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🇺🇸 **Starbucks manager who made call resulting in black men's arrests no longer works for company**
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The manager who called police on two black men who had refused to leave a Philadelphia Starbucks no longer works there, a company spokeswoman confirmed to ABC News today.
The news follows Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson’s comments this morning that he will order managers of the coffee giant's stores to undergo training on how to spot "unconscious bias" after witnesses said the men were arrested at a Philadelphia shop for doing nothing but sitting at a table.
Johnson, the chief executive officer, was in Philadelphia this morning, a day after protesters rallied Sunday at a downtown Philadelphia Starbucks, where the two black men, who have yet to be identified, were led out in handcuffs Thursday by police and accused of trespassing.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney slammed Starbucks for the incident, saying it "appears to exemplify what racial discrimination looks like in 2018."
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🇩🇪 **German theatre sparks anger by offering free seats to anyone wearing a Nazi SWASTIKA armband to watch a play titled Mein Kampf**
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German prosecutors on Wednesday cleared a performance of a satirical play named after Adolf Hitler's book 'Mein Kampf' that promises free entry to spectators who wear a swastika. The theatre in the Bavarian lakeside town of Constance says it aims to show how easily people can be corrupted but the approach sparked numerous legal complaints.
Local prosecutors however on Wednesday said the premiere could go ahead on Friday, which marks Hitler's birthday in 1889, as well as the controversial swastika campaign. The theatre says on its website that those who pay for a ticket will be asked to wear a Star of David 'as a sign of solidarity with the victims of Nazi barbarism'.
Under German law, publicly displaying swastikas and other Nazi symbols is illegal, unless it is done as part of an artistic performance covered by constitutional guarantees of free speech. The region's (((German-Israeli Society))) has called for a boycott of the play named after the book which Hitler wrote in prison years before taking power.
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🇨🇦 Toronto restaurateur butchers deer hindquarter in front of animal-rights protesters who were targeting his restaurant.
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Antler Kitchen & Bar is a small restaurant on Dundas Street West. Mr. Hunter, a co-owner, is both a hunter and forager. In addition to a pair of antlers that hang from the kitchen window (the first buck Mr. Hunter killed), the restaurant is decorated with photos of wild leeks and morel mushrooms foraged by Mr. Hunter and his business partner, Jody Shapiro.
One day in December, an employee at Antler picked up the chalk and wrote: “Venison is the new kale.” The sign caught the attention of Marni Ugar, who already had experience organizing animal-rights protests. Ms. Ugar, who runs a dog-walking business, A Bark in the Park, arranged a demonstration for Dec. 7. Over the winter, the protests grew larger and louder, activists chanting with megaphones outside the restaurant.
On Friday, March 23, each time the door opened, a shout of “murderer” reverberated through the restaurant. Mr. Hunter decided he’d had enough. The chef walked to the kitchen and brought back a cutting board, a knife and the hindquarter of a deer. He sanitized the table and then cut up the leg while protesters watched.
Ms. Ugar’s efforts have made a change. Since video of the protest and Mr. Hunter butchering the deer leg was posted online, the restaurant has seen a direct impact. Reservation requests are up.
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🇺🇬 **Uganda's President Wants to Ban Oral Sex, Says the "Mouth is for Eating" **
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has issued what he calls a "public warning" against oral sex. The president claims the practice has been pushed on Ugandans by "outsiders," and argues that the mouth is solely for eating.
"Let me take this opportunity to warn our people publicly about the wrong practices indulged in and promoted by some of the outsiders," he told the press during an address. "One of them is what they call oral sex. The mouth is for eating, not for sex. We know the address of sex, we know where sex is," he continued.
According to the Daily Mail, back in 2014 Museveni stated that performing oral sex could cause people to get worms. "You push the mouth there, you can come back with worms and they enter your stomach because that is a wrong address," he is quoted as saying.
That same year he passed the "Anti-Homosexuality Act," which makes being gay illegal in Uganda, and makes it a criminal offense to not report someone for being gay.
