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http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/5.03_%22Ascension%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
5.03 "Ascension"
Stargate SG-1 - Ascension - Season 5 Episode 3 - Friday 13 July 2001
ORLIN
I don't know where the rest of my kind are.
CARTER
Well, believe it or not, we met one of them. Her name was Oma Desala.
ORLIN
Really. Never heard of her.
CARTER
She could do the same glowy kind of things that you can and she controlled the forces of Nature.
ORLIN
Yeah, that's easy. At least it used to be.
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Weather forecast for Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Updated: Dec 14, 2016 9:35 AM PST
by Nichole Mischke, KHQ Right Now Reporter
Wednesday: It is an ICE COLD start to the day, with most areas starting out with wind chill temps anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees below! We will see some sunshine to start the day…with increasing clouds by the second half as our next system moves in bringing a chance for snow late tonight
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From 7/26/1945 ( The Potsdam Declaration ) To 12/14/2016 is 26074 days
26074 = 13037 + 13037
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 7/13/2001 ( premiere US TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Ascension" ) is 13037 days
From 7/26/1945 ( premiere US film "The Apache Indian" ) To 12/14/2016 is 26074 days
26074 = 13037 + 13037
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 7/13/2001 ( premiere US TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Ascension" ) is 13037 days
From 6/1/1950 ( premiere US film "Hills of Oklahoma" ) To 7/13/2001 ( premiere US TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Ascension" ) is 18670 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 12/14/2016 is 18670 days
From 7/16/1966 ( premiere US film "Indiscreet Stairway" ) To 12/14/2016 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 is 9207 days
From 11/12/1954 ( the permanent closure of the Ellis Island immigration processing facility ) To 12/14/2016 is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 11339 days
From 3/22/1966 ( General Motors president James Roche apologizes for harassing Ralph Nader ) To 12/14/2016 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days
From 8/3/1892 ( Benjamin Harrison - Message to the Senate Returning Without Approval "An Act to Amend the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1887, Entitled 'An Act to Provide for the Bringing of Suits Against the Government of the United States'" ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 37340 days
37340 = 18670 + 18670
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/14/2016 is 18670 days
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
FLASHBACK
[The alien ship awaking villagers in Ancient Egypt are again seen. The boy heads to the strange lights.]
DANIEL
(voiceover)
"He came to a world, rich with life, where he encountered a primitive race—humans." Heh. "A species which, with all his powers and knowledge, he could maintain indefinitely. He realized within a human body, he had a chance for a new life." Now, he apparently found a young boy. It says: "As the frightened villagers ran, night became day. Curious, and without fear, he walked towards the light."
[The boy walks to the strange lights as he's caught in a beam.]
END FLASHBACK
INT—CAVE
DANIEL
Ra took him and possessed his body—like some kind of a...parasite looking for a host. And inhabiting this human form, he appointed himself ruler.
[More pictographs show Ra as ruler over the people and an active Stargate with people walking through it.]
DANIEL
He used the Stargate to bring thousands of people here to this planet, as workers for the mines, just like the one we saw.
[Daniel moves over to another picture showing workers bring the mineral as offerings to Ra.]
DANIEL
This mineral is clearly the building block of all his technology. With this, he can sustain eternal life.
INT—RA'S SHIP
[Ra sits up from the sarcophagus.]
INT—CAVE
DANIEL
Now, something happened—where is it—back on Earth. A rebellion or uprising, and the Stargate was buried there.
[Another picture shows the uprising.]
FLASHBACK
[The people carry the bodies of the jackal headed guards, raising their weapon-filled arms.]
END FLASHBACK
INT—CAVE
DANIEL
Fearful of a rebellion here, Ra outlawed reading and writing. He didn't want the people to remember the truth.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/releaseinfo
IMDb
Stargate (1994)
Release Info
USA 28 October 1994
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=71095
The American Presidency Project
Benjamin Harrison
XXIII President of the United States: 1889 - 1893
Message to the Senate Returning Without Approval "An Act to Amend the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1887, Entitled 'An Act to Provide for the Bringing of Suits Against the Government of the United States'"
August 3, 1892
To the Senate:
I return herewith without my approval the bill (S. 1111) entitled "An act to amend the act of Congress approved March 3, 1887, entitled 'An act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States."
