[HOT AIR] California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced a lawsuit this week aimed at Tesla’s Fremont car factory. The claims about the treatment of black employees in the lawsuit are pretty dramatic:
Obviously I don’t know if these claims are accurate but what’s being described is certainly repulsive behavior. And because Tesla has no PR department, there really no one to speak for the company except Elon Musk. Speaking of PR, the day before the lawsuit was filed, Tesla posted a statement on its website offering a pre-buttal to some of the allegations.
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He's a very wealthy, young entrepreneur, a visionary and white 'self-made man' who has South African roots and loves the United States. He employs thousands of people and is migrating a significant portion of his operations from California to Texas.
He is an obvious affront to equity. He must therefore be PUNISHED !
[Jpost] Hate crimes against Jewish, Asian, LGBTQ+ and disabled Americans are underreported by Western media when compared to the reporting on attacks against other minorities, according to a new report by media watchdog HonestReporting.
“Jews are victims of more hate crimes per capita than all other groups in the United States yet HonestReporting's research shows that anti-Jewish hate crimes receive disproportionately little news coverage compared to other groups, and by a disturbingly large margin," HonestReporting CEO Daniel Pomerantz told The Jerusalem Post. "Hate crimes against Asian Americans, Americans with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community are similarly underreported in the media.”
HonestReporting reviewed 18 popular and mainstream Western media outlets and crossreferenced their coverage of hate crimes in the United States from 2018-2020 with the FBI's hate crime data from the same years. The amount of news coverage to attacks each year was averaged.
The minority group with the most coverage was Muslim Americans, with 6.32 articles per attack. Attacks on black Americans were underreported in previous years with less than 3 articles per attack in 2018, but have more than doubled since then, with 6.4 articles per hate crime in 2020. Anti-Latino attacks averaged around three articles per attack in the last three years. Antisemitism received just under 2 articles per attack, anti-Asian attacks yielded about 1.2 articles, LGBTQ people about 0.67 articles, and disabled Americans about 0.63 articles.
HonestReporting attributed the change in reportage of anti-black hate crimes to the reaction to the death of George Floyd in May 2020. Protests and riots against anti-black racism and police brutality followed in the wake of Floyd's death, creating widespread awareness of anti-black hate crimes.
In 2020 American Jews comprised just 2.4% of the US population, according to Pew. Despite this, in the past three years, Jews were the target of 59% of all reported religiously motivated hate crimes in the US, and the target of 10.5% of all hate crimes, according to the FBI. This makes Jews the third most targeted group by the total number of racist attacks, under LGBTQ people and above white Americans.
New York has been an epicenter of antisemitic attacks. In November 2019, physical attacks against jumped by 800% compared to the four previous months, according to NYPD hate crime statistics. A march against antisemitism attempted to bring awareness to the issue, but there have been spikes of anti-Jewish violence in May 2021, and again in January 2022. According to NYPD data, antisemitic incidents increased nearly 300% this January compared to the last.
FBI data shows that LGBTQ+ Americans were the targets of 17.7% of all hate crimes in the US in the last three years, despite being just 5.6% of the US population in 2021, according to Gallup. Anti-Asian hate crimes were 4.7% of all anti-ethnicity hate crimes in the US in the last three years, and 2.8% of all hate crimes. Americans with Asian heritage were 7% of the total population in 2021.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Now Priti vows to FREEZE OUT 'useless' Sadiq: Home Secretary warns Mayor SHE 'will appoint the right leader' to replace Cressida Dick amid fears he will pick an internal candidate who is 'too woke’ - as victims demand a purge of Scotland Yard
Under-fire Dame Cressida Dick last night finally resigned as Commissioner of the Metropolitan PoliceScotland Yard chief has presided over a litany of scandals from Sarah Everard killing to VIP abuse probe
She had just hours earlier insisted that she had 'no intention of going' after row with Sadiq Khan
The Met Police force has recently come under criticism for alleged racism and sexism within its ranks
Her deputy Sir Stephen House is expected to step up temporarily when she is gone in the coming months
He will likely make the final decisions on whether to fine the Prime Minister in the Partygate investigation
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Potential War on the European Continent and the President goes off to "relax" at Camp David, away from the PEOC and all the connectivity of the White House because he is sundowning now and the visibility risk of his dementia is too much to hide, and he might try and interfere with the ongoing crisis were he in the building.
The absurd Cackle-Jackal sent next week to represent us with our most important allies on something as dire as a Russian military invasion.
This is Monty Python level comedy script material.
Can there be any greater proof of the Potempkin Presidency? All that remains to see behind the Wizar of Oz Curtain would be Obama going to the WH to be on top of the action with Susan Rice at al.
