The Daily Caller ran this news story which, as if we needed any further evidence, shows us the all-time low to which the Ameroboobs have sunk our once-great culture:
"Individuals living in New York City can choose from a minimum of 31 different gender identities, many of which allow them to fluctuate between some version or combination of male and female identities. Businesses that don't respect and accommodate an individual's chosen gender identity risk six-figure fines under new rules implemented by the City Commission on Human Rights."
15 years after the 9/11 Attacks, the Twin Towers still haven't been rebuilt, but New Yorkers are struggling with an apparent epidemic of Gender Identity Disorder.
This is the very kind of thing which occurs in a nation populated by drug addicts. A recent study showed that the United States, though 5% of the world's population, consumes 89% of world Amphetamine production. It has actually reached the point in the United States today where mandating unisex public bathrooms has become a national issue because Ameroboobs can't even decide between two options anymore.
The Gay Mafia even went so far as to issue a publication with the ominous-sounding title The Gender Identity and Gender Expression Legal Enforcement Guide and are no doubt sending out their enforcers to make certain all NYC businesses are gay friendly or else.
There was actually time in history when New York was a respected and admired city both here and abroad. Americans used to call it The Big Apple. New York was the city; the center of American culture, education, commerce, and media; the place you lived in if you wanted success. New Yorkers took pride in the fact that their city was something that everyone wanted to be a part of; in fact being from New York was once something of a social distinction here.
When one thought of New York; one thought of American cultural icons: the Statue of Liberty; Broadway, the Boardwalk, 5th Avenue, Coney Island, Times Square, the Empire State Building, the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers; Little Italy; if it wasn't in New York, it wasn't anywhere in America.
But that was then, this is now. We don't look to New York anymore when we want to see good people doing good things. We have to look beyond our shores for things like that; though formerly New York's Ellis Island was the destination for foreigners seeking a better life.
Oh well, such is yet another New Normal.
Big Brother is Watching in the City that Never Sleeps
"I, the Night Wind know many things, because I walk by night. Many strange tales of those who have stepped into the shadows...and of those things which they dare not speak."
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
THE MARRIAGE STRIKE, STRIKE TWO
We hadn't intended to write a sequel to the controversial Prager University video Be A Man, Get Married, but the Game Cult won't let the subject rest. Blogger Insanity Bytes brings their hypocrisy to our attention.
The Gamer she critiques praises a 'response' to Prager and Wilcox, given in an abominable video by someone calling himself T**d Flinging Monkey. That alone should drive our readers to ask why we even need to discuss this, but such is the culture we live in, where monkeys are presumed to be more intelligent than humans.
As a public service, we have sat through the agonizing 15 minutes of Mr. Monkey's farrago, to spare our loyal readers unnecessary torment.
The thing that is striking about Mr. Monkey's 'argument'---aside from the expletives he employs in nearly every sentence---is its unabashed narcissism and egomania. His whole argument seems to revolve around the idea that somehow marriage is a form of slavery and imposition on his freedom. Mr. Monkey, where have we heard that before?
Oh, yes. From the Feminists. It's the Feminists who argue that marriage is oppression and motherhood is slavery. Mr. Monkey and his admirers in the Game Cult simply reverse the genders (as they usually do). Game is really nothing more, and never has been more, than Male Feminism.
"Under what circumstances does sacrificing yourself for another person benefit you?" Mr. Monkey protests. "If you can live the lifestyle you want then you're rich...but if you earn more money in a year just so that you can take care of other people doesn't even make any sense."
Isn't this exactly the sentiment expressed by most Feminists? All that Mr. Monkey needs to add is that 'a man needs a woman like a fish needs a bicycle' and the parallel would be complete. The bulk of his entire 'response' revolves around economics; it seems, in his mind that it is grossly unfair that men should sacrifice to provide for and protect a wife and children. In fact, he compares this to chattel slavery on several occasions.
