The Pentagon issued its annual report recently on suicide in the military, and it provides us with very sad news. Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on programs to stem this crisis, the suicide rate for active-duty U.S. troops rose to 28.7 per 100,000 during 2020, up from 26.3 per 100,000 the previous year.
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Even after Confederate flags and swastikas Defiled the people’s House on January 6th this small coastal community in California Called Fort Bragg just doesn’t give a spit.
Deranged Donald Trump, who is clearly severely mentally ill, said the following about himself on September 30, 2021, in an interview with Gene Bailey on The Victory Channel: “So nobody has done more for Christianity, or for Evangelicals, or for religion itself than I have”, said the mad king.
There’s been a lot of conversations in recent years concerning the topic of Columbus Day. And for good reason. Its origins, and the man at the center of it all, is problematic at best.
“Murder Just Because”
Movie goers were terrorized throughout the world by a fictitious character called Count Dracula. Dracula sucked the blood from his victims, turning them into a cult of Vampires. People today are facing a real and deadly virus called – COVID-19. But scientists developed multiple vaccines to inoculate people and to prevent it from spreading. Unfortunately, there are thousands of people, young and old, who strongly object to vaccines or any measures that can prevent the spread of the virus. Consequently, their loud anti-vaccine rhetoric and rowdy demonstrations have led to the evolution of groups resembling an anti-vaccine cult.
Across the nation as business owners are attempting to recover from the COVID-19 global pandemic, African America business leaders who are defying the odds with their financial success are often targeted by “mainstream media” and others who summarily and unfairly castigate Black business leaders’ economic achievements. Is this syndrome racially motivated? The simple answer is “Yes.”
Sometimes friends must hold friends accountable. That’s why I got arrested outside the White House on Oct. 5. I was there with other civil rights and religious leaders to call on President Joe Biden to do more to protect voting rights that are under attack.
You might not know them because they are not likely to hang out, socialize or mess around. You may have been told to stay away from activists because the imperialist press and other so-called major media are reluctant to call these brave men and women activists. Instead, newspapers, TV and radio stations, politicians and others with titles and so forth might refer to activists as rabblerousers, troublemakers, radicals or extremists.
Many Americans are not aware in 2021, that mail-in- voting is taking place in states, counties and cities around the country right now. Everyone can blame our political leaders, supervisor of elections, and a lack of information, but the ballots are being mailed out on time. Democracy is being challenged on every level, but it is still working.