The wages of fighting back weren't too bad.
[NYPOST] Toxic woke extremism now carries a stiff price tag: Oberlin College has agreed to pay Gibson’s Bakery $36.59 million for the school’s official drive to paint the bakery as racist after a black student was caught shoplifting there in 2016.
Oberlin staff handed out flyers falsely alleging the bakery had a long history of racial profiling. The Gibsons sued, and jurors set the huge award in 2019, with payment delayed by the school’s appeals.
(By the way, the school’s president pretends that insurance will pay the bill, but few policies cover intentional wrongdoing like Oberlin’s.)
Good for the Gibson family for sticking to its guns despite the hell Oberlin inflicted on it. And good for the judges and jury for getting this one right: The three students at the heart of the fracas admitted the bakery had not profiled them. And there’s nothing racist about a small business wanting to deter theft.
Bigger picture: Despite the mad rush by megacorps like Disney and elite educational institutions to cash in on the Great Awokening, reality appears to be re-asserting itself. Americans, by and large, don’t like divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... , disingenuous politics driven by elite preening and resentment.
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So is the money actually in Gibson's bank account yet? When will that happen?
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I hope they donate the bulk of it to some organization that fights woke indoctrination.
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#2 I hope they donate the bulk of it to some organization that fights woke indoctrination.
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IIRC - and I will cheerfully confess to error on ths - the lawyers are going to get about a third. So let's assume there's about $25M USD left.
The Gibsons weren't quite broke, but they can see it from there. The school won't openly badmouth them, but you can be sure they'll never get another dime from them - and the college was a solid and likely irreplacable chunk of their business. They are still strongly supported by the community, but they won't be enough to keep them in business forever.
I really think they're going to pay their bills, hold out for a decent interval, and then close the doors. I'd love to see them reopen someplace like Lorain or Amherst, north up the road on OH RT 58 -both of those towns would embrace them.
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Glen, Oberlin loss. At all levels. No more appeals and interest started
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Barbarians at the Gates, or, S--- Denial!
"Fresh pretzels!" A man and his trike...
Till somebody says he's a ----.
A boycott. He sues
And the slanderers lose
And, well, that was the end of the R----!
So they all skipped back to Munich hand in hand, got honest jobs as house painters and ladies maids and whatnot, and lived happily ever after. Because that guy won!
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Oberlin deserves a bit of nastiness, Zenobia F. And you get drunk on words, which is easily as fun as the alcohol version, while costing considerably less. (Not to mention leaving more alcohol for those who appreciate it properly. Win-win!)
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Florida State Dept of Agriculture should sponsor county and state fair food tasting and preparation competitions. Attention WEF we don't need no bugs, we have invasive species.
[AmericanThinker] What on Earth Is Wrong with Harry and Meghan?
Since terminating their service to the British people as working royals to find privacy in Cannabis County, Calif., the only "content" Harry and Meghan have produced is high-profile complaints, criticism, litigation, and allegations against their families and others, especially the British media. The public nature of their grievances and progressively outlandish allegations makes them ready case studies in instrumental victimologies, including its lowest expression: stolen victimhood.
In his meticulously researched Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War between the Windsors, Tom Bower documents Harry's complaint that his father failed him psychologically. Growing up, Harry faced the challenges of his parents' unsuccessful marriage and the tragedy of his mother's untimely death. It was neither possible nor providential for Harry to be fully shielded from those losses. When now-king Charles told his son it's going to be difficult for you as it was for me, he was bestowing a gift of truth upon his child. The psychotherapy movement of the last one hundred years is partly to blame for the myth that we should be spared grief and shouldn't have to rise above turmoil. Trials and tragedies of life, not trust funds, enable our full humanness.
The victimology that his father abandoned him has crippled Harry's capacity to grow into his own manhood. Even Oprah Winfrey, who was only too glad to hurt the British royal family, balked when Harry wailed that he was down to his last £10,000,000 when daddy cut him off. Harry has often complained about the trauma of walking with the men of his family behind his mother's coffin. This was a great honor to his mother's memory, and a great service to the British people, but in the psychology of instrumental victimhood, feelings matter more than honor. Harry's personal victimhood made him vulnerable to marrying an American wrecking ball who would use him as a stepping stone for fame, power, and wealth.
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I've said this before: I used to admire Henry. He served in a combat unit in Afghanistan until some twit reporter outed him. He then became an attack helicopter pilot.
Then he married Meghan, and it all went downhill.