Recall that this profanity-laden diatribe is held up by a professed Christian leader as a rational response to the Prager University video. Now, in our previous article on The Marriage Strike we addressed some of the flaws in Prager and Wilcox' arguments. But to condemn their approach as somehow heretical while praising Mr. Monkey's as the more holy one illustrates the mindset of the Game Cult perfectly.
Mr. Monkey leads off by claiming that men are avoiding marriage and that women are desperately trying to marry. In our earlier article, we exposed that myth but it is worth repeating here. The only US marriage demographic that has increased steadily for the past 30 years are marriages between American nationals and foreign women. Additionally---though never admitted---most American dating sites are overwhelmingly populated by men.
So how can it be argued that men are avoiding marriage?
The writer whom Insanity Bytes criticizes makes this crafty statement: "They are selling marriage and fatherhood as a rite of passage into manhood...less obvious at first glance is what they are not selling. They are not encouraging marriage to promote sexual morality."
Note again the economic references here. But that aside, marriage is not about promoting sexual morality. Which is why Wilcox and Prager don't mention it.
Marriage is about spiritual bonding. The Game Cultists, as gender supremacists, only see marriage (as the Feminists also do) as a vehicle for regulating sexuality. They believe, as part of their creed, in an absurdist doctrine called Hypergamy. This is a belief that women have a biological instinct to engage sexually with high-status males and have no capacity for fidelity. According to this doctrine, they always crave a better man than they have. So naturally, marriage to the Gamers is simply a matter of controlling female sexuality.
Spiritual bonding implies a complementary relationship, which Game denies on the basis of Alpha Male superiority. They also deny feminine capacity for love and fidelity, hence a marriage, by their definition, can only exist for the sake of (their interpretation of) promoting sexual morality.
However, Love and Faithfulness are spoken of in different terms in the New Testament. They are reflections of a relationship between Man and God; which a marriage is also supposed to reflect. What does it say about a sect that denies love and fidelity? The answer should be obvious.
The Gamer she critiques praises a 'response' to Prager and Wilcox, given in an abominable video by someone calling himself T**d Flinging Monkey. That alone should drive our readers to ask why we even need to discuss this, but such is the culture we live in, where monkeys are presumed to be more intelligent than humans.
As a public service, we have sat through the agonizing 15 minutes of Mr. Monkey's farrago, to spare our loyal readers unnecessary torment.
The thing that is striking about Mr. Monkey's 'argument'---aside from the expletives he employs in nearly every sentence---is its unabashed narcissism and egomania. His whole argument seems to revolve around the idea that somehow marriage is a form of slavery and imposition on his freedom. Mr. Monkey, where have we heard that before?
Oh, yes. From the Feminists. It's the Feminists who argue that marriage is oppression and motherhood is slavery. Mr. Monkey and his admirers in the Game Cult simply reverse the genders (as they usually do). Game is really nothing more, and never has been more, than Male Feminism.
"Under what circumstances does sacrificing yourself for another person benefit you?" Mr. Monkey protests. "If you can live the lifestyle you want then you're rich...but if you earn more money in a year just so that you can take care of other people doesn't even make any sense."
Isn't this exactly the sentiment expressed by most Feminists? All that Mr. Monkey needs to add is that 'a man needs a woman like a fish needs a bicycle' and the parallel would be complete. The bulk of his entire 'response' revolves around economics; it seems, in his mind that it is grossly unfair that men should sacrifice to provide for and protect a wife and children. In fact, he compares this to chattel slavery on several occasions.
Recall that this profanity-laden diatribe is held up by a professed Christian leader as a rational response to the Prager University video. Now, in our previous article on The Marriage Strike we addressed some of the flaws in Prager and Wilcox' arguments. But to condemn their approach as somehow heretical while praising Mr. Monkey's as the more holy one illustrates the mindset of the Game Cult perfectly.
