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Marxist Pacifists disparage 77th & 76th Anniv. of Japan A-Bombs that ended WW2

In 2021-22, the Marxists seemed to be the only ones to remember, though imperfectly, the A-Bombs of 1945. Their one  goal at these protests is  abolishing nuclear weapons.

 ++ Was dropping the atomic bomb justified?++

Dec. 7, 1941 (a day that would live in infamy) to Aug 6-9, 1945 (VJ Day celebrations in Times Sq). BUT, the Japanese aggression is conveniently omitted.

: Gen. Minoru Genda, who helped plan the attack on Pearl Harbor, stated at a Naval Institute event in 1969 that he was not bitter towards the U.S. for dropping the bomb on his hometown of #Hiroshima. He said “if we had the atomic bomb in 1945, we would have dropped it on you.”

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The only ‘take away’ for these dedicated Marxist Pacifists is to STOP all things nuclear, demanding NYC to be a Nuclear Free Zone. SO, every August these mostly senior pacifists gather to protest nuclear weapons (AND energy).

Japanese survivors participate – but the speakers both years, were barely amplified so they were difficult to understand.

FIRST: On Aug 6, 2021, at 11 am, the 76th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki protestors gathered in the courtyard entrance to Mayor Dinkins municipal building across from City Hall.

”Join the Community of NYC Nuclear Weapons Free Heroes”

Rise and Resist-NY” Marxists demanded that NY City Council Speaker Corey Johnson pass Nuclear Disarmament Legislation Now. They chose this location because the development of the atomic bomb began across Centre street at 270 Broadway, the first headquarters of the Manhattan Project in 1942–43.

The posters focused on the American Marxist pacifists. Their speeches and posters neglected to mention the Japanese civilians victimized by their own Japanese war machine.

Flickr slide show of 76th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Marxist loving “Rise and Resisters -NY” demanded that Speaker Johnson pass Nuclear Disarmament Legislation Now! and join the community of NYC Nuclear Weapons Free Heroes.

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Video – First fellow was reading the legislation demand from his cell phone, un-amplified so audio competed with traffic.

The second was an older fellow (at 1:35) proudly told of a protest at a nuclear submarine (the USS Florida). I didn’t hear a year but I think it was 2018.

The Kings Bay Plowshares Seven. The seven Catholic plowshare activists who disarmed weapons at the Kings Bay Naval Base, Georgia in 2018  are now facing years of prison for their act of disarmament. 

He said he masqueraded as one of 4 workers with hard hats who boarded the submarine …  for 25-30 minutes. Once they unfurled their protest banners, THEN security was called to remove them.  He also said, at the same time, five other protestors with hammers were damaging (a sonar sphere) and mentioned an associate who travels with a smithy  … turning weapons into plowshares; hammered into weapons of soil to create life not take life. “This is how disarmament starts”, he says. [End Video]

Turning now to the 2022 and the 77th Anniversary in Manhattan and  their nuclear anniversary weapons protest.  

Aug. 5, 2022 – Outside the Japanese consulate. NYC. This year there was such an obsession with MASKING that the muffled English language interpreter was wasted. Disappointed to not get a good audio  of the survivor speakers

Flickr slide show – Raging Grannies for Peace, Rise and Resisters – Marxists all – protesting nuclear bombs, protesting nuclear energy

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Video 1 –The very Left -leaning Pacifist “Raging Grannies” were the pre-speakers ‘entertainment’ outside the NYC Japanese Consulate. Mourning the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 (that ended WW2 and saved lives) the Raging Grannies (for Peace) were protesting nuclear bombs and protesting nuclear energy with “No nukes. No Nukes. No Nukes.

Video 2 – Ringing a  bell for peace & prayer at 77th Anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki.

See phot0 essay at NY Daily News of the 1945 aftermath

[NY Daily News Hiroshima]

The conflict over ”to be nuclear or not” goes on and on. The Marxists  claim to oppose anything nuclear but they are predictably inconsistent …. a Rise and Resist-NY blind spot: a nuclear IRAN (UANI 2017)

Should we expect they will hop-a-boat to the land of Persia and vandalize their nuclear bases? How far would they get with that protest action.

 The real enemies of peace go unchallenged.
It’s the Communist Way : Confuse. Divide. Conquer.

[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]

Stop Iran Now Rally returned to Sen Schumer & Gillibrand’s NY offices (9-1-15)

NYC – September 1, 2015. RALLY AND PRESS CONFERENCE AGAINST A NUCLEAR IRAN

On this day, 7,000 people gathered outside two sitting Senators’ offices, a landmark political event, where a group of bi-partisan political leaders, brave American veterans and victims of Iranian terror gathered to deliver their message to her personally:

“Senator Gillibrand: Don’t Surrender America,
Join Senator Chuck Schumer to Oppose this Bad Deal.
We need a BETTER deal!”

(AFSI ) “The Stop Iran Now” Rally in front of Senator Schumer & Gillibrand’s offices went off without a hitch. An evening filled with inspirational speakers, “Hope was in the air as speaker after speaker highlighted the dangers of the deal, yet cautioned against defeatism. “

Kudos to the ZOA and others who helped organize and run the event.”

