As we celebrate Women’s History Month we will focus on women of African descent who may not be well known but who nevertheless positively impacted their communities, the nation, and the larger society. Today we are going to share the life story of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin an activist, journalist, and newspaper publisher in the Nineteenth century USA.
Josephine St. Pierre was born in Boston Massachusetts on August 31, 1842, into one of that city’s prominent families. Her mother was an English-born white woman and her father was a Black man born on the Caribbean island of Martinique who migrated to the US and was the founder of the Boston Zion Church. Her parents sent her to Salem to attend schools that allowed African American students.
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“No one has done more to integrate claims for reparations for African Americans into Black activism than “Queen Mother” Audley Moore. An activist for 70 years, she dedicated the majority of her career to fighting for reparations.” Black Perspectives
https://www.aaihs.org/audley-moore-and-the-modernreparations-movement/#
When we think about reparations for African Americans for the generations of enslavement, socio-economic and political apartheid, and oppression many people don't know that for decades the prime supporter of the idea of reparations was Audley 'Queen Mother' Moore. Queen Mother Moore was an activist who carried the torch for reparations and human rights and was the most prominent force in the movement until the time of her transition on May 2, 1997.
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During March we are honoring and celebrating women of African ascent. When I think of selfless, community-focused Black women Mama Akosua Ali Sabree comes to mind. She was a dynamic Sistah full of wisdom and energy who loved her family and her community. She was born and raised in Boston Massachusetts and was a lifelong learner and truth seeker. Philadelphia was her adopted home and we were blessed to have her in our midst for so many years.
Mama Akosua Ali Sabree became a venerated ancestor on April 8, 2020. Many remember her as one of the co-founders of the International Locks Hair Care Culture and Fashion Conference a holistic two-day event focusing on African natural beauty, hair care, health and wellness, economics, and fashion. She along with Sharon L. Goodman, Yvette Smalls, and Zakiyyah Ali, birthed the Locks Conference, a one-of-a-kind event that celebrated Black natural beauty, health and wellness, family, community, and social and economic empowerment continuously for twenty-five years.
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As we celebrate Black Women’s History we are sharing the life stories of Black women we rarely hear about who have made monumental contributions to society, their people, and the world. Today we are sharing the story of Gladys Brown West a mathematician and engineer who helped develop the technology behind a tool we consider indispensable today, the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS).
Gladys Brown was born in 1930 in rural Sutherland Virginia, her exact natal day is not known. At an early age, Gladys Brown determined she was not going to earn her living as a farmer tilling the fields on the family farm or working in a tobacco factory like her parents. She heard that the valedictorian of her high school could get a full scholarship so she studied hard and graduated at the top of her high school class. She attended racially segregated schools which was the law in Virginia at that time. She received a scholarship to attend Virginia State College (now University) an HBCU majoring in mathematics.
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During the month of March, we have been sharing the stories of Women of African descent that have made significant contributions to the African Diasporan community and the world.
Today however I want to focus on a controversial Sistah who was an active participant in an egregious “medical experiment” that went on for over forty years; one that qualifies as a crime against humanity. Many are familiar with the Tuskegee Experiment where African-American men suffering from syphilis were deliberately untreated so white doctors could observe the disease’s progression over forty years from the time of first contact with the men until their deaths. Keep in mind the government did not infect the men with syphilis they deliberately withheld available treatment (penicillin), deceived them about the nature of the “study” and callously allowed them to suffer all the effects of the disease until they died.
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We’re continuing our series of African American Female history makers. The larger society is not aware of many of these women, nonetheless they have made significant contributions on behalf of our people and the greater society. Today we are going to share the story of Septima Poinsette Clark (May 3, 1898-December 15, 1987) an educator, human rights activist, political organizer, and strategist.
Septima Clark was born in Charleston South Carolina on May 3,1898 the second of eight children. Her parents encouraged her to get an education. She attended the public schools in her area then worked to save enough money to enroll in Avery Normal School, a private school for African-Americans. In the early 1900s Blacks were not allowed to teach in South Carolina public schools so following graduation from Avery, Clark went to teach at a Black school at John’s Island not far from Charleston.
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“The first black independent filmmakers began making films for (de jure) segregated theatres in the south and (de facto) segregated theatres in the north. There were over 1,000 theatres in America that screened black-audience films either exclusively or on a preferential basis. According to archivist G. William Jones (who in the 1980s supervised a major restoration project of early black film), 1921 was a peak year for distribution within this integrated production/distribution/exhibition system. This system lasted until the mid-1950s.” A Short History of Black US Indie Cinema, Ashley Clark
https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/ short-history-black- us-indie-cinema
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As we celebrate Women’s History Month let us focus on the innumerable Black Sistahs who brilliantly blazed trails, pioneered and served their people in every conceivable way and in some that were truly original. To start I’d like to focus on Fannie Jackson Coppin who became an educator, principal, missionary and institution builder. Fannie Jackson Coppin has a Philadelphia connection having served a principal of the Institute for Colored Youth the forerunner of what is now Cheyney University.
Fannie Jackson was born into bondage on October 15, 1837 ironically the same year the Trustees of Richard Humphreys’ estate opened the school he provided for in his will; originally named the African Institute but later changed to the Institute for Colored Youth (ICY).
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“Wherever Africans were enslaved in the world, there were runaways who escaped permanently and lived in free independent settlements. These people and their descendants are known as “maroons.” The term probably comes from the Spanish cimarrón , meaning feral livestock, fugitive slave or something wild and defiant. Marronage, the process of extricating oneself from slavery, took place all over Latin America and the Caribbean, in the slave islands of the Indian Ocean, in Angola and other parts of Africa. But until recently, the idea that maroons also existed in North America has been rejected by most historians.” Deep In The Swamps, Archeologists Are finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom by Richard Grant
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“The Underground Railroad ran south as well as north. For enslaved people in Texas, refuge in Canada must have seemed impossibly far away. Fortunately, slavery was also illegal in Mexico. Researchers estimate 5,000 to 10,000 people escaped from bondage into Mexico, says Maria Hammack, who is writing her dissertation about this topic at the University of Texas at Austin. But she thinks the actual number could be even higher.” The Little Know Underground Railroad That Ran South to Mexico-Becky Little https://www.history.com/news/underground-railroad-mexico-escaped-slaves
When we think about our enslaved ancestors escaping bondage, we have been conditioned to think the only direction they went was north. This makes little sense when you consider how far- flung slavery was throughout the US. Our ancestors sought freedom and escaped from brutal bondage and oppression in the British colonies which later became the United States. But there were other lands adjacent to the US, for example Canada to the north, Florida and Mexico to the South and neighboring territories to the west. We spoke recently about the Black settlements in the mid-western territories now I want to share information about the freedom routes to the South.
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Celebrating African and Black history during the shortest month of the year is counterproductive even though we need the exposure. We should celebrate African history all year long, daily because it is human history. We honor ourselves our ancestors and THE CREATOR by celebrating our history as Africans.
Let’s look at the things we take for granted that were begun, invented and developed by our aboriginal African ancestors. Africans developed the concept of family as a biological unit and social unit. It formed the basis of social organization and culture. Africans recognized the importance of blood connections and used those blood connections what we call families as the core foundation of their group, tribe, clan and society. Out of these groups Africans developed notions about organization, governance, security, and well being.
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“The study of history cannot be a mere celebration of those who struggled on our behalf. We must be instructed by history and should transform history into concrete reality, into planning and development, into construction of power and the ability to ensure our survival as a people. If not Black History Month becomes and exercise in the inflation of egos, it becomes an exercise that further cuts us off from reality. Ironically we now see even other people who are not our friends joining us in this celebration, which means that they must see in it some means of protecting their own interests, and see in it something that works for them, possibly against us. If they can celebrate our history and see it as something positive, then it means that we are not using it in a revolutionary sense. They do not see our study of it as a threat to their power. If we are not studying it in a way that is a threat to their power then we are studying it incorrectly and our celebration of it is helping to maintain us in a state of deception.”
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Little is known of the all-black settlements and towns in the US or how they developed. When we think of leaving the confines of American racial oppression, we usually think about the enslaved ancestors who escaped and went north and into Canada. But there were numerous settlements founded in North America by Blacks in the early 1800s.
“In a new book, The Bone and Sinew of the Land, historian Anna-Lisa Cox documents the homesteading activities of thousands of ‘forgotten black pioneers’ in the Northwest Territory - the area stretching from what’s now Ohio to Illinois and north into Wisconsin and Michigan. As part of her research, Cox attempted to locate as many settlements as she could that consisted of at least one African American–owned farm in the years between 1800 and 1860, using census records, deeds, and other documents. The map she assembled shows 338 in all, with the greatest number, as well as the largest and wealthiest, concentrated in Ohio and Indiana...
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“The impetus behind the national black convention movement was growing concern over the status of blacks in the United States, with Hezekiah Grice initiating the movement. Grice was a young black abolitionist who had actively participated in antislavery activities with white abolitionists Benjamin Lundy and William Lloyd Garrison, in Baltimore, Maryland during the 1820s, and whose sentiments came to a head after the Cincinnati Riot in 1829, which resulted in anti-black violence.” National Black Conventions and the Quest for African-American Freedom and Progress 1847-1867 Shawn C. Comminey International Social Science Review
https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/cgi/viewcontent. cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/& httpsredir=1 & article=1107& context=issr
When we think of our sojourn here during the British colonial period and following the creation of the United States, all too often we only think of enslavement. We tend to forget or never knew there was a significant population of free Blacks both in the north and the south.
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“Spiritual healing requires full knowledge of Self and the spirit. In the same way we start out in life having to learn how to use the physical body, and then the mind, we must also learn how to use the spirit. Yes, you read right. You must learn how to use your spirit, and lastly how to ‘be yourself.’ These are the master problems. People do not know how to be themselves and how to use their spirits.”
Ra Un Nefer Amen Metu Neter Vol 5 Keys to Health and Longevity page 11
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If you are reading this it means you are alive and being alive is a powerful reality/experience. We are all animated and empowered by an indwelling spirit/energy/intelligence, which also contains a myriad of consciousnesses. Simply put, this is the God Force or LIVING SPIRIT within us.
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“Rockefeller and another elite leader Carnegie used their tax-exempt Foundations, from 1913 on, to offer huge grants to the best medical schools all over America – on the proviso that only an allopathic-based curriculum be taught, and that some of their agents be allowed to sit on the Board of Directors. They called this ‘efficient’ philanthropy, which, when seen through the Orwellian translation unit, means they wanted a return on their investment. They systematically dismantled the curricula of these schools by removing any mention of the natural healing power of herbs and plants, or of the importance of diet to health. The result is a system which to this day churns out doctors who are, almost always, utterly clueless about nutrition and disregard the idea that what you eat can actually heal or hurt you.” Western Medicine is Rockefeller Medicine All The Way Makia Freeman https://thefreedomarticles.com/westernmedicine- rockefeller-medicine/
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“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”- Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr was murdered by government forces attempting to neutralize his influence, shut down his peace movement, and destroy the objective of his Poor People's Campaign: to funnel and redistribute funds from the war in Southeast Asia to social programs.
King was a passionate proponent of love, nonviolence, and virtuous civil disobedience. He became a thorn in the side of the warmongers, corporate profiteers, and immoral politicians who were wedded to the status quo.
