In 1554 John Lok was captain of three ships, the Trinity of 140 tons, the Bartholomew of 90 tons, and the John Evangelist of 140 tons which set sail on a trading voyage to Guinea on 11 October. Although unfavourable winds kept them from leaving England's shores until 1 November, they were near Madeira by 17 November, and becalmed two days later at the Canary Islands under the Peak of Tenerife. They touched the coast of Africa at Cape Barbas, and after reaching the mouth of the Sestos River, traded down the coast, 'touching every place of consequence without any memorable incident occurring' until 13 February, when they turned back toward England. Although the voyage out had taken seven weeks, the return voyage took twenty. In all, twenty-four seamen were lost in the course of the voyage. The cargo brought back included more than 400 pounds' weight of gold, 36 butts of Guinea pepper, and 250 elephants’ tusks, as well as an elephant's skull of such size and weight that a man could scarcely lift it.[17][18][19][20] Lok's ships also brought home five Africans from present-day Ghana to learn English and act as interpreters on future trading voyages to Guinea.
There is talk that this is when the slave trade first occurred.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Friday, July 10, 2020
There is talk that this pandemic is not so serious that we should close down schools and businesses. I did a little research, and it seems to me we are not taking it serious enough. It seems as though we, in the U.S. don't consider things serious unless it involves us. Well, so far there has been 3,329,786 positive cases in the U S., and 136,671 deaths in the U.S
How does this jive with past epidemics or pandemics? I'm going to show just how this is as serious or MORE than what has occurred in the past in the U.S.
In 1634-1640, among the Wyandot people and in Canada, there was an outbreak of smallpox that killed 15-25,000 people.
In New England, New York, and New Jersey, 1735- 1739,Diptheria killed about 20,000 people.
In North Carolina, during 1738-39, smallpox killed between 7,700- 11,700 people.
In the Pacific Northwest, 1775- 1782, smallpox wiped out over 11,000 people.
Malaria killed in the Pacific Northwest in 1829-1833 150,000 people.
In The Great Plains 1837- 38, over 17,000 died of smallpox.
In The Hawaiian Kingdom, 10,000 people died of measles, Whooping Cough, dysentery, and influenza between 1848-49.
In The U.S., about 80,000 died of Typhoid fever in 1861-1865.
Mississippi 1878 yellow fever killed 13,000.
Worldwide, in 1889-90, 1 million people died of influenza.
Encephalitis lethargica killed 1.5 million people worldwide between 1915 and 1926.
Influenza H1N1 killed worldwide between 1918 and 1920 17-100 MILLION people!
H2N2 Worldwide between 1957-58 killed 1-4 million people.
H3N2, between 1968-1970 worldwide killed 1-4 million people.
H.I.V.-A.I.D.S 1981-present Worldwide has killed from 32-43.8 million people.
Swine flu (H1N1) killed 151,700-575,400 2009-10.
IN The U.S., the seasonal influenza killed 46,000- 95,000 2017-18.
So far, since January 2020 until now July 2020, 556,128 people have died worldwide of CoVid19/ Sars-CoV2.
That's SEVEN MONTHS!!! 136,136 in the U.S. since March!!
Now, do you think this is a hoax?! Not to be taken seriously?!
How does this jive with past epidemics or pandemics? I'm going to show just how this is as serious or MORE than what has occurred in the past in the U.S.
In 1634-1640, among the Wyandot people and in Canada, there was an outbreak of smallpox that killed 15-25,000 people.
In New England, New York, and New Jersey, 1735- 1739,Diptheria killed about 20,000 people.
In North Carolina, during 1738-39, smallpox killed between 7,700- 11,700 people.
In the Pacific Northwest, 1775- 1782, smallpox wiped out over 11,000 people.
Malaria killed in the Pacific Northwest in 1829-1833 150,000 people.
In The Great Plains 1837- 38, over 17,000 died of smallpox.
In The Hawaiian Kingdom, 10,000 people died of measles, Whooping Cough, dysentery, and influenza between 1848-49.
