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Were programs like Title X started to curb the population of certain people groups?
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Was there a sinister eugenics agenda behind so-called federally funded "population control" programs like Title X? The program, which could be seen as a form of classism, is touted as a "family planning"program aimed at "helping" poor and low income Americans in limiting their families. But the question is, what motive was behind this push prior to Title X's 1970 passage, and who were the key players? In this four part series, Live Action News hopes to answer those questions.
When the push to use government dollars to fund population control programs was introduced, there was heavy opposition from groups that saw the move as racist eugenics. The Population Council and Planned Parenthood, two of the main groups behind this move, were both founded with eugenic philosophies. Planned Parenthood even played a prominent role in recruiting an ideal Republican lawmaker — as readers will learn later in the series — whom they convinced to sponsor what has become known as the federal Title X Family Planning Program, which now funnels $60 million to the organization.
READ: Film documents Planned Parenthood's history of Black genocide, eugenics
Leading up to this time, many within the Black community viewed government programs of population control as genocidal efforts aimed at limiting the births of Blacks and other minorities. This was not without justification, as detailed by Simone M. Caron's research, "Birth Control and the Black Community in the 1960's: Genocide or Power Politics?," published by the Journal of Social History:
Certain segments of the black community mistrusted the underlying intention of both private and government efforts with respect to contraception. Some blacks in particular became skeptical of the increasing push for contraceptive dispersal in poor urban neighborhoods, accusing contraceptive proponents of promoting nothing less than "black genocide."…
The incidence of increasing government involvement in contraception at the same time as the civil rights movement gained strength could be interpreted as a planned conspiracy to decrease the numbers of blacks and other racial minorities.
Leaders of the birth control movement even suggested that crime and health disparities within the Black community could be resolved by reducing the Black population. This kind of thinking aroused additional suspicion as calls for public health centers to disseminate birth control pills to the poor began to emerge.
1942 article urges family planning for Harlem (Image credit New York Times)
In 1967, Black comedian Dick Gregory joined more than 1,100 Black delegates for the First National Conference on Black Power where he, along with others in the group, adopted a black power manifesto that called for the "refusal to accept birth control programs on the basis that they seek to exterminate Negroes," among other demands, according to a July 24, 1967, New York Times report. Gregory and others viewed "government programs designed for poor Black folks" which emphasized birth control and abortion as, "designed to limit the black population."
1967 First National Conference on Black Power
1967 First National Conference on Black Power refuse birth control
Journalist Samuel Yette, himself outspoken about the genocidal aspects of birth control, once wrote about noted civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer's views in The Afro American – Apr 2, 1977, saying, "It is still a society in which an injured man must show his ability to pay before getting hospital services, but his daughter or wife can be aborted or fed birth control pills, at public expense…."
In that same article, Yette, one of the first Black journalists to work for Newsweek, wrote, "Instead of seeking ways to feed the hungry, the back stage plan was to get the poor unwittingly to endorse a plan to eliminate from the society those who were hungry."
Samuel Yette and his book The Choice (Image credit Maafa21)
Yette went on to publish a book, "The Choice," which exposed high level attempts of Black genocide through birth control, abortion, and additional means. Shortly after the publication, Yette was fired by Newsweek and claimed that his superiors told him that the "Nixon White House" wanted him out of Washington.
"The book dealt with things they did not want people to know about at the time," Yette told the Tennessee Tribune, which he joined as a columnist, in 1996. "There were those well-placed in our government who were determined to have a final solution for the race issue in this country — not unlike Hitler's 'Final Solution' for Jews 50 years earlier in Germany. I wrote this and documented it. It caused the Nixon White House to say to Newsweek in effect, 'Don't come back until you are rid of him.'"
Blacks were highly suspicious of anything that had to do with "control," radical Black Muslim leader Malcolm X suggested. In 1962, Wylda B. Clowes, a Black field consultant for Planned Parenthood, and Mrs. Marian Hernandez, director of the Hannah Stone Center, met with Malcolm X to "discuss with him his group's philosophy concerning family planning." Memos from the meeting indicated that overpopulation discussions evoked questions on why major efforts to control population were directed toward "colored nations." The Black Muslim leader asked if Planned Parenthood had anything to do with "birth control" and offered the suggestion that Planned Parenthood would probably be more successful if they used the term "family planning" instead of "birth control."
His reason for this was simple. He stated that "people, particularly Negroes, would be more willing to plan than to be controlled…."
Planned Parenthood memo with Malcolm X
While Caron concludes that the Black community eventually accepted contraception, a look at the organizations behind the push for government funded "family planning" programs reveal that their initial concerns may have been spot on. Behind the scenes, population control groups — some with long ties to the eugenics movement, such as the Population Council, Planned Parenthood, the Hugh Moore Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others — were seeding the ground and calling for large sums of government money to be spent on so-called "family planning."
Author Donald T. Critchlow, in his book, "Intended Consequences, Birth Control, Abortion and the Federal Government in Modern America," notes that the Population Council took the lead, and had an annual budget of over $3 million by 1964. Ford and Rockefeller Foundation money, along with dollars from other eugenics organizations, were flooding the Population Council coffers by the millions.
The Population Council was founded in 1952 by John D. Rockefeller III, as Live Action News has previously documented. The group's second president, Frederic Osborn, was a founding member of the American Eugenics Society. Osborn once wrote, "Eugenic goals are most likely attained under a name other than eugenics." He also signed Margaret Sanger's "Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood," published in her Birth Control Review in April of 1938. Some speculate that Planned Parenthood's infamous slogan, "Every Child a Wanted Child," may have originated with Osborn.
Planned Parenthood Motto
These groups pushed the idea of a worldwide population crisis. The media joined in the fear mongering by publishing articles about the impending population crisis. Images of global starvation resulting in forced euthanasia and cannibalism were depicted in books such a Paul Ehrlich's now discredited "The Population Bomb."
Population Bomb threatens world peace
On-screen gloom and doom propaganda was also being disseminated.
One film, produced by Walt Disney Productions, has been detailed in a previous Live Action News article, and interestingly, the controversial 1967 film, "Family Planning," was produced in association with the Population Council, a eugenics founded organization.
Walt Disney Production produces FP film with Population Council
The propaganda film featured Disney's iconic animated character, Donald Duck, who introduces the alleged gloom of having a large family. Children in smaller sized families are "healthy and happy and go to school to gain an education," the film states, as if children of large families are unhealthy, unhappy, and uneducated. The film indoctrinates its viewers that a "happy family" is one with a modest number of children while large families basically starve with "no money for modern conveniences. […]"
In the 1969 book about the founder of Planned Parenthood, "Margaret Sanger Pioneer of Birth Control," authors Lawrence Lader, an advocate of population control with ties to the Population Council, and Milton Meltzer reinforced overpopulation fears.
Quoting the book from p. 160-161:
Today the world has caught up with the crucial necessity for population control. Many political leaders consider it second only to the threat of nuclear war as the key issue of our time. World population is now growing at a record speed of seventy million a year. The terrible prophecy is that at the current rate of increase the world may double in population by the year 2000. Yet less than 5 percent of the world's six hundred-odd million women in the fertile years are using modern contraceptives. To Dr. Harrison Brown, one of the nation's leading scientists, it means "catastrophe appears a near certainty."
Latin America, whose growth is faster than any other continent's, will almost triple its population in the next three decades. And less food is now produced and eaten there per capita than before World War II. India, kept from the edge of famine by wheat shipments from abroad, will add two hundred million more people by 1980.
With this tidal wave of population goes desperate hunger. One half of the world's population and two thirds of its children go to bed hungry every night. General William H. Draper, head of a presidential study committee, has said that "the stark fact is that if the population continues to increase faster than food production, hundreds of millions will starve in the next decade."
