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The Dark Truth About Kwanzaa

Kamala Harris likes to play pretend. Fortunately for her, there's no better performance of make-believe than the cultural charade that is Kwanzaa. And since it's politically advantageous to do so, Kamala the Chameleon purports to be a lifelong celebrant of Kwanzaa.

For years, Kamala has told tall tales of cherished age-old Kwanzaa traditions in the Harris household. She has repeatedly claimed to nostalgically recall fond childhood memories of multi-generational Kwanzaa celebrations led by "the elders"® sharing stories of yore and lighting candles on the "kinara," a knock-off menorah. (The first "kinara" was forged from a desecrated Jewish menorah, in which two openings were broken off to create a seven-ring candleholder.) Everyone sang kumbaya, yada yada.

It sounds like a shoo-in Harvard application essay, except for the fact that Kamala pre-dates Kwanzaa.

Although we're led to believe there's something sacred about Kwanzaa—as if there's an ancient aura attached to its origins—Kwanzaa wasn't contrived until 1966 and didn't even exist when Kamala was born two years before in 1964.

So, it's pretty hard to fathom chronologically that the newly fabricated festivities were one of Kamala's "favorite" recollections of her youth, especially since she spent her adolescence in Canada, where Kwanzaa wasn't widely spread (despite the dishonest media attempts to portray the little-observed "holiday" as a worldwide phenomenon.)

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We've also yet to see family photos of her Indian mother and Jamaican father celebrating Kwanzaa, which is supposed to honor African-American heritage. Well, that's because Kamala is lying her half-Asian ass off. (It's OK. My full-Asian ass can say that.)

You see, Kwanzaa is a fitting costume for Kamala to role-play in since it's equally disingenuous.

Black-Separatist Origins

Kwanzaa doesn't have deep African roots. In fact, it's not celebrated in Africa at all; it's an American invention.

Kwanzaa is a political product of the 1960s black power movement. As aptly phrased by The Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine, the so-called holiday has "nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with California in the 1960s." It's a black-separatist idea devised to divide Americans along racial lines. James Coleman, a former Black Panther, reportedly acknowledged the tactic of sowing racial division: "By only stressing the unity of black people, Kwanzaa separates black people from the rest of Americans..."

Kwanzaa's red, black, and green flag—adopted from the Pan-African flag—previously promoted racial separatism and political violence. Before alterations in order and interpretation of the colors, Kwanzaa's flag was the "symbol of devotion" to "establish an independent African nation" on the North American continent through bloodshed. "Red is for the Blood. Black is the Black People. Green is for the Land," the official Kwanzaa Information Center declared, pledging allegiance to the flag of black nationalism:

"The Red, or the blood, stands as the top of all things. We lost our land through blood; and we cannot gain it except through blood. We must redeem our lives through the blood. Without the shedding of blood, there can be no redemption of this race."

Racist Founder

Kwanzaa was founded by a violent Marxist figure, Ronald McKinley Everett, a convicted criminal who assumed an African alter-ego, "Dr. Maulana Karenga," although he was born in the United States, slightly south of the Delaware border. In this African persona, Karenga co-founded the United Slaves (US), a radical-left paramilitary group that rivaled the militant Black Panthers.

Amid a turf war fighting for control over the black studies program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Karenga's followers, in 1969, murdered two Black Panthers who had confronted the United Slaves cult leader inside the student center. Then, in 1971, Karenga was sentenced to prison for kidnapping and sadistically torturing two black women because he believed that the imprisoned victims, who were United Slaves dissidents, had tried to kill him with "crystals" placed in his food and water.

The Los Angeles Times described the barbaric torture in an article covering testimony at Karenga's trial, revealing that the women were whipped with cords, beaten with batons, and seared with irons—all while naked—in an effort to elicit confessions:

Deborah Jones, who once was given the title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vice. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said.

At trial, Karenga's sanity was questioned. A psychiatrist who had observed Karenga talking to his blanket and imaginary people stated in a report: "This man now represents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment." According to the psychiatrist's psychological assessment of Karenga, Kwanzaa's founder also believed that dive-bombers had attacked him.

'Back to Black' Campaign

Members of the United Slaves were instructed to follow the sevenfold "Path of Blackness," as outlined by Karenga in his book on black radicalism: "[T]hink black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black."

Kwanzaa was part of the cultural revolution that served as a precursor to the violent revolution Karenga had hoped would follow. "You must have a cultural revolution before the violent revolution," Karenga penned in his self-published pamphlet "The Quotable Karenga," which reproduced quotations from Karenga's speeches as a stylistic copy of Chairman Mao's "little red book."

Kwanzaa was an extension of the "political struggle" for "cultural autonomy," as in "institutional independence," like building black-owned businesses, etc. But what it meant was divorcing blacks from their unifying American identity and Western worldview. Karenga sought to achieve "re-Africanization" of black Americans—or "Back to Black," as he described in "our own Ebonics way," a.k.a. "black speech" (a portmanteau of ebony and phonics). "Black is not simply a color, it is also culture and consciousness," Karenga pontificated.

However, at the time that he created Kwanzaa, Karenga had not visited Africa. Scholars have since criticized Karenga for manufacturing a mysticized notion of Africa, ironically through Western assumptions about Africa, and thereby exoticizing Africa.

Of course, Africa seems foreign and there's no sense of familiarity, because black-American descendants of African slaves are generations removed from slavery. I challenge Kwanzaa celebrants to find Africa on a world map. Kwanzaa feels like a skit from "The Office," if Michael Scott were to poorly construct a pseudo-holiday dedicated to praising African ancestry. It would be absurd and offensive. In that manner, Kwanzaa culturally appropriates the iconography, language, and customs of native Africans.

Derived from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya kwanza," meaning "first fruits" of the harvest, Kwanzaa is fraudulent down to its name. Swahili is an East African tongue. Most of the slaves transported to America were torn from the shores of West Africa.

The seven principles of Kwanzaa—one for each day of the weeklong "African" feast lasting from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1—are a haphazard amalgam of Swahili terms and socialist doctrine: unity ("Umoja"), self-determination ("Kujichagulia"), collective work and responsibility ("Ujima"), cooperative economics ("Ujamaa"), purpose ("Nia"), creativity ("Kuumba"), and faith ("Imani").

If these sound familiar, that's because Kwanzaa's seven pillars are identical to the seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a far-left domestic terrorist organization responsible for a string of bank robberies, rapes, murders, and attempted bombings in mid-1970s Berkeley, California. A seven-headed cobra was emblazoned on SLA's banner, and each snakehead stood for one of SLA's revolutionary Marxist principles—regurgitated verbatim from Kwanzaa's "guiding" principles.

A typographically inventive poster for the Symbionese Liberation Army "A Cobra has grown slowly through The People's Struggle coiled in our minds. Let us aim with clear precision to plant our venom at the core. With the beauty of our rising new changes being born." Berkeley 1974. pic.twitter.com/NORFrPQk7Z— Incunabula (@incunabula) June 20, 2019

Anti-Christian 'Black Alternative'

Kwanzaa is not rooted in faith, either. Intended to be a strictly secular African-American "alternative" to Christmas, Kwanzaa lacked and continues to lack appeal to black Christians. (Several black Baptist leaders have publicly spoken out against Karenga's anti-Christian preachings.)

Armed with a Messianic complex, Kwanzaa's creator urged his followers to reject Christianity as "a white religion. It has a white God, and any 'Negro' who believes in it is a sick 'Negro.' How can you pray to a white man? If you believe in him, no wonder you catch so much hell," Karenga wrote. However, despite efforts to make it mainstream, Kwanzaa's promotion in black neighborhoods was confronted by the commanding popularity of Christmas across the community.

In Brooklyn, New York, the EAST Organization, which was a vocal promoter of Kwanzaa, chastised black Americans for Christmas shopping, believing it was akin to slavery: "TAKE THE CHAINS OFF YOUR BRAIN BLACK PEOPLE!!!"

"Kill Santa Claus, relive Kwanza [sic], bring forth the cultural revolution!" the EAST Organization proclaimed.

And so, Kwanzaa's proponents turned to the youth instead. In 1971, the Harlem Commonwealth Council commissioned race-hustler Al Sharpton (before his Fat Albert days) to indoctrinate black elementary school students about Kwanzaa's "connection with the African past," claiming it's "a spiritual ceremony" and teaching the children how to pronounce the Swahili terminology Kwanzaa co-opts.

The Long Con

Karenga even admitted that Kwanzaa is a farce to an audience at Howard University, a "historically black" college, in 1987:

''People think it's African, but it's not,'' Karenga said. ''I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own, so I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because, you know, black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American."

"Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that's when a lot of people would be partying," Karenga added.

So, what is the true meaning of Kwanzaa? Kwanzaa celebrates the legacy of a psychotic con man who brutally beat black women. Karenga isn't exactly Father Christmas; he isn't jolly Saint Nick. The felon and his racist beliefs certainly aren't any cause for celebration. You would think Karenga's criminal past would discredit him and his scam of a holiday. But predictably, Karenga currently chairs the Africana Studies Department at California State University. It's not surprising since they made a martyr out of George Floyd. Then, I suppose Karenga is exactly the kind of character they would deem worthy of our adoration.

Who the hell actually celebrates Kwanzaa today? No one. That is—no one who should be taken seriously. They're not serious people. Just look at those effectively wishing the black vote a "Joyous Kwanzaa!" as we head into an election year: Democrats, the party of slavery; Joe "you ain't black" Biden, who notoriously worked alongside segregationists; COVID "Karen" Gretchen Whitmer; one-man minstrel show Justin Trudeau. Notice it's always white liberals who are die-hard Kwanzaa enthusiasts.

Kwanzaa is as fictitious as Frank Costanza's Festivus and is practiced likewise at laughable levels. In 2004, a National Retail Foundation survey found that only 1.6% of American consumers reported celebrating Kwanzaa, and a decade ago, Kwanzaa's supposed sway swelled to a measly 4%, just 1% above fictional Festivus, a Public Policy Polling study discovered in 2012.

