Vernal Equinox 2018: Satellite Sees First Day of Spring
https://www.space.com/40035-vernal-equinox-2018-first-day-spring.html

>As they (and He) said on III mini-series:
>"He is a Rock on Throne" (Ark of God)"
>David Koresh, the Lamb of God

>WACO Equinox 2018 in Northern Hemisphere in
>One Hour, 11:15 AM, March 20th, WACO Time

>MANIFESTO OF KORESH
>https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/162273452/
>The Real One - Janet R. file

Why'd they kill Jesus?

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5 min, Waco

Two-thirds (64%) of low-wage workers are in their prime working years of 25 to 54.
More than half (57%) work full-time year-round, the customary schedule for employment intended to provide financial security.
About half (51%) are primary earners or contribute substantially to family living expenses.
Thirty-seven percent have children. Of this group, 23% live below the federal poverty line.
Less than half (45%) of low-wage workers ages 18 to 24 are in school or already have a college degree.

These statistics tell an important story: Millions of hardworking American adults struggle to eke out a living and support their families on very low wages.

What should be done? Some suggest that education and “upskilling” is the answer, arguing that if these workers got more education and increased their skills, they would move up to higher-paying jobs.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/01/08/low-unemployment-isnt-worth-much-if-the-jobs-barely-pay/

Funniest shit I've read in weeks.

>China Gave US Diplomats Anal COVID Tests ‘In Error,’ American Officials Say

>The U.S. State Department says it is committed to preserving the “dignity” of American diplomats.

>The Chinese government has promised to stop using anal swabs on American diplomats to test for COVID-19 after Washington complained that the practice was undignified, the U.S. State Department said. “The State Department never agreed to this kind of testing and protested directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when we learned that some staff were subject to it,” a State Department spokesperson told VICE World News on Wednesday. The spokesperson said Beijing had assured Washington that the test was given “in error” and that diplomatic personnel were exempt from the test, which was mandatory for incoming travelers in some parts of China. “We have instructed staff to decline this test if it is asked of them, as was done in the past.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxk9a/china-anal-covid-tests-us-diplomats

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/trump-legal-problems-post-impeachment/index.html

After averting a conviction in his second impeachment trial, former President Donald Trump faces significant new legal threats as prosecutors in Georgia have joined those in New York to conduct criminal investigations into his actions.

As the nation watched harrowing videos from January 6 of Trump supporters storming the US Capitol during the Senate impeachment trial this week, Georgia officials announced they have opened investigations into Trump's efforts to overturn the state's election results, including by pressuring officials to "find" votes to swing the outcome in his favor.

The new investigations add to a heaping list of legal issues facing the former President that could threaten his finances and possibly his freedom.
Out of office and without the protections that the presidency afforded him,
Trump is now facing multiple criminal investigations, civil state inquiries and defamation lawsuits by two women accusing him of sexual assault.

The pressure comes as Trump weighs his future in politics and in business with the Trump Organization, which has already been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, also losing corporate partnerships following Trump's January 6 speech whipping up the crowd.

In the three weeks since Trump left the White House, the multiple legal threats he faces have increased and become more imminent.
...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2021/02/17/gamestop-short-seller-says-hes-been-targeted-with-anti-semitic-harassment-by-reddit-trolls/

Hedge fund CEO squeezed by shitposters cries anti-semitism as his defense

Key Facts

Plotkin said Reddit posters encouraged others to drive up the price of GameStop stock in posts “with antisemitism” directed at him and others, citing where someone wrote, “It’s very clear we need anuddah shoah, porky can’t keep getting away with this.”

Reddit CEO is also testifying at the hearing, said their “anti-evil” team searched for the comment Plotkin mentioned, and found it “received no votes and was deleted within five minutes.”
>“anti-evil” team

Melvin Capital suffered massive losses when GameStop’s share price climbed to record heights, and has been a particular target of the Reddit forum r/WallStreetBets, who style themselves as crusaders against wealthy Wall Street firms.

The moderators of r/WallStreetBets, who are in charge of making sure the community doesn’t run afoul of Reddit’s speech removal policies, did not respond to a message from Forbes

Key Background
This isn’t the first time r/WallStreetBets has been accused of hate speech and offensive language. At the height of Gamestop the community’s Discord server was banned for espousing unpopular truths. In response, a moderator said they were trying in good faith to weed out free speech, but the task became difficult with a massive influx of new shitposters. “You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes porky look bad,” one wrote in a Reddit post, responding to the Discord ban.

Summoned to testify before a House committee Thursday about about his hedge fund’s short trading of GameStop shares, Melvin Capital CEO Gabriel Plotkin said that Reddit traders behind the meme stock frenzy targeted him with anti-semitic attacks and claimed it was anuddah stonk shoah.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-patrick-gaspard-george-soros-biden-cabinet

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-weather-texas-idUSKBN2AF0OK

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/539113-hedge-fund-to-acquire-tribune-publishing-in-630m-deal

Hedge fund Alden Global Capital will acquire Tribune Publishing, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, in a deal worth $630 million.

The companies announced on Tuesday that Alden will acquire all of the outstanding shares in Tribune that Alden doesn’t currently own for $17.25 per share in cash.

The Hedge Fund currently owns 11.5 million shares of Tribune common stock, representing 31.6 percent of the company’s outstanding shares.


The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021. Upon its completion, Tribune will become a privately held company, and its stock will no longer be listed on nay public market.

“Over the past year, the Company has taken a number of actions to adapt to an ever-changing business and industry environment, including the impact of COVID-19. These actions included strengthening the Company's financial position, driving digital growth and investing in high-quality content to better serve customers, employees and communities,” Philip Franklin, chairman of the board for Tribune Publishing, said in a statement.

“This positioning enabled the special committee to negotiate a premium, all-cash price, which the committee concluded was superior to the available alternatives,” he said.

Tribune Publishing Company owns roughly 20 newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, the New York Daily News and South Florida's Sun Sentinel and Orlando Sentinel.

Meanwhile, Alden owns roughly 200 publications through a company known as MediaNews Group, according to the Chicago Tribune.

In a bit of good news for local media outlets, as part of the deal Alden signed a non-binding term sheet to sell The Baltimore Sun to public charity Sunlight for All Institute, returning the newspaper to Maryland ownership.

Los Angeles School District Eliminates One-Third of Its Police Officers.

The school board also decided to ban the pepper-spraying of students and divert $25 million to programs for students of color.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/us/los-angeles-school-police.html