Die-hard shoppers wait hours in line before bursting into stores and fighting over deals as customers pile shopping carts high

While millions of families across America gathered at their dinner tables for their Thanksgiving dinner, thousands of savvy shoppers were waiting in line for Black Friday deals. Chaotic scenes unfolded in malls across the country as people got a head start on their Christmas shopping, trying to land the best deals. Thousands of people lined up outside of Macy's Herald Square location in New York City, braving the cold as they waited for employees to open the doors at 5pm. The unofficial holiday has even extended overseas in countries like Brazil, where customers nearly fought to get their hands on the latest Samsung TV's on Thursday. Since 2005, Black Friday has been the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States.

By Craig M White

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Introductory Comments 

In the article Passover and Holy Day Observances since the First Century, I point out that the observance of the Holy Days among Christian Sabbatarians can be tracked each century, for the most part, since the birth of the New Testament Church. 

Having virtually died out by the nineteenth century, the interest in all of God’s Law and the Holy Days among various Sabbatarians began to stir sometime around the middle of that century. These seeds were sown and later watered by authors such as Greenberry G Rupert who began to promote them as applicable to Christians. As a result, interest in them began to grow. 

Meanwhile, many Protestant scholars wrote about their meaning and typology and continue to do so to this day (they often don’t fully understand their meaning, but at least make a good attempt at this). One of many such authors was the famous Louis Talbot who wrote about The Feasts of the Lord (1943) and there were a number of such authors preceding him and thereafter. I mention him as Dr Herman L Hoeh listened to his radio programmes and was following him about the time of his coming across The World Tomorrow broadcast. 

Holy Day Observance Prior to Herbert W Armstrong 

Map of Israel, the Palestinian territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip), the Golan Heights, and portions of neighbouring countries. Also United Nations deployment areas in countries adjoining Israel or Israeli-held territory, as of January 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

First published in 2018

Following President Donald Trump’s declaration that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Saeb Erekat quickly shot back and demanded “equal rights for everyone living in historic Palestine.”

Protests over Trump’s move have sparked riots in Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and even violent protests in Europe, from Germany to Sweden. But how exactly did Arab Muslims treat Christians and Jews when they ruled over Jerusalem for 19 years?

It appears Arabs were anything but tolerant toward either. The Daily Caller News Foundation examined Arab rule over the eastern half of Jerusalem from 1949 until 1967, and found that both Christians and Jews were routinely denied religious freedom and often faced persecution at the hands of the Arabs when Muslims were in charge of the eastern half of the holy city.

In 1947, the United Nations approved a partition plan to permit both Jews and Muslims to govern separate sectors. Israel accepted the plan but the Arabs refused it and sent their armies against a group of citizen-soldiers. 

The Israelis won a surprising victory in what they called their War of Independence. In 1949, an armistice was signed by both Jordan and Israel, signaling the end to the conflict.

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Records suggest that humans began raising animals about 10,000 years ago - and they looked very different from the animals we eat today.

Intensive breeding has left cows, sheep, chickens and other domesticated animals transformed into 'superbreeds' buffed up to produce more meat, and grow far more quickly.  

In the 19th century, evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin noted that breeding led to 'striking differences between farm animals and plants and their wild counterparts'.

Although this observation helped layout the foundation for Darwin's theory of evolution, it was also theorized about the future of the meat we would put on our plates.

 

 

WHEN WERE ANIMALS FIRST DOMESTICATED? 

It was sheep, goats, cattle, pigs and geese that were among the first animals to be specifically raised for human consumption, which didn't occur until around 10,000 years ago, according to Ancient History Encyclopedia.

Goats and sheep were the earliest to be bred for food around 7000 BC, pigs 6500 BC and horses were tamed by 4000 BC, a majority of them were used for work and warfare, but some cultures raised them as a food source.

Chickens were tamed around 10,000 years ago, but were first bred for cock fighting in Southeast Asia, reports National Geographic. 

