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African Tippu Tip owned roughly 10,000 slaves in the 1890s. That was decades after the American Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment.
While white European societies had already abolished the slave trade and then slavery itself this man was still marching deep into Central Africa, burning villages, chaining captives, and selling them.
Tippu Tip became a famous slave and ivory trader of the East African interior. He led armed caravans of thousands of men hundreds of miles inland, raiding villages at dawn, killing the weak or elderly on the spot, and marching the rest in coffles to the coast. Roughly one-third of the captives often died on the journey.
The survivors were sold for Zanzibar’s clove plantations, for domestic service, and for export to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf. Women and girls were routinely taken as sex slaves and concubines—standard practice in the Arab trade for centuries.
By 1895 he controlled seven plantations worked by about 10,000 slaves. He built a personal commercial and political domain in the eastern Congo, confirmed or replaced local chiefs, monopolized the ivory trade, and became one of the richest men of his era.
He assisted European explorers when it suited him, then watched from comfortable retirement in Zanzibar as European powers finished suppressing the trade he had helped expand. He died in 1905.
This photograph of him seated in turban and robes, staff in hand, is the classic image of the merchant who got rich selling other Africans.
You can earn a degree in African American studies and never hear Tippu Tip’s name, or the names of the African kings and Arab traders who actually captured and sold Africans who crossed the Atlantic or the Indian. Today’s universities treat the Arab and Swahili caravan Slave traders as footnotes or ignored entirely.
This is not an accident. Acknowledging that African elites and Middle Eastern buyers ran the supply side for centuries undercuts the simple narrative that frames slavery as a uniquely white-European or American invention.
British whites abolished the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in its colonies in 1833, then spent decades and enormous resources on naval patrols to stop the trade. The United States followed in 1865. These white societies were among the first large-scale institutional and systematic bans on slavery in history.
Slavery and the open slave trade continued in Africa and the Islamic world long afterward. Legal chattel slavery was abolished in Saudi Arabia only in 1962; Mauritania was the last country to ban it on paper, in 1981. Tippu Tip’s operation in the 1880s and 1890s was not a dying remnant; it was still large, profitable, and expanding under Arab-Swahili leadership.
The peak slave population in the United States in 1860 was about 3.95 million. Modern estimates of people in forced labor, forced marriage, and other forms of modern slavery put the global total near 50 million TODAY!!!.
Africa alone accounts for millions of slaves TODAY; the Arab states also show some of the highest prevalence rates in the world TODAY. Absolute numbers of people in modern slavery in Africa and the Middle East today exceed the peak historical figure for the United States. Definitions differ—historical chattel slavery is not identical to every form of forced marriage or debt bondage—but the scale of ongoing exploitation is not small.
Tippu Tip was certainly not the only African slave trader. Arab and Swahili traders from Zanzibar and the Omani sphere ran the East African trade for generations, selling captives north into the Middle East for labor, military service.
European societies were among the first to abolish slavery and enforce the ban. That fact is routinely omitted from the version of history taught in American universities. The men who owned ten thousand slaves in the 1890s while marching deep into the African interior should not be ignored. -RJ
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Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I'll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered:
- The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan
- He found that we are giving money to Yemen
- He found that we are giving money to Syria
- He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion
- He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money
- He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn't know that. I bet you the American people didn't know that”
- He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities”
- They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world
- They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations
- According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas
- He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala
- He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
- He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
- He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front
- Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language)
- USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica
- They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem
- They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus
- Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia
- $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal
“I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They're really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”
Thank you.
Every one of you freaking out needs to read every word of this article.
Bamboozled again. Sheeple.
🚨 Van Jones Admits Democrats Conned American Voters Leading Into the Midterms ☠️
The clip is from CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, aired Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, two days after the midterms. The “con” framing comes from how he told it: grinning, “Now it can be told,” and “Don’t get mad at me, I was given permission to reveal this.”
Here’s what he actually said, verbatim from the transcript:
“Now it can be told. How did we win the narrative on affordability? Was it just these nice little Democrats out there running for office...? No. The Republicans never figured out what we were doing. There’s something called the American Accountability Network, tens of thousands of online humans, not bots, coordinated to make the affordability message a winning message online. 32.5 million people hit on Instagram every day. 88.8 million hit on Twitter, X, every single day. And 185 million Facebook hits every single day. And they never figured it out. The Republicans could not understand it wasn’t bots. It was actual human beings.”
And the core of the admission:
“Driving the kitchen table affordability message and tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative... They couldn’t get any traction on these cultural war issues anymore because we figured out how to get around all that.”
He then described it as “the most effective online organizing campaign,” said it “flew under the radar screen, never been told before,” and confirmed it isn't going away — it will “continue to push for kitchen table issues and hold our Democratic lawmakers accountable.”
What’s genuinely damning
- The message discipline was industrial, not organic. Everything was “unaffordable,” and it was always the GOP’s fault — regardless of what the actual price data said that week.
- He admits the volume was the point. Culture-war terrain where Democrats were losing (border, trans sports, crime) got buried under sheer output rather than argued.
- The scale claims are big: tens of thousands of coordinated humans, hundreds of millions of daily impressions.
