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May 12, 2020
I have an extensive career in retail. The retail floor is where I cut my teeth, doing countless fit-and-feels, brushing up on reams of product knowledge and styling clients from head to toe. I oscillated between big-box department stores and boutiques, learning the ins and outs of the business. Among the many lessons I learned (and there are many), one which I’m most grateful for is also one of the most mundane — how to fold a shirt.
It’s no argument that knowing how to count a till, order supplies or just treat people (customer service) are more useful. Maybe it’s a pet peeve of mine after years of conditioning myself to straighten and finger space. Or perhaps I find it therapeutic — but, it’s probably mutually inclusive. Knowing the proper way to fold a shirt is valuable, whether it’s for your closet or to merchandise your brick and mortar store. It keeps both drawers and shelves orderly and easily accessible. It’s also visually easier on the eye. That mound of clothes that’s languishing in your chair? That’s a problem. That may sound like parental nagging, but the research backs it up. We identify with our homes, and when our space is messy, cluttered and cramped, it can lead to a diminished state of well-being, difficulty processing thoughts and even poorer eating habits. This is where a good folding technique can help.
Unbeknownst to me, this method is very similar to Marie Kondo’s famous filing method of folding clothes. Step by step, it’s the same thing, save two differences. The first is the use of a folding board. If you’ve ever wondered how retail stores get their clothes to look so neat, it’s because they’re using a folding board. A folding board not only helps guide where the garment should be folded, but also keeps every garment consistently sized. Without it, straightening and lining up stacks can be difficult. There are plenty of contraptions with various panels and hinges to help guide you through the folding process, but what most retail stores actually use is just a simple rigid rectangle. Often, it’s just a clipboard. But, you don’t even really need to buy a folding board or clipboard. A piece of cardboard cut into a 9? by 12? rectangle will work just fine.
While this method is nice if you like to see your clothes on a table or shelf, most of us likely keep our clothes in drawers if they’re not a hanger. That’s the second difference between this method and Kondo’s. Kondo goes one step further and folds her clothes an additional time so that the clothes can actually stand up. This allows the clothes to be filed into a drawer and be easily seen all at once without having to dig through stacks to find the right garment.
How to Fold Your Shirt
Step 1.
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Yes, There Is a Best Way to Fold Your Shirts. This Is It
https://gearpatrol.com/2020/05/12/how-to-fold-your-clothes/I have an extensive career in retail. The retail floor is where I cut my teeth, doing countless fit-and-feels, brushing up on reams of product knowledge and styling clients from head to toe. I oscillated between big-box department stores and boutiques, learning the ins and outs of the business. Among the many lessons I learned (and there are many), one which I’m most grateful for is also one of the most mundane — how to fold a shirt.
It’s no argument that knowing how to count a till, order supplies or just treat people (customer service) are more useful. Maybe it’s a pet peeve of mine after years of conditioning myself to straighten and finger space. Or perhaps I find it therapeutic — but, it’s probably mutually inclusive. Knowing the proper way to fold a shirt is valuable, whether it’s for your closet or to merchandise your brick and mortar store. It keeps both drawers and shelves orderly and easily accessible. It’s also visually easier on the eye. That mound of clothes that’s languishing in your chair? That’s a problem. That may sound like parental nagging, but the research backs it up. We identify with our homes, and when our space is messy, cluttered and cramped, it can lead to a diminished state of well-being, difficulty processing thoughts and even poorer eating habits. This is where a good folding technique can help.
Unbeknownst to me, this method is very similar to Marie Kondo’s famous filing method of folding clothes. Step by step, it’s the same thing, save two differences. The first is the use of a folding board. If you’ve ever wondered how retail stores get their clothes to look so neat, it’s because they’re using a folding board. A folding board not only helps guide where the garment should be folded, but also keeps every garment consistently sized. Without it, straightening and lining up stacks can be difficult. There are plenty of contraptions with various panels and hinges to help guide you through the folding process, but what most retail stores actually use is just a simple rigid rectangle. Often, it’s just a clipboard. But, you don’t even really need to buy a folding board or clipboard. A piece of cardboard cut into a 9? by 12? rectangle will work just fine.
