[Reuters] - An employee at the Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, where a supervisor shot six co-workers dead last week may struggle to prevail in a $50-million lawsuit she filed accusing the retailer of failing to protect its workers, legal experts say.
A system meant to help workers get compensated for workplace injuries could make it difficult for the lawsuit to succeed.
The United States averages two mass shootings, -- defined as an incident killing or injuring four or more people -- a day, according to Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit research group. But while many of those shootings occur in the workplace, employers are rarely held responsible.
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The United States Chicago & Baltimore averages two mass shootings, -- defined as an incident killing or injuring four or more people -- a day, according to Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit research group
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Just sue Alex Jones or a gun company. Suing Clinton corony companies gets you treated like a Haitian.
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A task force was set up in California to make proposals for slavery reparations
Descendants of slaves in California
...do they mean descendants of those who were slaves in California, or slave descendants who were free when they went to California? It’s not clear to me why California taxpayers should take on the guilt of the rest of the country. And what about those descended from immigrants who arrived after Lincoln freed the slaves —why should they take on guilt for something their bloodline was not involved in?
could receive $223,200 each, it speculated
That would total $569billion - more than the entire state expenditure in 2021
Nearly 6.5% of California residents - 2.5M - identify as Black or African American
A focus of the task force has involved reimbursing for 'housing discrimination'
The task force was formed due to a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020
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In unrelated news Taxes in California went up and nearly every company/working citizen left. This was helpful to provide housing for the wave of American Blacks moving to the sunshine state.
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Most blacks in california will probably get a check for housing descrimination while those that Newsom's crack team can prove were descendants of slaves (despite the dodgy claims of the old Census) will get millions each. Pelosi and Newsom were originally slave names don't you know.
[AmericanThinker] I recently learned that the “Naming Commission,” initially proposed by Congress in 2021 to strip military bases of Confederate leader names has just made the Arlington National Cemetery the latest casualty of the military’s woke cancel culture.
Although the primary mission of the panel was to wipe references to the Confederacy from the U.S. military, it is now painfully evident the panel of eight did not stop with renaming. Their third and final report issued in September 19, 2022 includes the removal of a 108-year-old Confederate monument from Arlington National Cemetery.
Has the panel overstepped its bounds to become like the busybodies in a homeowner’s association eager to punish others for minor failings to cover up their own? And whatever happened to earlier political promises that monuments in cemeteries would not be disturbed? No firm date is known to implement the recommendations, but since this commission is part of the Defense Authorization Act, most should be completed before or during 2024.
Although it happened on his watch, don’t blame Trump for this mess. Fox News noted that “Congress created the commission in 2020 after lawmakers overrode a veto by President Trump, who opposed renaming bases that honor Confederate leaders.” Obviously, it took a bipartisan vote in both houses to override a presidential veto.
To understand this overwhelming support in Congress, one must remember what was going on at the time. The statue toppling, along with destructive and deadly BLM and Antifa riots following George Floyd’s death was still going on. Therefore, the bipartisanship needed to overcome Trump’s veto was most likely due to virtue-signaling to appease and keep the mob away.
Some helpful information about the memorial were found in the Charleston Athenaeum Press, a site dedicated to correcting woke misrepresentations of southern history. Following is their description how and why the memorial came to be placed in the Arlington National Cemetery:
“Remember, the Confederate Memorial was the idea of Union veteran and President of the United States, William McKinley. It was enthusiastically approved by Congress. Another president, William Howard Taft, spoke at the laying of the cornerstone. A third president, Woodrow Wilson, spoke at the dedication ceremony June 4, 1914 as did Union and Confederate veterans.” (snip)
“The Confederate Memorial was designed and constructed by internationally renowned Jewish sculptor Moses Ezekiel, himself a Confederate veteran, a graduate of VMI. He is buried with three other Southerners at the base of his beautiful monument thus making it their headstone but also the grave markers for 462 other Confederate graves arranged in concentric circles around the monument and an intergral (sic) part of the memorial as was intended by Congress, three presidents, and veterans North and South.”
The complete Naming Commission final report was submitted to Congress with all recommendations. The information specific to the memorial in Arlington Cemetery is in part III on pages 15 and 16. Following are the recommended actions:
“The statue atop of the monument should be removed.” “All bronze elements on the monument should be deconstructed, and removed, preferably leaving the granite base and foundation in place to minimize risk of inadvertent disturbance of graves.
