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Activist fail: Meat lovers at steakhouse drown out vegan protesters chanting and playing recording of cow slaughter (Update)

Yahoo!
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:01 UTC

Vegan activists have struck again, this time at a Brazilian steakhouse where they played sounds of animals being slaughtered from portable speakers.

The group, made of up about 20 protestors from Direct Action Everywhere, rushed the restaurant in the English city of Brighton on Sunday evening, local news site Brighton and Hove Independent reported.

Footage uploaded to their Facebook page shows the group positioned around the restaurant and chanting at patrons.

Comment: One has to wonder what the goal of these vegan protesters is. Disturbing people in the middle of their dinner, affecting independent businesses and being an all-around jerk is not going to win you any converts. All it will do is annoy the hell out of people, increase animosity, and make them think you're crazy (and rightly so). It's an extremely poorly thought-out strategy.

Here's more from Direct Action Everywhere:

Update:

From the Daily Mail:

Vegan activist who played the sounds of cows being slaughtered in a Brighton steak-house is the daughter of a millionaire meat merchant behind £56.5m posh ready meals company

A vegan activist who stormed a steak house and Tesco meat aisle is the daughter of a millionaire meat selling CEO.

Morgan Kayleigh Giampaolo raided the Touro steak-house in Brighton to play animal slaughter noises to diners last week.

She also attended a Tesco in Hove with 'Direct Action Everywhere' as they held a 'silent disruption' event, standing in the meat aisle with signs saying: 'It's not food it's violence' and graphic images of abattoirs while mothers pushed toddlers past them in prams.

Morgan's father, American businessman David Giampaolo, runs Pi Capital and is Chairman of Gousto, where customers can buy steak, sausage and lamb.

One wonders if the vegan daughter has demanded that she receive no money or inheritance from the meat income of her father?

Spain: Two Catalan separatists begin hunger strike in prison

AP News
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC

Two leaders of Catalonia's separatist movement who have spent the last year in prison started a hunger strike on Saturday to protest what they claim is the unfair treatment by Spanish courts.

Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Turull, regional lawmakers in northeastern Catalonia, said in a statement distributed by the Catalan government that "we will never give up on our right to a fair trial."

Spain's government responded by saying that they and other separatist leaders will be treated just like any other citizens brought before the law. The government led by Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in a statement that "like all citizens who are subject to and protected by the rule of law, the separatist leaders will receive a fair trial."

Sanchez and Turull are two of nine separatist leaders who are in pre-trial custody for their role in an illegal secession attempt by Catalonia's leaders last year. Spain's state prosecutors will pursue charges of rebellion against both, asking for sentences of 17 years for Sanchez and 16 years for Turull.

Sanchez and Turull are being held in a prison near Barcelona, the largest city in the Catalonia region.

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Egypt arrests British student over military helicopter video from public space

Aljazeera
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:12 UTC

Muhammed Fathi Abulkasem, a 19-year-old student from Manchester, was arrested in Alexandria, his family says.

© Muhammed Fathi Abulkasem family
Muhammed Fathi Abulkasem was held for 'collecting information against the military', his family says

Egyptian authorities have arrested a 19-year-old British tourist over a mobile phone video that showed a military helicopter in the background, according to his family.

Muhammed Fathi Abulkasem's arrest took place shortly after he arrived in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria on November 21, his cousin Shareen Nawaz told the Associated Press news agency on Friday.

Abulkasem, an A-level student from Manchester in the UK, was travelling to Alexandria from neighbouring Libya, where he had recently moved with his family in order to spend time with his ill grandmother, according to Middle East Eye.

Mayor of Tijuana says he will no longer foot the bill for migrants, wants organizers arrested

RT
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 19:46 UTC

© AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell
Authorities in the Mexican city of Tijuana have begun moving some of more than 6,000 Central American migrants from an overcrowded shelter on the border to an events hall further away.

After declaring the migrant caravan a "humanitarian crisis" this week, Mayor Juan Manuel Gastélum told Fox News that he can no longer continue to fund the municipal effort to shelter them without federal assistance.

"I'm not going to break public services to solve this problem," the Tijuana mayor said.

Even worse, he could be forced to raise taxes on Tijuana's 1.7 million residents who have already suffered from Sunday's clashes.

"In those six hours that the border was closed, we lost approximately 129 million pesos," he said. "That's not fair. How do you think people from Tijuana feel towards those people who are making problems?"

Comedian's cowboys and Indians birthday party for his son sends social media into a frenzy of offense

RT
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 19:26 UTC

Comedian Kevin Hart is unapologetic after an online backlash over his toddler son's birthday party. Some think playing 'cowboys and Indians' is an abominable tradition that belongs with blackface at the dump of history.

Critics said dressing as Native Americans is cultural appropriation; kids running around going "pew-pew" at each other are being indoctrinated to take for granted the horrific brutal subversion of the continent by European colonists; and that the party was particularly offensive coming so close to Thanksgiving. Hart called the backlash "stupid s***."

RT spoke to M. Reese Everson, a women's rights campaigner, and media analyst Lionel to find out what they think about the controversy.

Comment: There really are people out there who monitor social media just so they can find something over which to be offended.

