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Wed, 22 May 2013 01:53:15 -0400

I really just can’t wait until we have medical crack, with dispensaries and shit

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:30:59 -0400

I really just can’t wait until we have medical crack, with dispensaries and shit

rozoonthego: This is how I’m feeling today! I’d advise you to...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:28:50 -0400

This is how I’m feeling today!

I’d advise you to stay away! My ‘To Do’ list is pure insanity!

xo @rozOonTheGo

s/O Miami Heat though!

nationalpost: ‘I never dreamed I’d see the daylight again’...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:36:59 -0400

nationalpost:

‘I never dreamed I’d see the daylight again’ Woman found alive in rubble 17 days after Bangladesh factory collapse
A seamstress buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against a scene of unimaginable horror, where the death toll shot past 1,000.

Reshma survived, in remarkably good shape, by eating dried food that was in her area and drinking spare amounts of water with her. She was discovered on the second floor of the eight-story Rana Plaza building, where crews have been focused on recovering bodies, not rescuing survivors, for much of the past two weeks.

“I heard voices of the rescue workers for the past several days. I kept hitting the wreckage with sticks and rods just to attract their attention,” she told the private Somoy TV from her hospital bed as doctors and nurses milled about, giving her saline and checking her condition.

“No one heard me. It was so bad for me. I never dreamed I’d see the daylight again,” she said. (AFP/Getty Images)

justsomerandomshitok: scotland

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:15:30 -0400

justsomerandomshitok:

scotland

peashooter85: The Last Surrender of the Third Reich —-...

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:15:28 -0400

German soldiers man their posts at the weather station.

A German soldier wins a victory against the ruthless polar bears.

Svalbard in relation to the Europe and the Arctic.

peashooter85:

The Last Surrender of the Third Reich —- Svalbard, September 4th, 1945.

In September of 1944 a German project called Operation Haudegen established a weather base on the remote arctic Island of Svalbard. Manned by 11 soldiers, the station was created to gather weather data, which is vitally important when planning a military campaign. For months the men of Operation Haudegen staved off subzero temperatures, boredom, and fought a fierce war with the local population of polar bears while dutifully sending weather reports to Germany.

When Germany collapsed in the winter and spring of 1945, so too did its communication infrastructure, with fewer and fewer messages sent to Haudegen. On May 8th 1945 the men of Haudegen received a message instructing all German forces to surrender. It was the last message they would ever receive. All the men of Haudegen had was a single rowboat which could hardly cross the North Atlantic. They were effectively trapped on the island until help could arrive. For months they continued to broadcast their weather reports, this time un-coded for all to hear. They even tried broadcasting messages on Allied distress channels, but with no luck. It seemed that the world had forgotten about Haudegen altogether.

Finally on September 4th, 1945, a boat of Norwegian seal hunters intercepted an SOS broadcast from the nearby island of Svalbard. The captain of the boat docked with the station and invited the German soldiers on board for a hearty dinner, a real treat since the men of Haudegen had been surviving on canned rations for nearly a year. Finally, the German commander said “I suppose we should surrender now”, took out his pistol and placed it on the table in front of the ship’s captain. The captain stared at it unsure what to do and asked “can I keep this then?”. On September 4th, 1945 the last soldiers of the Third Reich officially surrendered to a boat of seal hunters, almost four months after World War II in Europe had ended.

SHOUTS OUT TO MY NIGGA JACK

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:36:03 -0400

Bummy and broke, the nigga still stays cleaner than I know how and keeps me mindful of the ish I say. Cray-ass vagabond, I be seein u reall soon

demons: Two soldiers of the Camel Corps photographed during...

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:33:38 -0400

demons:

Two soldiers of the Camel Corps photographed during their lunch at the cavalry post at Tel-el-Meleiha, 20 miles north of Beersheba, 18 Jan 1940.

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:28:03 -0400

georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov: Two Brazilian officers, 1868,...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:25:54 -0400

georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov:

Two Brazilian officers, 1868, during the War of the Triple Alliance.

newyorker: Two border-patrol officers attempt to keep a...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:52:20 -0400

newyorker:

Two border-patrol officers attempt to keep a fugitive in the U.S. in this photo from National Geographic’s archive (Luis Marden/National Geographic). Click through to see more.

hauptleutetait: This is just so adorable! My Erwin on skis...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:02:35 -0400

hauptleutetait:

This is just so adorable! My Erwin on skis ^_^ ♥

Spend all this money, buy a fresh ass whip throw a system in make the bitch bump like a...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:49:26 -0400

Spend all this money, buy a fresh ass whip throw a system in make the bitch bump like a swanga

still find me dodgin those blue lights, peelin corners sideways in my mom’s Hyundai.

georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov: Armenian Genocide Remembrance...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:46:42 -0400

Armenian doctors hanged in Aleppo Square, 1916

Armenian victims.