While this method is nice if you like to see your clothes on a table or shelf, most of us likely keep our clothes in drawers if they’re not a hanger. That’s the second difference between this method and Kondo’s. Kondo goes one step further and folds her clothes an additional time so that the clothes can actually stand up. This allows the clothes to be filed into a drawer and be easily seen all at once without having to dig through stacks to find the right garment.
How to Fold Your Shirt
Step 1.
snip
May 12, 2020
https://thebanter.substack.com/p/zombie-corporations-are-destroying
The Founding Fathers’ vision of capitalism
While there is much to criticize the Founding Fathers for (slavery, the treatment of Native Americans, women for example), their concept of corporations and their relationship to capitalism was remarkably progressive. Like the creators of capitalism, the Founding Fathers would have no doubt seen share buybacks (the re-acquisition by a company of its own shares) as market manipulation, and the obsession with stock price as risky speculation. Though all the old white men certainly would have been aware of joint stock companies and the few extant European Bourses at the time, those markets were very niche and operated nothing like stock, bond, and commodities markets do today. Golden parachutes, poverty wages and share buybacks at profitable companies would have been seen as confusingly inefficient, and an immoral, pointless allocation of scarce capital and resources. Those resources could be much better used by reinvesting in innovation and the labor force. The original purveyors of capitalism believed companies should grow and profit because they innovate and add value to the economy, not because of gimmicks created to attract day traders. The shareholder should receive growth through share appreciation because the company is creating products or services people want to buy, not because executives are pumping the price to line their own pockets.
Enter the zombie companies
After the Great Crash in 1929, financial tools used to manipulate markets were made illegal over fears executives could use them to inflate their company’s stock value. Under Ronald Reagan’s SEC however, these rules were relaxed in the early 1980’s, paving the way for extraordinary abuse and manipulation that has only accelerated in recent times. The Reagan era idea of profitable companies laying off workers to please analysts and shareholders has proven poisonous and contagious. It creates zombie (or if you prefer, cancerous) companies that don’t add anything or improve our lives in any way, and often leads them to mistreat their workers and communities. These companies continue to grow financially while actually extracting value from the economy and resources from workers. Just like a cancer, a parasite or a zombie virus, oil giants, hedge funds and health insurance companies simply consume what others create, destroy smaller companies, and provide no real value to anyone. In many cases they even refuse to pay a living wage, and demand bailouts from the taxpayer when market conditions become too difficult.
The original purpose of capitalism
For Smith, Ricardo and the Founding Fathers, the “free market” wasn’t at all what modern conservatives claim it is: an ‘efficient’ (read inhumane and cruel) consumption machine that acts with no concern for its environment, society, or workers except what it can suck out of them. Instead, for these thinkers capitalism was a means to increase quality of life — not simply through material acquisition — but through education, new technology and ideas that allow us to work less, be more compassionate to the poor and sick, and friendly but motivated competition between mostly small to medium size enterprises. And when those companies can no longer add value, rather than being kept alive simply to continue to produce gains for their shareholders as they do now, they should fail and make space for newer and more innovative enterprises. To early capitalists like the Founding Fathers, a free market was specifically one unencumbered by economic privilege (large corporations getting irregular tax breaks), monopolies (Facebook, Amazon, Walmart) and artificial scarcities (hoarding N95 masks or toilet roll).
They believed that ‘economic rents’, which is essentially money made by what we would call “gouging” or “screwing people”, were not only immoral but a key sign of an inefficient free market. A truly free market was efficient for all of its participants, not just its largest and wealthiest. That means companies get to make a profit for their owners, but people are also paid fair, competitive, living wages for their work, and there is competition amongst both capital and labor. All this nonsense about “supply-side”, “shareholder value” etc, etc. didn’t come about until Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman began justifying a return to greed and inequality during the comparatively equal post WWII period. And none if it has anything to do with the type of capitalism Washington, Jefferson, Madison, or Lincoln were familiar with. None of them would see this as a free market, but instead one designed to be (and being) manipulated by those with the most money.
