Saturday, May 31, 2025
Friday, May 30, 2025
Friday Late May 2025 News.
Elon Musk wants to leave the White House over the GOP budget bill. The paradox is that he wants to promote austerity, but his DOGE plan has ruined the lives of thousands of, possibly millions of Americans. Tons of Americans are unemployed and struggle to get a job, because his DOGE group fired innocent federal workers without just cause, cut social programs (that can help the poor and families), and he went out of his way to promote extremism. Cuts to foreign aid don't benefit America. Tax cuts for the super wealthy only help the one percent, not the majority of Americans. Massive cuts to foreign assistance expand terrorism and can cause many people to starve to death literally. This exists while Trump and Rubio are stone-cold silent. DOGE was never about government efficiency. It was about plans to benefit Musk's corporate interests in SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and X. Many people need to be reminded that Elon Musk raided people's personal data and targeted legitimate government agencies (like USAID, FEMA, air traffic controllers, Veterans Affairs, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau). Even GOP town halls are filled with angry constituents frustrated by the Trump administration's policies. Therefore, the early era of the Trump administration is finally over. We have less than four more years until that tyrant Trump is out of office.
Now, the judge has extended a ban on the Trump administration banning international students from going to Harvard. Harvard is located in New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is just plain common sense to allow human beings globally to come to American universities to gain diverse insights, views, and creative power to improve the quality of life in America. Academic freedom is paramount, and we need due process in society. You can't ban people from going to a university based on his or her's nationality. That is xenophobic and anti-American. The court said that the damage done by Trump is happening now. Many international students are being harassed now and plan on going to be educated in other places. An appeals court paused a ruling that blocked Trump's tariffs. The Supreme Court has already said that Trump must return an American resident from El Salvador to America. The commencement speaker at Harvard spoke out against the anti-immigrant policies of Trump. What makes America truly great is the human diversity found in our cities, towns, farms, and other places among humans of every background who love justice, truth, equality, and democratic freedom.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
New Era News.
You need diverse people to have innovation, invention, research, and true development. Harvard wants to keep foreign students to have a true growth of our economy. Yet, the Trump administration wants to cancel federal contracts with Harvard for xenophobic purposes. The MAGA cult hates the Golden Rule, because the Golden Rule teaches to treat your neighbor as yourself, regardless of nationality or race. Far too often, MAGA cultists forget that the original Americans were not blond-haired, blue-eyed Europeans. The original Americans didn't speak English. The first Americans were Native Americans. Therefore, we have to be involved in this struggle for human liberation. This is a consequential moment in our history. Harvard is fighting back, because the Trump attacks on them violate the First Amendment. We have the free speech right to dissent with the extremism from the tyrant Donald Trump.
We reject the agenda of austerity or immiseration. Yet, the Trump administration has used policies that allowed the U.S credit rating to be downgraded. These MAGA cultists can't blame this on Biden (like many of them always do even some in the corporate media who want to coddle Trump and Trump supporters. Some in the corporate media refuse to hold Trump accountable to this day for his illegal actions and unhinged rants). We have a situation of massive economic inequality. 60% of American households can't afford a minimal quality of life. The richest 19 households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024, the biggest one-year increase ever. So, this has nothing to do with a lack of resources, as the super wealthy have tons of resources. It has to do with a system of oppression and inequality that harmed tons of people worldwide, not just in America. The Republicans have no monopoly on patriotism either. Many Republicans support the January 6th terrorists who wanted to overthrow the government, waved Neo-Nazi and Confederate flags, and wanted to hang former Vice President Mike Pence. Patriotism is about loving freedom, dissenting with governmental policy, embracing health care for all, embracing freedom of speech, respecting the freedom of the press, and embracing equality and justice for all. The MAGA movement is antithetical to those precepts.
On this day, we remember the soldiers who passed away while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Military culture is paramount in American society. Many military men and women helped to save lives during tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters that impacted tons of human beings. Back during the American Civil War, thousands of Americans lost their lives for maintaining the Union and making sure that bondage against black people via slavery was permanently extinguished. Many military soldiers lost their lives during World War II in ensuring that the racist, anti-Semitic ideology of Nazism and fascism in general was refuted and defeated decades ago. Since World War II, tons of soldiers have died on the battlefield, sacrificing their lives heroically for our freedom that many of us take for granted. This Memorial Day holiday has existed since May 30, 1868, on a national scale in the United States of America. Courage is required in our generation. We have the responsibility to stand up for our rights and our cherished liberties and to inspire the babies (in Generation Z, Generation Alpha, etc.) to do the same. We are all in this together as human beings, and our inextricable or intrepid duty to adhere to justice for all is immemorial, along with being everlasting.
The Diddy Trial continues. Cassie has made her testimony clear that she accuses Diddy of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Kid Cudi accused Diddy of threatening him and blowing up his car. Dawn Richards testified under oath that Diddy used emotional abuse, and she saw Diddy physically abuse Cassie. Now, we have the testimony of former Diddy assistant Capricon Clark. Capricorn worked for Diddy and Cassie Ventura. She was from the West Coast and worked with both Death Row and Bad Boy Entertainment. She has massive credibility because she was with Diddy at his peak of his success from the morning to night. She testified under oath that Diddy threatened her. She said that she was kidnapped by Diddy and his allies to take a lie detector test. She said that she worked excessively causing stress induced alopecia. She said that she witnessed Diddy use illegal drugs. She collaborated on Kid Cudi's story about Diddy threatening to harm Kid Cudi because he once dated Cassie. Clark said that she witnessed Diddy kick Cassie. This testimony shows Diddy to be a coward, a degenerate, and validates what Tupac has said about Diddy all along. More people have testified. Combs faces charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to engage in prostitution. The federal government accused Diddy between 2004 and 2024 of having a criminal enterprise to use his business empire, where he engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction. Diddy has denied all charges, but his wickedness has no justification.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Monday, May 26, 2025
Memorial Day 2025 Updates.
By 606 A.D., the Christian Church changed. The modern-day Roman Catholic Church existed when by 606 A.D. Pope Boniface III blasphemously claimed to be the Universal Pope overall Christians (when only the Lord Jesus Christ is the head of all Christians). Historically, the Pope called themselves titles reserved for God alone like Holy Father. There was one major religious change in the world by the 600s A.D. By the early 600's A.D, Islam was created by Muhammad. Islam is a monotheistic religion that believes in one God called Allah, denies God having a Son, follows works to gain salvation, refuses to allow its followers to eat pork, and requires all Muslims (who are able) to go to Mecca to have the hajj. Islam was a very rapidly growing religion with Muslims forming caliphates or public offices from the Middle East, North Africa, parts of India, and the Iberian Peninsula (in Spain and Portugal) from 632 A.D. to 750 A.D. Muslims embrace the Koran as their holy text, and some Muslims also support the Hadith. The Hadith is like the Early Church Fathers' documents to us Christians. The Hadith makes various interpretations of what the Koran says but isn't as authoritative to Muslims as the Koran. Muslims take almsgiving seriously and view Jesus Christ as a prophet, not the Son of God. By this time, many urban Asian churches disappeared, because of the spread of Islam. Some churches survive. The Eastern Roman Empire, or the Byzantine Empire, promoted art and monasticism (or the existence of religious monks) persisted. Western Europe from 606 to the 8th century was filled with poverty, political fragmented, and they depended on the Catholic Church for literal survival. Some people wanted to merge or syncretize with local pagan traditions because of governmental neglect, invasion by many forces, and other issues. The monks promoted chastity, obedience, poverty, prayer, celibacy, fasting, manual labor, memorization of scripture, and almsgiving. Monasteries housed monks, orphanages, and inns for travelers. They gave food for people who need it. Many of these monks supported literacy and studied the classical arts and crafts.
Many monks helped to preserve and pass down Western literature and other forms of Western culture passed down from generation to generation. Even some of the Islamic and Byzantine scholars did the exact same thing. The monks in the monasteries preserved ancient texts in their scriptoria and libraries. Dedicated monks created illuminated manuscripts. From the sixth to the eighth centuries, most schools were connected to monasteries, but methods of teaching an illiterate populace could also include mystery plays, vernacular sermons, saints' lives in epic form, and artwork.
This was an age of uncertainty, and the role of relics and holy men able to provide became increasingly important. Promoting that special access, church offers that donations would fund prayers for the dead (which is forbidden by Scripture), provided an ongoing source of wealth. Monasteries became increasingly organized, gradually establishing their own authority as separate from political and familial authorities, thereby revolutionizing social history. Medical practice was highly important, and medieval monasteries were best known for their public hospitals, hospices, and contributions to medicine. The sixth-century Rule of Saint Benedict has had extensive influence.
