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More American restaurants are going strictly cashless

Zlati Meyer
USA Today
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 15:21 UTC
Credit card
© Philippe Wojazer / Reuters
If you're craving the Serrano Grilled Shrimp Bowl at the Tender Greens salad chain, don't bother bringing cash.

Tender Greens, with 28 restaurants on the East and West coasts, is one of a growing number of eateries that are either shunning cash and only accepting credit and debit cards and contactless payment systems, like Apple Pay, or experimenting with the strategy.

While no one has kept a running count of restaurants adopting the cashless policy, interest is clearly rising. A 2016 Federal Reserve study found the number of non-cash payments - including credit and debit cards - totaled 144 billion in 2015, having grown 5.3% annually between 2012 and 2015

Sweetgreen, another salad chain on the coasts and part of the Midwest, and some independent restaurants have adopted the same policy. Two national chains are exploring it.
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Light Saber

Pang of conscience: MSNBC host Chris Hayes tells truth about Gaza protests (VIDEO)

Jimmy Dore
Information Clearinghouse
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Jimmy Dore show
"Israeli troops shot more than 750 Palestinians, killing at least 15"


Comment: How horrible that broadcasts like this one from MSNBC have to be pointed out as good or exceptional - when objective coverage of State-sponsored atrocities should be the rule among journos. But propagating wholesale lies is just how corporate mainstream media rolls now, and and an all-too-large percentage of the population still swallows the poison.

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Pirates

Saudi Arabia to send evacuated Syrian militants to Yemen


Sputnik
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:39 UTC
Syria militants
© AFP 2018 / ZEIN AL-RIFAI / ALEPPO MEDIA CENTRE
The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that a total of 170,152 people, including 63,117 militants and their relatives, had been evacuated from the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta during a large-scale humanitarian operation in the area.

500 Jaysh al-Islam militants who were earlier evacuated from Eastern Ghouta, plan to go to Yemen, according to the pan-Arabic satellite television channel Al Mayadeen.

It cited its own source as saying that the terrorists first intend to illegally arrive in Saudi Arabia, from where they will try to enter Yemen.
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People

Amazon employees pee into bottles out of fear of being punished for taking bathroom breaks


RT
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:00 UTC
Amazon
© Kacper Pempel / Reuters
Amazon may be owned by the world's richest man, but some employees at the company pee into bottles to avoid missing their targets by going to the toilet, says an author who went undercover at the firm's UK warehouse.

According to James Bloodworth, who applied for a job at Amazon's warehouses in Staffordshire to complete his book on low wages in the UK, the workers "picking" products for delivery do not go to toilet, as it is too far away.

"For those of us who worked on the top floor, the closest toilets were down four flights of stairs. People just peed in bottles because they lived in fear of being disciplined over 'idle time' and losing their jobs just because they needed the loo,"Bloodworth said, as quoted by the Sun.

The e-commerce giant traditionally boasts of having its pick-and-package services done exceptionally fast. To stay in line with declared objectives, Amazon imposes strictly timed breaks and targets for its fulfilment center staff. The company reportedly issues warning points for those who don't meet their goals or take prolonged breaks.
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Light Saber

Not in my name: List of emergency No War with Syria protests in the US


Anti-Media
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 14:14 UTC
antiwar protest Syria
Below is a list of local emergency actions compiled by Women's March on the Pentagon in response to US military aggression on Syria. If you are planning or attending an action that is not listed below, please email us to submit your event. US wars of aggression must end now! Click on the location to find the Facebook event pages for each action.

Comment: Did Trump just make a big mistake by finally unifying the American people against him on the one issue we are all in agreement?

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Pirates

Jihadist expert warns Europe to stop accepting refugees, mass-immigration leading to civil war


Voice of Europe
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:06 UTC
Soldiers near Paris
© Frederic Legrand - COMEO / Shutterstock.com
Palestinian-Belgian jihad expert Montasser AlDe'emeh has issued a serious warning to Europe. In Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, he states that Europe is essentially importing a civil war by admitting refugees.