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"Zombie Corporations" Are Destroying Our Economy
Giant corporations are producing little value, killing jobs, and sucking the life out of the global economy. This is not what capitalism was supposed to look like. IT CAME FROM... THE 80’S - and like cocaine mountains and shoulder pads, we should have left it there. I studied Economics in college — I even managed to get the degree. Now admittedly there’s plenty I don’t remember, but I do recall this much: in the philosophies of the men who “created” capitalism (Adam Smith and David Ricardo for example), there is no mention of “shareholder value” or “analyst expectations”. In Smith’s The Wealth of Nations he does not discuss “stock markets” or “share buybacks”. Now these terms are synonymous with capitalism, and since the 1980’s have created modern day Zombie Companies that are eating our economy alive.https://thebanter.substack.com/p/zombie-corporations-are-destroying
The Founding Fathers’ vision of capitalism
While there is much to criticize the Founding Fathers for (slavery, the treatment of Native Americans, women for example), their concept of corporations and their relationship to capitalism was remarkably progressive. Like the creators of capitalism, the Founding Fathers would have no doubt seen share buybacks (the re-acquisition by a company of its own shares) as market manipulation, and the obsession with stock price as risky speculation. Though all the old white men certainly would have been aware of joint stock companies and the few extant European Bourses at the time, those markets were very niche and operated nothing like stock, bond, and commodities markets do today. Golden parachutes, poverty wages and share buybacks at profitable companies would have been seen as confusingly inefficient, and an immoral, pointless allocation of scarce capital and resources. Those resources could be much better used by reinvesting in innovation and the labor force. The original purveyors of capitalism believed companies should grow and profit because they innovate and add value to the economy, not because of gimmicks created to attract day traders. The shareholder should receive growth through share appreciation because the company is creating products or services people want to buy, not because executives are pumping the price to line their own pockets.
Enter the zombie companies
After the Great Crash in 1929, financial tools used to manipulate markets were made illegal over fears executives could use them to inflate their company’s stock value. Under Ronald Reagan’s SEC however, these rules were relaxed in the early 1980’s, paving the way for extraordinary abuse and manipulation that has only accelerated in recent times. The Reagan era idea of profitable companies laying off workers to please analysts and shareholders has proven poisonous and contagious. It creates zombie (or if you prefer, cancerous) companies that don’t add anything or improve our lives in any way, and often leads them to mistreat their workers and communities. These companies continue to grow financially while actually extracting value from the economy and resources from workers. Just like a cancer, a parasite or a zombie virus, oil giants, hedge funds and health insurance companies simply consume what others create, destroy smaller companies, and provide no real value to anyone. In many cases they even refuse to pay a living wage, and demand bailouts from the taxpayer when market conditions become too difficult.
The original purpose of capitalism
For Smith, Ricardo and the Founding Fathers, the “free market” wasn’t at all what modern conservatives claim it is: an ‘efficient’ (read inhumane and cruel) consumption machine that acts with no concern for its environment, society, or workers except what it can suck out of them. Instead, for these thinkers capitalism was a means to increase quality of life — not simply through material acquisition — but through education, new technology and ideas that allow us to work less, be more compassionate to the poor and sick, and friendly but motivated competition between mostly small to medium size enterprises. And when those companies can no longer add value, rather than being kept alive simply to continue to produce gains for their shareholders as they do now, they should fail and make space for newer and more innovative enterprises. To early capitalists like the Founding Fathers, a free market was specifically one unencumbered by economic privilege (large corporations getting irregular tax breaks), monopolies (Facebook, Amazon, Walmart) and artificial scarcities (hoarding N95 masks or toilet roll).
They believed that ‘economic rents’, which is essentially money made by what we would call “gouging” or “screwing people”, were not only immoral but a key sign of an inefficient free market. A truly free market was efficient for all of its participants, not just its largest and wealthiest. That means companies get to make a profit for their owners, but people are also paid fair, competitive, living wages for their work, and there is competition amongst both capital and labor. All this nonsense about “supply-side”, “shareholder value” etc, etc. didn’t come about until Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman began justifying a return to greed and inequality during the comparatively equal post WWII period. And none if it has anything to do with the type of capitalism Washington, Jefferson, Madison, or Lincoln were familiar with. None of them would see this as a free market, but instead one designed to be (and being) manipulated by those with the most money.
