Labor group says California $20 min wage ‘just the beginning’ vows to extend to all sectors despite layoffs
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NY Post ^
| 04/12/2024 | Fox Business
A fair wage advocacy group is demanding that California’s new $20 minimum wage law for fast food workers be extended to all sectors to help working-class people who are struggling with the state’s high cost of living. FOX
Business spoke with Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage to discuss what she described as the skyrocketing levels of home insecurity and food insecurity post-pandemic. Fast food workers winning a $20 minimum wage, she said, “was just the beginning.” Jayaraman pointed to the exorbitantly high cost of living in the Golden State where, in some counties, an individual would need a...
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‘Just the beginning:’ Nashville holds first blood drive for newly-eligible LGBTQ donors
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WPLN News (Nashville, TN) ^
| January 19, 2024 | Marianna Bacallao
As Sean finishes filling out the paperwork for today’s visit, he reads the date back to himself: 1/19. “Dolly
Parton’s birthday, right?” he asks. He’s lying on a plastic-covered donor chair, clipboard balanced on his leg as he initials his consent. The phlebotomist who is preparing to take his blood pauses. “Oh, is it?” she asks. “I didn’t know that.” “Yeah, yeah. All gay men know that,” Sean laughs. He’s asked WPLN News to use only his first name. At 49, it’s Sean’s first time giving blood. Last year, the FDA ended a 40-year rule that prohibited gay and bisexual...
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'Just the beginning': SF Safeway, Target quietly removing this feature linked to retail theft
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San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^
| Dec 8, 2023 | By Madeline Wells
San Francisco stores have quietly disabled self-checkout recently, indicating a trend in “defensive retailing” that may soon spread across the city. While
innovative measures to prevent theft at Bay Area retailers have been well documented this year, the changes to self-checkout are a more recent development. The Safeway at 1335 Webster St. in the Fillmore District closed down its self-checkout area a few months ago, an employee confirmed to SFGATE. Target on San Francisco’s Mission Street also has closed its self-checkout kiosks, rotating the screens backward to make them unusable to customers, SFGATE confirmed. While Safeway and Target did not...
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‘This is just the beginning’: Pro-Palestinian teach-in held at dozens of Oakland schools
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East Bay Times ^
| December 7, 2023 | ELISSA MIOLENE
Defying district leaders and disciplinary threats, about 100 educators took part Wednesday in a teach-in across Oakland Unified School District, bringing a curriculum focused on the Palestinian “liberation struggle” to students ages 4 to 18.
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Ohio Just the Beginning of Pro-Abortion Activists’ Ballot Measure Crusade
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Breitbart ^
| 11/09/2023 | KATHERINE HAMILTON
Ohio is the latest state trounced by pro-abortion activists after the fall of Roe v. Wade
last year, with voters choosing to codify the “right” to abortion in their state constitution on Tuesday. After the fall of Roe, which had invented a federal “right” to abortion in the Constitution, abortion was returned to individual states and their elected representatives, changing the nature of the struggle between the pro-life movement and the abortion industry. Pro-abortion organizations and activists, backed by the affiliates of large left-wing organizations like Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have stealthily turned to ballot...
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The “Global Day Of Jihad” On Friday The 13th Will Only Be Just The Beginning…
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End of The American Dream ^
| 10/12/23 | Michael Snyder
Law enforcement agencies all over the United States are deeply concerned about the potential for chaos during the “global day of jihad” on Friday the 13th, and I think that there is good reason for them to be on high alert. There
are more radical Muslims in the United States than ever before, and many of them are rabid supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah. But this “global day of jihad” is only just the beginning. Once the Great Middle East War really gets rolling, I expect that we will see terror attacks throughout the western world on a scale that...
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Israel Is Just the Beginning: The World Is Turning Upside Down
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Liberty Daily ^
| Oct. 8, 2023 | JD Rucker
The esteemed Victor Davis Hanson posted an excellent analysis of what’s really happening in the Middle East and how the Biden-Harris regime are complicit. The
Israel War is Joe Biden’s albatross. They say foreign relations don’t affect elections but such rules don’t apply when Islam and Israel are the subjects. Whatever the White House projects publicly, behind the scenes they will be playing both sides. They will declare support for Israel as they’ve already started doing, but they will quickly reverse that support when they have a smidgen of “evidence” that Israel is engaged in asymmetrical retribution. But here’s the...