AlDe'emeh believes that Europe's politicians are naïve when it comes to mass-immigration, Islam and failed integration. He advises halting the influx of refugees, stating that Western Europe is "importing a civil war", adding that "we first have to know what we need to do with the people who are already here".

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Book

Teacher for 17 years couldn't read or write

John Corcoran
BBC
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 00:01 UTC
John Corcoran
© ALAMY
John Corcoran grew up in New Mexico in the US during the 1940s and 50s. One of six siblings, he graduated from high school, went on to university, and became a teacher in the 1960s - a job he held for 17 years. But, as he explains here, he hid an extraordinary secret.

When I was a child I was told by my parents that I was a winner, and for the first six years of my life I believed what my parents had told me.

I was late in talking, but I went off to school with high hopes of learning to read like my sisters, and for the first year things were fine because there weren't many demands on us other than standing in the right line, sitting down, keeping our mouths shut and going to the bathroom on time.

Comment: The fact that children can make it through school, and sometimes college, without knowing how to read is truly a shocking fact. But apparently one can even hold down a successful teaching career without being functionally literate. While the above story is tragic, and inspiring, one has to ask - how the heck does this happen? If those teaching our children don't even know the fundamental basics of learning, what does that say about what's being taught? The future looks bleak indeed.

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Snakes in Suits

Brennan goes off the rails again, lashes out at Trump in Twitter screed

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:50 UTC
Brennan
© The Counter Jihad ReportFormer CIA director John Brennan
In response to a tweet by Donald Trump calling James Comey a "proven LEAKER & LIAR," who "leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted," former Obama CIA director John Brennan fired back - writing that Trump's "kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey."

A kakistocracy is a form of government in which the least qualified person is in power. Brennan could have simply used an Idiocracy reference like a normal person, but then we wouldn't know how smart he is.
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Star of David

Global outrage mounts over Israeli murder of Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:50 UTC
Yaser Murtaja Palestinian journalist
© Ain mediaImage of Yaser Murtaja posted by the media group he co-founded, Ain media of Gaza.
The killing by an Israeli sniper of Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja last Friday at the Gaza fence, even as Murtaja wore a PRESS flak jacket, is drawing international outrage. Not as much outrage as it should draw, to be sure. But it is mounting, and Israel is on the defensive in countless venues.

The New York Times has editorialized sternly about Murtaja's killing, the General Federation of Arab Journalists wants the case prosecuted at the International Criminal Court, and the AFP is reporting that Murtaja was detained and beaten by Hamas just three years ago, in a thorough rebuke to the Israeli government's claim that Murtaja was a Hamas officer.

The Federation of Arab Journalists will ask "the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israel and demand the Palestinian Authority institute a lawsuit at the court" for the shootings of six journalists last Friday, according to a statement from the group. Following "an extraordinary meeting at its Cairo headquarters," the Arab journalists blasted the world's complacence about the attacks.
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Coffee

Starbucks apologizes for calling police on two black men for not ordering anything, men were cuffed and arrested


RT
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:58 UTC
Starbucks logo
Following accusations of racial profiling, the CEO of Starbucks has promised to personally meet two men arrested at one of the coffee giant's stores for a "face-to-face apology."

Kevin Johnson, who has been in the top job a year, apologized on Sunday after two men were reportedly escorted from a Starbucks café by police in Philadelphia. According to eyewitness Melissa DePino, who filmed the incident at the Spruce Street store last week, Starbucks staff called police on two black men waiting at a table for a friend without ordering.

"The police were called because these men hadn't ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing," she posted online. "All the other white people are wondering why it's never happened to us when we do the same thing."

Comment: Wow, this is bad. While the cops fall back to "we were just doing our job," they really shouldn't have been called in the first place. This is going to be a PR nightmare for Starbucks.

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