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May 12, 2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/trump-has-lost-plot/611548/
A couple of years ago, BuzzFeed asked a former White House official to explain the logic behind some bizarre Trump action. The official responded with one of the master quotes of the Trump era. President Trump, the official said, is not playing “the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he’s just eating the pieces.” Over Mother’s Day and then through Monday—and who knows, perhaps continuing today—Trump has fired off hundreds of rounds of weapons-grade lunacy on Twitter. When Trump does this kind of thing, many are ready with an explanation: He’s rallying his base; he’s distracting his critics; he’s challenging the existence of reality itself.
But these explanations miss the point. Trump horribly and uniquely bungled the coronavirus crisis. The human result is mass death and Great Depression–scale unemployment. The political result is that while leaders in Britain and almost everywhere else in the democratic world have been boosted by a surge in public support and approval, Trump has not. The governors who have clashed with Trump have seen their poll numbers rise; New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may now be the most popular politician in the country. Governors who support Trump, like Florida’s Ron DeSantis and Georgia’s Brian Kemp, have seen their numbers tumble.
Trump trails Joe Biden in national polls by at least five points, as he has done all year. Trump is even lagging behind in swing-state polls. He is down by three points in Florida, five in North Carolina, and seven in Pennsylvania and Michigan. An internal Republican National Committee poll of the 16 least-decided states shows Trump behind in virtually all of them—so much so that he seems likely to drag the Republican Senate majority down with him, The Washington Post reported.
Trump’s psychology is defined by his terror of rejection. The most stinging insult in his vast vocabulary of disdain is loser. And yet every poll, every powerful Biden TV ad, forces Trump to contemplate that he is headed toward a historic humiliation. He’ll stand with Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover, the incumbents rejected because they failed to manage economic crises. Trump failed to prevent the crisis. Out of envy and spite, he dismantled the pandemic-warning apparatus his predecessors had bequeathed him. Trump failed to manage the crisis. At every turn, he gave priority to the short-term management of the stock market instead. Trump failed to message the crisis. He not only lacks empathy; he despises empathy.
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The Atlantic - David Frum : Trump Has Lost the Plot
The president is talking about things most Americans can’t comprehend, let alone care about.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/trump-has-lost-plot/611548/
A couple of years ago, BuzzFeed asked a former White House official to explain the logic behind some bizarre Trump action. The official responded with one of the master quotes of the Trump era. President Trump, the official said, is not playing “the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he’s just eating the pieces.” Over Mother’s Day and then through Monday—and who knows, perhaps continuing today—Trump has fired off hundreds of rounds of weapons-grade lunacy on Twitter. When Trump does this kind of thing, many are ready with an explanation: He’s rallying his base; he’s distracting his critics; he’s challenging the existence of reality itself.
But these explanations miss the point. Trump horribly and uniquely bungled the coronavirus crisis. The human result is mass death and Great Depression–scale unemployment. The political result is that while leaders in Britain and almost everywhere else in the democratic world have been boosted by a surge in public support and approval, Trump has not. The governors who have clashed with Trump have seen their poll numbers rise; New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may now be the most popular politician in the country. Governors who support Trump, like Florida’s Ron DeSantis and Georgia’s Brian Kemp, have seen their numbers tumble.
Trump trails Joe Biden in national polls by at least five points, as he has done all year. Trump is even lagging behind in swing-state polls. He is down by three points in Florida, five in North Carolina, and seven in Pennsylvania and Michigan. An internal Republican National Committee poll of the 16 least-decided states shows Trump behind in virtually all of them—so much so that he seems likely to drag the Republican Senate majority down with him, The Washington Post reported.
Trump’s psychology is defined by his terror of rejection. The most stinging insult in his vast vocabulary of disdain is loser. And yet every poll, every powerful Biden TV ad, forces Trump to contemplate that he is headed toward a historic humiliation. He’ll stand with Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover, the incumbents rejected because they failed to manage economic crises. Trump failed to prevent the crisis. Out of envy and spite, he dismantled the pandemic-warning apparatus his predecessors had bequeathed him. Trump failed to manage the crisis. At every turn, he gave priority to the short-term management of the stock market instead. Trump failed to message the crisis. He not only lacks empathy; he despises empathy.