#9
So now, when Putin doesn't invade, Biden can take credit for preventing war.
Of course, following the leaked war plan to a tee and still winning. That's like the Babe calling that home run.
If Putin does invade, it won't be for territory. It will be for the effect it will have on Europe and the USA. Conventional wisdom says invasion will unify the West against him. I'm not so sure that is true. I think it will tear it asunder.
Both as a coalition and within individual nations. While China looks on...
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SO IS SHE BEING SET UP AS THE FALL GUY FOR A COMING UKRAINE DEBACLE? Kamala Harris dispatched to Munich conference to talk Ukraine later this month.
Also, is Munich a felicitous location for talks on a threatened invasion in Eastern Europe?
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#9 So now, when Putin doesn't invade, Biden can take credit for preventing war.
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Penguin nails it at #9. But don't worry. Kamala will still have plenty of favors to dispense.
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^ Good moves. But I can't figure out how to short Biden's approval ratings.
Speaking of which, would any of this be happening if Biden's approval ratings were better?
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Wag the Dog is being tested for Slow Joe. That’s why all the saber rattling. The solution is easy but would cost the Biden’s personally which is why it’s unlikely. Russia gets guarantees on a 10 year moratorium for Ukraine in NATO in exchange for a demilitarized Donbas region. The Russian and Euros have 10 years to jointly investigate and eliminate the corruption in Ukraine. The US can pound sand, and will gladly do so since it’s a Euro problem and the Euros have their solution.
Only problem is the corruption leads straight to Hunter and Joe Biden, and probably some Russian oligarchs as well.
#19
If the endgame would involve extraditing Vindman, Nuland and a few others from the "national security community" to Russia for a quick trial and execution, I could be all for it.
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My favorite is this is all over Russia sending pedophiles to Siberia.
And if my Al-lu-minium Chapeau is just right, I can see China directing "Biden" to harass Russia.
#22
This is essentially Africa with white faces. Like the warlords bandits berserk killers you see in one of those interminable African civil wars in Rwanda or the Congo or Ouagadougou or Whathaveyou.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, during a meeting with his British counterpart Ben Wallace in Moscow, suggested that Western countries contribute to reducing tensions in Europe and stop supplying weapons to Ukraine.
“It’s coming from all sides, it’s being done publicly. It’s being done in a revealing way. It’s not entirely clear why. I would also like to understand why Britain, the kingdom, sent its special forces to Ukraine and how long it will stay there,” Shoigu said.
The minister cited the situation in Afghanistan as an example, when the country was pumped with weapons, which, after the withdrawal of the Western military, fell into the hands of terrorists.
In turn, the head of the British defense department said that he listened to the assurances of the Russian military about the absence of plans to invade Ukraine, and he takes them seriously.
According to Shoigu, the military-political situation on the European continent has deteriorated significantly and this requires urgent measures to be taken to ensure security guarantees for Moscow.
"The Russian Defense Minister briefly commented on the responses received from the United States and NATO on Russian draft agreements on this issue. He focused on the lack of responses to the key demands of the Russian Federation: refusal to expand NATO, non-deployment of strike weapons near Russian borders, as well as the return of military capabilities and infrastructure bloc in Europe to the position of 1997, when the Russia-NATO Founding Act was signed, pointed out that it is impossible to reduce military-political tensions and build a solid European security architecture without resolving these issues," the report says.
At the same time, the parties noted the importance of continuing contacts on preventing incidents and reducing the risks of unintentional conflicts. Shoigu stressed that the Russian Defense Ministry is ready to consider proposals for restoring bilateral military cooperation.
"This is our first meeting in recent years. Unfortunately, the level of our cooperation is close to zero and is about to cross the zero meridian and go negative, which I really would not like. Therefore, I really hope to have the opportunity to discuss the most pressing issues with you without any or escalating and raising the temperature even higher in relations between Russia and the countries of the NATO bloc, and especially with Great Britain," the minister said.
He noted that recently in the speeches of British officials, threats of sanctions have appeared through the line, and he would not like this meeting to become a continuation of such rhetoric.
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[Korrespondent] Within 48 hours, Russia must provide data on the conduct of military activities, Kuleba said.
Ukraine demands from Russia within 48 hours to provide clarifications on military activities near the borders and in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba wrote about this on Friday, February 11, on Twitter .
"We have officially applied the danger reduction mechanism, in accordance with Section III of the Vienna Document, and have requested the Russian Federation to provide detailed clarifications on military activities in areas adjacent to the territory of Ukraine and in the temporarily occupied Crimea," the minister wrote.
