Trump is the American idol idolised for his 'intellectual prowess' by hillbillies

 Why did not the USA military just launch a nuclear missile into Hurricane Milton instead of letting it create so much damage, said to be at least US$60 billion. No, it is not my idea, it was Trump's idea, and I would not want to steal his thunder. If Trump were in power, he could have stopped the damage by ordering the nuclear option, LOL.

Trump also did not know that Hurricanes are very wet and had been telling USA citizens about his eureka moment in his first term. Soon, he may be telling them that water is very wet. And he is going to make America Great Again, folks.

With Presidents having mentality like Trump, I would not want to dispute the USA always touting that their Presidents are all high IQ people. I will let the facts speak for themselves.

Pea brain Trump has lots of solutions for lots of problems. He just has to let all the solutions out of his pea brain pod and the USA will be great again, thinking nothing of the folly of his ideas. Of course, he is not worried about reality, since at this age, four more years is the best that he could muster, if he can win in November. Some have even pointed out that Trump is now as gaffe prone as Biden was. The USA is a joke being led by these two nitwits successively. 

Anonymous

No end to the genocide of Palestinians and the killings of Arab muslims in the Middle East by Israel and the Anglo-Saxon United States

 It seems there is no end to the genocide of Palestinians and the killings of Arab muslims in the Middle East by Israel and the Anglo-Saxon United States. No one seems to be able to put to an end this senseless killings and genocide. There is a lot of talk, protest and condemnation by the Arab elites and rulers but nothing further than that. It is all rhetoric to please and show the local home population that they are doing something.

But so far there is no solid action of resistance or fighting back in whatever form that may be necessary. It is just all protest and condemnation or No Action Talk Only just "NATO".

What is the fear of the Arab countries' rulers, leaders and elites in taking tangible actions to boot out the despicable Zionist Jews and the evil American barbarians. What is behind their fear of offending the Anglo-Saxons Americans and the European countries. Could it be that they have invested too much in US and the European Countries and that their investments might be held to ransom.

It is said that the royal families of Saudi Arabia, UAE, QATAR, Morocco, Bahrain and Tunisia have invested trillions of dollars in posh properties, hotels, business conglomerates and further trillions parked in Western banks in US, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin and Brussels. Therefore they have the fear that all their investments and trillions parked in the US and the Western countries might be robbed off if they take actions contradictory to US and Western interests. They have reminded themselves how Russia's 300 Billion Dollars parked in Western banks in New York, London, Paris and Brussels was hijacked and robbed off. So for their selfish self interests they dare not take any concrete action against Israel and the United States.

Actually for the survival of Palestine and all Arab muslim countries they can stop all oil sales to US and all European countries. They can sell all the oil to China which can buy many times more than the combining sales to US and Western European countries. They can also sell the oil to India, only there is the fear India might sabotage and resell the oil to US and European countries with huge profit. If the Middle East Arab muslim countries totally stop selling their oil to US and Western European countries it will paralyse their economy and all their economic activities will grant to a halt. This may make them reconsider about their diabolical behaviour in Palestine and the Middle East.

Another action they can take is to organise a modern Jihad against Israel, US and the European powers. In this Jihad they will have the strong support of BRICS and all other countries of the South in Africa, Asia, South America and Central America including the countries of the Caribbeans like Cuba, Jamaica and Barbados. There is nothing to fear that the desperate Zionist Israel and the West might resort to use of nuclear weapons as this may result in massive nuclear reprisal by Iran, Russia and Pakistan.

So the Middle East Arab muslim countries and all muslim countries of the free world must take concrete actions now to stop the genocide and killings of Palestinians and muslim.

Southernglory1

The Americans must act responsibly - STOP the genocide in GAZA immediately

 The whole world is watching in aghast at the irresponsible American terrorists aiding the Israelis in the genocide of the Palestinians everyday since Oct 7. Oops, this is not true. The American terrorists have been working hand in hand with the Israelis in the genocide of the Palestinian for decades and helping the Israelis to steal the Palestinian land.

Stop the lie, stop the pretence! The whole world knows that the Americans are fully involved in the massacre of the Palestinians and the creation of Greater Israel.

