Investigate this

Power Line ^ | November 1, 2010 | Penelope A. Blake, Ph.D.

[LeoWindhorse]

In July 2010 the NEH sponsored a workshop for college professors at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii. The title of the conference was "History and Commemoration: The Legacies of the Pacific War." As one of the 25 American scholars chosen to attend the workshop, Professor Penelope Blake anticipated an opportunity to visit hallowed sites such as Pearl Harbor, the Arizona Memorial and the Punchbowl Cemetery and engage with scholars who share her interest in studying this often neglected part of World War II history.

Instead, Professor Blake was treated to the most disturbing experience of her academic career, a conference which she found to be driven by an overt political bias and a blatant anti-American agenda. Professor Blake has forwarded to us the following letter dated September 12, 2010, to Illinois Rep. Donald Manzullo, her congressman, documenting examples of what transpired at the conference.

[LeoWindhorse]

Out here in Hawaii , this shameful and shameless event slipped by completely under the radar . Not one local media mention , and no Hawaii patriots came out to contest this despicable event . I call upon good patriots on Oahu to put their radar ears on and then their boots , in da future . This stuff should NEVER go on unopposed .

[dalebert]

ping

[LeoWindhorse]

Contact Information

East-West Seminars
East-West Center
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848
Telephone: 808-944-7384
Facsimile: 808-944-7600
Email: Seminars@EastWestCenter.org

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/news-center/news-releases/ewc-receives-grants-for-teacher-workshops-on-pacific-war-legacies/

For more information, call 808-944-7378, or email asiapacificed@eastwestcenter.org.

[bgill]

The East-West Center has already been funded by NEH to conduct a similar workshop in the coming summer, plus one for high-school teachers that is likely to be similarly tendentious

Government funded educational American hatered coming from Obama Sr.'s old stomping grounds.

[J Edgar]

“Government funded educational American hatered coming from Obama Sr.’s old stomping grounds. “

The funding is coming from The Usurper’s present stomping grounds!

Can anyone seriously doubt that Communist have infiltrated our Republic at the highest levels?

[Bullish]

Uh huh.... Sure liberals, attack and vilify the very forces that kept you free to attack and vilify them. It’s your right thanks to them, but I’d sure hate to be you on judgment day.

[I Shall Endure]

The material at the link, while infuriating, is well worth reading. There is still a neo-fascist element in Japan, and that’s pretty much how they spin the war.

Ironic (or maybe not the right word) how American lefties make common cause with Japanese fascists

[Lancey Howard]

The NEH is as good a place as any to start slashing federal spending.
Flush that turd right down the toilet.

[Tunehead54]

In a series of posts on Obama administration National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jim Leach, we have followed the descent of the NEH into political partisanship and rank buffoonery

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Looks like Leach would be a good place to start the investigation! Outrageous! ;-(

[LeoWindhorse]

http://www.burnpit.us/2010/11/more-on-the-neh-funded-wwii-conference/#more-3248

American Legion - Burn Pit Blog report itself

[LeoWindhorse]

and Part 1 :

http://www.burnpit.us/2010/11/are-us-tax-dollars-being-spent-to-espouse-the-belief-that-%E2%80%9Cthe-u-s-military-and-its-veterans-constitute-an-imperialistic-oppressive-force%E2%80%9D/

[Lornik]

Well it made it to the Hawaii Reporter but unfortunately will not go much further. With Hawaii even more a one party state (YES, we can!) the voices of sanity will never get past those that believe they are in Neverland.

Only hope is for reasonable people on the mainland AND those that were there to take up the cause.

[bvw]

LucyT just pinged you to see if you'd agree with what I am about to write. The Professors's letter has an interesting point 3:

War memorials, such as the Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery (where many WWII dead are buried, including those executed by the Japanese on Wake Island and the beloved American journalist Ernie Pyle), are symbols of military aggression and brutality "that pacify death, sanitize war and enable future wars to be fought" (Ferguson and Turnbull, 1). One author stated that the memorials represent American propaganda, "the right to alter a story" (Camacho 201).

