The conservative Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have, remarkably, brought together progressive democrats and the nation’s police officers. What brought these two groups together was the Supreme Court’s recent overturn of an ATF regulation of a “bump stock” device that turns a semi-automatic rifle into a machine gun, generally prohibited under federal law. The bump stock device increases the shooter’s ability to kill! As of May 31, 2024, “there have been 225 mass shootings in the United States, resulting in 318 fatalities and 836 injuries.”
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Haiti’s, Enormous Wealth Unmasked
Iddeenspeaks to my Melaninated Brothers and Sisters caught up in a man-made internal conflict of divide and conquer in their homeland, Haiti. My question is, how many times and for how long will misguided and conflicted young Black men bring fear, grief, trauma, pain, misery, and uncertainty down on their glorious and beautiful people? There is a better way to re-liberate your beloved Haiti and reintroduce it to your families, loved ones, and other proud Haitian citizens. Haitian people must no longer allow the elements of Delusions, Deceptions, and Distractions to divert their attention away from the intended focus required to bring a higher quality of life for the people.
You cannot continue to allow foreign entities to play an outside game with the intent to obtain control over your inside wealth. First, there is a BIG LIE that must be exposed about Haiti now. First, in 1804, Haiti became the world’s first African/Black-controlled nation when it declared its independence from France colonizers. Did you know that before Haitians liberated themselves, Haiti was, once France’s richest colony?
Haiti was a land long coveted for its riches of sugar, coffee, and cotton, brought to market by enslaved people, but there is more. Remember the January 12, 2010, earthquake that killed more than 150,000 of Haiti’s beloved people? The earthquake also unmasked some sinister secrets that most in the West have known for years.
The earthquake revealed that Haiti has oil reserves the size of Venezuela’s or larger. Moreover, Haiti also has gigantic resources of Gold and rare-earth minerals like Iridium. For many years the world community has labeled Haiti the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and at the time suppressing the news of its abundant mineral wealth.
Foreign nations and wealthy individuals have worked diligently to prohibit Haiti from using its natural resources to promote sustainable economic development benefiting the Haitian people have, in many ways, violated the spirit of United Resolutions 1803, 3171, and 3201. The world community must not continue to blame the victim, Haiti, for its economic underdevelopment.
Facts About Haiti’s Natural Resource Wealth:
Oil and Natural Gas:
Recent findings suggest that Haiti might have some of the largest oil reserves in the world. These oil reserves are estimated to be even larger than those of Venezuela. Close to the Greater Antilles, nations like Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti are believed to sit atop natural gas reserves of about 159 billion cubic feet and oil reserves of about 142 million barrels.
Undiscovered reserves could potentially hold as much as 941 million barrels of crude oil and natural gas, with an estimated total of about 1.2 trillion cubic feet.
Gold:
Haiti is thought to have gold deposits worth approximately $20 billion. These deposits remain largely untapped, but their potential could significantly impact the nation’s economy and improve living standards for its population.
Copper:
The Meme copper mine in Haiti was exploited in the 1960s and produced at least 2 million metric tons of 2% copper1.
Other Resources:
Besides oil, natural gas, gold, and copper, Haiti’s natural resources include:
Bauxite: Used in aluminum production. Calcium carbonate: Used in various industrial applications. Marble: Valuable for construction and decorative purposes.
Hydropower: The potential for harnessing energy from water sources.
Arable land:
Suitable for agriculture
Again, Haiti is poor by design. Historical exploitation, foreign interventions, and political instability have denied Haitians the ability to have sustainable development. Uncovering the potential of these resources will contribute to Haiti’s growth and prosperity and afford its’ 11,724,763 people a livelihood like the citizens of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
All Haitians must realize once and for all, that their glorious nation in the Caribbean is not poor, but very wealthy. The proof is as close as your computer and the internet. It is time for Haitians in the diaspora all over the world, many forced to leave their country, many under the Duvalier imposed fear of death, to work in unison with the majority of those in the country to ensure that Haiti’s natural resources are used to lift its mighty people that have suffered far too long. Haitians suffered many years under French rule and after the revolution, they suffered under the rule of foreign-appointed and/or endorsed dictators who showed the people no mercy, no respect, and no love.
