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Report: Impossible Foods cutting staff by 20%.
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — Impossible Foods, Inc., plans to reduce its staff by 20%, according to Bloomberg. The company currently employs approximately 700.
The report also said the company offered voluntary separation payments and benefits to some employees at the end of 2022 and had cut 6% of its workforce in October.
The Impossible Foods news comes a week after McCormick & Co., Hunt Valley, Md., said it was in the process of cutting management and production staff. Specifically, the flavor and ingredient supplier is completing a voluntary retirement program in its management ranks in the United States that will be followed by layoffs. The company also is reducing its supply chain workforce by 10% following an investment in the automation of some jobs.
It is unclear if the Impossible Foods news is being driven by the overall US economic environment, weak growth in the market for plant-based meat alternatives or both.
In October, Beyond Meat, Inc., El Segundo, Calif., said it was laying off 19% of its work force and lowering its fiscal 2022 sales outlook. The company cited ongoing softness in the market for plant-based meat alternatives, especially the refrigerated subsegment, inflation and competition as reasons for the changes.

https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/23124-report-impossible-foods-cutting-staff-by-20

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Paul Joseph Watson explains ChatGPT and why it is a dangerous slip and slide towards Socialism AND Communism. (MY WORDS - csmith)
The first video link is an 8 minute, in depth video about ChatGPT and the linked video is one of PJW’s shorts, 3 mins., with a quick explanation about ChatGPT. (Of course, the 8 min. video has a paid sponsor promotion, COMMERCIAL, but you can move forward and skip it.
Please subscribe to PJT’s YouTube channel and get the truth … and usually have a laugh while doing it. God Bless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWzprRWPI68

 

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Surfing Icon Bethany Hamilton Says She’ll Boycott Professional Tour Over Transgender Competitors.
Says hormone levels alone don’t determine what a woman is.
American surfing icon Bethany Hamilton has vowed to boycott the professional tour over a rule change that allows biological males who identify as women to compete against female surfers.
Hamilton took the stance after the World Surf League (WSL) announced it would comply with the policies of the International Surfing Association (ISA) when it comes to transgender surfers.
Athletes born men can compete in female divisions if they maintain a testosterone level less than five nmol/L (nanomoles per litre) for 12 months.
WSL chief Jessi Miley-Dyer said the policy was important in order to “balance equity and fairness.”
However, Hamilton took to Instagram to complain that testosterone levels alone don’t determined what a woman is.
“Is a hormone level an honest and accurate depiction that someone indeed is a male or female? Is it as simple as this?” she asked.
Hamilton speaking out on the issue is a big deal because of her high profile and success in the sport. She has been featured in a number of television specials and documentaries after losing her arm to a shark attack when she was a child and overcoming it to compete at the highest level.
“I personally won’t be competing in or supporting the World Surf League if this rule remains,” said Hamilton, adding, “This concerns me as a professional athlete who has been competing for the last 15-plus years.”
The surfer said she decided to go public in order to “stand up and speak up for those in a position that may feel they can’t say something about this.”
“I think many of the girls who are on tour are not in support of this new rule, and they fear being ostracized if they speak up,” said Hamilton.
She also noted how sports where similar policies were introduced, such as swimming, running, and MMA, were being dominated by biological men identifying as transgender.
“Who is pushing for this huge change? Does this better the sport of surfing? Is this better for the women in surfing? If so, how?” she demanded to know.
Hamilton argued that a new division should be created solely for transgender athletes in order to protect the female division.
“I think it’s really hard to imagine what the future of women’s surfing will be like in 15-20 years down the road if we move forward allowing this major change,” she concluded.
As we highlighted last year, swimming’s world governing body slapped a total ban on transgender athletes that have gone through any form of male puberty from taking part in women’s competitions.

https://summit.news/2023/02/06/surfing-icon-says-shell-boycott-professional-tour-over-transgender-competitors/

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A Coconut Palm K-8 Academy student in Homestead has been arrested and is facing charges after being accused of beating up a 3rd-grade girl inside a school bus.
What you won’t see mentioned ANYWHERE is the fact that it is a much older black male severely beating a 9 year old white girl.
The story, when it’s not being ignored, it is being distorted by the liberal media. (See picture below video.)