This is, of course, accounting for whoever claims they celebrate. Much of the modern-day fanfare can be attributed to the press pumping out puff pieces overhyping Kwanzaa's influence, the corporations commercializing it to make big bucks off of another Juneteenth, and public schools telling impressionable children that they ought to celebrate Kwanzaa in the classroom for the sake of cross-cultural sensitivity.

At the end of the day, they just don't want a white Christmas.

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Africanistan: The Ultimate War on Terror

Africanistan

“We love our country. But to love it you have to be alive. A corpse has no homeland.”

On an enslaved mass Europe drew cold lines. Millions tangled in exploitation’s cruel dance. The hope for a continent in Barbarian hands, A united, stable Alkebulan a utopian dream.

The General Act of Berlin announced in 1885, Only Ethiopia and Liberia would be spared. Foreign soldiers descend on coastal shores, The latest weaponry blots out Africa’s light.

If trading in its people weren’t brutal enough, Now minerals overflowed in Europe’s dockyards. The conniving aggressors greedy for more, Almost wipe out each other in two world wars.

Post-1945 nations clamor for independence, Communists subverting old colonial rules. America and the Soviets in devilish mode, Instilling their doctrines lit a hellish fuse.

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The Berlin Wall tumbled and a flicker of hope, Now Africa is courted like a beautiful bride. China’s approach is different from the west Understanding Africa’s worth, they invest.

Excess supply meets unlimited demand, Building roads, schools, bridges and ports. Russia still supply 50% of its arms: Africa seeking fresh prospects anew.

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Islamists and Tuareg separatists in Mali, An excess of arms has primed the north grizzly. Thousands have perished, a million displaced, In an endless conflict Mali’s fate defaced.

4,000 of Timbuktu’s manuscripts plundered, Ansar Dyne’s destruction leaves culture sundered. Pick-axed and hammered saintly shrines and tombs, Protecting faith’s purity, the extremists fumed.

Burkina Faso ravaged by relentless perdition. Executions, looting and arson the story. Civilians in the crossfire recruited for militia: Volontaires pour la défense de la patrie.

A coup thwarts another coup’s dark intent, President Captain Traoré standing firm. Jihadist activity distresses the land, Neighbouring countries offer a united hand.

As in Niger, skating on alert’s icy brink, Deposed President Bazoum a bargaining chip. Charged with treason, he’s already condemned, ECOWAS threaten war but their plan is insane.

Twenty-nine dead soldiers in the south ignite, A counter-offensive killing terrorists overnight. Niger taking measures to neutralize the threat, France’s withdrawal cast conspiracies of doubt.

Boko Haram and Jama’at Ahl al-Sunna, Spread fiery rhetoric stoking angst in Nigeria. In the troubled north their dominant sphere, 3.6 million have been displaced.

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Wagner’s entry and the Rwandans fight, Purged Séléka rebels from the country’s towns. The first in a decade, a calm before a storm, In a region still marred by conflict’s blight.

Congo-Kinshasa remains insecure, Six million displaced as suffering obscured. UN’s future shaky, talks aim to repair, Gender violence haunts, survivors in despair.

Poison of greed smeared diamonds with blood, Minerals fueling war, displacement and hunger. Political solutions urged as elections draw near, UN peacekeepers targeted; challenges severe.

Chad, with oil wealth, yet so impoverished, Bearing the weight of war-torn refugees. 300,000 and counting fled from Sudan, A fragile security, a nation in unease.

Under guise of wiping people’s tears away, The UAE covertly aids with brazen lies. In a remote town of Chad an operation thrives, Weapons and drones for the RSF side.

Hemedti and Burhan, once brothers share, A conflict spurring chaos in Khartoum and Darfur. Bullets, rockets, and the fighter jet’s snare, The devil on horseback returned with flair.

Sudanese Armed Force’s strafing strews panic; Home invasions, bombed hospitals, people can’t go out. The pillaging and the killing systematic – As night fell, death lingers, ready to pounce.

In Ethiopia it seems the madness rages on, Sexual violence and other crimes scarring the soul. Terror in Tigray and now fighting in Amhara, A nation’s recurring agony takes a heavy toll.

Government battle with their former kin, Allied forces turned foes in a war so grim. Abiy Ahmed planned to unite within, But too many militias disagree with him.

Somalian troops have engaged for years, Hide and seek with Al Shabab, left a brutal scar. Thousands have fallen but does anybody hear? Screams and blood sacrifice an endless affair.

A truck bomb in Beledweyne’s town square, Killed 21 innocents sprouting anguish over here. Buildings razed, plenty wounded on the ground, Never-ending turmoil like Black Hawk Down.

Mozambique is a land in flux and dread, An insurgency’s deadly shadow looms overhead. A million displaced in Cabo Delgado’s fright, Another nation struggling as violence excites.

Loved ones beheaded, homes razed to ashes, Men and boys compelled to join armed groups. Livelihoods vanished, education’s lost ground, Healthcare and food scarcity in critical loop.

South Africa’s parliament hall burned down, Tensions with the U.S. begin to install. Naval drills in the Indian Ocean enthralled, South Africa, Russia and China allied.

ANC has past links with these erstwhile friends, USA frustrated and controversy found. Accused of arms smuggling aim to undermine, South Africa’s neutrality in the war in Ukraine.

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Youth and time is aligned on terrain, The West grows decrepit and demographics wane. Empires decline as the past conveys. Like a sphinx we’ll rise even a millennium away.

So, bear the turmoil Alkebulan my land, Relay this on the hills and shout up to the sky – Proclaim to those seeking to seize our hand, AFRICA RISING, we shall cry again.

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10/27/2023:. I can understand why America has to go into Afghanistan to kill off the Taliban for America's 9/11 attack; however, Israel, America doesn't live on Afghanistan land like you are living on land that was never own by your ancestors and you for Israel land now is sitting in dark Africa continent while you Israel has light white skin. Your mentality to go in and bomb Gaza and the West Bank to ruins is absolutely wrong while the world will learn that you are the only white race that live in African continent that still has an apartheid system while England gave up that system in South Africa. Plus Israel, this is holy land of Jesus and Mohammed which belongs to dark skinned people in darnk Africa, not light skinned people. This ain't no typical land that white people are stealing, this THE holy land in dark Africa. This is a religious war between the Hamas and the Gazans who voted for the Hamas and the Israel and those who supports them (America, England, France). A religious war in this age with all the fancy weapons will only ignite a big WWWIII. ☮️ to everyone soon after tonight's final revenge from Israel to the Hamas and the Gazans who vot d for the Hamas. Trang's using her fingers to tape down her angry wrinkles at 50.533 years old.

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Sinéad O'Connor: "Fight the real enemy!" Restore the Heart… Sinéad O'Connor was born in the Cascia House Nursing Home at 13 Pembroke Road, Dublin, on 8 December 1966 and passed away 26 July 2023 (8 Av 5783). (Wikipedia)

Sinéad O'Connor: Fibonacci Sequence: 3, 5, 8, 13, 89, 8…(see below) Missing Upward Spiral Numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 21, 34, 55. 0+1+1+2+21+34+55=114. Missing Downward Spiral Numbers: 55, 34, 21, 13, 5, 3, 2, 1, 1, 0. 55+34+21+13+5+3+2+1+1+0=135. 135+114=249. Strong's Concordance #249 ezrach: a native, indigenous person, homeborn in the land, of the one's own country nation, a spontaneous growth, i.e. Native (tree or persons), bay tree. Original Word: אֶזְרָח

Sinéad O'Connor's version of Bob Marley’s song “War” from her October 3, 1992 Saturday Night Live show performance and protest: "Until the philosophy Which holds one race superior And another inferior Is finally and permanently Discredited and abandoned Everywhere is war Until there is no longer first class Or second class citizens of any nation That until the color of a man's skin Is of no more significance Than the color of his eyes I've got to say "war" That until the basic human rights Are equally guaranteed to all Without regard to race Then we say "war" That until that day the dream of lasting peace World-citizenship and the rule of International morality will remain Just a fleeting illusion to be pursued But never obtained And everywhere is war War in the east War in the west War up north War down south There'll be war And the rumors of war That until the ignoble and unhappy regime Which holds our sisters in Africa, yeah Africa, yeah Sub-human bondage has been toppled Utterly destroyed Everywhere is war And until that day The African continent Will not know peace We Africans will fight - we find it necessary And we know we shall win 'Cause we are confident In the victory Of good over evil Good over evil Good over evil"

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Fibonacci: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 8, 34. 0+1+1+2+3+8+34=49.

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Strong's Concordance #49 Abishag: "my father is a wanderer," From 'ab and shagah; father of error (i.e. Blundering); Abishag, a concubine of King David, an Israelite woman, inquiry (Yiddish). Original Word: אֲבִישַׁג

Strong's Concordance #1230 Baqbaqqar: a Levite, from baqar; searcher, "in a bottle" (Hebrew), "in the morning" (Yiddish). Original Word: בַּקְבַּקַּר

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Duration: 3:53 = 233 seconds. Strong's Concordance #233 azay: then, in that case, at that time. Original Word: אֲזַי

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Color Rendering Index R9: R9 is the score that represents how accurately a light source will reproduce strong red colors. (WaveFormLighting.com)

OC: Orange County

NY: New York

DNI: The Director of National Intelligence serves as the head of the U.S. Intelligence Community (DNI.gov)

lrocNYDNI cdilnnory 3+4+9+20+40+40+50+80+400=646. 646+2+9=657. Strong's Concordance #657 ephes: zero, cessation, i.e. An end (especially of the earth); no further; also (like pa'al) the ankle (in the dual), as being the extremity of the leg or foot -- ankle, but (only), end, howbeit, nothing, less than nothing, nevertheless (where), no, none (beside), not (any, -withstanding), thing of nought, save, saving, there, uttermost part, want, without (cause). Original Word: אֶפֶס

School segregation between Mexican and white students in Orange County, California, was widespread in the mid-1940s, with 80% of Mexican students attending 14 segregated schools. These schools taught Mexican children manual education – or gardening, bootmaking, blacksmithing, and carpentry for Mexican boys and sewing and homemaking for girls – while white schools taught academic preparation. The landmark case Mendez vs. Westminster (1947) desegregated Orange County schools, after the Mendez family were denied enrollment into the 17th Street School in Westminster in 1944, despite their cousins with lighter skin being admitted, and were instead told to enroll at the Hoover Elementary School for Mexican children. (Wikipedia)

In the years since Brown v. Board, the demographics of segregation have become entrenched within New York City’s public schools. In the mid-1960s, nearly half of students were White. Today’s school populations are roughly 41% Latino, 24% Black, 17% Asian, and 15% White. Over 8 in 10 Black students and over 7 in 10 Latino students attend a school where more than 90% of their classmates are students of color; 34% of White students are enrolled in a school that is over half-White. Nationally, New York City’ relies on academic screening for admission more than any other locale in the United States, utilizing a tool that drives segregation by race and class. Some Black and Latino students who attend schools where they are numerically underrepresented report that they don’t feel integrated. As I report in my book, one Black youth reflected: “Everyday walking through these doors, I feel alienated, like a single piece of black pepper in a sea of salt.” (Thirteen.org)

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Duration 3:18 Published By: Studio Nightingale The nightingale is the national bird of Ukraine. One legend tells how nightingales once only lived in India, when one nightingale visited Ukraine. Hearing sad songs from the people, the nightingale sang its song to cheer them up. The people responded with happy songs, and since then, nightingales have visited Ukraine every spring to hear Ukrainian songs. National poet Taras Shevchenko observed that "even the memory of the nightingale's song makes man happy."