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<:autism:292463076278665236> **Hans Asperger aided and supported Nazi child euthanasia programme, study says **
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The Austrian doctor after whom Asperger syndrome is named was an active participant in the Nazi regime, assisting in the Third Reich’s so called euthanasia programme and supporting the concept of racial hygiene by deeming certain children unworthy to live, according to a study by a medical historian.
Herwig Czech, from Vienna’s Medical University, has made the claim in an academic paper published in the open access journal Molecular Autism, following eight years of research into the paediatrician Hans Asperger.
But by unearthing previously untouched documents from state archives, including Asperger’s personnel files and patient case records, Czech has revealed a scientist who allied himself so closely with the Nazi ideology that he frequently referred children to the Am Spiegelgrund clinic, which was set up as a collecting point for children who failed to conform to the regime’s criteria of “worthy to live”.
Nearly 800 children died at the clinic between 1940 and 1945, many of whom were murdered under the notorious child “euthanasia” scheme.
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🇺🇸 **Immigrant Couple Fatally Tortured, Burned Vietnam Veteran For His Financial Information**
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A terrible and heinous act of violence was perpetrated by an immigrant couple in Hanford, California against a 70-year-old Vietnam War veteran. The couple violently tortured veteran Kenneth Coyle for his financial information before killing him and burning his body in front of their children.
"They restrained him on a bed and beat him to get access to his bank account information, passwords, and other account information," Anderson said. After he was tortured, Coyle died of "blunt force trauma and suffocation." A few days after his death, the Mendozas drove Coyle's body to nearby Madera County and burned him in front of their children. "We know the children were taken to where the body was burned and watched the body burn," Anderson said.
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🇺🇸 **Florida Politician Arrested For Pimping Out Strippers**
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A 30-year-old stripper claims she was a "sex slave" for Hernando County Commissioner Nick Nicholson for months. Valerie Surette called herself a 30-year-old stripper with an on-and-off drug problem and she is one of two women named in charging documents when Nicholson was arrested for prostitution charges Thursday.
According to the woman, the 71-year-old Nicholson preyed on her "vulnerability" and did the same to other women like her. Surette says she would have sex with Nicholson in exchange for a place to live, cash for groceries, drugs, and rehab. "I had originally agreed to the arrangement," she explained. "I did work at a strip club, but that’s different. Here, I was a sex slave. … Whatever he wanted, I had to do."
Sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Kraft says the women are not being charged at this time. This latest incident with the strippers is not the only time Nicholson has been investigated. In 2012, he was investigated for a relationship with another stripper but no charges were brought by the state. Neighbors say they watched as day after day cars and even limousines would stop in front of the house to drop off women and men.
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A family in Colorado is outraged after two men, who were accused of gang-raping a 13-year-old girl with their brothers and cousins, were only sentenced to probation.
Tommy Williams, 20, and Clarence Williams, 19, were each sentenced on Tuesday to a minimum of 10 years of sex offender intensive supervised probation, with a maximum of life on probation, KKTV reported.
The men are two of six suspects accused of sexually assaulting the young teen in December 2016 inside of the Stonebrook Terrace apartment complex in Colorado Springs.
The victim's grandfather was shocked at the sentencing, telling the news station: "There was six of them and they gang-raped my granddaughter."
The group of suspects — some of whom are reportedly related as cousins or brothers and identified as Jacolby Williams, Tyron Williams, James Williams, and a juvenile, in addition to Tommy and Clarence — were with the girl on Dec. 19, according to The Gazette.
🇺🇸 **Fresno State’s Randa Jarrar Believes Leftist Activists Should Be Using Violence**
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According to a video from 2016, embattled Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar laments the fact that progressives no longer utilize terrorist acts like hijacking planes. In a video surfacing from 2016, Jarrar lamented the state of progressive activism before speaking fondly of Palestinian plane hijackers.
