Having The Fireman Both Set The Fire And Extinguish It At The Same Time
A weekend topic starting with KTVZ. “Gov. Tina Kotek has pulled $2.7 million of the $18.2 million in emergency homeless response funds directed to Multnomah County and redistributed them to six other counties, including three in Central Oregon, due to the slow rollout by the state’s most populous county and its access to other funding. Kotek in March signed a $200 million Emergency Homelessness Response package that she said would help move 1,200 Oregonians without shelter into housing and create 600 new shelter beds by next January, OPB reported. Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson said their funding cut will ‘not at all’ impact the county’s response to homelessness. Vega Pederson said she had already considered returning some of the money to the state before Wednesday’s announcement. That’s mostly due to the county’s unprecedented influx of public funding meant to address homelessness – and its challenges getting those dollars out the door, OPB reported.”
The Center Square on Washington. “The King County Regional Homelessness Authority is winding down its pilot program that focused resources on getting homeless people in the downtown Seattle area into shelters. Partnership for Zero was initially committed $10 million from the county’s philanthropic communities, with approximately $5.1 million budgeted for the program in 2023 and $6 million in 2024 as part of KCRHA’s budget. Staffing costs alone were set at $3.5 million in 2023 and $5.4 million in 2024. The agency also planned to use Medicaid reimbursements through the Foundational Community Supports program. The agency estimated up to 85% of Partnership for Zero costs would be reimbursed by Medicaid. Foundational Community Supports is a fee-for-service program that pays $112 for every recorded encounter between a service provider and a client, up to a maximum of six encounters per month. The agency said that the shut down of the Partnership for Zero program will result in layoffs soon.”
My Northwest in Washington. “On the streets of Seattle, fentanyl can be purchased for as little as 40 cents, according to the Seattle Police Department (SPD). Seattle Times reporter Lauren Girgis wrote a story published last month on how fentanyl is flooding Seattle, finding many people are still trying to buy illicit, highly addictive opioid pills without knowing most are tainted with fentanyl. ‘While open air drug markets — like the area around Third and Pine — are traditionally thought of as dealers’ playgrounds, DEA special agent Galvan said every distributor mastered social media use after the pandemic,’ Girgis wrote.”
“KTTH radio host Jason Rantz responded to the piece with one of his own, citing ‘the country’s porous border’ and the Washington Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the state’s felony possession law in State v. Blake as ‘obvious’ reasons Seattle is drowning in fentanyl pills. ‘It’s less obvious how and why fentanyl is in Seattle? Seriously?’ Rantz rhetorically asked. ‘Girgis and her editors are either shamelessly lying to protect their ideological bias or are so embarrassingly ignorant that it should disqualify the paper from tackling the drug crisis in the future.'”
The Dallas Morning News. “The fentanyl epidemic is a swift, shape-shifting adversary that kills in surges and spikes. For agencies trying to prevent outbreaks, fighting the drug is like battling a dragon in the dark. That’s because they lack a crucial tool: real-time data. Without it, they can’t deploy extra ambulances, police patrols, educational resources or cases of Narcan to head off the worst outbreaks. About 240 fentanyl deaths were recorded in North Texas this year as of June. The Drug Enforcement Administration calls fentanyl the deadliest drug threat in history. It is linked to more deaths of Americans under 50 than anything else.”
The Hill on Texas. “Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching his party affiliation and becoming a Republican, citing disconnects with the Democratic Party on crime policy. Johnson announced the switch in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. It makes Dallas the largest city in the country with a Republican mayor, passing neighboring Fort Worth. In the op-ed, Johnson specifically cites crime and tax policy as reasons for breaking from Democrats. The Dallas mayor’s office is nominally nonpartisan, and Johnson has pushed for major police expansions and other anti-crime measures as mayor. ‘Unfortunately, many of our cities are in disarray. Mayors and other local elected officials have failed to make public safety a priority or to exercise fiscal restraint,’ he continued. ‘Most of these local leaders are proud Democrats who view cities as laboratories for liberalism rather than as havens for opportunity and free enterprise.'”
The Boston Herald in Massachusetts. “A highly-publicized overdose death that occurred in a public housing unit with four children present didn’t really cause much of a stir at the Boston Housing Authority, where management says unresponsive person reports are ‘pretty common.’ The BHA administrator wasn’t notified, beyond being told that it was a ‘lower priority call,’ for what turned out to be a squalid scene that resulted in the death of a transgender person and four children being taken into custody by the state Department of Children and Families.”
KDVR in Colorado. “Some Denver business owners are growing impatient amid what they call an increasing presence of encampments in the downtown area. ‘I don’t think they’re very violent in the daytime, but at nighttime, you hear gunshots,’ Chakra Tattoo owner Maze Garcia told FOX31. Entrepreneur Natasha Butler opened the Little Bodega store near 22nd and Welton streets six months ago. She told FOX31 she has noticed an increase in crime since an encampment appeared across the street. ‘I’ve had people running in and out and just take whatever they want,’ Butler said. Mayor Mike Johnston’s plan is to transition 1,000 people living in encampments to stable housing by the end of the year. ‘It’s doable. I don’t know — how much money are you going to throw at it? And how many of these people are going to be willing to conform?’ Garcia said.”
The Modesto Bee in California. “Several downtown Modesto businesses have had windows or glass doors smashed over the past week, according to police. Two windows also were smashed at the building that houses the Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters and the Public Defender’s Office. The man who smashed two floor-to-ceiling windows at the Subway at 10th and J streets early Friday also entered the restaurant and stole containers of chicken and American cheese, as well as soft drinks and bags of Cheetos, store manager Mandip Bains said. She said the man also nabbed about $12 in change from the cash register. In another incident, a man threw a rock through the glass door of The Chartreuse Muse gallery around 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 16, according to gallery director Kelly Troxler. She said the man was disheveled and shirtless. Troxler said the man grabbed a bar code scanner from the gallery and then threw it down.”
“The other business hit by vandalism was Urbano California Bistro. Urbano owner Noe Sanchez said the front and rear glass doors to his business were smashed, with the rear door smashed twice this week. He said it cost $350 to repair and replace them. That’s $1,050 in total. ‘It’s sad for us,’ he said. ‘We are trying to keep a living. This is a family business.'”
KSWB in California. “San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan has joined efforts to get the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a federal court case out of Oregon that could reshape rules surrounding how cities can address homeless encampments. On Thursday, Stephan’s office submitted a brief as an ‘amicus curiae,’ or ‘friend of the court,’ to support the case City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson, et al. that is angling to be heard by the highest court in the land. The lawsuit, which was brought by three unhoused residents in the small Oregon town of Grants Pass, sought to overturn city ordinances that restricted camping and sleeping in public through fines and other regulations. Last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the homeless plaintiffs, saying in its decision that it was a violation of the Eighth Amendment to punish people for sleeping in public when there is nowhere else for them to go.”
“The decision built on a 2018 precedent set by the Ninth Circuit court in the case of Martin v. City of Boise, which held that the ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ clause of the Eighth Amendment narrowly prevented governments from imposing criminal penalties on homeless individuals ‘for sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property’ if there is no accessible alternative. However, Grants Pass is attempting to get another opinion, filing an appeal last month to get the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case.”