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TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Pages 1070 and 1071: Jeremiah 24:1 The Lord showed me two baskets of figs, placed in front of the Temple of the Lord. This was after King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon had exiled King Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim of Judah, and the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. Jeremiah 24:2 One basket contained very good figs, like first-ripened figs, and the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. Jeremiah 24:3 And the Lord said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I answered, "Figs--the good ones are very good, and the bad ones are very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten." Jeremiah 24:4 Then the word of the Lord came to me: Jeremiah 24:5 Thus said the Lord, the God of Israel: As with these good figs, so I will single out for good the Judean exiles whom I have driven out from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah 24:6 I will look upon them favorably, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not overthrow them. Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them the understanding to acknowledge Me, for I am the Lord. And they shall be my people and I will be their God, when they turn back to me with all their heart.

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Moana: Happy ending https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVOq7RYqh7w

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Strong's Concordance #2792 Cheresh: a Levite, silence, cunning, secretly, deaf. Original Word: חֶרֶשׁ

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Wilfred: "He who wants peace"

Isaiah 9:5 For a child has been born to us, A son has been given us, And authority has settled on his shoulders. He has been named "The Mighty God is planning grace; The Eternal Father, a peaceable ruler"-- Isaiah 9:6 In token of abundant authority And of peace without limit Upon David's throne and kingdom, That it may be firmly established In justice and in equity Now and evermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts Shall bring this to pass.

Isaiah 55:1 Ho, all who are thirsty, Come for water, even if you have no money; Come, buy food and eat: Buy food without money, Wine and milk without cost. Isaiah 55:10 For as the rain or snow drops from heaven And returns not there, But soaks the earth And makes it bring forth vegetation, Yielding seed for sowing and bread for eating, Isaiah 55:11 So is the word that issues from My mouth: It does not come back to Me unfulfilled, But performs what I purpose, Achieves what I sent it to do.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Pages 863 and 864: Isaiah 9:1 The people that walked in darkness Have seen a brilliant light; On those who dwelt in a land of gloom Light has dawned. Isaiah 9:2 You have magnified that nation, Have given it great joy; They have rejoiced before You As they rejoice at reaping time, As they exult When dividing spoil. Isaiah 9:3 For the yoke that they bore And the stick on their back--the rod of their taskmaster--You have broken as on the day of Midian. Isaiah 9:4 Truly, all the boots put on to stomp with And all the garments donned in infamy Have been fed to the flames, Devoured by fire. Isaiah 9:5 For a child has been born to us, A son has been given us, And authority has settled on his shoulders. He has been named "The Mighty God is planning grace; The Eternal Father, a peaceable ruler"-- Isaiah 9:6 In token of abundant authority And of peace without limit Upon David's throne and kingdom, That it may be firmly established In justice and in equity Now and evermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts Shall bring this to pass.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1006: Jeremiah 2:11 Has any nation changed its gods Even though they are no-gods? But My people has exchanged its glory For what can do no good. Jeremiah 2:12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this; Be horrified, utterly dazed!--says the Lord. Jeremiah 2:13 For My people have done a twofold wrong: They have forsaken Me, the Fount of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, Which cannot even hold water.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 974 Isaiah 55:1 Ho, all who are thirsty, Come for water, even if you have no money; Come, buy food and eat: Buy food without money, Wine and milk without cost. Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, Your earnings for what does not satisfy? Give heed to Me, And you shall eat choice food and enjoy the richest viands. Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to Me; Hearken and you shall be revived. And I will make with you an everlasting covenant. The enduring loyalty promised to David. Isaiah 55:4 As I made him a leader of peoples, a prince and commander of peoples, Isaiah 55:5 So you shall summon a nation you did not know, And a nation that did not know you Shall come running to you--For the sake of the Lord your God, The Holy One of Israel who has glorified you. Isaiah 55:6 Seek the Lord while He can be found, Call to Him while He is near. Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked give up his ways, The sinful man his plans; Let him turn back to the Lord, And He will pardon him; To our God, For He freely forgives. Isaiah 55:8 For My plans are not your plans, Nor are My ways your ways--declares the Lord. Isaiah 55:9 But as the heavens are high above the earth, So are My ways high above your ways And my plans above your plans. Isaiah 55:10 For as the rain or snow drops from heaven And returns not there, But soaks the earth And makes it bring forth vegetation, Yielding seed for sowing and bread for eating, Isaiah 55:11 So is the word that issues from My mouth: It does not come back to Me unfulfilled, But performs what I purpose, Achieves what I sent it to do. Isaiah 55:12 Yea, you shall leave in joy and be led home secure. Before you, mount and hill shall shout aloud, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the brier, a cypress shall rise; Instead of the nettle, a myrtle shall rise. These shall stand as a testimony to the Lord, As an everlasting sign that shall not perish.

Sinéad O'Connor was born in the Cascia House Nursing Home at 13 Pembroke Road, Dublin, on 8 December 1966 and passed away 26 July 2023 (8 Av 5783).

She was the third of five children. O'Connor's mother Marie died in a car accident on 10 February 1985 aged 45 as she lost control of her car on an icy road and crashed into a bus, when O'Connor was 18. In June 1993, O'Connor wrote a public letter in The Irish Times which asked people to "stop hurting" her: "If only I can fight off the voices of my parents / and gather a sense of self-esteem / Then I'll be able to REALLY sing …" The letter repeated accusations of abuse by her parents as a child which O'Connor had made in interviews. Her brother Joseph defended their father to the newspaper but agreed regarding their mother's "extreme and violent abuse, both emotional and physical". O'Connor said that month, "Our family is very messed up. We can't communicate with each other. We are all in agony. I for one am in agony."

Marriages and children O'Connor had four children and was married and divorced four times. She had her first son, Jake, in 1987 with her first husband, music producer John Reynolds, who co-produced several of her albums, including Universal Mother. Reynolds and O'Connor later married in Westminster register office in March 1989.

In 1989 O'Connor joined The The frontman Matt Johnson as a guest vocalist on the band's album Mind Bomb, which spawned the duet "Kingdom of Rain".

Saturday Night Live performance O'Connor protesting the cover-up of Catholic Church sexual abuse cases as she tore a picture of Pope John Paul II into many pieces on live television in 1992.

On 3 October 1992, O'Connor appeared on U.S. late-night television program Saturday Night Live as a musical guest. She was originally scheduled to sing "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" and "Scarlet Ribbons", two of the songs from the album she was promoting at the time, Am I Not Your Girl?. However, the day before her live appearance, she asked and got permission from the show's production crew to replace the latter performance with a rendition of Bob Marley's 1976 song "War", which she intended to revise as a protest against sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church and its continued cover-up, thus referring to child abuse rather than racism.

The night of the performance, she sang an acappella version of "War", wearing a necklace with the Rastafari star and a scarf with the Rastafari and Ethiopian colors,[95] and staring down the camera for the entirety of her gig; she then presented a photo of Pope John Paul II to the screen while singing the word "evil", after which she tore the photo into pieces, said "Fight the real enemy", and threw the pieces towards the camera. The incident occurred nine years before John Paul II acknowledged the sexual abuse within the Church.

Legacy The Saturday Night Live incident is widely considered to have done permanent damage to O'Connor's career and reputation, although she never regretted her decision.[93][98][116] In a 2002 interview with Salon, when asked if she would change anything about the SNL appearance, O'Connor replied, "Hell, no!"[96] In her 2021 book Rememberings, O'Connor said of the incident: "Everyone wants a pop star, see? But I am a protest singer. I just had stuff to get off my chest. I had no desire for fame." In the same memoir, she also wrote that she felt like the incident actually put her "back on the right track", following a personal crisis stemming from the success of "Nothing Compares 2 U".

Moreover, she revealed that she had taken down the picture of Pope John Paul II from her mom's bedroom wall on the day of her death, and waited until the right moment to destroy it as an act of personal revenge to the physical abuse she suffered as a child, writing, "Child abuse is an identity crisis and fame is an identity crisis, so I went straight from one identity crisis into another".

In a July 2007 interview with Christianity Today, O'Connor stated that she considered herself a Christian and that she believed in core Christian concepts about the Trinity and Jesus Christ. She said, "I think God saves everybody whether they want to be saved or not. So when we die, we're all going home… I don't think God judges anybody. He loves everybody equally." In an October 2002 interview, she credited her Christian faith in giving her the strength to live through and overcome the effects of her childhood abuse.

On 26 March 2010, O'Connor appeared on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° to speak out about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. On 28 March 2010, she had an opinion piece published in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post in which she wrote about the scandal and her time in a Magdalene laundry as a teenager.[29] Writing for the Sunday Independent she labeled the Vatican as "a nest of devils" and called for the establishment of an "alternative church", opining that "Christ is being murdered by liars" in the Vatican. Shortly after the election of Pope Francis, she described the office of the Pope as an "anti-Christian office".

