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Monday, March 16, 2026

Harnessing some of Australia's most sought-after scientists to manufacture the vaccine in laboratories at the University of NSW, he then tracked down the only veterinary researcher with ethics approval to administer the experimental drug. read more


Friday, March 13, 2026

SACRAMENTO, Calif " Sacramento County law enforcement is again criticizing the elderly parole process after the Board of Parole Hearings granted parole for a convicted child molester after serving 27 years of his over 355-year sentence. Gregory Vogelsang, 57, was sentenced to prison for almost 30 counts of kidnapping and sex crimes against multiple children between the ages of 5 and 11 in the 1990s, according to Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho. He was sentenced to 355 years to life in prison. read more


Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Virginia is one step closer to enacting an assault weapons ban. read more


Between hearings for deposed Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro and accused CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, the U.S. federal court in Manhattan was recently asked to consider an important question: When is salsa too spicy? The precipitating event was a 2024 trip to a Times Square taqueria by a German tourist. The plaintiff, Faycal Manz, said he suffered "severe physical symptoms" following a single bite of Los Tacos No. 1's green salsa, and sued for damages. read more


Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Minutes later, Rep. Dave Pinto, DFL-St. Paul, the committee co-chair, compared blaming higher work pay for causing higher prices to the impact shoplifting has on higher prices. He started by mentioning a presentation on the impact of organized retail theft he'd heard in a public safety committee the day before. "There was a presentation of a group seeking to change how we address organized retail theft," he said. "And it actually had not occurred to me to ask, it probably would have been good, to make sure that they would study the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft. Because perhaps people are relying on that and using that, and maybe it's assisting them in some way." read more


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Yeah here we go ...

First Reported by "AV News Crew"

In March 2026, two significant crises converged for the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF): a detailed whistleblower and wrongful termination lawsuit filed by former employee Ruth Sanchez, and a historic public allegation of sexual abuse by Dolores Huerta against the late labor icon Csar Chvez.

The Ruth Sanchez Lawsuit

Filed in September 2025 (Sanchez v. Dolores C. Huerta Foundation), the complaint alleges multiple labor violations, including wage theft, retaliation, and disability discrimination, following a dispute over a city grant. The lawsuit involves allegations of mismanagement and nepotism within the organization. A jury trial is scheduled for early 2028.

Timing of Allegations Against Csar Chvez
In March 2026, roughly two weeks after a key hearing in the Sanchez case, Huerta publicly accused Chvez of sexual assault in the 1960s. These claims followed a New York Times report exploring allegations against the labor leader. Critics have suggested the timing of the announcement served to redirect attention away from the ongoing legal challenges facing the DHF.
Ruth Sanchez's Lawsuit Against the Dolores Huerta Foundation & the Odd Timing of Huerta's Allegations Against Csar Chvez

The recent emergence of sexual abuse allegations against Csar Chvez by Dolores Huerta has coincided with an active whistleblower and wrongful termination lawsuit against her own organization, the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF).

Ruth Sanchez's Lawsuit Against DHF
Filed on September 29, 2025, the case Sanchez v. Dolores C. Huerta Foundation (25STCV28384) is currently pending in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Ruth Sanchez, a former Community Organizer and Resource Center Manager, alleges 11 causes of action against the foundation, including:

Whistleblower Retaliation: Sanchez claims she was retaliated against after reporting the misuse of a $95,000 grant from the City of Los Angeles and the falsification of canvassing records.

Labor Violations: She alleges she worked 60-hour weeks without meal or rest breaks and was pressured into unpaid labor.

Nepotism: The complaint states that family members of DHF leadership were promoted into roles they were allegedly incompetent to perform, and that Sanchez was required to train them.

Unreimbursed Expenses: Sanchez alleges she spent between $7,000 and $10,000 of her own money on foundation equipment and supplies without reimbursement.

The case is moving toward a jury trial scheduled for January 24, 2028.

The Timing of Huerta's Allegations Against Chvez
On March 18, 2026, Dolores Huerta publicly alleged that Csar Chvez sexually abused her in the 1960s, resulting in two secret pregnancies. This disclosure came shortly after a New York Times investigation detailed broader patterns of sexual misconduct by Chvez.

Observers have noted a specific timeline regarding the litigation:

September 2025: Ruth Sanchez files her lawsuit.
March 4, 2026: The court holds a demurrer hearing for the Sanchez case.