If I may judge from the very limited discussion of this measure in Congress, the sweeping effects of it upon the administration of the public lands could hardly have been fully realized. From the beginning of the Government the administration of the public lands and the issuing of patents under the land laws have been an Executive function.
The jurisdiction of the courts as to contesting claims for patents has awaited the action of the General Land Office. Land offices have been established and maintained in all the districts where public lands were found, located with reference to the convenience of the settlers, and the proceedings have been informal and inexpensive. It is true that at times, by an administration of the Land Office unfriendly toward the settlers, unnecessary delays involving much hardship have intervened in the issuing of patents, but such is not the case now. The work of the Land Office within the last three years has been so efficient and so friendly to the bona fide settler that the large accumulation of cases there has been swept away, and the office, as I am informed by the Secretary of the Interior, is now engaged upon current business.
It seems to me that a transfer in whole or in part of this business to the courts, some of whose dockets are already loaded with cases, can not tend to expedition, while it is very manifest that, by reason of the greater formality in the taking and presentation of evidence which would be required in court and of the long distances which settlers would have to traverse in order to attend court, the costs in such cases would be enormously increased.
It is proposed by this bill to give what is called concurrent jurisdiction to the district courts of the United States and to the Court of Claims to hear and determine all claims for land patents under any law or grant of the United States. Whether concurrent with each other or with each other and the Land Office is not clear.
It is quite doubtful under the rulings of the Supreme Court whether the courts now provided by law for the Territories are "district courts of the United States" within the meaning of this bill. The effect of this legislation would, if they were held not to be such, be that as to all suits relating to lands in the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Oklahoma no other forum is provided than the Court of Claims at Washington. In this state of the case a settler, or one who has taken a mineral claim in any of these Territories, would be subject to be brought to the city of Washington for the trial of his case.
In view of the fact that all recent legislation of Congress has been in the direction of subdividing judicial districts and of bringing the United States courts nearer to the litigants, I can only attribute to oversight the passage of this bill, which in my opinion would burden the homesteader and preemptor whose claim is contested, whether by another individual or by any corporation, by compelling him to appear at Washington and to conduct with the formality and expense incident to court proceedings the defense of his title. But even in the case of land contests arising in the States where district courts exist the plaintiff, it will be observed, by this act is given the option to sue in those courts or to bring his adversary to Washington to litigate the claim. Why should he have this advantage, one that is not given so far as I know in any other law fixing the forum of litigation between individuals? Not only is this true, but the Court of Claims was established for the trial of cases between individuals and corporations on the one side and the United States on the other, and so far as I now recall wholly for the trial of money claims.
There are no adequate provisions of law, if any at all, for conducting suits between individuals contesting private rights. The court has one bailiff and one messenger, no marshal, and is not provided, I think, either with the machinery or with the appropriation to send its processes to the most distant parts of the country. Yet it is apparent that under this bill the real issue would frequently be between rival claimants, and not between either and the United States. This court, too, is already burdened with business since the reference to it of the Indian depredation claims, the French spoliation claims, etc., and it certainly can not be thought that a more speedy settlement of land claims could be there obtained than is now given.
Again, the bill is so indefinite in its provisions that it can not be told, I think, what function, if any, remains to be discharged by the General Land Office. It was said in answer to an interrogatory when the bill was under consideration that it did not affect claims pending in the Land Office; and yet it seems to me that its effect is to allow any contestant in the Land Office at any stage of the proceedings there to transfer the whole controversy to the courts. He may take his chances of success in the Land Office, and if at any time he becomes apprehensive of an adverse decision he may begin de novo in the courts.
If it was intended to preserve the jurisdiction of the Land Office and to hold cases there until a judgment had been reached, the bill should have so provided, for it is capable of, and indeed seems to me compels, the construction that either party may forsake the Land Office at any stage of a contest. I am quite inclined to believe that if provision were made, as in section 1063 of the Revised Statutes, relating to claims in other departments, for the transfer to a proper court, under proper regulations, of certain contest cases involving questions affecting large classes of claims, it would be a relief to the Land Office and would tend to a more speedy adjustment of land titles in such cases, a result which would be in the interest of all our people.
