The Ghosts at G7, China and Islam
Not much has really changed since 1302 and Pope Boniface VIII's papal bull Unam Sanctam, giving authority over all the lands and flocks (including people) in the world, to the pope until recently...
Black Agenda Report won the Alt-News Review pick for best Alt-News Graphic Art Image 2018 with the above. https://blackagendareport.com/all-us-presidents-living-and-dead-are-war-criminals
If the reader cannot quite grasp or believe the above content, perhaps another from Mogadishu would be more compelling?
Wreckage from U.S. air strikes in Mogadishu. Source: thecaravelgu.com – Amazing what some countries will do to rob another of their cobalt.
But enough of the horror show, we readers are civilized people after-all, usually and to cast some light and hope upon the New Cold War, we have the following photo.
Above is Turkish image of Bilal, first Muezzin (singer of the call to prayer) of Islam, surrounded by Sahaba (1st generation companions of the Holy Prophet Mohammad SWT). Bilal’s father Rabah was an Arab slave for the clan of Banu Jumah while his mother, Hamamah, was said to be a former princess of Abyssinia (Ethiopia, and thereby descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheeba). Born in Mecca in the year 580, he converted to Islam, was tortured by his master for that, and then freed by the Muslims. He became one of the Holy Prophet’s closest companions. Islam has always encouraged the freeing of slaves, and great rewards are given to those who free slaves. Image is Public Domain.
By Gregory Brundage (Abdul Rashid b. Abdullah)
This is a ghost story. It doesn’t start like a ghost story, but it is one, and what’s more, it’s a true ghost story. Does that sound exciting? Not really in this case. It’s really creepy though.
The year was 1900 and an eight-nation alliance occupation of Beijing and Tianjin had begun. Few remember, but it was much, much worse than anything reported at the time. However some narratives from that occupation were accurate, survived and are quoted below.
It was the same level as the Rape of Nanjing and other unprecedented war crimes of the 20th Century, exhibiting the most heinous war crimes imaginable.
Now, that spooky ghost-like alliance of evil is back, gunning for China again and Muslims like always, and calling itself the G7. The seven Ghosts maybe? The faces have changed a bit but it’s mostly the same old collection of rapacious racist colonialists as 1900. They don’t appear to have fulfilled any of the grandiose plans regarding magically rebuilding the old Silk Roads made at the 47th G7 summit held June 11 to 13, 2021 in Cornwall, England; they have however started another war. How typical of them.
White Supremacism with a veneer of pseudo-Christianity
White supremacism and the cultural stereotypes and racism it fosters had so inundated world culture in the 1940s young black children preferred to play with dolls that were white rather than black.
Doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark and "The Doll Test"
In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological effects of segregation on African-American children.
Drs. Clark used four dolls, identical except for color, to test children’s racial perceptions. Their subjects, children between the ages of three to seven, were asked to identify both the race of the dolls and which color doll they prefer. A majority of the children preferred the white doll and assigned positive characteristics to it. The Clarks concluded that “prejudice, discrimination, and segregation” created a feeling of inferiority among African-American children and damaged their self-esteem.
https://www.naacpldf.org/brown-vs-board/significance-doll-test
In the 1960s the US persuaded Koreans to mercilessly slaughter totally innocent fellow Asians, Vietnamese specifically during the Vietnam war on behalf of their “benefactors” – they who “turned them into an Asian Tiger” - as if they were not before.
It is ludicrous when the White House, or FBI claim they’re going after white supremacists as the USA has always been white supremacist, domestically and internationally.
Now the US is buying and bullying as many of China’s neighbors as it can into loading up with weapons to threaten China militarily, and potentially block its trade and communication systems, etc., when the US gives the green light on those acts of war. That will most probably be launched with a classic false flag operation, because Americans appear to believe everything CNN tells them, or are justifiably afraid to express anything more than a cynical joke as a response to being lied to 24/7. And thus, it’s all good to start a war in China.
Picking a fight
These are clear and unambiguous signs the US is planning to “pick a fight” with China. “Picking a fight” as actor Mel Gibson did in at least two movies I can think of, in some circumstances, appears justifiable and even an existential mandate, in those specific cases.
However, illegally, and via covert government funded operations, including decades of media propaganda, initiating violent military hostilities against Chinese military forces, or civilians is in no way justifiable, especially given both are nuclear armed nations, and China as a nation has really done absolutely nothing whatsoever to deserve to be military or otherwise threatened or attacked by any nation, most especially the USA – the global world champion of starting and dragging out wars benefitting only the merchants of death, and the captains of their equally grizzly related industries.
The United States’ military strategy for China aims to checkmate it within the geographical feature known as “The first island chain” of Asia. This spans down from the Russian Far East, to Japan, to Taiwan, to the Philippines and the islands of the South China Sea. In other words, a US war against China will be won or lost based on who can dominate this area, which is why America has become so aggressive in respect to both Taiwan and the South China Sea. Hence, enhanced base access at the Philippines will allow it project greater air, intelligence and naval power in the event of a contingency, although it still remains to be actually seen if the Philippines itself would end up becoming an actual combatant in this scenario.
https://www.rt.com/news/570997-us-china-encirclement-philippines
Stealing Oil and Wheat from the starving in Syria and Drooling over Iranian Oil
At the time of this writing the US is also slamming down hard on Syria again, creating a double-whammy on some of the world’s poorest people who have already survived 12 years of the American sponsored war there and a massive earthquake that killed at lease 35,000.
The US doesn’t just fund terrorist groups in Syria, it also steals Syrian oil and even the wheat from starving, literally starving Syrian families.
