Learnin'? Somethin to do with books, right?
The strategic implications should be obvious.
Ya think?!!!
Story from a few weeks back: Mexico kicks out stranded migrants
"Unfortunately, Central American migrants keep streaming into towns where they once climbed onto the trains. Thousands have been camping along rail lines, waiting for trains that will never come. Extra buses had been contracted to transport deportees from immigration detention centers to the border.
Thousands more migrants were stuck at the town of Ariaga in Chiapas state, and Salvadoran Consul Nelson Cuellar said many had started walking toward a rail line almost 300 miles away."
Trying to stem the flow for the election cycle? Gin up some bullshit stats about winning the war on migration for the know-nothings and crimp the labor supply.
It follows that without El Norte as a relief valve southern Mexico and Central America will continue to go BOOM!
IMO once upward wage pressure is released it won't be so easy to get back in the bottle.
It's gonna be a real interesting 14 months.
Don't you know you can't order the tide to stop? (I have friends in Arizona -- grew up there -- and they say being down on the border watching the illegals cross is literally as if watching the ocean tide wash in.
This is a mass migration of human beings, as unstoppable as any migration of mammals. I am speaking now in biological terms. While predators may pick off weak prey around the edges, the vast herd will survive to reach the water and feeding grounds in the verdant center of California, Utah, and Colorado. Places where families can be together far away from the violence and disease which threatened the herd.
They know not even why they came. But they came. We can not stop this even with all our divisions on the border. It literally is unstoppable short of genocide, and even then I doubt it could be stopped. This is an act of generational to perhaps millennial human migration. It can not be stopped. (And I for one don't want to.)
Jesse
Search: wiki Canute the Great
Canute I, or Canute the Great, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles also known as Cnut (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki, Norwegian: Knut den mektige, Swedish: Knut den store, Danish: Knud den Store) (c. 995 – November 12, 1035) was a Viking king of England, Denmark, Norway, some of Sweden[1] (such as the Sigtuna[2] Swedes), as well as overlord of Pomerania, and the Mark of Schleswig. He was in treaty with the Holy Roman Emperors, the German kings, Henry II and Conrad II, suzerain vassals of Rome's pontificate, and in relations with the papacy himself. His reign, almost two decades long, was over a northern empire spread across Scandinavia and the British Isles and saw the Danish sovereignty at its height.
Canute is legendary for his apparent attempt to command the waves. According to legend the king grew tired of flattery from his courtiers. When one such flatterer gushed that Canute was so great he might even command the sea itself, he is supposed to have demonstrated his courtier wrong at either Southampton or Bosham, or perhaps near his palace at Westminster. When the waves did not turn back at his word, Canute reputedly said that even a king's powers had limits and he removed his crown, refusing to wear it again, for to him there was no true king except God.
I'll note that Amory and L. Hunter Lovins wrote Brittle Power back in 1982. After 9/11 the Rocky Mountain Institute put it up on their website in PDF for free. In essence the book details how vulnerable centralized energy systems are to sabotage - by looking at the US energy infrastructure. You can still get it here -just scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Certainly anyone who read it would not be the least bit surprised that it is hard to keep the electricity working in Iraq.
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