O'Connor stated: Well, you know, I guess I wish everyone the best, and I don't know anything about the man, so I'm not going to rush to judge him on one thing or another, but I would say he has a scientifically impossible task, because all religions, but certainly the Catholic Church, is really a house built on sand, and it's drowning in a sea of conditional love, and therefore it can't survive, and actually the office of Pope itself is an anti-Christian office, the idea that Christ needs a representative is laughable and blasphemous at the same time, therefore it is a house built on sand, and we need to rescue God from religion, all religions, they've become a smokescreen that distracts people from the fact that there is a holy spirit, and when you study the Gospels you see the Christ character came to tell us that we only need to talk directly to God, we never needed Religion… Asked whether from her point of view, it is therefore irrelevant who is elected to be pope, O'Connor replied, "Genuinely I don't mean disrespect to Catholic people because I believe in Jesus Christ, I believe in the Holy Spirit, all of those, but I also believe in all of them, I don't think it cares if you call it Fred or Daisy, you know? Religion is a smokescreen, it has everybody talking to the wall. There is a Holy Spirit who can't intervene on our behalf unless we ask it. Religion has us talking to the wall. The Christ character tells us himself: you must only talk directly to the Father; you don't need intermediaries. We all thought we did, and that's ok, we're not bad people, but let's wake up… God was there before religion; it's there [today] despite religion; it'll be there when religion is gone."

In August 2018, via an open letter, she asked Pope Francis to excommunicate her, as she had asked of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II.

In October 2018, O'Connor converted to Islam, calling it "the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian's journey". The ceremony was conducted in Ireland by Sunni Islamic theologian Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri. She also changed her name to Shuhada' Davitt. In a message on Twitter, she thanked fellow Muslims for their support and uploaded a video of herself reciting the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer. She also posted photos of herself wearing a hijab.

July 26, 2023: 8th of Av in Jewish History: (Chabad.org) Spies Return (1312 BCE) The Spies dispatched 40 days earlier by Moses to tour the Promised Land return to Israel's encampment in the desert, bearing a huge cluster of grapes and other lush fruits. But even as they praise the land's fertility, they terrify the people with tales of mighty giant warriors dwelling there and assert that the land is unconquerable.

July 26, 2023: Civil War in Jerusalem (67 CE) Fighting breaks out inside the besieged city of Jerusalem between Jewish factions divided on the question of whether or not to fight the Roman armies encircling the city from without. One group sets fire to the city's considerable food stores, consigning its population to starvation until the fall of Jerusalem three years later.

July 26, 2023: 8th of Av: Laws and Customs Omit Tachanun in the Afternoon Starting in the afternoon, Tachanun (confession of sins) and similar prayers are omitted. Fast Begins this Evening; Pre-Fast Meal

July 26, 2023: 8th of Av: The fast of Tishah B'Av begins this evening at sunset. Some of the fast's mourning practices--such as refraining from Torah study other than texts related to the events and nature of the fast day--are observed beginning from midday today. The final meal before the start of the fast, eaten shortly before sunset, is called seudah hamafseket. Only one cooked food is eaten at this meal, customarily an egg dipped in ashes. "Eichah"--the Book of Lamentations--is read tonight in the synagogue after evening prayers.

July 26, 2023: 8th of Av: "Nine Days' During the “Nine Days" from Av 1st to the Ninth of Av, we mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple. We abstain from meat and wine, music, haircutting, bathing for pleasure, and other joyous (and dangerous) activities. (The particular mourning customs vary from community to community, so consult a competent halachic authority for details.) Consumption of meat and wine is permitted on Shabbat, or at a seudat mitzvah (obligatory festive meal celebrating the fulfillment of certain mitzvot) such as a brit (circumcision), or a siyum celebrating the completion of a course of Torah study (i.e., a complete Talmudic tractate). The Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory initiated the custom of conducting or participating in a siyum on each of the Nine Days (even if one does not avail oneself of the dispensation to eat meat). Citing the verse "Zion shall be redeemed with mishpat [Torah] and its returnees with tzedakah," (Isaiah 1:27) the Rebbe urged that we increase in Torah study (particularly the study of the laws of the Holy Temple) and charity during this period.

July 26, 2023: 8th of Av: Daily Thought Already Heard “I was in the midst of the exile, on the river of Kevar.” (Ezekiel 1:1) (Kevar is the Hebrew word for “already.”) At the onset of the exile, Ezekiel sat on the bank of a river called “I heard that already.” It is a river so cold, it can make icicles from fiery sparks of wisdom. It is a river of exile. Because it is a lie. Wisdom never says, “I heard that already.” When you truly hear, when you absorb wisdom deep within your soul until it means everything to you, it is new to you each time you hear it, again and again. Torat Menachem 5751, vol. 1, page 330

Touch: "Pilot" (alternatively "Tales of the Red Thread") is the first episode of Touch. It originally aired in a special preview event held January 25, 2012, on FOX.

"Today we'll send over 300 billion e-mails 19 billion text messages. Yet we'll still feel alone. The average person will say 2,250 words to 7.4 other individuals. Will these words be used to hurt or to heal? The ratio is always the same. 1 to 1.618, over and over and over again. The patterns are hidden in plain sight. You just have to know where to look. Things most people see as chaos actually follow subtle laws of behavior. Galaxies, plants, seashells. The patterns never lie. But only some of us can see how the pieces fit together. 7,080,360,000 of us live on this tiny planet. This is the story of some of those people. There's an ancient Chinese myth about the Red Thread of Fate. It says the gods have tied a red thread around every one of our ankles and attached it to all the people whose lives we're destined to touch. This thread may stretch, or tangle, but it'll never break. It's all predetermined by mathematical probability, and it's my job to keep track of those numbers, to make the connections for those who need to find each other, the ones whose lives need to touch. I was born 4,161 days ago, on October 26, 2000. I've been alive for 11 years, 4 months, 21 days and 14 hours. And in all that time I've never said a single word." - Jake Bohm

A Web search leads Jake's father, Martin, to the Teller Institute, a rundown home at 318 West Tesla Street. Arthur Teller explains that, on his own, Jake discovered the Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical ratio concerning patterns repeated in nature: a wave's curve, a shell's spiral, segments of a pineapple. Jake sees vast connections that amount to road maps, and it's Martin's job, his destiny, to follow them for Jake.

"Imagine the unspeakable beauty of the universe he sees! No wonder he doesn't talk." - Arthur Teller on Jacob Bohm

In the 2012 television series Touch, season 1, episode 9, "Music of the Spheres", Jacob "Jake" Bohm, a mute boy who mysteriously feels the suffering of those along his path and aims to positively adjust their fates, is revealed as possibly one of the "Lamed Vav Tzadikim" by a Hasidic man. In the second season of Touch, Jake and other people who have special gifts are referred to as members of the 36; throughout the episodes they are exploited for their capabilities and are hunted down by one who believes they hold too much power. The final episode features consideration of the Kabbalah and the mystical roots of the legend of the 36.

Lamedvavnik (Yiddish: למד־װאָװניק), is the Yiddish term for one of the 36 humble righteous ones or Tzadikim mentioned in kabbalah or Jewish mysticism. According to this teaching, at any given time there are at least 36 holy persons in the world who are Tzadikim. These holy people are hidden; i.e., nobody knows who they are. According to some versions of the story, they themselves may not know who they are. For the sake of these 36 hidden saints, God preserves the world even if the rest of humanity has degenerated to the level of total barbarism. This is similar to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Hebrew Bible, where God told Abraham that he would spare the city of Sodom if there was a quorum of at least 10 righteous men. Since nobody knows who the Lamedvavniks are, not even themselves, every Jew should act as if he or she might be one of them; i.e., lead a holy and humble life and pray for the sake of fellow human beings. It is also said that one of these 36 could potentially be the Jewish Messiah if the world is ready for them to reveal themselves. Otherwise, they live and die as an ordinary person. Whether the person knows they are the potential Messiah is debated. (Wikipedia)

Touch - Season 1 Trailer Published: 12/5/2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvQ_qJYZ-7A

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Election 2020 Trump Suddenly Loses 220,422 Twitter Followers—First Big Drop In 5 Years Tommy Beer Forbes Dec 5, 2020, 12:10pm EST Topline After losing to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election last month, Donald Trump has been losing Twitter followers at an unprecedented rate for him, with more than 220,000 accounts unfollowing the sitting president over the past two-and-a-half weeks, a notable drop for a man whose leadership style has relied heavily — and controversially — on a near-constant Tweet storm. As of Saturday morning, December 5th, Trump had 88,744,369 followers (a decrease of 220,422 from its zenith). https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/12/05/trump-suddenly-loses-220000-twitter-followers-first-big-drop-in-5-years/

John 11:9 Jesus replied, “There are twelve hours of daylight every day. During the day people can walk safely. They can see because they have the light of this world.

Strong's Concordance #220 averah: a stall for animals -- cote, crib, stable, manger, light, aura. Original Word: אֲוֵרָה

Strong's Concordance #422 alah: to swear, curse, oath Original Word: אָלָה

Oh my God: אֲ וֵרָ האָלָה

April 22, 1945 (Sunday) Hitler held a conference on the afternoon of April 22, 1945 in the Führerbunker to discuss the military situation. Upon being informed that the Steiner attack had not happened, and that the Soviets were now entering the northern suburbs of Berlin, he flew into a rage. He denounced the Army, complained that his generals and anyone who had deserted him were cowards and had failed him, then he finally conceded that the war was indeed lost. Over the protests of all those present, Hitler stated that he would stay in Berlin to the absolute end and then shoot himself, rather than try to escape to the south. Heinrich Himmler secretly met with Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden and asked him to act as an intermediary to offer the surrender of all German forces in the west. The message took 48 hours to reach the Allies and they did not take it seriously. (Wikipedia)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is the 32nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Filming Dates: November 2021 to May 2022 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 premiered at Disneyland Paris on April 22, 2023, and was released on May 5, 2023, in the United States, as part of Phase Five of the MCU.