 

Miami is on high alert for dengue fever after an eleventh person in the city caught the mosquito-borne illness.   

Residents are being urged to protect themselves from the insects by wearing long sleeves when outdoors and spraying insect repellent. 

Officials also advised draining water from their yards and turning over anything holding water such as buckets and plant pots, where mosquitoes like to breed. 

 Miami-Dade County officials have issued a high risk health alert after an eleventh person contracted dengue fever (file)

The Florida Department of Health said none of the cases were related following the outbreak in March, CBS reports. 

 

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Miami is on high alert for dengue fever after an eleventh person in the city caught the mosquito-borne illness.   

Residents are being urged to protect themselves from the insects by wearing long sleeves when outdoors and spraying insect repellent. 

Officials also advised draining water from their yards and turning over anything holding water such as buckets and plant pots, where mosquitoes like to breed. 

 Miami-Dade County officials have issued a high risk health alert after an eleventh person contracted dengue fever (file)

The Florida Department of Health said none of the cases were related following the outbreak in March, CBS reports. 

 

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Sick of the gloomy weather? Ditch your woolly hat and head to the Caribbean, where classic destinations have glamorous new openings with a totally tropical twist

Whether you like to fly and flop, kick back on a catamaran with a rum punch, or hike through a towering rainforest, the charismatic Caribbean offers it all. Today, with ridiculous ease, you can jet direct from the UK to a dozen balmy islands, arriving just in time for tea or a sundowner. Every year, there are new, fun things to do and yet more fabulous hotels in which to relax. Here we look at some of the hottest new openings for 2020.

This case is a study in FALSE PROSECUTION BEFORE TRUMP.  These prosecutors should be in jail. I have watched this story evolve for many years now, and EVERYONE (including DNA Evidence experts) knew these men were not guilty. SO DID PROSECUTORS! Justice in America is not about guilt or innocence, but piling up convictions at any cost!  Trump is going through this NOW!  YOU MAY BE NEXT!  God warned us that in our time, "there is no justice in the Land," says the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.  And there isn't!

The city of Norfolk has agreed to pay (from left to right) Eric Wilson, Danial Williams, Joseph Dick and Derek Tice $4.9million to the sailors and the state agreed to pay $3.5million. The four sailors were convicted in 1997 rape and killing of Michelle Moore-Bosko (inset). DNA evidence linked another man, Omar Ballard, to the crimes. Three of the men were granted conditional pardons in 2009 but their convictions remained on the books. Wilson had failed to get his conviction overturned in court because he had already completed his sentence when he brought the challenge. The men have long said they confessed only after being intimidated by police. Their case was championed by multi-million selling author John Grisham, (inset, bottom right).

Infamous 'Norfolk Four' sailors wrongly accused of a woman's rape and murder are paid $4.9million in settlement 21 years after their conviction, following a campaign by novelist John Grisham 

The Son represent "JESUS" And The Father Represent "God Of Father" And The people In The Train represent "Us"

By Kyle Smith

So the United States has “the world’s highest rate of children in detention.” Is this worth reporting? Maybe, maybe not. Nevertheless, Agence France-Presse, or AFP, and Reuters did report it, attributing the information to a “United Nations study” on migrant children detained at the US-Mexico border.

Then the two agencies retracted the story. Deleted, withdrew, demolished. If they could have used one of those Men in Black memory-zappers on us, they would have. Sheepishly, the two news organizations explained that, you see, the UN data was from 2015 — part of a border crackdown that had begun years earlier.

We all know who the president was in 2015. It wasn’t evil, child-caging monster President Trump. It was that nice, compassionate, child-caging monster President Barack Obama.

Zap. The story made Obama look bad. Hence the story was removed. Not updated or corrected, removed.

I know it’s a heavy news environment. Who can keep up? But try to remember this one, because it’s instructive. People think news organizations flat-out fabricate stories. That isn’t often the case. Fake news is a problem that pops up here and there, but the much more systematic and deeply entrenched attack on truth is the casual, everyday bias of reporters.

