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The union representing thousands of Starbucks workers has said it will launch its “largest strike ever” on Thursday amid the coffee chain’s annual Red Cup Day. Starbucks Workers United said in a press release on Monday that it is demanding the company bargain over staffing and scheduling issues and turn off mobile ordering on promotion days like Red Cup Day. The yearly event, during which Starbucks gives away free reusable holiday cups, is the company’s “biggest sales event of the season” and “one of the most infamously hard, understaffed days for the baristas that work them,” according to the union....

The Democrats running Reclaim Idaho and their supporters are pushing a voter initiative which they are deceptively calling the “Open Primary Initiative” and falsely claiming that “Leaders are handpicked by political party committees” and that somehow Idahoans do not have the freedom to vote in all elections. These ridiculous claims are easily disproven with a tiny bit of rational thinking. Initiatives allow the citizens to pass laws directly without going through the legislative process. It starts with submitting the proposed initiative language to the SOS for review. Then the proponents must gather signatures from 6% of the voters in at...

Elon Musk is allowing 'viciously antisemitic' and Islamophobic posts to remain on X following Hamas' brutal attack on Israel despite being reported, a report has found. The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said 98 per cent of hate speech related to the conflict it had flagged to the social media giant still remained up on the site seven days later. The posts, which have been viewed nearly 25 million times, include holocaust denials, claims that 'Hitler saw Jews for what they were', and calling Muslims 'smelly rats'. Imran Ahmed, the non-profit's chief executive, accused tech billionaire Musk of creating...

Tech worker and part-time dog trainer Maddie Guy, 33, couldn’t figure out what was going on with her English Springer Spaniel, Rudder. He was being snippy with other dogs and facing a medical issue so mysterious that every test had been run and a doggy MRI ordered.

And so it begins. In fact, it hardly ever stops – another election cycle in well on its way in the US. But what has emerged these last few years, and what continues to crop up the closer the election day gets, is the role of the most influential social platforms/tech companies.Pressure on them is sometimes public, but mostly not, as the Twitter Files have taught us; and it is with this in mind that various announcements about combating “election disinformation” coming from Big Tech should be viewed.Although, one can never discount the possibility that some – say, Microsoft –...

President Biden is expected to announce a controversial deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at slowing the deadly flood of fentanyl across the United States. The two leaders are tipped to announce a deal as they meet Wednesday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco, one of the cities most blighted by what has become the deadliest drug in the US. “We’re hoping to see some progress on that issue this coming week,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Monday, ahead of the meeting. “That could then open the door to further cooperation on other issues where...

Customers of popular British grocery chain Booths found out this week that the company is scrapping self-checkout lanes, just six years after rolling them out in their 28 tony stores, mostly located in the north of England. The decision goes against a decades-long trend, where human beings are increasingly becoming a rarity at the front of supermarkets and other big box retailers — a shift most industry watchers agree is unstoppable. “We’re not great fans of self-checkouts,” Booths managing director Nigel Murray told U.K. trade publication The Grocer. “We pride ourselves on great customer service and you can’t do that...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, calling on nations around the world to decide where they stand, emphasizing that if "Hamas and Iran's axis of evil" prevail, they will target others next. "It is a time for all of us to decide if we are willing to fight for a future of hope and promise or surrender to tyranny and terror," he wrote.Following Hamas's initial terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 and subsequent taking of Israeli civilians and other foreign nationals as hostages, President Joe Biden has reiterated the United States's steadfast...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that she believed the support for former president Donald Trump is all about racism, taxes and retaining power. Behar said, “He threatened on a Veterans Day speech this past weekend, Trump threatened to, ‘Root out the radical left thugs that live like vermin with in the confines of our country.’ That is when you start talking about people as vermin. That means that you have dehumanized them and the next step is extermination. That is extermination talk.” She continued, “I mean, I’m not going to invoke, but this is what...

House Republicans issued subpoenas to five current and former aides to President Joe Biden about his alleged mishandling of classified documents and his family's foreign business dealings, RadarOnline.com can report. In a sudden development to come weeks after House Republicans launched an impeachment inquiry against Biden in September, five subpoenas were issued by the Judiciary and Oversight committees as part of the ongoing inquiry against the 80-year-old president. According to Daily Mail, the committees are also investigating whether grounds exist to officially draft articles of impeachment against the embattled president. “The Committees are also investigating whether sufficient grounds exist to...