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‘Just the Beginning’: Hardened Ukrainian Units Go on Attack in Country’s East
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The Wall Street Journal ^
| June 13, 2023 | Marcus Walker
KURAKHOVE, Ukraine—The Ukrainian 68th Jaeger Brigade spent the past year defending trenches in the country’s east against Russian onslaughts. Last
week, they went on the attack. On Saturday, three platoons from the 68th took the village of Blahodatne from a larger Russian infantry force after a methodical firefight. Men from the Jaeger, used to fighting in fields and hills, said they had trained themselves in house-to-house combat and described using their American-made armored vehicles to blast open a Russian strongpoint. The last Russian defenders ran away through their own minefield. Few made it. Four of the Jaegers were killed taking...
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Writers Strike Fallout: $2B Economic Impact May Be Just the Beginning
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The Hollywood Reporter ^
| MAY 5, 2023 | Winston Cho
A day after the Writers Guild of America’s May 1 call for a strike, a dozen or so members of the Set Decorators Society gathered to share intel. Discussion
of layoffs kicked off the Zoom meeting and Pam Elyea, owner of L.A.-based prop house History for Hire, said she had to fire her receptionist and drum technician in March in anticipation of a work stoppage. Others nodded, echoing sentiments that they could not afford to keep all their staff in the face of what they expected to be a lengthy strike. “We’d been saving up, but every time we get...
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COVID shutdowns were just the beginning. Climate lockdowns are next
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Life Site News ^
| Apr 14, 2023 | Norman Fenton
Apart from the extreme limitations on personal freedom and travel, this means either a colder, hungrier population or massive depopulation. Two
days ago I posted what I thought would be quite an innocuous twitter thread about the implications of the U.K. government’s target of “net zero” by 2050. Reminder of what ‘net zero’ really means. ... Key points: all airports except Heathrow, Belfast & Glasgow to close by 2030. NO FLYING at all by 2050. No new petrol/diesel cars by 2030; by 2050 road use restricted to 60% of today’s level. 2. Food, heating and energy restricted to 60% of...
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Just The Beginning
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Rapture Ready ^
| 2/18/23 | Daymond Duck
On Feb. 6, 2023, Michael Snyder (theeconomiccollapseblog.com) posted an article titled “The Giant Earthquakes That We Just Witnessed in Turkey Are Just The Beginning.” Snyder cited an Oregon State University (OSU) study by seismologist Tyler Metcalf that said, “a major earthquake in one part of the globe can cause large earthquakes in
other parts of the globe.” According to Snyder and the OSU study, the earthquakes in Turkey could be just the beginning of more earthquakes because large earthquakes often trigger other earthquakes. I am not predicting more earthquakes in the coming days, but the Bible does teach that earthquakes...
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Are the COVID Yarns Slowly Beginning to Unravel? Denial works for just so long
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American Thinker ^
| 01/30/2023 | Brian C. Joondeph, MD
It has been three years since COVID-19 entered the scene. It
probably emerged in the previous year based on COVID antibodies found in banked blood from the fall of 2019 and a severe non-influenza respiratory illness sweeping through ICUs in the early winter of 2019. In those days it was simply called the Chinese coronavirus, based on the reported origin but we still don’t know that for sure.In fact, much of what we have been told about COVID over the past three years has turned out to be “misinformation”, as government, corporate media, and big tech described everything that went...
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Batgirl’ Was Just the Beginning: Warner Bros. Discovery to Write Off $2 Billion in Content in Q3
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Indiewire ^
| October 25, 2022 | Brian Welk
The cancellation of “Batgirl” was just the tip of the iceberg. Warner
Bros. Discovery in an SEC filing on Monday announced that it had written off between $2 billion and $2.5 billion worth of content in the July-September quarter — a pretty bright Bat Signal to Wall Street that underlines the company’s commitment to cost cutting. What Warner Bros. Discovery’s army of accountants called “content impairment and development write-offs” are part of greater “pre-tax restructuring charges” recognized in its fiscal third quarter, totaling between $3.2 billion and $4.3 billion. The difference comes from other restructuring costs, like the severance packages...
