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Nearly half of Google workers worldwide are contractors, temps, and vendors (TVCs) and just slightly more than half are full-time employees (FTEs). An internal source, speaking anonymously to The Guardian, just revealed that of about 170,000 people who work at Google, 49.95%, are TVCs and 50.05% are FTEs. As The Guardian reported on Dec. 12, a nascent labor movement within the company led to the leak of a rather awkward document, entitled “The ABCs of TVCs,” which reveals just how seriously Google takes the employment distinctions.

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There was a two-year cap on contract extensions and a weird caste system that excluded us from meetings, certain cafeterias, the Google campus store, and much more. Most notably, contractors wore red badges that had to be visible at all times and signaled to everyone our lowly position in the system.

Think ‘white people’ and ‘colored people’ in South Africa.

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Thumb-sucker. Who didn’t know about that?

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Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your brains! You have a turd to win!

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And things were really groovy, man.

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Maybe because they aren’t. The ‘complete package’ is two parents per child.  That’s a no-brainer.

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The prospect of a purple and eventually blue Texas thrills progressives who see the Lone Star State as the key to their drive for post-Trump domination. Before draining their champagne glasses and filling their bongs, the coastal crowd should sober up enough to consider what happens if the Texas miracle comes to an end.

Many Republicans, meantime, have come to consider Texas their sovereign territory, a deeply conservative place where even Democrats were generally pro-business and growth was the prevailing religion. This last election ended what remained of that hallucination. In virtually every big metro—the increasingly dominant geography of Texas—the Democrats grabbed control.

The same process has corrupted New Hampshire. Immigrants from high-tax high-regulation states like Massachusetts and Vermont are turning New Hampshire into a clone of the places they fled.

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Rolling Stone, a Voice of the Crust. lets you peek behind the Narrative.

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Climate Change: Is there anything it can’t do?

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Their lavish pensions forced the city to establish an “Excess Benefit Plan” to pay what the pension system cannot legally cover, using money that could otherwise be tapped to fix sidewalks, fight homelessness or hire more cops.

In all, the little-known fund has paid $14.6 million to 110 retired employees since 2010, The Times’ analysis showed.

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Another in the long line of attempts to convince people that DNA isn’t as important as how you feel.

Funny how people who are All About Science when it comes to ‘climate change’ are all about ignoring it when it comes to how people are actually related.

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On 11 December the South African Constitutional Court delivered a scathing judgment against former president Jacob Zuma’s decision in 2014 to support a Mugabe-initiated pseudo-legal maneuver to block a South African Development Community (SADC) tribunal ruling. This court had been constituted at the time of the formation of SADC and was designed to arbitrate disputes within the member states. The founding fathers of the community were explicit in the prohibition of any action taken against any person or entity motivated by race. This worked until Mugabe forcefully evicted 4,000 white farmers on the grounds of their skin color. When Zimbabwean courts were found wanting, the farmers took their case to the SADC tribunal and won. Suddenly a deified “freedom fighter” was conclusively proved to be a vicious and destructive racist, that his actions were illegal, and (all credit to the brave judges) his government was instructed to compensate the dispossessed. This was too much for Mugabe and his regional acolytes, so they simply closed the court and annulled the ruling.

Saturday Night Live stages star-studded spoof ‘It’s a Wonderful Trump’  I remember when SNL was actually funny. It was a while ago.

New Facts Indicate Mueller Destroyed Evidence, Obstructed Justice

Adam Schiff Suggests Trump Might Be Compromised For Ties To Deutsche Bank  Then again, he might not.

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It would certainly put Trump in perspective.

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With the demise of The Weekly Standard solidified Friday, the United Kingdom-based Spectator is hoping to take its place as the preeminent right-leaning journal unwedded to any particular Republican politician by launching an American print edition in 2019, The Daily Caller News Foundation learned.

I may have to subscribe.

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Women and minorities hardest hit….

Didn’t know that wars had hands … and, if the world has ignored it, how did Kathleen Kern come to know about it?

Must be psychic or something.

Because we didn’t pay attention to the thousands of Kurdish villages Turkey destroyed in the 1990s, the Turkish state still believes it can act largely without scrutiny.

Seems to be working so far.

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Well, one could make a long list of things AlGore said that turned out not to be true.

Women and minorities hardest hit….

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How is this news? COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP. Hellooo!