Stop it now! Stop supplying all the weapons and ammunition to kill the Palestinians. Stop fighting side by side with the Israelis to kill the Palestinians. You cannot keep on lying to the people of the world. You cannot keep on lying to the American public.

The Americans are fully involved in the greatest crime against humanity of the 21st Century. Stop thinking that the people of the world are stupid not know what the Americans are doing in Gaza, in Palestine.

Stop it now and behave responsibly. The American people must stop the murderers in Washington. Blood is dripping all over in Congress and in the White House. Stop the war criminals!

How Emperor Kangxi saved China from the hypocrisy and scourge of the European Christian faith.

This is an adjunct article to " Why Christianity failed in China and India?" 16-10-2024

To further the understanding why Christianity failed in China I see the need to republish the article on how Emperor Kangxi saved China from the hypocrisy and scourge of the European Christian faith which was published on Friday, 30th October, 2020.  How Emperor Kangxi saved China from the hypocrisy and scourge of the European Christian faith. 

Five hundred years ago in 1455 Pope Romanus Pontifex claimed himself to be the representative of the Christian God, Jesus Christ and in doing so he claimed dominion over the entire world. He issued statements which gave European rulers the sanction to colonize all of the non-Christian world. He anointed the rulers and their representatives the plunderers and pirates as sanctified conquerors with legal and moral license to dispossess natives of their possessions. The Bulls gave Christian plunderers like Columbus, Cortez, Pizarro, Cook, Hudson and the rest both legal and moral license to plunder, dispossess, enslave and murder the natives. They were given ample faculty to invade, search out, capture, vanquish and subdue all pagans. They were to convert all natives to Christianity and to kill those who could not be converted. 

The arrogance and tyranny of the Vatican assumed the entire world was under the jurisdiction of the Pope, a God's representative on earth. Any land not Christianized or not under the sovereignty of a Christian ruler could be possessed on behalf of God. All time and space was considered empty until Christians arrived with God's truth and until then all lands and territories were considered Terra Nullius. Thus this set the precedent and the rules for all the aggressive and warmongering European powers to set out to conquer and terrorize all the non-Christian world. It was the catalyst for the 500 years curse of white Christian domination and terrorism of all non-Christian countries which continue non-stop to this day. 

Under this self-assumed totalitarian godly power the Pope of the Catholics in the Vatican, the power house or headquarters of all the Catholics sent missionaries to China with intent to convert The Middle Kingdom to the Catholic Christian faith. The Catholic priests sent to China during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty were known as Jesuits or Dominicans, two different orders of the same Catholic church. However, the Jesuits predominate in the Chinese court, the hall of power and rule in the Middle Kingdom. 

Emperor Kangxi ascended the Dragon Throne at the age of seven and ruled China from 1661 to 1722. In the early decades of Emperor Kangxi's reign, the Jesuits played a large part in the imperial court. As the Jesuit priests had great knowledge of astronomy Emperor Kangxi made the Jesuits in-charge of the Imperial Observatory. Emperor Kangxi was introduced to western music. A Jesuit priest Thomas Pereira taught him how to play the harpsichord. Emperor Kangxi appointed Karel Slavicek as court musician. Emperor Kangxi was broadminded and was always opened to new ideas. He was later to found out that his broadmindedness was being made use of by the Pope and the Vatican to destroy Chinese culture or to deculturalize China and the Chinese people from Chinese culture in favour of Christian teachings and tenets. 

The Vatican sent preachers or missionaries known as Jesuits or Dominicans to China to evangelize or propagate the Christian faith or Christianity. They always believe in starting to convert the ruler or king of the country first, as once the king is converted the rest of his subjects and the whole country will easily follow suit. Some of the early Jesuit missionaries sent to China in 1705 were Ferdinand Verbiest and Karel Slavicek. 

In 1711 the Pope through "The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples" sent Matteo Ripa to China to propagate the Christian religion. Matteo Ripa an Italian priest was also a painter and copper engraver at Qing Court. In Beijing Pope Clement X11 opened a religious school, The Collegio Dei Cinesi" to help the propagation of Christianity in China. In 1723 Matteo Ripa returned to Naples, Italy with four young Chinese converted Christians. They were to be groomed to become Christian priests before sending them back to China later as missionaries. 

