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Customers are increasingly asking for heavily modified drinks. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Starbucks workers say the chain is letting too many customers place orders on its app. They say some stores don't have the capacity to keep up with demand. Starbucks also allows unlimited drink modifications via its app, which staff say they're sick of. See more stories on Insider's business page . As well as racing to bring down drive-thru times and navigating maskless customers , Starbucks workers are facing another challenge: mobile orders. Customers have turned to the Starbucks app during the pandemic because it allows them to order in advance and without any face-to-face interaction. Some baristas say this has left them swamped with mobile orders, which now make up more than a quarter of its US transactions . "The whole mobile order system is really bad," Nat El-Hai, a former Beverly Hills Starbucks barista, told Insider. Read more:...

Johnson & Johnson AP Johnson & Johnson will stop selling opioids in the US, the Wall Street Journal first reported. The decision is part of a $230 million settlement with the state of New York. It comes just days before the case was scheduled to go to court on Long Island. See more stories on Insider's business page . Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson will no longer sell opioids in the US as part of a $230 million settlement with the state of New York. According to the Wall Street Journal , the settlement was reached just days before the case was set to go to trial Tuesday on Long Island. The settlement does not impact the numerous other lawsuits the company faces in other states across the US from state and local governments who allege Johnson & Johnson and other pharmaceutical companies helped create the opioid epidemic. More than half a million people died from opioid use in the two decades between 1999 and 2019, according to data from the...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a COVID-19 testing site, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, outside Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. First responders and people over 65 years-old began receiving the COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday during a trial run of the site which will open to seniors at a later date. Wilfredo Lee/The Associated Press DeSantis signed a law mandating public universities survey students and faculty on their political beliefs. Scholars and advocates said the law is "disgraceful" and could lead to bizarre classroom instruction. For instance, "intellectual diversity" could be used to mandate professors teach creationism alongside the science of evolution. See more stories on Insider's business page . Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, signed a new bill into law on Tuesday that requires the state's public universities to survey faculty, students, and staff on their political beliefs to measure "viewpoint divers...

President Joe Biden makes brief remarks while hosting Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, in the Oval Office at the White House June 25, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images President Joe Biden said he hadn't intended to threaten a veto on a bipartisan bill. Biden previously said "I'm not signing it" without passing another Democratic antipoverty plan. Republicans had called Biden's remarks "extortion" and threatened to withdraw support. See more stories on Insider's business page . President Joe Biden said Saturday that he hadn't meant to threaten a veto on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. On Thursday, Biden triggered Republican backlash when he said the infrastructure bill would need to move in "tandem" with his American Families Plan, a bill brimming with Democratic priorities like childcare and heal...

The great tragedy that we just witnessed in Florida has shocked the entire nation, and it should be a major wake up call for all of us.  Our nation really is literally falling apart right in front of our eyes.  Just a few short months ago, at least 151 people died during a catastrophic failure of the power grid in Texas.  Thousands of water pipes burst, and billions of dollars worth of damage was done.  But most people that don’t live in Texas soon forgot all about that, and now we have another spectacular example of the rapid deterioration of the once beautiful cities that previous generations handed down to us.  According to the latest report that I have seen, nearly 100 people are still missing, and officials say that they are hearing “sounds like banging”  coming from the wreckage… Miami-Dade fire officials said rescuers have heard “what sounds like banging” from within the rubble, but not voices, as they continue to search for survivors of the Champlain Towers South collapse. ...

The way that people view the world is greatly shaped by the “news” that they see on television and read on the Internet.  Unfortunately, much of that “news” is produced by just five enormous corporations.  In fact, although the numbers vary from month to month, more than 90 percent of the “news” that Americans watch on television is controlled by those five corporations.  Smaller outlets such as Newsmax are trying to make a dent, but it is an uphill battle.  Internet news is more diversified, but in conjunction with the  15 billionaires that own and control America’s newspaper industry, the same five corporations have come to dominate online as well.  The tech giants have certainly helped their cause by designating them as “trusted sources” and by adjusting algorithms to ensure that we get a steady diet of the “news” that the media giants are constantly putting out.  The entire system is designed to direct us to certain voices, and those voices are constantly working very hard to al...