In The U.S., about 80,000 died of Typhoid fever in 1861-1865.
Mississippi 1878 yellow fever killed 13,000.
Worldwide, in 1889-90, 1 million people died of influenza.
Encephalitis lethargica killed 1.5 million people worldwide between 1915 and 1926.
Influenza H1N1 killed worldwide between 1918 and 1920 17-100 MILLION people!
H2N2 Worldwide between 1957-58 killed 1-4 million people.
H3N2, between 1968-1970 worldwide killed 1-4 million people.
H.I.V.-A.I.D.S 1981-present Worldwide has killed from 32-43.8 million people.
Swine flu (H1N1) killed 151,700-575,400 2009-10.
IN The U.S., the seasonal influenza killed 46,000- 95,000 2017-18.
So far, since January 2020 until now July 2020, 556,128 people have died worldwide of CoVid19/ Sars-CoV2.
That's SEVEN MONTHS!!! 136,136 in the U.S. since March!!
Now, do you think this is a hoax?! Not to be taken seriously?!
Sunday, June 14, 2020
The East St. Louis Race Riot Left Dozens Dead, Devastating a Community on the Rise
The East St. Louis Race Riot Left Dozens Dead, Devastating a Community on the Rise: Three days of violence forced African-American families to run for their lives and the aftereffects are still felt in the Illinois city today
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Friday, May 8, 2020
Monday, May 4, 2020
For those of you complaining about Trump being blamed for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic:
I thought I would post a little history lesson for everyone on both sides of the political divide. I think it’s important that we understand the truth, especially come November when it’s time to vote. Forgive the length, but hey, we all have time on our hands to read, correct?
In December 2013, an 18-month-old boy in Guinea was bitten by a bat and died a brutal death a day later. After that, there were five more fatal cases. When Ebola spread out of the Guinea borders into neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone in July 2014, President Obama activated the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The CDC immediately deployed CDC personnel to West Africa to coordinate a response that included vector tracing, testing, education, logistics, and communication.
Altogether, the CDC, under President Obama, trained 24,655 medical workers in West Africa, educating them on how to prevent and control the disease before a single case left Africa or reached the U.S.
Working with the U.N. and the World Health Organization President Obama ordered the re-routing of travelers heading to the U.S. through certain specific airports equipped to handle mass testing.
Back home in America, more than 6,500 people were trained through mock outbreaks and practice scenarios. That was done before a single case hit America.
Three months after President Obama activated this unprecedented response, on September 30, 2014, we detected our first case in the U.S.A. A man had traveled from West Africa to Dallas and somehow slipped through the testing protocol. He was immediately detected and isolated. He died a week later. Two nurses who tended to him contracted Ebola but later recovered. All the protocols had worked. It was contained.
The Ebola epidemic could have easily become a pandemic, but thanks to the actions of our government under President Obama, it never did. Those THREE EBOLA CONFIRMED CASES were the ONLY cases of Ebola in the U.S.A. because Obama did what needed to be done THREE MONTHS PRIOR TO THE FIRST CASE.
Ebola is even more contagious than COVID-19. Had Obama not acted swiftly, millions of Americans would have died horrible, painful, deaths like something out of a horror movie (if you’ve never seen how Ebola kills, it’s horrific).
It is ironic because since President Obama acted decisively we forget about his actions since the disease never reached our shores.
Now the story of COVID-19 and Trump’s response that we know about thus far:
Before anyone even knew about the disease (even in China) Trump disbanded the pandemic response team that Obama had put in place. He cut funding to the CDC, and he cut our contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Trump fired Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, the person on the National Security Council in charge of stopping the spread of infectious diseases before they reach our country - a position created by the Obama administration.
When the outbreak started in China, Trump assumed it was China’s problem and sent no research, supplies or help of any kind. We were in a trade war, why should he help them?
In January he received a briefing from our intelligence organizations that the outbreak was much worse than China was admitting and that it would definitely hit our country if something wasn’t done to prevent it. He ignored the report, not trusting our own intelligence.