Link to complete audio with pictures

Part 1

Part 2

Introductory remarks- Jeffrey Wiesenfeld – Master of Ceremonies at 1:17

Intro of Ken Stethem at 2:41 . Stethem, a former US Navy SEAL whose brother Robert Stethem was murdered by Hezbollah, begins speaking  at 3:40

 

Wiesenfeld continues with, “Why we’re here ” at 12:36

Wiesenfeld intros Robert Bartlett at 14:24 . Robert Bartlett, a US Army Staff Sergeant Retired gravely injured by an Iranian bomb, begins speaking at 15:15

 

Wiesenfeld at 19:24 refers to the Gay Pride Flag and the murder of Gays in Iran.

Wiesenfeld then  intros Daniel Miller at 20:33 . Daniel Miller, a victim of an Iranian financed terror-attack by Hamas, begins speaking at 21:14

Wiesenfeld intros Michael Gallagher and David Webb at 26:13 DSC_2627 copy


Michael Gallagher,   Radio Host from 970 AM The Answer, begins speaking  at 26:42 

 

 

 

David Webb, Radio Host Sirius XM Patriot Ch 25, begins speaking at 31:44

 

 

Wiesenfeld intros the Key Note Speakers: Senators Lieberman and Lindsey Graham at 36:09

Senator Graham, a Third-Term Republican Senator (NC),  Former Congressman, Retired Air Force Reserve Colonel, speaks at 36:54


Sen. Joseph Lieberman,  Chairman of United Against Nuclear Iran, Former Democratic and Independent Senator (Conn) serving from 1989 to 2013, begins to speak at 41:40


Remarks
from Wiesenfeld at 49:14

Then Wiesenfeld intros James Woolsey at 49:45


Woolsey
, former Director of the CIA under Dem. and Rep. presidents and Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, speaks at 50:19


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Wiesenfeld gives another  scathing criticism of Congressman Jerry Nadler‘s betrayal of his constituents at 55:10

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Wiesenfeld then mentions State Senator Jesse Hamilton at 55:25 Though he was scheduled to speak at the rally, Hamilton became a No-Show because of the “rev” Al Sharpton’s thuggery.

 Continuing with the speakers:

Rob Astorino, Westchester County Executive, speaks at 55:56

 

 

 

 

At 59:29 Wiesenfeld reminds us that in 2009, as the Iranian regime was collapsing, we HELPED that regime to survive.

 

He then introduces Michael Ledeen, an Historian and expert on Iran’s failed 2009 Green Revolution. He speaks at 59:32.

 

 

Wiesenfeld intros Sami Steigmann at 1:02.

 Steigmann, a child survivor of experiments, abuse and torture at the hands of Nazi doctors at labor camp in Mogilev Podolski, Ukraine, during World War II.  Steigmann begins to speak at 1:03


At 1:08:14 Richard Allen
, co-organizer of the rally speaks and then intros Kevin McCullough, radio host from WMCA and 970 The Answer, at 1:08:42

McCullough begins speaking at 1:09:33

 

 

Wiesenfeld intros Dove Hikind, (D) NY State Assemblyman at 1:15:10.

Hikind begins speaking at 1:15:24.

Assemblyman Hikind, pointing to a truck (that for two hours went round and round the block) said ,“There is a sign… saying that the Ayatollahs send their thanks to the US. Well, they have a lot to be thankful for. They are getting a cash windfall that they never thought possible because of this outrageous deal and the ability to have a faster breakout time on a nuclear weapon.”
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More from Wiesenfeld on Congressman Jerry Nadler at 1:22:19. Then he also shows us a NY Times ad, a letter signed by 214 military generals etc opposing the Iran Deal.

 

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Wiesenfeld intros Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale at 1:24:23

Rabbi Weiss
begins speaking at 1:24:52

 


Weisenfeld
intros Rebecca Yousefzadeh Sassouni, an Iranian-American lawyer and activist whose family was forced to flee Iran, at 1:31:37.She begins speaking at 1:32:28.

 

Weisenfeld intros Frank Gaffney of The Center For Security Policy at 1:40:32

Gaffney begins speaking at 1:41:21.

 Gaffney intros his CSP Associate, Fred Fleitz at 1:49:36.


Fleitz, 25 year career with the CIA, DIA, and the House Intelligence Committee staff, Chief of Staff to John Bolton when he was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control, senior vice president for policy and programs at the Center for Security Policy begins speaking at 1:49:54


Brief closing remarks
from Jeffrey Wiesenfeld at 1:53:56
END audio at  1:55:36

Slide show of the rally

Excerpt AFSI’s Newsletter:

“Today,(Wednesday, September 3) we read that Obama got the votes; 34 was his magic number and he reached it. A short while ago we heard that even ‘friend of Israel’, Hakeem Jeffries, who was originally leaning against the deal, will support it and not vote to override.”

The Stop Iran Rally Coalition and the Jewish Rapid Response Coalition organized the rally. Our mission is to educate our countrymen on the dangerous accord being negotiated today in Geneva that will soon be put up for a vote in Congress.  Our aims:

1. An end to the farce being perpetrated against the American people with a pending deal which will endanger America and our allies.

2. A restoration of the ORIGINAL demands – NO nuclear military capability, NO centrifuges and authority for any and all unannounced inspections of all known and any future facilities discovered.

