…..Ok, I know a lot of stuff….but I sure as hell didn’t know this….so, rather than accepting defeat….up to 20,000 die-hard Confederates soldiers moved to the slaveholding empire of Brazil….and established colonies of Confederados…..and their descendants still honor them today…….in April 1865, the American Civil War was over, and the former states of the Confederacy were in ruins…..for die-hard Confederate loyalists….like Col. William Hutchinson Norris and Maj. Lansford Hastings….this burden was too great……and they couldn’t bear to live under what they now saw as a foreign occupation…..and decided instead to leave for the slave holding Empire of Brazil and establish colonies of Confederados…..and about 10,000 to 20,000 former Confederates soldiers followed them…..Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee had urged Southerners to stay in the former states of the Confederacy and rebuild it…..but those who were too proud to accept defeat, or whose land had been confiscated by federal authorities, felt they had little choice but to start over again abroad…….other popular destinations included Honduras, Mexico, and even Egypt, where former Confederate officers were invited to take up military commissions……but for steady believers in white supremacy, only Brazil could offer them the haven they sought…….in 1865, Brazil was ruled by Dom Pedro II, a descendant of the Portuguese royal family who was interested in attracting foreigners to his country…….so he offered safe harbors to Confederate ships during the war….and despite his personal opposition to slavery….he didn’t give a shit about inviting slave holding rebel refugees to Brazil to cultivate cotton and help modernize Brazilian agriculture…..and thousands of Southerners were hooked on that idea…..they immediately sold off their possessions and began to make their way to Dom Pedro’s realm.…….Col. William H. Norris was one of the most prominent men who led efforts to settle beyond the reach of the victorious Union……a former state senator from Dallas County, Alabama, a grand master of the masonic Grand Lodge in Alabama, and a veteran of the Mexican American War, Norris decided that a free United States was no place for his family……after securing a small fortune in gold he kept safe in a hole in his yard throughout the war…….(according to legend, Norris’s wife had kept Union soldiers from stealing the gold by sharing a secret Masonic handshake with their commanding officer)…..Col. Norris and his son Robert arrived in São Paulo state in southeastern Brazil on December 1865……the Norrises purchased three slaves and 500 acres of land near Santa Bárbara d’Oeste…..by April 1866, their families had also made the journey……within a few years, more than half a dozen Confederate settlements were established in the states of Pará, Paraná, and São Paulo……after what I found out about Argentina….I’m not surprised this happened in Brazil…..slave have been existing on that continent like…..since forever….,…..Africans travelled to areas there long before Columbus got lost….and settled with those who were there first…..imprisonment just depended on who won….and if you lost…..slave!….anyway,…..the only thing that matter to the new confederates was the color………from the beginning, the success and endurance of the Southerners’ colonies hinged on their ability to purchase and control slaves……the South and Brazil had long held slavery in common…….in fact, by the mid-19th century, more than 40 percent of the victims of the Atlantic slave trade had ended up in the vast sugarcane fields of Brazil……where the fruit of their labors was gathered to sweeten coffee and tea in houses and cafés across Europe and North America……but even though Southern emigrants arrived in Brazil with the patronage of the emperor, they succeeded in buying very few slaves…..the Confederados spoke little Portuguese, and with insufficient funds and no personal connections in Brazil……they failed to purchase enough human lives to succeed in resurrecting the plantation agriculture system…..as the heads of individual colonies failed financially or died from disease, their followers drifted to other colonies,…….but perhaps the most significant reason for the failure of the Confederate diaspora was the failure of the Reconstruction…..with federal authorities out of the way…..Jim Crow began as Southern politicians regained their power and exacted revenge for their humiliation on their former slaves……to many struggling Confederados, this was more than they could have hoped for…. the restoration of racist supremacy in the South.

DOES COVID-19 AND THIS SOUND SIMILAR…..? THE THIRD PLAGUE PANDEMIC…..

The first two major plague pandemics began with the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death……the most recent, the so-called “Third Pandemic,” erupted in 1855 in the Chinese province of Yunnan……the disease traversed the globe over the next several decades, and by the beginning of the 20th century, infected rats traveling on steamships had carried it to all six inhabited continents…..the worldwide outbreak would eventually claim some 15 million lives before petering out in the 1950s…..and most of the devastation took place in China and India, but there were also scattered cases from South Africa to San Francisco…..despite the heavy casualties, the Third Pandemic led to several breakthroughs in doctors’ understanding of the bubonic plague…..in 1894, a Hong Kong-based doctor named Alexandre Yersin identified the bacillus Yersinia pestis as the cause of the disease…..and a few years later, another physician finally confirmed that bites from rat fleas were the main way the infection spread to humans…..so, this one started with rats…..and the one we’re dealing with now…..they say started with bats….and back in the 13th Century a wave of anti-cat sentiment swept through Europe, with religious leaders labeling cats as evil and “diabolical,”…..including my main man….Pope Gregory IX who did so in 1232 AD…..in the ensuing years huge numbers of cats (especially black cats) and even their owners were killed across Europe in fear that they were evil witches and linked to Satan……and this turned out to be a real dumbass idea…..because by removing many cats from the food chain, the population of rodents began to rise across Europe, as Asian and other foreign ships carrying rats brought them to European harbors……and many of these rodents had fleas that carried diseases including the Black Plague……rats, cats and bats….I don’t know about you….but it seems to me that our problem is…. “AT!”…..because D-“OG” hasn’t caused any plagues.

BERLIN AUTHORITIES INTENTIONALLY PLACED CHILDREN WITH PEDOPHILES FOR 30 YEARS AS PART OF AN EXPERIMENT, GERMAN MEDIA SAYS…..And yep….this is gonna make you up-chuck your lunch…..German psychology professor…..Helmut Kentler started this experiment in the 1970’s and placed homeless children with pedophile men because he thought…..and get this….that the men would make loving parents….no shit….in the most worse possible way….a study conducted by the University of Hildesheim found out the authorities in Berlin condoned this theory for almost 30 years….and the foster fathers received a regular “care allowance”……Helmut was in a leading position at the Berlin center for educational research….and was convinced that sexual contact between adults and children was harmless…..and Berlin’s child welfare services turned a blind eye to this illegal program…..when the university started investigating this program, they found a network across educational institutions…..where pedophilia was accepted, supported and defended….a report on the experiment was published in 2016 by the University of Göttingen….the researchers said that the Berlin Senate seemed to lack interest in finding out the truth…..but now they have vowed to shed some light on the matter…..little late don’t you think?…..in a separate report….men are now starting to come forward and tell their stories about how they were sexually abused when they were children…..during the 1960’s segments of the German population did not view sex with children as wrong….and Helmut was one of the driving forces behind the idea that society should adapt to and embrace pedophilia….and for a long time..…he was widely viewed as a visionary and one of Germany’s most prominent sexologists….or sex experts…..and the researchers said the German authorities are not even sure how many children were intentionally placed with pedophiles….nor do they know how old they were.