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 What Happened to Leah Rose Part II
from YouTube :: Videos by realleahsworld
July 26, 2008
The interrogation continues and further information is brought to light. For more information google "FEMA concentration camps", "REX 84" or "Martial Law" and find out more about what our government is really doing as we all drink at our bars and watch TV and surf the net. Copyright Leah Rose Author: realleahsworld Keywords: FEMA Concentration Camps Internment Interrogation CIA Nazi SS Crematoriums Patriot Act El Reno Oklahoma Martial Law Added: July 26, 2008
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 What Happened to Leah Rose Part I
from YouTube :: Videos by realleahsworld
July 13, 2008
They will come when you least expect it. The Patriot Act makes it possible. It could happen to you! © Leah Rose Author: realleahsworld Keywords: Interrogation Patriot Act CIA FEMA Spy 911 Freedom of Speech Government Coverup Internment Camps Torture America Added: July 13, 2008
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 Robert Scheer: The Pornography of Power
from The Conversation Podcast
June 20, 2008
One side effect of the so called war on terror has been a huge increase in defense spending. But is that money keeping us safe from terrorist attack? For example the massive expenditures for war planes. Backers of the 65 billion dollar F 22 Raptor fighter program said it would help defend the launch of the Space Shuttle from terrorist attack. Did we need to spend 65 billion to attain air superiority in the skies of Florida? Today on The Conversation reporter, columnist, blogger, and radio host Robert Scheer talks about the re emergence of the military industrial complex in the wake of 9/11. Also today, Snohomish police bust an alleged cockfighting operation. And car salesmen are hit by the recession.
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 Nichi Bei Times, Japanese American News
from YouTube :: Tag // shopping
May 01, 2008
Northern California's leading Japanese American newspaper has made some exciting changes for today's Japanese American! In 2006, the Nichi Bei Times launched a dynamic all-English Weekly publication geared towards younger and succeeding generations of Japanese Americans, covering a wider array of areas such as entertainment, food, language, sports, video games, travel and the like. There are now expanded special issues every month, such as Travel to Japan, Wedding Issue, New Music Issue, Multiracial Issue, Anime Manga Issue, Obon/Bazaar Special Edition, Holiday Shopping Guide and the like. We were even the first English-language Asian Pacific American publication in the United States to publish a Green Issue, further demonstrating our ever-expanding vision. At the same time, the Japanese edition has expanded to 12 pages three days a week, also with many new and exciting features. The Nichi Bei Times, which printed its first edition on May 18, 1946, is the oldest and most respected Japanese American newspaper in Northern California, and continues a legacy of community leadership established with the 1899 founding of the Nichi Bei Shimbun. The Nichi Bei Times was established in 1946 to get the Japanese American community "reconnected" after their wartime incarceration in American concentration camps. Today, the Nichi Bei Times strives to be the glue that holds the community together — culturally, historically, socially, emotionally, spiritually and politically. The Nichi Bei Times, keeping the community CONNECTED, INFORMED and EMPOWERED. Music by Justin Andrews Author: NBTimes Keywords: JapaneseAmerican News Internment Camps Concentration Redress nichibeitimes nichibei JA AsianAmerican media Added: May 1, 2008
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 George Takei - The Lesson of Internment
from YouTube :: Videos by asiasociety
April 30, 2008
Actor George Takei of Star Trek fame on becoming an actor, and lessons from his father on the Japanese internment and American democracy. In celebration of Asian Pacific Heritage Month! Also, join George Takei and other prominent Asian Americans - watch our callout video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWey0hhi3Dw and tell us what being Asian American means to you! Author: asiasociety Keywords: asian pacific american heritage month asia society george takei japanese japan star trek sulu internment Added: April 30, 2008
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 Bainbridge Island Internment Monument
from KUOW News Podcast
April 30, 2008
The U.S. House last night passed the long debated Wild Sky Wilderness proposal. It's now headed to the White House. The plan protects more than 106 thousand acres from logging in the Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest. And it also calls for a new 8 acre memorial on Bainbridge Island to mark the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2. The Bainbridge Island families were the first of nearly 120 thousand people sent to internment camps across the country. KUOW's Derek Wang spoke with Clarence Moriwaki about the development. Moriwaki is an island resident who heads the Japanese American Memorial Committee.
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 Lord I Hope Its Lordsburg
from Travel
November 13, 2007
Part 36 of a 50-part series on Amtrak passenger train travel across America. This episode: Lordsburg, New Mexico.
