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Burger King finally admits it has been selling burgers with horsemeat

Sean Poulter
Daily Mail
Sun, 31 Jan 2016 20:06 UTC
Burger King
Burger King is currently shipping in tens of thousands of burgers from suppliers in Germany and Italy in order to meet demand at its UK outlets
Burger King has tonight admitted that it has been selling burgers and Whoppers containing horsemeat despite two weeks of denials. The fast food chain, which has more than 500 UK outlets, had earlier given a series of 'absolute assurances' that its products were not involved. However, new tests have revealed these guarantees were incorrect in a revelation that threatens to destroy the trust of customers.

It also raises serious questions about whether the food company, which sells around one million burgers a week in the UK, has any good idea about what goes into its products.

The contaminated burgers were made by the Irish-based processing company, Silvercrest, which is part the ABP Foods Group. The same company also made tainted burgers for Tesco, Asda and the Co-op, among others.

Burger King has faced allegations of orchestrating a cover-up of its links to the horsemeat scandal in order to give it time to find an alternative supplier. It is currently shipping in tens of thousands of burgers from suppliers in Germany and Italy in order to meet demand at its UK outlets.
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Best of the Web: People power: Greek footballers stage sit-in protest over EU and Turkish 'brutal indifference' to refugee deaths


RT
Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:29 UTC
greek footballers protest refugee crisis
© Osman Fantastic / YouTube
In a touching tribute to thousands of refugees who lost their lives crossing the Mediterranean from Turkey into the EU, two Greek football teams orchestrated a sit-in at the start of the match to protest against the policies of "brutal indifference."

All 22 players on the pitch sat calmly on the grass, refusing to play in honor of those who perished crossing the sea from Turkey into Greece, after the referee blew the whistle to start the football match between AEL Larissa and Acharnaikos on Friday. Coaches and medical staff of the two teams, who play in the second-tier Greek league, as well as the match officials, also sat on the ground to the applause of the fans.

An announcement over the stadium loud speakers said that the gesture was "in memory of the hundreds of children who continue to lose their lives every day in the Aegean due to the brutal indifference of the EU and Turkey."


The two minute silence was an effort to "drive the authorities to mobilize all those who seem to have been desensitized to the heinous crimes that are being perpetrated in the Aegean," Friday's announcement added.

Comment: Ms. Schinas' comment is particularly rich, considering that the terrible state of the Greek economy is due to EU policy. Greece, itself reduced to abject poverty, has nevertheless welcomed those fleeing the Western-backed terrorists with what little it has. Schinas should be ashamed of herself, but she probably can't be. Her mindset is typical of those in power:

Greek Migration Minister: Belgium told us "Push migrants back to sea, we don't care if they drown"

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Head of German Leipzig police: Pogrom atmosphere spreading with intensity across country


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:22 UTC
european migrants
© Michaela Rehle / ReutersMigrants wait after they arrived in the first registration camp of Erding near Munich, Germany.
At least five reported attacks on asylum seekers' homes in Saxony, eastern Germany, over the weekend has prompted the head of local police to voice fears of a "pogrom atmosphere spreading with dangerous intensity" across the country.

"I am really very worried," Leipzig police commissioner Bernd Merbitz told the Leipziger Volkszeitung daily. "We are moving toward a situation in which violent mood-makers intentionally use people's fear to whip up hysteria against asylum policy and to justify violence against refugees," he added.

Two of the affected homes are located in Leipzig, Saxony's largest city, with another in Chemnitz, in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains.

One of the incidents reportedly took place in Holzhausen, in south-east Leipzig. An unknown person broke into a building housing asylum seekers and attempted to ignite flammable liquid, the investigators reported. The fire was extinguished before it spread across the building.
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Stock Up

Tuning out: Legal marijuana industry blooms across US as sales grow 184%


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:04 UTC
marijuana dispensary
© David McNew / Reuters
The legal pot trade is reportedly one of the fastest growing markets in the US as sales of marijuana for casual use grew 184 percent in 2015 alone. Overall, cannabis commerce across the country soared to $5.4 billion, according to a new study.

"You won't find another industry growing at that kind of clip," said Troy Dayton, chief executive of the ArcView Group, which issued its fourth edition of the State of Legal Marijuana Markets.

According to the group's market estimate, both medical and adult consumer sales grew from $4.6 billion in 2014 to $5.4 last year, marking 17 percent increase year over year. Adult use sales grew to $998 million from $351 million in 2014, representing 184 percent growth.

Part of the reason for such growth lies in expanding pot legalization. In July 2015, Oregon allowed legal pot sales, joining Colorado and Washington, where cannabis commerce has been legal since 2014.
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2 + 2 = 4

Darlington head teacher tells parents to 'wash and get dressed'

Annie Holmquist
Intellectual Takeout
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:01 UTC
A primary school head teacher has written to parents asking them to wash in the morning and stop dropping their children off in their pyjamas.

