The Daily Populous

Thursday November 30th, 2023 day edition

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The “fictional” holiday that entered culture 26 years ago via a classic “Seinfeld” episode returns in December, meaning it’s time for the Eighth Annual Tampa Bay Times Airing of Grievances.

It’s your chance to gripe and complain from anywhere in the world about ways you’ve been annoyed this year.

Your most petty peeves about people, businesses, sports teams, your job, your pets — whatever — could be published in the Tampa Bay Times.

Examples of past year’s funniest reader complaints are here, here and here.

It involves an unadorned metal pole instead of a tree (tinsel is “distracting”), feats of strength and the airing of grievances.

Now, those same bottles are so thin they collapse as you open them and the water comes out geyser-like, bathing you in fresh spring tap water.

I feel like I’m playing Carmeggedon everytime I drive through Ybor, but instead of credits I’d get 20 years upstate if I hit them. »

Henry Kissinger, secretary of state to Richard Nixon, dies at 100

Authored by theguardian.com

Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state under Richard Nixon who became one of the most prominent and controversial figures of US foreign policy in the 20th century, has died.

His consulting firm Kissinger Associates announced his death in a statement on Wednesday evening, but did not disclose a cause.

Kissinger was a Harvard academic before becoming national security adviser when Nixon won the White House in 1968. »

Henry Kissinger, who shaped world affairs under two presidents, dies at 100

Authored by washingtonpost.com

Henry Kissinger, who shaped world affairs under two presidents, dies at 100 The diplomat exercised an unparalleled control over U.S. international affairs and policymaking.

Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger in June 1972, before leaving on his fourth trip to the People's Republic of China.

While young and still unknown, Kissinger was moving into the world of foreign policy heavyweights, a world he would come to dominate. »

Pope strips anti-gay US cardinal of his Vatican apartment and salary

Authored by queerty.com

According to AP, Pope Francis has revoked the right to a subsidized Vatican apartment and retirement salary for Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, 75.

The Pope reportedly told a meeting of heads of the Vatican that Burke spread “disunity” in the church.

According to a representative for Burke, the cardinal was unaware of losing his Vatican apartment or salary. »

Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation

Authored by cbsnews.com
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Our team traveled across Ghana's remote cocoa belt to visit small subsistence farms that supply the U.S. chocolate giant Mars, which produces candies including M&Ms and Snickers.

Last year, her family harvested only one bag of decent-quality cocoa.

He has collected statements from Ghanaian children working for Mars suppliers, including young boys doing the backbreaking work in the fields. »