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“But one other troubling possibility must be dispensed with. It follows from the fact that the epicentre city, Wuhan (pop. 11 million), happens to be the global epicentre of bat coronavirus research (e.g. Hu et al., 2017). Prompted by this proximity, various researchers and news media, prominently the Washington Post, and with much more data Newsweek, have drawn up a prima facie case that a laboratory origin is a strong possibility (Zhan et al., 2020; Piplani et al., 2020). That is, one of the two labs in Wuhan that has worked on coronaviruses accidentally let a natural virus escape; or, the lab was genetically engineering (or otherwise manipulating) a Sars-CoV-2-like virus which then escaped.” The Case Is Building That COVID-19 Had A Lab Origin, By Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/thecase-is-building-that-covid-19-had-a-lab-origin/
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“The prayers are chiefly requests for material welfare, such as health, protection from danger, prosperity and even riches. Some prayers express gratitude to God; and in some cases, the people dedicate their belongings or activities to him.” African Religions and Philosophy John S Mbiti page 64
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We come from a deeply spiritual and philosophical people. Africans were the first to recognize the universe had to have a CREATOR and this CREATOR formed the universe by design with purpose and meaning. When I say we are spiritual and philosophical people I am not referring to Western religion or philosophy but to what the late great scholar Mzee Jedi Shemsu Jehewty (Jacob Carruthers) called African Deep Thought.
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“I believe that the hell and heaven that are depicted in the Bible are descriptive of a condition of the human spirit. Hell is to be cut off from God and his presence. Heaven is to be with God... I believe in sowing and reaping and reward and punishment in life. The extent to which the moral law operates beyond death is not ours to know.”
Dr. Howard Thurman, African American theologian and minister.
I extend season’s greetings to each of you and wish happy holidays to you and yours. As we end this tumultuous year, let us not only reflect on what we lost, as significant as that may have been, but also on what we learned, what we gained, and how it has made us stronger, more resilient, and hopeful. As we end this year looking forward to a new one, let us count our blessings and examine ourselves to find the good in us and contemplate how we may expand and extend that good to others especially those who are grieving, mourning, suffering, and who may be depressed and losing hope.
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'Let's put this (claims of effectiveness) in perspective. First, a relative risk reduction is being reported, not absolute risk reduction, which appears to be less than 1%. Second, these results refer to the trials' primary endpoint of covid- 19 of essentially any severity, and importantly not the vaccine's ability to save lives, nor the ability to prevent infection, nor the efficacy in important subgroups (e.g. frail elderly). Those still remain unknown. Third, these results reflect a time point relatively soon after vaccination, and we know nothing about vaccine performance at 3, 6, or 12 months, so cannot compare these efficacy numbers against other vaccines like influenza vaccines (which are judged over a season). Fourth, children, adolescents, and immunocompromised individuals were largely excluded from the trials, so we still lack any data on these important populations.' Peter Doshi: Pfizer and Moderna's 95% Effective Vaccines- Let's Be Cautious and First See the Full Data
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer- mode rna-need-more-data-claims-effectivevaccines/?utm_source=salsa& eType=EmailBlastContent& eId=6523e64d-c46d
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“If you see a good fight, get in it.” Rev. Vernon Johns The late Reverend Vernon Johns was a Baptist preacher who preceded Martin Luther King Jr. as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. Johns was known for his outspoken advocacy for Black empowerment selfreliance and activism. While he did not have the platform or following that King would later have, Johns in his own way set the stage for a Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery Alabama.
We can take a lesson from Rev. Johns. He said, “If you see a good fight get in it.” First you have to witness, see or be aware a good fight is going on. What is a good fight? In my opinion a really good fight is the struggle to establish truth during a time of universal deceit, justice in an era of wrong, respect when people are being denigrated and disparaged or the struggle to empower the marginalized and helpless. Next he said get in it; meaning get involved, become engaged and active, make your life count for something meaningful.
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Before you take the COVID-19 vaccine please do some research on them, discover what's in them and what it does to biological life forms! Remember these vaccines have been fasttracked and have skipped the normal testing, trial, and peer review process to get them to market ASAP. The goal is to capitalize on the hysteria generated by the mass media and clueless 'public health officials.' They want us to forget it usually takes twelve years to go from the laboratory to the pharmacy shelf. https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?art
Also please keep in mind Moderna, one of the companies marketing the new COVID vaccine has never, I repeat never, developed or marketed a product in its ten-year existence, nevertheless the US government gave it $500 million to create a COVID -19 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine! Do you smell something fishy here?
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“Despite overall confidence in vaccines, a majority of healthcare workers expressed concerns over a novel coronavirus vaccine. A large proportion plan to delay vaccine uptake due to concerns about expedited development, emerging scientific discoveries, and the political climate. Forthcoming vaccination campaigns must address these unique points of coronavirus vaccine hesitancy in order to achieve adequate vaccine coverage.” -Assessment of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among healthcare workers in Los Angeles
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.18.20 234468v1
A recent survey conducted with Los Angeles California healthcare workers found that employees at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System who took a longitudinal survey (1,093) on whether they would participate in a COVID 19 vaccine trial 47.3% said no and 66.5% said they would delay getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.18.2023
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To Read more visit ScoopUSA Media, November 17, 2020 page ide the election, was basically a tie, Gore rescinded his concession during a phone call. Bush, according to The New York Times, asked, ‘You mean to tell me, Mr. Vice President, you're retracting your concession?’ That was followed by Gore’s response: ‘You don't have to be snippy about it,’ and, ‘Let me explain something. Your younger brother is not the ultimate authority on this.’ Gore was referring to the fact that Florida’s governor at the time was Jeb Bush, Bush’s younger brother. Further fueling the fire: Katherine Harris, Florida’s secretary of state, charged with overseeing an impartial election, was a Republican who served as cochair of Florida’s Bush for President election committee.”
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2020 has truly been an unusual year. It has been a year highlighted by the COVID-19 virus spurring unprecedented and unscientific attempts to mitigate the contagion and governmental overreach both of which have decimated the economy and elevated peoples' stress levels. The media-induced hysteria over COVID has engendered soaring stress levels and mental breakdowns exacerbated by a contentious political system that featured extreme partisan squabbling, legislative gridlock and a divisive election process as massive demonstrations against the government lock-downs and police brutality sparked civil unrest and riots.
Looking at 2020 there are certainly things that make you shake your head and wonder what is really going on. Some of this makes no sense whatsoever. For example, elected officials shut down the global economy, forced us into medial house arrest, quarantining healthy people, creating social isolation, socio-economic disruption and despair; then told us the only way things would ever return to normal was if and when a vaccine was created. These hacks and quacks never ever entertained the use of natural remedies like herbs like Echinacea, Ginger, Garlic, Elderberry, vitamins and minerals like Vitamins D, C, Zinc, or even fresh air and moderate outdoor exercise.
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Ever since our ancient African ancestors discovered they had the power of cogitation they pondered the great questions of existence: why am I here, what is the meaning of life, what happens when we die, what is the best way to structure and order families and societies and why is there evil in the world, for example. Many of these questions were merely idle thoughts, others were written down in an attempt to answer them and they left their answers for posterity.
Africans were the first deep thinkers, philosophers (lovers of wisdom), mystics scientists, and theologians. Because they were the first to walk upright and cogitated the meanings of existence, they left us symbols signs, artifacts and writings on life and how best to live it. Africans formulated the universal concept of Ubuntu, I am because we are, we are because I am. I say universal because it applies not just to human beings and social interaction but to nature, the universe and The CREATIVE SPIRIT, the SOURCE of all.
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We are approaching an extremely important election on November 3, 2020. In many locales, you will have the opportunity to vote for Presidential candidates, US Senators, state senators, governors, attorney generals, judges, sheriffs, state and local legislators, school board members (and often school budgets) county officials, and commissioners. This is an awesome responsibility. We should take full advantage of it.
Yes, there are valid arguments about the wretchedness of the state of US politics and the mediocrity of many of the candidates, but there are essential reasons we still should vote. By registering to vote and voting you are on the rolls and are eligible to serve on a jury. This is important because for decades African Americans were forbidden to serve on juries or in many cases even testify in court!
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'For years, progressive groups have been using climate change to advocate for more socialist policies, but now they are using the COVID-19 crisis for an even more ambitious project. Never let a crisis go to waste. The plan is called the 'Great Reset' and it comes from the World Economic Forum. Earlier in June, a meeting was held by the group, featuring some of the world's most powerful leaders. The UN Secretary-General, Prince Charles, the Director of the International Monetary Fund, the CEO of BP, the President of Microsoft, and the China Green Finance Committee, to name a few. This meeting announced their plan to Reset our world...' Global Elites Socialist Plan Revealed- They Call It The Great Reset
https://medium.com/@okcryptotarian/global-elites-socialist- plan-revealed-they-call-it-the-great-resetc9159709beae
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COVID-19 INFECTION SURVIVAL RATES (per CDC) Ages 0-19, 99.997%; Ages 20-49, 99.98%; Ages 50-69, 99.5%; Ages 70+, 94.6%; Seasonal Flu Infection Survival Rate (for population as a whole): 99.90% - COVID Is Not Categorically Different - Donald J. Boudreaux – October 13, 2020 https://www.aier.org/article/covid-is-not-categorically-different/
As time passes we are getting more information about COVID-19 and despite the media hyped case numbers, the gloom, doom and death reported in the corporate and digital media, COVID 19 is not the plague. Even the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s number confirm COVID 19 is not the major cause of death in the reported fatalities. In most cases the deceased suffered from at least two or more chronic and or acute conditions (co-morbidities) that were more of a factor in their demise than COVID!
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“In a study conducted by the Safety.com security team, research has found that the average American is filmed by security cameras over 230 times a week, a number that has increased rapidly over the last decade and will continue to do so in the near future.
Surveillance technology isn’t new, but there has been an exponential increase in the number of security cameras deployed throughout the United States and around the world. CNBC reports that there will be an estimated one billion security cameras filming around the world by 2021, with somewhere between 10-18% of those being in the United States alone.” Study: The Average American Is Filmed By At Least An Estimated 238 Security Cameras A Week https://www.safety.com/digital/identity/average-americanfilmed-by-an-estimated-238-security-cameras-a- week/
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“While federal aid to state and local governments this year has exceeded projected revenue losses, that aid is only one-time, and state and local governments are expected to face shortfalls for many years. Without promises of further aid, these governments are likely to cut spending now to prepare for future imbalances. Furthermore, state and local governments are at the forefront of the response to the pandemic in their communities and will likely need to increase their typical spending to provide crucial public health services and help communities adapt to social distancing guidelines.”
How much is COVID 19 hurting state and local revenues? Louise Sheiner and Sophia Campbell Brookings Institute The federal, state, and local government's responses to COVID 19 have been disastrous. The unprecedented shutdown of the economy mandated social isolation, and quarantines of well people have wrought massive economic collapse and psycho-social trauma. The incessant fear-mongering by corporate and digital media has induced national hysteria, anxiety, and resentment. People now realize the treatment is worse than the virus! The media is not telling us the recovery rate is 96% and growing. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ and people are angry.