“This comes several days after San Diego city officials also voted 6-2 to join the case during a closed session meeting. The city will be joining Seattle and other metro areas within the Ninth Circuit court jurisdiction in their petition, which has yet to be officially filed. ‘What we’re seeing is a disturbing trend of courts really tying the hands of cities and consequently, limiting our ability to welcome people into the shelter system,’ San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria told FOX 5 after the vote. ‘These kinds of rulings probably only make sense in a courtroom, but not necessarily in real life.'”
The Arizona Republic. “Phoenix has until Nov. 4 to permanently clear its largest homeless encampment, known as ‘The Zone,’ a judge ruled Wednesday afternoon. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott Blaney set the deadline as part of his post-trial decision in Brown v. City of Phoenix, which was filed in August 2022. Residents and business owners near the downtown Phoenix encampment argued it is a public nuisance that subjects their properties to damage, litter and crime, and the city was not doing enough to fix the problem. While the order does not tell the city how to clear The Zone, it requires the removal of all tents and makeshift structures by the deadline and demands public property be kept clean. The Zone surrounds the Human Services Campus at South 12th Avenue and West Madison Street. The campus is home to more than a dozen nonprofits that serve people experiencing homelessness.”
NBC Chicago in Illinois. “Chicago officials have signed a nearly $30 million contract with a private security firm to relocate migrants seeking asylum from police stations and the city’s two airports to winterized camps with massive tents before cold weather arrives, following the lead of New York City’s use of communal tents for migrants. GardaWorld Federal Services and a subsidiary sealed the one-year $29.4 million deal with Chicago on Sept. 12. Some of those questions surround the company’s role in the crisis. GardaWorld is not only contracted to build the tents, but has also been responsible for bussing migrants to the city, a conflict that has raised eyebrows, including those of Ald. Ray Lopez.”
“‘I don’t think we know enough about any of this situation, least of all who we are getting in bed with to address the migrant situation,’ Lopez said. ‘Just finding out that we’re paying the same company responsible for shipping them here, to now be in charge of taking care of them, is like having the fireman both set the fire and extinguish it at the same time.'”
Illinois Radio Network. “Some say there needs to be more transparency when it comes to how Chicago will continue to pay for non-citizen arrivals coming to the Windy City. The city of Chicago projects a budget gap of $538 million for the coming fiscal year. According to NBC Chicago, $200 million of the gap comes from care for nearly 14,000 non-citizen arrivals. The city also projects another $250 million to cover costs till the end of the year. Paul Vallas, who finished second in a runoff election to Mayor Brandon Johnson in April, told The Center Square that there has been no transparency regarding taxpayer funds that have gone to non-citizen care.”
“So far, Chicago and Illinois taxpayers have set aside $94 million for migrant housing. The state budget has $550 million in taxpayer subsidies for the health care of migrants over the age of 65. Taxpayers have also paid another $56 million to Favorite Healthcare Staffing, a Kansas-based company who has been tasked with taking care of the non-citizens. Some of their employees were being paid up to $195 per hour, according to NBC Chicago. Vallas said policymakers need to address immigration policies if they wish to fix this problem. ‘Just because the mayor does not mind that this is being done does not mean the taxpayers should bear the brunt. There needs to be some regulation of interstate commerce,’ Vallas said. ‘This is the trafficking of people, so the federal government’s got to secure the borders and protect the borders to slow this infusion.'”
The Daily Mail. “Asylum seekers in New York City have been raking as much as $3,000 a month working without work permits while living free-of-cost at The Roosevelt Hotel, where they get free food, bedding and even cleaning services. The city is currently paying about $385 a night per migrant family that needs housing and feeding. According to Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, asylum seekers are costing the city roughly $10 million every day. DailyMail.com spoke to asylum seekers outside the Roosevelt on Friday, just hours after several buses arrived, and learned many of the migrants living in the shelter have been working as delivery drivers illegally, using dozens of scooters without plates that have become a common sight outside the iconic location.”
“Melvin Pinto, 30, said the men get the money for the scooters by finding work at places like Home Depot and going house to house offering handymen services. Others have been selling empanadas or umbrellas on the streets. When asked why they decided to come to New York City, Pinto said it was because of the support the city offers migrants. ‘Honestly its because of the support they give us … we don’t have relatives here,’ Pinto said.”
The Associated Press. “Beleaguered by a continuing influx of asylum seekers, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is further tightening shelter rules by limiting adult migrants to just 30 days in city-run facilities — to help ease pressures on the city’s already struggling shelter system and perhaps dissuade more migrants from coming. In May, Adams issued an executive order that unilaterally relaxed the city’s right-to-shelter rules, which is now the subject of a legal battle. Earlier this week, Gov. Kathy Hochul, a fellow Democrat, backed the mayor on the matter, saying in an interview on CNN that the right to shelter was never meant to ‘be an unlimited universal right or obligation on the City to have to house literally the entire world.'”
From Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “New York is hardly alone. Cities across the U.S. are experiencing crises in social services and severe budget shortfalls because of the unprecedented migrant influx. Chicago is facing a $538 million budget shortfall for 2024 with more than a third of that shortfall resulting from the migrant crisis, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. And according to Axios, the city of Denver is in the midst of a budget crisis after spending more than $23 million to provide services to migrants since December, with costs of up to $1,000 per migrant per week.”
“The New York Post recently reported that upwards of 150,000 migrants got notices to appear before immigration judges in July, more than three times the number the Biden administration admits to under its ‘special parole program’ for asylum seekers (a program Congress never authorized in the first place). The Post called the policy a ‘charade,’ and that is precisely correct: 150,000 illegal migrants a month (1.8 million a year) is a rate that no country can sustain.”
“The result of this de facto open border policy has been a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions. As I discovered when I visited the border crossing hotspot of Yuma, Arizona, in early June, we have essentially shopped out our immigration policy to the drug cartels. It isn’t only border communities that have been caught in the crossfire. Civil disorder is encroaching into the interior of the U.S. as destitute migrants flood American cities, overwhelming humanitarian resources.”
Durham Region in Canada. “The Region of Durham is receiving funding from the provincial government to assist with asylum seekers, but Ajax council is calling on the federal government to step up. The provincial government announced on Sept. 18 it’s providing urgent assistance to a rapidly growing number of asylum claimants and other at-risk populations. The province is investing an additional $42 million through the Canada Ontario Housing Benefit (COHB) in 2023 and 24. ‘This is a federal responsibility,’ Ajax Mayor Shaun Collier said at the council meeting. ‘They are approving immigration and I’m happy to have immigration — absolutely — but if they’re going to allow this, we can’t be having our homeless grow by 40 per cent in one day because asylum seekers come here and we can’t house them.'”
“In August, hundreds of asylum seekers found their way to Ajax and ended up spending some time on the street when there was nowhere to house them. Many had immigrated from places such as Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan. Collier said the region still has not received its share of funding from the federal government for the Afghan and Ukrainian refugees that were brought to the area last year.”
