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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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Hardhat

UK supermarket to introduce 'touch-free' packaging for those "scared of touching raw meat"

Jessica Green
Daily Mail
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:28 UTC
chicken breasts
Sainsbury’s will be bringing in pouches that allows customers to place chicken pieces straight into a frying pan without having to touch them
A supermarket is to introduce touch-free packaging to help millennials who are afraid to handle raw meat.

Sainsbury's will be bringing in pouches that allows customers to place chicken pieces straight into a frying pan without having touch them.

The supermarket chain said the plastic pouches were developed after consumers under the age of 35 said they didn't like to handle uncooked meat.

Sainsbury's will be bringing in pouches that allows customers to place chicken pieces straight into a frying pan without having touch them

Any prospect of having to be in contact with the raw produce left the millennials with high levels of anxiety, the store's survey showed.

Comment: The problem of contamination has little to do with the handling of the food and more to do with the abhorrent conditions and origins involved in factory farming.

As to the fear of touching raw meat, these people are slowly becoming so removed from reality that they're hardly able to function within it anymore. And millennial do appear to be at the forefront of this breakdown, but it certainly is not limited to them. Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Millennial Syndrome: Why they gotta be like that?

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Newspaper

'Growing anger': High turnout at Tokyo protest demanding Prime Minister Abe resign


Sputnik
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:44 UTC
Japan anti Abe protest
© AP Photo/ Koji Sasahara
On Saturday, tens of thousands gathered in front of the National Diet Building in central Tokyo to protest growing scandals surrounding the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

"We hold a sense of crisis that the falsifying and hiding of public documents means nothing less than the destruction of our nation and democracy," said economist Masaru Kaneko to a crowd of some 30,000 people in front of the Diet building.
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Quenelle

Syrian football fans unfurl banner slamming US air strikes - 'F*ck Trump'


Sputnik
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:38 UTC
syrian sports fans f*ck Trump
© YouTube/Syriana Analysis
After US-led coalition members hit Syria with over 100 missiles last Friday, the fans from the Syrian Tishreen Football Club pulled no punches while expressing their attitude toward the US administration's recent actions.

The fans unfolded a banner reading "F**ck Trump" in a message to Washington calling on it to stop killing the Syrian people on the pretext of establishing "peace."

Donald Trump ordered on Friday a massive missile strike against Syrian targets in response to the alleged chemical attack in the city of Douma in the Damascus suburb. Jointly with the United Kingdom and France, the United States had launched 103 missiles, 71 of which were intercepted by Syrian air defense systems. According to the Syrian authorities, which have repeatedly said that they had destroyed their chemical weapons stockpiles, the strikes damaged Syrian infrastructure and left three civilians wounded.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the attack had been conducted illegally.

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Sherlock

Flashback Six reasons not to take the official Litvinenko poisoning report seriously

William Dunkerley
The Guardian
Fri, 05 Feb 2016 21:33 UTC
Litvinenko
© Jim Dyson/Getty ImagesAlexander Litvinenko’s grave in Highgate Cemetery in London.
Inquiry points the finger at Vladimir Putin and the Russian state, but its findings are biased, flawed and inconsistent

An inquiry into the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko in the heart of London in 2006 has concluded that he was "probably" murdered on the personal orders of Vladimir Putin. This is a troubling accusation.

The report (pdf) said that Litvinenko, who died from radioactive poisoning, was killed by two Russian agents, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, who were most likely acting on behalf of the Russian FSB secret service.

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Biohazard

Wait a second, don't WE have chemical weapons too?