Punchbowl is where Obama's grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, who died in 1992, is buried. See http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Aug/14/ln/hawaii808140340.html

Stanley's wife could have buried next to him. Instead on 23 Dec, 2008 Obama and his sister scattered their grandmother's ashes in the ocean at Lanai Lookout, supposedly the same spot where they had scattered their mother's ashes in 1995.

Did Obama follow his later mother's direction or his own? Where did the grandmother want to be interred? Does Obama also loathe the vets buried at the Punchbowl and the whole symbol of the veteran's cemetery as much as these "academics" gathered to share their America loathing under the direction of his administration?

[LucyT]

Punchbowl is where Obama's grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, who died in 1992, is buried.

See

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Aug/14/ln/hawaii808140340.html

Stanley's wife could have buried next to him. Instead on 23 Dec, 2008 Obama and his sister scattered their grandmother's ashes in the ocean at Lanai Lookout, supposedly the same spot where they had scattered their mother's ashes in 1995.

Did Obama follow his later mother's direction or his own? Where did the grandmother want to be interred? Does Obama also loathe the vets buried at the Punchbowl and the whole symbol of the veteran's cemetery as much as these "academics" gathered to share their America loathing under the direction of his administration?

Thanks, bvd. Your questions about 0hbumma probably accurately reflect his loathing of our Military.

. . . . Ping to article, then read comments by Leo Windhorse, also # 5 , # 7 , # 13. Take blood pressure meds before clicking on the link in the main article.

[bgill]

From that link - does Hussein do anything but golf and eat ice cream?

[bgill]

I suspected back at the time her ashes were scattered to prevent any possible DNA testing. There were rumors that she had died days or weeks before the election and possibly was already deceased when he made that mad dash to Hawaii during the campaign. One Hawaiian journalist had a timeline of his stops during that campaign visit and reported Hussein was at typical white granny’s apartment all of 45 minutes including the time it took him to walk up and knock and to leave. Lots of love there, huh.

[LucyT]

Oh, yikes.

Meant to write bvw. My apology, bvw.

[thouworm]

From the article:

"The East-West Center has already been funded by NEH to conduct a similar workshop in the coming summer, plus one for high-school teachers that is likely to be similarly tendentious. These expenditures could be frozen pending a full investigation, or rescinded, or otherwise handled in a way that recognizes the seriousness of the problem.

Professor Blake makes reference in her letter to various parts of a book called Perilous Memories, coedited by Geoffrey White; White was the director of the workshop attended by Professor Blake.

This book (or parts of it) was required preliminary reading for the participants in the workshop, and is something like the ur-text that reveals the intentions and worldview behind the workshop itself. It is an appalling if characteristic example of radical postmodernist gibberish complete with all the buzzwords about transnationality, the construction of public memory, and so on."
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Perilous Memories was published in 2001. Since it has been for sale on Amazon, it has received 3 reviews --- 2 recent reviews as a result of the PowerLineBlog article and one from Jan 2010 from a reviewer, who has written 10 Amazon pages of book reviews in 2 months (?) and who is or has been a professor at the Department of American Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Perilous Memories
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Geoffrey White, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East-West Center

Geoffrey White, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
University of Hawai‘i

2010 NEH College Teacher Workshop

History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War

Director: Geoffrey M. White (University of Hawai‘i and East-West Center)

Dates: July 25 – 30, 2010 and August 1 - 6, 2010

Location: East-West Center and University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hawai‘i

The workshop will be hosted by three sponsoring organizations: the Asian Studies Development Program of the East-West Center (a nonprofit education and research organization on the University of Hawai‘i campus funded by the U.S. Congress), the National Park Service, and the Pacific Historic Parks.

Pacific Historic Parks.org

[mojitojoe]

Getting rid of that DNA. Sorry Toot, you don’t get buried next to your husband. Barry needs that DNA dispersed in the Pacific.

[tutstar]

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