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Chevron prompts eye-rolls after reportedly framing layoffs as good news for anyone who isn't a white male

RT
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 15:01 UTC

Firing employees is usually nothing to brag about, but Chevron has reportedly branded its belt-tightening layoffs as a way to increase the number of senior-level positions held by women and ethnic minorities.

The oil major has been forced to cut spending due to the recent economic downturn. In an internal email seen by Reuters, Chevron reportedly explained to employees that the company's decision to sack management had a very woke silver lining: Less white males, more women and minorities in senior jobs.

Chevron is said to be reducing the "dominance of white males" in company management by increasing the percentage of top jobs held by women and minorities to 44%, up from 38% last year.

Comment: This whole 'woke' business is getting out of hand. It's amazing that in 2020, we as a society have regressed back to judging people based on race. And to spin widespread layoffs as something progressive is so tone deaf it's amazing the PR department let it go through.

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A pandemic of surveillance

J.D. Tuccille
reason
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:50 UTC

Americans are increasingly monitored, and COVID-19 health concerns aren't improving the situation.

Pandemic maps are all the rage, these days, but the latest one from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a little different; instead of viral hotspots, it displays a plague of official snoopiness, arranged by location and sortable by technology. While it documents intrusions that predate the current crisis, the Atlas of Surveillance is all too relevant to the age of coronavirus. Concerns about curtailing contagion help to normalize detailed scrutiny of people's lives and drive us toward a pervasive surveillance state.

"The Atlas of Surveillance database, containing several thousand data points on over 3,000 city and local police departments and sheriffs' offices nationwide, allows citizens, journalists, and academics to review details about the technologies police are deploying, and provides a resource to check what devices and systems have been purchased locally," EFF announced on July 13.

Users can click on the map to see what surveillance technologies are used in specified localities. If you want to see what's going on in your area, the map is searchable by the name of a city, county, or state. The map can also be filtered according to technologies such as body-worn cameras, drones, and automated license plate readers.

Comment: Forget the NSA. Now we have a whole host of companies, local governments and agencies who are also getting in to the act of monitoring everywhere we go, and everything we do.

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Facemasks Turn us Into Voiceless Submissives - And It's Not Science Forcing us to Wear Them, It's POLITICS

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:09 UTC

The Government began its wild, disproportionate shutdown of the country by spreading fear of a devastating plague that would destroy the NHS and kill untold thousands. Now, as many people find that Covid-19 is, in fact, nothing of the kind, new ways have to be found to keep up the alarm levels. Commuters are pictured above on the London Underground

In the name of Covid, the State has already thrust itself into every corner of our existence.

It has come between husbands and wives at the ends of their lives. It has forbidden the old to embrace their grandchildren.

It has denied us funerals and weddings, locked the churches, silenced the ancient monastic music of cathedral choirs and prevented the free worship of God for the first time in 800 years, and banned us (unless we are Left-wing) from holding or attending public meetings.

It has ordered us to stay at home, scolded or fined us for sunbathing, going on country rambles or even entering our front gardens.

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Also check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health - The Ultimate Insanity of the Covid Lockdown - Interview with Sott.net Editor Joe Quinn

Thousands rally in Khabarovsk, Russian Far East, for 3rd consecutive Saturday over arrested ex-governor

Jonny Tickle
RT
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:10 UTC

Residents of Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk have continued to show their support for imprisoned former governor Sergey Furgal, with the city's streets seeing mass protests for the 15th day in a row.

Furgal, a highly popular politician in the Far East, was arrested on July 9 on suspicion of ordering two successful murders, and a third failed murder, dating back to the 2000s. Following his detainment, the former governor was flown immediately to Moscow, where he currently awaits his day in court. Many Khabarovsk locals, over 6,000km from the capital, are infuriated that Furgal has been removed by federal powers and will stand trial so far away. Furgal maintains his innocence.

According to local news portal DVhab.ru, an estimated 15,000-20,000 people took to the streets in the main city of the Khabarovsk Region, with the mayor's office counting only 6,500. Though the protest was unsanctioned, the mass gathering appeared to go off without a hitch.

Greek protesters burn Turkish flag, Ankara & Athens trade insults after Hagia Sophia's first Muslim prayer in decades

RT
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:11 UTC

© REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Worshippers attend afternoon prayers and visit Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, for the first time after it was once again declared a mosque after 86 years, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 24, 2020

Turkey and Greece have locked horns once more, this time over Ankara's decision to turn the famed Hagia Sophia landmark back into a mosque. Some hot-headed Greeks even burned a Turkish flag to oppose the move.

Though joyous for those Turks who supported changing Hagia Sophia's status, the milestone decision by Ankara was met with outrage in neighboring Greece, which saw it as an affront to its Christian legacy.

The Foreign Ministry called it "a blow to the cultural heritage of humanity" and even warned of a risk that the mosaics and other works of art in Hagia Sophia's interior would be damaged, "beyond the symbolism of such a move."

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Rage sweeps US cities: Riot in Seattle, tear gas in Portland and LA on high Alert

Oleg Burunov
Sputnik
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 05:52 UTC

Protests against racial inequality and police brutality across the US have been under way since the death of African American citizen George Floyd in police custody in May.

Seattle police declared the protest against racial injustice in the city a "riot" on Saturday as people vandalised an eastern police precinct, setting a small fire inside and trying to tear down a fence protecting the building.