Haitian people must not see the glass as half-empty; contrarily, their glass is truly half-full and growing fuller all the time. Additionally, Haitians have every right to stand tall and be proud of their historical past. The Haitian Revolution, which lasted from (1791–1804), was the only so-called slave revolt that led to the founding of a new nation. Haitians and people of African descent all over the world should be very proud of our Melaninated brothers and sisters on this small Caribbean Island nation for achieving a monumental victory over a powerful oppressor.
Most people throughout the world have no idea about one of the most disturbing twists in the aftermath of the Haitian revolution; that being, Haiti was forced, by France and its Western allies, to pay massive reparations to French slaveholders in order to receive French recognition and end the nation’s political and economic isolation. What a concept, the oppressed forced to pay the oppressor. These payments set back Haiti’s economic development for generations.
Fact: African Americans and our brothers and sisters throughout the Caribbean Islands are still fighting for reparations for enslavement, stolen labor, and brutal mistreatment of our forefathers and mothers in the Americas.
The French, like most colonial powers, who were democratically ruled at home, had no desire to see free Haitian/African people living and enjoying democracy for themselves. Just as they did in Africa, the French established a system of minority rule while maintaining a state of illiteracy and poverty for the majority of the Haitians. Colonial powers used minorities as allies in their efforts to find economic ways to exert continued imperial control. Light supremacy, a system of minority rule, generally by countrymen/women of mixed race, guarantees the development of an illegitimate apartheid situation.
Jean-Claude Duvalier and many of the elite in Haiti practiced a form of light supremacy (individuals of mixed ancestry). This Haitian problem mirrors Africa’s problem, in South America, and many other parts of the world. Globally, Melanin-Rich people must understand the origin of light supremacy assumed leadership and put an end to these kinds of morally forbidden systems. Africa, Haiti, and other marginalized majorities populations must take their rightful place ruling their societies as they did during the origin of mankind.
The final chapter for Haiti is to clean itself of the final vestige of the psychological effects of the European-French rule. It is a stench that remains in the minds of many of the elites that still participate in the continued disproportionate rule of Haiti. When the Haitians took their freedom from France, physical independence was instantly achieved; however, like most of Africa today, the Haitian people suffered from the lasting effects of colonial rule, and it still affects its people today. This too will end and end soon!
A very sick part of the French rule returned to Haiti on January 16, 2011, in the form of the murderous Jean-Claude Duvalier. He unexpectedly returned a year after the 2010 Haiti earthquake to pick the remaining bones of the Haitian people. Different from former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s brutal kidnapping, Duvalier lived lavishly in France for two decades in self-imposed exile. Duvalier, like many of Haiti’s elite, identified more with the French colonists than the Haitians. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was punished by Western governments and their Haitian collaborators for simply loving his people.
One of the most atrocious actions of Jean-Claude Duvalier during his 15-year presidency, besides selling Haitian cadavers to foreign medical schools, was his participation in the cover-up regarding Haiti’s resource wealth. It is well known that Jean-Claude Duvalier had verified the existence of a major oilfield in the Bay of Port-au-Prince shortly before his downfall. He is guilty of the continued misery, hardship, and impoverishment of the Haitians; hence, he is responsible for many more lost lives.
Revenue from oil profits will vastly enhance the lives of all Haitians and quicken the economic development of the nation. He must be punished severely for the multitude of atrocities he committed against his people. Duvalier’s actions are no less inhuman, sadistic, and/or reprehensible than those of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. Saddam used chemical weapons to kill his people as well as thousands of Iranians.
Duvalier used designer poverty to kill thousands of his people and negatively affected the health of thousands more while he maintained the continued support of Prime Ministers and Presidents from around the world. Duvalier did his dastardly deeds without any signs of remorse or regret and the Haitian legal system must punish him to the full letter of the law.
In closing, let us be clear, Haiti’s natural resources belong to the Haitian people period! Haiti’s diamonds and gold, natural gas, and oil reserves could dramatically accelerate Haiti’s economic recovery and enable the Haitian People to become self-sufficient. It would enable Haiti leaders to push for economic independence through trade and industry rather than promised handouts!
