Many people ask me: "Why would major news outlets, historic institutions, museums and academia have a problem with your project?" Here is an excerpt from the BBC coverage of Trump's UK State Visit, June 3, 2019. Trump Reads Roosevelt Prayer During a radio message, President Roosevelt led the nation in a prayer ahead of the D-Day landings. President Trump takes to the stage to read the same prayer:
It was a crusade. For freedom? And for whom?
I guess people like Trump. According to the BBC: The Queen and the Prince of Wales attended the commemorations on Southsea Common, along with representatives from the countries that fought alongside the UK in the Battle of Normandy including French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Also attending were German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as leaders from Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland and Slovakia. Many Japanese Americans fought in Europe during WWII, recruited or drafted out of US concentration camps, Native Americans out of reservations and Blacks from a Jim Crow South. My Freedom from Fear project was excluded, despite being told repeatedly my work was in the show, from The New York Historical Society, CUNY's Roosevelt House, sidelined at The Ford Museum and removed from The George Washington University Museum. I was told my work would not be included in the Four Freedoms exhibition in France at The Memorial de Caen, in Caen, France.
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6/21/2019 12:35:15 pm
As Simon replied to my suggestion that he might read a book titled, "Web of Debt" by Ellen H. Brown; "That doesn't sound like fun to me. If it's not fun, it's not of interest to me."
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Setsuko Winchester
6/23/2019 06:55:35 am
And I agree with Ellen Brown. The banking system is operating not for the people but to keep the banks solvent and profitable. They can write up as many loans as they like and sell it off to investors who care or know nothing of the quality of the debt underlying their investment vehicle. But trust in the government to take care of "the people" is dependent on whether you are considered part of “the people.”
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Robert Feuer
6/23/2019 03:39:14 pm
I can't speak for Ellen Brown's position on race. Rather I look to her as a teacher with a profound understanding of current economics, coupled with an ability to explain the foundations of our currency, and the complex financial, debt based dealings undertaken to prop up our currency and economy.
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Kristi Cardoso
10/14/2019 06:13:08 pm
Slightly off subject but hopefully still of interest, Honolulu Civil Beat's recent article on the rise of Japanese book stores in the early 20th century due to the unwillingness of the Hawaii library system to procure any materials in Japanese, despite the fact that 40% of the population was of Japanese descent at the time.
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