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Forget the conventional wisdom about firing irreplaceable employees. Because if your employees aren’t irreplaceable, you’re doing something wrong. Credit: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock“The graveyards,” General De Gaulle once ironically observed, “are full of indispensable men.” Maybe so, but the same may not be so easily said about organizations whose success did depend on irreplaceable managers and staff.Take, for example, Apple. Under Steve Jobs it created the iPod, iPhone, App Store, and iPad — products and services that ranged from radical departures to entirely new concepts.Under Tim Cook? What his Apple has introduced to the marketplace are copycat items: A streaming service,...

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Ukrainian forces raided Crimea and “inflicted fire on the Moscow occupiers,” according to Ukrainian officials, in a campaign to build military pressure on Russia’s forces in the vital occupied peninsula. "There was a battle with the Russian occupiers; many were killed and wounded among the invaders' personnel,” Ukrainian Defense Intelligence spokesman Andriy Yusov told a Ukrainian outlet. “Unfortunately, there are losses among Ukrainian defenders too, though these are still not as many as among the Russians.” Yusov offered that statement after his colleagues released a video that purports to show Ukrainian special forces members riding jet skis to the Crimean...

Texas Congressman and Ron DeSantis surrogate Chip Roy had a full-blown meltdown at the “MAGA camp” after Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as Speaker of the House of Representatives by Matt Gaetz, comparing himself to a soldier on D-Day and urging the Florida Governor to “restore order”.“Some of our brothers and sisters, particularly in the, uh, you know, MAGA camp, I think, particularly enjoy the circular firing squad,” he said of McCarthy’s removal for failing to honor his commitments to America First conservatives on spending, border security, the Ukraine war, and impeaching Joe Biden.“You want to come at me and call me...

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed and pummeled in a Brooklyn subway station by a group of fellow teenagers who pounced on him after asking if he belonged to a gang, cops said Wednesday. The victim was at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station just after 4 p.m. Tuesday when he crossed paths with the crew of eight youngsters in the passageway heading toward the Nos. 3 and 4 lines, authorities said. “As they are passing, someone in that group of eight individuals asked him a question… if he was a member of a gang,” NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper told...

Former President Donald Trump raked in more than $45.5 million in fundraising during the third quarter of 2023, his campaign announced on Wednesday.The nearly $46 million raised during the third quarter is $10 million more than the campaign raised during the second quarter. Of the $45.5 million, over $37.5 million is cash on hand, with roughly $36 million designated for use during the primary elections.“In an impressive testament to the overwhelming grassroots support behind President Trump that will lead to dominating victories, close to $36 million of the total cash on hand is designated for the primary,” Trump’s campaign said...

Sage Steele the former ESPN anchor tweeted this information a short time ago, I thought she had been pranked until I looked it up. Quite a few hotels booked for the upcoming Army Navy Game in Foxboro, MA have been cancelled in order to house Illegal Immigrants, under the State's Right to Shelter Law. This is utterly disgraceful.

Taking its fears of an imminent coup to the next level, the Georgian government is now accusing the United States of sponsoring a DIY revolution workshop in Tbilisi.USAID, the international aid arm of the US government, and its Serbia-based partner organization that organized the workshop have dismissed the claim as false and absurd. The US Embassy in Tbilisi assailed the Georgian claims, saying they “fundamentally mischaracterize” the goals of US assistance to the country. Domestic critics contend that the government’s accusations are politically motivated, intended to kneecap opposition elements as Georgia gears up for parliamentary elections in 2024.

ADP reported that private job growth totaled just 89,000 for the month, down from an upwardly revised 180,000 in August and below the 160,000 estimate from Dow Jones. Job gains came almost exclusively from services, which contributed 81,000 to the total. The report comes a day after the Labor Department said job openings unexpectedly rose sharply in August.

The ruling class would have us believe that the most dangerous threats to our security and happiness are Russia, global warming, and unapproved speech. In actuality, the lethal threat of our times and for the foreseeable future is the unconstrained power of the State. State control versus individual liberty is the conflict that will eventually lead to war, social upheaval, and revolutionary change. Everything else is either ancillary or a psychological distraction. The Marxist globalists know this. Everything they do is engineered to steal personal freedoms and expand government's oppressive control over the living. They seek a centralized power structure...

