and I’ve been writing this journal since 2019. Not literally of course, but that’s a lot of pages. I still have very little idea who reads it. It doesn’t matter any way because I write it for myself primarily and if people enjoy it, that’s just a bonus. Yesterday I was talking about the fires in LA which are still ongoing. I don’t even want to think about the stupidity of this, because based on what has come to light, it looks like it could have all been prevented if the Fire Dept had been better equipped to deal with something that they already knew about, ie; the New Year’s Eve fire which appears to have reignited and caused the catastrophe that is still unfolding. Who are the cretins that lit the fire on New Year’s Eve? I hope they realize what they’ve done.
It’s far too stupid to even think about, but some fires are deliberately lit and some fires occur because of lighting and carelessness. Down in Cuckstralia they have fires all the time, but they rarely tell how they started any more. It’s a given that it was ‘extreme weather’ which is code for climate change. I’m going to post some images now, until I can think of something to talk about that doesn’t involve mainstream news.
And now to change the subject completely….
Imamura faced allegations related to the execution of Allied prisoners of war, including a notorious incident known as the “pig-basket atrocity,” where prisoners captured in eastern Java were confined in bamboo baskets typically used for transporting pigs and then thrown into shark-infested waters. When you read about it, it starts to make sense.
There are many eyewitness accounts of this happening. This is one of them.
I had heard about the mass murder with pig baskets. I was looking for people who could tell me about the facts of this atrocity. So I found an Eurasian lady who told me that she had seen it all from nearby how Dutch military from the Semarang Battalion were brutally pushed into pig baskets by the Japanese and sometimes two in one basket. They were also all tied up with their hands on their backs. Also the legs were tied up, They had no room to move in those pig baskets. It was terrible to see these men suffer so badly. The procession stopped now and then on the road, apparently to show the Indonesians what the Japanese could do with the Dutch soldiers.
Hitoshi Imamura signing the surrender of Rabaul aboard HMS Glory on September 12, 1945
Our Eurasian lady heard the men in those crates crying for water. Since they were laying on top of each other, couldn’t move, they also suffered from tightness of the chest and they must have been very thirsty. There have been bystanders who have tried to give the men some water, but they were brutally pushed away from the trucks.
The procession drove towards the harbour. When they arrived, the pig baskets were dropped on the ground and then loaded onto Japanese landing-sloops. Once all loaded they sailed away and then threw the men in the baskets and all into the sea. Those poor men had no chance to get themselves out the baskets, and so they died a very inhuman way.
Our Eurasian lady had followed the procession by bike and she waited for the sloops to come back again. They did but empty this time. So her conclusion was that they had thrown all those men overboard.
Yes, bad things happen. Above is a humorous take on what something like 4chan would have looked like in 1666.
That’s all I got today. See you tomorrow.
From Sunday….(I’m on a ) Bender – exclusive to today’s journal