“The work should be planned and coordinated with the Commission of Fine Arts and the Historical Review Commission to determine the best way to proceed with removal of the monument.”
“The Department of Army should consider the most cost-effective method of removal and disposal of the monument’s elements in their planning.”
Arlington National Cemetery was established by Brigadier General Montgomery C. Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House, appropriated the grounds June 15, 1864, for use as a military cemetery. His intention was to render the house uninhabitable should the Lee family ever attempt to return. A stone and masonry burial vault in the rose garden, 20 feet wide and 10 feet deep, and containing the remains of 1,800 Bull Run casualties, was among the first monuments to Union dead erected under Meigs' orders. Meigs himself was later buried within 100 yards of Arlington House with his wife, father and son; the final statement to his original order.
Neither Robert E. Lee, nor his wife, as title holder, ever attempted to publicly recover control of Arlington House. They were buried at Washington University (later renamed Washington and Lee University) where Lee had served as president. The couple never returned to the home George Washington Parke Custis had built and treasured.
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They will start with Confederates and then move to whites …. In the end they will exhume everybody and make it a pup handling park for the weird Energy Department guy who steals luggage.
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Yeah, downtown traffic circles and campuses are one thing. Don't even threaten Arlington.
Unions largely delivered on promises of higher wages for the working class often were delivered in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The average pay for a Union Pacific Railroad work is $93,000 a year.
That's almost as good as the $108,538 a year that federal employees average.
But with communists, people are disposable. So it was with the workingman. In the 1970s, communists worked to shutter factories. Red China now dominates manufacturing from pencils to penicillin.
Of course, this puts America in peril.
On April 28, 2021, Market Watch reported, "Right now, the U.S. has virtually no capacity to manufacture antibiotics. That’s because Red China currently controls roughly 90% of the global supply of inputs needed to make the generic antibiotics that treat bronchitis, pneumonia, pediatric ear infections, and life-threatening conditions such as sepsis.
"At the peak of last year’s COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S., these generic antibiotics—including azithromycin—were urgently needed to treat secondary bacterial infections. However, the U.S. faced a potential shortage, since the key materials for azithromycin and other drugs are supplied by Red China."
So, we became dependent on Red China for drugs and Red China subsequently unleashed a manmade virus upon us.
But American communists defend this as the free market at work. Never mind that Red China uses slave labor to run its factories
Of course, to ship goods from Red China to New York, you need railroads. And after a couple of years of working mandatory overtime and the like, railroad workers want some relief. They are threatening a strike.
In the old days, America's Marxists would rally behind them.
Something from the Soros side of the aisle — the Open Society Foundations is one of the institute supporters.
[QuincyInstitute]
In an essay for the December 2022 issue of The Atlantic, George Packer proposes a new theory of American power that reads much like the Biden administration’s declared approach of defending democracies over autocracies.
Read the rest at the link
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Censored again? Wow, that seems to be a pattern.
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Nah, censors never waste time censoring worthless material. The more out there, the better. They only delete material they don't like. Just like the left.
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Spike the Hairy6811 links to the Quincy Institute analysis of the Atlantic essay, Dron, which is itself linked to the third word in the piece — essay. But hot links you’ve previously gone to, that left cookies on your device, will not display the colour change of unclicked hot links. I have no idea why. At one point I tried bolding links so they would be visible after that first use, but it made comments and submitted articles annoyingly visually cluttered, so I stopped.
It’s not censorship to publish something you submitted when the moderator suggests going to the link to read the rest, Spike the Hairy6811. It’s not even necessarily censorship if we choose not to publish something at all — lots of submissions don’t fit Rantburg’s purpose and audience. The only guaranteed way to get everything you want published is to have your own blog.
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The only guaranteed way to get everything you want published is to have your own blog.
But then there's no audience, TW.
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I wrote some biting commentary which was obviously cut out. Honestly most of the article was there which obviates the need to click through anyway. Deny the bastards ad revenue. But then someone just had to add the "muh Soros" comment and spoil it for everyone.
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I wonder how often the perception that a comment has been "censored" is actually a case of the posting of the comment was botched or violated the auto-filtering rules regarding certain words, phrases and constructs here.
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I would very much have liked to read your biting commentary, Spike. What I do is first write everything in a notepad file then post it so I don't lose all the typed text.
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Go ahead and compose in the comment editing box. Just copy your post to the clipboard (CTRL-A, CTRL-C) as you write. Then, if you lose it, it's there on the clipboard.