AFP and Reuters deleted a story that was, in a narrow sense, true — that a UN study claimed the United States had some 100,000 children in migrant-related detention. The United Nations is horribly biased against America and the West. Still, on the level of lazy, news-release-driven journalism, the locked-up-kids story was minimally valid.

At any rate, what the agencies didn’t seem to like was the story’s changed implication: That Obama, rather than Trump, locked up a lot of children. This is what’s important: Not that AFP and Reuters deleted a story, but that the implication of the story meant everything to them.

Every time you read something from AFP and Reuters (and CNN and the Washington Post), you should be thinking not “This is fake news” but: “What’s the agenda?” To paraphrase Chuck Schumer’s infamous, and instructive, comment on the CIA, news outlets have six ways from Sunday of getting you to think what they want you to think, none of which involve making up stuff.

One is simply not reporting things. News that isn’t mentioned didn’t really happen to that outlet’s consumers. Obama’s approval ratings were mostly really low, comparable to Trump’s, typically in the low to mid-40s. Polls would come out saying this, and the Ron Burgundys would simply not report it.

Using, or ignoring, facts in accordance with whether they create the desired impression is the principal agenda of today’s media.

Trump doesn’t enjoy this courtesy. Nor can he be associated with good news. A recent Newsbusters survey found that, over a recent six-week period, not even 1 percent of network news reporting on the Trump administration even mentioned positive economic news.

Another trick is soberly reporting the policy proposals of Politician One but focusing entirely on the miscues and petty controversies of Politician Two. You might, if you are a news consumer, be under the impression that Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a sober, well-reasoned set of plans. These plans are, however, so far-fetched as to be breathtaking. She has vowed $20.5 trillion in new federal spending, an increase of 40 percent on top of current levels. Yet Warren isn’t the candidate the media habitually portray as unhinged.

Meanwhile, the gaffes of Democrats attract very little interest; network news basically ignored the mini-scandal involving Pete Buttigieg, who promoted a list of black supporters, many of whom either were not black or did not support him. The networks declined to cast Buttigieg as racially insensitive.

Still another trick is deciding that a matter that advances the wrong narrative is simply “local news,” hence not worthy of attention from the major outlets. Any crimes committed by illegal immigrants can be safely ignored by CNN, but any crimes associated with right-wingers become cause for national dismay and soul searching.

CNN did a massive story this week involving the talents of five reporters after someone at Syracuse University sent out a white supremacist manifesto to “several” cellphones and racist graffiti was discovered in a residence hall. Previously, similar outbreaks of campus fear turned out to be based on hoaxes. Yet if this story dissolves, CNN can accurately claim, hey, we were just reporting that students were scared.

The impression created by a thousand stories like this — that America in 2019 is a white supremacist nightmare — will linger all the same. Using, or ignoring, facts in accordance with whether they create the desired impression is the principal agenda of today’s media.

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The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a Republican-appointed majority following the Senate's confirmation of a nominee by President Trump.

With the approval Tuesday of Judge Robert J. Luck by a 64-31 vote, the 11th Circuit become the third federal appeals court to flip to a majority of Republican-appointed active judges under Trump, the Washington Times reported.

Luck was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court earlier this year by Gov. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The 11th Circuit now has six active Republican-appointed judges and six Democratic-appointed ones. With the addition of senior judges to that count, the circuit has 11 Republican-appointed and nine Democratic.

TRENDING: Trump celebrates 'a new Republican star' in Stefanik, completely undermines popular leftist narrative

Mike Davis, president of The Article III Project, explained to the Washington Times that cases deciding binding law require the full panel of active judges.

"As you see, President Trump flips these critically important federal circuit courts and transform the judiciary; it reminds Republicans and conservatives why elections matter," Davis said.

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It’s one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.

Except there’s little proof that flossing works.

Still, governments, dental organisations and manufacturers of floss have pushed the practice for decades. Dentists provide samples to their patients; the British Dental Association insists on its patient website that flossing helps “in the battle against tooth decay and gum disease”.

