Things you never learn in school, RE The Japanese and Global Warming

[AaronP]

I learned some interesting things last night about how the Japanese acted during WW2.

For one thing, did you know that 36% of American POW's in Japanese prison camps were killed? In Contrast, 1% of American POW's in German camps were killed.

Our media portrays the Japanese during WW2 and some kind of noble warriors. In fact, they were brutal, cruel, killers. Nothing noble about them. They tortured, raped, and murdered millions of Chinese, killed thousands of POW's, and yet, much of this is forgotten.

Especially in the the ultra sanatized, sterile, non offending movie Pearl Harbor. Instead of accuratly portraying the war, and the Japanese. Pearl Harbor makes excuses for them, and makes them look noble. This is an affront to every American solder during WW2, and is PCness at its worst. The powers that be at Disney wanted to offend the least people, and try and have a strong Japanese and foreign market, so they whitewashed everything. That is off track though.

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Let's switch to science. Science in our country is taught with a single minded, one sided, liberal point of view. For instance, children are taught that global warming is a horrible thing that man is entirely responsible for, and that pollution causes. They are lead to believe that the scientific community is of a single mind on this issue.

The truth is, the scientific community is very divided on global warming. Does man really cause it? Or is it just the result of the Earth's natural temperature changes? We did come out of an ICE AGE after all, and there weren't any SUV's or factories 10,000 years ago to cause the increase in temp. Children are never taught this though. Hopefully, John Stossel's report on global warming education and the brainwashing of American kids will be shown this Friday on 20/20, but some enviromental groups are trying to block it.

And I don't want to even get started on political education in our schools....

What do you guys think?

 

[Pretender]

the world isn't controlled by religion anymore, it's controlled by media brainwashing. I wonder what'll control the world next...

 

[shiner]

Glad to see you are waking up and learning some things on your own rather than relying on the watered down history they teach in school these days.

 

[AndrewR]

It's common knowledge to anyone interested in military history that the Japanese committed their fair share of atrocities in WWII, ranging from the Bataan Death March to the "comfort women" in China. As for the portrayal of the Japanese in Pearl Harbor, I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. The movie did show Japanese pilots strafing Americans in the water after having destroyed the ships. Other than that, there was very little to show that couldn't be construed as mean-spirited.

On global warming, there have people here and there attempting to voice the fact that the science behind global warming is not perfect nor universally accepted. However, greenies and liberals refuse to believe that and would rather cripple American industry on a ridiculous political animal like the Kyoto treaty. Kudos to President Bush for not caving into the vocal minority.

 

[AaronP]

yeah, actually, I knew a lot of the crap they spewed was BS when I was in High School. I knew the Japanese were bad dudes, but I didn't know how bad until I saw the Factor last night.

We were kinda brutal too, my grandpa was in the philipenes during WW2, and told me that they used to pay the locals 2 dollars for a Japanese soldier's head. He's got a picture of a filipino guy smiling and holding the heads of two Japanese soldiers and they have dollar bills stuffed in their mouths. It's one thing to do that once their dead, but its another thing to torture them when they're alive though.

 

[huanaku]

I am excited to see Stossel's report even though I am not familiar with his style. As for WWII, a lot of things happened that we don't know about. My grandfather was part of the "D-Day" raid. He was the only member of his group (squadron? I'm not familiar with military lingo) that survived. He refused to see any movies that talked about the war, always saying "That's not how is was." He told me a few things, and it was terrible.

 

[AaronP]

Ohh, Stossel is the best. I love watching his reports. Half the time, they make me really angry thought. Whatever the story is, Stossel always makes it entertaining, and tries to show the truth. His report on stores scanning in a higher price on merchandise than the advertised price was priceless. He really got some of those companies in a tiff.

 

[AaronP]

I can't compete with the "Crumbling Pillars" thread, that one has some really juicy stuff. And a catchy title too.

 

[AndrewR]

Take what Stossel says with a grain of salt, however. Not all of what he portrays as definitive fact is actually so. I can't remember what it is at this point, but I saw a report on a subject with which I was very familiar. Stossel took some highly debated items and presented them as factual evidence to support his premise, completely overlooking all the rather persuasive evidence which contradicted him (didn't even mention it, actually).

So, when I now watch him, I question his facts as much as his assertion. It's not that I always disagree with him, but he comes to conclusions first and then support those conclusions with facts that he picks and chooses (even if they are opinions and not facts!).

I did like that story on mispricing though.