PEARL HARBOR DAY DECEMBER 7

History, Military 5 Minutes

Personally, I believe they knew the attack was coming but the Military Industrial Complex and the warmongers in our government wanted to get into the war. So they allowed it to happen. Of course, there is no proof of that but…..there’s not much proof for a LOT of things!!!

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, which led to the United States declaring war on Japan the next day, thus entering World War II.

On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked the neutral United States at Naval Station Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii, killing 2,403 Americans and injuring 1,178 others. The attack sank four U.S. Navy battleships and damaged four others. It also damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, and one mine layer. Aircraft losses were 188 destroyed and 159 damaged.

Canada declared war on Japan within hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first Western nation to do so. On December 8, the United States declared war on Japan and entered World War II on the side of the Allies. In a speech to Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the bombing of Pearl Harbor “a date which will live in infamy.”

There are a number of Naval memorials around the US in honor of those who died at Pearl Harbor. The most well known and highly publized is the USS Arizona.

USS ARIZONA

The USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor is a marble memorial over the sunken battleship USS Arizona, which was dedicated on May 30, 1962 (“Memorial Day”), in honor of the 1,177 crew members who were killed. The memorial remembers all military personnel who were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack. Note: This site is open to the public with boat tours to the memorial provided by the US Navy from the visitors center.

Pearl Harbor Memorial

USS OKLAHOMA

In the first ten minutes of the battle, eight torpedoes hit the USS Oklahoma, and she began to capsize. A ninth torpedo would hit her as she sunk in the mud. 14 Marines, and 415 sailors would give their lives. 32 men were cut out through the hull while the others were beneath the waterline. Banging could be heard for over 3 days and then there was silence.

USS Oklahoma Hit

In 1943, the Oklahoma was righted and salvaged. Unlike most of the other battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hull sank in a storm in 1947, while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay.

USS Oklahoma Memorial at Pearl Harbor

USS UTAH

The USS Utah Memorial, is in remembrance of a former battleship that had been converted to a target ship in 1931 (thus, at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack carried the designation of AG-16), that was sunk in the attack on December 7, 1941. A memorial to honor the crew including the 58 who died aboard USS Utah was dedicated on the northwest shore of Ford Island, near the ship’s wreck, in 1972. The ship, along with USS Arizona, was added to the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.

Ford Island

USS Utah Sinking

USS BOWFIN

The USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park is in remembrance of an American submarine that sank 44 ships in World War II. This site is adjacent to the USS Arizona Memorial Visitors Center.

The submarine is owned and operated by the Pacific Fleet Submarine Memorial Association, and is now part of the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park in Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Visitors can tour the submarine with an audio narration of life in the vessel during World War II. The park’s museum features exhibits and artifacts about submarines and the history of the United States Submarine Service, including detailed models, weapon systems, photographs, paintings, battle flags, recruiting posters, and a memorial honoring the 52 American submarines and the more than 3,500 submariners lost during World War II.

The museum’s other exhibits include a torpedo and a 40-mm quad gun, along with Poseidon C-3 and regulus I missiles. The park is located within walking distance of the visitor center for the USS Arizona Memorial and it is across the Harbor from the Battleship Missouri Memorial.

USS MISSOURI

While operating with the carriers on 11 April, the USS Missouri came under attack from a kamikaze that struck the side of the vessel below the main deck. The impact shattered the aircraft, throwing gasoline on the deck that rapidly ignited, but it was quickly suppressed by her crew. The attack caused superficial damage and the battleship remained on station.

Top left of center you can see the Kamikaze

Two crewmen were wounded on 17 April when another kamikaze clipped the stern crane and crashed in the ship’s wake. Missouri left Task Force 58 on 5 May to return to Ulithi; in the course of her operations off Okinawa, she claimed five aircraft shot down and another probable kill, along with partial credit for another six aircraft destroyed.

On 21 August, Missouri sent a contingent of 200 officers and men to Iowa, which was to debark a landing party in Tokyo to begin the process of demilitarizing Japan. Two days later, Murray was informed that Missouri would host the surrender ceremony, with the date scheduled for 31 August. The ship’s crew immediately began preparations for the event, including cleaning and painting the vessel. Missouribegan the approach to Tokyo Bay on 27 August, guided by the Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura. That night, the ships stopped at Kamakura, where a courier brought the flag that Commodore Matthew Perry had flown during his expedition to open Japan in 1853; the flag was to be displayed during the surrender ceremony. The flotilla then entered Tokyo Bay on 29 August, and Missouri was anchored close to where Perry had anchored his own vessels some ninety-two years earlier. Poor weather delayed the ceremony until 2 September.

Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri as General Richard K. Sutherland watches, 2 September 1945

Allied sailors and officers watch General of the Army Douglas MacArthur sign documents during the surrender ceremony aboard Missouri on 2 September 1945. The unconditional surrender of the Japanese to the Allies officially ended the Second World War.

