The World and Everything in It: November 29, 2022

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Border patrol’s facing record levels of unauthorized border crossings and now the government’s most powerful management tool is gone.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Also today layoffs in Big Tech. What’s going on in what was once a booming industry?

Plus audiobooks that made our reviewer’s favorites list.

And signs and wonders of our current age.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, November 29th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

REICHARD: Now the news with Kristen Flavin.

KRISTEN FLAVIN, NEWS ANCHOR: China protests » In Tokyo, people are holding blank sheets of paper in front of their faces in support of Chinese protesters.

Protests have sprung up in at least eight major cities in China last weekend after a fire killed ten people. The white pieces of paper represent the censorship in the country.

The protesters blame COVID-19 lockdown restrictions for trapping people in the burning building. Chinese authorities say the victims were too weak to escape.

Since then, people around the world have protested in support of the Chinese dissidents, including in the United States.

Congressman Mike Gallagher

GALLAGHER: We stand here in America for freedom and therefore, we stand with people fighting for freedom.

China has not commented directly on the protests, but some are calling them the biggest show of opposition in the country in decades.

Ghana » Soaring prices have triggered an economic crisis in the African nation of Ghana.

Inflation has reached almost 40 percent, and the value of the currency has plummeted. Government finances are at their lowest point in years.

One businessman says he’s had to increase his prices because of increases in his costs.

MAN: Definitely I have to factor everything inside so the final consumer is bearing the whole cost.

That means some consumers aren’t buying nonessentials and businesses are suffering.

International trade analyst Louis Yaw Afful says investors could soon look elsewhere.

AFFUL: And so once we ignored those sides for some time and we are underperforming, they will look for the competitive country that has all these at once.

Ghana’s president has attributed the crisis to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

Iran » HAJIZADEH: [Farsi]

Iranian general Amir Ali Hajizadeh says possibly over 300 people have died in the protests that have racked his country over the past two months.

U.S. Human Rights Activists in Iran reported that over 450 protesters have died. The group also says about 18,000 people have been detained.

The protests erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman. She died in police custody.

Gen. Hajizadeh also said that many who died in the protests were not actually protesting, because of failures to distinguish “friends” from “enemies.”

HAJIZADEH: [Farsi]

Hajizadeh also reiterated the official stance of Iran that foreign powers such as Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United States are behind the protests.

Arizona » Six of Arizona’s 15 counties had to decide yesterday whether to certify the 2022 election results. WORLD’s Josh Schumacher has more.

JOSH SCHUMACHER, REPORTER: State election officials say they will sue Cochise County for missing its deadline to certify the results.

The county delayed certification, citing concerns over voting machines. Other counties had certified their election results as of yesterday evening.

Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake has not conceded the election to Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs. She has also criticized voting machine malfunctions in Maricopa County—Arizona’s largest county.

Lake has also brought a public records lawsuit asking for clarification from county officials about the problem and its consequences.

For WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher.

Buffalo shooter » The 19-year-old suspect in a racially motivated mass shooting has pleaded guilty. He was charged with hate-motivated terrorism in the killings of 10 black people. The shooting occurred in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in May.

Erie County District Attorney John Flynn.

FLYNN: No individual in the history of the state of New York has been found guilty of that domestic terrorism charge motivated by hate until today.

The terrorism charge carried a mandatory life sentence. He also pleaded not guilty to one separate federal hate crime charge that could bring a death sentence.

Defense attorney Brian Parker.

PARKER: It is our hope that a final resolution of the state charges will help, in some small way, to keep the focus on the needs of the victims and the community.

Parker said the guilty plea represents a condemnation of the shooter’s racist beliefs that motivated the massacre.

Houston water » In Houston, more than 2 million people spent the day buying or boiling water to use for cooking, drinking, and bathing. WORLD’s Anna Johansen Brown has more.

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, REPORTER: A power outage at a water treatment plant triggered a boil order on Sunday. Even with power restored, Houston officials must flush the water system and test for contamination.

The lack of clean water led schools and businesses to close on Monday. Hospitals canceled some elective surgeries. The city expects to lift the boil order today.

For WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown.

Rail strike » President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to intervene to stop a railroad strike. Railroads and unions have until Dec. 9 to work out a new agreement.

Eight of 12 unions have ratified deals already. They are getting 24 percent raises and $5,000 in bonuses. But the other four unions are still negotiating.

Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis

MALLIOTAKIS: We cannot allow this to happen. It would be devastating to the economy. It would cost us roughly 2 billion dollars a day. If you think there’s supply chain issues and high costs of goods right now, wait until there’s a rail strike.

