[Chicago Tribune] Chicago's Honey Butter Fried Chicken is among a couple of dozen restaurants across the country to sign onto a new "sanctuary restaurant" movement meant to offer safe workplaces for immigrants, Muslims and other communities they feel are under threat in the current political climate.
The movement is a joint project of ROC United, a national group that advocates for higher wages for restaurant workers, and Presente.org, whose mission is to "advance Latinx power" (Latinx is a gender-neutral alternative to Latino and Latina). Check the above links and 'follow the money.' It's not about employees, it's about cheap labor and market share.
According to a news release Wednesday, sanctuary restaurants do not allow harassment of individuals based on immigrant or refugee status or race, religion, gender or sexual orientation; participate in peer networks to exchange ideas for protecting targeted workers; and agree to place prominent signs that state "SANCTUARY RESTAURANTS: A Place At the Table for Everyone" at their establishments.
ROC United co-founder and co-director Saru Jayaraman said in the news release that restaurant workers "are on the front lines of discrimination and hate in America."
"While the restaurant industry suffers from a labor shortage, anti-immigrant and sexist rhetoric is now commonplace. Sanctuary Restaurants seeks to create the world we want -- establishments free from hate and discrimination, where everyone has a seat at the table," Jayaraman said.
ROC in November had urged signatures for an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump penned by RAISE, its subgroup of supportive employers, asking him to alleviate fear of deportation and harassment of immigrant workers in the restaurant industry.
[Wikipedia] Jayaraman was named a Champion of Change by the Obama administration in 2014, listed in CNN's "Top10 Visionary Women," and was awarded a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in 2015. She was named one of Crain's New York Business "40 Under 40," 1010 Wins' "Newsmaker of the Year," and New York Magazine's "Influentials" of New York City."
After all they wouldn't want to make criminals feel 'threatened' by calling the police or do anything to defend themselves - or their paying customers.
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I hope nobody gets upset with me for noticing the name Honey Butter Fried Chicken sounds like it was concocted to appeal to customers in predominantly black neighborhoods. But how many blacks will be employed by this chain?
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My guess is that they will only hire minorities in black population dominated areas, so by definition, blacks are not minorities, so they are SOL, IMHO.
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Who? Never heard of them.
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[Wash Times] President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he’s asking the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees to investigate how NBC got hold of details from what it says is the top secret dossier on Russian interference in the U.S. election.
He issued the call in a Twitter post just minutes before he himself is scheduled to get a briefing on the information.
On Thursday he said someone was playing "politics" by sharing the top secret information with the television network.
"I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it," Mr. Trump said in his Friday post.
Earlier this week NBC aired a story on the intelligence community’s findings, which were presented first to President Obama and then are being shared later today with Mr. Trump.
[NYPOST] The former owner of a Midtown gay club was strangled to death on the Upper West Side and authorities are now looking to question his masseuse, police sources said.
Savyon Zabar, 54, was discovered unconscious by two roommates in their fourth-floor apartment on West 81st street near Amsterdam Avenue about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The victim, who tips the scale at around 400 pounds, was found face up in his bed, police sources said.
Zabar was declared dead on scene, and police didn’t notice any visible trauma to the victim’s body.
But authorities later determined he sustained deep tissue hemorrhaging consistent with strangulation, police source said.
His death is now considered a homicide, police said.
Zabar owned the Latin gay nightclub Escuelita on West 39th Street, neighbors said. The club shuttered in February after 19 years in operation.
The obese victim frequently received massages, police sources said, without yet indicating whether the masseuse was a suspect.
A neighbor would often see young Latino men shuttling in and out of the victim’s West 81st Street pad.
"He always had an entourage [of] young, handsome Latinos," said Vinny de Angelis, 61, adding that Zabar has lived in the building for about 30 years.
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[DeutscheWelle] The outbreak of avian flu that decimated farmed and wild birds around the world and in Germany in 2016 doesn't show signs of letting up in 2017. But experts disagree on the causes behind the outbreak.
Bird flu is back, and is spreading quickly. But don't worry, the virus isn't targeting humans.
The H5N8 strain of bird flu reached Europe in October 2016, and since then has been detected in at least 14 countries including La Belle France, Denmark and Germany.