Armenian refugees.

A Turkish official holds food over the heads of Armenian children.

georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov:

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, April 24th

Although Armenians under Ottoman rule had been mistreated regularly for many years, the outbreak of World War I led the Ottomans to believe that they had to eliminate what they saw as a potential fifth column within their empire. On April 24th, the traditional start date of the Armenian Genocide, hundreds of Armenian intelligentsia were rounded up and imprisoned as British troops landed on Gallipoli.

Over the next few years, between 1 million and 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children in the Ottoman Empire were systematically exterminated through mass killings and death marches through the desert, and countless more imprisoned or deported from the empire. To this day the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge a genocide even occurred.

demons: An Avro Lancaster of No. 514 Squadron RAF over the...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:46:40 -0400

demons:

An Avro Lancaster of No. 514 Squadron RAF over the target during a Bomber Command attack on oil storage tanks at Bec d’Ambes in the Garonne estuary, 4 August 1944.

shiftysketch: not-fun: Nasa Mars Rover Accidentally Draws...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:44:15 -0400

shiftysketch:

not-fun:

Nasa Mars Rover Accidentally Draws Penis On Red Planet

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/24/mars-rover-penis-nasa_n_3144656.html?1366792449

Nasa’s $800m Mars Exploration Rovers have accidentally drawn a penis.

start your day off right, with alien spacedicks.

Anyone who was surprised can leave the species now.

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Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:22:41 -0400

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annespage:

the only reason america dropped the atomic bomb was because we were at WAR idiots, if we hadn’t dropped the bomb the war would’ve lasted at lot longer. 9/11 was an act of terrorism, why don’t you go watch a video of the twin towers as they burn after the planes crash into them and later collapse in on themselves burying not only the people that worked there inside, but also the police officers and firefighters who were trying to rescue any survivors, and before they collapsed, when people were forced to choose to burn or jump out to their deaths. so yeah, the atomic bomb killed more people, but one was during WWII and the other was a direct attack of terrorism on America. And the only reason we were at war with Japan was because they attacked us at pearl harbor, if they hadn’t done that the war would’ve stayed in Europe and the atomic bomb wouldn’t have been dropped.

Not even remotely true, but thanks for playing. This misconception largely occurs because of the famous Stimson article that was featured in Harpers’ magazine.

Of course, he didn’t actually WRITE the thing and, though it presents itself as a fireside chat between two people it was actually a heavily engineered document, and almost every fact cited was knowingly wrong by the government at the time (declassified documents - read ‘em). But hey! What better source for info!

That’s neither here nor there though since Japan tried to surrender before we dropped the bomb.

Several Times.

Yes, Japan tried to surrender. Once through Russia, once through Switzerland, once through the Vatican of all places, and many times appealing directly to Truman. We turned them down because of the stipulation that we were not allowed to touch their emperor, a concession the US was not willing to make at the time.

“Foreign Minister Shigemitsu has instructed Ambassador Sato [in Moscow] to find out whether Russia is willing to assist in bringing about a negotiated peace. Shigemitsu’s instructions, although cautiously worded, clearly imply that he has in mind a move by Russia to initiate peace discussions between Japan and the Anglo-Americans… [I]t seems hardly likely that he would have taken such a step without having consulted at least some of the more important members of the new Japanese cabinet… This is the first time that the Japanese have been willing to suggest to Russia directly that they are ready for peace.”

-“Japanese Consider Peace Possibilities” War Department MAGIC reports of intercepted messages: EYES ONLY for President and closest advisers

“I learn from a very reliable source that in important civilian circles in Japan the peace problem is being discussed with increasing anxiety. A speedy German collapse is expected and it is not believed that Japan can then continue the war. It is therefore considered necessary to get peace as soon as possible before the country and towns are destroyed… If any willingness appeared to exist in London the Japanese would be ready for preliminary discussions through Swedish channels. Behind the man who gave me this message stands one of the best known statesment in Japan and there is no doubt that this attempt must be considered as a serious one.”

