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Video leaked of $5 million a year CEO telling employees hoping for a bonus 'to leave pity city'

Audra Heinrichs
Jezebel
Mon, 17 Apr 2023 21:10 UTC
Andi Owen
© @conzmoleman, TwitterMillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen
In this edition of Eat the Rich Weekly, the President and CEO of MillerKnoll, a company hawking the uninspired and overpriced furniture that likely litters your own place of employment, told staffers inquiring about a bonus via Zoom to "leave pity city."

Andi Owen, the woman at the helm of MillerKnoll who took home just shy of $5 million (including a $1.2 million bonus) in 2022, hopped on a video call last week to inform employees that from where she's sitting in Very Bad Person Valley, they have some gall for asking for an acknowledgement of their labor.

"Questions came through about, 'How can we stay motivated if we're not going to get a bonus...What can we do? What can we do?'" Owen began in the viral clip of what appears to be an internal meeting. "Some of them were nice, and some of them were not so nice." Gee, lady who looks like she took a little too much inspiration from the litany of Gwyneth Paltrow litigation chic think-pieces, I wonder why some questions would be unkind...
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Best of the Web: Dissent Into Madness: Projections of the Psychopaths

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Sun, 26 Mar 2023 19:31 UTC
psychopath dissent madness projection
© The Corbett Report
In Part 1 of this series on Dissent Into Madness, I recounted the sordid details of "The Weaponization of Psychology," noting how the psychiatric profession has been turned into an instrument for repressing and marginalizing political dissidents.

In Part 2 of this series, "Crazy Conspiracy Theorists," I detailed how conspiracy theorizing is being pathologized as a mental disorder and how this false diagnosis is being used to justify the forced psychiatric detention and medication of 9/11 truthers and COVID dissenters.

This week, I will examine the great irony of the situation we find ourselves in: that those who are wielding the psychological weapon against any would-be dissenters are themselves driven by a psychopathological disorder . . .
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Nuke

Germany shuts down its last nuclear power stations

Jens Thurau
DW
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
reactor
© UnknownGerman Nuclear reactor facility
Germany is about to shut down its last three nuclear reactors. For the country's Green Party, it's a long-held dream come true. Meanwhile in Asia, nuclear power is experiencing a renaissance, despite Fukushima.

At the end of March, Germany's Environment Minister Steffi Lemke of the Green Party used just a few words to put an end to the dispute that has kept the country in suspense for years:
"The risks of nuclear power are ultimately uncontrollable; that's why the nuclear phase-out makes our country safer, and avoids more nuclear waste."
Nuclear power extended to April 15

Last year, the government found itself once again caught up in a dispute over nuclear power. In their coalition agreement, the governing SPD, Greens, and the FDP had agreed to stick to Germany's nuclear phase-out, which was decided under Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2011. Accordingly, the last nuclear power plants were to close at the end of 2022.

But Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed everything, because Russian gas supplies to Germany stopped and the government feared an energy shortage. Chancellor Olaf Scholz finally decided to extend the operating period of the power stations until April 15, 2023.

Comment: Energy crisis? Shutter the power source!
Germany finally pulled the plug on its final three nuclear power plants Saturday, amid an energy crisis ravaging Europe.

As of midnight, Germany's smoking towers of Isar 2, Neckarwestheim 2, and Emsland have been closed. They comprised roughly 4,055 megawatts or 6% of Germany's total energy generation, forcing Berlin to hunt for alternatives as energy costs remain high across much of Europe.

Although there has only been one confirmed death tied to radiation from the Fukushima incident, radioactive contamination unleashed by the meltdown spooked the international community.

"The position of the German government is clear: nuclear power is not green. Nor is it sustainable," Steffi Lemke, Germany's federal minister for the environment and consumer protection, told CNN.

Other European nations have begun ramping up nuclear power exposure as a fossil fuel alternative, including France, which generates more than 70% of its power from nuclear. Some polls have found that public opinion on nuclear power has softened within Germany.

Meanwhile, Germany's coal burning soared to the highest rate in nearly six years, according to data from the site Electricity Maps.
Without reliable power sources, humanity is not 'sustainable'. That would be the plan.

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Megaphone

Mike Pence booed during NRA convention speech

Brandon Gillespie
Fox News
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:48 UTC
Pence
© AP Photo/Stephen B. MortonFormer US VP Mike Pence
Former Vice President Mike Pence received a not so warm welcome during his appearance at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention on Friday afternoon.

After being introduced by NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, Pence faced loud boos from across the room as attendees expressed what appeared to be a strong dislike for the former vice president and attempted to drown out those applauding him.

"Well hello NRA," Pence began, to more boos.


Comment: No love lost between Trump and Pence...nor Pence and the public, for that matter!