Mr. Monkey leads off by claiming that men are avoiding marriage and that women are desperately trying to marry. In our earlier article, we exposed that myth but it is worth repeating here. The only US marriage demographic that has increased steadily for the past 30 years are marriages between American nationals and foreign women. Additionally---though never admitted---most American dating sites are overwhelmingly populated by men.
So how can it be argued that men are avoiding marriage?
The writer whom Insanity Bytes criticizes makes this crafty statement: "They are selling marriage and fatherhood as a rite of passage into manhood...less obvious at first glance is what they are not selling. They are not encouraging marriage to promote sexual morality."
Note again the economic references here. But that aside, marriage is not about promoting sexual morality. Which is why Wilcox and Prager don't mention it.
Marriage is about spiritual bonding. The Game Cultists, as gender supremacists, only see marriage (as the Feminists also do) as a vehicle for regulating sexuality. They believe, as part of their creed, in an absurdist doctrine called Hypergamy. This is a belief that women have a biological instinct to engage sexually with high-status males and have no capacity for fidelity. According to this doctrine, they always crave a better man than they have. So naturally, marriage to the Gamers is simply a matter of controlling female sexuality.
Spiritual bonding implies a complementary relationship, which Game denies on the basis of Alpha Male superiority. They also deny feminine capacity for love and fidelity, hence a marriage, by their definition, can only exist for the sake of (their interpretation of) promoting sexual morality.
However, Love and Faithfulness are spoken of in different terms in the New Testament. They are reflections of a relationship between Man and God; which a marriage is also supposed to reflect. What does it say about a sect that denies love and fidelity? The answer should be obvious.
INSTAGRAM HARASSES ALLIED LEADERS IN SYRIA
The Iranian news media reported this morning that Instagram had, without explanation, suspended the account of Maj. General Qassem Soleimani. General Soleimani is commander of the Iranian Expeditionary Force operating in Syria against al-Qaeda and ISIS.
The suspension comes a day after General Soleimani gave this interview to the press.
Iranian commentators noted that Instragram and other similar social networking services have been routinely employed by Jihadi terrorists as a recruiting tool, in spite of Instagram policies. We have seen this, too, in the United States where Anarchists and the Progressive Left employ social networking to foment civil unrest and riots in places like Ferguson and Baltimore; as well as to disrupt political rallies or spam their opponents' websites.
The Obama Administration and their confederates on Wall Street have been putting considerable pressure on social networking sites to muzzle foreign sources critical of their policies. There is even legislation pending before Congress to set up a new federal agency specifically designed to counter so-called foreign propaganda. Of course, the Washington/Wall Street interests are quite selective about who gets targeted under these proposals.
Instagram is part of the vast financial empire controlled by media mogul Mark Zuckerberg.
Supporters of General Soleimani have set up a new Instagram account on his behalf. His previous account had over 320,000 followers.
The suspension comes a day after General Soleimani gave this interview to the press.
Iranian commentators noted that Instragram and other similar social networking services have been routinely employed by Jihadi terrorists as a recruiting tool, in spite of Instagram policies. We have seen this, too, in the United States where Anarchists and the Progressive Left employ social networking to foment civil unrest and riots in places like Ferguson and Baltimore; as well as to disrupt political rallies or spam their opponents' websites.
The Obama Administration and their confederates on Wall Street have been putting considerable pressure on social networking sites to muzzle foreign sources critical of their policies. There is even legislation pending before Congress to set up a new federal agency specifically designed to counter so-called foreign propaganda. Of course, the Washington/Wall Street interests are quite selective about who gets targeted under these proposals.
Instagram is part of the vast financial empire controlled by media mogul Mark Zuckerberg.
Supporters of General Soleimani have set up a new Instagram account on his behalf. His previous account had over 320,000 followers.
