Hampton's first Black superintendent and longtime educator, Raymond Washington Sr., dies at 84
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
More News of Our Generation.
We are opposed to the agenda of oligarchy. The DOJ wants to target Judge Boasberg, because he made decisions that legitimately dissent against Trump's policies. Trump's DOJ wants to censure Judge Boasberg when Trump is attacking the rule of law in many cases from once refusing to send a migrant back to America without due process of law. While this is going on, we know what works. It isn't the system of oligarchy. It is about giving the government the power to give workers better rights and protections. It is about checking the power of big business in agriculture, retailing, and banking. It is about giving fair opportunity for labor and small businesses. It is about helping the poor and the working class with living wages and a vibrant, strong social safety net. Trump and his allies want to get rid of legitimate regulations that help people not eating poisonous foods, not allow people to be injured from work, and stop pollutants from infecting human beings. The Trump regime does this action of eliminating legitimate regulations for the sake of establishing more record corporate power. That is why they cut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (or the CFPB. This group helps to stop overdraft fees and fights to prevent financial fraud in general). We do this advocacy of freedom, because we are about protecting our environment to reduce cancer rates, reduce health care costs, and allow human beings of every background to live for fruitful, longer lives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that there is no starvation in Gaza. He is a liar. We know of the pictures of more than 100 Palestinians, mostly children, who have died from a lack of food and nutrition. Netanyahu was bold enough to say this pernicious lie at a Christian conference in Jerusalem. This event was hosted by Trump supporter and Evangelical pastor Paula White. I remember Paula White a long time ago promoting the Prosperity gospel heresy. Netanyahu also said that there is no policy of starvation in Gaza too. There has been 20 months of mass death caused by many Israeli bombings. What Hamas did to Israeli is evil and immoral. We don't support Hamas as Hamas is a vicious terrorist organization. Likewise, that doesn't justify religious places in Gaza being bombed, children suffering starvation, and mass Israeli settler attacks on innocent Palestinians including the murder of an American citizen in the West Bank. Global organizations including the World Health Organization described the growing mortality toll as mass starvation with over 2 million people at risk of food supplies being throttled by the Israeli blockade and bureaucratic hurdles. Now, two Israeli human rights organizations recently called Netanyahu's actions as genocide. That is very historic. People globally from New York City, Europe, the Middle East, etc. have protested to end the war, end the blockade, and to make sure that food comes into Gaza in a more thorough, comprehensive fashion.
The Trump administration continues its attack on the poor and those who are disabled. By April 2025, the Trump administration ended the nationwide provision of the National Qualified Representative Program (NQRP), which gives legal representation found "mentally incompetent" while in immigration detention. We know that ICE is targeting immigrants appearing at routine court hearings without adequate due process. We know that the Trump administration harmed DEIA programs that benefit the disabled, removed the federal government's ability to enforce disability civil rights law, and undermine health care affordability and access for disabled. Trump has cut massive parts of the social safety net too and ending legitimate regulations that help keep disabled people in our communities. In May 2025, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) sued the White House for not providing ASL interpreters during press conferences, public hearings, and other events by the President, the Vice President, and the White House Press Secretary. Trump signed an executive order last week that wants homeless people to be forced to go to mental health institutions or drug treatment centers without their consent. That is fascism point blank period exclamation point. Trump no wants a two-year time limit on rental assistance (involving public housing and Section 8 voucher programs). This will cause massive homelessness in America, especially for the elderly and disabled with limited income resources. Housing is much more expensive than decades past, tax cuts have increased for the super-rich, and there are lower federal government investments for a strong social safety net. A two-year limit will increase administrative costs. I blame Trump supporters more than this than Trump (we know who Trump is and Trump allies created Project 2025 whose doctrines are being fulfilled in 2025 now) as these supporters care more for a retrograde political ideology than truth and justice. They care more for cruelty than compassion. They hide behind religion when God never said anything about unconditional allegiance to any President or the MAGA movement. In fact, it is the height of sacrilege to adhere to MAGA doctrines.
Life will always bring secrets revealed. Recently, I learned tons of information about my distant cousins. My 3rd cousin is Robin Angelic Eure (b. 1971) and her brother is Ronnie Fred Eure (b. 19660. We are descendants of 4th great grandparents of Morefield Hurst Turner and Susanna Turner. The siblings' parents are Fred Eure (1946-2019) and Vercinia Turner (b. 1947). Robin and Ronnie Eure's half-sister is Verna Eure who lives in the Philippines. The late military veteran Fred Lee Eure lived from September 10, 1946, to November 27, 2019. He was buried in Carrsville, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Robin Eure was born and raised in Newport News, Virginia, and she graduated from Warwick High School in 1989. Today Robin Eure lives in Richmond, Virginia. Vercinia Turner's parents were William Thomas Turner (1917-1984) and Ida Leola Brown (1920-2004). William Thomas Turner's parents were Benjamin Hurst (1874-1929) and Clara V. Artis (1898-1966). Benjamin Hurst's parents were Morefield Hurst Turner (1827-1918) and Milly Bozeman (1830-1910). One child of WIlliam Thomas Turner and Ida Leola Brown are Carolyn Retta Turner (b. 1950) who married John L. Joyner (b. 1948). Their son is Calvin Leroy Joyner (b. 1968). Calvin Leroy Joyner has a daughter.
There are a lot of news going on today. Trump has denied the state of Maryland a request to get FEMA aid after devastating floods as reported by the Washington Post. Natural disasters shouldn't be politicized in that fashion. The same Trump supporters who claim to have spirituality make excuses for Trump's evil, but they will criticize someone of another party if that does what Trump has done. Therefore, the hypocrisy (of also being silent on how Trump is massively cutting SNAP, Medicare, and other legitimate social programs that can ruin the lives of millions of Americans) of Trump supporters is abundantly clear. They claim to want morality but have selective criticism which makes them inconsistent in their ideological framework. You can't claim to support integrity and support a person saying every four-letter word constantly when he doesn't get his way. After July, we saw see the end of the first era of the last term of Trump. His own MAGA base is divided based on the Epstein files issue. We see some good news of Ukraine coming back to defeat Russia in more battles again on the battlefield. The vast majority of the American people legitimately want the Epstein files to be released. Now, Trump has an approval rate at 37 percent which is a record low for his term. French President Macron wants a Palestinian state with various conditions like the demilitarization of Hamas, etc. We live a year after Biden resigned from office. Biden resigned, but we shall never forget how he was scapegoated and then resigned.
By Timothy
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Exercise can Reduce the risk of Alzheimer's Disease.
How Exercise Reduces Risk of Alzheimer's Disease | Cognitive Enhancement
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250726234423.htm
How Exercise Reduces Risk of Alzheimer's Disease | Cognitive Enhancement
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/29/health/ornish-early-alzheimers-study-wellness
The MIND diet along with exercise can lower dementia risk: US study
Lower your dementia risk with these 2 simple routines: study
Walking daily lowers Alzheimer's risk, reveals 10-year study
Monday, July 28, 2025
Anti-Aging Expert: Missing This Vitamin Is As Bad As Smoking! The Truth ...
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@ExpensivePizza
4 hours ago
TLDW;
- Vitamin D Deficiency: Increases dementia risk by 80% and is linked to higher mortality, mood issues, and diseases like Alzheimer's; supplementation can reduce these risks by up to 40% and is crucial since 70% of the population has insufficient levels.
- Omega-3 Index and Mortality: A low omega-3 index is as detrimental as smoking, raising all-cause mortality; increasing intake through fish or supplements can extend life expectancy by up to 5 years.
- Creatine Benefits: Enhances cognitive performance by negating sleep deprivation effects and improving function beyond baseline levels; it's essential for energy production in muscles and the brain, with doses of 10-20g potentially boosting resilience under stress.
- Lifestyle's Role in Aging: About 70% of aging is influenced by lifestyle factors like exercise, which can reverse brain shrinkage (e.g., growing the hippocampus by 1-2%), and nutrient intake, making simple changes like supplementation key for long-term health.
- Magnesium Importance: Over 50% of people are deficient, leading to higher cancer risk (e.g., 24% increase per 100mg drop in intake) and all-cause mortality; it's vital for DNA repair, energy production, and overall enzyme function, easily addressed through diet or supplements.
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@alphaDad0806
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thanks !
am really surprised they didn't talk about the direct study which established direct links between Vitamin D3 and anti-aging (telemore length)
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@Meggzy3
2 hours ago
As a personal trainer and group exercise instructor and former competitive athlete, I LOVE 💕 what she’s saying. I lap swim and teach indoor cycling, run the trails, walk the beach., and do water fitness. WHATEVER gives you joy go outside, get moving, exercise. Being in the fitness industry for over 30 years, I find those who workout move better, feel better, react better, and look better. They’re more agile and more flexible.
I will have to try this Norwegian 4x4 for sure!