"There is no god! That's why I stepped in!" - High Evolutionary

The High Evolutionary presented himself at first look as a harbinger of the perfect society and species, seemingly appeared to be a noble and knowledgeable being who wants to create a perfect world with the perfect species. However, this was only a façade to hide the true person underneath, a selfish, cruel, and heartless egomaniac, who wants to control everything under his name and a psychopathic man who in essence wanted to be seen and treated as a god. (Fandom.com)

Mantis: "It is wrong to manipulate the feelings of friends." Drax: "What about that time you made me fall in love with my sock?" Mantis: "Well, that was funny."

60 Strong's Concordance #60 ebel: mourning, lamentation. Original Word: אֵבֶל

179 Strong's Concordance #179 Obil: overseer of David's camels, from 'abal; mournful Original Word: אוֹבִיל

9:23 TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Pages 130 and 131: Exodus 9:23 So Moses held out his rod toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire streamed down to the ground, as the Lord rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

In 2013, 456,000 women younger than 20 became pregnant. Some 448,000 of those pregnancies were among 15–19-year-olds, and 7,400 were among those aged 14 and younger. https://www.guttmacher.org/report/us-adolescent-pregnancy-trends-2013.

An important question for the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election is: "Did those age 10 to 14 pregnancy numbers increase, or decrease, during Donald John Trump's presidency?" Here's the answer:

Barack Obama & Joseph Biden/Presidential & Vice Presidential term: January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017 Sex offense offenders and victims statistics (Data: FBI) 2012: Male: 65,071 Forcible Sex Offenders with 61,486 Female Forcible Sex Victims 2012: Male: 5,859 Nonforcible Sex Offenders with 5,859 Female Nonforcible Sex Victims 2012: Male: 70,930 Total Sex Offenders with 67,345 Total Female Sex Victims

2013: Male: 62,280 Forcible Sex Offenders with 58,981 Female Forcible Sex Victims 2013: Male: 5,396 Nonforcible Sex Offenders with 5,511 Female Nonforcible Sex Victims 2013: Male: 67,676 Total Sex Offenders with 64,492 Total Female Sex Victims

2014: Male: 62,393 Forcible Sex Offenders with 59,875 Female Forcible Sex Victims 2014: Male: 4,804 Nonforcible Sex Offenders with 4,888 Female Nonforcible Sex Victims 2014: Male: 67,197 Total Sex Offenders with 64,763 Total Female Sex Victims

2015: Male: 66,545 Forcible Sex Offenders with 64,202 Female Forcible Sex Victims 2015: Male: 4,712 Nonforcible Sex Offenders with 4,836 Female Nonforcible Sex Victims 2015: Male: 71,257 Total Sex Offenders with 69,038 Total Female Sex Victims

Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton (Male Chauvinist vs. Feminist) Presidential Campaigns Effect: 2016: Male: 73,249 Forcible Sex Offenders with 71,180 Female Forcible Sex Victims 2016: Male: 4,588 Nonforcible Sex Offenders with 4,723 Female Nonforcible Sex Victims 2016: Male: 77,837 Total Sex Offenders with 75,903 Total Female Sex Victims

Donald Trump/Presidential term (Male Chauvinist Dominates and Defeats Feminist by Cheating After He Lost the Popular Vote Effect): January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021 Sex offense offenders and victims statistics (Data: FBI)

2017: Male: 79,635 Forcible Sex Offenders with 78,308 Female Forcible Sex Victims 2017: Male: 4,859 Nonforcible Sex Offenders with 4,922 Female Nonforcible Sex Victims 2017: Male: 84,494 Total Sex Offenders with 83,230 Total Female Sex Victims

2018: Male: 91,838 Total Sex Offenders with 91,219 Total Female Sex Victims

2019: Male: 105,030 Total Sex Offenders with 104,720 Total Female Sex Victims

2020: Unknown, but it's known that COVID-19 pandemic domestic violence, abuse, and sex offences were greatly increased during the pandemic when society at-large was severely distressed.

The numbers are clear: If Americans want to make America great again, where women and girls are safer, the person to vote for in 2024 is President Joseph Biden with a proven track record of a considerably greater and safer countryduring his entire Vice Presidency and Presidency than Donald John Trump.

Trump Preached White Supremacy in Minnesota, America Barely Noticed. Touting "the racehorse theory" and the superiority of the genes of white Minnesotans, Trump explicitly embraced eugenics September 22, 2020 Trump then addressed the racial unrest in Minneapolis that followed the homicide of George Floyd at the hands of police. Trump recounted his push to have the National Guard sent in, insisting, “You wouldn’t have Minneapolis,” if he hadn’t. He then recounted, with a sadist’s delight, how an NBC correspondent of color, Ali Veshi, got injured with a non-lethal round and was shunted aside as a phalanx of law enforcement marched through the city. “Wasn’t it a beautiful sight?” Trump asked. “It’s called law and order!” With this racist warmup complete, Trump then veered into an open endorsement of eugenics — the discredited theory that the human race can be improved with selective breeding for superior traits. The theory has an ugly history in America. And Hitler’s embrace of eugenics in Nazi Germany gave rise to the program of “race hygiene” that culminated in the extermination of millions of Jewish people and others at death camps. “You have good genes, you know that right?” Trump said to the nearly all-white crowd. “A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it? Don’t you believe? The racehorse theory,” Trump said. “You think we’re so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-white-supremacy-racehorse-theory-1064928/

The only state in the nation where rapists retain parental rights is Minnesota. While efforts have been made to change the law, as of December 2019, it remains the sole state without any ability to cut ties off altogether. https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/you-cant-take-my-daughter/articles/how-parental-rights-for-rapists-vary-by-state

'Tennis-Ball-Sized' Hail Splashes Into Northern Minnesota Lake Large hailstones splashed into a lake in northern Minnesota on July 19, 2023 as “strong to severe” thunderstorms swept through the region, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Lori Neal told Storyful she captured this video while vacationing at her parents’ cabin. She explained that as everyone went into vehicle and property “protection mode,” she went to the back deck to document the up to tennis-ball-sized hail. The video shows heavy hailstones making a splash as it lands in the lake. The NWS warned of large hail and damaging winds up to 60 mph in the area. Credit: Lori Neal via Storyful https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/tennis-ball-sized-hail-splashes-into-northern-minnesota-lake/vi-AA1e8hrl

Palm Beach, Florida: Mar-a-Lago:

In protest against Trump's remarks on the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, six nonprofit organizations canceled scheduled gala events at the club. The charities canceling included the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society. The club has been frequently cited for health code violations. In January 2017, Florida inspectors noted 15 infractions that included unsafe seafood, insufficiently refrigerated meats, rusty shelving, and cooks without hairnets. Since 2013, it has faced 51 health code violations. In September 2019, Mar-a-Lago became the primary residence for Donald and Melania Trump, who previously held primary residence in New York City. The legality of this has been disputed because, in 1993, Trump signed a "use agreement" with the town of Palm Beach, Florida, that changed Mar-a-Lago's designation from a single-family residence to a private club and specified that guests, including Trump, could not stay there more than three non-consecutive weeks per year. In December 2020, neighbors of Mar-a-Lago delivered a demand letter to the town of Palm Beach, stating that the town should notify Trump that he cannot use the estate as his residence. Trump argues that he can live at Mar-a-Lago permanently as a bona fide employee.

In a 2022 lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, it was alleged that Trump inflated the value of Mar-a-Lago to $739 million, when the property should actually be valued at $75 million.

Upon departing the White House in January 2021, Trump transported a large volume of presidential records to Mar-a-Lago, despite storage of such materials being subject to the Presidential Records Act. Seeking to preserve presidential communications and correspondence with world leaders, the National Archives and Records Administration arranged to retrieve 15 boxes of material from Mar-a-Lago in January 2022. These included documents clearly marked as classified, prompting the Department of Justice to restrict any details regarding the contents of the 15 boxes. On May 11, 2022, the Justice Department sent Trump a grand jury subpoena, requesting any additional documents marked classified. A later subpoena requested surveillance footage from the club. On August 8, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the residence of former U.S. president Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida. The search warrant application was authorized by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and approved by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, following a criminal referral by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The order, unsealed a few days after the search, showed that the FBI obtained the search warrant as part of an investigation into Trump relating to three federal criminal statutes: violations of the Espionage Act regarding unauthorized retention of national defense information; destroying or concealing records "with the intent to impede obstruct or influence" federal government activity; illegal removal or destruction of federal government records (without respect to cause). Over 13,000 government documents were recovered. They included nuclear-related information and FBI, CIA, and NSA information about national security interests. Of these documents, 337 were classified: 197 handed over in January 2022, 38 turned over under subpoena in June 2022, and 102 seized in the August search of Mar-a-Lago. Months later, at least two more documents with classified markings were uncovered at Trump locations. On June 8, 2023, Trump was indicted on federal charges related to the documents. On June 13, 2023, Trump surrendered to federal custody and was arrested, booked, processed, and arraigned in the U.S. District Court of South Florida. Trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 charges. On July 27, 2023, a new version of the indictment (superseding the old) added three counts against Donald John Trump. (Wikipedia)

Lightning strikes tree in southern Palm Beach County, sends person to hospital Unclear if patient was actually struck by lightning or was just very close to strike By: Scott Sutton WPTV News Posted at 7:55 PM, Jul 21, 2023 and last updated 5:55 PM, Jul 21, 2023 PALM BEACH COUNTY, Florida. — Fire rescue officials in Palm Beach County took a person to the hospital after a tree was struck by lightning Friday afternoon. In a written statement, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said crews were dispatched to the 6600 block of Boynton Beach Boulevard for reports of a "possible electrocution." They said 911 callers reported that a person was struck by lightning. When crews arrived at the scene they found a person lying underneath a tree that had been struck by lightning. Fire rescue officials said they are unsure if the patient was actually struck or was just in the very close vicinity of the lightning. https://www.wptv.com/news/palm-beach-county/region-s-palm-beach-county/lightning-strikes-tree-in-southern-palm-beach-county-sends-person-to-hospital