CTV News in Canada. “Saskatoon’s community support officers are saying they responded to record numbers of calls over the summer, with services to help those struggling with addictions and mental health issues only dwindling. A report from community support program supervisor Rob Garrison says staff saw a record 367 calls for service in the month of June, and nearly as many in August. According to the report, staff and local businesses are concerned with the widespread level of drug use in their service area. ‘Open drug use is rampant in our patrol areas,’ Garrison wrote. ‘We regularly encounter people consuming drugs either by needle or inhaling. Many of the calls for suspicious persons are regarding people using drugs in doorways and parking lots of businesses and service providers.’ Property owners are frequently left to clean up needles and other paraphernalia, the report said.”
“In response, the Saskatchewan government said it’s spending a ‘record’ amount on mental health and addictions services, including adding more addiction treatment spaces and extending a pilot program for overdose outreach teams. Despite ‘record’ spending from the province, Saskatoon reported a record year for the number of homeless encampments in the city, with 452 identified by the fire department as of Aug. 1.”
CBC News in Canada. “Criticisms are mounting to a plan by New Brunswick Public Safety Minister Kris Austin to force some drug users into treatment against their will, with experts warning it could lead to more overdose deaths if implemented. A group of 10 experts, including physicians, treatment workers and professors, has written an open letter saying forced treatment could lead to vicious withdrawal symptoms and decreased drug tolerance, leading to a higher chance of accidental overdoses once patients are released. They also argue the proposal will alienate users from the health-care system because they’ll fear being forced into treatment, leading to potentially fatal outcomes in emergency accidental overdose situations.”
“In an earlier interview with Austin, CBC News asked what he thought of experts’ criticisms of involuntary treatment. ‘All of these quote unquote experts that seem to think that things like incarceration, and you know, recovery facilities are not effective, what I would say is, you know what we’re doing now is not effective — keeping people on the streets,’ Austin said. ‘I mean, we’re getting overdoses on the streets regularly.'”
From The Star. “We are serial complainers but dare not wish for the coups rocking West Africa. Increased fuel prices. That is the only thing Kenyans are discussing at the moment. And why not, after fuel prices shot up by more than Sh20, crossing the highest threshold of Sh200 per litre! But let us not worry because we are in good company. The Canadians are done with Justin Trudeau so much so they are pleading for him to step down. The housing crisis in Canada has reached its peak and Canadians and immigrants are finding themselves facing harsh economic realities. Meanwhile, JT’s buddy Macron is not having a great time either. The French people barely recognise him as their leader as they eagerly await his D-Day (Departure Day). Elsewhere, Americans are trying hard to hide the fact the country is possibly run by a senile 80-year-old man.”
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‘we have essentially shopped out our immigration policy to the drug cartels’
They are in charge of our burgeoning fentanyl industry too.
‘we have essentially shopped out our immigration policy to the drug cartels’
“They are in charge of our burgeoning fentanyl industry too.”
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– The issue is Constitutional. It’s simple. It’s black and white. There’s no gray area or murkiness. Congress and the President are obligated to support and defend the U.S. Constitution by their oaths of office. Defending the nation’s borders is an obligation under Article 4.
– If either Congress or the President fails in this responsibility, then they should be summarily impeached and removed from office. It’s really that simple.
– It comes down to this. Replacement Theory is treason. Either Congress and the President, as duly elected representatives of the American people (citizens) fulfill their sworn obligation, or throw the bums out. Armed insurrection next. Heads on pikes. The 2nd Amendment is there on purpose. It’s not about hunting or other tangential purposes; it’s about throwing the bums out, and by force, if necessary.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiv
Section 4.
“The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.”
https://www.newsmax.com/stevegruber/caravan-immigration-constitution/2018/12/03/id/892969/
OPINION
Border Security Is Required by the US Constitution
By Steve Gruber Monday, 03 December 2018 03:38 PM EST
From where I stand in the nation’s heartland, what we are seeing at the southern border is by definition an invasion. When thousands of people are marching on the border waving flags of other countries and attacking those protecting our border — what else would you call it? When they are demanding entry and show a complete lack of respect for our laws and those enforcing them, what would you call it?
This may not be what the Framers envisioned and it might. It is perfectly clear to me that those rushing the border are not doing so to be Americans but are trying to run over Americans in pursuit of something they believe they are entitled to.
I however am entitled to the protections spelled out in the Constitution and I demand those in Congress obey their oath to uphold and defend our founding documents. They are required to do so. Any failure to secure our border would be an actual Constitutional Crisis but don’t expect NBC or CNN to talk about it anytime soon.
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https://oaths.us/senate-oath-of-office/
Senate and House of Representatives Oath of Office
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
https://oaths.us/presidential-oath-of-office/
Presidential Oath of Office
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
– Have a nice day, while you still can.
Serious question; If these shitbags can petition the courts for unlimited gimmedats why aren’t we demanding an end to income taxes?
like um DUH gee whizzzz: Additionally, Martens said, the agency learned that “there are challenges in having an administrative agency run direct service” instead of contracting nonprofit partners to do the work, the standard approach in King County. With Partnership for Zero, the KCRHA was essentially running a parallel service system that duplicated, and in some ways competed with, the existing system of nonprofit providers that already do similar work; REACH, for example, lost a number of skilled outreach workers to better-paying positions as systems advocates.
https://publicola.com/2023/09/19/partnership-for-zero-the-homelessness-authoritys-marquee-plan-to-end-homelessness-downtown-will-end-after-housing-230-people/
That’s mostly due to the county’s unprecedented influx of public funding meant to address homelessness – and its challenges getting those dollars out the door, OPB reported.”
Compassion, Inc. is a lucrative patronage & graft racket for the Democrat-Bolsheviks, who have zero incentive to address the root causes of homelessness and addiction.
With Larry Fink swoooping in to buy up all the depressed RE assets.
“The city is currently paying about $385 a night per migrant family that needs housing and feeding.”
$385*30 = $11,550
$385*365 = $140,625
Who pays $385 a night for their accommodations? For less money, you could rent a nice house in San Diego and dine out at nice restaurants for all meals.
You wouldn’t have a professional manager on payroll.
Welcome to the advent of The Homeless Industrial Complex, which joins the Health(s)care Industrial Complex. The entire country will essentially be built upon graft taking advantage of the misfortune of others.
Ayn Rand pretty much nailed it.
The agency said that the shut down of the Partnership for Zero program will result in layoffs soon.”
Learn to code, Comrades.
‘While open air drug markets — like the area around Third and Pine — are traditionally thought of as dealers’ playgrounds, DEA special agent Galvan said every distributor mastered social media use after the pandemic,’ Girgis wrote.”
The true cost of scamdemic lock-downs are going to be incalculable.
and New Orleans is running slap out of Fresh water,my first thought was ,what if those “hordes” ,head inland , what’s going to become of them ? All Dems , no doubt , we don’t need them around…
Without it, they can’t deploy extra ambulances, police patrols, educational resources or cases of Narcan to head off the worst outbreaks.
Here’s an idea: Dealers trafficking in synthetic opioids or meth go directly in front of special tribunals, where they are tried, sentenced, and executed on the same day. Ditto for those involved in “gun violence.”
