tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23569948003743211672024-03-13T08:35:13.375-07:00wow,i never thought about thatJust thoughts coming off the top of my head that might make you look at things in a different perspectivevaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-23205672186043894892023-02-21T06:06:00.004-08:002023-02-21T06:06:35.508-08:00The Story of Fortune, a Slave<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fortune, his wife Dinah and their 3 children were slaves of Preserved Porter, a Connecticut bone doctor. In 1798, Fortune slipped from a rock on the west bank of the Naugatuck river, broke his neck and drowned. At the time, dissecting cadavers was illegal; but not applying to slaves, Dr. Porter cut him into pieces at the riverbank. At his office, he boiled the bones so that all flesh fell off, etched labels into them and used them as a medical training tool. Dr. Porter died 6 years later, listing the bones as worth $15 ($330 today).</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Prior to his death, Dr. Porter used the bones to teach anatomy to his son; who used them to teach anatomy to his grandson; who used them to teach his daughter…135 years of generational doctors and wealth. In 1933, his name long forgotten, the family donated the bones to the Mattatuck Museum where they were displayed next to slave tools as “Larry the Slave”; a popular exhibit shown on their postcard; not taken down until 1970 when the Museum realized this was demeaning. They stored them in the basement.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In 1999, made aware of these bones in the basement, the NAACP and museum staff enlisted anthropologists and archeologists to examine them, ultimately determining this was Fortune. Based on bone density, he was a strong man who lived and worked with a broken back, hand and died of a broken neck. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On Sept. 13th, 2013, after being a slave, medical specimen, museum exhibit and archeological artifact spanning 275 years, Fortune was finally freed…laid to rest next to White society of his time…something that wouldn’t have been allowed when he died.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This is not an isolated story. Medical usage of Black and Indigenous people in ways prohibited of Whites was not uncommon. Since I still can't find my GG Grandfather (Ned Mills), Erica and I decided to make a donation to the Assoc for the Study of African American Life & History, as well as to make a regular pilgrimage here to leave flowers for Fortune.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Black History is American History and Black Lives Matter. If not to you, I got this. My actions will show they always have and still do…no statute of limitations. Now rest, Fortune. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><br /></span></div></div>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-92230288086819015702023-02-21T05:55:00.001-08:002023-02-21T05:55:42.272-08:00The HistoryMakers: Documenting Black history through first-person accoun...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/zHaWXbpsZ2o" frameborder="0"></iframe>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-29486397294437447332022-10-13T15:13:00.003-07:002022-10-13T15:13:31.788-07:00Nicolas Cruz get life without parole...NO!<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm not for or against the death penalty. But in the case of Nickolas Cruz, the man needed to go. He knew what he was doing, he planned it, he executed 17 people. I don't know what the jury saw that he, Cruz, SAID he did it, to say he should be spared. Good luck dude. You'll need it.</span></p>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-39803629056016585602022-06-27T06:12:00.001-07:002022-06-27T06:12:39.272-07:00The U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade <p> I am not an advocate of abortion. I do not believe abortion should be used for birth control. HOWEVER, I do not believe government has the right to tell me to carry to term the child of rape, nor of incest. Nor to continue to carry an ectopic pregnancy, or other life threatening pregnancies. The Supreme Court made a huge mistake in overturning Roe v Wade, which now allows states the opportunity to ban abortion completely. A woman should be the one to decide what happens to her body, and with the guidance of her doctor. There are so many children in the adoption system, and many more in the foster system. Let's take care of them in finding forever homes.</p>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-26781133343559976682022-03-03T17:45:00.005-08:002022-03-03T17:50:18.230-08:00Zelensky: The end of the world has arrived.<p> <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/zelenky-ukraine-russia-end-of-the-world-180049216.html">Zelensky: 'The end of the world has arrived' (yahoo.com)</a> Click to Yahoo site to see post.</p>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-20704175396298261612022-03-01T16:20:00.000-08:002022-03-01T16:20:12.472-08:00A Brief History of Ukraine<p> From "A History Of Civilization" pg. 321</p><p>-Swedes penetrated the wilds of what is now Russia.</p><p>-Swedes established the first settled culture in Russia at Novgorod and Kiev; in fact, the Swedish invaders were known as "Russ."