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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.

Harassment of Sputnik reporters by police in Estonia 'beyond all existing norms': Journalist groups call to protect colleagues

Bitter spat between Palestinian Authority and Hamas deprives Gazans of passports—and the opportunity to travel

Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman
Mondoweiss
Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC

This report is by a writer from WeAreNotNumbers.org in Gaza.

© Ashraf Amra/APA Image
Palestinians hold their passports as they wait for travel permits to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing after it was opened by Egyptian authorities for humanitarian cases, in the southern Gaza Strip December 17, 2017.

For over a decade Israel and Egypt prevented Palestinians from exiting Gaza by tightly controlling crossings that lead outside of the besieged strip. Palestinians now say that another block they face in traveling abroad is from the Palestinian Authority who have used a quiet policy to deny travel documents over the last decade.

In the past, Hamas's ministry of interior had oversight on passport requests and used that authority to purge passport requests from political opponents. Presently the Palestinian Authority, or PA, is the only authority that can issue this vital document for Palestinians-including those in Gaza.

According to human rights monitors and sources who spoke to Mondoweiss, when passport requests are denied, Palestinians are told it is for "security reasons." This block was traced back to interference by the Palestinian Intelligence Service in the West Bank.

Bakr al-Turkmani from the Gaza office of the International Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), a quasi-governmental human rights monitor, said his group has monitored passport denials since 2007.

Comment: As if the constant onslaught from Israel wasn't causing enough grief, Gazans also have to contend with the PA:

Cargo vessel crashes into bollard on Istanbul's Bosphorus

Hurriyet Daily News
Fri, 27 Dec 2019 12:44 UTC

A cargo vessel crossing through the Bosphorus in Istanbul crashed into a bollard next to Aşiyan Cemetery on Dec. 27.

Songa Iridium, a Liberian-flagged cargo vessel departing from Odessa port of Ukraine, ran ashore at the Rumeli Hisarı 25 minutes after entering the Bosphorus Strait.

Rescue boats from the General Directorate of Coastal Safety were dispatched to the scene.

No loss of life due to the accident was reported.

The cargo vessel was 191-meters (626-feet) long and weighted over 23,500 gross ton.

Comment: Footage of the crash collated by RT and Sputnik:

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Society's Child

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

Bitter spat between Palestinian Authority and Hamas deprives Gazans of passports—and the opportunity to travel

Cargo vessel crashes into bollard on Istanbul's Bosphorus

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