The East developed an approach to sacred art unknown in the West, adapting ancient portraiture in icons as intercessors between God and humankind (which is unscriptural too). In the 720s, the Byzantine Emperor Leo banned the pictorial representation of Christ, saints, and biblical scenes, and destroyed much early representational art. The West condemned the Byzantine iconoclasm of Leo and some of his successors. By the tenth and early eleventh centuries, Byzantine culture began to recover its artistic heritage. There were icon busters too back then who opposed the veneration of images.
Eastern Europe had been exposed to Christianity during Roman rule, but it was Byzantine Christianity, brought by the ninth-century saints Cyril and Methodius, that was integral to the formation of its modern states. Dukes and kings used the new faith to solidify their position and promote unity, while some directly enforced it with new laws, building churches, and establishing monasteries. The brothers Cyril and Methodius developed the Glagolitic alphabet to translate the Bible into the local language. Their disciples then developed the Cyrillic script, which spread literacy and became the cultural and religious foundation for all Slavic nations.
In 635, the Church of the East brought Christianity to the Chinese Emperor Taizong whose decree to license the Christian faith was copied onto the Sianfu stele. It spread into northwestern China, Khotan, Turfan, and south of Lake Balkash in southeastern Kazakhstan, but its growth was halted in 845 by Emperor Wu-Tsung, who favored Taoism. The Church of the East evangelized all along the Silk Road and was instrumental in converting some of the Mongolic and Turkic peoples. After 700, when much of Christianity was declining, there were flourishing Christian societies along all the main trade routes of Asia, South India, the Nubian kingdoms, Ethiopia, and the Caucasus region.
In Western Europe, canon law was instrumental in developing key norms concerning oaths of loyalty, homage, and fidelity. These norms were incorporated into civil law where traces remain. Within the tenets of feudalism, the church created a new model of consecrated kingship unknown in the East, and in 800, Clovis' descendant Charlemagne became its recipient when Pope Leo III crowned him emperor. Charlemagne engaged in a number of reforms which began the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of intellectual and cultural revival. His crowning set the precedent that only a pope could crown a Western emperor enabling popes to claim that emperors derived their power from God through them. We saw the Middle Ages with kings, knights, nobles, and other cultural representations in society. The Papacy became free from Byzantine control, and the former lands of the Exarchate became States of the church. However, the papacy was still in need of aid and protection, so the Holy Roman emperors often used that need to attempt domination of the Papacy and the Papal States. In Rome, the papacy came under the control of the city's aristocracy.
In Russia, the baptism of Vladimir of Kiev in 989 is traditionally associated with the conversion of the Kievan Rus'. Their new religious structure included dukes maintaining control of a financially dependent church. Monasticism was the dominant form of piety for both peasants and elites who identified as Christians, while retaining many pre-Christian practices.
Viking raids in the ninth and tenth centuries destroyed many churches and monasteries, inadvertently leading to reform. Patrons competed in rebuilding so that "by the mid-eleventh century, a wealthy, unified, better-organized, better-educated, more spiritually sensitive Latin Church" resulted. There was another rise in papal power in the tenth century when William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, and other powerful lay founders of monasteries, placed their institutions under the protection of the papacy. Independent churches and the Catholic Church existed. The Catholic Church, by the Middle Ages, baptized babies at birth, which is never found in the New Testament at all. The papacy allowed people to have some knowledge of the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer, to rest on Sunday and feast days, to attend mass, to fast at specific times, take communion on Easter, pay fees to the needs, and receive the last rites at death. The Medieval Papacy gained more power over the lives of Europeans, like a religious monarchy system. During that time (from 606 A.D. to 1500 A.D.), many people disagreed with the false doctrines of Roman Catholicism in Europe too.
The Catholic Church used canon law as a complex legal system to regulate the lives of Roman Catholic believers. By the High Middle Ages, the Catholic Church added the unscriptural seven sacraments being required for salvation. They enforced celibacy for priests, bishops, and popes which the Bible forbids as celibacy is voluntarily not mandatory for a bishop, priest, etc. The heresies of the Papacy went into another level when they made purgatory an official doctrine. In 1215, the Catholic church made confession required for all. The Catholic Church promoted the Rosary and the veneration of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary should be honored and respected as a holy woman who was chosen for a great purpose, but she shouldn't be worshiped or venerated. Romanesque architecture existed in 910 at Luny Abbey. Monastery schools lost influence by 1000 A.D. to be replaced by cathedral schools. Independent schools existed, and universities were being chartered by popes and kings. The Pope and kings had a union of church and state. Literacy improved in the world. Christianity in Africa and in Asia continued to grow from Nubia to China. The further union of church and state was promoted by Pope Gregory VII in the 1000s. He promoted the Pope's temporal power to increase its wealth, consolidate territory, and form a bureaucracy. The Dictatus Papae of 1075 declared that the pope alone could invest bishops. Disobedience to the Pope became equated with heresy; when Henry IV rejected the decree, he was excommunicated, which contributed to a civil war. A similar controversy occurred in England. So, the Pope was gaining too much power by his decrees which wasn't sanctioned or condoned by God.
The Church of the East had help from Byzantium to survive after the Chalcedon issue. At the height of its expansion in the thirteenth century, the Church of the East stretched from Syria to eastern China and from Siberia to southern India and southern Asia. The second separation between east and west took place in 1054 when the church within the Byzantine Empire formed Byzantine Eastern Orthodoxy, which thereafter remained in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, not the Pope. There were the Albigenses. Many people view them as Bible believers or Gnostics. All mainstream sources prove that the majority of the Albigenses were Gnostic heretics, but still they shouldn't be murdered by many in the Vatican. The Waldensians in the 1100s were founded by Peter Waldo. The Waldensians believed in fundamental Christianity and opposed many of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. They rejected infant baptism, opposed the swearing of oaths, and disagreed with other heresies. Both the Waldensians and Albigenses were unjustly and viciously persecuted by the Catholic Church back then.
Along with geographical separation, there had long been many cultural differences, geopolitical disagreements, and a lack of respect between east and west. Nevertheless, the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos still asked Pope Urban II for help with the Seljuk Turks in 1081, and Urban asked European Christians to "go to the aid of their brethren in the Holy Land" in 1095. By this time, there was a massive amount of false doctrines and heresies in the Catholic Church like kissing the Pope's feet in 709 A.D., the usage of holy water by the priest in 850 A.D., the veneration of St. Joseph in 890 A.D., the canonization of dead saints done by Pope John XIV in 995 A.D. when the Bible says that every believer and follower of Yeshua is a saint in Romans 1:7 and 1st Colossians 1:2, fasting on Fridays and during Lent in 998 A.D., the mandatory celibacy of priest done by Pope Hilderbrand, Boniface VII In 1079 A.D. (when Peter was married and bishops can be married), the Rosary in 1090 A.D, the Inquisition being formed in 1184 A.D. (by the Council of Verona when Jesus never taught the use of violence or force to spread the Gospel), the usages of indulgences in 1190 A.D, the dogma of transubstantiation in 1215 by Pope Innocent III, and the the doctrine of purgatory by Council of Florence in 1439 which has no basis of Scripture as the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses people from all sins (Romans 8:1).
*It is important to note that independent believers lived during this time, as documented by the classic book Martyr's Mirror. Bishop Claudius of Turin taught iconoclasm or not supporting images used for religious purposes. Claudius believed that faith is only required for salvation, denies the supremacy of Peter, sees praying for the dead as useless, and attacked the practices of the Roman Catholic church. He held the church to be fallible. He opposed the veneration of the cross and said that we should bear our own cross instead of adoring the cross. He was right. Claudius lived from ca. early 800s to 827. He lived in Spain before. Many people oppose the baptism of infants and other heresies. According to the Martyr's Mirror book, Christus Taurinensus wrote and taught against the invocation of images, of the cross, relics, of the saints, and against the power of the Pope plus pilgrimages. Bruno and Berengarius spoke out against infant baptism and against transubstantiation. Arnold of Brescia, Italy preached against infant baptism and transubstantiation. His followers of the Arnoldists, in the 12th century, were burned at the stake by Papal guards. Henry of Toulouse didn't believe in transubstantiation, rejected infant baptism, and monks, including priests, should be married, and flesh or meat may be eaten on Sunday and other days. The remnant of God's church (in the Waldensians, Petrobussians, Arnoldists, etc.) spread from France and Italy to England and beyond.
The Crusades were an important part of Christian history. The New Testament is clear to spread the gospel by peaceful means, but the Catholic Church readily wanted to use force to promote their theological views. The Crusades lasted for a long time from 1095 to 1717. The first era of the Crusades existed in the Holy Land from 1095 to 1291. The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Roman Catholics and Muslims over disputes over territories, the travels of pilgrims into the Holy Land, and other issues. By the end of the 11th century, the Muslim Arabic people ruled over the Middle East for centuries. Contact between Western Europe and the Muslim world was minimal except for the Iberian peninsula. The Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world had great wealth, culture, and military power. Then, disputes grew. Many Catholics promoted the doctrine of holy war after a distortion of what Augustine wrote. The Catholic Church promoted military attacks against Muslims. By the 1040s, the Turkish people migrated from central Asia to the Middle East to rule Persia, Armenia, and Iraq. They captured Baghdad. They ruled Jerusalem from the Fatimid dynasty of North Africa by 1070 A.D. The Crusades existed in phases. Later, the Fatimids ruled Jerusalem over the Seljuk Turkish people. Many Crusades massacred Jewish people in Europe during the Spring and Summer of 1096.
