A 1945 film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on the history behind the Tanaka Memorial document.
In pre-World War II Tokyo the American newspaper editor Nick Condon (James Cagney) working for an English-language daily paper aimed at the American business community is given a document relating to Japan’s foreign affairs which could have political ramifications if found.
He meets up with Iris Hilliard (Sylvia Sidney), a woman who wants to secure the document even if it means dealing with the Japanese secret police and their threats.
Paul Sperry thinks so and writes some of evidence of it over at the New York Post:
The findings, if confirmed, would back up open-source reporting showing the hijackers had, at a minimum, ties to several Saudi officials and agents while they were preparing for their attacks inside the United States. In fact, they got help from Saudi VIPs from coast to coast:
LOS ANGELES: Saudi consulate official Fahad al-Thumairy allegedly arranged for an advance team to receive two of the Saudi hijackers — Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi — as they arrived at LAX in 2000. One of the advance men, Omar al-Bayoumi, a suspected Saudi intelligence agent, left the LA consulate and met the hijackers at a local restaurant. (Bayoumi left the United States two months before the attacks, while Thumairy was deported back to Saudi Arabia after 9/11.)
SAN DIEGO: Bayoumi and another suspected Saudi agent, Osama Bassnan, set up essentially a forward operating base in San Diego for the hijackers after leaving LA. They were provided rooms, rent and phones, as well as private meetings with an American al Qaeda cleric who would later become notorious, Anwar al-Awlaki, at a Saudi-funded mosque he ran in a nearby suburb. They were also feted at a welcoming party. (Bassnan also fled the United States just before the attacks.)
WASHINGTON: Then-Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar and his wife sent checks totaling some $130,000 to Bassnan while he was handling the hijackers. Though the Bandars claim the checks were “welfare” for Bassnan’s supposedly ill wife, the money nonetheless made its way into the hijackers’ hands.
Other al Qaeda funding was traced back to Bandar and his embassy — so much so that by 2004 Riggs Bank of Washington had dropped the Saudis as a client.
The next year, as a number of embassy employees popped up in terror probes, Riyadh recalled Bandar.
“Our investigations contributed to the ambassador’s departure,” an investigator who worked with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington told me, though Bandar says he left for “personal reasons.”
FALLS CHURCH, VA.: In 2001, Awlaki and the San Diego hijackers turned up together again — this time at the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, a Pentagon-area mosque built with funds from the Saudi Embassy. Awlaki was recruited 3,000 miles away to head the mosque. As its imam, Awlaki helped the hijackers, who showed up at his doorstep as if on cue. He tasked a handler to help them acquire apartments and IDs before they attacked the Pentagon.
Awlaki worked closely with the Saudi Embassy. He lectured at a Saudi Islamic think tank in Merrifield, Va., chaired by Bandar. Saudi travel itinerary documents I’ve obtained show he also served as the official imam on Saudi Embassy-sponsored trips to Mecca and tours of Saudi holy sites.
Most suspiciously, though, Awlaki fled the United States on a Saudi jet about a year after 9/11.
As I first reported in my book, “Infiltration,” quoting from classified US documents, the Saudi-sponsored cleric was briefly detained at JFK before being released into the custody of a “Saudi representative.” A federal warrant for Awlaki’s arrest had mysteriously been withdrawn the previous day. A US drone killed Awlaki in Yemen in 2011.
HERNDON, VA.: On the eve of the attacks, top Saudi government official Saleh Hussayen checked into the same Marriott Residence Inn near Dulles Airport as three of the Saudi hijackers who targeted the Pentagon. Hussayen had left a nearby hotel to move into the hijackers’ hotel. Did he meet with them? The FBI never found out. They let him go after he “feigned a seizure,” one agent recalled. (Hussayen’s name doesn’t appear in the separate 9/11 Commission Report, which clears the Saudis.)
SARASOTA, FLA.: 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta and other hijackers visited a home owned by Esam Ghazzawi, a Saudi adviser to the nephew of King Fahd. FBI agents investigating the connection in 2002 found that visitor logs for the gated community and photos of license tags matched vehicles driven by the hijackers. Just two weeks before the 9/11 attacks, the Saudi luxury home was abandoned. Three cars, including a new Chrysler PT Cruiser, were left in the driveway. Inside, opulent furniture was untouched.
As someone who lived through that hell on September 11, 2001 and watched those buildings fall, live on TV — I wanted answers and still want to know what all really happened on 9/11. I have always felt that our Government did try and cover up parts of the story; for reasons of politics. If this really was the Saudi’s handiwork; they should be dropped as an one of our allies. Here is hoping we get to the truth.
Paul Sperry has two books, that I think everyone should read:
I think that it is time that someone told the truth about this man; and I am just the person to do it.
