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Spring 2020 (The Black Period, Covid19 aka Coronavirus)

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on April 24, 2020

Posted in: Nature - Environment, Social Commentary. Tagged: 2020, America, Corona Virus, Covid19, Food, Freedom, God, Human Condition, NYC, Social Behavior, Social Commentary, social distancing, society, THEJNSREPORT. Leave a comment

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: Spring 2020: The Black Period (Covid19 aka Coronavirus)

by:

THEJNSREPORT

So it’s April 23rd, 2020. Everything except essential businesses have shut down. Last day of work was more than a month ago. A deep sadness grips our family at the passing of our father on Easter Sunday. Dad’s now counted among the many deaths attributed to Covid19 aka Coronavirus. He was in a nursing home as well as at high risk for elderly persons who preexisting conditions.

All I can say is when I received the phone call that my dad was rushed to the hospital with shallow breathing I thought he’s been through a lot but God will see him through. I wanted to go check on in at the hospital but due to restrictions because of the Corona virus neither myself or any of my family members was allowed to be there by his side. I hadn’t been able to see him once the nursing home said they had shut down all access to residents because of the pandemic a few days after my last day at work.

Surreal disbelief came over me when less than an hour after hearing my dad was admitted to the hospital my sister calls to give me the horrible news that our father had passed on. Even now it’s so sharp and fresh in my mind I feel like this is all a dream like in the Matrix. How incredible it is that with all of the health issues my dad battled with it was Covid19 that was his undoing according to doctors who tried to resuscitate my dad. The timing of everything as it unfolds is just remarkable.

I won’t belabor the fact of where this pandemic originated. However, I’ll say this is definitely a cyclical judgment falling on the whole world. This “world time out” has caused everyone to stop and reflect and take a very deep breath because of what’s to follow. Daily and systematically we are being tested as citizens, as civilians, as workers, as human beings with what we do when crisis occurs. News outlets we depend on for information are on 24/7 Corona virus reporting. As I start to tune out the white noise and ludicrous statements of the “Joke in chief” sitting in the White House something else comes to mind to focus on while the world has slowed down enough to take a breath albeit with much trepidation. What have we been seeing?

Erosion of the protections of the Constitution continue at break neck speed while the economy is suppressed, big businesses receive the lion share of taxpayer funded bailouts and tens of millions of us file for unemployment. Who would have thunk this just 6 months ago? I think this is a pivotal time period. I say that because in our life time we as a planet have never seen something like this pandemic. We’ve only heard of them in history. Pandemics like the Bubonic Plague, the Spanish Influenza, and numerous others. These are scary and precarious times. Death appears all around us and we’re reminded daily through news briefings and social media about social distancing, masks, face shields, PPE shortages, lack of testing, and total unpreparedness with the douche bag in chief at the White House in charge. Just to think he and his administration willfully dismantled the team of experts whose job it was to plan and prepare for events such as this current pandemic.

Who to believe and what to believe tugs at us daily. I’m hearkened back to a line from the Devil’s Advocate where Al Pacino aka Satan tells his son Kevin played by Keanu Reeves to “consider the source”. The problem is can we believe everything or anything we see on mainstream media these days? Picking out the truth from the lies isn’t as easy as it sounds. You have people spreading misinformation. You have “TV doctors giving advice” as if they’ve ever dealt with a pandemic of this magnitude before. Then you have people who want to just go out and do whatever they want to do in spite of the Covid19 outbreak.

Things I never thought we’d see have happened. Losing one’s livelihood literally overnight is beyond jarring. It’s like being suddenly awakened from a deep sleep where you are dreaming a pretty good dream and then it’s over while you have someone angrily waking you up. It’s a weird feeling not having to get up daily and go to work, or go to a bar, or restaurant or movies, or bowling or anything that we do socially as human beings. NYC still doesn’t sleep but there isn’t much to do these days other than eat, drink, exercise at home or outside briefly these days.

Ordering take out for me is not going to happen. Why? How can anyone trust food from any restaurant that has people working in it where they could potentially have Covid19 and be around food prepping it for others? Even if we assume the highest cleanliness standards, just the thought that I don’t feel it’s worth potentially getting sick from take out is enough to deter that idea especially when I can cook for myself and my family. Having to stay at home and cook daily reminds me of childhood home economics class and household chores I hated doing as a kid with my siblings. Now present day this isn’t anything I can’t adapt to. I’m finding it fun to actually shop for healthy (or in some cases not so healthy) ingredients and make a tasty meal I wouldn’t mind eating more than once.

