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King Charles tells summit past can't be changed as leaders ask Britain to reckon with slavery

by Associated Press

King Charles III told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa on
Friday that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged
calls from some of Britain's former colonies for a reckoning over its
role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

The British royal understood "the most painful aspects of our past
continue to resonate," he told leaders in Apia. But Charles stopped
short of mentioning financial reparations that some leaders at the
event have urged and instead exhorted them to find the "right language"
and an understanding of history "to guide us towards making the right
choices in future where inequality exists."

"None of us can change the past but we can commit with all our hearts
to learning its lessons and to finding creative ways to right the
inequalities that endure," said Charles, who is attending his first
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, or CHOGM, as Britain's head
of state.

His remarks at the summit's official opening ceremony echoed comments a
day earlier by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the meeting
should avoid becoming mired in the past and "very, very long endless
discussions about reparations." The U.K. leader dismissed calls from
Caribbean countries for leaders at the biennial event to explicitly
discuss redress for Britain's role in the slave trade and mention the
matter in its final joint statement.

But Britain's handling of its involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave
trade is seen by many observers as a litmus test for the Commonwealth's
adaptation to a modern-day world, as other European nations and some
British institutions have started to own up to their role in the trade.

"I think the time has come for this to be taken seriously," said
Jacqueline McKenzie, a partner at London law firm Leigh Day. "Nobody
expects people to pay every single penny for what happened. But I think
there needs to be negotiations."

Such a policy would be costly and divisive at home, McKenzie said.

The U.K. has never formally apologized for its role in the trade, in
which millions of African citizens were kidnapped and transported to
plantations in the Caribbean and Americas over several centuries,
enriching many individuals and companies. Studies estimate Britain
would owe between hundreds of millions and trillions of dollars in
compensation to descendants of slaves.

The Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis on Thursday said he wanted a
"frank" discussion with Starmer about the matter and would seek mention
of the reparations issue in the leaders' final statement at the event.
All three candidates to be the next Commonwealth Secretary-General --
from Gambia, Ghana and Lesotho -- have endorsed policies of reparatory
justice for slavery.

Starmer said Thursday in remarks to reporters that the matter would not
be on the summit's agenda. But Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia
Scotland told The Associated Press in an interview that leaders "will
speak about absolutely anything they want to speak about" at an all-day
private meeting scheduled for Saturday.

King Charles said in Friday's speech that nothing would right
inequality "more decisively than to champion the principle that our
Commonwealth is one of genuine opportunity for all." The monarch urged
leaders to "choose within our Commonwealth family the language of
community and respect, and reject the language of division."

He has expressed "sorrow" over slavery at a CHOGM summit before, in
2022, and last year endorsed a probe into the monarchy's ties to the
industry.

Charles -- who is battling cancer -- and his wife, Queen Camilla, will
return to Britain tomorrow after visiting Samoa and Australia -- where
his presence prompted a lawmaker's protest over his country's colonial
legacy.

He acknowledged Friday that the Commonwealth had mattered "a great
deal" his late mother Queen Elizabeth II, who was seen as a unifying
figure among the body's at times disparate and divergent states.

The row over reparations threatened to overshadow a summit that Pacific
leaders -- and the Commonwealth secretariat -- hoped would focus
squarely on the ruinous effects of climate change.

"We are well past believing it is a problem for the future since it is
already undermining the development we have long fought for," the king
said Friday. "This year alone we have seen terrifying storms in the
Caribbean, devastating flooding in East Africa and catastrophic
wildfires in Canada. Lives, livelihood and human rights are at-risk
across the Commonwealth."

Charles offered "every encouragement for action with unequivocal
determination to arrest rising temperatures" by cutting emissions,
building resilience, and conserving and restoring nature on land and at
sea, he said.

Samoa is the first Pacific Island nation to host the event, and Prime
Minister FiamÄ Naomi Mata'afa said in a speech Friday that it was "a
great opportunity for all to experience our lived reality, especially
with climate change," which was "the greatest threat to the survival
and security of our Pacific people."

Two dozen small island nations are among CHOGM's 56 member states,
among them the world's most imperiled by rising seas. Her remarks came
as the United Nations released a stark new report warning that the
world was on pace for significantly more warming than expected without
immediate climate action.

The population of the member nations of the 75-year-old Commonwealth
organization totals 2.7 billion people.

