A glaring example of ‘fake news’

Frank Gardner, BBC Security Correspondent

There can be few more glaring examples of ‘fake news’ than the deliberate misreporting by a sovereign government of a prominent journalist’s death.

Relations between Russia and Ukraine are at an all-time low, following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, and Russia has been accused of several recent deaths of Kremlin critics in Ukraine.

But this staged non-death will inevitably muddy the waters. Russia already denies any involvement in the attempted assassination of its former spy Sergei Skripal in the UK city of Salisbury in March, calling it fake news.

It will now likely seize on this deception in Kiev to strengthen its claim in that case, and in others.

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The organization conducting Starbucks’ racial sensitivity training, The Perception Institute, receives “generous” contributions from globalist kingpins George Soros and the Ford Foundation.

With campaigns such as “Black Male Re-imagined,” The Perception Institute aims to put an end to accusations of discrimination after a Starbucks worker called police on two black customers.

However, with such “generous supporters” as the Ford Foundation, the W.K Kellogg Foundation and Open Society Foundation, chaired by Soros, Starbucks’ obsession with race is about to hit high gear.

Soros and the Ford Foundation, for instance, have been behind such racial initiatives as the Black Lives Matter movement, which nurtures a black people versus police mentality, and ignores police violence against other Americans.

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Ivanka Trump faced backlash after posting a photo of herself with her son on Twitter.  Leftists ruthlessly criticized her for President Trump’s immigration policy and separating families, which was highlighted this week in a photo that was published showing illegal alien children detained in a chain link cage.  However, the photo was taken in 2014, during Obama’s reign.

FOX News reported:

“Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee used an extreme vulgarity to slam Ivanka Trump in her monologue on Wednesday over a photograph the first daughter shared on social media, calling her a “feckless c—,“ and some predict the mainstream media won’t hold Bee accountable, as they would a conservative comedian.

Ivanka Trump was criticized by several celebrities this week for a snap she shared of her hugging her son amid reports the Office of Refugee Resettlement lost track of 1,500 immigrant children in the last three months of 2017.

“Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we’ve seen this week,” Bee said, citing Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet as the first.

“You know, Ivanka, that’s a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices you feckless c—!

“He listens to you! Put on something tight and low cut and tell your father to f—ing stop it. Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes,” she concluded.

From Gateway Pundit reader

Samantha Bee is up for an Emmy again? So, I guess calling the President’s daughter a c*nt and implying the President sleeps with his daughter is a quick way to get liberal Hollywood to give you an award. This is sick. You need to highlight this.

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The Italian people were on the edge of revolt after the President refused to hand over the mantle of power. Markets roiled. Italy has $2.33 trillion in debt that computes to $102,050 per household. Meanwhile, unemployment is running between 11% and 23%. The populists want to invest in growth to deal with the debt instead of austerity. The European Central Bank is pumping $397,000 billion into the country.

The establishment tried to convince voters that a new election would be a referendum on the Euro. The intent was to frighten voters into abandoning the populist parties out of fear of losing pensions and economic subsidies from the EU.

Some of the economic policies that the populists advocated are financially far beyond their means, including a basic universal income of $960 per month for everyone, and reducing the age of retirement from 66 to 62.

Nearly a year after being acquired by Amazon, health food retailer Whole Foods is quietly putting the brakes on its plan to require food suppliers and stores to label foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

A spokesperson for Whole Foods told FOX Business that the company is pushing back the deadline for its mandatory GMO labeling policy as the U.S. Department of Agriculture “finalizes its Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard” to give the food industry time to assess the impact.

“We have decided to pause on our September 1, 2018 deadline for our GMO Labeling Policy,” Rachel Alkon, the company spokesperson, said. “We remain committed to providing our customers with the level of transparency they want and expect from us and will continue to require suppliers to obtain third-party verification for non-GMO claims.”

Five years ago, Whole Foods first announced its plans to adopt stringent mandatory labeling on products containing GMOs by 2018. In 2013, Walter Robb, who was then co-CEO, said in a statement that they “are putting a stake in the ground on GMO labeling to support the consumers’ right to know.”

The new policy would require that all suppliers disclose the presence of GMOs directly on product packaging. Even stricter rules would be set for animal products, requiring retailers to label whether or not animals were raised on GMOs.

The requirements are much more precise then the proposed rules set in place by the USDA in 2016. Under those rules, companies label bioengineered food with a QR (Quick Response) code, requiring customers to use a smartphone to find out what’s in their food.

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