Average wealth per adult, 2025.

🇨🇭 Switzerland: $687,166
🇺🇸 United States: $620,654
🇭🇰 Hong Kong: $601,195
🇱🇺 Luxembourg: $566,735
🇦🇺 Australia: $516,640
🇩🇰 Denmark: $481,558
🇸🇬 Singapore: $441,596
🇳🇿 New Zealand: $393,773
🇳🇱 Netherlands: $370,697
🇳🇴 Norway: $368,410
🇨🇦 Canada: $365,953
🇧🇪 Belgium: $349,404
🇬🇧 United Kingdom: $339,700
🇸🇪 Sweden: $334,391
🇹🇼 Taiwan: $312,075
🇫🇷 France: $301,503
🇮🇱 Israel: $284,224
🇮🇪 Ireland: $258,357
🇩🇪 Germany: $256,715
🇰🇷 South Korea: $251,223
🇦🇹 Austria: $243,473
🇪🇸 Spain: $233,739
🇮🇹 Italy: $214,663
🇯🇵 Japan: $205,221
🇫🇮 Finland: $183,367

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You see a lot claims that Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs because most of the fentanyl comes from elsewhere. I want to address this:

First off, fentanyl isn't the only drug in the world and there is still fentanyl coming from Venezuela (or at least there was).

Second, cocaine, which is the main drug trafficked out of Venezuela, is a profit center for all of the Latin America cartels. If you cut out the money from cocaine (or even reduce it) you substantially weaken the cartels overall. Also, cocaine is bad too!

Third, yes, a lot of fentanyl is coming out of Mexico. That continues to be a focus of our policy in Mexico and is a reason why President Trump shut the border on day one.

Fourth, I see a lot of criticism about oil. About 20 years ago, Venezuela expropriated American oil property and until recently used that stolen property to get rich and fund their narcoterrorist activities. I understand the anxiety over the use of military force, but are we just supposed to allow a communist to steal our stuff in our hemisphere and do nothing? Great powers don't act like that.

The United States, thanks to President Trump's leadership, is a great power again. Everyone should take note.

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Cilia Flores, the longtime partner of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, was taken to the United States as part of a covert operation and has been implicated for years in serious drug trafficking allegations. ❄️

🇻🇪A former bodyguard testified against her in 2020, placing her at the center of an international narcotics network.

👇🏻Flores played a pivotal role in Venezuela’s political history. As a lawyer, she secured Hugo Chávez’s release from prison in 1994 following his failed coup.

She later helped him win the presidency in 1998, served as attorney general between 2012 and 2013, and went on to become a member of the National Constituent Assembly and first lady.

According to US authorities, potential charges against Flores are linked to testimony from her former bodyguard, Yasenksi Antonio Lamas.

He alleged that Flores shielded her nephews, who were convicted in the United States and sentenced to 18 years in prison for attempting to traffic 800 kilograms of cocaine in 2017. Cilia Flores, the longtime partner of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, was taken to the United States as part of a covert operation and has been implicated for years in serious drug trafficking allegations. ❄️

🇻🇪A former bodyguard testified against her in 2020, placing her at the center of an international narcotics network.

👇🏻Flores played a pivotal role in Venezuela’s political history. As a lawyer, she secured Hugo Chávez’s release from prison in 1994 following his failed coup.

She later helped him win the presidency in 1998, served as attorney general between 2012 and 2013, and went on to become a member of the National Constituent Assembly and first lady.

According to US authorities, potential charges against Flores are linked to testimony from her former bodyguard, Yasenksi Antonio Lamas.

He alleged that Flores shielded her nephews, who were convicted in the United States and sentenced to 18 years in prison for attempting to traffic 800 kilograms of cocaine in 2017.

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The reason I’ve always had an interest in writing comes from the closing narration off a cartoon I watched as a kid:

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

Even as a boy of four or five, I got the lesson that I should be a good friend and a writer; we’ll focus on the writing part.