In 1990, leading up to the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress established the Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal. This is also known as the Pearl Harbor Survivor’s medal and was awarded to anyone who was in the U.S. Armed Forces who was present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941 and participated in combat operations that day against the attack. The medal was also awarded to civilians who were killed or injured in the attack. A few years later, Congress amended the law to allow any person who was present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, and was involved in combat operations against Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii, to receive the award. In both instances, there was a limited time period to apply for the award, and it is no longer issued.

Pearl Harbor Survivor Medal

The battleships West Virginia and Tennessee burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941.

Oil burns on the waters of Pearl Harbor, near the naval air station, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples over into the sea during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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  5. Manchin and Collins attempt to begin the federalization of elections apparently. currently the state legislatures pick the electors. this new bill wants it to be the EXECUTIVE of each state–the governor.
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    Legislation offered by Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) would repeal Sections 1 and 2 of the 1887 Electoral Count Act, and replace the appointment of electors by state legislatures in the event a state fails to make a choice in that election under current federal law to “the executive of each State”.

    3 U.S.C. Section 2 currently states, “Whenever any State has held an election for the purpose of choosing electors, and has failed to make a choice on the day prescribed by law, the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such a manner as the legislature of such State may direct.”

    But under the Manchin-Collins bill, that section of federal law would be gone, which asserts the state legislature’s primacy in selecting the President and mirrors Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution’s second clause “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors”.

    Replacing that would be a procedure that completely removes that power from state legislatures and instead recognizes the power of state executives: “the executive of each State shall issue a certificate of ascertainment of appointment of electors”.

    In the constitutional scheme, under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, the Manchin-Collins is at odds with the text of the Constitution.

    The Constitution says states appoint electors “in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct” and the Manchin-Collins bill says it is when “the executive of each state” issues the certificate appointing the electors. It’s a blatant contradiction.

    And that’s the point. The intent of the law is to avert challenges based on the so-called “independent state legislature” theory.

    Moreover, it is at odds with history and precedent for what these provisions meant under federal law prior to the popular election of presidents when state legislatures indeed would vote for the electors to the Electoral College.

    For example, in the first presidential election of 1788, four states, Connecticut, Georgia, New Jersey and South Carolina chose the electors by their state legislatures, and six states, Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Virginia, did it by popular votes. There is no question every state did so in accordance with its own laws.

    As an aside, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island had not yet adopted the Constitution.

    What the state legislatures didn’t do was pass a law naming their electors, and submit it to their governors to sign or for approval. They just chose the electors. That was it.

    Meaning under the default situation under the Constitution, absent adoption of any other laws for example providing for popular votes to some degree at the state level, it was the state legislatures who chose the electors for president. The state’s governor or secretary of state had zero role. Zero.

    And all you need to know that is to simply read the Constitution, which never anticipated that “the executive of each State” would be appointing the electors to the Electoral College.

    The Constitution would have never been adopted had that been the case. It would have never been agreed to at the Constitutional Convention. It was a union of states who believed in democratic rule, not consolidating the most important decision—choosing the president—to one person.

    And yet, that’s the new scheme Congress would agree to. Whoever the “the executive of each State” says are the electors are the electors, apparently even if the state legislature disagrees.

    That is, what if the governor or secretary of state certifies one winner, and the state legislature chooses another? What then?

    In the event a popular election were ever overturned at the state level by a court, it would invariably, under the Constitution and current law, it would still fall to the state legislature to choose the electors instead as a failsafe.

    Both the Constitution and federal law grant the tie to the runner, in this case, the state legislatures. Why get rid of that?

    And that’s the system we have today. And it works just fine. As it turns out, states including their legislatures have already adopted laws and provisions for Secretaries of State to certify the results of elections, including the presidential election, which are done by popular votes in all 50 states, with 48 winner take all contests and 2 with winner take all Congressional Districts in Maine and Nebraska.

    If state legislatures don’t like the state law that governs the choosing of their electors, they can change their states’ laws. Congress doesn’t need to do anything. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.

    Manchin-Collins bill would terminate the old Electoral Count Act’s provision of state legislatures choosing presidential electors, backed by McConnell (dailytorch.com)

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  15. ‘The One Chart That Tells the Entire Story’: Analysis Shows 26% Worse Mortality Among the Vaccinated — “The people who are under the age of 50 who took the vaccine now have a 49% higher mortality rate.”

    The Vigilant Fox
    8 min ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: ‘COVID-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work and Possible Causes of Injuries’. That’s the title on the agenda today (December 7, 2022), as Senator Ron Johnson holds a roundtable discussion of doctors, medical experts, and researchers in an effort to shed light on the current state of knowledge regarding the Covid-19 shot.

    An enlightening speaker today was Josh Stirling, a highly-recognized insurance research analyst. And what he brought forth was “the one chart that tells the entire story.” Here it is:

    “The UK Government, until this summer, was reporting a data series that showed the relative mortality rates for the vaccinated and unvaccinated by the number of doses of the vaccine,” stated Stirling.

    “We’ve done what we think is really professional work with this. And we think it simplifies down to a conclusion that says that through the last available data set, the people in the UK who took the vaccine have a 26% higher mortality rate. The people who are under the age of 50 who took the vaccine now have a 49% higher mortality rate. And worst of all, the people who only took one dose of the vaccine at approximately 145% worse mortality rate.”

