is rather interesting…
A Conservative Democrat, he was active in numerous civil organizations and maintained a conservative voting record in Congress. He was known for his staunch opposition to communism and believed in long standing covert efforts by powerful US groups to bring about a socialist world government.
He served as Congressman in seventh district of Georgia. He was re-elected four times and served from January 3, 1975, until his disappearance, on September 1, 1983.
An admirer of Austrian economics, he was an advocate of tight monetary policy in the late 1970s to get the economy out of stagflation. He was also a passionate advocate of laissez-faire or market based policies.
Ron Paul on Larry McDonald – YouTube (See Additional info This Post Re Larry Patton Mcdonald, Erc…)
Larry McDonald – New World Order | TRUTH WARS
Larry McDonald – New World Order
By Colin On January 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Congressman Larry McDonald on Crossfire, May 1983, just three months before being killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets near Moneron Island after the plane entered Soviet airspace.
“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy?
Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.” Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976
Early Christian Communism
For centuries the alleged ideal of communism had come to the world as a messianic and millennial creed. Various seers, notably Joachim of Fiore, had prophesied the final state of mankind as one of perfect harmony and equality, one where all things are owned in common, where there is no necessity for work or need for the division of labor.
In the case of Joachim, of course, problems of production and property, indeed of scarcity in general, were “solved” by man no longer possessing a physical body. As pure spirits, men as equal and harmonious psychic entities spending all their time chanting praise to God, might make a certain amount of sense. But the communist idea applied to a physical mankind still needing to produce and consume is a very different matter. In any case, the communist ideal continued to be put forward as a religious, millennial doctrine. We have seen in volume I its enormous influence on the Anabaptist wing of the Reformation in the 16th century. Millennial and communist dreams also inspired various fringe Protestant sects during the English Civil War of the mid-17th century, particularly the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Fifth Monarchy Men.
The most important forerunner of Marxian communism among these Civil War Protestant sectarians was Gerrard Winstanley (1609–60), the founder of the Digger movement and a man much admired by Marxist historians.
Zero Gov – Anti-Government, Pro-Liberty » Blog Archive » The Constitution: The God That Failed (To Liberate Us From Big Government) by Bill Buppert
I wrote this earlier and wanted to republish since I will be debating the Articles versus the Constitution tomorrow in Yuma, Arizona at the 2012 Freedom Library Annual Awards Ceremony Debate. The issue gets more critical year by year because the Constitution may very well be one of the most clever anti-freedom documents crafted by man in the Western world.
As a result of a crafty and thorough propaganda campaign, a document that purports to support limited government and peaceful human activity has done exactly the opposite in such a gargantuan fashion that one is aghast so many people can still be deluded by the premise and continue to be bamboozled by its promise.
Kansas ‘Doomsday Prepper’ sentenced to prison – KansasCity.com
Government exhibits included grenade bodies, powder and fuses. Prosecutors said five incendiary bombs were found in a storage locker leased to Dutton in Eureka in southeastern Kansas.
Dutton’s defense said he was preparing for the collapse of the economy and collecting medical supplies, non-perishable foods and other items.
The defense submitted to the court an excerpt from a National Geographic documentary on “Doomsday Preppers” to illustrate his state of mind.
Admiral Fallon On The USS Saratoga During USS Liberty Attack…was born in East Orange
He Was A Carrier Pilot On The Saratoga Fallon was a young US Naval Officer serving aboard the US Aircraft Carrier Saratoga in June, 1967, when Israel launched a surprise war against its Arab neighbors.
He saw the valiant F-4 Phantom pilots rocket off the Saratoga to save the crew of the USS Liberty, only to return 15 minutes later.
(Gunny G: The WW II DUCKS (DUKW) Are Alive and Well @ Stone Mountain, Georgia!) ~ CAMP MCGILL D.U.K.W.S “DUCKS
GUNNY G NOTE:
I recently visited Stone Mountain, Georgia, and I was both surprised and pleased to see them using the old WW II DUKW (DUCKS) there as guided tour buses!
(See Wikipedia)
They do both the perimeter of SM, and also go amphib on one of the lakes there, and ashore again.
The park is a great historical site, and seeing the old DUCKS up and running there is a bonus for any old Marine, like me, to behold!
Semper Watching!
Gunny G
aka: Dick Gaines
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I SERVED WITH ONE OF THE LAST DUCK UNITS IN THE MARINE CORP DURING THE MIDDLE 1950S 1956 THRU 1957 MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT WE WERE THE LAST GROUND TROOPS IN JAPAN PRIOR TO NAM. I HAVE GREAT MEMORIES OF CAMP MCGILL AND THE LIBERTIES IN YOKOHAMA AN YOKOSKA. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY AT CAMP MCGILL WHEN I SERVED THERE WAS WITH TRACS AND TANKS. D.U.K.W.S OR “DUCKS” WERE CONSIDERED OBSOLESCENT AFTER 1957. THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO REMEMBER SOME GREAT TIMES. ROGER GIBSON
via The Sayonara Marines-Japan 1950s!: CAMP MCGILL D.U.K.W.S “DUCKS.
