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When Japanese bombers appeared in the skies over Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, the U.S. military was completely unprepared for the devastating surprise attack, which dramatically altered the course of World War II, especially in the Pacific theater. But there were several key reasons for the bombing that, in hindsight, make it seem almost inevitable. Tensions Began During the Great Depression Before the Pearl Harbor attack, tensions between Japan and the United States had been mounting for the better part of a decade. The island nation of Japan, isolated from the rest of the world for...

The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919. Neither the winners nor the losers of World War I were happy with the formal conclusion to the bloodbath. The traditional criticism of the treaty is that the victorious French and British democracies did not listen to the pleas of leniency from progressive American President Woodrow Wilson. Instead, they added insult to the German injury by blaming Germany for starting the war. The final treaty demanded German reparations for war losses. It also forced Germany to cede territory to its victorious neighbors. The harsh terms of the...

The American Library Association Purges its Racist Feminist Founder Eugenics, feminism and anti-Semitism. July 4, 2019 Daniel Greenfield32 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. The Dewey Decimal System is the foundation of the modern library. Hundreds of thousands of libraries have laid out their collections around the work of the founder of the American Library Association. Now Melvil Dewey has been purged by the American Library Association. The ALA's resolution declares that its founder "does not represent the stated fundamental values of...

EVER since the calling of the First Hague Conference, The Independent and its editor have been urging a League to Enforce Peace as the next great step in the political evolution of the world. Tho the idea of world federation has been the dream of the poets, prophets and philosophers down the ages it is only in recent times that it has been put forward here and there as a practical possibility. In 1905 at the Thirteenth Interparliamentary Conference at Brussels Richard Bartholdt, member of Congress from Missouri and president of the American delegation, presented a plan for consideration that...

The Conference That Legalized the Jewish StatePosted By Joseph Puder On May 11, 2015 @ 12:20 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments [1]Like so many other aspects of our contemporary culture, historical facts are overlooked in favor of “feelings” and perceived “rights.” In today’s American high schools and universities, teachers are focused on aggrieved minorities, and “victims” of all kinds, rather than on historical truth. For example, many in the media and academia repeatedly herald the victimization of the Palestinian-Arabs. Some professors and media outlets have even inferred that the State of Israel was founded on “stolen” Palestinian land....

Laws Schmaws, Who Cares Anymore? By Norma Zager “Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” Louis Brandeis No one follows the laws anymore. Stop sign, no problem, roll on through. Red light means speed up to too many people. Speeding, easy peasy if you don’t get caught. Stealing is highly profitable and a corporate mentality these days. Murder, mayhem and vice are all in a day’s work for some. I am certain I am...

House Republicans are planning to introduce legislation Tuesday that will force major changes at the United Nations, an organization that the bill’s author has called a “stew of corruption, mismanagement and negligence.” The bill, by Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, would require the UN adopt a voluntary budget model, in which countries selectively choose which UN agencies to fund. The bill is expected to be introduced on Tuesday, and will also end funding for Palestinian refugees and limit the use of U.S. funds only to projects directly outlined by Congress. An aide familiar with the legislation told...

Breaking on Fox News... Arms embargo will not be added to U.N. Resolution, No ban on where North Korea can fly in the Resolution - watered down resolution will be voted on tomorrow morning. FOX NEWS - ALERT

Practically everywhere you look in the operations of the United Nations, you find incredible graft, corruption and disgusting criminal behavior. The time has come to withdraw all support from this organization and let it fall apart – starved of funds. We can find some other use for the buildings and grounds while leaders from the important countries of the world meet to plan a successor organization. Let the United Nations follow the League of Nations into the dustbin of history, as we try again to find a way to resolve the world’s problems peacefully.

"Cost of U.N. Renovation Soars to $1.9 Billion By MEGHAN CLYNE - Staff Reporter of the Sun, November 17, 2005 A 60-day, top-to-bottom review of the United Nations's renovation plans - meant to bring down the $1.2 billion cost of the project, described by many real estate experts as over-inflated - has instead sent the project's estimated price tag soaring to $1.9 billion." In light of this hefty price tag, it is past time to ask if the U.N. is salvageable. The United Nations has proven to be a dysfunctional world body, but is this the fault of a corrupt...