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‘Just The Beginning’: Trump Drops Big News About Durham Probe
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conservativebrief.com ^
| 10/5/2022 | Martin Walsh
Donald Trump is predicting that the recent court filings from Special Counsel John Durham are “just the beginning” of what’s to come. Trump
reacted to reports that Durham said in a court filing that lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a tech company to “infiltrate” servers belonging to Trump Tower and the Trump White House in an effort to establish a “narrative” linking Trump to Russia. Advertisement “It looks like this is just the beginning, because, if you read the filing and have any understanding of what took place, and I called this a long time ago, you’re going to...
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More Americans Worried About “Socialist Left” Than Big, Scary MAGA—and That’s Just the Beginning
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PJ Media ^
| SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 | KEVIN DOWNEY JR.
Sorry, Gropey Joe: fewer people are buying into your scare scheme, your Inflation Reduction Act, and almost everything else you stand for.A recent Harvard CAPS / Harris poll indicates Americans are more worried about the commies than the MAGA crew. The
poll was taken on Sept. 7–8, one week after Biden’s Stalin-like fear-porn speech where he claimed people in MAGA hats represent “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”The poll asked the question, “Are you more concerned about the Socialist left in America and the power they are gaining or more afraid of MAGA Republicans and the...
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Human Cyborgs are Just the Beginning.
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Dr. Malone substack.com ^
| September 14, 2022 | Dr. Robert Malone
Ever since I wrote the substack article on human augmentation and the UK Ministry of Defence and the German Military Complex , discussing that these two organizations advocate for human augmentation in a report entitled "Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm", I have been wondering if the US government,
that is to say the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the Administrative State which controls it, has developed similar plans. This week I did a little research starting with the key words - “human augmentation” and “DoD” and there “it” is. The “it” being the strategy playbook...
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Dutch farmer revolt against harsh climate law just the beginning, experts say: 'There will be unrest all over'
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FOX News ^
| July 17, 2022 | By Thomas Catenacci
A series of farmer-led demonstrations against a government climate rule in the Netherlands could be the beginning of a global movement, according to experts interviewed by Fox News Digital. The Dutch government issued a plan in June laying out nitrogen emission reductions, largely targeting the nation's agriculture industry which produces an outsized
shared of such emissions. The government, though, directly acknowledged that "there is not a future for all" farmers to continue their business under the proposal. "This is literally communism," Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Fox News Digital in an interview. "If the state says, ‘we are going...
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Fed Is ‘Just at the Beginning’ of Raising US Rates, Mester Says, MBA Mortgage Purchase Applications Drop -21% WoW As Rates Rise (Mester Channels The Carpenters)
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Confounded Interest ^
| 06/29/2022 | Anthony B. Sanders
Cleveland Fed’s Mester is channeling The Carpenter’s song “We’ve only just begun … to raise rates.” Financial
markets are anticipating what Mester is saying: rapidly rising interest rates. But as you can see from the following chart, gasoline prices (orange line) are driving rising US prices. So it is doubtful that monetary tightening will slow price increases. But Mester and company can only control monetary stimulus. Mortgage rates have soared as The Fed attempts to crush inflation. And mortgage purchase applications fell -21% WoW in the most recent Mortgage Bankers Association survey. The Refinance Index increased 2 percent from the...
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Two Years After Lockdowns, The West’s Troubles Aren’t Ending — They’re Just Beginning
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https://thefederalist.com ^
| March 15, 2022 | BY: CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD
The lockdowns mark the start of a ride we can’t get off. Two
years ago this week, the United States shut down. Churches, schools and businesses went dark. Weddings, funerals, and birthdays went silent. City streets stood empty, with an eeriness closer resembling occupied Paris than the bustling hubs they’d been just days before. Two years later, as the last of the mask mandates for school children falter and crack, it’s tempting to believe our nightmare is finally over. Just as the disease is going to haunt us a long while, however, so too will the effects of how we...
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A New “Berlin Wall” Is Going Up And The Shock Of This Decoupling Is Only Just Beginning To Be Felt
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Zubu Brothers ^
| 3-9-2022 | Michael Every of Rabobank
When I lived in Russia in 1994, the only two places that sold affordable food to go in the entire metropolis were McDonalds and a sandwich chain called ‘Combis’. I learned to say “a BigMac and fries, please” in Russian just as fast as I learned to understand “Attention, the doors are
closing” on the long metro journey from the burbs where I lived so get some hot food. McDonalds had opened in Moscow on 31 January 1990, before the USSR was dissolved, and the enormous crowds it drew were taken as emblematic of the power of Western capitalism and...
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