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Misquito Vaccine Technology & Timeline - A Few Thoughts

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    It's not a secret that mosquitoes that can vaccinate have been around since 2022, if not earlier. Several sources in 2008 highlighted the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's investment.   Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Estimate 2008 -  Bill Gates has announced a $168.7 million donation to the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) to develop next-generation vaccines for malaria. The funding aims to create more effective and long-lasting protection against the disease. Gates announced at the UN Millennium Development Goals Malaria Summit, emphasizing the progress in malaria control programs in Zambia and Ethiopia(Gates Foundation, n.d). Reuters, September 25, 2008 - Bill Gates donated $168.7 million for malaria vaccine research, part of a $3 billion funding initiative to tackle malaria in Africa. The funding supports the development of longer-lasting vaccines in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline Plc. Gates expressed hope that these vaccines could eventual...

The Worldwide Reparations Movement Has Begun - News Update For 4/26/2023

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   Laura Trevelyan, an anchor and correspondent with the BBC was shocked to discover her ancestors had enslaved Africans on the Caribbean island of Grenada. Despite abolishing slavery, none of the families of the enslaved received reparations, including those of more than a thousand Africans enslaved by Trevelyan's ancestors.  To make amends, she and David Lascelles co-founded Heirs of Slavery, a group encouraging wealthy British families who profited from past enslavement to make formal apologies and seek reparative justice in the former Caribbean colonies. Today in Grenada, 7 members of the Trevelyan family presented a formal letter of apology to the people of this Caribbean island. “We apologize for the actions of our ancestors in holding your ancestors in slavery.” 104 members of the Trevelyan family signed the apology. pic.twitter.com/9pDqesJXNU — Laura Trevelyan (@LauraTrevelyan) February 27, 2023   The group is lobbying the British government to engage with ...

Dr Phil Faces Backlash Over Reparations Being An Absolute Disaster For The Recipients

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  Dr. Phil's recent remarks on a proposal by Duke University's William A. Darity Jr. that every Black descendant of slavery should receive $350,000 as cash reparations have sparked a heated debate on social media. Darity believes such reparations would help address the massive wealth gap between Black and white people, which he estimates at around $840,000 ( Darity , 2021).  " In the U.S. today, the richest 1 percent of households owns 37 percent of all wealth." ( Shapiro , 2013) On the other hand, Dr. Phil disagrees, arguing that disbursing such a large sum of money to any group of people, irrespective of their race or socioeconomic status, would be an "absolute disaster."   The issue with Dr. Phil's comment is that it falsely ass umes a future outcome . One thing we all need to learn about the future is that it is not 100% clear/certain. Other nationalities that have been paid reparations know what's it like even to have the option to dec...

Foundational Black American (FBA) News Headlines For 4/17/2023

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Amherst Massachusetts Survey For Reparations  An anonymous survey is being conducted in Amherst to gather residents' views on race and reparations, marking the first time the African Heritage Reparation Assembly is seeking input from a large cross-section of the community to develop specific recommendations on how to address past racial injustices in the town. The survey, which takes less than 10 minutes to complete, is part of the assembly's efforts to develop reparation proposals for people of African heritage in Amherst by the 2020 resolution "Affirming the Town of Amherst's Commitment to End Structural Racism and Achieve Racial Equity for Black Residents." The survey will help determine how the expected $2 million collected over ten years for reparations initiatives should be spent. The report is due to the Town Council by the end of June. It will explore whether residents support a dedicated reparations fund, eligibility criteria for reparations, and options ...

Marburg Virus Outbreaks

Marburg Virus Outbreaks Two simultaneous Marburg virus outbreaks Marburg virus is currently experiencing two simultaneous outbreaks, one in Tanzania and the other in Equatorial Guinea, a situation that has not been seen before. Marburg is a filovirus related to Ebola , but it has been rare until now. The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a health alert on the potential for imported cases to the US, but the risk is still low. Concerns over the official number of Marburg virus cases in Equatorial Guinea The situation in Equatorial Guinea is particularly worrying, with suspected deaths from Marburg being discovered in two villages in the north of the country, and 15 confirmed cases reported. However, there are concerns that the actual number of cases may be higher than the official tally, and the virus may be spreading undetected in the country. Marburg virus more deadly than Ebola Marburg virus is m...

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Brandon James Bentley | The North Carolina Ritual (27)

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  27-year-old named Brandon James Bentley was apprehended at a historically Black college called the North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University in North Carolina.  He was found to have over 1,000 rounds of ammunition and various weapons in his vehicle, including two handguns, two shotguns, a rifle, a crossbow, a machete, hatchets, a stun gun, brass knuckles, and a blow dart gun. The Greensboro police had arrived in response to a call by university security officers, who reported that Bentley had been acting violently, making threats, and chasing unarmed guards on campus. Numerology One thing criminals like to do is steal names from those who have passed away. There was man with the exact name that passed way not too long ago ( Gilliam Funeral Home , 2021).  If Brandon James Bentley is his real name he was 27 years old, and appeared in court March 27 th:  Ritual = 27 ( Pythagorean)   Bentley =  29 ( Pythagorean ) Fake name = 29 199 Looking...

Order Out Of Emergency (Update)

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  On Thursday, the Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, announced a state of emergency and deployed 1,000 National Guard troops in response to ongoing violent demonstrations in Atlanta after a shooting occurred near a disputed law enforcement training site, resulting in injury to a state trooper and death of a man. The emergency measure will remain in place until February 9 unless extended by the Governor. The footage of the police encounter that resulted in the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis will be available to the public on Friday evening. The decision to release the video is in the hands of the City of Memphis. The officers involved in the incident, which led to Nichols' beating and death, have been arrested and held in the Shelby County Jail. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr., and Justin Smith were all fired from the Memphis Police Department last Friday in connection to Nichols' death, which occurred during a traffic stop in January.  ...