Of course, we’re talking about Charlotte’s Web based on the E. B. White book.

I hadn’t seen the animated Hanna-Barbera film from 1973 in years, possibly a decade or more. Even though I bought a copy months ago, I finally had the time and the desire to rewatch it. Boy, was that uncomfortable, because I saw the film through adult eyes!

In roughly film-order, here are some observations about the film. Please note, I have not read the book.

Wilbur Has No Agency*

The first thing I noticed during this viewing was that Wilbur has absolutely no agency. He is saved because Fern intervenes as a sentimental idealist. From there, Charlotte saves Wilbur by writing words in her web. Wilbur’s only act that comes from his own volition is to take Charlotte’s egg sac back to the farm from the fair. Hence the asterisk at the end of this section’s header.

Fern Is A Human McGuffin In The First Act

Fern enters the story consequently twice: once as a McGuffin and once as a deus ex machina: once Fern has done her bit to save Wilbur, she disappears from the story like a good McGuffin does. She’s that catalyst that gives us the conflict and set the story in motion.

Wilbur Is FAT

I know Wilbur is a pig, but the way he’s drawn, he has no chin. Let’s not forget that Wilbur is supposed to be the runt of the litter. Boy, did he fatten up fast!

Wilbur Doesn’t Have To Learn How To Talk, He Just Sounds Out One Word And Then He’s Fluent in English.

Ok, strictly speaking, he sounds out his name. Immediately after this, Wilbur is fluent in English and breaks out into song. I suppose that’s how it feels when you’re a kid and you from non-verbal to verbal, but that’s not how human speech works.

The Film Is A Musical In Disguise

Charlotte’s Web wants to be a children’s film, but we know that kids don’t like movies that don’t have music in them, so we have to have a song every few minutes. This version of Charlotte’s Web was released in 1973; it was a hang over from the halcyon days of big musicals like Sound of Music, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The King And I, Fiddler on the Roof, et. al.

Charlotte Needs Templeton’s Help Coming Up With Words, But She’s A Writer?!?!

This one baffled me. Charlotte is supposed to be a good writer, but other than “some pig”, she needs help coming up with what to write in her web to save Wilbur. True, it’s the goose that suggests “terrific”. But Templeton has to fetch every other word she write into her web. So really, at best, Charlotte is a scribe, not a writer.

What’s more, Charlotte is allegedly a writer, but she appears to either have bad eyesight or doesn’t know how to read, e.g. she makes Templeton read her every scrap of writing that he brings back to her. You’d think she’d have a pretty good vantage point from high in the doorsills where she hangs her webs. God forbid she have to take a vision test.

Deus ex machina, Fern Edition

When Wilbur is at the fair, Fern visits him and rekindles–at least in Wilbur’s mind–the relationship they once had. Unfortunately, it’s time for Wilbur to learn a hard lesson that is totally wasted on the prepubescent audience the film was intended for: female nature is to stay with one guy until she finds one more exciting.

The Red Pill community would call this monkey-branching: she doesn’t let go of the vine she’s swinging from until she’s firmly got hold of a new branch she’s swung to. Fern may have been Wilbur’s first love, but Wilbur was just one of Fern’s social justice projects.

Fern moved on to Henry Fussy–a boy she couldn’t stand–when he learned to relax and show a modicum of masculinity vis-sis-vis confidence. Of course, it helped that he had bucked much his mother’s oppressiveness.

Parental/Guardian normalities 1972 vs 2025

Perhaps the oddest thing in rewatching the Hanna-Barbera production was that the children ask for money to go enjoy the fair without their parents/guardians/responsible parties hovering over them the entire time. The adults give the kids money and tell them to meet back at a specific place at the fair at a specific time and let the kids have their autonomy.