“gun violence” ya ever notice nary a single word on cracking down on carrying an illegal gun and massive increases in penalties for using in a crime?
Nah that would be the “R” attack dog word to the Crump&Sharpton syndicate.
Dealers trafficking in synthetic opioids or meth go directly in front of special tribunals, where they are tried, sentenced, and executed on the same day.
Yeah. Or we could just not buy the stuff.
The Seattle City Council on Tuesday adopted a controlled substance law after rejecting it earlier this summer, making the possession and public use of drugs such as fentanyl a gross misdemeanor.
The council voted to approve the measure by a 6-3 vote on Tuesday, aligning the city’s code with a new state law.
The ordinance allows the city’s police officers to arrest people for using drugs in public when they deem the person a threat to others. The measure also emphasizes outreach, health treatment programs and other alternatives to arrest.
“This is not a perfect bill, but it’s time to get this done because every day we (don’t) there are people that die,” said Councilmember Sara Nelson, who had pushed for the bill.
https://mynorthwest.com/3932052/seattle-city-council-oks-law-to-prosecute-for-having-and-using-drugs-such-as-fentanyl-in-public/
An initiative to end homelessness in downtown Seattle has come to an end.
The goal was to get nearly everyone who was homeless downtown into housing within a year.
The King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) announced Tuesday it’s winding down its ‘Partnership for Zero’ initiative because of a loss of funding.
The program has faced funding issues from the start.
The city council denied it funds to get it off the ground. So last year, Amazon, the Ballmer Group, Microsoft, and Starbucks donated a combined $10 million to the program.
The Homelessness Authority said the initial grant funding for the project has now expired. Nearly 40 workers are now facing layoffs.
https://news.yahoo.com/initiative-end-homelessness-seattle-ends-033052581.html
40 workers are now facing layoffs
Think of what they could have done with $20 million.
ummmmm the same 40 “workers’ would have gotten paid double? (and accomplished the same big nothing burger)
or 80 workers would have gotten paid (and also accomplished nothing)
(This joke has two parts: First he set up, then the punch line.)
(Part 1. The set up …)
“An initiative to end homelessness in downtown Seattle has come to an end.”
(Followed by moderate laughter.)
(Part 2. The punch line …)
“The goal was to get nearly everyone who was homeless downtown into housing within a year.”
(This part is to be followed by endless hysterical knee-slapping guffaws.)
Listen if you just give me one more night of housing I will totally stop using heroine. Promise.
Richard Sanchez needed a new home where his drag-show wigs and outfits could comfortably fit without being jammed together, a place where he felt safe and settled. Gary Allenby needed to stay in the apartment where he’s been building a cozy universe of familiarity with neighborhood shops and a feeling of security since 1985.
Neither could afford to do that on their own — they are in their 60s, and their fixed incomes were rapidly being outstripped by the ever-growing costs of living in San Francisco. They didn’t know how to fix that, and if they lost their housing, they just might wind up homeless — or at least not being able to live in the city they revere.
That’s where a promising program being expanded by the city came to the rescue.
As part of a growing push to prevent folks from losing their housing, the city has contracted with the nonprofit Home Match to connect people who have places to live but are in danger of being priced out. In San Francisco, those folks are increasingly older people — and, in particular, LGBTQ people like Sanchez and Allenby.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/bay-area-housing-crisis-sf-plays-roommate-matchmaker-to-prevent-homelessness/ar-AA1h6nM6
“Richard Sanchez needed a new home where his drag-show wigs and outfits could comfortably fit without being jammed together, a place where he felt safe and settled. Gary Allenby needed to stay in the apartment where he’s been building a cozy universe of familiarity with neighborhood shops and a feeling of security since 1985.”
These losers expect the democrats’ “Cloak of Comfort.”
SAN DIEGO — In response to the recent large releases of migrants across the border, a church in the South Bay is stepping up to house people in need while shelters are largely overwhelmed.
The church pastors at Iglesia Cristiana Getsemani started out helping at the shelters in Tijuana and for the last five years they’ve been helping those who have been processed and come across the border within their church walls.
“We are a small church, a very small church, but we have committed people,” Pastor Bobby Wilson said.
The Getsemani church is used to helping about 10 to 20 migrants a day, but Pastors Bobby and Jackie Wilson say the last two weeks have been overwhelming.
“The amount, it’s been like triple. We’ve been helping 50 to 60 people per day,” Jackie said.
“We prepare food for them, they could take a hot shower, we give a change of clothes, we allow them to use our phones so they can contact their family. Once their family knows they are here they start booking their flights,” Jackie said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/south-bay-church-helping-to-house-migrants/ar-AA1h8g2H
California officials are turning against the state’s homeless population in a series of lawsuits that are urging the courts to weigh in on the homelessness crisis.
Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho, the top prosecutor of California’s capital, sued the city on Tuesday for allegedly failing to enforce local laws that have allowed the homeless population to result in Sacramento “collaps[ing] into chaos.”
“We have an erosion of everyday life,” Ho said during a press conference announcing the suit, which was filed alongside companion lawsuits from local residents and business owners. “We forget what it feels like to be safe and that brings us to this lawsuit…We need to get people off the streets.”
The issue of escalating homelessness has reached a breaking point in California, which has the largest homeless population in the United States. Estimates suggest that roughly a third to nearly half of the nation’s unhoused people live in the Golden State.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-turns-on-its-homeless-population/ar-AA1h3JkH
No issue divides the solidly liberal consensus in California quite like homelessness.
The Golden State, home to some of America’s most progressive politics – and its biggest housing inequalities – has been coming apart at the seams over how to address homeless encampments, with major cities locked in contentious legal fights about the limits of their authority to address the problem. All told, California is home to nearly a third of the total US population of unhoused people.
As a federal appeals judge recently wrote, “Homelessness is presently the defining public health and safety crisis in the western United States.”
And a feature defining that crisis has been legal conflict, sometimes between leaders of the same cities.
“No local government in the Sacramento region has done more to address the crisis on our streets: 1,200 new emergency beds, ordinances to protect sidewalks, schools and other sensitive sites; a legally binding partnership with the county; thousands of new affordable housing units – to name a few,” mayor Darrell Steinberg wrote in a statement after the lawsuit was filed.
“The frustration that members of our community feel is absolutely justified,” he added. “The Council has endorsed and is pressing for strong enforcement of our codes and the law. But the DA’s lawsuit will not clear a single sidewalk nor get a single person off the streets.”
The legal action paints a lurid picture of the at least 16 encampments in the city, describing a city in panic, with unhoused people strewing hypodermic needles on youth soccer fields and fire deparatments training to handle blazes sparked by outdoor cooking fires.
https://sg.style.yahoo.com/why-california-cities-suing-themselves-185340392.html
‘strewing hypodermic needles on youth soccer fields’
How is that not child endangerment?
Another San Francisco neighborhood is on the brink of desperation when it comes to the unhoused and issues that arise from the community. They say they have now found a way to alleviate some of the problems for now.
There was a fire that happened on Central and Fell in July. It left a tent in pieces and torched a nearby car in the North of the Panhandle neighborhood or NoPa in San Francisco.
