Life Magazine's World War II Invasion of the USA

I don't really have to say this anyone who has been paying attention, but even today, the US government - along with a lapdog mass media - promotes a siege mentality among the American public to try to scare the people. When the people are afraid of the boogie man, it helps the government to convince average Joe-Blow to give up his freedoms for security and helps to expand the power of the central government...

Why would Joe Blow give up his freedoms? Because, don't you know? There are "evil-doers" who want to attack the USA and destroy our way of life.

Why would they want to do that? Well, of course silly, because they hate us for our freedoms... Not because we run an empire and bomb their cities, killing their women and children... No! No! No!

We're the good guys, remember?

Here's a nonsense article from Life Magazine during World War Two that shows the "plan" for the invasion on the USA by those sneaky Krauts and dirty Nips.

The Germans couldn't even invade England which is 90 miles offshore (not to mention that Germany didn't have a navy besides a few ships and submarines); and Japan never had the capacity to amass more than a few hundred small landing craft...

Here's a good article that shows why a German or Japanese invasions of the USA was only a figment of American imaginations.

But, for now, here's some fun silliness from the heady days of World War II... Gosh, I'm glad this didn't come about, or we'd all be speaking German or Japanese. Isn't that laughable? Can't even get the average American to speak proper English, there's no way they can speak another language.

Click on the images and read the nonsense that's written on each page. This is a howler. They call this journalism? This is more suited to Superman comics.

Here's the article. Enjoy!

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Seriously, the writer of this article should have chosen a career with DC comics.

Check that out on the left side. It says, "Nazi naval units join Jap fleet." 

I want to know what this writer is smoking and have the same.

"The Jap fleet supported by the Germans!?" By 1941 the German's didn't have any surface

ships left excepting the Tirpitz which sat in Norway for the entire war.

Invasion pours up the Mississipi valley!? Granny! Get muh shotgun! The Germans are coming!

Note the Fifth Column of spies who are inside of the USA ready to

destroy our freedoms! Mein gott! There are spies everywhere!

The classic invasion!? Since when? The "Germans could readily bomb Chicago,

Detroit, Akron..." Akron? Why in the world would anyone want to bomb Akron? 

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Japanese Beatles: The Tigers (1967)

When the Beatles hit the scene in the early sixties they were a smash all over the world. Japan was no different. When the Japanese "economic miracle" hit the world they were a hit at copying things western and making them just a bit better.

There were some things though, that the Japanese copied that were, well, hard to describe...

In the mid-1960's the Japanese public couldn't get enough of the Fab Four. What to do? Well, what would any enterprising company (record company, that is) do? Well, if they can't have the real Beatles, and, if this is Japan, then they'll make their own Beatles.

It wasn't only the Beatles though. When the British Invasion got into full swing, the Japanese upped their "copy machine" several notches and created their own version with what was called, "Group Sounds." In a nutshell Group Sounds was a "movement" of Japanese labels and artists copying the British Invasion.

Wikipedia says about "Group Sounds":

Group Sounds (G.S.) is a genre of Japanese rock music. Inspired by The Beatles, Group Sounds became popular in the mid to late 1960s. Group Sounds initiated fusion of Japanese kayōkyoku music and rock music. Their music production techniques were regarded as a pioneer of modern Japanese popular music.

The Spiders

The most famous of the Group Sounds artists were:

▪ The Tigers (aka The Funnys)
▪ The Tempters
▪ The Spiders
▪ The Wild Ones
▪ The Golden Cups
▪ The Mops
▪ The Carnabeats


The Tigers were, in my opinion, the best of these groups.

Wikipedia says this about the Tigers:

The Tigers were arguably Japan's most popular band of the Group Sounds era. The group featured Kenji Sawada as their lead singer, and were signed by Watanabe Productions.

The group was first named Funnys and was formed in 1966. They changed their name to "The Tigers" on their first TV performance on 15 November 1966.

I have always thought that the best of all Group Sounds songs was, "Seaside Band" by the Tigers. The Tigers had a guy in it named Sawada Kenji who would later on go on to become a superstar in Japan... I will blog about him sometime in the near future (of course, in a sort of twisted manner, of course!) But for now, let's check out the Tigers first hit song! This is totally Cool & Strange Music and I think you'll think this song is really groovy too! The Japanese even copied the Ed Sullivan show too!

Now! (In my best Ed Sullivan imitation): "So, here they are ladies and gentlemen, The Tigers doing, "Seaside Band"...



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