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McDonald's advice to underpaid employees: Break food into pieces to keep you full

Alex Kane
AlterNet Org
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:10 UTC
McDonald
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The latest friendly advice from McDonald's to their low-wage workers includes tips on how to better handle stress--as well as how to fill yourself up better with dinner. The fast-food corporation instructs workers that breaking food "into pieces" will keep you full.

The advice was published on the "McResource" website, meant to give tips to fast-food workers. While you need to be a McDonald's worker to log-in to the website, details of the advice have been publicized by the group Low Pay Is Not OK, a union-backed group seeking to organize low-wage workers at McDonald's. The effort is part of the larger campaign to push for living wages, benefits and the right to organize among low-wage workers across a variety of industries.

A video published by Low Pay Is Not OK shows the website's advice to workers. One piece of advice given is for workers to take two vacations a year--an impossible task given that many employees work two low-wage jobs. It tells workers to "sing away stress" because it "can lower your blood pressure." And it tells McDonald's employees to break "food into pieces," which "results in eating less and still feeling full."
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Hawaii lawmaker 'solves' homeless problem by destroying their stuff with a sledgehammer

David Edwards
Hawaii News Now
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:11 UTC
hnn-bower
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A Democratic state representative in Hawaii says he wanted to do something constructive to solve the state's homeless situation so he has taken to the streets and is destroying people's possessions with a sledgehammer.

"I got tired of telling people I'm trying to pass laws," state Rep. Tom Brower told Hawaii News Now. "I want to do something practical that will really clean up the streets."

Brower showed the TV News crew how he scours streets for shopping carts that homeless people use to transport their belongings and then and uses a sledgehammer to destroy them.

"I find abandoned junk, specifically shopping carts, and I remove them," he explained. "I also create a situation where those carts can't be pushed around the city. I think it's a good thing."

Mental Health America of Hawaii Executive Director Marya Grambs said that Brower's tactics were sending the wrong message.

"His message to the public is that it's okay to commit acts of violence against homeless people, against vulnerable people. It's okay for vigilante justice," she noted.
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Australian politician Clive Palmer says green groups like Greenpeace are funded by CIA to ensure U.S. global economic hegemony

Matt Wordsworth
ABC News, Australia
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:46 UTC
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Apparently the reason why Greenpeace is so well equipped is because it's a front for US imperialism
Mining magnate Clive Palmer has accused the United States government of funding environmental group Greenpeace via the CIA to undermine Australia's coal mining sector.

Mr Palmer made the extraordinary claim over Greenpeace's plan to use the court system to tie up coal mining applications.

He is angry at Greenpeace's plan to use lawyers to thwart future coal mining projects and claims funding is coming from US environmental charity the Rockefeller Foundation.

He alleges it is funded by the CIA and says it is trying to harm Australia's industry and help American interests.

Mr Palmer referred to a paper produced by environmental group Greenpeace which calls for action to stop the expansion of the Queensland coal industry.

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Russia rebuilds ties with Vietnam

Roberto Tofani
Asia Times Online
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 03:55 UTC
Putin in Vietnam
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An old friend is never forgotten. After the collapse of old ideologies and Cold War patron-client relations, Russia and Vietnam are now rebuilding robust commercial, industrial and strategic ties.

Relations have "stood the test of time, having lived through the numerous tragic events of the 20th century, drastic changes in the world as well as in our countries", Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in an article published in Vietnam's state media ahead of his November 12 state visit in Hanoi. He later quoted Vietnamese independence hero Ho Chi Minh, saying the deceased revolutionary's words still provided "spiritual instruction" for both nations' peoples.