Why does the US have a war going in Syria? To gain a front on Iran, that’s why. And why? “Iran has some of the world's largest deposits of proven oil and natural gas reserves, and was ranked as the world's third-largest oil and second-largest natural gas reserve holder in 2021.”
At the end of 2021, Iran accounted for 24% of oil reserves in the Middle East and 12% in the world.”
That’s certainly enough to justify US attempts to capture the nation and steal its oil, just like its doing in Syria.
So, American delusionally psychotic “logic” is that Syrian President Al-Assad is a bad guy for not just giving his country to the US so it can put tanks and missiles on as many of Iran’s borders as possible, like they have done to Russia over the past 30 years.
February 11 marked the day when the Iranian monarchy was officially abolished, ten days after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile in France. The US-backed Shah Reza Pahlavi had left the country weeks earlier. The US has sought “regime change” in Tehran ever since. https://www.rt.com/news/571599-iran-hungary-poland-ceremony
Why hate and fear Muslims?
Muslims in general are hated because 78% of the worlds oil wealth is in Muslim countries. So, all Muslims are targets, unless they join the American crusade against Muslims, as a Muslim, and many so-called “Muslims,” and national leaders do exactly that. Many are trained by their nation’s security forces, that are trained by the Israelis, and become human rights abusers just the same, crushing moderate groups just for fun, in hope of radicalizing as many as possible and then robbing them of everything later. That is exactly how the game works, I have seen it too many times in too many countries over too many decades.
China? It is competing with the US in some big industries and China is way ahead now in many major industries. So, it’s a target. Followoing a Japanese recall in 1987 Washington imposed 100% tariffs on $300 million worth of Japanese imports, effectively blocking them from the American market setting them back a generation economically. That is just the way the US is. Predatory and mocking all rules and treaties of free trade in a fair marketplace.
Maybe in the fine print of some World Trade Organization document it says its OK to just set entire nations of people back a generation if they compete with the US in any way. “What’s the least funny joke in the world? Ans: WHO.”
More likely it is a tacit agreement among rich Euro-American men and women, never to be confused with gentlemen and ladies, for that they are not.
That’s called “realpolitik.”
The dreams of our children and grandchildren
Speaking of US foreign policy makers known desires to bomb Iran, again and again forever it appears, one can only wonder 1) what Iranian children’s dreams are like, and 2) how those US foreign policy makers and corporate moguls can sleep at night.
Please recall the old name for Iran is Persia and this whole racism thing has been profitable for a very long time at least dating to the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that lasted for 50 years (499 BC - 449 BC).
Even Emperor Constantine, the founder of the Catholic Church was a Roman general in Persia before becoming emperor, and made quite a career of slaughtering Iranians when possible.
This pernicious disease – a relentless quest for Godhood – supremacy of one empire over all others in perpetuity - extended through the Roman Empire and Medieval (Dark and Middle Ages) Era in Europe during which time the Abbasid Empire (750–1258 & 1261–1517) in the east reached a Golden Age making undreamed of advances in all sciences and arts while Europeans were groveling in Medieval mediocrity at best.
The quest for empire picked up enormous steam during the past 500 years with improved navigation and first major very long distant series of European genocides and colonialism in the so-called “Americas” that funded the “glorious” Renaissance, at least glorious from the point of view of those who profited from the slaughter on the other side of the world, including subsequent tourists and art students, of course.
Juxtapositioning the perspectives from different sides of the world at the same times during the Renaissance, demands the voices of the deceased be heard, just as loudly as the “Glory of Rome,” or even louder for the red of real blood pulsing out on a battlefield is more vivid than even the greatest of paintings, as are the nightmares of the loved ones that survive the deceased.
After that there were multiple Euro-American-instigated genocides and colonialism all around the world, and after WWII, the communist countries freed most of the world from colonialism. Then the US swept in with even bigger armies and instituted fake democracies wherein the US controls the economy, media and elections.
The book “Killing Hope, CIA Interventions Since WWII,” you download from this link, was written by former US Department of State official William Blum who got fed-up with the lies, duplicity, and murder of it all. It is considered a “classic text” and is even assigned reading at CIA. It appears they are proud of it, remarkably, from the point of view of those who value human life, self-determination, dignity and rights.
His presentation of concrete verifiable physical evidence should be more than enough for the General Assembly (GA) of the UN to vote to revoke US voting rights in the GA, and the Security Council, and the only reason that has not happened is due to the organized crime structure and methods of US so-called “Intelligence” services that plays foreign leaders like a fiddle:
“Stick or carrot, which will it be Charlie?”
This, it appears is well-known worldwide, and as the US ratchets up its insane mandate to “rule the world forever,” especially in its east European proxy war, and the South China Sea, an equal and opposite grassroots movement is unquestionably forming. It will be difficult to stop, because of an undifferentiated mass structure, guided by family and other universal humanistic and spiritual values.
“AS PROPER SLAVES OF AMERICANS SHOULD DO”
Europeans post-Nord Stream just get the crumbs and must chant accolades to the US, and denigrate Russia as PROPER SLAVES OF AMERICANS SHOULD DO.
As if the past 500 years of west European and 247 years of American colonialism wasn’t enough, the USA is currently re-supersizing it into Armageddon proportions, “Because we can,” they say, but as everyone knows it’s about egos and the warped value systems that create them. The US has been bragging quite my entire life it can fight two conventional wars simultaneously. A threat just to rattle world markets, or a palliative treatment readying the world?