Congress has the power to impose contract terms on the workers. It could also force negotiations to continue into the new year.

I’m Kristen Flavin. Straight ahead: Title 42 is about to come to an end.

Plus, some entertaining and uplifting audiobook recommendations.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Tuesday the 29th of November, 2022. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Today is Giving Tuesday and your last opportunity if you’ve not yet supported the work of WORLD for your first gift to make a double impact!

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EICHER: First up: the end of Title 42 and record-level border crossings.

The Biden administration is about to lose its primary tool for managing the southern border. A few weeks ago, a federal judge nullified the public health law known as Title 42. That law allows immigration authorities to expel illegal immigrants before they can make an asylum claim.

President Donald Trump invoked the policy at the start of the pandemic and the Biden administration relied on it to respond to a surge of more than 2 million immigrant encounters last fiscal year.

REICHARD: Addie Offereins is WORLD’s reporter on the compassion beat. She talked to policy experts and border shelters on the front lines of the immigration crisis. She joins us to talk about what the change may mean for the southern border. 

Addie, Welcome!

ADDIE OFFEREINS, REPORTER: Hi, Mary, thanks for having me.

REICHARD: Why did the district judge overturn Title 42?

OFFEREINS: So a group of immigrant families and the American Civil Liberties Union brought the lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan found Title 42 to be arbitrary and capricious because he said it didn't have much of a public health benefit anymore. It ignored the rights of immigrants to ask for asylum under immigration law. He also said that the CDC did not consider alternatives that could protect the United States from COVID-19 without expelling immigrants into dangerous countries.

REICHARD: You know, I seem to remember that this policy was previously challenged in court. Am I right?

OFFEREINS: Yes, so President Biden campaigned on promises to end the controversial health order and in April the CDC said the order was unnecessary because fewer people were getting COVID and they had easier access to masks and vaccines. But a federal judge blocked the agency's attempt to lift the order because 24 states sued. They argued that ending Title 42 would financially harm the states who took in the thousands of anticipated immigrants. So the Biden administration continued to use the policy most recently expanding it to turn back more Venezuelans.

REICHARD: I know Republicans worry that ending this policy will only make the border crisis worse than it is now. What does ending the policy mean for border crossings?

OFFEREINS: Well, Mary, Republicans aren't the only ones who are worried. The lawyers for the Biden administration requested five more weeks of the policy to prepare, so Title 42 is scheduled to end officially at midnight on December 21. Immigration authorities use Title 42 to expel immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border over 1 million times. This accounts for about 50 percent of all immigrant encounters in 2022 and 60 percent in 2021. After the decision, I talked with Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow with the Migration Policy Institute. He said it's hard to predict, but it could be north of a million more crossings a year.

REICHARD: You know, border shelters are already overwhelmed down there. I’m wondering how might this change will affect them and also what the change means for the immigrants themselves?

OFFEREINS: So I spoke with Valeria Wheeler. She runs Michigan Border Hope, the only border shelter in Eagle Pass, Texas. That city has become one of the epicenters of the crossings recently. Right now, ICE drops off about 600 immigrants per day at her shelter. And after Title 42 ends, she expects a lot more. So she said her shelter is trying to hire more staff to connect immigrants with transportation and get them through the shelter more quickly. And similarly about 55 miles west in Del Rio, Shon Young is the associate pastor at City Church and the president of Val Vere Humanitarian Border Coalition, which is another border shelter. He says the coalition isn't doing anything too out of the ordinary because immigration policy changes often and he isn't sure if the current change is completely set in stone or what might happen. So they've stocked up on food and clothing a little bit but they know God will provide whatever happens and whether the policy ends or not.

REICHARD: You mentioned the Biden administration has five more weeks to prepare for the end of this expulsion policy. What’s the plan going forward?

OFFEREINS: Yeah, five weeks isn't that much time. I talked with Theresa Cardinal Brown with the Bipartisan Policy Center. She anticipates that the administration will try to relieve the pressure on border patrol stations by processing immigrants more quickly and putting them on parole. Last fiscal year, border patrol increased the use of parole and alternatives to detention to cut down on processing time. This means that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement releases the majority of illegal immigrants into the United States to stay until their immigration case is decided. ICE monitors the immigrants with a self-reporting app on a smartphone. So that's the short term plan. But the long term plan is less clear. Cardinal Brown said we need to take a step back to understand how broken the whole immigration system is. Backlogs in the legal immigration system encourage illegal immigrants to risk the journey because they know they may wait several years before a court hears their case. And many Republicans say the administration doesn't have a plan at all. 15 states filed a motion to delay Sullivan's order. They argue lifting Title 42 will impose financial burdens on border states and others who take in the expected surge of immigrants.

