Friday, August 23, 2019

Friday News in Late August 2019.



There is value in geography. For thousands of years, human beings have worked hard to understand lands, culture, topography, geology, demographics, population, and other parts of the geographic cosmology. When you learn about the growth of infrastructure, you are researching geography. When you're learning about trade and basic avenues of journeys, geography is part of the equation. With the advancement of the Internet and other forms of technology, geographic research is commonplace. As time goes on, more people witness the diversity of humanity. We went from having hunter-gathering societies to see the existence of large, metropolitan urban locations like New York City, London, Hong Kong, and Lagos. In urban and rural locations, there is the evaluation of infrastructure, land territories, rivers, income, health, education, and other indicators of human life. One example is that a city like New York City (filled with five borough, almost 9 million people, and numerous water supplies) relies on trade, commerce, and the utilization of its resources to promote its highest potential. Comparing continents is important, because we see how much value each continent has in the world society. We know of Africa being blessed with many resources and great people. We know of North America and South America having a strong Native American culture along with its influence felt worldwide. We know of Asia being the birthplace of so many spiritual systems and other facets of civilizations. Europe has a myriad of geographic characteristics and an interesting history. Australia is filled with power and creativity. Antarctica is a location that is very cold and explorer still amaze at its wonder. Oceania has some of the most diverse people in the world along with great history.

There are more secrets that ought to be revealed. Lydia Claud is my fifth great aunt. She was born in 1842. Lydia Claud's mother is of course Zilphy Claud (1820-1893). Zilphy and Lydia Claud lived in the area of Southampton County, Virginia. She or Lydia Claud married a man named Willis Sykes on the date of 1867. This was during the time of Reconstruction. Their daughter named Louisa Sykes. Louisa Sykes married the famous man named Charlie Wesley Lowe (1854-1954). Therefore, many people of the Lowe family is related to my family. The Lowe family came from Southampton County, Virginia. Their descendants live from Virginia to California. Later, the daughter of Louisa Sykes and Charlie Wesley Lowe was a woman named Danier Elsie Lowe (1917-2007). She was a young child who was very active in loving learning and travel. She loved romance, and she was my second cousin. She married a man named Peter Albert Fortune (1910-1981) in the year of 1933. They had a child named Calvin Lowe Fortune (1934-2000). Calvin Lowe Fortune married a woman named Carolyn Rose Cross on the date of January 16, 1957 at Suffolk, Virginia. Calvin Lowe Fortune was born in New York City. One child of Calvin and Carolyn Fortune was Steven Wesley Fortune or my fourth cousin. Steven was born in the year of 1957. Steven Fortune has a great family (he lives in New Jersey). Steve Fortune married a great woman named Cynthia Lynn McPherson (1956-2018). Cynthia L. Fortune was a mother, a lover of life, and a great human being. She was born and raised in the state of New Jersey. Steve and Cynthia's children are Jessica Leigh Fortune and Kelly Lynn Fortune (both young women are my 5th cousins). Therefore, the Claud family, the Lowe family, and the Fortune family are related to my family indeed.This information just shows how fundamentally, we are all related. We are all human beings.

One of the most important news today is the increased burning of the Amazon rainforest heavily in Brazil plus other areas of South America. This is a threat to the climate, since climate change is real, and it is a fact that increased greenhouse cases will damage ecological habitats, rise sea levels, and damage infratructure. The leader of Brazil is the far right person Jair Bolsonaro. Jair has supporters who oppose affirmative action for Afro-Brazilians, they want the status quo, and they believe in an authoritarian agenda that Trump subscribes to. Jair also has cut funding from agencies who wanted to protect the Amazon rainforest. Trees are more cut now. There are more fires now in the Amazon in 2019 than 2018 in its entire year. The rainforest helps to collect CO2 gas. Cutting these trees will allow more carbon and methane to go into the atmosphere caused more climate change. Jair Bolsonaro also said offensive statements about women and minorities. Previously, a more left wing Brazilian government helped to cut Amazon deforestation rates by 80 percent between 2003 and 2011. Far right populism has nothing to do with human rights. It has to do with suppressing these rights. That is why this story is important to be made known for all people.

Trump continues to double down in any anti-Semitic comment that any Jewish person who supports Democrats lacks loyalty to Israel or to Jewish people. Frankly, Jewish people have the right to vote for who they want. That doesn't negate their Jewish heritage. Trump has said many racist, xenophobic comments for years and has to nerve to claim to be tolerant. He also said that he is the "chosen one" to solve the problems in China. He quoted a person who viewed Trump as the "King of Israel" and that Israeli Jewish people view him as the second coming of God. You couldn't make this stuff up. The person who mention this is a person named Wayne Allyn Root. Trump has praised Root. Root is a far right extremist. He or Root accused Barack Obama of not attending Columbia University which is a lie.

Root lied and said that the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas (that killed 58 people) was an act of Muslim terrorism when the gunman wasn't a Muslim. Trump is egoistical and has a messiah complex. That's obvious by the policies that he promotes, him praising authoritarian dictators, and his hatred of democratic institutions. Since Trump's election, there has been a huge rise in racist, anti-Semitic hate crimes in America. We have been through this before in America. Red Summer was a real historic event where hate crimes and murder against black people transpired 100 years ago. That is why it is our responsibility to fight back against evil using constructive actions. We defeated the Confederate enemy at Appomattox back in 1865, we defeated the enemy at Selma in 1965 to advance voting rights, and we will defeat the enemies of truth in the future because good will always triumph over evil. We believe in the Dream still.



By Timothy


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