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November 5 - December 2, 2024
child entrusted to represent a president.
child entrusted to represent a president.
No one thought to ask why the president’s young daughter was packing her own pistol. Americans expected such risqué behavior from their Princess.
No one thought to ask why the president’s young daughter was packing her own pistol. Americans expected such risqué behavior from their Princess.
Incorrect. Many reasons for not mentioning lost loves.
Incorrect. Many reasons for not mentioning lost loves.
Boston’s Copley Plaza Hotel
Boston’s Copley Plaza Hotel
the Philippines. As ruler of America’s largest colony,
the Philippines. As ruler of America’s largest colony,
Over the next seven years, many Filipinos came to associate Americans with torture, concentration camps, rape and murder of civilians, and destruction of their villages.
Over the next seven years, many Filipinos came to associate Americans with torture, concentration camps, rape and murder of civilians, and destruction of their villages.
“civilization follows the sun.”
(The word Iran derives from the word Aryan.)
Anglo-Saxons (a compound of two Germanic tribal names).
Montesquieu who recommended the separation of powers now so central to the U.S. government.)
Harvard’s follow-the-sun
Roosevelt whitewashed his first wife’s memory
Less said sooner mended.
the state was an invention of the Teuton,
I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one.”35
Not one shred of evidence ever existed to suggest that the Spanish had sunk the Maine.40
Chinese had been transshipping via Manila for centuries
more Filipinos died defending their country in that first day’s storm than Americans died storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in World War II.
Didn’t learn from Vietnamese or others. Learning is something one does to oneself.
The U.S. Army would post notices that in a few days, all civilians within a designated zone were to report to a concentration camp.
Same person killed Kennedy. His VP.
Just two weeks into his presidency, Teddy was confronted with the nation’s worst military crisis since Custer’s Last Stand at Little Bighorn.
Similar to 9/11, financial meltdown
Congressman Joseph Sibley of Pennsylvania,
Americans so embraced the benevolent intentions myth that they ultimately could not accept the idea that their humanitarian military was capable of atrocities.
Most American history books claim that U.S. forces killed about twenty thousand freedom fighters and two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand Filipino civilians; other sources estimate that the U.S. military sent one million to three million to their early graves.
Hawaiians in 1778 had life expectancies greater than their European
Hawaiians suffered from “various complicated diseases, and education, and civilization,” and Twain “proposed to send a few more missionaries to finish them.”44
Hawaii there is a well-known saying that the missionaries “came to do good and stayed to do well.”
This was a historical first: an American minister accredited to a sovereign nation conspiring in its overthrow.
Operating as a two-man diplomatic tag team, Roosevelt and Taft would green-light what later generations would call World War II in the Pacific.
Knowing a lot about race theory but less about international diplomacy and almost nothing about Asia, Roosevelt in 1905 careened U.S.-Japanese relations onto the dark side road leading to 1941.
Only a few Japanese leaders, including Emperor Meiji, knew that the president had a secret plan for their country, a plan whereby Roosevelt would grant them a protectorate in Korea in exchange for Japan’s assisting with the American penetration of Asia.
Christianity was a conquest religion in the service of state militaries.
Samurai rarely used their swords and instead became bureaucrats and teachers. And all of this occurred during the same period that White Christians in Europe and the Americas were constantly warring.
With this in mind, the founding fathers reinvented their boy emperor in the Christian tradition: Meiji was made to be a god and “State Shinto” was born.
“the first foreigner employed in a Japanese government post.”31
Now LeGendre suggested a Japanese Monroe Doctrine for Asia:
In early May of 1873, Japan invaded Taiwan with U.S. military advisers
He had inspired the Honorary Aryans with the idea of a Japanese Monroe Doctrine for Asia, a vision that was championed by Japanese expansionists less than three generations later as the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.
“international police”8
“international police power.”10
The triple intervention had dashed Japan’s expansionary hopes; now the United States would revive them.
The Japanese mind is earnestly engaged in moulding into one the two forms of culture, the Oriental and the Occidental, its ambition being to harmonize them, even as Rome harmonized the militarism of the northern tribes with the culture of the southern races of Europe.9
Teddy secretly told the founding fathers that he approved of Japan having a Monroe Doctrine–like protectorate in Asia.
he saw native troops from the Philippines and Puerto Rico march by and joked that they were “rejoicing in their shackles.”46
