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Became available to the public the last 45 hours of recordings of White House secrecy that the U.S. back to the reign of the late President John F. Kennedy, which gives researchers a rare opportunity to see the details of recent months have taken place for good management of the president who was assassinated.

The recordings are the last part of a group containing more of 248 hours registered for the meetings and 12 hours of telephone conversations reviewed and made available to the public and researchers, respectively Presidential Library John F. Kennedy since 1993, and includes audio Kennedy is being waged against the experts with questions in areas not necessarily in his specialty.

The library said in a statement that the talks recorded in the first instance the President and were usually held in the Oval Office at the White House or Hall of the government, and imposed secrecy had not seen it until the top aide to Kennedy.

And the last part, which covers Oamitt his secret meetings held during the last three months in the Kennedy administration.

The expert said the Presidential Library Archive Maura Porter that one of these recordings conversations between Kennedy and officials informed him of the problems in Vietnam.

And hear the sound of a Kennedy asks up after listening to quite contrasting points of view of two of his top advisers went to fact-finding mission in South Vietnam “Hala Zhpettma to the same country.”

Porter said that the tone that expressed disappointment in the voice of Kennedy had been quite remarkable, to listen to opposing points of view and not necessarily increased the difficulty of defining the steps to be taken on the country in Vietnam.

She said that listening to recordings, and tones and layers Kennedy voted up and down and dwell talks provides a rare view of historians, it was impossible to obtain from the records of official meetings.

Recordings also included discussions on the Kennedy election campaign of 1964 that were never Akhaddha, and on the agenda for the next week just days before his assassination in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.

The last meeting recorded in November, where Kennedy was heard to comment on the book would take him to Texas, where he traveled to Dallas the next day to his death there.

He announced for the first time the existence of these recordings in 1973, and went out into the light of which the latter group on Tuesday for the presidential library use research in Boston, will also be available on the Internet.
 

Source: Reuters

The title song to a Springsteen / East Street Band album, rightly regarded as one of the greatest rock numbers off all time, but extremely misunderstood. More than any of my essays on the meanings and stories carried by songs, this one shows what can happen when listeners take lines from a song out of their original context.

Written three years before its release, the song deals with the aftermath of the Vietnam conflict and disillusionment / shame in America by a working class hero.

Despite this, right-wingers have praised the song as a patriotic American Anthem. This usually involves taking interest only in the chorus, a four line repeat of the title. Even then President, Ronald Reagan naively praised Springsteen for his national pride in presenting such an anthem, embarrassing Springsteen who is far from Republican in his liberal democratic political outlook.

The song tells of a man born in a town that is past its prime, where his father beats him a lot in his childhood, presumably. He becomes a juvenile lawbreaker and on arrest, being enlisted for the Nam punishes him. He has little understanding of the need to go and kill foreigners. He just does it.

The song moves between his experiences in the Nam and the negative reception he faced upon his return home, finding that no one could or would employ a war hero or offer him adequate welfare benefits.

He reflects on a friend who died in the fighting at Khe Sanh and a photo he still carries of the man with his Vietnamese daughter. This verse contains one of the songs few mistakes, as the US enemy at Khe Sanh was not the Viet Cong but the official Vietnamese army. 

A dark, bitter song – its chorus is really a protest – how could this happen to men born in the States? The hero struggles to retain a love for his country even when he has gained little from it. His love for America becomes shallow and empty – the song in effect becomes a reflection of the mindless patriotism holding many in thrall – only to be taken up by patriots as a rallying cry for the very thing it protests against. Jingoists sadly hear only the chorus and not the rest of the 4 minute and 39 seconds song lyrics.

Arthur Chappell

History of Immigration

Before 1975, many of the Vietnamese immigrants were either wives or children of American army personnel. However, there were earlier records indicating that there were Vietnamese immigrants who came to the U.S. to perform unskilled work in the late 19th and early 20th century. One of the immigrants was the then-future Vietnamese political figure Ho Chi Minh. Earlier stastistics by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services reported only 650 immigrants from Vietnam between 1950 and 1974.

