[Breitbart] The House will take up legislation this week that would scrap President Joe Biden’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rule.
The House will vote on a resolution, sponsored by Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) and Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), that would nullify the Department of Commerce’s rulemaking allowing fiduciaries to take environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into consideration when choosing retirement investments.
Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions allow for Congress to nullify federal government regulations within 60 legislation days of their rulemaking. CRA resolutions also only require a simple majority, or 51 votes to pass through the Senate.
The resolution has the support of 49 Senate Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), meaning the bill only needs one more Senate Democrat to back the bill to have it be sent to Biden’s desk should the House pass the bill.
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My state is up to date only to 2018. There could have been a wave of dead people registering since them probably in the Youngstown area where CTCL is sending cash.
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Perusing, there are several states with 50,000 interstate duplicates, but all the items in Oregon could be counted on one hand. I was shocked.
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It's no surprise at all that PA is a mess. Lots of room for fraud there.
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[FoxNews] Defunded Austin Police Department sees 40 officers file for retirement in one week.
The Austin, Texas Police Department is on the verge of a staffing collapse after 40 officers file retirement papers one week amid a contract dispute with the city council.
Austin Retired Officers Association President Dennis Farris warned the department is in "dire straits" on "Fox & Friends First" Monday as 150 officers reach out to the retirement board.
"It's not only about the money. It's about the respect and the lack of respect they're getting from this city council, less one council member," Farris said.
Austin police officers past and present warned Fox News Digital that the Texas capital's police force is critically depleted as a result of defunding in 2020 and the current breakdown between the city and the police on a new contract. The city council voted a few weeks ago to scrap a four-year contract that the city had previously agreed to in principle and instead pursue a one-year contract that the police union's board has rejected.
That move is believed by many to be due to intense pressure from anti-police activists in the city who look to hold off a long term deal until after voters decide on competing ballot initiatives dealing with "police oversight" that go before voters in May.
"The police department really is in dire straits," Farris warned of the staffing shortage. "There are shifts that are going out every day understaffed, sometimes just one officer and a sergeant, and sometimes just the sergeant showing up. So there are huge sections of the city that are going unpoliced on a regular basis."
Farris added that the city is "emboldening criminals" by refusing to support the police department.
"When your political leaders in the city don't support the police department, the criminals understand that. And they figure, well, if the city is not going to back them, we can do what we want."
According to Farris, 310 officers in the Austin Police Department are eligible to retire and of the officers that have put in their paperwork, six are high-ranking.
"I fear we're going to see a mass exodus of the senior people with longevity to where you're going to have a department where maybe the average service time was in the high teens now and I think it's going to drop into the low teens," Farris told Fox News Digital, explaining that departments without strong senior leadership often experience more problems due to "inexperience."
Farris said that two waves of retirements – officers who have already filed and officers who will file when the contract officially expires at the end of March – could result in as many as 100 vacancies.
"Both sides have to want to go to the table and negotiate, and the Police Association's view on this is they have a contract that needs to be voted on. It was a contract agreed to by the city's negotiators and the bargaining team from the Police Association. It's out there and they either need to vote it up or vote it down before they can go and do anything else," Farris said.
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Well, I am sure the capitol police force is separate and not being defunded.
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After some 40 years living in Austin, it was indeed a sad day at the end of March 2013, I followed a moving truck to take me back home in Arkansas. I'm told I left just in time. Word is, it's turning into San Francisco. So sad...
I have long suspected that many of our politicians in this country have succumbed to temptation when offered plata o plomo. Why else would the border remain wide open while our communities are flooded with fentanyl? While this article doesn't necessarily prove my suspicions, it is at least evidence that I'm not the only one who suspects. I'm still kinda dozing through all this until somebody goes to jail but I'm afraid nobody will go to jail as long as Merrick Garland is Attorney General. It's a long and twisted article. Read the rest at the link. Here is the link to Thaler/Harris Law Corporation's report titled Preliminary Findings of Activities Impacting Arizona's Election Integrity, with Specific Focus on 2020 and 2022 General Elections.
[PostMillennial] "Katie Hobbs and Runbeck election services have been named as recipients of Sinaloa cartel bribes via deeds of trust and phony mortgages in AZ senate investigation."
A California-based law firm has accused Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Runbeck Election Services, and a slew of other election officials, mayors, judges, city councilman, and county supervisors in the state of receiving bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
During a Thursday hearing before the Senate Elections and Municipal Oversight & Elections Joint Committee, the principal investigator for Harris/Thaler Law Corporation, Jacqueline Breger, presented their shocking findings, detailing how a money-laundering investigation in the midwest revealed alleged corruption in Arizona.