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May 12, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/politics/ca-25-voting.html
In the Los Angeles suburbs on Tuesday, California’s 25th Congressional District will hold a special election to fill the seat of former Representative Katie Hill. (You remember her resignation in October, I’m sure.) Christy Smith, the Democrat in the race, and her Republican opponent, Mike Garcia, have been unable to campaign in person. The contest — conducted largely through social media, television ads and virtual events — has grown increasingly vitriolic, according to our California political reporter Jennifer Medina. Democrats are increasingly worried that they could lose, allowing Republicans to flip a California House district for the first time in more than two decades.
So why are Republicans hellbent on undermining the legitimacy of an election that they could very well win? Look to their national political strategy. Let’s rewind for a second: A few weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an order to mail ballots to each of the roughly 425,000 voters in the district. About a dozen in-person polling locations were also set up. Late last week, Mayor R. Rex Parris, a Republican who is backing Mr. Garcia, asked county officials to open an additional in-person polling place in Lancaster, a small, working-class, majority-minority city north of Los Angeles.
And on Friday, Mr. Newsom ordered ballots to be sent to the state’s 20.6 million voters for the November election, making California the first state to alter its voting plans for the general election. This combination of events — a new in-person polling place and a universal vote-by-mail option — set off a Republican firestorm. The National Republican Congressional Committee accused Democrats of conspiring to “steal” the election. Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader who is from a neighboring district, said Democrats were trying to “rig the election.” Even Mr. Garcia accused his opponents of “trying to change the rules to steal an election.” And then, President Trump weighed in, calling the election “rigged.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1259155620713975810
What’s particularly strange about these cries is that the neighborhood where the new polling place was opened routinely elects Republicans. In the State Legislature, Lancaster is represented by two Republicans. Even though Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the 25th District, Republican voters are returning ballots in significantly higher numbers. The latest data shows that 40 percent of ballots sent to registered Republicans have been returned, while 27 percent of Democrats have mailed theirs back. One in five Independents have returned their ballots. (Given that this election is happening in deep blue California, it’s fair to assume that a good share of those voters backed Ms. Smith.)
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NYT : The G.O.P.'s Pandemic Playbook
Republicans can flip a House seat in California, but they’re raising doubts about the voting anyway.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/politics/ca-25-voting.html
In the Los Angeles suburbs on Tuesday, California’s 25th Congressional District will hold a special election to fill the seat of former Representative Katie Hill. (You remember her resignation in October, I’m sure.) Christy Smith, the Democrat in the race, and her Republican opponent, Mike Garcia, have been unable to campaign in person. The contest — conducted largely through social media, television ads and virtual events — has grown increasingly vitriolic, according to our California political reporter Jennifer Medina. Democrats are increasingly worried that they could lose, allowing Republicans to flip a California House district for the first time in more than two decades.
So why are Republicans hellbent on undermining the legitimacy of an election that they could very well win? Look to their national political strategy. Let’s rewind for a second: A few weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an order to mail ballots to each of the roughly 425,000 voters in the district. About a dozen in-person polling locations were also set up. Late last week, Mayor R. Rex Parris, a Republican who is backing Mr. Garcia, asked county officials to open an additional in-person polling place in Lancaster, a small, working-class, majority-minority city north of Los Angeles.
And on Friday, Mr. Newsom ordered ballots to be sent to the state’s 20.6 million voters for the November election, making California the first state to alter its voting plans for the general election. This combination of events — a new in-person polling place and a universal vote-by-mail option — set off a Republican firestorm. The National Republican Congressional Committee accused Democrats of conspiring to “steal” the election. Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader who is from a neighboring district, said Democrats were trying to “rig the election.” Even Mr. Garcia accused his opponents of “trying to change the rules to steal an election.” And then, President Trump weighed in, calling the election “rigged.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1259155620713975810
What’s particularly strange about these cries is that the neighborhood where the new polling place was opened routinely elects Republicans. In the State Legislature, Lancaster is represented by two Republicans. Even though Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the 25th District, Republican voters are returning ballots in significantly higher numbers. The latest data shows that 40 percent of ballots sent to registered Republicans have been returned, while 27 percent of Democrats have mailed theirs back. One in five Independents have returned their ballots. (Given that this election is happening in deep blue California, it’s fair to assume that a good share of those voters backed Ms. Smith.)