The First Crusade was an unexpected event for contemporary chroniclers, but historical analysis demonstrates it had its roots in earlier developments with both clerics and laity recognizing Jerusalem's role in Christianity as worthy of penitential pilgrimage. In 1071, Jerusalem was captured by the Turkish warlord Atsiz, who seized most of Syria and Palestine as part of the expansion of the Seljuks throughout the Middle East. The Seljuk hold on the city was weak, and returning pilgrims reported difficulties and the oppression of Christians. Byzantine Empire leaders desire for military aid converged with increasing willingness of the western nobility to accept papal military direction. In 1095, Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos requested military aid from Pope Urban II at the Council of Piacenza. He was probably expecting a small number of mercenaries he could direct. Alexios had restored the Empire's finances and authority but still faced numerous foreign enemies. Later that year, at the Council of Clermont, Urban raised the issue again and preached a crusade. Almost immediately, the French priest Peter the Hermit gathered thousands of mostly poor in the People's Crusade. Traveling through Germany, German bands massacred Jewish communities in the Rhineland massacres during wide-ranging anti-Jewish activities. The Crusades attacked in Turkey and then in Jerusalem by 1099. The European Crusades temporarily ruled Jerusalem and other places in the Middle East. When the Crusades ruled Jerusalem on July 15, 1099, they sacked the city, massacred Muslims, Eastern Christians, and Jewish people. Godfrey was elected ruler of Jerusalem. Future Crusades would cause the Catholics to be defeated consistently by Muslim forces.
They or the Catholic military armies had some rule in the Middle East until the fall of Acre in 1291. The Crusader states existed in Edessa, Antioch, Jerusalem, and the County of Tripoli. This time saw the Knights Templar and the Teutonic Order.
Other church-sanctioned campaigns include crusades against Christians not obeying papal rulings and heretics, those against the Ottoman Empire, and ones for political reasons. The struggle against the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula–the Reconquista–ended in 1492 with the Fall of Granada. From 1147, the Northern Crusades were fought against pagan tribes in Northern Europe. Crusades against Christians began with the Albigensian Crusade (Albigensians were Gnostics, but they should never have been murdered because of their religious views) in the 13th century and continued through the Hussite Wars in the early 15th century. Crusades against the Ottomans began in the late 14th century and include the Crusade of Varna. Popular crusades, including the Children's Crusade of 1212, were generated by the masses and were unsanctioned by the Church.
Before the OKC Bombing took place, America was in a unique space. After the Vietnam War, the Austrian economists advocated the push for more laissez-faire capitalism. Many people exploited their economic experiences to scapegoat black people, Jewish people, and other minorities in a bigoted, illogical fashion. The cause of the economic dislocation is not caused by black people, women, immigrants, etc. but by the one percent who benefit from massive deindustrialization, massive wealth transfer to the super wealthy, and other social complications. There has been a massive polarization of wealth and poverty in America. Also, there has been massive racism, sexism, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism in America for centuries. The Klan, the Neo-Nazis, and other white nationalist groups have differences, but they desire one goal which is the domination of the Earth by white racist people. Timothy McVeigh made a voluntary decision to embrace racist and anti-Semitic views. Now, Timothy McVeigh was raised in Upstate rural New York state near the Rust Belt. McVeigh turned to racism as an excuse to justify his insecurities and his feelings of inadequacy. McVeigh's far right views haven't been in a vacuum. For decades, corporate media, fascist propagandists, and other extremists have shown television, radio, film, and social media to promote far-right views. The massive glorification of militarism, the sexism, the attacks on progressive views, and the attack on diversity have had an impact to convince some people to gravitate towards hatred of human beings with certain differences. Timothy McVeigh was a Persian Gulf War veteran who had a low wage job. He fought in Iraq and recited for television cameras the words of "Blood makes the grass grow. Kill! Kill! Kill!." He was part of the militia movement too. Not all militia members are racists, but many of them were. The Republicans had Newt Gingrich who promoted austerity measures. Many Republicans had active ties to militia groups and far right extremists back in the 1990s and today. The living standards being low, the American reality of America being the most unequal of all the industrialized countries on Earth, and big business strips the dreams of many Americans will cause some to embrace the evil of terrorism, unfortunately. McVeigh was born in April 1968 in Lockport, New York, which was near Buffalo. It had massive economic issues. He embraced far-right propaganda and was obsessed with survivalism. He did it in 1983 when he was 14 years old.
McVeigh grew up to be a racist and a sexist who blamed working mothers and two-income families for the problems in America which isn't true. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a huge backlash against the social reforms from the Great Society and the War on Poverty of the early to mid-1960s. He met Terry Nicholas in the U.S. Army. Nichols is just as guilty as McVeigh, as he was a co-conspirator in the Oklahoma City bombing. Tim McVeigh was gung-ho about war and talked about the UN-dominated world government views. He knew about the events at Ruby Ridge in August 1992 (when an FBI sniper shot and killed the wife of a white racist in Idaho) and Waco back in 1993. McVeigh was a far-right extremist who hated socialism.
Later, by the Fall of 1994, Timothy McVeigh decided to blow up a federal building. He has been inspired by the racist Turner Diaries Book. Timothy McVeigh believed in extreme individualism and misanthropic views. He didn't want humanity liberated from economic and social oppression. He hated the federal government because many in the federal government protected the rights of immigrants, women, minorities, and other people. Timothy McVeigh telephoned Elohim City two weeks before the bombing of the Murrah Building took place. Elohim City is a center where white racists and far right extremists lived at. Timothy McVeigh told Fortier about his plans to blow up a federal building, and Fortier declined to participate. Fortier told his wife about the plans. McVeigh and Nichols constructed an ANFO explosive device at a lakeside campground near McVeigh's old Army post. They mounted the bomb on the back of a rented Ryder truck. The bomb consisted of about 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh drove the truck to the front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building just as its offices opened for the day. Timothy McVeigh wrote letters cursing out the ATF and government officials. He was a paranoid, evil person. He ignored the truth that many people in the government have helped people for generations. There is a distinction between corrupt people in government, and righteous, hardworking people saving lives in the government. He wanted an assassination of members of the Clinton administration over the actions in Waco and the Rudy Ridge incident. He left his friend Michael Fortier in Arizona because of Fortier's drug habits. McVeigh was a fascist who hated government and socialism.
On April 19, 1995, on 9:02 am, he stopped at a place to a light a two-minute fuse. Then, a large explosion destroyed the north part of the Alfred P. Murray Federal Building. The bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children in the daycare center on the second floor, and injured 684 people. The murderer McVeigh said that he might have chosen a different location if he had known there was a daycare center on the second floor. Yet, that coward McVeigh should never have murdered innocent people in the first place. Terry Nichols said that McVeigh did know about the daycare center in the building, and they didn't care. According to the Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), more than 3000 buildings in the city were damaged. More than 12,000 volunteers and rescue workers took part in the rescue, recovery, and support operations after the bombing.
My 3rd cousin Tia Marie Harris was born on December 2, 1972, at Hampton, Virginia. Her parents are James Nelson Harris (1935-2015) and Ruth Marie Taylor (b. 1936). Tia Harris came to Bethel High School in Hampton, Virginia. Hampton, Virginia, is in the 757 or Hampton Roads in the Peninsula region of Hampton Roads. She was a cheerleader in high school. Later, she married Ronald McKinely Lee Jr. (b. 1977) on October 22, 2005. The couple had 2 children, including Jaelyn Lee (b. 2007). James Nelson Harris's parents are Nelson Harris Jr. (1902-1975) and Rosa Harris (b. 1910). The parents of my 1st cousin Nelson Harris Jr. were Nelson Harris (b. 1861) and Susanna Sarah M. Hill (b. 1867). The parents of my 3rd great-grandaunt Susanna Sarah M. Hill were Sarah Claud (1842-1892) and Tom Hill (1838-1915). The mother of my 4th great-grandmother Sarah Claud was my fifth great-grandmother Zilphy Claud (1820-1892).
