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nivek

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Mexico seizes 380,000 boxes of Kellogg’s cereal

Mexico has seized 380,000 boxes of Corn Flakes, Special K and other Kellogg’s cereals, claiming the boxes had cartoon drawings on them in violation of recently enacted laws aimed at improving children’s diets.

While Corn Flakes or Rice Krispies are clearly not the worst thing Mexican children eat, the laws prohibit food companies from using marketing tactics that might appeal to children, like cartoons or mascots.

Mexico’s consumer protection agency also said Friday that the cereal boxes did not clearly state nutritional values like calories, fats, salt or sugar, or didn’t have the proper warning signs for levels of those ingredients that are considered excessive.

Agents raided 75 sales outlets and seized pallets of Kellogg’s products there, but the vast majority of the seizures were carried out at a warehouse north of Mexico City.

Kellogg’s did not immediately respond to requests for comment.


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wwkirk

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Mexico seizes 380,000 boxes of Kellogg’s cereal

Mexico has seized 380,000 boxes of Corn Flakes, Special K and other Kellogg’s cereals, claiming the boxes had cartoon drawings on them in violation of recently enacted laws aimed at improving children’s diets.

While Corn Flakes or Rice Krispies are clearly not the worst thing Mexican children eat, the laws prohibit food companies from using marketing tactics that might appeal to children, like cartoons or mascots.

Mexico’s consumer protection agency also said Friday that the cereal boxes did not clearly state nutritional values like calories, fats, salt or sugar, or didn’t have the proper warning signs for levels of those ingredients that are considered excessive.

Agents raided 75 sales outlets and seized pallets of Kellogg’s products there, but the vast majority of the seizures were carried out at a warehouse north of Mexico City.

Kellogg’s did not immediately respond to requests for comment.


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Regardless of the inherent value of Mexico's regulations, Kellogg's should have known what they are. Unless there's something wrong with the product itself, they could have sold it elsewhere.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Mexico seizes 380,000 boxes of Kellogg’s cereal

Mexico has seized 380,000 boxes of Corn Flakes, Special K and other Kellogg’s cereals, claiming the boxes had cartoon drawings on them in violation of recently enacted laws aimed at improving children’s diets.

While Corn Flakes or Rice Krispies are clearly not the worst thing Mexican children eat, the laws prohibit food companies from using marketing tactics that might appeal to children, like cartoons or mascots.

Mexico’s consumer protection agency also said Friday that the cereal boxes did not clearly state nutritional values like calories, fats, salt or sugar, or didn’t have the proper warning signs for levels of those ingredients that are considered excessive.

Agents raided 75 sales outlets and seized pallets of Kellogg’s products there, but the vast majority of the seizures were carried out at a warehouse north of Mexico City.

Kellogg’s did not immediately respond to requests for comment.


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Does this mean the children in cages won't have breakfast cereals now? Oh, we forgot about them again.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Anybody heard from Sean Penn lately? I bet he's on his way to Tonga right now to help straighten things out ......
 

nivek

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America is lurching from pandemic to major recession, after Biden's massive government spending programs released the inflation Kraken



Rising inflation is drowning out wage gains and reducing the spending power of American workers, all while wiping out the value of savings people have spent a lifetime accruing. The longer this goes on, the worse it gets. If Democrats understood the law of supply and demand, they would realize their policies are making a bad situation worse. Unfortunately, they just can't seem to help themselves. Ever-higher government spending and ever-more government control are the essence of their ideology. I'm extremely concerned about what lies in store for this country. The longer Biden and his allies keep their heads buried in the sand, the worse the eventual reckoning will be. If we had dealt with inflation proactively, the remedy might have been merely inconvenient. We're staring down the maw of a major recession that will cause serious economic pain for millions of Americans, as the economy jumps from the pandemic frying pan into the inflation fire.

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nivek

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British terrorist shot dead in Texas synagogue siege was banned from UK court 20 years ago for ranting about 9/11 - so why WAS he let into America?