 

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13 minutes ago, Schmidt Meister said:

A Coconut Palm K-8 Academy student in Homestead has been arrested and is facing charges after being accused of beating up a 3rd-grade girl inside a school bus.
What you won’t see mentioned ANYWHERE is the fact that it is a much older black male severely beating a 9 year old white girl.
The story, when it’s not being ignored, it is being distorted by the liberal media. (See picture below video.)

 

There were two kids beating up the little girl, after her parents warned the school, and alerted the local TV media. about a bullying problem.

I'm glad we had to walk to school, and learned to only pick on kids our own size. And to never hit a girl.

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That claim about three Chinese spy balloons on Trump's watch is deflating fast.
The Milley boys at the Pentagon have come up with a new public relations "save" for Joe Biden and his pathetic indecisiveness about a China spy balloon brazenly traversing the continental United States before it was shot down over the Atlantic yesterday.
According to the Pentagon's website, defense.gov:
“The balloon did not pose a military or physical threat. Still its intrusion into American airspace over several days was an unacceptable violation of U.S. sovereignty. The official said Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration.”
Predictably, the left has seized on that last line and had a field day spreading the false claim. (Many, Many people at the higher levels, many not on friendly terms with Trump, are disputing the story. Many tweets at the link.)
It should be noted that neither Esper, nor former CIA director and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are on palsy terms with Trump these days. Esper was fired in some dispute near the end of the Trump presidency and Pompeo is a potential rival for the presidency in 2024. It's not like there's a tag team thing going on with all of them, given that they don't speak with each other. That makes them particularly credible as witnesses.
(Also John Ratcliffe, Richard Grenell, and John Basham ALL deny this ever happened. The left has no problem with blatantly lying, even when they know the truth will come out, because they know the sheep watching the liberal news will never hear the TRUTH. There are no penalties for lying.)

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/that_claim_about_three_spy_balloons_on_trumps_watch_is_deflating_fast.html

 

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Last night Turkey suffered a massive earthquake of 7.8 on the Richter scale in its southern states along the Syrian border.
The quake also rocked Syria and the death toll has already reached 2,300, according to reports.
Below is a couple of videos of the (MASSIVE) devastation in Kahramanmaraş:

https://therightscoop.com/insane-video-after-turkey-suffers-massive-earthquake/

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In light of Biden Chicom Balloongate, I feel this meme is totally relevant.

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It's been reported that the ChiCom balloon couldn't be safely shot down because part of it was about the size of a bus or two. 

How large is that, in nuclear or EMP bombs? Or Covid-23 spores?

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How Bad Is the Fentanyl Crisis?
Bad enough that school children are going to start carrying the antidote in their backpacks.
Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho of the LA School District is … worried. According to the Los Angeles Times, “Deaths tied to illicit fentanyl have skyrocketed, with more than 13 times as many people losing their lives in 2021 as in 2016.” That number is a 1,280% jump.
Death by fentanyl overdose has become a leading cause of death in the 18-45 demographic. The drug crisis has been growing in mortality since 2019. Now it has been reported that students in the Los Angeles Unified School Districts are going to be permitted to carry Narcan nasal spray at school, just in case of exposure to the poisonous drug.
Narcan is the product name for the drug Naloxone — a medicine that can quickly block the effects of opioids. This drug is effective if used in time and will do no harm if used when not overdosing.
Fentanyl is a particularly potent synthetic opioid. Drug dealers use it to lace other drugs to give them more of a “kick.” Because of the street nature of fentanyl, the amount isn’t always the same from batch to batch, but even two milligrams of it can kill someone. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), of the drugs it has seized, “42% of pills tested for fentanyl contained at least 2 mg of fentanyl, considered a potentially lethal dose.”
In LA schools, the policy has been to have Narcan in a secure location on school campuses. However, Carvalho proposed an update to the policy in order to make sure that students receive the life-saving medication in time by having it in their possession.
It’s not just the person using a tainted pill who is harmed by fentanyl. The drug is so potent that if an innocent individual is exposed to the drug — either through the rubbing of eyes, nose, mouth, or through an open cut — they could die of an overdose as well.
This risk of exposure is the reason why Naxolone spray is now part of a policeman’s belt. As our Mark Alexander recently wrote, “So prevalent is this deadly drug that the antidote Naloxone now carried by first responders nationwide is increasingly required to save first responders because of fentanyl cross-contamination when responding to overdose calls or making drug arrests.”
It is infuriating that this drug crisis has been allowed to reach such a point. It seems that not a day goes by when there isn’t another fentanyl death reported. Much of the blame can be placed at the feet of the current administration, whose apathetic approach to border security has allowed the drug cartels south of the border to smuggle in enough of this opioid poison to kill every person in the U.S. And that is just what the DEA has seized.
The fact that the danger is now so high for children that the antidote needs to be easily accessible in their backpacks should be a rallying cry for those still resistant to closing down the steady stream of illegals bringing drugs into our country.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/94687-how-bad-is-the-fentanyl-crisis-2023-02-06