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“It is likely folly to try to pin rising homicides in 2020 on any single cause, but we should not be shocked that a rising homicide rate is accompanying the so-called “new normal.” After all, the governmentimposed shutdowns have done far more than shut down community organizations. They have thrown millions of Americans out of work - with more than ten million former workers currently collecting unemployment benefits - and have set the stage for a rising tide of evictions and bankruptcies. History has shown that economic malaise does not necessarily come with rising crime. But unemployment rarely helps matters.” Rising Homicides This Year May Be another Side Effect of COVID Lockdowns-Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/wire/rising- homicidesyear- may-be-yet-another-side-effect-covid-lockdowns
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On September 14th, U.S. District Judge William S. Stickman ruled that Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s orders locking down the state to mitigate the spread of SAS-CoV-2 were unconstitutional. In a sixty-six page ruling the judge stated that while Wolf's orders were well-intended it was an infringement on the First and Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution's rights and liberties of the people. This was a milestone ruling because it means Governor Wolf's remaining mandates on the size of public gatherings are unenforceable.
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The COVID 19 epidemic is wrecking havoc on the global population due to the deliberate fear campaign to gin up panic and anxiety regarding the economic shut down which has imploded the economy, the irrational government policies like quarantining healthy people while keeping sick people isolated, shut off from family and support and the general gloom and doom media coverage that has people afraid of invisible non-lethal microorganisms. This is deliberate and on purpose. The ruling class is using this situation to create what used to be called hysteria but what medical and psychiatric communities now call: psychogenic contagion, epidemic hysteria and their latest designation “conversion disorder”.
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“pgEd’s mission is to increase awareness and conversation about the benefits and ethical, legal, and social implications of personal genetics. We believe that farreaching public engagement about genetic advances is key for a safe and equitable path forward, and we strive every day to be inclusive of all people – regardless of socioeconomic or educational background, cultural or religious affiliation, and ethnic or personal identity.” pgEd’s mission statement https://pged.org/mission/ Last week I shared information about the eugenics movement— a nineteenth century racist, elitist ideology that propagates the notion society has an obligation to prevent “undesirable traits” from being passed from one generation to another. It started in England and spread to the United States backed by powerfully influential and wealthy people like Teddy Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller and his heirs and was subsequently embraced in many other countries including Germany’s Adolf Hitler who took the idea of population control to a whole new level.
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“Eugenics is the philosophy and social movement that argues it is possible to improve the human race and society by encouraging reproduction by people or populations with “desirable” traits (termed “positive” eugenics) and discouraging reproduction by people with “undesirable” qualities (termed “negative” eugenics).” What is Eugenics https://pged.org/history-
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Back in April I wrote and posted an article asking how is it that three different pandemic simulation exercises and table top gaming scenarios took place during 2019 and the US government was so unprepared to deal with the SARS-CoV-2 virus when it came? In the article I said, “My question is: if they have been spending so much time, money and resources gaming and preparing for numerous possible global pandemics for years, how come the US was so totally unprepared when the COVID 19 virus surfaced?! Two of the exercise scenarios took place last year (2019) one as late as October; the other one ran from January through August of 2019!”
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“It’s not what you know that gets you in trouble, it’s the things you know that just aren’t so that get you in trouble.” Reggie Bryant The information age is a two edged sword. On one hand we have unlimited access to information and data at eye blinking speeds but on the other hand we are susceptible to massive lies, disinformation, deceit and propaganda. Our own government is one of the greatest sources of this disinformation. William Casey a former head of the US CIA once said, “We will know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American believes is false.” I maintain we are at that point today despite the availability of truthful information.
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“If you are not a conspiracy theorist, you are a coincidence theorist” - Catherine Austin Fitts Did you know that a handful of people control most of the assets, media, food processing conglomerates and corporate holdings in this country? Imagine the power a small group of people could weld working together in cooperation, collusion and concert to get what they want, how they want it and how they could use this power to shape the world in their own image?
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Ivan Juzang has been in business for thirty years. He started his company Motivational Educational Entertainment (MEE Productions) in 1990 when he was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. He created a research, marketing and edutainment company that initially focused on bringing attention to marginalized, underserved, overlooked urban communities.
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“In the African concept, vital force finds its expression in the inter-relatedness of the divine, the ancestors (Nkemnkia 1999), the living and nature. This is exemplified in the ritual life of the African life cycle. All living beings - including God, spirits and ancestors share in the vital force. Even inorganic things share in the life force because the African universe is so imbued with potency. Every object is a religious symbol that connects human beings to the unseen by pointing beyond them to the transcendent realm.”
Vital Force As a Triangulated Concept of Nature and Spirit- Kuzipa M.B. Nalwamba and Johan Buitendag
https://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext& pid=S0259-94222017000300037
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“The working theory is that Cheyney was never really targeted to be saved, even when Gov. Wolf personally pledged resources and attention to its cause. PASSHE’S movement and programming, when accompanied by legislative action and research, always suggested that the campus was being readied to become a STEM-based extension branch of the system’s other institutions, with a focus on training minorities in applied scientific fields.” Jerrett Carter Sr HBCU Digest June 25, 2020. https://hbcudigest.substack.com/p/pennsylvaniasmoves- repurposing project...
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The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic is wreaking havoc on US higher education at a time when higher education was already in a precarious situation due to a lack of visionary leadership and innovation, ever-rising costs, shrinking demographics and competition between conventional institutions and for-profit colleges. In an effort to adapt to the demands forced upon them by COVID 19 many universities ramped up their distance learning offerings and have been pressured to upgrade their IT capabilities.
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“The federal data is far from complete — it’s missing racial information on 75 percent of patients in its database. But it’s consistent with other data on race and Covid 19. The striking overrepresentation of African Americans among confirmed Covid-19 cases is also seen in what state-by-state data is available, and it underscores that, far from being an “equalizer,” the coronavirus pandemic is amplifying preexisting social inequities tied to race, class, and access to the health care system.”
https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2020/4 /18/21226225/coronavirus-black-cdc-infection
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George Adkins has led an interesting and productive life. He was born and raised in Library, Pennsylvania. He subsequently entered the US Marine Corps and upon discharge, he settled with relatives in the Cherry Hill and Philadelphia area. A friend introduced him to the entertainment industry. He eventually became the road manager and M.C. for the Camden New Jersey R& B vocal group, The Ebonies. He remained with them until they stopped touring then he, the conga player and base player migrated to the O’Jays.
His wife Doreen Boyd was a funeral director in Camden and he helped her establish and flourish her business. Their daughter took over the business after his wife passed. In addition to the music and helping with his wife’s business, Adkins also became an entrepreneur. He owned several trucks and trailers and he dabbled in promotions making and selling Tee shirts and memorabilia for the Ebonies and the O’Jays.
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The only way an extremely small percentage of the world's population can rob, and hoard most of the wealth and manipulate and control the masses to work against their own best interests is to trick and dupe them into doing their bidding. The ruling classes don't respect us; they view us as submissive sheep to be sheered and slaughtered at will. But they are not going to come out and say this in public, so they use fancy and noble-sounding words and phrases and coercion to dupe and intimidate us into going along with their program and their okey-doke.
Upon closer examination, this is exactly what they are doing and have done for thousands of years. Amos Wilson once said, 'In sum, the ruling groups cannot maintain their hegemony and sustain socioeconomic inequality which are the foundations of their regency, without perverting the ostensible missions of the society's sociopolitical institutions and utilizing them as instruments of oppression. In America, this perversion must take place while the ruling groups hide their oppressive faces behind the seductive façade of democracy, liberty, equality, and brotherhood.” Black On Black Violence The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation In Service of White Domination page 46
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'On May 26, hundreds of protesters were attacked by police in the city of Minneapolis during a protest against the murder of George Floyd, an African American man, by a police officer on Monday, May 25. Protesters gathered at the intersection where Lloyd was murdered on Tuesday, May 26 after the news of his death spread over social media. A memorial for Floyd was organized and people chanted against the police and held up signs condemning institutionalized racism in the US. Protests were also held outside the Minneapolis Police Department's 3rd precinct office building, the circle to which the accused police officers belonged to. Eyewitness accounts over social media alleged that police were found using tear gas, drones and riot gear to disperse the crowd, leading to a violent clash at the scene.'
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/05/27/widespreadoutrage- across-the-us-over-the- murder-of-george-lloydby- police/ Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's callous and nonchalant actions that directly contributed to the death of George Lloyd as fellow officers stood passively by, has sparked national demonstrations, protests and riots.
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“The new low in the pharmaceutical industry's U.S. image comes amid a range of criticisms of industry norms, from generating the highest drug costs in the world to spending massive amounts in lobbying politicians to the industry's role in the U.S. opioid crisis. Several Democratic candidates have called out the industry in their party's presidential debates. Just after Gallup conducted this poll, an Oklahoma judge ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million for its role in the state's opioid epidemic. Meanwhile, legislators on Capitol Hill are working to rein in the industry's drug prices.”
https://news.gallup.com/poll/266060/big-pharmasinks- bottom-industry-rankings.aspx
The ravages of the global SARS-CoV-2 outbreak have placed the spotlight on Big the multinational pharmaceutical companies whose reputations have been tanking the past few years as they rush to create a vaccine and treatment therapies for the disease. But “Big Pharma” has a serious image problem. In a 2019 Gallup Poll survey respondents ranked the pharmaceutical industry the lowest.
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
William Casey, former CIA director
The Sars CoV-2 virus has totally disrupted life around the globe. A gargantuan media campaign designed to produce fear, panic, and hysteria was launched against us to make us think SARS CoV-2 is the plague this is an act of psychological terrorism. Panic prevents us from thinking clearly. The cure is to get calm and focus on your breathing and your thoughts, and then monitor your thoughts because our thoughts trigger our emotions and our emotions initiate biophysical responses. Take control and responsibility of your mind, emotions, and health.
This is the essence of self-mastery. Self-mastery is just that, mastery of one's self. This means you are not subject to the whims, and psychological manipulation of others. You have a big say in this. You determine what you watch, what media you consume and how you consume it; are you a conscious discerning reader, watcher, or are you a mindless automaton or Zombie?
Keep in mind a handful of media conglomerates control almost all we see, read and watch, they are on one accord with the "information" they disseminate.
https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6- companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/.
When you scratch beneath the CIVID 19 media babble and hype you find one man, one person, Bill Gates. He is connected to all of it. In a criminal investigation Bill Gates would be called the prime suspect. For example, the World Health Organization which is funded by Bill Gates declared SARS CoV-2 a "public health emergency" on January 30, 2020, despite a lack of major worldwide infections at that time. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus The world reacted and failed to question the facts and basis of its pronouncements.
Then Neil Ferguson from the Imperial College used an algorithm program to project casualties from the virus. He claimed 500,000 would die in the UK and 2.2 million would die in the US! Neil Ferguson and the Imperial College receive major funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ferguson has since been discredited by the actual numbers which are nowhere near his hyperbolic, Chicken Little predictions!
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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“Credit cards are a key element in the banking industry’s profits. At commercial banks, the average interest rate on credit-card plans is 15.1% and the average assessed interest rate is 16.9%, on $1 trillion in outstanding credit balances. This amounts to around $150 billion to $169 billion a year in interest income! These banks rely on consumers to spend money they don’t have.” The State of American Debt Slaves Q1 2019 Wolf
Richter https://wolfstreet.com/2019/05/08/the-state-of-the-american-debt-slaves-q1-2019/
When Trump and the corporate media tell you the economy was booming and unemployment was at record lows, before COVID 19 hit, don’t believe the hype, it is disinformation! The corporate media rarely mentions the fact the US economy is propped up by massive debt: consumer debt, corporate debt, government debts, trade deficits and plain ol’ corruption. The US economy was imploding due to poor fiscal management: tax cuts for the rich, trade wars with the EU, Canada, Mexico and China, increased government spending, unwise tariffs and the Federal Reserve’s policies of Qualitative Easing, zero interests rates and now the CARES ACT boondoggle to the big banks, hedge funds and big businesses. Meanwhile the working and middle class continue to experience stagflation; stagnant wages and rising costs caused by the rise in the money supply.