At the same time the Vatican opened a school in Naples to teach Chinese to Italians. It was the first Chinese institute and the first school of Sinology in Europe. Emperor Kangxi was grateful to the Jesuits for their contributions and the many languages they could interpret. He made use of the service of Jean Francoils Gerbillon and Thomas Pereira as translators for the negotiations of the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689 with Russia. Little did he know that the Jesuit priests were sabotaging China's interests and subordinating China's interests to the Russians who were also Catholic Christians. 

Thus China was to lose large chunks of territories to Russia under the treachery of these Jesuits who manipulated the Chinese Emperor Kangxi under subterfuge to accept the lob sided treaty in favour of the Christian Russians. The Jesuits did the same treason to China in subsequent treaties with Russia in later years in the 1830s to 1900s which resulted in China losing more than two or three million square miles of territories north of the Heilongjiang River and the Ussuri River to Russia. 

The Jesuits intent to convert Emperor Kangxi to Christianity. Emperor Kangxi was a very conservative and very highly cultured man steeped in the knowledge of Confucianism, Chinese culture and Chinese rites. But he was also fond of the Jesuits respectful and unobtrusive manner. The Jesuit priests could speak Chinese well and wore the silk robes of the elites, the mandarins.Thus under these pretensions the Jesuits were able to ingratiate with Emperor Kangxi and gained influence in the emperor's court. The Chinese rites controversy and the attempted deculturalization of Emperor Kangxi by subterfuge. 

Jesuits intent to convert Emperor Kangxi to Christianity. In 1692, when Thomas Pereira requested tolerance for Christianity , Emperor Kangxi was willing to oblige and issued "The Edict of Toleration" which recognized Catholicism and barred attack on their churches and legalized their missions and the practice of Christianity by the Chinese people. However, controversy soon arose over whether Chinese Christians could still be allowed to take part in traditional Confucian ceremonies and ancestor worship. The Jesuit priests were in favour of tolerance but the Dominican priests took a hardline stand against Chinese traditional rites. The Dominican position won the support of Pope Clement X1 who in 1705 sent Charles Thomas Maillard de Toiurnon as his representative to the Emperor Kangxi to communicate the ban on Chinese rites and worship. Through Maillard de Tournon the Pope insisted on sending his own representative to Beijing to oversee Jesuit missionaries in China. This was not allowed by Emperor Kangxi as he treated this as an overstep to hijack the Emperor's power and authority and an infringement on China's sovereignty and dignity. Emperor Kangxi refused the Pope in the Vatican for his audacity to challenge the Emperor's authority to keep missionary activities in China under his own oversight and control. 

However, in the Vatican, the Pope chose to defy Emperor Kangxi's order and authority. On 19th March,1715, Pope Clement XI arrogantly and defiantly issued the Papal Bull Ex illa die which officially condemned Chinese rites and religious practice and forbade converted Chinese Christians to carry out the traditional practice. This was tantamount to killing Chinese culture, an attempt to deculturalize the Chinese from their traditional customs and cultural practices. 

Armed with the Pope's Papal Bull Ex illa die the Jesuit and Dominican priests went around destroying Chinese families worshipping tablets and deities causing untold choas, quarrels and trouble among Chinese families and society. This Pope and Vatican arrogance was too much for Emperor Kangxi to tolerate. Under the dictates of the Pope's Papal Bull Ex illa die even Emperor Kangxi was not allowed to pray and pay respects to his ancestors base on Chinese traditional rites and customs. Emperor Kangxi was flabbergasted and deeply offended. Henceforth Emperor Kangxi officially forbade Christian missions in China, as they were causing too much trouble. 

Southernglory1 Friday, 30th October, 2020. Thursday, 17th October, 2024

BRICS should be given a chance to replace the American hegemony

500 years of western colonialism, imperialism and hegemony are coming to an end. The people of the world have seen what it is like living under the control and domination of the West. The Americans are fighting tooth and nail to retain their control over the world. The Gaza Genocide and the Ukraine War are two pieces of the jigsaw for world hegemony and control. In every America literature, it was clearly written and explained that the intent of the Americans is not about democracy or freedom, but about continuation of Pax Americana.

