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About 450,000 African slaves were taken from Africa to North America.
Meanwhile, about 1.25 million Europeans (English, French, Icelandic, Danes, Dutch, Welsh, etc) were taken from Europe to Africa as slaves.
Yes, 1.25 million!!!
See this drawing from 1675 showing the slave journey.
The women were mainly used as sex slaves or domestic servants.
The men as labourers or soldiers, with some undergoing castration and becoming eunuchs.
It was considered a sign of prosperity for an Algerian or Turkish leader to have white skinned eunuchs and female sex slaves.
The punishments for these slaves were horrific. Their noses and ears cut off for misbehaving, shackled in chains.
In many cases they were forced to convert to Islam. Their children were taken from them and often faced a difficult fate as sex slaves.
So, if you want to talk about reparations, let’s start here. //
Simon O'Neill
@simonathletepr
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Sep 20
Some people refuse to believe that Europeans were taken as slaves. They think slavery only began 400 years ago with Europeans taking blacks to the USA. Most black slaves were out in chains by fellow blacks. That is never taught by those seeking reparations. //
Miss Jo
@therealmissjo
I never said that this was the trans Atlantic number.
I said that this was the number that went to North America. About 388,000 went directly and 50,000-70,000 went by way of the Caribbean.
The vast majority ended up in South America and the Caribbean. An incredible number in Brazil. //
₿lockChain ₿ob Charles @BlockChainBobC
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Where are you getting your numbers. The trade in Africans globally went on from the early 1500's and lasted until at least 1870. Over that 300 years there are some estimates as high as 15 million people brought to North America alone. The scale of the slavery does not make… Show more
Miss Jo
@therealmissjo
Sorry that is not true.
The slave trade was from about 1500-1900. 400 years. And in that time about 12 million (some estimates are 10.6 million) were sent across the Atlantic but only a small portion of them went to North America: 388,000 to be precise.
Most were sent to the Caribbean and South America. About another 50k - 70k were sent from the Caribbean on to North America. Hence the 450,000.
About 450,000 African slaves were taken from Africa to North America.
Meanwhile, about 1.25 million Europeans (English, French, Icelandic, Danes, Dutch, Welsh, etc) were taken from Europe to Africa as slaves.
Yes, 1.25 million!!!
See this drawing from 1675 showing the slave journey.
The women were mainly used as sex slaves or domestic servants.
The men as labourers or soldiers, with some undergoing castration and becoming eunuchs.
It was considered a sign of prosperity for an Algerian or Turkish leader to have white skinned eunuchs and female sex slaves.
The punishments for these slaves were horrific. Their noses and ears cut off for misbehaving, shackled in chains.
In many cases they were forced to convert to Islam. Their children were taken from them and often faced a difficult fate as sex slaves.
So, if you want to talk about reparations, let’s start here. //
Simon O'Neill
@simonathletepr
·
Sep 20
Some people refuse to believe that Europeans were taken as slaves. They think slavery only began 400 years ago with Europeans taking blacks to the USA. Most black slaves were out in chains by fellow blacks. That is never taught by those seeking reparations.
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No one is arguing for marrying young for the sake of marrying young. Who you marry is the most important decision you will ever make, and must be done wisely with careful consideration of your potential spouse’s character and values.
What people open to marrying young are saying is that once you find someone you love, are attracted to physically and emotionally, and who shares your values, you should take the plunge and get married. You don’t need to “sow wild oats” or take your future spouse for a test drive before you make your vows. In fact, studies suggest that couples who do not cohabitate before marrying in their 20s have the lowest odds of divorce in America.
There’s no need to engage in the most depressing and debased aspects of modern culture. It’s not a rite of passage to get crossed and hook up with a guy you met at the bar. What is a rite of passage that stretches back centuries in human history is marriage, particularly marrying young.
Young women should ignore Marcotte’s “advice.” If you find a good person, don’t wait. Choose wisely, have faith, and take the leap.
How psychological dysfunction has been embedded in our institutions.
CHRISTOPHER F. RUFO
SEP 20, 2023
You’re not imagining that the world has gone mad.