One century and three score years ago, the American Civil War ended in a victory for the Union, black people, and freedom-loving people of every background. It was a brutal war filled with violence, brutality, and massive deaths (ranging to almost one million human beings who passed away). Also, the Civil War was filled with courageous people like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and others who freed slaves, led armies to defeat the Confederate enemy, called for Union soldiers to keep the fight going for justice, and aided the sick and wounded. We live in the age of paradoxes, ironies, and new realities (i.e. book bans, a GOP bill proposing massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, and a tyrant in the White House promoting executive order which are against the Constitution in 2025), but we have the same august inspiration for human liberty just like yesteryear. President Abraham Lincoln went from an Illinois Whig party lawyer to the President of the United States who expressed total opposition to slavery. Lincoln evolved to see the American Civil War as a moral crusade to allow black people to be free from slavery and allow America to have a new birth of freedom, wherefore our God-given rights are preserved for all people. Today, we have a very long way to go, but we don't fear this challenge. We embrace it, and we shall use all legitimate, moral means necessary to cultivate a better, progressive world when true human freedom exists for all human beings triumphantly. On this Memorial Day on May 26, 2025, we remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom indeed.
By Timothy
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Late May 2025 News.
The Trump GOP budget bill is bad. It will cause more than 10 million people to be uninsured by its cuts to Medicaid. It will see more than 1 million low-income seniors have a higher Medicare premiums and cost sharing. It will cut SNAP by a high percentage. It will create $3 trillion in new debt. It makes low-income households worse off and high-income households better off. It has 1.5 trillion dollars in new tax cuts for mostly the rich, it has 700 billion dollars in Medicaid cuts, it has 500 billion dollars in Medicare cuts, it has 300 billion dollars in SNAP cuts, it leases public lands to Big Oil, it ends IRS Direct File (that gives free services to people), it ends clean energy tax credits, and it bans AI regulation in America. These policies are demonic and part of the agenda of greed and austerity in an unprecedented level. The Trump budget bill is one of the worst forms of legislation in world history. We live in the precipice of the total end of our democracy ironically being 250 years next year.
Jason Whitlock is at it again with his antics. He is the same person who slandered Breonna Taylor. He said that Ryan Clark is worshiping women and said other sexist remarks in describing Ryan Clark. First, Ryan Clark is not worshiping women, but he is respecting 2 women who are Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark. Second, Jason Whitlock ignored how Caitlin made a hard foul against Reese not vice versa. Also, Whitlock tries to invoke God by saying that Ryan Clark doesn't fear God. He doesn't know Clark's spiritual life, and it's offensive for anyone to judge a person's walk with God without knowing that person's spiritual walk. Whitlock is a hypocrite by claiming to follow God but whitewashing the sin of racism against black people and using a colorist slur about a woman who is Joy Taylor (by making sexually objectifying comments about her breast and skin complexion like a pervert. Those comments are anti-God and anti-respect. Yet Whitlock claims to be for God). Jason Whitlock is the same one who was called a token by a white racist to his face, and he was too much of a coward to verbally defend himself. Whitlock is another self hating person who spews vitriol against black people, especially against progressive black people.
The Trump administration is growing its feud with Harvard by trying to ban Harvard from enrolling international students. This is fascism and xenophobic. The Trump administration is an evil administration who abhors due process, lies about medicine, desires to cut the social safety net, fires innocent federal workers unjustly, and glorifies authoritarian dictators like Putin. These actions alone doesn't represent true integrity, honor, or morality. You have notice that Trump defenders are declining, because there is absolutely no excuse for the evil policies from Donald Trump. A tyrant pardons January 6th terrorists, and we have the First Amendment right to disagree with that decision completely. Trump banning Harvard's ability to enroll international students can jeopardize the legal status of more than a quarter of its students. Trump did this on purpose, because it wants to punish Harvard for its refusal to submit to Trump's far right agenda.
Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary said that the international students at Harvard must transfer to other universities or risk losing their legal status. Noem said that Harvard has 72 hours to change its mind. She wants Harvard to give the government disciplinary records of every international student for the past five years. This is illegal as Harvard has the right to host international nations, and forcing records to be sent to the Trump administration without just cause is anti-democratic.
There is breaking news about 2 Israeli Embassy members being murdered outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. This was during the time where the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event on Wednesday night. The victims were Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. According to Israel's ambassador to America, they were a young couple in love who were about to be engaged. The murderer is a 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago. He chanted "Free Free Palestine" while in custody, according to the police. Eyewitnesses said to CNN that the shooter waited for the police to arrive before saying he "did it for Gaza." This murderer is a disgrace who hides behind Gaza to justify his evil actions. There is no excuse for murder, and his actions only desecrate the legitimate cause of Palestinians to have true freedom and justice in the world. Murder, anti-Semitism, and unjust violence have no place in the Universe. We all condemn this murder as wrong, immoral, and evil. Ironically, the event wanted humanitarian aid for Gaza. European leaders and others worldwide condemned the action.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Freedom and Truth.
Donald Trump is targeting Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen (who is right to say in a concert that the Trump administration is violating due process rights of residents and American citizens, trying to illegal force universities to accept his political agenda, and seek authoritarianism in American society), and James Comey, because they disagree with Trump using their God-given free speech rights. The reality is that Trump and his allies want to try to curtail dissent against the fascism of Donald Trump. FOX News is a propaganda network for Trump, when true media should maintain impartiality. I remember years ago when FOX News lied and claimed to be Fair and Balanced when Bill O'Reilly had his show on FOX News. They have gotten rid of their lying phrase and turned more into extremism. Trump posted from a deranged Qanon member. You can't indict or punish free speech for the sake of trying to end dissent. Trump wants people to abuse federal power in going against democratic rights. One ousted DOJ lawyer said that the Attorney General wants the DOJ to be the lawyers of Trump (when the DOJ should follow the Constitution, regardless of who is President).
Many people who are Democrats have criticized Rubio's job performance. Marco Rubio hypocritically claims to have a moral compass, but he defends the illegal deportation of an American resident to El Salvador without due process of law. He defends Trump sending white South Africans to America, but Trump has stripped the legal status of many Haitian migrants. Marco Rubio is the son of an immigrant but agrees with Trump who has deported even U.S. citizens without due process of law. Rubio is the worst kind of traitor to democratic values because he tries to be something that he is not. He is not a moderate, and he is not a lover of freedom. He is a far-right extremist who allies with a tyrant in the White House who desires to defy the orders from the Supreme Court. Rubio, regardless of what he says, must submit to the law as the executive branch is not infallible. We have three co-equal branches of government (the executive, the judicial, and the legislative), and folks have to respect the separation of powers, including the rule of law.
Putin used lies and historical revisionism during Victory Day in Russia. Putin said his words over three decades after the end of the Soviet Union since 1991. President Boris Yeltsin was the first President of Russia after the Cold War. Putin said that the war against Hitler was merely a matter of national defense. The reality was that the Red Army was created by Leon Trotsky after the October Revolution to fight the Russian Empire. During WWII, the Red Army was made up of Russians, people from Central Asia, and other ethnic groups, including religious minorities. The word Russia was in widespread use by the time of Ivan III. Russia's first emperor was Peter I in 1721. Before 1721, there was no unified Russian state, but East Slavic tribes and other ethnic groups in Russia. Stalin once allied with Hitler until Operation Barbarossa, when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. The Stalin regime killed thousands of Trotskyists and leaders of the October Revolution. Putin wants the growth of his power through imperialism. Putin runs an oligarchical regime. Also, Putin is complicit in war crimes by allowing his military to murder civilians in Ukraine. Right now, there is no Russian agreement to a ceasefire which Ukraine accepted weeks ago, no clear U.S. involvement in further talks, and no mention of U.S. sanctions on Russia. It is important to note that there are freedom loving Ukranians and Russians who want peace in that region, so we have to make that clear too.
By Timothy
Monday, May 19, 2025
Updates on Culture and Other Information.
Australia has a population density of 3.4 person per square kilometers of total land area, which makes it one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. The population of Australia is heavily concentrated on the east coast, in particular in the south-eastern region between South East Queensland to the north-east and Adelaide to the south-west. Australia is heavily urbanized with 67% of the population living in the Greater City Statistical Areas (metropolitan areas of the state and mainland territorial capital cities) in 2018. Metropolitan areas with more than one million people are found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. Australia is shifting to being a demographic shift towards an older population (which is common with many developed countries), with more retirees and fewer people of working age. In 2021, the average age of the population was 39 years old. Between 1788 and the Second World War, the vast majority of settlers and immigrants came from the British Isles (principally England, Ireland and Scotland), although there was significant immigration from China and Germany during the 19th century. Following Federation in 1901, the white Australia policy was strengthened, restricting further migration from these areas. However, this policy was relaxed following WW2, and in the decades following, Australia received a large wave of immigration from across Europe, with many more immigrants arriving from Southern and Eastern Europe than in previous decades. All overt legalized racial discrimination ended in 1973, with multiculturalism becoming official policy. Subsequently, there has been a large and continuing wave of immigration from across the world, with Asia being the largest source of immigrants in the 21st century.