</p><p> pg.550</p><p>The Slav colossus, Russia, was already emerging, but early civilized life in Russia had been organized not by Slavs, but by Scandinavians. The Swedish Vikings had established small states in Novgorod and Kiev about the Danish north men were unsettling the painfully reconstructed civilization of western Europe. Russian lif was further enriched from Constantinople, first though penetration of Byzantine Christianity, and then by the introduction of Byzantine influence in art, literature, and terms of government. Indeed, later Tsars claimed Moscow as the capital of eastern Christendom, and asserted their independence of the mantle of Roman and Byzantine Caesars.</p><p>In the 13th century, Russia, then but a loose collection of feudal states, was conquered by Tartars, led by the grandson of Genghis Khan. For 200 years the Tartars maintained their sway, still collecting tribute from Russians when the Turks captured Constantinople. But Russian independence was not far off. In 1552, The Duke of Moscow defeated the Mongols, and became the leader of a Russian state. So rose the power which, in later years, would become the chief enemy of the Turks. The Turkish thrust northward conquered a part of what is now southern Russia. That territory was not Russian, but the possession of another Slovik power.</p><p><br /></p><p>History Of Mankind- Vol.II pg. 24,26</p><p>....many specific Greco- native cultures can be distinguished: in Magna Graesia, Sicily, the country around Marsellies, the Propontis, Ukraine, Crimea, Cyrenaica, and so on.</p><p>....No less important was the influence of the Greek colonists on the Black Sea coasts, especially in the modern Ukraine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Encyclopedia Britannica- History</p><p> Beginning in the 7th-6th centuries BCE, numerous Greek colonies were founded on the northern coast of the Black Sea, on the Crimean Peninsula, and along the Sea of Azov. During the 1st millennium BCE, the steppe hinterland was successively occupied by the Cimmerians, Scythians, and Sarmatians. These peoples, all of Iranian (Persian) stock, maintained commercial and cultural relations with the Greek colonies.</p><p> The Goths from the Baltic region replaced the Sarmatians in the Ukraine about 200CE.</p><p>Kyivan (KIEVAN) Rus</p><p> The formation of the Kyivan state began in the 9th century by the Varagians (Vikings), and the name Rus was the beginnings of the state. From the Varangian merchant-warriors came the progenitors of the Kyivan princes, who soon became Slavicized. The Varangians were also called Rus, and this became a territorial designation for the Kyivan region. Later, it was applied to the entire territory ruled by members of the Kyivan dynasty.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-48555183659656475232022-01-20T13:12:00.001-08:002022-01-20T13:12:06.181-08:00<p> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/world/europe/lake-wannsee-conference-final-solution-holocaust.html">80 Years Ago the Nazis Planned the ‘Final Solution.’ It Took 90 Minutes. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</a> I've never heard of this "conference." Stunningly evil.</p>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-2626575407573187402022-01-06T12:16:00.002-08:002022-01-06T12:16:18.217-08:00The Siege on The U.S. Capitol January 6, 2021<p> https://fb.watch/an1M614qMo/</p>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-33614886015144437632022-01-06T07:19:00.003-08:002022-01-06T07:19:33.448-08:00President Biden Slams T^^^^ For Web Of Lies About 2020 Election<p> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jan-6-live-updates-biden-slams-trump-for-web-of-lies-about-jan-6-election-loss/ar-AASuQAR?rt=0&ocid=Win10NewsApp&referrerID=InAppShare</p>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-70613385275374013362022-01-06T07:04:00.001-08:002022-01-06T08:35:45.806-08:00The One Year Anniversary of the U.S. Capitol Riot <p> One Year. It seems like it was just yesterday, I was returning home from the store, and my daughter asked me had I seen what was going on in D.C. I just happened to turn on Twitter, and it was blowing up with comments about people forcing themselves into The Capitol. The Congress was certifying the Electoral College votes, and these criminals (the ones who literally stormed the Capitol) broke through glass, busted down doors, attacked Capitol Police on the steps leading to the The Capitol, and police inside, defaced the interior, vocally threatened Congress members, including Vice-President Pence. They made their way into the inner sanctums of the Congressional chambers, went into Congress members desks, went into their offices, I mean, I could go on and on. Meanwhile, D.T. (I never say his name) refused to call back and tell the rioters to stop the attack. he pretty much called them to action at the march he had prior to the count. Stories have been said that many of his supporters announced something was going to happen on that day. All of this was to prevent the validation of the Electoral College votes, which was unsuccessful.</p><p> So far, hundreds of people have been arrested, and convicted of various charges because of their involvement in the riot, or as many call it "insurrection." But no one, as of yet, who are members of Congress, or of the prior administration, have been charged. Perhaps the January 6th Investigating Committee are trying to insure they have all of the facts and evidence to make sure no one is missed when charges are leveled. </p><p> My hope is that this does not happen again, but I feel it will either during the mid-terms, or the next Presidential election. Either way, this empire may soon crumble.