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Today, crowds of customers waited for more than an hour at a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) location in Atlanta, GA to sample vegan Beyond Fried Chicken.
KFC painted its Cobb Parkway location in Smyrna bright green and erected a Beyond Fried Chicken billboard to promote its vegan chicken options — which drew crowds that wrapped around two city blocks and bumper-to-bumper cars that looped twice around the drive-thru.
Comment: What does it say that people are lining up around the block to be able to try highly processed, glyphosate-laden fake food? Aside from the curious trend-chasers, how many of these people have bought into the lie that veganism is the healthier option and that eating vegan fast food is going to save the planet? These people are programmed automatons, hoovering up mainstream media propaganda faster than they can scarf down a bucket of fake fried chicken.
See also:
- These 3 lawsuits are protecting the rights of companies like Beyond Meat to call their products 'burgers', 'hot dogs,' and other words associated with meat
- No Beyond burrito: Chipotle's CEO says faux meat is too processed
- Are Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers healthier than red meat? Dietitians say no
- Programming complete: Fake meat company Beyond Meat tops $100/shr - KFC said to plan vegan 'fried chicken'
- Holy schmeat! Beyond Meat has plans to make plant-based bacon and steak
... or how to flip an average into a 'record' without changing the data
My original article about the media presentation of the 2019 Amazon Rain Forest burning season produced a good deal more controversy than any of us anticipated. I don't know how many times in the past four days OffG admins and editors have had to say "no, we aren't claiming deforestation is a good idea", but it's been a few.
We also received our first DDoS attack in a couple of months the day after it was published. So, even the hackers were pissed off at us.
Surprising as it may be to those who favor knee jerk spontaneity over reading and reflection, I don't think deforestation is a non-issue.
Comment: It's amazing that, once the truth starts to take a foothold and gain traction, the narrative is spun once again to put people back to sleep. The panic and virtue signalling about the Amazon is completely out of proportion to the truth of the matter, yet reality creators won't let anything like the truth get in the way of a good crisis.
See also:
- Annual Amazon farmland burn sets records for international outrage
- Why everything they're saying about the Amazon fires is wrong
- Amazon burning? Well maybe not so much
- Despite claims on social media, the Amazon is not burning more than usual and does not produce 20% of the world's oxygen
- Brazil's Bolsonaro accuses Macron of sensationalism for sharing fake photos of Amazon fires
- The Misanthropic Bankers Behind The Green New Deal
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Video-sharing partnerships allow law enforcement to automatically request video from Ring owners within a designated timeframe and area, giving them access to millions of cameras that police claim have proved invaluable for investigations. Officers are not supposed to receive access to live-streaming video, and users can deny the footage requests - which come in the form of emails thanking them for "making your neighborhood a safer place" -but they don't always have the option of saying "no."
© Anil Kumar, et al./BMJ Case Reports/CC BY-NC 4.0A large lump in a teenager's stomach turned out to be her own "twin" inside her abdomen. Above, an image of the lump before the teen's operation.
The 17-year-old went to the doctor after developing a lump in her abdomen that had been gradually increasing in size over the last five years, according to the report, published Aug. 12 in the journal BMJ Case Reports. The teen told doctors that she sometimes experienced abdominal pain and a feeling of fullness, even when she had not eaten much food.
A CT scan revealed that the teen had a large mass in her abdomen that appeared to contain multiple bones "resembling the shape of vertebrae, ribs and long bones," the authors wrote.
Doctors diagnosed the teen with fetus in fetu, a condition that is estimated to occur in only about 1 in 500,000 people worldwide.
The new case is even more unusual because it was diagnosed in a teenager, whereas most previous cases have been found in infancy or early childhood, the authors said. What's more, the mass appears to be the largest one ever discovered in a case like this, they said.
© REUTERS/David RyderHomeless encampment on a sidewalk in downtown Seattle, Washington
The King County courthouse in downtown Seattle is located near the social service centers and several homeless shelters. A tent city has sprung up in the little park outside. There have been several assaults on courthouse employees, and even two attacks on jurors In May and June, leading to citizens summoned for jury duty to voice concerns about their safety.
Judges Laura Inveen and Jim Rogers, backed by King County Sheriff John Urquhart, asked the county to do something about it, the Seattle Times reported last month. Among their requests was a daily power-wash of the sidewalks, which "reek of urine and excrement."
© Andy Johnstone / Daily MailGrowing issue: Sacramento's homeless population has risen 19 per cent in two years, with 5,570 people living on the streets. Pictured above is a man sleeping on the sidewalk in broad daylight
Her nose is the brightest shade of red imaginable. She constantly picks at scabs all over her body. Her home is a makeshift bed beneath Interstate 80 in Sacramento.
And Monday was her 26th birthday. Not that you would ever guess. Anyone looking at her would think she is at least 15 years older.
Carlisle is part of California's growing homeless emergency. The state has around 130,000 people without a roof over their heads. But she is not in downtown Los Angeles where Skid Row is a symbol of the national crisis or San Francisco where nearly one person in every hundred lives on the streets.
Instead, Carlisle and her fiancé Brian Workman are in Sacramento, the state capital, where homelessness has shot up by a shocking 19 per cent in the past two years, putting the problem squarely on the doorstep of Gavin Newsom, the state's Democratic governor.
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Instead of providing a single score that was expected to convey information such as crime rate of students' neighborhoods or poverty levels of their high schools, the College Board will use a new tool called "Landscape," the company announced Tuesday.
"We listened to thoughtful criticism and made Landscape better and more transparent," said David Coleman, CEO of the College Board. "Landscape provides admissions officers more consistent background information so they can fairly consider every student, no matter where they live and learn."
Prior to taking on his post at the College Board, Coleman served as the "architect" of the Common Core State Standards.
The Adversity Score was offered in the midst of the college admissions cheating scandal that has seen prominent parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, involved in a scheme to pay thousands of dollars for their children to gain entrance to elite schools.
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"A loose network of conservative operatives" is sifting through journalists' social media histories, looking for inflammatory nuggets that can be used to discredit the organizations they work for, the New York Times warned earlier this week, noting that this band of marauding internet sleuths has already exposed sensitive information about reporters from CNN, the Washington Post, and the Times itself.
Much of it, they claim, "has been professionally harmful to its targets."
Comment: Poor dears. Not that any independent journalists or alt-media outlets have ever suffered from NYT smears.
Comment: Sauce for the goose, as they say.
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Nationals of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Angola, Senegal, Cameroon, and several other African countries, stuck in southern Mexico after the government clamped down on northward migration in response to US pressure, are protesting for the right to continue their journey. They are demanding travel documents and government support, so that they can enter the US. On Tuesday, their demonstrations turned violent.
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