In Germany alone, authorities have recorded more than 30 separate incidents of bird flu, leading to the cull of tens of thousands of domesticated chickens, ducks and geese, among others.
In the wild, more than 500 birds are known to have been infected as well.
Wild ducks in Ireland and England, and an outbreak that killed 2,000 ducks in a French farm, are a few of the most recent cases sadly confirming that the outbreak has not ended in 2016 - on the contrary, it continues spreading.
Experts are desperately looking for the origin of the virus - without any official conclusion until now. Some argue that the natural migratory patterns of wild birds are to blame, while others insist industrial livestock farming and international trade are primarily responsible.
European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and national authorities have adopted urgent protective measures for strict "biosecurity" in farms. But despite the efforts, new cases continue appearing daily.
The first known victim of the ongoing outbreak was a wild swan in Hungary, found one week before the first outbreak in a farm.
[WattsUpWithThat] An atmospheric river will take aim with heavy precipitation, high snow levels and soils that are already saturated from recent storms. Precipitation starts Saturday, but the brunt of the storm will be Sunday & Monday. Forecasters say this will exceed stream and river flood levels last seen in 2005. nice graphics at the link
The first site I discovered when I started to wonder about the things I'd until then firmly believed about global warming, many years ago.
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They do excellent troubleshooting. Put them in your RSS feed
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You captured the spirit of the meaning here, Phil. If I give you water, what shall you do with it?
If I give you food or money, what shall you do with it?
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Now that the drought is over it'd be nice if they'd lower the water rates. But I think we all know better. Watch them continue to allow construction of more and more massive housing tracts with big green lawns and sprinklers sprinkling every morning so the next drought is even worse. Then they'll tell us we need to conserve.
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Flooding closely followed by another 'drough
There will always be a drought. To do otherwise would mean giving up control.
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Reasonable conservation practices in California, and the rest of the Southwest are for the most part common sense. No matter if it is redidential, agriculture or industrial. If LA and the rest of SoCal had to live on the water it has naturally the population would be maybe 10% of what it is now. California will continue to be subject to periods of drought until low cost, really low cost desalination can come on line. But that will require energy and the fringe of the environmental movements will do anything to stop the development of the energy sources needed.Be they solar, fission, wind, ocean thermal, fusion (I keep hoping) or fairy dust.
[AA.TR] Gambia’s embattled President Yahya Jammeh has fired the country’s Ambassador to Senegal after the Ambassador urged him to accept defeat and hand over power.
Pa Momodou Njie, a renowned Muslim like Jammeh, is the third ambassador to be recalled and amongst a dozen envoys after they called on the defeated president to allow a peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Adama Barrow.
President Yahya Jammeh last month recalled the country’s envoy to the UN Momodou Tangara and his Ambassador to the U.S. Sheikh Omar Faye for committing similar crimes.
President Jammeh initially accepted defeat and made a “u turn” a week later claiming the polls were rigged even though International Observers termed the polls as credible and transparent.
Efforts by West African leaders to persuade him to exit peacefully failed and ECOWAS, the sub regional monitoring group now says a military intervention has been authorized if he failed to handover on Jan. 19.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A 38-year-old man has been enjugged You have the right to remain silent... for raping an eight-year-old girl in the district’s Palashbari upazila, police say.
The suspect, Md Jahurul Haque Islam, was detained from Srikhandi village in Hossainpur union on Thursday.
Palashbari police’s Officer-in-Charge Mujibur Rahman said the victim went to Jahurul’s grocery shop at the Shishudoho junction of Palashbari-Ghoraghat road in the afternoon.
"He took the child inside the shop promising to give her candies and forced himself on the eight-year-old," Mujibur said.
Police went to the spot and detained Jahurul after locals informed police about the incident.
"The man has confessed to raping the child," the OC said. "The victim has undergone medical examination and there is evidence of sexual assault."
A case was later filed by the victim’s father at the Palashbari cop shoppe.
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Emptying their prisons the hard way
At least 33 inmates were killed by their rivals at a prison in northern Brazil on Friday, days after a riot by warring gangs left dozens more dead at another prison, officials said.
The government of Roraima state said the situation at PAMC (Agricola de Monte Cristo prison) was now “under control.”