Rhetoric aside, Putin and his Vietnamese counterpart, Truong Tan Sang, signed 17 bilateral agreements for enhanced strategic and energy cooperation. The bilateral deals will boost Moscow's role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) buoyant and integrating economies. They will also insert Russian influence into escalating territorial disputes in the South China Sea that pit Vietnam against China.
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11/19: The Wahhabi-Likudnik war of terror

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 02:42 UTC
Prince Bandar
© UnknownPrince Bandar
The double suicide bombing targeting the Iranian embassy in Beirut - with at least 23 people killed and 170 wounded - was a de facto terror attack happening on 11/19. Numerology-wise, naturally 9/11 comes to mind; and so the case of the Washington-declared war on terror metastasizing - largely conducted by oozy forms of Saudi "intelligence".

Yet don't expect the "West" to condemn this as terror. Look at the headlines; it's all normalized as "blasts" - as if children were playing with firecrackers.

Whether carried out by a hazy al-Qaeda-linked brigade or by Saudi spy chief Bandar bin Sultan's (aka Bandar Bush's) goons, the Beirut terror attack is essentially configured as a major, Saudi-enabled provocation. The larger Saudi agenda in Syria implies getting both Hezbollah and Iran to be pinned down inside Lebanon as well. If that happens, Israel also wins. Once again, here's another graphic illustration of the Likudnik House of Saud in action.
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Snakes in Suits

JPMorgan settlement with Dept of Justice: Largest U.S. bank will forfeit half-year's profits as punishment for role in causing global financial crisis

Ben Protess & Jessica Silver-Greenberg
New York Times
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:56 UTC
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© Mike Segar/ReutersJPMorgan Chase will pay a $13 billion settlement to resolve questions about sales of mortgage securities to pension funds.
When Tony West arrived in a Justice Department conference room to put the finishing touches on a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, he saw a familiar number flash on his cellphone.

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's chief executive, was calling to seek a rare face-to-face meeting with Mr. West, a top Justice Department official with close ties to President Obama. Mr. Dimon hoped the meeting would avert the lawsuit, which threatened to spotlight the bank's questionable mortgage practices before the financial crisis.

Mr. West, 48, a soft-spoken but imposing presence, resisted the overture. Pacing around the room with the phone pressed against his ear, people at the meeting later recalled, he told Mr. Dimon that the Justice Department would meet only if the bank came with a more generous offer than the $3 billion it had proposed to settle a narrow window of cases.

"We don't want you to waste your time and we don't want to waste the attorney general's time," he told the bank chief, according to people in the room.

Comment: $13 billion might seem like a lot of money to us little people, but did you notice that at no time was it suggested that anyone go to prison for causing a crisis whose true cost probably hits the $1 quadrillion mark, and which we the people have been forced to pay?

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Stormtrooper

The hunted and the hated: An inside look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk policy

Ross Tuttle and Erin Schneider
The Nattion
Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:16 UTC

An audio recording of a stop-and-frisk in action sheds unprecedented light on a practice that has put the city's young people of color in the NYPD's cross hairs.

Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city's streets. Council members demanded answers from Mayor Bloomberg's representative just one day after a video released by The Nation documented an abusive stop.

On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York City Police officers stopped a Harlem teenager named Alvin and two of the officers questioned and frisked him while the third remained in their unmarked car. Alvin secretly captured the interaction on his cell phone, and the resulting audio is one of the only known recordings of stop-and-frisk in action.

In the course of the two-minute recording, the officers give no legally valid reason for the stop, use racially charged language and threaten Alvin with violence. Early in the stop, one of the officers asks, "You want me to smack you?" When Alvin asks why he is being threatened with arrest, the other officer responds, "For being a fucking mutt." Later in the stop, while holding Alvin's arm behind his back, the first officer says, "Dude, I'm gonna break your fuckin' arm, then I'm gonna punch you in the fuckin' face."

