[Breitbart] California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) promised in 2023 to deliver 1,200 “tiny homes” to help shelter the homeless in several California cities — but none has opened yet, according to a report in CalMatters.
CalMatters.org reported Thursday:
In March 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom stood before a crowd in Sacramento’s Cal Expo event center and made a promise: He’d send 1,200 tiny homes to shelter homeless residents in the capital city and three other places throughout the state.
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There have been multiple delays and about-faces, over everything from the way the state is funding the units to the ability of local cities and counties to find places to put them. The state has suggested the delays are the fault of local governments. But tiny homes have failed to materialize even when local leaders moved quickly to approve a project site.
In Sacramento, at least, construction for the tiny homes has begun. In San Diego, testing of a proposed site is still under way. In San Jose, a grant from the state took months to arrive; the project will only be completed next summer. And in Los Angeles, there is no approved site yet.
In 2021, Newsom boasted that California had become a model for dealing with homelessness, after the Biden administration adopted his state’s policy of paying for hotel and motel rooms for homeless people, or even buying hotels.
Homelessness continues to be a problem in the Golden State. The homeless population has hit a ten-year low in San Francisco, but was still rising in Los Angeles, as of last year.
The Wall Street Journal reported last year that California spends billions of dollars on homelessness, with little to show for the effort.
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It'd be a lot easier and cheaper to put the homeless in tent cities out in the desert. Newsom would argue that's not compassionate. But how compassionate is it to let those people die from overdosing on the streets of LA and San Francisco?
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^You could ask IDF: tents & food/water - if it works for Gazooks ...
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Imma justa put this outta on the table.
Narcon is keeping the brain dead on life support.
Was at a popular tourist destination and watched a young man just wilt and crumble on a well used path. The good people went into help mode, which is fine, but not realizing he was in the middle of having a fit, so instructed how to do moves with potential sharp pokey things in pockets. Sad.
[FoxNews] Republican governors don't want WHO controlling health emergencies in their states
Two dozen Republican governors don't want the World Health Organization (WHO) to call the shots in the case of another global pandemic, according to a letter they sent to President Biden this week.
Currently, there are two proposals under negotiation that would grant WHO "unprecedented and unconstitutional" authority in the U.S., according to the Republican Governors Association.
"If adopted, these agreements would seek to elevate the WHO from an advisory body to a global authority in public health," the letter stated. "Under the proposed amendments and treaty, the WHO’s Director-General would supposedly gain unilateral power to declare a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ in member nations, extending beyond pandemics to include a range of perceived emergencies."
The two proposals aim to amend the WHO's existing International Health Regulations and establish a new "Pandemic Agreement" Treaty.
"Additional concerns arise regarding the establishment of a global surveillance infrastructure and requirements for member states to censor speech related to public health, potentially facilitating the proliferation of biological weapons," the governors continued. "We are committed to resisting any attempts to transfer authority to the WHO over public policy affecting our citizens or any efforts by the WHO to assert such authority over them."
Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Kay Ivey of Alabama, Mike Dunleavy of Alaska, Eric Holcomb of Indiana, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Bill Lee of Tennessee, Jim Justice of West Virginia and Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa are among those who signed the letter.
The governors of Texas, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming also signed the letter.
The letter also said the proposed WHO agreement would radically change the way governors are able to respond to health emergencies in their states.
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Yeah, international treaties require the Senate to ratify it. Otherwise it is about as much as a law as me stating the world has to wear orange on Tuesdays.
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An "executive agreement" will be used to end-run the treaty ratification process. Bath House did it several times.
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Excellent WELL DONE republican governors
We must exit the WHO altogether as it is no longer a health advisory body it is an organ of dominance for the highest bidder which is the Gates and Big Pharma cartel
Every billionaire wants a slice of the IP royalty pie, too
Google is behind the current Bird Flu scam. Reject it.
In fact we would all be a lot safer from these drug dealers if the US would repeal tge PREP Act, remove all liability immunity from vaccine makers and remove intelllectual property rights from all pharmaceuticals
We will be safer when anyone can make generics compettetively
And when new drug discovery is done for actual altruism
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^^^ more than a bit hyperbolic and over the top. I’m no fan of the WHO and feel they should be ignored. But if you think removing intellectual property rights and associated profit motive from drug discovery is the best move, then you won’t see any new drug development.
[JustTheNews] Hunter Biden wrote his father was so enamored with China's communist leader "they all most kissed," new evidence shows.
Federal agents gathered evidence during the 2016 election that Hunter Biden had used access to his father on an official government trip to Beijing aboard Air Force Two to connect prospective Chinese business partners with then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to a massive cache of documents recently turned over to Congress and obtained by Just the News.
"They got to meet Dad. All very good. Talk later,” Hunter Biden wrote in a December 2013 email confirming how he connected his Chinese associates with his father in a Beijing hotel after the vice president had met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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[GEO.TV] As candidates bidding for the White House are busy attracting voters and funding from their supporters around the country, a new inquiry has been launched against former US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... The investigation has been launched by the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... from the Senate that is finding claims that Donald Trump offered the oil companies of the US that if the giants supported him for his White House bid, he would reverse the climate policies by President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... , reported CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... The investigation was announced in a statement from the chairs of the Senate Finance and Budget Committees Thursday.
The letters from the politicians have also been sent to the nine oil behemoths including ExxonMobil and Chevron.
The inquiry stems in response to The Washington Post report earlier this month detailing the contents of the April fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.
One person expressed frustration about the regulations of climate change. In response, Trump reportedly promised the elimination of regulations in exchange for a $1 billion contribution.
The letter demanded the information in which the 77-year-old reportedly asked for $1 billion in return for the reversal of climate policies of Joe Biden.
Meh. He’d as happily have reversed them for free, the cue being the billion dollar ask. Nobody donates at that level, not even rich candidates to their own campaign.
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That's nice - further attempts to criminalize differences in policy. And - how good do you think that information is on the 'reported' $1 B exchange?
[IsraelTimes] Reported plan would see US official located outside the Strip advising peacekeeping force possibly hailing from Egypt, Morocco, and United Arab Emirates.
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November 1, 2023 - "There's no plans or intentions to put U.S. military troops on the ground in Gaza, now or in the future," White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters
The US floating pier allegedly used to provide relief supplies to Gaza civilians has partially washed away, and two boats used to service it have been washed ashore. According to reports, the Army was temporarily relocating the floating pier to the Israeli port of Ashdod because of heavy wave action. During the move, a segment of the pier came free, and the boats sent to retrieve it went aground.
The Israeli Navy is leading the recovery operation.
Nothing about this mission has been thought through. An absence of heavy-lift ships on the East Coast meant that small Army ships spent over a month in a trans-Atlantic crossing, roughly going the same speed as Christopher Columbus's fleet. We now know that none of the aid pushed over the pier has reached Gaza civilians. To top it off, our humanitarian mission has come under attack from the people we are trying to help.
Now, the final promise has been broken, that of no "boots on the ground" in Gaza — even if the boots belonged to US military personnel walking away from a shipwreck.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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