Mike's Vacation

Thursday, August 9, 2007

WERE WE EVER REALLY THIS YOUNG?

HOW DID WE GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B

HOW DID WE EVER GET SO FAR? HOW DID WE GO FROM HAVING BEAUTIFUL BULDINGS IN NEW YORK, TO HAVING THE LARGEST TWO BURNED TO THE GROUND BY MONSTERS?

HOW DID IRAQ GO FROM BEING A SECULAR AND FUNCTIONING STATE THAT ESSENTIALLY DIDN'T LIKE US, TO A PLACE WHERE NO AMERICAN WILL SAFELY ENTER FOR DECADES?

WHO IS AT FAULT, A PUPPET, OR HIS MASTER?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXzMt2QarrM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKB4UMdwvZI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXw53yJc0Hc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R29YqCf1E3A&NR=1

MICHAEL MILLER
INDIANAPOLIS
2007

JAPANESE MOURN OVER AMERICAN ATOMIC BOMBS

IT WAS A HORRIFIC DECISION TO USE ATOMIC BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAKASAKI.

SOME PEOPLE FEEL IT WAS MILITARILY NECCESSARY TO WIN JAPANESE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, OTHERS FEEL IT WAS SIMPLY CRUELTY ON THE PART OF TRUMAN AND THE US WAR MACHINE.

SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT AMERICA USED THESE WEAPONS TO SOMEHOW PREVENT THE COMMUNISTS FROM TAKING OVER JAPAN AFTER WW2. THEIR THEORY IS THAT IF CONVENTINAL METHODS WERE TO HAVE BEEN USED, THEN THIS WOULD HAVE GIVEN THE SOVIETS TIME TO TAKE PART IN A JAPANESE INVASION, AND THUS GIVE THEM ENOUGH INFLUENCE IN THE COUNTRY TO STEER IT TO SOVIET SOCIALISM.

MIKES VACATION BELIEVES DROPPING THE A-BOMBS ON JAPAN WAS THE CORRECT DECISION. THIS DECISION SAVED AMERICAN AND JAPANESE LIVES.

MIKES VACATION ALSO BELIEVES THAT LEIGONS OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS WENT UNPUNISHED, BECAUSE TO DO SO WOULD HAVE POSTPONED JAPANESE RE-CONSTRUCTION SUFFICIENTLY LONG ENOUGH FOR THE SOVIETS TO GRAPPLE FOR INFLUENCE ON THE ISLAND. EMPEROR HIROHITO SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY EXCECUTED. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE CORRECT DECISION. THIS WOULD ALSO HAVE REDUCED AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON THE ISLAND. IT WAS A MISTAKE TO ALLOW SO MANY JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS TO GO UNPUNISHED FOR THE SAKE OF REGIONAL INFLUENCE.

this link features iris chang, author of "the rape of nanking"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V8fzbUoQdio
this link is an interview with Aussie harry leslie, pow held by the japanese
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bBsryUaH-ps
this link is of the japanese mourning us atomic bombs
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20190749/

MIKE MILLER
INDIANAPOLIS,
2007

TORTURE AS DESCRIBED BY WIKIPEDIA

AMERICANS MUST BEGIN TO ORGANIZE FOR THE PURPOSE OF NOT ALLOWING OUR WAR CRIMINALS TO GO UNPUNISHED.

EXECUTING AND TORTURING POWS, PARTISANS, AND ENEMY CIVILIANS DEFIES THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN AND GLOBAL HUMANITY.

WW2 ERA NAZI WAR CRIMINALS BELIEVED THAT BECAUSE THERE WAS NO LAW AGAINST THEIR CRIMES, THEY WERE LEGAL AND WOULD GO UNPUNISHED.

THE EUROPEAN VICTIMS OF NAZI GERMANY HAVE LITTLE TO CONSOLE THEMSELVES WITH, EXCEPT THAT PRECEDENTS WERE ESTABLISHED DURING THE NURNBERG WAR CRIMES TRIALS PROVIDING FOR WAR CRIMES TO BE FOREVER PROSECUTED AND PUNISHED.

THE NAZIS COULD NOT PASS LAWS IN GERMANY LEGALIZING WHAT THEY WOULD DO TO THEIR VICTIMS IN EUROPE. NO MAN CAN LEGALIZE A WAR CRIME OR A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

WASHINGTON'S LEGALIZATION OF TORTURE AND OF WAGING WAR UPON NATIONS AT PEACE, CAN NOT BE BONNA FIDE HERE OR GLOBALLY. WASHINGTON CAN NOT LEGALIZE WHAT BY NATURE CAN NEVER BE FORGIVEN, OR PARDONED.

