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  2. @aka Contrarian, excellent weekly news wrap. As a correspondent, I'll add... Former POTUS Orange Julius (POJ) had his $464 million bond reduced to $175 million. NY AG Letitia James is still holding on to it as a win. Meanwhile, POJ's Truth Social hits stock market valued at $3.6 billion. IOW, there was reason to reduce the bond above. As mentioned above, POJ puts sprinkles on his fortune cake hawking a Bible. Also resurfaced is the infamous picture of him standing in front of a church during the Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder. Robert Kennedy Jr. doesn't stand a chance of being elected POTUS. Due to a consideration that affects his speaking voice, if RFK Jr. leader, his public addresses would be a painful listen. CNN caught up with Fani Willis at an event in Atlanta. She was looking good and defiantly said the train is still coming in the case against POJ. Puffy aka Diddy is definitely in a tub of hot water as the Feds hink he's involved in sex trafficking. It makes no sense to me that a billionaire would pick that as a side hustle. These raids coincide with other allegations against the music mogul. He's been skating on thin ice for decades. The Baltimore bridge collapse was an unfortunate catastrophe. It happened about 40 minutes driving from my hood.
  3. SENEGAL New President Demands and END to France Neo-Colonialism And Collaboration among African States France Left SHOCKED By Viral Speech Of Senegal's New 44 Year Old President.
  4. Where did you learn about the NDE experiences of these people a book, YouTube? Did they also explain why people would come back to be beheaded starve to death, die in infancy, and be raped and tortured? Did they explain what these experiences would provide them?
  5. At Present the US is having Border Issue.....Drugs and Migrants Over 50 million Americans use TikTok as their main source of News(information) and entertainment(influence)....TikTok is owned by a Chinese Company with heavy Governmental Oversight. You would be right to call them.....Militias. Also none of the above is proof of truth. It was The Clintons who destroyed Haitian Agriculture and Bill took responsibility for it....but has yet to commit to a remediation plan of action instead the situation is being exasperated. Since the Market for local Goods is destroyed...Nothing will sell that is locally grown - Making locally grown food unprofitable as cheap mass produced and heavily subsidize food is flooding the local market from Arkansas/USA. How you going to build hospital/schools or infrastructures when you Starving and if you do how are to pay workers teachers /nurses/doctors and buy medicine/supplies...with the enemy/US only too happy to destroy all your good effort. Since his invasion in 1994, Clinton has completely destroyed the structure of Haitian agriculture. In 1995 he forced the nation to drop tariffs on rice imported from America. Haiti dropped its import tariffs on rice from 50% to 3%. Clinton claimed this move would help Haiti jump into the "Industrial Era." Yet even before Clinton took this action, experts were well aware of the consequences: “An export-driven trade and investment policy has the potential to relentlessly squeeze the domestic rice farmer. This farmer will be forced to adapt, or (s)he will disappear.” –quoted in Lisa McGowan, [January 1997] REPORT HERE (PDF) After adopting Clinton's policies, Haiti became the fourth-largest importer of rice from the U.S, even though they were the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Most of the imported rice came from Clinton's home state in Arkansas. Today, Haiti is the fifth largest importer of American rice in the world, even though their population is just 10 million. Back in the 1970's Haiti imported only 19% of its food. When Haiti shut out the global markets, they were self sufficient and managed to feed a majority of their population while producing trade surpluses. Yet now Haiti imports over 80% of its rice from the U.S. Due to the new trade agreements, one ton of Haitian rice is now $300 more expensive than American rice on the Haitian market. This has devastated Haiti's ability to feed itself and be self sufficient. Haiti has 700,000 hectares of underutilized arable land, but still suffers from chronic trade deficits and food insecurity as a result of Clinton's policies. BILL CLINTON: Since 1981, the United States has followed a policy, until the last year or so when we started rethinking it, that we rich countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own food, so, thank goodness, they can leap directly into the industrial era. It has not worked. It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake. It was a mistake that I was a party to. I am not pointing the finger at anybody. I did that. I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people, because of what I did. Nobody else. https://www.worldfuturefund.org/reports/haiti/clintonhaiti.html Yes and Yes