To put it in a nutshell, the USA always trumpets “FREEDOM!” while attempting to enslave the entire world, in the name of freedom. It is the epitome of hypocrisy, and who says crime doesn’t pay?
The entire history of the USA has been one salacious crime against humanity after another, and yet the best and brightest of people from all nations flock to the US to “feel the power,” and pleasure of betraying their own nations to make the USA even richer and more powerful.
As if pumping up Japan and Germany to start WWII wasn’t bad enough, now the super- geniuses in DC with their legions of global corporate backers are prepping the world for the next and ultimate slaughter: thermonuclear war. (They will of course find a way to blame Russia and/or China.)
To keep selling new wars, the lies and targets have to be bigger and better than before
American foreign policy makers are betting their defamation of Russia and China over the past century has been good enough to get another good old-fashioned conventional war going somewhere and they’re betting on the South China Sea in addition to Ukraine.
For those not familiar with how WWII started one need go no further than reading some biographies of the American Dulles brothers to figure out the US did indeed set in motion the forces that started WWII. For more details on how exactly they did it, please refer to my book: White “Christian” Terrorism Vol. 2 – Age of the Caligulas.
https://archive.org/details/wct-2-age-of-the-caligulas
Why the Democrats MUST START WWIII before the 2024 United States presidential election
The 60th quadrennial presidential election, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 5, 2024.
Obviously, Trump was and remains an easy target for Democrats. However, they have broken a long-standing immutable agreement that presidents stick together to cover each other’s backs given they are all war criminals, mass murderers, and so on.
Given that President Biden resurrected the Clinton mob pretty much intact and they have been in so far over their heads in so much organized crime for about half a century in the US and around the world, if, the US can get to Nov. 5, 2024 without a “national emergency” delaying the election, or another American civil war, or WWIII, examples leading to political campaign finance reform should be made in the courts of at least key figures in the Clinton/Biden mob.
That in turn should lead SCOTUS to reconsider their decision in Citizens United vs. FEC, given quid pro quo relationships are all too easy to prove in too many cases, as well as transparent violation of rules regarding mandated time gaps between politicians work in politics and industry, giving what is unmistakably the “appearance of corruption” as is prohibited in Federal law and the rather large bank accounts of so many politicians that have done everything in their power to promote international tensions, and war. If those are not quid pro quo relationships, what are?
Can national security issues override 5th Amendment rights in the US? Absolutely given the Clinton’s known financial associations with many Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) at least since the early 1990s, as defined by several international crime investigation & designation entities.
G7 Meeting and ghosts of colonialism past, present and future
The New Cold War officially kicked-off with the 2011 article by Hillary Clinton in Foreign Policy magazine titled “The Pacific Century,” is nothing more than a clarion call for the white people in the world (joined by Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and India, and other “Prime Ministers” and “Presidents” the US has in its’ pocket, as a useful sprinkling of token minorities) to join together to crush China and Russia, and ensure Western white unrestrained capitalist domination of the entire world forever (also called: “hegemony in perpetuity”). It sort of announces the end of the war on terror (a lie) and christens the new Iron Curtin soon to drop over all of Asia (the truth).
There are Himalayan size mountains of proof to substantiate this “wild allegation.”
The Eight Nation Alliance Occupation of Tianjin and Beijing
The Eight-Nation Alliance was a multinational military coalition that invaded North China in 1900 with major hostilities beginning in August. After the invasion the Eight Power Allied forces occupied Baoding, Beijing, Yixian County, Yongqing, Zhangjiakou, Shanhaiguan, and other places in which they executed killing and looting and brought an unprecedented heavy disaster to the country and its people. After more than a year’s invasion, the Boxer Protocol was signed in September 1901 which represented that China had become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
https://www.cnkeywords.net/cnwords-app-web/vocabulary?wordId=2be90ed3948b11e7bf390050569519c4
Approximately 45,000 troops from the eight nations of Germany, Japan, Russia, Britain, France, the United States, Italy and Austria-Hungary participated in this colonial sacking of the north of China. Most people never heard of this because most people never study history and Chinese authorities have not advertised it for a variety of reasons including 1) the intense humiliation involved, and 2) the real need for China to try to harmonize with the west and learn more about their sciences in order to ensure the above (and below) history does not happen again.
Chinese netizens, observers deride 'Eight-Nation Alliance' against China as a farce. By Liu Xin and Wan Lin Source: Global Times Published: 2020/6/6
Probably the writers of the above article didn’t know the complete history of the activities of the Eight Nation Alliance during that occupation, or they would have used a stronger word than: “farse.” The “occupation” of Tianjin and Beijing starting in 1900 by the Eight Nation Alliance was very similar the Rape of Nanjing (1937–1938) by the Japanese.
War in China: The Ravishment of the North (2/3) - The Fate of Beijing and Surroundings, by Afakv
This section will be written with material from Sawara Tokusuke’s Miscellaneous Notes about the Boxers, Chai E’s Gengxin Chronicle, Peter Fleming’s The Siege at Peking, the Qing Shigao 清史稿 (Draft History of the Qing) by Zhao Erxun.
Suicide before the Storm
It is August 14th; the people of Beijing wait anxiously as the armies of the West stand at the gates. The sound of Mausers and Maxims resonate against the stifling walls of the capital. The people, acutely aware of what happened to Tianjin, prepare for the worst. Some officials, fearing they would face retribution for their steadfast loyalty to the Emperor and refusal to acquiesce to Western demands, decided to take matters into their own hands. It was better to die with your honour than to die at the mercy of invading troops. Xu Tong 徐桐, the Imperial Tutor, and his whole household wished not to endure the humiliation of capture. They chose honour. Him, his wife, children, concubines and servants swayed, like the leaves of a weeping willow, from the rafters of his manor. Stools were kicked about in the room, no doubt some had regretted their decision to hang themselves and had violently tried to regain a footing, but could not (Zhao section 465).