The fact is most of the US gross domestic product is fueled by debt. This means the goods and services produced in the US are driven by debt: loans to the businesses for operations, production, equipment, expansion and maintenance, loans to consumers in the form of car loans, credit cards, student loans, mortgages, Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOC), other purchases and of course government debt. US manufacturing has been offshored and it is highly unlikely it will come back. Sadly locking down the economy is not going to help at all!
In the US, human beings are called consumers by the powers that be; probably because we overly consume resources, because our spending consumes us, shrinks our wealth and savings potential and puts us at the mercy of the lenders and economic circumstances like interest rates, liquidity (availability of cash and credit).
“Consumer debt is what you owe, as opposed to what a business or the government owes. It's also called consumer credit. It can be borrowed from a bank, a credit union, and the federal government. There are two types of consumer debt: credit cards (revolving) and fixed-payment loans (non-revolving). Credit card debt is called revolving because it's meant to be paid off each month. They incur variable interest rates that are pegged to Libor. Non- revolving debt isn't paid off each month. Instead, these loans are usually held for the life of the underlying asset. Borrowers can choose between loans with either fixed interest rates or variable rates. Most non-revolving debt is auto loans or school loans. Although home mortgages are also an enormous loan, they aren't a type of consumer debt. Instead, they are personal investments in residential real estate... In March 2019 U.S. consumer debt rose 3.1% to $4.052 trillion. That surpassed last month's record of $4.042 trillion. Of this, $2.995 trillion was non-revolving debt, and it rose 5.0%. Most non-revolving debt is education and auto loans. In March 2019, school debt totaled $1.598 trillion and auto loans were $1.161 trillion. Credit card debt totaled $1.057 trillion, decreasing 2.5%. It exceeds the record of $1.02 trillion set in 2008. But credit card debt is only 26% of total debt. It was 38% of total debt in
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"In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in relatively few hands.
As of 2013, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 36.7% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 52.2%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 89%, leaving only 11% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers). In terms of financial wealth (total net worth minus the value of one's home), the top 1% of households had an even greater share: 42.8%."
Power in America Wealth, Income and Power by G. William Domhoff
Every day the corporate news has a segment on the US stock market noting the Dow Jones Industrial and Standard and Poor's fluctuations and they make it seem like what happens on Wall Street is indicative of the US economy and viewers have a stake in what occurs on Wall Street. It's not and they don't. Relatively few Americans own stocks and bonds compared to the .001% who own most of the country's wealth. "In terms of types of financial wealth, in 2013 the top one percent of households had 49.8% of all privately held stock, 54.7% of financial securities, and 62.8% of business equity. The top ten percent had 84% to 94% of stocks, bonds, trust funds, and business equity, and almost 80% of non- home real estate. Since financial wealth is what counts as far as the control of income-producing assets, we can say that just 10% of the people own the United States of America; see Table 3 and Figure 2 for the details. The only category which is not skewed severely toward the upper class is debt."
Power in America Wealth Income and Power- G. William Domhoff https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/wealth.html
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“The death rate from COVID-19 appears to be staggeringly high among African Americans compared to whites. The Washington Post reports, for example, that while 14% of the Michigan population is black, 40% of COVID-19 deaths are among blacks. This is a familiar pattern to a social and infectious disease epidemiologist like myself. It is evidence of centuries of segregation and discrimination that have disproportionately placed people of color in communities without access to health care, with degraded and crowded living conditions and a lack of basic opportunities for health and wellness.”
https://theconversation.com/covid-19-is-hitting-blackand- poor-communities-the-hardest- underscoring-faultlines- in-access-and-care-for-those-on-margins-135615
The COVID 19 coronavirus is wrecking havoc on the country. Our nation was totally unprepared for it and the unequal socio-economic factors in this country are making it worse. Just like Hurricane Katrina exposed the gaping disparities in race and class in the city New Orleans, COVID 19 is revealing the devastating realties of socioeconomic division and apartheid in the US.
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COVID 19 has truly turned the world upside down. This respiratory infection is highly contagious and extremely opportunistic meaning it is especially harmful to the elderly, the weak, those who have acute and or pre-existing chronic conditions. These chronic conditions include obesity, hypertension, respiratory illnesses, cancer, diabetes, and pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. But what we are not being told by corporate media fear mongers dependent upon the pharmaceutical industry for sponsorships and programming is that the virus has an eighty-four percent recovery rate and for most people who do become infected, it is a fairly mild albeit inconvenient condition!
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Contrary to its portrayal in the corporate and monopoly social media like Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, COVID 19 is not the plague. This gloom, death, and doom narrative is controlled and perpetrated by the corporate media which is beholden to the multi-national pharmaceutical companies. The content and message about the virus and what must be done to mitigate it has been crafted by Bill Gates using the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, US CDC and World Health Organization all of whom participated in the October 18, 2019 Event 201 planning a tabletop scenario session about a global pandemic as the playbook for COVID 19.
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/ Gates paid for the session
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"Unfortunately, the outcome would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic. Here's an example: Chase Bank gave Ruth's Chris Steak House a $20 million forgivable loan meant for small businesses by dividing it up by locations instead of treating the company like the large corporation that it is. Incidentally, Chase "earned" $100K for processing the loan. After everyone rightly lost their marbles over this, Ruth's Chris is returning the 20 million. Chase and Ruth's Chris aren't the only culprits. There were all sorts of shenanigans that resulted in the fund running out of money before the legitimate small businesses could even complete their applications. For example, big banks earned ten billion dollars in fees for processing the loans, and here's a list of big companies that played around with this system and drained it of millions."
Life After COVID A Look At the New Economy http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/life-after-covid-a-look-at- the-new-economy
For the past several weeks I've raised issues about the official narrative and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic both medically and from an economic perspective. I've mainly focused on Bill Gates, the World Health Organization, World Economic Forum, CDC, and the Rockefeller Foundations' stranglehold on the narrative and what they will get out of all this, meaning more profits and control.
I've mentioned the coronavirus was being used to scapegoat an already collapsing US economy so that Trump's idiotic policies of tariffs, trade wars and tax cuts for the rich and unbridled government spending were bankrupting the country and Wall Street's indiscriminate thievery and speculative malfeasances which have imploded the financial system won't be exposed.
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]"Unfortunately, doctors and epidemiologists also were responsible for many of the scariest projections and much of the agitation for police-state measures."
Coronacide Robert Gore https://www.theburningplatform.com/ 2020/04/23/coronacide/ #more-216793
During the past few weeks, I've shared information about several gaming "exercises" conducted by certain oligarchs and their minions that focused on global pandemics. These drills and exercises supposedly were to glean ideas on how to prepare and deal with just such situations if one ever occurred. In the course of my ongoing research, I've discovered exercises in addition to the Rockefeller Foundation's 2010 Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development http://www.nommeraadio.ee/meedia/ pdf/RRS/Rockefeller%20Foundation.pdf and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Economic Forum, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and CDC's Event 201 https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/ event201/ which was held in October of 2019 that I reported on earlier.
In June of 2001, there was a two-day exercise called Dark Winter that was conducted at Andrews Air Force base which among other topics included a pandemic scenario. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-pandemic-war-games-simulation-dark-winter/ There were other tabletop scenarios and exercises, "In fact, by one account, there have been no less than four separate U.S. simulations that prefigured the events that unfolded in central China in January of this year. In 2005, 'Atlantic Storm,' organized by the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, simulated an international outbreak of a smallpox pandemic (as opposed to the domestic smallpox terrorism attack stipulated by Dark Winter). 'The SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028,' conducted in 2017, tested medical responses to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in St. Paul, Minnesota. 'Clade X,' hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in 2018, proposed a worldwide coronavirus outbreak with no vaccine (and which, according to Tom Inglesby, the center's director, was designed to 'provide experiential learning' for Trump administration officials)."
Argument America's Pandemic War Games Don't End Well- Mark Perry , https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/01/ coronavirus-pandemic-war-games- simulation-dark-winter/
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"Tens of millions of Americans have not provided the IRS with their banking account information if they have one. Some of these people have filed taxes, so they should eventually receive money but will have to wait weeks or even months for a check to come in the mail." Millions of Americans Might Not Get Stimulus Checks. Some Might Be Tricked Into Paying Turbo Tax To Get Theirs –Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel https://www.propublica.org/article/ millions-of-americans-might-not-get-stimulus-checks-some- might-be-tricked-into-paying-turbotax-to-get-theirs
The coronavirus is being used as a cover for the greatest rip off and transfer of wealth in this nation's history and that's saying something considering all the bailout rip-offs we've experienced over the years. In recent decades there have been so many it's hard to keep track, but here is a link to a site that will give you some idea how taxpayer dollars have saved whole industries but we the people didn't get anything out of it: https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/04/05/a-history-of-us-government- bailouts.aspx.
The CARES ACT is an even bigger boondoggle to benefit the .001% and their minions while Joe and Jane Sixpack get the shaft. If you are looking for a "'rona check" don't be too disappointed if you don't get one. Contrary to what the corporate media/mind control/propaganda apparatus is telling us, many Americans don't qualify for the stimulus check and if they do it will be difficult for them to access the money.
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Conspiracy: "a combination of two or more persons to commit a criminal or unlawful act, or to commit a lawful act by criminal or unlawful means or a combination of two or more persons by concerted action to accomplish an unlawful purpose or some purpose not in itself unlawful by unlawful means." Law Dictionary Fourth Edition Steven H Gifis page 99
I can understand it, many people are skeptical about the notion that a group of people are manipulating the coronavirus situation for their own nefarious ends. Some ask why would anyone do something like that; or what profit would they gain? To those who believe everything they see and hear in the corporate media this makes sense since the corporate media's job is to create and present a worldview or manufactured "reality" that the people who own and rule this country desire so they can maintain their control over us by controlling our minds.
See https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu
In criminal investigations, some of the questions investigators ask are what is/was the motive, cui bono, who benefits? Good question. Who benefits from imploding the economy? Who benefits from spooking people into a panic about a contagious respiratory infection the media is portraying as a plague? How could this be the work of conspirators and remain a secret?
If one is fairly astute, he or she will recognize there are evil people in the world. If we are intelligent, we recognize there are megalomaniacal personalities in the world and they frequently gravitate to positions of leadership. Many sociopaths and psychopaths are recruited and groomed for such positions by others who are even more sociopathic and psychopathic. In fact, this is patently obvious.
