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To say many Americans are furious with Tyson Foods right now would be an understatement. When word broke that they are closing a plant in Iowa so they can hire migrants in states with more “refugee-friendly” employment laws, the backlash was swift and may continue for a long time. In short, they’re getting the “Bud Light Treatment” and rightly so. An entire popular beer brand was effectively decimated because they put an image of a transgender man on their cans. Shouldn’t the anger be heightened against a company that is firing 1,200 employees in a town with only 8,000 people?

Full headline: "Gulftainer shipping weapons to Iranian-backed terrorists in Iraq: Former senior official for coalition embassy in Iraq cites Iraq port authority officials’ leak to Iraqi media". (1776 Channel) Gulftainer, the UAE container terminal operator that was recently awarded a 35-year lease at strategically-important Port Canaveral, FL, adjacent to a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine base and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, has allegedly been shipping weapons through the Port of Umm Qasr to two Iranian-backed terrorist militia groups in Iraq, the Badr Brigades and Asaeib Ahl al-Haq (AAH), according to a leak from Iraq General Port Company officials in Basra to...

Companies headed by onetime Democratic mega-donor James Levin are under investigation by school officials for allegedly pocketing more than $1 million of $2.7 million in school fencing contracts, money intended for minority- and women-owned businesses, school officials said Thursday. Because of the alleged scheme, officials said they are moving to bar Levin, his parents and nine others--including representatives of four minority- or women-owned businesses--from doing business with the Chicago Public Schools for three years, the maximum possible penalty. Levin was notified of the allegations this week, and hearings were being scheduled for all 12 parties, officials said. Board of Education...