Child in slippers
© PAParents are also being urged to dress appropriately for school meetings and assemblies.
Kate Chisholm, of Skerne Park Academy, Darlington, made the appeal after she noticed more and more adults wearing pyjamas at the school gates as well as at meetings and assemblies.

She said her aim was to help set a good example for pupils.

Parent Phil Naylor said wearing nightwear to school was "disgraceful".

Ms Chisholm said the final straw came when parents wore pyjamas to the Christmas show and to recent parents' evenings.
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Red Flag

Sexualized children: School superintendent proposes giving middle school students condoms without parents' permission


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:57 UTC
condoms
© David Gray / Reuters
A proposal introduced by San Francisco Superintendent Richard Carranza would allow public school nurses and social workers to give condoms to middle school students without parents' permission.

As it currently stands, condoms have been distributed in city high schools since 1991, with a 1996 amendment allowing parents to opt their children out of the program, according to KTXL. However, the new proposal would prevent parents from having their children excluded, as well as expand the program to reach pre-teens.

SF Gate reports that according to a student survey, at least 5 percent of the students in sixth until eighth grade had had sexual intercourse, while more than 25 percent of high school students had had sex.

Comment: In today's Western world, children are surrounded by sexual imagery, from television to movies to the Internet. It seems almost intentional that our society is introducing sex to children at younger and younger ages. Does anyone think that a 12-year-old should have access to a condom? Something is seriously wrong with our society.

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Coventry, UK: Cops break into homes to highlight burglary risk

Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
The Independent
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:33 UTC
UK cop
Coventry police have come under fire on Twitter for an unconventional social media campaign in which patrolling officers tweeted pictures of themselves inside homes that had been left unlocked.

The force's #stoleninseconds campaign has seen Coventry police officers patrolling streets searching for open windows and unlocked doors to highlight the risk of burglary to residents.

Two photos, which have since been taken down, show a police officer standing inside a person's hallway, while another shows an officer entering a home through a side or back door. Other photos, which are still on the force's Twitter feed, show them standing by unlocked gates to communal areas and pointing out easily accessible open windows.

Comment: It seems the Coventry cops are taking a page from the playbook of their American counterparts.

It's for your own good: New Haven cops steal residents' belongings to protect them from being stolen

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Queues from hell! Over 100,000 stranded outside China's Guangzhou station, delays caused from heavy snow


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:13 UTC
China Guangzhou station
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Guangzhou railway station in southern China has been swamped by over 100,000 people desperate to get home to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Heavy snow in northern and central provinces caused delays to dozens of trains, leaving passengers stranded.

People had a nightmare start to the Lunar New festival, which gets underway later in February. They were unable to board trains because of inclement weather, leading to massive queues developing outside Guangzhou railway station.

Some people were standing for more than 10 hours in the pouring rain, as 32 trains were delayed.

Comment: See also: Snow causes chaos in China as millions head home for Lunar New Year

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Bandaid

Spate of random slashings in New York City sows fear

Colleen Long and Verena Dobnik
The Fresno Bee
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:58 UTC
Tony-Award winning playwright David Henry
© AP/Jim CooperIn this 2007 file photo, Tony-Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang is shown at The Public Theater in New York. Wang was a victim of a random attach while carrying groceries to his home in Brooklyn, N.Y

Tony-award winning playwright David Henry Hwang was carrying groceries down a Brooklyn street when he felt like he got hit in the back of the head. He suddenly couldn't walk straight.

"I kept veering into a wall, then a parked car. And that's when I realized I was bleeding," Hwang, the author of "M. Butterfly," said this week.

Hwang had been slashed with a blade by someone who came out of nowhere. The wound was so deep it severed an artery leading to his brain.

He isn't the only victim of such an unusual crime. Since December, about a dozen such random, unprovoked slashings have been reported across the city, including three this week on subway trains. All were committed by strangers, police said. They used knives, razors and, in one instance, possibly a machete.
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Surfing icon Kelly Slater: Vote nobody 2016, Stop Monsanto and Investigate 9-11


Hang the Bankers
Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:07 UTC
Kelly Slater
© Inertia Kelly Slater
Surfing legend Kelly Slater is interviewed by Luke Rudkowski from We Are Change, just days after being in the news for saving a woman and her baby from a huge wave in Hawaii that swept them away.

In this interview the surfing icon opens up about his views on various issues including politics, 9/11, the wars in the middle east, ISIS, Monsanto and GMOs.

Slater is now part of a growing number of celebrities speaking out about import issues facing our time.

Like many people, the 11-time world surfing champion began questioning things after 9/11 and is now someone actively seeking the truth. He stopped watching the mainstream media to follow the alternative media instead, to find out what is going on in the world.

His concerns on topics such as Monsanto and GMOs are close to home for the surfer who lives in Hawaii, a well known testing ground for Monsanto.

Comment: Great interview, it's awesome to see celebrities using their platforms to increase awareness of the issues that matter.

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