</p>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-63444289765500221012020-07-14T19:23:00.001-07:002020-07-14T19:23:29.129-07:00<span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 1554</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> John Lok was captain of three ships, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Trinity</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> of 140 tons, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Bartholomew</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> of 90 tons, and the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">John Evangelist</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> of 140 tons which set sail on a trading voyage to </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_region" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Guinea region">Guinea</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> on 11 October. Although unfavourable winds kept them from leaving England's shores until 1 November, they were near </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Madeira">Madeira</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> by 17 November, and becalmed two days later at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> under the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Teide">Peak</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. They touched the coast of Africa at </span><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cape_Barbas&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #a55858; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cape Barbas (page does not exist)">Cape Barbas</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, and after reaching the mouth of the </span><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sestos_River&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #a55858; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sestos River (page does not exist)">Sestos River</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, 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 </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_pepper_(disambiguation)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Guinea pepper (disambiguation)">Guinea pepper</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, and 250 elephants’ tusks, as well as an elephant's skull of such size and weight that a man could scarcely lift it.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lok#cite_note-17" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHunt1842175_18-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lok#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHunt1842175-18" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurray1818149–50_19-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lok#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurray1818149%E2%80%9350-19" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELardner1830225–6_20-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lok#cite_note-FOOTNOTELardner1830225%E2%80%936-20" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[20]</a></sup><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">Lok's ships also brought home five Africans from present-day </span></span><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ghana">Ghana</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> to learn English and act as interpreters on future trading voyages to </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_region" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Guinea region">Guinea</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There is talk that this is when the slave trade first occurred.</span>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-9707433766128761332020-07-10T19:59:00.000-07:002020-07-10T20:02:43.355-07:00There 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<br />
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.<br />
In 1634-1640, among the Wyandot people and in Canada, there was an outbreak of smallpox that killed 15-25,000 people.<br />
In New England, New York, and New Jersey, 1735- 1739,Diptheria killed about 20,000 people.<br />
In North Carolina, during 1738-39, smallpox killed between 7,700- 11,700 people.<br />
In the Pacific Northwest, 1775- 1782, smallpox wiped out over 11,000 people.<br />
Malaria killed in the Pacific Northwest in 1829-1833 150,000 people.<br />
In The Great Plains 1837- 38, over 17,000 died of smallpox.<br />
In The Hawaiian Kingdom, 10,000 people died of measles, Whooping Cough, dysentery, and influenza between 1848-49.<br />
In The U.S., about 80,000 died of Typhoid fever in 1861-1865.<br />
Mississippi 1878 yellow fever killed 13,000.<br />
Worldwide, in 1889-90, 1 million people died of influenza.<br />
Encephalitis lethargica killed 1.5 million people worldwide between 1915 and 1926.<br />
Influenza H1N1 killed worldwide between 1918 and 1920 17-100 MILLION people!<br />
H2N2 Worldwide between 1957-58 killed 1-4 million people.<br />
H3N2, between 1968-1970 worldwide killed 1-4 million people.<br />
H.I.V.-A.I.D.S 1981-present Worldwide has killed from 32-43.8 million people.<br />
Swine flu (H1N1) killed 151,700-575,400 2009-10.<br />
IN The U.S., the seasonal influenza killed 46,000- 95,000 2017-18.<br />
So far, since January 2020 until now July 2020, 556,128 people have died worldwide of CoVid19/ Sars-CoV2.<br />
That's SEVEN MONTHS!!! 136,136 in the U.S. since March!!<br />
Now, do you think this is a hoax?! Not to be taken seriously?!<br />