Nothing is more disadvantageous to a community, its progress and peace, than unsettled land titles. This bill, however, as I have said, is so radical and seems to me to be so indefinite in its provisions that I can not give it my approval.
BENJ. HARRISON
APP Note: Title devised by Gerhard Peters
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U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
Epilogue: The Changing Federal Role
An Investigation Backfires
In early March 1966, articles in The New Republic, The New York Times, and other publications reported that GM had hired a private investigator shortly before publication of Unsafe at Any Speed to find evidence that could be used to discredit the young author and undercut his attacks on the corporation and the Corvair. The articles indicated that GM, through its investigators, had employed women to proposition Nader in apparent attempt to blackmail him. Because Nader's parents had been born in Lebanon, the investigators repeatedly asked acquaintances about possible anti-Semitism on his part.
When news of the GM investigation became public, GM President James Roche issued a press release on March 9 acknowledging that GM had initiated a "routine investigation through a reputable law firm to determine whether Ralph Nader was acting on behalf of litigants or their attorneys in Corvair design cases." The statement explained that the investigation had been "limited only to Mr. Nader's qualifications, background, expertise and association with such attorneys." The investigation, moreover, "did not include any of the alleged harassment or intimidation recently reported in the press."
Chairman Ribicoff, concerned that the GM investigation suggested an attempt to intimidate a witness before the subcommittee, summoned Roche to testify on March 22. The publicity surrounding the investigation led to a standing room only crowd and a national television audience for the hearing.
In his opening statement, Roche took responsibility for the investigation and disavowed it:
Let me make clear at the outset that I deplore the kind of harassment to which Mr. Nader has apparently been subjected. I am just as shocked and outraged by some of the incidents which Mr. Nader has reported as the members of this committee.
As president of General Motors, I hold myself fully responsible for any action authorized or initiated by any officer of the corporation which may have had any bearing on the incidents related to our investigation of Mr. Nader.
He had not known of the investigation, he said, but added in the fourth paragraph:
I am not here to excuse, condone, or justify in any way our investigating Mr. Nader. To the extent that General Motors bears responsibility, I want to apologize here and now to the members of this subcommittee and Mr. Nader. I sincerely hope that these apologies will be accepted. Certainly I bear Mr. Nader no ill will.
While taking responsibility, Roche indicated he had not known of the investigation while it was underway or when he approved the March 9 press release:
To say that I wish I had known about it earlier is an understatement-and I intend to make certain that we are informed of similar problems of this magnitude in the future.
He was particularly concerned that the episode might appear to confirm the allegation that GM was not interested in traffic safety:
We know that any automobile is subject to accident and that we must be constantly devising and improving ways to protect the occupants and others. If our concern for safety has not always come through with sufficient clarity and vigor in previous statements, including our statement before this subcommittee last summer, then I can assure you that we regret that failure.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Captain's log, April 5th 2063. The voyage of the Phoenix was a success, ...again. The alien ship detected the warp signature and is on its way to rendezvous with history.
[Montana settlement]
(the T'plana-Hath lands and the Vulcans begin to emerge)
COCHRANE: [ My God! ] They're really from another world.
RIKER: And they're going to want to meet the man who flew that warp ship.
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
EXT—BASE CAMP, DAY
[The heavy wind blows sand around. Freeman wears his bandanna over his face, adjusting the radio dials as Ferretti yells into the speaker.]
FERRETTI
We have to abandon base camp! Repeat, we have to abandon base camp!
FREEMAN
It's useless! It won't work in this!
[Ferretti abandons the radio and starts grabbing supplies along eith the others.]
FERRETTI
Freeman, let's go! Let's move! Everybody, back inside. Come on! Just take what we can and go back! Grab it.
EXT—NAGADA CITY, DAY
[Kasuf claps his hands, and men push the doors to the city closed.]
O'NEIL
All right, we're goin' back right now. Let's go!
[Kasuf calls back to Daniel and starts speaking animatedly.]
DANIEL
(calling to O'Neil)
Wait, wait!
[O'Neil doesn't notice him. He and the others push their way through the crowd, trying to get to the door.]
