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So I received this email: Ms. Ballman; I happened to come across your article from 2011 regarding 10 Workplace Rights You Think you Have – But Don’t. As both an attorney and a HR/Payroll consultant, your article is either outdated, specific to Florida, or just completely inaccurate. I would urge you to do your research and correct the artcle. If you would be open to discuss the areas of your artic

People come to me and say, “I was forced to quit.” Huh? How did the employer do that? Gun to head? Torture devices? Kidnapped loved one? Because your employer can’t make you quit. Quitting is entirely, 100%, up to you. Just because your boss or HR comes to you and says you have to resign, doesn’t mean you should. My usual advice is never, ever submit your resignation, no matter how much they deman

Saudi Arabia, Shi’ism and the Illusion of Reform by Robert G. Rabil – @ robertgrabil October 30, 2019 The emergence of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is inextricably associated with the Wahhabi school of Islam. The Saudi-Wahhabi pact goes back to the eighteenth century when Sheikh Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792), the founder of the Wahhabi-Salafi school of Islam traveled to Diriya, the stron

I have posted the following comment to an American Thinker article on "Being Human and the Abuse of Science", which sets belief in God above science: The problem is, all of our religions grew out of previous history, which personalized God, and thus put God in a too-small box of man's own making. The most obvious problem with this, of course, is the proliferation of man-made "Gods", which led to

Donald J Trump......Coward in Chief Written by grant G It's gone almost as predicted in a post I wrote November 8th, 2016..the night the US elected Donald J Trump president election here's the last few paragraphs in a post titled.... Donald Trump, King Lizard ______ I feel very sad for the 50% of Americans who voted for Hillary, I feel just as bad for the 50% that voted for Trump because they bel

The Emma Jackson Story Written by Grant G Something going on around here...... Emma Jackson , who is she, I don't know but boy oh boy is she needed, especially the message she voices.. Ten Years .....according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) that's how much time citizens of planet earth have to stop using the worst of the worst fossils fuels, that includes fracking and tars

So, plodding dullard, pants-pissing coward, anti-democratic doofus, brazen hypocrite, overall incompetent, stephen harper has (in a desperate attempt to appear relevant) farted out a book of sorts. It's called I'm Really Stupid Now (or something). In it, he apparently says that something he calls the global free-market economy has produced winners and losers and that these fucking losers are turn

I once watched a documentary about Berlin in the interwar period. "City of Sex" was the title I believe. I was interested because Weimar Berlin was also a hot-spot of artistic creativity: Dada (brought in by the German ex-pats who created it in Zurich during WWI, Expressionism, Bauhaus, Brecht, Gross, the cabarets, etc., etc .,). Also, I was interested in just how those stodgy old-folks from the

The Rise of Homo Sapiens , by Frederick Coolidge (psychologist) and Thomas Wynn (anthropologist), is a book about the evolution of human cognition. It describes the seven million year voyage that resulted in the magnificent mind that’s throbbing between your ears right now. This voyage began with the first hominins — bipedal (two legged) apes who were either our direct ancestors, or our long lost

I was intrigued when our book group selected Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich. It’s a history of collective joy and ecstatic ritual — stuff that’s pretty rare in the land of the glowing screen people. Studying humankind’s long transition from wild and free to robo-consumers, it’s easy to perceive gradually advancing emotional decay. Cultures slid further away from intimate connections

LONDON, 12 October 2018 - Global leaders have acknowledged the need to take urgent collective action to combat the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) at the the fourth global conference on IWT. This now needs to be matched by action. Hosted by the UK government in London, the conference emphasised the need to tackle IWT as a serious organised crime, work collaboratively with new partners, and redouble

Jeremy Corbyn saved the Labour Party. This feat was accomplished by winning the leadership election in 2015, recruiting hundreds of thousands of new members, registered and affiliated supporters, and building a new coalition of voters uniting the comparatively better off with those at the sharp end . In so doing, Labour in England and Wales avoided the fates of the Socialists in France, Labour in

A question to everyone who thinks Jeremy Corbyn and the current Labour leadership aren't much cop. Can you imagine a Tory chancellor, a noted fiscal hawk, proclaiming the end of austerity if Labour wasn't an effective opposition and hadn't made the running against the cuts? And the honest answer, of course, is no. It says something about the growing hegemony of the left that the likes of Philip H

Pity the fate of front-line politicians. Masters of all that they survey, they go from the centre of the universe to last night's chip wrappings. Imagine it. Your views matter. Your hobby horses matter. And your decisions are among the few that only, truly matter. Then, it might be sudden but is often drawn out, all this is revoked and you are bumped down to observer status. If you're lucky you m

There's a lot of banging on about immaterial labour around these parts, but can we speak of an (antagonistic) counterpart, immaterial capital ? According to Capitalism Without Capital by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, we can. However, before we proceed our authors use capital in the mainstream economics sense, and not the Marxist one we're used to in this parish. That is to say we treat capi

