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Title: Nov 30, 1941 Honolulu Headline: JAPANESE MAY STRIKE OVER WEEKEND!
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URL Source: http://enjoyingthejourney.blogspot. ... onolulu-headline-japanese.html
Published: Dec 07, 2008
Author: enjoyingthejourney.blogspot
Post Date: 2010-11-30 01:15:12 by christine
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The Truth Concealed: Forewarned, Forearmed? Not at Pearl Harbor on the "Day of Infamy" (Dec 7, 1941) source For most people, the story of "Arizona" and other Pearl Harbor and Pacific battlegrounds paints a black and white picture of what allegedly happened. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in a "surprise" attack, we are told. "A day that will live in infamy," declared President Roosevelt the following day, in his address to a joint session of Congress as he announced the U.S. was at war with Japan, and therefore, with its ally, Germany. Prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, however, most of the United States citizens were opposed to America's entering the war in Europe on Britain's side. After the Pearl Harbor, the issue was a no brainer. Roosevelt and his pal Winston Churchill NEEDED a "Pearl Harbor" as an excuse to involve this great country in a war (in Europe) that never threatened our national security. And his government made sure it got its "Pearl Harbor" one way or another. In short, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was no surprise. History is written by the victors. They shape the stories to fit their interests. So what we are being told about Pearl Harbor in schools and textbooks is only a part of the truth. The other part has been carefully excised from our history. Big Brother reincarante? You betcha... How do I know that? Well, take a look at the front page of the Honolulu Advertiser, dated Nov 30, 1941 (auspiciously exactly 67 years ago today - to the day!). The top headline reads, "Japanese May Strike over Weekend!" The article even predicted the timing of the attack accurately - eight days before it happened! The rest of the story shows how our government was aware of the oncoming attack. According to some of my military sources, our government subsequently managed to destroy almost all the evidence, including going into the Hawaii hospitals and ripping off the front page of this newspaper. However, private Paul Brown, seeing what was going on, reportedly managed to save his own front page of the Advertiser and hide it from the government. This is one of the very few known copies of that paper. It is supposedly hanging in the Punta Gorda Florida Military History Museum. At least it was, as of March of this year, I am told. Of course, none of this takes away one iota of credit or tribute to the brave men and women who fought during WW II, both in the Pacific and in Europe. But it does go to show us once again that the "truth is the first casualty of war." Tonkin Bay, Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction," are but some more recent examples of this truism. Which is why we must never accept what governments tell us at face value. More then 2,400 lives lost in just one day at Pearl Harbor ought to be reason enough, not to mention the millions that followed.
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#4. To: christine (#0)
This headline was prompted by a member of the government, Sec. of State Cordell Hull, a man that refused to go along with the program. Hull gave copies of intercepted Japanese cables to a reporter friend who in turn furnished it to UP wire services. The only part excised was naming Pearl Harbor, and only one paper in this country ran the story and headline...THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER...
the government controlled the media that far back. i remember reading somewhere that few americans knew that FDR was wheel chair bound because the photographers always kept their cameras aimed from his waist up. do you recall anything about that?
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThe top headline reads, "Japanese May Strike over Weekend!" The article even predicted the timing of the attack accurately - eight days before it happened! The rest of the story shows how our government was aware of the oncoming attack.
#11. To: Cynicom (#4)
The only part excised was naming Pearl Harbor, and only one paper in this country ran the story and headline...THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER...
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