U.N. Resolutions 1803, 3171, and 3201 provide Haiti, Africans, and all other states permanent full title and ownership over their natural resources.
More to Come…
Friend or Frenemy
The article stated, “Despite Biden’s warning, Israel’s Netanyahu tells TV personality Dr. Phil there’s ‘no other choice’ but to assault Rafah.” The Israelis Prime Minster, from day one of the Israeli-Gaza conflict has ignored President Biden’s recommendations. He has treated the innocent civilians of Gaza as disposable waste.
He continues to treat President Biden as a frenemy, not a long-term friend and ally. Netanyahu’s actions, as the U.S. moves closer to the critical upcoming U.S. Presidential election, have caused President Biden’s re-election efforts to seriously recoil. I know that he is a good friend and ally of former President Trump, therefore, it appears that his goals are to ensure that Trump gets elected in 2024.
I often wonder if the Trump/Kusner accord, which has shown President Biden very little respect, is working behind the scenes in the shadows with the far-right Netanyahu regime to sabotage President Biden’s chances for re-election in 2024. Everything Netanyahu has done since Hamas’s very idiotic and gruesome October 7 attack on innocent Israeli citizens, has pointed in that direction. Your comments, please.
Peace Must Start Now
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, no friend of President Biden, “says an Israeli airstrike unintentionally hit aid workers in Gaza on Monday.” Seven workers with the humanitarian group World Central Kitchen died in the Israeli attack. “The group says the strike hit the convoy after it delivered more than a hundred tons of food.”
The Monday killing of the humanitarian group World Central Kitchen, as horrific as they are, is just a microcosm of what innocent Gazan citizens live or die through daily. The killing of members of the humanitarian group World Central Kitchen must be investigated by an independent body and unfettered accountability must follow their examination of facts.
Politically speaking, every action made, and orders given by Benjamin Netanyahu during the ongoing Israeli/Gaza conflict has advantaged Trump’s 2024 election bid. A frenemy, a person who is or pretends to be a friend but who is also in some ways an enemy or rival, is not what President Biden needs to bring an end to this deadly Middle East conflict.
I believe that the American people know President Biden’s heart regarding the overall killings of the innocent; however, he is being judged by his overall reactions to those killings. Since President Biden doesn’t have a true partner for PEACE to end the Middle East conflict, he has to change his approach. The first thing that President Biden should do is to put restrictions on the use of U.S. weapons being used in Gaza. Second, he must return funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA, whose role in providing food, water, medicine, and shelter in the Gaza Strip is a critical lifeline for civilians. Third,
Israel alleges that 12 UNRW workers participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks. are so far just allegations. Israel accused 12 UNRWA staffers out of a total of roughly 13,000 staffers in Gaza. President Biden must return funding to UNRWA and 12,088 UNRWA staffers to go back to supporting the suffering innocent victims in Gaza.
The gigantic number of senseless deaths, the massive destruction of GAZA’s infrastructure, and the pending starvation of thousands of Gazans in the conflict between Israel and Gaza have broken the hearts of traumatized minds of people worldwide. I want to be clear; I am a lover of PEACE and tranquility for all people in every nation. If you want to know which side I am on, well, I am on the Side of Humanity.
I support global peace and personal security for all of humanity; consequently, I will support anyone who supports humanity with their Words and their Deeds. It is an accepted fact that every country and all people in the world have a right to defend themselves. However, there is a central question that must be asked and must be answered. Specifically, when do nations’ or individuals’ actions cross over from proportionate legitimate defense to genocidal disproportionality? The Global Family is crying out and literally demanding a permanent cease-fire and PEACE now.
Haiti Is Rich But Poor By Design
A few days ago, I heard a News commentator say that Haiti was the poorest Nation in the Northern Hemisphere. I did research and quickly discovered that the statement reported as a fact by the News commentator, was a lie.
Is Haiti really a POOR, Nation? No, not by any means.