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On 2/4/2023 at 10:05 PM, ChuteTheMall said:

 

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‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Is A Slur Meant To Silence Us.
This is a long article but I found it very thorough and I think you’ll appreciate it.)
The term ‘conspiracy theorist’ is used to halt thoughtfulness and conversation, often under the guise of protecting you from ‘disinformation.’
Back in the 1980s, when Bill Casey was director of Central Intelligence, I asked him a direct question related to analysis. In response, he pointed to his temple and said, “Well, you just gotta use your noodle.”
Whatever you may think of Casey, his pithiness here is instructive. It’s good advice for everyone these days, especially as the term “conspiracy theory” continues to mushroom throughout Big Media, here, there, and everywhere. (Links in article.) Team Biden seems to have pushed the term into absolute hyperdrive since he took office.
It’s used even when grand plans are out in the open. For example, participants at the recent World Economic Forum congregation in Davos publicly discussed how we should all be censored and surveilled and tracked. The Orwellian life they’d like to shove on us has been preached for decades by WEF founder Klaus Schwab, prior to his 2020 publication of “The Great Reset.”
But if you point this out you’re likely to be smeared as a “conspiracy theorist.” As Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and many respected pundits have noted, the WEF goal for an unelected elite to rein in the hoi polloi is no theory. Their activists talk about it constantly.
Sure, there are some people who conjure up far-fetched notions of why and how this or that may have happened. But the term “conspiracy theorist” has become a knee-jerk label intended to discredit thoughtful investigation, or just plain observation, by describing investigators as wacky conjurers. This is one of many ways power elites exploit the natural human fear of ostracism in order to induce us to self-silence.
Defining Terms
So let’s use our noodle and explore the term itself and how it is used. First off, “conspiracy” simply means a secret plan. You can’t be a conspiracy theorist if you’re quoting elaborate plans that are public. And unless you’ve been living in a cave, you also know that secret plans exist. We often think of conspiracies in terms of mafia hit lists, embezzlements, or fraud. Such things do happen, you know.
Next, consider the term “theory” or “theorist” as applied to conspiracy. This would be relevant to the person who wonders if there’s a nefarious plan in the works and is investigating. There are legitimate careers dedicated to such things. Actuaries dabble in them, though probably not consciously. Detectives in law enforcement search for a motive in murder cases because it’s their job to speculate in order to solve the case.
Of course, none of the above is what first comes to mind when people hear the term “conspiracy theorist.” Rather, it’s meant to invoke the image of a psychotic who is obsessed with an idea concocted out of whole cloth. For example, “the guy at the corner hardware store has channeled Napoleon to send little men to live in our brains and program us into zombies!” You can surely think of many more examples. The common denominator is detachment from reality, or from what we generally know as common experience of the world.
‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Is a Slur
Casual use of the term “conspiracy theorist” is a smear to halt thoughtfulness and conversation, often under the guise of protecting you from “disinformation.” It’s a staple in any Wikipedia article about anyone targeted for cancellation by Big Tech. Big Media constantly uses the term to discredit anyone who might threaten its narrative. It’s also used constantly in woke academia and by government officials.
The cherry on top is how the FBI has used it to divert public criticism, as with its December statement in reaction to “The Twitter Files.” The FBI statement reads in part: “It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.” (Interesting the FBI referred to itself as “the agency,” a CIA moniker, rather than the standard self-reference of “the bureau.” Hmm.)
“Conspiracy theorist” is now used constantly by just about anyone who wishes to shut someone up by instilling in them the fear of being labeled a kook. In fact, that’s what gaslighting is: psychological abuse that instills the belief that you must be crazy if you simply want to understand why things are the way they are.
Origin of the Term
Pundits often point to a 1967 CIA memo as the origin of the term “conspiracy theory.” The New York Times publicized that memo after obtaining it through a 1976 Freedom of Information Act request. The memo states that the public should be actively dissuaded from straying from the Warren Commission’s conclusion that the John F. Kennedy assassination was the act of a lone gunman. Any other ideas, according to the memo, were conspiracy theories that should be discredited as such in the media.
But some folks take issue with the claim that the CIA memo is the origin of the term. There’s an argument that that very claim is in itself a conspiracy theory. The author of a 2013 article in the Skeptical Inquirer even scoured the internet for sources of the term and found it used in a medical journal dated 1870.
But whether the term “conspiracy theory” predates the CIA memo, even by a century, is irrelevant. It has always been used as a derogatory term. And its pejorative usage in public discourse exploded after The New York Times published the CIA memo in the 1970s. The unprecedented reach of the internet then allowed for the exponential proliferation of the term to denigrate anyone who has a different opinion from the propagandistic narrative.
In short, the CIA memo was the clear turning point in usage, no matter who first may have coined the term. Ever since The New York Times article (clearly not since the 19th century) we have been bombarded with the term to shut us up about any legitimate concerns we may have. Constantly. In Big Media. In Wikipedia. In social media. In politics. In academia. In medicine. In filmmaking. Indeed, wherever big propaganda is propagated, which is pretty much everywhere.
That’s not to say that far-fetched theories don’t exist. Obviously, they do. But the usage of “conspiracy theorist” as a constant slur and effective gag order got its start with the publication of the CIA memo.
And, yes, it can be used on both the left and the right. So when you come across the term, forget about politics. Ask yourself if it’s being used with evidence to back up the claim. For example, we now have plenty of proof that the Russia-collusion hoax boiled down to the dissemination of a conspiracy theory on the part of Democrats in Congress.
On the other hand, if no real argument is offered to back up the use of the term, then you know that “conspiracy theory” is nothing more than an ad hominem silencing device.
But you should decide which is which and speak up about it. You just gotta use your noodle.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/06/conspiracy-theorist-is-a-slur-meant-to-silence-us/