"In 2006, the U.S. Attorney's Offices in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa investigated the laundering of drug cartel monies through a complex series of single-family home purchases in those states," Breger told the committee. "By 2009, numerous real estate agents, escrow companies and title insurers had been indicted, charged and convicted of racketeering. In 2014, our office was asked to review the case files and to determine whether monies from the sales of the properties had filtered to property purchases in Arizona, specifically in Maricopa and Pima County."
The Sinaloa cartel is notorious for being led by the infamous "El Chapo," the Mexican drug lord whose real name is Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, who was widely considered to have been one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world before his capture in 2016.
According to the investigator, it was concluded that several real estate agents in Iowa "had set up a laundering system in Arizona and thereafter had transferred the proceeds of sales to Panamanian Corporations."
"In 2018, Mr. Thaler discovered, incidental to another matter, a series of trust deeds evidencing that cash laundering through single family residences in Arizona was pervasive and ongoing," Breger continued. "With that, a new investigation began with the focus being on money laundering and related racketeering activities in Maricopa County and several other Arizona counties. The Harris/Thaler office currently represents several parties directly damaged by the racketeering activities."
In the nearly 100-page report, Breger dug into the entire investigation, naming Dawna Rae Chavez, a resident of Mesa, Arizona, and her daughter, Brittany Rae Chavez, as "principal preparers of the documents necessary to effect the racketeering enterprises."
"To date, more than 10,000 falsified documents have been recorded with the Maricopa County Recorder. We estimate that more than 35,000 warranty deeds/trust deeds evidencing fraudulent transactions exist in the database. 11. The number of falsified notarizations exceeds 15,000. 12. Dawna and Brittany's participation in racketeering activities also includes facilitation of bribes to public officials, tax evasion, payroll theft, bankruptcy fraud, insurance fraud, and extortion," Breger said.
I couldn't copy from the .pdf. It also takes a minute or two to load.
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Item 22 is hobbs and her husband used funds laundered from cartel operations to purchase homes for rental or flip. At least one a year for the last ten years.
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[Deadline] Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law that strips The Walt Disney Co. of its 55-year control over a special district covering its Florida theme parks.
The move — punishment after the company spoke out against DeSantis’ parental rights legislation last year — means that he will appoint the members of the five-member Reedy Creek Improvement District board.
At a signing ceremony held at a fire station on the Disney property, DeSantis said of the company, "When you lose your way, you got to have people who are going to tell you the truth."
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Disney (and others), take note. You may be used to throwing your weight around and getting what you want. But when you deal with a sovereign state that can actually pass laws, you are in way over your head.
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The entertainment business recognizes it makes something nobody needs and compensates for that with more lobbying.
Politicians need those lobbying dollars. Want to see where companies like Disney and Netflix obtain their clout? Look at which pols are beholden to them.
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BS - This did absolutely nothing other than allow the State to muscle into Private Enterprise.
Disney bureaucrats now get to sit across from Florida State Govt Bureaucrats and when the winds change, instead of DeSantis Repubs sitting across from Disney people, it will be Dems sitting across from Disney people.
"When you lose your way, you got to have people who are going to tell you the truth."
Govt will no better luck in finding the way nor truth with gov workers.
[FOXNEWS] Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called to remove "obstacles" for new police recruits and pledged to root out officers with ties to "right-wing domestic holy warrior organizations."
Bass is looking to remove "obstacles" for police recruits who fail to initially qualify for training as a means of further diversifying the LAPD, according to a summary of her public safety goals obtained by Fox News Digital — but police union leaders are questioning the move.
Bass' summary of goals for police reform includes a list of provisions as well as dates by which the department must report back regarding progress. One provision says a deputy mayor will work in conjunction with a "third party" to "evaluate the personnel process and identify obstacles to entry for recruits who fail to qualify for training."
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New recruit obstacles such as past offenses such as bank robbery and drug dealing, etc..
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I would just quit and move. Let them stew in the mess they have made.
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Right Wing Holy Warriors. Wow, they're reaching way up that poop chute to pull that kinda excrement out.
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Lol - she actually said "right-wing domestic extremist organizations.", but Fred's autotranslate took over
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Translation, the LAPD is too white and we need to remove the criminal history restrictions that prevent us making it more black!
Over the years I spent a lot of time with mid-level LAPD and LASD management in public safety and homeland security policy development and management. The classic LAPD culture in the Daryll Gates era had a certain aggressive attitude that was encouraged and celebrated. In a vast urban landscape, law enforcement had no realistic way to create widespread personal connections that required individual familiarity by the community with dedicated, local patrol officers. The radio-car, call for service style differed from the east coast, NYPD ability to flood neighborhoods with foot patrols and Officer-to-business connections. instead, the LAPD had a more brusque, suppressive style, visible patrol units and anti-gang units with extensive intelligence files and assessments.
What this created was a deep, antagonistic mistrust within minority communities for whom the LAPD was viewed by many as the enemy, not the defense against crime. So, for many minority residents, the LAPD was one or two white cops driving through Boyle Heights or Compton looking to make cases or serve warrants.