#uk #king-charles #commonwealth #british-commonwealth #slavery #reparations #CHOGM

Kids as young at 8 are drugged and trafficked into the US by smugglers posing as their parents, Border Patrol warns

“A few years ago when they were coming in en masse, we had to let family units in. People kept coming in and after a while we noticed the kids were the same, but the parents were different. They were recycling the kids,” one Border Patrol source told The Post.

“I hate thinking about it because there were thousands of kids and who knows where they all ended up,” the source explained.

Authorities say it’s not clear what is happening to the children once they are smuggled into the US — but many are vulnerable to being exploited for child labor and child sex trafficking.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/kids-are-being-drugged-and-trafficked-into-the-us-border-patrol/

#USA #US #american #migrants #slavery #children #trafficking #capitalism

#Democrats exposing themselves for the #slaveOwners they really are:

Trib Live did not mention the name of the meat packing facility. However, a resident of the tiny town said the focus should be on Fourth Street Foods, a food manufacturer that produces frozen food products for the processed foods industrial complex. These foods are sold in major retail stores throughout the US.
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Lam was charged with criminal homicide, solicitation to commit homicide, conspiracy, and tamping with evidence after paying a hitman $65k to kill Boyke Budiarachman, the man who Lam bought the staffing company from.
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Trib Live explained how Lam believed Budiarachman, who sold him the staffing company of 500 temporary workers [migrants], was "sabotaging" it, forcing him to "make biweekly $8,000 additional payments to ensure his employees remained working at the meat packing plant, where Budiarachman worked as a human resources employee."
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Apparently, there's a lot of money to be made in this alleged labor #trafficking system of migrants, as shown in the Trib Live report.
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One resident told the ex-WSJ journo: "What we're witnessing in #Springfield is modern-day slavery."
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Look past the cats and dogs, focusing on the staffing companies and #factories that are using these #migrants. That's the story of the century.
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Also, this is all happening because of foreign policy pushed by the #StateDepartment.

#slavery #Kamala #Haitians #globalistLabor

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hes-taking-my-people-charleroi-pa-murder-hire-plot-may-expose-labor-mules-migrants

Is that so?
The Rothschilds manage Ukraine's debt

The Rothschilds took part in negotiations on Ukrainian debt in Paris in July

#Reuters: The #Rothschild clan helped reach an agreement with #Ukraine's private #creditors.
Ukraine is a small, concrete example of how certain financial hordes are monopolising countries that have now been privatised like commodities and dragged into #conflicts, then into #debt #slavery for the benefit of non-political clans eager to move on to the creation of a world state and the total enslavement of man, and even better of course of trans-man, to vulgar financial science, which is already well advanced.

If politics were eventually to re-establish itself in the world (the return of the human being and the end of the planet of the apes) to the detriment of finance, which is merely a tool, it goes without saying that all the investments made in Ukraine would at least in part revert to the Russian Federation, which is not going to stop its offensive against the Ukropithecans in Ukraine any time soon, i.e. the people of Ukraine who have been effectively trained as #Nazis by the West to #kill Russians, which is what they really are most of the time, even in their local dialect.

from a French post

Does ‘the people in Ukraine who were actually trained by the West to be #Nazis to kill #Russians’ mean that they are basically trying to kill their own people?

About the American Slave Trade

August 20, 2024 marks the 405th anniversary of slavery in the United States

August 20, 1619 - A ship brought the first 20 African Negroes to America, who were sold into slavery to the inhabitants of Jamestown.

The English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia Peninsula. There, Governor George Yardley and his head of commerce, Cape Merchant Abraham Piercy, bought the “20-odd negroes” aboard in exchange for “provisions” - meaning they were trading food for slaves.

The year 1619 was a milestone in the long history of slavery in the European colonies and the beginning stages of what would become the institution of slavery in America.

The human cargo that arrived in Virginia in 1619 came from the port city of Luanda, now the capital of modern Angola. It was then a Portuguese colony, and most of the slaves are believed to have been captured during the ongoing war between Portugal and the Ndongo kingdom, as John Thornton wrote in The William and Mary Quarterly in 1998. Between 1618 and 1620, some 50,000 slaves - many of them prisoners of war - were exported from Angola. An estimated 350 of these captives were loaded onto a Portuguese slave ship called the São João Bautista (better known as the San Juan Batista ).

