🟢 ARAB SLAVE TRADE 1/2  The “Arab slave trade” is a modern umbrella term for several overlapping slave systems run for centuries by Arab, Berber, Swahili, Ottoman, and other Muslim merchants and states.  It moved people from sub-Saharan Africa (the largest documented flow), the Balkans, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, and Europe into North Africa, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, Persia, and India.  Slavery itself predated Islam in Arabia and the Sahara; Islamic law later regulated it (permitting enslavement of non-Muslims captured in war or purchased) rather than inventing it.  Exact numbers are estimates because records are fragmentary and mortality on desert and sea routes was high.  Scholarly ranges for Africans taken across the Sahara, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean from the 7th to the early 20th century commonly fall between 10 and 18 million, with additional millions of Europeans, Slavs, Circassians, and others. en.wikipedia.org  🟢 Pre-Islamic and 7th century Ancient Egypt already raided Nubia for slaves.  Trans-Saharan networks existed under the Garamantes.  After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (640s), the 651/652 Baqt treaty with Christian Nubia (Makuria) required an annual tribute of roughly 360–400 slaves in exchange for goods and non-aggression.  The arrangement, unique in early Islamic expansion, lasted in some form for centuries. en.wikipedia.org  🟢 8th–9th centuries Caliphal expansion and demand for agricultural labor, domestic servants, concubines, and soldiers increased imports.  East African (“Zanj”) slaves were used to reclaim salt marshes near Basra.  In 869–883 the Zanj Rebellion, led by Ali ibn Muhammad, became one of the largest slave revolts in history.  Rebels seized cities, minted coins, and held southern Iraq for years before the Abbasids crushed them.  Casualties were in the tens or hundreds of thousands. britannica.com  🟢 Medieval period (10th–15th centuries) Trans-Saharan caravans (gold, salt, slaves) and Red Sea/Indian Ocean shipping became regular.  Slaves included West Africans, Sudanese, Ethiopians, and East Africans, plus “Saqaliba” (Slavs and other Europeans) funneled through Viking, Khazar, and Balkan routes.  Female slaves were often preferred for households and harems; many males were castrated (eunuchs), a procedure with high death rates.  Mamluk military slavery drew heavily on Turks, Circassians, and later Africans. Demand rose as local sources of slaves declined. oxfordre.com  🟢 16th–18th centuries The Barbary corsairs of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco raided European ships and coasts from Italy to Iceland.  Historian Robert C. Davis estimated 1–1.25 million European captives between roughly 1530 and 1780 from the main Barbary ports alone (figures exclude Morocco and earlier centuries).  Many were ransomed; the poor remained enslaved.  The trade declined after European naval pressure and ended as a large-scale system with the French conquest of Algiers in 1830.  Parallel Black Sea and Ottoman trades continued. oxfordre.com  🟢 19th century peak in East Africa Omani Arabs made Zanzibar the hub of the Indian Ocean trade and clove plantations.  Tens of thousands of slaves arrived annually from the mainland in peak decades; estimates for the 19th century alone run into the hundreds of thousands to over a million exported or retained locally.  British treaties (Moresby 1822, Hamerton 1845, Frere 1873) first restricted then banned the export trade and closed the Zanzibar market.  Slavery itself was decreed abolished in Zanzibar in 1897, though enforcement lagged until 1909.  The Ottoman Empire restricted the African slave trade in stages from the 1840s–1880s.  Tunisia abolished slavery in 1846, unusually early. en.wikipedia.org

El Sayed’s campaign posted this thinking he somehow looked good trying to dress down a voter. Now millions are watching the candidate look like an angry, overly defensive jerk.

Here’s @AbdulElSayed stating unequivocally that the government should pay for sex changes for illegal immigrants. Watch for yourself. H/T @FreeBeacon

And here I was thinking that looting and rioting was bad for the environment!?

🚨🇫🇷 ÚLTIMA HORA: Greta Thunberg llega a Francia y les dice a los manifestantes musulmanes que está «orgullosa de ellos». Greta pasó de activista climática a defensora de la yihad.

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The riots in France have set an impossible trap. If the state enforces law and order, the Left will immediately scream "fascism," which would help them immensely in the upcoming election. If the state gives in and does nothing, the Left wins by letting the whole system fall to pieces. If you think that can't happen here, think again. France is just the test run. Conservatives in America are already branded as "fascists" the second they stand up for law and order. France is just showing us how far the Left is willing to go.

