“An Indiana judge has taken an unusual step and temporarily barred Starbucks from closing 77 failing Teavana stores in Simon Property Group malls because the real estate giant was less able to handle the financial pain.”
Read more: https://nypost.com/2017/12/01/judge-bars-starbucks-from-closing-77-failing-teavana-stores/
“As decades have passed since the fall of the Soviet Union, romanticism is deep-sixing the bitter facts of the lives people in communist regimes were forced to live. But any economic system that forces lions to go vegan should never be forgiven.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/daily-hell-life-soviet-bloc
“Hawaii is one of 29 states that allow medical use of marijuana, but it is the only state that requires registration of all firearms. If you are familiar with the criteria that bar people from owning guns under federal law, you can probably surmise what the conjunction of these two facts means for patients who use cannabis as a medicine, which Hawaii allows them to do only if they register with the state. Some of them recently received a letter from Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard, instructing them to turn in their guns.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/29/hawaii-which-requires-registration-of-al
“The undisclosed use of warrantless surveillance to win prosecutions is also troubling from a constitutional standpoint, foreclosing a rare opportunity to discover Section 702 abuses and challenge the law, which civil liberties advocates have argued is unconstitutional.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/11/30/nsa-surveillance-fisa-section-702/
“The U.K. Government is facing fresh calls to clarify its role in U.S. drone strikes after acknowledging that there are potentially hundreds of British spy agency personnel working inside a U.S.-controlled surveillance base that has played a key role in so-called targeted killings.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/11/30/drone-strikes-gchq-trump-menwith-hill-uk/
“There was zero discussion at the hearing of the illegality of the U.S. attacking North Korea under the U.N. Charter. Yet as we learned from the Iraq War, there is great wisdom in the charter requirement that peaceful solutions, however difficult to achieve, take precedence over resorting to force.”
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/we-cant-attack-north-korea-its-against-law-727009
“The coalition said that despite ‘significant successes’ against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), ‘combat has taken a toll on populations suffering under the militant extremists.’ ‘We continue to hold ourselves accountable for actions that may have caused unintentional injury or death to civilians,’ the report said.”
Read more: https://www.rt.com/news/411426-us-coalition-civilians-killed/