Shortly after, residents rallied together to raise about $15,000 to dress the now melted scene with planter boxes.
“I just want to sleep at night. I’m tired of the fighting and the screaming,” said NoPa resident Julia, who didn’t want to show her face.”
Julia lives nearby and said in the last six months, she has also been threatened by some of the unhoused. “A new group of people have come in and they’re very just lawless for lack of a better description,” she said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/san-franciscos-nopa-residents-place-planter-boxes-hoping-it-will-defer-the-unhoused/ar-AA1h2eD7
LOS ANGELES – In 2016, California adopted the Housing First policy for all its housing programs. It was created to help people experiencing homelessness by getting them into housing and later providing the services they need.
It sounds like a great idea, but the people who live in complexes where Housing First is applied say that the policy is ruining their quality of life.
Tenants at the Gower Street Apartments contacted FOX 11 to express their concerns.
“Housing First is a joke. They’re taking chronically homeless people. Many of them have absolutely no clue how to live inside. They’re not being mandated services, and they’re moving into permanent supportive housing,” said Pamela Crenshaw, a tenant.
“With the Housing First Act, they want to house people but they don’t drug test them. They don’t have a psych evaluation, and they just move them in for profit,” said another tenant, who asked us to protect his identity.
Gower Street Apartments is owned by the nonprofit, A Community of Friends, or ACOF. Its mission is to end homelessness by offering permanent housing to people with mental illness.
https://www.foxla.com/news/incumbent-la-tenants-complain-of-noise-mold-left-by-formerly-homeless-neighbors-brought-in-by-housing-first
Sacramento’s top prosecutor is suing the city’s leaders over failure to cleanup homeless encampments, escalating a monthslong dispute with leaders in California’s capital city.
County District Attorney Thien Ho announced the lawsuit Tuesday during a news conference in Sacramento, noting the homeless population in the city has jumped 250% in the last seven years. A group of residents and business owners also filed a companion lawsuit against the city.
Ho said the city is seeing a “collapse into chaos” and an “erosion of everyday life.” Courthouse workers have been harassed and assaulted downtown, and residents and businesses have to deal with drug users and property break-ins, while calls for help to city officials went unanswered, the lawsuit said.
“It’s not compassionate to allow unsafe conditions to fester so badly that a 14-year-old boy cannot ride his bike to school or a group of little girls can’t play soccer on a field littered with needles,” the lawsuit said. “It’s not compassionate when someone in a wheelchair cannot use a sidewalk blocked by tents or a small business is forced to close forever due to repeated broken windows and vandalism.”
Sacramento County had nearly 9,300 homeless people in 2022, based on data from the annual Point in Time count. That was up 67% from 2019. Roughly three-quarters of the county’s homeless population is unsheltered, and the majority of that group are living on Sacramento streets.
https://mynorthwest.com/3931854/sacramento-prosecutor-sues-californias-capital-city-over-failure-to-clean-up-homeless-encampments/
Prince George business owners fed up with safer drug supply policy
Shawn Smeds won’t be sorry to see the Millennium Park encampment at First Avenue and George Street being closed down permanently. Smeds and his wife own and operate S&S Doors and More at 1191 First Avenue, less than two blocks west of the homeless camp, and for nearly a year he’s watched his downtown Prince George neighbourhood deteriorate to the point where he sometimes dreads what a new day will bring to his retail business.
He’s all in favour of seeing the camp dismantled. He considers it an eyesore and an accident waiting to happen, but he says it won’t cure what ails the downtown core.
He says drug use is the root of the social ills plaguing our city and until the provincial and local governments find a way to deal with that issue to provide the housing and counselling services needed to wean people off drugs, nothing will change.
Smeds and his wife own and operate S&S Doors and More at 1191 First Avenue, less than two blocks west of the homeless camp, and for nearly a year he’s watched his downtown Prince George neighbourhood deteriorate to the point where he sometimes dreads what a new day will bring to his retail business.
He’s all in favour of seeing the camp dismantled. He considers it an eyesore and an accident waiting to happen, but he says it won’t cure what ails the downtown core.
“There’s plenty of places for them to go and plenty of help for them, but with the exception of this (ASAP) establishment next door, everybody needs to be clean,” said Smeds. “We need to stop supporting people’s drug habits or creating new drug habits and give people the help they need rather than just throw more garbage at them.
“I think giving them free drugs was the stupidest thing this government has ever done. If we’re supplying them, supply them only inside one designated building with doctors or nurses there to deal with a potential overdose.”
To try to prevent overdose deaths that kill an average five British Columbians every day, the province introduced a three-year safer supply pilot project in January. The harm reduction program provides regulated versions of some criminalized drugs such as prescription-grade heroin and fentanyl patches and has decriminalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs. By late June, 4,619 people were accessing the province’s safer supply of drugs.
But Smeds says the lack of safe injection sites available to drug users 24/7 has brought the BC drug experiment out into the open and downtown businesses owners are fed up with having people on their doorsteps shooting up or smoking drugs or using their parking lots as outdoor toilets.
Smeds has had the front doors of his store broken twice, the first which cost $1,000 to fix. Then again this summer, after he asked a group to stop smoking crack right outside his door, one of them kicked it and broke the glass, which cost another $600 to repair.
On Aug. 7, someone chipped away the stucco on the exterior of his building to expose the insulation and wood underneath, set it on fire and walked away. The fire smoldered for about 90 minutes before it was discovered and the fire department was dispatched and Smeds said they were “insanely lucky” the old wooden building was not destroyed. Video surveillance from the ASAP shelter caught the man in the act but Smeds said he thinks RCMP did not retrieve the clip as evidence and as far as he knows no arrest was made.
Smeds and his wife Shayle regularly walk around their property and are forced to pick up intravenous needles and crack pipes left by drug users. They find an average five or six needles each week. Often the needles are not used and they wonder why the Needle Exchange at 277 George St., gives out needles to clients as freely as it does.
The Smeds opened their shop in February 2022 after Shawn worked 26 years in the hardware retail sector in the city and he’s never seen the problems of downtown in a worse state.
“I had a customer come in the a few weeks ago who said she was scared to get out of her car, just because of where we are,” said Shawn. “Most of the people aren’t aggressive and then there are the ones who smash my window and smash my doors and light the building on fire.”
The Smeds have seen intoxicated people from Millennium Park stagger into oncoming traffic on First Avenue and they won’t miss seeing fire trucks and ambulances arrive there at least every second day. Shayle says she’s nervous about the possible negative repercussions of the camp being dismantled.
“I feel like they’re going to venture out and we’re going to have more people in the parking lots by the garbage cans because they have no place to go,” she said.
https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/prince-george-business-owners-fed-up-with-safer-drug-supply-policy-7524719
This whole thread, homeless, fentanyl, Mexican cartels, open borders, I swear the government is doing all of this on purpose.
Never mind voting, it’s bigger than that. It’s all too coordinated and deliberate.
“I swear the government is doing all of this on purpose.”
Obama’s buddy Bill Ayers and company have been working on this for decades.