When the Capital fell, aside from the innumerable commoners who died, countless officials committed suicide with their families as well.
Sawara Tokusuke in an excerpt from “The Miscellaneous Notes About the Boxers” (266)
Near the Eastern Gate of Beijing, the preferred method was to cast oneself into the well of the house. Each well was filled with dead women and dead girls. So many wells, in fact, that there was a real fear for the poisoning of the Beijing water supply. This is how much they feared what would happen if the Europeans entered Beijing.
Captain Francis Brinkley wrote that when Tongzhou fell, no less than 573 women committed suicide to prevent their honour from being sullied. Aside from those who chose death by their own hands, on their own accord, many others died at the hands of the invaders.
Some Horrifying Accounts
Reader’s discretion is advised for this section due to graphic descriptions.
The Allied forces would capture women, no matter virtuous, wretched, old or young, and would, as much as they could, displace them to Biaobei alleys and to live in row houses there as prostitutes for the soldiery. To the West end of this alley the path would have been blocked off, in order to prevent escape, the East end was the only way in or out. This way was guarded. Any person from the Allied forces could enter for pleasure and rape to his heart’s desire.
Sawara Tokusuke in an excerpt from “The Miscellaneous Notes About the Boxers”
Sadly, it appears those who hanged themselves could be counted among the lucky. The citizens of Beijing were subject to three days of unbridled savagery after the fall of the Beijing. The demonic behaviour of the armies was apparent, rape was ubiquitous, so much so that among the soldiery “venereal diseases were rampant” (Fleming). There are claims it was in the interest of both the Qing Imperials and the Eight Nation Alliance that the most excessive horrors and abominable actions would be kept a secret. According to these numerous sources (the veracity of which I have been unable to verify) the military advisor and journalist known as Captain Francis (Frank) Brinkley would expose the truth in the Japan Mail editorial…
https://afakv.home.blog/2020/01/15/war-in-china-the-ravishment-of-the-north-2-3/
Approximately how many Chinese were killed in the American financed and armed Chinese Civil War (starting only 27 years later and lasting intermittently from 1927 to 1949)? Estimates from just the 1945-1949 segment of that war vary from 2.5 to six million.
And yet, for all of the extreme and brutal violence by Euro-Americans, China has not struck back, preferring to establish harmonious relationships.
Tragically, since 2011 the USA has begun to undermine China in a number of important ways, with those assaults escalating rapidly during the Trump and Biden administrations. The intended endgame is a rerun of the Chinese Civil War resulting in the Balkanization of China and elimination of any real economic competition in the world.
The US Strategic Competition Act of 2021 and the large amounts of money devoted to achieving its goals of silencing China in the world’s information sphere, and crushing its international trade was a significant step in that direction. There is no hint of negotiating or “harmonizing” anywhere in the 281 pages of that inflammatory document. It represented nothing less than a Declaration of Economic and Communication / Information War.
In regards to Section 281 (3) of that malign document, note:
Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant “Little Americas” to small radar facilities. Britain, France and Russia, by contrast, have about 30 foreign bases combined.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321
China in comparison has one small naval base in Djibouti Africa and works building ports in a few nations. Big deal. So what? One might think the US should not be so terrified of China’s military bases now or in the foreseeable future as to allocate billions of dollars in an attempt to crush China’s sovereignty, communications and economy.
(Parts of the following section extracted from: https://archive.org/details/strategic-competition-act-of-2021-pt.-3-target-belt-and-road-initiative)
1900
Nobody knows how to sell a lie like a gang of white guys with a few token minorities in tow to give it that very nice but illusory flavor of diversity.
The above photograph shows soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900 that invaded and mass-raped in Beijing and Tianjin, left-to-right: Britain, United States, Australia, British India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan. This was a British propaganda photo where the British requested the heights in order to reflect racial/ethnic supremacy. Note the Japanese on the far right. Image and caption credit:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/troops-eight-nation-alliance-1900
101 years later
“G7 Summit 2021 – A Case of Failed Multilateralism, by Aaliyah Vayez, June 23rd, 2021, Image credit : https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationalrelations/2021/06/23/g7-summit-2021-failed-multilateralism The G7 consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States; additionally, the European Union (EU) is a "non-enumerated member."
They concocted a scheme to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to completely attend to all of the Silk Road countries needs and finally put an end to China’s ridiculous little “Belt and Road Initiative” and economic traps for all the little countries the US and Western Europe care so much about and want to defend from the big, atrocious CHINA!
This would be as funny as it is ridiculous because the US and Europe don’t have any money, and can’t even afford to heat their own homes, or defend their own nations any more because the US has hoodwinked Europe again, and stole all their prosperity and hope the future. But that didn’t stop them from having a darned fine party, drinking and whoring to their hearts content at the G7 meeting, remembering the good old days when they really could boss around China and Russia.
The ghosts of evils past and geopolitical realities of today don’t slow down the colonialists by even a smidgen.
They are all supremely confident the US (or any of a dozen Private Intelligence Organizations, and/or PMCs) can trigger a war with China at any time, and place 100% of the blame on China. And that’s a fact.
The US doesn’t expect to win a war on Chinese soil of course, it’s enough to damage their image, overthrow the CPC if possible, and split off Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong if possible.
In any case, the Chinese-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will not be permitted any more than Russia’s Nord Stream II gas pipeline.
