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  • Outraged Kosher Cafe Owner Sounds Off on NYC Officials After Being Subjected to Second Antisemitic Attack Following ‘Soup Nazi’ Fiasco

    12/23/2023 7:22:40 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
    New York Post ^ | Dec. 23, 2023 | Dean Balsamini and VIEW AUTHOR ARCHIVE FOLLOW ON TWITTER GET AUTHOR RSS FEED Social Links forGeorgi
    A kosher Upper East Side cafe was subjected to a second antisemitic attack in four days — and the outraged owner is challenging the city to do something about it. Hummus Kitchen on Second Avenue was targeted Sunday night by an unhinged woman who tried to cover up an Israel/US flag, pushed an employee, and stormed off after giving staff the middle finger, according to police and disturbing videos shared on social media. The Sunday strike comes on the heels of a Dec. 13 incident in which a Paterson, NJ woman tried to tear down the restaurant’s flag in an...
  • Jewish woman kicked out of cafe after complaining about antisemitic graffiti scrawled all over bathroom, berated with hate by workers

    12/07/2023 6:57:29 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 64 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/07/2023 | Isabel Keane
    California coffee shop workers were filmed denying a Jewish customer access to the restroom after she complained it was filled with antisemitic graffiti — telling her “Free Palestine” and accusing her of wanting to use the facilities because “Israel loves taking private property and saying it’s their own.” Three employees at Farley’s East in Oakland stood in front of the bathroom and told a distressed-sounding woman filming them that she had to leave. “I want to go in the restroom,” the woman repeatedly implores the staffers, who tell her it’s private property even while confirming she was a customer who’d...
  • CAFE Standard Insanity

    11/29/2023 10:32:36 AM PST · by Vendome · 11 replies
    Center for Individual Freedom ^ | May 5, 2005 | Michael Lynch
    The government’s action in imposing CAFE standards, which was intended to curb oil consumption, helped prompt the creation of the SUV and subsequent “gas guzzling.” Oil exploration in Alaska’s Artic National Wildlife Refuge has once again become possible, if not probable, after the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a major energy bill. Environmentalists reacted by renewing their call for raising Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in order to lower American consumption of oil and decrease fuel emissions. But CAFE has proven itself a failure.The Energy Policy Conservation Act of 1975 established CAFE standards as a reaction to the...
  • Palestinian Woman Opens Gaza's First Cat Cafe

    08/22/2023 2:45:37 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 22 replies
    Asia One ^ | AUGUST 21, 2023
    Inspired by her passion for the furry animal, Naeema Mea'bed opened the "MEOW Cat Cafe" in the Gaza Strip this week, hoping to bring cat lovers some joy, while boosting awareness over pet raising, which has become increasingly popular in the region. The cafe, the first of its kind in Gaza, is entirely cat-themed, with mirrors and flower vases, as well as posters of the 14 resident cats that are available for guests, adults or children, to play with. On Sunday, a long queue of hopeful customers formed, spurring Mea'bed to set up more tables and seats for families who...
  • Dallas gets its first cat café. Here's a look.

    08/18/2023 8:30:34 PM PDT · by Saije · 12 replies
    KERA News ^ | 8-18-2023 | Sally Verrando
    It’s Tuesday afternoon, around 1 o’clock, and the main room at Whiskers and Soda cat cafe is buzzing with a low din of 30 cat-happy customers, many of them children. Shannon Regan, a computer programmer, sits at a table, wearing a headset. Once a week, he drives 30 minutes to the café to work remotely. And yes, cats do jump on his laptop’s keyboard and press buttons. He doesn’t seem to mind about the cats or the noise. After working in silence at home, “a little noise can be comforting,” he said. His kids clamor to go with him to...
  • ‘Americans Had Better Wake Up’: Biden Admin Fires Next Regulatory Salvo In Its Push For EVs

    07/29/2023 10:19:52 AM PDT · by Libloather · 66 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 7/28/23 | Nick Pope
    The Biden administration proposed a new and ambitious set of fuel economy standards for cars and light-duty trucks Friday, its latest move to prod American consumers towards adopting electric vehicles (EVs). The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a subagency of the Department of Transportation (DOT), unveiled the updated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which would require cars and lighter trucks to improve their respective fuel efficiencies by 2% and 4% starting in 2027, according to a DOT press release announcing the proposal. The rule would also mandate work vans and pickup trucks to increase their fuel efficiencies by...
  • Toronto 'Anti-Capitalist' Pay-When-You-Can Cafe Shuts Down After Just One Year

