@NAACPVirginia Loudoun branch sent out this urgent call to action to @VASchoolBoards urging rejection of the standards, unfairly accusing @GovernorVA & his team of racism because the standards are NOT the #1619Project admittedly part fiction journalist's view of history. @RTDNEWS
@FIFAcom@MofaQatar_EN Qatar Labor Laws are not news, just because press just discovered them. The current Emir's father began modernizing the country including educating women & preparing them for the workforce decades ago. I went to Qatar for complaince review at a college.1/
2/ @FIFAWorldCup In 2004 I prepared the compliance manual, a large tome of all laws, regs & found Qatar LaborLaws on @WSJ It is difficult to control multiple contractors on massive projects, but Qatar has changed laws to provide more protection but enforcement is difficult. @fifa
3/ @MofaQatar_EN has led the region in education & employment of women. LGBT lobby wants Y chromosome male Trans to play against women counter to #Science Intl sports authority FENA reviewed all data & of course found Y Trans have unfair advantages over girls/women @QFA_EN.
@smithsonian Pocahontas- Recent studies of Powhatan Indians practices, when intruders were captured the practice was to allow the women to decide whether to live or die. Living, they were adopted into the family, which did happen. Smith returned to England. She married John Rolfe
2/ Traveling to England to be introduced at Court, Pocahontas met John Smith again, seemed upset she was deceived about his reported death. Un accustomed to England’s cold damp weather, she caught an infection and died, never returned home.
In a related colonial historical fact, the First Thanksgiving actually took place in Virginia, Dec 6, 1619 on land that became Berkeley Plantation, where public Thanksgiving feasts are celebrated each year. President John Kennedy recognized that fact. @smithsonian
Unsustainable #RVA finances @RTDNEWS We already have higher tax rate than Fairfax Co. $1.5B in #DD TIFs are payday loans against future taxes while future also has MANDATORY Wastewater Bill Cost of $1.3B @rvabizsense#RVAcouncil@CBS6@DaveRess1@NBC12 Can't afford #DD project
Cost figures for DiamondDistrict $1.5B AND $1.3B for MANDATORY WasteWater project, NOT reflecting inflation.The loss of TIF payday loans $ is money we don't have 4 Sewer Project, let alone for @RPS_Schools & @RichmondPolice Please review @Jeffersoninst Tell #RVA if this works
#RVA's mismanagement of federal funds from #CARES can adversely impact the city's ability to get future fed funds. This reflects admin lack of fiduciary responsibility, from day 1. City auditor told #RVAMayor@RPS_Schools needed audit. Stoney fired him next day. Still the same.
Teamsters are advertsing heavily to organize #RVA workers. THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN. They are using pictures of DRMLK but THEIR connections are to #JimmyHoffa & his son JImmyP Hoffa, both Presidents of Teamsters. But Teamsters are known for OTHER ties we DON'T want HERE! #RVACouncil
TEAMSTERS have ALREADY ANNOUNCED PLANS to BE AGGRESSIVE taking advatage of the supply chain shortages, making them worse to extort concessions from their targets. In #RVA that could be @GRTCTransit@GRTCPulse & other city services. @RTDOpinions#RVAcouncil@KatherineJRVA@CBS6
DO NOT BRING THESE DANGEROUS PEOPLE INTO OUR CITY/STATE. There are OTHER honest unions, without the history & ties of the Teamsters. @VaHouseDems@VaSenateDems A Va politician w ties to this union & its former boss #JimmyPHoffa brought this plague manipulating @vademocrats to OK
@margaretbarthel@Polk_Azov@Ukraine What does insipid transplant Barthel know about this history? McClean is an art historian & the destruction of those superb equine statues, great works of art that put Richmond on European tour guide lists as a place to see, is cause of destruction of $2B History/Heritage toursim
@margaretbarthel@Polk_Azov@Ukraine Adding context explaining the real history associated with equine staues was recommended, along with removal of Jeff Davis, and addition of statues of The Fourteen African American Union soldiers who helped win key battles outside Richmond, each winning Medals of Honor.They WON/2