SLAVERY AND REAL HISTORY
Moslem slavery in Africa still exists today
It is a safe bet that everyone reading this column had an ancestor who was either a slave or slaveholder.
It is also no coincidence that the effort to abolish slavery on a sustained and global basis did not occur until after the advent of the industrial revolution.
Persistent slavery can be found in all cultures once people ceased being exclusively hunter-gatherers. Slavery was in fact “normal” until recent times. Sudan became the last country to legally abolish it in 2007 but, although illegal, it continues to be practiced in some countries.
[Note by JW: these countries are all Moslem because Allah officially approves of slavery in the Koran – see Allah and Slavery from February 2007.]
In most countries throughout history, the slaves were often of the same race as the slaveholder. In the antebellum South, most whites were not slaveholders, and some American blacks were. Well before the Revolution, there were some white slaves — mainly Irish — that the British had brought to America.
Slavery in other words, like most things in history, was a complex institution that differed from time to time and place to place, and to criticize and vilify our ancestors for not having today’s values is not particularly useful.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 08/25/17
It seems as if whenever Jack Wheeler asks me to fill in on the HFR (he’s in Kaliningrad), we have a tumultuous week.
We may look back upon it as the week in which Democrats, the Lying Swine, PC corporate fascists and the GOPe completely lost their minds.
Those whom President Trump would destroy, he first makes mad.
Key events since last week’s HFR were:
*The riot in Boston Saturday (8/19).
*The collision Monday (8/21) of the USS John S. McCain, a guided missile destroyer, with a freighter off the coast of Singapore. (This is a bigger deal than most Americans realize.)
*President Trump’s address to the nation Monday night announcing a new strategy in Afghanistan.
*The president’s speech to a huge crowd at a rally in Phoenix Wednesday (8/23) and the rioting afterwards.
*Hurricane Harvey striking Texas last night. (Who is more to blame for it? President Trump? Nazis? Confederates?)
BLACK NATIONALIST STATUES MUST FALL
Malcolm X
There are streets, schools and parks across the country named after a violent racist who urged the KKK to murder civil rights activists and claimed that racial integration was a Jewish conspiracy.
There’s a boulevard in Brooklyn named after a racist who admired Hitler and boasted of being the first fascist. Harvard has a prominent institute named after a bigot who defended Nazi bigotry.
New York City, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles all have streets named after a supremacist and nationalist who palled around with Nazis. New York City has a statue of him. Washington D.C. has an art tribute to him. If we are going to take down Confederate memorials, there’s no way he can stay up.
He must fall.
In 1961, Malcolm X introduced George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, on stage at a Nation of Islam rally. After Rockwell made a donation to the racist black nationalist hate group, Malcom X led a round of applause for the Neo-Nazi leader and called him, “Mr. Rockwell.”
There’s been a recent effort in Bethesda to rename Winston Churchill High School after Malcolm X. How can you rename a school honoring the leader who defeated Nazism after Malcolm, a Nazi collaborator?
THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR NORTH KOREA IS REGIME CHANGE
The Crazy Fat Kid has to go
Yes, it’s serious. Damn serious. Not just because a hostile country ruled by an unstable dictator either has, or is on the verge of having, ICBMs and nuclear warheads.
But also because North Korea is just one of many tyrannies preparing to do mean things to the United States. And our friends.
Mr. Kim is backing away from the threat to bomb Guam, which gives us a breather to ask some basic questions and craft a winning strategy. Alas, we have neither reliable answers to the basic questions, nor anything approaching a winning strategy.
One problem is that we’re not dealing with a rogue state in isolation – it’s an entire global network of rogue states from Iran to Russia to China. There’s only one solution. We have to engineer regime change in Pyongyang.
GLOBAL WARMING PROVEN NATURAL NOT MAN-MADE ONCE AGAIN
[It is quite gratifying that TTP’s “Solar Warming” published ten years ago continues to be proven correct –JW]
Most global warming is natural and even if there had been no Industrial Revolution current global temperatures would be almost exactly the same as they are now, a study has found.
The paper, by Australian scientists John Abbot and Jennifer Marohasy, published in GeoResJ uses the latest big data technique to analyze six 2,000 year-long proxy temperature series from different geographic regions.
“Proxies” are the markers scientists use – tree rings, sediments, pollen, etc – to try assess global temperature trends in the days before the existence of thermometers.
All the evidence suggests that the planet was about a degree warmer during the Medieval Warming Period than it is now; and that there is nothing unnatural or unprecedented about late 20th century and early 21st century “climate change”.
IS CHINA’S DEBT MUCH WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT?
In its latest country focus, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) upgraded the growth outlook for Asia’s largest economy to an average of 6.4 percent a year through to 2021, compared to 6 percent previously.
Could this be Pollyannic? Because the IMF said the faster pace of growth would come at the cost of increased debt.
China’s total non-financial sector debt, including corporate, government and household debt, is expected to reach almost 300 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2022, up from 242 percent in 2016, as Beijing strives to achieve its goal of doubling 2010 real GDP by 2020.
That’s according to the IMF – and it could be far worse than that. Analysts such as Charlene Chu are saying that
the real bad debt figure in China is up to $6.8 trillion more than official estimates. And everyone knows not to trust China’s official estimates.
WILL BRITAIN TAKE THE LEAD AWAY FROM AMERICA ON GENE EDITING?
Britain has an opportunity to seize on the latest breakthroughs in gene (or DNA) editing and pioneer new approaches in agriculture, research and medicine.
We Brits are well placed to be bold but responsible gene editors. Bolder than continental countries, looking over their shoulder to the disapproving Roman Catholic church; more responsible than China, where decisions on such matters are taken by officials with little consultation with the public; and without the divisive culture battles over moral and legal issues that so often divide the United States on matters of biology.
Twenty years ago, America was relaxed about genetic modification, whereas Britain was easily panicked by the green movement into nonsensical fears of “Frankenstein foods”. Today, it is the other way around.
Hotted up by green campaigners who are aware of “climate fatigue” among their donors, Americans are increasingly torn over GMOs, despite decades of safe and environmentally beneficial experience of growing of them. Here In Britain, we’re past that,
HAS THE FED REACHED A DEAD END?
Is more inflation desirable? Those at the Federal Reserve seem to think so, and they have explicitly said their target is 2 percent, or about double the current level.
Why would they argue for a further erosion of the purchasing power of the dollar? It is on the misguided belief (i.e., the long-discredited Phillips Curve) that moderately higher levels of inflation lead to higher levels of employment.
The unemployment rate numbers indicate that the United States is now at what was traditionally considered full employment — yet the number of people working as a percentage of the work force is close to a three-decade low.
Employers have not had to raise most wages, particularly for the unskilled, because there is such a large pool of unemployed or underemployed people ready to enter the work force when they see the right opportunity.
What you see in the chart above is the dead end the Fed has reached. Here’s why.