The mass immigration from Vietnam didn’t really begin until the Fall of Saigon, which ended the Vietnam War. The first wave of Vietnamese immigrants came to the U.S. in 1975 when 125,000 refugees left their native country. This first group of Vietnamese refugees were the ones who had higher education or considered as highly skilled workers. These immigrants were people who had close ties with Americans or with the Vietnamese government who feared the communist uprising. Many of these refugees were sent to Guam or the Philippines then to Vietnamese refugee centers here in the U.S. Many Americans didn’t really approve of the Vietnamese immigration to the U.S. because of Vietnam’s communist government. However, President Ford approved the Vietnamese immigration and signed the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975. This signed bill allowed Vietnamese immigrants to enter the U.S. as a refugee.

Many Vietnamese immigrants were spread out across the country to prevent the formation of ethnic enclaves. Within a few years, many of these Vietnamese immigrants settled in California or Texas. From 1978 until the mid 1980s, there was a second wave of Vietnamese Immigrants. These two million Vietnamese fled the country by boat due to their low economic status. As a result, many were able to reside in asylum camps in other Southeast Asian countries where these nations agreed to accept them. Between 1981 and 2000, there were approximately over 500,000 Vietnamese refugees accepted into the U.S. There are over 1,000,000 Vietnamese Americans here in the U.S.

Contributions to American Society

Many Vietnamese Americans are believed to be middle class Americans. Many cities including San Francisco, Houston, San Jose, Portland and Seattle have high numbers of Vietnamese Americans. A lot of Vietnamese Americans are seen as small business owners along with being Christians compared to the Vietnamese in Vietnam. Vietnamese Americans are the second largest Southeast Asian American group next to Filipino Americans.

Many Vietnamese immigrants who cannot speak English fluently tend to work in beauty or nail salons. Approximately 80% of nail technicians in California and 43% nationwide are Vietnamese Americans. In the Gulf Coast, many of the shrimpers are Vietnamese fisherman, who mainly reside in Texas and Louisiana. Unforuntately, imported shrimp from Vietnam has hurt the shrimping busines in the Southeast. Vietnamese Americans continue to flourish even in this 21st century. Many Vietnamese Americans have a high respect for education and encourage their children to pursue a college degree to get the best jobs.

The island will always be of material alleged to contain mines, so the island is greatly being coveted.

Gas, oil and some other mining materials allegedly found on this island region, meaning that this island incorporates a tremendous wealth.

The island has been occupied by numerous military forces, such as Cina, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei.

The island is additionally called part of the three islands within the south china sea, and is the main world’s wealth.

This island use a unique shape, let alone your wealth of mining an additional value for this particular island.

Spratly Islands is an island located south china sea region, between the Philippines and Vietnam.

The island is a lot of material suspected to contain mines, so the island is greatly to be coveted.

Gas, oil and other mining materials allegedly found on this island region, meaning that this island has a tremendous wealth.

The island was occupied by a number of military forces, such as China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei.

The island is also called a part of the three islands in the south china sea, and is part of the world’s wealth.

This island possess a unique shape, let alone the wealth of mining an added value for this island.

A touching realistic and passionate study of a young woman’s quest for revenge.

A victim of sexual assault and a witness to the murder of her young son during the French invasion of Vietnam in the early 1960’s Ngyen has come to a very sleazy New York as an illegal immigrant boat person and seeks out the man responsible for her despair.

Assisted by an ageing Polish immigrant with bitter memories of the Nazi occupation of his own country, she painstakingly tracks down her son’s killer, while working in soul destroying menial jobs.

The bond detente victims of two wars, a generation apart are very well handled, and the New York atmosphere is very well captured. Her personal hunt for a war criminal drives Ngyen, but she will discover a terrible truth about her target that will change her perception of him forever.

Jacques Tardi’s artwork haunts this heartfelt plea against the madness of war and vengeance.  Its ending makes the characters feel alive and genuinely tragic in their fates.

Arthur Chappell

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Vietnam

They had forced Google, Facebook and yahoo to give details of users using them and they did it! You can’t expect a company to face government. I don’t have to explain what is going to happen if you do flaw things, it government. Everything related to politics, human rights and much more are censored.

Tunisia

Similar to Vietnam they had strict internet access. Only thing is that they get user information by ip address and not by forcing companies.

Syria

Individual can use internet, but they are watch – be careful! Whatever you do online is watched and one thing against government you will be doomed.

People’s republic of China

Among all countries I feel china as best way to block content which is related to Tibetan independence, Taiwan independence, police brutality, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, freedom of speech, pornography, some international news sources and propaganda outlets, certain religious movements, and many blogging websites.

Iran

Similar to above content related to politics and other areas are blocked. Be careful of what you share online – they are out their one word against government..!