Larry Lader's book helped redefine Margaret Sanger from her eugenics roots
The United States has already added fifty million between 1950 and 1968, and our population may almost double by the year 2000. We may not face famine because of our highly mechanized food production. But the terrible overcrowding in the cities has already brought us the destructive problems of air and water pollution, traffic chaos, shortage of schools and houses, lack of parks and recreation space. The whole quality of American life is being badly damaged.
The authors then summarize the solution:
Almost everyone now realizes that Margaret Sanger's crusade for population control is the only way to enable living standards to improve substantially. International Planned Parenthood has already shown in many areas that populations can be kept in reasonable balance…. After the government approved legalized abortion in qualified hospitals, along with contraception, the country cut its birth rate more than in half between 1947 and 1961.
The need has become so staggering that IPPF has been joined by new allies. First came the private organizations. The Population Council, headed by John D. Rockefeller III, has spent over thirty-five million dollars since 1952, the Ford Foundation many millions more.
They end the book by making an argument for federal dollars to fund population control:
But the money needed to spread birth control around the world goes far beyond private means. Hugh Moore's Campaign to Check the Population Explosion and the Population Crisis Committee in Washington soon realized that only vast help from the federal government could meet the crisis. With constant pressure on Congress, they were able to get the government to increase its population programs overseas to fifty million dollars in 1969. Family planning programs in the United States were given ten million dollars. Yet even these sums are only a tiny fraction of what it will take to meet the problem.
And thus, the push for taxpayer-funded population control programs took on a life of its own and consisted of a multitude of characters working behind the scenes, forming coalitions, meeting with political leaders, and spreading eugenics propaganda. By the 1960s the agenda was in full swing, but it would be continually met with opposition from religious leaders and Black leaders who recognized it as a means to control the Black population.
In part two of this series, Live Action News will detail further the population control advocates who pushed for these government funded programs. Additional articles on Title X's history are included (parts one, three, and four), as well as Planned Parenthood's Blueprint and George HW Bush's relationship to Title X and Planned Parenthood.
Editor's Note, 11/8/18: Links to related articles were added.
Did Planned Parenthood appoint Black leaders to quell suspicion of Black genocide?
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Faye Wattleton first Black president Planned Parenthood
Despite the fact that Planned Parenthood's founder Margaret Sanger promoted eugenics, it was actually under another eugenicist leader, Alan F. Guttmacher, that Planned Parenthood began referring for and eventually committing abortions. At the exact same time that abortion was being pushed publicly, the organization elected a Black chairman to roll out this agenda. All of this transpired in the late 1960s, a time when America was in conflict over the struggle for the civil rights of Black Americans.
During this time frame, many of the organization's leaders were concerned about overpopulation. The organization's history is steeped in eugenics, and this ideology manifested itself in many ways, including the forced sterilization of many Black citizens. As laws about these eugenics courts began to be challenged, a new tool of eugenics was making its way across the land: abortion.
Even though many within Planned Parenthood's organization and other population control groups thought coercion would be needed to stem the growth of people groups they deemed "unfit," Guttmacher, by now a Planned Parenthood president, was able to convince his friends that abortion, at first in perhaps a voluntary way, would be a better solution. However, there was a slight problem, because Black citizens and other minority groups were already suspicious of birth control efforts aimed at them. How would they feel about abortion?
Blacks Charge Genocide from abortion
The solution for Planned Parenthood was to bring Black leaders to the organization's board, in an effort to convince Black Americans that Planned Parenthood's efforts were not genocidal. This strategy was not a new one; Planned Parenthood's founder Margaret Sanger — who gave a talk for the Ku Klux Klan — had already implemented the so-called "Negro Project" to accomplish the exact same thing. Memos between Planned Parenthood staffers and leadership indicated a great concern over how the Black community viewed their efforts. In response, Planned Parenthood's public relations machine also reached out to Black publications, as they had already done with push for birth control.
Alan Guttmacher Birth Control Article (Image: Ebony Mag April 1962)
In 1967, the Pittsburgh Branch of the NAACP had criticized the swarming of Planned Parenthood facilities into minority neighborhoods. Other leaders like H. Rap Brown and Fannie Lou Hamer had called abortion "Black genocide." And, as late as 1973, a study published by the American Journal of Public Health,"Fears of Genocide Among Black Americans as Related to Age, Sex, and Region," found that Black men and women had a level of unease about "family planning." Researchers Castellano Turner, Ph.D., and William A. Darity, Ph.D., concluded that Blacks were more suspicious when "family planning" was under the control of Whites. "It is noteworthy that the greatest degree of agreement is found where the issue of black control of family planning (as against white control) is at issue," they said.
Fears of Genocide Among Black Americans 1973 study Castellano Turner, Ph.D. and William A. Darity, Ph.D.
After dialoguing internally about the unease of the Black community, the suggestion was made to add Black members to Planned Parenthood's board; this took place at the same time that Planned Parenthood was calling for the decriminalization of abortion. According to a New York Times article from November 14, 1968, the first time that Planned Parenthood went on record calling for abortion, they also elected their very first Black board chairman to roll out the new agenda — Dr. Jerome H. Holland, who, according to media reports, "pledged his support for the group's program saying that those who call birth control a form of genocide are 'not aware of the real meaning of family planning and its uses.'"
First Black Chairman of Board elected by Planned Parenthood 1968
Holland was no stranger to Planned Parenthood. He had been on the general board of directors for some time, serving on the executive committee of Planned Parenthood-World Population by 1963. He served as vice-chairman in 1967, where he presented Planned Parenthood's infamous Margaret Sanger award to John D. Rockefeller III, also a population control advocate.
Jerome H Holland, First Black PPFA BOD 1968
Holland was also added as chairman of the Board of Guttmacher's newly formed Center for Family Planning, which would later be named the Guttmacher Institute and become a "special affiliate" to Planned Parenthood.
But Holland's post as chairman of the board of Planned Parenthood was short lived.
In 1970, Holland was named ambassador to Sweden by President Richard Nixon; however, the headlines of the first Black chairman of Planned Parenthood had seemingly done their job. Holland was openly endorsing abortion as a "health matter" between the woman and her doctor.
Jerome Holland lauds Planned Parenthood
The same year Planned Parenthood elected its first Black chairman of the board, Frederick Osborn, a founding Eugenics Society officer connected to Planned Parenthood, wrote, "Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under a name other than eugenics." Osborn signed Margaret Sanger's "Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood," published in her review in April of 1938. Some speculate that Planned Parenthood's infamous slogan "Every Child a Wanted Child" may have originated with Osborn.
A few years later, a new Black leader would emerge to reinforce the push for abortion within Planned Parenthood: Faye Wattleton.
After 62 years as an organization, why did Planned Parenthood wait until 1978 to elect the very first Black female as president? Like Holland, Wattleton was not a novice where abortion was concerned. She had been with Planned Parenthood for a while, serving as a volunteer in the early 1970s and eventually serving as director of the Dayton affiliate.
Faye Wattleton elected to Planned Parenthood board
At a press conference held in February of 1978, then president-elect of Planned Parenthood Wattleton told the media that she was "putting the world on notice" that the organization was going to be much more aggressive on abortion rights. "What has happened is that we have allowed them [right-to-lifers] to have center stage," Wattelton said, "I'd like to say those days are over."
Wattleton then vowed to restore — "to the poor" — access of abortion under Medicaid.
Wattleton was asked if her leadership of Planned Parenthood as a Black woman would alleviate suspicions within the Black community linking abortion and her organization to Black genocide. Wattleton responded, "I don't think a lot of people are yelling genocide anymore, because I'm Black. I'm in a watchdog position on these issues and no one should assume I've been co-opted. What better way is there to guard against those types of abuses?"