3. Providing an understanding that a failure to STOP IRAN NOW will necessitate a military response later.

The nation opposes the US Surrender Plan to Iran.
Our Senators and Congress members must hear us!

“Retired Senator Joe Lieberman stated that even if Obama got the votes to override a Senate veto, the battle would not be lost and we should certainly stay true to the cause… a lot can happen between now and the vote in Congress, so we should continue opposing the deal and certainly not give up … even if Obama got the votes to override a Senate veto, the battle would not be lost and we should certainly stay true to the cause.”

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For reference, LINKS to articles that also reported on the rally:

Fern Sidman at Jewish Voice NY  and is also in a flip doc here (at page 30)
Yid With Lid
The Observer
NY 1
The IB Times

Also from the Observer, most recent Democrats who are supporting this VERY bad deal –  Hakeem Jeffries Says He Supports the Iran Nuclear Deal

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‘NO NUKES For IRAN’ Counter-Demo to ‘Move-On’ at Congresswoman Maloney’s Office

On Wednesday, August 26, 2015,  there was a Counter-Demonstration at  Congresswoman Maloney’s Office.

MoveOn.org had called their minions to over 175 events around the country; to pressure our Legislators to vote FOR the VERY BAD Iran Deal. 

Their irrational position that this deal will “prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons” was countered by a group of patriots who went ‘nose to nose’ with Move On by countering the irrational with these rational positions:

NO DEAL IS BETTER THAN A BAD DEAL!

        WAR IS NOT THE ALTERNATIVE TO THIS BAD DEAL !

At first the Counter-Demo was engaged in civilized chat by the Move-on’s ,  expressing calm disbelief that anyone would fear giving nukes to Iran.

From Move-On: “If we can secure enough pro-diplomacy Democrats, we can defend this solid deal and avert a war. And Rep. Maloney is key.Our nation’s top nuclear scientists and top-ranking military brass agree: This is a good deal and the best way to keep our nation secure. In Washington, high-paid lobbyists bombard our members of Congress. So at home, they’ve got to hear from all of us—the folks they’re supposed to represent.

This lasted for about fifteen minutes until the novelty wore off. Then everyone went to their designated enclosures as the dueling-chants began. (this, too, remained low-key.)

A  Slide show of pictures:

Perhaps their instigators, who love to argue, were downtown at Congressman Nadlers ‘support’ rally.  Maloney’s rally was to CONVINCE  HER that it was a GOOD deal, giving Nuclear weapons to the genocidal terrorists in Iran.

Congressman Nadler’s rally was to THANK HIM for getting behind Obama’s Folly.

No terrorist should be denied nuclear arms just because WE THINK they are terrorists.

The chanting was boisterous from the Left. From the Right, it was dedicated but not quite as organized as the Progs-on-the-Left, after all, “chanting is their business”.

No one expected anyone to change their minds, really, except perhaps Maloney.

After about an hour, the Move-On’s handed a petition to Maloney’s rep with the HOPE that these 3000 signatures, would be the deciding factor, causing Maloney to swing her vote in favor of a NUCLEAR Iran. (didn’t happen!)


Rep. Carolyn Maloney  WILL vote to Block President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal

 Rep. Carolyn Maloney said Wednesday she will vote to block President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, following heavy pressure from foes and backers of the deal. “I’m against it,” Maloney told the Daily News.

Maloney shared her decision on a day that saw dueling demonstrations for and against the pact outside her Manhattan district office.

Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have split on the deal, as have Maloney and Rep. Jerrold Nadler. Nadler, the only Jewish member of Congress from New York backing the agreement, has faced furious denunciations since announcing his view last week.”I never expected the vicious nature of the opposition,” Nadler told Jewish Week.

Other Jewish members who oppose the deal, including Reps. Nita Lowey, Steve Israel and Eliot Engel, defended him in a letter this week. Schumer issued a statement calling Nadler “one of the most steadfast supporters of Israel’s security.”

The Iran Sellout is the test of our generation. TAKE ACTION NOW!!!

On a day when NYC’s own Carolyn Maloney has come out against the horrific Iranian deal, we must be grateful for people of conscience and a sense of history like her. We thank her enormously! (Please call and thank her at 202-225-7994 or 212-860-0606.)

 PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH IS THE ONLY ANSWER!

 Coming up next On September 1, 2015:

New Yorkers plan to protest the Iran Deal at Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Office. US Senators Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, Families of Iranian Terror Victims will Speak at the Rally in front of Senator Gillibrand’s office!

– On September 1,  The Stop Iran Rally, the grassroots movement that brought 15,000 people to Times Square in July, will protest against the dangerous deal with Iran at Senator Gillibrand’s office in New York City.

US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and retired US Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman will headline the bipartisan rally, where they will deliver a landmark foreign policy speech.

Family members of victims of Iranian terror, including the daughter of an Iranian journalist who died a political prisoner and the brother of a US Navy Seal tortured and killed on TWA Flight 847 by Iranian proxy Hezbollah, will also address the thousands of New Yorkers expected to attend the rally.

 The Stop Iran Rally message is simple: “Vote No to a Nuclear Iran.”  Simple, “Yes”, UNLESS you are a soc/commie/prog.

To them, what is simple can be so BIZARRE!