Understand, nothing about the Iran war changed on Wednesday morning following the election. The fear just evaporated on schedule. If the crisis was as existential as the messaging implied, prices shouldn’t have collapsed the moment the election ended, but they DID!
The strongest version of the critique comes from the market reaction, not the transcript. Brent fell 8.7% in a single day, and WTI dropped 13% in the week right after the votes were counted, with crude down near $87 — the worst week since COVID — even though inventories fell and tankers were still getting hit near Hormuz.
America was gaslit once again. 🤡
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My wife has taught high school in Tokyo for twenty years.
Every year, a few of her students spend a year living with a family in America. When they come home, she asks each of them one question.
"What do you miss?"
She expects hamburgers.
She almost never gets hamburgers.
And these aren't old stories. Most of these kids came home in the last two years.
"Every time I left the house, my host mom said, 'Text me when you get there.' In Japan, nobody needs to know where I am. In Ohio, somebody always did." (Mina, 17, Ohio)
"If you walk toward a door, an American will hold it open. Even if you are very far away. So you have to run. I ran to so many doors." (Itsuki, 16, Georgia)
"My host brother screamed on the floor of a grocery store. A stranger walked by and said to my host mom, 'You're doing great, Mama.' She almost cried. I didn't know strangers were allowed to say that." (Aoi, 17, Texas)
"We went away for the weekend and left our trash can at the curb. When we got back, it was by the garage. Nobody said who. My host dad said if it had been there one more day, the neighbor would have knocked." (Haruto, 16, Minnesota)
"A car got stuck in the snow in front of our house. Four men came out of four houses. Nobody called them. They pushed, the car drove away, and they went back inside without saying their names." (Ren, 17, Michigan)
"Every American has jumper cables. Maybe half of them know which clip goes where. The other half help anyway." (Shin, 16, Montana)
"In July, my host family put a cooler on the porch. Cold water, snacks, and a sign: 'For our delivery drivers. Thank you!' I asked if they knew the drivers. They said no." (Nanami, 16, Arizona)
"Downtown, there are banners on the lampposts. Photos of soldiers from the town. Some old, some very young. My host grandpa walked me down the street and told me every name." (Yuna, 16, Iowa)
"I got a C-plus on my first test. My host dad said, 'I'm proud of you,' and put it on the fridge. In Japan, nobody is proud of a C-plus." (Takeru, 17, Pennsylvania)
Then the quietest girl in the class raised her hand.
Sora. Seventeen. Missouri.
"Nobody asks me 'home safe?' anymore," she said.
She was wrong.
In September, there was a typhoon warning for Tokyo. At 2 a.m., Sora's phone lit up.
It was her host mom. In Missouri. Watching the weather in a country she had never been to.
"Saw the storm. You home safe?"
Sora told my wife she cried for a long time. Then she typed the answer she had typed a hundred times, from football games and friends' driveways.
"Home safe."
Her host mom wrote back one line.
"Good. That's all I needed."
My wife has asked that question for twenty years. Not one kid has ever said they missed how big America is.
They miss how America says goodbye. And how it checks that you got home.
So, America. You think you've lost something.
You haven't. It's on a porch in Arizona. It's pushing a car in Michigan. It's awake at 2 a.m. in Missouri, watching our weather.
You don't remember doing any of it.
A kid in Tokyo will never forget.
This is the old democrat party…this is no longer how they feel. The left, joined with Islam and deserted Americans. Vote accordingly.
Donald Trump once spent a day doing 4 jobs inside his own hotel that he had never done before. The first guest who needed him trusted him with her dog.
It was a gamble, and he knew it. A billionaire with no training, a freezing street and somebody else's dog at the end of the leash. "The fact that she trusted me with that dog was amazing. Probably she shouldn't have, but it worked out."
The dog made it back safely. The next job came with a burger he wasn't allowed to eat.
On room service duty, he asked the kitchen whether someone like him could take a bite out of the burger before bringing it up to the room. The answer was no. So he carried it up untouched, admired the tray ("This is serious room service") and told the guest he hoped for "a nice, big, fat tip."
Then a housekeeper named Mia handed him a vacuum, and the boss became the trainee. Pull the covers up tight. Vacuum until a single piece of lint is gone. When she pointed him to the bathroom, the man who owned the building hesitated: "Oh, I'm not into bathrooms. I don't know if I could ever do that job." They settled on the sink. He sprayed it, wiped it and changed his mind on the spot. "I like this job, Mia."
By the end, he admitted all 4 jobs were tough. You had to be sharp, you had to be smart, you had to get along with people, and it was hard work. Then he turned to Mia: "I'm your apprentice." Her answer was 2 words: "You're hired."
The man famous for saying "You're fired" ended the day getting hired by his own housekeeper.
Next time a boss tells you your job is easy, send him this video.
Rush Limbaugh | We Will Never Give Up on America https://t.co/L4tvog2gDT via @YouTube
Joe Rogan is horrified as Steve Hilton reveals where the 330,000 migrant kids Biden lost actually ended up.
ROGAN: “Holy f*ck!”