REICHARD: Addie Offereins is WORLD’s reporter on the compassion beat. To keep up with her immigration coverage and more, head to wng.org and sign up for Addie's weekly newsletter called Compassion. Addie, thank you.

OFFEREINS: Thank you, Mary.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: Twitter.

The social media behemoth is getting an extreme makeover. Billionaire Elon Musk took over the company as owner and CEO a month ago. Since then, he’s fired top leaders, laid off half the employees, and restored numerous banned accounts—including the one belonging to former President Donald Trump.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Musk is also revamping Twitter’s verification system, those blue checkmarks on the profiles of top politicians, celebrities, and influencers. The changes come even as the tech industry overall seems to be in an upheaval.

Jerry Bowyer is president of Bowyer Research and is a contributor to WORLD Opinions. He joins us now to talk about the upsets in tech and Twitter.

REICHARD: Welcome, Jerry!

JERRY BOWYER, GUEST: A pleasure to be with you again, as always.

REICHARD: Jerry, you’ve been following Musk’s takeover of Twitter this year. What do you think is the most significant move he’s made to date?

BOWYER: Well, the most significant move he made to date is to play around on Twitter with the idea of floating the possibility of buying it, which set in motion—due to his own leadership style and crowds egging him on, etcetera, etcetera—set in motion the forces led to him being forced to buy the thing at well above market price when it has serious problems with its business model.

As a citizen, I was delighted to see him take over Twitter. I didn't like the usurious nature of Twitter. If it’s supposed to be some kind of soapbox, then soapboxes can be stood on by crazy people as well. And I didn’t like that Twitter was overly likely to ban people and in a politically and religiously biased way.

REICHARD: You’re always a straight shooter, Jerry, and I appreciate that. We know the marketplace of big social media platforms is not all that vast, but Twitter is also not the only player. Why do you think the changes at Twitter are capturing so much of the public’s attention?

BOWYER: Well, because it involves Elon Musk, who is the richest man in the world, who has an enormous talent for publicity, rivaled only by our former president. He’s just really good at getting attention and likes the attention. And there’s conflict. What does PT Barnum say? If you want to draw a crowd, start a fight. So, there was conflict. Also, these social media companies have much larger fame profiles than they do financial profiles. So, Twitter’s not really a very big company. It doesn’t have a very big balance sheet, it doesn’t have a very big income statement.

REICHARD: Well, what’s going on in the industry? Why is Big Tech having such a tough year?

BOWYER: Well, what’s going on in the industry of Big Tech overall is that it's highly dependent on easy money from the Central Bank. And this is kind of the little secret here, which is we saw that as the Central Bank, the Fed, stopped pouring money into markets and actually hiked rates somewhat, pulling money out of markets, who got hit the hardest? Stock markets got hit. Bond markets got hit. Everybody got hit, but who got hit the hardest was growth companies. And tech companies tend to be growth companies. So they were in bubble valuation territory. And the only thing that blows bubbles this big is the Central Bank, which is creating easy money. So the fact that when the Central Bank started to pop the bubble, we saw tech companies get hit harder than others, also tells us something by implication we may not have realized, which is the bubble was enabled by the easy money in the first place.

REICHARD: Back in April when Musk first offered to buy Twitter, you wrote a column for WORLD Opinions. And I’m going to quote what you wrote: “sometimes providence uses chaos to undermine systems of control.” What did you mean by that?

BOWYER: Yeah, what I meant is that Musk is a pretty chaotic person. I’ve written about Musk in the past. He’s got serious problems as a leader. He's a little unstable. He doesn't seem to understand the role of a CEO, which is to put shareholders first, etcetera. And he's a chaos producer. So one of the things that seems to happen providentially is when you get these top-down systems of social control, whether it's an Assyria, a Babylon, a tower of Babel, a Rome, or whatever, you also have these kinds of rebellions and uprisings and chaotic forces which counter them, which providentially kind of helps us and keeps freedom open.

REICHARD: Final question here, Jerry. We mentioned former President Donald Trump in the intro… Now, Twitter banned his account after the riot at the U.S. Capitol in January, and Musk reinstated it just over a week ago. So far, Trump hasn’t come back to Twitter. What, if any, do you think are the ramifications of Musk’s decision to bring him back?