“I’m tired of being the bigger person. I’m tired of the left being fucking stupid and being like ‘we have to be gentle.’ No, don’t be fucking gentle,” Jarrar said.
“You look at resistance fighters in the 60s and 70s, they didn’t kill anyone, but they scared the shit out of people. They would hijack a plane and be like ‘we aren’t going to hurt anyone on this plane, but we are going to fucking hijack this plane,” Jarrar continued.
“The guy who walked between the twin towers is amazing. The only reason he’s important is because the [twin towers] aren’t there anymore,” Jarrar added.
“I’m tired of being nice. I’m tired of seeing my white friends on the left writing postcards,” she finished. “Fuck your postcards. That’s enough. Fucking get out there and do some shit.”
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✈ **Crazy Delta Passenger Assaults Air Marshall, Throws Coffee On Fliers**
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A passenger aboard a Delta Airlines flight has been arrested after disrupting a flight from London to Salt Lake City. The unruly flier assaulted a U.S. Air Marshal and threw coffee on other passengers as she raced up and down the aisle. 45-year-old Sarah Maria Beach was arrested Thursday for misdemeanor assault of a federal air marshal.
Federal prosecutors say Beach toppled a drink cart when she raced up and down the aisle and threw coffee all over passengers. Beach was handcuffed after she "jumped on the back of" the air marshal and "placed her hands on his head, neck, and jawline." She was then seated next to the air marshal after she "caused a disruption on the flight" by throwing coffee on other passengers, overturning a drink cart, and belligerently running back and forth down the center aisle of the plane "repeatedly", according to charging documents.
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🇺🇸 **Newnan, Georgia: Antifa Rioters Arrested for Refusing to Remove Masks**
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The town of Newnan, Georgia is now bracing for premeditated attacks against Trump supporters by a band of radicalized alt-left extremists - who claim they're targeting “Nazis” - but now have the town on high alert fearing a dramatic wave of violence.
The majority of the arrests occurring are of those refusing to remove their masks under State Law.
Police are concerned after the violence that has been seen on nationwide television as per “Antifa” thugs attacking Trump supporters, in the cities of Berkeley, California and the infamous event that led to a fatality in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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🇺🇸 **Texas emergency operator jailed for 911 call hang ups**
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A former 911 operator in Houston, Texas has been found guilty of hanging up on emergency calls.
Crenshanda Williams, 44, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months of probation for interfering with emergency telephone calls.
The Harris County district attorney's office said Ms Williams systematically hung up on emergency reports.
Calls she terminated included reports of robberies, speeding vehicles, and murders, records showed.
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🇺🇸 **GQ magazine puts Bible on list of classic books not worth reading**
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GQ magazine, a bible of “grooming” tips, gadget suggestions and style advice, has sparked a social media conflagration by calling the Christian Holy Bible “foolish, repetitive and contradictory” and placing it on a list of “21 Books You Don’t Have to Read.”
“The Holy Bible is rated very highly by all the people who supposedly live by it but who in actuality have not read it,” novelist Jesse Ball writes in the magazine. “Those who have read it know there are some good parts, but overall it is certainly not the finest thing that man has ever produced.”
Instead, Ball recommends reading Agota Kristof's The Notebook calling it “a marvelous tale of two brothers who have to get along when things get rough.” Also on the GQ list are such classics as The Catcher in the Rye, Lonesome Dove, The Old Man and the Sea, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Lord of the Rings.
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🇨🇦 **Van strikes pedestrians in Toronto, killing 9 and injuring 16**
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A van struck and killed nine pedestrians Monday afternoon in north Toronto and the driver fled the scene, Canadian police said. Sixteen others were injured in the incident. Authorities said the van has been found and the driver was in custody. Police said they did not yet know the cause or any possible motive.
CBS News sources identified the suspect as **Alek Minassian**, 25, and obtained a photo of him from social media Monday evening. U.S. law enforcement sources told CBS News that the incident appears to be a deliberate act. Witnesses said the driver was moving fast and appeared to be acting deliberately.
Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale said that it was too soon to say whether the crash was a case of international terrorism and that the government had not raised its terrorism alert.
The incident occurred as Cabinet ministers from the major industrial countries were gathered in Canada to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June. The driver was heading south on busy Yonge Street around 1:30 p.m. and the streets were crowded with people enjoying an unseasonably warm day when the van jumped onto the sidewalk.
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👶 **Penn State Forbids Outing Club from Going Outside Because It’s Too Dangerous**
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In the past, members of the Outing Club would participate in activities such as hiking, canoeing, kayaking, and camping, however, the university’s offices of Student Affairs and Risk Management have since decided that these things are just too treacherous for college students, according to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
An official announcement said the decision was due to “an assessment of risk management by the university that determined that the types of activities in which PSOC engages are above the university’s threshold of acceptable risk for recognized student organizations.”
Banning outdoor activities for this club is treating these adult students like children, which may have a lot of harmful effects on their lives in the future. For one thing, this means that future students are going to miss out on what could have been an opportunity to gain an interest in outdoor activities, activities that are good for both the body and the mind.
For another thing, it may mean that these young adults will get used to being viewed as children. It may mean that, when they exit the university, they’ll expect very little to be expected of them. They’ll be used to being expected to be so helpless that they couldn’t possibly survive for a few hours in an area without a cellphone; they won’t feel that they’re expected to be autonomous. It’s obviously important to keep students safe at school, but infantilizing them isn’t going to help them in the long run — it’s just going to keep them from growing up.
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<:pepesad:281042039104077824> **School House Rock writer and performer dead at 94**
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Bob Dorough, a musician who wrote songs like "Conjunction Junction" and performed for "Schoolhouse Rock," has died. The artist's songs helped educate children on the long-running ABC cartoon series.
His son, Chris, says the 94-year-old Dorough died of natural causes Monday at his home in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania.
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🇺🇸 **Federal judge: Trump administration must accept new DACA applications**
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A D.C. federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama-era program and — for the first time since announcing it would end — reopen it to new applicants.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates on Tuesday called the government’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program “virtually unexplained” and therefore “unlawful.” However, he stayed his ruling for 90 days to give the Department of Homeland Security a chance to provide more solid reasoning for ending the program.
Bates is the third judge to rule against Trump administration attempts to rescind DACA, which provides two-year, renewable work permits and deportation protections for about 690,000 “dreamers,” undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children.
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<:pepesmug:281041251749462016> **Ex-Cop Arrested in Golden State Killer Case: ‘We Found the Needle in the Haystack’**
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The authorities confirmed on Wednesday that they had made an arrest in the unsolved case of a serial killer and rapist who terrorized communities in California in the 1970s and 1980s.
Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested on a warrant from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and booked early Wednesday on two counts of murder, according to Sacramento County jail records. A person familiar with the matter confirmed that Mr. DeAngelo had been arrested in connection with the case.
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<:whatthefucknigger:411341483564859392> **Pig brains are kept alive OUTSIDE their bodies for the first time in a radical experiment that could allow humans to become immortal**
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Pig brains have been kept alive outside their bodies for the first time as part of a controversial new experiment.
The brains of hundreds of pigs survived for up to 36 hours after the animals had been decapitated, researchers revealed.
The radical experiments could pave the way for brain transplants and may one day allow humans to become immortal by hooking up our minds to artificial systems after our natural bodies have perished.
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🇮🇷 **Iran's Khamenei urges Muslim nations to unite against U.S**
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Iran's supreme leader called on Muslim nations to unite against the United States, saying Tehran would never yield to "bullying," state television reported on Thursday.
"The Iranian nation has successfully resisted bullying attempts by America and other arrogant powers and we will continue to resist... All Muslim nations should stand united against America and other enemies," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.
Iran's top authority criticized Trump for saying on Tuesday some countries in the Middle East "wouldn't last a week" without U.S. protection.
