[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] Two men were killed and at least 10 other people were maimed in separate attacks across reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... since Friday evening, marking a violent start to the weekend.
The most recent killing happened in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago Police said. Someone walked up to Michael Hillard, 49, and shot him in his face just before 9 p.m. Friday in the 4700 block West Jackson. Hillard, who lived in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Less than two hours earlier in the Little Village neighborhood, 27-year-old Juan Vargas was shot in the head by a person who approached him on foot and began shooting, police said. Vargas was found about 7:10 p.m. Friday in the 4000 block of West 25th Place and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died. He lived in the West Elsdon neighborhood.
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Hat tip: gCaptain for this article. I have been following this since the sinking. Here is an excerpt from the article:
The 199-page report identifies causal factors of the loss of the S.S. El Faro and 33 crew members on October 1, 2015, which ranks as one of the worst maritime disasters in American history. The 790-foot vessel set sail from Jacksonville, Florida, on a voyage to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 29, 2015, and sank about a day and a half later off the Bahamas near the eye of Hurricane Joaquin.
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[Chicago Tribune] Even after watching Hurricane Irma wreak havoc on Florida, Rik Mallin is sticking to his plan.
Mallin is fixing up his Villa Park home so that he can sell it, move to the Florida Panhandle and escape Illinois’ rising taxes.
"I’m getting out," said Mallin, 67. "It’s not just the property taxes on my home; it’s all of them." He figures his taxes in Florida, where there is no personal income tax, will be about a quarter of what he’s paying now.
Mallin’s not the only one leaving the state. In 2016, Illinois lost 37,508 people, putting the state’s population at its lowest level in nearly a decade, according to U.S. census data. It was the third consecutive year the state lost more residents than any other state. The state’s population count for 2017 won’t be released until December.
Some of those who are leaving Illinois say they’re frustrated with their tax burden and the state’s financial situation. After going more than two years without a budget, Illinois lawmakers passed a spending plan over the summer, one that involved a 32 percent income tax hike for residents. The state is still digging itself out of the financial disarray that accumulated during the budget impasse. A Forbes listing of the best and worst states for taxes in 2016, before the tax hike, ranked Illinois 46th, signifying a heavier tax burden.
But demographers aren’t ready to chalk the outmigration up to tax pressures entirely.
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Left unsaid is the outward migration of a good number of African American families also fed up living with the endlessly repeating cycle of violence in their neighborhoods.
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Silly Wabbit.
Blue State Conundrum: How can you have (rich people) Rabbit Season when they have enough money to another locale? Only the Poor remain and they are.. Poor!
[CNN] A mountain of food, water and other vital supplies has arrived in Puerto Rico's main Port of San Juan.
But a shortage of truckers and the island's devastated infrastructure are making it tough to move aid to where it's needed most, officials say.
At least 10,000 containers of supplies -- including food, water and medicine -- were sitting Thursday at the San Juan port, said Jose Ayala, the Crowley shipping company's vice president in Puerto Rico.
Part of the reason for the distribution backlog is that only 20% of truck drivers have reported back to work since Hurricane Maria swept through, according to a representative for Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.
On top of that, a diesel fuel shortage and a tangle of blocked roads mean the distribution of supplies is extremely challenging. Even contacting drivers is a problem because cell towers are still down.
"When we say we that we don't have truck drivers, we mean that we have not been able to contact them," Rosselló said.
On Thursday the White House authorized a 10-day waiver of the Jones Act, a federal law that limits shipping to US ports by foreign vessels. Puerto Rico's governor and other US officials had argued that a waiver would expedite supplies to the island.
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You worthless scumbag commie UNION pieces of shit better be standing tall in less than two hours because right now, you are the eternal scum of the Earth, and Mother Mary will never be able to save you.
As this stands right now, I want to go down there with my Browning .50 cal and shoot up every tree, boat, house, car or union asshole standing in the way of this aid.
Or fuck it. May just finish the job with another cat5 because you are just fucking worthless to your fellow man.
Fuck Puerto Rico. There is no Puerto Rico. Just a bunch of democrat, marxist man pussies standing around watching two guys with a chainsaw fix their communities.
I will throw every one of you goonion pieces of fake human trash into federal pen for denying aid to starving and thirsting people. You are the scum of the earth.
If you are a Man, Go to town and fix YOUR GODDAMNED ISLAND before I wipe it all out permanently. And you may have passed that point right now.
You fucking assholes.