    “That last data point is on its face confusing.”

    “It just doesn’t make a ton of sense unless you realize that what’s going on with this really is that the people who took the dose, the first dose in the United States — that’s about 12% of people — but then stop taking any other doses, those people, through their choice to stop, disproportionately [were] the ones who are harmed,” explained Stirling.

    “And so, what we’re concluding is that if you happen to be an unlucky person who was in some fashion, even moderately injured [or] with a minor injury [and] have decided not to continue, the statistics, the best statistics we have show that you’re gonna have, at least through today, maybe it’ll get better … but if that doesn’t happen we’d have to assume that this is now the baseline, there’s going to be 145% higher mortality. And if you were to take these numbers and just apply them to the United States, that ends up being something like 600,000 excess deaths per year in the United States from this higher vaccine-induced mortality.”

    Those are truly horrifying numbers — but thank you, Josh, for your testimony and expertise. If you’d like to tune into the rest of this eye-opening roundtable discussion, you can watch the entire video via the link below. Thanks for reading.”

    COVID-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work and Possible Causes of Injuries

    Link (which has already been posted here): https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/the-one-chart-that-tells-the-entire

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  17. 12/07/22 • BIG PHARMA
    By F. Douglas Stephenson

    EXCERPT: “Private equity has succeeded in depicting itself as part of the productive economy of healthcare services even as it is increasingly being recognized as being parasitic. The essence of this toxic parasitism is not only to drain the host’s nourishment, but also to dull the host’s brain so that it often does not even recognize that the parasite is there.

    This is the illusion that healthcare services in the U.S. suffer under today. Parasitic private equity is consuming U.S. healthcare from the inside out, weakening its structure and strength and enriching investors at the expense of patient care and patients. Incremental health reforms have failed.

    It’s time to move past political barriers to achieve consensus on real reform, says John E. McDonough, professor of Public Health Practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Private equity firms are financial termites devouring the woodwork and foundations of the U.S. healthcare system. Laura Katz Olson, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University, documents in her new book “Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms US Health Care”:

    “PE [private equity] firms are gobbling up physician and dental practices; homecare and hospital agencies; mental health, substance abuse, eating disorder, and autism services; urgent care facilities; and emergency medical transportation.”

    Private equity has become a growing and diversified part of the American healthcare economy. Demonstrated results of private equity ownership include higher patient mortality, higher patient costs, fewer jobs, poorer quality and closed facilities.

    What is private equity?

    A private equity fund is a large unregulated pool of money run by financiers who use that money to invest in and/or buy companies and restructure them. They seek to recoup gains through dividend pay-outs or later sales of the companies to strategic acquirers or back to the public markets through initial public offerings.”

    More: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/private-equity-united-states-healthcare-cd/

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  18. “GOP House Members Launch Probe into ESG Investment Schemes”
    by James Murphy December 7, 2022

    EXCERPT: “On Tuesday, six GOP lawmakers sent a letter to leaders of Climate Action 100+, a group describing itself as “an investor-led initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change.” The letter appears to represent an opening salvo of a GOP effort to investigate so called Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) investments and whether they may violate antitrust laws.

    Addressed to Mindy Lubber and Simiso Nzima, the letter requests that Climate Action 100+ produce and preserve scores of documents relating to how the group pushes ESG priorities on corporations.

    Among the firms involved with Climate Action 100+ are BlackRock, Rockefeller Asset Management, Rothschild and Co. Asset Management in both Europe and the U.K., and HSBC Global Asset Management. Several regional, state, and local investment managers are also listed as “investor signatories.” Lubber is the CEO and president of Ceres, a non-profit which primarily concerns itself with “sustainability,” and Nzima heads CalPERS the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.

    The six congressmen, all Republicans, are Jim Jordan (Ohio), Dan Bishop (N.C.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Tom McClintock(Calif.), Scott Fitzgerald (Wisc.), and Cliff Bentz (Ore). All are current members of the House Judiciary Committee, and Jordan is expected to take the chairmanship once the GOP gains a majority in the House in January. It was unclear if any investigation will be conducted under the auspices of that committee or another one.

    The legislators didn’t hold back on what they thought about ESG investments. “At its core, ESG is merely partisan politics masquerading as responsible corporate governance. A major ESG ‘policy centerpiece’ is stifling investments in oil and gas, and Wall Street firms have ‘bragg[ed] about their coordinated efforts to choke off investment in energy.’ Boycotting certain energy investment, however, is just a subset of the types of ESG-related goals,” the letter stated.

    So, it’s not only climate politics being pushed by Climate Action 100+ and ESG. Their goals include other left-wing political topics.”

    https://thenewamerican.com/gop-house-members-launch-probe-into-esg-investment-schemes/

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  19. gsonFIT
    gsonFIT
    December 7, 2022 5:59 pm

    We are now at the level of covering up the coverups

    And there it is:

    House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters informed a group of Democrats that she doesn’t plan to subpoena former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried: CNBC

    — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 7, 2022

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  20. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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