Law enforcement tweeted that at least 25 people had been arrested in the riot, and one officer hospitalised "with a leg injury caused by an explosive".

Officers from the Special Response Team of the US Customs and Border Protection were previously deployed to Seattle, under orders from the Trump administration.

The protests were joined by the Wall of Moms group who claimed that they "marched peacefully until SPD and unmarked Federal Contractors tear gassed a bunch of moms, allies, and youth" on Saturday.

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'Virtually all white people contribute to racism': Treasury Department lectures white employees as part of 'Diversity Training'

Ashe Schow
The Daily Wire
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has been using so-called "anti-racism" training to tell white employees that "virtually all" of them "contribute to racism" and that they cannot object if a person of color "responds to their oppression in a way you don't like."

The training materials were sent by a whistleblower to Director of the Center of Wealth & Poverty Christopher Rufo, who is also the contributing editor of City Journal. Rufo produced a Twitter thread to disseminate what he found, calling the training documents "deeply disturbing - and an affront to equality."

The training, called "Difficult Conversations about Race," is aimed at white employees at the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and National Credit Union Administration, Rufo tweeted. The goal of the training, he wrote, is to convert "everyone in the federal government" to "antiracism."

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"Honey, I shrunk the people's constitutional rights!" How administrative tribunals are replacing constitutional courts

Rosemary Frei
OffGuardian
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 06:02 UTC

Chris Weisdorf was penalized for parking improperly in December 2017 and he decided to fight the fine. But he slammed up against legal structures that give virtually unchecked power to untold numbers of administrators around the world who oversee and enforce everything from parking regulations to public-health edicts.

The parking-ticket system in Toronto, Ontario - where Weisdorf had committed his offense - had been replaced with an Administrative Penalty System (APS). The bylaw creating APS was billed as streamlining the court system. After very little public consultation and notice it was approved overwhelmingly by Toronto city council in July 2017 (there appears to no longer be a record online of the council vote).

The bylaw contains Orwellian redefinitions designed to wriggle traffic- and parking-law violations out of the category of what the Supreme Court of Canada views as criminal offenses and into the administrative category — and along with that, defendants out of the purview of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is the core of the Canadian constitution.

The bylaw's redefinitions include calling offenses 'infractions,' defendants 'customers' and parking tickets 'parking violation notices.' And in what Weisdorf calls "a legal oxymoron for the ages," monetary penalties are deemed to be 'not punitive.'

Indiana Sheriffs refuse to enforce Statewide mask order that makes not wearing one punishable by 6 months in jail

Jocelyn Grzeszczak
Newsweek
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC

Sheriffs in four Indiana counties have said their departments will not enforce a statewide mask mandate announced this week by the governor.

Hamilton county, Indiana sheriff on masks

The sheriffs in Sullivan, Hamilton, Delaware and Johnson counties expressed concern that the executive order was not passed by elected state legislators. "The announced order has not been introduced as a bill in the General Assembly and our legislators are not in session," Hamilton County Sheriff Dennis Quakenbush said in a statement.

He added, "The General Assembly could be called into session by the Governor if the 'public welfare shall require it,' but this critical step has not taken place."

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3 killed as small plane crashes into apartment block in Germany

RT
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:32 UTC

© Reuters / Leon Kuegeler
Rescuers are seen at the scene where an ultra-light aircraft has crashed into a residential building in Wesel.

An ultralight plane has smashed into the roof of a five-story residential building in the town of Wesel in northwestern Germany. At least three people were killed in the crash, with two others injured, including a child.

The plane caught fire after the crash. Photos from the scene show thick white smoke coming from the roof, but not the aircraft itself as the debris may have remained inside the building. Firefighters extinguished the blaze by noon on Saturday.

The victims haven't been identified yet, police in the town located near the border with the Netherlands said. It's also unclear if the pilot was among those killed.

Comment: Also reported today, a small plane crashed shortly after take off in Brazil, two of the occupants received serious injuries:

What(?), ..thought Charlie didn't surf [Link]

Jibrish

SBC says "Hang em... All the jab pushers." to which I add 'after fair trials.' You know all of the TV/film/fiction tropes about 'pushers' giving...

Rowan Cocoan

Good. Shut the bitch up. She was his girlfriend for Christ's sake! MeToo is a Team FUKUSraHell psyop. (I don't know why they threw Weinstein under...

Rowan Cocoan

Winternights3 There's probs a good connection! Just think about it.

sbc

Moving the goalposts. and people are too shit stupid to notice or care

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Society's Child

Chevron prompts eye-rolls after reportedly framing layoffs as good news for anyone who isn't a white male

A pandemic of surveillance

Facemasks Turn us Into Voiceless Submissives - And It's Not Science Forcing us to Wear Them, It's POLITICS

Thousands rally in Khabarovsk, Russian Far East, for 3rd consecutive Saturday over arrested ex-governor

Greek protesters burn Turkish flag, Ankara & Athens trade insults after Hagia Sophia's first Muslim prayer in decades

Rage sweeps US cities: Riot in Seattle, tear gas in Portland and LA on high Alert

'Virtually all white people contribute to racism': Treasury Department lectures white employees as part of 'Diversity Training'

"Honey, I shrunk the people's constitutional rights!" How administrative tribunals are replacing constitutional courts

Indiana Sheriffs refuse to enforce Statewide mask order that makes not wearing one punishable by 6 months in jail

3 killed as small plane crashes into apartment block in Germany

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