Israel releases two 15-year-old Palestinian boys after three years of prison

Ahmad Al-Bazz
Mondoweiss
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:21 UTC

Two 15-year-old Palestinian boys, Shadi Farrah and Ahmad Al-Zaatari, were released on Thursday after almost three years of imprisonment by Israeli authorities in different juvenile detention centers.

The two Jerusalemite minors were arrested at a bus stop in the city of Jerusalem in December 2015 and were later accused of "possessing sharp tools and endangering public security", a claim that the families deny to this day.

'Competence downshift': Study explains how white liberals patronize minorities

Valerie Richardson
The Washington Times
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:01 UTC

White liberals present themselves as less competent when addressing minorities, while conservatives use the same vocabulary no matter what the race of their audience, according to a newly released study.

Yale and Princeton researchers found that white Democratic presidential candidates and self-identified liberals played down their competence when speaking to minorities, using fewer words that conveyed accomplishment and more words that expressed warmth.

On the other hand, there were no significant differences in how white conservatives, including Republican presidential candidates, spoke to white versus minority audiences.

"White liberals self-present less competence to minorities than to other Whites - that is, they patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent," according to the study's abstract.

Cydney Dupree, assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, said she was surprised by the findings of the study, which sought to discover how "well-intentioned whites" interact with minorities.

"It was kind of an unpleasant surprise to see this subtle but persistent effect," Ms. Dupree said. "Even if it's ultimately well-intentioned, it could be seen as patronizing."

Comment: From the study:

White liberals may indirectly express a patronizing form of bias in their responses to outgroup members by drawing on negative status/competence stereotypes about Blacks. That is, with the best of intentions-seeking to affiliate with a Black interaction partner-White liberals may unwittingly draw on negative stereotypes, dumbing themselves down in a likely well-meaning, "folksy," but ultimately patronizing, attempt to connect with the outgroup.

Examples:

French policemen decide to relieve themselves against the wall of the Qatari embassy

RT
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 15:38 UTC

Qatar won't be happy to learn that a group of French cops decided to pee against the wall of its embassy in Paris during a break from their protest policing duties, as spotted by an RT reporter.

The embarrassing moment was captured on Saturday as authorities in France's capital were busy dealing with Yellow Vest protesters demonstrating across the city. More than 100 people have been arrested in the protests against Emmanuel Macron's fuel reforms.

Four police wearing riot gear lined up to take a leak against the black fence surrounding the embassy, while another policeman appeared to be keeping watch.

US Marshal killed outside Tucson home, suspect arrested

Anita Snow
Associated Press
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC

A deputy U.S. marshal serving a fugitive arrest warrant against a man accused of stalking a female police sergeant after she seized a handgun and ammunition from him last year has been shot and killed outside a Tucson house.

The suspect had recently visited the Tucson Police Department, where he confronted the sergeant in person, then filed an online complaint about last year's seizure of his weapon, demanding that she and other officers be "arrested" and warning against the possibility of a "shootout at the OK Corral," authorities said.

Chase White, 41, was shot while serving the warrant Thursday night. White died later at a hospital, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday. He had a wife and four children ranging in age from 7 to 14 and had been scheduled to start a deployment of up to three years with the Air Force Reserve on Monday.

The suspect, Ryan Phillip Schlesinger, was arrested after an hour long standoff at the home.

The 'global warming' storytellers have just revealed their hand

Tom Luongo
Gold, Goats 'n Guns
Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC

There's a moment near the end of Ayn Rand's mostly brilliant Atlas Shrugged where she details the unveiling of various government-funded boondoggles whose development we track as the story unfolds.

All of them end in tragedy and mass death. From trains asphyxiating their passengers to sonic weapons killing spectators, the hubris and ineptitude of the rentier class which took over the U.S. government was on display in all its glory.

So, every time I see some hare-brained idea in service of a politically-motivated lie I just look at my wife, shake my head and say, "Act III, Atlas Shrugged, hon."

The latest is the patently insane idea of dimming the sun by dispersing sulfate particles into the atmosphere to reflect and absorb some of the energy coming from it to slow the rate of global warming.

I would hope, at the very least, they are thinking of something thoroughly inert like barium sulfate, but they aren't. They are talking about injecting SO2 into the atmosphere. Another word for SO2 is SMOG. This is the very compound we have been regulating power plants to not emit.

Comment: Whether out of greed, ignorance or the need to acquire control of some kind (or all these), the global warmists continue propagating their narrative against all facts and reasoning to the contrary. They will continue to do so right up until the ice is pressed firmly up their noses.

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sass

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Jibrish

Society's Child

Activist fail: Meat lovers at steakhouse drown out vegan protesters chanting and playing recording of cow slaughter (Update)

Spain: Two Catalan separatists begin hunger strike in prison

Egypt arrests British student over military helicopter video from public space

Mayor of Tijuana says he will no longer foot the bill for migrants, wants organizers arrested

Comedian's cowboys and Indians birthday party for his son sends social media into a frenzy of offense

Israel releases two 15-year-old Palestinian boys after three years of prison

'Competence downshift': Study explains how white liberals patronize minorities

French policemen decide to relieve themselves against the wall of the Qatari embassy

US Marshal killed outside Tucson home, suspect arrested

The 'global warming' storytellers have just revealed their hand

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