Featured Image: “Hanoi Jane” Fonda sets on an-Enemy anti-aircraft gun. SOURCE: Unknown.
From News Max Monday, 19 Aug 2013 11:18 AM By Alexandra Ward
Jane Fonda’s turn as Nancy Reagan in the new film “The Butler” is angering veterans across the country, and “Hanoi Jane” isn’t doing much to help the situation.
An infamously vocal liberal, Fonda sparked controversy in 1972 when she visited enemy territory in North Vietnam and was photographed sitting on top of an anti-aircraft battery. That picture and her opposition to the war — she was once quoted calling American soldiers murderers — earned her the nickname “Hanoi Jane.”
Now, veterans are outraged that “Hanoi Jane” is playing Nancy Reagan, beloved wife of staunch military supporter and conservative President Ronald Reagan, in Lee Daniels’ “The Butler.” Many veterans’ groups are picketing the film outside at their local movie theaters. . . . Read Complete Report
Featured Image: Flag of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia – an American non-profit organization that is concerned with the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. SOURCE Wikipedia (Public Domain).
This story should be Number 1 in every news source in the nation but it’s not. Why? During the aftermath of the Vietnam war the government swore up and down that there were NO US military members left behind, therefore there if were no POW’s and most of the press went along with the lie.
Do you Understand now why this groundbreaking information about one of our militqary who WAS left behind 44 years ago and still survives is not fit for MSM? . . . EDITOR
A US Army Green Beret captured during the Vietnam War 44 years ago has reportedly been found living in a remote Vietnamese village.
Sgt. John Hartley Robertson was on a secret mission, flying without identification in a helicopter over Laos when he was shot down on May 20, 1968. A search and rescue mission was impossible and the Alabama native was declared ‘missing in action.’ Presumed dead, Robertson was officially listed as killed in action in 1976. Later, his name joined the more than 58,000 other names of US service members killed in action carved into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, DC. . . . Read Complete Report
The Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964 proved to be America’s key entry point to war in Vietnam. The encounter sparked the first open fighting between the United States and North Vietnam, the first U.S. bombing of the North and an intensification of U.S. support for South Vietnam. It led to congressional passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which became the legal justification for America’s entry in the war. As with so much about Vietnam, events in the Gulf of Tonkin were not what they seemed at the time, and the consequences proved enormous. Even after five decades, we still struggle to understand what happened at the Gulf of Tonkin and why. . . . Read Complete Report
UPDATE: 4/10/2013; Be sure and read the comment posted by Jim Trenor who was in General Quarters in USS Turner Joy’s Combat Information Center during the incident and has a different view of events. He states that the attack did happen. Thanks for your eyewitness information Jim!
This secret audio was recorded of Lyndon B. Johnson’s request for a plan to trap Vietnam and force them into a conflict, and 3 weeks later the Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred.
What can we learn from history about how to start a war?
Well, first create an incident where it seams as though you have been attacked, then manipulate the law using the best lawyers and word-smiths you can find to get away with it. . . Read Complete Post
Photo: A jungle inside a cave? A roof collapse long ago in Hang Son Doong let in light; plants thickly followed. As “Sweeny” Sewell climbs to the surface, hikers struggle through the wryly named Garden of Edam. CREDITCarsten PeterSOURCENational Geographic.
Vietnam’s Hang Son Doong cave is the largest in the world, with caverns big enough to fit an entire city street inside them. These awe-inspiring photos take you inside the beautiful, alien world of the Hang Son Doong cave.
The cave was, amazingly enough, only discovered twenty years ago, and is just now being properly surveyed. National Geographic has a fascinating longer piece on the recent explorations of the cave, but the real highlight has to be the nearly two dozen amazing photographs from inside the cave . . . Read Complete Report
If you lived in the Los Angeles area back in the 1960s – 1970s as I did and you come to THEI often I’d bet there was one late night show you probably never missed. The Joe Pyne show. Here is a medley of cuts from some of his best shows. you can find more at youtube. Hot Topics. Great guests. And audience participation. My kind of show. So check it out. And then ask yourself, do things really change?
Joe Pyne, he started it all. A real pioneer. . EDITOR
“DR. JOEL FORT is a San Francisco public health specialist who espouses the view that marijuana is not harmful and that the present laws concerning its use and sale are unfair and should be changed.” is what is written on the film can. Download with the 26 plus minutes interview, with TV ads deleted, available for purchase. . . . Text posted with video on youtube
“F. LEE BAILEY is an attorney who successfully defended Dr. Sam Shepherd, among others. He freely discusses his unorthodox courtroom tactics (sic) and how he conned the FBI into revealing their surveillance of him by following up phony leads he fed them.” reads on the film can from which this clip was converted from. . . . Text posted with video on youtube
“1970: LaVey consents of appear on Joe Pyne’s Hot Seat Radio show, during which LaVey is treated to Pyne’s unusually caustic tongue. Pyne dies within a few months of having LaVey on his show.” ~ The Secret Life Of A Satanist by Blanche Barton; chapter ‘Curses & Coincidences’. . . . Text posted with video at youtube
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Lewis Marvin of Moonfire on The Joe Pyne Show 1966
1966 was a good year for television. Here we have my old friend Lewis Marvin appearing in the “beef box” of all places on the Joe Pyne Show. Lewis was a kind, but somewhat confused, prototype vegan.
I spent many nights at his Moonfire happenings from 1966 to 1968 doing art for peace and it was a great time. Lewis was from a wealthy east coast family [The S & H Green Stamp fortune] but walked away from it all for peace and animal rights work.
When he died in Panama in 2005 it was a loss to us all. . . . Text posted with video on youtube
Posted by CN Staff on July 07, 2012 at 04:39:21 PT By David Germain, The Associated Press
Source: Associated Press
Los Angeles — Oliver Stone has smoked great marijuana all over the world, from Vietnam and Thailand to Jamaica and South Sudan. But the filmmaker says the best weed is made in the USA and that pot could be a huge growth industry for taxpayers if it were legalized.
Stone, whose drug-war thriller “Savages” opens Friday, has been a regular toker since his days as an infantryman in Vietnam in the late 1960s and knows a good herb when he inhales one. He insisted in a recent interview that no one is producing better stuff now than U.S. growers.
“There’s good weed everywhere in the world, but my God, these Americans are brilliant,” said Stone, 65, who sees only benefits from legalizing marijuana. “It can be done.
It can be done legally, safely, healthy, and it can be taxed and the government can pay for education and stuff like that. Also, you can save a fortune by not putting kids in jail.”
Stone is known for mixing polemics and drama in films such as “JFK,” ”Born on the Fourth of July,” ”Wall Street” and “Nixon,” his saga of the president who declared the war on drugs 40 years ago. Yet “Savages” may be closer to a pure thrill ride than anything he’s done, the action coming without much in the way of preaching for legalization.
Still, the film offers a fictional portrait of violence among a Mexican drug cartel and California pot growers that makes legalizing marijuana seem like a sane option. . . . Read Complete Report
Narcotics Task Force (NTF) Raid on Medical Marijuana Dispensary in San Diego. On January 11, the San Diego Narcotic Task Force raids California’s Best Meds located in San Diego CA. That night 3 dispensaries were raided. Read more at www.SafeAccessSD.org
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Narcotics Task Force (NTF) Raid on Medical Marijuana Dispensary in San Diego. On January 11, the San Diego Narcotic Task Force raids California’s Best Meds located in San Diego CA. That night 3 dispensaries were raided. Read more at www.SafeAccessSD.org
