[NATIONALREVIEW] Coca-Cola grabbed headlines in February of this year for the company’s "diversity" initiatives. Most notoriously, leaked slides from a training program commanded Coca-Cola employees to "try to be less white." Then, the company issued strict requirements to its outside counsel to mandate the selection of lawyers on the basis of race: Try to be less prosperous.
Coca-Cola’s new general counsel Bradley Gayton recently announced a new set of diversity guidelines for outside counsel. Under these guidelines, outside counsel will commit that for any new matter "at least 30% of each of billed associate and partner time will be from diverse attorneys, and of such amounts at least half will be from Black attorneys." If outside counsel fails to meet the commitment over two quarters, it will incur "a non-refundable 30% reduction in the fees payable for such New Matter going forward until the commitment is met."
At the time, NR contributor Ed Whelan walked through some of the legal and practical problems with this heavy-handed approach.
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The board has got to go. Anyone who thought they could attract non-users to their product by alienating at least a third of their existing market are not people you want at the helm. It's a business not a non-profit social welfare organization.
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Woke-Cola sells are off in Ga/Sc..
Supermarkets are selling 5 six packs
Of Woke-Cola for $10. That is a price of that it was selling for in the early 1980's.(30cents a bottle)
While, RC DIET-RITE COLA is selling very good at full retail and increasing position and shelf space.
Here at Rantburg we watched events unroll in real life at the time, and now the ebook is on sale for $2.99 from Amazon. I got it on spec, and wanted to share in case anyone else is interested. I’ve only got as far as the second page, so can’t say how well written it is — sorry. Clicking on the headline will take you to the Amazon page.
[Amazon] To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller” (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief.
In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were crumbling in the trunks of desert shepherds. His goal: preserve this crucial part of the world’s patrimony in a gorgeous library. But then Al Qaeda showed up at the door.
“Part history, part scholarly adventure story, and part journalist survey…Joshua Hammer writes with verve and expertise” (The New York Times Book Review) about how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist from the legendary city of Timbuktu, became one of the world’s greatest smugglers by saving the texts from sure destruction. With bravery and patience, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali. His heroic heist “has all the elements of a classic adventure novel” (The Seattle Times), and is a reminder that ordinary citizens often do the most to protect the beauty of their culture. His the story is one of a man who, through extreme circumstances, discovered his higher calling and was changed forever by it.
[Babylon Bee] MEDINA, WA—In a shocking turn of events, Melinda Gates has changed her mind about divorcing Bill Gates only minutes after receiving the COVID vaccine.
"I have changed my mind and do not want a divorce from this amazing and handsome man," said Melinda with a glazed look in her eye. "Bill is perfect in every way. I cannot live without him. Also, Windows is the best operating system and Internet Explorer is the best way to surf the world wide web."
According to sources, her divorce lawyer quickly jumped in to change her mind, reminding her that Bill was a major nerd in high school and that she would get at least half of his mind-controlled zombie army in the divorce.
"I do not care," she said. "I live only to serve my wonderful husband, Bill." She then changed into a 50's housewife dress and began cooking him breakfast.
Bill Gates could not be reached for comment, but his spokesperson released a statement, saying: "Windows is the best operating system and Internet Explorer is the best way to surf the world wide web. All hail Bill."
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For what it is worth there are rumors going around that Gates went to Epstein Island, or that he is in the flight logs. What I've learned about Epstein is he liked to hob-knob with the celebs and elites enjoying them suckuping up to him hoping for big donations to their causes which makes it difficult to know if being in the flight log means anything or not.
I was looking at that. Unlike a wide-angle GoPro shot, the sides are straight and the corners look square, but I fired up an image editor and the top edges are just a tad longer than the bottom edges. The tops are closer to the edge of the frame then bottoms.
Other than Jimmy's hideously large shoes, there is nothing in the foreground to compare against.
As for So that's who stole my curtains, eh? Thanks, Jill!,
that is Dr Curtain Stealer to you, pal!
[Washington Examiner] I know a 22-year-old who has been earning money as an entrepreneur since he was 15. Rather than going to university, he founded a successful company. Now, he wants to emigrate. "In Germany, you are more likely to be envied than appreciated," he explained to me. Some of his friends have already emigrated to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and he is now weighing up whether to join them in Dubai or head for Singapore instead.
Another friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and has founded eight companies, creating lots of jobs in the process. "If a leftist government is elected on Sept. 26, I will definitely emigrate," he told me. Like many, he is afraid that the general election in September could result in a majority for Germany’s three major left-wing parties: the Greens, the SPD, and Die Linke. According to the latest polls, these three parties could well gain enough votes to form a government.
Of course, the fact that so many entrepreneurs are thinking about emigrating is at least in part related to the threat of tax increases for high earners and the wealthy. Each of Germany’s three main left-wing parties has proclaimed that it wants to reintroduce a wealth tax and significantly increase income tax rates. In addition, they are planning to levy a one-off wealth tax.
But the entrepreneurs I talk to are not just concerned about taxes. They feel the same as entrepreneurs did in Sweden in the 1970s. Back then, the German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger wrote the following about Sweden: "In such a society, it would appear, the rich have little to laugh about. Yes, if only it were just the taxes! As decent citizens, they want to pay their taxes punctually, if reluctantly. What offends them more is the fact that no one seems to understand their lot." Sweden’s wealthiest citizens felt "superfluous, disregarded and excluded," explained Enzensberger.
About the Author: Dr. Rainer Zitelmann has doctorates in history and sociology. In the late 1980s / early 1990s, he worked at the Central Institute for Social Science Research at the Free University of Berlin. He then served as department head at one of Germany’s major daily newspapers, Die Welt. In 2000, he founded a public relations consultancy company in the real estate industry and, having established the company as the market leader in Germany, he sold the company in 2016. Zitelmann has written 23 books, which have been translated into numerous languages worldwide. With his study into the psychology of the superrich, The Wealth Elite, he made an international name for himself as a wealth researcher.
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Same problem as always: Germany's full of Germans. Ditto France, England, Italy. Don't get me started on Spain.
(That was humor, for those unfamiliar with the concept.)
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NATIONALREVIEW] Coca-Cola grabbed headlines in February of this year for the company’s "diversity" initiatives. Most notoriously, leaked slides from a training program commanded Coca-Cola employees to "try to be less white." Then, the company issued strict requirements to its outside counsel to mandate the selection of lawyers on the basis of race:
[Babylon Bee] MEDINA, WA—In a shocking turn of events, Melinda Gates has changed her mind about divorcing Bill Gates only minutes after receiving the COVID vaccine.
