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Title: U.S. Drops Fleas With Bubonic Plague on North Korea
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URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/09 ... -never-stopped-lying-about-it/
Published: Sep 8, 2015
Author: David Swanson
Post Date: 2015-09-08 16:47:32 by Ada
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Views: 230
Comments: 20
This happened some 63 years ago, but as the U.S. government has never stopped lying about it, and it’s generally known only outside the United States, I’m going to treat it as news. Here in our little U.S. bubble we’ve heard of a couple versions of a film called The Manchurian Candidate. We’ve heard of the general concept of “brainwashing” and may even associate it with something evil that the Chinese supposedly did to U.S. prisoners during the Korean War. And I’d be willing to bet that the majority of people who’ve heard of these things have at least a vague sense that they’re bullshit. If you didn’t know, I’ll break it to you right now: people cannot actually be programed like the Manchurian candidate, which was a work of fiction. There was never the slightest evidence that China or North Korea had done any such thing. And the CIA spent decades trying to do such a thing, and finally gave up. I’d also be willing to bet that very few people know what it was that the U.S. government promoted the myth of “brainwashing” to cover up. During the Korean War, the United States bombed virtually all of North Korea and a good bit of the South, killing millions of people. It dropped massive quantities of Napalm. It bombed dams, bridges, villages, houses. This was all-out mass-slaughter. But there was something the U.S. government didn’t want known, something deemed unethical in this genocidal madness. It is well documented that the United States dropped on China and North Korea insects and feathers carrying anthrax, cholera, encephalitis, and bubonic plague. This was supposed to be a secret at the time, and the Chinese response of mass vaccinations and insect eradication probably contributed to the project’s general failure (hundreds were killed, but not millions). But members of the U.S. military taken prisoner by the Chinese confessed to what they had been a part of, and confessed publicly when they got back to the United States. Some of them had felt guilty to begin with. Some had been shocked at China’s decent treatment of prisoners after U.S. depictions of the Chinese as savages. For whatever reasons, they confessed, and their confessions were highly credible, were borne out by independent scientific reviews, and have stood the test of time. How to counter reports of the confessions? The answer for the CIA and the U.S. military and their allies in the corporate media was “brainwashing,” which conveniently explained away whatever former prisoners said as false narratives implanted in their brains by brainwashers. And 300 million of so Americans more or less sort of believe that craziest-ever dog-ate-my-homework concoction to this day! The propaganda struggle was intense. The support of the Guatemalan government for the reports of U.S. germ warfare in China were part of the U.S. motivation for overthrowing the Guatemalan government; and the same cover-up was likely part of the motivation for the CIA’s murder of Frank Olson. There isn’t any debate that the United States had been working on bio-weapons for years, at Fort Detrick — then Camp Detrick — and numerous other locations. Nor is there any question that the United States employed the top bio-weapons killers from among both the Japanese and the Nazis from the end of World War II onward. Nor is there any question that the U.S. tested such weapons on the city of San Francisco and numerous other locations around the United States, and on U.S. soldiers. There’s a museum in Havana featuring evidence of years of U.S. bio- warfare against Cuba. We know that Plum Island, off the tip of Long Island, was used to test the weaponization of insects, including the ticks that created the ongoing outbreak of Lyme Disease. Dave Chaddock’s book This Must Be the Place, which I found via Jeff Kaye’s review, collects the evidence that the United States indeed tried to wipe out millions of Chinese and North Koreans with deadly diseases. “What does it matter now?” I can imagine people from only one corner of the earth asking. I reply that it matters that we know the evils of war and try to stop the new ones. U.S. cluster bombs in Yemen, U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, U.S. guns in Syria, U.S. white phosphorus and Napalm and depleted uranium used in recent years, U.S. torture in prison camps, U.S. nuclear arsenals being expanded, U.S. coups empowering monsters in Ukraine and Honduras, U.S. lies about Iranian nukes, and indeed U.S. antagonization of North Korea as part of that never-yet-ended war — all of these things can be best confronted by people aware of a centuries-long pattern of lying. And I reply, also, that it is not yet too late to apologize.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Good. I hope Harlem is next.
Horseshit.
www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/02detain.html?_r=0 "The 1957 article from which the chart was copied was entitled “Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions From Air Force Prisoners of War” and written by Albert D. Biderman, a sociologist then working for the Air Force, who died in 2003. Mr. Biderman had interviewed American prisoners returning from North Korea, some of whom had been filmed by their Chinese interrogators confessing to germ warfare and other atrocities."
#2. To: Ada (#0)
#3. To: Ada (#0)
Some had been shocked at China’s decent treatment of prisoners
-Alex Kurtagic
#4. To: X-15 (#3)
I lost lot of friends dropping stuff on the gooks, never ever heard of such nonsense. Beyond one person, there is no such thing as a secret, if someone did it, we would have known it.
#5. To: Cynicom, Jethro Tull, X-15, Ada, Lod (#4) (Edited)
I know some of you like to watch old movies, so it was provident Korea War brainwashing came up as a topic on 4um. As it turns out, I had just watched Prisoner of War a couple days ago. I recorded it a few months ago but just got around to watching a few days ago. I can't do an honest review because I fell asleep near the end, but it was excellent up until then, I knew the good guys would win. btw, Ronald Reagan played the lead in this flick, it's worth watching. For the record, North Korea really did use re-education camps and other warped bullcrap in their pathetic effort to spread international communism.
The best thing you do to relax, and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. - Jim Jones
#6. To: Cynicom (#2)
I'm sure the gook's habit of practically wallowing in pig and chicken shit had nothing to do with those diseases being present in those countries. (sarc)
#7. To: Obnoxicated (#6) (Edited)
I thought 'zipperheads' was the current polite introduction...I probably should read up on all this diplomatic hoo-ha before I take that civil service exam first thing tomorrow morning...