As police in the US and UK scramble to discover if he was part of a wider terror cell, it has emerged that Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, Lancashire, was branded a 'menace' for raving about the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001. The terror suspect was given a rare Exclusion Order at Blackburn's magistrates' court - the first in 25 years - for abusing staff about 9/11 on the day after the attack that claimed more than 2,750 lives. The incident 20 years ago raises questions about whether he was known to the security services on either side of the Atlantic - and how he managed to get into the United States two weeks ago with a significant criminal record. He landed at New York's JFK Airport on January 2 before spending between January 6 and January 13 at a Christian charity's homeless hostel in Dallas, managing to buy a gun 'on the street' nearby. Two days later he laid siege to the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, before being gunned down by a SWAT team on Saturday night. As Akram's family said the FBI landed in the UK, the Prime Minister's spokesman today called the Texas synagogue attack 'a terrible and anti-Semitic act of terrorism'. Last night two teenagers, who have not been named, were arrested by British counter-terrorism officers in south Manchester and remain in custody.

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wwkirk

Divine
Jewish leaders react to FBI statement on Texas synagogue hostage-taker: 'The FBI got it wrong'

At a news conference after the hostages were released, FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said that "the Texas synagogue hostage taker's demands were specifically focused on issues not connected to the Jewish community."

Kenneth Marcus, the founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and former assistant U.S. secretary of eduction for civil rights, disagreed, telling Fox News Digital that "the FBI got it wrong."


Texas synagogue hostage crisis is a 'terrorism-related matter,’ FBI says

[Updated FBI statement]
"This is a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted, and is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force," the statement read.
 

nivek

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Before and after satellite pictures show scale of devastation caused on volcano and tsunami-hit Tonga as death toll on cut-off island remains unknown with communications still down

The Pacific island nation of Tonga was devastated by a huge eruption of the underwater Hunga-Tonga volcano late Saturday, which sent a huge plume of ash into the atmosphere and triggered a tsunami. The blast severed the island's internet cables meaning news has been sparse, so the number of people killed and injured in the disaster is still a mystery. But the first satellite images taken of the worst-hit islands shows conditions being faced by survivors. One shows how the peak of the Hunga-Tonga volcano was obliterated in the blast (top left), while another (bottom left) shows how the Tongan capital Nuku'alofa inundated with water and ash. Two more images of the same island (bottom centre and right) also show the extent of the ash-fall, appearing to have been taken in black and white when in fact they are colour images.

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wwkirk

Divine
Before and after satellite pictures show scale of devastation caused on volcano and tsunami-hit Tonga as death toll on cut-off island remains unknown with communications still down

The Pacific island nation of Tonga was devastated by a huge eruption of the underwater Hunga-Tonga volcano late Saturday, which sent a huge plume of ash into the atmosphere and triggered a tsunami. The blast severed the island's internet cables meaning news has been sparse, so the number of people killed and injured in the disaster is still a mystery. But the first satellite images taken of the worst-hit islands shows conditions being faced by survivors. One shows how the peak of the Hunga-Tonga volcano was obliterated in the blast (top left), while another (bottom left) shows how the Tongan capital Nuku'alofa inundated with water and ash. Two more images of the same island (bottom centre and right) also show the extent of the ash-fall, appearing to have been taken in black and white when in fact they are colour images.

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If some of the inhabitants had sat phones, wouldn't they still work?
 

nivek

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If some of the inhabitants had sat phones, wouldn't they still work?

Yeah I would think that satellite phones and satellite internet would still work however I think it's also possible that the explosion caused an electromagnetic shockwave that could have damaged electronics in the local area...

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nivek

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Michigan Dems are condemned over Facebook posts saying parents are NOT 'clients' of public schools, that children should be taught 'what society needs them to know' - and that taxpayers should stay out of education



Michigan Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (right), were blasted over the weekend for sharing a Facebook post (left) saying 'the client of the public school is not the parent,' but the public. The post added that 'the purpose of a public education in a public school is not to teach kids only what parents want them to be taught. It is to teach them what society needs them to know.' Republican candidate for the upcoming March 8 gubernatorial election and former Detroit police chief James Craig blasted the Democrats' statement and issued his own response (bottom right inset), saying that parents are the 'true stakeholders' of their children's' education. He also labelled the state's democrats' post as 'disgraceful' and claimed that 'they have an agenda of indoctrination, not education.' 'Gov. Whitmer's Democratic Party irresponsibly just said, "the client of the public school is not the parent, but the entire community, the public." I vehemently disagree,' he wrote in a tweet sharing his statement. 'Parents that expect more out of their local public school and hold them accountable should not be told to get out their checkbook and hit the road. They have already opened their checkbooks by paying their taxes and deserve a high-quality education for their children,' he added.