O'NEIL
Move it, move it.
KAWALSKI
Get back. Move it. Move out of the way.
[Kawalski and Brown shove people aside as O'Neil reaches the door. Villagers try and stop him from unlatching it, but he fights them off, breaking one man's arm. Brown and Kawalski take hostages and keep their backs to the door as O'Neil fires his rifle in a warning pattern at the villagers feet, making them back off.]
KASUF
Na-ney!
[Kasuf approaches, holding his hands up in a non-threatening manner. Daniel and Skaara come racing up behind him. Kasuf turns around and starts shouting at his people, motioning them to back away.]
O'NEIL
(to Daniel)
Get over here.
[Daniel complies. Skaara looks directly at O'Neil and speaks in a calm, unthreatening manner.]
SKAARA
Na-ney. Na-ney.
(he points above him while speaking more native words)
Yu yu. Yu yu.
[He gestures for O'Neil come with him to a lookout point on top of the wall. Kasuf and the people look on in wonder. O'Neil follows Skaara. Daniel starts to follow as well.]
O'NEIL
(to Daniel)
Stay here.
[Daniel stops; O'Neil continues up to the wall. Skaara points out to the desert beyond and speaks in the alien tongue. O'Neil looks and sees a large sandstorm approaching across the horizon. O'Neil nods to Skaara that he understands.]
KAWALSKI
What is it, colonel?!
O'NEIL
(yelling down)
Sandstorm comin' this way.
[Kawalski lowers his rifle and releases his hold on his hostage, who collapses on the ground with a gulp of relief. Kawalski breathes heavily as he releases his own adrenalin.]
DANIEL
(dryly)
Well, that would've been an excellent reason to shoot everyone.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ellis-island-closes/print
HISTORY
NOVEMBER 12, 1954 : ELLIS ISLAND CLOSES
On this day in 1954, Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892. Today, an estimated 40 percent of all Americans can trace their roots through Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor off the New Jersey coast and named for merchant Samuel Ellis, who owned the land in the 1770s.
On January 2, 1892, 15-year-old Annie Moore, from Ireland, became the first person to pass through the newly opened Ellis Island, which President Benjamin Harrison designated as America’s first federal immigration center in 1890. Before that time, the processing of immigrants had been handled by individual states.
Not all immigrants who sailed into New York had to go through Ellis Island. First- and second-class passengers submitted to a brief shipboard inspection and then disembarked at the piers in New York or New Jersey, where they passed through customs. People in third class, though, were transported to Ellis Island, where they underwent medical and legal inspections to ensure they didn’t have a contagious disease or some condition that would make them a burden to the government. Only two percent of all immigrants were denied entrance into the U.S.
Immigration to Ellis Island peaked between 1892 and 1924, during which time the 3.3-acre island was enlarged with landfill (by the 1930s it reached its current 27.5-acre size) and additional buildings were constructed to handle the massive influx of immigrants. During the busiest year of operation, 1907, over 1 million people were processed at Ellis Island.
With America’s entrance into World War I, immigration declined and Ellis Island was used as a detention center for suspected enemies. Following the war, Congress passed quota laws and the Immigration Act of 1924, which sharply reduced the number of newcomers allowed into the country and also enabled immigrants to be processed at U.S. consulates abroad. After 1924, Ellis Island switched from a processing center to serving other purposes, such as a detention and deportation center for illegal immigrants, a hospital for wounded soldiers during World War II and a Coast Guard training center. In November 1954, the last detainee, a Norwegian merchant seaman, was released and Ellis Island officially closed.
Beginning in 1984, Ellis Island underwent a $160 million renovation, the largest historic restoration project in U.S. history. In September 1990, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum opened to the public and today is visited by almost 2 million people each year.
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IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221274/releaseinfo
IMDb
Indiscreet Stairway (1966)
Release Info
USA 16 July 1966
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
VULCAN: Live long, and prosper.
(Cochrane attempts to return the Vulcan salute but settles for a handshake)
COCHRANE: Thanks.
PICARD: I think it's time we made a discrete exit.
RIKER: Riker to Enterprise. Stand by to beam us up.