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I lost a This Week in Books one time; long posts get the notepad or whatnot first from then on.
"What's the banned word?" is a fun game, and all too often its a broken tag.
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Looks like it's the top headline on the front page.
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Oh, I didn't lose it. It was submitted successfully. Moderators censored it because evidently The Atlantic is MUH SOROS. Now it's just a stub.
I had most of the article with biting inline commentary, which I can only assume was inconvenient. Boom, it's gone and web forms had nothing to do with it.
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I’ve not looked into who supports the Atlantic nowadays — I got my fill of them when I had a subscription back in the 1980s, eventually realizing that their articles were as formulaic as Nancy Drew novels. But I wanted to see who supported the Quincy Institute, so I looked at their About page — the Open Society Foundations logo is there along with the Ford Foundation. This information is of interest to our readers, and should be to you, too, Spike.
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It's a The Atlantic article. But hey, don't let me stop your conspiracy theories about the globalist Jew SOROS running everything. Did you know that many of our top world leaders are actually lizard people?
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#18 It's a The Atlantic article. But hey, don't let me stop your conspiracy theories about the globalist Jew SOROS running everything. Did you know that many of our top world leaders are actually lizard people?
There isn't a mod or a regular at Rantburg that hasn't had an article deleted or foreshortened without comment. I do it constantly for copyright purposes. It s much more helpful to do so.
In any case, the question for the mods becomes what does it add to the conversation. This Soros article is a steaming pile of bullshit, but rather than spike it, I let it go through, knowing someone'd bitch about it if it didn't
I deleted the other article because it didn't add anything. Just a judgement call on my part; call me a Nazi censor, a paid FSB Russian agent, whatever is your delight, but it is what it is.
You should grow up a little bit and stop taking umbrage over simple editorial decisions. You'll live longer, and you possibly could even enjoy your stay here.
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It isn’t an Atlantic article. It’s a Quincy Institute analysis of an Atlantic article. That’s why your source URL points to the Quincy Institute, Spike, not to The Atlantic.
Perhaps it is the same confusion that leads you to such strange ideas about what Rantburgers believe about Mr. Soros.
[ZERO] Every day, visitors to Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Northern Arizona hike into an area named Coyote Buttes North to see one of the "most visually striking geologic sandstone formations in the world," which is known as The Wave. On an ancient layer of sandstone, millions of years of water and wind erosion crafted 3,000-foot cliffs, weird red canyons that look like you are on the planet Mars, and giant formations that look like crashing waves made of rock. There are old carvings known as ’petroglyphs’ on cliff walls, and even "dinosaur tracks embedded in the sediment."
The Wave is unlike anywhere else on Earth. It is also part of a U.S. national park, and thus technically, it’s open to anyone. Yet, to preserve its natural beauty, the Bureau of Land Management lets just 64 people daily visit the area. Snagging one of these slots is an accomplishment, a ticket into The Wave is known as "The Hardest Permit to Get in the USA" by Outside and Backpacker Magazines.
To apply requires going to Recreation.gov, the site set up to manage national parks, public cultural landmarks, and public lands, and paying $9 for a "Lottery Application Fee." If you win, you get a permit, and pay a recreation fee of $7. The success rate for the lottery is between 4-10%, and some people spend upwards of $500 before securing an actual permit.
But while the recreation fee of $7 goes to maintaining the park - which is what Henry George would appreciate - the money for the "Lottery Application Fee" is pure Plunkitt. That money goes to the giant D.C. consulting firm, Booz Allen and Company. In fact, since 2017, more and more of America’s public lands - over 4,200 facilities and 113,000 individual sites across the country at last count - have been added to the Recreation.gov database and website run by Booz Allen, which in turn captures various fees that Americans pay to visit their national heritage.
You can do a lot at Recreation.gov. You can sign up for a pass to cut down a Christmas tree on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests, get permits to fly-fishing, rifle hunting or target practice at thousands of sites, or even secure a tour at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. There are dozens of lotteries to enter for different parks and lands that are hard to access. And all of them come with service fees attached, fees that go directly to Booz Allen, which built Recreation.gov. The deeper you go, the more interesting the gatekeeping. As one angry writer found out after waiting on hold and being transferred multiple times, the answer is that Booz Allen "actually sets the Recreation.gov fees for themselves."