March 18, 2026: Exactly two weeks after the hearing, Huerta breaks her 60-year silence to accuse Chvez.

Critics suggest the timing may serve to shift public attention away from the foundation's internal labor practices, alleged grant misuse, and the looming civil trial. Huerta maintains she spoke out to support other survivors identified in recent reporting.

Partial Credit Adina Flores
This is very interesting in many ways...
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Mao never unpersoned bourgeois faster than the American center-left establishment is deleting of Cesar Chavez this week.

Amazing.
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A WhataBidenism!!

A WhataTrumpism ... Snoofy dragged Trump in to discussion about Chavez...

Its not surprising you can't understand the thread.

Maybe not in China, but it does in America.

Sure ...

I work at a large ESG rated company, you? Its run the same as before ESG was popular investment strat, but as this study points out greenwashing is significant factor in a companies operations.

This paper shows that ESG scores capture a company's greenwashing behavior. Greenwashing accusations are most prevalent among large companies with high ESG scores. We empirically employ a novel theoretical model that distinguishes between the communication of a company's environmental efforts (apparent environmental performance) and its actual environmental impact (real environmental performance). The correlation of the apparent (real) environmental performance with ESG scores is significantly positive (negative). Therefore, ESG scores are unsuitable for measuring real environmental impact. Thus, investors focusing on high ESG-rated companies may unknowingly increase their greenwashing risk exposure, and academics may use misleading information to assess greenwashing risk.
www.sciencedirect.com

You believe the fantasy, ESG is nothing but boycotting companies that aren't playing the progressive game, now the companies are playing the game back.

Investors are the owners. If they're hurting anyone, it's no one but themselves, the willing.

Not until they invest. Thats the whole point of the ESG, is to attempt to change behavior of where to invest, and thus the companies. But as above points out, it doesn't work.

If they are the owners, then there's no need for an ESG score, the owners would just impose their will on the company.

Don't look now, but that's the job of EVERY board: to ensure following the tenets of the organization.

Yes the purpose of the board is to make sure investors (the owners make money) so the board looks at the investment community and sees ESG ratings, it has try to make available all the investments possible, without destroying the company.
So they create an ESG governance board, and it greenwashes the company's operations, makes reporting across the divisions, sets goals they don't meet.

ESG is an attempt at causing a Hawthorne effect for progressive initiatives, the issue is the generation of numbers isn't a direct but indirect process administered by the same organizations that do the reporting.

You must have really gotten slammed in 2008, how could the reporting agencies lie?

You really have no idea what a large corporation does, you speak like the professor in BackToSchool, you know all the buzz words, you don't know how anything gets done.


ESG isn't a requirement imposed on investment managers serving the public.
It's a voluntary corporate action.

So is having to get a drivers license, and a car. It not a requirement imposed on by my company or the government or society, but not having it inhibits the jobs, people I will marry, and lifestyle I can have.
I must have a car, commute, and all the other inefficiencies it requires. Just to get income, or I must do without.

In the same vein not having ESG inhibits the investors a company can have.
Its an imposition, not by the market place or regulation, but by an inefficiency imposed on by investors.

ESG = different risk/return profile, not inherently better or worse

This may have been true at the beginning. But as with most things of this nature people/companies figure out the game.
To the point they have an ESG board to make sure the company is in compliance.

NVIDIA is a strong ESG company why?

Well they are striving for energy efficient chipsets. -> Yet are the main components in Data centers are a problem but so what. (how is that green?)
They support "AI for Good" initiatives, is anyone able to quantify these initiatives? no, its a social project.
They have strong diversity reports!!

NVIDIA games the ESG system, and ESG looks the other way because its performing so well.

ESG today is nothing more than an investor imposed inefficiency. It feels good, but don't kid yourself that its changing corporate behavior.
Soon it will become a moralizing hammer on companies, those that don't meet some abstract need will be punished.
Nothing more than a Corporate Cancel Culture.

I would liken it to having a political commissar. Why? Well a company could bring a product to market that makes the world a better place, but it violates one of the tenets say "diversity of workforce", so now the company can't get investors at a favorable exchange rate, or better yet you aren't a favored company in the ESG hierarchy so you have less investment money available.

You could say thats not the point of ESG, I would argue it's the only point of ESG, control.

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