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Americans Fleeing the US for fear of the far right

Article in the New Republic - open with a gay man in NYC going to the German consulate to apply for citizenship - looking forward to a time when LGBTQ rights are truly erroded

There is little doubt that members of the political right are setting their sight on LGBTQ rights, it was alluded to directly in Dobbs

“Blaxit” - movement of black Americans moving abroad - huge uptick in internet searches in the last years since Trump - politics aside, we can agree that the far right took the mask off in terms of bigotry

Mass Migration Preparedness - Migration is now just another type of whether pattern delivering inconvenience to us all

“Board up your windows folks i think we’re going to have a system moving through the next few months

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/c...

Expats v Immigrants - What’s the difference!?

The blunt expression of this problem is well put by a Guardian article: “Why are white people expats and the rest of us are immigrants?”

Wall Street Journal’s take:

has a blog dedicated to the life of expats and recently they featured a story ‘Who is an expat, anyway?’. Here are the main conclusions: “Some arrivals are described as expats; others as immigrants; and some simply as migrants. It depends on social class, country of origin and economic status. It’s strange to hear some people in Hong Kong described as expats, but not others. Anyone with roots in a western country is considered an expat … Filipino domestic helpers are just guests, even if they’ve been here for decades. Mandarin-speaking mainland Chinese are rarely regarded as expats … It’s a double standard woven into official policy.”

GoFundMe - Coyote

Mt. Pleasant High School in RI

Assistant VP and teacher soliciting money to pay the rest of a students tab to a coyote

Predictable backlash - money was returned and another email sent out by the principal saying the request was “not appropriate”

This was probably a teacher trying to simply support a student - understandably, it was swallowed up by the culture wars

DARIEN GAP - THE MIGRANT ROUTE OF LAST RESORT (Specific uptick in Afghans taking this route)

What is the Darien gap?

60 miles of roadless jungle, steep mountains, rivers, swamps completely controlled by gangs

The Spanish, who took control of almost all of Central America at one point or another, steered clear of the Darien jungle, seeing it as to dense, the mountains too steep, and filled with malaria and yellow fever

Land and sea routes have been targeted by authorities increasingly over the past few years - pushing more people into this route - only land bridge to north america - this is becoming the only way for many

This is the only break in the pan-american highway which otherwise stretches from Alaska to Argentina

According to the Panamanian Gov -- 151k have crossed the darien gap between Jan and Sep in 2022 - up from only a couple hundred people annually about a decade ago

The majority were from Cuba, Ecuador, and Haiti—including Haitian children born in Brazil and Chile—but some hailed from as far away as Angola, Bangladesh, and Uzbekistan. 

Louis CK recently added a new point of view on the question of immigration: speaking with Joe Rogan, Louis CK said that maybe the reason we try to keep the border closed is that we like being comfortable too much. Being too comfortable is bad for the individual organism, and it is also bad for society, because in either case the capacity to actively manage problems diminishes, complacency sets in, eyes become blind to problems, etc. In this episode, our main story is the recent allegations against America's Immigration and Customs Enforcement of barbaric force-feeding of Kumar, an Indian national detained after entering the U.S. to seek asylum. How much of our need for utmost comfort contributed to the circumstances and details of this brutal story? We also cover Russia's new reverse-migration, the United Nation's year in review, which shows 100 million people globally are currently displaced, an update on Greece's ongoing persecution of immigrant advocates, and a brief look at the life of   Kalpana Chawla.

THE CRISIS OF MISSING MIGRANTS

A shadow of a boat looms over the scene of a pathology lab. 

What has become of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared on their way to Europe?

The drone killing of Al-Awlaki marked in the most violent way possible the limits of US Citizenship. It ignited a debate about what citizenship is, and whether the killing of Al-Awlaki had somehow lessened the rights of Americans to not be killed by their own government. Eric Snowden recently announced he was becoming a U.S. Citizen. Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, tried to delay his deportation from South Africa by using a “World Passport”. These cases beg the question of where the limits of citizenship, which are in essence the rights that attach to a person because they are a part of a certain recognized country, begin and end. They often end, we discuss, where they meet the outer limits of the law, I.e. where questions that law has not yet considered start and only raw power rules.

We also cover: nigerian migrants riding on the propeller of a ship all the way to Europe; a large ICE data leak; Qatari migrants in the world cup audience; the World Passport and the World Citizen Government; the idiocy of the position that all borders should be open/borders shouldn't exist



Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro clip - qatari immigrant play actors

00:03:00 Show start

00:03:29 Nigerian migrants survive on tanker ship

00:08:12 "Borders don't exist" is not a serious argument

00:11:08 ICE Data leak - what does it mean?

00:33:04 Edward Snowden: Citizenship limits Pt 1

00:37:22 Snowden's presser: legal significance of words

00:40:44 Eric Snowden could declare his way out of US citizenship

00:44:20 Al-Awlaki: US finds a limit to citizenship

00:47:25 Jerry Falwell is a lot like Al-Awlaki

00:55:23 Al-Awlaki was a very typical spoiled American bad boy

00:55:50 Al-Awlaki's mountain of prostitutes

00:58:20 Al-Awlaki was one of the original social media trolls

01:00:30 Andrew Tate is what Al-Awlaki could have been

01:03:15 Al-Awlaki turns the corner into terrorism

01:04:10 A crotch lights on fire

01:05:07 Obama administration finds justification for killing Al-Awlaki

01:07:38 Where does the power to kill a citizen come from? if it exists...

01:10:32 Using extraconstitutional power to kill citizens

01:15:37 Limits on power, i.e. laws, often must be developed in response to power's use

01:17:04 Citizenship ends where the the limits of law begin

01:17:43 Where Eric Snowden's rights to citizenship would end

01:19:30 Yasiim Bey formerly known as Mos Def

01:22:20 The World Passport (that's not a real passport)

01:25:01 Sovereign citizens and the world passport

01:26:30 Open borders is as realistic as a world passport (i.e. uttern nonsense)

01:28:10 Not believing in borders is the irony of the World Passport crowd

An unknown daredevil takes flight over the fence in Melilla, the world's most dangerous border | the UK uses its superior knowledge of enacting racially-administered bureaucracy to put forth a (very real!) scheme to send English Channel crossers (not the white ones, except for Albanians probably) to Rwanda, which is next to the Congo, which is totally a real country and not a hodgepodge of armed rebel groups and volcano-scarred villages | Francis Ngannou was in Malilla and tried to cross, but even though he is a world champion martial artist, he couldn't do it.

Europe is in a new immigration crisis, but this time there is no timetable as to when it will be over. Since 2016, Europe has reversed course on its long-term project of knocking down policed borders, so that in 2022 it now once again has some of the most militarized borders in the world. This is creating new opportunities for arbitrage of opportunity, and setting the stage, we fear, for a very violent future. What can be done? 



In part 2, we discuss the story of Nikola Jokic, the two-time NBA MVP, the practitioner of the Sambor Shuffle, the great wizard of the beautiful game. More specifically, we talk about how his experience in the province of Vojvodina, in Serbia, gives him a unique immigrant identity. Perhaps it is not he that is the true immigrant, as that title is better applied to the very land he grew up on.