Today, Australia has the world's eighth-largest immigrant population, with immigrants accounting for 30% of the population, the highest proportion among major Western nations. In 2022–23, 212,789 permanent migrants were admitted to Australia, with a net migration population gain of 518,000 people inclusive of non-permanent residents. Most entered on skilled visas, however the immigration program also offers visas for family members and refugees. The Australian Bureau of Statistics asks each Australian resident to nominate up to two ancestries each census and the responses are classified into broad ancestry groups. At the 2021 census, the most commonly nominated ancestry groups as a proportion of the total population were: 57.2% European (including 46% North-West European and 11.2% Southern and Eastern European), 33.8% Oceanian, 17.4% Asian (including 6.5% Southern and Central Asian, 6.4% North-East Asian, and 4.5% South-East Asian), 3.2% North African and Middle Eastern, 1.4% Peoples of the Americas, and 1.3% Sub-Saharan African. At the 2021 census, 3.8% of the Australian population identified as being Indigenous—Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. Most Australians speak English with an unique accent. At the 2021 census, English was the only language spoken in the home for 72% of the population. The next most common languages spoken at home were Mandarin (2.7%), Arabic (1.4%), Vietnamese (1.3%), Cantonese (1.2%) and Punjabi (0.9%). More than 250 Australian Aboriginal languages are thought to have existed at the time of first European contact. The National Indigenous Languages Survey (NILS) for 2018–19 found that more than 120 Indigenous language varieties were in use or being revived, although 70 of those in use were endangered. The 2021 census found that 167 Indigenous languages were spoken at home by 76,978 Indigenous Australians — Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole), Djambarrpuyngu (a Yolŋu language) and Pitjantjatjara (a Western Desert language) were among the most widely spoken. NILS and the Australian Bureau of Statistics use different classifications for Indigenous Australian languages.
Australia has no state religion; section 116 of the Australian Constitution prohibits federal legislation that would establish any religion, impose any religious observance, or prohibit the free exercise of any religion. However, the states still retain the power to pass religiously discriminatory laws. At the 2021 census, 38.9% of the population identified as having no religion, up from 15.5% in 2001. The largest religion is Christianity (43.9% of the population). The largest Christian denominations are the Roman Catholic Church (20% of the population) and the Anglican Church of Australia (9.8%). Non-British immigration since the Second World War has led to the growth of non-Christian religions, the largest of which are Islam (3.2%), Hinduism (2.7%), Buddhism (2.4%), Sikhism (0.8%), and Judaism (0.4%).
In 2021, just under 8,000 people declared an affiliation with traditional Aboriginal religions. In Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework developed in Aboriginal Australia, the Dreaming is a sacred era in which ancestral totemic spirit beings formed The Creation. The Dreaming established the laws and structures of society and the ceremonies performed to ensure continuity of life and land. Australia's life expectancy is 83 years old (81 years for men and 85 for women) being the fifth largest in the world. Australia has a high income mixed market economy which is rich in natural resources.
Australia has a diverse culture. It has indigenous traditions, Anglo-Celtic culture, and multicultural traditions (especially since 1945). Many Australians love egalitarianism, humor, and the freedom of the individual. Many Australians love to show respect to people and believe in mateship. Australia has more than 100,000 Aboriginal rock art sites including many museums . Many Australians have music bands, Aboriginal religious and secular songs, literature, and ballet. Australia has food like bush tucker, fish and chips, macadamia nut, kangaroo meat, and steak pie. Chinese cuisine is found in Australia too. Australians love to do swimming, track and field, cycling, soccer, golf, tennis basketball, surfing, netball, and cricket. Australia is one of the five nations that have participated in every Summer Olympics of the modern era. It has hosted the Games twice in 1956 and 2000 in Sydney. It is set to host the future 2032 Games in Brisbane (2023 is when I will be a year away from being 50 years old). Surfing is also very popular in Australia too.
During the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, America had the most medals with 93 including 37 gold, then Russia with 89 (with 32 gold), China with 59 including 28 gold, and Australia with 58 including 16 gold. There were tons of Americans who won gold. Nancy Johnson won gold in the women's 10m air rifle event in shooting. Dara Torres (a famous swimmer) won the 4 X 100m freestyle involving women's swimming. Members of her team included Courtney Shealy, Jenny Thompson, Amy Van Dyken, Erin Phenix, and Ashley Tappin. Maurice Greene won gold in the 100m,Michael Johnson won the 400m, and men won the 4 X 100m relay race. Melissa Morrison-Howard won the 100m hurdles in bronze. The American women won the bronze in the 4X100m relay race. The 4 X400m relay race had the women winning gold. Their names are Andrea Anderson, LaTasha Colander, Monique Hennagan, and Jeral Miles Clark. Stacy Dragila won gold in the women's pole vault. Many Australians won gold in the Olympics too. Simon Fairweather won gold in men's archery. The Australian womens national field hockey team won gold too. Susie O'Neill won gold in the 200m freestyle in swimming. Australia women's national basketball team won silver.
We live in economic uncertainty. Trump ran on lowering prices for Americans, but his tariff policies have resulted in price increases. That is why Walmart desires to increase prices on its goods and services because of the Trump tariffs. Back in the day, the rich used to pay higher taxes to the government. In our time, the government pays the rich interest on debt which is caused mostly by lower taxes on the rich. The Trump tax cuts for the super wealthy will increase the deficit. I am not a fiscal conservative, but this is a reality. If the federal minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour. No one in modern day American society can survive making $7.14 an hour, especially a person with children. This corruption in the Trump administration is very much transparent. For example, Trump held a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers. He has promoted Telsas on the White House driveway on the behalf to of a multi billionaire who spent $277 million backing him, and he uses state visits to advance his hotel business. Trump has violated the rule on law, even defying a Supreme Court decision. So, corruption is definitely found in the Trump administration. Trump is also the most anti-environmental President in American history in my opinion. One example is how Trump's EPA is planning to roll back rules that limit the amount of "forever chemicals" allowed in drinking water. This comes after chemical companies donated massively to his inauguration fund. There is no excuse for this rule as we need to protect our environment and our people.
Maryland Wes Moore is completely wrong to veto a slavery reparation study for the state of Maryland. This isn't even about legal reparations for black Americans. This is involving a study that he opposed, because he said that he wants the need for the work itself. That isn't the point. The point is that there needs to be a study, a plan, and true reparations for African Americans when our ancestors suffered the worst form of slavery in human history without just compensation. Native Americans experienced genocide centuries ago. Centuries later, many Native Americans received reparations. Decades ago, Japanese Americans experienced unjust internment camp imprisonment. Decades later, taxpayer money funded their reparations during the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was President. Today, we have some people who unjustly refused to give black people in America reparations. Wes Moore said that the issue has been studied and it is time to focus on the work itself. Will Wes Moore said that about Jewish people and the Holocaust? No. He thinks that since black politics have risen into high levels of government in Maryland, then that justifies his veto. He ignores the fact that systematic racism and other forms of oppression still goes on in our society. Ironically, the Trump administration is targeting black communities, dismantling diversity initiatives, targeting black museums, and whitewashing black history on federal websites, Wes Moore wants to be politically correct instead of focusing on revolutionary justice. He vetoes a study. A study. House Speaker Adrienne Jones is right to say that the work is not done. The reality is that the tyrant Trump wants America to revert back to the pre-1964 Civil Rights Act era of time. The necessity for black liberation and independence are necessities against a racist, sexist, and xenophobic power structure.
The Trump economic budget is more than a bad austerity bill. It represents total profound cruelty against human beings. Some GOP members are so extremist that they want the bill ot have even more steep cuts to government programs. Trump is trying to get more Republicans to support this bill. Moody's stripping the U.S. government of the top credit rating is a new development. Republicans desire a $700 billion in health related spending cuts like in Medicaid. The bill has tax breaks for the super rich and wealthy mega-corporations. Medicaid is a great social program to help the elderly, the youth, and the poor in America. It helps to provide healthcare coverage for almost 60 percent of all nursing home residents. The U.S. spent $618 billion on the Medicaid program in 2024, which is less than Social Security, Medicare, and the U.S. war budget. As of 2024, about 37 percent of Medicaid enrollees are children under the age of 19. Medicaid coverage is high among the poor with over 8 in 10 children in poverty covered by the program (according to the Kaiser Family Foundation). The proposal wants to cut $715 billion from Medicaid for over the next decade. This harms about 8.7 million people. Medicaid was created in 1965 being part of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society agenda (that included the Medicare Act or the Social Security Amendments of 1965). Medicare provided health insurance for person aged 65 and old. Medicaid provided health insurance for the poor, many people with disabilities, and other human beings. These programs came after the protests of workers in the 1930s, 1940s, and the 1950s. Medicaid expansion has existed in America. Now, some want work requirements which will allow many people to be kicked out of Medicaid (especially the elderly who aren't part of working age). The bill wants to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to block immigrants from accessing the SNAP (Supplemental Assistance Program). Trump and the fascist Republican Party desire imperialism, bank bailouts for the oligarchy, hatred of democracy, and radical financial austerity.
