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Friday, December 4, 2015

Mark Zuckerberg Gives Away The Fortune!

Priscilla changed him. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook announced he will donate his most of his fortune to charity. He and his wife are proud parents.

The CEO of social media titan Facebook announced that he and his wife are proud parents of a baby daughter. He also announced that he's giving away 99% of his fortune to charity.

Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan announced the birth of their first child, they also announced they'd be giving away 99% of their Facebook stock—worth nearly $45 billion, CNN reports. Zuckerberg and Chan posted an extremely lengthy open letter to their daughter Max on Facebook Tuesday.

Read it below....

Dear Max,

Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You've already given us a reason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.

Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ours today.

While headlines often focus on what's wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving. Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramatically better than ours today.
President Barack Obama holds a townhall with Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
We will do our part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation.

We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the many more people who will live in future generations than live today. Our society has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.

But right now, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.

Consider disease. Today we spend about 50 times more as a society treating people who are sick than we invest in research so you won't get sick in the first place.

Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others. As technology accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curing or managing all or most of the rest in the next 100 years.

Today, most people die from five things -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases -- and we can make faster progress on these and other problems.

Once we recognize that your generation and your children's generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part.

Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we're making much of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children will see what we can only imagine: a world without suffering from disease.

There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world.

• • •

Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.

Advancing human potential is about pushing the boundaries on how great a human life can be.

Can you learn and experience 100 times more than we do today?

Can our generation cure disease so you live much longer and healthier lives?

Can we connect the world so you have access to every idea, person and opportunity?

Can we harness more clean energy so you can invent things we can't conceive of today while protecting the environment?

Can we cultivate entrepreneurship so you can build any business and solve any challenge to grow peace and prosperity?
Oprah Winfrey with New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mark Zuckerberg.
Promoting equality is about making sure everyone has access to these opportunities -- regardless of the nation, families or circumstances they are born into.

Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.

Today we are robbed of the potential so many have to offer. The only way to achieve our full potential is to channel the talents, ideas and contributions of every person in the world.

Can our generation eliminate poverty and hunger?

Can we provide everyone with basic healthcare?

Can we build inclusive and welcoming communities?

Can we nurture peaceful and understanding relationships between people of all nations?

Can we truly empower everyone -- women, children, underrepresented minorities, immigrants and the unconnected?

If our generation makes the right investments, the answer to each of these questions can be yes -- and hopefully within your lifetime.

• • •

This mission -- advancing human potential and promoting equality -- will require a new approach for all working towards these goals.

We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking.

We must engage directly with the people we serve. We can't empower people if we don't understand the needs and desires of their communities.

We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challenges, but most progress comes from productivity gains through innovation.

We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates. Many institutions are unwilling to do this, but progress must be supported by movements to be sustainable.

We must back the strongest and most independent leaders in each field. Partnering with experts is more effective for the mission than trying to lead efforts ourselves.

We must take risks today to learn lessons for tomorrow. We're early in our learning and many things we try won't work, but we'll listen and learn and keep improving.

• • •

Our experience with personalized learning, internet access, and community education and health has shaped our philosophy.

Our generation grew up in classrooms where we all learned the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs.

Your generation will set goals for what you want to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. You'll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. You'll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. You'll explore topics that aren't even offered in schools today.

Your teachers will also have better tools and data to help you achieve your goals.

Even better, students around the world will be able to use personalized learning tools over the internet, even if they don't live near good schools. Of course it will take more than technology to give everyone a fair start in life, but personalized learning can be one scalable way to give all children a better education and more equal opportunity.

We're starting to build this technology now, and the results are already promising. Not only do students perform better on tests, but they gain the skills and confidence to learn anything they want. And this journey is just beginning. The technology and teaching will rapidly improve every year you're in school.
The Zuckerbergs with their daughter Max.
Your mother and I have both taught students and we've seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working with the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why we're starting in our San Francisco Bay Area community. It will take building new technology and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes and learning many lessons before achieving these goals.

But once we understand the world we can create for your generation, we have a responsibility as a society to focus our investments on the future to make this reality.

Together, we can do this. And when we do, personalized learning will not only help students in good schools, it will help provide more equal opportunity to anyone with an internet connection.

• • •

Many of the greatest opportunities for your generation will come from giving everyone access to the internet.

People often think of the internet as just for entertainment or communication. But for the majority of people in the world, the internet can be a lifeline.