BOWYER: Well, I think it might end up hurting Twitter financially because Trump is sort of the chief devil figure, in some ways, for the ruling class of America. And those people are often controlling advertising dollars, right? Public relations firms, etcetera. So I think Musk is going to get hit pretty hard in the advertising revenue department. That having been said, I think it's the right thing to bring Trump back, which is also to say, I think it was the wrong thing to ban him. That doesn't mean I think that Trump handled January 6th well. I think he handled January 6th very badly, at least until later in the day, he kind of was convinced to step forward and say, Wait a minute. The time leading up to those riots was not a great leadership moment for the President of the United States. But that's our decision to make whether we want to read his tweets or not. That's not Jack Dorsey's decision, or people in middle management in Twitter. So I don't think he should have been banned.

REICHARD: Jerry Bowyer, always a pleasure. Thanks for joining us.

BOWYER: My pleasure.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Perhaps after your Thanksgiving meal you went outside for a friendly game of catch. But you likely didn’t set records as did the Hanavans—the father-and-son duo in Montana.

Audio here from TV station KPAX.

LOGAN: It was a buzzer-beater.

RYAN: It was a buzzer-beater it was right at the at the buzzer.

Dad Ryan is a Lacrosse coach. Son Logan plays on the team. They decided to take a passing drill to another level: standing 25 feet apart they passed two balls back and forth with lacrosse sticks. In a single minute, they did that forty times!

Guinness accepted their accomplishment as an official world record, but the two expect to be outdone soon.

RYAN: And that's our hope is that people will rise up and beat us so that gives us something to try and beat back right we want to do well, yeah.

LOGAN: I want more of a challenge.

RYAN: Yeah.

If they want more of a challenge, they could try it while running down the field, or while blindfolded, or with one hand tied behind their back, or in a field with a raging bull, or under water, or while eating french fries...

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, November 29th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: recommendations for good audiobooks.

If you’re an audiobook fan, you know the best audiobooks are not just warmed over versions of print books.

With that in mind, here’s WORLD reviewer Emily Whitten with her favorite audiobooks of the year.

EMILY WHITTEN, REVIEWER: What makes a great audiobook? I often look for a gripping voice and a story or content that draws me in. You can hear both in my favorite audiobook this year, Songs of Suffering by Joni Earekson Tada.

CLIP: Resurrection power–that same mighty strength that raised Christ from the dead–is what is needed to bear a cross. His mighty strength even enables us to do the unthinkable–sing sweetly under its weight.

Those who haven’t heard the story of how a diving accident led to her quadriplegia and deep faith in Christ should check out her autobiography, Joni. That deep faith is on display again in Songs of Suffering. Each chapter includes a hymn read aloud, a Bible verse, and a devotional based on the hymn including stories from history or her own life. Tada closes by singing part of the hymn, as in this verse of “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.”

CLIP: When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of glory died.…

Not everyone will love the simple piano accompaniment. But I like the raw sound of her voice. It invites me to sing along, and reminds me of Tada’s recent suffering–the “sheepdogs” as she calls them of cancer and COVID that drive her to worship. The strain here is palpable, but so is her joy.

CLIP: When grief numbs your soul, and bitterness or despair foment in your heart, do not give up. Survey what Jesus did on his cross for you. At the cost of his own blood, he purchased the mighty strength of the resurrection for your impossible situation. That is worth singing about.

My second favorite audiobook this year isn’t as authentic–but it does offer a riveting story well told. A Sea Between Us by Yosely Pereira and Billy Ivey is the epic tale of one man’s journey from communism to freedom as he came to the United States from Cuba in 2002. The audiobook version is read by seasoned voice actor, Gustavo Rex.

CLIP: Once on the other side of the crashing tide, we would be able to rest. Rafael is taller than I am, so he positioned himself on the right, closer the shore. Suddenly, I struck a coral snag mid thigh. I sank immediately, letting out a scream that was mercifully muted by the water. And the boat began pointing inland.

A Sea Between Us presents some of the hardest realities of life–but the book isn’t overly graphic. It centers on Pereira’s dramatic boat ride to reach America–with shark attacks, storms, and other challenges. But flashbacks to Pereira’s childhood and early marriage in Cuba add richness and beauty to the tale’s inspiring finale. Christian listeners will also appreciate Pereira’s honest wrestling with God and the witness of believers who show him compassion.

CLIP: For the next two hours, I bared my soul to Jim. The language barrier made it difficult, but he listened and tried to comfort me as best he could. He hurt for me and with me. I knew that he understood. “How can I help you, Yosely? How can I help your family?”