Recently, the wife of my distant cousin Israel Claud passed away. Her name was Carrie Elizabeth Claud, and she lived from August 12, 1938 to March 6, 2025. She was a mother, grandmother, sister, friend, aunt, cousin, and she believed in God. Her nickname was "Dot." She was born in Margarettsville, North Carolina to Lloyd and Carrie Stewart Parker. She attended Northampton County Schools and graduated from Gumberry High School. She was a woman of faith who believed in Jesus Christ. She helped the sick in the healthcare field. She worked at the Suffolk Health Department as a home health aide before graduating form the Obici School of Nursing as a Licensed Practicing Nurse. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Norfolk State University in 1984. She went to Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, and the Republic of Congo to help the sick. Her sisters are Rosetta Tillery, Laura Parker, Lillie Ann Parker, nad Lois Valentine. Her son is Stanley Claud (and his wife Delphinia). Her daughters are Veronica Claud and Valerie Claud-Demby (and her husband Kelvin Demby). Her brother is Richard Parker Sr. and his wife Dora. Her sisters-in-law are Myrtle Claud, Celestine Parker, and Pearlie Claud.
My late 4th cousin Doretta Ann Smallwood (1941-1995) married Harry Lee Witt (1943-2008). Harry Witt was born on December 10, 1943 in Garten, West Virginia to the late Edith Jones and Richard Witt. He moved into Fayetteville, West Virginia, where he was raised by his grandmother, the late Nancy Jones. His sisters of Cordelia Witt-Morgan and Janie Witt, preceded him in death. He met the love of his life in West Virginia, who was Doretta Smallwood. They moved to South Bend, Indiana in 1968. They had 11 children together. Two of whom preceded him in death who are Dwayne and Gary Smallwood. His last wife was Charlotte Henderson. The children of Doretta Ann Smallwood and Harry Lee Witt were Howard, Doretta, Rita, Douglas, Eddie Smallwood, Nancy Witt, Margaret Witt-Owens (Louis), and Krystal Plump (Isaac). They live in South Bend, Indiana. Harry Witt's brothers are William (Pauline) Booker of Rockland, Virginia, and Ralph (Margaret) Allen of Richmond, Virginia. His sisters are Myra V. (Joseph) Carter of Charleston, West Virginia, Reta (Ernest) English, and Alfreda Taylor, both of women lives in Cleveland, Ohio. He had 19 grandchildren 3 great grandchildren. Doretta Ann Smallwood II was born on November 5, 1968. She married Christopher Shawn Floyd and had 2 children whose names are Sade Renee Smallwood Floyd (b. 1994) and Lashonda King Floyd (b. 1998). Doretta Ann Smallwood II has a daughter named Kaay Mariaa Smallwood.
The age of Thyatira of the church lasted from 606 A.D. when Pope Boniface III called himself the Universal Pope to 1648 A.D. when the Protestants and Catholics had that Treaty of Westphalia after over one century of war. This era saw a massive increase of the power of the Roman Catholic Church into its first peak. The church back then has gone through many changes. The Church of Rome for more than one millennium dominated the political and religious systems in Europe. This time saw the Crusades, the evil Inquisition, the invention of the religion of Islam, the Protestant Reformation, and other events. This time saw many people follow the simplicity of the gospel in many groups like the Waldensians, the Lollards, and other groups. Also, this time saw the rise of modern-day secret societies like Rosicrucians and Freemasonry (many members back then had links to the Merovingian bloodline, as members of the Merovingian bloodline had infiltrated some of the Papacy back then too). They tried to infiltrate the church. The debate on works contributed to the rise of the Protestant Reformation. Catholics believe that people must do works to gain and maintain salvation, and Protestants believe that God's grace through faith saves people's souls. The Bible is clear that if a person repents of his or her sins, then accepts Jesus Christ as Savior, he or she is a new creation. Good works alone never merit salvation, as no human is perfect. Yet, after salvation, we must do good works, representing the fruit of the spirit. In other words, good works are the fruits that grow out of being saved, but works don't make us saved. After salvation, we must obey God's Word found in his commandments. The leadership of the Roman Catholic Church did the right thing to defend the Trinity and many Christian doctrines, but the Roman Catholic Church added many false doctrines and man-made, unscriptural superstitions like the Rosary (when the Bible is clear not to use repetitive prayers), purgatory, calling Mary the Mother of God, Mary being the co-Mediatrix (when the Bible is clear that the only mediator between God and man is the Lord Jesus Christ), prayer to the saints (when that is necromancy as our prayers are only supposed to sent to God alone), indulgences, calling the Pope Holy Father (when that title is only reserved to God alone), the embrace of the Scapular, forcing bishops to be celibate (when the Bible is clear that bishops can be married if they desire to. Even the Apostle Peter had a wife), etc. that movements existed to challenge these false doctrines like the Petrobussians, the Lollards, the Waldensians, etc. Even Catholic scholars like Erasmus challenged the indulgences and wanted the Bible to be translated into diverse languages for the people. Then, Martin Luther started the Reformation in rejecting the theocratic authority of the Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Luther, and the Reformation spread globally. The Reformation had many strengths and weaknesses. The Reformation did good to spread the gospel to the common people in an efficient way, to promote the rule of law, and to promote the power of God alone to save people. Yet, many Reformers kept some of the false doctrines of the Catholic Church, some unified church and state in theocratic kingdoms (that suppressed the rights of Anabaptists, Baptists, and Protestant dissidents), and some allied with occult secret societies like Rosicrucians and Freemasons. Many Protestants (in the Bartholomew Day Massacre in France), Anabaptists, and Baptists were persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church in an unjust fashion. The Catholic Church used the Council of Trent to condemn Protestant views and promote basic Catholic doctrine. The problem is that further false doctrines were believed in the Vatican like even papal infallibility and the embrace of the Apocrypha (which was rejected by the Jewish scholars of the early centuries after Christ, but it has been embraced by the Catholic Church. 2 Edras 3:5 said that Adam's body was without soul when the Bible is clear that Adam was a living soul. Many scholars exposed contradictions in the Apocrypha, and it is condoning sorcery). There was the rise of Cathars who were Gnostics. Also, there was the rise of Islam, which explicitly denied the existence of the Son of God, when even the Old Testament mentioned that God the Father and the Son existed. Islam is a works-based salvation religion that views Muhammad the last of the great prophets. Conflicts among Muslims and Christians will persist. At the end of the era of Thyatria saw the increased hostility towards monarchies and the creation of the modern world as we know it.
By Timothy
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Friday, May 16, 2025
The Situation of the Rule of Law.
We have the beginning of the end of the rule of law in America. The White House has bashed due process and habeas corpus (Stephen Miller is thinking about suspending habeas corpus, which is ludicrous) rights. Trump is a fascist tyrant who has no respect for morality, truth, or justice. The reason is that Trump and his supporters have enacted tons of illegal policies time after time again. No human on this Earth is above the law, but Trump regards himself as the law. Trump's policies is the antithesis of true constitutional law and democratic principles. This reality is not an exaggeration. It's real life with real-life consequences. The Republican Party is no longer the Party of Lincoln (which endorsed federal government laws to promote civil rights), it is not the party of Theodore Roosevelt (that sought to break up monopolies and have living wages), and it is not even the party Reagan (I don't agree with Reagan on many issues because of the obvious reasons). The Republican Party is the party of Trump. For over 100 days, Donald Trump has not only perverted the law, but he has openly defied the law when the Supreme Court told him to return a man back from El Salvador to America. Trump's tax bill has tax cuts for the super wealthy and loopholes to benefit large corporations. The Republicans want a massive transfer of wealth to the richest Americans while making cuts to healthcare and other social programs that have helped the poor, pregnant women, kids, the elderly, and other human beings greatly.
The tariffs from Trump has harmed America now. Walmart said that it will raise prices because of the tariffs. More Americans face high levels into anxiety amid the Trump trade war. There is still high inflation in our society. Trump lied and said that he would lower grocery prices on Day One. Trump voters are complicit in this. Trump shouldn't be blamed for this alone. The Trump voters knew full well of the racism, lies, xenophobia, vulgarity, immorality, sexism, and hatred found in Trump for decades. Yet, they voted for him because they want equality for certain people but not for all human beings. Now, these same voters must be told about their folly. Now, the Trump, GOP financial bill have tax cuts for the rich, Medicaid and SNAP potential cuts, ending IRS Direct File (that helps millions of Americans to file for the IRS cheaply), give Trump new power to target nonprofits, blocks state/local regulation in deal with AI, and other pro-oligarchy plans. Most Americans are middle class and working class, and Trump's economically reactionary policies are antithetical to justice.