The question on everyone’s mind is how long will this last and how do we as a world collectively move forward from this pandemic? How much corruption will come out when this is all over? How will the economy recover? Are we going to have to wear respirators to go outside next? Already to even enter a grocery store you must be wearing a mask which I have no objection to but this is today’s new normal. latex gloves, masks and at least six feet of separation when out in public. What I hope never becomes the new normal is a mandatory vaccination or some other way to usurp the 4th amendment using the guise of public safety. I’m hoping for a better tomorrow but trusting in the most high and not man is what is key for me.

The Stand Your Ground Law & It’s Implications

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on July 21, 2018

Posted in: Social Commentary. Tagged: America, Human Condition, Life, NYC, politics, Racism, Social Behavior, Social Commentary, Stand Your Ground Law, THEJNSREPORT. Leave a comment

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: The Stand Your Ground Law & It’s Implications

By now everyone in the U.S has probably heard of the Stand Your Ground Law (unless you live under a rock) which was brought to public consciousness with the high profile murder case of George Zimmerman who gunned down 17 year old Trayvon Martin in his father’s neighborhood in Florida back in 2012. George Zimmerman a disgusting excuse for a human-being whose prejudice & racist attitude coupled with the use of the “Stand Your Ground Law” allowed him to basically get away with murdering an African American kid. Make no mistake, a 17 year old is still just a kid. This was a grown man with a hatred of people of color and the desire to become law enforcement who failed to become an officer of the law despite his numerous attempts.

His unhealthy obsession with becoming a police officer drove him to study criminal justice and self defense in particular because he wanted to have a legal means of killing people of color. Despite all the facts of the case America’s stubborn racist mindset and rigged judicial system along with “Lord Voldemort” himself Mark O’Meara convinced a jury that only one person was allowed to use the Stand Your Ground Law when the confrontation occurred between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.

Due to his death at the hands of George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin was unable to testify that he was stalked, attacked, wrestled to the ground as he fought valiantly for his life and ultimately shot at point blank range by George Zimmerman in the dark of night while rain fell.

Without rehashing all the details of that night the implications are clear. If you are a person of color and in particular an African American male/female child or adult, young or old, your life can be taken (without remedy) by anyone be it an ordinary citizen or a police officer. Open season was declared with the not guilty verdict. How did America allow this to happen? The answer is America has always allowed this to happen. Her soil is saturated and drunken full with the blood and bodies of innumerable African American people while the judicial system regards their lost lives as foot notes not worthy of mention and rightfully taken by anyone who sees fit to do so.

People can point to the “holocaust” it’s survivors and the descendants of survivors with empathy and remembrance along with monetary compensation for them to help with their recovery from those concentration camps. Under former President Obama, America gave $12 million dollars to “Jewish” holocaust survivors and/or their descendants. What do people point to when it comes to the innumerable number of African/Afro – American lives lost to slavery, rape, murder, public lynching, Jim Crow, & convict leasing programs not to mention the mass incarceration of Afro-Americans brought on by the Clinton era? Nothing…not a peep.

“Stand Your Ground” is just another legal affront to African American people and should be stricken from the law books. One should not be afforded the protections of Stand Your Ground” when initiating a conflict and then claiming self defense to justify murder. Do you notice when a person of color tries to use “Stand Your Ground” that defense isn’t allowed? What are we to do? As it stands we’re currently damned if we do, double damned if we don’t. Perhaps with backs to the wall the answer is (if there is no legal recourse or protection for African-American people) to arm yourselves anyway. Personally, I think it better to have a chance at self defense than no defense at all. Fuck a system that doesn’t give a shit whether you live or die so long as money can be made off your talents, your labor, your physical body, your life, your property, and your intellect. This onslaught can’t go on unchecked and unchallenged.

What I know from experience is that it’s only when you stand up for yourself that people respect you. What incentive is there to change anything if the people affected aren’t willing to fight for the change?

NYC Subway Scene End of 2014

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on December 29, 2014

Posted in: Image Gallery, Social Commentary. Tagged: 2014, Human Behavior, Human Condition, Humanity, MTA, NYC Subway, People, Scene, Selfish, Selfishness. Leave a comment

THEJNSREPORT’S: NYC Subway Scene End of 2014

What do you see in this picture?
I see space for another seat if someone chose to be less selfish. Image is property of THEJNSREPORT.COM (c) 2014.