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/visit_e/est_e/panel/A2_2/2201d.htm
The Potsdam Declaration
On July 26, 1945, the U.S., Great Britain and China issued the Potsdam Declaration demanding Japan's unconditional surrender. The Declaration contained no provision guaranteeing continuation of the emperor system, which was known to be key to obtaining surrender. Neither did it hint at the existence of an atomic bomb nor any intent to use such a weapon on Japan. The Japanese government did not accept the Potsdam Declaration.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865633483/This-week-in-history-Potsdam-Declaration-calls-for-unconditional-surrender-of-Japan.html
Deseret News
This week in history: Potsdam Declaration calls for 'unconditional surrender' of Japan
By Cody K. Carlson
For the Deseret News
Published: July 29, 2015 6:20 p.m.
On July 26, 1945, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain and China issued the Potsdam Declaration, which reaffirmed the Allied call for the unconditional surrender of Japan during World War II.
Following the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945, U.S. President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union's Josef Stalin met in Potsdam, Germany, to make final arrangements for the occupation of Germany and to prepare for the last objective of the war — the defeat of Japan. The meeting occurred between July 17 and Aug. 2, 1945.
Though the bulk of the conference dealt with the question of post-war Germany, the Americans and British also held meetings with Chinese officials to discuss the prosecution of the war against Japan. Though Germany and Japan had been Axis partners during the war, the Soviet Union and Japan had never formally declared war against each other and indeed, surprisingly, both had honored their April 1941 neutrality pact. Over the course of the war, however, Stalin had agreed to declare war on Japan six months after the defeat of Germany.
On July 16, Truman was told about the successful test detonation of the atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert. He understood a decision about its use would need to be made soon. In any event, a clear message to Japan, calling for its surrender, was in order. The result was the Potsdam Declaration, issued July 26.
Respecting the status of the Soviet Union as a neutral region against Japan, the Potsdam Declaration formally represented the governments of the United States, Great Britain and China. Churchill had left Germany the day before to be in London when the results of the general election came in, so he was not present for the statement.
(In fact, Churchill's conservative party lost the election, and Clement Attlee was voted in as the new prime minister. Attlee returned to Potsdam as Churchill's successor a few days later. Truman had only become president the preceding April, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This left Stalin the only original one of the "Big Three" in power at war's end.)
Chiang Kai-Shek, the leader of nationalist China, was likewise not present, though he communicated his approval of the declaration to his representatives in Germany.
The declaration began with an invitation to Japan to end the war, citing the desires of “hundreds of millions” of American, British and Chinese people. The document then stated that the Allied nations' vast armies were prepared to “strike the final blows upon Japan,” and that the Allied nations had the will to see the war through to the end.
The document reminded the Japanese that Allied military power had crushed Nazi Germany, which was no small feat considering Germany's strength only a few years earlier. The Japanese were warned that if the country continued the war, its cities, lands and industry would be laid to waste just as Germany's had been. The document appealed to the Japanese to see reason instead of continuing to follow militaristic leaders, “whose unintelligent calculations have brought the Empire of Japan to the threshold of annihilation...”
The Allies declared such militarists should never again be given power in Japan, and an Allied occupying force must oversee the peaceful post-war development of Japan. The earlier Cairo Declaration, created in November 1943, was referenced. It had bound the Americans, British and Chinese to work for the defeat of Japan and the return of its conquests in Asia and the Pacific, including Korea.
Next, the Potsdam Declaration sketched out the geographic limits of post-war Japanese sovereignty, which essentially included the Japanese home islands. This was followed by a guarantee that once Japan has been disarmed, Japanese military personnel would be “permitted to return to their homes with the opportunity to lead peaceful and productive lives.”
The declaration firmly stated that the Japanese people were not to be slaves in the post-war world, nor was Japan itself to be destroyed as a nation-state. Further, the basic civil liberties and freedoms enjoyed by the free people of the West were guaranteed for the post-war Japanese. Also, Japanese industry and trade would be allowed to flourish, rather than the state's wealth being taken by the victors as booty. Critically, its war-making industry would have to be re-directed to peaceful enterprises.