This was quite normal in the 70’s, 80’s and even the better part of the 90’s. While we don’t know exactly where the Arable or Zuckerman farm was located, it is depicted as being in a fairly rural area. Given these events took place fifty years ago and the book pre-dates the film, everyone would have known everyone in this small, rural, homogenized town.

But letting kids go for hours on end at a county or city fair today? Verboten!

How does Charlotte’s Egg Sac Hatch Into Baby Spiders?

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World War II Almost Didn't End...For 2 Minutes


Canadian General Lawrence Moore Cosgrave had a problem: when he was serving in WW I, he was wounded and blinded in his left eye. Roughly twenty-five years later, this would cause a diplomatic problem that could have led to World War II never ending–or at least not ending aboard the USS Missouri. So, what happened and why was General Cosgrave in the center of this diplomatic faux pa? Preparing the Articles of Surrender When it was signaled to the Allies (read: the Americans) that Japan was willing to surrender unconditionally, the physical documents were hastily created once the wording had ben worked out. There were to be two copies of the Instruments of Surrender: a copy for the Americans and a copy for the Japanese. Interestingly, both copies were printed in English. Whether or not this was done to humiliate the Japanese by having to accept a document not in their own language remains unclear. What is clear was that the Americans didn’t want any ambiguities due to translation, so they wrote the Articles of Surrender in English so there would be no misunderstanding1. Parchment was found for both copies in a monastery and the documents were prepared by General McArthur’s staff. The Americans put their copy in a leather folder with gold tooling and embossed seals2 whereas the Japanese copy was put into a canvas with irregular stitching and no seals or embellishments. Again, this was not to insult the Japanese, it was more due to a lack of resources in a war zone on short notice. Both copies had the same eight paragraph text on the verso and signatures on the recto. The Japanese signatures were on the top of the recto and the Allied signatures were underneath. There was a line where each signatory was to sign with their title underneath the line. When it came time to sign the documents, the Japanese signatories, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Yoshijirō Umezu, signed first. When it was each man’s turn to sign, they signed both the Allied and Japanese copies of the Articles of Surrender as did each of the Allied signatories. The Allies signed in printed order from top to bottom with General Douglas MacArthur signing first. As with the Japanese signatories, both documents were signed by each signatory when it was their turn to sign. MacArthur was followed by Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, General Hsu Yung-chang for China, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser for the United Kingdom, Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko for the Soviet Union, General Sir Thomas Blamey for Australia, Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave for Canada, Général de Corps d’Armée Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque for France, Lieutenant Admiral Conrad Helfrich for the Netherlands and finally Air Vice-Marshal Leonard M. Isitt for New Zealand. Cosgrave’s Error When General Cosgrave signed the Japanese copy of the Articles of Surrender, he skipped his line and signed on the line below where he was supposed to sign. Hauteclocque, Helfrich and Isitt signed below Cosgrave’s signature. The error was pointed out to General Richard K. Sutherland, MacArthur’s Chief of Staff. See, this was a legal document. A very important legal document. If it wasn’t filled out correctly, it may not have the force of law behind it. The Japanese3 could have claimed that World War II, therefore, did not properly end. The Japanese could have fought on, though this likely would not have occurred given they were severely resource constrained. In order to rectify the situation, Sutherland crossed out the printed titles and hand wrote them under the representatives’ signatures. The Japanese were still not happy with measure, so Sutherland initialed each of his changes. At this point, the Japanese accepted their copy of the document and World War II officially ended. 1 Have you ever heard of the aphorism, “The sun never set on the British Empire”? Well, one of the consequences of the truth in that aphorism is that the English language was spread around the globe. As a consequence of that, it turns out that English in 1945 made for a reasonable choice for diplomatic language. In fact, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu was fluent in English and was the only defendant during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (held the following year in 1946) to answer and participate in English! It’s amazing to me to think that the British Empire covered more ground than did the Roman Empire. How can such a tiny island nation have colonized so much? 2 Seals like, in a generic sense, the Presidential seal. 3 Well, really, either side, but the Japanese were more likely to protest since they were the ones surrendering.