To: President Bush Dear President Bush, We, the citizens of the United States of America, demand that the US Government fully recognize the legality of the Israeli communities situated in the West Bank and Gaza. The following declarations in support of the Jewish communities situated in the West Bank and must be made prior to the upcoming November elections. Settlements are Not Illegal! 1. The settlements are not located in "occupied territory." The last binding international legal instrument which divided the territory in the region of Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza was the League of Nations Mandate, which explicitly...

The main mantra of the Democrats heading into the 2004 Presidential Election is that the United States is “going it alone” in Iraq. The claim is that we would be better off if our effort were “multinational,” which means giving a veto power to national “friends” like the French. But a brief look at the history of World War II demonstrates that this claim is false. This is one more instance when I want to jump through the TV screen, grab the reporters by the throat and demand of them, “Don’t you know where to find a library? Can’t you...

<p>UNITED NATIONS -- France, Germany, and Russia yesterday demanded a broader role for the United Nations and other foreign powers in overseeing Iraq's political transition in exchange for the Security Council's blessing of US plans to transfer power to Iraqis. The move signaled a fresh battle for the Bush administration in the 15-nation council over Iraq. The United States plans to introduce a resolution that would endorse a US-Iraqi pact that would culminate in a constitution and elections by Dec. 31, 2005. That agreement, which would lead to the establishment of a provisional Iraqi government by June 30, has been welcomed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and other members of the council.</p>

<p>No matter how you might feel about going to war against Saddam — personally, I'm in the pre-emptive camp — there's broad agreement that the future of the United Nations is in doubt. I'm not convinced that's such a bad thing.</p> <p>Neither is Paul Weyrich, but with a twist.</p>

No matter what one thinks of the looming war with Iraq, most of us have to admit something good is developing out of the overall argument. The United Nations is demonstrating, conclusively, the same irrelevance the League of Nations did many years ago. The United States foots a quarter of the bill for that U.N paper tiger, international debating society and what do the American people get in return? We get a derogation of our liberty through bogus agreements, the right to host hundreds of ill-behaved diplomats from third- world countries and a system that allows hundreds of communist and...

Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without ApprovalUNITED NATIONS, March 10 — Secretary General Kofi Annan warned today that if the United States fails to win approval from the Security Council for an attack on Iraq, Washington's decision to act alone or outside the Council would violate the United Nations charter. *** Mr. Annan's remarks drew a sharp response from Washington, where the Bush administration, like its allies overseas, was engaged in a strong lobbying effort to win the necessary nine votes to pass a resolution this week authorizing war. The White House spokesman Ari Fleischer in...

<p>If the United Nations doesn't back the latest resolution imposing a strict deadline on Saddam Hussein, says President Bush, it will render itself "irrelevant." But was there ever a reason to think a bureaucratic blob of 178 nations, most of whom wouldn't know democracy if they fell over it, could ever be terribly relevant?</p>

I suppose the day that changed my life was the day I had a letter from the foundation of one Edward S Harkness, an American tycoon who had given his fortune over to good works, mostly medical research. Shortly after the First World War he noticed that a whole generation of young Americans were going off to study at European universities. Now Mr Harkness knew, as perhaps few of his kind did, that America too had universities that were leaders in particular fields. He therefore invented a reverse fellowship - 25 fellowships - to be awarded to graduate students of...

WASHINGTON, Feb 27, 2003 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In an address entitled "God Bless America!" given to the prestigious Houston Forum, British author and Parliamentarian Winston S. Churchill today praised the Iraq disarmament policy of President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The grandson of the famed British Prime Minister of the same name, Churchill surprised his audience, proclaiming, "I have a confession to make to you: it was my Grandfather, Winston Churchill, who invented Iraq! He did so in 1921, in his capacity as British Colonial Secretary. That year he convened and chaired the Cairo Conference...

Remarks by the President After Meeting with Economists 10:35 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Let me make a couple comments about the meeting we just had and be glad to answer a couple questions. You can lead it off, Fournier, in a minute. I want to thank some of our nation's leading economists for coming today to share their thoughts with me about our economy and the strength of our nation, how best to make sure people can find work. We had a great discussion about the plan that I laid out for the Congress to consider and to enact, a...