The Allies promised that, in time, their occupation forces would leave Japan, once those solid principles were achieved. The 13th and final paragraph proved potentially the most problematic from the point of view of some American policy makers. Specifically, it reiterated the call for “unconditional surrender” for the Axis powers.
When Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang met in January 1943 in Casablanca, French Morocco, the president had made a public declaration that the only thing the Allies would accept was the “unconditional surrender” of the Axis powers. This statement was controversial as it essentially emboldened the Axis regimes and people to keep fighting since negotiation was not an option. Now, some American officials wondered if the language of the new declaration ought to allow leeway for Japan.
In the book “Truman,” biographer David McCullough wrote, “(Secretary of War Henry L.) Stimson thought it unwise at this point to insist on unconditional surrender, a term the Japanese would take to mean they could not keep their Emperor. He urged a revision to read that the Allies would 'prosecute the war against Japan until she ceases to resist.' (Secretary of State James F.) Byrnes had vehemently opposed any such change.”
Byrnes argued that the phrase “unconditional surrender” had been a powerful slogan the American people and their enemies understood. To abandon that long-held objective would confuse the issue. Additionally, most Americans wanted to see Emperor Hirohito removed from power, if not tried as a war criminal. What was the point of allowing for negotiation when America would not bend on the critical point?
Truman agreed with the secretary of state and ordered that the phrase “unconditional surrender" be included in the text, followed by a warning: “The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.”
On July 26, the Potsdam Declaration was sent to Washington and given to members of the press. That evening, the United States began broadcasting the text of the statement in both English and Japanese. The Japanese government had its warning.
Unfazed by the declaration, Japan continued the war. On Aug. 6, 1945, Truman ordered the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, after no formal request for a cease fire was forthcoming, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. That day also saw the Soviet declaration of war against Japan and a meeting of Japan's supreme war cabinet. The war minister, Gen. Korechika Anami, pressed for Japan to continue the war, citing the fact that the population would fight an invasion to the death.
In the book “Flyboys: A True Story of Courage,” historian James Bradley wrote, “Elderly prime minister Kantaro Suzuki tried to state the obvious to the War Cabinet. 'We cannot carry on this war indefinitely,' he said. 'There is no way left for us but to accept the Potsdam Proclamation.'”
Fighting amongst the cabinet followed, but in the end, the hopelessness of the Japanese position was apparent. The Japanese requested a cease fire Aug. 14, 1945, and formally surrendered to the Allies on Sept. 2. In order to ensure a peaceful end to the war and transition to an occupational government, the Japanese were allowed to retain Hirohito as their emperor.
The Potsdam Declaration did not merely define the terms of Japan's surrender to the Allies — it became the foundation for Japan's free and democratic post-war government.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12169
The American Presidency Project
Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945-1953
93 - Statement by the President Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
SIXTEEN HOURS AGO an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.
The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold. And the end is not yet. With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces. In their present form these bombs are now in production and even more powerful forms are in development.
It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
Before 1939, it was the accepted belief of scientists that it was theoretically possible to release atomic energy. But no one knew any practical method of doing it. By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world. But they failed. We may be grateful to Providence that the Germans got the V-1's and V-2's late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all.
The battle of the laboratories held fateful risks for us as well as the battles of the air, land and sea, and we have now won the battle of the laboratories as we have won the other battles.
Beginning in 1940, before Pearl Harbor, scientific knowledge useful in war was pooled between the United States and Great Britain, and many priceless helps to our victories have come from that arrangement. Under that general policy the research on the atomic bomb was begun. With American and British scientists working together we entered the race of discovery against the Germans.
The United States had available the large number of scientists of distinction in the many needed areas of knowledge. It had the tremendous industrial and financial resources necessary for the project and they could be devoted to it without undue impairment of other vital war work. In the United States the laboratory work and the production plants, on which a substantial start had already been made, would be out of reach of enemy bombing, while at that time Britain was exposed to constant air attack and was still threatened with the possibility of invasion. For these reasons Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt agreed that it was wise to carry on the project here. We now have two great plants and many lesser works devoted to the production of atomic power. Employment during peak construction numbered 125,000 and over 65,000 individuals are even now engaged in operating the plants. Many have worked there for two and a half years. Few know what they have been producing. They see great quantities of material going in and they see nothing coming out of these plants, for the physical size of the explosive charge is exceedingly small. We have spent two billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history-and won.
