Cape Town Getting Ready to Shut Off the Water

[Baruch]

They say ... that after the Doolittle raid, the Japs executed 180,000 Chinese civilians that they though had aided the escape of the American airmen.

[Cavebear]

They say ... that after the Doolittle raid, the Japs executed 180,000 Chinese civilians that they though had aided the escape of the American airmen.

"They" say?  I have no information on that.

[Unbeliever]

I just came across this on google:

The Untold Story of the Vengeful Japanese Attack After the Doolittle Raid

When the U.S. responded to Pearl Harbor with a surprise bombing of Tokyo, the Imperial Army took out its fury on the Chinese people

[Cavebear]

I just came across this on google:

The Untold Story of the Vengeful Japanese Attack After the Doolittle Raid

It is entirely possible.  But the Japanese military was already doing that before the Doolittle Raid.

[Baruch]

That is why FDR didn't stage any special raids into deep occupied territory to save some Jews.  The quickest way to end all murder, was to end the AXIS ASAP.  The Japanese are lucky we didn't let China occupy Japan.

[Cavebear]

That is why FDR didn't stage any special raids into deep occupied territory to save some Jews.  The quickest way to end all murder, was to end the AXIS ASAP.  The Japanese are lucky we didn't let China occupy Japan.

Actually, it is more that the Japanese were lucky that we didn't let the Soviets occupy them.  It was a close call.  A week and no A-Bomb and they would have.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky advised the Great Stalin that he could three division on Hokkaido on Aug. 22nd. Stalin canceled this on Aug. 21st, due to the obvious problems it would cause after a Japanese capitulation.

[Baruch]

Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky advised the Great Stalin that he could three division on Hokkaido on Aug. 22nd. Stalin canceled this on Aug. 21st, due to the obvious problems it would cause after a Japanese capitulation.

The Soviet Union still got all of Sakhalin.  Making a strategic win for Pacific access to Vladivostok.

[Cavebear]

The Soviet Union still got all of Sakhalin.  Making a strategic win for Pacific access to Vladivostok.

But they didn't get Japan.  If they had, it would be East Korea.

[Baruch]

But they didn't get Japan.  If they had, it would be East Korea.

Correct.  Stalin was a necessary, yet horrible ally.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

In my conspiracy theory mind this is the result of planning ahead to ensure the never ending sales of bottled water..

[Baruch]

In my conspiracy theory mind this is the result of planning ahead to ensure the never ending sales of bottled water..

The end game isn't lack of petroleum, but lack of potable water.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

The end game isn't lack of petroleum, but lack of potable water.

I'm not necessarily convinced that those who might want to be bottled water barons really care if it's potable or not. They're the type who would sell polluted water in bottles and pawn it off as 100% pure h2O with the nice pretty pictures of snow covered mountains much like the shit sold in Texas, but is really not much more than local bottled tap water run through a tiny bit of filtration..

[Baruch]

I'm not necessarily convinced that those who might want to be bottled water barons really care if it's potable or not. They're the type who would sell polluted water in bottles and pawn it off as 100% pure h2O with the nice pretty pictures of snow covered mountains much like the shit sold in Texas, but is really not much more than local bottled tap water run through a tiny bit of filtration..

Sh!  You will scare off the rubes.

[Cavebear]

I'm not necessarily convinced that those who might want to be bottled water barons really care if it's potable or not. They're the type who would sell polluted water in bottles and pawn it off as 100% pure h2O with the nice pretty pictures of snow covered mountains much like the shit sold in Texas, but is really not much more than local bottled tap water run through a tiny bit of filtration..

Never trust marketers.  Even when they say things that seem undoubtable, they lie.

I read a consumer article in the Washington Post that showed that.  Apparently, a chair manufacturer can say the chair is covered with "100% split cowhide leather" and it can legally still be an artificial material.

No joke!