In the era of Obama/Biden and woke, as the political power of LA has "browned" the animosity/attitude grown over decades has surfaced with enormous political power, giving rise to Bass and Gascon, but inevitably leading to ruining what traditions of public safety that remained. Consider the meaning of "Apres Moi, le deluge" Mayor Bass, as you eviscerate the LAPD.
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I suspect that the barriers would be drug convictions and pervious gang membership. Removing those obstacles will work with respect to recruiting quotas. I think that an inclusive policy with regard to criminals will yield a result that we all expect.
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She's trying to create Chicago with better weather.
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I suspect that the barriers would be drug convictions and pervious gang membership.
Along with the inability to read and write at a high school level.
[JustTheNews] President Joe Biden's call for funding for 87,000 IRS agents to audit Americans has raised questions about whether the new rash of auditing will target poorer Americans or be politically motivated.
The Inflation Reduction Act included $80 billion to beef up IRS efforts, which Biden says will more than pay for itself in new audits.
Biden’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service, Daniel Werfel, addressed concerns over this policy at his recent confirmation hearing but promised lawmakers the audits would target wealthier Americans.
“...the audit and compliance priorities will be focused on enhancing the IRS’ capabilities to ensure America’s highest earners comply with applicable tax laws,” Werfel said.
Critics have argued, though, there are not enough wealthy Americans to audit to justify tens of billions of dollars for auditors. They also argue the IRS’ behavior in recent years suggests the IRS will go after poorer and conservative Americans.
“The Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official tax scorekeeper, said that 78% to 90% of the money raised from under-reported income would likely come from those making less than $200,000 a year, with nearly half of the audits hitting Americans making $75,000 per year or less,” House Ways and Means Republicans said in a statement.
The Informing America Foundation released a new report detailing the IRS’ recent missteps.
“The IRS is targeting low-income Americans and conservative nonprofits,” the report said. “President Biden massively expanded the IRS, which improperly scrutinized conservative nonprofits, Americans in the black belt, and more.”
The IRS reached a $3.5 million settlement with hundreds of Tea Party groups in 2018 after news broke that the Obama administration’s IRS targeted those groups.
In 2021, the IRS had to overturn its own ruling after it denied a Christian group nonprofit status. The agent who made the ruling said the group did not qualify because "Bible teachings are typically affiliated with the [Republican] party and candidates.”
Christians Engaged, the group in question, was able to get the ruling overturned, but critics say this kind of case shows the mentality of at least some IRS employees.
“The recent determination on Christians Engaged’s tax-exempt status further exposed the corruption and liberal bias running rampant at the IRS,” U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said at the time. “This discriminatory action against a Christian nonprofit is an overt attack on religious liberty by a tyrannical federal government. Moreover, this decision comes at a time when members of both parties are trying to increase the ability of the IRS to harass individual Americans, businesses, and organizations."
Just this year, the IRS announced a program to crack down on tip reporting from waiters and waitresses.
Meanwhile, the IRS is steeped in other issues. As The Center Square previously reported, the agency faces major backlogs, questions over millions of destroyed documents and more.
The House Ways and Means Committee sent a letter earlier this month to the Biden administration raising questions about how thousands of IRS documents were leaked to ProPublica. The leak may have had political motives, since it was used to prove, as ProPublica put it, that “the very richest pay lower rates than the merely rich.”
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the Senate Finance Committee in June 2021 that she would look into the leak, but so far Congress has received few answers.
America First Legal, a conservative group led by former Trump administration officials, has also raised concerns about the Treasury Department's recent equity commitments. They say those policies could be used to make decisions about who to audit based on race.
“The notion that race should play any role whatsoever in the IRS’s operations is absurd, offensive to the American ideal, and illegal,” said Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Vice-President and General Counsel. “But the Biden Administration is so blinded by its relentless obsession with race that it is willing to make IRS enforcement decisions based on the race of American citizens. We will fight their attempts to erode equality under the law and expose their attempts to inject toxic ‘equity’-based policies throughout the federal government.”
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If you are going after the 'rich' you need lawyers not agents.
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Yes, P2k. But if you're going after ordinary folks all you need are thugs.
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We don’t trust them. The government is offended by our lack of trust in the government. Musk keeps revealing communications that indicate that we should not trust the government. The media shills for the government like Joe Scarborough try to convince us that it is very dangerous for us not to trust the government. Uncle Sam used to be a metaphorical icon for our government. A better current representation might be Ike Turner.
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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.
[FoxNews] Defunded 
Can't find any reports in the 'Usual Suspects' media. 
[Deadline] Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law that strips The Walt 
[JustTheNews] President Joe Biden's call for funding for 87,000 IRS agents to audit Americans has raised questions about whether the new rash of auditing will target poorer Americans or be politically motivated.