AMERICANS NEED TO BEGIN DEVELOPING METHODS FOR THE PROSECUTION OF OUR WAR CRIMINALS, WE NEED TO PROVIDE FOR SEVERE PUNISHMENT TO THOSE WHO WILL DESTROY EVIDENCE OF THESE CRIMES OR OBSTRUCT THEIR PROSECUTION.

MIKES VACATION IS FULLY AWARE THAT MANY CITIZENS OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN ARE GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. THESE MEN SHOULD BE TRIED AND PUNISHED BY THE VERY SAME MACHINE THAT SHOULD BE USED AGAINST OUR OWN WAR CRIMINALS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture

Monday, August 6, 2007

HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN COMPUTER

THIS IS A GREAT 5 PART SERIES ON HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN COMPUTER.
Enjoy, Mike Miller

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z8KVF0EPSQQ&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xTmgSCxdZ48&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=POMkeUekTfE&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=43g2FPvPwNg&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I52Ys2QLq6c&mode=related&search=

Sunday, August 5, 2007

READERS PLEASE FORGIVE ME

Dear Readers, There was always something that bothered me about Mr. Krol, I just couldn't put it into words, and I still can't.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/amb/portraits/eur/24564.htm

http://images.google.com/images?q=reinhard+heydrich+photos&hl=en&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

Ambassador Krol’s home state is New Jersey. He attended St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, New Jersey

This sentence is taken from section 7 of the below document "Between 1948 and 1950 over 200 Belorussian Nazis arrived to South River, NJ with their families.

http://www.geocities.com/dudar2000/Bcc.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_A._Krol

The highest ranking Belorussian Nazi of WW2 was Radislaw Ostrowski, he was brought to America with the hopes he might assist with the overthrow of the Soviet Union. He lived to a ripe old age and is buried in New Jersey. I am very curious if there is some connection between Ostrowski, and the good Mr. Krol. I am not sure what the connection could be. Perhaps Mr. Krol knew of him, and was ashamed of his presence in America. I find it very odd that the American Ambassador to Belarus would not be aware that New Jersey was full of Belorussian Nazis or their children and grandchildren. So, if Mr. Krol was aware of this problem, why did he do nothing to see these monsters deported to Justice in Belarus?

http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/Radasłaŭ_Astroŭski

As long as we are discussing Embassy related issues, can anyone please explain to me just exactly why the U.S. embassy in Belarus is translatable into Belorussian and not RUSSIAN.

According to recent election polls, most Lukashenka supporting people in Belarus speak RUSSIAN. Lukashenka's opposition is skilled with Belorussian. So perhaps the U.S. embassy in Minsk only wants their rhetoric understandable by those that speak Belorussian. Perhaps the U.S. Embassy has posted things on its web site that are so ludicrous that if the majority of the Belorussian public were to understand their accurately translated meanings, the State Department and its "DIPLOMATIC MISSION" to Belarus would be embarrassed beyond timely repair? ! ? .
http://belarus.usembassy.gov/index.html

Dear readers, I got the following message from my long time friend and fellow Belarus advocate Adam Goodman of the BEINGHAD.COM web page and blog. Adam responded " Interesting post and there are some good links but I am not sure why you make the connection between the current ambassador and a dead Nazi collaborator.

Adam, There is no actual connection, there is a physical similarity, at least according to the photos. The Ex-Ambassador had been subverting Belarus by attacking Lukashenka. But frankly, there are the gnawing facts about all those (200) Nazi's settling in Jersey. I just have a real suspicion that American Belorussian Diaspora is corner stoned and led by either the original Belorussian Nazis that settled here, if they are still alive and viable, or their children. And I while I have no evidence of this, I feel that these same groups play a heavy lobbying/bribing role in seeing to the appointment of Ambassadors to Belarus that will serve their interest, and for that matter these same groups likely play an impactful steering role in SETTING what the mission of the state dept to Belarus actually is. You can see this same phenomenon in a more open fashion when you observe the effects that the Cuban exiles living in Florida have on current U.S. policies towards Cuba. Obviously the Belorussian Americans have some other things to consider, like potential deportation for war crimes etc. These looming threats likely keeps them from being as vocal and outrageous as the Cuban diaspora in Florida. However, the current Belorussian Diaspora probably would like to make financial claims against property and or business currently located and operating in Belarus. These claims would be fruitless unless a pro-capitalist/anti -communist leader and government were installed in Belarus. I feel that the extreme physical similarities between Krol and Reinhard Heydrich serve to promote an abstract and imaginative examination on the part of the reader of the facts of the case surrounding the real motivations of what our "diplomatic mission " actually is in Belarus. I also find the physical similarities downright creepy.