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NY Commies Protest Schumer’s “No Nuke Iran’ (& Trash Israel)

Monday, August 10, 2015. NYC. Our call to rally in support of Sen. Schumer was on short notice. (He announced his position on Friday). But, deciding to counter the Soc/Commie/Progs (who were demanding Sen. Schumer change his vote) was easy. Those who could make it to this counter-protest made a MIGHTY NOISE.

But, the Soc/Commie/Progs were not happy. They were heard to whine and whimper about our presence as they paraded their anti-Semitic signs and banners.

Guess they wanted the police to make us go away – Snarling – they were heard to say, Why don’t you get your own protest”, and, “You shouldn’t be here.

Since they couldn’t get rid of us, they went to Plan B: Clog the sidewalk with signs, people and cameras.

Their purpose: To block our signs and banners from the passersby.


BUT, they couldn’t block our very large mushroom cloud!

 

As the Commie/Progs  marched in opposition to Sen. Schumer we heard “Death to America” repeatedly as well as lots about “Diplomacy, Not War”.

One woman screamed at our group, jabbing her finger in our faces, “You.You. YOU are burning babies”. (see video above at 6:19)

“The Commie/Progs” say they are anti-Nukes (nuclear power etc) BUT they support giving nukes to the anti-Semitic/anti-America and VERY genocidal Iran. How is that anti-Nuke?

To support their lies about nuclear parity, they had a map filled with nuke ‘facts’ .

Schumer was slandered by snarky anti-Semitic signs, insinuating he is a pawn of Israel

Yet the allegiance of the Soc/Commie/Progs is with murderous regimes like Hamas, Hezbollah AND Iran: All enemies of America and Israel.

HYPOCRITES.


The Commie/Progs have burrowed deep within City Hall (de Balsio’s minions) and through out Obama’s White House. (Not good)

 

 

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Found a great article from Daniel Greenfield exposing the hypocrisy of these commie agitators.

“When Muslims Burn Jews”

As for the press at this rally, there were lots of cameras but little reporting to be found.I saw WOR radio and the NY Daily News.

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Oddly their lede was the Neturei Karta?

I saw ONE Neturei Karta. ONE! At the END of the MAIN protest from 1 to 2 pm. (amazing)

Did the media miss the large protest, the signs, the loud exchanges and chanting  from noon to 1 pm.A crowded, animated and contentious protest. Typical – the mean-spirited demeanor of the Commie-Left (Commie-Jews) from Brooklyn and the Upper West-Side who were there in SUPPORT of a Nuclear Iran. (Slideshow)

But, the protestors in SUPPORT of Schumer’s  “NO Nukes For Iran” were equally animated.The report that follows in an excerpt came from Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI), one of the groups that rallied in support of Schumer’s decision:

The  AFSI newsletter – “Despicable

Our opposition: protesters from MoveOn.org and Peace Action and other dyed-in-the-wool leftists, who were protesting against Senator Schumer’s rejection of Obama’s deal with Iran.

Their true colors came out: Chuck is the enemy because he supports Israel over the US. Chuck is the enemy because he is in the pocket of AIPAC and the Jewish lobby. Chuck is the enemy because he supported the Iraq war (as did many Democrats – including Hillary – along with Republicans). We, who were protesting against the deal were the enemy because we supported Israel over the US. We were the enemy because we supported Bibi over Barack.

WE WERE THE ENEMY BECAUSE WE WHO OPPOSE THE DEAL WITH IRAN, SUPPORT ISRAEL, WHICH SUPPORTS THE BURNING OF BABIES!  These words were yelled at us, along with the foam and spittle, from one angry woman’s mouth.

Their anti-Semitic venom came roaring out. They couldn’t argue the merits of their position so they resorted to that time-tested alternative: blame the Jews, and of course today, blame Israel, the Jew of the nations. Their moral bankruptcy was plain to see as they resorted to name-calling, racial slurs and epithets. 

For the media, NOPE, no story here…Do the Commie/Progs REALLY believe Obama? Or do they just hate America and Israel so much that this is a  convenient meme.

The Presidents Arguments For The Nuclear Deal

As usual with Obama, opposition to his policies is “partisan.” But support for his policies is non-partisan.

-Obama: “The bottom line is, if Iran cheats, we can catch them, and we will.”

In fact, the Iranians are already cheating. As Bloomberg reported last week: “The U.S. intelligence community has informed Congress of evidence that Iran was sanitizing its suspected nuclear military site at Parchin, in broad daylight, days after agreeing to a nuclear deal with world powers.”

There are so many loopholes that we will awaken one day to find out that Iran is testing nuclear weapons just as North Korea did after signing its nuclear agreement with the United States

The NY Post’s Andrea Peyser : Ugly hate slime vs. Schumer

Is this country turning into France?

A sick cartoon posted by the American leftist political Web site the Daily Kos depicts New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer as an eyeglass-wearing critter. In the comic, “Senator Woodchuck
Schumer’’ is interviewed by a cartoon dog about his opposition to President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.

In one panel, he stands beside an Israeli flag as his front paws grow claws and the interviewer asks,

“TRAITOR SAYS WHAT?’’ A traitorous beast? Seriously?