Healthy debate has been replaced by activist hysterics. Speech is declared violence, while violence is excused as speech. Masculinity is condemned as regressive, while men in skirts and heels are celebrated in the public square.
It’s easy to laugh at these outbursts as the ravings of a small but vocal minority, but the compromised health of our body politic is not a trivial concern. A strange, new pattern of psychological dysfunction has infiltrated our most prestigious institutions, our corporate bureaucracies, and the highest offices in the land.
In short, we’re sick. Our society is out of balance. We’ve been consumed by a cluster of disorder that appeals to our worst instincts and deranges our most important social functions.
We need to recover our sanity. But to do so, we must first know exactly what we’re dealing with: the emergence of a Cluster B Society.
This video is sponsored by Manhattan Institute.
How psychological dysfunction has been embedded in our institutions.
CHRISTOPHER F. RUFO
SEP 20, 2023
Democrats and media keep insisting that absentee ballots and mail-in voting don’t contribute to voter fraud — but a mayoral election in Connecticut could blow a big hole in that dubious claim.
The fact is, no amount of appeasement short of total capitulation will ever satisfy Armenia’s powerful Muslim neighbors, Azerbaijan and its “big brother,” Turkey.
Appropriating Artsakh has always been only the first step of a larger project. As Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev once openly proclaimed, “Yerevan [the capital of Armenia] is our historical land and we Azerbaijanis must return to these historical lands.” He has also referred to other ancient Armenian territories, including the Zangezur and Lake Sevan regions, as “our historic lands.” Taking over those territories “is our political and strategic goal,” Aliyev maintains, “and we need to work step-by-step to get closer to it.”
But as Tigran Balayan, spokesman for Armenia’s foreign ministry, responded: “The statement about territorial claims of the president of Azerbaijan, a state appearing on the political map of the world only 100 years ago … yet again demonstrates the racist character of the ruling regime in Baku.”
This is a rather restrained and diplomatic way of saying that, not only are Azerbaijani claims absolutely false but they are also — as most falsehoods nowadays tend to be — the exact inverse of the truth.
Armenia is one of the oldest nations in the world. Armenians founded Yereyan, their current capital, in 782 BC — exactly 2,700 years before Azerbaijan came into being in 1918. And yet, here is the president of Azerbaijan waging war because “Yerevan is our historical land and we Azerbaijanis must return to these historical lands.” //
Fast forward nearly a millennium to Azerbaijan’s war on Armenia in 2020, a Muslim fighter was videotaped triumphantly shouting “Allahu Akbar!” while standing atop an Armenian church chapel where the cross had been broken off.
Such is an idea of what the Turkic peoples did to Christian Armenians — not during the Armenian Genocide of a century ago when some 1.5 million Armenians were massacred and even more displaced — but one thousand years ago when the Islamic conquest of Armenia first began.
This unrelenting history of hate makes one thing perfectly clear: all modern-day pretexts and “territorial disputes” aside, true and permanent peace between Armenia and its Muslim neighbors will only be achieved when the Christian nation has either been conquered or ceded itself into nonexistence.
Nor would it be the first to do so. It is worth recalling that the heart of what is today called “the Muslim world” — the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) — was thoroughly Christian before the sword of Islam invaded. Bit by bit, century after century after the initial seventh-century Muslim conquests and occupations, it lost its Christian identity. Its peoples were lost in the morass of Islam so that few today even remember that Egypt, Iraq, Syria, etc., were among the first, oldest, and most populous Christian nations.
Armenia — the first nation in the world to adopt Christianity — is a holdout, a thorn in Islam’s side, and, as such, will never know lasting peace from the Muslims surrounding it — not least as the West has thrown it under the bus.