All this real estate belongs to me and you useless pieces of shit do not even pay rent. In fact, you charge US to live there.
Prepare to move because you have a nothing of a place and never made it better and your attitude sucks.
In fact, you will not be running this anymore if I have MY way.
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Part of the reason for the distribution backlog is that only 20% of truck drivers have reported back to work
I have not seen anything I'd consider definitive, but I keep seeing tidbits suggesting the Teamster's Union has gone on strike in San Juan and wants some contract concessions and changes to current laws before they will start moving supplies.
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That's the final straw. I AM getting ALL the GODAMN Unions out of MY Public services.
Because you are such a bunch of fucking gangsters that you want to negotiate contracts in a disaster while people are dying.
Want to see me hit the roof? Have not your stupid GOONION responsibilities fulfilled today.
What you fucking pieces of shit need is a baseball bat to the head.
I will fuck you up and you don't have to get paid to do your jobs you stupid democrat pieces of shit.
I fucking hate you. Fix it and I will maybe piss on you. But for now you are in hell.
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Heavy lift copters. Just drop them in remote communities.
Then there is the French option*. Exercise your authority under Title X USC. Draft the drivers, tell them to report for duty, those who fail will be subject to Courts Martial.
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M'Lady was watching Meet the Press this morning, when Chuck Todd was trying to stick it to President Trump over the lack of aid to Puerto Rico. So Chuck was working his agenda, and then he brought up reporters on the ground to supposedly verify what he was saying. They disagreed with him on the air and said that there is plenty of supplies but the truckers are not moving those supplies. They said that 10,000 troops are there doing their job, but only 20% of the drivers are at work. Chuck was very agitated because his narrative fell apart.
He tried to attack the President's tax plan, but the spokesperson invited to the show kept telling Chuck that he was wrong.
It was a veddy veddy bad day for Chuckie.
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At this point they have been given all they need to help themselves.
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It's not that current events wouldn't whipsaw the most reasonable of men into a frothing frenzy, but we're concerned you are going to blow a gasket, newc.
And yes, that jpg is funny as heck. Let them eat boxes!
When it rains here, two road graders in tandem come out to reshape the roads. One on the left, one right re-crafting the center crown with angled blades.
Hard to imagine the SeaBees couldn't do the same with a pair of CAT D12s.
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Then there's option #2. Hire a boat load of Mexican truck drivers, fly them in, and put them to work using the excuse 'doing the jobs Americans won't do'. At least they speak the core of the local language.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] After engaging in character liquidation against Green Bay Packers fans who chose not to protest during Thursday’s National Anthem, FS1's Undisputed co-host Shannon Sharpe did the same with the American flag, declaring it to be merely a racist "piece of cloth" that "nobody fights for."
"The flag, you see, to a lot of people, symbols, patriotism but what does that symbol actually mean? What does ‐ what does ‐ okay ‐ you keep telling me that the flag means so much and it's opportunity and freedom and liberty. Okay. Can you honestly say that everybody in America has freedom and liberties and opportunity," Sharpe wondered to co-host Skip Bayless.
Bayless replied "no," so Sharpe then noted that inequalities should be address. Fair enough.
But Sharpe went further by showing his disdain for this country, the flag, and Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner (depicting the scene in Baltimore during the War of 1812):
And stop trying to sweep it under the rug. But, see, as long as you paint that narrative, oh, it's the Anthem, I can’t ‐ no ‐ anybody that does something to the Anthem ‐ well, we know what the anthem was originally written for and who it was written by, okay? The flag, okay? We understand what the flag? What does it represent? When did this narrative come to be that the military and the police own the flag and only them? I can go buy a flag and I can hang it up in my backyard. We need to stop this, Skip. We need to ‐ the flag is a piece of cloth and nobody fights for a piece of cloth.
Bayless, who was almost universally in step with Sharpe on the protest issue, broke away by telling him that he shouldn’t "say that" because "[t]hat’s the symbol of this country" and "what it represents."
Sharpe then dropped a befuddling red herring, repeatedly wondering if we all should then "fight for a pair of jeans." Bayless replied that the flag itself dates back to our country’s founding in 1776 and everything that’s come since.
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The difference between an ISIS member and an NFL player is - an NFL player isn't tough enough to f*ck a goat...
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[Al Jazeera] A year ago, Firommisa Darasa barely made it out of Æthiopia's Irreecha festival alive, managing to escape from a deep ditch where dozens perished.
