What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

[Penner]

Finished the Rape of Nanking about a week ago, but read it so fast, I may have another go later. No words, really, to describe the depravity. Just shocking - and yet, on par with so much of the inhumanity of the 20th Century.

Currently, about 2/3 of the way through Democracy in Chains and am finding it engaging. I didn’t really know much about James Buchanan and his role in the public choice / libertarian movement.

Frankl’s book, Man’s Search For Meaning, is up next.


It’s amazing what happens when I put the PS4 in the closet...

Crazy book. Iris Chang, the author, iced herself after she wrote it, I don't know if her research contributed to her decision.

She killed herself in like 2004 not in 1996 when the book was first published.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Score another one for the MIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

Instead of being tried for war crimes after the war, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for the data they gathered through human experimentation.[5] Other researchers that the Soviet forces managed to arrest first were tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949. Americans did not try the researchers so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into the U.S. biological warfare program, as had happened with Nazi researchers in Operation Paperclip.[6] On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence."[5] Victim accounts were then largely ignored or dismissed in the West as communist propaganda.[

USA! USA! USA!

[Hastur]

Now you made me remember this.

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Hellbla ... readType=1

Early Hellblazer was good.

[Penner]

Score another one for the MIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

Instead of being tried for war crimes after the war, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for the data they gathered through human experimentation.[5] Other researchers that the Soviet forces managed to arrest first were tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949. Americans did not try the researchers so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into the U.S. biological warfare program, as had happened with Nazi researchers in Operation Paperclip.[6] On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence."[5] Victim accounts were then largely ignored or dismissed in the West as communist propaganda.[

USA! USA! USA!

Whete have you been? Ever heard about Operation/Project Paper Clip?


https://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassifi ... -secretary

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new ... 180961110/

[SuburbanFarmer]

Score another one for the MIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

Instead of being tried for war crimes after the war, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for the data they gathered through human experimentation.[5] Other researchers that the Soviet forces managed to arrest first were tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949. Americans did not try the researchers so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into the U.S. biological warfare program, as had happened with Nazi researchers in Operation Paperclip.[6] On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence."[5] Victim accounts were then largely ignored or dismissed in the West as communist propaganda.[

USA! USA! USA!

Whete have you been? Ever heard about Operation/Project Paper Clip?


https://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassifi ... -secretary

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new ... 180961110/

Of course, but that was to get Werner Von Braun. At least some good came of it.

Never knew we did the same with the Japanese.

[Penner]

Score another one for the MIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731



USA! USA! USA!

Whete have you been? Ever heard about Operation/Project Paper Clip?


https://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassifi ... -secretary

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new ... 180961110/

Of course, but that was to get Werner Von Braun. At least some good came of it.

Never knew we did the same with the Japanese.

Yeah, I also heard that the Brits got some Scientists and also the Soviets as well. Basically it was freeforall when the war ended and all sides were trying to grab as many as possible. Unit 731 isn't really talked a lot here but at least we talk about it. In Japan NO ONE brings up Unit 731, the Nanking Massacre, and the many other horrific war crimes that Japan committed during that war. All I ever hear are them talking about Pearl Harbor and the two atomic bombs dropped on them.

[Speaker to Animals]

Great novel. Great narrator.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fanta ... B076QGRFGD

[TheReal_ND]

Reading Camp of the Saints. This book is fucking based. I fucking love racist literature holy shit.

[GloryofGreece]

Reading Camp of the Saints. This book is fucking based. I fucking love racist literature holy shit.

You might dig this. Its not from a sympathetic author but its interesting nonetheless.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/16190 ... UTF8&psc=1

[Hwen Hoshino]

Reading Camp of the Saints. This book is fucking based. I fucking love racist literature holy shit.

You might dig this. Its not from a sympathetic author but its interesting nonetheless.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/16190 ... UTF8&psc=1

Sympathetic toward?