As a Post editorial noted, Schumer’s bold stance against the nuke deal has made him the target of European-style anti-Semitic slurs throughout America, including MoveOn.org writing that “our country doesn’t need another Joe Lieberman in the Senate.’’ (Schumer and Lieberman are both Jewish, get it?) White House favorite Fareed Zakaria on CNN advanced the anti-Jewish stereotype that Schumer is motivated by “money’’ — the potential loss of campaign contributions. The president reportedly blamed pro-Israel lobbyists for stirring up divided loyalties.

It chills me to the bone.

(Slideshow)

So, WHAT CAN WE DO: NOW: to debunk  The myth that this is the best we can do

(From Kieran Michael Lalor, a Republican member of the New York State Assembly.)

Obama broke with the bedrock American principle of not negotiating with terrorists. He did so without preconditions… The Iranians knew they were dealing with a weak president when Obama refused to speak out for reform in repressive Iran…Meeting and negotiating with Iran…treating them as a respected member of the community of nations… because Iran is more dangerous than a terrorist organization. As a state sponsor of terror it has greater resources and more deadly capabilities than does a stateless organization.

… we should strengthen sanctions to further weaken the Iranian economy, increase espionage and cyber sabotage efforts with regard to Iranian nuclear ambitions and encourage the reformers…tell the Iranians that we will never permit them to build nukes….avoid the inevitable Middle East arms race that will occur when Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are faced with an Iran that is strengthened militarily, economically and on the road to becoming a nuclear power as a result of this deal…

Tell Sen. Schumer to do more than cast a politically calculated “no” vote when he can help stop the deal. Sen. Schumer can and must do more than cast a vote against the deal.

It’s time to GET INVOLVED!

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SEIU & a Japanese Nuclear Protest -2010- A look at things Nuclear (Then and Now)

Recently, I remembered taking pictures of this group of Japanese Nuclear War protestors gathering outside the SEIU (aka Commie) headquarters in NYC. (Another file I laid aside because I took the pictures with my old circa 2010 cell phone). With the threat of a Nuclear Iran, the time seemed right to post them.

It was May 4, 2010.They were going to the UN to protest at the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Conference.

“The 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) met at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 3 to 28 May 2010.

Japanese Union “No Nukes” members posed with this banner before they left SEIU Headquarters for the march to the UN.

Found more info on this protest in 2010 at SEIU’s website:

“Meeting in the 1199SEIU Bread and Roses Gallery were members of the Japan Peace Committee, the Osaka Association for a Non-Nuclear Government and the Osaka Federation on Prefectural and Municipal Workers’ Unions.” More on the UN conference they came to protest:crop NPT UN
“The 2010 Review Conference
was generally considered a success because it reached consensus where the previous Review Conference in 2005 ended in disarray, a fact that many attributed to the U.S. President Barack Obama‘s commitment to nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament.
Some have warned that this success raised unrealistically high expectations that could lead to failure at the next Review Conference in 2015. [98]”

The 2010 protestors were armed with Nuke Facts (Link is a Must Read)
“NUKE FREE NOW!” We are robbing the future to pay for the unneeded weapons of the past.

Now is the time to stop fighting last century’s war.
Now is the time to reset our priorities.
Now is the time to invest in the people and the programs to get America back on track.

— from a letter by Rep. Ed Markey to the members of the Super Committee —Japan Good/United States Bad. NUCLEAR BOMBS Very Bad-unless you mention Iran or China – Then….it’s like… “Never Mind”.A slide show of pictures

Point of Information: Every year, Marxist sympathizers protest the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945.Replica of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945

In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.

(TSM) Historians at one time remembered that, until we dropped “The Bomb”, the war started by Japan, had no end in sight. Or at least it wasn’t coming soon enough.

FLEET STRIKES AS TOKYO ‘IGNORES’ TERMS; B-29 CHIEF NAMES 11 CITIES TO BE WIPED OUT (7/28/45)

During the day US bombers dropped thousands of leaflets on 12 Japanese cities warning civilians to “flee or perish.” July 28th, 1945 (SATURDAY)

“We knew how to fight and win wars back then. Entire cities destroyed. Not that I rejoice over that history, but a great general stated, and I paraphrase, “Anything less than total warfare is immoral.”

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library (many archived news papers from this attack on Japan)

 photo 0728-halsey4_zpsekyhjrfa.jpgIn 2015, as the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki approaches, August 6 and 9th of 1945, the SEIU’s Peace and Justice Facebook chums are protesting the actions of the U.S. (NOT Japan).


“The history of the Japanese aggression
that lead the U.S. in to WW2, and their war atrocities during a war that seemed without end, brought these Atomic Bombings to fruition.”

 

Nope. Not interested in discussing Japan as the aggressor.

Five years after I saw the Japanese and SEIU Nuclear protestors, we now face a future threatened by Obama’s Folly –a Nuclear Iran —

However, they stress in their Peace & Justice flyer, “Today, after 70 years, nearly 16,000 nuclear weapons—94% of them held by the USA and Russia—continue to pose an intolerable threat to humanity and the danger of nuclear war is growing… The USA plans to spend a trillion dollars over the next thirty years “ modernizing” its nuclear arsenal. The human cost of this is immeasurable—to our prospects for global peace and to our confidence in human survival.”