HILTON: “The way Bobby puts it is that Becerra turned HHS into the largest child trafficking operation in history.”
A caseworker told Hilton they were ordered to ignore obviously fake IDs and get the kids out the door as fast as possible.
Their directive was “Speed over safety.” If something happens to the kids, so be it.
One girl was put on a plane, handed off to three strange men, and forced to work 20 hours a day.
ROGAN: “Oh my God, it’s shocking. That’s so evil.”
The kids were given a hotline to call if they were in danger. The problem was getting anyone to answer.
HILTON: “There were 65,000 unanswered calls to the hotline.”
And the people who flagged it? “FIRED.”
ROGAN: “It doesn’t even seem like it could be real.”
When Bobby Kennedy Jr. previously described what happened to these kids, he called it a “huge, huge tragedy.”
KENNEDY: “One guy pretended to be the parent of 42 children. We have no idea what happened to those kids.”
“There was about 60 kids who were sent to one address. When we looked at that address, it was a container, a steel container in the middle of a parking lot.”
“A lot of them were sent to work at slaughterhouses and picking fruits in the fields. They were slaves.”
“It’s a huge, huge tragedy. My agency [under Biden] was the single biggest child trafficker in the world.”
And now Xavier Becerra, the man who presided over all of it, wants to be governor of California.
Steve Hilton is running against him.
https://t.co/0QZgFsJzg7
American politicians do not make multiple trips to Ukraine to pay their respects. They make those trips—always on military aircraft, which is not subject to U.S. customs inspections or declarations—to physically collect.
The Battle 150 Miles From Paris https://t.co/lniGD5ZjQj via @YouTube
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🚨 JUST IN FROM THE OVAL OFFICE: 24-year-old Nick Shirley just dropped the most powerful line of the year while standing next to President Trump… and it hit like a thunderclap. 🇺🇸🔥
“I want people to think about what is happening right now… me as a 24-year-old, I went out and exposed the fraud. I just was concerned about the well-being of our tax dollars. And right now, I’m standing next to the President of the United States.”
“There’s never been an incentive for anyone to ever expose fraud… until now. When you expose fraud, you help save America. People understand that these fraudsters take from the poor and the needy who actually need the services that we all work hard to pay for… and then they buy Mercedes!” 😱💸
One year ago the legacy media mocked him as a “right-wing propagandist” and tried to destroy him.
Today he walked into the Oval Office, received the first check under Trump’s new Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program, and was personally recognized by the President for doing what the entire media industrial complex refused to do.
One camera. One microphone. Zero permission. Pure courage.
This is what it looks like when the people finally take their country back. 🇺🇸
Well-deserved, Nick. Let’s freaking go. 🔥 @nickshirleyy
Who else is ready to start exposing the fraud they don’t want you to see? Drop a 🇺🇸 if you are.
Reminder - This is what the Democrat Party will do to the United States if they get majority power back. They will open our borders back up. Democrats will allow anyone in the world to invade illegally, including our enemies and criminal migrants. They have already proved it during the Biden-Harris Administration.
Why would they do this? Because they want to make these migrants government dependent voters, and stay in power forever.
Wow… a sitting United States Senator walked into the University of Chicago and told a room full of students exactly what her side plans to do if they get the power back. Elissa Slotkin says she wants to look at "signature cases" and not just focus on the president "but on the people who enabled him," and then she said the rest out loud like she was reading a grocery list… she wants young people coming out of school to look at a job in the Trump administration and think "Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don't want, and so let me avoid participating in that." Her words, "I want that deterrence message."
So let me make sure you heard it right. She is not talking about catching criminals, she is talking about making examples out of people so the next generation of conservatives is too scared to serve their own country. The target is not the man at the top, it is the young person fresh out of college who thought working for their country sounded like an opportunity.
Now keep in mind this is the same senator who refused to sit down with the DOJ back in February over her video telling troops they could refuse illegal orders, and who said on camera the Trump administration was using intimidation "to deter others from speaking out" and that "the intimidation is the point." Those were her words eight months ago. Today she wants a deterrence message aimed at kids coming out of school. So which is it, Senator? When they look at you it is intimidation, and when you do it to a young staffer it is policy?
I have lived on the receiving end of lawfare for years, and I can tell you the punishment is the process. They do not need to win the case, they need you to drain your savings, lose sleep, watch your family worry, and make sure everybody watching decides standing up is not worth it. That is the whole point and she just admitted it on a stage at the Institute of Politics like she was presenting a policy paper.
But hey… they are the party of norms, right? Think I am wrong? Watch the clip again and tell me what "deterrence" means to you.
This is what they will do with the gavel and the subpoena power if you hand it to them on November 3. Every young person who loves this country should hear this and do the exact opposite of what she wants… show up, serve, and refuse to be scared off.
@ElissaSlotkin, message received. We are not going anywhere.
But God.
The beginning of the end.
*🇫🇷 WATCH: France’s Riots — Paul Amar Says Jewish-Owned Shops Were Targeted in Marseille*
French journalist Paul Amar, discussing the October 17 unrest in France, says Jewish-owned businesses were singled out on a street in Marseille:
“They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners.
In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t.”
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