KFC has apologized to its customers in Germany after the company sent out a message asking people to commemorate "Kristallnacht" -- the 1938 campaign by the Nazis that left more than 90 people dead and destroyed Jewish-owned businesses and places of worship in the country, the BBC reports.
KFC blamed the message on "an error in our system."
The initial message that went out on Wednesday read, "It's memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!"
About an hour later, the company sent out an apology.
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As the BBC points out, Germany marks the Nov. 9 anniversary of Kristallnacht with numerous memorial events and discussions meant to acknowledge the event took place and how it preceded the Holocaust leading to the murder of 6 million Jews.
The fast food chain said the "automated push notification" was "linked to calendars that include national observances."
"We understand and respect the gravity and history of this day, and remain committed to equity, inclusion and belonging for all," the company said.
Sanctions have been applied to Russia off and on, starting after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, but after the invasion, harsher sanctions were applied. The Wall Street Journal reports that they might finally be putting a massive squeeze on the Russian economy.
March marked the one-year anniversary of the war against Ukraine, and with it, the prices of oil and natural gas have surged around the world. For a time, that meant that Russia could increase its own costs of oil and gas, making a more significant profit.
"Those days are over," the report said. "As the war continues into its second year and Western sanctions bite harder, Russia’s government revenue is being squeezed, and its economy has shifted to a lower-growth trajectory, likely for the long term."
The Journal cited Alexandra Prokopenko, a former Russian Central Bank official who abandoned his country after the invasion.
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"Russia’s economy is entering a long-term regression," he warned.
While global inflation after the pandemic has been a serious problem, the high costs of products generally traded with Russia has sent food and fuel in Europe to soaring prices. Rolling blackouts were utilized throughout 2022 in the U.K., but regulators warn that Germany could run out of gas next winter, the Financial Times reported last week.
Still, NATO has held strong, and Russia's biggest exports, oil and gas, lost large customers.
"Putin considered Germany too dependent on Russian energy, too weak militarily, and too business-minded to mount any significant resistance to his war. He was wrong," wrote Council on Foreign Relations expert Liana Fix and Caroline Kapp.
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The ruble is down over 20 percent against the dollar in the past five months. The military draft has resulted in over 22,000 Russians fleeing to the United States, revealed the latest US Customs and Border Protection data. The draft also means that young people are being pulled from the labor force and sent to war, which is starting to impact businesses.
"There is no sign the economic difficulties are bad enough to pose a short-term threat to Russia’s ability to wage war. But state revenue shortfalls suggest an intensifying dilemma over how to reconcile ballooning military expenditures with the subsidies and social spending that have helped President Vladimir Putin shield civilians from hardship," the Journal explains.
Properties are being seized from Russian oligarchs and quickly driving yachts to islands that refuse to implement sanctions.
“There will be no money next year, we need foreign investors,” said Russian raw-materials billionaire Oleg Deripaska this month.
The meeting between Putin and China's Xi Jinping is further evidence that Russia is increasingly dependent on China. Now that Putin has stashed nuclear weapons on the border of a NATO country, China might face more pressure from the global community about aligning itself with a country ready to start a nuclear war.
Read the rest of the economic analysis in the Wall Street Journal.
As speculation continues to swirl about an impending indictment of Donald Trump from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a woman was arrested outside the Manhattan courthouse after she was reportedly involved in a confrontation.
According to journalist Marta Dhanis, the woman is a Trump supporter and she allegedly pulled a knife after getting into a verbal fight with pedestrian.
"On the sidelines: a trump supporter was just arrested across the street from the courthouse," Dhanis tweeted. "She was holding a sign 'I stand with Trump do you' and got into a verbal fight with a passerby and then pulled out a knife. Court officers arrested her on the spot."
According to reports, the Manhattan grand jury considering charges against Trump won't vote on the matter until next week at the earliest. The case is in regards to a $130,000 hush money payment Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels, who he allegedly had a sexual encounter with.
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During a speech in Waco, Texas, on Saturday, Trump shrugged off his possible indictment. "I never liked 'Horse Face'," Trump said, using his derogatory name for Daniels.
"That wouldn't be the one. There is no one. We have a great First Lady."
Trump had said he would be arrested last week, warning that his indictment could result in "potential death & destruction," apparently from angry supporters.
He would become the first former or sitting president to ever be charged with a crime if the grand jury, a panel of citizens convened by Bragg, decides to indict.
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Jesse Binnall, an election fraud lawyer for Donald Trump, expects former Vice President Mike Pence to take his case all the way to the Supreme Court after a court ordered him to testify in special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 investigation.
The Trump attorney told Newsmax that he was not very concerned about a federal court's ruling that said Pence must testify about conversations he had with Trump prior to attacks on the U.S. Capitol.
"This right now is just a trial court decision," Binnall asserted. "And the trial court decisions are reviewable by the Court of Appeals, the Federal Court of Appeals in DC, that's the DC circuit."
"And then ultimately an important question of privilege on something like this is gonna be decided very possibly by the Supreme Court of the United States," he added.
Binnall called the decision "wrong" even though he had not yet read it.
"And it's important that we actually haven't gotten to read the entire opinion; it's just reporting on what the opinion says since it's under seal," he explained. "But I think it's wrong and I think there's both issues with presidential executive privilege."
Watch the video below from Newsmax.
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