What Instagram Keeps Behind the Curtain
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
PENTAGON BOWS TO ARAB LEADERS AGAIN
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced today that their Expeditionary Force has bagged an estimated 28,000 Jihadists, about 1/3 of ISIS' total force, since landing in Syria last fall. Aleppo is almost liberated and Allied forces are now converging on the ISIS capital. On the Eastern Front, Iraqi forces---who've replaced the incompetent Pentagon with Chinese military advisors---have retaken all of Western Iraq, and are storming the last Iraqi ISIS stronghold in Fallujah. Caliph Baghdadi, ISIS' Supreme Commander, has fled to whereabouts unknown.
Meanwhile, the LGBTQ-friendly Pentagon and their NATO toadies have been more or less relegated to the sidelines. Ejected from Iraq, the Pentagon's 'Central Command' is now headquartered on an insignificant base in Amman, Jordan.
Realizing that ISIS is doomed and the Allies have shown them up, the Obama Administration is desperately trying to save face and salvage some dignity from their humiliating performance. So, over they weekend they dispatched one of their operatives, a bespectacled social worker in a General Grant costume named Stanley Vogel, to the outskirts of Raqqa to meet with Kurdish Militia commanders. The ostensible purpose of this visit was to get permission from the last Allied force with which the Pentagon has a presence to allow the USAF to participate in the assault on Raqqa. In other words, 'General' Vogel was negotiating for a photo-op.
The Kurdish leaders deferred the decision to Allied High Command, who haven't yet given a response. Some Syrian congressmen have suggested issuing an arrest warrant for Vogel since he entered the country illegally and violated international military protocols. President Assad has yet to comment.
Col. Elias Ebrahim, a Syrian military analyst spoke with Allied news agencies. "The US has repeatedly deceived Kurdish fighters in Syria by offering inadequate assistance to them." Col. Ebrahim said, "This has taken place with the intent of delaying the Kurdish forces' attacks on Raqqa while the Kurds are outside the Gates of Raqqa."
Ebrahim noted that ISIS is heavily-armed with American-made weapons including Humvees, TOW missiles, and small arms. He suggested that the real purpose of Vogel's visit was to negotiate the surrender and withdrawal of ISIS fighters from Raqqa to save them for a future offensive against Assad's government, as the US recently did with the Aleppo ceasefire.
"In the meantime, US warplanes dropped leaflets over Raqqa on Thursday, warning 'civilians' to leave the city as soon as possible." he noted.
This is how pathetic the Pentagon has really become. A year ago, Obama was demanding so-called 'Regime Change' in Syria and presuming the right to violate a sovereign nation's borders militarily at will. Now they are reduced to begging militias for cheap political theatrics while the real defenders of freedom move on towards victory.
Meanwhile, the LGBTQ-friendly Pentagon and their NATO toadies have been more or less relegated to the sidelines. Ejected from Iraq, the Pentagon's 'Central Command' is now headquartered on an insignificant base in Amman, Jordan.
Realizing that ISIS is doomed and the Allies have shown them up, the Obama Administration is desperately trying to save face and salvage some dignity from their humiliating performance. So, over they weekend they dispatched one of their operatives, a bespectacled social worker in a General Grant costume named Stanley Vogel, to the outskirts of Raqqa to meet with Kurdish Militia commanders. The ostensible purpose of this visit was to get permission from the last Allied force with which the Pentagon has a presence to allow the USAF to participate in the assault on Raqqa. In other words, 'General' Vogel was negotiating for a photo-op.
The Kurdish leaders deferred the decision to Allied High Command, who haven't yet given a response. Some Syrian congressmen have suggested issuing an arrest warrant for Vogel since he entered the country illegally and violated international military protocols. President Assad has yet to comment.
Col. Elias Ebrahim, a Syrian military analyst spoke with Allied news agencies. "The US has repeatedly deceived Kurdish fighters in Syria by offering inadequate assistance to them." Col. Ebrahim said, "This has taken place with the intent of delaying the Kurdish forces' attacks on Raqqa while the Kurds are outside the Gates of Raqqa."