That’s the US plan, in a “nutshell,” which is where it belongs because only a nut would concoct such a malign plan, no offense to nuts – at least those that grow on trees. But, for the moment corporate vampires have to satisfy themselves with the bloodletting going on in Ukraine, Somalia and dozens of wars the US secretly sponsors including in Myanmar. Where are US weapons destined for Ukraine really going? Into the world-wide web of America’s secret armies.
Weaponizing Religion
In the vast majority of western colonial wars, they first send in Christian missionaries to soften up the targets and give them a false sense of security. This is not to suggest that the good ministers were or are less than sincere, for most were sincere of course, but contrary to popular belief, in some cases all it takes is one rotten apple to spoil the whole basket.
Most religions have always been a tribal kind of thing, and though the word “Catholic” means “universal” that meaning took on sinister implications in 1302 with Pope Boniface VIII's papal bull, Unam Sanctam that effectively legislated total power over all people and property in the world, to the Catholic Pope.
Cannon Law (Catholic Church Law)
“Historically, canon law is the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the western world.”
http://www.canonlaw.info/a_catechistintro.htm
“Although canon law did not apply to non-Christian populations, that attitude changed when Europe came into greater contact with Muslims. The reason is explained by James Brundage:
“European Jewry had furnished the model upon which early canonists had formed their views about the legal relationship between non-Christians and canon law. Jewish populations, however, tended to be relatively small, stable (save when one ruler or another decided to expel them from his territories), and peaceful. They certainly posed no military threat to Christian rulers and only an occasional fanatic could seriously maintain that they menaced the Christian religious establishment.
“Muslims in the Mediterranean basin and pagans along Latin Christendom's eastern frontiers, however, were an altogether different matter. Many Christians considered them a serious threat to Christianity's goal of converting the world... [Brundage, James A. Medieval Canon Law, p.163]
“This interaction with the Muslim world caused canonists to re-examine the self-imposed limits of canon law and its application to non-Christians, especially when it came to whether it was proper for Christians to conquer and take Muslim territory. This may seem an odd concern to the modern reader, but remember that this was a time when ownership of property was not open to everyone. If Muslims fell into a category that was not allowed property—such as slaves or minors—then taking their lands was not an issue.
“In the 13th century, Pope Innocent IV (c.1195-1254; pope from 1243 until his death) declared that ownership of property was a human right, as part of the natural law established by God. He also declared, however, that although non-Christians may not be part of Christ's church, they were still part of Christ's flock, and therefore they should fall under the rule of Christ's vicar on Earth.
“This view of the popes prevailed, reaching a peak in 1302 with Boniface VIII's papal bull, Unam Sanctam. For the next several centuries, Christian rulers had the license they needed to attack non-Christians and take their lands.”
http://dailymedieval.blogspot.com/2013/03/canon-law-and-muslims.html
That means, the entire world is subject to the will of the Catholic Pope, some of whom in history, including Boniface XIII were reported to have been exceedingly atrocious.
Dear old dad. “The www.crusaderstudies.org biography of him states his professional interest in the crusades came from “Runciman’s History of the Crusades.”
“It didn’t take much digging to find out Steven Runciman was a romantic and is largely responsible for reviving very old European legends of the (Muslim) gentleman warrior Salahuddin, usually called Saladin in the west, transmitted down through the centuries to the early 1800s brushed up even by Sir Walter Scott.
“Scott used Saladin as a model for his vision of chivalry. Saladin is a complex character in The Talisman and has flaws, but fulfilled Scott’s primary requirements of a refined and chivalrous warrior.”
My father was quite liberal when he was younger, strongly disapproving of slavery and fascism.
The Catholic Church and even Greek Philosopher Aristotle however justified slavery.
Islam was the first great (and only) religion to highly recommend and reward freeing slaves.
Whereas Pope Innocent IV’s Declaration combined with Pope Boniface VIII’s Papal Bull, Unam Sanctam, 1302 (“every human creature is subject to the Roman Pontiff”) made slaves of everyone on earth, in contrast, Islam several centuries earlier had enacted laws to reduce and eliminate slavery.
The Quran Encourages Freeing Slaves
In contrast to what was going on in Europe at the time, and even today, Islam has an explicitly stated, vastly more socially egalitarian approach to slavery than any other religion.
Islamic tradition mandates kindness to slaves and the Quran strongly recommends freeing slaves in several unambiguous verses.
Historically, in both Christian and Muslim worlds most slaves were captives in wars. However, in Islamic Hadith (collected sayings of the Holy Prophet Mohammed) it states:
“Free the captives, feed the hungry and visit the sick.” [Al-Bukhari]
And,
“Abu Huraira narrated: The Prophet said,
“Whoever frees a Muslim slave, Allah will save all the parts of his body from the (Hell) Fire as he has freed the body-parts of the slave.” Said bin Marjana said that he narrated that Hadith to `Ali bin Al-Husain and he freed his slave for whom `Abdullah bin Ja’far had offered him ten thousand Dirhams or one-thousand Dinars. [Al-Bukhari]
“Abu Huraira also narrated: The Prophet said, “Whoever frees his portion of a common slave should free the slave completely by paying the rest of his price from his money if he has enough money; otherwise the price of the slave is to be estimated and the slave is to be helped to work without hardship till he pays the rest of his price.” [Al-Bukhari]
In the Quran it says:
“We pointed out to him [man] the two conspicuous ways [of good and evil]? But he would not attempt the uphill road [to righteousness]. What will make you comprehend what the uphill road is? It is the setting free of a slave….” (Quran: 90: 11-13)
And,
“It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness- to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves…” (Quran: 2: 177)
Best perhaps is this:
“And (as for) those who ask for a writing (an agreement whereby they purchase themselves) from among those whom your right hands possess, give them the writing if you know any good in them, and give them of the wealth of Allah which He has given you…” (Quran: 24:33)
This means that the master who agrees to the “self-purchase” of a slave for his or her freedom, is further encouraged to help provide wealth for him or her. Simply freeing a person to become impoverished is in many cases a dubious benefit. But, helping that person to make a new life is blessed.