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The Treaty Everyone Hated but America Desperately Needed (How Britain and America Went from Enemies to Allies – Part 1)

On November 19, 1794, the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America aka the Jay Treaty was signed.

What was the Jay Treaty and why was it needed? Let’s find out.

Background

After the British surrender at Yorktown which commenced on October 17, 1781, the American Revolution as an armed conflict ended. Legally, the war would continue for another two years until the Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783.

As schoolchildren used to be taught, Cornwallis surrendered, in part, because his army was trapped between the French and American troops on land and the French Navy just off the coast. In other words, the French were an ally of the United States during the American Revolution with the Marquis de Lafayette having trained American soldiers earlier in the war.

The reason it took so long to end the American Revolution legally was that France and Spain were still at war with England and those conflicts had to cease before the treaty could take effect. The United States Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784. Then, according to Wikipedia,

Copies were sent back to Europe for ratification by the other parties involved, the first reaching France in March 1784. British ratification occurred on April 9, 1784, and the ratified versions were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784.

So, now the war was finally legally over and the United States had its Independence…

…except…

…the British still occupied forts in parts of what was officially the United States.

The British Lien

And why hadn’t the British left the forts eleven years after the war ended? Because London treated those forts as a lien — their only leverage to force payment of the millions in pre-war private debts that American borrowers, especially Virginians and Carolinians, had stopped paying once the shooting started.

Article 4 of the Treaty of Paris explicitly required the United States to let British creditors sue for those old debts in American courts without “lawful impediment”:

It is agreed that Creditors on either Side shall meet with no lawful Impediment to the Recovery of the full Value in Sterling Money of all bona fide Debts heretofore contracted.

But many Americans were broke after having fought off the most powerful nation on earth even if they did have the French as an ally.

Pressed Into Service

Additionally, the British were capturing American ships that were trading with France because Britain and France were at war. And when those American ships were captured, their American crews were pressed into service in the British Navy.

West Indies Closed for Business

The British had closed trade between the United States and the West Indies.

The Enemy of My Enemy

And because the British couldn’t resist needling an old enemy, they used the forts they still occupied as based for arming and supplying Native Americans.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the Governor-General of Canada Lord Dorchester (Guy Carleton) and Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe openly declared that Britain did not recognize the Treaty of Paris boundary and considered the Ohio River the true border between the U.S. and Indian country.

This lead to the Northwest Indian War aka “Little Turtle’s War“ which had its roots in the end of hostilities between Britain and the United States1. That war didn’t end until August 20, 1794.

Clearly, something had to be done.

Jay Treaty To the Rescue

As you can imagine, the Jay Treaty addressed most of these problems.

The British agreed to

Vacate all the northwestern forts (Detroit, Niagara, Michilimackinac, etc.) by June 1, 1796 — ending 13 years of illegal–if somewhat justified–occupation.
Open the Canadian border to free American-Indian-British trade across land and inland waterways (Article 3) — a huge economic win for American fur traders and settlers.
Allow American ships into British East Indies (India) ports on equal terms (Article 13) — first real U.S. foothold in Asian trade.
Grant most-favored-nation treatment in British European ports (Articles 14–15) — direct trade with Britain exploded after 1796.
Settle the St. Croix River boundary and other disputed borders by arbitration (Articles 4–5) — prevented another war in Maine.
Pay compensation for illegal ship seizures during the current European war (Article 7 commission).
The Americans agreed to:

Pay British creditors for pre-war private debts that state laws had blocked (Article 6) — the federal Treasury effectively paid millions that individual Americans owed.
Accept severely restricted West Indies trade (Article 12 — tiny 70-ton ships, no re-export of sugar/molasses/coffee/cotton). But this point of negotiation was so bad the Senate suspended the entire article.
Do absolutely nothing about impressment…..

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