The ship was on its way to the Spanish colony of Veracruz when two English privateers, the White Lion and the Treasurer, intercepted it and captured some of the Angolans on board. According to James Horne, president and chief officer of the Jamestown Rediscovery , both vessels belonged to a powerful English nobleman, Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick. Rich was anti-Hispanic and anti-Catholic and profited from the disruption of Spanish shipping in the Caribbean. The White Lion, which flew the flag of a Dutch port known for its pirates, was the first to arrive in Virginia in late August 1619, followed four days later by the Treasurer.

These 20 captives are believed to have been the first African slaves to arrive in what would become the United States 150 years later.

Four hundred years later, the arrival of the captives influenced virtually every important moment in American history, even if that history was created around anyone but Africans and African Americans. After all, for many Americans, familiarity with U.S. history is tied to the arrival of 102 passengers on the Mayflower in 1620. A year earlier, however, 20 African slaves had been brought to the British colonies against their will.

“Historians, elected politicians [and] community leaders would prefer to represent the United States as some mythical, Anglo-Saxon Christian place,” said Michael Guasco, a professor of early American history at Davidson College.

In 1992, Toni Morrison told the Guardian, “In this country, American means white. Everyone else has to spell it with a hyphen.”

After 1619, most of the country remained white and relied heavily on the labor of Indian slaves and white European indentured servants. It wasn't until the late 17th century that the transatlantic slave trade made its impact on the American colonies. There are now 26.5 million descendants of Africans in the United States.

1661

The first anti-racial law - prohibiting marriage between the races - was passed in Maryland in 1661, shortly after slaves were brought to the colonies. By the 1960s, these laws were still in effect in 21 states, most of them in the South . Alabama was the last state to repeal its ban on interracial marriage in 2000.

Advertisement in Boston for a cargo of about 250 “fine healthy negroes” recently arrived from Africa on the slave ship Bunte Island. About 1700.

1776

The Declaration of Independence, which in its first lines stated that “all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,” did not extend that right to slaves, Africans, or African Americans, and the reference to condemn slavery was deleted in the final version. Thomas Jefferson, himself a slaveholder, wrote these lines rejecting slavery; he deleted the reference after receiving criticism from a number of delegates who had enslaved blacks. This may represent “the fabric of the American political economy” since then, as some historians say.

Initially, slavery flourished on tobacco plantations in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. In the tobacco areas of these states, slaves made up more than 50 percent of the population by 1776. Slavery then spread to rice plantations farther south. In South Carolina, African Americans remained the majority until the 20th century, according to census data.

1860

The slave trade across the Atlantic, organized by the British, was one of the largest businesses of the 18th century. Approximately 600,000 of the 10 million African slaves made their way to the American colonies before the slave trade - not slavery - was banned by Congress in 1808. By 1860, however, there were nearly 4 million enslaved black people - 13% of the population - in the United States as the American-born population grew.

Eight of the first 12 U.S. presidents were slaveholders. Supporters of slavery supported the efforts of groups such as the American Colonization Society, which “sent back” tens of thousands of free black people - most of them born in America - to Liberia in the 19th century to prevent riots caused by the free descendants of slaves.

A painting depicting freed slaves once owned by Confederate President Jefferson Davis arriving at the “federal camp” at Chickasaw Bayou, Tennessee

1865

According to Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War was fought to preserve the integrity of America, not to abolish slavery - at least initially. American historians like to write that the Civil War was fought to free slavery, but slavery was not abolished after the war either. Lincoln entered the fight to free the slaves, some historians suggest, because he was worried that the British would support the south in its self-proclaimed self-determination and recognize the south as a separate entity. If he started a war to abolish slavery, it would have looked bad for the struggle of the south and the British supporting his cause. Lincoln's death was probably the first casualty of “a long civil rights movement that was not yet over,” suggested historian Peter Kolchin.

1868

Some experts argue that Reconstruction laid the groundwork for “the organization of new segregated institutions, ideologies of white supremacy, legal rationalizations, extra-legal violence, and everyday racial terror”-further widening the racial gap between blacks and whites. Others point out that the end of the war left black Americans free but their status “uncertain,” with the passage of “codes” that prevented black people from being truly free.

But eventually, under the 14th Amendment, African Americans were granted the right to vote. African Americans were also granted birthright citizenship: it extends to the descendants of freed black slaves and immigrants to this day.

1898

The recession of the late 19th century hit the United States. The Knight Riders marched in the dark, burning the homes of African Americans who had bought their own land. They came to Washington to demand change, as southern white Democrats had abolished many of the, albeit limited, freedoms of Reconstruction just a couple decades before.