How much failure is enough failure, because Republicans have had a lot of failure lately and we’re looking forward to more failure next year and perhaps we ought to do something to start getting ourselves on the road to the opposite of failure. And the opposite of failure is the opposite of Ronna McDaniel. Doubt me? Here’s the kiss o’ death – Frank “Lumpy” Luntz just said, “Ronna McDaniel is the @GOP’s secret weapon. An amazing speaker and smart strategist.” That seals it. Good-bye Ronna, it’s time to go. Adios. Auf Wiedersehen. Whatever the hell is Chinese for, “Later, dude.”...

It was only a matter of time. Israeli forces have cut the Gaza Strip in two, encircled Gaza City, and placed a chokehold on Hamas. They’re closing in on the reported nerve center of the terror group. Israeli soldiers captured Hamas’ parliament chamber yesterday. So, it’s not all that surprising that Israel has broken Hamas’ grip in Northern Gaza (via Reuters):Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza as thousands of residents have moved south, Israel's military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing on Wednesday. "We saw 50,000 Gazans move from the northern Gaza Strip to the...

One of the most ardent and consistent voices revealing the horrors of Islam has been that of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. For more than two decades, she has warned the world how dangerous the religion in which she grew up is. Ali recalled in a recent column that the 9/11 attacks led her to rethink her Muslim faith."They had done it in the name of my religion, Islam," she wrote, referring to the 9/11 terrorists. "I was a Muslim then, although not a practising one. If I truly condemned their actions, then where did that leave me? The underlying principle that...

In a sane world (yes, that disqualifies ours), the justification of the horrendously bloody Oct. 7 Hamas massacre by numerous Islamic authorities would have been enough to put an end forever to the comforting fiction that Islam is a religion of peace that condemns terrorism. One place, however, where this myth is alive and well, despite the mountain of theological and historical evidence, as well as contemporary news to the contrary is the Vatican. Pope Francis has just released a new book in which he proclaims once again that Islam is benign and cuddly, to be met by Westerners with...

Amsterdam, 14 November 2023 – VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON, Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), a global digital operator that provides converged connectivity and online services, announces that former U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo will join the Board of Directors of VEON’s wholly-owned Ukrainian subsidiary Kyivstar as an independent non-executive director. Secretary Pompeo joins in his capacity as a Partner of Impact Investments, a newly established US-based strategic and financial advisory and investment firm which seeks to develop long-term partnerships with the world’s leading companies across a range of industries and geographies. In addition, VEON Group CEO Kaan Terzioglu has been...

We keep hearing that inflation is down, lower than a year ago or in the right direction or some other explanation like that. It's about what you'd hear from a White House managing a bad message. And then mom goes to the grocery store and comes home shaking her head and looking at the bill. This is when inflation goes from being a news story to a family conversation. This is from Steve Cortes: In fact, the latest survey results from the battleground swing states of America finds that food insecurity is a foremost worry of American citizens. My organization,...

The issue of voter fraud and election integrity dominated much of Trump's presidency, and by its end in 2020, many of his supporters raised concerns about the credibility of the electoral system. Well, voter fraud appears to have metastasized and is now out of control. We saw that in Arizona's gubernatorial race, and we see it all across America.In recent years, concerns about voter fraud have grown significantly, with many individuals asserting that there are systemic issues within the American electoral system.One striking example cited by those raising concerns about voter fraud is the Kentucky gubernatorial election, which looked like...

“Seamus Bruner’s newest investigation—Controligarchs—peers into the future and provides a haunting and revelatory exposé of the leftist elite’s playbook for the next five years,” Schweizer said. Preeminent investigative journalist Seamus Bruner has worked with Peter Schweizer for more than twelve years. As Schweizer’s top researcher for over a decade, he led the teams behind runaway New York Times bestsellers Red-Handed, Profiles in Corruption, and Clinton Cash. These findings sparked multiple FBI investigations and congressional probes into the Clintons and the Bidens. Bruner’s work has been featured on the front pages of every major publication from the New York Post and...

13,834 views Nov 12, 2023 This video talks about the war in Ukraine. Here I review a video from the Icarus Project • How Russian Propaganda ACTUALLY Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rZiD8Z0gHQ

"I think something very bad is happening to the left - it has become very clear that people who consider themselves democrats, liberals, and progressives, support a brand of totalitarian terror that oppresses women and minorities," said chairperson of the Labor party, MK Merav Michaeli, in an interview this week with Politico magazine. "The more left you go, the greater the confusion. Something is very damaged along the way. I don't see how waving the Hamas flag and calling for the murder of Jews is pro-Palestinian." "When I talk to people outside of Israel, it is important for me to...