Factually speaking, Haiti is unquestionably a resource-rich, mineral-rich nation. “Today, billions of dollars worth of gold, silver, copper, and zinc are believed to be buried beneath Haiti’s mountains. A new mine could generate thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue.” Tax Revenue in this case is by the people, for the people, and distributed equitable among the to the Haitian People.
Geography:
Area. total: 27,750 sq km. land: 27,560 sq km. water: 190 sq km. Climate. tropical; semiarid where mountains in the east cut off trade winds. Natural resources. bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble, hydropower, arable land.
Let’s be clear, Haiti has continued to be punished by many in the global community for fighting and obtaining its independence from France. Sixth-five years before African-Americans won their freedom in the United States, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe prevailed over the French, and Dessalines declared Haiti independent in 1804. As a Melanated Nation, Hait has one distinctive characteristic with many of her African sister nations: Rich but Poor by Design.
On January 12, 2010, one of the most devastating earthquakes in recorded history leveled the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The earthquake that killed more than 150,000 of Haiti’s beloved people unmasked some sinister secrets that most Western nations have known for years. The earthquake revealed that Haiti has oil reserves the size of Venezuela’s or more extensive. Moreover, Haiti also has tremendous resources of Gold & Minerals like Iridium.
For many years, the world community has labeled Haiti the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, suppressing the news of its great wealth. Governments and individuals who have worked in ways to prohibit Haiti from using its natural resources to promote sustainable economic development benefiting the Haitian people have, in many ways, violated the spirit of humanity and the United Resolution 1803, 3171, and 3201.
Facts About Haiti’s Natural Resource Wealth:
1) Scientists Daniel and Ginette Mathurin indicate that Haitian soil is rich in oil fossil fuel, and gold which Haitian and foreign experts collected. “We have identified 20 sites Oil, launches Daniel Mathurin stating that 5 of them are considered very important by practitioners and policies
2) The Central Plateau, including the region of Thomond, the plain of the cul-de-sac, and the bay of Port-au-Prince, is filled with oil, he said, adding that Haiti’s oil reserves are larger than those of Venezuela. An Olympic pool compared to a glass of water is the comparison to show the importance of oil Haitian compared to those of Venezuela, “he explains.
All Haitians must realize that their glorious nation in the Caribbean is not poor but enormously wealthy. The proof is as close as their computers and the internet. It is time for Haitians in the diaspora worldwide to work in unison with their people in-country to ensure that Haiti’s natural resources lift its mighty people who have suffered far too long.
Haitians suffered unimaginably for many years under French rule. After the revolution, they suffered under the control of foreign-appointed and endorsed dictators who showed the Haitian people no mercy, respect, or love.
Haitian people must not see the glass as half-empty; contrarily, their glass is truly half-full and growing fuller all the time. Additionally, Haitians have every right to stand tall and be proud of their historical past. The Haitian Revolution, which lasted from (1791–1804), was the only slave revolt that led to the founding of a new nation. Haitians and all people of African descent worldwide should be very proud of their people living on this small Caribbean Island nation for achieving a monumental triumph over a powerful oppressor.
Most people throughout the world have no idea about one of the most disturbing twists in the aftermath of the Haitian revolution; that being, Haiti was forced, by France and its Western Allies, to pay massive reparations to France. France, the colonizer, demanded this pound of flesh before recognizing Haiti’s Sovereignty and ending the nation’s political and economic isolation. What a concept, the oppressed forced to pay the oppressor. These payments set back Haiti’s economic development for generations. Today, Haitians are still feeling the crushing economic pain.
Fact: African Americans and our brothers and sisters throughout the Caribbean Islands are still fighting for reparations for the enslavement, stolen labor, and brutal mistreatment of our forefathers and mothers in the Americas.
Haiti’s Sad fact, many of Haiti’s elites identified more with the French colonists than their Haitian brothers and sisters. One of the most atrocious actions of Jean-Claude Duvalier during his 15-year presidency was his participation in the cover-up regarding Haiti’s resource wealth.
Duvalier was well aware of Haiti’s resource wealth; however, he used designer poverty to kill thousands of his people and negatively affected the health of thousands more. At the same time, he maintained the continued support of Prime Ministers and Presidents from around the world. Western powers were complicit in Duvalier’s dastardly deeds committed without any signs of remorse or regret.