The tragedy happened after police fired tear gas at anti-government protesters, sparking a stampede.
Last year's bloodshed at the annual religious festival held by Æthiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo people, became a turning point in months of anti-government protests that prompted the government to declare a nationwide state of emergency.
While dissatisfaction with Æthiopia's government still runs deep among the Oromo, last year's protests have since died down.
Those planning to attend this year's Irreecha festival say they are hoping for the best when Sunday's gathering begins in the resort town of Bishoftu, southeast of the capital Addis Ababa.
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[Sky News] The hooker is forced to miss a match after the lion did not take kindly to being petted - with the incident caught on camera.
Video footage posted on the Twitter feed of former rugby player Andy Goode shows Baldwin reaching through metal bars to touch the big cat.
As he strokes the animal on the head as it lays on the ground, it suddenly snaps. Baldwin, 29, is heard to cry out and pulls his arm away before a warden tells a colleague to get him first aid.
The injury, which needed stitches, occurred on Wednesday during a pre-match visit to a safari park. Baldwin joked in a tweet: "Should of know he wouldn't be impressed with me stroking his lioness before introducing myself to him first".
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Baldwin joked in a tweet: "Should of know he wouldn't be impressed with me stroking his lioness before introducing myself to him first".
He'll never buy another pint. Now if he could just memorize some "Lion and Albert:
There were one great big Lion called Wallace;
His nose were all covered with scars-
He lay in a somnolent posture,
With the side of his face on the bars.
Now Albert had heard about Lions,
How they was ferocious and wild-
To see Wallace lying so peaceful,
Well, it didn’t seem right to the child.
So straightway the brave little feller,
Not showing a morsel of fear,
Took his stick with it’s’orse’s ‘ead ‘andle
...And pushed it in Wallace’s ear.
You could see that the Liion didn’t like it,
For giving a kind of a roll,
He pulled Albert inside the cage with ‘im,
And swallowed the little lad ‘ole.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Media reports about the brave and timely action of a young Emirati woman who saved an Indian truck driver who was on fire, by covering the victim with an abaya, have gone viral.
The blaze broke out after a collision between two trucks on Martyr’s Road in Ras Al Khaimah emirate.
The 22-year-old woman, identified as Jawaher Saif Al Kumaiti, was visiting one of her friends at the Sheikh Khalifa hospital in RAK, when she spotted the man on fire while driving back home.
Jawaher, an Ajman resident and an employee with oil major Adnoc, in her interview with Khaleej Times, confesses that she was at first taken aback when she saw the two trucks on fire following the accident. She also saw a man on fire screaming in pain and fear shouting for help.
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Acid attack to salvage tattered honour in 5 .. 4 ..
[Reuters] BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States said on Saturday it was directly communicating with North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs but Pyongyang had shown no interest in dialogue.
The disclosure by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a trip to China represented the first time he has spoken to such an extent about U.S. outreach to North Korea over its pursuit of a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile.
"We are probing so stay tuned," Tillerson told a group of reporters in Beijing.
"We ask: ’Would you like to talk?’ We have lines of communications to Pyongyang. We’re not in a dark situation, a blackout."
He said that communication was happening directly and cited two or three U.S. channels open to Pyongyang.
"We can talk to them. We do talk to them," he said, without elaborating about which Americans were involved in those contacts or how frequent or substantive they were.
The goal of any initial dialogue would be simple: finding out directly from North Korea what it wants to discuss.
"We haven’t even gotten that far yet," he said.
Trying to tamp down expectations, the State Department said later there were no signs Pyongyang was interested in talks.
"North Korean officials have shown no indication that they are interested in or are ready for talks regarding denuclearization," department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
[Iran Press TV] South Korean media say the North has been detected transferring several missiles out of a research facility in its capital amid speculations of a new test launch by Pyongyang.
Citing an unidentified intelligence source, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) reported late Friday that South Korean and US intelligence authorities spotted missiles being moved away from the Missile Research and Development Facility in Pyongyang.
The facility, located in the northern Pyongyang neighborhood of Sanum-dong, has been dedicated to the production of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
The report did not, however, mention time and target location of the alleged transfer, speculating that the missiles could be either intermediate range Hwasong-12 or intercontinental ballistic Hwasong-14.
Moreover, Rooters also cited a source from the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying that he could not confirm the details of the report, and whether there have even been any unusual activities in the specified area.
