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on March 17, 2015 in World News

Starbucks to encourage baristas to discuss race relations with customers

Starbucks to encourage baristas to discuss race relations with customers CEO Howard Schultz is encouraging his employees to bring up the hot-button issue — his latest foray into controversial topics. Starbucks SBUX 0.20% CEO Howard Schultz has never shied away from involving his company in controversial debates, whether those debates are about same-sex marriage, or gun control, or U.S. government gridlock. But the executive, who oversees a coffee empire with 4,700 U.S. stores, has now taken on arguably the most polarizing political debate in the United States: race relations. Starbucks published a full page ad in the New York Times… View Article

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on March 17, 2015 in World News

Cows Are Deadlier Than You Ever Knew

Cows Are Deadlier Than You Ever Knew In the United States, the CDC estimates that about twenty-two people are killed by cows each year, and of those cow attacks, seventy-five percent were known to be deliberate attacks. One third of the killings were committed by cows that had previously displayed aggressive behavior. People know that bulls are dangerous, and it’s true. When animal behaviorists analyzed 21 cases that occurred across a four-state area, they found that bulls were responsible for ten of the deaths. Cows were responsible for six deaths. What’s really chilling is that, in five cases, people were… View Article

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on March 17, 2015 in World News

Major American Allies Ignore U.S. Pleas and Join China’s Alternative Bank

Major American Allies Ignore U.S. Pleas and Join China’s Alternative Bank UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and India All Sign On … South Korea Next? Update: The Financial Times now reports that France, Germany and Italy have all agreed to join the China-led international development bank as well, “delivering a blow to US efforts to keep leading western countries out of the new institution.” This week, 2 major U.S. allies – 2 of the “Five Eyes” – have disregarded American pleas and joined China’s new development bank … alternative to the US-dominated IMF and World Bank lending order. (A third… View Article

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on March 17, 2015 in World News

Florida Campus Carry Bill Passes Subcommittee

Florida Campus Carry Bill Passes Subcommittee On March 16, the Florida Senate Higher Education Subcommittee passed SB 176, campus carry legislation, by a vote of 6-3. SB 176 is supported by the NRA but opposed by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in American, Everytown for Gun Safety, and other gun control groups. According to The News-Press, the NRA and pro-Second Amendment senators support the measure because it will allow women to carry guns with which to fight off sexual predators. For example, Senator Lizbeth Benacquisto (R-Fort Myers) said she worries about “the safety of sexual assault victims.” She is… View Article

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on March 17, 2015 in World News

Dems Pick Up Where ATF Backed Down, Introduce Handgun Ammo Ban

Dems Pick Up Where ATF Backed Down, Introduce Handgun Ammo Ban After a week of various Democrats expressing their disbelief that the ATF stopped pursuing a ban on the M855 round for AR-15 rifles, Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) is putting forth a broader ban intended to cover all centerfire “armor piercing” ammunition for any “concealable handgun.” The problem faced by the ATF in their failed ban was that their “framework” for determining/defining “armor piercing” was ambiguous. So Israel is pro-actively setting his “framework” in such a way that the threshold for “armor piercing” is both low and non-ambiguous. According to… View Article

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on March 16, 2015 in World News

Former White House Advisor: Obama Was ’Angry’ After Senate Killed Gun Control

Former White House Advisor: Obama Was ’Angry’ After Senate Killed Gun Control Former Senior White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer admits that one of President Obama’s angriest moments in the White House was after the Senate blocked his push for gun control. “I think one of the most angry I’ve seen him was after the Senate failed to pass background checks in 2013,” Pfeiffer explained in an interview with broadcaster Charlie Rose. Pfeiffer admitted that the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting was one of the most “emotional” moments in Obama’s presidency thus far. The Senate’s refusal to act on any form of… View Article

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on March 16, 2015 in World News

Chicago’s Weekend Violence Tally: 22 Shot, 3 Dead

Chicago’s Weekend Violence Tally: 22 Shot, 3 Dead The warm weather has now firmly taken hold of the Windy City, bringing residents to parks and the lakefront, but along with the welcome warmth some neighborhoods have also seen a rise in violence. Since Friday 22 residents have been shot and three killed in Chicago. On Friday Chicago saw temperatures in the mid 50s, but the city also saw five shootings. One of those shot on Saturday was a 14-year-old boy. The boy was shot in the Woodlawn neighborhood. Police say he is a known gang member. The shootings continued apace… View Article

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on March 16, 2015 in World News

Black Teen Attacks White girl and 5 year Old – Wheres the outrage?

Black Teen Attacks White girl and 5 year Old – Wheres the outrage? A teenage brute delivered a savage beatdown while bystanders recorded the whole ugly episode and wasted little time posting the footage online, where it spread like a plague. The disturbing video of the vile incident in Indianapolis, which surfaced early Sunday on LiveLeaks.com, was eerily reminiscent of the beatdown caught on camera last week in a Brooklyn McDonald’s. “What did I do? What did I do!” the victim screams and cries as her attacker punches and throws her to the ground in the disturbing two-minute clip, viewed… View Article

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on March 16, 2015 in World News

Suspicious Fires Twice Destroy Key Al Sharpton Records!

Suspicious Fires Twice Destroy Key Al Sharpton Records! As Al Sharpton ran for mayor of New York City in 1997 and for president in 2003, fires at his offices reportedly destroyed critical financial records, and he subsequently failed to comply with tax and campaign filing requirements. The first fire began in the early hours of April 10, 1997, in a hair-and-nail salon one floor below Sharpton’s campaign headquarters at 70 West 125th Street. From the start, investigators deemed the fire “suspicious” because of “a heavy volume of fire on arrival” and because many of the doors remained unlocked after hours,… View Article

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on March 16, 2015 in World News

High School Student Tased And Charged With Felony For Being “Disruptive”

High School Student Tased And Charged With Felony For Being “Disruptive” Hospitalized child faces assault charges An 8th-grade student.in Virginia was hospitalized after being tased at school by a security officer for the crime of being mischievous. The incident occurred at Powhatan Junior High School on Friday, and the student, 14, now faces felony charges. A CBS report quotes the Sheriff’s Department’s claims that the student was “being disruptive” in the school cafeteria, then also in an assistant principal’s office. The school resource officer claims that the child resisted arrest and then attacked him when the officer tried to cuff… View Article

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