@Angel-O0127
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Everything she said about intermittent fasting is spot on! I’m 56 and I’ve been doing it for years. 18-24 hour window very rarely 10 and I’ve maintained my weight. She’s also spot on with the training. You need to build on those muscles and movement etc. My only downfall in all this is smoking 😬 that is now what I’m working on 🙏🏼 thank you for this because I’m going in the right direction. I do have days where I over indulge, however I always go back to intermittent fasting 😊
A Reflection of Life and Culture.
The global George Floyd protests should be analyzed and honored as the largest anti-racism, pro-black human lives, and anti-police brutality protests in human history back in 2020. I have in my late 30s back then, and people were outraged at the murder of George Floyd, a 46 years old unarmed African American man. The protesters wanted to promote the fight of African Americans to have civil rights, justice, police accountability, and true liberation. We know of the Watts rebellion in 1965 in Los Angeles (34 people, mostly African Americans died during that situation). We know of the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion in response to the acquittal of police officers who used excessive force against the black American Rodney King. The Black Lives Movement was created in 2013 after Trayvon Martin's killer was found not guilty in court. There was the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resulted in local protests and unrest while the killing of Eric Garner in New York City resulted in numerous national protests. In 2015, the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore police custody resulted in riots in the city and nationwide protests as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. Several nationally publicized incidents occurred in Minnesota, including the 2015 shooting of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis; the 2016 shooting of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights; and the 2017 shooting of Justine Damond. In 2016, Tony Timpa was killed by Dallas police officers in the same way as George Floyd. In August 2019, Elijah McClain died after Aurora police ordered paramedics to administer ketamine under dubious circumstances. In March 2020, the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor by police executing a search warrant at her Kentucky apartment was also widely publicized. After Eric Garner and George Floyd repeatedly said "I can't breathe" during their arrests, the phrase became a protest slogan against police brutality.
The first organized protests started on May 26, 2020, in Minneapolis. The vast majority of the protests nationally and internationally were peaceful. Some people used violence, and we all condemn violence against innocent people and against innocent property. Violence has nothing to do with self defense or civil disobedience. It has to do with evil rebellion against goodness being anti-social behavior. Rebellion against goodness is evil. There were protests in May 27, 2020 in Memphis and Los Angeles. By May 28, protests had sprung up in several major U.S. cities with demonstrations increasing each day. By June, protests had been held in all U.S. states. At least 200 cities had imposed curfews, and at least 27 states and Washington, D.C., activated over 62,000 National Guard personnel in response to the unrest. In Seattle, starting in early June, protesters occupied an area of several city blocks after the police vacated it, declaring it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where according to protesters "the police are forbidden, food is free and documentaries are screened at night." On June 11, President Trump challenged mayor Jenny Durkan and Governor Jay Inslee to "take back your city", and implying, according to Durkan, the possibility of a military response.
On June 10, thousands of academics, universities, scientific institutions, professional bodies and publishing houses around the world shut down to give researchers time to reflect and act upon anti-Black racism in academia. Organizations involved with #ShutDownSTEM day included Nature Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the American Physical Society. On June 14, an estimated 15,000 people gathered outside the Brooklyn Museum at Grand Army Plaza for the Liberation March, a silent protest in response to police brutality and violence against black transgender women. Frustrated by the lack of media coverage over the deaths of Nina Pop, who was stabbed in Sikeston, Missouri, on May 3 and Tony McDade, who was shot by police in Tallahassee, Florida, on May 27, artist and drag performer West Dakota and her mentor, drag queen Merrie Cherry, decided to organize a silent rally inspired by the 1917 NAACP Silent Parade. The march generated widespread media attention as one of the largest peaceful protests in modern New York City history. On June 19, Juneteenth, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) shut down ports on the West Coast in solidarity with protesters. An educator from the University of Washington said that the union has a history of protest and leftist politics since its founding: "[The ILWU] understood that division along the lines of race only benefited employers, because it weakened the efforts of workers to act together and to organize together. The UAW also asked members to join the protests by standing down for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the amount of time Chauvin was initially reported to have held his knee to Floyd's neck.
On June 17, in response to the protests, three different police reform plans, plans from the Republicans, the Democrats, and the White House, were unveiled aiming to curb police brutality and the use of violence by law enforcement. On June 25, NPR reported that the hopes for passage were doubtful because they were "short-circuited by a lack of bipartisan consensus on an ultimate plan [and] the issue is likely stalled, potentially until after the fall election." Protests continued over the weekend of June 19 in many cities, and observations of Juneteenth gained a new awareness. Jon Batiste, bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, took part in a Juneteenth day of protests, marches, rallies and vigils to "celebrate, show solidarity, and fight for equal rights and treatment of Black people" in Brooklyn. Batiste also appeared in concert with Matt Whitaker in a performance presented in partnership with Sing For Hope, performed on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library.
By the end of June 2020, more than 4,700 demonstrations had occurred in the United States—a daily average of 140—with an estimate of 15 million and 26 million total participants. Protests had occurred in over 40% of the counties in the United States. Protests in the aftermath of Floyd's murder were then considered the largest in United States history. As of July 3, protests were ongoing. On July 4, the Independence Day holiday in the United States, several protests were held, including in several cities where protests had been going on since the day after Floyd's murder. On July 20, the Strike for Black Lives, a mass walkout intended to raise awareness of systemic racism, featured thousands of workers across the United States walking off their jobs for approximately 8 minutes, in honor of Floyd. The theme for the March on Washington held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2020, was, "Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks", a reference to Floyd's arrest by Chauvin. Over the Labor Day holiday weekend, which the Saturday marked 100 nights of protests since Floyd's murder, marches and rallies where held in many cities. In Miami, Florida, protesters on September 7, 2020, commemorated Floyd's murder and pressured local authorities to enact changes to policing policies, such as banning chokeholds during arrests. Protests continued in 2021 too like in Portland, New York City, etc. There were protests on June 6-7, 2020, in Senegal, Australia, France, and in other places from Santa Monica to New York state.
Protesters in London rallied outside the United States embassy on May 22, 2021. Protesters remarked that the Chauvin murder conviction was "a small amount of justice of what [George Floyd] really deserves." The protest was among of new set of peaceful protests in the United Kingdom to mark the one-year anniversary of Floyd's murder. On May 25, 2021, protesters took the streets in Germany and demonstrators took a knee in and raised their fists at rallies in Glasgow, London, and Edinburgh. Rallies were held outside U.S. Embassies in Greece and Spain. For some, the so-called "George Floyd effect" had demonstrators and activists connecting historic racism and social injustice to contemporary, local examples of police brutality. Movements spawned by Floyd's murder, which served as a catalyst, were still active in Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, New Zealand, Nigeria, United Kingdom, and elsewhere by May 2021. In Canada and France, where Floyd's murder initiated protests, activists were unsatisfied with the levels of reform made by officials at nearly a year after Floyd's murder.
In Australia, the Black Lives Matter movement sparked calls for white people to be more aware of race relations within the country. "Australia Day" is celebrated in the nation as the date the country was founded. The Black Lives Matter movement in Australia sought emphasis on acknowledging the colonial history of Australia, however, by changing "Australia Day" to "Invasion Day" in recognition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were massacred when the European settlement was established in Australia on January 26, 1788. There were protests in Japan and Naomi Osaka expressed excitement about that reality. Naomi Osaka has a Haitian father and a Japanese mother. She is in favor of respecting black human lives and opposes police brutality.
Viola Davis was born on August 11, 1965, in St. Matthews, South Carolina. Her parents are Mae Alice Davis and Dan Davis. She was born on her grandmother's farm on the Singleton Planation. Her father was a horse trainer, and her mother was a maid, factory worker, and homemaker. She is the 2nd youngest of six children, having four sisters and a brother. Soon, after she was born, her parents moved Davis and her two of her older siblings to Central Falls, Rhode Island, leaving her other siblings with her grandparents. Her mother was also an activist during the Civil Rights Movement. When she was two years old, Davis was taken to jail with her mother after she was arrested during a civil rights protest. She has described herself as having "lived in abject poverty and dysfunction" during her childhood, recalling living in "rat-infested and condemned" apartments. Davis is a second cousin of actor Mike Colter, known for portraying the Marvel Comics character Luke Cage.
