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No more sneaking in with your friends.It's about to become harder to get a table at the Costco food court than at a Michelin-starred restaurant. In recent months, Costco has taken a more drastic approach to ensuring only actual members are able to get all those sweet, sweet perks. And now, Costco is taking aim at freeloaders hoping to snag a $1.50 hot dog at the food court sans membership card. In March, a Reddit user shared a sign in the r/Costco community that they spotted at their local Costco in Orlando, Florida. The sign read: “Effective April 8, 2024,...

How to defend yourself and your rights while eating in a (public) food court. I recommend my American AND Canadian friends to watch this video. The people who are sitting at the table KNOW their rights and exercise them - in the face of the security guards and police who were sent to remove them from the premises. They successfully stood their ground and were LEFT ALONE by the police and security guards after both were read the rights of those at the table to eat there. MUST-SEE. (The video was taken in a food court here in Toronto and...

(Singapore) Enforcement of the rule requiring diners to clear used crockery and table litter at coffee shops and food courts has been pushed back to January next year. To help diners adjust, there will be another advisory period, of two months, before enforcement begins at these eateries. However, enforcement of the table clearing rule begins at hawker centres as scheduled on Wednesday (Sept 1), after a three-month advisory period. It had been announced in May that enforcement at coffee shops and foodcourts would also be introduced progressively in the fourth quarter of this year. During the coming advisory period, from...

Anti-fascist activists had a difficult time pushing back against James O’Keefe’s investigative reporting during a planned press conference Thursday. They got kicked out of a food court, but not before showing pornography to a reporter. The DC Antifascist Coalition had booked a room at the National Press Club to hold a press conference in which they would unveil damaging information about O’Keefe and his group Project Veritas. In the lead-up to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Project Veritas released videos which resulted in the arrest of a member of DisruptJ20 and foiled a plot to use stink bombs at an inauguration...

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TUKWILA - At least two people were hit by gunfire in a shooting Saturday afternoon inside Southcenter Mall as it was filled with pre-Thanksgiving shoppers, witnesses said. An off-duty sergeant with the Washington State Patrol at the scene said one victim underwent CPR after being hit. Two victims later were rushed by ambulance to the hospital. Two other people were put in handcuffs by officers at the scene, the trooper said. Other witnesses told KOMO News they heard at least three shots fired just after 3:30 p.m. in front of the Forever 21 store near the mall's food court. The...

Rice faces big test with Senate hearings Tough questioning expected this week By James Brosnan SCRIPPS HOWARD January 16, 2005 WASHINGTON – National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, who in college feared she was destined to play show tunes in a piano bar, faces a demanding gig next week before climbing another rung up from the segregation of her childhood in Alabama. On the eve of President Bush's inauguration Thursday, his nominee for secretary of state is expected to face tough questions at Senate confirmation hearings about her own credibility and administration policies in Iraq, where more than 1,300 U.S. service...

Washington In April 2003, shortly after the fall of Baghdad, some Pentagon officials lobbied hard to have the Iraq-based Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization transformed into a US asset and ally. Mujahedin was on the State Department's terrorist organization list because of the methods it has employed to try to overthrow the regime in Teheran. "There was an attempt by the Pentagon, that was really waged until August 2003, to take the Mujahedin and turn it into a freedom-fighting force, to launder it, turn it into a conduit for US regime change assistance against Iran," one State Department official recalled. The State...