The Supreme Court is looking into the birthright citizenship case. Trump wants to abolish the 14th Amendment which mentions clearly states that anyone born in America is an American citizen. Trump believes that citizenship is only reserved to certain Americans not all Americans. The Supreme Court is examining the power of district judges in the case. Both sides are presenting their arguments to people. The Supreme Court seemed to open to lifting a series of nationwide orders blocking President Trump from enforcing his birthright citizenship policy, even as many justices wrestled with the implications of allowing the government to deny citizenship to people born in America. Kavanaugh is open to having class action lawsuits to deal with the challengers to Trump's executive orders to get broad relief from the courts.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
More Political News
The trial of Sean Combs continues. The testimony has been very graphic, but the truth must be known to the public in order for real justice to be made. Diddy went from one of the most talented producers in hip hop history to a violent, hedonistic degenerate. He assaulted Cassie. He tried to kill a man with a kettlebell, he assaulted Steve Stoute, and even a black woman chef said that Diddy assaulted her too. Diddy hides behind God to justify "freak offs" which is total hedonism. God doesn't approve of excessive cursing, hedonism, and violent assaults against innocent people. Cassie Ventura testified against Diddy in court. Cassie took an oath and said that Diddy has a long history of abusing her maliciously. Combs has pleaded not guilty to the charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. If Diddy is convicted, he faces life in prison. Douglas Wigdor, the attorney of Cassie Ventura, said he is super proud of her testimony. Diddy's mother, daughters, and sons support him. At the end of the day, rape, assault, harassment, and abuse of any kind have no justification period. We should always treat people right with dignity and with respect.
Many of the British political leaders have unfortunately joined to the agenda of xenophobia. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced many anti-immigration measures on Monday. This makes the Labour government embracing far-right nonsense. Starmer promoted the speech that was so bigoted that it was similar to the racist 1968 "rivers of blood" speech of the Conservative MP Enoch Powell. Powell made the racist lie that white Britons were made strangers in their own country when most white British people are descendants of the Saxons, Jutes, Angles, and other Germanic tribes that originated from Germany and Scandinavia, not the United Kingdom originally. Also, DNA and historical evidence proved that sub-Saharan black people lived in ancient England thousands of years ago. Starmer wants to end visas for social care workers, wants to have degree level qualification, and wants people to live in the UK for 10 years to gain the right to stay indefinitely. He wants a digital identity to be compulsory for all overseas citizens. Starmer betrayed the progressive cause in the United Kingdom with such blatantly repugnant rhetoric.
Monday, May 12, 2025
The Korean War and other Information.
The UN Forces captured Pyongyang in North Korea on October 18, 1950. This was done mostly by American and South Korean troops. This marked a massive advance of the U.N. forces in the Korean War. Later, North Korean forces retreated towards the Chinese border. Previously, On August 12, 1950, the USAF dropped 625 tons of bombs on North Korea and 2 week later, the daily tonnage increase to some 800 tons. U.s. warplanes dropped more naplam and bombs on North Korea than they did during the whole Pacific campaign during World War II. There was a debate in America on what to do. President Harry Truman wanted U.N. forces to stop at the North Korean and Chinese border. General MacArthur wanted to continue to go into China to further fight the Korean War, but Harry Truman feared that action would provoke a Chinese response and possibly WWIII. By October 25, 1950, UN troops were approaching the Yalu River. On that day, Chinese People's Volunteers Force (CPVF) troops under veteran commander General Pen Dehaui cross into North Korea. The Chinese inflicted seirous losses on the lead units of the U.N. advance. The sudden force of Chinese troops sent the main body of U.N. forces reelign back to the south bank of the Ch'ongch'on River.
On November 25, 1950, China, issuing warnings against the U.N. that it should cease aggressions against North Korea, sets a trap to crush MacArthur's army. Chinese forces, numbering 130,000 to 300,000, invade North Korea and push U.N. troops southward in a disorganized, hasty retreat. From November 7 to December 9, 1950, with their backs to the Sea of Japan and fighting in a brutally cold winter, U.S. Marines encircled at the Chosin Reservoir retreat to the ports Hungnam and Wonsan, where some 20,000 troops and refugees are evacuated. Known as the battle of "Frozen Chosin," the Chinese route 15,000 U.N. troops, causing 12,000 casualties; of those, 3,000 are killed.
On November 30, 1950, President Harry S. Truman went too far by threatening to use the atomic bomb against the communist Chinese forces. By April 5 of the next year, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered atomic retaliation against Soviet and Chinese bases if more communist troops entered the war.
By December 6, 1950, The U.S. Marines at the Chosin Reservoir started their attack in a different direction as they are in a fighting retrat to the port of Hungnam. Two whole Chinese armies were taksed with the destruction of the 1st Marine Division. They succeed in driving the American force form North Korean territory, but the Chinese forces have a heavy price (of 80,000 Chinese troops being killed or wounded). The CPVF Ninth Army Group is was combat ineffective for months. By January 4, 1961, Chinese and North Korean forces recapture Seoul. The Chinese-North Korean army is stopped by U.N. troops 30 miles south of Seoul and begin a counteroffensive by the end of January. By March 14, 1951, Soeul changes hands for the fourth time when U.N. forces once again liberate the South Korean capital of Seoul. The city was devasted by fighting. The population had a radical decline of population because of the fighting. MacArthur's army advances slightly north of the 38th Parallel.
On April 11, 1951, American President Harry S. Truman relieved General MacArthur of command for insubordination and his refusal to prosecute a limited war. General MacArthur became so extreme that he requested the discretion to drop atomic bombs as he saw fit. He desired to drop between 30 and 50 atomic bombs across the area of Manchuria while landing Chinese Nationalist troops in the Chinese mainland. This act will cause a global war. Stalin had already tested an atomic weapon by August 1959. Stalin gave aid and weaponry to North Korea and China.
General Douglas MacArthur was succeeded as UN commander by Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway. MacArthur was praised as a hero in America, even considering running for President. Yet, he lived a more reserved life and ironically advised Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to not pursue a ground military invasion of Vietnam. General MacArthur did good in fighting the Axis Powers in WWII and helped to rebuild Japan. He made many errors, like his excessive response in the Bonus March protest and his other reactionary views. He is buried in the 757 at Norfolk, Virginia (in the city's downtown area). By April 25, 1951, a vastly outnumbered U.N forces checked the Chinese advance on Seoul at the Battles of Kapyoung and the Imjin River. Two Commonwealth battalions—the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment—rebuff an entire Chinese division at Kapyong, and 4,000 men of the British 29th Brigade stage a successful delaying action against nearly 30,000 troops of the Chinese 63rd Army at the Imjin River. Some 650 men of the 1st Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment (the “Glorious Glosters”), engage in a Thermopylae-like stand against more than 10,000 Chinese infantry at Imjin. Although the overwhelming majority of the Glosters are killed or captured, their sacrifice allowed UN forces to consolidate their lines around the South Korean capital. On July 10, 1951, there was a truce between the UN and the communists that begin at Kaesŏng. Truce talks begin at Kaesong near the 38th Parallel. The talks, led by U.S. Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy for the U.N. side and Lt. Gen. Nam Il of North Korea, dragged on with no real agreements on an armistice and exchange of prisoners. The truce site is moved to the village of Panmunjom. The negotiations do not end the war, however, the fighting continues for two more years. In October, the peace talks relocate to the village of P'anmunjŏm.
The war entered a stalemate. According to U.S. Major General William F. Dean, there are reports that most of North Korean cities and villages he saw were either rubble or snow-covered wastelands. General Curtis LeMay, who coordinated the bombing raids against North Korea in a sick away, admitted that, "Over a period of three years or so we killed off what twenty percent of the population...We burned down every town in North Korea and South Korea too." Many of the war crimes done by the U.S. forces in South Korea have been documented by the Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission. According to ROK sources, almost one million civilians were killed in South Korea in the course of the Korean War. By November 1951, the war along the 38th Parallel had become a stalemate reminiscent of trench warfare fought in World War I. The pattern of bloody fighting with no real capturing of territory continues for the next two years as peace talks repeatedly fail. On November 12, 1951, the Eighth Army assumes the “active defense” as the UN’s objectives in the armistice negotiations, and the growing unpopularity of the war in the United States, rule out major offensives with high casualties. In the active defense, UN forces hold a main line of resistance, protected by fortified outposts, from which units patrol and conduct raids against enemy positions.
From May 7 to June 10, 1952, events happen in the Korean War. On May 7, NKPA prisoners-of-war at the UN POW camp on Koje Island capture the camp commander. He was released unharmed after an American officer signs a statement admitting to the mistreatment of POWs. A great propaganda victory for the communists, this incident is the most notable example of the communist strategy to turn POW camps into another battlefield of the war. During June, the UN POW camp system is reorganized to improve security, although communist POWs will continue to provoke violent incidents until the end of the war.