Davis attended Central Falls High School, the alma mater to which she partially credits her love of stage acting with her involvement in the arts. When she was a teenager, she was involved in the federal TRIO Upward Bound and TRIO Student Support Services program. She was enrolled at the Young People's School for Performing Arts in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Davis's talent was recognized by a director at the program, Bernard Masterson. After she graduated from high school, Davis studied at Rhode Island College, majoring in theater and participating in the National Student Exchange before graduating in 1988. Then, she attended the Julliard School of Performing Arts in New York City for four years. Davis was part of the school's Drama Division Group 22 from 1989 to 1993. In a 2025 interview, Viola Davis said they gave her a whitewash interpretation of acting instead of being a better actor. She explained that formal technical training she received helped her play classic roles from Shakespeare, Chekov, O'Neill, and Strindberg, but added "what it denies is the human being behind all that, and as a black actress I'm always asked to show range by doing white work." She noted that "I can do the best that I can with Tennessee Williams but he writes for fragile white women. Beautiful work, but it's not me." She opined that black playwrights such as August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry aren't studied in the same way as the others she had learned from. Therefore, Viola Davis would later take on more revolutionary roles.
Viola Davis started her early work in the professional stage in theater. Back in 1992, Davis starred in the off Broadway production of William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It as Denis alongside Elizabeth McGovern at the Delacorte Theater. In 1996, Viola Davis made her Broadway debut in the original Broadway production of August Wilson's Seven Guitars as Vera (alongside Keith David). The play opened on Broadway on March 6, 1996 at the Walter Kerr Theater. She earned critical praise of her performance. She earned her Screen Actors Guild card in 1996 for doing one day of work, playing a nurse who passes a vial of blood to Timothy Hutton in the film The Substance of Fire in 1996. She was paid $518. Davis continued to act in off Broadway in various production. She was on television shows like episodes of NYPD Blue in 1996 and New York Undercover in 1996. She was in the HBO television military comedy film, The Pentagon Wars (1996) starring Kelsey Grammer, and Cary Elwes. In 1998, she played a small role in Steven Soderbergh's crime comedy film Out of Sight (1999).
As time goes on in life, you have to grow. No one is the same person identically now than years or decades ago. The reason is that we have diverse experiences, we met tons of different people, we read a wide spectrum of literature over time, and we receive advice from numerous quarters. Back in the 1990s, Bill Clinton was President. I researched many issues, and America back then during the 1990s had some political polarization with Newt Gingrich, the radio host Rush Limbaugh, and other people. Yet, even in the 1990s, America was nowhere near as polarized as today. When the Clinton impeachment hearings came about in 1999, I was in high school. Most of the country supported Clinton. Back then, my political views were more Democratic back in the 1990s. By 1990's, I knew about the Atlantis stories, Freemasonry, and other religious views. I believed in God. During the 2000s, Bush Jr. was President. I embraced a lot of conspiracy related information by the early 2000s about the CFR, the Bohemian Grove, the Bilderberg Group, and other information. I read information from Robert Howard's HardTruth website, Cutting Edge Ministries information, and other sites that exposed Freemasonry during the 2000s. When 9/11 happened, I started to research more information, created by blog in 2005, and had many conservative views on religion. The 9/11 Truth Movement grew during that time. My view as I have gotten older is that I agree with many parts of the 9/11 Truth movement and disagree with other aspects of it today. Still, I was more progressive on the war on terror, civil liberties, and other issues. The Iraq War started in 2003, and I opposed the Iraq War by June 2003. By this time, I had views which were progressive, conservative, and libertarian. I saw the election of President Barack Obama in 2008. There was euphoria among our people in the street. My view is that I disagreed with Obama on some issues, but I admired the love that Barack Obama has for his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama. Barack Obama would have a mixed legacy of President executing great policies for America (in fighting for equal pay, going about to invest in HBCUs, and other actions) along with making errors (especially on a neoliberal foreign policy). With the Great Recession by 2007 and 2008, my economic views did change. Seeing more poor people in the streets and massive economic upheaval, I had to re-evaluate much of my views (in rejecting Austrian economics) to be completely economically progressive by 2010. By 2010 and to 2015, my views became more refined to support justice and the intersectional aspects of the human race. By 2015, I researched more about progressive ideals and became more in favor of human liberation. By the 2020s and in 2025, I view are clear. I have my core convictions. I wrote down many words exposing the real doctrines of Freemasonry, the Boule, the Skulls and Bones, the O.T.O. the Eastern Star, and other occult secret societies in opposition to them because they have bizarre, offensive oaths, some praise false Greco-Roman gods (like numerous fraternities and sororities), and many have the agenda to control the mass of the people while getting power for themselves. Still, I disagree with these secret orders and likeminded organizations. That hasn't changed. After almost a half of century of me living on this Earth, I am man enough to admit my mistakes, reject falsehoods, and be a better human being as time has gone onward. Me being almost 50 years old is very surreal, and I appreciative of life in a genuinely sincere way. Now, I still express my dissent with these secret orders and organization because truth is superior to falsehoods. I believe in spirituality, I believe in social justice, I believe in equality for all, I endorse care and improvement of the environment, and I have grown to follow the principle that economic justice is a necessity. In terms of the Trump movement, everyone knows that I am opposed to it. I have seen a lot in the world, and I will continue to be inspire to show the truth to the people without apology.
Queen Mother Moore was one of the greatest black activists in human history who lived from July 27, 1898, to May 2, 1997. She was a civil rights leader and a black nationalist who promoted Pan-African unity. She was friends with many people of the black freedom movement. She worked with many civil rights leaders and black activists like Marcus Garvey, Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Rosa Parks, and Jesee Jackson. She was born in the South in New Iberia, Louisiana to Ella and St. Cry Moore. Her father, St. Cyr Moore, served as deputy sheriff of Iberia Parish. Cry Moore would be married three times and fathered eight children. During his marriage to Ella Moore, Queen Mother Moore was the eldest of three, Lorita and Eloise. As children, Moore and her sisters went to Saint Catherine’s Catholic school. Moore's mother died when she was six years old, and she and her sisters were placed in the care of their maternal grandmother. Her grandmother, Nora Henry, had been born into slavery, and when Moore’s mother Ella was a child, her grandfather was lynched, leaving Ella and her siblings in the care of their mother. Moore and her siblings would later return to the care of their father in New Orleans, but he would pass away when she was in the fourth grade and she would drop out shortly after. The inheritance intended for Moore and her sisters was claimed by a half-brother that put them out of their home. To support herself and her sisters, Moore took her father's mules to auction and used the money to rent a home. She would later lie about her age in order to become a hairdresser, a position that would support them for some time.
Queen Mother Moore started her activism during her teenage years. Moore and her sisters mobilized their neighbors during World War I to provide aid to black recruits upon learning that the Red Cross was only providing sustenance for white soldiers. Her sister Eloise established what could be called the first United Service Organizations in Anniston, Alabama; she found space in an unused building where black soldiers could go to relax, a privilege previously only afforded to white soldiers. In 1919, Moore learned of Marcus Garvey and went to hear him speak in New Orleans in 1920. By this time, Moore had married, and she and her three sisters gained a "new consciousness" of their African heritage after Garvey's speech. After attending a speech by Marcus Garvey, Moore had begun preparing herself to move to Africa with her husband. However, after facing family issues she remained in the United States, moving first to California then to Chicago, before settling in Harlem, New York, with her husband and sisters in 1922. Moore moved through activist groups often; before joining the Communist Party USA around 1933, Moore joined the International Labor Defense. In the Communist Party, she found a new consciousness of "the society under which we live, an analysis of the system under which we live". Moore worked with the party for some time, but she resigned in 1950, believing the party was no longer working in the best interest of Black people.
After meeting Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, Moore became a life member of the Council of Negro Women. It was with Bethune that Moore would make the first of many speeches to crowds of those interested in the fight for civil rights. Moore later became a leader and life member of the UNIA, founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey. She participated in Garvey's first international convention in New York City and was a stock owner in the Black Star Line. Along with becoming a leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement, Moore worked for a variety of causes for over 60 years. Her last public appearance was at the Million Man March alongside Jesse Jackson during October 1995. Moore was the founder and president of the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, as well as the founder of the Committee for Reparations for Descendants of U.S. Slaves. She was a founding member of the Republic of New Afrika to fight for self-determination, land, and reparations. In 1964, Moore founded the Eloise Moore College of African Studies, Mt. Addis Ababa, in Parksville, New York. The college was destroyed by fire in the late 1970s. For most of the 1950s and 1960s, Moore was the best-known advocate of African-American reparations. Operating out of Harlem and her organization, the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, Moore actively promoted reparations from 1950 until her death.
Although raised Catholic, Moore disaffiliated during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, during which she felt Pope Pius XII took improper actions in supporting the Italian army. Moore went between religions, from being a missionary in the Baptist Church, a member of the Apostolic Orthodox Church of Judah, and was later baptized into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. She was also a founding member of the Commission to Eliminate Racism of the Council of Churches of Greater New York. In organizing this commission, she staged a 24-hour sit-in for three weeks. Moore was also a co-founder of the African American Cultural Foundation, Inc., which led the fight against usage of the slave term "Negro." In 1957, Moore presented a petition to the United Nations and in 1959 a second petition, arguing for self-determination, against genocide, for land and reparations, making her an international advocate. Interviewed by E. Menelik Pinto, Moore explained the petition, in which she asked for 200 billion dollars to monetarily compensate for 400 years of enslavement. The petition also called for compensations to be given to African Americans who wished to return to Africa and those who wished to remain in America. Moore was the first signatory of the New African agreement.
