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Source: The Indypendent

I waited three months to eat a Krispy Kreme. I mean I waited. Every week or so, I take the train to Penn Station, quickly zigzagging through crowds. And every time I have the same internal monologue — Don’t stop at the Krispy Kreme. Don’t give yourself diabetes. Seriously, you might as well inject Elmer’s glue straight into your heart. But then I saw the store, bright and beautiful and smelling good. It’s very hard to walk past Krispy Kreme. It’s like those dreams where my legs move but I don’t go forward. read more

Source: The Toronto Star

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For the past two days, the Turkish police have laid siege to sections of Istanbul. No other word comes close to capturing the scale and brutality of what has transpired since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered an operation on Saturday night to clear Gezi Park, the site of a peaceful occupation by an estimated 10,000 demonstrators for the past two weeks.

Thousands of accounts circulated by social media, confirmed by videos now widely available online, report groups of police savagely beating unarmed and supine protestors in the middle of the streets. Chemicals mixed into water cannon sprays have left protestors and bystanders with extensive skin burns. A hotel and a hospital providing aid to those caught up in the chaos were attacked, including an area functioning as a clinic and nursery. The police have employed tear gas and pepper spray on such a large scale that the air in entire neighbourhoods has become temporarily unbreathable. read more

Source: Corpwatch

TransCanada and the provincial government of Alberta are paying former advisors to the Obama administration – as well as former staff of the Hillary Clinton and John Kerry presidential campaigns – to help them lobby for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to transport tar sands fuel to the U.S.

The pipeline from Alberta – which is to be built by TransCanada – has been delayed for over four years pending approval from the U.S. State Department which has final say because it crosses the international border. President Barack Obama is expected to announce a decision this fall in consultation with John Kerry, who took over the State Department earlier this year from Hilary Clinton. read more