He explained what the provisions of the Vienna Document meant.
"According to the provisions of the Vienna Document, the Russian Federation must provide the exact areas for conducting military activities, report the date of its completion, as well as the name, subordination, number of military formations, as well as the types of weapons and military equipment involved in it," writes the head of the Foreign Ministry.
In the event that the Russian Federation refuses to give an answer or provides insufficient information, Ukraine initiates an extraordinary meeting of the OSCE participating states.
"Russia has 48 hours to respond. In case of its absence or provision of insufficient or inappropriate information, Ukraine will apply to the Russian Federation and other states parties to the Vienna Document to convene an emergency meeting, at which the Russian Federation will have to provide an explanation," Kuleba added.
The Foreign Minister added that Ukraine will continue to use all diplomatic opportunities to ensure the country's security.
As you know, Russian troops are participating in large-scale exercises in Belarus. And the other day, the Russian Federation blocked the waters of the Black and Azov Seas for exercises. According to the State Border Service of Ukraine, the blockade in the Sea of Azov has been lifted .
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[Korrespondent] Since the beginning of the current day, separatist units have violated the ceasefire in Donbas three times. One Ukrainian soldier was injured, the press center of the headquarters of the Joint Forces Operation reports in an evening summary on Friday, February 11.
So, one of the enemy attacks was carried out near Maryinka. The enemy deployed a drone, which was used to drop a VOG-17 round. VOG-17 is an automatic grenade launcher round
In the direction of Nevelskoye, small arms fire was fired, and in the direction of Peski, from hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers.
"As a result of enemy actions, one member of the Joint Forces was injured. The soldier is in a medical institution. His health condition is satisfactory," the report says.
The headquarters assured that the borders of the Ukrainian units remained the same, and the situation in the JFO area is under control.
Recall that during the day on February 10, shelling intensified in the Donbass . The separatists opened fire eight times. Then the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were not injured.
For weeks now the Biden administration, hopelessly compromised and looking at political annihilation in the coming midterm elections, has flirted with disaster. Desperate to regain credibility and to counter the obvious impotence of the man in the White House, Joe’s mandarins have made all sorts of vaguely threatening pronouncements regarding Ukraine and shoved forward a wide range of U.S. military assets into Eastern Europe.
The obvious danger of stumbling into war has been disregarded. Men who have never heard a shot fired in anger, never put their lives on the line, and have no earthly idea what strategy they are pursuing have put the whole world in danger. We may be about to pay the price for that incompetence.
#2
Reagan was supposed to start WW III. Then Trump was supposed to. Now along comes Joe, who campaigned on "return to normalcy." Seems like irony overload, if you ask me.
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Sub story posted for tomorrow
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Re #2: we didn't know how good we had it under OrangeMan. Putin was restrained, the Chinese were on the back foot, the Gulf Arabs and Israel not only made peace but created a de facto alliance against Iran, and we were finally beginning ning to enforce our border.
Oh and unemployment was at an all time low and working class disposable income was higher than it has ever been.
Damn those bastards who stole that election. To hell.
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[REGNUM] A major provocation is being prepared in the Donbass. Igor Shishkin, an expert from the CIS Countries Institute, told a REGNUM correspondent about this on February 11.
"To be or not to be a war in Ukraine does not depend on Kiev. These issues are beyond the competence of the vice-presidents of Ukraine," the expert said.
According to the political scientist, the military hysteria has gone so far that it will end with a simple virtual victory along the lines of "the Russians did not attack Ukraine, the Russians withdrew their troops from Belarus, we won!" in the information space, it can no longer.
On a full-scale offensive, similar to the summer of 2014 and January 2015, the Ukrainian side is unlikely to go, the political scientist is sure. In Ukraine, Putin's statement is well remembered that in this case, the Ukrainian statehood in its current form will cease to exist. Therefore, most likely, a large and bloody provocation is being prepared, Shishkin is convinced.
Recall that the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, Sergei Naryshkin , said that Ukraine is preparing for military operations at full speed.
BACKGROUND
Hostilities between the armed forces of Ukraine and the militias began in the spring of 2014 after the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic declared their independence from Kiev following a popular referendum. The Ukrainian authorities did not recognize the results and still insist that the DPR and LPR are part of the country.
The combined population of the DNR and LNR is estimated to be about 4 million people. The total losses of the parties since 2014, according to the UN, are estimated at 13,000 dead and up to 30,000 wounded.
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This being the Daily Mail and me being suspicious, I cannot help but wonder if there is something more here beyond playing Minecraft. Back when Doom(tm) was a thing, the US Marines created custom game scenarios for training 4 man fire teams. Could it be that our young hooligans had their eye on a real-world target?