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Iran sentences 10 military members to prison in 2020 downing of Ukrainian airliner that killed 176


RFE/RL
Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
crash site
© Nazanin Tabatabee/WANA/ReutersSecurity officers and Red Crescent workers at crash site of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 • January 8, 2020
Iran has sentenced 10 members of the armed forces to prison on charges of involvement in the 2020 downing of a Ukrainian airliner that killed 176 people, according to the Iranian judiciary's website.

Mizan Online on April 16 reported that a commander was sentenced to 10 years in prison while nine others received terms of one to three years.
"Examining this case has been one of the most important, sensitive, and complex judicial processes in the last few years of the country. The commander's action in leading the downing of the craft "was due to his ignorance of the situation and his misplaced belief that the discovered target was hostile."
Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed on January 8, 2020, while en route to Kyiv, killing all 176 people on board.

Days after official denials, Iran admitted that a unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had inadvertently shot down the plane amid heightened tensions with the United States over the U.S. drone assassination of top IRGC general, Qasem Soleimani, near Baghdad.

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Bad Guys

What will the Net Zero by 2050 target really mean?

Norman Fenton
Where are the numbers.substack
Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownNet Zero Prediction
If they are really serious: a colder, hungrier population with extremely limited freedom. And it seems people were very surprised to hear that..

Two days ago I posted what I thought would be quite an innocuous twitter thread about the implications of the UK Government's target of "net zero" by 2050. Specifically, I showed this graphic from the UK Government funded FIRES project that summarised their recommended necessary strategy to achieve net zero by 2050 based only on evolutionary technological developments (the report it's from has been around since 2021 and I've even posted about it before):

Now, for clarification "net zero" means total greenhouse gas emissions (including methane) must be less than their removals (such as from planting trees). The FIRES report instead focused on an absolute zero target because they recognise the absence of novel revolutionary scalable technologies for 1) capture and removal of these gases; and 2) non-fossil fuel mass transportation and energy production. In other words, if you realistically want to achieve the net zero target by 2050 you essentially have to go for absolute zero.
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All hell breaks out in Chicago as hundreds of teenagers wreak havoc

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:00 UTC
teens gone wild chicago
A trend of lawlessness has unfolded in cities run by progressive leaders this spring. The latest incident occurred on Saturday night in Downtown Chicago, where hundreds of teenagers wreaked havoc by smashing car windows and destroying public and private property. They also attempted to enter Millennium Park, which prompted a significant police response. There was even a shooting that resulted in multiple injuries.

FOX 32 Chicago reported massive crowds of teenagers that unleashed chaos in the downtown district last night. Besides the rogue kids smashing and breaking anything in their sight, there were reports of shots fired and two teenagers wounded by gunfire near the corner of Madison and Michigan.

Even FOX 32 said the chaos last night was "unsafe to keep our news crew on the scene." There was even footage of kids jumping on top of a bus.

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Eye 1

Elon Musk claims the US government had 'full access' to private Twitter DMs

Olafimihan Oshin
The Hill
Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:11 UTC
musk tucker
Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed in an interview that the U.S. government has "full access" to users' private direct messages, saying knowing that information blew his mind.

In an excerpt of his Fox News interview with host Tucker Carlson, Musk told Carlson that he was shocked to find out about the government's ability to read users' direct messages on his platform.

"The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind," Musk, who recently founded an artificial intelligence company called X.AI, told Carlson in the interview set to air on Tuesday. "I was not aware of that."

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State bans on gender reassignment surgery spread across America - Indiana, Idaho join list

Ian Macleod
The Daily Sceptic
Sun, 16 Apr 2023 11:00 UTC
tightrope illustration
Indiana and Idaho are the latest to join the growing list of American states imposing limits on the freedom to obtain gender reassignment surgery.

These laws outright ban or substantially limit the ability of doctors to prescribe drugs like puberty blockers and perform this surgery on youngsters.

Opponents of these laws argue they infringe the right of trans people to "gender affirming" care.

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Ex-Planned Parenthood exec commits suicide after botched child porn raid in Connecticut

Isabel Keane
New York Post
Sun, 16 Apr 2023 10:21 UTC
Tim Yergeau
© Instagram/@timyergeauTim Yergeau died by suicide after the failed raid.
A former Connecticut Planned Parenthood honcho took his own life days after police failed to arrest him on child pornography charges — botching the raid by knocking down the door of the suspect's New Haven neighbor.

Tim Yergeau, 36, the former director of strategic communications at the Southern New England branch of Planned Parenthood, died by suicide on Tuesday amid a child pornography investigation in Connecticut last week.

"The person who died was definitely the suspect in a child pornography investigation and the person who committed suicide," New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson told the New Haven Registrar.
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