The best thing you do to relax, and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. - Jim Jones
#8. To: Obnoxicated (#6)
First hand account by one that was there is, "The Valleys of Death". War as it really was, North and South Korea, unvarnished, will make you ill.
#9. To: Dakmar (#5)
I can't find the movie on Netflix, Amazon Prime or Youtube. I'll search for it on my TV menu. Prisoner of War
#10. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
I can't find it online either. In the meantime, here's something we hope you'll really like!
The best thing you do to relax, and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. - Jim Jones
#11. To: Cynicom (#8)
Is that the area they were considering nuking?
#12. To: Obnoxicated (#11)
Nuking was considered at very beginning of the war, MacArthur was overruled. After that nukes were on call for Russia/China. How things have changed, now Russia and Japan hope we never leave Asia.
#13. To: Jethro Tull (#9)
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#14. To: Lod, Jethro Tull (#13)
All governments seek to dominate, up to this point the anglosphere has been the most successful in resisting.
The best thing you do to relax, and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. - Jim Jones
#15. To: Lod, Dakmar, 4 (#13) (Edited)
I can't see the "Prisoner of War" (1954) Netflix movie on my computer so, in case others can't either, here's a bit of info about it with 4 short videos: Prisoner of War (1954) - Overview - TCM.com [Turner Classic Movies] Synopsis American GIs fight to survive inhuman treatment in a Korean POW camp. Previews [numbered as listed for viewing at the site but posted here in context-order]: 1. Prisoner of War - (Original Trailer) - Ronald Reagan Intro 3. Prisoner Of War (1954) - (Movie Clip) It's A Tough Assignment 4. Prisoner Of War (1954) - (Movie Clip) We're Going Beyond Pavlov 2. Prisoner Of War (1954) - (Movie Clip) Just Cooperate A Little ALSO KNOWN AS: THE P.O.W. STORY | THE PRISONER OF WAR STORY
Ronald Reagan is a spy who infiltrates a North Korean POW camp in Prisoner of War (1954). [2.25 minutes]
Straight up exposition as Ronald Reagan (who eagerly accepted MGM's offer to play Captain Webb Sloane) volunteers for Henry Morgan (as Major Halle) to infiltrate a North Korean P.O.W. camp to collect evidence of violations of the Geneva Conventions. [3.5 minutes]
Austrian Oscar Homolka is the Russian who really runs the Korean P.O.W. camp administered by Kim (Leonard Strong) and Lang (Rollin Moriyama) as prisoners, including infiltrated American agent Sloane (Ronald Reagan) and captured Stanton (Steve Forrest), arrive [3.5 minutes]
Biroshilov (Oskar Homolka), Soviet boss of the Korean P.O.W. camp, exploits info extracted from American P.O.W. Treadman (Dewey Martin) regarding his mother, sending him back to the barracks where Sloane (Ronald Reagan) and Stanton (Steve Forrest) aren't buying, [less than 4 minutes]
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#16. To: Cynicom (#8)
War as it really was, North and South Korea, unvarnished, will make you ill. publishersweekly.com: Valleys of Death: A Memoir of the Korean War by Bill Richardson, Author with Kevin Maurer, Co-Author/Journalist Details: Valleys of Death: A Memoir of the Korean War - Bill Richardson, Kevin Maurer - Google Books From a book review at books.google.com: Project DELTA - Wikipedia First hand account by one that was there is, "The Valleys of Death".
Richardson looks back at the 1950s when he was a master sergeant with the First Cavalry Division in Korea. After U.S. Army occupation duty from 1946 to 1950 in Italy, Germany, and Austria, and the U.N. vote to defend South Korea, he was reassigned to Fort Devens, Mass., to train recruits in weaponry. Shortly after arriving in Taegu, South Korea, their battalion was subjected to North Korean attacks. He recalls both fear and acts of bravery amid the deafening explosions, flying shrapnel, mortar and artillery fire, mass slaughter, bodies lying in piles, and the stunned reaction after a message dropped from a plane: "We were on our own. No relief column was on its way... and if we stayed in this hellhole we would all die." The final third of the book details his torture and starvation during 34 months as a POW, concluding with a short summary of his later military career. Aided by journalist Maurer, Richardson never pulls his punches in these vivid descriptions of bloody combat action, interrupted by occasional flashbacks to his youth on the streets of Philadelphia Photos, maps. (Dec.)
Scroll down to see Table of Contents, etc., and a preview of Chapter One.
The author spent 34 months as a POW. ... The descriptions do give a clear picture of what happened to POWs and I was shocked to find that they often died at a rate of 30-40 per day. ... Richardson went on to form Project Delta in Vietnam
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#17. To: Dakmar (#10)
Rep. Lantos, I assume long dead, obviously wasn't on the Chinese payroll at the time of this committee hearing. A hearing like this would never be conducted today.
#18. To: Lod (#13)
The 'tube is doing this to me.
#19. To: GreyLmist, Jethro Tull, Lod, X-15, Christine, All (#16)
"The Valleys of Death"..... Author Richardson as a POW in Korea, tells of men """"eating kernels of dry corn already eaten by other POWS"""" There is worse, I will spare you that, however to honestly discuss warfare by men or women, one needs to educate themselves to the horrors of war. John McCain and others were " heros"???? Read the book, decide for yourselves.
#20. To: Cynicom (#19)
I guess no one understands the extent to which your remark brings you to the realities of war. Eating corn extracted from someone else's feces is a pretty desperate act. That small fact doesn't even touch the extent to which man will go to survive such horror. 'Tis no place for the female gender. ... tells of men """"eating kernels of dry corn already eaten by other POWS""""
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