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"Psychological Operations (PSYOP) or Psychological Warfare (PSYWAR) is simply learning everything about your target enemy, their beliefs, likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities. Once you know what motivates your target, you are ready to begin psychological operations. Psychological operations may be defined broadly as the planned use of communications to influence human attitudes and behavior ... to create in target groups behavior, emotions, and attitudes that support the attainment of national objectives." Psychological Operations/Warfare Major Ed Rouse (retired) http://www.psywarrior.com/psyhist.html
Due to our lack of media literacy, most of us cannot fathom or realize we are being targeted and manipulated all the time by the mainstream media, advertising and PR firms, marketers and the government. We are targeted by corporations and the government using deliberately designed psychological techniques to mold our attitudes and beliefs, re-engineer our behavior and create a fake" reality". Unless you are in the military or you work for an advertising firm, public relations company, some form of mass media or in selected academic environments, most of us are totally unaware of what these specific groups are doing to us all the time.
We are unconscious of how we are being indoctrinated and manipulated.
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"Ah, I say you been misled, you've been had, you've been took."- Malcolm X
We've been had. We've been duped into believing the COVID 19 virus is a plague when in fact it is a contagious respiratory infection, not the deadly pandemic we are being led to believe it is. You say, you're not an epidemiologist or a virologist, how do you know this? You are correct I am not a scientist or statistician, but I know how to read. I know how to do research and I have common sense.
When we stop to think about the media bombardment we're currently subjected to, we have to conclude there has been only one narrative put before us by the government, the CDC and World Health Organization; and this narrative has created an atmosphere of fear and panic. Whether this is deliberate I can't say for sure, all I know is most of what we see and hear in the media is negative and discouraging, so it doesn't matter what the intent is. The results are the same.
The CDC, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, World Economic Forum and World Health Organization narrative have a monopoly on airplay and dissemination by the media conglomerates. All we hear night and day over and over is the worst-case scenarios. But there are other findings by epidemiologists, virologists, statisticians, and public health officials that are not getting airtime. We need to see all the facts and options.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, April 10, 2020, page 5
“Being in a state of fear allows us to be easily manipulated. Advertisers and politicians have learned to capitalize on this biological aspect of humans also known as the lizard brain. Unfortunately, our fast-paced lifestyles (mentally), combined with our relatively stagnate physical activity (driving, working at a computer, etc.) causes our bodies to be ineffective at releasing built up stress which manifests in our thoughts as fear or anxiety.” How To Release The Stress Stored In Our Bodies - Jacob Devaney https://upliftconnect.com/release-the-stress/ What if the media was deliberately inducing fear and panic about the COVID 19 coronavirus as a way to manipulate the public, to keep us in a state of anxiety so we are more easily controlled, manipulated and compliant to a predetermined social reengineering agenda? What if the usual advertising and mind control techniques were being ramped up by the 1% to dupe us into going along with a prearranged agenda, an agenda designed to garner more power and authority for them at our expense?
All societies have some form of leadership and governance; whether it is so-called primitive stateless societies where rule is shared by the elders of the village or tribe to supposedly sophisticated forms of government like republics where the leaders are preselected by political parties or special interest groups then voted on by the people. Every society has leaders formal and informal, known and secret.
In this country, we live under the illusion of democracy. We think our elected officials do our bidding for the common good and benefit of us all. This is not the reality of power in this country on the national level. If you doubt what I say pay close attention to current events then juxtapose what you see and your beliefs with the research of Professor G. William Domhoff on his Website Who Rules America https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu.
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Michael Coard gave me a head’s up about two of his guests on his WURD Radio Courtroom show which airs every Sunday from 11 Am to 1 PM. This past Sunday Dr. Earl Richardson and Pace McConkie were guests on his program. We know both men because they are principles in the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education and they were/are huge supporters of Heeding Cheyney’s Call in our attempts to redress the same higher education and civil rights issues they have been working to resolve in Maryland.
Dr. Richardson served as president of Morgan State University in Baltimore for twenty-six years and Pace McConkie is an award winning civil rights attorney and one of the attorneys for CEEMHE. They have been in court for almost fourteen years working to resolve the issues of state sanctioned discrimination, privation and disparity in Maryland higher education on behalf of: Bowie, Coppin, Morgan and University of Maryland Eastern Shore (formerly known as Maryland State).
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, March 27, 2020, page 5
Assurance: confidence of mind or manner: freedom from self-doubt or uncertainty.
Confidence: a feeling of self-assurance arising from one's appreciation of one's own abilities or qualities.
During these disquieting times it is important to monitor our personal thoughts and emotions. Why? Because the fact of the matter is, our thoughts and emotions directly determine our long term psychological state and our physical health. I’m not talking about fleeting images, ideas, thoughts and feelings; I’m talking about strongly held constant ideation and feelings, attitudes and beliefs.
We must be in control of our thinking and emotions because if we don’t, we become susceptible to control and manipulation by others. For example fear is a powerful weapon the ruling class and the powers that be have used for thousands of years to cower and manipulate people. They fiendishly use fear and intimidation to get their way. What they want is total control over us. They use fear, the fear of punishment, ostracism, violence and the unknown to lord it over us to keep us in a state of anxiety, unease and trepidation.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, March 20, 2020, page 4
Reparations or the compensation for the ills and devastation of enslavement, apartheid, racial and pigmentation oppression is a contentious topic. There is no denying enslavement took a horrific toll on the lives, psyche and physical conditions of people of African descent in this country. It is only natural that Black people would seek redress for the privation and exploitation we suffered and endured for centuries. But the oppressor is unwilling to even address the issue and they mean to keep the issue suppressed and out of public consciousness.
One of the first Africans in America to call for relief and restitution for enslaved Africans was Callie Guy who was born around 1861 into enslavement in Rutherford County near Nashville Tennessee. At the age of twenty-two she married William House and the couple had five children. Mrs. House worked as a washer woman and seamstress to help support her family after her husband died. According to some records Mrs. House did get some school learning.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, March 13, 2020, page 5
On Saturday February 29 th a group of education activists calling ourselves CheyneyStrong held a fundraising event to raise money to continue our efforts to facilitate dual enrollment partnerships at Cheyney University with surrounding area school districts. The money raised will provide scholarships to eleventh and twelfth grade high school students who take college courses taught by Cheyney University professors and instructors that can be applied for enrollment at Cheyney University or transferred to any accredited college or university.
CheyneyStrong presented a one night only performance of Daniel Beaty’s play Mr. Joy starring Broadway and television actress and performing artist Debra Walton. Walton is the sister in law of the CheyneyStrong President Darien Threadgill.
As an actress Mrs. Walton has performed on Broadway, been in Broadway touring companies and on television in shows like Law and Order SUV and Blue Bloods. Currently she is performing Mr Joy in Boston Massachusetts. The show company allowed her to take one weekend off to perform Mr. Joy at Cheyney University.
Mr. Joy is a thought provoking one act, one person play that takes place in modern day Harlem which is experiencing gentrification, socio-economic stratification, and racial inter and intra-group tensions. Mrs. Walton plays nine different characters: male, female, young, old, Caucasian, Black, Chinese, straight, transgender, wealthy, poor, wise, and irresponsible and on occasion, they talk to each other!
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, March 6, 2020, page 5
Glenn Ellis was born in Birmingham Alabama during the tumultuous era when Blacks were actively engaged in a valiant struggle for human rights, desegregation and relief from the enduring ravages of racial oppression. He grew up in the thick of the struggle, seeing first hand how reactionary whites resorted to indiscriminate violence and terrorism in their vain attempt to stifle the movement.
Ellis was one of a family of nine children who grew up in a tight nit segregated community. His father worked in the steel mill. The four girls killed in the 16th Street Church bombing on September 15, 1963: Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Carole Robinson and Cynthia Wesley were childhood friends of Ellis.
That hideous act of terror also injured over twenty innocent people. Ellis and his family knew most. The rampant violence became part of the fabric of life in Birmingham. Ellis was classmates with Condoleezza Rice. He knew James Bevel and Hosea Williams from their activism in the community and he worked for the legendary entrepreneur and patron of the struggle A.J. Gaston.
This experience and the tutoring of his parents, grandparents, teachers and community infused Glenn Ellis with a purpose and mission. He witnessed what it meant to sacrifice to ameliorate the egregious affects of racism and privation on Black people and do whatever could be done to facilitate change for the better. His community and family motivated him to expand his horizons and opportunities, to always remember his people and his obligation to help his community.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, February 28, 2020, page 5
It is fascinating watching an artist grow, expand his or her consciousness and use this personal growth to further develop their craft over time. It is rare when an artist is so influential he or she creates a singular movement all his or her own or becomes part of a newly emerging movement. In many ways David Lawrence is a forerunner in a cultural movement of Black artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers called Afrofuturism.
Afrofuturism weaves African motifs, spirituality, mysticism, symbols with modern technology creating a vision of African redemption, ascendance and transformation. I met David Lawrence almost thirty years ago and was deeply impressed by his work because it was strikingly unique and eye catching. It featured Africans, images of planets, pyramids, geometric shapes and symbols blended with indigenous patterns.
David always knew he was destined to be an artist. To pursue his dream and develop his talents the Brooklyn native attended the New York High School of Art and Design, Long Island University majoring in illustration, art and marketing and subsequently the Art Students League of New York. He migrated to Philadelphia Pennsylvania to set up shop.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, February 21, 2020, page 4
“The Quakers had a long history of providing educational opportunities for blacks in the city. Anthony Benezar was a strong advocate for educating black youths and had provided money in his will to establish a school for black youths. Moreover there were a large number of other schools for blacks in the city, some run by blacks some not. But there were few well trained black teachers. Richard Humphreys saw this as ominous for the struggling black community. He realized that blacks had to be educated if they were to survive as a people. He also knew that wherever they finally settled, they were going to need their own trained leaders so he proposed to establish a school ‘to fit and qualify them (youths) to act as teachers.’”
Cheyney Mother of Higher Education African-Americans 1837-1981 by Arther Clifton Willis page 16
The history of what is now called Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a long a storied one. It started out as a noble idea, a member of the Society of Friends also called Quakers named Richard Humphreys designated one tenth of his estate in his last will and testament written in 1832 to establish a unique institution. In it he made provisions to found a school to educate and train people of African descent so that they “...may be trained and educated as to become fitted and qualified to become teachers and instructors in school learning, in the various branches of the Mechanik Arts and trades and in agriculture...” His will stipulated the school be started five years after his earthly demise. He hand picked fellow Quakers to serve as trustees and executors and they each agreed to carry out his wishes.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, February 14, 2020, page 5
M.K. Asante is the son of a scholar, academician, professor and his father Molefi Kete Asante is the founder of the Afrocentric movement. M.K. is just as gifted and talented as his father. He too is a scholar, academician and teacher but he’s added filmmaking, producing, being an author and a recording artist to his repertoire. The Philadelphia native now teaches at Morgan State University and in 2017 was appointed to Distinguished Professor-in-Residence at the MICA (Institute of Strategic Marketing and Communication) in India.
M.K. was in town along with his son Ion to speak at this father’s Institute for Afrocentric Studies located at 5535 Germantown Avenue in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. He came home to share information about his docuseries on SnapChat called While Black.
Young Asante explained the genesis behind the series, its point of view and how important it is for people of color to tell our own stories. During his introduction Asante recited a poem “Two Sets of Notes” about the dichotomy between Eurocentric propaganda and our reality, using it to set the stage for his presentation and illustrate the reasons he created and produces the series. Citing Chinua Achebe the famous Nigerian author , poet and professor who popularized the African proverb, “Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter”, Asante explained the intent of the lecture and his series.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, February 7, 2020, page 4
Livia Hall Smith knows a thing or two about gumption, hard work, perseverance, fortitude, believing in yourself and your dreams. The life long Chester resident has toiled for over thirty years working as an activist and community organizer to bring about social and political change in her home town. She was an educator who became involved in the movement to better conditions in her city for all the people. In her role as the Chair Lady of the Chester City Democratic Committee Livia H. Smith has been a major influence on the political landscape not only in Chester city, but also Delaware County’s surrounding towns and municipalities.