And then,
“Serve Allah, and join not any partners with Him; and do good- to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbors who are near, neighbors who are strangers, the companion by your side, the wayfarer (ye meet), and what your right hands possess [the slave]: For Allah loveth not the arrogant, the vainglorious…” (Quran: 4:36)
Even Napoleon Bonaparte acknowledged that in Islam slavery was altogether different than any other civilization:
“Napoleon Bonaparte is recorded as saying about the condition of slaves in Muslim countries: “The slave inherits his master’s property and marries his daughter. The majority of the Pashas had been slaves. Many of the grand viziers, all the Mamelukes, Ali Ben Mourad Beg, had been slaves. They began their lives by performing the most menial services in the houses of their masters and were subsequently raised in status for their merit or by favour. In the West, on the contrary, the slave has always been below the position of the domestic servants; he occupies the lowest rug.” [Cherfils, Bonaparte et l’Islam (Paris, 1914).]
Above quotes derived from https://www.amjaonline.org/islamic-position-on-slavery/
And yet, the Euro-American military industrial complex has demonized Islam with intense ferocity.
It is so much easier to rob and kill people if we all believe they are monsters, and so the US has nearly perfected the art of radicalizing otherwise quite nice people into monsters. That’s not so difficult really. All one has to do is kill enough of one’s family members and most people will turn into monsters. Conversely, one can simply starve a target population, and only provide food and medicine to those willing to join your side. “Thank God for the Americans,” the victims assert, usually never realizing it was those same Americans that caused the starvation in the first place.
Why pick on poor Muslims? That’s too easy.
78%
Yes, that’s the answer.
78%
Motivation for greedy people to spread hatred and fear of Muslims is easily established by the relative oil wealth of Muslim countries.
Of the top ten nations in the world with proven oil reserves, 78% of those reserves are in Muslim nations.
Motivation to promote defamation and hatred of Muslims: Ownership of 78% of the world’s oil reserves
Saudi Arabia – 269 billion barrels
Canada – 171 billion barrels (but locked in oil sands)
Iran – 158 billion barrels
Iraq – 143 billion barrels
Kuwait – 104 billion barrels
Russia – 80 billion barrels
United Arab Emirates – 98 billion barrels
Libya – 48 billion barrels
Nigeria – 37 billion barrels
So, yes, 78%.
US administrations’ pretense of “care” for the Muslims in China
The Entire World Should Be Laughing at America For Pretending to Care About Muslims in China, by Caitlin Johnstone, March 27, 2021
“The current representative of the US empire finally held his first full press conference yesterday, an embarrassing and undignified affair which saw a gaggle of obsequious imperial stenographers gather round to make believe that important policy decisions about the operation of the most powerful government in the world are actually being made…
“Once again we heard the US empire babbling about the plight of Muslims in China, with the words tumbling out of Biden's dementia-addled brain that he ‘made it clear that no American president, at least one did, but no American president had ever backed down from speaking out of what’s happening in the Uyghurs.’
“By ‘what’s happening in the Uyghurs’ Biden was attempting to articulate a concern for the human rights of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province, a talking point the US empire has been fallaciously and dishonestly pushing with more and more aggression as attempts to halt the rise of China escalate in urgency. And literally seconds later, Biden made it clear that that is exactly what this feigned concern for Muslim lives was indeed really about...
“This would after all be the same religious population which the US has been cheerfully slaughtering by the millions in its campaigns of military mass murder, just since the turn of this century. The same religious population the US has displaced by the tens of millions in its campaign of terrorism called the ‘war on terror,’ also just since the turn of this century. The same religious population the US has sadistically tortured in facilities like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. The same religious population who was terrorized by an escalation in hate crimes in the United States itself due to propaganda campaigns for George W Bush's wars, wars which were enthusiastically supported and facilitated by the current invalid-in-chief.”
Colonialism and unrestrained capitalism
The book, Child of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer quoted above is part of a very interesting series of “novels” mostly written in prison in Indonesia. The stories gathered therein sound a great deal like accounts he heard while in prison, for his beliefs. It’s a real “eye opening” series of books detailing the massive life and death struggles against Dutch colonialism of Indonesia. The central protagonist was primarily a writer, an Indonesian young man raised and educated by the Dutch, who learned the hardest way possible, by losing the people he loved and respected most, what colonialism really is.
I was fortunate to run into several great authors in a bookshop in Jakarta, and deeply impressed by the literary abilities and martial valor of their mostly Javanese culture.
Consequences of living in denial
In the final analysis, corporate CEOs apparently think playing with thermonuclear fire in the South China Sea is a fun game and worth playing as long as it increases their quarterly dividends.
What that means for the future of humanity is unknown at this time. The future is opaque. Moreso than ever before in history. Are we in for a new long Dark Ages? The last one lasted 900 years.
Thermonuclear war will be followed by plagues caused by freezers going off in the hundreds of US designed BSL 3 & 4 labs scattered around the world in some of the most unstable places including Somalia and Ukraine, releasing the “gain of function” variants the USA has been creating.
