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Happy Kwanzaa! The holiday brought to you by the FBI

Ann Coulter
anncoulter.com
Wed, 25 Dec 2019 10:07 UTC

Maulana Karenga marks 'Kwanzaa' with his 'people'

Kwanzaa, celebrated exclusively by white liberals, is a fake holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge Ron Karenga -- aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural gibberish that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga's United Slaves.

In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the '60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better. (It's the same function MSNBC serves today.)

By that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect.

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Merry, er, Happy Kwanzaa! Brought to you by the FBI...

If you're thinking that that candelabrum looks rather like the Jewish Menorah, that's because it kind of is.

The Jewish liberal magazine Forward did a special ('The Secret Jewish History of Kwanzaa') on this FBI-created sect a few years ago...

Fifty years ago, at the inaugural celebration of Kwanzaa, 60 black Americans gathered in a California living room to celebrate their distant African past.

It was 1966. They wore dashikis and hand-woven headwear. A troupe of musicians played drums. Men and women bowed to each other and poured libations to the ancestors. Later, someone switched on the stereo and turned up the music of James Brown and Curtis Mayfield as the crowd danced.

But the central ritual of the entire evening — the ceremony everyone had come for — involved lighting a modified Hanukkah menorah.

It is just one of many connections between the harvest-themed celebration of African-American heritage and the Jewish festival of lights.

The very first Kwanzaa candelabrum was made by altering a Jewish menorah; celebrants held joint Kwanzaa-Hanukkah celebrations regularly in the early years and when critics attacked the newly-formed black holiday they also leveled criticism at Hanukkah. Detractors saw both festivals as multicultural and "politically correct" incursions on their white Christian holiday season.

Kwanzaa, an annual weeklong holiday that starts on December 26, was born in the political ferment of the 1960s as part of a newly-energized and Africa-focused black consciousness. Maulana Karenga, a prominent black nationalist and then-doctoral student created the holiday. Early enthusiasts wanted to distance themselves from Christmas and Christianity, which some saw as a white religion.

In Hanukkah, each candle on the candelabra represents a day of the holiday; in Kwanzaa, each stands for a life principle. [...]

And while joint Kwanzaa-Christmas events were rare at first, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah events were more common.

According to Keith Mayes, a professor of African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota and author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, confusion sometimes arose from linking Kwanzaa and Christmas, but "Kwanzaa and Hanukkah went together more smoothly."

"Joint Kwanzaa and Hanukkah celebrations bridged the divide between African-Americans and Jews, allowing both groups to share in the memory of suffering," Mayes wrote in his book which chronicled the inaugural ceremony and the formative years of the holiday.

UK economy faces weakest growth since second world war

Richard Partington
The Guardian
Fri, 27 Dec 2019 07:00 UTC

The British economy is on track for the weakest year outside a recession since the second world war, as political turmoil and Brexit uncertainty dragged down growth, a Guardian analysis reveals.

At the end of a turbulent year and following Boris Johnson's election victory, surveys of business activity suggest economic growth in the final three months of 2019 has essentially stalled. The jobs market is showing signs of stress and public borrowing is steadily rising again after a decade of improvement.

The Bank of England has downgraded its forecast for gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by only 0.1% in the fourth quarter as high street spending stalled and business investment was kept on hold before the election and amid Brexit uncertainty. Economic growth for 2019 as a whole is forecast to be just 1%, the weakest expansion outside a recession for more than half a century.

Comment: All signs are pointing to a global economy whose diagnosis, as it stands, is terminal: The global economy is sick and it has nothing to do with the trade war

Daesh beheads 11 Nigerian Christians in barbaric 'revenge for Baghdadi's death'

Sputnik
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:58 UTC

The Islamic terrorist group Daesh announced that it had killed 11 Christians in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State one day after Christmas as an act of revenge for the death of Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Footage of the executions, which was published by Amaq, a propaganda outlet linked to Daesh, shows 11 blindfolded men being lined up in an outdoor location.

"This is a message to Christians all over the world," a masked man is heard saying in the video. One of the blindfolded captives in the video is shot, while the rest are beheaded. The victims are believed to have been captured by Daesh in recent weeks.