[FOX] No documents related to the hacks of the Democratic National Committee emails or Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta’s emails appear to be altered or forged, according to a declassified U.S. intelligence report on alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election released Friday.
While the report accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering a campaign to influence the U.S. election and hurt Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, it found that the material sent to WikiLeaks did not contain "any evident forgeries."
The claim that the emails may have been doctored or forged was raised by DNC Interim Chair Donna Brazile in October, when she was criticized for an email that surfaced in hacked messages from Podesta’s account.
The report also concluded that Moscow chose WikiLeaks to distribute the information "because of its self-proclaimed reputation for authenticity."
While the report does not specifically mention Podesta’s emails, it does say Russian intelligence agencies relayed material to WikiLeaks "from the DNC and senior Democratic officials." Podesta was the most prominent Democratic official to be subject to a cyberattack during the campaign.
[DAWN] MARDAN: A schoolteacher allegedly subjected a grade one student to physical torture in a government primary school in Tikadar village of Mayar here.
Jamil Khan, father of the student aged 6, addressing a news conference at the Mardan Press Club on Friday, said his son remained absent from school on Wednesday. Next day, he alleged, the teacher undressed his son in severe cold and subjected him to corporal punishment for remaining absent from school.
He said his son could not sleep during night owing to pain caused by torture, adding torture marks were visible on the back of his body.
He also said he had taken his son to a doctor for check-up.
Jamil said he was a poor person working in a marble factory and appealed to the provincial education minister Mohammad Atif Khan and other relevant authorities to take stern action against the teacher.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Although a medical board waited several hours in vain for police to produce Taiba for a second medical examination, Pims Vice Chancellor Dr Javed Akram said there was no doubt the child had been tortured.
A board consisting of burns surgeon Dr Tariq Iqbal, plastic surgeon Dr Hameeduddin, general surgeon Dr S.H. Waqar and psychologist Dr Asma, was supposed to examine Taiba on Friday.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... they ended up waiting for hours for police to produce the 10-year-old girl.
Both Farzana Bibi and Kausar Bibi ‐ the two women claiming parentage of Taiba ‐ also came to Pims later in the day, where blood and hair samples were collected from the two women for DNA testing.
Dr Akram said that the child’s parentage would be confirmed in a few days, provided they were able to obtain a blood sample from the child to compare against her purported parents’ DNA.
Explaining his assertion about the treatment meted out to the minor, Dr Akram said that after the examination conducted on her first visit to the hospital, there was no doubt that she had been physically abused. He said that the wounds on her body were not of the same age, adding that they seemed to have been inflicted at different times.
"During her first visit to the hospital, the child claimed she was burnt while trying to switch on the television. But the wounds indicated that a hot iron rod had been placed on her arm," he said.
Initially, police prepared a report stating that the girl had fallen down some stairs and was accidentally injured.
But after the Islamabad High Court took notice of the matter, the girl changed her statement and told a magistrate she had been tortured by the family of the Islamabad additional district and sessions judge.
The judge and his wife were able to obtain bail after a couple claiming to be the child’s parents arrived in Islamabad and submitted affidavits to a local court stating they did not want to lodge a complaint against the accused.
But after the chief justice of Pakistain took suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice of the incident, the district administration wrote to Pims, asking for a medical examination to be carried out.
Dr Akram told Dawn that on the basis of their last examination, on Dec 29, he could surely say the child was tortured.
"Though the child claimed she had fallen from stairs and was burnt while switching on the television, the wounds showed she had been tortured for a long time and harassed/forced by someone to give that statement. The burn injuries were not caused by electric current and I can surely say someone had [tortured her with] hot iron rods."
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The controversy surrounding Taiba minor housemaid, who was allegedly abused by the family of an additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ), deepened on Friday when two women appeared before the Supreme Court, claiming that the girl may be their daughter. The apex court, however, directed Islamabad police to verify both women’s claims.
Conducting suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... proceedings on the matter, Chief Justice Saqib Nisar also summoned Assistant Commissioner Nisha Ishtiaq ‐ who had recorded Taiba’s statement where she claimed to have been physically abused and by ADSJ Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife.
During the course of proceedings on Friday, two women; Kausar Bibi, widow of Mohammad Nawaz; and Farzana Bibi, wife of Mohammad Zafar, appeared before the court and claimed that Taiba could be their missing daughter.