If any humans can or will survive is unknown and the best anyone can calculate the probability is 50/50 given the large number of unknown variables, however there are those who assert 50% probability of species survival is overly optimistic.
Foolishly thinking themselves to have a “free press” the majority of westerners are locked in a hermetically sealed information sphere by Google corporation, Meta Platforms and other monopolies, and downstream defense department funded censorship mechanisms.
Denying science in favor of solely biblical explanations of creation and evolution is an unmistakable symptom of the Dark Ages into which Western Civilization has fallen.
That so many of the most popular movies and TV shows are based on “magic powers,” and highly sexualized ultra-violence and other sick escapist fantasies, is a very strong indicator of a collapsing empire.
Maybe its not caring that causality has meaning is what dragged people into the endless monotony of the Dark Ages the last time too.
No wonder more people now believe in aliens than God.
The next paradigm shift hopefully will be Chinese led and philosophical rather than tech based, proving that social egalitarianism, not just profits is good for business.
That sounds like a better long-term strategy than provoking, sabotaging, starting revolutions and other wars, endlessly lying about nearly everything, and seeing everything as a life and death struggle because it doesn’t have to be, shouldn’t be, certainly hasn’t always been in most places at most times, and hopefully won’t be much longer.
Civilizations can only form with adherence to law, and when that becomes a farcical joke, so goes the empire.
Contemporary history is proving again honey catches more flies than vinegar, sticky strings and long delayed mostly empty promises
The best Anglophiles can do now is maintain what dignity they have, gracefully accept the already emerged multipolarity as the new norm at least for the foreseeable future, and think of innovative ways THAT USE FAIR COMPETITION FOR A CHANGE to at least get back in the game.
Hay, I’m I sportsman. I’ve had bad days too. But I never even considered killing the competition. That – just – ain’t right.
Helping positive infrastructure development in the developing world (such as was discussed at the G7 meeting, as compared to just selling weapons) is a great idea (except when framed as some psychopathological quest to beat down China), however, has always been promised and rarely come to fruition as part of anything resembling an equitable relationship anywhere.
Furthermore, a really good idea needs to be considered:
How about the US tries to work WITH other countries, including China and Russia on integrated synergistic plans, rather than always trying to divide, conquer, smash, colonialize and enslave everyone (who isn’t Euro-American lily white or bullied or bought-off) in order to try to take over the world as so many would-be world conquerors have failed to do in the past?
The main difference between China and the US economically and politically is that in China the government still controls the corporations, whereas in the US the corporations and other “special interests” completely own the government, and oh yes, the US willingness to kill thousands daily around the world in wars it funds, orchestrates, and manages and via starvation and disease due to war, and global income and wealth gaps. Again, that just ain’t right.
That, is the difference between one country being likely to cross the threshold into thermonuclear oblivion (short-term thinking about only quarterly dividends), and one that is not.
Only one nation led the way to this precipice, and only that same nation can start to back off before it’s too late.
1970s hopeful for an ideal economic system: “Convergence Theory”
When I was a teen in the ‘70s the prevailing hope for more peaceful world among the anti-war university students hinged on something they called “convergence theory.” It was very simple, a convergence of capitalist and socialist theories into an ideal economic system.
With the wisdom of 20-20 hindsight, it appears China has accomplished something moving in that direction.
Whereas power in the US has been completely usurped by multinational conglomerates and absolute terror grips most of the earth, in China they screen out the worst of US generated nightmares and bold-faced lies so most people really are relatively happy and optimistic.
Does the reader quite grasp the meaning of “absolute terror?”
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis in 16–29 October 1962. All Americans were ordered to build bomb shelters, stock food in them, and prepare for nuclear war. I was an impressionable six-year-old, and those two weeks, and preceding and following months influenced my dreams.
What about the dreams of the children in Iran, knowing full well US oil corporate barons and weapons corporations are drooling oceans of slimy stuff into politicians accounts, to fire up another war against the Persians. Back when Sadam Hussein was in the good graces of the CIA he used American weapons, to start and conduct the Iraq Iran War that resulted in a million dead on both sides, and the infrastructures of both nations, destroyed. Hows that for a nightmare?
What about the children in Ukraine, Russia, China, India and all the US and Europe that have thermonuclear target designations and launch procedures only a few minutes away every second of every minute of every day and week and month and year and decade of their lives?
To what degree are children influenced by world events? Perhaps more than we think.
And for what?
So, the super-richest Euro-Americans can get richer than all the other Americans and richer than everyone else in the world for the next 1,000 generations?
Shall we roll dice on thermonuclear war to achieve that as well(?), because that is what we are doing.
It’s a bit surprising more Americans didn’t consider socialism as a viable alternative to the totally corrupted democracy before The Incipient World War III, given the Chinese have certainly proven “socialism” is a pliable kind of term within broad limits. Many Americans had made the case that Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps and so on are socialist, so what was and or is the big deal?
A joke from the 1960s
Scratch a Republican and you’ll find a closet Nazi.
Scratch a Democrat and you’ll find a closet Communist.
People don’t tell many jokes these days like they did in the 1960s and 1970s.
Everyone is afraid, and it ain’t Chinese, Russians or Muslims they should be afraid of.
The Secretary General recently said again we’re “sleepwalking into war.” He emphasized corporate greed as the cause.
Should the US not back off both Russian and Chinese fronts in the very near future, there will be horrifically worse results than he or anyone, who grew up in anything resembling civilization can possibly imagine.