Wattleton then said that the Black community should be more concerned about quality of life than "increasing our numbers."
Wattleton served as president of the abortion corporation for 14 years, where, among other radical abortion advances, she helped to legalize the sale of the RU-486 abortion pill in the United States. Under Wattleton's leadership, Planned Parenthood's budget grew from $90 million in 1978 to $384 million in 1990. For her service and dedication to the eugenics-minded organization, in 1992, Wattleton received Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger Award. Despite Sanger's known eugenics and Klan connections, Wattleton once referred to her as "[t]he great heroine of our time," telling Hubbard News in 1979 that Sanger would be proud of Planned Parenthood's progress.
But the idea that Blacks would no longer be targeted for eugenics because a Black woman was at the helm of a eugenics organization was short-lived. During Wattleton's tenure at Planned Parenthood, she stated that supporters of Planned Parenthood contributed to the abortion giant to "keep the Black population down." On CNN, in a debate with Bob Dornan, an outspoken pro-life member of the US House of Representatives, at that time, Wattleton, admitted, "As a matter of fact… we have received contributions from people who want to support us because they want all welfare mothers and all Black women to stop having children."
And also clipped in the documentary film, Maafa21, below:
Wattleton went on to help form the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, she has been described by some in the media as "a pioneer, a crusader, a media star and a rebel of sorts."
Today, many within the Black community still see abortion as a tool of eugenics, and the abortion statistics show that it has become a leading cause of death of Blacks in the nation. Margaret Sanger's vision of limiting births among certain races may not have begun with abortion, but it appears to have led to abortion.
Tragically, today, as a result of Guttmacher continuing Sanger's eugenics agenda by introducing abortion to Planned Parenthood, over 800 preborn children of all races die there every day from abortion.
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Study on how Blacks feared family planning – Fears of Genocide Among Black Americans 1973 study Castellano Turner, Ph.D. and William A. Darity, Ph.D.
Planned Parenthood names first Black Chairman to push abortion – First Black Chairman of Board elected by Planned Parenthood 1968
Black chairman Jerome Holland lauds Planned Parenthood eugenics
Faye Wattleton elected first Black Planned Parenthood president
Timing of Planned Parenthood Sanger award to MLK suspicious
Posted in Alveda King, MLK, Planned Parenthood uses blacks with tags Black, Corretta Scott King, Dr. Alveda King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Eugenics, Let Freedom Ring, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Sanger Award, MLK, Negro, Planned Parenthood on January 18, 2016 by saynsumthn
The timing of when Planned Parenthood gave civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. their infamous Margaret Sanger award is suspicious in my view. As America celebrates the life of MLK, Planned Parenthood which takes lives will parade MLK around as a trophy. In 1966, Planned Parenthood gave MLK the Margaret Sanger Award and they knew exactly what they were doing when they did so.
A look at records from Planned Parenthood reveal that for many years, the organization which at the time promoted forced sterilizations of those they deemed unfit, had been discussing how they could win over the "Negro community." Under a eugenics system, blacks and others deemed to be "Feebleminded or unfit" were sterilized by the state. Research has shown that Planned Parenthood was used by state sterilization boards to perform these surgeries.
Webber Iowa EUgenics Planned Parenthood
A problem arose when the idea of state sponsored sterilization began to be challenged in court. If you put these events on a timeline, as I have, you see clearly that this was the time frame that Planned Parenthood began calling for legalized abortion. The problem they faced was that the Black community saw birth control and abortion as genocide. But, they also had a solution. To use what their founder Margaret Sanger had been successful with for years – they would use BLACKS themselves to introduce and promote abortion.
Internal memos within their organization, which I have read, indicate that Planned Parenthood was discussing a solution to this ever growing problem of Blacks being suspicious of them. A snap shot of how this plan to bring the Black community on board is broken down in a small way below.
In 1962, Wylda B. Clowes, a Black field consultant for Planned Parenthood and Mrs. Marian Hernandez director of the Hannah Stone Center, met with radical Black activist Malcolm X to "discuss with him his group's philosophy concerning family planning". They described the Malcolm X group as one that recruits mainly "low income Negroes".
A June 19, 1962 memo from Eugenics Society Vice President and one time Planned Parenthood president, Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, describes the meeting, "[ Malcolm X] responded in a positive way to the name [ Planned Parenthood] by saying that Black Muslims are interested in anything having to do with planning. He asked if Planned Parenthood has anything to do with birth control and offered the suggestion that we would probably be more successful if we used the term family planning instead of birth control. His reason for this was that people, particularly Negroes, would be more willing to plan than to be controlled…The mention of overpopulation reasons evoked questions on why major efforts to control population are directed toward colored nations , therefore this aspect was played down."
Then in 1965, a letter was sent to Rev. Andrew J. Young of the Southern Christian Leadership Council, to engage his support in the birth control / planned parenthood movement. The letter is written on the University of Wisconsin Letterhead by an associate professor who begins by telling Young that his father was a sociologist in India aiding in population planning as a consultant with the Ford Foundation. The professor also admits to Young that his mother and mother-in-law are "ardent workers for Planned Parenthood." He expressed to Young a, "fond hope for a marriage between the experts in birth control and the experts in the civil rights movement," and sells it as, "one program that the civil rights movement would not have to finance."
He explains how the Black community was a hurdle to Mr. Young, "many Negroes will be justifiably suspicious of white organizations, white physicians, and white social workers that seek to "limit the Negro population." It smacks of racism and can offend people who are understandably sensitive on the matter. Planned Parenthood is itself reluctant to take any initiative for fear of the reaction from the Negro population as a whole as well as from civil rights leaders in particular," the correspondence states. He ends by suggesting that, " it is crucial that Negro leaders in the movement introduce the project to their Negro followers so that whites are not in the misperceived position of racist aggression."
Then, in 1966, Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation told a symposium at the University of California Medical Center that a sensitive area in the field of birth control was, "the belief that the white middle class was coercing their own poor and people with black and yellow skins to reduce family size because the middle-class whites are frightened of being outnumbered."
He solution comes in what was said next:
"The only way the mounting feeling that birth control is a tool of racism can be handled, is to involve knowledgeable leaders from the minority groups who understand and are favorable to the philosophy of birth control. They, in turn, must translate their appreciation of the contribution which birth control can make toward family stability to their own people."
A January 28, 1966 internal memo from Alan Guttmacher and Fred Jaffe, outlines the plan for winning over the Black Community. The memo begins by calling the new plan, a "Community Relations Program." The "program" is to, "form a liaison between Planned Parenthood and minority organizations." The plan, according to Planned Parenthood, will emphasize that "all people have the opportunity to make their own choices," rather than, as the memo states, "exhortation telling them how many children they should have."
One way to get the message is out is to " get assistance from black organizations like The Urban League and the AME church," and according to the memo they need to employ, " more Negro staff members on PP-WP [Planned Parenthood-World Population] and Affiliate's staff, as well as recruit more Negro members for the National Board- at least 5."
Along with this Guttmacher suggests that they initiate cooperation with the National Medical Association [NMA], a Black medical association, and encourage them to establish a committee on reproduction and family planning. Guttmacher also hoped to secure at least three Negro physicians for membership on the PP-WP Medical Committee, and he planned to invite NMA leaders to address their convention. Also on the radar was a comprehensive plan to address the Black media by, "specially developed news and feature articles for Negro newspapers."
Guttmacher ends by stating that the above suggestions are "long overdue" but stresses, "we do not need to panic. In fact, if we panic and continue to publicize the "problem", we may well exacerbate it."
