Stockholders are suing a number of FedEx executives following the company's response to cyber attacks and other shennanigans after which the defendant executives allegedly painted an unwarrantedly painted rosy picture in corporate communications as the same executives were allegedly selling their equity positions in the firm because major clients were fleeing. Filing reproduced in full below: Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Argentina Continues Pre-Election Collapse Under Now Kirchnerist Macri
Argentina's malaise continues to build as the impossibility of Argentine escaping its sad self progresses:
- The local legislature has declared a food emergency and in doing so has committed to increasing spending on "comedores sociales" (archived).
- Argentine retail "electrodomesticos" chain Musimundo has closed 30 locations this year and is continuing to close stores (archived). A reduced availability of electrodomesticos does carry the small positive benefit of reducing the availability of fire hazards advertised as consumer goods in the country.
- The surviving value of the Peso Argentino is increasingly uncertain with several different rates increasingly diverging from the artificial official (archived).
- The Argentine labor movement is continuing to wage its forever war against providers of labor opportunities as normal (archived).
Israeli Elections: Bibi Appears Beat
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party managed to secure a mere 31 seats in the Knesset during this year's second parliamentary elections while the opposition Blue and White party took 33 seats (archived). The Blue and White party's leader and former IDF head Benny Gantz has declared his opposition to forming a coalition with Bibi though he is open to building a coalition with anyone else. A coalition controlling 61 or more seats in the Knesset needs to be assembled or Israel will probably be doomed to hold elections for the third time this year.
USG Sues To Prevent Snowden From Making Money On Book
Bereft of opportunities to capture Edward Snowden, the USG has settled for attempting to capture Snowden's book royalties. The USG claims Snowden signed a variety of non-disclosure agreements which the publication of his book violates. Complaint presented in full below: Continue reading
USG And Israel Moving Towards "Mutual Defense" Treaty As Hawks Continue Pushing To Bomb Iran
Reports have begun emerging that suggest the USG and Israel are moving towards a "mutual defense" agreement, provided Bibi survives today's elections (archived). This movement comes as hawks inside the USG, Israel, and Saudi Arabia are escalating their anti-Iran talk in the wake of a Yemeni rebel attack using 80's vintage drones which crippled Saudi oil production over the weekend (archived).
One notable "mutual defense" agreement of historical interest had Britain opening the second World War after Germany intervened to stop the Polish government's genocide of ethnic Germans in Danzig (archived). With Israel already conducting airstrikes on its neighbors, it is very hard to see the move as anything other than a committment to further antagonize the Middle East.
Stallman Surrenders: Human Mushroom Quits Everything As Boot Hovers Above
After being targeted for purging in the ongoing Pantsuit Cultural Revolution, Microsoft guest speaker Richard Stallman has quit everything (archived). Stallman resigned his Visiting Scientist position at MIT as well as his position at the Free Software Foundation. Stallman made his career as the idle political officer of a new left by leveraging his one time proximity to some people doing things. Unfortunately for Stallman the left's youth always sacrifices the elders in its march to still greater derealization.
Google Softens On Employee Speech After Consulting Great Inca
USG surveillance organization Google has decided to allow its employees to engage in discussions about pay amongst themselves and conduct some limited political discussions following consultation with the US National Labor Relations Board (archived). Presumably Google will maintain their ongoing policy of filtering political speech on a spectrum where positions increasingly removed from sanity are permissable while positions closer to grounding in sanity are sanctioned as hate speech, pushing an ongoing trend of increasing derealization over time.
Richard Stallman Targeted For Depersoning And MIT Eviction Over Defense Of Minsky
Microsoft featured speaker and human mushroom Richard Stallman has been targeted for depersoning and eviction at MIT over his defense of Minsky's enjoyment of friendship with Jeffery Epstein (archived, archived). Stallman erred by engaging the new leftist insanity within the pedantic framework of his old leftist insanity. The cultural revolution in the Anglo colonies appears to be continuing its pursuit of passive, derealized purity.
Taliban Asserts Their Readiness To Continue War For Another Century So Long As US Continues Forcing War On Afghanistan
The Taliban is asserting that as long as the US continues to impose war on Afghanistan that they are confident in their ability to continue fighting back for at least another century (archived). This declaration follows the US Government's withdrawal from a series of peace talks over ongoing US casualties. At the same time US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo bragged of more than 1000 casualties inflicted by the US over a 10 day span. Taliban diplomat Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai responded to Pompeo's gloating with:
Mr. Pompeo admitted that they have killed a thousand Taliban. If they can kill a thousand of us, why can we not kill one or two of them? This is our right. We have to defend ourselves and defend our people.
After 18 Years Of "Never Forget" US Still At War
On this 18th anniversary of the day the "end of history" died, the US is still at war. The war is still a hot one (archived).