-Telegram from Swedish minister in Tokyo given from the British Ambassador to the United States

“…It seems probably that very far-reaching conditions would be accepted by the Japanese by way of negotiation… Exchange of the Japanese constitution must also be considered as excluded. The Emperor must not be touched. However, the Imperial power could be somewhat democratized as is that of the English King”

-Report from Swedish minister in Tokyo sent to US State Department

AND EVEN LATER THEY GAVE THOSE CONDITIONS UP

“…Stated that he had been asked by Masutaro Inoue, Counsellor for the Japanese Legation in Portugal, to contact United States representatives. Source quoted Inoue as saying that the Japanese are ready to cease hostilities, provided they are allowed to retain possession of their home islands… On 19 May [1945], the OSS representative reported Inoue again had repeated to source his desire to talk with an American representative. On this occasion Inoue declared that actual peace terms were unimportant so long as the term ‘unconditional surrender’ was not employed.”

-OSS Representative report directly to Truman

Of course, we did anyway. But that’s not important.

Because the bomb wasn’t about Japan.

In Derry and Ramsey’s Memo to Groves (May 12, 1945) when picking a target for the atomic bomb, one of the primary listed reasons for picking a target was:

“making the initial use sufficiently spectacular for the importance of the weapon to be internationally recognized when publicity on it is released.”

In fact, they ranked targets - AA to B. Know what got the lowest ratings? Military targets. The ones that got the highest ratings were civilian ones.

Japan was currently researching wooden planes. WOODEN PLANES. They had attempted to give up, we said no. They had already lost the war when we dropped the bomb. They knew this - hell, they tried to surrender twice.

So why did we drop the bomb, then?

A close reading of the memo tells all. It was to make an impact on the international community.

Do you know how Truman was first informed about the Manhatten Project and the bomb? It was in a discussion with the Secretary of State in regards to negotiations with Russia after the war.

Truman kept delaying the “Big Three” discussions, the most important political talks in recorded history, until basically the day AFTER the Trinity Tests - he wanted to wait until he knew he had the bomb as a political piece. Stalin and Churchill were VERY angry at him pushing the date back with little to no reason given (they knew, of course, because of spies and intelligence).

Still don’t believe me?

The Secretary of War, and MOST of the army was against dropping the bomb. They wanted to give the option of doing a demonstration and giving Japan an option of total surrender (that we get to do whatever we want with the Emperor) or of giving Japan time to evacuate the civilian population before bombing a city.

Oh, and there’s this from Stimson’s Memo of Talk with Truman (June 6, 1945)

“I told [the President] that I was anxious about this feature of the war for two reasons: first, because I did not want to have the United States get the reputation of outdoing Hitler in atrocities; and second, I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon would not have a fair background to show its strength. He laughed and said he understood.”

He laughed.

An estimated 500,000 people died between Nagasaki and Hiroshima if you count deaths by radiation poisoning and long-term cancer.

And Truman could only laugh because he was worried the bomb might not be noticeable amongst the wreckage of Japan.

The reason for dropping the bomb was to give America a better condition amongst the international population, particularly Stalin and Russia, in the coming years. It was to make Russia afraid to invade Japan (and from there, the fear was, the rest of Asia) when they knew America had interests in it. They dropped the bomb to give them an advantage when negotiating in the future and to give them a start when everyone began arming (a situation tons of scientists warned everyone about in The Franck Report).

But don’t pretend it was about Japan. And don’t you dare pretend it was about peace.

500,000 people died and all Truman could do was laugh.

Man, there have been a couple of iffy ones, but this one really does it. I understand your stance and appeal, but your lack of understanding on the topic, and bitter resentment for stoic political figures you never had the privilege of knowing during or through the time in which these events were taking place really upsets me, and reminds me that more often than not, the people who stand up to atrocities are just as ignorant as those who commit them.

georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov: A Chechen fighter carries up...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:30:04 -0400

georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov:

A Chechen fighter carries up artillery shells during the First Battle of Grozny.

(Getty Images)

demons: Captured Luftwaffe officers, 1945

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:24:54 -0400

demons:

Captured Luftwaffe officers, 1945

pbsthisdayinhistory: April 12, 1861: The Civil War Begins On...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:27:42 -0400

pbsthisdayinhistory:

April 12, 1861: The Civil War Begins

On this day in 1861, General Pierre G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter and remained there for thirty-three hours until the fort was surrendered.

Early on, the southern states wanted to secede from the nation due to conflicting opinions regarding slavery between the north and south. Once Abraham Lincoln was elected, it incited the southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America. When the Confederates took over Fort Sumter, President Lincoln declared war.

The Civil War lasted until 1865 with about 620,000 casualties.

Explore this historical event further with Ken Burns’s The Civil War photo gallery.

Image: Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand (Library of Congress)