The era of Jim Crow segregation prohibited African Americans from drinking from the same water fountains, eating in the same restaurants, or attending the same schools as white Americans, all of which lasted until the 1960s, and sometimes much longer.

1926

As African Americans were denied jobs and opportunities during the Jim Crow era, and as more jobs became available in the North and Midwest, more than 2 million southern African Americans migrated after World War I. Yet, even hundreds of miles away from southern segregation, these migrating Americans encountered “sunset cities,” where black people were not welcome after sundown, and restrictions on where they could live in cities.

For example, Oregon's constitution did not remove the clause prohibiting blacks from entering the state until 1926.

A man drinks water from a cooler for “coloreds” at a bus station in Oklahoma City in July 1939. Photo: Russell Lee

1954

As the end of the Jim Crow era and the civil rights struggle neared, the struggle continued. For example: it was not until 1948 that the U.S. Army desegregated by presidential decree. In 1954, in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional and schools should be integrated. Civil rights leaders led marches against segregation across the country in the 1960s. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. Getting African American children into white schools in white neighborhoods was considered constitutional.

African Americans vote for the first time since 1890 in the 1946 Democratic primary in Georgia.

1965

“Slavery was gone, but Jim Crow was alive. Almost all southern African Americans were excluded from the ballot box and the political power it could give,” Edward E. Baptiste wrote in Half Never Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 attempted to remedy this by prohibiting racial discrimination in voting and imposing restrictions on a number of Southern states if they tried to change voting rights laws. These restrictions were recently overturned by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.

Since the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates' book The Case for Reparations in 2014, the topic of settling financial debts for 250 years of slavery has risen up the political agenda. Proponents of a financial settlement for the descendants of slaves say it is meant to address the racial inequality that still persists in the United States.

A 2017 Pew study found that the median wealth of white households is $171,000 - 10 times that of black households ($17,100). Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker introduced a Senate reparations bill and received support from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders...

2013

19.02.2013. The Parliament of the state of Mississippi ratified the law on the abolition of slavery. Formally, slavery on the territory of the USA was until 2013. Thanks to kind people, they gave me the last date.

https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1412954

#BLM #afroamericans #USA #US #american #slavery #racism #european #capitalism #african #negroes #british #colonialism #anniversary #history

Billy Carson: "36,000 YEAR OLD SECRET mistranslated by accident on purpose"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97i9IrVJ8Fw
#BibleStudy #BillyCarson #JordanMaxwell
#AncientText #Cuneiform #UCLA #StoneTablets
#UCLACDLICuneiformDigitalLibrary #CDLI
#God #Gods #Elohim #YHWH #Enlil
#SumerianCuneiform #Sumerian
#Cambridge #TheBritishMuseum
#GeneticEngineering #War #Slavery
#6000 #Creation #Myth #DisasterCycle
#EnumaElish #Earth #Sol #SolarSystem
#TheBookOfEnoch #TheEgyptianBible
#FromHeavenToEarth #Enoch #Ball #TheWorldIsRound
#Deuteronomy #Maya #Orion #Thoth #Marduk #AmunRa
#Almex #Teotihuacan #Egypt #Egyptology
#Tablets #EmeraldTablets #Information #StatusQuo
#chromosomes #telomeres #120 #Lifespan #confusion
#WeCanAllBePolymathsInMakingNotSlavesInTraining
#History #Generation #Generations
#lessthan #100 #control #morethan #8000000000
#Religion #Collapse #Truth #Awakening
#Jesus #Contradiction #WWJD #MTFGA
#Bible
#Mistranslation
#NeedToKnow #PastIsPrologue

#GoodStuff

#Slavery #JQ

#Slavery … not simply black and white — and never was; and before that, we simply ATE the “others”! (Well, we STILL do actually, see below).
But hey, it’s just the looks and ways that have changed everywhere, and we slaves of today are appeased by Temu and Alibaba and Amazon and huge widescreen monitors, “reality” shows, etc., and anyway, as long as we enslave any non-human animals we still are just that ugly species that has not yet reached the Homo sapiens stage.
WORTHY OR NOT WORTHY? As long as we ask ourselves this question about any other being, maybe WE are not worthy.

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=SL003

refresh...