  6. Close on the heels of the ads featuring gold garnished sneakers bearing the Re-elect Trump brand, is a TV commercial featuring Donald tRump hawking for the modest price of $59.00, a "patriotic" Bible guaranteed to inspire God to Bless America. Holding the leather bound holy book in his raised little pudgy hand, flanked by two gigantic American flags, a salivating Donnie gives his spiel, hardly able to keep a straight face as he anticipates a flood of orders from his faithful following. What a perfect embodiment of the dire warning political pundit, Sinclair Lewis, predicted years ago. to wit: "When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag, and carrying a bible." Elsewhere in the news, Robert Kennedy has selected a female Asian Progressive as his presidential running mate. Nobody seemed more stunned than she was in her deer-in-the-headlights TV sound byte. And NBC will have to pay out a ton of money to rescind its hiring of a 2016 election denier, January 6th defender, and former Republican National Committee head. They hired her to give more balance to their news reporting, but they got so much flack from their liberal Talking Heads who thought she'd be more at home on Fox News, that NBC execs backtracked and broke her contract. She gone. Since Fani fired her stud muffin, she's back on the case. Puffy's mansion ransacked and wrecked by a crew of Feds, looking for a weapons stash. Conspiracy rumors already circulating about the Baltimore bridge collapse being a terrorist attack. 10-4, your night owl news reporter signing off...zzzzzzzzz
  7. Troy no I do not think most meaning more than 50% of Black people know how to farm Exactly. So where is the argument? As far as fishing, I would be willing to bet 51% of Black people have some experience fishing. even if they don’t they can learn in 30 minutes or so. I'm not sure about that. Are you including all Black women and all Black folks born and raised in major cities in this demographic? But you never needed “most” people to know how to farm or fish you just need enough people to support the rest. Ok. You're right. Now....do we have THAT? Do we have enough AfroAmericans who know how to farm and fish to feed our community here in the U.S.? I was surprised that you would reject that statement and supported by saying that most Black people don’t know how to fish. I'd agree that we don't need WHITE folks to teach us, but we need SOMEBODY to teach us...even if it's other AfroAmericans who know how. As we've already agreed upon, most of our people DO NOT know how to properly farm or fish to generate enough food to feed our entire community, let alone enough to actually sell food to other communities to help support them and make money for ourselves. The question isn't whether or not we can learn. Most of us were farmers and knew how to grow our own food, build our own houses, and sew our own clothes when we were living down South over 100 years ago. My GrandFather actually built the house my Mother and her siblings were raised in and my Grandmother sewed their clothes. We're not talking about then, we're talking about NOW.
  8. Because it doesn't make sense to you, does that discount it as a possibility? If you study Near Death Experiences and those who come back with messages, one of their explanations as to why people come into THIS Reality and go through some of the hardships they go through is to gain EXPERIENCE. Kind of like how a person appreciates wealth more if they've experienced poverty, as opposed to one born and raised in the lap of luxury and may be easily bored with it.
  9. 1. It is widely known that the ONLY qualification for being a Christian is accepting Jesus Christ as your "lord and savior". So yes...being brought up with Christian parents or in a Christian society and loosely believing in Christianity is sufficient. You don't have to be a fundamentalist. Now whether one is a "good Christian" or not....I'm sure has qualifications based on one's behavior and adherence to the different rules depending on your denomination, but most Christians would agree that simply accepting Christ as your lord and savior is sufficient. 2. Moses, Pharaoh and the others have next to NOTHING to do with Christianity because most Christians only use the Old Testament as a reference pointing to the New Testament. From a scholarly point of view...... These are what could be considered Biblical (some may even argue "fictional") characters, while early founders of Christianity were real historical figures. It should also be noted that Christianity was NOT established by the figure we call Jesus. It was established by Paul. But that's a different argument all together....lol.