Comment: Using Al-Baghdadi as reason for the attack is bizarre considering how he was a US stooge, he's been 'killed' on more than one occasion, with these deaths stretching as far back as 2017, but also because his most recent 'death' was months ago; moreover, what do this Christian group have to do with it? And so, if anything, this attack was more than likely yet another move to promote animosity between the two religions in the region, as the Nigerian President alludes to in his statement.

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Oops for Google Apps? Huawei seeks an alliance with other Chinese firms to push US giant out of Asia

RT
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 03:18 UTC

Chinese giants Huawei and Oppo plan to create an alternative to Google mobile services and seek cooperation with Indian developers. Their success may spell an end to Android's market domination in Asia, and possibly beyond.

For now, the global dominance of the Google-owned Android mobile operating system (OS) may seem to be without challenge. It comfortably holds a share amounting to a whopping 76 percent of the mobile OS market worldwide. But clouds are already gathering over the US company and, if it gets shoved out of a massive segment of the market, it will only have itself to blame.

Google's positions are about to be challenged by none other than China's Huawei - a telecommunications giant and smartphone manufacturer which has recently become a target of constant US pressure. The company, which once used Google's Android itself on its smartphones, was forced to develop an alternative after the US tech titan rushed to comply with Washington's sanctions in May and became one of the first American companies to cut Huawei off from its services.

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One-time vegan influencer is now a hunter-gatherer teaching people skills to catch wild game for themselves

Lee Brown
New York Post
Thu, 26 Dec 2019 01:34 UTC

Daniel Vitalis

A zealous vegan who became an influencer in the raw-food movement has made a drastic change to his lifestyle — becoming an internet-famous hunter-gatherer teaching people to kill animals for food.

Daniel Vitalis, 42, gave up meat as a teenager and was vegan for 10 years, becoming a popular speaker espousing the extreme diet.

He dumped veganism five years ago, however, after reading a book that convinced him animal foods were crucial for a healthy diet — telling The Boston Globe that the switch came in the middle of a vegan speaking tour.

The global economy is sick and it has nothing to do with the trade war

Jeffrey Snider
RealClearMarkets
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 12:00 UTC

The World Trade Organization (WTO) reported that for the first time since 2009 global trade volumes have declined. During the third quarter of this year, the gross number of goods sent abroad from one country to another were fewer than the amount of those traded during the third quarter of last year. Though the negative was small, they always are to start with, it's never a good thing when fewer goods are moved around.

Despite worldwide population expansion and the presumed gain of wealthier economies due to a boom everyone had been talking about, the WTO says that trade volumes peaked during that last third quarter. According to the same data, total trade values, that is, the monetary value of goods being traded factoring prices and currency translation, peaked the quarter before.

You may remember the second quarter of 2018. Central bankers remained in their full glory talking about the resurrected global recovery which they would use to return their policies to or near normal. It was a good time to be one for the first time in a long time. They made full use of the trend - as a means to dismiss the more and more frequent warning signs.

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Maccabee Task Force provided covert funding for 3,200 pro-Israel events on US campuses

Alison Weir
If Americans Knew Blog
Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC

David Brog announced that his organization secretly funded over 3,200 pro-Israel events on 112 campuses in 2019, and brought over 2,300 student leaders on "transformative trips to Israel." He writes: "You will never see our name on the events we sponsor..."

David Brog, executive director of the Maccabee Task Force, emailed supporters on December 26th: "In the spirit of Hanukkah, donate to help us create modern day Maccabees." (Maccabees are sometimes seen as violent extremists; see below).

The Maccabee Task Force funds free, propaganda trips for campus leaders to Israel, while obscuring its role and objective in the trips. In his email solicitation for donations, Brog acknowledged his organization's covert tactics:

"Many groups like to talk about what they're doing on campus. We rarely do. You will never see our name on the events we sponsor. You will never see our logo on the buses we send to Israel. But if we hope to continue to raise the funds we need to support these extensive efforts, then we do need to share 'what we're doing about it' on occasion.