But all this could change following an investigation by Associated Press (AP). Last year journalists from the agency asked the departments of health and human services and agriculture in the US for their evidence that flossing works.

Since then, the US government has quietly dropped the recommendation, admitting that there is no scientific evidence to prove the benefits. And now the NHS is set to review their own guidelines. 

On its website, it currently states that dental floss “helps to prevent gum disease by getting rid of pieces of food and plaque from between your teeth” which can cause inflammation. 

A leading British dentist, however, said there is only “weak evidence” that flossing helps in this way. Professor Damien Walmsley of Birmingham University, said the time and expense required for reliable studies meant the health claims often attributed to floss were unproven. Read more

You really want to investigate corruption, pedophilia and selling your office.... Just start here Democrats!

Clinton Foundation Continues To Hemorrhage Money Following Hillary's Loss

Like a lot of wronged women, Monica Lewinsky now is reassessing her “affair” with Bill Clinton through the lens of the MeToo movement.

It was “an abuse of power … 100 percent,” she said Saturday night in a speech in Australia.

The former White House intern, who was just 22 when the president seduced her, said she had “clung so steadfastly to this notion that [it] was a real, consensual relationship, [but] as we started to have public conversations that were different about consent, as we started to recognize abuse of power in different ways, these structures started to crumble around powerful men who have been able to engage in [bad] behaviors and be lauded and celebrated.”

Lewinsky is right that some rich and powerful men now are being held accountable for past sexual wrongdoing that once was condoned by everyone in their privileged social stratum.

But, on the other hand, many of these men still don’t seem to comprehend that the music has stopped on the sexual free-for-all of previous decades, nor do many of their celebrity enablers and sycophants who turned a blind eye for decades.

Army Sgt Vincent Loranty and Staff Sgt. Christopher Jung wave to other aircraft after flying over the NFL’s military appreciation game in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 10, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Beverly Roche, 40th Public Affairs Detachment)

A new report from the Center for Military Readiness reveals 84% of the women who take a new Army combat-fitness test fail.

It's one of the signs that the "social experiment" launched during the Barack Obama administration isn't working, CMR says.  MORE

Exact $500million replica of the Titanic will set sail in 2022 starting in Dubai before then heading to England to follow the original ship's doomed route to New York - but this time with more lifeboats....Read More

Construction has resumed on the Titanic II after an ongoing financial dispute. The new boat will feature the same cabin layout as the original to mimic its 'overall aesthetic', including formal dining rooms, a grand staircase, a smoke room, and a Turkish bath. The ship will also be able to fit nearly the same number of passengers as the original - but this time there will be far more lifeboats, just in case it meets a similar fate as the doomed ship that hit an iceberg and sunk in 1912, killing 1,500 people.

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173 women come forward to claim they are victims of gynecologist, 69, accused of performing hysterectomies and tying fallopian tubes without consent as he is held without bail

Original Story below:

A Virginia gynecologist removed fallopian tubes and performed hysterectomies on several patients without their consent, federal authorities are alleging.

Javaid Perwaiz, 69, was arrested on Friday after a year-long FBI investigation found that he was ‘performing unnecessary surgeries on unsuspecting patients,’ according to papers filed with the Eastern District of Virginia.

The bureau received a tip from a hospital employee who first suspected Perwaiz, according to ABC News.

According to the indictment, patients would tell hospital staff that they were visiting for their ‘annual clean outs’.

Javaid Perwaiz, 69, appears in a police booking photo after he was arrested by law enforcement agencies in Virginia on Friday

In reality, however, they were subjected to a range of procedures that they did not know about in advance.  In one case, Perwaiz allegedly asked one patient repeatedly whether she was planning to have another baby.

After the patient went to a fertility specialist in 2014, Perwaiz told her that ‘both Fallopian tubes were burnt down to nubs, making natural conception impossible.’

According to court documents, Perwaiz removed the woman’s Fallopian tubes without her consent or knowledge.