Lately, hundreds of sites have begun requiring the use of the site. A typical example is Red Rock Canyon, which added "timed entry permit" in the past two years. Such parks, before adding these new processes, usually do a "trial" period followed by a public comment period, and then the fees are approved by a Resource Advisory Council, objects of derision composed of people appointed by the government bureaus. As one person involved in the process told me, these councils are sort of ridiculous. "Agencies fill it with people beholden to them," he said. "so the council playing committee rubber stamps whatever they send their way, often even if it makes no sense."
The entry permit almost always become permanent. This includes heavily visited lands like Acadia National Park (4 million annual visitors), Arches National Park (1.5 million), Glacier National Park (3 million), Rocky Mountain National Park (4.4 million), and Yosemite (3.3 million). There’s nothing wrong with charging a fee for the use of a national park, as long as that fee is necessary for the upkeep and is used to maintain the public resource.
That was in fact the point of the law passed in 2004 - the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act - to give permanent authority to government agencies to charge fees for the use of public lands. But what Booz Allen is doing is different. The incentives are creating the same dynamics for public lands that we see with junk fees across the economy. Just as airlines are charging for carry-on bags and hotels are forcing people to pay ’resort fees,’ some national parks are now requiring reservations with fees attached. And as scalpers automatically grabbed Taylor Swift tickets from Ticketmaster using high-speed automated programs, there are now bots booking campsites.
None of this is criminal, though the fee structure may not be lawful, but it is very George Washington Plunkitt. "I Seen My Opportunities," he said, "and I Took ’Em."
Honest Graft
The entry point for Booz Allen can be traced back to the Obama administration, and a giant failed IT project. In 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, pledging that by 2014, the government would have a website up in which uninsured Americans could buy health insurance with various subsidies. In perhaps one of the most embarrassing moments of the Obama administration, Healthcare.gov failed to launch the day the new health law came into force, and millions couldn’t sign up to take advantage of it.
[American Thinker] We need to replace the current leaders of the Republican Party -- RNC chair Ronna McDaniel (niece of Mitt Romney), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. They have failed miserably in their duties.
But we can’t insist that they recount the votes or complain that they didn’t support Trump candidates. They’ll just dismiss us as "right-wing extremist election-deniers."
Instead, we need to use their own rules against them.
First, they violated the sacred rule that the party members choose the candidates in the primaries, not the leadership elites. Primaries are where new and exciting candidates are discovered and developed.
Kevin McCarthy interfered in the primaries on a massive scale. On September 27, the Washington Post detailed his efforts to "systematically weed out GOP candidates who could either cause McCarthy trouble if he becomes House speaker or jeopardize GOP victories in districts where a more moderate candidate might have a better chance at winning."
Second, they accepted donations from outside the party.
McCarthy used his Congressional Leadership Fund -- a super-PAC with over $165 million -- to help "moderate" primary candidates and incumbents succeed over challengers from the "far-right" and "election-deniers." Reporters were able to dig through public finance records to uncover the links between McCarthy and others supporting "moderate" Republicans over MAGAs. One group was... "mostly funded by Riot Games executive Marc Merrill and Cathryn Murdoch, the wife of former Fox News executive James Murdoch, who are both major donors to the Democratic National Committee."
Third, you don’t oppose your own members of Congress. In North Carolina, McCarthy tried to unseat Madison Cawthorn, a conservative firebrand endorsed by Trump.
The fourth rule is "don’t bring shame to the GOP."
McCarthy has a disturbing connection with FTX, the cryptocurrency giant that recently filed for bankruptcy of $3.7 billion. In the Cawthorn race, millions were spent to defeat him -- "$700,000, came from Ryan Salame, an executive at crypto currency exchange FTX U.S., a major donor both to McCarthy’s own operation and to other groups backing McCarthy’s favored candidates. West Realm Shires Services, the corporate name used by FTX U.S., gave $750,000 to CLF in August... Mark Wetjen, the head of public policy and regulatory strategy at FTX, was invited with his family to McCarthy’s August donor retreat in Wyoming."
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I must confess my ignorance of this particular battle. The Pacific theater had some very unusual challenges. Due to food shortages the Japanese resulted to cannibalism. They removed parts that allowed prisoners to live on so not having refrigeration they would still have a food supply. The fungus infection in the ears was another issue. Ear canal coated with a green carpet needing medical attention that appears to reoccur for the remainder of their lives. Then of course the many other warm climate ailments acquired.
It still bothers me that after Japan's loss in China that they had so few prisoners of war.
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.