"Such remarks are humiliation for Muslims ... Unfortunately there is war in our region between Muslim countries. The backward governments of some Muslim countries are fighting with other countries," Khamenei said.
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🇰🇷 **The absolute fatman just crossed the DMZ**
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🇺🇸 **Mattis On Russian Mercenaries In Syria: I Ordered Them 'To Be Annihilated'**
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On Thursday, Secretary of Defense James Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he ordered Russian mercenaries in Syria to be annihilated once he found out that they were not part of the Russian military.
Mattis revealed that the military used a deconfliction line with Russia to make sure that forces with which they were engaged in conflict were not part of the Russian military. Once the military received confirmation from Russia, Mattis ordered U.S. military forces to destroy the Russian mercenaries, The Washington Free Beacon reported.
"The Russian high command in Syria assured us it was not their people, and my direction to the chairman was for the force, then, to be annihilated," Mattis said. "And it was."
Mattis added that at this point he couldn't attribute responsibility for who was behind the Russian mercenaries to the Russian government, noting that there are multiple forces involved in the operations in Syria.
"I cannot target the responsibility to the Russians right now," he said. "It is a crowded battlefield; it’s also got Iranians there and, of course, the regime forces as well."
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🇺🇸 **Bill Cosby found guilty of drugging and molesting a woman**
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US comedian Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman. A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the Cosby Show star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault. The guilty verdict came less than a year after another jury was deadlocked on the charges.
Cosby, 80, was charged with assaulting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. His lawyer called Ms Constand a "con artist" who levelled false accusations against Cosby so she could sue him. Cosby could get up to 10 years in prison on each of the counts.
Dozens of women have come forward in recent years to say he drugged and assaulted them. Five of the other accusers testified against him at the retrial.
The panel of seven men and five women reached a verdict after deliberating for 14 hours over two days, vindicating prosecutors' decision to retry the 80-year-old after his first trial ended with a hung jury less than a year ago.
Ms Constand, 45, a former Temple women's basketball administrator, told jurors that Cosby knocked her out with three blue pills he called "your friends" before attacking her. It was the only criminal case to arise from a barrage of allegations from more than 60 women who said the former TV star drugged and molested them over a span of five decades.
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🇰🇵 **New era, no more war: Two Koreas agree on complete denuclearization** 🇰🇷
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A new era of peace is beginning, according to a declaration signed by the leaders of North and South Korea after their first meeting in over a decade. Both nations are aiming to completely denuclearize the Korean peninsula.
*"South and North Korea affirmed their shared objective of achieving a nuclear-free Korean peninsula through complete denuclearization,"* reads the declaration signed by the leaders of the two countries, as cited by Yonhap. *“There will be no more war on the Korean peninsula, and a new age of peace has opened,"* the document adds.
The two sides also agreed to hold multi-party talks, involving the US and China, in their push for a full-scale truce. Pyongyang and Seoul are also to have high-level military talks in May.
In an ambitious statement after the signing ceremony, Kim said he hopes that the two Koreas will reunite. The states separated after the WWII and have remained hostile since the Korean War ended with an armistice, rather than a peace treaty, in 1953.
*“Terminating the current state of the truce and establishing a firm peace regime is a historic task that [the two Koreas] can no longer delay,"* the leaders pointed out.
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🇺🇸 **‘No collusion’: Redacted US House report on Russia released, officially clears Trump**
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The US House Intelligence Committee has released a redacted declassified version of a report on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which officially clears President Trump of any collusion.
“While the Committee found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government, the investigation did find poor judgment and ill-considered actions by the Trump and Clinton campaigns,” it said.
The 253-page document was produced based on a year-long investigation into the alleged Russian meddling. Representative Mike Conaway said the heavy redactions of the text were made on the insistence of the US intelligence community.
The committee announced key finding of their work in March. They accused Russia of attacking western democracies and using cyberespionage to interfere with the 2016 election, but failed to provide any evidence of a collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow. The lack of a smoking gun disappointed many critics of the US president.
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