Of course, Amnesty would describe a Boy Scout summer camp as like a concentration camp, so that would explain at least some of the lack of interest.

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Perhaps because there are enough ‘refugee crises’ for every man, woman, and child in a major European country — who can keep track of all of them?

Every year universities in the First World graduate thousands of Social Justice Warriors just aching to go out into the world and Make A Difference … when all they actually wind up doing is Make A Stink.

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It worked for me, rapidly enough that I could just maintain a normal walking pace past the camera console. It printed out my name and seat assignment as I walked past.

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If you listen to management pundits, “collaboration” is all the rage. While the term is a bit fuzzy, what’s usually meant by “collaboration” is 1) plenty of ad-hoc meetings and 2) open-plan offices that increase the likelihood that such meetings take place.

In previous columns, I’ve pointed out that open-plan offices, with all their interruptions, distractions, and noise pollution, are productivity sinkholes. I’ve also pointed out that collaboration tends to penalize the competent who end up doing most of the work.

A recent study published in Applied Psychology has now confirmed that a collaborative work environment can make top performers–the innovators and hard-workers–feel miserable and socially isolated.

Unfortunately, open-plan offices are cheaper than giving each worker his own space, and it’s easier to point to the amount of money saved than to try to evaluate the amount of productivity lost.

‘Diversity’ works the same way. All scientific studies that have been allowed to test the supposed benefits of ‘diversity’ have demonstrated that having a ‘diverse’ workforce (in the Political Correctness sense) actually impairs productivity. But that’s not in line with the Narrative so anybody who tries to say that in public is immediately silenced.

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For one thing, prole and even middle class black women do not like halfies with the good hair. “Do not like” does not come close to capturing the level of resentment there. In fact, it is probably even worse to be, like Harris, an exotic-ish halfie with the good hair than if she were just a corn fed Halle Barry type. Now at least Harris is married to a nerdy white guy instead of “taking” a high status black male, but on the other hand he is an investment banking nerdy white guy, so I’m sure there are photos of Harris living it up on jet skis or whatever, in a bikini with her golden brown skin and straight hair.

Audacious Epigone adds:

Because of gerrymandering and the stubborn refusal of non-blacks to live around blacks if they can help it, the Democrat bench has few authentically black blacks on deck for the national batter’s box. This contrasts sharply to the congressional level, where many heavily black urban districts send authentically black blacks to DC. Emmanuel Cleaver can’t win a statewide election in Missouri just as assuredly as he can’t lose a reelection bid in Missouri’s 5th.

When the prep-school halfrican Obama tried to challenge the authentically black Bobby Rush for a congressional seat in 2000, he got crushed because southside blacks wouldn’t vote for a mulatto from Harvard over a former Black Panther. But when Obama ran against Hillary Clinton in 2008, he utterly dominated the black vote, 85%-15%, because he was the blackest thing on offer.

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Well, actually, they don’t claim that.

What they do claim is: “Surging levels of greenhouse gases could make people tired, forgetful and stupid.”

Of course they could. But are they? No such claim is made.

But increased levels of carbon dioxide could not just affect office workers but the entire population by the end of the century, according to scientists at University College London.

Again, that weasel-word could.

This is just more climate-change alarmism, ‘journalists’ who ought to know better seizing on tentative research conclusions to justify their Chicken Little agenda.

Faugh.

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We have the technology.

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Alternative: Make threatening phone calls at odd hours, throw bricks through their windows, steal packages off of their porch. crucify a pet on the front door, key their cars (if present) and slash their tires.

I guarantee that they will welcome the return of loneliness as if it were Santa Claus.

Moral: Don’t assume that somebody who is by xirself is lonely. Maybe s/he likes it that way.

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I guess fighting climate change implies leaving trash strewn around. Who knew?

At present the UK has over 66 million people. I doubt that protests involving less than a thousand people are going to impress anybody whose job it isn’t to report on it as if it were important.

Note the assumption that only the government can solve the climate change problem, implicitly by forcing people into behavior that they would not naturally do.

Note the meta-assumption that every problem is by its nature a political problem that requires political action to solve.

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Trump doing what he does best: Pushing back.

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Yeah, good luck with that.

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The Guardian, Britains Voice of the LeftCrust, is a publication that appears specifically devoted to providing an outlet for people who in a rightly-ordered society would be subject to compulsory psychiatric treatment.