When the disease spread to Europe, the World Health Organization offered a plethora of tests to the United States. Trump turned them down, saying private companies here would make the tests “better” if we needed them. However, he never ordered U.S. companies to make tests and they had no profit motive to do so on their own.
According to scientists at Yale and several public university medical schools, when they asked for permission to start working on our own testing protocol and potential treatments or vaccines, they were denied by Trump’s FDA.
When Trump knew about the first case in the United States he did nothing. It was just one case and the patient was isolated. When doctors and scientists started screaming in the media that this was a mistake, Trump claimed it was a “liberal hoax” conjured up to try to make him “look bad after impeachment failed.”
The next time Trump spoke of COVID-19, we had SIXTY-FOUR CONFIRMED CASES but Trump went before microphones and told the American public that we only had FIFTEEN cases “and pretty soon that number will be close to zero.” All while the disease was spreading, he took no action to get more tests.
What Trump did was to stop flights from China from coming here. This was too late and accomplished nothing according to scientists and doctors. By then the disease was worldwide and was already spreading exponentially in the U.S. by Americans, not Chinese people as Trump would like you to believe.
As of the moment I am posting this, the morning of April 15th 2020, we have 583,411 COVID-19 CONFIRMED CASES and 23,462 COVID-19 DEATHS in the U.S.A. The actual number is undoubtedly more than triple that amount.
As if you needed one more reason to vote, here it is.
I thought I would post a little history lesson for everyone on both sides of the political divide. I think it’s important that we understand the truth, especially come November when it’s time to vote. Forgive the length, but hey, we all have time on our hands to read, correct?
In December 2013, an 18-month-old boy in Guinea was bitten by a bat and died a brutal death a day later. After that, there were five more fatal cases. When Ebola spread out of the Guinea borders into neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone in July 2014, President Obama activated the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The CDC immediately deployed CDC personnel to West Africa to coordinate a response that included vector tracing, testing, education, logistics, and communication.
Altogether, the CDC, under President Obama, trained 24,655 medical workers in West Africa, educating them on how to prevent and control the disease before a single case left Africa or reached the U.S.
Working with the U.N. and the World Health Organization President Obama ordered the re-routing of travelers heading to the U.S. through certain specific airports equipped to handle mass testing.
Back home in America, more than 6,500 people were trained through mock outbreaks and practice scenarios. That was done before a single case hit America.
Three months after President Obama activated this unprecedented response, on September 30, 2014, we detected our first case in the U.S.A. A man had traveled from West Africa to Dallas and somehow slipped through the testing protocol. He was immediately detected and isolated. He died a week later. Two nurses who tended to him contracted Ebola but later recovered. All the protocols had worked. It was contained.
The Ebola epidemic could have easily become a pandemic, but thanks to the actions of our government under President Obama, it never did. Those THREE EBOLA CONFIRMED CASES were the ONLY cases of Ebola in the U.S.A. because Obama did what needed to be done THREE MONTHS PRIOR TO THE FIRST CASE.
Ebola is even more contagious than COVID-19. Had Obama not acted swiftly, millions of Americans would have died horrible, painful, deaths like something out of a horror movie (if you’ve never seen how Ebola kills, it’s horrific).
It is ironic because since President Obama acted decisively we forget about his actions since the disease never reached our shores.
Now the story of COVID-19 and Trump’s response that we know about thus far:
Before anyone even knew about the disease (even in China) Trump disbanded the pandemic response team that Obama had put in place. He cut funding to the CDC, and he cut our contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Trump fired Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, the person on the National Security Council in charge of stopping the spread of infectious diseases before they reach our country - a position created by the Obama administration.
When the outbreak started in China, Trump assumed it was China’s problem and sent no research, supplies or help of any kind. We were in a trade war, why should he help them?
In January he received a briefing from our intelligence organizations that the outbreak was much worse than China was admitting and that it would definitely hit our country if something wasn’t done to prevent it. He ignored the report, not trusting our own intelligence.