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London Squalling, or, Henry IX, Part None
"The monarchy used to be starchy,
But now we adore our King A-----,
An obese mum-of-two
With a beard of true blue--"
"Oi! Her skin's the wrong hue!"
[argy-bargy]
It's a question I hear in some form or another almost daily while I'm travelling to speak and meet with clients, or in response to my newsletters. My attitude most days is "well, what about them?"
Let's consider Russia's strategic aims in Ukraine. Ukraine, as a buffer state, only continues to perform as such if it's under Russian control. If not, well... your enemies, perceived or in reality, can flood the space with arms and combatants and use it as a launching pad to strike at the heart of the Russian state. More important, Russia needs to regain control of Ukraine so that if (read: when) it's deemed necessary, Russian forces can move into places like Poland and Romania and occupy the critical geographies used to move troops and materiel overland to invade Russia.
So called "tactical," or small-scale nuclear weapons aren't great for holding territory. Nuked territory isn't great for stationing troops. And long-range ICBMs lobbed at the US or London or Paris are even worse for holding territory, or keeping Russian Presidents and a socio-politico-economic mafia elite alive. This is especially true if we consider the state of Russia's nuclear arsenal. There are some arguments that even if Russian troops and armored transports and planes and tanks and fuel trucks and MREs and intelligence and cyber and logistical capabilities are at levels far below what the world was expecting, they're still keeping the crown jewels of Russian defense--the nuclear arsenal--is top operating condition.
I'm less than convinced. The only thing more foolhardy and full of risk than a cornered, losing Russian president trying to fire nukes willy-nilly? The same-such president pushing the red button and having the world witness a failure to launch.
[Money Wise] One surprise that hits retirees in their first few years is that even without the costs of working and contributing to retirement accounts, they end up spending more than when they held down a job.
Financial planners cite three retirement phases: Go-Go, Slow-Go and No-Go. In the Go-Go years, typically 65 to 75, healthy young retirees spend big on travel, hobbies and scratching life-long dreams off their bucket list. Retirees are less active between 76 and 85 in the Slow-Go years, and tend to spend their No-Go years of 86 to 100 quietly.
And it’s during those early Go-Go years that retirees with pent-up dreams for their golden years often make big purchases that they can end up regretting.
Regular lavish travel
The first years of retirement can be a never-ending vacation, but endless expensive trips can create a serious crack in your nest egg.
Travelers tend to underestimate daily costs, such as meals, tips, resort fees, costs of excursions, airport costs and more, as well as paying for someone to care for your home while you’re gone.
A four-day vacation within the U.S. costs on average $144 a day, while a 12-night international jaunt costs around $271 per day, based on analysis from ValuePenguin.
And several big trips at the start of your retirement means big withdrawals that limit the growth of your investments for the next 20 or 30 years. That can mean you’ll have less to rely on when health care expenses typically rise.
[NYP] A banker recently told me that CEOs "would have to do something pretty special to fall into bankruptcy" the last couple of years as government pumped massive liquidity into the market, on top of the pandemic handouts.
That’s now changing, possibly quickly, with the Fed raising interest rates and reducing the size of its balance sheet.
A cruel winter is likely for Wall Street as markets remain choppy and their biggest clients scale back. Traditional deal-making such as IPOs has dropped significantly. At every major investment house, management is quietly planning layoffs (and some, like Goldman Sachs, not so quietly).
One area of potential growth: Wall Street restructuring departments. They’re eyeing expansion to provide advice to companies so burdened by high debt load they need to sell stuff or "restructure" in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
[ZERO] "The question I get most is whether this is like the 1970s," said Lindsay Politi, our inflation portfolio manager. We were discussing the phase of quantum change that has arrived and will unfold in the coming decade(s). "I’ve been batting around an answer to this. The short answer is only in the most superficial ways and the longer answer is a book," she said. I naturally prefer well written books to short answers. But when writing, I keep word count tight as a core discipline. So this short note captures key highlights from our discussions this week.
"Except for the fact that inflation is high and increasing, and other than the similarities that come from that, this new period is very different, far worse in many ways than the 1970s," said Lindsay. "The broadest point is that the world is moving from an industrial revolution economy to an information revolution economy." We’ll discuss that later. "But there are massive additional factors underlying this transition," she said. "Specifically, there are four lesser points that are part of this industrial/information transition. But ’lesser’ somehow seems wrong given their impact."