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May 11, 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/11/nashville-naacp-target-lawn-police
The Nashville NAACP president, Keith Caldwell, said in a Facebook post that he found the “bullseye” target on an easel-like holder on his front yard on Saturday night. After Caldwell called the city’s non-emergency police number to file a report, he said the responding officer who arrived at his home was “flippant” about the matter.
After Caldwell told the officer that he was concerned the target was a threat to him and his family, Caldwell said the officer responded by saying that he thought the target “was pretty cool”. “It felt like to me that he really, he didn’t care,” Caldwell told WKRN-TV. After speaking with the officer, Caldwell said he then called the officer’s supervisor.
“I know that it’s an act of intimidation,” Caldwell told the Tennessean. “The fact is that I am a black man, and I am outspoken, and I am the president of the NAACP,” Caldwell said. “And I’ve said a lot of things that someone who wants to keep people oppressed don’t like.”
Metro Nashville police department said in a statement on Sunday that the target was from a backyard archery and tomahawk play set designed for children. They added that Caldwell is also concerned the target might have been placed in his yard “due to a dispute a member of his family is having with another individual”, the police statement said. The case is being investigated as an incident of intimidation.
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Nashville NAACP head finds target on his lawn: 'It's an act of intimidation'
The Nashville head of the NAACP said a police officer who responded to his home after a bullseye-like target appeared in his front yard dismissed his concerns.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/11/nashville-naacp-target-lawn-police
The Nashville NAACP president, Keith Caldwell, said in a Facebook post that he found the “bullseye” target on an easel-like holder on his front yard on Saturday night. After Caldwell called the city’s non-emergency police number to file a report, he said the responding officer who arrived at his home was “flippant” about the matter.
After Caldwell told the officer that he was concerned the target was a threat to him and his family, Caldwell said the officer responded by saying that he thought the target “was pretty cool”. “It felt like to me that he really, he didn’t care,” Caldwell told WKRN-TV. After speaking with the officer, Caldwell said he then called the officer’s supervisor.
“I know that it’s an act of intimidation,” Caldwell told the Tennessean. “The fact is that I am a black man, and I am outspoken, and I am the president of the NAACP,” Caldwell said. “And I’ve said a lot of things that someone who wants to keep people oppressed don’t like.”
Metro Nashville police department said in a statement on Sunday that the target was from a backyard archery and tomahawk play set designed for children. They added that Caldwell is also concerned the target might have been placed in his yard “due to a dispute a member of his family is having with another individual”, the police statement said. The case is being investigated as an incident of intimidation.
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May 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891
Elon Musk : Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line
with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891
May 11, 2020
Hailing from Brixton, London – Legendary DJ Pied Piper has been involved in the music industry since the 1990s with groups like Hijack (The Horns of Jericho) and Da Click (Good Rhymes) as well as The Masters of Ceremonies.
Rock The Casbah - The Clash (A Pied Piper Remix)
Hailing from Brixton, London – Legendary DJ Pied Piper has been involved in the music industry since the 1990s with groups like Hijack (The Horns of Jericho) and Da Click (Good Rhymes) as well as The Masters of Ceremonies.
May 11, 2020
Label:
No Future Records ?– Oi 12
Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
Country:
UK
Released:
03 Jul 1982
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Punk
THE PARTISANS...Power and the Greed
Label:
No Future Records ?– Oi 12
Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
Country:
UK
Released:
03 Jul 1982
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Punk
May 11, 2020
(CNN)The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota is refusing to end coronavirus checkpoints declared illegal by the state's governor, saying they are the best tool they have to stop the virus from spreading. Gov. Kristi Noem sent letters Friday to the leaders of the Oglala Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux tribes demanding that the checkpoints along the US and state highways through tribal land be removed. Her office released an update Sunday clarifying the request: "The checkpoints on state and US highways are not legal, and if they don't come down, the state will take the matter to Federal court, as Governor Noem noted in her Friday letter."