It provides education if you don't live near a good school. It provides health information on how to avoid diseases or raise healthy children if you don't live near a doctor. It provides financial services if you don't live near a bank. It provides access to jobs and opportunities if you don't live in a good economy.

The internet is so important that for every 10 people who gain internet access, about one person is lifted out of poverty and about one new job is created.

Yet still more than half of the world's population -- more than 4 billion people -- don't have access to the internet.

If our generation connects them, we can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. We can also help hundreds of millions of children get an education and save millions of lives by helping people avoid disease.

This is another long term effort that can be advanced by technology and partnership. It will take inventing new technology to make the internet more affordable and bring access to unconnected areas. It will take partnering with governments, non-profits and companies. It will take engaging with communities to understand what they need. Good people will have different views on the best path forward, and we will try many efforts before we succeed.

But together we can succeed and create a more equal world.

• • •

Technology can't solve problems by itself. Building a better world starts with building strong and healthy communities.

Children have the best opportunities when they can learn. And they learn best when they're healthy.

Health starts early -- with loving family, good nutrition and a safe, stable environment.

Children who face traumatic experiences early in life often develop less healthy minds and bodies. Studies show physical changes in brain development leading to lower cognitive ability.

Your mother is a doctor and educator, and she has seen this firsthand.

If you have an unhealthy childhood, it's difficult to reach your full potential.

If you have to wonder whether you'll have food or rent, or worry about abuse or crime, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.

If you fear you'll go to prison rather than college because of the color of your skin, or that your family will be deported because of your legal status, or that you may be a victim of violence because of your religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.

We need institutions that understand these issues are all connected. That's the philosophy of the new type of school your mother is building.

By partnering with schools, health centers, parent groups and local governments, and by ensuring all children are well fed and cared for starting young, we can start to treat these inequities as connected.

Only then can we collectively start to give everyone an equal opportunity.

It will take many years to fully develop this model. But it's another example of how advancing human potential and promoting equality are tightly linked. If we want either, we must first build inclusive and healthy communities.

• • •

For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much more our generation can do.

Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.

As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all
children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.

We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.

We'll share more details in the coming months once we settle into our new family rhythm and return from our maternity and paternity leaves. We understand you'll have many questions about why and how we're doing this.

As we become parents and enter this next chapter of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible.

We can do this work only because we have a strong global community behind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for the next generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part in this work.

We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts -- our mentors, partners and many incredible people whose contributions built these fields.

And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.

Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can't wait to see what you bring to this world.

Love,

Mom and Dad

Zuckerberg believes that his fortune could help people in need. And I applaud him and his wife for being generous. They feel that they can make a difference to those who are in need.

Of course, many conservatives and selfish rich folks bitch about how liberals want to take money to redistribute wealth.

They want liberal rich folks to shut the fuck up. The conservatives were bitching about Warren Buffet and Bill Gates giving away their fortunes to charity. They believe that liberals are destroying America by asking for the rich to pay a little more in taxes.

Conservatives don't see that the middle class is being wiped away. They too focus on trying to the rich even more richer and the poor even more dependent on the safety net. They will not give a leg up to those who struggled for a piece of the American pie.



Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Chicago Cop Indicted For The Murder Of Laquan McDonald! [NSFW]



The city is preparing for a major backlash. Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel and the police commissioner Gerry McCarthy urge the citizens to not rush to judgement. They urge the residents not use protest as a backdrop for unrest and violence.

The shooting of 17-year old Laquan McDonald became the shiny coin the junk food media is preparing to chase. Last October's shooting by the now fired Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke was much talked about in the Chicago junk food media.
Laquan McDonald was gunned down in cold blood by a cop. The cop is charged with murder.
It became a focal issue for the national agitators after a federal judge ordered the release of a graphic video showing Van Dyke shot Laquan numerous times without giving a since ounce of remorse.

The video is released and its bound to create some turmoil for the Chicago police.

Already there has been over 400 fatal gun shootings in the city alone. Many of the residents have such distrust for the law, they won't relinquish any information in spite of the rise in criminal activity.

The indictment of Van Dyke may give Laquan's family a chance to face the killer in the court of law.

Van Dyke is innocent until proven guilty. He is currently in special custody at the Cook County Lockup. Van Dyke is on suicide watch and couldn't get a "get out of free card" at this time.

The prosecutors concluded that Van Dyke concocted a story saying that Laquan lunged at him with a small pocket knife. He said that he shot Laquan in self-defense.