Moore travelled to Africa numerous times between 1972 and 1977. On her first trip to Africa in 1972, she travelled to Guinea for Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's funeral, before being called to Ghana by a chief. In Ghana, she was bestowed with the honorific title "Queen Mother" by the Ashanti in a ceremony. She later returned to Africa for the All-African Women's Conference in Tanzania. She also travelled to Guinea Bissau as the guest of Amilcar Cabral, to Nigeria for the World Festival of Black Arts and Culture and returned to Tanzania for the Sixth Pan-African Congress in Dar es Salaam and went to Uganda. In 1990, Blakely took her to meet Nelson Mandela after he left prison in South Africa. This was done at the residence of President Kenneth Kaunda in Lusaka, Zambia.
Moore officially integrated a stance on reparations into her activism work in the 1960s, when forming the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women (UAEW). Moore founded the UAEW in Louisiana in response to working on cases of rape and other sexual violence against Black women. Through her work with the UAEW, Moore advocated for policy such as welfare benefits as a form of reparations for the sexual violence inflicted on Black women by white men. The UAEW also created an extensive mutual aid network, collecting food and other resources for Black women who lost access to welfare benefits due to being falsely deemed unfit mothers under Suitable Home Law, a set of policies that targeted women who did not conform to ideals of white motherhood and domesticity.
In 1962, Moore moved to Philadelphia and joined the National Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Observance Committee (NEPCOC), around the same time that the group was overhauling its mission, transitioning from a commemorative organization to one that was active in the fight for civil rights. In April 1962, the group held All-Africans Freedom Day Celebrations, where the NEPCOC announced its national mission to fight for reparations. While it appears that this action may not have materialized, the NEPCOC did organize a series of lectures on the topic of reparations, some of which include Moore as a keynote speaker.
She advocated for a stance that recognized that the violence inflicted on African people during the time periods of the Middle Passage, Jim Crow Laws, and Slavery were a form of cultural destruction, and that extensive grassroots work and economic restitution was needed to restore communities. Her particular stance is credited as playing a large role in imagining the role that Black women play in reparations work within the context of creating diasporic African communities and calling for economic reparations. She was part of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) promoted a developed a consciousness toward civil rights that appeals to international institutions.
One particularly formative moment for Moore was in 1951, when chairman of the CRC William Patterson submitted a petition to the United Nations titled "We Charge Genocide." This petition revealed many of the abuses suffered by Black Americans and demanded action from the international community. Moore worked with Patterson, and through this work began to integrate strategies such as appealing to international networks and institutions as a mechanism of reparations action, situating her work within an internationalist framework.
In 1996, Blakely assisted Moore in enstooling Winnie Mandela in the presence of the Ausar Auset Society International at the Lowes Victoria Theater (New York City) at 125th Street, Harlem. The first African-American Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel, NYC Mayor David Dinkins and U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson honored, supported, acknowledged, respected and insured the well-being of Moore as a royal elder in the Harlem community. Sonia Sanchez, voice of the liberation struggle of a people, was a God-daughter adored by Moore. On May 2, 1997, Moore died in a Brooklyn nursing home from natural causes, at the age of 98
By Timothy
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Friday, July 25, 2025
End of July 2025 News.
The Department of Justice has met with Epstein partner Ghislaine Maxwell. We have to be clear that Maxwell is an accomplice of Epstein's crimes against children. Maxwell also participated in the abuse of children too. About 200 Epstein victims wants to the government to subpoena the Epstein estate. The rabbit hole of the Epstein situation goes deeper. The Epstein estate said that they will comply with all lawful processes. Deputy General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell after a judge refused to release grand jury documents from the criminal probe into the late convicted sexual offender. People want the files to redact the victims' names if they are to be released to the public. The Trump administration officials have downplayed the report that Trump is named in the Epstein files. The House Oversight Committee chair said that he will move quickly to subpoena the Justice Department for the files related to the disgraced financier after a subcommittee voted to do so yesterday. Now, the Senate voted 48-5 to advance Emil Bowe's controversial nomination to be a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, despite opposition from many Democrats and GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. Voting just doesn't deal with Presidents. It deals with judges too as judges can strike down unjust laws or maintain unjust law over the course of years, decades, and centuries. Gabbard and Trump is targeting Obama to try to distract from Epstein and sugarcoat the evil done by Putin involving the 2016 election.
Nearly one in three people in Gaza are going multiple days without eating, according to the U.N. More than 1,000 people have been killed by Israeli forces while trying to get food at aid sites. This reality represents overt war crimes done by the Netanyahu regime. Also, we know that Starbucks' CEO made 6,666x more than its median employee in 2024. The company can afford to bargain a fair contract for its unionized workers. We have a federal minimum wage that is unsustainable in our generation. One myth is that only Americans working for a minimum wage are teenagers. The truth is that the vast majority of people working minimum wage are adults. Dozens of independent studies show that moderate minimum wage increases have almost no effect on employment. A lot of these problems exist because of corporate lobbyists paying political leaders to stop real solutions to problems. For example, the oil industry uses their influence to cause Congress to not enact real solutions to climate change. The NRA (which started as a gun control and gun sportsmanship organization in using guns back in the day until the 1970s) buys off much of Congress to not get much done to deal with gun violence. Insurance companies buy off much of Congress to cause no action to deal with health care issues. Many MAGA hypocrites claim that Trump would expose the elites, but Trump has been a member of elite corporate interests for years and decades.
Always support your right to dissent. In this generation, you have many pro-Trump trolls trying to brainwash people to support Trump unconditionally. I follow no man and no human on this Earth unconditionally. The biggest irony is that we don't go on pro-Trump platforms to harass people, but they try to harass us when we speak our minds. The reason why they do it because they have internal insecurities and can't refute the following facts. Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, Trump pardoned many of the terrorists involved in the January 6th terrorist insurrection, he made perverted comments about his own daughter, he has erased many black history information on federal websites, he has used policies to gut cancer research, he wants to end DEI programs, and he wants universities to capitulate to his views (which is against the First Amendment). These previous facts have been documented by books, websites, quotes, and other sources. When many MAGA followers are confronted with the truth, they either lie, laugh, or use demonic profanity to show their disapproval of progressive dissent with Trump's policy positions. The difference between me and them is that I don't laugh at the truth. I don't need to use profanity to show my viewpoints. I can show what's real and let it stand. Trump once said that he wanted to abolish the Constitution if necessary. That is anti-American. He wants to ban birthright citizenship. That is anti-American in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. So, I have total ideological disagreement with Trump supporters, period without apology.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard pushed the election conspiracy theories when Russian intelligence tried to use election interference in 2016. For years, Tulsi Gabbard has sold out for the sake of agreeing with the Trump agenda. There has been a bipartisan commission and a Mueller report proving that many members of Russian intelligence wanted to harm the Clinton campaign in 2016 and help the Trump campaign, including trying to undermine the U.S. democratic process. Gabbard is the person who is part of the Trump administration that seeks to promote extreme tariffs, end birthright citizenship, and eliminate legitimate environmental regulations. Trump is the only President with a mugshot and has been convicted on many felons. Trump is desperate to whitewash his legacy as a terrible, petty President. While this is going on, we have economic issues in America. As high as 39 percent of parents say that they can't afford back to school shopping this year, 44 percent of parents plan to take on debt during back to school shopping, and more than 50 percent of parents plan to sacrifice necessities like groceries to ensure their child has what they need for school. Trump supporters are hypocrites to claim that their leader is for morality when he shut down the Senior Community Service Employment Programs, which help seniors find jobs and make a living. Soon, 24 million Americans with Affordable Care Act health insurance will be notified that their out-of-pocket costs are going up 75 percent on average.
The Wall Street Journal mentioned that the Justice Department told Trump in May of 2025 that his name is found on many of the Epstein documents. This doesn't mean that Trump is guilty of pedophilia or abusing kids. It does mean that his name is found in those files. We know for a fact that Trump knew that his name is in the Epstein files, and he lied about his names being in those files. Trump is trying his best to not allow the contents of those files to be released to the public. People are wondering why this is. The hypocrisy of Trump supporters is that they claim to support morality, but Trump has spewed racist and sexist words for years (and he has sexualized his own daughter, which is degenerate behavior). Trump supporters claim to love the working class, but Trump's new budget law will cut programs that have helped the poor and working-class Americans for generations. Trump supporters claim to support spirituality, but many of them hate their neighbors (and view their neighbor as inferior to them) if their neighbor is of a certain background. We should never sugarcoat the reality of the world. Trump is one of the biggest deceivers in world history, and I will stand up for justice and democracy unequivocally. It is also important to stand up for the environment, stand for civil liberties, believe that health care is a fundamental human right, reject the oppression of Palestinian people, endorse black liberation, and believe in the Dream that we deserve.