Knee Defender: The Next Great Invention!!

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on August 27, 2014

Posted in: Health, Social Commentary. Tagged: Golden Rule, human beings, Human Condition, Knee Defender, Personal Space, Respect, Seating, Transporation, travel. Leave a comment

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: Knee Defender: The Next Great Invention!!

Recently while perusing Twitter I came across the story of a fight on a flight that had to be diverted due to two passengers arguing over the ability and/or right to recline an airline seat.

Apparently a man was sitting in economy plus and in the middle seat (nuff said). Knowing how uncomfortable flying coach can be this man bought an ingenious invention the “Knee Defender” a device that prevents a seat from reclining backwards into one’s knees.

The woman sitting in front of him tried repeatedly to recline her seat unsuccessfully into his knees. When she realized it was because of his device and he wouldn’t remove his protection, she and the man exchanged words.

The result ended up being her throwing a cup of water in his face and the continued argument causing the flight to be diverted from its original flight path to Chicago where both were removed from the plane.

Personally when I read this story I felt for the guy and agreed he should be able to use the Knee Defender. I’m sure most of us have been there where the stress of travelling and annoying kids/adults gets to you. The last thing one needs is to have what little personal space there is encroached upon by someone else.

Before the Knee Defender one had to resort to the use of the knees to prevent the unwanted recline or the occasionally kick to the back of the chair to let the person in front know, NO! I like my knees. Now (In the voice of those late night infomercials) introducing the Knee Defender.

Which leads me to my poll question.

Who Are We, America?

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on July 22, 2014

Posted in: Image Gallery, Social Commentary. Tagged: America, Citizens, Eric Garner, human beings, Human Condition, human nature, The People, Who Are We America?. Leave a comment

Who Are We… America?

Who are we as people, human beings, and citizens within the supposedly wealthiest nation on earth? Are we in fact living within modern day Babylon? Are we in fact living in the hellish prison system sectors where an ordinary citizen can have his/her life taken from them for no “real” or “legitimate” reason (In BROAD DAY LIGHT) right in front of all of us by those sworn to protect and serve us?

Are we worthless grotesque creatures loathe of respect and dignity? No we are not. We are people, we are human beings, we have minds, souls, bodies, and the ability to create and live to do wonderous things.

Yet there is this constant battle going on within each of us. To know truth and lies, to know good from evil, and to that end live our lives with a basic tenet God told us to live by which is to love your neighbor as you love yourself. How simple is that?

We are doomed as people to destroy ourselves when we ignore that basic principal. Killing breeds more killing. Retribution is every bit a part of human nature as any other emotion we experience and/or endure.

I’ve heard the typical view point whenever a black man is killed by police that somehow they brought it upon themselves. In no universe I know of would it or could it ever be conceivable that killing an unarmed human-being supposedly for past business transactions is justification for harassment and murder.

What were his misdemeanors for? Selling wait for it wait for it… “Untaxed cigarettes”. Are you f&*%Kn kidding me? Real bad guys are getting away with every crime under the law, hiding behind the blue wall, fully armed with guns & badges. The criminals even higher up the food chain wear $2000, $5000 suits and sell a hell of a lot more than “untaxed” cigarettes.

The fact of the matter is the cowards that killed and assisted in the killing of Eric Garner including that trifling & heinous actress calling herself an EMT and her cronies all need to be fired, stripped of their shields & guns and tried for this man’s murder.

The female EMT knew Eric Garner was dead. She I’m sure, if we were to check her credentials to be a licensed EMT must know how to properly check for the carotid artery. She would know how to check breathing not rubber neck a yeah he’s breathing. Her hand placement to check his pulse was casual and careless at best. And those cops huddled over his lifeless body propping him on his side, and nudging him to make it appear as if he’s still moving didn’t (nor could they)fool me for a second.

Eric Garner did nothing to warrant what happened to him and plead his case. He didn’t resist the police. And why is it they always need about 10 to 20 cops for one black man? That’s what cowards do (get together and literally) “gang” up on people they feel they are better than or more powerful than.

Eric Garner chose to stand up as a man for himself, demanded respect and to be left alone. What he got was murdered for his decision. What will we the people his people do now?