1. Lesser Points I: "Climate change is happening," said Lindsay, explaining the first of four lesser points impacting the great transition. "Rivers that defined national economies for centuries are drying up, our best farmlands are becoming infertile, and devastating weather events are now seen as normal." Investors try to ignore this because it’s hard to analyze. "There are no good analogs, this is a once-in-human-history event. The extent of the impact is hard to process but this much is now obvious: we face a reliably predictable series of unpriced inflationary shocks."
Lesser Points II: "No previous inflationary period was preceded by $30trln of quantitative easing," said Lindsay, identifying the second lesser point. "14yrs of QE, by design, manipulated market pricing of inflation risk, flattening yield curves, lowering yields, forcing them negative." These rates were embedded in all global financial asset prices. "Markets and central banks weren’t just surprised by inflation, they were surprised at a moment when they were, by design, more vulnerable to that surprise than at any point in recorded financial history."
Lesser Points III: "The 2nd most common question I get is whether an aging population means we’ll have deflation like Japan," said Lindsay, flagging the 3rd lesser point. "Like the 1970s, it’s risky to take one discrete example and use it as a template for anything at all similar. In a broader context, increasing populations are a consequence of industrialization." Global population was roughly unchanged from 10,000 BCE until around 1750 AD when it slowly then rapidly started to increase. "Now the global population appears to be stabilizing again. In an industrial capitalist world view this is negative because success is selling more and more widgets to more and more people, and flat or declining populations makes this harder. Maybe this isn’t a negative but another, arguably positive, symptom of a much bigger transition."
Lesser Points IV: "Investors make geopolitical assumptions based on fairly recent history," explained Lindsay. "A common one is that the US hegemony gives way to Chinese hegemony. Perhaps. But just like the industrial age led a broad transition from monarchy to democracy, could we be on the cusp of an entirely different type of government?" What does citizenship or nationality mean when people can live and work anywhere? "Is it more likely the renminbi replaces the dollar as the reserve currency or that we use a nationless means of exchange like cryptocurrency? Certainly, we see some nations and groups trying - often violently - to hold onto power but this seems more like last gasp attempts to turn the tide than real shows of strength."
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It seems to me that points 1 (climate change) and 4 (cryptocurrency and the end of citizenship) can be safely discarded as unlikely.
But 2 (huge quantitative easing, ie. debasing the currency) was one of the nasty factors in the fall of Rome, and 3 (aging population worldwide, not “fixed” by Covid) are certainly enough to be going on with.
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First mortgage in 1972 was 13.5% for 30 Years...
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The US Industrial Base hadn't been hollowed out yet in the 70's. It's rather difficult to work your way back to prosperity when the only jobs are in the Service Industry.
[Hot Air] Is Atlanta the next major city to feel the pressure placed on its resources by illegal migrants? Charities in Georgia say the surge in the number of illegal migrants and a lack of coordination to ensure they have somewhere to go has stretched their resources to their limits.
More than 1.8 million apprehensions along the southern border with Mexico have occurred during the first 10 months of fiscal year 2022. The Biden administration is allowing them to stay in the United States while they wait for their claims for asylum to be processed, mostly because it has stopped using Title 42 to immediately expel illegal migrants. Many of them are from countries that will not take them back. A large surge of Venezuelans is being seen along the border and Venezuela is one of those countries.
For example, in July, about 17,600 Venezuelans illegally crossed the southern border. That number is up from about 6,000 in July 2021. Only 51 of those Venezuelans were expelled under Title 42. Illegal migrants are being processed and vetted at the border and then they are free to go anywhere in the country.
Why are so many coming now? Because they can. Venezuela is a socialist hell hole. The people hear that it’s a done deal once they get to the United States. They know they’ll be allowed to stay. Joe Biden has been inviting them to this country since he campaigned for president. The message has been received loud and clear. One Venezuelan explained why he came to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Torres currently finds himself in a Roswell hotel, where a local nonprofit has temporarily housed him. He says he came to the country now because he perceived it to be an auspicious time to cross the border.
"I decided to come here to take advantage of the situation, where you can come in. It’s not easy, but [the border] could become more closed in the future," he said. "I believe before it was more complicated, when it comes to being undocumented in this country."
After spending two days in detention in Texas, Torres was released from government custody to lawfully await a hearing in immigration court. Like other migrants in his situation, he is required to periodically check in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He chose to travel to Atlanta because he had heard that jobs here were plentiful.
Local non-profits who are helping illegal migrants say this isn’t something that is happening because of migrant buses from Texas or Arizona dropping them off in Atlanta. This is happening because the illegal migrants are heading to areas they think will have housing available and jobs for them. As in other Democrat-led cities, there is no infrastructure in place to handle the people seeking housing and jobs. On "immigration advocate" says Atlanta is on the cusp of a crisis.