A lot of people thought that the pandemic was almost over.  For a while there, case numbers were falling, restrictions were being rolled back, and life was starting to return to normal all over the globe.  But even in the midst of all the good news, global health authorities kept insisting that big trouble was brewing in India.  We were told that extremely dangerous new mutant strains of the virus had emerged there, and this is something that I have written about previously .  Now, one of those strains which has come to be known as “Delta” is rapidly spreading all over the planet, and global health authorities are warning us that the biggest wave of the entire pandemic is still ahead of us. In the UK, it appeared that they were beating the virus.  Cases and deaths were way down, and many in the general population were loudly calling for an end to the lockdowns because they weren’t needed anymore. But now “Delta” is wreaking havoc in a major way.  The number of new cases in the UK ...

A long time ago, the left decided that one of the best ways to transform U.S. society would be to take over the education system, and that conquest is now complete.  From the very top to the very bottom, the left completely and utterly dominates our system of education, and at this point our schools are little more than public indoctrination centers.  I spent more than a third of my life in those schools, and so I know what I am talking about.  Unfortunately, things have continued to spiral downhill since I received my last degree in 2003. If you don’t want to believe me, perhaps you will believe a North Korean defector that recently attended a major U.S. university. Yeonmi Park knows what real oppression looks like.  She was born in North Korea and by the age of 13 she had literally witnessed people drop dead of starvation right in front of her eyes.  Thankfully, she was able to escape North Korea for a better life. In 2016, Park transferred from the university that she was stu...

We’re being conditioned to accept spiritualized social media, therapeutic apps, and android priests. Without cultural barriers, this could easily become the norm. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

If America were a nation of racism incarnate, it would look pretty different from how it does. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

There is no question that total federal control of healthcare is the target. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

The entire Derek Chauvin murder trial was driven by a narrative but the medical evidence tells an entirely different story. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

T he world of 1984 is firmly established in 2021. Science and rational thought have been replaced with a quest for “fairness” and “what feels right.” Andy Tix, Ph.D. , wrote, “Theodore Parker once stated that facts are “true, independent of all human opinion.” That is, although we may have wishes for what’s true, previous beliefs about what’s true, and groups telling us what’s true, none of this compares with what’s actually true.  Reality has a life of its own.” Jack Gleason CanadaFreePress.Com http://canadafreepress.com/

T he Biden-Harris administration is promising to press on with a blatantly unconstitutional $4 billion farm relief program that deliberately excludes white people even after a federal judge ruled it was racially discriminatory and temporarily blocked it. Democrats view the explicitly racist government program as a down payment on the slavery reparations package they want to force on Americans a century and a half after Abraham Lincoln’s Republicans took Democrats’ slaves away from them. Matthew Vadum CanadaFreePress.Com http://canadafreepress.com/

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Liberty Counsel has filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Boston resident Hal Shurtleff and his Christian civic organization, Camp Constitution, arguing that the city of Boston violated the First Amendment by censoring a private flag in a public forum merely because the application form referred to the flag as a “Christian flag.” Liberty Counsel CanadaFreePress.Com http://canadafreepress.com/

W hat’s it going to be like when ordinary folk become more emphatic in saying “No!” to unrelenting intrusion by the dangerously ambitious Left? Will globalists force another bloody revolution? Or will American patriots be allowed to peacefully reform their bullying governments?   Bob Hoye CanadaFreePress.Com http://canadafreepress.com/

Note: I’m publishing this piece as an introduction to the scientific tyranny which has overtaken us: the premise that we are machines, and we can be decoded and transformed by genetics. This is a lie on every possible level. For many people, their first taste of this insanity is the COVID vaccine—-a genetic treatment. However, that treatment comes out of the conviction that life is “mechanism.” Jon Rappoport CanadaFreePress.Com http://canadafreepress.com/

H ere’s the problem.  When those in authority fail to act, they are giving tacit approval to any activity legal or illegal. In 2020, governments at all levels failed to uphold law and order throughout America.  In far too many evil Marxist Democrat jurisdictions nationwide, the rule of law was dismantled even prior to 2020. Steve Rossiter CanadaFreePress.Com http://canadafreepress.com/