They want the country to collapse
They’ve lost. Notice we don’t see the hairy perverts in dresses doing lap dances for little children? Big city mayors and guvnahs begging for the border to be closed. The worst offenders have seen their economies collapse. Globalist scum are being rolled back politically all over europistan. Now even Germany has slammed the door shut as their eco-facism has gutted the economy. Xitler is on the ropes, black faced hitler in K-da is toast and hated by almost everyone. Minor respiratory illness has been exposed. And the globalist scum media is realizing the senile corrupt pedophile didn’t have 81 million voters, he had 81 million ballots.
I truly hope you are right.
“I truly hope you are right.”
+1
But the damage is done. The immigrants are here, they will get amnesty and they’ll all vote Democrat for 70 years just like they did from 1930-1994 when all the 1880-1914 immigration waves voted democrats to control the US House by wide margins for 60+ years
(So sorry, but this post is not related in any way to housing.)
Seymour Hersh On The Mainstream’s Ukraine Narrative Shift
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/seymour-hersh-mainstreams-ukraine-narrative-shift
Hersh in his Thursday Substack report cited an unnamed intelligence source who “spent the early years of his career working against Soviet aggression and spying.” That source said that despite some continued and recent attempts to paint the Ukraine counteroffensive as making slow but steady progress, the truth is the opposite.
“It’s all lies,” the source told Hersh. “The war is over. Russia has won. There is no Ukrainian offensive anymore, but the White House and the American media have to keep the lie going.”
“The truth is if the Ukrainian army is ordered to continue the offensive, the army would mutiny. The soldiers aren’t willing to die any more, but this doesn’t fit the B.S. that is being authored by the Biden White House,” the intelligence source explained.
Putin has beaten the neocons/globalist scum. While we can’t find a 100M jet (which is a lemon) Russians are blowing up multi-million$ tanks with $11k lancets as fast as they show up. The Russian troops now assemble the little drones in the field picking off anything that moves. Putin’s gamble a few months ago worked. He pulled back to defense lines he chose, dug in and mined everything. One must have superior numbers and strength to make an offensive against that and ukrops never had the numbers and never will. Lots of dead ukrop natzees. The Russian people never wavered. It’s a beautiful thing.
Ukrainian men are paying thousands of dollars for medical exemptions.
Russian troops have also gained practical experience with this war.
Clutch those pearls harder, globalist scum.
Washington Post — Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks (9/23/2023):
“An escalating campaign, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans, has cast a pall over programs that study political disinformation and the quality of medical information online.
Academics, universities and government agencies are overhauling or ending research programs designed to counter the spread of online misinformation amid a legal campaign from conservative politicians and activists who accuse them of colluding with tech companies to censor right-wing views.
Facing litigation, Stanford University officials are discussing how they can continue tracking election-related misinformation through the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a prominent consortium that flagged social media conspiracies about voting in 2020 and 2022, several participants told The Washington Post. The coalition of disinformation researchers may shrink and also may stop communicating with X and Facebook about their findings.”
https://archive.ph/Cj4y2
Did you know:
The 2020 election was stolen.
Covid vaccines are poison.
There are only two genders.
Russia is winning.
And on the subject of your phony “misinformation” has anybody heard from Yoel Roth lately?
Yoel likes underage boys. He wrote about it in his PhD dissertation.
Before the Bell
Defeating inflation without higher unemployment is still unlikely
Analysis by Bryan Mena, CNN
Published 7:03 AM EDT, Sun September 24, 2023
Blanchflower: I see bad signs for the U.S. economy
02:39 – Source: CNN
Washington, DC CNN —
US inflation is now much slower than last summer’s red-hot pace, but it’s not guaranteed it will drift all the way down to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target without a sharp rise in unemployment. That possibility remains unlikely.
Defeating inflation without throwing millions of Americans out of work — a scenario known as a “soft landing” — has always been the Fed’s “primary objective,” according to Fed Chair Jerome Powell last week. And the US economy’s surprising resilience, despite 11 rate hikes, has raised hopes of a soft landing becoming a reality.
But there are many uncertainties and economic headwinds on the horizon, including banks toughening their lending standards and the resumption of student loan payments only a few weeks away. Even Powell himself expressed some skepticism when describing the likelihood of a soft landing during his remarks Wednesday after Fed officials voted to hold interest rates steady at a 22-year high.
“I’ve always thought that the soft landing was a plausible outcome, that there was a path to a soft landing,” he said. “Ultimately, this may be decided by factors that are outside of our control.”
Shortly after Powell’s comments, markets tumbled and Powell tried to remedy his dubious tone by stressing it’s still a goal and something the Fed has “been trying to achieve for all of this time.”
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/24/economy/stocks-week-ahead-soft-landing-unlikely/index.html
“But there are many uncertainties and economic headwinds on the horizon, including banks toughening their lending standards and the resumption of student loan payments only a few weeks away. Even Powell himself expressed some skepticism when describing the likelihood of a soft landing during his remarks Wednesday after Fed officials voted to hold interest rates steady at a 22-year high.”
The American consumer is tapped-out, an economic version of the Bataan Death March. Yet these professional economists, so completely disengaged from reality, still get together in places like Jackson Hole or Hawaii and chat-up a Soft Landing.
The evidence is overwhelming that private party monopoly corporations, Banks, Rich Elites, etc. ,inflitrated and captured global governments, education institutions , medical system , media, you name it.
You get the WEF and guys like Bill Gates and the corrupt United Nations telling us what world policy should be .
Bill Gates just came out with words to effect that “Brute force climate change policies arent going to work.” Now he is saying technology driven solutions should be employed, whatever that means. Course Klaus Schwab said ” who controls technology controls the world.”
I think the Globalists got some push back to the eat bugs, own nothing, enslaved and deprived humans narrative.
Make no mistake that their end game objective of a One World dictorship is the intent.
The Globalists fraudulent narratives of Climate Change doomsday and safe and effective vaccines is crumbling.
Firstly, what is the check and balance on unelected money powers taking over .
Why do we have some rich guy like Bill Gate dictating Climate Change policy and forced vaccines.
What is the check and balance against a unelected psychopath rich guy, or monopoly corporations and banks, dictating world policy? So just because Gates donates to WHO, or he donated to PCR testing, or invested in vaccines, or radical climate change solutions, or media bribery, etc ,in collusion with WEF/WHO, that guy dictates policy, or the crazy WEF does.
The Climate Change Doomsday is a fraud, and fake poison expiermental vaccines is a hideous fraud and hideous crime.
These fraudulent power mongers are trying to cover up the massive crimes that have been committed, and response to push back on Climate Change by saying more lies.
This enemy must be held accountable, and not be allowed to proceed to plan, B, C or D, that leads to their end game goals.
They have shown their true colors, which is horrific and evil and genocidal.
Canada’s Housing Bubble Crisis: Top Lawyer’s Eye-Opening Talk
Honest real estate talk 🇨🇦
21 hours ago
Top real estate lawyer Mark Morris gives his opinions on what’s currently happening in the real estate market and what we should expect.
Some of the real estate topics discussed:
1. Condo assignment deals
2. The million immigrant buyers that were supposed to save the real estate industry
3. How many deals are falling apart
4. Speculator buyers and their impact on the housing market
5. Mortgage renewals coming up and if we should expect a lot of home listings to come to the market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mkAypTV8mQ
26:42.