    05/14/2023 9:10:15 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 43 replies
    Nation and State ^ | 05/14/2023 | Tyler Durden
    A Toronto cafe for anti-capitalists, "The Anarchist," is permanently shuttering after just 12 months in business after following a "pay-when-you-can" business model.The Anarchist describes itself as an "anti-capitalist, anti-colonial cafe, shop and radical community space on stolen land.""Unfortunately, the lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources left me unable to weather the quiet winter season, or to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer-term," the owner, Gabriel Sims-Fewer wrote last week.The Anarchist, which opened for business in March of 2022, went viral last year, with internet users mocking the leftist cafe for charging high prices for...
  • Toronto’s ‘Anti-Capitalist’ Cafe Closing Down After Just a Year in Business

    05/14/2023 7:16:13 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 41 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/14/2023 | Kurt Zindulka
    Toronto’s supposedly ‘anti-capitalist’ cafe, The Anarchist, has announced that it would be permanently shutting down after just over a year in business. In a “nobody saw that coming” moment, a Toronto cafe that describes itself as an “anti-capitalist, anti-colonial cafe, shop and radical community space on stolen land,” announced that it would be shutting down permanently by the end of the month.
  • Biden administration finalizes new stringent fuel economy rules

    04/01/2022 7:20:10 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 39 replies
    Reuters ^ | April 1, 2022 | By David Shepardson
    WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration on Friday unveiled tougher fuel economy standards for vehicles reversing his predecessor Donald Trump's rollback of U.S. regulations aimed at improving gas mileage and cutting tailpipe pollution. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is announcing it will boost fuel efficiency requirements by 8% for both the 2024 and 2025 model years and 10% in 2026. That's slightly more aggressive than the agency's proposal outlined in August. The new rules are expected to reduce consumer fuel costs by $192 billion for new vehicles sold by 2030. The administration is eager to...
  • How The Government Canceled Classic Muscle Cars and history is repeating itself

    03/06/2022 3:53:29 PM PST · by Impala64ssa · 58 replies
    Motorious ^ | 3/6/22
    There’s a crusade right now against American muscle cars and the V8 engines which power them. Those who seek to kill off such performance vehicles have enshrouded their movement in the aura of progress, but I’m about to show you how this was done before, proving it’s hardly a new or “progressive” movement. Back in the late 1960s American automakers were engaged in a horsepower war. It was a glorious time where enthusiasts of all ages could buy something with loads of power and miles of styling without paying wheelbarrows of cash. It birthed such legends as the Dodge Charger...
  • Biden boosts fuel-economy standards to fight climate change

    12/20/2021 3:30:30 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 47 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | December 20, 2021 | By MATTHEW DALY (D-AP)
    WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major step to fight climate change, the Biden administration is raising vehicle mileage standards to significantly reduce emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases, reversing a Trump-era rollback that loosened fuel efficiency standards. A final rule issued Monday would raise mileage standards starting in the 2023 model year, reaching a projected industry-wide target of 40 miles per gallon by 2026. The new standard is 25% higher than a rule finalized by the Trump administration last year and 5% higher than a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency in August. “We are setting robust and rigorous standards that...
  • Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties

    09/23/2021 10:56:50 AM PDT · by karpov · 18 replies
    Reuters ^ | September 22, 2021 | David Shepardson
    WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is pressing President Joe Biden's administration and a U.S. appeals court to move quickly to hike civil penalties for automakers failing to meet fuel economy requirements. Electric vehicle maker Tesla sells credits to other automakers to help them meet government vehicle emissions requirements, and says those credits are less valuable due to changes in rules made by former President Donald Trump's administration. Tesla met virtually on Aug. 30 with officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), according to a document filed by the agency last week. On Aug. 18, the...
  • The anti-mask Mendocino cafe is closing after new landlord asks for no 'controversial signage'

    06/30/2021 5:02:01 PM PDT · by Stravinsky · 29 replies
    SF Chronicle ^ | June 30, 2021 | Elena Kadavny
    A Mendocino cafe that has repeatedly pushed back against public health mandates during the pandemic, including charging customers who wear face coverings a $5 fee, will close this weekend, owner Chris Castleman confirmed. He did not agree to Fiddleheads Cafe’s new lease offer, which requested that he comply with government mandates and no longer post “controversial signage or writings.” Castleman said he is being unfairly targeted due to his political beliefs. But the landlord said it wasn’t driven by ideological differences — since the cafe went viral nationally for Castleman’s tactics, the landlord said they have faced harassment from his...
  • Are You Ready For Biden’s Ban On Gas-Powered Cars?

