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Goodyear's zero tolerance for All Lives Matter - Go Woke Go Broke

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

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This slide comes from a Goodyear Tyres internal staff HR presentation.

Under acceptable: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride.

Listed as unacceptable: Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, MAGA Attire, Political Affiliated Slogans or Material.

According to the employee who took the photo of the slide, it was presented at the Topeka plant by an area manager and he apparently said the slide came from its corporate office in Akron, Ohio.

Here's Goodyear's statement in response

“Goodyear is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace where all of our associates can do their best in a spirit of teamwork. As part of this commitment, we do allow our associates to express their support on racial injustice and other equity issues but ask that they refrain from workplace expressions, verbal or otherwise, in support of political campaigning for any candidate or political party as well as other similar forms of advocacy that fall outside the scope of equity issues.”

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ABC 4 Corners take note - 'The Plot Against The President', the true story behind your Russia collusion invention

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

From Hollywood Reporter;

Amanda Milius, whose father is ‘Apocalypse Now’ screenwriter John Milius, shot in secret ‘The Plot Against the President,’ with participants including Devin Nunes, Rudy Giuliani and Roger Stone.

There’s a hush-hush Russiagate documentary on the horizon from a director who hails from Hollywood royalty. But this one makes the case for President Trump.

Amanda Milius, daughter of legendary screenwriter-director John Milius and a State Department alum, has directed The Plot Against the President, based on Lee Smith’s 2019 best-seller of the same name.

Milius, who optioned the book in manuscript form last summer and stepped down in early March from her post as the deputy assistant secretary for content in the State Department’s Bureau of Global Public Affairs, began working on the doc in secrecy shortly thereafter. Over the past three months, she interviewed Russiagate critics including Rep. Devin Nunes, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Mike Cernovich and Roger Stone as well as Gen. Michael Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell.

Milius’ father, the screenwriter of such classics as Apocalypse Now and Dirty Harry, is such a larger-than-life figure in Hollywood that he has inspired characters in at least two films: The Big Lebowski (played by John Goodman) and Zeroville (Seth Rogen). His politics have long deviated from the industry’s centrist Democratic leanings (he and Charlton Heston served on the board of the NRA at the same time). Amanda, who attended USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and worked in the film industry for a decade, shares his pro-Trump sentiments.

"Weirdly, I've had random people in and out of L.A. claim my father somehow got me my job in politics when I began working for the administration, which is really odd," she tells THR. "I never got accused of nepotism in Hollywood, which is where it lives, you'd think. But that's definitely not what happened. I walked into a campaign office and volunteered. My dad is not buddies with the president. He loves him. But they don't know each other. Though they would absolutely get along. Actually, my dad would make a great defense secretary. Full Dr. Strangelove energy."

The elder Milius wasn't involved in Plot Against the President, but his daughter says he's excited to see it and is "very obsessed with the story as it unfolds in the news."

The film was financed by a handful of private investors that the Washington-based director declines to name. She produced alongside Jonathan Eisenman. The production companies are Wollman Prods. and 1AMDC Prods. The producers are currently in talks with a few distributors and are planning an Oct. 1 release in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. Milius says the film will offer several additional bombshells that weren't included in the book, whose thesis is that a coup was engineered by the American establishment elite, including the media, and targeted the president as well as the democratic process. (The author is a Middle East correspondent for The Weekly Standard.)

The director, who also is the daughter of actress Celia Kaye, shot more than 70 hours of footage and is currently editing the film. She says Plot Against the President should appeal beyond conservatives and is significant to both Republicans and Democrats. In fact, a small but notable group of progressive commentators and academics including Glenn Greenwald and Stephen F. Cohen have expressed skepticism and outrage over Russiagate and the way the intelligence community conducted surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.

"I definitely think this ought to be of extreme interest to all Americans because surveillance and law enforcement abuses are not a partisan issue," says Milius, who also courted high-profile left-wing voices for the film. "This isn't about the campaign. It's not even really about the president exactly. It's about people with power behaving badly and the destruction of democracy and American institutions."

