I checked the headlines, and it's bad of course.
Biden opened the border, so voila, a lot of folks decided they should migrate into the USA before someone recognizes that these folks just want to have an opportunity for a better life, which they can't get in their home countries, but will be taking jobs from Americans, because hey, companies know they will work for lower wagers.
The reason they are leaving is that no one will set up companies in their countries because of corruption. But, hey, the Pope is so busy blaming global warming and wanting impose The Great Reset he can't be bothered about preaching things like "thou shalt not steal".
I laugh when one of the proposed solutions is to send money to poor countries suffering poverty from "climate change". The dirty little secret it that most of this money will be stolen and go into the pockets of rich politicians, and the poor will not benefit.
And corruption is why so many Latin American and Haitians seek to migrate to the USA.
Michael Yon reports the details: many moved to other south American countries but now see an opportunity to migrate to the USA where opportunities are better... but ironically not a lot of Venezuelans, even though there are huge numbers of these folks in Colombia. (Before Covid, Colombia had cleaned up their act and was becoming prosperous. Now they might relapse into chaos, alas...).
But hey, a couple million illegal Haitians or Central Americans will probably settle with friends and relatives already in the USA, and like my relatives, will integrate and become proud citizens.
But the really dangerous problem is China, who is licking their chops at the thought of invading Taiwan.
But Taiwan is not the only one they are bullying
China and India at war?
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Taiwan is near to Luzon, and taking over Taiwan will not only let them own the microchip industry but block a major internet cable and major shipping lanes thru the West Philippine sea.
But never mind:
LOOOK RACISM.
Repent, they say, but actually they mean to censor history, destroy religion, and control your ability to think: because to erase the past means you can control the future.
Heh
The elite neurotic well educated but clueless white Karens who run the US social media are now concentrated on Slavery, meaning everything is racist, even when it isn't.
I spied a new series on some network about the history of slavery, as in western slavery, which appears to be propaganda to make you feel guilty and repent your sins. Even if your ancestors were being starved to death or killed in pogroms at the time and had nothing to do with the miniscule slave trade in the southern US (miniscule because most slaves (over 90 percent) in the West African slave trade actually went to the Indies or Latin America).
Their ignorance of history is appalling.
And of course, the African slave trade was not limited to the Americas.
most Americans know the phrase: Dr Livingstone, I presume".
But the background is that Dr. Livingstone went into the interior of Africa and reported on the decimation of East Africa from the Arab slave trade. Smithsonian article here. It mentions Livingstone's answer to the trade: Economic development so that the locals didn't have to enslave their neighbors to make a living.
Kidnapping people for slavery or making money out of selling them for ransom still is going on today. Ditto for kidnapping school kids to groom them into becoming killer child soldiers, because children are easier to brainwash.
When I was in Africa, the "militants" would enter schools and kidnap the kids to become soldiers. This is still going on, especially with the radical Islamicists in Nigeria.
Militant groups are often beloved by the rich leftists in Europe and the USA, but not always by the locals.
Indeed, one of the reasons that the Colombian people turned against FARC was not because of the drug lords taking them over (The locals figures if the Yanks were stupid enough to take drugs, hey why not make some money off of them). But the FARC would kidnap people for ransom, force local farmers into working in their drug factories, and sometimes kill priests and pastors who preached against them.
So after mass demonstrations made them decide to make peace, things improved. Ah, but the stupid Pope congratulated their leader for making peace, without of course mentioning his sins and murders should be repented, or suggesting that maybe he should give back some of those millions of dollars he extorted from the innocent.
Sigh.
The same thing is going on in parts of Mexico now, but never mind.
There is enough blood in human history that slavery, which was often the alternative to killing POWs, or criminals, or the indigent, was actually a better alternative.
But the American slave trade was bad because it was run by those considering themselves Christian, and unlike many countries, the racial factor made it difficult to escape the stigma.
But the slave trade was not limited to Africa.
the phrase in the Marine Hymn, to the shores of Tripoli, are a reminder of America's first war, against the Barbary pirates. But the North African slave trade went on for a thousand years, and few remember it, although until Vatican II, Catholics had a feast to Mary, our Lady of Ransom, referring to the priests who collected money to ransom folks kidnapped by these groups.
The Islamic slave trade in Eastern Europe was extensive, but not well documented: but the Slavic countries remember, and is one of several reasons (the other being the Mongol and Turkish atrocities) that these countries dislike the European Union's welcome of Islamic "refugees", not because they hate refugees or poor Muslim families seeking a better life, but because in reality many of these refugees are military age men who have no skills and don't want to assimilate. LINK.
History often lauds civilizations but ignores the common folks who suffer. For example, when you read about the Islamic Andelusian paradise in Spain, just remember they lived high off the hog (/s) off the Irish and British and Slavic slaves sold to them by the Vikings or by Barbary pirates.
And what about the Asian slave trades? The Visayas have the remains of forts built by the Spanish to stop the Mindanao Moros from capturing Filipinos for slave. Of course, go back in pre Spanish times, before Christianity and Spain made slavery taboo, and you can read about the Tagalogs kidnapping slaves from the southern Philippines.
Slavery was not the same everywhere: and forced labor includes peasants with few rights, and factory workers who faced starvation if they didn't work long hours. Thanks to unions, things have improved in the west.
But today, millions of people work on contracts in other countries, mainly but not always in the Middle East. This include many Filipino OFWs. And the Covid crisis made it worse: Because some are now unemployed, or maybe working but not paid. And the quarantines make it hard to travel home.
It is estimated that 700 thousand Filipino OFW have returned home because of the covid epidemic, and unemployment here is high because restaurants and shops are shut down: and as I wrote earlier, even those doing e commerce have to face getting their goods through quarantine that requires an expensive covid test.
Most overseas workers are grateful for the opportunity to support their families back home, but some are forced to work long hours, or pushed into sexual slavery, with little recourse to the law. Migrant Rights Organization has many stories about these problems.
As for China, well, maybe using prisoners to make stuff is not slavery, but again who notices? Not the PC Karens who pretend not to know about blood cobalt, pollution, or that slave labor workers with few rights made their iphones.
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an aside: I read that a few American cities are reporting leptospirosis infections, a disease spread by rats, due to the low hygiene levels of the inner cities.
Well, every time we have a major flood, we have cases of this because people have to wade through dirty water to get around.
It is easily treated with antibiotics early, but can be fatal.
But, like the outbreak of Hepatitis A in southern California, the cause is that these cities are ignoring basic public health/hygiene lessons of the past.
Dr. Levine call your office. They need a cleanup in Aisle Five New York City.
Sigh.
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