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<br />vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-68816780154250815102020-06-14T08:39:00.001-07:002020-06-14T08:39:34.152-07:00The East St. Louis Race Riot Left Dozens Dead, Devastating a Community on the Rise<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/east-st-louis-race-riot-left-dozens-dead-devastating-community-on-the-rise-180963885/#.XuZEni2Fka8.blogger">The East St. Louis Race Riot Left Dozens Dead, Devastating a Community on the Rise</a>: Three days of violence forced African-American families to run for their lives and the aftereffects are still felt in the Illinois city todayvaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-2028379797333557022020-05-13T17:15:00.001-07:002020-05-13T17:15:25.264-07:00April Ryan Inst Show with Susan Rice<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2-pFP9seCH4" width="459"></iframe>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-25675846920203117382020-05-08T14:48:00.001-07:002020-05-08T14:48:39.429-07:00Trump and His Allies Have a Plan for Protecting Themselves, Not You: A C...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/69r1SxxPnaI" width="480"></iframe>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-88466241164526161172020-05-04T06:54:00.001-07:002020-05-04T06:54:58.963-07:00https://atlantablackstar.com/2020/05/03/rutgers-professor-brittney-cooper-stands-by-anti-trump-comments-despite-attacks-from-trolls-i-said-what-i-meant/vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-72243777804298249912020-05-04T06:46:00.002-07:002020-05-04T06:46:58.772-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For those of you complaining about Trump being blamed for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">It is ironic because since President Obama acted decisively we forget about his actions since the disease never reached our shores.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Now the story of COVID-19 and Trump’s response that we know about thus far:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As if you needed one more reason to vote, here it is.</span>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-55636665027205888862020-05-04T06:43:00.000-07:002020-05-04T06:43:12.740-07:00<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
>> 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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-65819446836743044242020-05-04T06:39:00.002-07:002020-05-04T06:39:26.557-07:00https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-pandemic-earth-pollution-noise/609316/?fbclivaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-24399429932005744622020-04-30T17:53:00.000-07:002020-04-30T17:53:02.884-07:00Coronavirus 2020 AKA COVID19Well. 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/vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-77731065558428008062019-07-17T23:32:00.001-07:002019-07-17T23:32:06.739-07:00Well, I have written anything recently, but I feel I need to speak about the recent events D.T. ( I never say his name, but you call him President) has made about certain members of Congress. This man is so divisive, so hypocritical, so hateful, that I almost do not want to comment on him. Mainly because he wants to stay I .The news and relevant. Seriously, how many of you have felt such negativity from a President before? In your lifetime? You probably haven't. I pray that karma comes through. This atmosphere in the U.S. is not acceptable. It can only get worse, but I pray that The Most High intervenes, and holds those who are guilty of such hatred accountable for any action against humanity.vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-39334126995909781492019-06-18T10:34:00.001-07:002019-06-18T10:34:21.130-07:00Trump Lies To, Lashes Out At George 'Little Wiseguy' Stephanopoulos<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4OGox-J9_wY" width="480"></iframe>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-11139508571178155402019-04-07T07:34:00.001-07:002019-04-07T07:34:24.031-07:00The U.S. gov't turned away thousands of Jewish refugees, fearing they were Nazi spies<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-government-turned-away-thousands-jewish-refugees-fearing-they-were-nazi-spies-180957324/#3OxLzBAR0HxVOxxF.15">The U.S. gov't turned away thousands of Jewish refugees, fearing they were Nazi spies</a>vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-10968614621636245192018-12-07T13:56:00.001-08:002018-12-07T13:56:43.604-08:00Hi! It has been an extraordinary amount of time since I posted any original posts on my blog. A lot has occurred since then, and I know I promised I would post more, but with all that life has, it is really hard to actually sit down to write.<br />
As we come to the end of the year, I thought I would let you all know we have much to look forward to, in the U.S. and throughout the world. I pray that the person that calls himself President ( I never call him that) will come to his senses and do what is right for the country. I pray that Americans can comes to semblance of kindness towards each other, and also with people from other countries and cultures.<br />
I wish all of you a very Happy Holiday Season, and Happy New Year.<br />
God willing, I will speak to you all soon!<br />
Peace Out!!vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2356994800374321167.post-43735083435828668252018-12-07T13:17:00.002-08:002018-12-07T13:17:27.915-08:00https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/us/deployed-inside-the-united-states-the-military-waits-for-the-migrant-caravan.html<br />vaimjjxfilefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11830404143284701799noreply@blogger.com0