News You May Have Missed: Cake Legal Suit, Too Much Toilet Paper, COVID Breath Test, Volcanoes and Voting and more

It's been a busy week, and sadly it has been filled with murders and mayhem. That said, you may have missed these stories about a UK Court CAKE War, SMART Businesses fed up with Voter suppression, the COVID Smell Test, Enough Toilet Paper already, and MORE. 

1.     UK Legal Case   Colin The Caterpillar Cake Argument

2.     Smart Businesses Fed Up With GOP Voter Suppression Laws

3.     The “Smell Someone’s Breath” Test For Virus Transmission 

4.     White Nationalists Thrilled With Tucker Carlson

5.     Youtube Blocks Nigerian Preacher Tb Joshua: Over Gay Cure Claim 

6.     St Vincent Volcano: Island Covered In Layer Of Grey As La Soufriere Erupts  

7.     Americans Finally Have Enough Toilet Paper; Sales Plunge 

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SHORT BBC NEWS VIDEO::   BBC LEGAL CASE:  Colin the Caterpillar cake argument:  Marks & Spencer has begun legal action against Aldi, arguing the supermarket's Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake infringes its Colin the Caterpillar trademark.  VIDEO  https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-56768197

***Good! **  BUSINESSES FED UP WITH GOP  VOTER SUPPRESSION LAWS - As many as 100 CEOs and business leaders from American companies attended a Zoom conference call over the weekend to discuss a unified effort against Republican measures to suppress voting rights. Actions could include cutting donations to lawmakers or delaying investments in states   

WHO PARTICIPATED? Executives at PepsiCo, PayPal, T. Rowe Price and Hess Corp. Delta, American, United, Starbucks, Target, LinkedIn, Levi Strauss and Boston Consulting Group, American Express, AMC Entertainment, Estee Lauder, Merck — and Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, a co-founder of Home Depot. 

  ON STATE LEVEL IN MICHIGAN - General Motors, Ford and Quicken Loans took a stand against GOP Voter restrictions  to curb voting by people of color.

THE “SMELL SOMEONE’S BREATH” TEST FOR VIRUS TRANSMISSION  If you can smell your friend’s lunch, you’re inhaling some of that air as well as any virus that’s inhaled with it. And this is why we say that masking is fine, social distancing is fine, but the indoor airborne environment needs to be improved and that can be done with ventilation.”

**Disgusting*  WHITE NATIONALISTS THRILLED WITH TUCKER CARLSON Fox News host Tucker Carlson doubled down on his support of the white nationalist "great replacement" theory this week, exciting white nationalists across America who think it will help their movement, HuffPost's Chris Mathias writes. VDare, a well-known white nationalist website, gushed over Carlson’s monologue like a proud parent.

**Good News*  YOUTUBE BLOCKS NIGERIAN PREACHER TB JOSHUA: OVER GAY CURE CLAIM   YouTube has suspended the account of influential Nigerian TV evangelist TB Joshua over allegations of hate speech. Seven videos showed the preacher conducting prayers to "cure" gay people.   Facebook removed 1 video of the “preacher” slapping a woman to “cast out a demonic spirit".

 ST VINCENT VOLCANO: ISLAND COVERED IN LAYER OF GREY AS LA SOUFRIERE ERUPTS  - The Caribbean island of Saint Vincent has been coated in a layer of grey, caused by ash from the volcano La Soufriere mixing with rain.  Before it started erupting on Friday, La Soufriere had been inactive for decades.

**About Time!***  AMERICANS FINALLY HAVE ENOUGH TOILET PAPER; SALES PLUNGE. =- “You never knew when you weren’t going to be able to get it, so every time we went out we got some,” said Marjorie Greenburgh, 62 years old, of New Rochelle, N.Y. “They just kept amassing.” Ms. Greenburgh still has 54 rolls, stored in various places throughout her home: in a guest room, the back of a linen closet, the laundry room in the basement. “I’m not planning on buying for a while,” she said.