🇩🇪 GERMANY WARNS THE WORLD ABOUT INVADERS⚠️
https://www.bitchute.com/video/JSEXxGIAvEsa/
2 minutes.
Unlike the cuck U.S., at least they’re talking about it. How far off is the final solution?
Klaus Schwab should be disemboweled on live tv, broadcast the world over.
I don’t know how you will accomplish this, but it will give you a place in history, of a sort.
Are you in training, with mice and squirrels perhaps?
The French Revolution would have never happened if all people were as scared as you.
Nor if as amused by false bravado as me.
Nor if as amused by false bravado as me.
You are an old man, and a fool at that.
A tale of two transanity protests: can you guess which side was crazed and unhinged?
Rebel News
If the goal of the ‘1 Million March 4 Children’ counter-protesters was to come off as a bunch of weirdos wearing trouble on their shirts — mission accomplished!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/JKEnwu9nOoc/
30 minutes.
(This is rich …)
Kerry Acknowledges Need For Nuclear Power As Climate Diplomacy Dominates New York City
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kerry-acknowledges-need-nuclear-power-climate-diplomacy-dominates-new-york-city
While addressing an Atlantic Council meeting on nuclear energy, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry made it clear he doesn’t think wind and solar alone will be sufficient to meet global energy needs while achieving policy plans to rapidly scale back the use of hydrocarbons in the name of addressing climate change risks as outlined by the United Nations.
“You will have to have some component of nuclear—yet to be determined how big or where it’ll go. That’s going to be a market-based reaction,” said Mr. Kerry, who served as a Democratic senator from Massachusetts before serving as Secretary of State under former President Barack Obama.
The 2004 Democratic candidate for president said that “most scientists will tell you” the goal of Net Zero 2050 cannot be achieved “unless we have a pot, a mixture of energy approaches.”
“Clearly, we’re going to need nuclear to be a part of that,” he said on Monday.
Mr. Kerry’s pro-nuclear remarks come as climate-related diplomacy and other climate-themed events overtake New York City.
Over the weekend, protesters demonstrated against fossil fuels in the streets of New York City, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.) among the participants.
A U.N. statement on the event states it “will showcase leaders who are ‘first movers and doers’ from government, business, finance, local authorities, and civil society who have credible actions, policies and plans to keep the 1.5°C degree goal of the Paris Agreement alive and deliver climate justice to those on the front lines of the climate crisis.”
The Climate Ambition Summit comes ahead of the next annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, which will begin in late November. It’s taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Even as he praised climate protesters, Mr. Kerry noted that a previous generation of environmental activists had fought hard against nuclear power, now seen as a pragmatic solution by many climate hawks.
“In my state of Massachusetts, where there was a huge fight over Seabrook Nuclear Plant in New Hampshire, we now happily get about 20 percent of all our energy from Seabrook, and nobody’s complaining—maybe about the prices a little bit, because that’s normal in today’s world,” he said.
“The United States is now therefore committed, based on experience and based on reality, to trying to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy, as part of the Biden program,” he added.
The diplomat, who came under fire from Republicans earlier this summer for his unwillingness to share details of his staff at a Congressional hearing, commented positively on Bill Gates’ TerraPower, which plans to build the next-generation Natrium nuclear reactor in Wyoming.
He also drew attention to his recent trip to Romania, where he visited a control room simulator for a small modular reactor developed by the American firm NuScale.
Mr. Kerry took issue with the continued construction of unabated coal-fired power plants and with the existence of subsidies for fossil fuels.
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) study identified $1.3 trillion in “explicit” subsidies for fossil fuels in 2022, a stark increase from $500 billion in 2020. Such subsidies are ascribed to fossil fuel prices when they are lower than they would otherwise be if producers fully bore supply costs. The IMF authors attributed a substantial proportion of the increase to “temporary price support measures,” in line with surging fossil fuel prices during that period.
Whitehouse Touts ADVANCE Act
Mr. Kerry wasn’t the only high-level Democratic politician who addressed the Atlanticist forum on Monday.
In pre-recorded remarks, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) touted the bipartisan, nuclear power-related ADVANCE Act, which passed the Senate as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in July. The bill has not moved ahead in the House.
“Our legislation would strengthen the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s ability to safely and efficiently review the expected influx of applications and prepare them to license HALEU [high-assay low-enriched uranium] fuels,” the lawmaker said.
Russia currently dominates the production of HALEU fuels, which are key for most next-generation nuclear reactors. Uncertainty about Russian supplies of HALEU has been a worry for TerraPower and a central motivation for the Nuclear Fuel Security Act, another successful NDAA amendment.
“We spend nearly $1 billion each year on Russian uranium. Russia uses these revenues to fund its invasion of Ukraine,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said in the Senate as the measure was under consideration.
(Clink on the link for the rest of the article.)
‘The Climate Ambition Summit comes ahead of the next annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, which will begin in late November. It’s taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates’
They’ll all fly there of course.
‘Even as he praised climate protesters, Mr. Kerry noted that a previous generation of environmental activists had fought hard against nuclear power, now seen as a pragmatic solution by many climate hawks’
Eco fascists flip flop – again?
I wonder how many of those counter protestors were paid to show up and counter protest.
Just a bunch of college aged brainwashed useful dumb asses, that don’t even have children, saying F you all the time.
This transgender nonsense must be some kind of a diversion ,to divert from even worse assaults these masterminds are committing, not that the assault on minors isn’t really bad.
So, its about time for Covid madness again , rigging the election, destroying more small business, masks, vaccines and lockdowns over the new Covid scary variant, lets roll out the mass testing again.
Its so predictable.
‘ Taxpayers have also paid another $56 million to Favorite Healthcare Staffing, a Kansas-based company who has been tasked with taking care of the non-citizens. Some of their employees were being paid up to $195 per hour, according to NBC Chicago’
Nice work if you can get it:
Well I don’t mind working
Cause I used to be jerking off
Most of my time in the the bars
I been a cabby and a stock clerk
And a soda fountain jock jerk
And a manic mechanic on cars
It’s nice work if you can get it
Now who the hell said it
I got money to spend on my girl
But the work never stops
And I’ll be busting my chops
Working for Joe & Sal
And I can’t wait to get off work
And see my baby
She said she’d leave the porch lite
On for me
I’m disheveled I’m disdainful
I’m distracted and it’s painful
But this job sweeping up here is
Gainfully employing me tonight
Tom do this Tom do that
Tom don’t do that
Count the cash clean the oven
Dump the trash oh your lovin
Is a rare and a copasetic gift
I’m a moonlight watchmanic
It’s hard to be romantic
(sweeping up over by the
Cigarette machine
Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine)
https://genius.com/Tom-waits-i-cant-wait-to-get-off-work-lyrics
Zelensky and Trudeau Give Soldier Who Reportedly Fought for Nazi Germany a Standing Ovation
KURT ZINDULKA
24 Sep 2023
The Canadian parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have been reported to have given a standing ovation to a reported former member of a Nazi military division.