I saw a call for papers for a collection under the working title of Lenin 2020. And so, as if there wasn't a thousand and one other projects demanding my attention on top of the self-replenishing work pile, I decided to submit this abstract. Beyond Leninism: Obsolescence, Multitudes, and the Place of the Party In their influential and groundbreaking work, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri have repeate

and it only cost us $1500.00 Arrrrrrrrgh! My doggie, Frankie, erupted in screams of pain yesterday about 5pm. He'd been acting off for a few days, and I had been watching him closely. He was rushed to the vet, x-rayed, and it was determined that somehow he swallowed a rock. Frankie is a 12 lb dog and after emergency surgery, the vets office was surprised he could have even swallowed such a large

but hey, like, you know, it's like okay 'cause like borders are stupid and like no one is "illegal" like we shouldn't have borders, like - you know? These born again socialists are as ugly in their personal appearance and behavior (like let's lie around on the filthy floor 'cause it's cool - or something) as their virtue signalling warped little anti-American, a nti-constitution, anti-capitalism,

campaign has “to appeal to white guilt.” Andres Gillum, running for governor of Florida, sure has a mighty dark looking bunch of staffers. Where's the diversity, Gillum? Oh, right - they're nothing but a bunch of crazy conservative crackers suffused with "white guilt." Pay attention to who the real racists are. Amazon Today Early Black Friday Deals

cast off imminent? Word is that President Trump will make an attempt by executive order to get rid of the travesty of anchor babies - you know, those babies born here who automatically become citizens and worthy of all the benefits of real citizens. We can expect the commie/marxist/libtards to haul this into court and cause us militant normals untold months of grief and more gridlock. Knowing how

inquiring minds want to know. Not a bomb Meantime, the "bombs" are providing a deflection from the fat and sassy "refugees" trooping across Mexico. It appears a bunch of them have decided to go back home. Little Bobby de Niro haz a sad 'cause he wanted to be in the newz too, so they arranged for him to get a fake bomb too. How thoughtful of the perps. Amazon Deals in bomb making stuff Electronics

Mohawks ready to greet asylum seekers at border, and walk with them across borders. Mohawks live in New York State and Canada. Read more at Mohawk Nation News. .http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/11/04/whos-the-migrant/?fbclid=IwAR2xgdBdOqTJ2RmwQ90kovLrHD3cwB6ZdQmGKlCa-d7Cijzb0ZKYalRmWyU

. 2018 Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation members outside of the White House in Washington D.C. - Photo via Teena Pugliese Dear Friends and Allies, A fourth Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation has recently returned from New York City and Washington D.C. - where women leaders took action and engaged in high-level meetings with major credit rating agency, Morgan

GRAND OSWEGO UNITY GATHERING NOV. 19-23/18 Posted on November 3, 2018 Please post & distribute. MNN. Nov. 3, 2018. te-ka-ri-wa-iena-wakon. Calling all onkwehonweh, brothers, sisters, friends, allies, our families, young people and elders. Come and learn. Let’s talk about the kaianerekowa, great peace and the tekeni teohateh [two row]. Let us open our minds so that together we can

. StrongHearts Native Helpline Receives Its 1,000th Call from Those Affected by Domestic Violence and Dating Violence Across Indian Country and Alaska Media Contact: Mallory Black (512) 766-7947; media@strongheartshelpline.org Calls received at helpline paint a picture of Native victims’ experience and critical need for culturally-based supportive

Read article at MNN http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/11/02/no-borders/

The interstellar object called ‘Oumuamua continues to inspire analysis and speculation. And no wonder. We had limited time to observe it and were unable to obtain a resolved image to find out exactly what it looks like. This morning I want to go through a new paper from Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb (Harvard University) considering the role radiation pressure from the Sun could play on this deep

The Kepler spacecraft has been with us long enough (it launched in 2009) and has revealed so much about the stars in our galaxy that its retirement — Kepler lacks the fuel for further science operations — is cause for reflection. The end of great missions always gives us pause as we consider their goals and their accomplishments, and offer up our gratitude to the many people who made the mission

It seems to be a week for endings. Following the retirement of the wildly successful Kepler spacecraft, we now say goodbye to Dawn following an extraordinary eleven years that took us not only to orbital operations around Vesta but then on to detailed exploration of Ceres. The spacecraft ran out of hydrazine, with the signal being lost by the Deep Space Network during a tracking pass on Wednesday

Usually when we talk about outer planet moons with oceans, we’re looking at Jupiter’s Europa, and Saturn’s Enceladus. But evidence continues to mount for oceans elsewhere. In the Jupiter system alone, Callisto and Ganymede are likewise strong candidates, while Saturn’s Titan probably has a layer of liquid water. Pluto’s moon Charon may possess an ocean of water and ammonia, to judge from what app

As we continue to track the Voyagers into interstellar space, the spacecraft have become the subject of a new documentary. Associate editor Larry Klaes, a long-time Centauri Dreams essayist and commentator, here looks at The Farthest: Voyager in Space, a compelling film released last year. Larry’s deep knowledge of the Voyager mission helps him spot the occasional omission (why no mention of seri

