[Guardian] While violence and poverty have been cited as the reasons for the exodus, experts say the big picture is that changing climate is forcing farmers off their land ‐ and it’s likely to get worse. Lots of cheap farm land in California, you'll see.
Thousands of Central American migrants trudging through Mexico towards the US have regularly been described as either fleeing gang violence or extreme poverty. As well as other situations of their own making.
But another crucial driving factor behind the migrant caravan has been harder to grasp: climate change. Yes, 'harder to grasp' indeed.
Most members of the migrant caravans come from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador ‐ three countries devastated by violence, organised crime and systemic corruption, the roots of which can be traced back to the region’s cold war conflicts.
Experts say that alongside those factors, climate change in the region is exacerbating ‐ and sometimes causing ‐ a miasma of other problems including crop failures and poverty.
And they warn that in the coming decades, it is likely to push millions more people north towards the US.
#6
They're bringing their dreaded climate change north? Maybe this will have CA think twice about importing their new supply of indentured servants.
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Perhaps not in the way the authors intended... Several years ago I was talking to a fellow employee that came from Central America about the "...rising cost of corn and bread at his home village." Diverting foodstocks into biofuels will inevitable raise food prices because the grain is a fungible good. We may consider it 'commercial' grade, but poor people down south don't necessarily share that fastidiousness.
Guatemala is the most populous country in Central America and has the highest fertility rate in Latin America. It also has the highest population growth rate in Latin America, which is likely to continue because of its large reproductive-age population and high birth rate. Almost half of Guatemala's population is under age 19, making it the youngest population in Latin America. Guatemala's total fertility rate has slowly declined during the last few decades due in part to limited government-funded health programs. However, the birth rate is still more close to three children per woman and is markedly higher among its rural and indigenous populations.
No climate change needed when there are too many kids for the land to support, even with faster crop growth due to higher atmospheric carbon dixide.
#9
"...rising cost of corn and bread at his home village."
Sometime back I saw an article on how the rising popularity of quiona with US hipsters was causing rising prices and shortages in South America where it is a staple grain. Supply and demand in a globalized world, whodda thunk it!
#10
Jerry Brown was voted in as Governor only because his last name was Brown.
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I blame air conditioning.
We have it. They don't. They want ours.
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#12
"Jose, does the land of the free
Burn corn for their central AC?
Would the Yankees' pais
Freeze without this mais?
We should take Jesusito and see!"
[Powerline] Yesterday, I noted that five of seven candidates for the Montgomery County, Maryland school board say the biggest problem facing the school district is lower achievement by "students of color." I disputed the notion that this gap is the school board’s responsibility or problem, but that view seems to be an article of faith in education circles nowadays. Our Lightening Round category is 'Food and Drink:' HO_C_K_S
It’s also generating a new industry ‐ cultural and racial equity training. Pacific Education Group is an industry leader. According to the Kansas City Star, the California firm "has been in high demand in recent years, training educators, city leaders and corporate executives from Lawrence [Kansas] to New York and Philadelphia to Los Angeles and around the world."
The Group’s founder, Glenn Singleton, is the author of "Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools." The "courageousness" of Singleton’s politically correct conversations is open to question, but according to the Star, his is the No. 1 book recommended by the Missouri School Board Association for educators and administrators to read this year.
Recently, however, parents in a Missouri school district ‐ Lee’s Summit ‐ rebelled against paying Singleton and his group to provide cultural and racial equity training. They expressed their displeasure at a school board meeting and on social media.
According to the Star, critics "opposed Singleton’s firm because of its cost, and its discussion of white privilege and the cultural competence of white teachers educating black children." Some wondered why the focus should be on inequities related to race.
#2
The federal government runs two school systems, one for the Department of Defense and one for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The former scores above the national average, the latter below. The key element left out in all such 'disparate' findings is the home environment. If education is not pressed and pushed at home, no amount of funding will make much difference. That unfortunate situation however doesn't put money in the hands of administrators, education professionals and all the allied business such as the Singleton's associated with public education. It's all a scam. Asked why he robbed banks Willy Sutton said because that's where the money is. The public treasury is just the biggest bank.
#4
I noted that five of seven candidates for the Montgomery County, Maryland school board say the biggest problem facing the school district is lower achievement by "students of color."
And yet, these people claim to believe in evolution.
[Powerline] Since becoming President of Minnesota’s public policy organization, Center of the American Experiment, at the beginning of 2016, I have gotten a new perspective on media bias and ineptitude. I have always thought those problems were bad. Now I think they are worse. Take a look at the email that I received this morning from Jessica Glenza, a reporter for the Guardian US. Its subject is an "URGENT Press Inquiry." Ms. Glenza’s email drips with arrogance, ignorance and prejudice:
Dear Sir:
My name is Jessica Glenza. I am a health reporter for the Guardian US, based in New York.