NOTE: In 1968, Jaffe founded the PPFA Center for Family Planning Program Development, which later became the Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood's research arm.
On January 11, 1966, Lammont Du. P. Copeland sent a letter to Alan Guttmacher which contained the advice of Dupont's Public Relations Representative, Mr. Glen Perry regarding the attitudes of the Black community toward Planned Parenthood. Perry sought counsel from a black man who had been active with Planned Parenthood, Mr. Joseph Baker, who Dupont retained as a public relations adviser in the field of race relations.
Perry summarized the suggestions in a memo dated: January 10,1966, "Baker told us that Dr. Guttmacher is correct in feeling that civil rights leaders are beginning to take a hostile position toward population planning on the ground that it is an attempt to halt the growth of the Negro population."
Baker strongly suggested to Perry that Planned Parenthood immediately open dialogue to the Black leaders, to "get their support and participation."
And he did, within a few months, Planned Parenthood gave their most infamous award to civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger award was received by Mrs. Martin Luther King rather than MLK himself.
Interestingly, on the day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, a memorial service was held at Howard University in Washington, DC. As mourners left the auditorium, they encountered about 600 people attending a rally outside. Several speakers were heard warning the crowd that population control was being used as a weapon of black genocide. Among the speakers who gave this warning was noted civil-rights activist Stokely Carmichael.
It is doubtful that Martin Luther King understood Planned Parenthood's eugenics past and he certainly had no idea that seven years after he accepted the Margaret Sanger Award, the United States would legalize abortion on demand. He had no way of knowing how Planned Parenthood would grab abortion and use it to target the Black community. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. explains this:
Planned Parenthood is now the number one provider of abortions in the nation. Today, research shows that family planning centers and abortion facilities often set up their locations in or near minority communities. In addition, the largest provider of abortions, Planned Parenthood was founded by a radical advocate of racist eugenics. As a result, the numbers of abortions performed on minorities and specifically Black women remain disproportionately high.
In 2011, the CDC revealed that almost 56% of all abortions reported for race were done on minority women. According to the latest report dated November 27,2015, in 2012, over 55% of abortions reported for race/ethnicity were performed on Black or Hispanic women.
Among the 27 areas that reported abortions by race/ethnicity , non-Hispanic white women and non-Hispanic black women accounted for the largest percentages of abortions. According to the 2012 stats, Black women had the highest abortion rate (27.8 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years) and accounted for 36.7% of abortions reported for race/ethnicity while 18.7% of abortions were reported for Hispanic women. White women accounted for a slightly higher abortion percentage, 37.6% of reported abortions, but had the lowest abortion rate (7.7 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years).
In several states, Black Abortions reported for race broke down as follows:
Abortions on Black women 2012
Mississippi 63.6%
Georgia 59.5%
Tennessee 51.1%
Alabama 48.8%
North Carolina 47.6%
Delaware 43.4%
Michigan 48.2%
Virginia 43.9%
Missouri 41.1%
South Carolina 40.6%
Arkansas 39.7%
New York 39.7% (44.1% in New York City alone)
Ohio 39%
New Jersey 30.2%
Kentucky 25.8%
Texas 25.2%
Minnesota 23.6%
Kansas 22.5%
Indiana 27.6%
West Virginia 9.5%
South Dakota 9.3%
Colorado 7.2%
Oregon 5.9%
Utah 3.2%
Idaho 1.5%
Montana .8%
Martin Luther King Jr's dream is dead for 56 million babies:
My friend Ryan Bomberger over at Too Many Aborted laments the fact that today, with abortion, MLK's dream is dead:
"In 1963 when Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream with the nation, he never envisioned an America where "reproductive justice" would end 56 million innocent human lives. His dream never pictured a nation where black boys and black girls would never be able to join hands with white boys and white girls, as sisters and brothers, because "freedom of choice" determined some humans are simply not equal. His dream never imagined that in the state where millions have been welcomed into a harbor that serves as a shining beacon of Liberty, millions would be violently deprived of their own life, liberty and pursuit of happiness." Read more here
Let Freedom Ring from Studio 25 Productions on Vimeo.
Black abortion doc receives award named after Klan speaker Margaret Sanger
Posted in Abortionist, Abortionist Racist, Black abortionist, Margaret Sanger Award, Planned Parenthood Maggie Awards, Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger Award, Planned Parenthood uses blacks, Willie Parker with tags Abortion, Abortionist, Black abortionist, Dr. Willie Parker, Eugenics, Margaret Sanger Award, Mississippi, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood Metropolitan Washington, racist, Willie Parker on March 30, 2015 by saynsumthn
Dr. Willie Parker is no stranger to controversy. He is a circuit riding abortionist who, most notably works at the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi.
Parker has made many outrageous statements claiming that he performs abortions because he is a "Christian" despite the long-held view that murdering a baby in the womb is the antithesis of Christ-like.
Parker recently claimed that NOT PROVIDING ABORTIONS was RACIST.
Yes, you heard me correctly.
As a result of Parker's unwavering stand for abortion, and his dedication to killing majority Black babies, Planned Parenthood recently "honored" the abortionist during Black History Month 2015 even placing abortionist Willie Parker on their list of Dream Keeper "Doers."
But, the organization based on eugenics and racism did not stop there.
At their 2015 Gala, Planned Parenthood, which took place March 19th, Planned Parenthood gave the black abortionist their most prestigious award, The Margaret Sanger award.
Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood who admitted giving Klan speeches in her autobiography.
The Klan would be right in line with Sanger's views on limiting the births of the so-called feeble minded and unfit. The eugenics groups she belonged to and placed on her board as well as published in her Birth Control Review, also held those same racist views.
This blog has documented those views many times, so I will not go over them one by one here. If you want more information, I recommend the film, Maafa21 for documentation on Sanger's beliefs.
Thanks to an upload on YouTube by Planned Parenthood Gala attendee B. Rae Perryman, you can see just how excited Dr. Willie Parker was in accepting the Margaret Sanger award from Planned Parenthood:
Parker has a history with the abortion giant having once worked for them as medical director for Planned Parenthood Metropolitan Washington.
He is fast becoming the Black face Planned Parenthood uses to lessen the effects of those who have documented the genocidal affects of abortion as well as the racist history.
Just as their founder Margaret Sanger vowed to use "Black Ministers" in her "Negro Project," Planned Parenthood is doing the same with Parker.
During his speech, Parker thanked Planned Parenthood for the Margaret Sanger award and told the crowd that his mother shaped his need for recognition when "you act on behalf of others."
"It is in the spirit of my mother's teaching- that- while I am humbled to receive this award- I see you as simply honoring me for what I am supposed to do," Parker told the Planned Parenthood crowd.
Supposed to do? Kill babies is something you are obligated to do?
The abortionist, who dismembers babies including African American babies in the womb, quoted holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel who said, "Our lives are not our own – they belong to those who desperately need us."
Newflash abortionist Parker:
The unborn baby desperately needs his/her mother and your knife guarantees they will not have the life granted them by their Creator.
Dr. Willie Parker should be ashamed of himself – but he isn't.
Sadly, like others who betrayed their race or participated in the slaughter humans, Parker is proud.


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It is okay to want to be rich. It is not automatically sinful to have that goal, at least not as long as your heart is right and your reasons are good. In Luke 12 Jesus told the parable of the rich fool. The rich man wasn't a fool because he was rich, he was a fool because of his attitude towards being money and God.
God never said the man was a fool for acquiring wealth or even for relaxing a bit, only for not being rich toward God. Abraham, the father of righteousness was a wealthy man. Lot was as well. It isn't wealth that is a sin, it is how our hearts embrace wealth that is a sin.