H aving just left an assembly of 10,000 Americans who convened to hear expert and personal testimony about critical issues affecting their lives, liberal pundits labeled attendees with rabid terms. Trapped by their own disinformation campaign, mainstream media has applied oxymoronic epithets to advocates and parents speaking out to protect children from educational and medical malpractice. A. Dru Kristenev CanadaFreePress.Com http://canadafreepress.com/

W ith each passing week, we learn a bit more about Dr. Anthony Fauci, the self-proclaimed human incarnation of ‘science’.  If you criticize him, you’re criticizing ‘science’. Smart people don’t do that. Besides being the leading national spokesperson for dealing with the Covid-19 Virus, “White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday  called Fauci ‘an undeniable asset’  and said President Biden has full confidence in his health adviser.”  Well, that should validate once-and-for-all Fauci’s scientific imminence.  Joe has confidence in him.   Lee Cary CanadaFreePress.Com http://canadafreepress.com/

Here's what Congress and the president's administration can't seem to understand: government does not make investments. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

The election of 2020 is going to lay bare the dereliction of the Supreme Court for all to see. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

Whether it’s a coincidence or not, the media, social media, and the government have faithfully applied these strategies to sell their COVID line. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

The common thread binding the deep state and its allies is China. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

Wanna buy a timeshare? How about a few trillion rapidly printed dollars? American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

Fauci's unelected, unchecked power flows from the code of the Fourth Branch of Government: “The Bureaucrat is the smartest person in the room.” American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

A look at how black Americans' enduring "Texas independence day" came to be. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

Does “inclusive” history have to be sanitized history? American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

As I have learned the hard way, the science behind climate change has no more predictive real-world value than the science behind COVID. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

Mainstream media and radical climate alarmists bombard the public with reports claiming human-caused climate change is causing a historic mega-drought in the West. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

You can't make people middle-class by throwing lots of government money at them. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

Given the COVID example, it is now not so incredible to think that the scientists promoting global warming have ulterior motives. American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Tom Williams/Getty Images Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, and Tina Smith want to ensure borrowers are ready to restart paying student loans. They sent letters to the CEOs of student-loan servicers asking how they are preparing borrowers. Payments are set to resume in October as Democrats continue to call for $50,000 in debt cancellation. See more stories on Insider's business page . Student-loan payments have been on pause for the duration of the pandemic, providing significant financial relief to borrowers. But the pause is set to lift in October, and some Democrats want to ensure borrowers are as prepared as possible. On Monday, Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and Tina Smith of Minnesota sent letters to the CEOs of all federal student-loan servicers, requesting information on the steps they are taking to transition borrowers back into repayment in October. According to a Pew survey, almost 40%...

Following news that district attorneys in New York City have dropped the majority of charges against rioters in recent months, an oversight board for the city's police has recommended that 39 officers face disciplinary action for their conduct during last year's Black Lives Matter protests. What are the details? In the report released Monday , the Civilian Complaint Review Board concluded that 14 officers — including a captain and a sergeant — should face criminal charges for their behavior, while the remaining 25 should face disciplinary penalties ranging from 1 to 10 days. Complaints leveled against the officers leading to recommended discipline included force, abuse of authority, offensive language, discourtesy, and untruthful statement. "So far, the CCRB has substantiated 26 complaints of misconduct containing 48 allegations against 39 officers," the watchdog organization wrote in the report. "The Board has recommended serving Charges in 12 complaints, Comm...

We are down to the wire. The digital dollar is here and is now being tested in a pilot program in Israel.  If we, as a society, are not yet aware enough to reject this obvious enslavement, we are all in big trouble. Andrew Abir, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel, has started to issue digital shekels as the first step of an internal pilot program. The idea of the digital shekel has been kicked around since 2017 but, Israel decided to put the development of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) into high gear. As reported by  The Jerusalem Post and published in a report by Yahoo News , the pilot test was announced by Abir at a conference of the Fair Value Forum of IDC Herzliya. We all know by now that a fully controlled and centralized digital dollar is one of the keys to the total enslavement of mankind.  If we want any chance at all in the future or even care about humanity, people will need to reject this as what it is: your slave marker. The central banks will esse...