#usa #slavery

There is a country where, now in the present time, 3-10 % of the population are slaves. #Slavery was officially abolished, a few times, but never enforced - more anti-slavery activists have been imprisoned than slave-owners. Why have we never heard of this? The country is #Mauritania.

https://factsinstitute.com/blog/last-country-in-the-world-to-abolish-slavery/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania

Now an anti-slavery activist is running for president.

https://globalvoices.org/2024/06/18/mauritania-first-round-of-presidential-elections-on-june-29-2024/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/08/freedom-fighter

Ashley St. Clair sur X : "While slavery was common to all civilizations, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it: Western Civilization “Rather than be ashamed as Westerners, we should stand proud for having led the world out of a mentality where slavery was the norm.” 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/0g14u3yzZ5" / X

#politics #racism #slavery

She has a point, political correctness be damned :)

https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1804203284883759279

UK's richest family get jail terms for exploiting staff

A Swiss court has sentenced four members of the wealthy Hinduja family to up to four years and six months in jail on Friday for exploiting their domestic workers.

Members of the family were accused of trafficking mostly-illiterate domestic workers from India, confiscating their passports, and forcing them to work 16-hour days in their Geneva villa without overtime pay.

https://www.dw.com/en/uks-richest-family-get-jail-terms-for-exploiting-staff/a-69442466

#WageSlave #slavery #wealthy #exploit #workers #domestic

Oops

Slavery’s final legal death in New Jersey occurred on January 23, 1866, when in his first official act as governor, Marcus L. Ward of Newark signed a state Constitutional Amendment that brought about an absolute end to #slavery in the state. In other words, the institution of slavery in New Jersey survived for months following the declaration of freedom in Texas (June 19, 1865, so-called #Juneteenth).

#US-history

slavery acceptance, casualty of the class war...

#slavery #exploitation #cancercapitalism #mlk #assassinated #commie #classwar

A Short #History of #Slavery | 5 Minute Video - #PragerU

Slavery didn’t start in 1492 when Columbus came to the New World. And it didn’t start in 1619 when the first slaves landed in Jamestown. It’s not a #white #phenomenon. The #real #story of slavery is long and complex. #CandaceOwens explains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_wmixXBdE
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=NO_wmixXBdE
#histoire #esclavage

#Facts about #slavery never mentioned in #school | #ThomasSowell

Thomas Sowell is an #American #economist and #political #commentator. He taught economics at #Cornell #University, the University of #California, #LosAngeles, and since 1980 at the Hoover Institution at #Stanford University, where he is currently a Senior Fellow.
This channel helps to promote his teachings and principles of #economics and #philosophy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyPWjjWs7-w
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=lyPWjjWs7-w
#histoire #esclavage

https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/112547559739906346 MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social - Today in Labor History June 2, 1863: Backed by three gunboats, Harriet Tubman and her force of 300 black soldiers, freed 800 slaves in the Combahee River Raid, South Carolina. Furthermore, they set fire to the plantations and destroyed millions of dollars-worth of stores, cotton and homes of the wealthy, without losing a single person. Additionally, it was the only military engagement in American history where a woman, black or white, “led the raid and under whose inspiration it was originated and conducted.” Tubman devised her war strategy after repeatedly penetrating across enemy lines and spying on Confederate troop movements. In the aftermath, Confederate Captain John F. Lay said, “The enemy seems to have been well posted as to the character and capacity of our troops and their small chance of encountering opposition, and to have been well guided by persons thoroughly acquainted with the river and country.” Most Americans know of Tubman’s role in the Underground Railroad. However, she was also a spy for the Union Army. And in the late 1850s, she helped John Brown plan his raid on Harper’s Ferry and recruit supporters for the raid.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #civilwar #harriettubman #slavery #Abolition  #undergroundgailroad #johnbrown #liberation #espionage #strongwomen #BlackMastadon #blm

This is an infuriating documentary that got me involved in volunteering for teaching organic #farming in #Ghana.

It is an infuriating and upsetting to watch. The rices are before the government made the exchange of new Cedi by the rate of 1000 to 1.

#Rice #chocolate #Gold #FairTrade #Slavery #IMF #WB #Plants #Gardening

https://documentaryheaven.com/the-great-african-scandal/

https://www.bitchute.com/video/2WgfiVQCNtEo/

#Iran Attack On #Israel But B4 You Take Sides - #All #Wars Are #Bankers’ Wars

#economic #slavery #money addicts will have us all living in their hell !

#slavery #music

Jubilee Singers | American Experience | PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_jLGZrUuMI