Will you become a millionaire? Maybe. Will the following ideas allow you to approach and maybe even acquire financial freedom? There are no guarantees, but at a minimum, these ideas give you a better opportunity to reach financial freedom. Will the following ideas make you more financially capable? Yes, definitely. How can you reach that goal and how can you avoid the dangers mentioned by the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 6? Here are a few ideas.
Let's start with the first and least obvious.
Granted the people of Israel hearing this were mostly farmers. Granted they dealt with crops and very few in modern America do unless it is a crop located on a grocery store shelf or bin.
This concept is psychological and designed to overcome human weakness, not designed just for a farming people. It is human nature to want to say, "Let me pay all the bills and give God what is left at the end of the month." But nowhere in the Bible is there even one iota of support for the idea of giving God leftovers.
In fact, when it was tried, it did not please the Lord.
5 Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways.
God knows people better than they know themselves and God certainly knows individuals and their issues with money. Giving to God before spending money on yourself (a different way of saying giving out of the first fruits, see Proverbs 3:9 – "Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops") is excellent. In fact, giving to God before saving (a different way of saying giving to yourself with a delay) is even better. That is the way you can give first to God and second to your own future.
Only then, after giving to God and giving to your own future by saving do you give to your present self. This is what is called discipline or delayed gratification. It is also called wise.
Luke 12:15 Tells us, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions." I will grant you that you may be lonely as a person with this set of priorities. You are putting consumption, keeping up with the Joneses, driving the newest car and watching the biggest and brightest TV a low priority in a status-driven world.
The result is that with no additional effort you will have reached the second rung on this ladder of progress.
The average Millennial is saving less than nothing, less than 0% of their income. How? The average Millennial is accumulating debt, not wealth. But if you give first to God and then you next give to your own future before you start spending (and don't acquire debt), you inevitable will live less costly lives than if you spent all or even more than all of your income.
Amazingly, if you get to this point, the third rung in the ladder is also an easy one.
You will never realize how true that is until you have a mortgage payment due but you lost your job or you lost your income due to an injury and you can't scrape the money together for a past due payment. The interest and penalties mount up, so does the pressure on you and your family.
If you do have or get a mortgage, keep your giving to God and your future in place, build up savings as well, but make paying off that mortgage a very high priority, very high!
Once again, if you do these 4 steps, the next rung on the ladder is easy – you are already there!
Life is such that emergencies happen. By their very nature, you can't plan for them specifically, but by the very nature of life, unexpected emergencies will happen. The risk of any one emergency is small. However, over time, it is a certainty that your car will break down, you will have to replace tires or brakes, change oil, your water heater will rust through, a toilet will plug up or the air conditioner will stop – and air conditioners always break in the summer months! That is called life with a little bit of Murphy's Law blended in.
2. You will break out that unused credit card and charge it, risking paying interest for months.
3. You will borrow from a friend or relative.
All of these are stress-inducing events.
Start with one month's expenses and work towards six months. This is a step you cannot afford to overlook. When you reach your emergency fund goal, then you keep right on saving, but now it goes into longer term savings, your children's college savings or your retirement savings. Be as wise as the common ant.
How can you cut your spending and save enough to do that? Doing exactly that is the next step.
Carrying a credit card increases spending. No knowledgeable person would disagree. You not only lose the feel of the money leaving your wallet, you also lose the teachable moments for your children as they see that happen. Instead, what do most children see? They see spending without hesitation or consequence.
The envelope system promoted by Dave Ramsey and others is amazing, check it out. Even better, try it for a 3-month trial. I can assure you that you will spend less and end up with more after 3 months.
This requires care and discipline. It requires you to know what you need to buy, plan ahead – carefully – and take only what you need. There is no room for that impulse purchase under this system. You have to know what you have, what you need, that your resources are finite and that God's blessing will come upon you for this wise spending.
Start with a financial management course such as Financial Peace University. The course isn't hard. With the help you receive from small group facilitators and encouragement from others who are taking the same brave steps you are, the steps to reach the top financially are manageable.
The stewardship ministry of Idlewild Baptist Church in Lutz offers this course twice a year. Try it and you will love the results! Will you get "rich"? Perhaps you won't be an instant millionaire. However, you will increase your opportunities to reach that million or even more.
Check out It's Time to Start Saving, 7 Steps for Financial Progress, Planning Your Financial Future And … and Save More, 10% Isn't Enough for additional ideas on saving money and working toward that first million.


It is well known that stainless steel is used for its corrosion resistance, hygiene qualities and for its aptitude to remain unaltered with time.
Its applications are in fact also linked to the building sector due to its resistance to corrosion.
Applications where the aspect of corrosion resistance takes priority over the qualities of mechanical strength, although sometimes it is in interest of architects to take advantage of its structural qualities as a building material with the advantage of rust resistance.
Some typical examples of use are: the rebars for reinforced concrete, anchor bolts for facades, precise fastening systems for structural glazing, freestanding chimney flutes, the elements for restoration works, linkages, subterranean strengthening operations etc.


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The crisis threatened Russia's megaprojects. What will happen to them? & Nbsp
Saturday, 10:55 AM | July 11, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic and the collapse of oil prices plunged the whole world into crisis. In Russia, they also threatened plans for the implementation of national projects. A dying business, falling incomes and rising unemployment are forcing to rethink the strategy and channel funds to support the economy and citizens not in the future, but here and now. The authorities thought about delaying the implementation of national projects for six years – from 2024 to 2030. They do not abandon plans to improve life in the country, but they will have to wait. The increase in terms is in the material "Tapes.ru".
The Russian economy was in a difficult situation, only this year the GDP may fall by 6.6 percent. The authorities are trying to remain optimistic and hope that the country will be able to cope with the difficulties that have arisen and overcome the crisis with minimal losses.
According to the former deputy chairman of the government Arkady Dvorkovich, who now heads the Skolkovo fund, the most difficult times in the country are just coming. "Optimists think that we are already somewhere at the bottom, and in Europe have already begun to emerge from the crisis. I think we have not reached the bottom, especially in Russia we are only entering the most difficult period of the crisis, "he said. Dvorkovich repeats the obvious: most of all the blow will be felt by small and medium-sized businesses.
According to the calculations of the associations "Support of Russia" and "Business Russia", as well as the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), by the end of summer in Russia will close about one million small and medium-sized businesses, or 15-25 percent of the entire market. About 2.5 million former employees of such enterprises will enter the labor exchange. In total, the quarantine and restrictions imposed because of it cost the business 3.7 trillion rubles, and every day the figure is growing.
The most affected sectors, including catering, hotel business and tourism, are supported by the state. Banks give companies interest-free loans for employees on salaries, and also provide SMEs with the opportunity to arrange credit holidays. In addition, more than 200 thousand scheduled business inspections in 2020 are canceled in the country. By early July, more than 2.3 trillion rubles of debt were restructured.
However, many market players are not enthusiastic about state support. They complain about the large number of reports that need to be submitted to different departments. Moreover, sometimes the same document, but in a different form, is transmitted almost every day. The requirements are going to be mitigated, but the matter has not yet reached concrete actions.
Collateral losses
The collapse of the business entails an increase in unemployment. At the end of June, millions of Russians were left without work because of the coronavirus. The Ministry of Economic Development says that during the pandemic, 15 million people were suspended, 680 thousand of them fell under reductions. Two million citizens officially registered as unemployed. Soon, the number of unemployed may rise to eight million.
According to a recent study by the Rosgosstrakh Life insurance company, the share of Russians with an average monthly income below 15 thousand rubles increased from 38.1 to 44.6 percent. Analysts compared the data at the beginning of the year, when the epidemic in the country had not yet begun, with June figures – the time of the mass lifting of quarantine restrictions. One in five respondents announced a significant drop in income during the pandemic, and one in ten reported a complete loss of earnings.