According to investigators, the three teenagers were learning to make improvised explosive devices and practised detonating them in abandoned buildings.
What they were doing wasn't *all* fantasy. But there's a world of difference between the physics of minecraft and the real world.
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Not a hint but supported by actual evidence of real-world coordinated anarchist activity -- nb Russia has a long and unsettling history with violent revolutionary anarchists:
"In summer 2020, Uvarov and two other teenagers were in the Siberian city of Kansk for spreading leaflets in support of a Moscow mathematician and anarchist activist who was on trial for vandalism.
"The trio put one of the leaflets on a local building of the FSB, Russia's powerful domestic security agency and successor of the Soviet-era KGB.
"Police took their phones and said they found an exchange about plans to blow up an FSB building that they had created in the popular block-building game Minecraft."
[AlAhram] Protesters angry over pandemic restrictions drove toward Paris in scattered convoys of camper vans, cars and trucks Friday in an effort to blockade the French capital, despite a police ban.
[Free Beacon] More than a dozen Republican senators introduced a measure Thursday that would ban a pandemic relief program from funding the distribution of crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia.
The Cutting off Rampant Access to Crack Kits (CRACK) Act, introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), would amend the Democrats' American Rescue Plan, which allocates $30 million for a program that funds the distribution of crack "smoking kits." The amendment comes in response to a Washington Free Beacon report Monday that detailed how the Biden administration will fund smoking kits intended to limit the spread of disease among users of drugs such as crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine. The money would fund local government programs such as ones already established in cities across the country. Programs in Annapolis, Md., New Haven, Conn., San Francisco, and Seattle, all included smoking pipes in kits.
"It is pure insanity to think the federal government would fund crack pipe distribution," Rubio said. "This legislation will make certain the program can never pay for crack pipes."
The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the "harm reduction" grant program, defended funding smoking kits, saying "unsafe smoking practices can lead to open sores, burns and cuts on the lips, and can increase the risk of infection among people who smoke drugs."
HHS secretary Xavier Becerra announced Wednesday, however, that "no federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits." Aside from pipes, smoking kits often include mouthpieces, rubber bands, and alcohol wipes.
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Crack paraphernalia is o.k., but the Feds can't/won't decide on marijuana decriminalization/legalization. Makes sense.
Crack and Chinese chemical produced fentanyl eventually leads to an early grave. Early graves assist the US Government re-population effort, reduces Social Security benefit population. Also opens parking spots at Walmart and Target form 'Made in China' box store goers.
[Breitbart] The Department of Defense’s National Defense University (NDU), the premier education institution for military and defense civilian leaders, is planning to host a lecture on how Western countries should adopt socialism in response to the challenge from China.
The lecture, which is scheduled to take place online February 16, is titled, "Responding to China: The Case For Global Justice and Democratic Socialism," and will be given by French economist Thomas Piketty, who is the author of a 2021 book titled Time for Socialism.
A summary of the event, posted on the university’s website, reads:
Western countries are still struggling to define their attitude towards the Beijing regime. In this talk on February 22, 2022, Thomas Piketty will argue that the right answer lies in ending Western arrogance and promoting a new emancipatory and egalitarian horizon on a global scale, a new form of democratic and participatory, ecological and post-colonial socialism. If they stick to their usual lecturing posture and a dated hyper-capitalist model, Western countries may find it extremely difficult to meet the Chinese challenge.
The notice for the event includes a bio for Piketty that lists two of his books, Capital in the 21st Century (2013) and Capital and Ideology (2020), but does not mention his most recent Time for Socialism book.
The lecture is part of the university’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Speaker Series, which has hosted lectures focused on China over the past year.
Sebastian Gorka, who served as an associate dean at the NDU for five years, highlighted the lecture on his show "AMERICA First with Sebastian Gorka" on Friday. "NDU is where colonels go to become generals," Gorka said.
"This event is presented by the Pentagon’s Strategic Multilayer Assessment program in collaboration with National Defense University’s Eisenhower School of National Security. Eisenhower’s name. His institution is being used to host an event promoting socialism in America," Gorka said, adding that American taxpayers are paying for the event. "I’m not even disgusted — that’s not even a strong enough word. I’m horrified."
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WTF? In the dark ages I did the NDU Course on National Security and found it rock-solid and focused for the era. We were housed at the Mayflower Hotel and during a weekend jaunt down the street to get McDonalds from the Metro Station, I returned to the front door after a sudden Secret Service cordon and watched Bill Clinton arrive for a party for WH Interns held in the Ballroom. Apparently it was the night he discovered Monica...
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.