Traditional school systems have a programme of social normalisation, in which children of the same age, regardless of condition or mental ability, are thrown together in the hope that the abnormal can learn to get along with their chronological peers simply through the process of ‘rubbing off’ or imitation. This programme usually bites the dirt along with the child, who is subject to bullying, ostracism and isolation. Parents who are essentially normal, who survived the school system themselves, are often at a loss to deal with the fact that not only is their child dysfunctional but the school itself seems to be out of whack.

— h2g2

One of the most persistent criticisms of homeschooling is that homeschooled children aren’t ‘socialized’ properly, i.e. trained to Play Well With Others. Since most existing schools are the equivalent of primitive tribes in their social structure and activities, I’d say that’s a feature, not a bug. If the supposed supervising adults associated with my high school had known half of what went on when the adults were not in the room, they would have been scared shitless.

Audacious Epigone rips the mask off of the news.

In last week’s Power Hour, the Z-Man noted that one major reason Trump gets so little Establishment push back for tangling with China–despite the real dangers involved–is because our elites are legitimately worried about the Middle Kingdom. Crowding out top American colleges, stealing the intellectual property elites live off of, pricing them out of major cities–these are problems the Chinese pose to the cloud people a country like Mexico does not.

Oh noes!

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Just waiting for CNN to blame it on Donald Trump….

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She appears to have realized that there is no future for a Republican in California, and that she needs some sort of reasonable-sounding pretext for bailing out.

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The decision Friday finding the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional comes at the tail end of a six-week open enrollment period for the program in 2019 and underscores a divide between Republicans who have long sought to invalidate the law and Democrats who fought to keep it in place.

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Texas and an alliance of 19 states argued to the judge that they’ve been harmed by an increase in the number of people on state-supported insurance rolls. They claimed that when Congress last year repealed the tax penalty for the so-called individual mandate, it eliminated the U.S. Supreme Court’s rationale for finding the ACA constitutional in 2012.

The Texas judge agreed. He likened the debate over which provisions of the law should stand or fail to “watching a slow game of Jenga, each party poking at a different provision to see if the ACA falls.” He also wrote that it’s clear the individual mandate is the linchpin of the law “without marching through every nook and cranny of the ACA’s 900-plus pages.”

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The obvious question is: Exactly how does this help migrants? How does it advance whatever agenda these people are pushing? What is it about dance, specifically, that relates to immigration?

The obvious answer is that it’s totally irrelevant — but that’s not the point. The point is that these people have very little scope for virtue-signaling, but their need for virtue-signaling is so compulsive that whatever they actually can do (in this case dance) they do in the hope that it will be credited to them for righteousness. It’s not about helping migrants, it’s about doing something that will allow them to feel good about themselves.

Andrew Napolitano Repeatedly Shreds ‘Fox & Friends’ Defense Of Trump  In the eyes of the Estrogen Post, at least, mostly by getting wrong things that one might expect a judge ought to get right, such as the implications of Cohen’s plea deal.

Trump ‘directed me’ to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels and knew it was wrong, Michael Cohen claims  Which is not the same as criminal, although everybody seems to be assuming that it is. And of course Cohen is the most credible witness possible. He appears to be carving out the New John Dean role.

Cohen: Trump Knew He Was Breaking Law With Payments  Except that he wasnt. Cohen is ‘mind-reading’ here trying to paint Trump as black as possible to save his out butt.

NBC Legal Analyst Claims Trump Committed A Felony To Win The White House  Except that he didn’t. This ‘analyst’ apparently ‘knows’ that Trump committed a felony (unspecified) but can’t be prosecuted because Cohen won’t give the necessary testimony. ‘And for some unknown reason to us, he is not doing that.’ Maybe because it didn’t happen?

#PsychicNewsNetwork Trump’s Border Policy Is Meant To ‘Traumatize’ Children, Says Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley There must be something about the water in Oregon that lets politicians there read minds.

DACA Judge Suggests Trump’s Rhetoric Threatens Rule Of Law

Trump can be indicted as president for finance violations, Obama Justice Department official says  If they find any, which they haven’t, newspaper headlines to the contrary notwithstanding.

The Establishment’s Full Fury Against Trump Is Now Unleashed

Jerry Brown Tells UN That Trump ‘Does Not Represent The People’ Of The US  At least those who live in California.