By Timothy
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
The Aftermath of the Budget Law.
The far-right extremists are so extremist that some of them even consider Social Security as equivalent to the views of Lenin and Stalin. They label anything socialist if that program uses the power of the federal government to help the people in genuinely positive ways. Since January 2025, Trump slashed billions of dollars from Medicaid, SNAP, and public broadcasting, cut taxes for the super rich, gutted worker and consumer protections, used his office to make himself richer, and turned America into a police state (by allowing ICE to violate people's due process rights with no true accountability). Now, United HealthCare is increasing premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9 billion on stock buybacks last year. There is an early recess in the House and Senate, because some GOP members refuse to vote on revealing information about the Epstein files.
The White House removed the Wall Street Journal from the press pool on Trump's Scotland trip. This is a retaliation against the Wall Street for its coverage of the birthday card Epstein story. From Trump's hostility towards the press if they disagree with him to his" promoting the lie that Obama committed treason, we know about the Trump White House agenda being filled with distractions, bigotry, and hatred of truth.We also know that Russian intelligence tried to interfere with the 2016 election proven by tons of sources. Another tactic of members of the MAGA movement is trying to troll and harass people in the Internet like social media who disagree with their false "Messiah" Donald Trump. Trump is a human being who shouldn't be deified. People have the free speech and moral right to express powerful legitimate dissent against his authoritarian policies. Trump will not defeat democracy. There is no excuse for Trump to use ICE to detain American citizens unjustly, there is no excuse for innocent federal workers to be fired without cause, there is no excuse with the Trump goal of banning birthright citizenship and there is no excuse for his Muslim ban (that harms innocent people in various countries worldwide). People with goodwill and honor will be victorious in the end.
My paternal 5th late cousin was Francine Georgette Ames Wescott. She was born on August 17, 1964 at Northampton County, Virginia. That is in the Virginia Eastern Shore. Her first child with James L. Johnson Sr. is Jasmine Cherie Ames (b. 1988). Later, Francine Georgette Ames married Theodore Abron Wescott (b. 1965) on June 15, 1996 at Northampton County, Virginia. The couple had the child of Deion Wescott. Francine's parents are George Francis Ames (b. 1940) and Annie Treheme (1939-1994). Francine's siblings are Baby Ames (1958-1958), Regina Laverne Ames Darby (b. 1966), Carla Irene Ames (b. 1969), and Stephanie Latoya Ames (b. 1977). Carla Irene Ames married James William Owens on December 26, 2008, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The parents of Annie Treherne were Amos Treherne (b. 1918) and Marie Satchel (1923-1979). The parents of Marie Satchel were Nobel Satchel (1904-1961) and Maggie Giddings (b. 1905). The parents of Nobel Satchel were Jackson Satchel (b. 1845) and Harriet Susan Kelley (1860-1927). The parents of Harriet Susan Kelley were George Kelley (b. 1830) and Easter Perkins (1840-1910). The parents of Easter Perkins were my 4th great-grandparents of George Perkins (b. 1815) and Esther Perkins (b. 1816).
The Trump administration terminated the Department of Labor's only job training program for low-income seniors, called Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), which helped low-income Americans aged 55 or older to find part-time employment or job training at nonprofits and government agencies. It has helped thousands of people in America. This is sick as the Trump administration is known for its cruelty, racism (using anti-DEI as code for anti-black policies), and is very much in league with the interests of super wealthy corporate interests. We know that cuts to USAID can cost 14.5 million lives, and 5 million of them are children. Many will die due to starvation. This is what Trump voters have voted for. Trump officials have been accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against them, according to The Washington Post. That is lawlessness, and Trump supporters should be ashamed of themselves. In essence, Trump and his allies are anti-American and anti-humanity as they promote policies that explicitly harm Americans and human beings worldwide.
Medicaid work requirements don't work for a variety of reasons. The Republicans lie and say that these requirements are necessary because they have implied that Medicaid recipients include a high percentage of people who are lazy and refuse to work in jobs. The truth is that 64 percent of all Medicaid requirements (who are adults) already work. Not to mention that morally, a social safety net given to suffering people ought not to have such requirements, as many human beings can't work because of health and disability issues. There is nuance on this issue that many far-right extremists refuse to decipher as they believe in the myth that everything must be placed in rigid terminology. Many workers on Medicaid don't have health benefits on their jobs, so people on Medicaid who aren't working are on disability or have a serious illness (in 10 percent), are in school (in 7 percent), or are primary caregivers (in 12 percent) meaning that is virtually impossible for them to be forced to work to have Medicaid benefits. Republicans want to try to promote a federal work requirement, but states that have implemented a work requirement have not worked comprehensively. In Arkansas, thousands of people lost jobs when Medicaid requirements existed. Ohio had Medicaid expansion that helped tons of people in Ohio. Medicaid expansion helps people to keep jobs. The GOP wants cuts to Medicaid to pay for the tax cuts for the super wealthy. We know what the corporate establishment and the super wealthy oligarchy are up to. They want society to revert back to the old school medieval days or the Gilded Age on steroids (wherefore wealth is mostly centralized to the one percent and everyone else just struggles to survive in a cruel system that doesn't have empathy or compassion for the majority of the human race).
By Timothy
Monday, July 21, 2025
Late July 2025 News.
May 25, 2020, was when George Floyd unfortunately passed away. On that date, I was in my late 30s. It was a time of growth for the new generation of the Black Freedom Movement. It saw the end of the first stage of the Black Lives Matter movement, and we entered a new era of not only the Black Lives Matter movement. It was a new era in world history and black history, marked by an explosion of outrage and righteous indignation as people stood up for the dignity of black human lives. George Floyd was 46 years old in Minneapolis, Minnesota, living his life and providing for his family. He was arrested shortly after 8pm after being allegedly accused of using a fake $20 bill at a local Cup Foods store. There was a disturbing cellphone video that was later posted on Facebook. It displayed the last moments of his life. An officer pinned George Floyd to the ground with his knee on the back of Floyd's neck. He was unarmed and handcuffed. He was never a threat to any officer or anyone else in the vicinity, but the officers would get off his neck for more than 8 minutes. George Floyd said, "I can't breathe," but the officers, including Derek Chauvin, didn't care. People in the crowd tried to tell Chauvin to stop putting his knee on George Floyd's neck constantly without avail. George Floyd later went unconscious, and he died at a hospital. The video went viral, and America, plus the world, saw the truth of what had happened.
On May 26, 2020, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said that he is representing Floyd's family and "will seek justice." The four officers involved in Floyd's death were fired. Demonstrators gather at the Third Precinct, and the site of the incident starts to be the beginning of the first night of protests in Minneapolis. By May 27, 2020, protests spread to other cities like Los Angeles, Memphis, etc., showing people expressing legitimate outrage over the death of George Floyd. In Minneapolis, peaceful protests existed. Some demonstrators have turned violent as fires and looting break out. The police attempt to disperse crowds with rubber bullets and tear gas. I agree with peaceful protests, civil disobedience, and self-defense. Yet, I don't agree with destruction of innocent property as it's socially self-defeating, it's morally wrong, and it allows the state to pass even more anti-liberty and restrictive laws against the people. By May 28, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed an executive order to activate the Minnesota National Guard. Other governors do the same thing in other states, too. May 29, 2020, was when Derek Chauvin was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's death. If convicted, maximum penalties for all of the charges are severe -- 40 years in prison for second-degree murder, 25 years for third-degree, and 10 years for the manslaughter charge. But presiding Judge Peter Cahill is required by Minnesota law to follow sentencing guidelines. Under these, the penalty for both second-degree unintentional murder and third-degree is about 10 to 15 years. For the manslaughter charge, the common sentence under the guidelines is four years. Benjamin Crump released a statement from George Floyd's family about the arrest on Twitter.
Governor Walz issued a curfew for the entire Twin Cities. Most of the protests were peaceful. Some demonstrators have used violence and looting, which I don't endorse. President Donald Trump in that day tweeted an evil, provocative tweet saying that, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." Twitter flags the tweet, saying it violates its rules about "glorifying violence." On May 31, 2020, Walz announced that state Attorney General Keith Ellison will take over prosecutions in Floyd's death from the county prosecutor. Thousands protest peacefully across the country, though some demonstrations continue to be marred by acts of vandalism and clashes with police, including near the White House. By June 1, 2020, we are at the start of the largest anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests in favor of black human lives in all of human history. It was that historic as 2020 is one of the most important years in human history (like 1968, like 2001, like 1945, like 1865, etc.).