Kausar Bibi told the court her daughter went missing in 2014 and she had registered an FIR of her disappearance. Chief Justice Nisar directed police to investigate the matter. Farzana Bibi, meanwhile, claimed that Taiba’s photographs resembled those of her own missing daughter.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday proposed calling members of the prime minister’s family to examine whether they would abide by the stance they had taken on four London flats in their previous statements.
"I propose to display the interviews of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... ’s children on the ownership of the London properties and then we can ask the other party (defendants) to deny these," said Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, who is heading a five-judge bench hearing the Panama Papers case.
The suggestion came when Naeem Bokhari, the counsel for PTI chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , sought the court’s permission to refer to a number of interviews given by the prime minister, his wife and children on different occasions to highlight that every member of the Sharif family had taken a divergent stand on the ownership of the properties in London’s Park Lane.
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[DAWN] Police on Friday announced the arrest of a teacher in connection with the suspected suicide of University of Sindh Jamshoro student Naila Rind on Jan 1.
The suspect, Anis Khaskheli, is a teacher at a private school, Deputy Inspector General Hyderabad Police Range Khadim Hussain Rind said.
The DIG said the two began speaking on Facebook about three months ago before they started speaking over the telephone.
The DIG said the teacher had allegedly promised to marry the girl but then refused to do so, after which she went into depression and ultimately ended her own life.
Upon retrieving telephone data, police found the suspect is a repeat offender who has done the same thing with 30 other girls, the DIG said, adding that police also found objectionable photos in the suspect's possession.
The Jamshoro police said on Thursday that they raided the residence of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University (Nawabshah) registrar Ghulam Rasool Khaskheli in the Syedabad area and incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... his son, Anis Khaskheli, in connection with the mysterious death of Naila Rind, whose body was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her hostel room on Sunday.
Sources said that the arrest was made on the basis of a 24-minute call, which appeared to be the last conversation appearing in the call data of the dear departed woman’s mobile phone.
The registrar said his son, Anis, had completed his masters in English from SU in 2008 and since then he had almost nothing to do with the institution. At present, he added, his son was serving as teacher in a private school.
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[AA.TR] The head of the Greek Orthodox Church celebrated Christmas with a traditional ceremony on the banks of Istanbul’s Golden Horn on Friday. So Merry Christmas. Again.
The Orthodox Christmas celebrations began with a service held in Hagia Yorgi Church adjacent to the patriarchate’s residence. Prayers were led by Patriarch Bartholomew I.
Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Ioannis Amanatidis was also present during the four-hour service.
After the church service, clergy and members of the congregation went to Fener dock on the shores of the Golden Horn. A cross was thrown into and then retrieved from the water by a group of swimmers.
Due to a difference in calendars, Jan. 6 marks Christmas Eve for many Orthodox churches and Christmas is celebrated on Jan. 7 rather than Dec. 25.
The majority of Orthodox churches worldwide use the Julian calendar, created under the reign of Julius Caesar in 45 BC, and have not adopted the Gregorian calendar, proposed by Latin Pope Gregory of Rome in 1582. The former calendar runs 13 days behind the latter.
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Tequila can be a night saver. If you’re a Lesser Long-nosed Bat, however, it can be a species saver (and congratulations on learning to read if you’re a bat, by the way).
That’s because tequila producers are partly responsible for bringing the Lesser Long-nosed Bat population from less than 1,000 in 1988, to more than 200,000 today, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Extinction, by the way, is a perfectly natural process. When a species becomes too specialized, like the Spotted Owl, or River Smelt, for the Dodo bird for that matter, they *need* to die off and/or evolve into a more general species.
[PJ] In a move that threatens to destroy irony meters everywhere, an online webinar outlet is hosting a disgraced 20th century newsman to "guide you through the 21st century state of journalism." The online course is titled "Dan Rather on Journalism & Finding the Truth in the News," with the subtitle "Learn to ask the right questions & tell captivating stories. Practical advice for journalists & avid news consumers." Fittingly, you can participate in the class for the low, low price of $10 -- a 93% discount!