Ebrahim noted that ISIS is heavily-armed with American-made weapons including Humvees, TOW missiles, and small arms. He suggested that the real purpose of Vogel's visit was to negotiate the surrender and withdrawal of ISIS fighters from Raqqa to save them for a future offensive against Assad's government, as the US recently did with the Aleppo ceasefire.
"In the meantime, US warplanes dropped leaflets over Raqqa on Thursday, warning 'civilians' to leave the city as soon as possible." he noted.
This is how pathetic the Pentagon has really become. A year ago, Obama was demanding so-called 'Regime Change' in Syria and presuming the right to violate a sovereign nation's borders militarily at will. Now they are reduced to begging militias for cheap political theatrics while the real defenders of freedom move on towards victory.
OUT OF AFRICA
One would have assumed that an official visit from the Vatican's highest ranking person of color to Washington, DC would have been a cause celebre among the effete American media. Cardinal Robert Sarah, a native of the Republic of Guinea, arrived in Washington to speak at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast last week. Several high-ranking politicians and media figures were present to hear His Eminence's remarks on Social Justice in America. But the story went by with scarcely a mention because, well quite frankly, the Cardinal began telling the truth.
"Nowhere is religious persecution clearer than threat that societies are visiting on the family through a demonic so-called gender ideology." Cardinal Sarah said, "which is a deadly impulse that is being experienced in a world increasingly cut off from God through ideological colonialism."
This ideological imperialism of which the Cardinal speaks, is directly related to the American media. Media is the US' leading export---responsible along with pressure from the Beltway and Wall Street---for proliferating American cultural rot throughout the entire planet.
"While many Christians across the world are suffering persecution from governments or groups like ISIS, violence against Christians is not only physical; it is political, ideological, and cultural." the Cardinal pointed out. "This form of religious persecution is equally damaging, yet more hidden. It does not destroy physically, but spiritually."
The Cardinal is correct again. If the level of anti-Christian bigotry now practiced in the United States were perpetrated in another country, there would be an international outcry. But, with American media dominant in most of the world, the bigots here get a free pass.
"The Church's teachings on marriage, sexuality, and the family are under extreme pressure, in the name of Tolerance." Cardinal Sarah stated, citing homosexual so-called 'marriage' and the ridiculous Bathroom Wars as examples.
Cardinal Sarah also pointed out that Ameroboob moral torpidity is largely to blame for this persecution. "We witness what Pope Francis calls 'globalized indifference.' Faithfulness requires Catholics to be courageous when speaking the Truth."
But Truth is something that Ameroboobs are not interested in hearing, because as Cardinal Sarah, says, facing the truth requires courage and personal responsibility. And with the American media heavily bankrolled by Wahhabi Moslems and Atheistic Cultural Marxists, the truth is not likely to have much voice in America.
The Ameroboob Marches on in Blissful Ignorance
"Nowhere is religious persecution clearer than threat that societies are visiting on the family through a demonic so-called gender ideology." Cardinal Sarah said, "which is a deadly impulse that is being experienced in a world increasingly cut off from God through ideological colonialism."
This ideological imperialism of which the Cardinal speaks, is directly related to the American media. Media is the US' leading export---responsible along with pressure from the Beltway and Wall Street---for proliferating American cultural rot throughout the entire planet.
"While many Christians across the world are suffering persecution from governments or groups like ISIS, violence against Christians is not only physical; it is political, ideological, and cultural." the Cardinal pointed out. "This form of religious persecution is equally damaging, yet more hidden. It does not destroy physically, but spiritually."
The Cardinal is correct again. If the level of anti-Christian bigotry now practiced in the United States were perpetrated in another country, there would be an international outcry. But, with American media dominant in most of the world, the bigots here get a free pass.
"The Church's teachings on marriage, sexuality, and the family are under extreme pressure, in the name of Tolerance." Cardinal Sarah stated, citing homosexual so-called 'marriage' and the ridiculous Bathroom Wars as examples.
