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Goodyear in self-inflicted corporate crisis - US President leads push against Goodyear

Thursday, 20 August 2020

Go woke, go broke.

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As Alan Jones and 2GB know too well, this is the usual tactic of the left.

It's usually conservative voices that are the targets of cancel culture.

And those conservatives usually feel alone, unsupported and walked-all-over.

Good to see a fightback from conservatives who aren't going to take it any more.

By the way Goodyear HR and Comms teams, how do you feel about CONQUERING the Sumatran jungle and press-ganging the local black and brown folk into service in your corporate cause?

 

Posted at 11:21 AM | | Comments (8)

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Goodyear's zero tolerance for All Lives Matter - Go Woke Go Broke

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

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This slide comes from a Goodyear Tyres internal staff HR presentation.

Under acceptable: Black Lives Matter (BLM), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride.

Listed as unacceptable: Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, MAGA Attire, Political Affiliated Slogans or Material.

According to the employee who took the photo of the slide, it was presented at the Topeka plant by an area manager and he apparently said the slide came from its corporate office in Akron, Ohio.

Here's Goodyear's statement in response

“Goodyear is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace where all of our associates can do their best in a spirit of teamwork. As part of this commitment, we do allow our associates to express their support on racial injustice and other equity issues but ask that they refrain from workplace expressions, verbal or otherwise, in support of political campaigning for any candidate or political party as well as other similar forms of advocacy that fall outside the scope of equity issues.”

Posted at 02:12 PM | | Comments (45)

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ABC 4 Corners take note - 'The Plot Against The President', the true story behind your Russia collusion invention

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

From Hollywood Reporter;

Amanda Milius, whose father is ‘Apocalypse Now’ screenwriter John Milius, shot in secret ‘The Plot Against the President,’ with participants including Devin Nunes, Rudy Giuliani and Roger Stone.

There’s a hush-hush Russiagate documentary on the horizon from a director who hails from Hollywood royalty. But this one makes the case for President Trump.

Amanda Milius, daughter of legendary screenwriter-director John Milius and a State Department alum, has directed The Plot Against the President, based on Lee Smith’s 2019 best-seller of the same name.

Milius, who optioned the book in manuscript form last summer and stepped down in early March from her post as the deputy assistant secretary for content in the State Department’s Bureau of Global Public Affairs, began working on the doc in secrecy shortly thereafter. Over the past three months, she interviewed Russiagate critics including Rep. Devin Nunes, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Mike Cernovich and Roger Stone as well as Gen. Michael Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell.

Milius’ father, the screenwriter of such classics as Apocalypse Now and Dirty Harry, is such a larger-than-life figure in Hollywood that he has inspired characters in at least two films: The Big Lebowski (played by John Goodman) and Zeroville (Seth Rogen). His politics have long deviated from the industry’s centrist Democratic leanings (he and Charlton Heston served on the board of the NRA at the same time). Amanda, who attended USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and worked in the film industry for a decade, shares his pro-Trump sentiments.

"Weirdly, I've had random people in and out of L.A. claim my father somehow got me my job in politics when I began working for the administration, which is really odd," she tells THR. "I never got accused of nepotism in Hollywood, which is where it lives, you'd think. But that's definitely not what happened. I walked into a campaign office and volunteered. My dad is not buddies with the president. He loves him. But they don't know each other. Though they would absolutely get along. Actually, my dad would make a great defense secretary. Full Dr. Strangelove energy."

The elder Milius wasn't involved in Plot Against the President, but his daughter says he's excited to see it and is "very obsessed with the story as it unfolds in the news."

The film was financed by a handful of private investors that the Washington-based director declines to name. She produced alongside Jonathan Eisenman. The production companies are Wollman Prods. and 1AMDC Prods. The producers are currently in talks with a few distributors and are planning an Oct. 1 release in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. Milius says the film will offer several additional bombshells that weren't included in the book, whose thesis is that a coup was engineered by the American establishment elite, including the media, and targeted the president as well as the democratic process. (The author is a Middle East correspondent for The Weekly Standard.)

The director, who also is the daughter of actress Celia Kaye, shot more than 70 hours of footage and is currently editing the film. She says Plot Against the President should appeal beyond conservatives and is significant to both Republicans and Democrats. In fact, a small but notable group of progressive commentators and academics including Glenn Greenwald and Stephen F. Cohen have expressed skepticism and outrage over Russiagate and the way the intelligence community conducted surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.

