18 Replies to “June 2, 2026: Reader Tips”

  1. Rolling Stones _ Slave
    https://youtu.be/K64MvxlKZy8

    … 1975 (released 1981)
    … Sonny Rollins (RIP): sax
    … Billy Preston: organ
    … Pete Townshend: backing vocals

    The Myth of Slavery as an Engine of Growth (Paraphrased):
    https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/30/the-myth-of-slavery-as-an-engine-of-growth/
    Lipton Matthews May 30th 2026 _

    Slavery enriched slaveholders, not societies, which is why slave economies throughout history
    consistently lagged in growth, innovation, and industrial development.

    … while slavery existed throughout world forever, marxist historians never claim it generated capitalism except in the USA

    … when debates ignore the Lefts fake moral narratives in favour of empirical analysis, all evidence points away from their enrichment thesis/conspiracy

    … slavery entrenches stagnation; economies which include slavery negatively impact their own labor markets, wages, technological advances, incentives to innovate, and freedom, ultimately costing all of society except slave holders, slave traders, and marxists whose Bankrupt-The-West plan includes crying for higher minimum wage laws for citizens, while promoting invasion of cheap illegal foreign labor

    … the International Labour Organization estimates that slavery-derived profits amount to roughly $44 billion annually worldwide, profits which do not diffuse throughout the wider economy in the way proponents of the enrichment thesis imply. Industries such as cocoa production farmers use slave labor and receive the same global market price; the slave owner retains the larger profit margin and any gains do not help the broad social prosperity (which all socialist leaders claim to support) but remain concentrated within coercive networks (which all socialist leaders actually support)

    … other contemporary slave examples include forced prostitution in Thailand, brick kilns in Pakistan, and India’s hereditary Debt Bondage where entire families can be trapped into slave labor over personal debt. Despite extraordinary profits for slave owners the broader economies remain characterized by inequality, underdevelopment, weak institutional capacity, economic impoverishment, political instability, and barbarism.

    … 21st century slave labor is also documented in the production of coffee, sugar, textiles, gemstones, agricultural goods, and minerals essential for electronic devices; armed groups in the Congo force slaves to mine minerals used in mobile phones and computers. Slavery enters global financial markets via subcontracting arrangements (ie China)

    … Western Europe and North America became wealthy because of institutional strengths such as financial sophistication, technological innovation, legal stability, and secure property rights (hello Canada)

    Read it all.

    1. Nice … Although this is the class of the lp. I find myself liking mellow Stones … even “sucking in the 70’s Stones” (this cut was originally written in the 70’s) … in my older age. The guitar phrasing and rhythm is very catchy. And melodic piano layering is tasty.

      https://youtu.be/EsbyqCFeAY4?si=TqKJGBNnA3QvsOu8

      Mick Taylor and Keith Richards at their melodic best
      Sonny Rollins – sax
      Nicky Hopkins – piano

      The tune just … feels … New York to me. Probably more lyrically than musically.

    2. Re: slavery … an excellent rebuttal to the “we built it all for you” argument.

      David posted a really fascinating video of 1915 streets of Peking, Chyyyynah last Friday grab bag. I couldn’t stop watching it. And regarding slavery … there were multiple scenes of large groups of men 25-30 men, all pulling ropes tied to large wheeled containers … moving heavy loads. They looked to be slaves. Poor, expendable, lower class Chinese or conquered peoples, doing the menial labor. Slavery isn’t hardly just white on black … It’s Chinese on Chinese … Mandarin on the Han peoples and even North Koreans. These groups of men appear to be slave labor. Although China nominally ended slavery in 1910 … Mao enslaved his fellow citizens via his “Reeducation through Labor” Commie enslavement.

      So what of Dubai? Why don’t the slavery pimps insist the UAE didn’t build Dubai … but poor slave wage Indians did? Blaming ONLY whitey for slavery is intellectually lazy … and factually lacking. But hey … our education system is really an indoctrination system

    1. I wonder what Trump‘s plan is for a lot of that revenue. Similar to what he’s doing right now in DC with all the public fountains and other monuments, he should start rebuilding the downtowns of Caracas and other major cities as a way of communicating to the people that he’s not pocketing the money for himself, like I’m sure the communists are trying to insinuate.

  3. https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/66076/

    This is probably well known to SDAers. But as the above link from the Toronto Police Service shows, the TPS no longer use gender-specific language when issuing missing persons notices. The above says “Brooke”, at 5’4″and 125 lbs, is missing, so one infers from this information that Brooke is a woman. But the onus is on the reader to make this inference.

    But suppose a missing woman has a gender-nutral name, say “Alex” of “Kim”, and has a comparatively large physique, say 5’10” and 185 lbs. Some readers may look for a man. The influence of the Trans lobby.

    1. “The decline of Canadian universities reflects years of inadequate funding, and the devaluation of science and education as public goods,” said Dr. Nadim Mahassen, president of the Center for World University Rankings.

      and

      “Globally, American universities continued to dominate the top of the table. Harvard University held the No. 1 position for the 15th consecutive year, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.”

      making me wonder if the quality of education is defined on the basis of the funding they attract.

    1. making me wonder if the quality of education is defined on the basis of the funding they attract

      Yes. All people involved in a public organisation, managers, workers, especially unions, equate quantity of funding with quality of result.

  6. Upheaval at BP, one of the world’s largest oil & gas companies.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-removes-chairman-albert-manifold-2026-05-26/

    Serious misconduct issues by the former Chairman (no specifics), resulting in a number of other senior management resigning, and the incoming CEO (a woman) praises the Chairman’s “leadership”.

    And then this gem …

    “While the board stood ⁠united at the ​AGM, proxy adviser Glass Lewis said at the time that Manifold was ultimately accountable for BP’s decision to exclude ​a resolution filed by climate activist group Follow This and thus recommended a vote against him. His appointment was confirmed by around 82% of votes, well below the typical near 100% tally for directors.”

    BP is now transitioning away from renewables which turned out to be a very bad investment for an oil & gas company. Was the Chairman a “bad guy” or was it revenge for pivoting away from “clean energy”. The evidence against the Chairman came by way of a whistleblower who remains anonymous, including their claims. No doubt his severance will be huuuge.

  10. Very sad story of a woman who died in a homeless structure that caught fire.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-fire-encampment-9.7151725

    “It’s important just as a community as a whole, that we appreciate the costs of not caring for people, the most significant cost being the loss of life, which we are seeing happen with these fires,” [Fredericton mayor] Rogers said during the meeting.

    “You’re seeing people lose their lives because they don’t have shelter and because they’re not cared for.”

    Speaking about a former sanctioned homeless encampment where the city provided toilets and garbage pickup police chief Gary forward said , “I think that when you have encampment areas that are left to be open to the potential of human trafficking or certainly drug trafficking, [it] is problematic”.

    The people affected are homeless because of drug addiction and mental health issues. Allowing them to live in tents is not the answer.

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