Cardinal Sarah also pointed out that Ameroboob moral torpidity is largely to blame for this persecution. "We witness what Pope Francis calls 'globalized indifference.' Faithfulness requires Catholics to be courageous when speaking the Truth."
But Truth is something that Ameroboobs are not interested in hearing, because as Cardinal Sarah, says, facing the truth requires courage and personal responsibility. And with the American media heavily bankrolled by Wahhabi Moslems and Atheistic Cultural Marxists, the truth is not likely to have much voice in America.
The Ameroboob Marches on in Blissful Ignorance
THE IMMIGRATION CRISIS, PART III
Another argument brought up in the American immigration debate centers on the belief that immigrants cannot, or will not, assimilate into American culture. Now, no one outside of the deranged Cultural Marxists believes that American Culture is not in deep decline. And even the Left believes it, though they believe the decline is a positive thing. The question before us, in light of the US elections, is: are immigrants contributing to this cultural decline?
Let us do a brief comparison. In the last article on this topic, we showed that immigrant labor has a stronger work ethic than domestic Americans. Now, let us see some demographics:
1. The percentage of the population identifying as Christian is 23% higher in Mexico than the US.
2. The divorce rate is 55% lower in Mexico than the US.
3. Abortion is illegal in Mexico: homosexual 'marriage' is not recognized in most Mexican states. Mexico does not have no-fault divorce.
4. The out-of-wedlock birthrate in Mexico is 30% lower than the US.
So, it would seem that on traditional issues like faith and family, Mexico is a bit ahead of the United States. And contrary to popular belief, the rate of drug addiction is much higher here than in Mexico.
Immigrants used to assimilate into American society. Why are they no longer doing so? Critics point to groups like La Raza, a radical group seeking an independent Latino state within the US. But La Raza is run by American nationals of Hispanic decent, not recent immigrants.
We do not see immigrants destroying entire cities (unlike Black Lives Matter or Occupy Movements). We don't see them desecrating churches and harassing Christians (unlike Code Pink and the Gay Mafia). Immigrants aren't overthrowing university administrations or breaking up political rallies. What do radicals like La Raza have in common with these groups?
The answer is that all of these people are products of taxpayer-funded American public education. The simple fact here is that today's immigrants are not part of the Great Melting Pot because they are taught not to be part of it.
It is only common sense that if our society pays teachers, professors, and administrators to preach Cultural Marxism instead of Americanism; tolerates academic institutions whose stated purposes are to celebrate diversity and ethnic studies, what does anyone expect such educational systems to produce? Patriotic Americans who believe in American traditions?
As we've seen from the statistics above, most immigrants have a predisposition to embrace the values that Americans once universally held. They are being deterred from it by the American academic establishment and a population utterly unwilling to hold it accountable.
The problem of alien cultural non-assimilation is yet another problem of Americans' own making. In the past, when we had parents who actually took responsibility for their children's education, we had immigrants easily assimilating into our culture. Today, the public schools don't even teach the native-born how to be Americans.
But try and tell that to the Ameroboob, and he responds with the knee-jerk phrase: "Oh yeah? Well if America sucks so much why do they all want to come here?" This is because our schools no longer teach geography or mathematics. If they did, he would know that there are approximately 10-12 million Mexicans in the US and 110 million still living in Mexico. In other words, they don't all want to come here. And they probably don't want to come here because things like faith, family, culture, and schools that actually function are important to them.
It's a shame that those things aren't important to us as well.
Let us do a brief comparison. In the last article on this topic, we showed that immigrant labor has a stronger work ethic than domestic Americans. Now, let us see some demographics:
1. The percentage of the population identifying as Christian is 23% higher in Mexico than the US.
2. The divorce rate is 55% lower in Mexico than the US.
3. Abortion is illegal in Mexico: homosexual 'marriage' is not recognized in most Mexican states. Mexico does not have no-fault divorce.
4. The out-of-wedlock birthrate in Mexico is 30% lower than the US.
So, it would seem that on traditional issues like faith and family, Mexico is a bit ahead of the United States. And contrary to popular belief, the rate of drug addiction is much higher here than in Mexico.