I am in Ghana and had some Ghanaian friends in the apartment here while I was watching the budget. I was ashamed, and they were incredulous, at the sheer crassness of the entire event. Hammond’s manner and delivery were beyond embarrassing. The constant stream of infantile jokes, of which the lengthy stream of toilet humour was just one part, was beyond childish. The worst thing about it is that

The Turkish account of the murder of Khashoggi given by President Erdogan is true, in every detail. Audio and video evidence exists and has been widely shared with world intelligence agencies, including the US, UK, Russia and Germany, and others which have a relationship with Turkey or are seen as influential. That is why, despite their desperate desire to do so, no Western country has been able

I expect you are all familiar with the maps showing the radical shrinking of Palestinian land over 70 years due to the expansion of colonial Israeli settlement. Startling and appalling, yes, but to me they bring back strong memories of other maps, in a precisely analogous situation, which goes to the heart of why Israel is an apartheid state. The original apartheid state of South Africa created “

On the face of it, the Unexplained Wealth Order against Zamira Hajiyeva shows the UK cracking down on the torrent of corrupt money that gushes in to the City of London every single second. But dig deeper. Hajiyev’s husband had fallen out of favour with the appallingly kleptocratic Aliev regime in Azerbaijan – a dictatorship whose corruption can be measured by the infallible indicator that Tony Bl

Of the three flats on the corridor where I rent my current Edinburgh home, just off the Canongate, two were lived in and one a holiday let. As of this month, only we are resident and there are two holiday lets. Before this I lived in the Holyrood Park apartment block. Of the 14 flats on the stair we lived on, only 3 were inhabited. Eleven were holiday lets and holiday homes. Our rent was raised e

When Alberta Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt was tossed out of the Legislature Wednesday morning for supposedly insulting an Opposition MLA, the kerfuffle that resulted obviously came as welcome relief to United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney. In recent weeks, Mr. Kenney has often been on the run, sometimes almost literally, from questions by journalists about the views some of

For what was supposed to be a fresh news story, an old report from the Beaverton circulating on social media yesterday actually came closest to accurately describing what went on in the so-called debate last night between alt-right U.S. political agitator Stephen Bannon and the neoliberal propagandist David Frum. The Beaverton is Canadian a news-satire website. But what’s funny about two powerful

Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Oct. 28, 2018. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. EDMONTON FICTION BESTSELLERS 1. For the Changing Moon (poetry) – Anna Marie Sewell * 2. Want – Barbara Langhorst 3. The Flame – Leonard Cohen 4. The Boy Who Walked Backwards – Ben Sure

After a difficult weekend doing damage control about how members of an anti-immigration group with white supremacist links were welcomed to a United Conservative Party beer-and-selfies night last Friday by an Edmonton constituency association, expect the right-wing Opposition party to dip into its strategic playbook to try to change the channel. UCP Channel-Changing Strategy No. 1, of course, is:

Give Lance Coulter credit: The guy seems to be a very hard worker. Leastways, the United Conservative Party nomination candidate in the Edmonton-Henday West Riding certainly had to work extremely hard to get himself kicked out of the party’s nomination process. Finally, late yesterday morning, the UCP – oh, so reluctantly – instructed Mr. Coulter to take a hike. The former assistant to the Edmont

From Jenna Orkin Private Equity Controls Gatekeepers of American Democracy - Bloomberg(!) NSA Has Top Secret Documents on Seth Rich Department of Homeland Security Ran Safety Drills at Tree of Life Synagogue Britain Knew of Khashoggi Kidnapping Plot and Begged Saudi Arabia to Abort Plans Saudi Arabia Answers Pompeo's Call For Yemen Ceasefire By Ramping Up Airstrikes 9 Senate races that are shapin

From Jenna Orkin 4900 Migrants to Europe Go Missing LA Typhus Zone The Pentagon reportedly has a secret plan to launch a cyberattack on Russia if it messes with the midterms Sneaky devils. Russia And China Are Apparently Both Under The Impression That War With The US Is Coming... DoD Official Urges Taiwan To Buy More Weapons In Fear Of "Cross-Strait Invasion" By China Russia, India And Iran To Co

From Jenna Orkin Billionaire George Soros Earmarks $500 Million For Migrants And Refugees 'Treasurer' for 9/11 attackers returns to Morocco to 'hero's welcome' after release from prison Instagram Belatedly Cracks Down on Anti-Semitism After Attacks in Pittsburgh Trump is sending thousands of troops to the border with Mexico — here's where they're going and what they're doing Trump Bumps Border Tr

From Jenna Orkin Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him Denmark Accuses Iran Of Assassination Attempt On Its Territory, Will Push For EU-Wide Sanctions Mueller Accused Of Sexual Assault; Says Women Were "Offered Money" To Make "False Claims" A 'mind-boggling' telescope observation has revealed the point of no return for our galaxy's monster black hole The creepiest and most bi

From Jenna Orkin 60% of World's Wildlife Has Been Wiped Out Since 1970 Autocracy App Four Shots Fired Into Florida GOP Headquarters Here's what the law says about Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship We ran 2 fake ads pretending to be Cambridge Analytica — and Facebook failed to catch that they were frauds UK Begins Confiscating Wealth Without Criminal Charges Comment: Although the present