In the 1990–91 Haitian general election, the honorable Jean-Bertrand Aristide became Haiti’s first democratically elected president. Aristide won his election with 67% of the vote. Following a brief military coup in September 1991, Aristide was president again from 1994 to 1996 and 2001 to 2004.
Aristide was ousted in the 2004 coup d’état after right-wing ex-army paramilitaries invaded the country from across the Dominican border. Aristide and many others have alleged that the United States had a role in orchestrating the coup against him.
Former U.S. President George Bush forced him into exile in the Central African Republic and eventually to South Africa. He finally returned to Haiti in 2011 after seven years in exile. Western governments and their Haitian collaborators punished President Jean-Bertrand Aristide for simply loving his people.
Let’s be clear, Haiti’s natural resources belong to the Haitian people, period! Haiti’s diamonds and gold, natural gas, and oil reserves could dramatically accelerate Haiti’s economic recovery and enable the Haitian People to become self-sufficient. It would allow Haiti’s leaders to push for financial independence through trade and industry rather than promised handouts! Haiti can achieve higher economic growth rates and rising prosperity by comprehensively implementing the “Aristide Plan.” Haiti must also find an honest broker to extract revenue from the abundance of its natural resources. This strategy will vastly enhance all Haitians’ quality of life and quickens the nation’s economic development.
U.N. Resolutions 1803, 3171, and 3201 provide Haiti, Africa, and other states permanent full title and ownership over their natural resources.
Breaking News “The U.N. human rights chief on Monday urged countries to “fully fund comprehensive processes” and take “a wide range of reparations measures” to address the legacies of slavery, colonial rule, and racial discrimination.”
France must be first in line to reverse its’ cruel treatment of Haiti. After Haiti won its independence from France in 1804, however, Freedom from France in 1804 did not mean an end to foreign powers intervening in Haiti. Like most colonial powers, the French, democratically ruled at home, had/have no desire to see free Haitian/African people live in and enjoy democracy.
France only recognized an independent Haiti in 1825 after its former Haiti agreed to pay compensation and reparations that would be worth $22 billion today. Over the next 120 years, Haiti had to pay an annual fee for its national Sovereignty. These debt payments to France were as much as 80 percent of Haiti’s revenues. Now, does the world community understand why Haiti is still struggling to feed and house its people?
“During the nearly two-decade occupation, the United States controlled Haiti’s security and finances. It also imposed racial segregation, forced labor, press censorship, and deposed presidents and legislatures that opposed the U.S. presence. Some fifteen thousand Haitians were killed in rebellions against the U.S. administration, the bloodiest of which occurred in 1919 and 1929. President Franklin D. Roosevelt withdrew U.S. troops in 1934 as part of his Good Neighbor Policy.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the greatest threat to the global Jewish population
In today’s geopolitical World, individuals will criticize you based on whose side in a conflict you appear to take. I support global peace, prosperity, and personal security for all of humanity; consequently, I will assist anyone who promotes humanity with their Words and Deeds. It is accepted that every country and everyone worldwide has a right to defend themselves.
However, there is a central question that must be asked and must be answered. Specifically, when does a nation’s or an individual’s action cross over from proportionate legitimate self-defense to genocidal disproportionality? Therefore, if you want to know which side I am on, I am on the “Side of Humanity.” My concept, “Side Of Humanity,” is bounded by the twin factors of morality and justice.
Netanyahu has garnered both Internal Israeli controversies and negative Global Impact. Many Israelis perceive Netanyahu’s leadership as risky and corrupt. Many believe he is willing to sacrifice democratic principles and ignore international law by taking extreme measures, causing excessive deaths and massive destruction to remain in power.
Netanyahu has received internal and global disapproval for his relentless pursuit to dismantle Hamas, which has raised questions about civilian casualties and the impact on innocent lives. Approximately 30,000 civilians have died, and there are possibly thousands more under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza in the name of ensuring Israel’s security. Under International law, civilians must never be targeted, as doing so amounts to war crimes. Netanyahu’s decisions in this context have faced global scrutiny and widespread condemnation.