Nation-wide, America is protesting a Nuclear Iran–Where is SEIU? Where are those Japanese protestors? Where is Peace and Justice? I saw none of them in Times Square at the “Stop Iran Now Rally” on July 22, 2015.Knowing that Iran is eager to annihilate Israel (with the United States and the rest of the world’s Infidels thrown in for ‘good’ measure) Obama and Kerry continue their support of a Nuclear Iran. (Cue *crickets* from the Left)SEIU must be okay with a Nuclear Iran and their “enrichment” program. I’ve come across NO protests against a Nuclear Iran outside their headquarters.

Iran also states that its enrichment program is part of its civilian nuclear energy program, which is allowed under Article IV of the NPT. The Non-Aligned Movement has welcomed the continuing cooperation of Iran with the IAEA and reaffirmed Iran’s right to the peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

Good Nukes vs Bad Nukes.The Radical Left clamors to protect the nuclear ‘rights’ of  Maniacs and Tyrants.
The P & J’s  are dedicated, as usual, to their “August Action”. (Facebook link here)
Cover PhotoOn August 6, 2015, peace & justice advocates will gather at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. (With NO MENTION of IRAN) A comment does say, “Looks like Gaza and Syria”. www.trivalleycares.org

'Famed whistleblower and nuclear analyst Daniel Ellsberg at a "die-in" at Livermore Lab. On Thursday, August 6, 2015, at 8 AM, Daniel Ellsberg will return to Livermore Lab as a keynote speaker on the historic 70th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima. You are invited. More information at www.trivalleycares.org'

 On Thursday, August 6, 2015, at 8 AM, Daniel Ellsberg, famed whistle blower and nuclear analyst, will return to Livermore Lab as a keynote speaker on the historic 70th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima. (BUT“What about a Nuclear Iran?)

2015 and the NPT Conference comes around again.

At the 2015 NPT Review Conference, States parties examined the implementation of the Treaty’s provisions since 2010…

The NPT (Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) represents the only binding commitment in a multilateral treaty to the goal of disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States ..”

“Eight nations — China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, have about 22,000 nuclear warheads (Russia and the US together have more than 90% of total nuclear weapons). nuclear map

Around 8,000 warheads are deployed and 2,500 are on high alert (ready to be launched within 20 minutes).”

Allen West said it for us all, July 22, 2015, at the“Stop Iran Now Rally. He spoke The Truth about the threat of a Nuclear Iran while, sadly, our government is blindly, or knowingly, pushing the U.S. (the World) towards a dreaded Dooms Day.

NOW IS the Time For All Good Men to Stand and FIGHT.

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 August 8, 2015- To read more, follow link to a great article by Town Hall’s John Hawkins

‘No Apologies For Hiroshima or Nagasaki’

The Japanese weren’t the victims in WWII; they were the bad guys. They were perfectly willing to create a Hell on earth as long as their Emperor got to share time with Hitler in the infernal palace and they were allowed to be his little worker demons torturing the rest of the planet. Don’t feel sorry for Japan because it got nuked; feel sorry for the all the innocent lives that were lost because of that nation’s murderous lust for power.

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“Stop Iran Now” Rally- NYC (pics & vids) 7-22-15

From StopIranRally.Org

Our aims:

  1. An end to the farce being perpetrated against the American people with a pending deal which will endanger America and our allies.
  2. A restoration of the ORIGINAL demands – NO nuclear military capability, NO centrifuges and authority for any and all unannounced inspections of all known and any future facilities discovered.

  3. Providing an understanding that a failure to STOP IRAN NOW will necessitate a military response later.
    “Our mission is to educate our countrymen on the dangerous accord being negotiated in Geneva that will soon be put up for a vote in Congress.”

“…as we consider Obama’s Iran deal. The Constitution makes treason a ground for impeachment, but it seems to have been outside Madison’s contemplation that a president would actually be so insidious as to use his foreign-affairs power to give aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States. On that score, note that as soon as Obama’s deal was announced, not only was Iran’s foreign minister vowing to continue funding jihadist terror; the regime’s “supreme leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was also extolling the continued Iranian call for “Death to America.”

Some observations from July 22, 2015. The day of “The Rally For Peace Through Strength” includes pictures and two short videos with excerpts from Times Square- NYC.

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Around 5 pm, I arrived at the S/E corner of 42nd St and 7th Ave.  I made a decision to carry one camera and no tripod; I could to be more mobile that way in the press ‘box”. But, crammed between 3 cameramen, taller than myself, added to the challenge. (I was missing my ladder and tripod)

Still, I was able to take pictures of the jam-packed crowd that surrounded us.

 

Across the street. On the sidewalks. Everywhere I could see, there was a crowd of people pressing to get close to the speakers stage.

 

Part 1 slide show:

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This was no local lightly-attended rally. America took this protest very seriously In NY and other cities across the country, protests have been held in Fort Lauderdale, Phoenix, Winnipeg, Los Angeles and San Diego. Will Senator Schumer “Kill The Deal”? Can the POTUS Treachery be stopped?