One tiny instrument failure, or other technical glitch on any of the Carrier Group ships or their jets crowding the South China Sea now, can trigger a future history like, or vastly worse than post-Armageddon movies because its real.
To close this short review of world energy systems, I looked for Chinese and Muslim humorists – predicated with the qualifier: “non-offensive” and did find some.
I hope the reader does too.
Amin – Amen – whatever.
Is anybody listening?
“This near-term thinking is not only deeply irresponsible – it is immoral.”
Antonio Guterres, Monday, February 6, 2023
That is certainly true, and there’s probably a reason most of the rich people burn in hell according to the Bible and Quran. The problem is, they can afford jets to fly out of even a thermonuclear war they start, but the poor regular working folk end up getting burned to death, killed in riots, and dying of disease and starvation.
Yes, surely Bernie tried, many or most will assert, but it might be time for a new captain at the helm of the American socialist party. One must keep planning on the vague hope the Democrats don’t destroy nearly all life in the northern hemisphere (mostly via escaped gain-of-function bacteria and viruses stored and being researched in TOP SECRET American BSL-4 labs scattered all around the world, including in war zones, like Somalia) after the thermonuclear war, before the next election.
Just remember: Quarterly dividends. It’s all about quarterly dividends in western capitalism, but not in China where the government can actually, believe it or not, control their corporations generally, most of the time, and when failing to do so, the guilty parties are likely to get caught and punished, sooner or later.
Usually later, as the Chinese judicial system is notoriously ponderously slow; with the only benefit being, they tend to have absolute irrefutable proof of a guilty verdict for every defendant in every criminal scheme before they even begin to think of arrests, and that can be and often is a delay 10 years, or more even when dealing with medium-sized gangs. This is often cited as unfair to surviving victims for example with significant monetary loses that are economically crippled until first adjudication and sentencing, and then disbursement of stolen assets or payment of court mandated settlements. In all fairness to the Chinese judicial system, they must be perfect, because they most certainly are under the 24/7 scrutiny of the Euro-American trouble-makers in the media like bloodhounds always searching for the tiniest flaws in the Chinese system to voraciously feed upon like staving sharks.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/545735-guantanamo-twenty-years-stain/
All that while the US with their co-conspirators in NATO boast arrogantly and defiantly of a rules based order.
The final summary
Where is the parent in the room to help American foreign policy makers understand they cannot behave like totally egocentric greedy ultra-violent three-year-olds prancing around in their fancy uniforms forever pretending to do something useful, when in fact they are engaged in mass murder, and simply must learn to share in the sandbox of life much, much more nicely.
In the 1970s, only 50% of the world’s people knew that. Now, 90% do, and the gig is up.
Dear uncles Xi and Putin are trying, and being very patient indeed, but really, there must be some limit before total meltdown of the Northern Hemisphere, please?
If they intend to stop before full thermonuclear exchanges, at what point is that demarcation made now that depleted uranium shells are being sent to Ukraine to kill Russians, and future generations of Ukrainians as well, due to long term fallout of those shells?
There ain’t no doubt where all this scheisse came from. Hitler was quoted as saying he based his model of racism and eugenics on American models he admired.
THE FINAL SOLUTION
The General Assembly needs a backchannel to vote to revoke US and UK voting rights in the GA and Security Council until it signs a legal agreement to really stop interfering in the domestic affairs of other nations (as the original UN Charter mandates), and begins reparations in the form of massive construction and engineering in the nations it has attacked and smashed since WWII, while training and working in cooperation with locals.
The US must agree to reduce its DoD expenditures by 25% each year for three years, with the bulk of the remaining budget going to the Army Corps of Engineers.
The UN can oh-so-easily switch to virtual locations, and say goodbye to New York, where they spend too much money, and nearly always get morally compromised.
The new UN headquarters should be assigned to Afghanistan and Niger, those nations at the bottom of the UNDPs list of development more years than others in recent memory.
Those, are the landscapes UN people need to meditate on, NOT the glitter, romance, and cocaine of New York.
Those locations however may not be far south enough to avoid gain-of-function diseases coming from the north.
Humanities last stands may be at Tierra del Fuego, and then the South Pole, maybe an orbiting jet, or the ultra-rich on islands not charted on ordinary maps.
And there we have it. Game over.
Either American voters throw out most of their Democrat and Republican politicians (90% at least) and get totally honest fresh representatives and leaders that know how to work with people of different cultures and different value systems, and are willing and able to scale down the military industrial complex, or… bang, the last dance, except for those ghosts, who are going to have a lot of company in the relatively near future.
This is not the usual article. Those in the northern hemisphere should ignore it at their own risk, and the risk of their families, communities, nations, and possibly even species.
Above: Bukhara, Uzbekistan - Citadel of the Arc Prison Museum: Prisoner Slaves. Photo by G. Brundage
Are they not human too?
Something for SCOTUS to consider.
Not quite the monsters they are made out to be just in the past amazing seven or eight years, and centuries, without any tangible proof of any kind besides the testimony of a handful of highly dubious “witnesses.” Crimes of the magnitude trumpeted by western “experts” would have far more leaks and credible evidence if they existed.
In the meantime, this writer hopes everyone has a great day and evening, and starts identifying a new generation of politicians that 1) are not lawyers, 2) are incorruptable, 3) agree to MRI and PET scans to determine their honesty in regards to their beliefs in regards to domestic and international issues and strict adherence to the constitution, for a change.
The Supreme Court is reported to have played the major role in ending the 2nd Red Scare, and should they reconsider and reverse Citizens United, throwing out subsequent legislation based upon its faulty premise of “no quid pro quo.”
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