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 Pond Reflections
from recent posts - blip.tv (beta)
September 08, 2007
Pond Reflections is a class project created through Portland Community Media's Digital Storytelling Class. This project focuses on the communtiy building of constructing a pond. Students determine their production topic through group discussion, plan, shoot, and edit a complete story through this class. Upon completion of the DS class, students go on to produce their own programming though the facilities of Portland Community Media
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 MTIH 311 Executive Order 9066 Issued, 1942
from Matt's Today In History
February 19, 2007
Today in 1942, US President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which gave military authorities the right to declare large sections of the United States to be military areas. Once so declared, these areas could be cleared of any and all persons who were perceived to be a threat to the national security of the United States. While the order did not mention Americans of Japanese ancestry specifically, it was aimed squarely at them. What followed was the largest forced internment of American citizens in history. While the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ultimately prompted the issue of the executive order, anti-Asian sentiment in some parts of the United States had existed for generations. Some California farmers publicly supported the internment not for national security reasons, but simply because they saw Japanese-American farmers as a threat to their profitability. As one farmer told the Saturday Evening Post in 1942: "And we don't want them back when the war ends, either." The executive order would result in the removal of 120,000 Japanese and Americans of Japanese descent from their homes in military areas. Most of this land was along the Pacific coast, which also happened to be where most first- and second-generation Japanese-Americans lived. Several thousand Italian and German nationals were also forced to move or were interned as a result of the order, but those of Japanese descent were by far the group most impacted. Of the 120,000 people forced to move from their homes, 62 percent were Nisei; that is, second-generation Japanese-Americans. The remainder were Issei; either first-generation Japanese-Americans or resident aliens. Thus, the vast majority of those forced to relocate were American citizens with the same rights as those whose ancestors came from elsewhere. They were singled out because of their race. 10,000 of those forced to relocate were able to move to other parts of the country. The remainder, 110,000 men, women and children, were sent to "War Relocation Centers", internment camps hastily built in remote areas of the country. The War Relocation Authority, the government agency created to oversee the camps, ran 10 such camps in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. The Department of Justice also ran camps, but these were for people actually accused of criminal activity or deemed too dangerous to remain in the other facilities. The buildings in the camps were built from designs meant for army barracks, meaning that families had no private bathrooms, kitchens or living rooms---everything was communal. Some of the camps, such as those in Utah and Wyoming, were not built to protect their inhabitants against the bitterly cold winters. Furthermore, most of the internees did not have winter clothing as they had lived in much gentler climates. The internment program was overseen by Lieutenant General John Dewitt, who repeatedly told West Coast newspapers that "a Jap's a Jap." He, along with some in his chain of command, feared that a significant Japanese fifth column existed in the United States and would one day attack military and industrial targets within the country. They sited the fact that many people of Japanese descent living in the US had received at least part of their education in Japan, where loyalty to the Emperor was a central part of schools' curricula. Almost everyone interred as a result of the Executive Order 9066 lost property,a business, money or a combination of the three. They were given little time to get their affairs in order and many left home with only the items they could carry. Some who were landowners tried to sell their property, but ended up receiving only pennies on the dollar because all sales had to be concluded in such a short period of time. More than one land speculator became wealthy overnight because of the order. By early 1944, when it was becoming clear that Japan would lose the war, the government began letting people at the internment camps return home on a case-by-case basis. In January, 1945, the order restricting Americans of Japanese descent from living in military areas was lifted entirely. The camps stayed open for the rest of the year as the people there tried to put their lives back together and move back home. Many never regained their economic status and many never looked at their neighbors the same way again. Almost all who went to the camps did so without a fight, believing that as loyal citizens they should abide by the orders of their government. One of the opponents of the internment was FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who stated that there was no basis for the belief that Japanese-Americans were more likely to pose a security risk than any other citizen. In fact, not one act or suspected act of sabotage in the United States during the Second World War was traced to anyone of Japanese ancestry. The US Army's 442nd Regimental Combat Team fought in Europe and was the most highly decorated unit of its size in that theater of the war. It was comprised almost entirely of men who had volunteered to join the Army while living in the internment camps. Many others had volunteered to fight on the condition that they or their families be granted their rights as Americans, but these demands were denied. In August, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which granted reparations to Japanese-Americans interned during the war. Each surviving internee was granted $20,000 with payments beginning in 1990. The act stated that the government actions of 1942-1945 in relation to the internment were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership."
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