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Victorian Workcover asked to prosecute over Andrews govt hotel quarantine fiasco

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

On 1 July this year Victoria added a new industrial manslaughter law to the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic) (OHS Act).

It applies to the government, officers, self-employed and organisations.

There are huge penalties including fines of $16.5m for employers and jail terms of up to 20 years and fines of up to $1.65m for officers whose actions or omissions:

  • cause the death of a worker or member of the public;
  • involve a breach of an OHS duty;
  • were negligent.

The criminal negligence standard applies, ie where there is a "great falling short of the care that would have been taken by a reasonable person in the circumstances in which the conduct was engaged in, and involves a high risk of death or serious injury or serious illness".

Under the new laws, senior officers could be liable (in addition to the employer) where they are negligent by failing to take reasonable steps on workplace safety to prevent fatalities, including managing mental injury that leads to suicide.

Now here's Self-Employed Australia's report to the Authority.

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This from the organisation behind this prosecution request, Self-Employed Australia.

We trigger OHS investigation of Victorian Covid-19 hotel quarantine mess

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Yesterday we wrote to the Victorian WorkCover Authority requesting them to investigate the Covid-19 hotel quarantine mess for possible breaches under the Victorian work safety laws (Occupational Health & Safety Act). Section 131 of the Act allows us to lodge such a request on the Authority who, under the Act must investigate and respond.

The Victorian government has pretty much admitted that the second Covid-19 wave outbreak happened because of the botched hotel quarantine mess in March. Hundreds of deaths have occurred following this.

If anything like this sort of scenario had happened in a private-sector business, we could be sure that a massive investigation would be undertaken by the Victorian WorkCover Authority. The investigation would look to see if prosecution should occur under the Victorian OHS Act, including application of the new manslaughter provisions. But the WorkCover Authority has done nothing over the Covid-19 disaster.

The Victorian government has established an Inquiry into the failures. However, all the Inquiry can do is write a report. The inquiry does not have the investigative and prosecutorial powers available to it that the WorkCover Authority has on OHS matters.

The core facts, well recorded in the media, are that:
  • The Victorian government had advance knowledge of the need for quarantine.
  • The Victorian Police, Corrections Victoria and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) have high level experience, training, capacity and authority in the area of detention.
  • The Victorian government requested ADF assistance, which was ready to go, but the request was withdrawn a day later.
  • The government instead used private security firms unsupported by either police, prison staff or the ADF.
  • The private security personnel on the ground in the hotels had neither the training, experience, skills, nor the authority to manage people in detention.
  • The Covid-19 outbreak followed.
Everything points to the probability of recklessness in the chain of command and control of decision-making related to the quarantines.

This Covid-19 outbreak is arguably the largest mass deaths event resulting from a workplace incident in Australia’s history. The Victorian WorkCover Authority has a statutory duty to investigate with a view to proceeding to prosecution if warranted. From all available information the Authority has done nothing.

The Authority is required under the Act to investigate and respond to us. If the Authority fails to undertake its statutory obligation under the Act, we will apply for a court to order the Authority to undertake the required investigation.

You can help. We anticipate that we will need to seek court orders.
 
You can contribute to our legal fighting fund for this action here.

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Why do Australian politicians over-egg it when it comes to Islam?

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

Humbled here.
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NSW Multi Culty Minister Geoff Lee says he is “humbled to see the incredible work of the Redfern Islamic Society”. 
 
They probably do good things for their community ... but humbled? Really?
 
You’d think, of all people, Geoff Lee would have some relativity on that feeling of being “humbled“ given he’s also the Minister for War Veterans in NSW.
 
Was he “humbled” to be in the presence of Vietnam Veterans yesterday for Long Tan Day? 
 
Or World War Two and currently serving veterans for the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Japan?

Not humbled here?

 
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Curiously, he doesn’t use that phrase - but saves all his “humble” for the Islamic Centre.

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Senator Marco Rubio explains final US Senate Russia investigation report - no collusion

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

Will someone let the ABC and 4 Corners know?