She grew up in a time when the Republican Party controlled all of Delaware County, including Chester City and the neighboring counties. Over thirty years ago she determined to break the GOP stranglehold on the region by running as a Democrat for the office of Mayor of Chester in a city controlled by the Republican Party. She did not win. The goal of unseating a deeply entrenched and powerful incumbent party seemed formidable and insurmountable, but she and a handful of like minded folks kept pressing, kept believing, kept working and little by little they started to see results. They ran candidates and lost, they’d dust themselves off and try again and eventually they started to win and in recent years their wins have been impressive.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, January 31, 2020, page 4
“While HBCUs have been inclusive, an emerging concern is to provide a comprehensive curriculum that addresses both current society needs and emerging needs. Noteworthy is the fact that the majority of HBCUs have always focused on service and outreach to the community and the nation to address and alleviate problems encountered by African-Americans and other minority groups. In this regard HBCUs have consistently been in the forefront in what the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges refer to as ‘engagement.’”
Toward the Evolution of Dynamic Polices for Equity from the Quest For Equity In Higher Education edited by Beverly Lindsay and Manuel J. Justiz page 281
Two weeks ago I wrote about an initiative called CheyneyStrong that is designed to establish partnerships between Cheyney University and surrounding school districts. The goal is to recruit their top students for dual enrollment also called concurrent enrollment programs whereby those students take college courses taught by Cheyney instructors and professors which can be transferred to Cheyney or any other accredited college or university when they graduate from high school. The unique aspect of what we are doing is, we are raising funds so the students and their families will not have to foot the costs to take the college courses.
Our initiative is part of an overarching strategy to save our Alma Mater Cheyney University. In addition to the political/legal advocacy and agitation provided by Heeding Cheyney’s Call, innovative fundraising, outside the box recruitment strategies and visionary and transformative leadership are also required to set a higher bar and implement transformative changes at the historic institution. CheyneyStrong is providing the outside the box student recruitment and marketing. In fact when we made a presentation to the University’s Council of Trustees they commended us on our initiative.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, January 24, 2020, page 5
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr.
When Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 he was named Michael Luther but later changed his name to Martin. He came from a family of Baptist ministers; his paternal grandfather, his father and his younger brother were all ordained ministers. King grew up in Atlanta, Georgia in a comfortable family during a time of rigid ethnic, color and class apartheid and oppression. Like his father and grandfather, King matriculated at Morehouse College when he graduated from high school at the age of sixteen.
Following in his father’s footsteps after graduating from Morehouse College in 1948, King pursued advanced degrees in theology at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester Pa. and Boston University. After graduating, King was called to pastor a church in Montgomery, Alabama; the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in 1954. There King was also active in the local NAACP.
When Mrs. Rosa Parks, the secretary of the Montgomery, Alabama NAACP chapter was locked up for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus, Martin Luther King was thrust into a leadership role in the resulting campaign to abolish racist policies in Montgomery. This was at a time when racial apartheid was the law throughout much of this nation. King was chosen because he was new in town and as a pastor of a fairly affluent church he was not beholden to any white businesses for his livelihood.
The 1955 Montgomery campaign was no fluke. Rosa Parks was a long time activist and she had been trained in taking on the system. There were other incidents in other cities throughout the South, but the time and circumstance were neither right nor ripe for a massive, organized challenge to racism in the US.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, January 17, 2020, page 4
“Although the desegregation agreement (between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the US Department of Educations Office of Civil Rights in 1999) mandates additional funding for Cheyney, improvements in infrastructure are prioritized. As discussed previously this pattern is consistent with the desegregation policy emphasis on increasing attractiveness of HBCU’s to white students.” James B. Stewart page 119, “The Effects of Public Policy Conflicts and Resource Allocation Decision in Higher Education Desegregation Outcomes in Pennsylvania from the book, The Quest For Equity in Higher Education edited by Beverly Lindsay and Manuel J. Justiz
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania recently had it accreditation reaffirmed by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education which was a major accomplishment. Yet despite the positive and supportive intervention of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, Cheyney is still not out of the woods. The university must rebrand and market itself, attract visionary, transformative leadership, energize and galvanize its alumni, attract higher education supporters to strengthen its position as a viable educational institution and recruit gifted students in an extremely competitive era and area.
For Cheyney and all HBCU’s to thrive in this new decade several conditions are essential: political activism, agitation and advocacy, innovative fundraising strategies, broad based marketing and student recruitment. Beginning in late 2012 and early 2013 Heeding Cheyney’s Call an advocacy group founded by the late Edgar “Sonny” Harris, attorney Michael Coard, myself and several alumni who were members of the National Alumni Association Executive Board collaborated with local elected officials and higher education advocates to aggressively challenge the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its state system of higher education (PASSHE) demanding they discontinue their decades long practices of discrimination, disinvestment, neglect and willfully reneging on its 1999 agreement with the US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, January 10, 2020, page 5
Commitment: a pledge, to bind, a promise, obligating oneself, engaging
Usually around this time we make New Year’s resolutions. We say we are going to do or not do something. Then we take the steps to begin; but all too often our resolutions end up falling by the wayside. For example statistics show that of the people who resolve they will lose weight on New Year’s Day, after one week only 75% are still keeping their promise to themselves. After two weeks 71% are still sticking to it, after one month the number drops to 64% and after six months the number is 46%, less than half.
This is not to disparage anyone but we have to ask ourselves why we don’t do what we say we’re going to do? If we fail to keep our promise, we often get down on ourselves, we feel discouraged and depressed; but there is no need for that. A resolution to change or be different requires not only saying it and writing it down; but also envisioning ourselves doing it, seeing the results, committing and channeling our energy and resources to manifesting the changes we want to see or be in our lives.
Commit to yourself; become actively engaged in your own personal transformation. Make it a top priority that you will do what you say and accomplish whatever goals you set for yourself in 2020. You are a powerful being, more powerful than you realize. You have will and volition, the ability to make your intentions known and to exert the energy and work to manifest them in your life. You can rise above past failures; you have vast inner and external resources available to you right now to change your life for the better.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, January 3, 2020, page 4
From December 26 th to January 1, millions of people around the world participate and experience Kwanzaa, a celebration based upon African and indigenous people’s values and traditions. Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga at a time when Diasporan Africans were reasserting our self-identity and self-determination breaking from an oppressive Eurocentric imperialist worldview and culture. It was designed to create and build an appreciation for unity, traditional African values, empowerment and community.
Since its creation in the US, Kwanzaa has spread around the world and is now accepted and celebrated as an established holiday. Over the years the celebration has had its detractors. Some opposed it because they thought it threatened or competed with Christmas. Some said it was a “made up holiday,” some said or implied it was too Black, that it was African while others resisted learning about it, learning the words or they poo-pooed the principles behind it.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, December 27, 2019, page 4
“The solstice happens at the same instant for all of us, everywhere on Earth. In 2019, the December solstice comes on December 21 at 10:19 p.m. CST. That’s on December 22 at 4:19. It’s when the sun on our sky’s dome reaches its farthest southward point for the year. At this solstice, the Northern Hemisphere has its shortest day and longest night of the year.”
On December 22 those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere will experience the Winter Solstice, due to the earth’s rotation on its axis that day will have the shortest amount of sunlight followed by the longest amount of darkness. This is an annual astronomical occurrence. Simultaneously the Southern Hemisphere will experience the exact opposite, the shortest night and longest day light.
Our ancient ancestors were very observant; they were in awe of nature because in their worldview and reality that the physical world was the result of mental and spiritual design. To them there was correspondence in the universe “as above so below, as below so above.” Celestial and earthly phenomenon were observed and given metaphysical and spiritual significance. So the shortening or lengthening of days and nights was a big deal to them. Equinoxes, the changing seasons, the annual river flooding helped them order their lifestyles, their movements, animal husbandry, planting and harvesting.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, December 20, 2019, page 4
“God gives nothing to those whose arms are crossed.” Bambara proverb
We live in an abundant universe, there is unlimited energy and potentiality all around us; yet far too many of us have been conditioned to only think within the narrow confines of lack and privation. Even in the hottest desert abundant life exists. It behooves us to think differently about our lives, experiences potential and options. Our thinking is the key; the universe is mental as we have shared recently.
Life is a fluid, dynamic process; it is a school, a perpetual learning environment. We are always learning one way or another. Sometimes we are the teacher, sometimes we are the student, often we are both at the same time. Life is not stagnant; it is dynamic, full of possibilities, potential and options. Life is worth living to the fullest.
African cosmology teaches the universe is teleological meaning it was/is designed with intelligent purpose and meaning. In a purposefully designed universe everything has intention, function and use. Everything is interconnected and interdependent, part of a great whole. One of the prime objectives for traditional Africans and indigenous people is to discern their purpose, discover why we are here and how to best fulfill our life’s mission. We will discuss this idea further at a later time.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, December 13, 2019, page 5
On Monday, November 25, 2019, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaffirmed the full accreditation of Cheyney University.
This means the university is in good standing with the regional accreditation agency and the Middle States Commission is satisfied that the university is making strides to fulfill its mission and remain fiscally viable. Leadership has a plan to repay its debts to the U.S. Department of Education and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
Much of the credit for the turnaround and Middle States decision goes to Governor Tom Wolf. When Wolf was inaugurated as governor in 2015 he inherited the Commonwealth’s status as a defendant in a federal lawsuit filed by alumni, students and higher education advocates on behalf of Cheyney University. The lawsuit was filed in October 2014 a few weeks prior to the general election by an organization called Heeding Cheyney’s Call.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, December 6, 2019, page 4
During his first year in office, State Representative Stephen Kinsey initiated a district wide program he called Feeding One Thousand designed to feed his constituents a healthy and nutritious holiday meal while also providing information about constituent services. His vision was to reach out to engage the community, provide information about local and state wide social programs that benefit his constituents.
On Saturday, November 23, 2019, Representative Kinsey held his annual Feeding One Thousand at Treasures Banquet Hall located at 5549 Germantown Ave in Kinsey’s district. This was his first time using this facility for this program. In previous years he used churches located in his district. “We started this in 2013 my first year in office. Every year since I’ve been in office instead of giving out turkeys as my predecessors had done, we felt it was necessary to bring families together with resources, sit down and have a meal instead of just giving out a turkey and we don’t see them any more. This way they can come and learn about state services, learn about resources that our sponsors offer, come together, meet neighbors and just have a conversation. This provides them not just a meal, it provides them with education, resources and materials that can help them go on beyond today,” stated Representative Kinsey.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, November 29, 2019, page 3
“Spirituality centered wisdom stands for both justice and dignity and it cannot be trivialized. It emphasizes philosophies of connectedness, coexistence, belongingness, love, and compassion in education. In the light of this understanding of spirituality, the African renaissance and pedagogy should be grounded in spirituality centered wisdom, cultural identity and consciousness. As asserted by Palmer (1999), involving spirituality in pedagogy is ‘reclaiming the vitality of life’” African Ways of Knowing and Pedagogy, Constantine Ngara
For the past several weeks we have been examining African cosmology in a general observation and overview. At its core African cosmology, regardless of the tribal or ethnic origin, is based upon the belief the universe is both SPIRITUAL and physical in nature. Africans’ perception of reality posits our physical reality is interpenetrated by an omnipresent spiritual reality that impacts and influences our lives and environment all the time.