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GUNNY G: And So, The Question as to Just When Communism/Socialism Arose In America?
Gunny G: And So, The Question Arises As To Just When Communism/Socialism Came To America?
I have seen many stories and claims as to when and where Communism, or Socialism, first reared its head here in the good old USA, but lately, I have noticed, there seems to be increasing information on this topic that may tend to confuse the issue somewhat. Much of this information has been around for a long time, but gone unnoticed by myself and apparently most others as well.
About the first time most Americans heard of communism, myself included, was during The Senator Joe McCarthy thing back in the late ’40s. Of course, information on Socialism was available long before that, but I suspect few paid much attention to it.
Not that long ago an article appeared by Alan Stang titled Republican Party Red From The Start… The article emphasized that the Republican Party had been influenced by Marxists beginning shortly after many of them from the 1848 revolution in Europe had immigrated to America. This was by the early 1850s just prior to the election of Abraham Lincoln.
By the Civil War, many of these had found their way into government positions, including the new Union Army; and most of them were sympathetic to Northern politics, and unfriendly to the Southern cause.
Anyway, Stang’s book sparked my interest and I soon found other books on this topic, i.e., the “forty-eighters,” Lincoln, socialism, big government, etc.
In addition to Stang, there are books /and online articles by such authors as Dr Thomas DiLorenzo, Al Benson and Kennedy, Clyde Wilson, etc.–real eye-openers!
LewRockwell.com has a listing of numerous authors who write regularly on these, and related topics, with online archives for each writer.
Karl Marx, surprisingly, had become acquainted with Horace Greeley, and in 1851 he became a writer for Greeley’s New York Tribune, and this continued for about ten years. And so the ideas of Marx himself had its foot in the USA doorway at that time.
And so, I was surprised by this information not only that such things had occurred, but that so little, apparently, was known of this. I had read before where writers had made reference to some form of socialism being practiced by both the Puritans and Pilgrims way back in the colonial days of our country, and the Indiana Connection, but, again, little attention was paid as being at all relevant to modern times Communism.
Communism, by the way, can be loosely known by many names, including Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Marxism, Leninism, etc. And many more names too, but for purposes of my little spiel here the above will do.
Read more…
The Civil War: beauty from tragedy, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
The Civil War: beauty from tragedy, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day“
Washington Times ^ | December 22, 2011 | Martha M. Boltz
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2011 8:57:38 AM by iowamark
Many musicians and writers of poetry will admit that some of their finest work comes when they have experienced a death or a tragedy of some kind, that the writing of poetry has an almost cathartic effect.
Such is the case of one of the best known and most beloved carols associated with Christmas, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” which came from the pen of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and was written on Christmas Day, 1864.
His had been a tortured life in last few years before that day. On July 11, 1861, his wife Fanny had clipped some long curls from the head of her seven-year-old daughter, Edith, and wanting to save them in an envelope, melted a bar of sealing wax with a candle to seal the envelope.
Somehow the thin fabric of her clothing caught fire, and she quickly ran to Longfellow’s nearby study for help. He immediately tried to extinguish the flames with a small rug, and when that failed, he threw his arms around Fanny to smother the flames, causing him to sustain serious burns on his face, arms, and hands. His heroic act did not suffice, and Fanny died the next morning of her injuries. Longfellow was unable to even attend the funeral.
Photographs of Longfellow taken or made after the fire usually show him with a full beard, since he was no longer able to shave properly due to the burns and scarring.
WAKE UP AMERICA.1984.+ IS HERE! ~ GUNNY G: HEY, REAL AMERICANS! YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU BLOGGING RIGHT NOW !!!!! Gunny G: NOW BLOG THIS !!!!!
GUNNY G: HEY, REAL AMERICANS! YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU BLOGGING RIGHT NOW !!!!!
Gunny G: NOW BLOG THIS !!!!!
NOW (Right Now!) is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of our country, while we still can!
Real Americans: Get your own blog, free and quickly, online and Blog (Vote?) Daily–the only way left for your voice to be heard at all !!!!!
Writing, phoning, and voting are all well and good…but Bloggers are what they HEAR!
You’ve heard the expression, “vote with your feet,” well, I say, VOTE WITH YOUR OWN OUTSPOKEN BLOG DAILY!
Guess why “they” are now putting so much energy into getting rid of bloggers, and even the internet itself!!!!!
IMAGINE ALL REAL AMERICANS BLOGGING!!!!!
Myself, I have used Blogger.com ~ WordPress.com ~ Netwok54.com ~ Some have many formats of forums, and also a Blog format! Call it a blog, forum, website, whatever–they all work.
DidJa Know: Many think Thomas Paine (patriot author: Common Sense, etc.) may have been the first blogger (pamphleteer)!
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