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wwkirk

Divine
Michigan Dems are condemned over Facebook posts saying parents are NOT 'clients' of public schools, that children should be taught 'what society needs them to know' - and that taxpayers should stay out of education



Michigan Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (right), were blasted over the weekend for sharing a Facebook post (left) saying 'the client of the public school is not the parent,' but the public. The post added that 'the purpose of a public education in a public school is not to teach kids only what parents want them to be taught. It is to teach them what society needs them to know.' Republican candidate for the upcoming March 8 gubernatorial election and former Detroit police chief James Craig blasted the Democrats' statement and issued his own response (bottom right inset), saying that parents are the 'true stakeholders' of their children's' education. He also labelled the state's democrats' post as 'disgraceful' and claimed that 'they have an agenda of indoctrination, not education.' 'Gov. Whitmer's Democratic Party irresponsibly just said, "the client of the public school is not the parent, but the entire community, the public." I vehemently disagree,' he wrote in a tweet sharing his statement. 'Parents that expect more out of their local public school and hold them accountable should not be told to get out their checkbook and hit the road. They have already opened their checkbooks by paying their taxes and deserve a high-quality education for their children,' he added.

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In Western countries, you had to back quite a ways to find elitists flaunting themselves as such. I guess it's in vogue again.
 

nivek

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Joe Biden's smearing of millions of ordinary Americans as racist is the mark of a man who only wants to be your president if you agree with him – and your master if you don't

Joe Biden's message and the promise he made to the American people from the beginning of his campaign for the presidency was that he was going to 'heal and restore America's soul.' Over and over again on the campaign trail, he spoke and pleaded with the American people in an effort to convey that he alone was the antidote to the divisive chaos of the Trump years.

He promised to be a president for all Americans and to usher us out of what was one of the most divided times in American history. We all know he hasn't done that. By any metric, America is becoming a worse place to live, work, and raise our children.

The Fourth of July promise of freedom from Covid was little more than an ill-advised photo op. A new Gallup poll just released Monday shows that in 2021, Republicans went from a 9-percentage point deficit in party identification to a 5-point lead. It is the biggest advantage for Republicans since the 1994 'Republican Revolution.'

And despite Democrats constantly calling every Republican 'racist,' a new Quinnipiac University poll shows Joe Biden's approval rating has collapsed among Hispanic voters and is now lower than his rating among white voters.

If people on the left don't want to believe seasoned political analysts on how and why the direction of America is a disaster under Biden, they will be very hard pressed to ignore the sheer breadth of signs showing where Democrats are bleeding voters.

If I were working for a principal with this kind of reaction polling-wise, I would be nothing short of panicking – trying desperately to come up with an emergency strategy while there is still time.

Instead, as we head into midterms, the White House cast of characters from Chief of Staff Ron Klain to the ever-snarky Jen Psaki seem to have no new ideas at all. At least Kamala Harris is working on her rebrand. Good luck with that!

There is very little left to straighten out the Biden administration's failing agenda and PR problems. So instead, they're doubling down on division.

It was particularly disheartening to see President Biden making a bizarrely vitriolic and hubristic speech in Georgia, where he attacked Republicans but also his fellow moderate Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema by attempting to link anyone who is against him -- on issues like voter ID -- to segregationists like George Wallace and Bull Connor.

Even Democratic Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin conceded that President Biden 'may have gone a little too far with his rhetoric.'

In the eyes of President Biden and his administration, if you do not support changing the Senate filibuster rules to pass stalled voting and election legislation, you are comparable to some of the most reviled villains of our past. It is worth noting that there are other Democratic senators such as Jon Tester, Mark Kelly, Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, who were also signaling that they ultimately wouldn't support the repealing of the filibuster.

After deploying the same tactic literally hundreds of times in the previous administration, Democrats now call it racist, and they have resorted to trying to repeal the filibuster because they don't have the votes to pass their voting bills without it. But in another sign of their hypocrisy, they are even using the filibuster themselves right now to block Ted Cruz's Russia sanctions bill.

One of the founding principles of our Constitution was to avoid the tyranny of the majority. This can't be overstated.

One of the perils of conflating freedom and democracy is that people have forgotten the downside of government if you can't just get what you want with 50 plus one. The promise of a united, bipartisan Biden-era has been revealed as a con and a lie. If you disagree with him or his policies, you are no better than racist segregationists.