The rise of BRICS, or the reasons for BRICS existence need no further explanation. It is an organisation grew out of a need to find an alternative to western domination and oppression. The countries of the world have had enough of wars, tensions, sanctions, exploitation, isolation, bullying and divide and rule by the Americans and the West. All the evidence is out there, all the countries that have lived under the American bullying and oppression are testaments to abuses and aggression of the American Empire and the plundering by the West.

Latin America is still a divided continent of poor nations constantly attacked by the Americans with intervention, regime change, threats and invasion. The Americans would not let them become rich and prosperous nations like Europe. The state of Cuba, condemned and sanctioned into generations of poverty by the American terrorists is despicable. The UN cannot do anything to free the Cubans from poverty, from oppression by the Americans.

Africa, a continent of 54 nations, supposedly independent but barely. The Americans and the West are still colonising these states in one way or another. The luckier ones that are truly independent are still beleaguered with internal strife caused by the American and Western terrorists and their support for terrorist groups. Some are filled with American and Western financed mercenaries operating independently within some African states, causing and threatening instability, civil wars and overthrow of the incumbent govts. Africa is still struggling to break free from the yoke of American Imperialism and western colonialism.

The Middle East have been under the crutches of the Americans and the West for centuries, made and manipulated to fight against each other, poisoned by the Americans and the West, to be at unending wars among themselves without knowing why they were fighting each other, and their economies ruined permanently...and fearing being invaded or taken over by the American forces in their countries. Any short lapses of peace and reconstruction and rebuilding would be terminated by wars conducted by the Israelis and the Americans using fake excuses like WMD or fighting terrorists. The Israelis called such intermittent wars as mowing or pruning the ground, to destroy the Arab states every few years, to keep them poor and weak, and a dysfunctional economy and society.

Lately, the new found wisdom of the Arab and Muslim states have shone a light into their leaders. Their lives and economies would be better off if they seek peace, cooperation and mutual cooperation among themselves instead of wasting funds, resources quarreling and fighting among themselves. With the help of China and Russia, the Arab and Muslim states have found willing conciliators to bring them together, to patch up their differences, to understand who are their real enemies,... and with the Chinese and Russians willing to back them up when under pressure and threats from the Americans, Israelis and the West. They are even offered the military weapons and hardware to defend and protect themselves than be sold substandard equipment and weapons that cannot match the Israelis and would always be threatened and held hostage by the Israelis and the Americans/West.

South East Asia is fairly better as an area of peace and neutrality, with the Americans and the West influence being counter balanced by the Chinese and the Russians. The association of Asean also plays a critical role to keep Asean on even keel, warding off the pressure from the big powers. But the American terrorists are not going away and are constantly instigating and inciting the countries in the region about fictitious threats, hyping up tensions, inciting differences, to turn the region into another area of instability and conflict.

Central Asia was the neglected wilderness, landlocked, nothing to offer except for strategic reasons for the Americans and the West to contain and isolate China and Russia. Thanks to BRI and BRICS, Central Asia is coming alive as regional economic centres and business hubs.

The Americans and the West are not giving up in their intent to control and dominate the world. The beneficiaries of the American and Western domination era are primarily the Americans and Europeans. SE Asia was in a better position not be designed but by accident. With the rise of China as an economic giant, SE Asia benefited tremendously with the Chinese growth engine. Without China's rapid economic growth, the only Asean state that was doing relatively well was pro American Singapore. The Philippines was in a rug, while Thailand was struggling along.

BRICS is born out of a necessity to replace an oppressive and failing American control Rules Based Order, increasingly oppressive and destructive and interventionist. It is time for the world to adopt a new economic system and world order that is fairer to every nation state, treating every nation state freely and equally without being threatened and bullied under the American Order. The world must be given a chance to try out a different system offered by BRICS. The Americans and the West can be sidelined for a while, without totally being replaced, and can resume its role should BRICS fail to deliver what it promises to the world, just like BRICS now making itself available to a failed and hostile system controlled by the Americans.

Give BRICS a chance, give the world a chance, give every country a chance to live in a new multi polar world system. The 21st Century cannot be the same drag century controlled and held at ransom by the oppressive and trouble making American terrorists and the West. The Global South needs a breath of fresh air, to live as free and independent nation states without fear of being sanctioned or invaded by the Americans and the West.