Broward County/Margate, Florida Man hospitalized after being struck by lightning while golfing in Margate. The incident happened at Oriole Golf Club at 8000 Margate Boulevard. By NBC6 • Published July 21, 2023 Updated on July 21, 2023 at 6:44 pm A man was hospitalized after he was struck by lightning while golfing in Margate Friday, officials said. The incident happened at Oriole Golf Club at 8000 Margate Boulevard. Margate Fire Rescue transported the man to Broward Health Hospital as a trauma alert. His identity wasn't released. No other information was immediately known. https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/man-hospitalized-after-being-struck-by-lightning-while-golfing-in-margate/3076510/

Sky News Dramatic hailstorm pummels Italy - days after searing heatwave Sat, 22 July 2023 at 4:08 am GMT-7·1-min read An icy torrent swarmed trough the streets of a town near Milan after a dramatic hailstorm with tennis-ball sized hail in northern Italy. Small ice sheets appeared to form on the surface of fast-moving water deluging part of Seregno. In footage circulating on social media, taken from an upper floor, the person behind the camera says: "It looks like a river flowing." The street in the video is deserted other than for a man attempting to sweep floodwater out of the ground floor of a building. "I see the shoes-shop owner in front on me and water is coming inside the shop," someone out of shot in the videos says. It followed a severe hailstorm that battered Italy's northern Lombardy region, home to Milan, and the northeastern Veneto region. The region was already reeling from a severe heatwave that had gripped almost the whole of Italy, bringing temperatures of 44C (111F) in the southern island of Sicily. Scientists agree heatwaves in all parts of the world are getting stronger and more likely due to climate change. https://uk.style.yahoo.com/icy-water-courses-italian-streets-110800074.html

Redbone - Come and Get Your Love (Official Music Video) Duration: 3:31 Published: August 3, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA4rSO-h9Io

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BA4rSO-h9Io abhioors 1+2+8+9+50+50+80+90=290 290+4+9=303 Area code 303 is located in central Colorado and covers Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Thornton, Arvada, Westminster, and Centennial.

Room 303 was a room within the Heart O' The City Hotel from Mega City in the Matrix. It contained a hardline, and so was a location that redpills could use to safely escape from the Matrix. Trinity conducted her surveillance of Thomas Anderson from a laptop computer in this room. She was forced to flee after the Agents cut the room's hardline, forcing her to find another exit.

Neo was directed to the same hotel room to escape from the Matrix and pursuing Agents. However, Agent Smith ambushed Neo and shot him before he could reach the phone there. After defeating Smith, Neo escaped the Matrix using the phone in Room 303 before the Nebuchadnezzar disabled the Sentinels, and itself, by using EMP.

Sixty years later, Neo's Modal contains a simulated reenactment of Trinity's escape from the Agents in this room which is witnessed by Bugs.

The number "303" appears to be an allusion to the character Trinity, whose name in Christian theology defines the three-in-one nature of the single Christian God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This allusion is supported by Trinity kissing the lifeless Neo, whose life functions return as Neo transfigures into the One after exiting the room. (Fandom.com)

3:31=211 seconds.

August 3, 2020 (13 Av 5780) was the 216th day of the year 2020. Newly leaked bodycam footage shows George Floyd pleading with police officers not to lock him up in a police vehicle, as well as saying that he is claustrophobic. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/leaked-footage-shows-first-moments-george-floyd-s-fatal-arrest-n1235663

Strong's Concordance #216 or: a light, light of day/daylight, morning light, dawn, sunlight, moonlight, starlight, lightning, the light of instruction, the light of God. Original Word: אוֹר

303+211+13=527. Strong's Concordance #527 amon: multitude, a throng of people. Original Word: אָמוֹן

Martina McBride - Concrete Angel Duration: 4:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL4J9Xf59Dw

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eL4J9Xf59Dw El: The High Official known as "God". 4 9 59 eLJXfDw defjlwx 4+5+6+600+20+900+300=1835. 1835+4+9+59=1907. Strong's Concordance #1907 haddabar: counselor, minister, high official, "the thing". Original Word: הַדָּבָר

4:14=254 seconds.

1907+254=2161. Strong's Concordance #2161 zamam: to consider, purpose, devise, plan, plot, imagine, think, muzzle. Original Word: זָמַם

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Roach Reads: The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria, Part 2: The Story of Atlantis, Cont'd

Last time in The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria, we were ignoring a bunch of hilariously spurious "evidence" supporting the claim that Atlantis was not only a real place, but was an entire continent comprising a huge chunk of what is now the Atlantic Ocean.

I would like to remind everyone, once again, that Atlantis is a fictional city, invented by Plato for the sake of making a point.

We now move on to Scott-Elliot's explanation of how Root Races are formed. According to Theosophy, there have been five root races to date, each of which was carefully engineered and guided by spiritual beings called Manu (named for the Manu of Hindu lore, though in practice they seem more similar to traditional Christian angels).

The following quotation refers to these arrangements: "There are also Manus whose duty it is to act in a similar way for each Root Race on each Planet of the Round, the Seed Manu planning the improvement in type which each successive Root Race inaugurates and the Root Manu actually incarnating amongst the new Race as a leader and teacher to direct the development and ensure the improvement."

The way in which the necessary segregation of the picked specimens is effected by the Manu in charge, and his subsequent care of the growing community, may be dealt with in a future Transaction. The merest reference to the mode of procedure is all that is necessary here.

So, supposedly, human history as we know it is due to these guys' long-term eugenics(?) project. Apparently it's not enough to create some dudes and teach them how to do well; you have to selectively breed/train them over centuries to be better than their predecessors.

According to this book, the sub-races of the fourth root race (effectively, our obsolete forebearers) include Toltecs, Akkadians, Mongolians, and "Original Semite(s)". So if you're wondering how racist this whole idea is, the answer is "very".

Now these folks didn't all live on Atlantis; they were all over the place. In fact, according to the book, the first of these sub-races started in Lemuria, around the coast of what is now Ghana.

The Rmoahals were a dark race—their complexion being a sort of mahogany black. Their height in these early days was about ten or twelve feet—truly a race of giants—but through the centuries their stature gradually dwindled, as did that of all the races in turn, and later on we shall find they had shrunk to the stature of the "Furfooz man."

"Furfooz man" refers to a pair of skulls found in the vicinity of Furfooz, Belgium. I looked into this to find out what stature Scott-Elliot is referring to here, but I was unable to find a concrete answer; my best guess is that it was fairly comparable to modern humans. I'm not sure why this book is claiming that our ancestors used to be giants, either; I know that's a popular claim in quack circles, but who Theosophists in particular would be invested in it I don't know.

Supposedly, these folks warred with the sixth and seventh sub-races of the third Root Race for a while, before some migrated northward and the rest worked out their differences, intermarrying with those earlier, less "refined" sub-races. Their descendants allegedly spread all over the equatorial and south regions... which of course overlap with a sizeable chunk of Africa, because this is presumably Theosophy's origin story for Black people.

Thanks! I hate it.

The second sub-race seems to be a predecessor of various native Americans, and gets off without any grievous insults. The book doesn't really care that much about them, though, since we move on to the Toltecs.

We now come to the Toltec or 3rd sub-race. This was a magnificent development. It ruled the whole continent of Atlantis for thousands of years in great material power and glory. Indeed so dominant and so endowed with vitality was this race that intermarriages with the following sub-races failed to modify the type, which still remained essentially Toltec; and hundreds of thousands of years later we find one of their remote family races ruling magnificently in Mexico and Peru, long ages before their degenerate descendants were conquered by the fiercer Aztec tribes from the north.

You know what? I will literally take Lovecraft's sapient sea cucumbers over this shit. This was a rollercoaster of racism. We've got all these suspiciously nice things to say about the Toltecs, but wait a second - we can't have you thinking that modern South Americans are any good! Just the ones that fit our narrative of white (and more generally, genetic) superiority. -^-

We've only been through three of the seven sub-races so far, but I'm going to go ahead and wrap this post up here, for the sake of keeping egregious racism into reasonably digestible chunks. More bullshit coming soon.

#theosophy #atlantis #the story of atlantis and the lost lemuria #pseudoscience #roach reads

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Another Dark Age Mystery

HI Cat, you know I was thinking

That Samual Pepys I am not, although I wish I was because then this little side blog of mine could be useful to folk in the future. But then I was thinking, will anything of the internet survive in the future?

Like, if there was a disaster, natural or man-made, would whoever survived be able or even want to come back to this technology. I had initially thought this would be an interesting archive for folk hundreds of years in the future but what if it simply vanishes, like dust in the wind.

It's entirely possible that folk in the dark ages had their own form of twitter and nobody knows a thing about it, I find that quite a funny thought. It wasn't dark like lack of light there is just no written records and so much of our documentation exists online that if we disappear who would know, aside from yourself of course cat, the void exists well out of time and space as we know it.

Well let me see, what would I tell someone 500 years in the future about life right now, well in Scotland we are still agitating for a new Independence vote, although it's taking its damn time...

We have 50 year high inflation, the price of food, heating and fuel is high and as a result people will suffer and die. The welfare state is crumbling because of Tory neglect and "New Labour" (read central right) before them thinking a wee bit of privatisation here and there couldn't possibly be a bad thing. Disability benefits, the old age pension and unemployment benefits are too low to live in anything but poverty, check your history books to see how many people they killed with those and the horrors of calling someone terminally ill fit to work etc.

Libraries are closing, they may open them for "heat hubs" though. The education system is still being taught as if we are Victorians being prepared for the mills and factories, completely out dated and in need of reform. There aren't enough houses for people to live in, there are still people who are queer phobic and Trans People have become the new thing to get cross about, in the early 00's it was people on Benefits, see Benefit Britain for further info. Also Fascism is rising again, so there's that.

The Satanic panic is also back, vailed by Qanon, whose threads are all in the far right and directly link to people thinking vaccines are bad, which leads me to the rising rates of Polio, Measles, Mumps, rickets and other diseases making a resurgence and because English water suppliers have been pumping shit into the rivers and sea no doubt we will soon see a return of Cholera, Typhus and other such delights.

Oh, we still have Covid 19 and MonkeyPox which is not a STI although it is more prevalent in the queer community, particularly among men or AMAB folk.

