Raceology

 A happy belated winter solstice to everyone and a happy New Year.  This year was tough for me, especially the last few months financially, but things look like they'll pick up for next year. I'll probably leave Canada again for work and studies and this time probably for good! This year has also seen lots of escalation of conflicts around the world, Ukraine, Israel, Armenia/Nagorno-Karabakh, and now even Taiwan is starting to have problems, and North Korea expands its military capability. Could we have WW3 in the future?  Hopefully not, but I guess we'll have to see.  Hopefully the New Year will be better for everyone, and I can finally get a new "home" and some stability!

 Hello all, yes, I know I am late to the news here, we've all seen this before.  The Palestinians came to Israel across the border in Gaza and carried out mass murders of Israelis with over 1000 casualties and took lots of hostages.  Israel responded with air assaults into Gaza, as well as an ongoing ground invasion to beard the area of Hamas.  Gaza is full of Palestinians and has over 2 million residents trapped in a small area.  Their neighbours in Egypt, do NOT want to take the refugees, and actively refuse to take them. They think by doing so they will encourage Gaza to become depopulated as well as their reluctance of taking refugees there in general.  How kind of them.  It's all been said here, yet this is another example of how diversity does not work. Race/ethnicity/religion, etc., spills into bloodshed.  It's always a fight and a struggle. The same in our lives and on a large scale. Diversity is always a source of conflict and tension. I ...

 For those that are unaware this is a small region that is recognized to be a part of Azerbaijan, but was previously a part of the Soviet Union. When it fell they asked for independence and the area was full of Armenians who are Christian whereas the Azeris are Muslim. There have been wars fought over the place, but the Azeris recently got a lot of gas money and weapons from other countries and have engaged in warfare over the last few years.  This is how the conflict ended, with violence, like most do throughout human history. All the Armenians have fled to Armenia now, and it is the same old pattern of conquest and ethnic cleansing that took place. There are other frozen conflict zones like this in the world, hopefully they won't end in such a way, but here the precedent has been set.  I would also argue that for Muslims in particular this is an Islamic victory. This is what they'd like to do to Armenia, and this is what they'd like to do to Europe. They have done it be...

 There are literally too many videos of this happening. 10, 000 illegal migrants per day eventually adding up to millions per year.  When they come they flood the shelter system, and cost millions and billions of dollars worth of aid.  This hits the poor the most, in many places housing is becoming unaffordable, especially North of the border in Canada, but that's another issue.  Now some of the migrants are actually starting to go back. Yes, it's that bad.