On June 1, 2025, there autopsy of George Floyd was revealed. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s autopsy report found that the 46-year-old Floyd died of a combination of causes including “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression” and that his system showed “fentanyl intoxication; recent methamphetamine use.” The ME called the manner of death “homicide,” but goes on in the report to state that this “is not a legal determination of culpability or intent.” Floyd's legal team says an independent autopsy determined that his death was a homicide caused by asphyxia "due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain." On June 2, Floyd family Crump derides the Medical Examiner’s report attacking its inclusion of toxicology results: “The cause of death was that he was starving for air. It was lack of oxygen. And so everything else is a red herring to try to throw us off." That same day, Ellison tells SiriusXM's "The Joe Madison Show" that he is "very seriously looking" at prosecuting the other officers in the case, but that the process could take months.
On June 2, 2020, Minnesota's Department of Human Rights files a civil rights charge related to Floyd's death and launched an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department. Officials announce the investigation will examine the "policies, procedures, and practices over the past 10 years" to determine if the police department "has engaged in systemic discriminatory practices towards people of color and ensure any such practices are stopped." On June 3, 2020, the other three officers involved in the incident are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter, both felonies, court records show. Chauvin also received an additional second-degree murder charge, a felony, according to court records. On June 7, 2020, another historic event took place. This was when Minneapolis City Council members announced their intent to disband the city's police department in favor of a more community-oriented agency. "Our commitment is to end our city's toxic relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department, to end policing as we know it and to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe," City Council President Lisa Bender said at a rally.
By June 8, 2020, Congressional Democrats introduced a sweeping police misconduct reform bill, called the Justice In Policing Act, that would look to demilitarize the police and address police brutality. Measures include banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants. While the Democrat-controlled House later approved the bill, the then-Republican-controlled Senate voted it down.
The same day as the legislation is introduced, thousands of mourners turn out in Houston, Floyd's hometown, for a public viewing of Floyd ahead of his funeral. Among those in attendance are former Vice President Joe Biden and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. On June 9, 2020, thousands of people gathered for Floyd's final funeral service. Dignitaries in attendance include the Rev. Al Sharpton, U.S. Rep. Al Green, actor Jamie Foxx, and Houston Texans player J.J. Watt. Biden also speaks via video, calling for change for Black Americans. George Floyd was laid to rest in Houston, Texas. On June 10, 2020, Floyd's brother, Philonise, testified before Congress during a hearing on police brutality. In a powerful opening statement, he calls on lawmakers to make law enforcement "part of the solution, not the problem," so his brother's death isn't in vain. On June 29, 2020, the four fired Minneapolis police officers criminally charged in the death of Floyd appear before a judge for back-to-back pre-trial hearings attended by Floyd's aunt and uncle. Judge Peter Cahill also instructs both prosecutors and defense attorneys to limit pre-trial publicity about the case. Thao's attorney, Robert Paule, says in court that he is considering a motion for a change of venue due to what he describes as prejudicial pre-trial publicity.
On September 18, 2020, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously votes to rename the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, near the spot of Floyd's fatal arrest, "George Floyd Square."
The Haitian Earthquake started in many phases. It was one of the most destructive earthquakes in the Western Hemisphere in the modern age. There were previous ones in 1770, in 1946, etc. So, Haiti has experienced natural disasters for a long time. Previously, Haiti experienced Tropical Storm Fay and the Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna, and Ike, all in the summer of 2008, causing nearly 800 people to be killed. The earthquake in 2010 in Haiti had a magnitude of 7.0M inland on January 12, 2010. It happened about 16 miles WSW from Port-au-Prince. It happened on the blind thrust faults associated with the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system and lasted for less than 30 seconds.
There is no evidence of surface rupture based on seismological, geological, and ground deformation data. It is also thought that the earthquake did not involve significant lateral slip on the main Enriquillo fault. Strong shaking associated with intensity IX on the Modified Mercalli scale (MM) was recorded in Port-au-Prince and its suburbs. It was also felt in several surrounding countries and regions, including Cuba (MM III in Guantánamo), Jamaica (MM II in Kingston), Venezuela (MM II in Caracas), Puerto Rico (MM II–III in San Juan), and the bordering Dominican Republic (MM III in Santo Domingo). According to estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey, approximately 3.5 million people lived in the area that experienced shaking intensity of MM VII to X, a range that can cause moderate to very heavy damage even to earthquake-resistant structures. Shaking damage was more severe than for other quakes of similar magnitude due to the quake's shallow depth.
The quake occurred in the vicinity of the northern boundary where the Caribbean tectonic plate shifts eastwards by about 20 mm (0.79 in) per year in relation to the North American plate. The strike-slip fault system in the region has two branches in Haiti, the Septentrional-Oriente fault in the north and the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault in the south; both its location and focal mechanism suggested that the January 2010 quake was caused by a rupture of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault, which had been locked for 250 years, gathering stress. However, a study published in May 2010 suggested that the rupture process may have involved slip on multiple blind thrust faults with only minor, deep, lateral slip along or near the main Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone, suggesting that the event only partially relieved centuries of accumulated left-lateral strain on a small part of the plate-boundary system. The rupture was roughly 65 km (40 mi) long with mean slip of 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in). Preliminary analysis of the slip distribution found amplitudes of up to about 4 m (13 ft) using ground motion records from all over the world.
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded eight aftershocks in the two hours after the main earthquake, with magnitudes between 4.3 and 5.9. Within the first nine hours, 32 aftershocks of magnitude 4.2 or greater were recorded, 12 of which measured magnitude 5.0 or greater; in addition, on January 24, the US Geological Survey reported that there had been 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater since the main quake. On January 20, at 06:03 local time (11:03 UTC), the strongest aftershock since the earthquake, measuring magnitude 5.9 Mw, struck Haiti. USGS reported its epicenter was about 56 km (35 mi) WSW of Port-au-Prince, which would place it almost exactly under the coastal town of Petit-Goâve. A UN representative reported that the aftershock collapsed seven buildings in the town. According to staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which had reached Petit-Goâve for the first time the day before the aftershock, the town was estimated to have lost 15% of its buildings and was suffering the same shortages of supplies and medical care as the capital. Workers from the charity Save the Children reported hearing "already weakened structures collapsing" in Port-au-Prince, but most sources reported no further significant damage to infrastructure in the city. Further casualties are thought to have been minimal since people had been sleeping in the open. There are concerns that the main earthquake could be the beginning of a new long-term sequence. Although not precise, it is suggested that there has been a sequence of quakes progressing westwards along the fault, starting with an earthquake in the Dominican Republic in 1751.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning immediately after the initial quake but quickly cancelled it. Nearly two weeks later, it was reported that the beach of the small fishing town of Petit Paradis was hit by a localized tsunami shortly after the earthquake, probably as a result of an underwater landslide, and this was later confirmed by researchers. At least three people were swept out to sea by the wave and were reported dead. Witnesses told reporters that the sea first retreated, and a "very big wave" followed rapidly, crashing ashore and sweeping boats and debris into the ocean. The tsunami reached heights up to 3 m (9.8 ft).
The album of Cowboy Carter from Beyoncé was her eighth studio album. It was released on March 29, 2024, via Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records. It changed country music forever, filled with excitement, debate, and a new sense of realizing the black contributions to country music in general. Now, you have people across the world wearing cowboy hats and cowboy boots to not only celebrate Beyoncé. They want to affirm that country music culture doesn't just belong with white rural people. It also belongs to all people globally, irrespective of color, background, sex, gender, creed, or zipcode. Cowboy Carter was her 2nd album of her planned trilogy of albums after Renaissance was released in 2022. Beyonce dealt with a reinvention of Americana, showing the black pioneers of musical history and to show country music, country pop, outlaw country, western pop, Jersey, and other genres of music. Many people contributed to the album like Shaboozey, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts, and Willie Jones (including Dolly Parton, Linda Martell, and Willie Nelson acting as disc jockeys). The album has R&B, zydeco, rock and roll, hip hop, bluegrass, etc.
The music is driven by a range of acoustic instruments played by musicians including Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Nile Rodgers, Gary Clark Jr., Adam Granduciel, Robert Randolph, Jon Batiste, and Rhiannon Giddens. The album has been met with universal acclaim and appeared on multiple year-end lists. It is an experimental album showing conversations about culture and music that has been powerful. Similar to Garth Brooks back in the day, Beyonce's country music album increased the popularity of Western wear and culture. At the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, Cowboy Carter made Beyoncé the first Black artist to win Best Country Album and the first Black woman since Lauryn Hill in 1999 to win Album of the Year; its single "II Most Wanted" won Best Country Duo/Group Performance. Cowboy Carter debuted at number one in many countries and broke multiple chart and streaming records. In America, Cowboy Carter became Beyoncé's eighth consecutive number one album on the Billboard 200 and the first album by a Black woman to top the Top Country Albums chart. The album was supported by three singles, "Texas Hold 'Em", "16 Carriages", and "II Most Wanted", with the first becoming Beyoncé's ninth U.S. number one single and the first country song by a Black woman to top the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts. The Cowboy Carter Tour began on April 28, 2025.