From July 17 to August 4, 1952, there was the Battle for Outpost Old Baldy. The 2nd Infantry Division loses the outpost to a Chinese attack that demonstrates the Chinese communists’ greatly expanded artillery force, mounts several unsuccessful counterattacks, and then finally retakes the outpost. While patrolling is now the most common form of combat, the Chinese, for the next year will attempt to pressure the UN at the armistice negotiations by inflicting heavy casualties on UN units with attacks on outposts. From October 6-15, 1952, there was the Battle for White Horse Mountain. This was the successful defense of this position by the ROK 9th Division, with the assistance of U.S. artillery and air strikes, against heavy Chinese attacks, which signals the great improvements the ROK has made, with the aid of American advisers, in its tactical and technical competence since the first year of the war.
On October 8, 1952, the talks at Panmunjom deadlock and were recessed. U.S. planes bombed the North Korean capital, Pyongyang for two straight months. Talks are resumed the following March. Armistice negotiations recessed because of a deadlock on the issue of repatriation of POWs. While the Geneva Convention of 1949 mandates immediate repatriation of POWs after hostilities end, the United States decides to press for allowing POWs to choose whether they will be repatriated. The U.S. takes this position because screening of enemy POWs has revealed that tens of thousands of them are either South Koreans conscripted into the NKPA or Nationalist veterans of the Chinese Civil War drafted into the PLA after the communist victory in that war. These POWs do not want to go to North Korea or to Communist China after hostilities end.
On April 26, 1953, the armistice negotiations continued. While both South and North Koreans still desire to defeat each other and unify the peninsula, the UN and the PRC wish to end what has become a bloody and expensive war, whose objective, the status quo ante bellum, is for them not worth the cost of continuing. On May 28-29, 1953, the 25th Infantry Division battled for the Nevada outpost complex. The Chinese repeatedly attacked to take these outposts, suffering very heavy casualties, until the Eighth Army decided to abandon the outposts. With an armistice agreement in sight, senior UN commanders conclude that holding an outpost, after the Chinese have demonstrated a willingness to sacrifice whatever number of soldiers required to take it, is not worth the cost in UN soldiers’ lives. The Chinese take several other outposts with this tactic, which is designed to distract from their concessions at the armistice negotiations and to keep pressuring the UN during the final stage of the negotiations.
On June 8, 1953, an agreement was reached at armistice negotiations on the repatriation of POWs. All POWs will choose whether they will be repatriated, and both sides will be allowed an attempt to persuade its POWs to choose to be repatriated. From July 13-19, 1953, there was the Chinese offensive against ROK units in the Kumsong Salient. A major attack breaks through ROK lines and inflicts heavy losses, but the Chinese do not attempt to exploit the breach even though they also have suffered heavy casualties. The purpose of the attack is to punish the South Koreans for unilaterally releasing 27,000 POWs who had refused repatriation and to distract world attention from the concessions made at the armistice negotiations.
On July 27, 1953, Mark W. Clark for the UN Command, Peng Dehuai for the Chinese, and Kim Il-Sung for North Korea concluded an armistice ending hostilities. A demilitarized zone is created that roughly follows the prewar border along the 38th parallel. South Korean Pres. Syngman Rhee announces his acceptance of the agreement, but no representative of South Korea ever signed the document. The agreement calls for a 2.5-mile-wide buffer zone across the middle of the Korean Peninsula that closely follows the 38th Parallel. From August 1953 to February 1954, there was an exchange of POWs. A total of 82,493 Koreans and Chinese POWs are repatriated, as are 13,444 UN POWs (3,746 of which are Americans). 21,839 communist POWs refuse repatriation, as do 347 UN POWs, including 21 Americans.
The conflict caused more than one million military deaths and an estimated two to three million civilian deaths. War crimes existed on both sides of the war. These war crimes include the mass killing of suspected communists by Seoul and the mass killing of alleged reactionaries by Pyongyang. North Korea became one of the most heavily bombed countries in history, and virtually all of Korea's major cities were destroyed (during the Korean War). No peace treaty has been signed, making the war a frozen conflict.
This time, we are witnessing the 75th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. The Korean War has been forgotten by many people, and numerous human beings don't know anything about the war. Yet, we realize the war in greater detail as time goes on. The war had its roots in World War II. After World War II, there were debates on how to deal with the Korean peninsula among President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. Many independent progressive forces wanted Korea to have workers' rights, economic justice, and true equality. Many U.S. occupation forces crushed the resistance of the Korean working class. Also, Stalinists promoted token leadership in North Korea too. South Korea was dominated by a far-right regime under Rhee, and North Korea was dominated by pro-Stalin forces too. Much of the right-wing regime in South Korea was filled with former Japanese collaborators and other extremists who suppressed dissent. The myth is that the Korean War solely started with North Korea attacking South Korea in 1950. The truth is that North and South Korea had cross-border incursions long before 1950. The war was a civil war about the political nature of the Korean peninsula's future. Some wanted Korea to be capitalist, some wanted to be communist, and others wanted an independent progressive nation. China and Russia supported North Korea. The war had the U.N. take the lead and was filled with mostly American and South Korean soldiers (without a Congressional declaration of war). Truman justified the U.N. intervention by promoting the containment doctrine (which advocated using military force if necessary to stop the spread of Communism around the globe). Also, Truman went over the line by threatening the use of atomic weapons in the conflict. General MacArthur's initial military strategies worked to repel the North Korean attacks. Yet, MacArthur wanted dozens of atomic weapons dropped if necessary, and the Chinese military forces attacked the U.N. forces near the Yalu River (close to the Chinese border). The U.N. forces were pushed back, and the U.N. forces came back to form a stalemate. There were many battles and POW exchanges from 1951 to 1953. The war ended by 1953, with tensions still running high. North Korea today is an authoritarian state that promotes communism, and South Korea is more capitalistic filled with a much different reality than North Korea. South Korea has more liberties than North Korea, but U.S. imperialistic corporate interests still influence many parts of South Korea too. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the President when the war ended after Truman was defeated (as opposition to the Korean War increased in America as a backlash against Truman's foreign policy agenda). Many well-known Korean War veterans are James Garner, Neil Armstrong, Sir Michael Caine, Ted Williams, Casey Kasem, Charles Rangle, Ed McMahon, Edwin Aldrin, Johnny Cash, and John Glenn. The Korean War was very brutal, destroying a high percentage of Korean infrastructure. War crimes were committed against the Korean people during the war too. The world needs to know these facts.
There are tons of heroes of Australia who stood up for freedom in a legitimate fashion. Many civil rights heroes in Australia fought for the Aboriginal and Torress Strait Islander rights, for disability rights, and for women's rights. Charles Perkins, Faith Bandler, and Neville worked hard to champion Aboriginal rights. People like Carly Findlay, and Dylan Alcott have made many contributions to disability rights. Jessie Street, Edna Ryan, and Elizabeth Reid have been instrumental in advancing women's rights and equality in Australia. The Australian Aboriginal Civil Rights Movement has been known to me for years, but many people are unaware of this history. This movement fought for equal rights and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It has grown since the early 20th century and continues to this day. Many people used protests, legal challenges, and political lobbying to fight for self-determination, an end to discrimination, and the recognition of their titles. Back in 1901, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were banned from the census and denied basic human rights like voting and enlistment in the Armed services when the Australian Federation was formed in 1901. So, people fought back against these injustices. This movement gained more power after WWII with the creation of organizations like the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA). Aboriginal activists were inspired by us, black Americans, in our Civil Rights Movement. So, the Aboriginal activists and non-Aboriginal allies formed Freedom Rides (during the 1960s) to expose discrimination in Australia and raise awareness. This movement has victories like the 1967 referendum that removed discriminatory clauses from the Australian Constitution and recognized Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as citizens. The Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (ALRM) was formed in 1972 to give legal services and advocacy for Indigenous Australians facing injustice. There was a 1972 protest of Aboriginal people outside Parliament House in Canberra by1972 to demand land rights and self-determination. Aboriginals still fight for native title, reconciliation, and eliminating other problems faced by Indigenous communities.
The continent of Australia is known by many people the world over. There can be no discussion about Australia without the respect shown to its first human inhabitants, who are the Aboriginal people. They represent a large part of the culture of Australia in terms of respect for the environment, resiliency, cultural heritage, language, art, and other aspects of human culture. Australia has been a place of both conflict and growth. It has been a place filled with some evil people and some righteous people who fought injustice with eagerness and zeal. Australia is a diverse location too. There are Aboriginal people, white people, Asian people, black people, Latino people, and people of diverse ethnicities and creeds that live in Australia. From its rural locations, urban centers, suburbs, and grasslands, Australia has a massive different amount of communities and ecosystems. Australia is a place that has hosted concerts, a historic Olympic Summer Games (that existed in the year of 2000), various sporting events, and other types of celebrations. Today, Australia is dominated by a conservative government, but we all have hope for the future as the principle of equality of all people is paramount.
By Timothy