For Africans and indigenous people who see themselves as an integral part of a vast spiritual universe, SPIRIT provides additional means of knowing as well as providing insight, information and guidance to help address life’s vicissitudes. When one’s reality is a spiritually dynamic universe, one employs spiritual means to discern the invisible causes behind life’s happenings and also to glean insight and direction for important decisions and courses of action.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, November 22, 2019, page 5
Many Westerners are coming to the inescapable conclusion their culture is creating a psychological malaise that is rapidly metastasizing throughout the society, stifling empathy, enthusiasm and any sense of meaning, purpose or real fulfillment in our lives. We find ourselves like laboratory mice or hamsters on the proverbial treadmill going nowhere fast, depleting our energy and finances with nothing to show for it but tons of planned obsolescence stuff and suffocating debt.
There was even a mindset propagated in the 80's and 90's that said the measure of one's worth is material possessions at life's end. They said "greed is good" which fueled consumerism, materialism and a dog eat dog, winner take all mindset. If the measure of your being, your self-worth and success are based upon the amount of gizmos and gadgets you have, what happens if you lose them, they become obsolete or you can no longer afford them?
Wealth inequality, homelessness, depression and despair hang over this country like a thick fog while many are succumbing to various addictions as a way of numbing their misery and frustration. Opiate prescriptions are at an all time high in America and the suicide rate is the highest it has been in thirty years!
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, November 15, 2019, page 5
“Indeed, African social structures and cultural traditions are infused with a spirituality that cannot be easily separated from the rest of the community’s life at any point. To analyze religion as a separate system of beliefs and ritual practices apart from subsistence, kinship, language, politics, and the landscape, for example, is to misunderstand African religion in general and African cosmology in particular. Thus, African culture could be described as a complex web of religion, attitudes and behavior, morality, politics, and economy. The African thought system influences the African cognitive process and lifestyle.” Encyclopedia of African Religion Edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Azama page 178
As we acknowledge four hundred years of traumatized separation from our African roots, hereditary lineages, culture, homeland and the deleterious affect this has had on us, and we ponder ways to heal ourselves, restore sanity and balance to our personal and collective lives; it becomes clear we must re-embrace our Africaness and our sacred being.
For the past two weeks we have looked at the significance of African cosmology in general, how it fundamentally differs from the Neanderthal and Caucasian worldviews and focusing on the preeminence of spirit in African cosmology and culture. The Western view of reality differs from the African view and that is to be expected given our differing histories.
We must recognize the West has deliberately denigrated and viciously maligned Africa and her people. While this is a topic for another time, the Europeans’ disdain for all things Africa and aboriginal are rooted in their collective deep insecurities, inadequacies and embarrassment at their own histories.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, November 8, 2019, page 5
“Though the (African) cosmologies appear to differ according to geography and regional histories, the degree to which they coincide in fundamental principles and function defines them as multiple expressions of a single cultural/cosmological construct.” The Sankofa Movement ReAfrikanization and the Reality of War by Kwame Agyei and Akua Nson Akoto page 166
Last week we addressed the idea of African cosmology. I said it was formulated in antiquity by our wise and talented ancestors who grappled with the deepest existential issues facing humanity, who were committed to cultivating and developing their peers’ highest potential. The origins of a unified and common African cosmology go way back into antiquity to the early development of humans.
“Cosmology refers to worldview and myths in general or, more specifically, to the cultural and religious imagery concerning the universe. African cosmology, which often takes the form of oral narratives, describes the web of human activities within the powerful spiritual cosmos; it transmits the beliefs and values of African peoples. African cosmology, then, is an attempt to describe and understand the origin and structure of the universe, how humans relate to the cosmos, and how and to what extent their thoughts and actions are shaped by it.” Encyclopedia of African Religion edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama page 178
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, November 1, 2019, page 4
Last weekend I attended the twenty-fifth annual International Locks Conference and I got a chance to speak with and interview representatives of the Keepers of the Culture an Afrocentric storytelling group. I was impressed with the family I met and their commitment to keeping the African oral tradition alive. Their next event will be Jambo Mama Africa Stories From The Motherland Sunday, October 27, at 2pm at the Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street.
The oral tradition is/was an importance aspect of aboriginal and indigenous people’s lifestyle and culture. Oral communication was their fundamental way of social interaction, sharing information passing on values and linking with their ancestors.
African people have always valued wisdom; which has nothing to do with formal education (indoctrination). Our transplanted ancestors who were denied formal education in this hemisphere called wisdom “mother wit.” In Africa we had long traditions of cultivating, rewarding and celebrating wisdom, promoting good character, righteousness and leaving a social legacy empowered by those virtues.
The oldest writings in the world addressing and promoting good character are found in the African Nile Valley’s Teaching of Ptahhotep, The Book of Coming Forth By Day and the Book of Creations. In the Nile Valley writing, Mdw Ntr (what the ignorant Greeks called hieroglyphics), was considered sacred, a means of cultivating good character and godliness.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, October 11, 2019, page 5
Last Saturday my wife and I attended a screening of a documentary entitled Invisible Warriors African American Women in World War II at the Lawnside New Jersey Middle School. The documentary is about the 600,000 African American women who left the farms and their menial jobs as cooks and domestic workers and traveled to the cities to work in the armament factories during World War II. The film was written, directed and produced by Gregory S. Cooke. It has taken him ten years to get to this point and the film is still not complete.
Invisible Warriors; African American Women in World War II tells the story of the Black women who answered the call to serve not in the military, but as workers in the myriad factories and the assembly lines producing airplanes, ships, and munitions in support of the war effort. Cooke dedicated the film to women like his mother who he calls The Black Rosie the Riveters, who represented the hundreds of thousands of unsung heroes who battled American racial apartheid, economic privation during the Great Depression and gender discrimination when they first applied for the jobs and keeping them once they were hired.
The film’s producer and director Gregory S. Cooke was present at the screening to explain the genesis of the film and share why he embarked on making this documentary. His mother, a resident of Norfolk Virginia, left home in 1943 when she was eighteen years old to travel to Washington D.C. to get her very first job as a clerk typist in the US Patent Office during World War II. “Much of the work I’ve done has been dedicated to her. She told me this story when I was five or six years old. I think the real reason I remember is because of the train, I’ve always had a love affair with trains and the fact that she rode on her suitcase in a segregated Jim Crow car in Virginia in 1943. Because of the ride she took I was born in Philadelphia” Cooke told the audience.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, October 18, 2019, page 5
Our African ancestors postulated the universe was teleological meaning it was designed with purpose and meaning and the designer was spiritual; that is intelligent, possessing consciousness (self-awareness), was powerful energy and non-material. This creator, planner and architect, our ancestors posited was unseen, unknowable and beyond human comprehension. They knew it existed but could not fathom it in its totality although they could see and intuit aspects of it all around them.
This ancient philosophy and cosmology is the root and foundation of all non-western metaphysical, religious and scientific thought. A closer examination of all current religious dogma and ideology will find some aspect of this ancient African cosmology in it. Over time leaders, priests and others perverted this ancient truth and used it for their own aggrandizement, power and profit.
Traditional Africans no matter their means of sustenance whether primitive hunter gatherers, agriculturalists, herdsmen or fishermen all embraced the idea the universe is purposeful, spiritual and mental in nature. They clearly understood this primordial consciousness/spirit is the cause, root and foundation of everything (all) that exists. This ideology is attributed to the Nile Valley Africans but it probably has its true origins deep in antiquity in the interior of Africa.
To read more Junious Stanton, view SCOOP USA Media, October 18, 2019, page 4
“Epigenetics is the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression. ‘Ep’ means above- epigenetics means above the genes…Epigenetics proves that our body has the incredible ability to adapt and stay in health no matter what genes you have. This is the gift of God- that we are not victims of our biology but we are in control of it!” Epigentics How Your Mind Can Reprogram Your Genes https://renewingallthings.com/spiritual-health/epigenetics-how-your-mind-can-reprogram-your-genes/
We are constantly being brainwashed, conditioned and subjected to mind entrainment by the corporate media which is owned by a select few, whose agenda is to control the flow of information and determine what we believe, what we buy and how we behave. They attempt to sell us foods that are not good for us and promote lifestyles that discourage optimal health. We are told we are helpless to alter our condition and our health is something we cannot affect, but this is not entirely true. There is hope; there is a branch of study called epigenetics that shows we can alter our DNA and health through our thinking, emotions and eating nutritious foods, that we are not victims of our ancestry or family health histories.
To read more, view SCOOP USA Media, September 13, 2019 page 5
Last week we commemorated the eighteenth anniversary of nine-eleven. I don’t refer to them as attacks because there has been no thorough investigation to determine if they were attacks by a foreign government, isolated “terrorists” or something far more nefarious and wicked.
Having witnessed first hand controlled demolitions in Philadelphia when I saw the Twin Tower buildings and later Building 7 come down, I know something was fishy about what we were told happened. I, like most Americans, watched television all day and night. I went to work that morning and I was at an institution that had the TV on when I arrived. By then the first plane had already struck one of the buildings and shortly thereafter the second building was hit.
To read more, view SCOOP USA Media, September 20, 2019 page 4
When you think of Cowboys, the West and rodeos do Black people come to your mind? If you are like most people the answer is no. But the fact is in the West following the War Between the States one in four people were Black and Blacks played a major role and exerted an important influence on the territory whether it was through the legendary Buffalo Soldiers, the hundreds of cowboys who worked the ranges, farms and ranches, travelled the cattle trails, served as lawmen and in even in a few cases as outlaws. U.S. history books and Hollywood have ignored the Black presence in the West.
Few people know that it was a Black man named Bill Pickett who created and mastered the sport of bull dogging (steer wrestling) a mainstay of modern rodeo performing. Pickett, who grew up on a ranch in West Texas the descendant of Native Americans and enslaved Africans, he lived and worked around animals all of his life. He made a name for himself doing tricks and a rodeo entrepreneur spotted him and Pickett gained fame and stardom touring with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show. Pickett was a pioneer with his unique style of performing.
Black cowboys continued that tradition and an all Black travelling rodeo competition was created and named after Pickett in 1984. Twenty-nineteen marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo. The rodeo founder Lu Vason from Denver Colorado had a vision of creating a Black rodeo association. Vason blended the cowboy skills, lifestyle and traditions with the idea of a national touring company that has survived for thirty-five years. It has been difficult over the years but Vason and his supporters made it happen. Since Vason’s transition in 2015 the mission has been carried on by Valeria Howard-Cunningham.
To read more, view SCOOP USA Media, September 27, 2019 page 5
After successfully hosting the 84th Grand Chapter Meeting of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. this past summer in the city of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi donated $20,000 to the two oldest Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Cheyney University, Cheyney, PA and Lincoln University, Oxford, PA.
During the Philadelphia Alumni Chapter’s monthly meeting the President of Cheyney University, Mr. Aaron A. Walton; a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and President Dr. Brenda A. Allen of Lincoln University to receive their $10,000 checks. The $20,000 award is a joint effort of the Philadelphia Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi and the Samuel and Dierdre Patterson Foundation.