The UK Gov is an international Joke, they are notably absent from helping with all of the above. America's last president seems determined to spend his last years in prison, and good luck to him I say! There have been terrible floods with the Monsoon that follow exceptionally high temps earlier this year in the Sub-Indian continent, China is in Drought, Europe is in Drought, large parts of North America are in Drought.

Famine is rife in Africa, not helped by the war in Ukraine which Putin seems determined to continue despite having lost in the international stage. The footage from Ukraine, like most wars, is awful.

I can't speak much to African countries or South American ones because they rarely turn to them in our news, I know that South Africa has had trouble, as has Nigeria and the war between the Gov and the Tigray people has just resumed. I know that some South American countries are trying to come together over things going on in Argentina and I know that America has fucked over these countries because "Communism bad".

I don't know much about the goings on in Australia or New Zealand either or Japan and other countries in the Pacific, again we get little to no news about these areas unless you go looking for it on news websites. I also don't know much about what is happening in the Middle East aside from the Afghan generalities we are given. I also know there is no legitimate way for people to get to asylum in the UK from these areas, hence the treacherous dingy crossings and people smuggling.

I also know there are good things going on, science progressing slowly, people doing wonderful things and the fact we've made it this far into history shows there is more good folk than bad. This is a basic overlay of the "Oh shit" things of the day. Remember Mr Pepys I am not.

So many people have lived before me, many more will (maybe) live after me. Not a lot of us get recorded, but believe me you still matter. How you treat others matters, how you treat the earth and the living being on it matters. Even if you don't get your name recorded in the annuls of history, you still matter.

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SONIC CHARACTER BREAKDOWN PART TWO

14. Does your character have any notable enemies?

Sonic’s most formidable, long-standing and notorious nemesis is Dr. Ivo Robotnik. Robotnik is a savant scientist with a penchant for robotics and engineering who desires to colonize the entire planet of Mobius and convert it into an entirely industrialized, techno-fascist nation state.

15. What does your character struggle with?

Sonic struggles to recognize and accommodate his own weaknesses during times of adversity, which can lead him to overexert himself and put himself and others at risk of great danger. Sonic also struggles to reckon with the fact that he can’t save everyone and he can’t be in every place that needs help at any given time, which weighs heavily on his conscience. He also struggles to commit to people and tasks which are not urgent, ground himself and settle down.

16. Describe your character’s world

Sonic lives on Planet Mobius. Planet Mobius is an Earth-adjacent terrestrial planet inhabited by Mobians, anthropomorphic animals, and Overlanders, the mutated descendants of human beings. The Overlanders treat the Mobians with significant degrees of prejudice and xenophobia and many wars have been waged between the Mobians and the Overlanders. Magic and technology coexist in this world, with many Mobians using both interchangeably. There are six major continents on Mobius- Soumerca, Northamer, Yurashia, Tundra, Efrika, and Downunda (South America, North America, Eurasia, Antarctica, Africa, and Australia, obviously). Another key Mobian location is Angel Island, the floating ancestral homeland of the Echidnas and the home of the Master Emerald. The Master Emerald is the “hub” of the combined power of the Chaos Emeralds, seven gems which contain all of the universe’s chaotic energy. When combined, these Emeralds can give those who wield them significant power.

17. Has your character ever crossed anyone?

If he’d never crossed Robotnik, we wouldn’t have a franchise.

18. What are your character’s goals in life?

Sonic’s goals in life are ultimately to achieve balance within the world, peace thereafter, and ensure that no living being is subject to oppression, terrorism or hardship under his watch ever again.

19. Does your character have a dark memory from the past?

Sonic witnessed his father, one of his best friends, and the love of his life be roboticized in front of his eyes. In conjunction with this, he experienced a lonely childhood deprived of a mother due to her being roboticized, as well. If this wasn’t enough, Sonic himself unwillingly underwent roboticization to gather intel on Robotnik for the Freedom Fighters. Sonic also struggles to reckon with the memories of a botched space mission which resulted in his loved ones being falsely told of his death.

20. How does a perfect world look to your character?

A perfect world to Sonic would be a world where people, technology and nature live in harmony. Technology and power are more thoughtful, humanistic, sustainable, renewable and clean; flora and fauna coexist with metropolitan concrete jungles and manicured suburbia. People are free to think for themselves and disagree amongst each other, but these disagreements do not cause pain or strife.

21. What does your character fear losing the most?

Sonic fears the loss of freedom. Not only the loss of his own freedom, but the freedom of others. Alongside its abject fascist and transhumanist undertones, one of Sonic’s strongest concerns with Robotnik’s jockeying for power is the suppression of the free will of the people.

22. Is your character afraid to be alone?

Sonic doesn’t believe in being alone. As long as he has himself, he’s never alone.

23. What would we first notice about your character if we met them?

His blue fur and quills and his iconic shoes

24. Is your character a loner or gregarious?

Although he doesn’t mind being alone, Sonic is definitely a people person who thrives off of spending time with his close friends and family.

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We started liking what we're hearing they take over Trump's business and the bike business is the code and signal to do so it means the whole thing so going up there and taking over the whole fleet I'm going to take over all the stuff and we're taking over all this businesses and there's tons of them and they're coming from everywhere up to the factory to try and stop us so you're taking factories all over the place because that's who's coming up there and he's a real ass kisser and loser moron and flake on top of it and we just kind of gas and pulled him in and takes a few minutes and it's about 10 trillion an hour no something about 40 quadrillion an hour and that's a lot about 300 septillion people in above Portland Oregon we hit him with a Galactus and Galactica and the celestials the whole crew all his kids and ours nail them and they kept coming so it's almost another 100 septillion gone and Tommy favino will be weakened by it it's one of the largest areas of his and he was pouring into the area and it was depleting as forces but he lost it and he had to evacuate and they all died because of what he did it and basically cut him in half and today we're going after a big groups of his that are popping up and trying the same thing and it's trying to grab all the hardware and going after them pretty hard and they're trying for a global occupation Tommy f groups want to occupy Earth. The stopping him cold and tons of people are aware of it and his group will be cut in half again today if not less and he's going to be weakened again we was trying to go after shatteredome and it's ordered thing in South America we're going after the smaller ones Russia were going after the one remaining and it's also also almost emptied out fully and we're going after small ones too there's only a few of those three there and we should have all of it by the end of the day and or tonight in Russia and yes it will close out the whole area. The caucuses are different they're always in broiled and filling up and shortly they're going to be emptying and it's because they're all infighting over what's left and shatteredome was the main issues and it's going to empty the shadow though because they're constantly threatening with bombs shortly it will be empty we anticipate today I'm into tomorrow most likely.

The Middle East is right next door it's part of it really and it's more or less the same thing is happening there's a ton of splinter groups and they all fight each other and they put bombs on top and the robots are forced out to take the bombs out we anticipate within the next two or three days that those will be emptied out

After the same deal what's left is being fought over hard by big armies by the way and they're going at it until they're all gone for the most part and the small shattered over emptying all over as well and Madagascar there's a bigger one it's like 400 miles and that's being fight over very hard by big armies and should be empty today anticipate Africa will be emptied out today

As we said South America has a few small ones or emptying and after that half the country have the continent will be shut down and dark and New Zealand the same thing tons of people are fighting over it it's a huge fight because they figured out what's in there Trump's stuff tons of stuff in it and Jen was going to talk about it and we actually didn't allow the time he says now you care forgot about a little and we're back at it and she always returns to it and she remembers and she says there's tons of stuff in there and I didn't forget about it you did but you have a lot going on and nobody can think straight in there and it's kind of a harsh environment and they say things too have things said but really is full of stuff I'm going to take it out of there and we're going to take it all out and we're going down there now to pull it out before it turns into a war Jen says AKA Hera it's a huge deal what's going on in Mexico too you going to put a crappies down there and sultana suiso now you'll be called something else he says it sure will that's what we thought tons of people are curious what the hell does that mean and we might put a crusties across the border at the outlet and her son was at and couldn't afford anything that's really weird you people never catch on it's so dumb you can't afford it what are you doing I mean Jesus instead of beating on you taking.

Several in Europe emptying out it's the same deal, a lot of what they're fighting over is to prevent Tommy f from occupying their area and they're fighting over stuff because they don't have much left and we need to go after it in order to fight Max so a lot of foreigners are involved

It's the exact same circumstances in Norway Denmark and Sweden that's a huge one it's like seven or eight hundred miles across it's about 780 mi across and 800 miles deep is gigantic and everyone is fighting up there heavy and yeah the robots are coming out

Antarctica in Greenland is silent and they've been empty for a while that's what we say people go in there now

There's a few left the United States is California Utah that's pretty big and they're fighting fairly heavy there there's some people fighting over it and it's because a lot of hardware from the military would it and they said they were stolen it went into it and it was stolen from base and people like Brad and bja are going after hard today I'm sending tons of troops and they have bombs in the crew on the top side and Tommy F1 to come out, that shattered them probably still has a week or two to go before it's going to be emptied the same with Texas is about the same time frame and the golf and the other small ones here

The ones in the ocean are curious thing and my daddy had a bunch of ships and now his grasp on the ships is weakening and Tommy f is grabbing hold of them and he is holding on to the shadow dome in the oceans and he's blocking and we just have this new business he's letting some through every so often is there a ships hes holding up about 50% of them. They're wondering why and he sees the bill of lading where it's going and that's why so we're sending them all to one place he's probably going to figure it out and it's going to be a pain in the ass cuz he's going to try and block it all there's a war in space and the empire is getting beat up and it's cut in half and foreigners space force is growing and it's taking them down and Tommy f is falling and also the blockade is being severely attacked and China is going to lay into them and get shipments through and bursts so our son says in order to offload you need to have several shipping ports or even cranes makes shift operations they're big and we know where to put them and how to do it and we're going to and he even said put cranes on the ships that can reach and just drop them right on to like a highway onto a truck we also going to do that and we know how to do that and so does Wie.