"He grabbed me by my bookbag and he started pushing me down. So I'm going backwards like down the hill and he just kept pushing me, pushing me, it looked like he we was going to hit me," Alvin recounts. "I felt like they was trying to make me resist or fight back."
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Shuttle Challenger Disaster - How your corporate fascist government murdered 7 astronauts

Jim Quinn
TheBurningPlatform
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:20 UTC
Challenger Disaster
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I was using my clicker to try to find something worth watching on my 600 station FIOS TV system last night with no luck. Nothing of interest on these hundreds of worthless channels. Then I stumbled across a channel I didn't even know I had - The Science Channel. Names don't mean much when channels like Discovery broadcast Honey Boo Boo or Duck Dynasty. The Science Channel was running a movie called The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. I figured it was some sort of dry documentary, but to my surprise it was a real movie with the great actor William Hurt playing the lead role. He was playing the part of Richard Feynman. I had never heard of him before watching this excellent movie, that should have been on a major network.

I realized why a MSM corporate station didn't want to touch this movie after it showed how our government, along with a major corporation, knowingly sent seven astronauts to their deaths in the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 by ignoring clear data that indicated extreme risk for that launch. NASA, the government and Morton Thiokol then conspired to cover-up their malfeasance and reckless decision making because profits and funding for their programs were more important than the lives of those astronauts. The Rogers Commission would have come to an inconclusive decision if not for Richard Feynman.

He was dying of cancer but still relentlessly pursued the truth. He never trusted authority. He hated government bureaucracy. He wasn't a political animal. He cared about the truth and sought facts. The NASA officials lied and declared that the O-rings used in the Shuttle could withstand cold up to -40 degrees Fahrenhit. On national TV Feynman proved that the O-Rings would not retain their shape in a glass of 32 degree ice water. He revealed the NASA and Morton Thiokol executives as liars and criminals. NASA chose to launch the Space Shuttle when the temperature was below 32 degrees because they felt pressure to launch two per month in order to get their funding from Congress increased. They were warned by their own engineers that this could be catastrophic. They ignored the warnings and ended up murdering 7 astronauts.
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Beirut bombing: Twin attacks target Iranian embassy, 23 killed, 146 injured


RT
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:36 UTC
Iranian embassy bombing in Beirut
© Reuters / Mahmoud KheirCivil Defence personnel extinguish a fire on cars at the site of explosions near the Iranian embassy in Beirut November 19, 2013.
Two blasts near the Iranian embassy in Beirut killed at least 23 people, injuring 146 and causing havoc and a massive fire in the Lebanese capital. Six buildings were reportedly destroyed in the embassy compound.

According to a local news source, Al-Manar News, the harrowing scene was caused by 100kg of TNT loaded into a Renault Rapid. Security sources on the ground said there were two blasts - the first caused by a person on a motorbike, while the second was by a suicide bomber who tried to ram the compound with the car.

Witnesses at the scene reported that they occurred within one or two minutes of each other.

Injured people and destroyed buildings were seen on very disturbing pictures circulated by Lebanese media in the immediate aftermath.

Comment: Israel and Saudi Arabia are two countries, who vehemently opposes Shiites, Iran, Syria and Hezbollah. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia are keen to split the unity between shiites and weaken the alliance between Iran, Syria and Hezbollah. Civil wars in those 3 countries would be on top of their favorite list of wet dreams.

Remember Israel and Saudi Arabia are just so keen to promote tyranny democracy just like you see it in their own countries.

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Question

U.S. Navy top intelligence officers suspended for espionage


Voltaire Network
Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:35 UTC
Vice Admiral Ted Branch is Director of Navy Intelligence.
© UnknownVice Admiral Ted Branch is Director of Navy Intelligence.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has suspended Vice Admiral Ted Branch and Rear Admiral Bruce Loveless, in connection with an NCIS investigation into a bribery scandal.

For two months, several superior officers and an NCIS agent were arrested for having sold military secrets to Leonard Glenn Francis, director of the Malaysian-based Glenn Defense Marine company. The investigation revealed that the two admirals had accepted sexual favors from prostitutes and cash.

Vice Admiral Ted Branch is Director of Navy Intelligence. Rear Admiral Bruce F. Loveless is Director of Naval Intelligence Operations.

Comment: Is there a purge going on?

Obama purging military commanders
Vice Adm. Tim Giardina fired as no. 2 nuclear commander
Another one? US fires general Michael Carey in charge of nuclear missiles

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