In the video, Laquan was running in the street. He was being cornered by the law. He turns away from them and that's when Van Dyke put the slugs in him.

The video is disturbing.
16 shots as described in the diagram. 
As many of you know, #BlackLivesMatter have been actively demanding for police reform and accountability in fatal police encounters with unarmed citizens. This is often ignored by the noise.

Usually the noise would be a concern troll who brings up false equivalencies about Black on whatever violence or gun violence in the Black community. Obviously the so-called People's sheriff David Clarke would spend more time on camera than actually doing his job. He will join the biggest concern troll on that right wing network to attack Laqaun.

I've listened to the annoying conservative agitator and that coon Kevin Jackson today debate that token liberal Tamara Holder. These nitwits were blubbering over Black crime and how the president isn't doing enough.
Van Dyke's mug in the Cook County lockup.
Like with terrorism, the conservatives seem to be fixated on how things are said instead of done.

That annoying conservative agitator continues to play this "name calling word vomit". He calls Emmanuel, "Dead Fish Rombo" and made the ridiculous claim that President Barack Obama doesn't talk about the gun violence in Chicago.

Those nitwits were obsessed with the allegations of Laquan having PCP in his system. What the fuck does that have to do with the video showing Van Dyke shooting Laquan at point blank range?

On that nightly disaster show, he debates the attorneys for Michael Brown, that racist dick Bo Dietl and coon Jackson. They were trying to bring up the numerous shootings and violent crime in the city.

The number one threat in the United States is gun violence.

To the conservatives, any mention of gun control is always applied to Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims. For the conservatives and National Rifle Association, gun rights are meant for Whites, cops and "patriots".

The right wing network spotted the Catholic pastor Michael Pfleger. That annoying conservative agitator was telling the reporter to corner him. That annoying conservative agitator has a compulsive obsession with attacking Chicago activists Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers.

The president has been actively talking about issues in his hometown. It's unfortunate that the conservative agitators and that Black coon Kevin Jackson are so deaf in their third ear.

Donald Trump also got into the fray by tweeting to his million supporters that Black crime is more a threat in America than gun crime.

World News Today send our condolences to the family of Laquan McDonald. 

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Jared Fogle Heads To Federal Time Out!

The biggest celebrity shocker to happen. Subway's Jared Fogle admits to harboring child porn and traveling across state lines to have sex with underage children. He will head to federal time out.

The former Subway spokesman is heading off to federal time out. Before he heads off, his former friend Dr. Phil McGraw, the famed television psychologist, talks to the woman who brought him down.

Dr. Phil was granted access to the recordings that brought Fogle down.

Boy these recordings were disturbing. In a two part series, Dr. Phil talks to Rochelle Herman-Walrond, a former radio host who interviewed him and became suspicious when she overhead him say he found middle school girls attractive.

Rochelle would become an informant for the FBI. She wanted to gain Fogle's trust so he would tell his greatest fantasy. He wanted a threesome with her, a teenage girl and him.

Fogle would often brag about having feelings for boys and girls in some of these recordings.
Michael Phelps with disgraced pitchman Jared Fogle.
CBS News reports Rohcelle told Dr. Phil McGraw she began providing secretly recorded conversations to the FBI, calling them "disgusting."

"I felt like I was so dirty," she told Dr. Phil. "My soul was dirty."

Fogle even details the process of how he approaches the young victims.

"We just start sharing stories, and then, you know, we get a little closer, and a little closer, and a little closer, and before you know it...it just starts to happen," Fogle told Rochelle, saying it was not hard "at all."

"He talks about how to groom a family, he talks about how to groom the victim, he talks about all the things he does, the tricks of his trade," Dr. Phil said. "He just basically gives you the playbook of an evil monster."

Fogle became a household name as a pitchman for Subway, and used his fame to establish a foundation promoting healthy lifestyles among children.

In August, Fogle pleaded guilty to one count of distributing and receiving child pornography and one count of crossing state lines to engage in illicit sex with minors. He will be sentenced in November.
Dr. Phil talks to the FBI informant about Jared Fogle.
Subway cut ties with its spokesman following his arrest. In September, the chain said Rochelle made a serious complaint about Fogle in 2011, but that it had been mishandled.

After amassing five years-worth of recordings, Rochelle finally reached her breaking point when Fogle mentioned her two young children.