Ukraine may or may not have killed the Russian admiral in charge of their Crimean headquarters, as they first claimed, but their attack succeeded nonetheless. The Ukrainians “severely” damaged both the HQ and two ships undergoing repairs in a series of attacks on the key port of Sevastopol, endangering Russian navy operations in the Black Sea. Now, satellite and intel data show that the Russians have retreated to lesser ports in Crimea and in Russia proper, putting them out of range of attacks on Ukrainian merchant-marine commerce: (snip) A few weeks ago, the Ukrainians began an offensive on Russian positions...

Nope, nothing to see here, folks, everything's fine, there's no crime wave or anything like that, and this is the best economy in the history of economies. Stories like this are just made up by conspiracy theorists Republicans to make Joe Biden look bad. LOOK AT THOSE SHELVES! Seriously though, my liberal friends actually think this is fine and perfectly normal. I don't know what they're on, but it worries me. Meanwhile, not only do we have empty shelves at this CVS in DC because thieves keep showing up when the delivery truck arrives, but we've got street vendors nearby...

Former ESPN host Sage Steele said that interviewing President Biden was “the saddest thing” because he seemed confused and “couldn’t finish his sentences.” “He struggled,” Steele said of the oldest president in US history, who “trailed off” on topics even more than two years ago.... “It was satellite, it wasn’t in person,” she explained, noting that they were having technical issues and she had to stall the chief executive as they waited for the issues to be resolved. “So I had to, like, BS. I had to chitchat, waiting for us to start rolling.” Steele said she could not see...

Successfully managing a modern polity as large and complex as New York City is no mean feat. Interest groups compete for resources. Existential challenges suddenly emerge that were on no one’s mind when voters went to the polls (the 9/11 attacks, the current migrant crisis), and issues both large and small are relentlessly sensationalized, exacerbated by local tabloid media and the nation’s focus on happenings in its largest city. These all serve to make New York City, as it was once famously characterized, “ungovernable.” The difficulty in attributing outcomes to specific policy initiatives, setting priorities among affordability, public safety, economic...

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was behind the decision to kick Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer out of their Capitol hideaway offices, one of which the ousted speaker intends to move into, according to a report. Just hours after Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) was named House speaker pro tempore following the historic vote to strip McCarthy (R-Calif.) of his speakership Tuesday, an email went out to Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Hoyer (D-Md.) notifying them to vacate their unofficial office spaces near the House floor.

Here’s the official trailer for “Police State.” Please watch and share! Movie is in theaters Monday, October 23 and 25. Virtual premiere is Friday, October 27. All tickets only at policestatefilm.net

....the Governor also announced that he has signed AB-969 by Assemblymember Gail Pellerin (D-Santa Cruz)—a bill to limit hand vote counts in elections. AB-969 was drafted after Shasta County Supervisors voted to do away with machine counts for ballots and shift to hand counting for all elections. View Gov. Newsom's full press release at https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/10/04/workers-just-got-more-paid-sick-days/ .

Germany's cabinet on Wednesday approved putting on-reserve lignite-fired power plants back online from October until the end of March 2024, the economy ministry said, as a step to replace scarce natural gas this winter and avoid shortages. In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a sudden drop in Russian gas imports to Germany, Berlin reactivated coal-fired power plants and extended their lifespans, with a total output of 1.9 gigawatt hours generated last winter. Despite gas bottlenecks easing since last winter with new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal deliveries, coal-fired power plans will be reactivated

Wednesday, Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity revealed he was backing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as his pick to fill the Speaker of the House void. According to Hannity, Jordan, who has served as House Judiciary Committee chairman since January, is best suited to fill the vacancy left by now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who was ousted after a motion to vacate passed the House of Representatives. “[I]t was also — and I know this for a fact — sadly, it was also personal,” Hannity said of McCarthy’s ouster. “You know what? It’s business. It shouldn’t be personal, but...

5 October 2023 Thursday of week 26 in Ordinary Time Chapel of the miraculous image of the Merciful Jesus and the tomb of St. Faustina, Krakow Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingNehemiah 8:1-12 ©All the people listened attentively to the Book of the LawWhen the seventh month came, all the people gathered as one man on the square before the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses which the Lord had prescribed for Israel. Accordingly Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, consisting of men, women,...