Well thats interesting... read more
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie approved a new law setting up a reparations fund to compensate for slavery and racial discrimination that passed the city's Board of Supervisors earlier in December. In a statement to Newsweek, Lurie emphasized that while the new law sets up a reparations fund, the city is not allocating money to it. "I was elected to drive San Francisco's recovery, and that's what I'm focused on every day. We are not allocating money to this fund"with a historic $1 billion budget deficit, we are going to spend our money on making the city safer and cleaner," he said. The fund was set up in response to recommendations for single payments of as much as $5 million to any Black San Franciscans who might be eligible. read more
A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the U.S. an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people. read more
Demonstrations across Iran, initially sparked by economic hardship and the sharp fall of the national currency, continued for a third day on Tuesday, drawing in university students as authorities deployed force and made multiple arrests. Protests spread across Iran on Tuesday, with universities and commercial districts emerging as key hubs amid a widening strike by shopkeepers in Tehran and other cities. Human rights and student groups said at least 11 protesters were arrested near Tehran's Shoush Square. Five students were also detained at universities in the capital, four of whom were later released. read more
How did so much get so terrible so rapidly? One simultaneous cause and consequence of the Minnesota swoon is outright fraud, the rotten fruit of a partnership between some of the state's leading politicians and sectarian interests that understand government not as a society's shared instrument to address its problems, but as a storehouse to pillage. read more
June showed the incredible problem of EVERYONE committing fraud ... but Lumpers were silent, some even calling it racist.
Tim Walz blames the White Supremacist.
'Hundreds' had ties to Feeding Our Future. Many may not face charges.
Lead prosecutor in expansive theft case: "We don't have the resources."
www.startribune.com
If you don't get this undercontrol.... its unsustainable.
In Florida, Ron DeSantis' administration routed $10 million in Medicaid settlement money to a nonprofit tied to his wife, Casey DeSantis - money that then flowed into political groups aligned with the governor. That's not a paperwork error. That's a pipeline.
Newsom does the same thing.... his wife is making up to $300K a year.
americansforpublictrust.org
And the country's running out of water. Pretty bleak for the average citizen over there.
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Its really interesting reading about the history ....
While failed rains may be the immediate cause of the crisis, hydrologists say, the root cause is more than half a century of often foolhardy modern water engineering " extending back to before the country's Islamic revolution of 1979, but accelerated by the Ayatollahs' policies since.
e360.yale.edu
"An unvaccinated, out-of-state traveler...."
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