    04/12/2021 4:58:22 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 83 replies
    Issues & Insights ^ | 12 Apr 2021 | Editorial Board
    In the next couple of months, the Environmental Protection Agency will issue new fuel economy standards that could be impossible for carmakers to meet – without going electric. That, at least, is what President Joe Biden’s EPA Administrator Michael Regan is indicating. In an interview with Bloomberg last week, Regan talked about imposing rules that meet “the urgency of the climate crisis,” and “did not rule out future emissions requirements that create a de facto ban on new conventional, gasoline-powered automobiles, like an explicit phase-out ordered by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.” Regan could, for example, require automakers to sell cars...
  • The Freeper Canteen - The Just Hangin' Cafe - Friday, November 13, 2020

    11/12/2020 5:59:25 PM PST · by luvie · 84 replies
    The best troops and vets in the world! | Beachie and the Canteen Gobblers
    FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe Come on in, we're open Need a place just to hang out? This is it. We serve coffee, tea,or maybe some hot cocoa to warm the bones?Topped off with great conversation in front of a warm fire. No worries in the FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe. Grab a cup and start a conversation. You never know who you might meet in the Cafe. Glad you...
  • Ohio cafe employees stage walkout to boycott company policy offering discounts to police, firefighters

    06/19/2020 4:51:43 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 55 replies
    fox8.com ^ | June 7, 2020 | Natasha Anderson
    Several workers at an Ohio cafe staged a walkout Saturday morning to boycott the restaurant. According to the Columbus Dispatch,employees at Northstar Cafe wanted to protest recent decisions made by the restaurant’s management. At Northstar, uniformed officers and firefighters reportedly received a 50% off discount. The staff reportedly decided to discount on Wednesday to show their solidarity with protesters. However, the restaurant faced backlash and reinstated the promotion on Friday. This prompted at least one employee to quit working at the establishment and others to participate in a demonstration. About 20 employees at Northstar’s Westerville location walked out Saturday at 4:30 p.m.
  • California Cafe Defies Shelter-in-Place Orders, Opens for Dine-In Service

    05/03/2020 7:43:16 AM PDT · by Taxman · 57 replies
    Breitbart ^ | -5/02/20 | Amy Furr
    A restaurant opened for dine-in service Friday in El Dorado County, California, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shelter-in-place orders meant to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. VIDEO: https://youtu.be/6alhP85Padk “I will not survive another month. This place is my livelihood and it’s being taken away from me,” Café El Dorado owner Cherie Baldridge told the Mountain Democrat. Two months behind in rent and facing insolvency, Baldridge and her two employees realized that opening up was their last resort.
  • New Trump mileage standards to gut Obama climate effort

    03/30/2020 12:55:19 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 61 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 30, 2020 | By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and TOM KRISHER
    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is expected to relax ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the United States’ single-biggest efforts against climate change. The Trump administration is expected to release a final rule Tuesday on mileage standards through 2026, watering down a tough Obama mileage standard that would have encouraged automakers globally to ramp up production of electric vehicles and more fuel-efficient gasoline vehicles. Trump’s Cabinet heads have continued a push to rollback public health and environment regulations despite the coronavirus outbreak riveting the world’s...
  • Group of 12 U.S. states challenge Trump fuel economy penalty freeze

    08/02/2019 12:30:41 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 32 replies
    Reuters ^ | August 2, 2019 | By David Shepardson
    A group of 12 states led by California and New York on Friday challenged the Trump administration’s decision to suspend a 2016 Obama administration regulation that more than doubled penalties for automakers that fail to meet fuel efficiency requirements. Automakers protested the higher penalties, which they said could cost the industry up to $1 billion annually, and the Trump administration finalized the regulatory freeze on July 12. The 12 states, joined by the District of Columbia, filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to reverse the rule released by the National Highway Traffic Safety...
  • Putting the Brakes on CAFE Standards Will Drive Down Car Costs

    06/18/2019 6:18:19 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 57 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 18, 2019 | Ross Marchand
    Buying a new car is almost always a daunting task, with salespeople trying to sell that extra warranty or undercarriage rustproofing. And, to add insult to the process of buying a new car, federal bureaucrats regularly tack on rules that jack up prices for consumers. In fact, average prices for new cars are nearing $40,000. But, that staggering high amount may soon fall due to the Trump administration’s ambitious drive to roll back onerous rules. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in the process of freezing, or at least slowing, Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, unshackling vehicles...