Immigrants used to assimilate into American society. Why are they no longer doing so? Critics point to groups like La Raza, a radical group seeking an independent Latino state within the US. But La Raza is run by American nationals of Hispanic decent, not recent immigrants.
We do not see immigrants destroying entire cities (unlike Black Lives Matter or Occupy Movements). We don't see them desecrating churches and harassing Christians (unlike Code Pink and the Gay Mafia). Immigrants aren't overthrowing university administrations or breaking up political rallies. What do radicals like La Raza have in common with these groups?
The answer is that all of these people are products of taxpayer-funded American public education. The simple fact here is that today's immigrants are not part of the Great Melting Pot because they are taught not to be part of it.
It is only common sense that if our society pays teachers, professors, and administrators to preach Cultural Marxism instead of Americanism; tolerates academic institutions whose stated purposes are to celebrate diversity and ethnic studies, what does anyone expect such educational systems to produce? Patriotic Americans who believe in American traditions?
As we've seen from the statistics above, most immigrants have a predisposition to embrace the values that Americans once universally held. They are being deterred from it by the American academic establishment and a population utterly unwilling to hold it accountable.
The problem of alien cultural non-assimilation is yet another problem of Americans' own making. In the past, when we had parents who actually took responsibility for their children's education, we had immigrants easily assimilating into our culture. Today, the public schools don't even teach the native-born how to be Americans.
But try and tell that to the Ameroboob, and he responds with the knee-jerk phrase: "Oh yeah? Well if America sucks so much why do they all want to come here?" This is because our schools no longer teach geography or mathematics. If they did, he would know that there are approximately 10-12 million Mexicans in the US and 110 million still living in Mexico. In other words, they don't all want to come here. And they probably don't want to come here because things like faith, family, culture, and schools that actually function are important to them.
It's a shame that those things aren't important to us as well.
Monday, May 23, 2016
WHAT OBAMA WON'T TALK ABOUT IN JAPAN
Our beloved leader, Barack Obama is on his way to visit the Japanese Empire amidst a series of humiliations for both governments. Obama hasn't bowed to Imperial demands (yet) and apologized for President Truman's decision to win WW2.
But both leaders are having problems in the region.
Obama is reeling from a string of recent military humiliations at Chinese hands. Three times in the last month, American naval and air forces have been chased away from Chinese territory, and this morning a US reconnaissance plane nearly collided with an airliner off the coast of Korea. Iraqi forces, now augmented with Chinese military advisors are clearing their country of Jihadist forces while the Pentagon can't even get permission to do photo-ops in Iraq anymore.
Akihito and his camarilla aren't faring much better. Their censorship of the Japanese press has been internationally exposed, as well as their cover-ups of the damage caused by the Fukishima nuclear disaster. And their hopes of building a united coalition against China were thwarted when Thailand agreed to sign a mutual defense pact with China.
As if these things weren't bad enough, yet another crisis broke out in Okinawa. Okinawa is a country jointly occupied by Imperial Japan and the United States; the former ruling its civil government and the latter maintaining a large military base there. Last weekend, a US defense contractor was arrested for the rape and murder of a 20 year-old Okinawan girl---stories which are not uncommon there---leading for further calls for the US to leave the island and for Okinawan independence.
Protestors swarmed around the US base last weekend and the Pentagon commander there, one Lawrence Nicholson, laconically offered his heartfelt prayers and condolences to the outraged Okinawan populace.
When one considers that America's frontline brave men and women in uniform break out in tears in front of the Iranian Coast Guard, or that US Army officers like Major Nidal Hasan go berserk and shoot up military bases, it is not difficult to imagine what sorts of dregs get stationed in a backwater base like Okinawa.
A similar incident occurred just two months earlier when a US sailor was arrested for the rape of a Japanese girl in a Naha hotel. The most infamous incident occurred in 1995, when some of the few, the proud, the Marines gang-raped a 12 year-old.