Finally, if you or your older teens like sci-fi novels or The Babylon Bee, try the audiobook version of The Postmodern Pilgrim’s Progress. It’s by Babylon Bee writers Kyle Mann and Joel Berry, and it’s a clever retelling of John Bunyan’s classic Pilgrim’s Progress. In Mann’s and Berry’s version, Christian doesn’t just take a nap and dream, he’s propelled on his journey to the Celestial City when a megachurch projector falls from the ceiling.

CLIP: Thankfully for Ryan, the state of the art Panasonic LCD projector didn’t hit him squarely on top of his head. It only kind of hit the top of his head, grazing him along the side of his face and cutting a four inch gash in his temple. It also knocked him out cold for 3.28 seconds, and Ryan dreamed.

Our quirky narrator echoes sci-fi novels like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But the allegorical tale also includes rich Biblical and philosophical insights from authors like T.S. Eliot, Stephen King, and G.K. Chesterton. Later in the book, Ryan becomes a Christian and faces a wide range of challenges to his faith–including liberal theologians, health and wealth preachers, and echoes of Bunyan’s original like Depression Bog. In the following clip, a friend named Faith finds Ryan sinking in that bog.

CLIP: Just as the severed end of the vine attached to Ryan’s waist slipped under the mud, she darted out and snagged it, pulling with all her might. Eventually Ryan’s nearly lifeless body started to budge, coming up inch by inch. Finally his eyes appeared, then his nose, then his mouth. He sputtered and spit and gasped for air. Several minutes later, still short of breath but out of immediate danger, Ryan lay on the far bank of Depression Bog.

Audiobook sales continue to grow. And no wonder, with contributions as creative as these. As 2022 comes to a close, I hope these three audiobook gems might entertain you and your family and strengthen your faith.

I’m Emily Whitten.

REICHARD: The three audiobooks Emily mentioned today areSongs of Suffering, A Sea Between Us, and The Postmodern Pilgrim’s Progress.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Tuesday, November 29th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Up next: WORLD commentator Steve West on the sights and sounds of a city in decline, yet not without hope.

STEVE WEST, COMMENTATOR: On a recent trip to the Hudson River Valley of New York, my wife and I spent much of our time walking in the nearby countryside in and around the small riverside town where we stayed. Our walks and musings became a meditation on both death and life.

The town in which we were staying had lost its center. An aged train station next door to our hotel was airy and unkempt. Fallen leaves dusted its entrance. The few brick and frame buildings at the town-center were vacant, commerce gone elsewhere. A private residence filled what once was a small brick church. A cemetery spread out around a Catholic Church chapel, a meadow of silent witnesses to the finitude of life.

That first night, I awoke to hear the lullaby rhythm of a passenger train outside our hotel. Like a long, epic poem, its lyric carriages filed slowly by. I imagined the poet-engineer atop its pulsing diesel heart, staring into the void of night, the darkened houses and wooded bluffs to the east; the dark, coursing Hudson River west.

“The end of all things is near,” wrote the Apostle Peter, and in the dead of night, remembering our walk that day about a vacant town, I felt it. And yet reading that verse later, I realized it resonates with hope. Peter doesn’t end there but gives instructions for the last days: Be sober. Watch yourself. Keep loving. Forgive each other. Show hospitality. Don’t grumble. Use your gift to serve. Speak, he says, “as one who speaks oracles of God.”

A new day brought light and life: birdsong at dawn, a cross around a woman’s neck shouting death to death, a meadow whispering flowers, the laughter of a child waiting for a school bus. At some point I showed my wife a just-snapped photo of my hand holding a dandelion blown in a meadow in which we walked, its seeds scattered to the wind.“You know what my favorite thing is about that picture?” I said. “The ring. The wedding band.”

There’s more I treasured: The green field and flowers. The meandering poets’ walk south of Red Hook. The buzzing bee held still in the air, evaluating us. The autumn breeze, the meadow’s fall and rise, the Basset hound lumbering through the life of Rhinebeck–reminders of life going on, not ending.

“All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,” my wife read from Psalm 25 near the end of our stay. “I like to think of the paths we walked these days with signs saying ‘steadfast love’ and ‘faithfulness,’” she added. She smiled behind her tea cup, and I thought of the trails and country lanes and town streets we walked marked with those signs she imagined, those reassurances for pilgrims.

The end is near. For all those listening in the dark, take heart. Christ moves in the shadows.

I’m Steve West.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: the so-called “Respect of Marriage Act” and religious liberty.

And, our weekly global update on WORLD Tour.

Plus the art—and science—of noise.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

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