Are we willing to cower and let the police continue to get away with slaps on the wrists, desk duties, and eventual promotions for their evil? I pray to God that we are not.

R.I.P Eric Garner and the many other strong black men we’ve continually lost to the murderous methods and ways of the “police”.

We have a right to be here…ALL of us human beings!

See Saw Satisfaction

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on June 18, 2013

Posted in: Social Commentary. Tagged: God, Human Condition, Life, Monopoly, Selfishness, Truth. Leave a comment

Welcome to the JnSReport’s: See~Saw Satisfaction

by Protege‘

My deep desire is to be one of those who propel positive progress from people in general. I feel the best way to achieve genuine satisfaction is to live life as a seesaw giving and receiving. I want to address the basic aspects of life in regards to interactions with nature, the environment, animals as well as fellow human beings. I yearn to better become the protege of those ground-breakers of the past and the positive influence infusers of the present.

Once one’s living space is secured- meaning properly maintained without interfering with neighboring animals or surrounding environment; one can then focus on self-discovery as well as self exploration as to the best ways to utilize their found skills and talents.

Hopefully at this stage in one’s life journey, one will realize and appreciate the fact that the individual is just one very important part of the whole masterpiece that is life. Humans cannot live as one sole being; they should positively give and take just as we breathe. We should at least try to give as much positive influence to the world as we benefit from on a daily basis. Everything in existence has no choice but to follow this bold fact. Since everything we do effects the whole package, we should put forth sincere effort in our intentions and their effects, as much as we expect to receive.

I truly believe that if we would just accept this truth and focus on securing the best tactics to utilize our God-given gifts within our part of the masterpiece of life, we would achieve happiness- the epitome of satisfaction due to positive progress. Think of it; honing our talents throughout all their ranges in an efficient manner, towards contributing to the positive maintenance of the world as a whole.

The problem with my romantic findings is the reality of living in a world that constantly insists on securing the absoluteness of a Monopoly focused life condition. There are those that sadly choose to be afraid to discover, explore and hone their personal provisions or worse yet, wrongfully use them for the sole purpose of self-indulgence.

Such selfish beings either believe they are the only ones on earth entitled to all possible gratification on the planet or they focus all their efforts towards others in some warped way of self-pleasuring vicariously through the satisfaction of those previously described. Just as in the famous lyrics of the Eurytmics’ timeless hit Sweet Dreams, “Everybody’s looking for something… Some of them want to use you; some of them want to be used by you!”

These same selfish beings constantly try to squash all those in their path with their greed. They go to such extremes to monopolize all the best aspects of life. They hoard the highest levels of every element of existence for themselves and still cannot nullify the simple truth that they cannot totally advance alone. They still need the financial underlings to feed and maintain their wealth.

These same beings could use their earthly fortunes to totally eradicate the vast majority of the world’s issues if not all! The few cannot both rule and run the entire earth; just as humans cannot survive on our own without nature. We must share, even if it is only a small amount compared to the whole, contributions with all other life forms we exist amongst. If more people thought to help heal, I feel they would in some way or other create the means to best enhance their well-being overall, that of the: mind, body, soul & spirit.

One of the best film examples of my theory is Looper, emphasizing how we all do & can play either a positive or negative role in life for most if not all. We should stray from living as “we’re gonna die young” but as we’re going to live long & strong. In a perfect world you’d get what you deserve right as you earned it in both respects. The good get blessings and the bad get retribution.

What we who know better must do, is stay confident that our race is not in vain even though it so clearly seems so. Being selfish will only afford counterfeit gratification; for “all that glitters is not gold”, rather greed’s shallow needs leads to hollow and thereby lonely ends.

At least try to do what’s right knowing karma no matter how delayed, is real. Thanks for reading and thereby allowing me to vent my feelings about the sad state of the human condition.

God Bless especially when the world’s evil dares to test!

The Selfish

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on December 31, 2012

Posted in: Social Commentary. Tagged: Charity, Human Condition, Love, Self, Selfishness, What goes around, Where is the Love?. Leave a comment

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: The Selfish

Recently while thinking on the subject of selfishness I decided to try and document some still images of plain old selfishness to show how selfish we as human beings can be towards one another let alone the world around us. Traveling around the city on the MTA affords many opportunities to capture “people at their best” as I like to call it. I jest in that last statement as clearly people at their best could never embody the following exhibits of selfish behavior.