But my monkey has a ticket to ride.

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Human experimentation by Japanese officials during World War II presents
one of the most horrifying instances of state-sponsored brutality. Since the
end of the war, however, the Japanese government has not officially recognized that the atrocities occurred, nor has the U.S. government acknowledged its postwar role in sheltering the perpetrators of these heinous acts. This appalling yet unaddressed affair therefore demands international attention. Because typical transitional justice options are unavailable or inappropriate, the solution may lie in an innovative civil society initiative: a people’s tribunal that could pressure the Japanese and U.S. governments to bring meaningful closure to this tragedy.

I begin this Comment by explaining the need for contemporary confrontation


I. The Modern Need To Address Japanese Wartime Human
Experimentation

Both the historical and political background of Japanese human experimentation and recent geopolitical developments in East Asia make this issue particularly crucial to address today.

A. Historical and Political Background

During World War II, Japanese officials experimented on thousands of civilians and Allied soldiers, possibly including U.S. prisoners of war.1 The most notorious research was conducted in Manchuria by the Imperial Japanese Army’s Unit 731, led by Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii.2 These experiments, sometimes referred to as the “Asian Auschwitz,” included vivisections, dissections, weapons testing, starvation, dehydration, poisoning, extreme temperature and pressure testing, and deliberate infection with numerous deadly diseases.

3 Had the war continued, the Japanese planned to use the biological
weapons developed from these experiments to attack the U.S. military in the Pacific and possibly even the west coast of the United States itself.

http://www.zacharykaufman.com/pub/2008_ylpr_japan.pdf

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Japan's Germ Warfare: the U.S. Cover-Up of a War Crime

One of the neglected stories of World War II is Japan's use
of Germ Warfare against China and the Soviet Union. For years
the Japanese and. American governments have succeeded in
suppressing this chapter in history. Japan's reason for wanting to
hide its attempt to practice "public health in reverse" — a crim­
inally irresponsible undertaking which was potentially capable
of setting off wide-ranging epidemics endangering the lives of
millions of people — is understandable. The American govern­
ment's participation in illegally concealing evidence of these
war crimes, it is now revealed, stemmed chiefly from Washing­
ton's desire to secure exclusive possession of what it considered
to be "extremely valuable" military information.

In few other instances was Washington's double standard
revealed so clearly. An "insidious" weapon in enemy hands,
biological warfare (BW) was transformed into an acceptable
and valuable military tool when added to the American arsenal.
Some of our military leaders became almost lyrical when de­
scribing its possibilities. It became "humane" because it
offered a short cut to victory which, it was claimed, would save
lives — particularly American lives. It was also described as a
money-saver in comparison with conventional weapons and had
the further advantage of not destroying property.

Japan's Germ Warfare: the U.S. Cover-Up of a War Crimein the little-publicized television documentary of the germ warfare unit, ..... The Japanese Communist party alleges that "Ishi BKA '"(Bacterial War Army) ...
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In few other instances was Washington's double standard
revealed so clearly. An "insidious" weapon in enemy hands,
biological warfare (BW) was transformed into an acceptable
and valuable military tool when added to the American arsenal.
Some of our military leaders became almost lyrical when de­
scribing its possibilities. It became "humane" because it
offered a short cut to victory which, it was claimed, would save
lives — particularly American lives. It was also described as a
money-saver in comparison with conventional weapons and had
the further advantage of not destroying property.

Could make one wonder what is being hidden today, doesn't it? Think of all the governments around the world and the dirty little and not so little secrets they are hiding. Has to be in the thousands, easily.

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Secrete diplomacy is spooky. Little secrete dirty deals indeed. Deals we don't need to know about for our own good. A strange story the secrete dealings of the USA, Israel, and Iran. Been a couple of books about that but I have not been that curious to read.

Don't mind me
just one of those moods it will pass off.

I been out in the country the past couple of days. Away from the din.

Prayer wheels, balloons, who am I to call it superstition or foolishness. I can not fry matzos in bacon grease. How superstitious us that?

Allen Ginsberg say he doan care
what happens to his body after he dead


I do care about mine. How superstitious is that?


Pity is


I don't care more about it before its dead.




Lunch break
I am on the Ludwig Wittgenstein diet






Like telling myself I got to lose fifty pounds before I can die. How superstitious is that?


A lot of glare here today.

Hope all is well with you and yours
and happy fathers day old man.

[mtmynd]

this will be my 36th yr of being a father... been a father longer than not... odd how that works... you screw somebody, make love if your lucky, they get pregnant, the both of you have a baby and one becomes a mother and the other becomes a father... you may double your offspring or more, but you're only a father in years as long as the first kid.

who cares? damn, i think too much about needless stuff myself, truck.

superstition. now there's an interesting subject. i see it all the time at our little arts/crafts show we do... if business is slow vendors try to find some reason to make sense out of the slowness... if business is good, they look to the weather or the payday or anything to explain why business is good... that's superstitious to me... and i fall prey to the cycles of up and down, good or not so goo... explaining them away with some ragged-ass reason... but really it simply happens... no reason.. but mind demands it and we fall subject to mind's insistence to know why.

crazy... crazy for loving the reasons...

g'night, mate! (in my aussie accent)

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I used to "go out walking after midnight."




I am hoping Yabyum had a good father's day too.