"I definitely think this ought to be of extreme interest to all Americans because surveillance and law enforcement abuses are not a partisan issue," says Milius, who also courted high-profile left-wing voices for the film. "This isn't about the campaign. It's not even really about the president exactly. It's about people with power behaving badly and the destruction of democracy and American institutions."

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Victorian Workcover asked to prosecute over Andrews govt hotel quarantine fiasco

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

On 1 July this year Victoria added a new industrial manslaughter law to the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic) (OHS Act).

It applies to the government, officers, self-employed and organisations.

There are huge penalties including fines of $16.5m for employers and jail terms of up to 20 years and fines of up to $1.65m for officers whose actions or omissions:

  • cause the death of a worker or member of the public;
  • involve a breach of an OHS duty;
  • were negligent.

The criminal negligence standard applies, ie where there is a "great falling short of the care that would have been taken by a reasonable person in the circumstances in which the conduct was engaged in, and involves a high risk of death or serious injury or serious illness".

Under the new laws, senior officers could be liable (in addition to the employer) where they are negligent by failing to take reasonable steps on workplace safety to prevent fatalities, including managing mental injury that leads to suicide.

Now here's Self-Employed Australia's report to the Authority.

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This from the organisation behind this prosecution request, Self-Employed Australia.

We trigger OHS investigation of Victorian Covid-19 hotel quarantine mess

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Yesterday we wrote to the Victorian WorkCover Authority requesting them to investigate the Covid-19 hotel quarantine mess for possible breaches under the Victorian work safety laws (Occupational Health & Safety Act). Section 131 of the Act allows us to lodge such a request on the Authority who, under the Act must investigate and respond.

The Victorian government has pretty much admitted that the second Covid-19 wave outbreak happened because of the botched hotel quarantine mess in March. Hundreds of deaths have occurred following this.

If anything like this sort of scenario had happened in a private-sector business, we could be sure that a massive investigation would be undertaken by the Victorian WorkCover Authority. The investigation would look to see if prosecution should occur under the Victorian OHS Act, including application of the new manslaughter provisions. But the WorkCover Authority has done nothing over the Covid-19 disaster.

The Victorian government has established an Inquiry into the failures. However, all the Inquiry can do is write a report. The inquiry does not have the investigative and prosecutorial powers available to it that the WorkCover Authority has on OHS matters.

The core facts, well recorded in the media, are that:
  • The Victorian government had advance knowledge of the need for quarantine.
  • The Victorian Police, Corrections Victoria and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) have high level experience, training, capacity and authority in the area of detention.
  • The Victorian government requested ADF assistance, which was ready to go, but the request was withdrawn a day later.
  • The government instead used private security firms unsupported by either police, prison staff or the ADF.
  • The private security personnel on the ground in the hotels had neither the training, experience, skills, nor the authority to manage people in detention.
  • The Covid-19 outbreak followed.
Everything points to the probability of recklessness in the chain of command and control of decision-making related to the quarantines.

This Covid-19 outbreak is arguably the largest mass deaths event resulting from a workplace incident in Australia’s history. The Victorian WorkCover Authority has a statutory duty to investigate with a view to proceeding to prosecution if warranted. From all available information the Authority has done nothing.

The Authority is required under the Act to investigate and respond to us. If the Authority fails to undertake its statutory obligation under the Act, we will apply for a court to order the Authority to undertake the required investigation.

You can help. We anticipate that we will need to seek court orders.
 
You can contribute to our legal fighting fund for this action here.

Posted at 12:30 PM | | Comments (19)

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Why do Australian politicians over-egg it when it comes to Islam?

Wednesday, 19 August 2020

Humbled here.
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NSW Multi Culty Minister Geoff Lee says he is “humbled to see the incredible work of the Redfern Islamic Society”. 
 
They probably do good things for their community ... but humbled? Really?
 
You’d think, of all people, Geoff Lee would have some relativity on that feeling of being “humbled“ given he’s also the Minister for War Veterans in NSW.
 
Was he “humbled” to be in the presence of Vietnam Veterans yesterday for Long Tan Day? 
 
Or World War Two and currently serving veterans for the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Japan?

Not humbled here?

 
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Curiously, he doesn’t use that phrase - but saves all his “humble” for the Islamic Centre.

Posted at 12:03 PM | | Comments (13)

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