Cowboy Carter landed Beyoncé her biggest streaming week ever and broke streaming records on several platforms. On Spotify, the album became one of the most-streamed albums in a single day in 2024, the biggest debut of the year for a country album, and the biggest debut ever for any album by a Black woman, with over 76 million streams globally in its first day. Cowboy Carter also marks the most first-day streams for a country album by a female artist in the history of Amazon Music.
Cowboy Carter also broke several chart records. In the United States, Cowboy Carter debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with 407,000 album-equivalent units. In doing so, Beyoncé became the first woman and second artist overall to debut her first eight albums at number one. Cowboy Carter debuted at number one on the Americana/Folk Albums, and Top Country Albums charts, making Beyoncé the first Black woman to have a number-one country album. The album remained atop the Billboard 200 for two weeks, her first multi-week number one since 2013's Beyoncé. All 23 eligible songs on Cowboy Carter debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, giving African-American country artists Martell, Adell, Kennedy, Roberts, Spencer, Jones and Shaboozey their first chart entries and bringing Beyoncé's career total Hot 100 entries to 106, the third highest for a female artist. Beyoncé also topped eighteen Billboard charts the week of Cowboy Carter's release, including the Artist 100, Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers; she also became the first artist to simultaneously hold the number one positions on both the Top Country Albums and the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums charts, with Renaissance atop the latter. Cowboy Carter has spent over 50 weeks on the Billboard 200, making Beyoncé the sole record holder for the most studio albums by a Black woman to chart 50 or more weeks, surpassing Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey with a total of eight.
One of the greatest museums of the 21st century is the International African American Museum. It is located in the South in Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston has a long history involving us black Americans and other human beings of the black African Diaspora. Charleston is where about 40 percent of the nation's enslaved people disembarked. It opened on June 27, 2023, after 20 years of planning. It is located on 14 Wharfside Street in the city, and its President is Dr. Tonya M. Matthews. The museum was conceived by former Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. The city previously sold the land to a restaurateur. After construction on the site, people found traces of Gadsden's Wharf. Riley then decided to repurchase the land. The construction budget of the museum was $75 million. Riley raised money for the project as a private citizen.
The $25 million private donation goal was met in 2018. The South Carolina General Assembly delayed a $25 million contribution to the project. That delayed the construction of the 40,000 square foot facility. The city of North Charleston donated 1 million dollars to the project. Keith Sumney, the mayor of North Charleston, said that he wanted the museum to have an exhibit on Liberty Hill, a historically black neighborhood in North Charleston. The design architect is Harry Cobb, of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, working in collaboration with Moody Nolan architectural firm of Columbus, Ohio; the exhibition designer is Ralph Appelbaum Associates, and the landscape designer is Walter Hood, of Oakland, California. The museum was built on the Cooper River, with a view towards Fort Sumter and out to the Atlantic Ocean. Its first CEO was Michael B. Moore. The museum opened in 2023 with presentations made at the dedication ceremony by former Charleston mayors Joseph P. Riley Jr and John Tecklenburg, Phylicia Rashad, Congressman Jim Clyburn, State Senator Darrell Jackson, State Representative JA Moore, gospel singer Bebe Winans, poet Nikky Finney, anthropologist Johnnetta Cole, former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, IAAM President Dr. Tonya Matthews and others
My late paternal 3rd cousin Lola Satchell has a long history. She lived from May 29, 1923, to January 13, 1999. She was born in Northampton, Virginia, which is found in the Eastern Shore of Virginia. She married Ollie D. Kates (b. 1918-1989) on January 12, 1940, at Birdsnet, Virginia. Their children are Gloria E. Kates (b. 1941), Ester Lee Kates Crumbley (1941-2006. She married James L. Crumbley, who lived from 1943 to 2007), Levin Nathaniel Kates (b. 1954), and Ollie M. Kates Jr. (b. 1944). My fourth cousin Gloria Elizabeth Kates lived from June 10, 1940, to August 10, 2011 (in Nassawdox, Virginia being in the Virginian Eastern Shore). Gloria Elizabeth Kates married James Leroy Johnson (b. 1937), and they had many children who are: Christa Ann Johnson (b. 1963), Alicia Mae Johnson Richardson (b. 1976), James Johnson Jr., and Tony Johnson. Christa Ann Johnson married Ronald Donovan Church (b. 1959) on November 30, 1987, at Northampton County, Virginia. They divorced in 1995. Alicia Mae Johnson Richardson married Zachary Troy Richardson on June 11, 2005, at Northampton County, Virginia.
By Timothy
Saturday, July 19, 2025
Friday, July 18, 2025
Trump and Epstein.
Donald Trump is desperate at this point. He recently used profanity and blamed Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Democrats for the Epstein files. Trump said that anyone desiring Epstein files to be released doesn't want their support anymore. The hypocrite Trump lied to his supporters about transparency, but he doesn't want the Epstein files to be released because he was once an associate of Epstein. There is video footage of Trump hanging out with Epstein. Also, Trump has been found legally liable for abusing a woman. He is one tape glorifying sexual assault during 2016 in an Access Hollywood segment. He has made perverted comments about his own daughter (Trump said that if her daughter wasn't her daughter, he would date her. Trump said more perverted comments about his own daughter Ivanka that I can't mention here) that makes him a degenerate. The Jeffrey Epstein situation has divided the MAGA movement even more. Trump said the lie that Biden left office with a terrible economy being a disaster. Yet, Biden 6 months ago had a GDP that was growing 2.8 percent, Dow Jones was above 45,000 points, S&P was more than 6,000 points, and the gas prices were $3.03. Today, we have higher inflation, and GDP has decreased by .03 percent. We know about the money for Epstein's sex trafficking operation under review by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) possibly going through some of Trump's bank. We know of Trump's name on a birthday card related to Epstein too. Now, Trump has changed his mind and desires a release for Epstein documents because of pressure from his MAGA base.
We have a new era. We have a time when the U.S. dollar is on track for its worth years in modern history. We are in risk of about 14 million people being killed globally from USAID cuts alone. One big irony that is Trump wants to whitewash the Epstein issue, because he has been convicted of abusing a woman, he once allied with Epstein, Trump has boasted about ogling at teenage girls in teen beauty pageants, and this cover up has angered even some of his MAGA supporters. We have Trump wanting to cut funding from PBS and NPR. Trump to reverse the Biden-era ban on asbestos (Trump's support of radical deregulations will harm key safety regulations that protect human lives. MAGA is supported by MAGA Nationalists who desire theocracy not democracy or true religious freedom). Trump's eliminating legitimate regulations are done to promote corporate profit, and some in the corporate media babying Trump represents how some in the corporate media is complicit in this neoliberal agenda. While Putin promotes more war crimes in Ukraine, Russia is increasing the production of U.S. reaching Oreshink hypersonic missiles, and Russia has moved 2 Tu-160 nuclear capable bombers 410 miles from the U.S. Alaska border.
Putin recently attacked a U.S. Boeing office in Kyiv to deliberately attacked an American business. We know that Russia's brainwashing campaign has convinced many far-right people to think that all progressives are the enemy. Russia and China are allies. Putting this situation together, we have to see that Russia and China are allying together to weaken America, so they can have the majority control of the resources on Earth by beyond 2030. People like Pete Hegseth are oblivious to this. Hegseth said the lie that diversity is our strength is false. The reality is that diversity won the Civil War for the Union and both world wars (to defeat the monarchical fascists of Nazi Germany, the Empire of Japan, etc.). The strong core of diverse multiracial diversity in America has improved America and made it filled with inventors, scholars, athletes, musicians, and freedom fighters. America is not perfect, but many real people live in America fighting for justice, too.
We have Trump supporters angry over the Epstein issues. Many MAGA supporters are burning their hats in protest of Trump. They should realize that Trump had gutted the Violence Against Women's Act. Trump doesn't care about really creating justice for all people. I do believe that all Epstein files should be released. Many Democrats have called on the Epstein files to be released as well. Meanwhile, we have Trump being the most anti-environmental President in American history. We know that Trump had delayed rules requiring corporations to report their forever chemical usage. The Trump administration made the EPA to end $15 million in research into forever chemicals in farmlands. The Trump regime allowed ICE to not wear their badges and refuse to identify themselves while arresting people without due process of law, even U.S. citizens. That is total fascism. Some workers at the CFPB are saying that the Trump administration has forbid them from doing their jobs. Now, Republican lawmakers are introducing legislation in Congress that would ban striking workers from receiving unemployment benefits. That agenda is completely retrograde and horrendous.