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is a collegiate Greek-letter organization with a predominantly African-American membership. The fraternity has over 160,000 members with 721 undergraduate and alumni chapters in every state of the United States, and international chapters in the United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea, Japan, United States Virgin Islands, Nigeria, and South Africa.
To read more, view SCOOP USA Media, September 27, 2019 page 15
“The phrase ‘Thucydides’s Trap’ was coined by an American political scientist and Harvard professor, Graham T. Allison, to describe the phenomena of a rising power and an established dominant power almost always breaking into conflict. He took the term from the writings of Thucydides who was writing on the state of Greek affairs in The History of the Peloponnesian War which describes a series of wars between Athens and Sparta that changed the balance of power in Greece.”
https://www.quora.com/What-is-Thucydides’s-Trap
The politicians and the corporate mind control apparatus program us to believe the United States is the good guys, the exceptional and indispensable nation, the sole repository of morality and goodness in the world. This is propaganda to brainwash the masses into acquiescing to the American global empire and its plunder rape and degradation of the people and the planet. The US currently has over eight hundred military bases in seventy countries around the world and this doesn’t count drone bases and co
“Life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2017, the government said Thursday in a bleak series of reports that showed a nation still in the grip of escalating drug and suicide crises. The data continued the longest sustained decline in expected life span at birth in a century, an appalling performance not seen in the United States since 1915 through 1918. That four-year period included World War I and a flu pandemic that killed 675,000 people in the United States and perhaps 50 million worldwide.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-d eclines-again-a-dismal-trend-not-seen-since-world-war-i/2018/11/28/ae58bc8c-f28c-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html?utm_term=. a0cda8695d8b
The US Center for Disease Control just issued a report indicating life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2017. This is the third year in a row a decline has been reported. Health officials are concerned about the trend and are attempting to ascertain exactly why this is happening. Read more... check out the December 7th edition Scoop USA Media.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” - William Casey former Director of CIA
We live in a virtual Bizzaro World like in the old Superman comics where Superman’s antagonist Bizarro, a Frankenstein like version of Superman, was banished to Bizarro World, a place where everything was the exact opposite of our reality. Up was down, first was last, good was bad, wrong was right, white was black, logical was illogical, giving was taking, insanity was sane, liberty was tyranny, etc. In our version of Bizzaro World deceit is truth, exploitation is generosity, oppression is freedom, genocide is life, war is peace and evil is righteousness.
Examples of just how steeped in Bizzaro World we are were put on vivid display this past week, when CNN fired Marc Lamont Hill for speaking truth at the United Nations, of all places, and the ruling class and media adulation following the death of past President George H.W. Bush.
Read more at Scoop USA Media, December 14, 2018.
Procrastination: putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time.
They say procrastination is the assassin of success. We all have procrastinated at one time or another, we avoided, delayed or put off doing something that needed to be done, we didn’t want to do or some assignment we were given for any number of reasons: laziness, disinterest, feelings of inadequacy etc.
Procrastination keeps us from fulfilling our dreams, accomplishing what needs to be done; it circumvents our greatness and it is a form of personal sabotage that keeps us from exerting the needed brain power and energy to get things done. Success is the accomplishment or completion of a goal, to be successful requires action, doing, getting up and making things happen. Procrastination thwarts this because procrastination is a form of inaction, misplaced priorities and failure to do which are all counter productive.
Read more, Scoop USA Newspaper, December 28, 2018
As we enter the New Year, let’s focus on ways to empower ourselves, enhance our health on a personal, community and global level. As a people we need to be more conscious of our inner and outer worlds and work towards being our truest and greatest selves in order to turn this world around and make it a better place to live. The New Year is a great opportunity to forge new life paths, life goals and work to improve ourselves, our environment and the world.
We are all extensions of the DIVINE, we are sparks from the GREAT I AM and as such we should live our lives in full cognizance of this reality. As extensions of the DIVINE we have the same essence and power as the CREATOR only in lesser amount. We have the power of imagination, the ability to create in our mind’s eye images and scenarios we want to make real and manifest in our lives. As such we have an obligation to think good thoughts, envision positive outcomes, and generate positive energy and emotions that influence our immediate surroundings and the people we interact with.
Read more, Scoop USA Newspaper, January 4, 2019
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government” Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1967
One year to the day before his murder by the United States’ imperial forces, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a profoundly well thought out and cogent speech at Riverside Church in New York City on why he opposed the Vietnam War. In it King gave a history of Western imperialism in Southeast Asia, how the United States stepped in to fill the European colonial vacuum after the French were run out of Vietnam. He gave a detailed synopsis of the Vietnamese people’s struggle for freedom and how the US callously rejected their attempts to forge friendly relationships with America.
Read more, Scoop USA Newspaper, January 18, 2019
“Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.” Henry Highland Garnet 1865.
Africans in America have experienced horrific abuses, desecration, dehumanization and degradation at the hand of Euro-Americans. In the midst of our travails we always had leaders most of whom remain unknown and uncelebrated who urged our people on, exhorted them to keep the faith to resist and struggle for freedom and righteousness. As we commemorate the four hundred years in this hemisphere, let us not consign all our recollections to our debasement and degradation. Let us remember our successes and triumphs despite the overwhelming odds, systemic violence and sanctioned oppression.
Read more, Scoop USA Newspaper, January 25, 2019
“Essentially, the Obama administration—like the Bush administration, which was involved in the short-lived 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez—had a policy of promoting ‘regime change’ in Venezuela. That policy has taken a more aggressive, overt, and dangerous direction under Trump…The majority of the political and media establishment appears to believe that Trump has the right policy agenda for Venezuela, with many liberals pointing to cases of corruption, human rights violations and other crimes allegedly involving Venezuelan officials as justification for harsh measures.” The United States Hand in Undermining Democracy in Venezuela, Alexander Main.
Read more, Scoop USA Newspaper, February 1, 2019
We’re in Black History Month and we still don't get it, African people have the oldest, longest and most creative history of any people or ethnic group in the planet; but we don’t do the research or study the research others have done to show just how ingenious our ancestors were/have been.
Read more, Scoop USA Media, February 8, 2019
As we celebrate Black History, our challenge is where do we begin, how do we fill in the blanks and connect the dots to a legacy that is at least a hundred thousand years old? All too often we think our history began with our ancestors’ enslavement and haulage to this hemisphere, or with the earlier Arab invasions that influenced parts of the African continent. Agreed there is much history and lessons of resiliency, adaptation and survival we can learn from those but we must go back to the roots.
Read More, Scoop USA Media, February 15, 2019
In recent weeks I’ve shared some little known accomplishments of African people: boat building, seafaring and last week the astronomical and ceremonial megaliths in South Africa and the Nubian Desert. This information sheds light on the variety of African genius, innovation creativity and achievement.
This week I’ll share two more ancient megalithic sites. The word megalithic describes structures made of large stones without the use of mortar or concrete, representing definite periods of prehistory. Europeans always point to Stonehenge in Britain as an example of a megalith but rarely mention the African megaliths that are thousands of years older then Stonehenge.
Read More, Scoop USA Media, February 22, 2019
The Chester City Democratic Committee held their annual fund raising event in preparation for the upcoming primary and general elections at the Springfield County Club in Springfield Delaware County. The theme of the night and campaign was the Blue Wave Celebration Gala. Democrats from throughout the county were in attendance, all of the candidates in the upcoming primary were there working the room and glad handing the attendees. The event was a fund raiser but also an opportunity for Delaware County elected officials, candidates and supporters to meet, greet and get to know one another.
Read More, Scoop USA Media, February 22, 2019
The past few weeks I have shared information about the accomplishments of Africans that go unrecognized and overlooked due to a deliberate movement to suppress, obfuscate and ignore African history. We spoke about early boat building, navigation of the rivers and lakes in African and later circumnavigating the world by Africans.
Celebrating African and Black history during the shortest month of the years is counterproductive even though we need the exposure. We should celebrate African history all year long, daily because it is human history.
Read More, Scoop USA Media, March 1, 2019
“Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works much better than you may think. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. It is done slowly, so the victim doesn't realize how much they've been brainwashed.”
We are constantly being manipulated, coerced, cajoled and programmed both on subtle and obvious levels. The manipulators’ goal is to control our minds and ultimately our behavior. One such form of manipulation is called gaslighting. Gaslighting is a form of direct manipulation, obfuscation and lies designed to make the target (the person being manipulated) question their sanity, their reality or their competency.
Read More, Scoop USA Media, March 8, 2019
“For the month of January, the Treasury reported a budget surplus of $9 billion, down $41 billion or 82% from the same month a year ago… The widening deficit comes as the Congressional Budget Office is projecting a shortfall of $897 billion for the full fiscal year, or 4.2% of gross domestic product. That’s up from $779 billion in fiscal 2018, when spending climbed and revenue remained nearly flat. The CBO sees trillion-dollar deficits beginning in fiscal 2022.” https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-runs-januarybudget-surplus-of-9-billion-2019-03-05?mod=economicreport When Trump and the Republicans were selling their supply side tax cut snake oil, I did some research to determine whether or not tax cuts actually spurred economic growth and boosted the economy. I discovered they did/do not. I went all the way back to 1920 and discovered that only in a short seven year period from 1920 to 1927 in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge did a fiscal policy of austerity actually produce the desired results.
Read More, Scoop USA Media, March 15, 2019
Today’s ruling elites are extremely adroit at using an old strategy called “divide and conquer” or “divide and rule” to maintain their domination and advantage over the masses. This strategy was implemented in modern times by the British who used it effectively to maintain their global empire by fomenting discord amongst various ethnic, religious or resistance groups, to keep them fighting amongst themselves thus rendering them unable to unify, marshal or galvanize their resources against their colonial oppressors.
Today the plutocrats use their ownership and control of media programming, government, indoctrination (education and religion), state sanctioned violence and intimidation to create and maintain their domination of the world. Their two pronged strategy is to: create psychological, socio-economic, racial and ethnic conflict, division and enmity so their subordinates are so preoccupied trying to win arguments, promoting ideologies the 1% had a hand in creating or using hot button issues the elites know will distract, consume and derail any possibilities of insurgence, resistance or revolution against them.
Read More, Scoop USA Media, March 22, 2019
The African Institute later renamed the Institute for Colored Youth was the result of a bequeathal of $10,000 from Society of Friends member and prosperous silversmith Richard Humphreys. Humphreys in 1832 will set the money aside to, in his words create an institution “… having for its object the benevolent design of instructing the descendants of the African Race in school learning, in the various branches of the mechanik arts and trades and in Agriculture: in order to prepare and fit and qualify them to act as teachers in such of those branches of useful business as in the Judgment of the said society they may appear best qualified for, the Said Institution to be located not far distant from the City of Philadelphia and to be under the care, management and control of such Persons only as are or may be members of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends commonly called Quakers…” Adhering to the directives of Humphreys’ will, the trustees used the original $10,000 plus the accrued interest to formally begin operations five years after his earthly demise. After a considerable search they established the original farm school outside Philadelphia on Old York Road also called Willow Grove Turnpike in 1839. The school subsequently relocated to Philadelphia before purchasing property about twenty-five miles outside of Philadelphia from a fellow Quaker named George Cheyney in 1902.
Read More, Scoop USA Media, March 29, 2019