"By the time this academic year is over, we will have funded over 3,200 pro-Israel events on 112 campuses across the country and around the world. And we will have brought over 2,300 leaders from these campuses on transformative trips to Israel.

"And these efforts are working! Last year, BDS passed on only one of the 80 campuses on which we were active. And we intentionally go to the campuses with the most active anti-Israel efforts.

"These efforts are extremely effective — and extremely expensive. If we're going to be able to keep growing at this pace, we need your help. Together, we can ensure that we bring more strategies and support to even more pro-Israel students next year."

Comment: Israel has instigated a war on perception through indoctrination and the repetition of controlled messages. It works if you are not informed of current and historical events, not familiar with the pathological markers of this mindset and can't see where Israel's plan is heading. Manipulation always leads us somewhere we don't want to be.

Palestinian Gaza border protests halted until March 2020

Sputnik
Thu, 26 Dec 2019 22:00 UTC

Palestinian organizers have announced that routine demonstrations will be scaled back in 2020 - signaling a potential easing of hostility between Israeli leadership and Hamas within the region.

After almost 20 months of weekly demonstrations, the High Commission for the March of Return and Breaking the Siege announced Thursday that protests will decrease in frequency in the new year.

According to the organization, beginning March 30, 2020, demonstrations will occur on "a monthly basis as well as whenever we need masses to gather and during prominent national occasions." The statement read, as reported by the Times of Israel:

"We, in the High Commission for the March of Return and Breaking the Siege, are making this decision and embodying national responsibility. Through this [decision], we are affirming the Commission's bold and responsible leadership role."

Canadian TV cuts Trump's cameo from 'Home Alone 2' - Twitter notices

RT
Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:00 UTC

Before he was US president, Donald Trump had a notable cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. You won't know that if you watch the Christmas movie in Canada, as the CBC removed it - to make time for commercials, they say.

The John Hughes comedy follows the misadventures of Kevin (Macauley Culkin) as he ends up in New York City while his family goes from Chicago to Florida. In one scene, Kevin is gawking at the glitzy Plaza Hotel and asks Trump for directions - which the real-estate mogul helpfully and politely provides.

Those who watch the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's TV cut of the 1992 classic, however, will never see the scene. Nor will those who rely on the BBC America version, apparently.

Many Trump supporters called foul on CBC, some going so far as to accuse the Canadian state broadcaster of suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and making the edit for political reasons.

Estonia says it 'won't yield to foreign pressure' after Russia calls for EU protection amid persecution of Sputnik news

RT
Fri, 27 Dec 2019 11:10 UTC

The Estonian foreign minister said his country will not "yield to foreign pressure" after Russia turned to European authorities with a call to protect the Estonian branch of the Russian network Sputnik from Tallinn's harassment.

The Estonian government has demanded that all Estonian employees of Sputnik resign, saying otherwise they may be prosecuted for violating EU sanctions against Russia. Tallinn claims that individual sanctions against the head of Sputnik's parent organization make any financial ties to the network illegal.

Moscow sees the demand as an obvious attempt to silence Sputnik and a blatant attack on media freedom. Concerns about the situation have been voiced by some European officials, including OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir, who said he asked Tallinn "to refrain from unnecessary limitations on the work of foreign media:

Comment: There is a history of ill will between Estonia and Russia, this latest spat is a continuation.

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Society's Child

Happy Kwanzaa! The holiday brought to you by the FBI

UK economy faces weakest growth since second world war

Daesh beheads 11 Nigerian Christians in barbaric 'revenge for Baghdadi's death'

Oops for Google Apps? Huawei seeks an alliance with other Chinese firms to push US giant out of Asia

One-time vegan influencer is now a hunter-gatherer teaching people skills to catch wild game for themselves

The global economy is sick and it has nothing to do with the trade war

Maccabee Task Force provided covert funding for 3,200 pro-Israel events on US campuses

Palestinian Gaza border protests halted until March 2020

Canadian TV cuts Trump's cameo from 'Home Alone 2' - Twitter notices

Estonia says it 'won't yield to foreign pressure' after Russia calls for EU protection amid persecution of Sputnik news

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