  10. In 2024 AD, it's not relevant where Christianity originated inasmuch as it has undergone so much modification. But, as usual, a straw man argument is trotted out, polluting this discussion, supplying answers for questions that weren't asked, blurring the issue with a lot of geographical subterfuge, while over looking the simple question I asked pioneer. Which was: why do you question the devotion of black folks to Christianity when you, yourself, are so attached to the Bible and its fables and so firm in your belief in God? Can't you figure out that the degree to which people embrace their creed is commensurate with their need to be blessed? Your motivation seems to be a need to dispute anything connected with the Bible which doesn't comply with your interpretations, in order to give the impression that you are omniscient. tsk-tsk
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  12. Being born of Christian parents is not sufficient to make you a Christian, you know that man don’t try to play me @Pioneer1 So the Old Testament, Moses, pharaoh, and all those cats mean nothing to you regarding the origins of Christianity?
  13. @Pioneer1 no I do not think most meaning more than 50% of Black people know how to farm but I don’t think 50% of any demographic living in the United States in 2024 knows how to farm with the exception of actual farmers. As far as fishing, I would be willing to bet 51% of Black people have some experience fishing. even if they don’t they can learn in 30 minutes or so. But you never needed “most” people to know how to farm or fish you just need enough people to support the rest. But the point I’d that I agree with ProfD statement: I was surprised that you would reject that statement and supported by saying that most Black people don’t know how to fish.
  14. @Pioneer1 according to Google incorrigible has been used 9 times in 15 years, roughly once every year and a half. Hardly worth mentioning. The word is oh so apropos. If you rolled in more educated circles I’d suspect you’d hear it not often as far as your response. You engaged and a great deal of linguistic gymnastics and dragged out your Multiverse argument which you drag out to explain away anything as it encompasses all possibilities . the idea that we can move between any of the universes we want does not make sense to me, as I doubt anyone would pick their current situation knowing there are an infinite number of better positions they could be in.
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  16. oh thank you @Troy I wanted day 3 and 4 typed up by now, but I am racing against the clock for a contest. but by this end of week i hope ot have all four days in for reading leisure:) thanks for the link. I will add it to my early dos literature group. You look like you can be in the whispers back then:) cool I didn't realize lawrence fishburne was a member of the whispers:)
  17. Troy How do you think most Christians became Christian? They were BORN into it. As is the case with most religions. Do you think the only people spreading the gospel are white people in Africa? No. There are black Christians going to white countries to proselytize. Yes, but for different reasons than the White Christians. The Black Christians who go to White nations to proselytize are sincere and actually believe in the Bible and in Christianity. Most of the White Christians who go to Africa, Asia, and other nations of color KNOW better and DON'T believe in the Bible nor Christianity but recognize them and use them as TOOL to subjugate the people they come into contact with. As far as the origins of Christianity. Where do you believe is started pioneer? Then tell me which continent that would be? I’ll wait… “And it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians,” Acts 11: 26. Antioch was/is a city in norther Syria.....in what was considered Asia Minor . But the modern form of Christianity most Christians practice today was crafted in Rome under the Vatican.
  18. Troy you clearly don’t live in the south my brother. I can’t even wrap my brain around what you just wrote. It was intellectually dishonest for you to leave off a key word in my statement. I said MOST....not all...MOST. And would you disagree with it? Do you believe MOST Black folks in the U.S. know how to farm and fish? frankster Understand this None of the Great Powers are able to keep any other power from Intervening inside their respective Countries 100%. Understood. But my question is, do they NEED to do this at 100%? If they can secure their borders and the influence and information that flows in and out of their nation ENOUGH, most nations would be satisfied. Show me the Truth in your Analysis....? Look at the current situation in Haiti as a stark example. You have several groups of armed men. The media calls them "gangs". I would call them militias. But all of them are armed and fighting eachother over territory, money, and resources that already exist or is promised to come in. How many of them are talking about farming to be able to feed their population, building new schools to educate the population, and building a new infrastructure for the nation? Any of them building hospitals? Zimbabwe. So, 2 questions: 1. Did the Black population of Zimbabwe forcibly KICK OUT the White power structure that ruled the land or were they GRANTED so-called "independence" from that power structure? 2. Is the nation of Zimbabwe currently THRIVING?