Hamas brought unthinkable levels of death and destruction to its people by its brazing, stupid, and despicable attack on Israel. The Israeli embassy in the UK estimates that “the total number of Hamas and fighters killed is “between 10,000 and 12,000.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, vowing to press on with the war until “complete victory.” How many more must die before Netanyahu declares a total victory?
Netanyahu’s ongoing attack on Gaza has unequivocally put Jewish lives at risk and damaged Israel’s international relations, generating mass protests in cities, towns, and villages worldwide. His stance on issues like the two-state solution and expanding settlements in the West Bank has drawn criticism and concern from both allies and adversaries alike.
To bring an end to the threats and the surge in antisemitism to many innocent Jews around the World, Netanyahu must agree to a cease-fire and bring an end to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
In the U.S.A., “Not One Is Above The Law.”
Trump was refused Presidental Immunity by Tanya Chutkan, the judge in his election interference case in Washington D.C, and again unanimously by the Washington D.C appellate court. Now, it is the hand of the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump’s request for presidential immunity is simple. It is a NO because in the U.S.A., “No One Is Above The Law.”
Case in point, Vladimir Putin’s openly and very publicly cold-blooded murder of Russian citizen the honorable Alexei Navalny just demonstrated the power of unfetter immunity. Trump’s lawyer argued that “Assassination of enemies covered under presidential immunity”.
The U.S. Supreme Court must move swiftly and deny Trump’s Un-American demand for immunity.
Mail-In Voting Connection To ADA
Mail-In Voting
What do the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Disabled and Senior Voters have in common with Mail-In Voting? Mail-in voting will allow millions more disabled and Senior voters to Vote! If they can’t get to a voting station, Mail-In voting allows all Americans, specifically disabled and Senior voters to exercise their legal right to vote. We the people must not only guarantee the provision of Mail-In Voting, but we must expand voting for all eligible voters. If you are against Mail-In Voting, please explain your opposition to the Disabled and Senior Community Voters. Please, give me your comments.
Couse Correction– For The People
In today’s geopolitical World, individuals criticize you based on whose side you appear to take. I support global peace, prosperity, and personal security for all of humanity; consequently, I will support anyone who promotes humanity with their Words and Deeds. It is accepted that every country and everyone worldwide has a right to defend themselves. However, there is a central question that must be asked and must be answered. Specifically, when does a nation’s or an individual’s action cross over from proportionate legitimate self-defense to genocidal disproportionality? Therefore, if you want to know which side I am on, I am on the “Side of Humanity.” My concept, “Side Of Humanity,” is bounded by the twin factors of morality and justice.
The “Most High” blessed this World with enough wealth and resources to guarantee that the entirety of the human family can enjoy a wholesome standard of living and quality lives. Yet citizens of several countries live with high levels of material comfort; many others live in desperate, long-term, continual poverty. Again, although many countries are spiritually and resource-rich, they are materially poor by design.
Years of divide and conquer, invented wars, and ongoing conflicts make it impossible for emerging countries to create safe and secure environments for their people. Violence and conflict most often have devastating consequences on the people involved; however, innocent civilians are victimized because of the circumstances of their birth.
The Middle Eastern Islamic Communities specifically are failing their citizens by engaging in conflicts that they can’t WIN. Insane talk of Combatants obliterating a major power is a perception and deception of reality. A combatant’s attack on a significant military power, for the most part, is committing “Suicide by Military”; hence, Combatants engage in actions that provoke a considerable military force into killing them and their people.
The Combatants also put the very lives of their own citizens in supreme danger. Again, Combatants committing actions that cause a fatal response is “Suicide by Military.” Let’s be clear: Any so-called leader who values personal power over the well-being of their people is no leader at all. The world community cannot allow a lack of empathy for so-called radical groups to normalize the collective punishment of innocent civilians in radical groups’ proximity.
If attacked, most Major Military Powers (MMP) will not hesitate to use their significantly disproportionate military advantage to annihilate individuals and destroy entire communities. Misguided Combatants are responsible for the preventable tragedies leveled against the lives of their people.