It seems that Reason magazine wants to turn this man into some sort of a saint:
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens died on this date two years ago. Hitchens was the model of a public intellectual. He was certainly public in his positions and arguments, which allows for anyone interested to assess a person’s arguments. And he was intellectually honest in a way that is uncommon, with many (most?) thinkers curtailing their views if they threaten a broader ideological identity. Though definitely a man of the left, Hitchens was never orthodox and ran into trouble given his positions on issues such as abortion (he was against it), foreign interventionism (he was for it), free speech deemed offensive to certain groups (he was for it), and more. While he rarely missed opportunities to offend right-wing sensibilities (he once joked about Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s clearly having started with the president was still in office), he didn’t hold back against the left, either. He had few kind words about Martin Luther King, Jr. and he dismissed Gandhi as a “poverty pimp.”
Okay, it is time that we really need to get real on what Hitchens really was: Hitchens was an Anti-Christian. Christopher Hitchens had no qualms about bashing Christians and Christianity itself. Furthermore, he supported Bush’s decision to go into Iraq. For Reason Magazine to act as if this man was a American hero for any sort is ludicrous. Then again, to actually believe that Reason magazine is actually libertarian and not really a pseudo-neoconservative magazine is also ludicrous.
The only redeeming quality of this man was that he actually spoke well. Other than that; I put this man squarely on the same page as Piers Morgan. An arrogant English prick, who when it suited him; would take a swing at American Christian culture. For this, he is not saint or hero in my book. But rather someone I would just rather forget.
The fact that Reason Magazine is even trying to put this man on some sort of a libertarian or even canonized shelf, is vomit-provoking to this writer. Which is why I really do not consider Reason Magazine an ally of liberty.
With this posting, I will be removing Reason’s RSS from this blog. Because this little stunt by their writers, is just a bit more than I can stomach.
If you want to see an example of what I am talking about, check out this video: (Warning! Language!)
…and seeing that police officers are known to do stuff like this here; I do not halfway blame them.
The Story:
Alamo Heights, Texas (CNN) — Valerie Redus has spent much of her time crying, since her son Cameron was killed by a campus police officer in Texas last week.
For now, she and her husband Mickey are withholding judgment about who was at fault for his death — their 23-year-old son or Cpl. Christopher Carter, who shot him Friday.
“We wish that everybody else would do the same, would reserve judgment until facts are known,” Mickey Redus told CNN’s George Howell late Tuesday.
The official account has left the Reduses in disbelief.
I pray for this woman; no parent should ever have to go through something like this, ever. 😡
I think it is about time that Conservatives and Republicans started pressuring the Congress of the United States to pass some sort of a law limiting the use of deadly force and/or outlawing swat teams in police departments. Because of stuff like this right here. Furthermore, I believe that the penalties for shooting someone in a situation like this and killing them, should be life in prison automatically.
I hope you like the new, updated look. It’s bit nicer than the old one. Also too, I decided to do away with those annoying side bar ads that would come swooping in from the left and right. They were annoying and did distract from my wonderful content. I also tend to believe that they really did not make any difference in the blog’s income at all.
I did stay with the basic design concept, I just changed to a new template, which is much nicer I think.
I wish you all a happy Sunday, and do come again! 😀
Karl Halverson Pierson – Looks like a queer liberal to me! 😛
In one Facebook post, Pierson attacks the philosophies of economist Adam Smith, who through his invisible-hand theory pushed the notion that the free market was self-regulating. In another post, he describes himself as “Keynesian.”
“I was wondering to all the neoclassicals and neoliberals, why isn’t the market correcting itself?” he wrote. “If the invisible hand is so strong, shouldn’t it be able to overpower regulations?”
Pierson also appears to mock Republicans on another Facebook post, writing “you republicans are so cute” and posting an image that reads: “The Republican Party: Health Care: Let ’em Die, Climate Change: Let ’em Die, Gun Violence: Let ’em Die, Women’s Rights: Let ’em Die, More War: Let ’em Die. Is this really the side you want to be on?”
Carl Schmidt and Brendon Mendelson, both seniors at Arapahoe High, knew Pierson. They said he had political views that were “outside the mainstream,” but they did not elaborate
Please note: I pulled the previous movie posting, because, quite frankly, I didn’t like it. This one is much, much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1vfAjJxlAI
A 1942 film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Jean Parker and Ricardo Cortez.
His hobby was collecting women… and he called himself the Ghost… the guy they couldn’t kill
Julie Bronson (Jean Parker), whose father, “Pop” Bronson (Emmett Lynn) operates a desert café, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost (Ricardo Cortez).
I hate to be a jerk about things… But, the whining and crying of Republican right and the Conservative right is getting to be a bit much.
I mean, could this be the new symbol of the Republican Party?
The New logo of the Republican Party?
I am saying all this, because I read, with some level of amusement about this blogger’s “oh so horrible heart wrenching tale” of losing his so precious insurance to the horrible marxist negro president! (yes, that is sarcasm….) The video, which is here; is so damned phony and sappy; that it borders parody.
It just gets old. I mean, Republicans have no right to complain about this Obamacare debacle. It is their fault that we even have this disaster on our hands. If they had actually selected a candidate that could have actually won the Presidency in 2008 and 2012; and not had a Republican who basically was traitor to the party, who voted for the bill —- we would not be in this spot in the first place.