Rubio Statement on Senate Intel Release of Volume 5 of Bipartisan Russia Report

AUG 18 2020

Miami, FL — U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Acting Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) released the fifth and final volume of the Committee’s bipartisan Russia investigation titled, “Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities,” which examines Russia’s attempts to gain influence in the American political system during the 2016 elections.
 
Rubio released the following statement and a video message, which is available for download here:
 
“Over the last three years, the Senate Intelligence Committee conducted a bipartisan and thorough investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election and undermine our democracy. We interviewed over 200 witnesses and reviewed over one million pages of documents. No probe into this matter has been more exhaustive.
 
“We can say, without any hesitation, that the Committee found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election.
 
“What the Committee did find however is very troubling. We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling. And we discovered deeply troubling actions taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the ‘Steele Dossier’ without verifying its methodology or sourcing. 
 
“Now, as we head towards the 2020 elections, China and Iran have joined Russia in attempts to disrupt our democracy, exacerbate societal divisions, and sow doubts about the legitimacy and integrity of our institutions, our electoral process and our republic.
 
“We must do better in 2020. The Committee’s five reports detail the signs and symptoms of that interference and show us how to protect campaigns, state and local entities, our public discourse, and our democratic institutions. I join with Vice Chairman Warner in urging everyone — our colleagues, those in the Administration, state and local elections officials, the media, and the American public — to read them and take the recommendations seriously.”
 
You can read “Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities” here.
 
Key Findings:
 
  • The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
 
  • WikiLeaks actively sought, and played, a key role in the Russian influence campaign and very likely knew it was assisting a Russian intelligence influence effort.
 
  • The FBI gave the Steele Dossier unjustified credence, based on an incomplete understanding of Steele’s past reporting record. The FBI used the dossier in a FISA application and renewals, and advocated for it to be included in the Intelligence Community Assessment before taking the necessary steps to validate assumptions about Steele’s credibility.  
 
  • The FBI lacked a formal or considered process for escalating their warnings about the Democratic National Committee (DNC) hack within the organization of the DNC.
 
  • The Committee assesses that at least two participants in a June 9, 2016, meeting with Trump Campaign officials, Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin, have significant connections to the Russian government, including the Russian intelligence services.  The Committee, however, found no reliable evidence that information of benefit to the Campaign was transmitted at the meeting, or that then-candidate Trump had foreknowledge of the meeting.
 
  • The Committee found no evidence that anyone associated with the Trump Campaign had any substantive private conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the April 27, 2016, Trump speech held at the Mayflower Hotel.
 
  • Paul Manafort’s presence on the Trump Campaign and proximity to then-Candidate Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign.
 
  • George Papadopoulos was not a witting cooptee of the Russian intelligence services, but nonetheless presented a prime intelligence target and potential vector for malign Russian influence.
 
  • Russia took advantage of members of the Transition Team’s relative inexperience in government, opposition to Obama Administration policies, and Trump’s desire to deepen ties with Russia to pursue unofficial channels through which Russia could conduct diplomacy.
 
Read the Senate Intelligence Committee’s previous reports:
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Not Assange - President Trump pardons women's voting rights pioneer Susan B Anthony

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

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President Trump on Tuesday said that he would pardon Susan B. Anthony, the women’s suffragist who was arrested after voting illegally in 1872 and charged a $100 fine, as he tried to appeal to female voters on the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment giving them the right to vote.

The pardon appeared to be an effort to distract from the Democratic National Convention and narrow the historically large gender gap that has him trailing Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the White House race.

“She was never pardoned. Did you know that? She was never pardoned,” Mr. Trump said. “What took so long?”

Mr. Trump teased the pardon as he traveled on Air Force One on Monday, telling reporters he was going to erase the conviction of someone “very, very important.”

“She was guilty for voting,” Mr. Trump said, “and we’re going to be signing a full and complete pardon.”

Unlike other pardons that the president has given, Ms. Anthony is not someone whose work Mr. Trump has spoken of either in his campaign or during his presidency.

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