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It is curious to note just how far Dr Zuckerberg’s work has been shaped by her reactions to avowed personal enemies: Valizadeh turns out to be the most frequently-discussed author in Not All Dead White Men, with twenty-four works cited in the bibliography, and far more entries in the index than any classical writer.

Never trust any person who has died part or all of their hair a color not found in nature.

Such people are attention whores and walking sinks of narcissism.

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How could any reasonable person oppose diversity and inclusion in the workplace? Answer: Because “diversity and inclusion” in the work context is actually a euphemism for something else.

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“A desire for equal outcomes among all identity groups, and disadvantaging individuals in overrepresented demographic categories.”

I have yet to see any supporting evidence for the popular proglodyte myth that ‘diversity’ is a strength rather than a weakness. All of the actual studies I’ve seen suggest that working with people who don’t look like you raises questions of trust and coordination rather than otherwise.

For reference, here is a picture of an actual black man:

Bonus: The real Spartacus

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As a Democrat, no doubt. That’s where the sleazy people go.

Maybe he could give Cohen a run for the New John Dean position.

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A seven-year-old migrant girl died just hours after being taken into the custody of U.S. Border Patrol, suffering from dehydration and exhaustion as a result of the strenuous journey — but a Washington Post headline made it appear as though Border Patrol bore responsibility for her death.

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But beginning in the fourth paragraph, the Washington Post’s own report refutes the notion that Border Patrol bears responsibility for the girl’s death.

Noting that she began to suffer from seizures just over eight hours after being taken into custody and that her temperature quickly spiked to 105.7 degrees, WaPo reported that emergency responders were called right away and the girl was revived and taken to a hospital.  She died within 24 hours of being transported, and Border Patrol records show that she had not been given food or water for several days prior.

To quote Al Franken: Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.

UPDATE: Homeland Security Secretary says family are to blame for child’s death under Border Patrol custody

That seems fairly obvious.

UPDATE: DHS: 7-Year-Old Migrant Who Died Was Not Ill Upon Initial Screening

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Thank heaven for those strict gun control laws in Britain, or the place would look like Texas.

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Wow, could have fooled me.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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In what is believed to be a legal first, a fingerprint “lifted” from a mobile phone video helped bring the girl’s killer to justice. Officers spotted a recognisable print in a mobile phone film showing Viktorija’s murderer scrolling through his iPhone as he tried to delete evidence.

The footage did not show the boy’s face, meaning a fingerprint was the only means of proving he was using the phone.

We have the technology.

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Obama had a great deal of fun giving away other people’s money.

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Our Hungarian correspondent CrossWare sends the following report to give you a fuller picture of what is happening in Hungary — how outside forces are arranging for domestic disturbances in an attempt to destabilize the Orbán government.

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Asian-American parents and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against New York City officials Thursday over a plan that would increase admissions for black and Hispanic students to elite schools in the city.

This diversity & inclusion stuff is all very well and good when cruising the underclass for votes, but let’s not get carried away.

Black and Hispanic students make up 68 percent of the city’s population with 9 percent receiving offers to attend specialized high schools.

That’s because black and Hispanic students can’t be bothered to go to class or study, which is why they don’t qualify.

Asian-American students, however, make up 62 percent of the population at the city’s elite high schools,

Asian-American students have parents that make sure they study and get good grades. Tiger Mothers and all that.

The plan promoted by Mayor Bill de Blasio would set aside 20 percent of seats at each of the elite high schools for students coming from low socioeconomic backgrounds, according to WaPo.

The implication being that they will be admitted despite having not qualified through the entrance exam, i.e. affirmative-action admissions.

“Furthermore, this costly expansion (estimated at $550,000) is just another futile effort by de Blasio to mask his failures to improve K-8 education in black and Hispanic communities: under his watch, math and English proficiency rates among black and Latino students from grades 3 through 8 are less than 50% of performance levels among Asian and Caucasian American students,” the AACE press statement said.

How crass of them to bring that up.

“Our schools are academically stronger when they reflect the diversity of our City,” New York City’s Department of Education (NYCDOE) spokesman Will Mantell told TheDCNF.

Evidence to support this common Lefty fairy tale is never produced, of course. In reality, diversity will very obviously make the schools academically weaker by putting young proto-thugs in the same classrooms as actual students.

I can never tell.