The way I see it; the Republicans ought to just man up, suck it up, pay for the insurance and shut the hell up and next time, not choose someone who cannot win an election.
I hate repeating myself; but using one’s medical problems as some sort of a bumper sticker of just how damned horrible the President’s healthcare law is, just strikes me as freaking lame. I mean, the Republicans and Conservatives said the same thing about John Edwards and his son; so, I think it is high time that Republicans actually started following their own advice.
In other words, send the damned medical bills to John McCain and Mitt Romney; they own a few houses, they can pick up the tab! 😀
Related Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMwXPueu-RM
Yeah, I know, I know... I am an a-hole. But Jesus… the whining is getting to be a bit of old hat. 🙄
Update: I thought I would add this before the hate brigade comes after me. I have not worked since 2005 for anyone else; other than writing on all the blogs that I have written on, including this one. I have NO medical insurance at all — none, zero, nada. My parents have to foot my medical bills. So, when I hear some conservative griping and whining about losing his insurance, I have to laugh! Try not having any at all, asshole! 😡
Again, just pay your higher premiums and quit your silly belly aching about it! You stupid rich, elitist idiot! 😡
Edited to Add: Those of you calling me a leech. You expose yourselves as the elitist, out of touch, douche-nozzles that you truly are. You would rather me not have any sort of treatment for my A.D.H.D. , Diabetes and High Blood Pressure; you would rather that I just die off and not be a burden on my parents; who by the way, don’t have a problem helping me out. For what it is worth, I will be calling Monday and seeing if I can sign up on Michigan’s expanded Medicare program. Hopefully, I can get on it. So, yeah, no thanks to Bush and Obama’s handling of the economy; I am getting State Government healthcare, that you rich, out of touch elitist neoconservatives will be paying for. Way I see it: You all should be paying for it, seeing your boy, Dubya screwed our Country into the ground for 8 damned years. Not only that, but the democrats did with Granholm as well. I will take the handout, thank you very much. There are no jobs here, at least not for people like me. So, I will take my dole, I paid into it for many years. So, I take my share, like everyone else. 😡
Update #2: I also should point out the following: I have not had any health insurance since 2000. I had this insurance via the cobra program, which allowed me to keep my insurance from a former employer of mine. It was an employer I worked for in the early 1990’s. I finally had to give it up, because it was just too expensive to own. So, again, all this silly whining is silly, I believe.
Update #3: As much as I am not a fan of this guy here; he does have a point.
Update #4: I have been getting a number of emails from people wondering why I’m attacking Jim Hoft. The simple answer is this here: some of Jim Hoft’s friends have attacked me in the past. And I believe Jim Hoft has posted some items that have smeared me. One of Jim’s friends even went as far as to accuse me of being a racist and an anti-semite. The way I see it turnabout is fair play.
Do not misunderstand me here, I take no pleasure in knowing that Jim Hoft is suffering physically, not at all. But, the way I see it, if the players in the blogosphere want to smear me and call me an anti-Semite and a racist bigot; that I don’t mind pointing out the hypocrisy of the fact that a conservative blogger is whining because his insurance got cancelled.
The truth is that the conservative blogosphere has always hated my guts, because I happen to be at one time a left of center blogger. And because I dared to challenge one of the neoconservative darlings of the right-wing blogosphere. This blogger actually had the temerity to go around posting personal information about a child’s parents all because she didn’t like the idea of a social program that would benefit the children like him. The child I’m referring to is Graeme Frost. because of this blogger’s blatant stupidity in exposing this boy’s parents personal information I posted what I thought was her real address and telephone number. Turns out she had not lived there over 3 years. But, none of that actually mattered what mattered was that I dare to challenge her and as a result I became the most hated man in the blogosphere.
Another reason these people hate me is because one of their darling bloggers decided to make fun of me and when he did, I fired back and I made it personal and in the process I ended up insulting his dead wife. At the time I had no idea that the name that I brought up on my blog was his dead wife and I apologized for it as well many times over. But, they still act like it happened last week when all actuality it happened back in 2007.
The funny and ironic part is, is that two women who worked for David Horowitz, and now work for this woman or at least did till she offloaded her new website; smeared me as an anti-Semite and a bigot. Well the way I see it, these women are really friendly with Jim Hoft and if they don’t mind smearing me and making up lies about me and all this other nonsense, then I don’t mind telling the truth about how I really feel about conservative bloggers who whine about losing their insurance.
The truth is none of these people have actually met me in person at all. But, they will get on blogs and write things about me telling half-truths an outright lies all to try to discredit me and liable me on the Internet. So the way I see it, payback is a bitch and so are the people that smeared me and said things about me that were not true. The point I’m making is this here: the way I see it: you make friends with dogs like that, then you deal with the crap that gets flung at you because you’re friends with them.
The truth is they started the war with me and they slandered me. because I actually had the audacity to fight back, they declared war against me hacked my blog and proceeded to smear me on the Internet. So I think a bit of a slam dunk of one of their friends is justified. If any of them don’t like it — too bad. Quit stabbing people in the back and quit lying about people and maybe stuff like this won’t get written about you. Its just that simple.
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