Since 1972, when joint US-Japanese occupation of Okinawa was ratified, there have been 26 murders, 129 rapes, 394 burglaries, and 25 arsons linked to American military personnel, according to Okinawan authorities.
Catherine Fisher, an Australian journalist who was raped by an American defense contractor in 2002, was among the protestors.
"They need to stop trying to cover up these cases." Fisher said "And each time it happens, the US military and the Japanese government say, 'we will make sure this never happens again'. But it just keeps happening."
Okinawans have also been protesting a proposal to move the US base to an ecologically sensitive part of the island and to force Okinawans to pay for the project. With nearly 90% of Okinawans against the base relocation plan, the governor was forced to order its temporary suspension.
With the Empire suppressing Japanese media and its deep financial connections within the American press, very little news is forthcoming from this troubled island. Yet there is a growing independence movement among the Okinawan people, though split by different political aims. Yet it is to be hoped that Okinawans can find the unity to throw off the Western yoke and forge their own way in freedom.
US and Japanese Officials React to Okinawan Protests
But both leaders are having problems in the region.
Obama is reeling from a string of recent military humiliations at Chinese hands. Three times in the last month, American naval and air forces have been chased away from Chinese territory, and this morning a US reconnaissance plane nearly collided with an airliner off the coast of Korea. Iraqi forces, now augmented with Chinese military advisors are clearing their country of Jihadist forces while the Pentagon can't even get permission to do photo-ops in Iraq anymore.
Akihito and his camarilla aren't faring much better. Their censorship of the Japanese press has been internationally exposed, as well as their cover-ups of the damage caused by the Fukishima nuclear disaster. And their hopes of building a united coalition against China were thwarted when Thailand agreed to sign a mutual defense pact with China.
As if these things weren't bad enough, yet another crisis broke out in Okinawa. Okinawa is a country jointly occupied by Imperial Japan and the United States; the former ruling its civil government and the latter maintaining a large military base there. Last weekend, a US defense contractor was arrested for the rape and murder of a 20 year-old Okinawan girl---stories which are not uncommon there---leading for further calls for the US to leave the island and for Okinawan independence.
Protestors swarmed around the US base last weekend and the Pentagon commander there, one Lawrence Nicholson, laconically offered his heartfelt prayers and condolences to the outraged Okinawan populace.
When one considers that America's frontline brave men and women in uniform break out in tears in front of the Iranian Coast Guard, or that US Army officers like Major Nidal Hasan go berserk and shoot up military bases, it is not difficult to imagine what sorts of dregs get stationed in a backwater base like Okinawa.
A similar incident occurred just two months earlier when a US sailor was arrested for the rape of a Japanese girl in a Naha hotel. The most infamous incident occurred in 1995, when some of the few, the proud, the Marines gang-raped a 12 year-old.
Since 1972, when joint US-Japanese occupation of Okinawa was ratified, there have been 26 murders, 129 rapes, 394 burglaries, and 25 arsons linked to American military personnel, according to Okinawan authorities.
Catherine Fisher, an Australian journalist who was raped by an American defense contractor in 2002, was among the protestors.
"They need to stop trying to cover up these cases." Fisher said "And each time it happens, the US military and the Japanese government say, 'we will make sure this never happens again'. But it just keeps happening."
Okinawans have also been protesting a proposal to move the US base to an ecologically sensitive part of the island and to force Okinawans to pay for the project. With nearly 90% of Okinawans against the base relocation plan, the governor was forced to order its temporary suspension.
With the Empire suppressing Japanese media and its deep financial connections within the American press, very little news is forthcoming from this troubled island. Yet there is a growing independence movement among the Okinawan people, though split by different political aims. Yet it is to be hoped that Okinawans can find the unity to throw off the Western yoke and forge their own way in freedom.
US and Japanese Officials React to Okinawan Protests
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