Algernon Moncrieff
Algernon Moncrieff's JournalKyrie Irving Defends Antisemitic Documentary and Conspiracy Theory
Source: The New York Times
Nets guard Kyrie Irving doubled down on his support of an antisemitic documentary and a New World Order conspiracy theory about secret societies during a testy news conference Saturday night, a day after his teams owner chastised him for supporting the film.
The conspiracy theory, pushed by the Infowars host Alex Jones, falsely suggests that people in the government are working to enslave the human population by, among other methods, releasing viruses.
History is not supposed to be hidden from anybody, Irving said as he defended himself for posting a link on Twitter to the 2018 documentary Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America, which espouses several antisemitic tropes.
Did I do anything illegal? Irving said. Did I hurt anybody? Did I harm anybody? Am I going out and saying that I hate one specific group of people?
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/sports/basketball/kyrie-irving-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory.html
Insurance company Kemper lays off 339 workers, including 39 Alabama employees, citing inflation
Source: Advance Local
Insurance company Kemper Corporation confirmed Thursday it has laid off 339 employees, including 39 in Alabama, citing the longer-term economic impacts of the pandemicprimarily significant prolonged inflation.
Like most insurance carriers, particularly those who write personal lines, the longer-term economic impacts of the pandemicprimarily significant prolonged inflationhave required us to make changes to our businesses which have led to a lower volume of policies in-force, Chicago-based Kemper said in a statement to AL.com. That reduced volume means we have to respond accordingly, including making some tough but necessary decisions to adjust our employee count.
Nationwide, we laid off just over 3 percent, or 339 employees, including 39 employees in Alabama, the statement went on to say.
Read more: https://www.al.com/business/2022/10/insurance-company-kemper-lays-off-339-workers-including-39-alabama-employees-citing-inflation.html
Many Americans Say They Want To Relocate For Political Reasons. Few Actually Do.
538To be fair, moving can be expensive on the order of thousands of dollars, even for a local relocation, according to industry experts making this an unfeasible option for many Americans. Uprooting your everyday life to potentially gain access to a specific kind of health care isnt an investment a lot of people can make. And those who can afford to do so are also more likely to be able to travel across state lines in a health care emergency, making the case to move in light of stricter abortion laws less urgent.
Even when Americans do move, they dont go far. In fact, an overwhelming number dont live that far from their hometown. That includes young people, one of the most likely demographic groups to say they want to move and perhaps among the most flexible in being able to lay down new roots. A Center for Economic Studies research paper released in July, for example, found that 80 percent of young Americans live within 100 miles of where they grew up, and 58 percent live within just 10 miles.
But that data implies that local moving patterns, especially around increasingly progressive cities situated in more conservative states, may be worth a closer look. The level of political diversity within states has become easy to spot on electoral maps clusters of blue in major metropolitan areas like Atlanta, Nashville and Austin, for example, amidst redder spreads throughout the states of Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Comparing these cities with their states may reveal more than comparing, say, all of California to all of Texas.
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