In another case, Perwaiz is alleged to have performed a full hysterectomy on a woman who was under the impression that she would only have her ovaries removed.

 

 

In a four-year period starting in 2014, Perwaiz performed surgery on 510 patients - 42 per cent of whom underwent at least two operations, according to records

The woman told authorities that she was ‘shocked’ to discover that Perwaiz listed the hysterectomy as ‘elective surgery’ on her medical record.

When the woman consulted with another doctor, she was told that there were less invasive procedures available to her, according to the indictment.

On October 19, Perwaiz is said to have performed a number of procedures on a woman, including an abdominal supracervical hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, and lysis of adhesions.

The patient later told investigators that these procedures were done on her even though she never complained of pain in her pelvic region - contrary to what Perwaiz wrote in a medical chart dated September 30.

Federal authorities also allege that Perwaiz performed annual D and C surgeries (Dilation and curettage) based on a diagnosis of endometriosis, a condition in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside of it.

Perwaiz is also alleged to have treated her for an ectopic pregnancy.

A review of Medicaid claims from his patients found that some of them were subjected to the same surgery on an annual basis.

In a four-year period starting in January 2014, Perwaiz was found to have performed surgery on 510 patients - with 42 per cent of them having undergone at least two operations.

The review also found that Perwaiz had a 'propensity to conduct bundled surgeries' that included laparoscopy, dilation and curettage, and lysis of adhesions. 

Prosecutors also allege that Perwaiz defrauded insurance companies by claiming fictitious ailments and charging health care providers for false claims.

He was arrested on Friday and has been held since at Western Tidewater Regional Jail in Suffolk, Virginia.

His lawyer has not commented on the allegations.

Records also show that Perwaiz has been investigated for medical malpractice.    MORE

Republican Congressman Devin Nunes claimed Democrats are obsessed with trying to get nude photos of Donald Trump and proving collusion with Russia

Devin Nunes on Wednesday led the Republican defense of Donald Trump in the first public impeachment hearing, charging Democrats with being obsessed with claims the president colluded with Russia in the 2016 election.  

He also charged Democrats tried to get nude photos of the president and brought up the infamous, unproven Steele dossier that claimed the Russians had blackmail material on Trump.

'We are asked to simply forget about Democrats on this committee falsely claiming they had more than circumstantial evidence of collusion, between President Trump and Russians,' the Republican congressman from California said in his opening statement. 

Ruben Martinez Jr., right, and his wife, Maria, left, talk to reporters at the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles, on Tuesday. Martinez walked from Los Angeles Superior Court a free man after prosecutors reviewed his unwavering claim of innocence and agreed he had been wronged

A man who spent 11 years in prison for a series of Los Angeles armed robberies he didn't commit has been exonerated Tuesday after prosecutors agreed he had been wrongly convicted.

A courtroom erupted in applause as Ruben Martinez Jr. was found innocent and walked free from Los Angeles Superior Court.

A jubilant Martinez, 49, said his prayers had been answered and he was not a bitter man. He thanked his wife, Maria, for not only standing by him but pursuing his freedom vigorously.

'I did not do this time by myself,' Martinez said after the short court hearing, KABC reported. 'My family did time. My wife did time with me, did the 11 years with me. I couldn't do it on my own, on my own strength. It was God's strength that got me through this.'     MORE>>>>

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's former U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, alleges in her upcoming memoir that two administration officials who were ultimately pushed out by Trump once tried to get her to join them in opposing some of his policies.

In "With All Due Respect," Haley said then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and then-White House chief of staff John Kelly told her that they were trying to "save the country." Haley writes that she was "shocked" by the request, made during a closed-door meeting, and thought they were only trying to put their own imprint on his policies.

"Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren't being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country," Haley wrote. "It was their decisions, not the president's, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didn't know what he was doing. ... Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president's decisions was because, if he didn't, people would die."

The former South Carolina governor said the meeting lasted more than an hour and that they never raised the issue to her again.

Haley's book comes out Tuesday.