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MIAMI (FLV) – The Miami-Dade Black Affairs Advisory Board chair apologized to Gov. Ron DeSantis after one of its members called him “racist.”
Chair Pierre Rutledge reportedly issued the apology after a member said “our governor is racist” at a meeting following the state’s rejection of an African American History advanced placement course.
“We take it to heart when someone uses the term racist,” Rutledge said. “Words matter. And so as chair, I must start by saying we want to pull that back. There’s nothing wrong with saying ‘we’re sorry.’ That’s not what we intended to say or be depicted by anyone. And that’s not the feeling of this board.”
The DeSantis administration rejected the AP course, citing Critical Race Theory and a violation of the state’s “Stop WOKE Act.” The College Board made significant changes to the course and resubmitted it to the Florida Department of Education Feb. 1. The governor’s office said the Florida Department of Education is reviewing the new framework.
Florida’s Voice compared the newly submitted syllabus to the rejected syllabus.
The teaching about the origins and impacts of the Black Lives Matter movement will not be a required part of the course framework that is formally adopted by states that defines the exam. In the original syllabus, Black Lives Matter was a required topic.
The development and ideology of Black conservatism is now listed as an optional topic that can be taught for illustrative purposes. Black conservatism was not listed in the original syllabus.
The newly outlined course will not teach Black Queer Studies, which was originally listed out as a course topic. Reparations is also no longer a required part of the course framework, but is considered an optional topic. Previously, “the case for reparations” was slated to be taught as a requirement.

https://flvoicenews.com/miami-black-leaders-apologize-after-member-called-desantis-racist/

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