But the greatest marvel is not the size of the enterprise, its secrecy, nor its cost, but the achievement of scientific brains in putting together infinitely complex pieces of knowledge held by many men in different fields of science into a workable plan. And hardly less marvelous has been the capacity of industry to design, and of labor to operate, the machines and methods to do things never done before so that the brain child of many minds came forth in physical shape and performed as it was supposed to do. Both science and industry worked under the direction of the United States Army, which achieved a unique success in managing so diverse a problem in the advancement of knowledge in an amazingly short time. It is doubtful if such another combination could be got together in the world. What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. It was done under high pressure and without failure.
We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war.
It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. Behind this air attack will follow sea and land forces in such numbers and power as they have not yet seen and with the fighting skill of which they are already well aware.
The Secretary of War, who has kept in personal touch with all phases of the project, will immediately make public a statement giving further details.
His statement will give facts concerning the sites at Oak Ridge near Knoxville, Tennessee, and at Richland near Pasco, Washington, and an installation near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Although the workers at the sites have been making materials to be used in producing the greatest destructive force in history they have not themselves been in danger beyond that of many other occupations, for the utmost care has been taken of their safety.
The fact that we can release atomic energy ushers in a new era in man's understanding of nature's forces. Atomic energy may in the future supplement the power that now comes from coal, oil, and falling water, but at present it cannot be produced on a basis to compete with them commercially. Before that comes there must be a long period of intensive research.
It has never been the habit of the scientists of this country or the policy of this Government to withhold from the world scientific knowledge. Normally, therefore, everything about the work with atomic energy would be made public.
But under present circumstances it is not intended to divulge the technical processes of production or all the military applications, pending further examination of possible methods of protecting us and the rest of the world from the danger of sudden destruction.
I shall recommend that the Congress of the United States consider promptly the establishment of an appropriate commission to control the production and use of atomic power within the United States. I shall give further consideration and make further recommendations to the Congress as to how atomic power can become a powerful and forceful influence towards the maintenance of world peace.
Note: This statement was released in Washington. It was drafted before the President left Germany, and Secretary of War Stimson was authorized to release it when the bomb was delivered. On August 6, while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the U.S.S. Augusta, the President was handed a message from Secretary Stimson informing him that the bomb had been dropped at 7:15 p.m. on August 5.
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"Bury Me With It"
We were shootin' at a mound of dirt.
Well nothing was broken, nothing was hurt.
But I probably really should have been at work.
But if my freetime's gone, would you promise me this?
That you will please bury me with it?
Please bury me with it!
Well sure as planets come, I know that they end.
And if I'm here when that happens, will you promise me this my friend?
Please bury me with it!
I just don't need none of that Mad Max bullshit.
Well the suit got tight and it split at the seams.
But I kept it out of habit and I kept it really clean.
But if it's getting' faded, if it's runnin' outta thread,
Could you just do this for me my friend?
And please just please bury me with it?
Please bury me with it!
Well we moved to the left and moved to the right.
And sure as hell we stayed out almost every single night.
But if the party's over, if the fun has to end,
could you do this for me my friend?
Would you just please bury me with it?
Please bury me with it!
Good news for people who love bad news.
We've lost the plot and we just can't choose.
We are hummingbirds who are just not willing to move.
And there's good news for people who love bad news.
We are hummingbirds who've lost the plot and we will not move.
We have good news for anyone who loves bad news.
We were aiming for the moon. We were shooting at the stars.
But the kids were just shooting at the busses and the cars.
So don't drink the water, don't you breathe the air.
If it's gotten to that point then I have to declare:
That you please bury me with it!
Please bury me with it!
Well fads they come and fads they go.
And God I love that rock and roll!
Well the point was fast but it was too blunt to miss.
Life handed us a paycheck, we said, "We worked harder than this!"
Please bury me with it!
Please bury me with it!
We are hummingbirds who are just not going to move.
And there's good news for people who love bad news.
We are hummingbirds who've lost the plot and we well not move.
We have great news for anyone who loves bad news.
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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:25 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 14 December 2016