  19. Man....is that your favorite word or something? You're the ONLY one I hear using it online OR offline...lol. But to answer your question.....and it actually is a pretty good question..... The simple and straight forward answer is I'M NOT SURE. But to go in more detail, I'll say consider 2 things............ 1. Knowing everything that will take place doesn't necessarily equate to predetermination. It suggests it, but doesn't equate to it. Kind of like programing a computer SUGGESTS that you will know how it operates.....but this doesn't necessarily EQUATE to it. Only KNOWING HOW IT WILL OPERATE equates to knowing how it will operate, regardless of who programmed it and how it was intended to operate. 2. If you consider the MULTI-REALITY Theory that suggests that ALL possibilities exist and are being played out somewhere in existence. Then ofcourse all things are predetermined by the Omniscient BEING because all things and all scenarios exist actually exist! But as an individual you could still have a choice as to which Reality you navigate through. And yes, the Omniscient BEING knows which Reality you'll choose to naviage through. But that doesn't necessarily mean THEY made that choice for you....THEY knew you'd choose it. Like I said about....knowing the choice you'll make may not necessarily mean THEY programmed you to make that choice. It may suggest it, but doesn't hard rock guarantee that this is the case. So perhaps predetermination AND individual free-will exists side by side if you accept the Multi-Reality Theory.
  20. Don't get me wrong....... I'm not saying they were "enemies" of Black people. Not sure about Gaddafi and what all he did for Black people outside of gifting and loaning money to the Nation of Islam, but Castro did MANY magnificent things for Black people around the planet from funding and assisting in revolutions around Africa to sending aid and help to Black and poor struggles around the Americas. I'm just saying that a Black coalition needs to be led by BLACK PEOPLE. Not a White nor almost-White "savior". What does it say about us, that we aren't doing it on our own and need them? That actually defeats the purpose. Replace the French of British colonizer with a White Latino or White Berber colonizer....what's the difference? If I were one of the rich elite White folks who ran the world, that would probably have been my argument to Gaddafi or Castro to attempt to win them over, lol. "Yeah...we're ruling them because we don't think have sense enough to take care of and govern themselves! Say what? You said you're going to help organize them to overthrow our racist White power structure because they should be independent? Well....if they need YOU to do it because they can't do it on their own then doesn't that PROVE a White man should be in charge??? Let the Revolutions go and come and join us in rulership my 'almost but not quite White -but white enough' -brothers! "
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  22. I have not had a chance to read this yet, but UII wanted you to know that I appreciate the coverage. Since local media is missing and under resourced the events are not covered -- despite being newsworthy. Your report bring to mind the "Reports from the Field" Kalamu ya Salaam used to publish on our events. Here are The Reports from the Field of the 5th National Black Writers Conference by Kalamu ya Salaam (from April 2000). If we don't preserve the story they never happened
  23. In Order to keep them out One must firts Kick them Out. Understand this None of the Great Powers are able to keep any other power from Intervening inside their respective Countries 100%. I think its Apropos.....And I will go as far as to say - Aluta Continua Vitoria e Certa. Show me the Truth in your Analysis....? A Truth told with Bad intent beats all the Lies you can Invent.....W. Blake Zimbabwe.
  24. Yeah, the black excellence forum can use a little more love. Even the sister who helped generate the idea rarely contributes.
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