There are approximately 900 Active-duty general/flag officers (GO/FOs) today of 1.3 million troops. This is a ratio of 1 GO/FO for every 1,400 troops. During World War II, an admittedly different era, there were more than 2,000 GO/FOs for a little more than 12 million Active troops (1:6,000). This development represents “rank creep” that does not enhance mission success but clutters the chain of command, adds bureaucratic layers to decisions, and costs taxpayers additional money from funding higher paygrades to fill positions. As end-strength fluctuates, force structure and strength projections for the next decade show the uniformed Services maintaining substantial excess capacity at senior ranks. Although historical numbers are inexact guides and future threats could radically change circumstances, the case for reduction is strong. The Department of Defense (DOD) should reduce the numbers, billets, and percent of GO/FOs in each Service to increase efficiency, streamline decisionmaking, achieve modest cost savings, and enhance accountability of decisionmaking.
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650 Generals and Admirals? Some serious inflation going on there:
https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Publications/Article/1325984/are-there-too-many-general-officers-for-todays-military/
There are approximately 900 Active-duty general/flag officers (GO/FOs) today of 1.3 million troops. This is a ratio of 1 GO/FO for every 1,400 troops. During World War II, an admittedly different era, there were more than 2,000 GO/FOs for a little more than 12 million Active troops (1:6,000).
That was from 2017.
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There have been many depictions of the debate in Philadelphia at Independence Hall of both the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the meetings to hammer out and pass a federal framework for the colonies, which eventually became the United States Constitution. Most, I imagine, have been by American citizens who felt a connection to our founding document and were able to project a passion for this nation's beginning.
Yet none of them stand a chance or hold a candle to the portrayal of William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise and his explanation of the piece of paper that starts off with WE THE PEOPLE.
Shatner, who is Canadian by birth, became a legend for his portrayal of the fictional Captain in Star Trek: The Orginal Series, and in the clip below he tipped the Shatner Ham O' Meter at full blast.
The Enterprise crew discovers a parallel world where the United States lost a nuclear war to Communist China. Centuries later, the descendants of the Americans cherish the documents of their ancient heritage but have forgotten their meaning. Kirk explains it to them.
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“If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation.” - Saladin
The internet gave us many things that changed the world forever but one of the negative aspects of it is the deluge of porn that hit humanity like a tidal wave. //
But despite any positive aspects they bring up about porn (you'd be surprised at how much porn drives technological innovation) the bottom line is that porn is a net negative on humanity. The effects it has on everything from our brain function to the commonality of some of the most heinous crimes are horrific. Yet, it's not often talked about, especially in mainstream circles, at least not negatively. //
In May 2014, a study in the prestigious journal JAMA Psychiatry was all over the news. It found that the more porn men reported watching, the less volume and activity they had in the regions of the brain—specifically the striatum—linked to reward processing and motivation. They also found that connectivity between the striatum and the prefrontal cortex (which is the part of the brain used for decision making, planning, and behavior regulation) weakened the more porn the men reported watching.
The researchers hypothesized that these differences might reflect change resulting from intense stimulation of the reward system.
My parents were married for 71 years. Even at the end, in their nineties, they held hands. My wife’s parents are past their 50th anniversary and are still close, inseparable in fact. So my wife and I had a good foundation in that regard. In that, and in my own marriage of almost 32 years, I have some ideas on what makes a marriage work,
The Wright Brothers' first flight in 1903 was successfully captured in an iconic photograph by John T. Daniels.
The Hindenburg disaster in 1937 marked the end of the airship era, with Murray Becker's photograph capturing the tragic event.
Ensign John Gay's photograph of a US FA-18 Hornet jet flying past an aircraft carrier in 1999 won first prize in the World Press Photo 2000 contest.
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) on Friday suspended the right to bear arms to send “a resounding message.” The order apparently comes in response to the Wednesday shooting death of the third New Mexico child since July 28 — each an unspeakable tragedy, to be sure. But the “message” it sends is way off target.
Lujan Grisham declared gun violence “a statewide public health emergency of unknown duration” in a Thursday order. On Friday, state Health Secretary Patrick Allen released a public health order at the governor’s direction which forbade any person “other than a law enforcement officer or licensed security officer” to “possess a firearm … either openly or concealed.” Allen’s order also addressed drug abuse, for which Lujan Grisham declared a separate state of public health emergency.
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