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Trump says he's reducing Central American aid over migrants

Details: Published: Tuesday, 23 October 2018 13:48

"The three countries received a combined more than $500 million in funding from the U.S. in fiscal year 2017."
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Cut it in half. If that does not work, keep cutting it in half month after month.

These countries should be amazingly wealthy. They live in a secure part of the world, other than from themselves. All three countries have access to the sea.

Honduras and Guatemala have access to the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico, with easy access to the United States and major markets across the world.

El Salvador sits right there on the Pacific.

America and the Saudi Dilemma – a quick note from Asia

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Details: Published: Sunday, 21 October 2018 17:21

Many words flying around: "Why doesn't Trump do something!?" (Always the interrobang on this one.)

Firstly, let's talk about precedence and reality. The world is filled with savagery. Pick any compass heading and there will be savagery. Often under our own feet.

Why doesn't Trump turn the seas into fresh water to solve the water crisis!? Why doesn't Merkel do this? Putin? That guy Xi?

Well, back to precedence.

Book Review: Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone

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Details: Published: Wednesday, 17 October 2018 13:58

Finally, A Serious Scholarly Work on Comfort Women Translated into English

By Marshall Wordsworth

Professor Ikuhiko Hata, a premier authority on modern Japanese history, has finally managed to make available his highly-informative exhaustive research on comfort women to the English-speaking audience. His Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone, an admirable English translation of his 1999 work Ianfu to Senjō no Sei (which had been referred to Comfort Women and Sexuality on the Battlefield in previous years) includes a few additional chapters to reflect on much of what has transpired in the past two decades concerning the issue of Imperial Japan’s military brothel system.

決定版・慰安婦の真実――戦場ジャーナリストが見抜いた中韓の大嘘』

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Details: Published: Tuesday, 09 October 2018 12:41

cw japanese

My first book in Japanese language: Just listed minutes ago on Amazon.

Chinese and Russian Information War Backfires: "China’s Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communists"

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Details: Published: Monday, 08 October 2018 14:55

The New York Times article linked at the bottom discussing the Chinese backfire is worth a slow, quiet read.

But first, Yuri Bezmenov, the famous KGB defector, talks about this problem during his interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA

Yuri is worth watching start to end. I have published him numerous times.

中国スパイ　韓国で日本を糾弾

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Details: Published: Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:37

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古森義久（ジャーナリスト・麗澤大学特別教授）

「古森義久の内外透視」

【まとめ】

・米有力上院議員補佐官が中国のスパイと指摘された。

・補佐官解雇後も財団事務局長として米韓で反日活動を展開。

・慰安婦問題利用した米国内での反日活動の主役は中国共産党。

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Combat, Cannibals, and other True Campfire Stories

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Details: Published: Tuesday, 29 May 2018 09:00

BookX – The Michael Yon Campfire Series

I am an author, photographer, war correspondent, and former cannibal hunter. Stick with me, and you might find this to be the most interesting fundraiser you’ve ever seen. The best parts are near the end.

According to Los Angeles Times, my simple website was once one of the busiest in the world. This success was accomplished with only a laptop, camera, and willingness to swim deeper into war than practically any correspondent.

According to the New York Times,

“…[Michael Yon] has spent most of the last three years in Iraq, writing prolifically and graphically, and racking up more time embedded with combat units than any other journalist, according to the United States military. He has been shot at, buffeted by explosions and seen more people maimed — fighters and civilians, adults and children — than he can count.”

I was just getting started when that article came out in 2008. The ‘best’ is yet to come. Readers who invested in me always got their money’s worth.

烈炎の関門

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Details: Published: Friday, 10 April 2015 13:20

photo 1 18 august 05ac 730 デュース・フォーの指揮官たち：ロバート・プロッサー司令上級曹長とエリック・クリーヤ中佐が病院の外にいるダニエルの母親に電話をかける

イラク・モスル

戦争においてさえ、戦闘は予期しない形で訪れる。

月曜に、モスル西部で作戦従事中に、無線で声がとどき、我々の兄弟部隊である3-21がチグリス川の反対側にあたるモスル東部で敵と交戦中との連絡が入った。その直後に、ウィル・ショックリー二等軍曹が米兵一人死亡という報告を我々にもたらした。我々はチグリス川の自陣側にいるはずの敵方射撃手を探し始めたが、すでに逃亡していた。ホセ・L・ルイスが戦死した。

モスルの状況は改善しているが、我々の部隊は今も毎日戦い続けている。今回の戦争は数年前に皆が思っていたような戦争とは異なるものかも知れない。だがいざ砲撃が始まると、事前の計画など単なる役立たずの正装に過ぎなくなる。

Gates of Fire

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Details: Published: Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:34

Published: August 31, 2005

The top leaders of the Deuce Four: CSM Robert Prosser and LTC Erik Kurilla making the call to Daniel’s Mom outside the hospital

Mosul, Iraq

Combat comes unexpectedly, even in war.

On Monday, while conducting operations in west Mosul, a voice came over the radio saying troops from our brother unit, the 3-21, were fighting with the enemy in east Mosul on the opposite side of the Tigris River. Moments later, SSG Will Shockley relayed word to us that an American soldier was dead. We began searching for the shooters near one of the bridges on our side of the Tigris, but they got away. Jose L. Ruiz was killed in action.

Although the situation in Mosul is better, our troops still fight here every day. This may not be the war some folks had in mind a few years ago. But once the shooting starts, a plan is just a guess in a party dress.