Authorities in Seoul have raised concerns that Pyongyang could carry out more provocative acts marking the anniversary of the founding of the country’s communist party on October 10, or possibly when China holds its Communist Party Congress on October 18.
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4th of July
No, Labor Day
Wait, Columba's Day, United Nations Day or Halloween?
That would be scary.
[Al Jazeera] Spanish police have sealed off most public buildings earmarked as polling stations for a banned referendum on Catalonia's breakaway from Spain, according to officials.
Separatists in the northeastern region on Friday evening and Saturday morning started occupying voting stations in a bid to ensure Sunday's poll, which has been declared illegal by Spanish authorities, goes ahead.
The Spanish interior ministry said in a statement on Saturday that the "majority" of public buildings that had been identified as referendum sites had "stayed shut" and "only a few" are occupied by people "with the only aim" of obstructing police work.
The central government in Madrid had previously said that 1,300 of 2,315 designated voting stations have been sealed off by police, who have been mobilised in the thousands in the region.
Also earlier on Saturday, Enric Millo, the highest-ranking Spanish official in Catalonia, had said that parents and students were found to be occupying 163 schools and holding activities when police were sealing off facilities.
'Key battlegrounds'
Catalonia is a wealthy region within Spain that accounts for about 20 percent of the country's economy. It has its own language, which is taught in schools and universally spoken.
Tens of thousands of Catalans are expected to attempt to vote in a ballot that will have no legal status as it has been blocked by Spain's Constitutional Court and Madrid for being at odds with the 1978 constitution.
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Not that any consistency can be expected, but lots of people who always screech about democracy and lots of people who were quite happy with obutthole's "extra-constitutional" activities will be silent about all this.
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They only reluctant to use force against rapefugees, eh?
[LI] Have you suspected there are still people embedded in the government who worked for Obama and might not share President Trump’s vision for America? You were right. In fact, there are quite a few of them. Gov't Burrowing: The transfer of a political appointee from a political appointment position to permanent federal employee position just prior to the change of an political administration. Oftentimes the position is created specifically for the former appointee or, 'pre-selection' is used to effect the transfer to an existing position. 'Pre-selection' is supposed to be against Federal Civil Service hiring and recruitment rules.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The police helped free 15 of a family who were being held as bonded labourers by a brick kiln owner.
The police produced the family in the Islamabad High Court which set them free.
Talking to Dawn, Noon police Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Abid Ikram said the owner of the brick kiln was enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and he was charged with PPC’s section 344 for wrongful confinement for 10 or more days, section 374 for unlawful compulsory labour and 506 for criminal intimidation.
The IHC had ordered the police a few days ago to help free the family from confinement after a man named Shoni approached the court for help.
The SHO said the brick kiln where the family was held was located in the village of Noon where the police conducted a raid. He said the family comes from Mandi Bahauddin.
According to the SHO, Shoni had said he had come to the brick kiln with his family three years ago.
The family had a peaceful first year working at the kiln and that they were given proper meals and wages and were allowed to roam around freely after working hours.
A year later, Shoni told the police, working conditions got bad, the family was not paid their wages and were not given meals.
The owner of the kiln also put restrictions on their movement and deployed a man to keep an eye on them and detain them within the premises of the kiln.
Shoni said he managed to escape a few days before he approached the IHC and that he sought help from the court in helping the other 15 members of his family free.
The court then issued directives to the police to free the family from confinement.
"They were produced in court which set them free," the SHO said, adding that the owner of the brick kiln was in police custody and that legal action will be taken against him.
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[ABC] The head of the Air Force Academy gathered 5,500 cadets, faculty, staff and cadet candidates Thursday to deliver a powerful message after racial slurs were found written on message boards at the academy’s preparatory school.
"If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect, then get out," Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria told the group at the culmination of a forceful five-minute lecture on the "power of diversity."
Five black cadet candidates at the Academy’s Preparatory School woke up Monday morning to messages saying "go home" followed by an anti-black slur, according to a statement released by the academy.
In fairness, he did what any commanding officer MUST do in a situation like this. On one or two occasions during my military service, I had to listen to - and in one case, deliver - similar lectures.
Having said that, I wish he had not been quite so public about it. Sadly, given recent history with this sort of thing, the USAFOSI investigators are certainly looking at the possibility that this was not what it appears to be, and had LTGEN Silveria given that brief to just the assembled prep school students (those involved are students at the USAF Academy Preparatory School, not the Academy proper) it would have had the same moral effect as well as filling in the square.
