The Estate shared a statement Prince said in 2010 about the album.
The world is fraught with misin4mation. George Orwell’s vision of the future is here. We need 2 remain steadfast in faith in the trying times ahead.
The 12 track album has 11 original songs from the late singer and a cover of Soul Asylum’s “Stand Up and B Strong” all of which have never been released before. According to RollingStone, a few of the songs were performed by Prince either live, via webcasts, or at one-off radio premieres.
The late singer recorded the album with his 2011-era New Power Generation lineup. They did this at Paisley Park Studios. Afterward, he embarked on his 2011 Welcome 2 America tour. This included his historic 21 Nite Stand at Inglewood, California’s The Forum a multi-purpose indoor arena.
No one s particularly surprised to discover a big corporation or entity is lying to the public.
Actually, we kind of expect it.
But Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is blowing past that kind of defeatism by filing suit last summer against Big Oil, charging they knew in the 60s about climate change, deliberately lied to Minnesotans about it, and made about $775 billion dollars in the process.
The fossil fuel companies had hoped to move their case to federal court, asserting that it was a suit about climate change and most appropriately tried there.
But a federal judge disagreed and ruled the case will remain in Minnesota s courts and face the state s tough comsumer protection laws - and it s request for the full $775 billion in reparations. U.S. District Court Judge John R. Tunheim wrote that the Court declines Defendants invitation to interpret this well-pleaded consumer protection action as a wholesale attack on all features of global fossil fuel extraction, produ
From D.C. hospitality workers who were laid off during the pandemic will get right of first refusal for their old jobs under legislation approved by the D.C. Council. Johnny Silvercloud/Flickr
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Many employers in the hospitality industry will soon be required to send job offers to workers they laid off during the pandemic as their jobs become available again, under legislation that passed a final vote in the D.C. Council today.
The Displaced Workers Right to Reinstatement and Retention Amendment Act was approved by the council unanimously despite pressure from the restaurant industry to vote down the bill. The measure, backed by the labor union UNITE HERE! Local 25, passed unanimously on an initial vote earlier this month, but the version that passed Tuesday contained significant amendments that respond to concerns from the industry.