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  • The Question of Legitimacy

    11/10/2024 11:54:11 PM PST · by thecodont · 11 replies
    YouTube ^ | Streamed live on Nov 8, 2024 | Sargon of Akkad
    [transcript] either has a right to rule on not and this is done by Common consent it is understood that this person has done whatever it is they ought to have done given the current political Paradigm and the crown is on their head and so Donald Trump's re-election very much has a kind of Return of the King Vibe now calm down Americans I'm not actually talking about a literal King what I'm talking about is someone with the legitimacy the Mandate of Heaven the right to rule in people's minds it is legitimate that he is in charge...
  • Gordon Chang warns China 'configuring its military to kill Americans'

    09/07/2020 5:49:02 PM PDT · by familyop · 115 replies
    Fox News ^ | September 7, 2020 | Yael Halon
    Chang's comments follow a recent Pentagon report suggesting that China is planning to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads in this decade -- including those designed for ballistic missiles and that can reach the U.S. The report adds a time clock to Trump's decision, Chang said. "[President] Xi Jinping has been talking increasingly about this notion that China has a mandate of heaven to rule the world," Chang explained. "They [beleive that they] not only have the right to do it, they have the obligation to do it.
  • What's the Real Story About JFK's Controversial Decision to Assassinate a Revered Catholic?

    12/03/2015 6:26:48 AM PST · by marshmallow · 24 replies
    Christian Newswire ^ | 12/1/15 | Kevin Wandra
    Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam, possessed the Confucian "Mandate of Heaven," a moral and political authority that was widely recognized by all Vietnamese. What is not commonly known is that Diem was a devout Roman Catholic - in fact, he was a third-order Benedictine and daily communicant. Diem was taken down by a military coup sponsored by the U.S. government and ultimately betrayed by the administration of the first Catholic President, John F. Kennedy, which resulted in Diem's brutal murder on Nov. 2, 1963. In his new book, THE LOST MANDATE OF HEAVEN: The...
  • Earthquakes and the Mandate of Heaven

    05/24/2008 1:58:06 PM PDT · by neverdem · 12 replies · 100+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | May 17, 2008 | GUY SORMAN
    The massive quake that shook China's Sichuan province this week is one of the worst natural disasters – in terms of lives claimed and property destroyed – that the world has seen in some time. But an earthquake, according to Chinese tradition, is not a mere act of nature, nor is it simply a matter of fate. Traditionally, every earthquake announces profound changes that will affect the entire society. The Chinese still remember – as do I, having been in Beijing at the time – that the great Tangshan quake of 1976, which killed more than 240,000, came just before...