Mike
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Did anyone "gather the troops" to talk about uniform violations and the evil of communism?
[RightWingNews] Kellogg’s has been having a rough year and they have brought it on themselves. First they attacked Breitbart, then they started backing Soros-funded leftist causes such as Black Lives Matter. Turns out the boycott that brought on has been hurting them big time. The kindest thing you can say about their sales numbers is that they are stagnant. In reality, they are losing money. Now, Kellogg’s CEO John Bryant has stepped down over all this. Kellogg’s is now searching outside the company for a replacement. That’s a bad sign... normally you would think they would promote from within.
Bryant is 53 and has been with Kellogg’s in that position for quite a while ‐ he’s been with the company itself for 20 years. But the company has suffered through seven years of falling revenue, a contracting work force, major reorganization and a shift in customer tastes, the Detroit Free Press reported. Beginning in January, they launched a campaign called "Special K." It was intended to reorganize their distribution system and would eliminate over one thousand jobs across the US. It also impacted thousands of contractors. I guess it wasn’t enough to stop the fiscal bleeding.
States that got hit hardest with the reorganization were Michigan, North Carolina (where 500 were let go), New York (Which lost 300), Minnesota (who lost 219) and Pennsylvania (who cut 500 jobs). Even with all of this on display, the company claims that Bryant resigned for personal reasons. Right. "It has been my pleasure to serve as the CEO of Kellogg Company over the past seven years," Bryant said in a statement. "I am even more confident in the future of our company today than at any other time in my 20 years with Kellogg." And that’s why you are leaving... it’s not true.
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we like Kellogg's Raisin Bran but most of their products have a generic that is just as good
if they had kept their foundation's original purpose of helping child welfare things might have been better but, as in other cases, lefties took over the foundation and it now provides grants for sketchy immigration advocacy and 'community' development stuff
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[Townhall] Pennsylvania State University-Brandywine professor Angela Putman recently asserted in an academic paper that the notion "if I work hard, I can be successful" is merely a product of white ideology, reports Campus Reform. Don't have to work very hard to get a decent grade in her classes, do you?
Angela Putman conducted a study to critique and examine "ideologies within college students’ discourse that are foundational to whiteness." First examine the ideologies, then determine if the thing actually exists...
Her resulting conclusion published on Thursday was that "meritocracy", or the belief that people should rise based on the fruits of their own labor, is a "white ideology." In her mind, this "white ideology" is unfortunately widely accepted in academia. If the cause and effect test works, maybe that's why it's unfortunately widely accepted.
But, Professor Putman argues that professors can change this "ideology" by teaching students "how racism and whiteness function in various contexts, the powerful influence of systems and institutions, and the pervasiveness of whiteness ideologies within the United States." And really, they'll be doing them a service. I'm sure they'll all go far taking that advice to heart.
Putman believes that it is somehow a bad thing to teach students personal responsibility. Emphasizing a collectivist mindset, Putman puts forth the idea that Americans are falsely "socialized to believe that we got to where we are... because of our own individual efforts." Funny, but I'm a-think'n that my hard work is how I got my White Privilege!
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You fucking piece of shit. It is just common sense. Do you want your students to actually believe your bullshit and make nothing happen
You are the END of the Educational system. You, Professor are a piece of human shit that will never do anything worth anything for anyone on this planet feeding your idiot students this fake marxist bullshit.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] Two men were killed and at least 10 other people were 
[CNN] A mountain of food, water and other vital supplies has arrived in Puerto Rico's main Port of San Juan.
[Sky News] The hooker is forced to miss a match after the lion did not take kindly to being petted - with the incident caught on camera.
[Iran Press TV] South Korean media say the North has been detected transferring several missiles out of a research facility in its capital amid speculations of a new test launch by Pyongyang.
Bryant is 53 and has been with Kellogg’s in that position for quite a while ‐ he’s been with the company itself for 20 years. But the company has suffered through seven years of falling revenue, a contracting work force, major reorganization and a shift in customer tastes, the Detroit Free Press reported. Beginning in January, they launched a campaign called "Special K." It was intended to reorganize their distribution system and would eliminate over one thousand jobs across the US. It also impacted thousands of contractors. I guess it wasn’t enough to stop the fiscal bleeding.
[Townhall] Pennsylvania State University-Brandywine professor Angela Putman recently asserted in an academic paper that the notion "if I work hard, I can be successful" is merely a product of white ideology, reports Campus Reform.