Michael Miller

Indianapolis, 2007

Saturday, August 4, 2007

COME AND SEE

As you are aware, I am a big fan of Belarus, and of Soviet and Partisan triumphs during WW2 / The Patriotic War.

I found this incredible movie on youtube.com. Parts of it are dubbed into English, but from what I can tell it is the story of a boy who joins the Belorussian Partisans in their fight against the Germans of WW2.

I recommend that you visit this web page prior to viewing COME AND SEE. This page is the Belorussian government's official Katyn web page. This page will be self explanatory.

http://www.khatyn.by/en/about/

This film has great acting, great costumes, it is shot on location in Belarus, and is very relevant to my prior Jerzy Kosinski blog because the forested area and topography of this film is very likely exactly and precisely the type of area, if not near the exact setting of Kosinski's story The Painted Bird.

This film is highly relevant on its own accord, and I only mention its connection to The Painted Bird in that a reader and interested party of the Painted Bird can now see some very realistic costumes, sets, and topography of almost, if not EXACTLY the area that Kosinski was describing in his book.

This may be a little bit confusing to the reader, however Kosinski's book is very likely "docu-fiction" . The book is a combination of his lifes events, historical accuracies of the period, cultural markers, and plain fictionalizations on his part. If The Painted Bird were to be accepted as an accurate biography of Kosinski's ww2 experiences as a child in Poland, then it very likely took place on parts of what is now Belarusian territory. According to Kosinski, he was sent to the country on a dark adventure, that according to him, was represented in his book. Therefore, with the reference to a giant marsh land, and the fact he was sent away from the Nazis, or east, he would have been describing the marshes and forests inside the borders of present day Belarus. Portions of pre-WW2 Poland were incorporated into what are the modern borders of Belarus.(remember the yalta conference of 1945). Kosinski referred in his book to persons who spoke a dialect variant from the standard Warsaw Polish of the day. This dialect could very well have been a forest version of Polish, or it could have been a forest version of Belarusian. It is possible that these language dialects were intermingled in some regions of the deep forest on the border of what was pre-war Poland and pre-war Belarus.

If the reader of The Painted Bird chooses to accept this book as "docu-fiction" , then this book could have been set in multiple rural areas to include rural Poland, rural Belarus, Rural russia and Rural Ukraine. That is to say the peasant lives described took could have taken place in these countries. Some chapters of The Painted Bird specificly are set in Warsaw by name. One of the topographical clues as to the books setting, regardless of how you classify it is that the book describes of course thick forest, but also large marsh and swamp type areas. Modern Belarus has within its borders an area called the Pripyat Marshes, however these same marshes cross into parts of the Ukraine as well. Infact parts of pre-war Poland were close to these same marsh type areas.

The book largly describes wartime life for peasants living in an isolated and backwards slavic community. ( i am sorry if you are offended at this point, i acknowledge that many polish persons are offended over how Kosinski choose to portray them in his book, i choose to accept his book as "docu-fiction" and accept that there may be portions of the peasants characters and habits that are either under represented by Kosinski, or exaggerated for the sake of drama. ) There are not enough cultural or historic markers in the book to absolutely identify the peasants as being either easter slavic or western slavic.

come and see 1 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=RfQWxoJYwwY&mode=related&search

=come and see 2 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=0hMCKQDdLps&mode=related&search

=come and see 3 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=YXn0oSBv0Dg&mode=related&search

=come and see 4 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=qOvyR97n3Pc&mode=related&search

=come and see 5 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=RpbiuTr3lCw&mode=related&search

=come and see 6 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=38lQjdLajVU&mode=related&search

=come and see 7 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=S1PVbczaIJ8

come and see 8 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=WcO4lmhTDrE&mode=related&search

=come and see 9 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=SCMoVQQHoOc&mode=related&search

=come and see 10 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=NsSfRRRcxK4&mode=related&search

=come and see 11 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZxQEK8EQKTs&mode=related&search

=come and see 12 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vbzblw3MF6w&mode=related&search=

=come and see 13 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=scjUVBFjhlQ&mode=related&search

=come and see 14 of 14http://youtube.com/watch?v=c6P9P8VmB9k&mode=related&search=

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/02/20/come.html http://www.smart-popcorn.com/reviews/595/http://movies.go.com/come-and-see/d810426/foreign

The men that made this film obviously put their hearts and souls into its creation. Thank you for taking the time to watching this film via my blog and for being patient with my likely imperfect viewpoints published in this essay.

Mike Miller
Indianapolis
2007