"What if we, what if we put a camera in your kids' room, would they be okay with that?," he asks her in the recording. "Would you rather have it in your son or your daughter's room? Which one do you think would be better?"

Dr. Phil said Rochelle had to distance herself from her kids and family for hours afterwards.

"And it took a lot of time from her family and changed who she was. That was a very painful thing for her," said Dr. Phil.

"Dr. Phil" -- which is distributed by CBS television -- is devoting two episodes to the audio recordings - one airing Thursday and another airing Friday.

Fogle is facing five to 12 and a half years in prison and up to a $500,000 fine. His attorney declined to comment.


Wednesday, June 17, 2015

I Need Like Ten.....!

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The U.S. Treasury announced a new design for the $10 bill. The bill will feature a woman.

Who will get blamed now that the conservatives found out this bit of historical news?

A. Barack Obama
B. Hillary Clinton
C. Michelle Obama
D. Women's Rights Groups
E. Liberals
F. All of These Above

Guess who's on the $10 American bill?

Okay, I give you a hint..... He was the first U.S. Treasury Secretary and a statesman. He was assassinated in a duel. He was a founding member of this great country.

Give up.

Okay, his name is Alexander Hamilton. He's not a president. He and founding father Benjamin Franklin are on American currency. Hamilton and Franklin are not presidents. But they are honored respectively for their achievements.

Benjamin Franklin is on the $100 American bill. That is the highest domination to exist. There are rare higher domination bills. But the United States mandates that no amount shall exceed $100.

Alexander Hamilton is on the $10 American bill.

When the year 2020 comes, the U.S. Treasury will be kicking him to the curb.

It was announced by current U.S. Secretary Jack Lew that a woman would be featured on a redesigned ten-dollar bill by 2020. The Department of Treasury is seeking the public's input on whom should appear on the new bill.

So who's gonna get the prize?

My top choices for nomination.

1. Michelle Obama (living)
2. Nancy Reagan (living)
3. Hillary Clinton (living)
4. Harriet Tubman
5. Susan B. Anthony
6. Jacqueline Kennedy
7. Betsy Ross
8. Martha Washington
9. Mary Todd Lincoln
10. Shirley Chisolm
11. Claudia Alta Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson
12. Coretta Scott King
13. Rosa Parks
14. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
15. Sacagawea

So your thoughts on this?

Send it to me and S. Baldwin.

Monday, June 15, 2015

NAACP Leader Rachel Dolezal Fires Herself Out The Cannon!

Pressure mounts as embattled regional president calls it quits.

Rachel Dolezal is under fire for lying about her race. The NAACP is cautiously supporting her despite cries for her to resign. Dolezal is the current president of the western region's NAACP.

The western NAACP based in Spokane, Washington.

The issue that has her in jeopardy is the fact that she's a White woman and for nearly a decade she pretended to be a Black woman.

Lying about your race is crime in the court of public opinion. It's a crime when you do lie on a government form. What she done when she was appointed a liaison for Spokane's civil rights division. She checked herself as Black.

For the last few years, some have questioned her biography. She created controversy by posing with a Black man who she claimed as her father.

Her biological parents and siblings had enough. They want to bring her back to earth. Her mother and father came out swinging. Dolezal is feuding with her family. The family decided to play their "trump" card being the "race" card.

I guess this bombshell will not end with corruption at the oldest civil rights group.

Dolezal was going to organize a press conference to address the controversy. She postpone the press conference. Instead she decides on calling it quits.

The NAACP again told the junk food media, that it's not a solely Black organization. Anyone who believes in equal rights for all Americans is welcomed to join.
Art imitates life. Rachel Dolezal resigns from the NAACP as their president after the junk food media discovered she lied Black to get in.
But some Black people believe that Dolezal's white privilege has maintained this farce and she should be fired out the cannon.

Kind of like the Donald Sterling controversy. The NAACP looked the other way when it accepted that huge check from the former Los Angeles Clippers owner.

Sterling got recorded saying that Blacks are disgusting and he won't want them in the presence of his NBA team and games.

Dolezal will continue to be a reminder to conservatives on how the NAACP has done nothing for the Black community and they see them as racial agitators. They will now use Rachel Dolezal as their proof.

And no amount of good will save her. For some in the Black community, they think it was about time to revoke her "ghetto pass".

Your thoughts on this controversy are welcomed. Me and S. Baldwin will continue to follow this controversy.