Photos of Chinese involved they weren't involving because it's their bikes and they don't really get them and they want to come over here and get them going on now

There's a huge number of people at JC hospital and that's in Florida just south of at fort Pierce and it's a huge crowd about 300 million people and that's gigantic our son says we agree the whole town is full Plus another and you can see it from space it's a giant crowd and they all went in and they can't they're saying to revive him if they can't have him and tons of people are it's a huge huge movement in the AI is above and there's a space war going on as heated it up it's going to come to a head today people want him out and they try and move north it will wreck DC but Tommy f thinks it will cause chaos so he can take over and it might actually be what sprints on The siege.

Thor Freya

There are other events like they're trying to move George Herbert Walker Bush too he's still stuck over there and they're trying to do the Utah thing and the Midwest is emptying because Trump is heading north to the motorcycle factory it's probably about 50% of his people from the Midwest have already headed up that way and pretty much all done they can't stop us and the other 50% is getting up now it's going to empty out some huge areas so I'm going to take them and it's a little slow there but it was huge I mean there's tons of stuff and refactoring and everything but this is by the end of the day it'll be 10 septillion trumps up north gone for real let's have to force he has left right next door is the plant for his son's bike and the Sun is building the bikes and filling orders and he's getting hassled by all these trumps so he's attacking them and they think it's him doing it and there's a war going on pretty soon he won't be able to make the bikes and we're going to jump in and do it it'll be an a****** here and one of them kicking him out

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Milestone Monday

On this date, October 11 in 1899, the Second Boer War began in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Orange Free State and the South African Republic (the Transvaal). By the end of 1900 the war was essentially concluded, with a victory for the British and their official annexation of the two formerly Boer-controlled countries. The Boers, however, would continue a guerilla campaign against the British for two more years until Boer leadership finally surrendered and accepted British terms with the Treaty of Vereeniging in May 1902. Eight years later, the British-ruled colonies of South Africa would merge to form the Union of South Africa, a self-governing dominion of the British Empire, in 1910. It became the independent Republic of South Africa in 1961.

To mark the beginning of this portentous conflict we are showing the color-stamped cloth covers from two books, History of South Africa and the Boer-British War by Henry Houghton Beck, published in Philadelphia by the Globe Bible Publishing Co., ca. 1900, and War in South Africa and the Dark Continent by William Harding, published in Chicago by The Dominion Company in 1899 (with significant racist overtones).

View our other Milestone Monday posts.

#Milestone Monday #milestones #Second Boer War #south africa #Boers #History of South Africa and the Boer-British War #War in South Africa and the Dark Continent #guerilla warfare #color-stamped covers

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175+ non-Western literature recommendations to diversify your academia, organized by continent + country

I love world literature, and I’ve been frustrated by the lack of representation of it in literature + academia communities on tumblr, so here are some recommendations. I haven’t read all of these myself yet, but the ones I have are excellent and the ones I haven’t come highly recommended from Goodreads and are on my to-read list!

With the exception of anthologies of older works, all of these books were written before 2000 (some literally thousands of years earlier), since I’m less familiar with super contemporary literature. Also, I only included each writer once, though many of them have multiple amazing books. I’m sure there are plenty of incredible books I’m missing, so please feel free to add on to this list! And countries that aren’t included absolutely have a lot to offer as well--usually, it was just hard to find books available in English translation (which all of the ones below are.)

List below the cut (it’s my first post with a cut so let’s hope I do it right... and also warning that it’s super long)

ASIA:

Bangladesh:

Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1929)

China:

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (6th century BCE)

The Art of War by Sun Tzu (5th century BCE)

The Analects by Confucius (circa 5th-4th century BCE?)

The Book of Chuang Tzu by Zhuangzi (4th century BCE)

Mencius by Mencius (3rd century BCE)

The Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets (2nd century AD)

Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems by Li Po and Tu Fu (written 8th century AD)

Poems of Wang Wei (8th century AD)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong (14th century AD)

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling (1740)

Dream of the Red Chamber by Xueqin Cao (1791)

Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu (1809)

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun (1918)

Mr Ma and Son by Lao She (1929)

Family by Ba Jin (1933)

Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (1943)

A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy by Wing-Tsit Chan (1963)

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan (1987)

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian (1989)

The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature edited by Yunte Huang (anthology, 2016)

India:

The Rig Vega (1500-1200 BCE)

The Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita (around 400 BCE but not known exactly. The Gita is part of the Mahabharata)

The Upanishads (REALLY wide date range)

The Dhammapada (3rd century BCE)

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by Nāgārjuna (2nd century AD)

The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kālidāsa (4th century AD)

The Way of the Bodhisattva by Santideva (700 AD)

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore (1910)

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar (1936)

The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru (1946)

Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (1956)

A Source Book in Indian Philosophy by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Charles Alexander Moore (1957)

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (1993)

Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present V: The Twentieth Century by Susie J. Tharu and K. Lalita (1993)

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (1995)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1996)

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)

Indian Philosophy in English: From Renaissance to Independence (anthology, 2011)

Indonesia:

The Weaverbirds by Y.B. Mangunwijaya (1981)

Iran:

Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi (11th century AD)

The Essential Rumi by Rumi (13th century AD)

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (1936)

Savushun by Simin Daneshvar (1969)

My Uncle Napoleon by Iran Pezeshkzad (1973)

Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1979)

Iraq:

Fifteen Iraqi Poets edited by Dunya Mikhail (published 2013 but the poems are 20th century)

Japan:

The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (9th-10th century AD)

The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (1002 AD)

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (1008 AD)

The Tale of the Heike, unknown (12th century AD)

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse (not sure of year)

Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenkō (1332)

Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki (1914)

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (1948)

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1948)

The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1948)

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima (1949)

Masks by Fumiko Enchi (1958)

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe (1962)

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe (1964)

Silence by Shūsaku Endō (1966)

Korea (written before the division into North/South):

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (written 1795-1805)

Lebanon:

Samarkand by Amin Maalouf (1988)

Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury (1998)

Pakistan:

We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry (1991)

The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1991)

The Taste of Words: An Introduction to Urdu Poetry edited by Raza Mir (2014)

Palestine:

Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani (1963)

Orientalism by Edward Said (1978)

I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti (1997)

Mural by Mahmoud Darwish (2000, which technically breaks my rule by a year but it’s great)

Philippines:

Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal (1887)

Saudi Arabia:

Cities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munif (1984)

Sri Lanka:

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai (1994)

Syria:

Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami (1989)

Taiwan:

Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin (1996)

Turkey:

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (1998)

Vietnam:

Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong by Hô Xuân Huong (1801)

The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du (1820)

Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong (1988)

Miscellaneous Asia (country unclear or multiple current day countries):

The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 1800 BCE)

Myths from Mesopotamia translated by Stephanie Dailey

The Arabian Nights (as early as the 9th century AD, lots of changes over the years)

The Qur’an

AFRICA:

Algeria:

Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar (1985)

The Bridges of Constantine by Ahlam Mosteghanemi (1993)

Cameroon:

Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono (1956)

Egypt:

The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940 - 1640 B.C. translated by R.B. Parkinson

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz (1956)

The Sinners by Yusuf Idris (1959)

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi (1975)

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (1999)

Ghana:

Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo (1977)

Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah (1979)

In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Kwame Anthony Appiah (1992)

Guinea:

The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye (1954)

Kenya:

A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thing'o (1994)

The River and the Source by Margaret A. Ogola (1995)

Libya:

The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni (1990)

Mali:

The Fortunes of Wangrin by Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1973)

Nigeria:

The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola (1952)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)

Efuru by Flora Nwapa (1966)

The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta (1979)

Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka (1981)

Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English by Ken Saro-Wiwa (1985)

The Famished Road by Ben Okri (1991)

Senegal:

God’s Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène (1960)

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (1981)

Somalia:

Maps by Nuruddin Farah (1986)

South Africa:

When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head (1969)

Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo S. Ndebele (1986)

Sudan:

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (1966)

Tunisia:

The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi (1957)

Zimbabwe:

The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera (1978)

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)

Miscellaneous Africa:

The Granta Book of the African Short Story edited by Helon Habila (2011)

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier (1963)

AMERICAS:

Antigua and Barbuda:

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (1988)

Argentina:

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (1944)

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (1963)

The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernández (1967)

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig (1976)

The Sixty-Five Years of Washington by Juan José Saer (1985)

How I Became a Nun by César Aira (1993)

Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo (2015 but written earlier)

Brazil:

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis (1900)

Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso (1959)

Dona Flor and her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado (1966)

Pedagagy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (1968)

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (1977)

Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts by Rubem Fonseca (1988)

Chile:

The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso (1970)

Emergency Poems by Nicanor Parra (1972)

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1982)

Colombia:

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

Cuba:

The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier (1949)

Cold Tales by Virgilio Piñera (1958)

Dominican Republic:

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (1994)

Guatemala:

Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias (1949)

I, Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta Menchú (1985)

Guadalupe (part of France but overseas):

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé (1986)

Haiti:

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwige Danticat (1994)

Jamaica:

No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff (1987)

The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson (1999)

Martinique (part of France but overseas):

Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire (1950)

Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (1961)

Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant (1997)

Mexico:

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (1955)

Aura by Carlos Fuentes (1962)

The Hole by José Revueltas (1969)

Underground River and Other Stories by Inés Arredondo (1979)

The Collected Poems, 1957-1987 by Octavio Paz (1987)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)

Nicaragua:

Azul by Rubén Darío (1888)

Peru:

The Cardboard House by Martín Adán (1928)

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (1962)

The Complete Poems by César Vallejo (1968)

St. Lucia:

Omeros by Derek Walcott (1990)

Trinidad and Tobago:

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James (1938)

A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul (1961)

Uruguay:

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano (1971)

Venezuela:

Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos (1929)

Indigenous Writers from Canada and the United States:

American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Šá (Dakota) (1921)

Winter in the Blood by James Welch (Blackfeet and A’aninin) (1974)

Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes (Chumash) (1982)

She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) (1982)

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (1984)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo) (1986)

Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr. (Dakota) (1988)

The Grass Dancer by Susan Power (Dakota) (1997)

Miscellaneous Americas:

And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America edited by Rosario Santos (1988)

Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real edited by Celia Correas de Zapata (2003)

Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature edited by Cristina García (2006)

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