Read the full article from @ByMikaylaG as she decodes the performative cosplay and psychology behind the DSA: glennbeck.com/read/articles/…

If you want to understand why so many young people are flocking to the DSA, the answer is hidden in Zohran Mamdani’s failed rap career. It’s not just about the arts. The "wannabe artist" pattern is the decoder ring for the entire movement: "What is an artist to do with this earnestly felt grievance? Bring it to the world, of course. The same way an artist seeks to have their painting in view of as many as possible, or a singer prefers a full house to an empty bar, if you have something to say, the artist's way is to say it in full view of others. And sometimes that means putting on a little show. Zohran Mamdani has our attention. Doesn’t he? Ten years ago he sought our attention by whisper rapping about his Nani; now he choreographs subtle passing of pens to a defender of Al-Qaeda after signing a 9/11-inspired executive order. Like a magician, it was a clever sleight of hand. Like a rapper, his charisma distracted us from what he was really saying. Like an artist, the figureheads of the DSA are presenting a world that’s beautiful, compelling, and idealistic. Unfortunately, it’s not real. It’s as fake as stage makeup."

Within hours of President Trump’s phone call with Putin, the internet split into two predictable camps: one side called him a genius, the other called him a traitor. Both sides are missing the point. Think about this like a hostage negotiator dealing with the guy holding the gun. A negotiator might offer a small concession just to open a line of communication. But you don't hand him a medal just for making contact. And on the flip side, you don't call him a traitor for talking to the bad guy either. Right now, Trump is that negotiator and he's still on the phone.

Let me break down what I'm seeing and hearing here from DR. I don't know DR's source for these materials , but they appear completely legit and are profoundly disturbing. These are leading members of the Democrat Party hatching up the following strategy: 1. After the midterms, use the DSA to incite and carry out violent civil unrest. 2. Make the violent civil unrest so bad that Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act. 3. Use the invocation of the Insurrection Act to create a national sense of illegitimacy whereby Democrat governors appear justified in taking the extreme action of refusing to acknowledge federal authority and push to form a new form of federal government via various means, including an Article V transformation of the Constitution. Maybe there is more to this and it's not as bad as it seems, but right now this appears to be a conspiracy to create the next Fort Sumter. This is a CIA-style color revolution in real time, on our own soil. (Of course the legacy media is nowhere near this--it takes us Internet randos to get the word out.)

If these leaked DSA transcripts are real, every American needs to see them before November 3. According to DataRepublican, thousands of transcripts from private Democratic Socialists of America calls lay out the plan. Activists as "foot soldiers." Escalating protests after the midterms. Pushing toward the Insurrection Act by 2027. Read that again. They're not planning to win the argument. They're planning the chaos. And these are the people Democrats keep cozying up to. If true, this is a very serious problem. It's ALL going to come out. Vote Red.

The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan . You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits. What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027. Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic. The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change. Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.

Democrats have been dropping hints out in the open for months about what they'll do if they sweep the midterms. Now @DataRepublican has uncovered the terrifying strategy. Thousands of internal transcripts and recordings reveal the DSA's operational plan to trigger a "doomsday scenario." They want to manufacture enough street chaos, like we're seeing in France, to force Trump to use the Insurrection Act in 2027. Then, they'll cry "fascism" until they can delegitimize federal authority and hand power to Democratic governors in a color revolution. THIS IS WHAT THEY’VE ALWAYS BEEN PLANNING. Remember when Susan Rice threatened to hold corporations, law firms, and tech companies that cooperated with Trump "accountable" through subpoenas? And Sen. Elissa Slotkin recently admitted she wants to "scare" young professionals by creating "reputational risk" so nobody wants to serve in a conservative administration. They want to set the country on fire until you have no choice but to yield.

A chemical giant's weedkiller drifted onto a Missouri peach farm and a jury made it pay $265 million. A federal jury found Bayer and BASF liable for 15 million dollars in damages plus 250 million in punitive damages. An appeals court later vacated the punitive award and ordered a new trial on it, while the compensatory damages stand. When a neighbor's spray wipes out a harvest, the grower still needs buyers, find one on Localize. Sources: The Counter

An Indian scientist grows nearly 1,500 kinds of rice on under two acres and gives the seed away free, on one condition.

South African farmers asked the government for $1 billion during the worst drought on record, only for a 16-year-old to fix it with orange peels

Where are the Christians condemning this? Where is Pope Leo @Pontifex condemnation? I hear crickets 🦗 🦗

“The migrants have taken over France. They must CLOSE THE BORDERS, FAST!” President Trump delivers a warning as France grapples with widespread unrest, with more than 2,400 people reportedly arrested following protests, clashes with police, looting and damage to businesses and public buildings. President Emmanuel Macron acknowledges failures in anticipating the violence but rejects his interior minister's offer to resign. What began with student concerns over school conditions has grown into a broader wave of demonstrations over living costs and public services.

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Four service members are dead and dozens more are injured after a military training exercise in Canada turns deadly when a fast-moving grass fire suddenly overtakes soldiers. Officials say the fire had been burning for hours at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta, but commanders believed it was contained enough for training to continue. Then the winds shifted. Within seconds, flames raced toward troops, leaving them little time to escape. A preliminary investigation suggests a munition used during live-fire training may have sparked the blaze. | @AmericaNewsroom @DanaPerino @CB_Cotton