No great president in history has ever inspired his nation by accusing them of being comparable to the worst kind of figures in American history if you disagree with them.

The cynical part of me knows deep down he is just doing this to placate his base, but you cannot win elections or hearts and minds by simply playing to one audience. And as for restoring civility and dignity to the office? This speech proves Joe Biden isn't interested in being a president for all Americans – just the ones who agree with him.


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wwkirk

Divine
Joe Biden's smearing of millions of ordinary Americans as racist is the mark of a man who only wants to be your president if you agree with him – and your master if you don't

Joe Biden's message and the promise he made to the American people from the beginning of his campaign for the presidency was that he was going to 'heal and restore America's soul.' Over and over again on the campaign trail, he spoke and pleaded with the American people in an effort to convey that he alone was the antidote to the divisive chaos of the Trump years.

He promised to be a president for all Americans and to usher us out of what was one of the most divided times in American history. We all know he hasn't done that. By any metric, America is becoming a worse place to live, work, and raise our children.

The Fourth of July promise of freedom from Covid was little more than an ill-advised photo op. A new Gallup poll just released Monday shows that in 2021, Republicans went from a 9-percentage point deficit in party identification to a 5-point lead. It is the biggest advantage for Republicans since the 1994 'Republican Revolution.'

And despite Democrats constantly calling every Republican 'racist,' a new Quinnipiac University poll shows Joe Biden's approval rating has collapsed among Hispanic voters and is now lower than his rating among white voters.

If people on the left don't want to believe seasoned political analysts on how and why the direction of America is a disaster under Biden, they will be very hard pressed to ignore the sheer breadth of signs showing where Democrats are bleeding voters.

If I were working for a principal with this kind of reaction polling-wise, I would be nothing short of panicking – trying desperately to come up with an emergency strategy while there is still time.

Instead, as we head into midterms, the White House cast of characters from Chief of Staff Ron Klain to the ever-snarky Jen Psaki seem to have no new ideas at all. At least Kamala Harris is working on her rebrand. Good luck with that!

There is very little left to straighten out the Biden administration's failing agenda and PR problems. So instead, they're doubling down on division.

It was particularly disheartening to see President Biden making a bizarrely vitriolic and hubristic speech in Georgia, where he attacked Republicans but also his fellow moderate Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema by attempting to link anyone who is against him -- on issues like voter ID -- to segregationists like George Wallace and Bull Connor.

Even Democratic Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin conceded that President Biden 'may have gone a little too far with his rhetoric.'

In the eyes of President Biden and his administration, if you do not support changing the Senate filibuster rules to pass stalled voting and election legislation, you are comparable to some of the most reviled villains of our past. It is worth noting that there are other Democratic senators such as Jon Tester, Mark Kelly, Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, who were also signaling that they ultimately wouldn't support the repealing of the filibuster.

After deploying the same tactic literally hundreds of times in the previous administration, Democrats now call it racist, and they have resorted to trying to repeal the filibuster because they don't have the votes to pass their voting bills without it. But in another sign of their hypocrisy, they are even using the filibuster themselves right now to block Ted Cruz's Russia sanctions bill.

One of the founding principles of our Constitution was to avoid the tyranny of the majority. This can't be overstated.

One of the perils of conflating freedom and democracy is that people have forgotten the downside of government if you can't just get what you want with 50 plus one. The promise of a united, bipartisan Biden-era has been revealed as a con and a lie. If you disagree with him or his policies, you are no better than racist segregationists.

No great president in history has ever inspired his nation by accusing them of being comparable to the worst kind of figures in American history if you disagree with them.

The cynical part of me knows deep down he is just doing this to placate his base, but you cannot win elections or hearts and minds by simply playing to one audience. And as for restoring civility and dignity to the office? This speech proves Joe Biden isn't interested in being a president for all Americans – just the ones who agree with him.


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Biden may be presenting us all with an important lesson. He has had a long career, and was never perceived as divisive or extreme. He ran as a moderate, and possibly most people expected him to conduct himself as one, particularly in view of his record. But as soon as he was elected, Dr. Jekyll transformed into Mr. Hyde.

The lesson, at least pertaining to politicians, is never to presume that you know what their real values and commitments are, or what they would do upon obtaining sufficient power.
 
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