Trump wants to cut public media like PBS and NPR, which represent cutting off news sources from millions of Americans, especially Americans who live in rural areas. Vice President J. D. Vance cast two tie-breaking votes for gutting USAID, NPR, and PBS. Vance is a person doing his best to fulfill the interests of his master, Donald Trump. For decades, many of us diligently watched PBS programs like Sesame Street, Contact, Arthur, American Masters, and Eyes on the Prize, as well as other documentaries, which helped develop our curiosity about the diverse nature of life. Trump wants his agenda to brainwash people to accept his political views. We also see MAGA followers, are increasingly criticizing Trump over the Epstein issue. The truth is that Trump told people about his agenda, and his track record proves that he is a narcissistic liar. The 2026 midterm elections are coming up. 2026 is political eternity, but Democrats do have a chance to take back the House in 2026 if they work hard to promote real issues to the public. We are human beings who have the right to disagree with Trumpism in all of its manifestations. Republicans in Congress refused to allow the Democrats in the House to release the Epstein files. New Gallup polls show that not only does a record high 79 percent of Americans think immigration is good for the country, but only 30 percent of Americans want immigration decreased (which declined from 59 percent last year).
By Timothy
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Exposing Xenophobes and Discernment.
Many far-right people oppose James Gunn's new Superman film that he has written and directed, because Gunn wants human compassion given to immigration. This is what I don't get about the far right. They claim to believe in God, and many of them claim to be Christian. Yet, many of them don't believe in compassion sent to certain immigrants (while hypocritically given refugee status to white South African immigrants who never been to America previously for generations), they reject any legitimate environmental regulation (that can help save lives), they oppose anti-racism efforts to teach people about the real, non-whitewashed history of America (as the American government is complicit in the enslavement of black people of African descent and the genocide of Native Americans), and many of them believe that Trump can do anything that he wants without accountability. Far right conservatives can't claim to support morality and endorse ICE arresting people without due process of law. They can't support God and say slurs about people because his or her background is different from your own. Many of these MAGA people mock God by their actions. You can't be real if you try to justify Palestinian oppression and justify Putin's war crimes in Ukraine either. It is not anti-Semitic to view a Palestinian life as equally important as an Israeli life. Basic human dignity doesn't mean that we are super politically correct people. It means that we're essentially human and desire justice for all people.
It is time to expose the 2 liars of Tariq Nasheed and Yvette Carnell once again. Tariq Nasheed, the sellout, said that Trump has nothing to harm black Americans. Tariq is wrong for many reasons. Trump has called on black museums in America to censor their artwork. Trump has supported the policies of massive cuts to the Department of Education, ending consent decrees to hold corrupt police accountable, cuts to Medicaid, use anti-DEI measures (to erase black history and harm black owned businesses ironically. Trump has eliminated some black history stories on federal websites), and the Trump regime has fired tons of innocent black workers in federal agencies (via DOGE and other policies). That harms black Americans explicitly. While this upper middle class person Tariq Nasheed (who was known as King Flex back in the day making music glorifying violence and degrading women that he hasn't apologized for. Tariq wrote numerous sexist, red pill books for years) lives in his ivory tower, black people nationwide and worldwide are struggling for survival. Tariq heads the cultic, xenophobic FBA movement that seeks to whitewash Western imperialism, cause division in the African Diaspora, and seeks to cover up for the corruption found in the Trump administration. The FBA movement believes in contradictions. They say that we helped to build America (which we did), but the American government blatantly oppressed black people on the backs of our oppression. We black Americans are never obligated to worship America. We can fight to improve America and promote justice in America, but we don't view America as divine. The FBA movement claims to just want reparations for black Americans (which I endorse), but many of their followers go out of their ways to dehumanize, scapegoat, and express hatred of black people who aren't Americans (which has nothing to do with fighting for reparations but cruelty, bullying human beings, xenophobia, and blatant bigotry). That is wrong and against the principle of the Golden Rule. That is a contradiction as you can't be pro-black if you refuse to support liberation of black people worldwide, irrespective of nationality or ethnicity.
Yvette Carnell has many differences from Tariq Nasheed, but both have xenophobic views and hate the beauty of Pan-Africanism. In fact, Yvette Carnell has grown more xenophobic than years ago which is a sad development. Yvette Carnell believes in the lie that Pan-Africanism believes that we just support every African leader unconditionally and seek a naive view of geopolitics. The truth is that we pro-Pan-African people want cultural respect (in acknowledging our cultural diversity as black people but unity in our black African heritage), social and economic cooperation from across the African Diaspora, and seek to end corruption in the Americas and in Africa without malice or hatred of black people globally. Carnell's attack on Pan-Africanism has increased even claiming that most people from the Caribbean seek to degrade black Americans (which is a lie). Carnell is the co-founder of the ADOS movement that seeks to lie about Pan-Africanism when us black Americans have our own culture and fought for reparations long before that movement existed. Carnell believes in the old white racist lie that Africans collectively are complicit in the Maafa. Carnell is slicker than Tariq. Carnell now uses the controversy in Essence as an excuse to condemn Africans and Afro-Caribbeans when a handful of people don't represent every African or every Afro-Caribbean. Carnell is a hypocrite by claiming to not want people to stereotype African Americans, but her whole Twitter account is filled with her stereotyping people in the African Diaspora without nuisance.
Yvette Carnell's greatest lie is that she said that Pan Africanism is already gone outside of academic circles. For the record, we black Americans have a beautiful culture, and we acknowledge that without downgrading other people. There are festivals, business collaborations, discussions, protests, and other institutions promoting Pan-Africanism worldwide. Organizations readily exist now to promote Pan-African unity all of the time. It's her jealousy of black unity globally and her self-hatred that motivates her hatred of the fight for black liberation. Trump is President now, and she and Antonio Moore aren't so apt to condemn the fascism of Trump as compared to actual black freedom fighters. That is a true sign of their motivation. Either all black people must be free globally or not. She doesn't want black people to have a concern with each other globally. Tariq and Yvette (who wrote that we have zero ties to any of the countries of Africa which is a lie. For example, the banjo came from Africa, many of our cuisine came from Africa, we have DNA tests to connect us now to our African roots, and many of us united with Africans to fight Jim Crow apartheid in America, apartheid in South Africa, police brutality, racism, and slavery for decades and centuries) are traitors. Carnell wants to invoke Dr. King in 1964 and Malcolm X, but she is wrong for many reasons. Dr. King called himself an American, but he didn't hate Africans. Dr. King visited Africa to celebrate Ghana's independence in the 1950s, he wanted peace in Nigeria in the 1960s, and he opposed imperialism and colonialism internationally expressing solidarity with oppressed people globally, beyond national boundaries (in Africa, Asia, etc.). Malcolm X came to Africa to promote Pan-Africanism and revolutionary anti-imperialism. He wanted international solidarity among all in the black African Diaspora and praised Africa constantly (via his speeches constantly), especially in 1965. Malcolm X made the OAAU or the Organization of Afro-American unity to promote global black Pan-African unity. So, Yvette Carnell is using half-truths, lies, and historical revisionism. I believe in reparations for black Americans, but I reject xenophobia. I notice that these traitors (like Nasheed, Carnell, Charleston White, etc.) love to degrade Africa and refuse to show stories of the heroes of Africa making a difference, and they refuse to expose the evils committed by racists in a serious fashion. ADOS and FBA are far-right movements that uses xenophobic and white nationalistic rhetoric in order to try to stop our real agenda of global black liberation. Freedom is beyond making us equal citizens in America. It is about human rights to be made global for all people filled with liberty and justice for all. I am glad that Bree Newsome is calling out the ADOS cultic movement out.
The concentration camp in Florida, according to Maxwell Frost, had people screaming for help, had tons of bad conditions, and didn't give grown people adequate food. I believe Frost and other Democrats, because multiple people have said the same thing. Now, ICE declared undocumented immigrants in the millions as not eligible for bond hearings. That means that undocumented immigrants (even those with legal children and been to America for decades without doing felonious crimes) can potentially stay in camps for months or years before they are deported from America. ICE has gone too far as a fascist organization. They have arrested even legal American citizens, too. Cruelty is the point of the Trump administration. We know that this is evil. We see that Trump and his allies is doing this to dehumanize certain immigrant, advance paranoia about demographic changes in American society, and desired an authoritarian society that makes vengeance not justice the order of the day. Homan is part of this agenda. Trump and his allies don't care about polls opposing this nonsense or the due process of law. They only care about ruthless power. There is a record number of Americans, with 79 percent believing that immigration is a good thing. Every American had an origin, either by a slave ship or by immigration. So, we are descendants of slaves, and our culture matters. Also, the lives of immigrants matter too. We have internment camps, people being sent to South Sudan, and a tyrant wanting to deprive some American citizens of citizenship. So, as black people, we believe in compassion, due process, and refusing to believe that the executive branch should act supreme without restraint.
By Timothy
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