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Soros' Bitch back in the news.

CRT pusher throwing a tantrum.

Nikole Hannah-Jones won’t join the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty unless she gets tenure

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says she will not join the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill unless she has tenure, NC PolicyWatch reported Tuesday, citing a letter from her legal team sent to the university this week.

She will not start her job as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media on July 1, according to the letter. Hannah-Jones appears to be rescinding the five-year, fixed-term contract that was offered and pursuing a tenure appointment.

The letter was shared with members of the UNC-CH Board of Trustees, who vote on and approve faculty tenure, on Tuesday afternoon.

The board has not offered Hannah-Jones, a Black woman, tenure for the position, which previous Knight Chairs at UNC-CH have received.

‘The reputation of UNC in their hands’

Dean Susan King of the journalism school told The News & Observer on Tuesday evening that she has not heard from the administration about this development but, if true, UNC needs the board’s leadership now more than ever.

“They have the reputation of UNC in their hands, and I do believe they are honorable people,” King said. “I look forward to their vote.”

For weeks, professional journalists, scholars and UNC-CH faculty, alumni and students have defended Hannah-Jones and demanded that the board grant her tenure immediately. The national controversy stems from criticism that race, politics and Hannah-Jones’s work on The 1619 Project are behind the board’s decisions. The project, which was published in The New York Times, explores the legacy and history of Black Americans and slavery.

A number of Black faculty and staff have said they are considering leaving the university because they feel undervalued on campus, particularly after this case.

Hannah-Jones’s attorneys threatened a federal lawsuit in late May, saying UNC-CH “unlawfully discriminated against Hannah-Jones based on the content of her journalism and scholarship and because of her race.”

While no lawsuit has been filed, UNC-Chapel Hill officials and Hannah-Jones’s legal team have been directly discussing her employment at the university.

The UNC-CH board can meet at any time to officially discuss and vote on Hannah-Jones’s tenure appointment. Despite public pressure and a legal threat, the board has not called a special meeting. Its next meeting is scheduled for July 14 and 15 in Chapel Hill, after Hannah-Jones is set to start her job.

Hannah-Jones’s hiring process at UNC

Hannah-Jones was hired this spring as the Knight Chair, a position that is designed to bring successful industry professionals into academia and has historically come with tenure at Carolina.

Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for The New York Times who has spent nearly two decades in the journalism industry, including at The News & Observer. She’s won a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” a Peabody Award and a George Polk Award. She earned her master’s degree from UNC-CH in 2003.

Her best-known work, The 1619 Project, has faced criticism from some historians and conservative politicians. The Times published a clarification to Hannah-Jones’s piece. The Times and more than 150 scholars, historians and UNC-CH faculty have defended Hannah-Jones and her work.

The project is also a source of debate in Congress and state legislatures as lawmakers discuss Critical Race Theory and school curriculum that teaches about systemic racism and slavery.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nikole-hannah-jones-won-t-220924264.html

KEK Front page Yahoo… Comms?

Pet Otters Get Very Confused By Owner’s Popcorn Machine

How do you think an otter would react to a popcorn maker? Going to be totally honest, I never gave the question much (a.k.a. “any”) thought myself. But I sure am glad to know the answer now. Because this video of two adorable otters confused by their owner’s popcorn machine is a tasty bit of delightful internet silliness.

Michael Walsh

Tue, June 22, 2021, 9:32 AM

How do you think an otter would react to a popcorn maker? Going to be totally honest, I never gave the question much (a.k.a. “any”) thought myself. But I sure am glad to know the answer now. Because this video of two adorable otters confused by their owner’s popcorn machine is a tasty bit of delightful internet silliness.

The YouTube channel Kotsumet shared the reactions of their pet otters, Kotaro and Hana, to seeing a popcorn maker at work for the first time ever. The wonderful video (which we first came across at Laughing Squid) shows the pair was initially intrigued by the device. They got up close and investigated the inside. The two also seemed fascinated by the hot air blowing out of the top. Along with the smell emanating from the buttery kernels ready to burst inside.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/pet-otters-very-confused-owner-163235845.html

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>>13964248

So if they are bumping up the numbers of Vaxed, that would throw off the percentage of Adverse Effects/Death. Make them appear lower than they are.

Any Anon's notice the sudden drop off of RNC SPAM MAIL?

Used to get bombarded daily. Zero in the past few days.

>>13964406

Force to remove 1.5m fake voters who put NEWSOM in office in '18

The RECALL should have been a RECOUNT of the '18 Election!

How the Mormon Church Beat Bill Gates in a Battle Over Farmland

On Friday, a showdown between two of the largest agricultural landowners in the United States—the Church of Latter-Day Saints and Bill Gates’ wealth management firm—came to a head when the Mormons beat out the mogul on a bid for 12,000 acres of Eastern Washington farmland that was once at the center of a $244 million “ghost cattle” fraud locals have dubbed “Cattlegate.”

The land in question lies on the mighty Columbia River, the fourth-largest river in the United States and one central to the region’s culture and economy for thousands of years: fishing, transportation, and power generation are essential uses to this day. The Columbia also provides agricultural landowners an important and dwindling asset: water rights, and for those with anxiety over the coming climate crisis, access to a seemingly infinite supply of fresh water is worth fighting for.

So when the prized acreage in Eastern Washington came available, Bill Gates, through his firm Cascade Investment (which made news for its large-scale stock transfers to Melinda French Gates as part of the couple’s high-profile divorce) jumped into the bidding fray. At stake was the right to purchase the 12,000-acre property in Benton County, which AgriNorthwest, the agriculture arm of the Mormon church, will acquire for $210 million when the deal is finalized in August.

The Gates’ and the LDS church’s interest in the property came down to the basic principle of scale, says Chris Olsen, the Northwest Region Director of Investment for Farmland Consultants, LLC, a brokerage firm that assists institutional investors in the acquisition of agricultural property across the United States. “It’s a whole lot easier to buy one huge piece then 20 separate pieces of property, not only because of the favorable water rights, which is paramount, but also because of the size of the asset, most of which is in farm and feed crops,” he says.

Olsen’s wealthy clients invest in farmland, an asset class not typically aligned with the stock market, in an effort to diversify their portfolios “in anticipation of capital markets being overbought” and other economic factors. A typical deal structure for Gates, according to Olsen, works like this: the investor will buy the land, then bring in an outside farm management company to run it. Using Gates’ investment company as an example, “they’ll designate maybe 2 to 3 percent of their asset base to agriculture,” says Olsen. “That could easily be multi-billions of dollars, not necessarily a huge percentage, but still significant in terms of the dollars involved.”

The Columbia River acreage would have added to the already 269,000 acres of farmland across 18 states that Gates, through Cascade Investment, has accumulated in the past decade, including 70,000 acres in north Louisiana, 20,000 in Nebraska, and more than 14,000 already in Washington state. Instead, the LDS will add another 12,000 acres to its already massive land holdings, which include over 600,000 acres in Florida alone—2 percent of that state’s total land mass.

The 12,000 acre assemblage in Eastern Washington currently generates revenue through large-scale farming (potatoes and onions) and cattle herding, but with an increasingly warmer climate, it’s the water rights that come with the property that may end up being its most valuable asset.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/mormon-church-beat-bill-gates-081849358.html

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Not sure how more sheeple aren't understanding how BIBILCAL this really is.

They will SUBMIT to the BEAST.