Ryan Dawson
Anti-Neocon Report
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 22:12 UTC
chemical weapons usa
"Chemical weapons are bad," spouts warmonger Sebastain Gorka. Yes, yet all the nations that participated in the bombing of Syria the US, UK, France, and Israel each have stockpiles of chemical weapons as well as nuclear weapons. The only one that won't admit to having nukes is Israel. But they were photographed and the whistle blower was jailed. But you see even when Israel undoubtedly built nuclear weapons, and even stole materiel and secrets from the US to do so, everyone is looking away. This way they don't have to sign a non proliferation treaty because they have never admitted to having hundreds of nuclear bombs. Israel has also used chemical weapons. The rained down White Phosphorus or MK77 on practically helpless Gaza during Operation Cast Lead in 2009. They used Depleted Uranium in 1973 and were the first country to do so. The US used both of these weapons in Iraq, particularly in Fallujah.
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Dollar

War is a racket: Syria air strikes instantly add nearly $5 billion to missile-makers' stock value

Jen Wieczner
Fortune
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 21:07 UTC
Tomahawk Missile
© Jpeg WallpapersThe Tomahawk missile used in the strike is made by Raytheon
Raytheon stock surged Friday morning, after 59 of the company's Tomahawk missiles were used to strike Syria in Donald Trump's first major military operation as President.

Trump ordered the airstrike on the Syrian government Thursday night in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier this week that killed as many as 100 people. The U.S. blamed the attack on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.


Comment: Just a pretext. The Douma "chemical weapon attack" was a fake.


The Tomahawk missile used in the strike is made by Raytheon, whose stock opened 2.5% higher Friday, adding more than $1 billion to the defense contractor's market capitalization.

Comment:
smedley butler war racket


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Newspaper

Bush family spokesman: Former first lady Barbara Bush in failing health


Breitbart
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 20:56 UTC
Bush family
© The Associated Press
Former first lady Barbara Bush is in "failing health" and won't seek additional medical treatment, a Bush family spokesman said Sunday.

"Following a recent series of hospitalizations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Mrs. Bush, now age 92, has decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care," spokesman Jim McGrath said in a news release.
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Road Cone

Bloomberg's unhinged fantasy of the US' failed attack on Syria

Toluse Olorunnipa , Jennifer Jacobs , Anthony Capaccio , and Margaret Talev
Bloomberg
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 18:50 UTC
Wreckage at the Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC) compound near Damascus on April 14.
© Louai Beshara/AFP via Getty ImagesWreckage at the Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC) compound near Damascus on April 14.
President Donald Trump's outrage over another apparent chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was clear. And for the second time in his presidency, the U.S. commander-in-chief demanded retaliation.

As images of sick or dying children flooded global media all week, the U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Winston Churchill churned toward the Mediterranean to join a flotilla of allied warships, including another U.S. destroyer, the USS Donald Cook.

It was a ruse.


Comment: The staged chemical weapons attack? Sure was:

While both vessels carry as many as 90 Tomahawk missiles -- the main weapon used in the Friday evening strike on Syria -- neither ship in the end fired a shot. Instead, according to a person familiar with White House war planning, they were part of a plan to distract Russia and its Syrian ally from an assault Assad's government could do little to defend itself against.


Comment: Quite the source you got there Bloomberg!


Comment: Trump, like Bush, will become the embodiment of all that is wrong with America, and the world, if he carries on: About Those 'Nice, New, Smart' Missiles And The 'Chemical Weapons' Sites in Syria

Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: World in Chaos: Anti-Russia Hysteria, Israel Murders Palestinians, US Leaving Syria?

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Stormtrooper

Boy riding ATV killed by cop after being tasered from his patrol car

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 20:08 UTC
Damon Grimes atv
It took nearly nine months and several petitions by the Detroit Free Press until Michigan State Police (MSP) and Detroit Police allowed the body camera and dash camera footage to be released showing the minutes leading up to and the hours following the tasing murder of Damon Grimes by MSP Trooper Mark Bessner. The 16 hours of recordings show the horror, outrage, and insensitive comments made by many officers on the scene. One video even recorded the moment of his death.

As TFTP reported, Bessner attempted to force Grimes to pull his ATV off of the road by shooting his taser at him. The thoughtless plan backfired when Grimes apparently seized and slammed into the back of a parked pickup truck-killing him.

The mid-August killing of the rising 9th grader stunned not only the community but Grimes' family who immediately began calling for justice. They also filed a $50 million lawsuit against the Michigan State Police and demanded an inquiry into the death of their beloved family member.

Now, video has been released showing how this horrific incident unfolded.

Comment: See the video mentioned here.

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