The Kremlin does not believe these statements, referring to methodological miscalculations. According to official figures, the poverty rate in Russia at the end of 2019 amounted to 12.3 percent – about 18 million citizens received incomes below the subsistence level. Calculations for 2020 are too early to deal with.
The global downturn is jeopardizing the ambitious plans of the Russian authorities. The deadlines for the implementation of national projects can be postponed for six years – until 2030. The initiative with national projects was proposed by Vladimir Putin in 2018, when he once again assumed the presidency.
The national plan included 13 programs: Healthcare, Ecology, Science, Demography, Housing and Urban Environment, Digital Economy, Labor Productivity and Employment Support, Small and Medium Enterprises, "International Cooperation and Export", "Safe and High-Quality Roads", "Culture", "Education", as well as the "Comprehensive Plan for the Modernization and Expansion of the Main Infrastructure". It is assumed that until 2024 – by the end of the presidential term – tens of trillions of rubles will be spent on their implementation.
According to a presidential decree, for five years (from 2019 to 2024), the government is tasked with drastically improving the quality of life in the country, as well as bringing Russia to the top five in economic growth. The authorities are also instructed to improve demographics, increase life expectancy, ensure income growth and halve poverty. In general, in terms of development, Russia should enter the top ten leading countries and catch up with Germany. Now that Russia is in a situation that is compared to the 1998 default, such plans seem utopian.
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According to the Ministry of Economic Development, the drop in the Russian economy in 2020 will amount to 4.8 percent, instead of the planned growth of two percent. Also, the country expects a 3.8 percent reduction in real incomes instead of an increase of one and a half.
Against the background of a general recession, the government is considering the possibility of adjusting the deadline for the implementation of programs and their extension. "At the government level, the adjustment of national projects is currently being discussed taking into account the situation in the economy in recent months," the Ministry of Economic Development says. We are currently discussing the extension to the 2030th project "Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and the support of individual entrepreneurial initiatives". In addition, in 2021–2022, the financing of national projects is going to be reduced, in particular, it will cost 7 billion rubles less than planned to support small businesses.
One of the national projects, which felt the consequences of the coronavirus more than others, was Digital Economy. The deadlines for major projects have already been violated, including the development of 5G communication networks, the creation of a single state cloud platform, a typical civil servant workstation, a venture fund to support educational projects, and other events on which the achievement of the plan is based. Most likely, the national project is waiting for a reduction in funding. From the project "Information Security" they intend to exclude activities that provided for state support in the amount of 1.6 billion rubles.
But the six-year plan does not refuse key goals. We are talking about "ensuring economic growth rates above the world and not lower than 3 percent per year by 2024", maintaining macroeconomic stability, including inflation at the level of no higher than 4 percent, as well as the growth of investment in fixed assets of at least 5 percent by 2024 year. They also want to add two new target indicators to national projects: "ensuring sustainable growth of real incomes of citizens, as well as an increase in the level of pension provision above the level of inflation".
Authorities have previously recognized that due to COVID-19, some state programs will not be implemented, and free funds will need to be correctly allocated. The Accounts Chamber, in turn, suggested adjusting the performance of national projects, hinting at an extension of the deadlines.
At the same time, they see no reason for the pandemic to fail to implement national projects in general. "On the contrary, they have become more in demand, especially in order to preserve the life and health of our citizens, improve the quality of life," says Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev.
Some programs, on the contrary, are called growth drivers. This applies to the development of the road network and large construction projects. "We will continue to implement large-scale infrastructure projects, such as expanding the capacity of the BAM and the Trans-Siberian Railway, building roads in the south of Russia, including approaches to the Crimean bridge and the Black Sea coast," Putin said. Large-scale construction projects will revitalize the production of building materials, the automotive market, food delivery and other segments. They also see a plus for the labor market: those who lost their jobs during a pandemic can find work at construction sites.
The number of cases gradually decreases, the restrictions imposed are lifted. But the main task now remains the fight against COVID-19 and its consequences for the economy. The way out of the crisis goes according to the national plan by almost four trillion rubles. It is expected that the domestic economy will be able to return to growth next year. To achieve this result, you need to correctly redistribute funds.
In general, the crisis jeopardizes the implementation of national projects on time, but does not eliminate their need. Billions of rubles have been set for long-playing plans, but this money is needed now: to restore the economy and support citizens. So, most likely, the deadlines for the implementation of national projects will be extended. The danger of the second wave of COVID-19 remains real: there is still no vaccine for the virus. Now urgent problems are more important than ambitious plans that can be postponed until better times.
. (Source: rambler)
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The Land of the Thunder Dragon is filled with treasures and enthralling surprises. Cultural tours will take you through the many facets of the ancient Buddhist country that many refer to as the land of flourishing Buddhism. Breath-taking landscape; majestic mountains; awe inspiring dzongs watching over serene hamlets; monks and nuns lost in prayers for all sentient beings; and people with smiling faces will be your abiding companions throughout your brief sojourn.
We will make every effort on the basis of your own preferences, to offer you an experience that will give you a good appreciation of the way of life of the Bhutanese people and their vast cultural heritage. You will visit Dzongs (functioning palace fortresses), monasteries, museums, homesteads, and day hikes to ancient temples perched on mountain tops and hanging from the face of precipitous cliffs. And you will meet people from all walks of life and ages.
The vastness of the Kingdom's cultural wealth has much to do with the genius of its people, the mountain ecology, its fascinating history and the immediate proximity and peaceful coexistence with the two ancient civilizations of China and India.


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One person died in a two-vehicle crash in Oak Creek, police say
The Oak Creek Police Department responded to the crash on S. Howell Avenue at approximately 3:27 p.m. Aug. 4.
One person died in a two-vehicle crash in Oak Creek, police say The Oak Creek Police Department responded to the crash on S. Howell Avenue at approximately 3:27 p.m. Aug. 4. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/south/news/oak-creek/2019/08/05/police-one-dead-two-vehicle-crash-oak-creek/1920577001/
Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 9:35 a.m. CT Aug. 5, 2019 | Updated 9:51 a.m. CT Aug. 5, 2019
One person died Aug. 4 in a two-vehicle crash in Oak Creek.
The Oak Creek Police Department responded to the crash in the 7700 block of S. Howell Avenue at approximately 3:27 p.m., according to a news release.
The Wisconsin State Patrol Crash Reconstruction Unit is assisting the Oak Creek Police Department with the investigation.
There is no further information at this time pending next of kin notification, the release said.
Contact Hannah Kirby at hannah.kirby@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @HannahHopeKirby.
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Kayleigh Reske, 18 of Wauwatosa, engages in a spray string duel with family members at the parade. Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Josh Larson of Franklin plants a kiss on his newly crowned fiancee Amber Riley, after his surprise marriage proposal during the Franklin Civic Celebration Parade on Thursday, July 4, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
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Jumia Kenya Black Friday 2018: Here is how to join the party.
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Jumia Kenya Black Friday is here again. Often, Jumia brings us the black Friday and we get to buy many products at prices at amazing discounts. This year (2018), the Jumia Kenya Black Friday will be bigger and better. In this post, I am going to detail what you need to know about this festival and how you should prepare yourself.
What you need to know about the Jumia Kenya Black Friday.
You see, you have five Fridays at your disposal. However, you cannot take advantage of this festival unless you are prepared.
How to prepare for Jumia Kenya Black Friday.
Register on the Jumia Kenya Website.
It is obvious that you cannot take advantage of this festival unless you are registered at their website. With over 16 million users, you may be the only one left. If you are already registered then read on, however if you are not registered, then you can read a post I wrote on what you need to know about Jumia Kenya and how to register.