America has spoken, ” … the deal with Iran is a danger to the US, to Israel, and to the entire world, and the Obama administration is engaged in an act of desperation bordering on treachery.” (AFSI)

The Rally had many fine speakers lined up but, looking at the list, there was no way this was coming in at two hours and, since it was live-streamed, I focused on pictures and … listening…

VIDEO Part 1 – is mostly the host, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld and Mort Zuckerman (with crowd shots and pleas from the stage to the massive crowd to “keep moving south on 7th Ave”. Everyone was jamming up near the stage.

VIDEO – Part 2- Excerpts include Former NY Governor George Pataki and Alan Dershowitz. as the crowd shouts “Kill This Deal!”

I had to leave at 7:30,hoping Allen West would speak before then. Didn’t happen. But, perhaps they were saving the best for last. No way of knowing. I had to leave. I was going to miss the one speaker I came to hear, former Congressman, Lt. Col (ret) Allen B. West.

It was 7:30 as I headed down 7th avenue to take a look at the 6 blocks of “Stop Iran Now Rally” attendees (10-12,000 according to the police).

There were crowds of people on the side streets as well.

 

 

But, due to the original stop time for the rally, the crowds were thinning as I got closer to 38th St. (this is looking towards 39th)

Part 2- Slide show

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38th St. was the location for those who came out to support a nuclear Iran.  An officer told me the opposition started out at 40th street but with the swelling of the Rally they were forced to stand at 38th street. By 7:45 there was just the Neturei Karta. I have seen no reports on these protestors, so maybe this is all there was.

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As I left the Neturei Karta, I realized at about 7:50 – I was hearing very clearly- at 38th st – with no distortion – Allen West’s fabulous speech!

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Wish they’d had a video screen for those so far away. (I’ve seen screens used at this location.) But, on a the good side, anyone who had to stand that far from the stage heard all the speeches. Loud and clear.

This was a powerful protest. Kudos to those who put it together. Having organized such events myself, I know it takes a lot of patience and a lot of hours. So my last observation is really a suggestion for the speakers.

“… a diverse group of speakers — experts, dignitaries, and public figures dedicated to preventing a nuclear Iran….

SHORTER SPEECHES Please.  Too often, after the speakers made their most important points, they would ‘start over’ — making a good speech too long (sigh)

24  speakers, with lots to say, even 3 hours wasn’t enough. The pressure to get it all said in so little time is perhaps what we all might be experiencing.

Tough days ahead with little time to make a difference.

So Much Evil. So Little Time.

 

The speakers (9) I heard in the first two hours:

John Batchelor Radio Host WABC-AM, Monica Crowley Political Commentator, board member Center for Security Policy; Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor; US Congressman Trent Franks , U.S. Representative for Arizona’s 8th congressional district, Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on the House Armed Services Committee, and a member of the Strategic Forces subcommittee; Caroline Glick , Deputy Managing Editor of The Jerusalem Post; Kevin McCullough , Radio Host from WMCA and 970 The Answer; Robert Morgenthau , Manhattan District Attorney from 1975 to 2009, and of counsel with the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, George Pataki, Former Three-Term Governor of New York, in office during 9/11 ; Mortimer Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report and the publisher of the New York Daily News and former Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

The remaining speakers (15) in the last hour after I left (including Allen West, ) : Genevieve Wood, Senior Fellow in Communications and Senior Contributor, “The Daily Signal,” from The Brookings Institute; General Paul Vallely, Former US Army Major General and Chairman of Stand Up America;Richard Kemp, Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan;Tony LoBianco, “The French Connection” Actor and Activist;Herbert I. London,  President London Center for Policy Research, President Emeritus of Hudson Institute and former Dean of New York University; Kasim Hafeez, Founder of “The Israel Campaign” and Christians United for Israel’s Outreach Coordinator;Pete Hoekstra, Former U.S. Congressman and Chair of the House Intelligence Committee;Clare M. Lopez, Former CIA officer, Terrorism and Iran Expert at Center for Security Policy;U.S. Navy Admiral James A. “Ace” Lyons , Former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Senior U.S. Military Representative to the United Nations; James Woolsey, Former Director of the CIA and Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies;Steven Emerson, Founder of The Investigative Project on Terrorism;Frank Gaffney, Founder of the Center for Security Policy;Anne Bayefsky,Professor and Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of Human Rights Voices;David Brog, Executive Director, Christians United for Israel.

KILL THIS DEAL!!
In closing: Ambassador Bolton’s 6 things to know about this VERY ROTTEN Deal with Iran.Bolton Crop

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A NUCLEAR IRAN Protest – Is Islamic Rule World-Wide their goal?

Before the protest against a Nuclear Iran begins tomorrow, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 – in Times Square – I’m posting some videos and pics that seemed relevant. A Look at the Left in 2012 , as they demanded “Hands Off Iran” and FOR a Nuclear Iran.

I went through some old files (again) and found some video I never posted (due to a faulty camera phone) from Feb 4, 2012, in Duffy Square – NYC. For those who can handle listening to the Commie-Left begging FOR a Nuclear Iran, trashing Israel (again)  and protesting a Nuclear U.S.: Game On.

Part 1, a couple of the OWS ‘echo’ speeches, by Brower and Flounders. (My 2011 camera phone skips, but the speeches are still heard thanks to the echos)

Part 2- Their march towards 42nd was filled with many  signs and, of course,  OWS drums ….