Saudi Arabia

It was recorded that they had blocked 400,000 to date but they hadn’t been a record of censorship in politics but are focused on pornography, drug use, gambling, religious conversion of Muslims, and filtering circumvention tools.”

Turkmenistan

Internet is very costly in this country and so most of people couldn’t effort it. You can access internet only through government provided internet points. Every site and mail is monitored in this country.  Most of sites are blocked even websites run by human rights organizations and news agencies are blocked. This means an individual can’t use internet!

Cuba

This is kind of funny only government official are allowed to upload and you can access only through government points.

Burma

Heavy censorship blocks human rights and politics mainly. Only few hand full people are allowed to use internet.

North Korea

They are very strict, all website are run by government itself. Only two sites are domain registered (not run by government) and the other entire site are restricted. Only 4% of population use internet.

Most of them censor mostly politics or human rights. It up to you are wish to decided which is most censored country.

Ghosts have been seen in the bathroom of the dormitory of the boarding students.

Students from a school in the province of Phu Yen, Vietnam, fainted after seeing supposed ghosts in the bathroom of the dormitory, the paper said “Tuoi Tre”.

The school director, Phan Van Tho, confirmed that a large number of boarding students fainted or cried at night in the month of unknown causes.

According to the newspaper, in one incident 12 students came to losing consciousness at the same time.

The situation has caused a climate of fear among students, and many are afraid to enter the dormitory.

I sure everybody will be glad to see the back of him but that is not the answer to that one. He is a paedophile and although the Magistrate thinks that being 67 years will prevent him for re-offending. Well, we hope so but there are too many contrary stories  to this crime. If only these judges and magistrates would read about what it means for a child to be sexually assaulted they would surely think twice about letting these characters out of prison or in Gary Glitter’s case let him travel again.

There is a book called ‘This Bird Flew Away’ where it is well described what it must be like. The author Lynda M. Martin describes it very well but in a tasteful manner. The book tells further how slowly but surely the girl is trying to salvage her life to prevent this horrible incident destroying it or commit suicide. The author was an outworker, working and helping with children as young as two and three. There she has an full professional and many years of experience of the effect of these crimes. She says they are horrendous. Yet, the world does not want to face to full fact of the impact. This book ‘This Bird Flew Away’ should be read by most adults. 

Although it is more and more in the newspaper these days but the world still tries not to look deeper into it. Especially judges and magistrates who come up to paedophile cases don’t seem to realize how life destroying it is for the child. It has been done a lot and gets dealt with much better but nevertheless jail sentence of a few years of which they come out after a couple or so years it not answering the crime. They scruck it off and the victim’s life is almost destroyed.

THE FULL IMPACT OF THE CRIME HAS TO BE FACED AND JAIL SENTENCES HAVE TO BE MUCH HIGHER. STOP THINKING THAT PAEDOPHILES CAN BE OR ARE CURED. THEY ARE NOT.

Edited by Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, this heavy (in more ways than one) volume deals with a history of photography from 1839 to the end of the pre-digital revolution, to which it offers no reference, though the authors must be aware of its dawn from their publication date. –

Heavily illustrated chronological presentation means there are photos on virtually every page and the text refers to most, but often several pages before or after the photo referred to, obliging the reader to constantly flick back and forth through the tome.

Focusing on the work available in the George Eastman collection, many famous photos are inevitably neglected but what remains is well worth a study. Beginning predictably with Daguerre, and moving up to the time of Robert Mapplethorpe, there is a great diversity of imagery on display, from still life, to nudes, to famous slow motion shots of bullets going through apples, and photos taken of the Moon via telescopes.

Joe Rosenthal’s now notoriously faked Flag raising image from Iwo Jima is here given as if it was still the great popular work of propaganda it was presented to be, rather than a controversially faked propaganda image that helped ruin the lives of the men photographed, as shown in Clint Eastwood’s film, Flags Of Our Fathers.

Images that were able to create outrage were used from the earliest times, with Gabriel Harrison’s 1850 image of the Infant Christ carrying his cross to the crucifixion, condensing the nativity and death of Jesus into one and the same image, using a young, false-bearded boy as the model.

A great archive study, with a workmanlike, unexceptional and uncritical text presentation out of joint at times with the images, but for many this is a book to browse through, letting a 1,000 wonderful photos from the American Civil war to the post Vietnam period, speak for themselves.

Arthur Chappell