In our busy schedules, we often forget about events we are supposed to be part of. That is why we have diaries. Write it somewhere in your diary. If you are one of those people that look at your diary a day before, then you should be set. Honestly speaking I am a poor user of a diary. So how do I do it?
Jumia Kenya Black Friday flash sales are very popular among shoppers. Therefore, within seconds of a product you are waiting to buy goes live, it could be gone before your very eyes. If you are not ready, you will miss out.
One of the weeks when the flash sales were running on Jumia Kenya a few months ago, I set my eyes on buying a phone. The price of this particular phone was going for a half of the marked price. The flash price was so good I could not resist the offer.
I had everything set. Good 4G network on my phone and full battery. Fortunately or unfortunately, I was travelling the same day. The flash price was for a period of 2 hours from 10.00am to 12.00 noon. I logged into Jumia at exactly 09.57 am, went to the page with phone. Unfortunately, our vehicle went downhill and my phone network dropped to 2G. I tried to refresh the page but it could not reload.
By the time we got out of the valley, it was 10.01am. I tried to refresh the page and it worked since the signal was a bit stronger at 3G. However, I was greeted with a message that the phone was already gone!
This is how fast these products go!
I learned how to get prepared.
So how do I make sure I do not miss out? Simple. I set a reminder on my phone. I bet you too can set a reminder on your phone. This is how I do it differently. You too can do so. Or do it your way, anyway that will remind you of the event.
In my case I set the reminder such that I have a reminder at intervals of 20 minutes, 10 minutes and 5 minutes intervals before the event.
When the alarm goes off 20 minutes to time, I have to finish what I am doing and most importantly check whether I have data if am using a phone. If am on my PC, I check whether I have an internet connection. If not, this is the time to sort that out. I also make sure that my devices (phone or PC) have enough power. There nothing as frustrating as your phone or PC dying on you when you want to make a purchase you have waited all year.
At 10 minutes, I should have sorted the internet connection on the device that am using. In most cases, it is usually my phone. This also serves as a second alert just in case I missed the first one.
At 5 minutes, that is when I log into my account on Jumia Kenya Website and begin browsing to the product I want to buy.
It is important to go to Jumia Kenya website a day before and make a decision on the purchase you are going to make. Jumia always informs its customers early enough to prepare.
Once I find the product I want to buy, I stick to that page. In intervals of about 5 seconds each, I refresh the page. When the timer goes to zero and the product goes live, I strike. I buy the product.
Now that you are ready for the Jumia Kenya Black Friday, let me bring you some of the products that will be on offer. As I said earlier, knowing what you are going to buy earlier enough, saves you the time you would spend looking at the price and specifications. Once you know this two in advance, you focus on grabbing the item that is on offer.
Mobile Phones: There will be an incredible selection of mobile phones and accessories from all the big, favorite and most trusted brands like Apple, Samsung, Tecno, Infinix, LG, Oppo and more.
Home Appliances: Discover large and small appliances during the Jumia Kenya Black Friday festival. Fridges and freezers, water dispensers, air conditioners, washing machines and more are certainly important for your home. Small appliances like blenders, toasters, pressure cookers and more are also on offer.
Fashion Items: Shop trendy women's clothing from tops, blouses, skirts, tees, shirts, formal gowns and dresses. You can also find women's shoes like heels, wedges, flats and more. Men's clothing including formal shirts, tee shirts, polo shirts, shorts, hoodies and more are going for mind-blowing prices.
Electronics: Home and office electronics is something that you should shop. Are you looking at buying a LED TV or a smart television? How about a sound home theatre system? Stabilizers, UPS and inverters? Jumia Kenya Black Friday has you covered with the most mind-blowing deals.
The Jumia Kenya Black Friday dubbed the 'Jumia Black Friday 2018 Festival', is happening this November. Every Friday is going to be a black Friday. There are millions of products with up to 50% off the marked price.
Black Fridays in the United States is characterized by long queues where thousands of shoppers line up at shores to by items at throwaway prices. This may not be the case with Jumia, the very same queue will be invisible online.
Since this festival is so popular, you should to be ready to take full advantage. So if you do not have an account yet, register to be ready. You could have that electronic you have been dying for half the price. There will be millions of shoppers shopping, that why it is called a festival.
To be ready, this what you should do on the flash price day.
Check what is selling on a flash sale next and go to its page.
Keep your eyes on the timer to see how many minutes you have left, this helps you to sit comfortable away from distractions.
When the timer is about to hit zero, refresh the page with the product quickly to update the discounted price.
If you are a seller, you too can take full advantage of this by registering to be a vendor to sell on the Jumia Kenya platform. Jumia Kenya is looking for people like you. Follow this link to register.
Black Fridays do not often; it is time for you to take advantage of the festival.
Let your friends and family know about the Jumia Kenya Black Friday festival by sharing this post.
Happy shopping and Jumia Kenya Black Friday festival.


We and the National Farmworkers Ministry invite you to join California state Legislators and Faith Leaders in a 24-hour fast and breaking of that fast on behalf of the farm workers in our midst.
We have been supporting AB 1066 to provide within California the right to overtime pay that agricultural workers are denied in federal law. Those who grow our food are deprived of the simple right of overtime, and they often live in dire poverty and want because of that. We can change this!
Please join us on the North Steps of the state Captol, 11th and L streets, as we begin the fast on Tuesday August 16. We will gather at 8:00 am to hear from these embattled workers why the simple justice of overtime is so needed.
Then on Wednesday August 17, again at 8:00 am, we will assemble at the Cathedral of Blessed Sacramento, 1017 11th Street (two blocks north of the Capitol) to break the fast and begin Capitol visits in support of AB 1066.
On both days there is parking in garages at 10th and L or 10th and I streets. There is very little street parking available.
We invite all who are interested in this witness, clergy or lay, to do whatever part of this you can. Please let us know by return of this email if you can attend both or part of these events.
AB 1066 can change lives dramatically for the better. Whatever and however you can, please hold all our state's agricultural workers in your hearts and prayers and participate with us as you are able.


Slater moved here to Tulsa from Dallas via OKC. He enjoys music, specifically the Smashing Pumpkins, P.O.D. and Middle Class Rut. He loves playing video games(Fallout is his favorite), ADIDAS anything, tasty Mexican food, hanging at the river, talking to random people, his 3 awesome kids and a wife that is way too good for him. He's a serial pizza eater, cat lover, Dazed & Confused fan, Snickers junkie, lottery winner wanna-be, island lover, good parallel parker, not a football player, an actress/model/dancer, whatever..oh and he gives great hugs..just ask..to be continued……….
Jack from Bleachers stopped by to host the Flashback Lunch on 11-7-17. Check it out here!


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Students in the Art of Horticulture (PLHRT 2010) got a quick introduction on how to create digital botanical art during their class on Tuesday. Working in teams, they arranged locally sourced flowers from trials at the Bluegrass Lane Turf and Landscape Research Facility and a local flower farm, Plenty of Posies, on flatbed scanners to capture their form and color in two-dimensional form.
… and transfer their arrangements to the scanners.
Digital flower mandala. Click image for a closer look.
View more examples at the Art of Horticulture website.
Students finished up the class applying floral design principles to more traditional arrangements.
Mark Bridgen, Horticulture Section professor and director of the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center, will lead an eco tour and natural history workshop to the Galapagos Islands June 1 – 12, 2017.
Participants will spend a full 11 days/10 nights aboard the Tip Top IV yacht visiting all of the significant outer islands, allowing for maximum wildlife observations. Each day the yacht travels to a different island during the night while people are sleeping. Then, early in the morning, the small group will go ashore to observe and photograph the unique wildlife — the same types of plants and animals that led Darwin to his Theory of Evolution when he visited in 1835.