[America Out Loud] For nearly two years, many of us have been trying to spread the truth about the Covid jabs. We were told they are effective. They are not. We were told they are safe. They are not. But anyone who tried to share these truths was hit by cancel culture at the least and de-platformed at worst. We know this personally as we were hit by massive censorship multiple times, including losing a popular YouTube channel that I’d had since 2009.
For the last month or so, the restrictions against speaking the truth regarding Covid jabs have been relieved a bit. Big Tech platforms have changed their rules to allow for some claims about the injections they didn’t allow last month. Corporate media is even talking about adverse reactions from time to time. The CDC and FDA have made changes to their websites, removing certain claims such as the spike proteins are short-term and are removed from the bloodstream quickly. They aren’t.
While many of us have been cheering these minor victories, there are two reasons to be very upset and at least a little concerned. First, it’s like they closed the stable door after the horse had bolted. Millions, perhaps tens of millions of Americans, have been jabbed a varying number of times who definitely would NOT have if there were no mandates or if the truth was allowed to reach them. I’m not one to make excuses for people; the information was out there, and nobody was forced to take the shots at gunpoint. People made choices, but it would have been nice if the "normies" were able to see the information we were putting out there.
The second concern is far greater. What’s next? That’s the real question we should be asking because this isn’t a good sign. They could continue to gaslight and lie through their teeth about the jabs almost indefinitely. As long as everyone in government, corporate media, Big Tech, and Big Pharma kept echoing the same false narrative, they could have continued to suspend disbelief in the "safe and effective" jabs for at least another couple of years. Why are they suddenly and uniformly creeping the truth out there? Do they have something else planned?
I believe they do. On today’s episode of The JD Rucker Political Report, I explained why I believe they have something new planned for us. I went over the article by Jennifer Marfulis and Joe Wang from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times (below), the represents arguably the most important study to date regarding the jabs. It’s important because it’s actually being reported. There are other more shocking jab-debunking studies out there, but this one is actually being talked about by corporate media, which is a new development.
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World news is showing disturbing uptick in unexplained deaths. Insurance providers have seen huge increase in deaths payouts. Children's coffins ordered in numbers not seen before this time. Then people excluded from work causing increased stress on remaining work force. I myself have seen many die off as well. They just disappear.
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^ Solving the Social Security and Medicare solvency problem
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Replacement young people with greatly reduced life expectancies continue to arrive daily.
When was the last time you saw a teevee advert for John Hancock, Nationwide, or Mutual of Omaha Life Insurance companies feature Honduran, Guatemalan, or El Salvadorian potential customers ?
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Big Pharma made their money, now its time to move on. Big Pharma controls the media through advertising, everything on TV is sponsored my the Med giants. So the TV companies comply with the "tone it down" requests. Now actual reporters are finding the truth and through, mostly social media, its coming to light the risks and realities of the shot. The reactions and deaths are within the acceptable ranges, unless your one of them. The fact it does not work, and the lie that it will reduce the effects is getting more light. They just cant hid it anymore. I feel for those that took the shots, and pray for them. They trusted their government and the med companies to tell the truth. Sadly they did not and this poisoning or experiment continues.
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[America Out Loud] Murder for money and gross medical deception in America’s hospitals? These two courageous attorneys, whistleblowers on the massive cover-up of intentional deaths in hospitals across America, expose the financial windfalls to hospitals for following the "covid death protocol" put in place by the deadly combination of the NIH, CMS under the 2016 CURES Act and magnified in the COVID Pandemic CARES Act and PREP Act.
Could this Machiavellian scenario really be true?
A Government bounty on a COVID patient’s life could reach over HALF a MILLION dollars if the patient has a COVID diagnosis and was given remdesivir, put on a ventilator, and died in the hospital with COVID as the cause of death on the death certificate.
Many thousands of families have lost loved ones to these hospital death protocols. But after more than 2 ½ years of daily COVID deaths in America’s hospitals, the first two attorneys in the US to take legal action boldly and courageously against three hospitals in Fresno, California, for wrongful death, medical battery, elder abuse, and other violations of patients’ rights to hold these hospital administrators, doctors, and nurses accountable for such horrific patient abuses.
Attorneys Dan Watkins and Michael Hamilton announced in a National Press Conference on September 7 the filing of their first-in-the-nation lawsuits against hospitals and multiple doctors in Fresno, California, on behalf of families who had lost their loved ones with the "bounties" paid to hospitals for using the toxic combination of food and fluid restriction, remdesivir, mechanical ventilation, high dose morphine-midazolam respiration-suppressing cocktail to spiral patients down the dark road to death.