When the disease spread to Europe, the World Health Organization offered a plethora of tests to the United States. Trump turned them down, saying private companies here would make the tests “better” if we needed them. However, he never ordered U.S. companies to make tests and they had no profit motive to do so on their own.
According to scientists at Yale and several public university medical schools, when they asked for permission to start working on our own testing protocol and potential treatments or vaccines, they were denied by Trump’s FDA.
When Trump knew about the first case in the United States he did nothing. It was just one case and the patient was isolated. When doctors and scientists started screaming in the media that this was a mistake, Trump claimed it was a “liberal hoax” conjured up to try to make him “look bad after impeachment failed.”
The next time Trump spoke of COVID-19, we had SIXTY-FOUR CONFIRMED CASES but Trump went before microphones and told the American public that we only had FIFTEEN cases “and pretty soon that number will be close to zero.” All while the disease was spreading, he took no action to get more tests.
What Trump did was to stop flights from China from coming here. This was too late and accomplished nothing according to scientists and doctors. By then the disease was worldwide and was already spreading exponentially in the U.S. by Americans, not Chinese people as Trump would like you to believe.
As of the moment I am posting this, the morning of April 15th 2020, we have 583,411 COVID-19 CONFIRMED CASES and 23,462 COVID-19 DEATHS in the U.S.A. The actual number is undoubtedly more than triple that amount.
As if you needed one more reason to vote, here it is.
>> Michael Jackson was one of the nicest, kindest people I’ve ever met. He really wanted to do more than just be a musical genius. He wanted to heal and change the world through love, through kindness, through art and through music and I do believe the world’s a better place because he was with us.
He was very gentle, very kind. There was, I sort of describe it as a universal Michael and Michael the individual. There was the universalist Michael who wanted to change the globe. Wanted to see the entire world focus on children and he felt that if children were properly loved and cared for that we would significantly reduce the violence in the world, significantly reduce the meanness in the world, significantly reduce poverty, and all of the world’s most important problems. He felt that the way to do that was to focus on the world’s children. So that’s the universalist Michael who thought he could heal the world through music, through love, through humanitarian measures. He was one of the greatest humanitarians in world history. He actually is in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the largest donors to children’s causes, which the media doesn’t like to focus on.
There also is the individual Michael, who I dealt with, who was a person, and he loved to see a child smile. He built Neverland to see children happy. He was one of the wealthiest men in the world. He could have spent all of that money selfishly. Instead he had a zoo, he had an amusement park, a theatre, he had statues devoted to the world’s children. If you looked at the artwork in his house, a lot of it centered on children and seeing them happy and respecting them for who they were. Their race, their religion, what part of the world they were from, what kind of native traditions they had. This was someone who as a person, loved to see a child smile. Loved to see a child from the inner city who was growing up in poverty and violence come to Neverland and look at a giraffe and smile and look at an elephant and smile. Get some free ice cream and just be happy. It just meant a lot to Michael because he was a very good person. But unfortunately when you’re that much of a genius, and you’re that wealthy, all of the sharks are going to come forward, and when you combine with that a certain level of naivety, a person who just didn’t want to be wrapped up in money matters all of the time or legal matters. He wanted to do creative things, he wanted to do humanitarian things. That makes him even more of a target for frivolous lawsuits and frivolous claims.
"This prosecution was a travesty of justice and one of the most mean-spirited attacks on an innocent person in legal history.” - Tom Mesereau
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Coronavirus 2020 AKA COVID19
Well. for the first time since 1918, we here in the U.S. have a major pandemic. In truth, it is a global pandemic. It is so bad that as of today April 30. 2020, 233,966 people have died worldwide. In the US., more people have died of it than soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. 58,220 Americans died over a twenty year period in the Vietnam War, yet as of April 29, 2020, 58,365 have died. That is over a two month period, and that is a conservative estimate. We really have no way of knowing how many carry the virus. The Trump administration claims they had no knowledge of this occurring. Check this out. https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/208361470615160/
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