Typical anti-American screeds and smarmy posters beloved by the Commie Insurgents. Led by America Haters, Elaine Brower and Debra Sweet of World Can’t Wait and joined by proud fellow traveler, Sara Flounders of Ramsey Clark’s IAC.  And Barack Hussein Obama. His actions though-out his presidency have exposed his anti-U.S. agenda, time and again. Obama. In lock-step with the anarchists promoting a Nuclear Iran that day in 2012, and NOT in-tune with the AMERICANS who will come to Time Squares tomorrow . GAME ON.

Signs- posters – lots of them. (click picture for slide show)2012 was a very busy year for the insurgency-In 2015. Ah’jad is gone. But, the tyranny of the Imams continues. Forever, it seems, with “theological rationales for the prospect of a rapprochement with Iran’s Western adversaries.”

The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, The Supreme Leader of Iran in 2015, has the final say in all Iranian political and national security matters. Read more on this horrific pact with ‘shatan’ :How a 7th Century Cleric Led to the Iran Deal & To shore up domestic support, Tehran repeatedly invoked the ‘heroic flexibility’ of Imam Hassan in the year 661

A  Nuclear Iran awaits a final vote in Congress  (thanks to Obama and Company for aiding this insanity).

From Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), “New Yorkers are reaching out to “Senator Schumer, who  says he will “do the right thing.” These are unprecedented times and it’s time to stop this deal, which is disastrous for America and our allies in the Middle East.  Please do not allow partisan politics or any other considerations to cloud your judgment.”

Meanwhile, NO protests from any Iranians. Not for a long while. The silence from Iranians, once boldly seeking freedom from Islamic Tyranny, is not a good sign.

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STOP IRAN NOW!

Many national organizations are sponsoring the NYC Times Square Rally. From Stand With Us to AFSI to ZOA to Simon Wiesenthal Center to EMET to RAJE to NCPA (and many, many  more). The impact will be profound if there are other demonstrations, even from a few hundred to a few thousand in many other cities.

“We have to go national …  we have to show that we are a national movement, not a singular group from New York.

The country objects to the Iran Appeasement Deal overwhelmingly and with the apocalyptic Islamists nuclear bomb, including North Korea, and ICBMs, all of American cities are in danger” (Dr. Marvin Belsky)

For More Info:   StopIranRally.org

And 6 things to know about this VERY ROTTEN Deal with Iran.Bolton Crop

“Turning a Blind Eye to Iran’s Call For Genocide” – Dr. Andrew Bostom (audio & slides)

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Part 1- Feb. 4, 2015- Hosted by The Lawfare Project – NYC.

Audio with slides.

Introduction by Lawfare’s Brooke Goldstein

Dr. Andrew Bostom, then spoke, making a solid case for why we should, without question, support Netanyahu and Israel.

In Part 1, Bostom discussed the Genocidal Threat of a Nuclear Iran. It’s not just about the Jews & Israel, it’s a threat to the world.  (Part 2 is the Q and A)

Dr. Bostom’s Book, “Iran’s Final Solution for Israel…” can be found on Amazon

51J-DXn9bYL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_“Iran prepares to attack Northern Israel”  James Lewis – American Thinker

“Of all the extremely dangerous events that are now gathering momentum in the region, the Iranian-Syrian drive against northern Israel is the most dangerous. The reason is simple. Israel has a sophisticated nuclear, WMD, and missile deterrent, to be used under military doctrines similar to our own. For rational nations, WMDs are a last resort, only usable when a threat is direct and existential. Iran has always played the crazy card, a big show of irrational fanaticism and rage. Maybe they really are crazy — nobody knows for sure.”

Q and A – Part 2- Lawfare’s Brooke Goldstein asks the first question in the Q and A with Dr. Bostom.

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In Part 1 , Dr. Bostom made a solid case for why we should support Netanyahu and Israel.

In Part 2, his Q and A was equally engaging. Good questions with in-depth answers.

 A book mentioned by Dr. Bostom, “A Time to Attack” written by Matthew Kroenig (also on Amazon)

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James Lewis- American Thinker

‘Allah Akbar [God is great]” … “Khamenei is the leader. Death to the enemies of the leadership. Death to America. Death to England. Death to hypocrites. Death to Israel.’

Iranians have been made to chant those words every day since 1979, when Jimmy Carter permitted the modernizing Shah of Iran to be overthrown by martyrdom-preacher Ayatollah Khomeini, leading to more than a million dead in the following Iran-Iraq War.”

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“Most Members of Congress Share Netanyahu’s View” :
Michael Barone – Townhall

“Congress may not find a way to prevent Obama from making the deal he apparently desperately wants […] Iran’s leaders have threatened to rain nuclear weapons on geographically compact Israel. That’s a threat that Israel’s leaders cannot ignore — and one that most members of Congress evidently take seriously as well. “

The White House and Obama. They just don’t get it.  Can we hope to stop this Genocidal Iranian Nuclear War Machine. Before it’s too late?

“White House Faults G.O.P. Senators’ Letter to Iran’s Leaders” – NY Times

“The letter, signed by 47 Republican senators and addressed to “leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” suggested that the Iranian leaders might not understand the American system and warned them that any deal Mr. Obama and other world leaders might reach on the future of its nuclear program would be reversible without congressional approval.”

 “To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.” Abraham Lincoln.

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