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier told CNN that the main purpose of the checkpoints set up by the tribe is to monitor and try to track coronavirus if it should ever come in to tribal lands. "We want to ensure that people coming from 'hot spots' or highly infected areas, we ask them to go around our land," Frazier said. When asked about Noem's request that the tribe take down the checkpoints as they "interfere with regulating traffic on US and state highways," Frazier said that they're going to stay put.
"With the lack of resources we have medically, this is our best tool we have right now to try to prevent [the spread of Covid-19]," Frazier told CNN.
Frazier said that reservations are ill-equipped to deal with a coronavirus outbreak adding that, "the nearest health care, critical care is three hours away from where we live." Frazier says that the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe only operates an eight-bed facility on the reservation and no intensive care unit (ICU) for the 12,000 people that live on the reservation. Sunday's letter written by Gov. Noem's Policy Director, Maggie Seidel, points to a memorandum pertaining to road closures on tribal lands issued by the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs, written on April 8.
The memorandum states that tribes "may restrict road use or close" tribally-owned roads temporarily without first consulting with the Secretary of the Interior or private landowners under conditions involving "immediate safety or life-threatening situations," like the pandemic. But it says tribes can only restrict access over roads owned by others such as state governments "on behalf of the affected road owner after the tribe has consulted and reached an agreement addressing the parameters of the temporary road closure or restrictions." Seidel says no consultation has taken place and no agreement reached, saying "the memorandum makes it perfectly clear it is unlawful to interrupt the flow of traffic on these roads." In Friday's letter, Noem said "we are strongest when we work together; this includes our battle against Covid-19."
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FUCK OFF Noem!!!
KKKristi the assclown
fucking poxy MAGAt trash, genocidal wannabe Trump mushroom licker
South Dakota Sioux tribe refuses to take down checkpoints that governor says are illegal
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/10/us/south-dakota-sioux-checkpoints-coronavirus/index.html(CNN)The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota is refusing to end coronavirus checkpoints declared illegal by the state's governor, saying they are the best tool they have to stop the virus from spreading. Gov. Kristi Noem sent letters Friday to the leaders of the Oglala Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux tribes demanding that the checkpoints along the US and state highways through tribal land be removed. Her office released an update Sunday clarifying the request: "The checkpoints on state and US highways are not legal, and if they don't come down, the state will take the matter to Federal court, as Governor Noem noted in her Friday letter."
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier told CNN that the main purpose of the checkpoints set up by the tribe is to monitor and try to track coronavirus if it should ever come in to tribal lands. "We want to ensure that people coming from 'hot spots' or highly infected areas, we ask them to go around our land," Frazier said. When asked about Noem's request that the tribe take down the checkpoints as they "interfere with regulating traffic on US and state highways," Frazier said that they're going to stay put.
"With the lack of resources we have medically, this is our best tool we have right now to try to prevent [the spread of Covid-19]," Frazier told CNN.
Frazier said that reservations are ill-equipped to deal with a coronavirus outbreak adding that, "the nearest health care, critical care is three hours away from where we live." Frazier says that the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe only operates an eight-bed facility on the reservation and no intensive care unit (ICU) for the 12,000 people that live on the reservation. Sunday's letter written by Gov. Noem's Policy Director, Maggie Seidel, points to a memorandum pertaining to road closures on tribal lands issued by the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs, written on April 8.
The memorandum states that tribes "may restrict road use or close" tribally-owned roads temporarily without first consulting with the Secretary of the Interior or private landowners under conditions involving "immediate safety or life-threatening situations," like the pandemic. But it says tribes can only restrict access over roads owned by others such as state governments "on behalf of the affected road owner after the tribe has consulted and reached an agreement addressing the parameters of the temporary road closure or restrictions." Seidel says no consultation has taken place and no agreement reached, saying "the memorandum makes it perfectly clear it is unlawful to interrupt the flow of traffic on these roads." In Friday's letter, Noem said "we are strongest when we work together; this includes our battle against Covid-19."
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