It’s one thing to desire to destroy a Major Military Power; however, having the ability to destroy an MMP is quite another thing. On the other hand, any MMPs can destroy the Combatants and their people’s total infrastructure (i.e.) hospitals, kill healthcare professionals, and damage and destroy cultural, educational, and religious sites in hours. This instruction includes the destruction of schools, universities, churches, mosques, and libraries, which will cause significant setbacks for their society for years to come. No one leader should bring this kind of destruction down on people. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a Pathway to PEACE.
Countries below are currently at war or in conflict: the Russia and Ukraine war, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Somalia, Libya, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Colombia, Mali, and the Israeli-Gaza conflict. Thousands of Innocent civilians are dying every second, minute, hour, and every day! Ultimately, no one WINS in any of these hate-filled situations.
Developing countries must engage in Course Corrections – For the sake of The People and to end the self-inflecting wounds that keep them in a state of deprivation and dispossession. Human beings worldwide deserve to have the right to live in peace, security, and prosperity like members of the European Union and NATO countries. It’s time to de-escalate, not escalate, the tragic events that are causing the death and destruction of people around the World.
If developing countries seek peaceful coexistence and follow a course-correct strategies, they could work through the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and other international bodies to fight for civil, social, political, and economic justice peacefully. They can use international institutions to help acquire fair market value for their natural resources; therefore, they can use their wealth derived from their natural resources to ensure better living standards, healthcare, and education opportunities for their citizens.
The global community must work to “End All Wars” and move to expand climate control activities. We desperately need PEACE, and the Global community must demand PEACE now! For the sake of the children, for the sake of the mothers, and for the sake of all innocent human beings still living in conflict areas, we must have PEACE! We cannot allow a lack of empathy for so-called radical groups to normalize the punishment of innocent civilians living in close proximity to targeted radical groups.
If I could speak to leaders of Hamas, Houthi rebels, Hezbollah, and others, I would remind them that they cannot WIN a military conflict against any major powers. If they don’t pursue a Course Correction now, they will just continue to exacerbate the trauma, pain, and deaths of innocent civilians and the wholesale destruction of the infrastructure needed to sustain their lives. I would say to them your people have suffered enough and deserve a peaceful solution to present and future conflicts. We live in the 21st century and need emotionally intelligent “THOUGHT LEADERS” who tell the truth no matter whom it exposes. “Though Leaders” must also seek the truth in others and stand up and negotiate strategies to bring about lasting PEACE.
In Closing, large-scale bombings, which kill thousands of innocent people, also have a major negative environmental impact on society. It is well known that war and military activities produce extensive amounts of greenhouse gases and pollution and cause resource depletion. The World needs PEACE and Clean Renewable Energy. The environmental impacts of war include the collapse of institutions, leading to environmental risks that can impact people’s health, livelihoods, and security far into the future. Collectively, we must end the reckless use of explosive weapons that cause massive damage to civilian and industrial infrastructure, resulting in the release of hazardous materials such as asbestos, industrial chemicals, and fuels and the contamination of air, soil, and water resources.
Contempt for Wokeness
Wokeness'” is a term that has grown in popularity with some people in recent years. As for the African-American community, Wokeness is a matter of life and death. Wokeness refers to being aware of and attentive to critical societal facts and issues. This is especially true as it relates to racial and social justice.
The opposite of Wokeness equates to either close-mindedness or pure ignorance. It’s a shame Wokeness has become part of today’s culture wars. I can’t imagine that anyone would prefer not to be woke. Do you know anyone who doesn’t value enlightened and multicultural sensitivity? If you do, they indeed demonstrate signs of silliness called anti Wokeness.
As we approach the November 2024 Presidential election, we must stay woke and utilize the strategy of Emotional Intelligent Voting. I encourage all voters who value Democracy not to be a single-issue voter. To be “woke” politically in the Black community means that someone is informed, educated, and conscious of social injustice and racial inequality.”
If you know anyone with a “Contempt for Wokeness,” understand they are operating with a mental deficit and, by all means, are on the wrong side of history.