Every day is different as the group voyages around the archipelago, and every excursion offers new opportunities to experience the natural wonders of the Galápagos. The days are filled with early-morning and late-afternoon outings to catch the peak animal activity, including land iguanas, sea lions, giant tortoises, and countless types of unique birds. There are also one or two snorkeling sessions during the days to observe the coral reefs, sea lions, Galápagos penguins, marine iguanas, sea turtles, hundreds of fish, and much more. There will be the opportunity to kayak several of the days and the evenings are devoted to natural history lectures and stargazing.
Jenny Kao-Kniffin, assistant professor in the Horticulture Section, kicks off the Fall 2016 Horticulture Section Seminar Series on Monday, August 29, 2016 at 12:20 p.m. in 404 Plant Science Building.
She will speak on Modifying plant-biotic interactions in rhizospheres for novel weed management approaches.
This and other Horticulture Section seminars are also available via videoconference to A134 Barton in Geneva. View the full fall line-up for the seminar series.
Most seminars are also recorded and available online on the Horticulture Section seminar YouTube playlist.
Horticulture professor emeritus Marty Petrovic was awarded the 2016 George L. Good Gold Medal of Horticulture by the New York State Nursery and Landscape Association (NYSNLA) at the New York State Fair August 25.
The award is NYSNLA's highest honor, recognizing an individual who has made outstanding contributions to horticulture in the state of New York.
Petrovic, a turf specialist who retired in 2015, is best known for his groundbreaking work on the fate and impacts of pesticides and fertilizers applied to lawns and other turf areas. The Gold Medal Award was renamed to honor George Good after his death in 2008. Good spent his entire career at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and was an active, engaged member of NYSNLA and received the Gold Medal of Horticulture himself in 1997.
Griffiths introduces Kale Day participants to his breeding research trials.
More than 30 seed growers, researchers, food industry representatives, consumers and others attended the first Cornell Kale Day at the Homer C. Thompson Research Farm in Freeville, N.Y. August 23.
Phillip Griffiths, associate professor in the Horticulture Section, welcomed the group by pointing out the rapid growth in kale's popularity, but also cautioning that it takes time to develop new varieties with superior agronomic traits and consumer appeal.
Griffiths' efforts to breed new leafy brassicas began in 2008 with a focus on African kale (sukuma wiki). This effort expanded with support from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, incorporating diverse genetic material from collections maintaining biodiversity.
Participants spent most of the afternoon touring Griffiths' breeding research, including plots featuring currently available varieties and breeding lines in various stages of refinement. To get feedback from the group, participants were asked to flag their favorite varieties. The feedback will help guide decisions for what hybrids will be used in on-farm trials next summer funded by the New York Farm Viability Institute (NYFVI), says horticulture graduate student Hannah Swegarden, who works with Griffiths.
In the brutal, mind-bending world of agronomic combat that is a regional weed Olympiad, Plant Sciences major Patricia Chan '17 became a legend.
Contestants solve real-life farmers' problems, compete in weed and herbicide identification, and test their skills calibrating sprayers. Winners often get scooped up as prized employees of seed and agricultural companies.
Among the 55 undergraduate and graduate students participating in mid-July at the Northeastern Collegiate Weed Science Society Contest at Blacksburg, Virginia, Chan was the only student to correctly identify the bonus-question weed: Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco.
Chan said Davis' taxonomy course involved a lot of hands-on practice with plant identification at the family level, as she worked in the Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory, crop gardens, the university's weed garden and in the horticulture club's greenhouse to become familiar with a lot of plants.
You can see an example of Chan's botanical illustration here.
Faculty, graduate students and staff associated with the Graduate Field of Horticulture held their biannual Field of Horticulture Graduate Student Reviews and Field Meeting August 19 in Jordan Hall at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (NYSAES), Geneva, N.Y.
Seventeen students and three faculty gave 2-minute/2-slide flash presentations about their research progress, in addition to two longer talks. During breaks, students presented posters providing more details about their work.
Horticulture chair Steve Reiners used the occasion to present NYSAES director Susan Brown with the Wilder Award from the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) recognizing the contributions of her apple breeding work to advancements in pomology.
Graduate Field of Horticulture, August 19, 2016.
Susan Brown (right) shows her Wilder Award medal to Hannah Swegarden, president of the Society of Horticulture for Graduate Students (SoHo).
More than 50 growers, educators and others attended the Reduced Tillage in Organic Vegetables Field Day at Cornell's Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm in Freeville, N.Y. August 17.
The hay wagon tour include stops on the NOFA-NY certified organic portion of the Thompson Farm to view research on reduced tillage practices on permanent beds, a strip tillage demonstration, and talks on pests, organic soil amendments and soil health.
The farm is managed by the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. The event was co-sponsored by NOFA-NY.
Research technician Ryan Maher explains his trial evaluating reduced tillage practices on permanent beds.
Christy Hoepting, Extension vegetable specialist for the Cornell Vegetable Program, discusses organic management of Swede midge, a growing pest problem in brassica crops.
Anusuya Rangarajan, director of the Cornell Small Farms Program, explains features of strip tillage equipment used to limit soil disturbance to the area around the row and break up hardpans that limit rooting.
Attendees await strip tillage demo.
On September 17, the Clonal Collection of Plant Genetic Resources Unit, USDA-ARS, Geneva, NY will host its annual open house from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the McCarthy Farm, 2865 County Road 6 (Preemption Road), Geneva, NY, 14456 (across from St. Mary's Cemetery).
There will be a two hour walking tour on uneven ground through the orchard and vineyard to view the collection — about 10 minutes about the overall collection, 10 minutes about the tart cherry collection, 70 minutes about the apple collection, and 30 minutes about the grape collection.
f there is any question, please contact me at c.thomas.chao@ars.usda.gov or at 315-787-2454.
We will see you rain or shine on 9/17/2016.
The Cornell Small Farms Program announces open registration for its 2016-2017 season of Small Farm Online Courses building the technical and business skills of farmers. Expert farmers and extension educators guide students through the latest research-based information to help improve efficiency and increase profit on small farms.
Are there courses for me? From aspiring to experienced farmers, there is a course for nearly everyone. If you're just getting started exploring farming as a career, BF 101: Starting at Square One and BF 102: Markets and Profits, were designed with you in mind. For those with at least a few years of farm management experience, check out BF 204: QuickBooks for Farmers and BF 203: Holistic Financial Planning to take your skills to the next level. There's a handy chart on our course homepage to direct you to the right courses for your experience level. There are more than 20 in all.
Each course is $250, which entitles two people from a farm to attend. Discounts for early sign up and multiple course sign ups are available.
Check out the listings below for more information on a particular course and the instructors. Visit our Frequently Asked Questions page to learn more about registration, payment, and computer requirements.
Register now. The first courses start September 26.
Questions? Contact Erica Frenay, ejf5@cornell.edu or Steve Gabriel, sfg53@cornell.edu or call 607 255 2142.


As the seasonal upswing in machinery sales revs up and the calendar flips to 2013, it's the perfect time to talk iron. The industry is constantly in motion—machines are out-fitted with new engines to meet emission standards and, more than ever, precision ag technologies. To help you stay in the know, the stories in this annual issue range from industry perspective from top executives to a buyer's guide for auger wagons.
The high-horsepower machinery coverage extends to the web to bring you a virtual test drive, which can be accessed by scanning the QR code at right with your smartphone or tablet or by visiting www.FarmJournal.com/new_iron.
Watch a video from Margy Fischer highlighting the diverse topics in the 2013 Machinery Guide.