The specific legal causes of action specified in these landmark lawsuits are Wrongful Death, Constructive Fraud, Violation of the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act, Medical Negligence, and Battery.
This landmark case alleges that the Plaintiffs were subjected to medical deception and given a protocol by the Defendants, the centerpiece of which is the poisonous and deadly drug Veklury (Remdesivir). The plaintiffs were not properly informed regarding the dangers of this drug and were instead placed on a protocol, which was medically unnecessary, causing most of the Plaintiffs to die a horrific death.
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Remdesivir has been a killer drug. Period. It killed Ebola patients as well, and Fauci knew it.
Hospitals are just parts of profit-motive corporations, and doctors, like good subordinates, follow orders from their bosses, science/medicine be damned.
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"The Pfizer documents reveal monstrous damage to menstruation, harm to the testes and epididymis, harms to the penis, horrible harm to the ova and ovaries, damage to newborns, mechanisms for compromising the placenta, and contamination of amniotic fluid. They reveal that four women’s breast milk turned blue-green. They reveal injuries to at least one newborn that extend to death (or murder) from ingesting tainted breast milk. They reveal horrific levels of miscarriages. They reveal that Pfizer defined “exposure” to the vaccine as including sexual intercourse, especially at conception. They reveal a weird focus on mammalian sexual and reproductive issues." Document drop was never to see light of day.
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A third-hand story: Man had been visiting a sperm bank for a while. Once the Fauci Flu hit the scene, this man got vaccinated, and when he visited the sperm bank the next time, they asked if he was vaccinated, whereupon he probably proudly said YES. He was summarily sent away. This occurred at least one year ago, so the medical establishment must have known about the damage to the testes the vaccine does if a little ole sperm bank did.
Birth rates are down. They were down in the West in general, now it's even worse.
[Gateway] The FBI raided the home of the President of the United States. This is the same President whom the FBI attempted to prevent from winning the 2016 Election and then attempted to remove from office his entire Presidency. FBI leaders from the corrupt Obama/Biden Administration hired a Russian and used his made-up information as the basis to attempt to remove President Trump from office.
On August 9th, the FBI raided the President’s home and stole the President’s documents stored there at Mar-a-Lago. The FBI claimed they had a reason to do so that was lawful and that they had the right to take these documents.
Many believe that the documents provided ample evidence of the FBI’s crimes and this is why the President took them with him and why the corrupt FBI took them from the President.
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^ That's exactly it. NN2N1 coined it, I think. We spread it all over the internets. It sums them up quite concisely too, with the added connotation of the Democrat regime having the surreal quality of a real bad acid trip.
[Breitbart] Reflecting on the country’s last 15 presidencies, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Joe Biden, conservative radio legend Michael Savage argued that Biden is the "worst" president to lead the country during his lifetime, claiming a "criminal enterprise [is] running the country," while highlighting the current border crisis, the recent Afghanistan withdrawal, the return to energy dependence, and the "authoritarian" COVID-19 mandate.
Detailing "the good, the bad, and the ugly" aspects of the presidents who ruled America over the last several decades, Savage weighed in on today’s issues during his latest podcast.
Having been born in 1942, when Roosevelt was president, Savage claimed "we are now living under another Democrat President called Joseph Biden, who is not really a president in any sense of the word."
Arguing the way to objectively judge a president is by his "domestic and worldly successes and failures," Savage explained why it was up to the individual to decide if the president met these standards.
"With a very small cadre of extreme far-left or Marxist-light so-called presidential historians as the only source to answer our question, we really have to rely upon our own observed realities," he said.
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Competition from LBJ (who set the gold standard on corrupt practices!) on...? "Worst" in that he is an empty shell filled only with hot air and bile...
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.
Toxic woke extremism now carries a stiff price tag: Oberlin College has agreed to pay 
"What about Russian nukes?"
[Money Wise] One surprise that hits retirees in their first few years is that even without the costs of working and contributing to retirement accounts, they end up spending more than when they held down a job.
[America Out Loud] Murder for money and gross medical deception in America’s hospitals? These two courageous attorneys, whistleblowers on the massive cover-up of intentional deaths in hospitals across America, expose the financial windfalls to hospitals for following the "covid death protocol" put in place by the deadly combination of the NIH, CMS under the 2016 CURES Act and magnified in the COVID Pandemic CARES Act and PREP Act.
