General Research #19730 >>>/qresearch/15602740

https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1492199202960650245

Amnesty International chooses the regime over the peaceful, working class rebellion.

So much for human rights. So much for solidarity.

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Amnesty International Canada Statement on "Freedom Convoy" Blockade - Amnesty International Canada

OTTAWA – Amnesty International has been following with great concern the developments relating to the “Freedom Convoy” blockade in Ottawa. “Amnesty International Canada is deeply troubled by the…

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Show called Boondocks

Katt Williams does the voice of "A Pimp named Slickback"

Biden Fed Vice Chair Nominee Successfully Lobbied For Former Employer

Sen. Pat Toomey has accused Sara Bloom Raskin, President Biden's nominee to replace Randall Quarles as the Fed's Vice Chair for Supervision, of helping an obscure fintech firm obtain an "unusual" degree of access to the Fed's payment system. Now, CNBC has corroborated Toomey's suspicions by confirming that Raskin did indeed lobby Kansas City Fed President Esther George in 2017.

Raskin placed the call to George with the intent to lobby for her employer, a small fintech firm called Reserve Trust, to receive a Fed "master account". The lobbying occurred during 2017, when Raskin had left her role as the Treasury Department's deputy secretary. Prior to her Treasury work, she spent more than three years at the Fed as one of its governors.

After initially denying RT's request for a master account, the Kansas City Fed approved the company's second request for an account in 2018 after Raskin called and lobbied for them with Quarles.

Earlier this week during Raskin's confirmation hearing before the Senate, Toomey blased Raskin with questions about her relationship with Reserve Trust. Specifically, Toomey asked Raskin to turn over documents and to answer a series of detailed questions regarding her work for Reserve Trust, including what actions she took to help it obtain a Fed master account and any communications between Raskin and the Kansas City Fed or the Fed regarding Reserve Trust’s application.

In a letter sent to the Kansas City Fed, Toomey claimed that George had told him about the call that Raskin had made in 2017.

"On the evening of February 2, 2022, you and your staff spoke with my staff," Toomey told George in his letter.

"On that you call, you revealed that Ms. Raskin had, in fact, personally called you about Reserve Trust’s master account application after it had been denied."

The letter from Toomey, the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee, came more than a week after Raskin was grilled by Senate Republicans during her confirmation hearing to become the next Fed vice chair for supervision, replacing Randal Quarles.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-fed-vice-chair-nominee-successfully-lobbied-former-employer

General Research #19733 >>>/qresearch/15605151

Amazon Bars Unvaccinated Workers From Receiving Paid COVID Medical Leave

Amazon has decreed that any of its warehouse workers who refuse to accept the vaccine will also forfeit the right to paid time off should they ever be infected with the virus - even though being vaccinated has little impact on the transmission of the virus, as the omicron wave clearly demonstrated to millions of American workers.

The e-commerce giant has decided to allow workers in its "fulfillment centers" to finally go mask-less inside its giant warehouses, which by all accounts are stuffy, hostile work environments - but only as long as they are vaccinated. The company is changing its policy in response to the governors of at least 12 states lifting their own respective masking requirements.

Amazon's policy change was first reported by WSJ:

"There has been a sharp decline in Covid-19 cases across the country over the past weeks. Along with increasing vaccination rates across the country, this is a positive sign we can return to the path to normal operations," Amazon’s memo says.

Amazon employs about a million workers in the US, most at its hundreds of warehouses throughout the country. Some US companies have required all workers and guests at their facilities to get a COVID jab, including tech giants such as Microsoft and Facebook parent Meta Platforms. Amazon hasn’t mandated that its workers get vaccinated, though it has offered incentives for them to do so, such as bonuses.

Even WSJ acknowledged that the company's new policies surrounding vaccination and paid medical "has moved closer to an outright vaccine mandate" as the company navigates "disruptions" to its delivery operations.

Amazon has so far required employees to wear masks, practice social distancing, and undergo temperature checks as part of its effort to stop the spread of COVID. But even as omicron spread widely across the country last month, Amazon shortened its paid time off policies for both vaccinated and unvaccinated employees to just one week. Prior to the change, employees were given 10 days of paid time off - and before that, they were given two weeks.

The changes coincided with a labor crunch last year that fortunately for Amazon didn't intensify until after its peak holiday season had ended.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/amazon-bars-unvaccinated-workers-receiving-paid-medical-leave

General Research #19733 >>>/qresearch/15605259

ICYMI: Viewers tune out Maddow-less MSNBC

https://nypost.com/2022/02/09/rachel-maddow-hiatus-leaves-hole-in-msnbc-prime-time/

Rachel Maddow hiatus is costing MSNBC in primetime ratings

Rachel Maddow’s absence from MSNBC’s primetime lineup is costing the channel viewers.

The network’s marquee 9 p.m. program lost nearly 30% of its audience in the key 25-54 demographic on Monday, the second day of Maddow’s weeks-long hiatus, according to the latest Nielsen figures.

The episode garnered an average of 201,000 viewers in the key demo — down 29% compared to the Monday of the prior week, when Maddow was still hosting.

Its total viewership for the evening was 1,636,000 — far below the 2.78 million who tuned in to Fox News’ “Hannity” during that same hour, according to Nielsen.

But MSNBC can take solace in the fact that it is pummeling rival CNN, which was rocked by last week’s shocking resignation of top executive Jeff Zucker.

Monday’s Maddow-less hour still beat Anderson Cooper in the coveted 25-54 demo, as “AC360,” which was expanded to a two-hour broadcast to fill the void left by Chris Cuomo, drew just 176,000 viewers.

Overall, MSNBC’s 9 p.m. offering on Monday drew more than twice the number of viewers as CNN’s Cooper, which managed just 615,000 people in its audience.

Monday’s MSNBC show was helmed by Ali Velshi, who will be among several of the left-leaning cable channel’s personalities who are scheduled to fill in for Maddow on a rotational basis.

The Monday program’s viewership in the key demographic was also down 16% compared to the same period last month.

General Research #19734 >>>/qresearch/15606552

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