You might remember that Mr. Rather had his own brush with dishonesty when he made up a story about President George W. Bush during his reelection campaign in 2004. All of a sudden, during a critical time that election season, newly uncovered memos were "found" that alleged that Bush had failed to fulfill his duties while in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. Well, if by "found," you really meant "forged," then yeah. The memos were faxed to CBS News producer Mary Mapes, after which the originals were supposedly burned.
Like many, to include the Obama regime, it appears the Russians thought HRC had it in the bag. The Russian 'long game' was to "undermine her future presidency." It would seem counterintuitive that the Russians would back a loser.
Excerpt from page 7: Moscow’s approach evolved over the course of the campaign based on Russia’s understanding of the electoral prospects of the two main candidates. When it appeared to Moscow that Secretary Clinton was likely to win the election, the Russian influence campaign began to focus more on undermining her future presidency.
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Don't know if it is true*, but it's a brilliant propaganda ploy - it has something for everyone.
a) It supports the view (which they'd held anyway) that Trump's election is illegitimate for anti-Trumpers.
b) It gets "intelligence community" of the hook for (manifestly) false earlier statements they've made on behalf of their political masters.
c) It even appeals to Trump voters - the Russkies are too stupid to understand us.
*If it's true, we'll hear something about purges among FSB USA analysts.
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Basically the entire thing was someone's opinion. No sources, not even a reference to a confidential informant somewhere or a counter hack. Just opinion based on feelings. If this is the utter rubbish they spew out, no wonder Trump has no interest in daily briefings from them.
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These are gang members that are really popular on youtube. The guy's street name is PBG Hothead. PBG stands for Pooh Bear Gang. They're a small set of Gangster Disciples that are popular on the internet for their rap music, and they're well known in the streets for all the murders they've committed. They will kill you and then write a song about how they killed you. And if someone gets to you first they will write a song making fun of you to provoke your gang. They're cold blooded as f**k.
Here's a montage of songs where PBG member Young Pappy raps about how he killed a rival gang member that killed his friend Pooh Bear. (The guy the gang as named after)
The other rapper in the song was arrested in July 2015 for walking up to a rival gang member and murdering him in front of his wife and 3 kids.
I can go on and on with the headlines this gang makes. Remember the gang member that was killed on Thanksgiving day, just minutes after writing Facebook post about how much he misses and wants to be with his dead friends? That was PBG Mosey. Here he is in a music video with Bang Da Hitta.
The guy at 0:04 is TaySav, Young Pappy's little brother.
The guy in the camo bucket hat at 0:27 is Lil Shawn. He's the one that's awaiting trial for murdering a man in front of his wife and 3 kids. Supposedly he got caught because he had the balls to do it with his ankle bracelet on.
The guy towards the right at 0:15 is Lucci, otherwise known as Lucci Wit Da .40. (I wonder how he got that name?) He is in many PBG music videos holding a Gen 2 Glock 23 or a Gen 1 .40 Sigma.
You can see Lucci multiple times in this video with his Glock 23 and a 32 round magazine.
You can see him multiple times in this video with his Glock and Sigma. He's the one in a red shirt and black hoodie. PBG Kemo even says "I'll call Lucci Wit Da .40" while he shows his gun to the camera."
And you can see Lucci multiple times in this video with his Glock 23 again. He's the one in the camo hoodie at 1:16. BTW the guy rapping is Young Pappys little brother again.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] The former owner of a Midtown gay club was strangled to death on the Upper West Side and authorities are now looking to question his masseuse, police sources said.
[AA.TR] Gambia’s embattled President Yahya Jammeh has fired the country’s Ambassador to Senegal after the Ambassador urged him to accept defeat and hand over power.
[Dhaka Tribune] A 38-year-old man has been 
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday proposed calling members of the prime minister’s family to examine whether they would abide by the stance they had taken on four London flats in their previous statements.
[PJ] In a move that threatens to destroy irony meters everywhere, an online webinar outlet is hosting a disgraced 20th century newsman to "guide you through the 21st century state of journalism." The online course is titled "Dan Rather on Journalism & Finding the Truth in the News," with the subtitle "Learn to ask the right questions & tell captivating stories. Practical advice for journalists & avid news consumers." Fittingly, you can participate in the class for the low, low price of $10 -- a 93% discount!