I am writing because the Guardian is conducting a wide-scale investigation on the tobacco policy positions of Atlas Network and associated thinktanks. This thinktank was identified by Atlas Network as an affiliate, and identified by The Guardian as taking positions on tobacco policies.
There is a significant body of evidence which demonstrates the following:
* Smoking kills more than 7 million people each year, according to the World Health Organization. That total is expected to rise to 8 million by 2030, without action to control tobacco use, the WHO has said.
[Breitbart] Remember the media-stoked controversy over Donald Trump declaring that he was a "nationalist"? Sample headline in USA Today: "’I am a nationalist’: Trump’s embrace of controversial label sparks uproar." That uproar might seem hard to recall now, because it was all the way back on ... October 23.
It was the day before the October 24 uproar about the steroid-crazed male stripper who sent unexploded‐and apparently unexplodable‐bombs to various Democratic offices. And it was also before the horrendous tragedy in Pittsburgh on October 27, when an anti-Semitic psycho shot and killed 11 worshipers at a synagogue.
It might seem challenging to put a larger political spin on the lonely acts of kooks and evildoers, but the establishment media is up to the challenge‐especially if it involves dinging Donald Trump. Indeed, the media’s latest storyline is that Trump’s "violent rhetoric" is to blame. Here, for example, is a headline from The Guardian: "Donald Trump’s rhetoric has stoked antisemitism and hatred, experts warn." (You know that the media really means to make a point when they cite "experts.")
In the face of such a determined media onslaught, the thoughtful words of the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, went almost unheard. Speaking on the scene of the Pittsburgh massacre, Dermer told CNN, "I have never seen a stronger statement" than the one that President Trump issued in the wake of the shooting. This only makes sense: After all, Trump’s daughter Ivanka is Jewish, along with his son-in-law, and three of this grandchildren. But since he was so "off message," you can bet that CNN won’t be inviting him back anytime soon.
Still, even if the "nationalism" controversy is two controversies ago, it’s not going to go away. It’ll linger as a media talking point, and, who knows, perhaps it will become one more article of impeachment next year if the Democrats win back the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6.
So it’s worth pausing over this word, "nationalism," to see why it puts the left in such a tizzy.
#1
...and white. So what is this crap about 'white nationalists' that the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises keep harping about? Other code words for 'we hate your guts' not working?
#4
Shaping the narrative to force silence. There are really two camps, OK three. There are globalists, nationalists, and people to stupid to know the difference. By associating nationalists with hate groups all patriots are hence forth a racist.
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Yes, it is. It’s just that some people think they’re entitled to be ruder than they used to be.
[DailyMail] Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger has declared 'this is not the America I know and love' in an apparent attack on Donald Trump.
The retired airline pilot, who saved 155 lives by landing a plane on the Hudson River in 2009, wrote an op-ed criticising America's leadership in the Washington Post.
He accused the leadership of being selfish, unfit to rule, immoral and even of working against the US.
He wrote: 'To navigate complex challenges, all leaders must take responsibility and have a moral compass grounded in competence, integrity and concern for the greater good.'
But many in the current leadership are 'cowardly, complicit enablers, acting against the interests of the United States, our allies and democracy; encouraging extremists at home and emboldening our adversaries abroad; and threatening the livability of our planet,' he continued.
#1
If you actually read Sully's piece in the WaPo, he doesn't mention Trump at all. He says, without naming names, that our current 'leadership' sucks, which it indeed does. Quote: Today, tragically, too many people in power are projecting the worst. Many are cowardly, complicit enablers, acting against the interests of the United States, our allies and democracy; encouraging extremists at home and emboldening our adversaries abroad; and threatening the livability of our planet. Many do not respect the offices they hold; they lack — or disregard — a basic knowledge of history, science and leadership; and they act impulsively, worsening a toxic political environment.
As a result, we are in a struggle for who and what we are as a people. We have lost what in the military we call unit cohesion. The fabric of our nation is under attack, while shame — a timeless beacon of right and wrong — seems dead.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Guardian] While violence and poverty have been cited as the reasons for the exodus, experts say the big picture is that changing climate is forcing farmers off their land ‐ and it’s likely to get worse.
[Powerline] Since becoming President of Minnesota’s public policy organization, Center of the American Experiment, at the beginning of 2016, I have gotten a new perspective on media bias and ineptitude. I have always thought those problems were bad. Now I think they are worse. Take a look at the email that I received this morning from Jessica Glenza, a reporter for the Guardian US. Its subject is an "URGENT Press Inquiry." Ms. Glenza’s email drips with arrogance, ignorance and prejudice:
[Breitbart] Remember the media-stoked controversy over Donald Trump declaring that he was a "nationalist"? Sample headline in USA Today: "’I am a nationalist’: Trump’s embrace of controversial label sparks uproar." That uproar might seem hard to recall now, because it was all the way back on ... October 23. 