Following addresses to the parliament in Ottowa on Friday from both Trudeau and Zelensky, the Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota prompted a standing ovation as he honoured a “veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/09/24/zelensky-and-trudeau-give-soldier-who-reportedly-fought-for-nazi-germany-a-standing-ovation/
I sadly doubt this stark example will open the eyes of the masses to the globalists’ art of projection.
I’m generally not a Joe Rogan fan, but my jaw dropped during this interview.
Joe Rogan | The Harsh Truths of Operation Paperclip (NASA & Nazi’s) w/Annie Jacobsen (33m46s)
Elon Musk Says San Francisco Lawmaker Should Be Fired
Finance Hat
3 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3sTKUXjC7E
8:42.
Elon Musk Says
He’s a WEF puppet. He danced on stage like a monkey for the CCP.
Sweden never locked down. Here’s what happened
1 day ago
“Sweden is the outlier,” says Johan Norberg, senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Watch the full replay of Norberg’s conversation with Reason’s Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiAOeDoZY4
13 minutes.
Central Banking Cartels sho dun creates one hell of a mess. Now watch a bird emerge from under the water of the ocean with its prey in its talons, imagine that level of determination:
https://gab.com/Grumpy_Hoosier/posts/111121228619211424#46befvzzhls
Is it safe to conclude that property developer Evergrande’s, as well as China’s, economic woes are over, and the only direction going forward is up?
Financial Times
Updated 2 hours ago
Live news: Evergrande shares dive nearly 20% after group says it is unable to issue new debt
William Langley and Gloria Li in Hong Kong
Evergrande shares fell 19.1 per cent on Monday, after the company said it was unable to issue new debt as the result of an investigation into one of its subsidiaries.
The property developer cannot “meet the qualifications for the issuance of new notes”, as its principal subsidiary, Hengda Real Estate Group, is being investigated, it said in a Hong Kong stock exchange filing on Sunday.
Hengda Real Estate said in August that it was being probed by the China Securities Regulatory Commission for a suspected breach of information disclosure rules.
The announcement comes two days after Evergrande cancelled creditor meetings scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, citing weaker-than-expected sales and the need to reassess its restructuring terms.
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Financial Times
Chinese business & finance
Senior Nomura banker barred from leaving mainland China
Exit ban on Charles Wang Zhonghe will send chill through foreign business circles
Hong Kong-based banker Charles Wang Zhonghe in Beijing in 2010
Veteran Hong Kong-based banker Charles Wang Zhonghe in 2010. A social media post by Wang on September 13 said he was on a trip to China’s western Qinghai province
Joe Leahy in Beijing, Leo Lewis in Tokyo and Cheng Leng and Kaye Wiggins in Hong Kong 4 hours ago
A senior Nomura banker has been banned from leaving mainland China, a move connected to a long-running investigation into the country’s top tech dealmaker Bao Fan, according to people familiar with the matter.
The restrictions on Charles Wang Zhonghe, chair of investment banking for China at the Hong Kong arm of Japanese bank Nomura International, only applied to travel outside mainland China and he was not in detention, one person familiar with the matter said.
But the exit ban on a veteran Hong Kong-based banker of Wang’s standing will send a chill through China’s overseas business community, where foreign chamber of commerce surveys indicate investor confidence is already low.
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Financial Times
China Renaissance
Disappearance of dealmaker Bao Fan casts chill across China’s tech sector
Fate of China Renaissance banker seen as test of Beijing’s stance after regulatory crackdown
Bao Fan launched China Renaissance in 2005 to capitalise on the fast-growing tech industry
Thomas Hale in Shanghai, Ryan McMorrow and Kai Waluszewski in Beijing February 19 2023
In May 2021, a group of Chinese banks agreed to lend $300mn to investment bank China Renaissance with a condition: if Bao Fan, the company’s well-known founder, ceased to be its largest shareholder or was no longer chair of the board they could demand early repayment.
Nearly two years later, lawyers may soon be poring over that clause. The disappearance of Bao last week, announced in a company filing, has set on edge the country’s vast tech industry that the dealmaker helped to build.
The fate of Bao and his company, which has for years been at the heart of financing Chinese tech, is a pivotal test of Beijing’s stance on the industry. A two-year government crackdown has already sidelined Alibaba chief Jack Ma, decimated the vast for-profit education industry and hit investments globally.
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Yahoo
Bloomberg
Asia Stocks Fall on China Weakness, Crude Rallies: Markets Wrap
Richard Henderson
Sun, September 24, 2023 at 9:37 PM PDT·4 min read
In this article:
Asia Stocks Fall on China Weakness, Crude Rallies: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — Chinese stocks were among the hardest hit across broadly lower equity markets in Asia on Monday in a further sign of cautious sentiment. Treasuries crept lower and oil gained for a second day.
Equity benchmarks in mainland China and Hong Kong fell with the Hang Seng index tumbling as much as 1.6%. A Bloomberg Intelligence index of Chinese property developers dropped as much as 6.4%, heading for its worst session in nine months.
The decline for Chinese developers follows news on Friday that China Evergrande Group had canceled a creditor meeting slated to begin Monday. Fresh strains for developers appeared to overcome pockets of optimism Friday, when an index of US-listed Chinese companies was bolstered by news Washington and Beijing were forming working groups to discuss economic and financial issues.
Shares also dropped in Australia and South Korea. A region-wide equity gauge fell for the fifth time in six days. Japanese equities and US stock futures both gained. Oil climbed as hedge funds piled on bets tightening supplies will see a resumption of the rally after a pause last week.
Stock losses in Asia followed a 0.2% decline for the S&P 500 on Friday to cap its worst week since March. Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 0.4% Monday after the underlying gauge ended little changed Friday, supported by gains in Apple Inc. as its latest iPhones and watches went on sale.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/asian-stocks-set-cautious-open-221939921.html
Don’t look now, but the 30-year mortgage rate is on the brink of crossing the 8% Rubicon.
Personal Finance News
Mortgage Rates
Mortgage Rates Rise Across the Board, Setting New Record for 30-Year Average
By Sabrina Karl
Published September 22, 2023
More than reversing a notable two-day drop, rates on 30-year mortgages roared back Thursday, surging almost a quarter percentage point higher to set a new historic record. Rates for every single mortgage type were up Thursday, with most averages rising by double-digit basis points.
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Rates on 30-year new purchase mortgages shot up 22 basis points Thursday, bolting past the previous 22-year high for the flagship average. That record level had been 7.84%, set on Sept. 7, while today’s new high-water mark is 7.92%. It’s the highest level for 30-year rates since at least 2001.
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https://www.investopedia.com/mortgage-rates-rise-across-the-board-setting-new-record-for-30-year-average-7973276
Rates & Bonds
10-year yields hit 16-year peak as Fed seen higher for longer
By Karen Brettell
September 21, 2023 6:55 AM PDT
Updated 4 days ago
A U.S. one dollar banknote is seen in this illustration taken November 23, 2021.
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NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yields rose to 16-year highs on Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve surprised investors by flagging the potential for an additional rate hike, and an expectation for fewer cuts next year.
The U.S. central bank held interest rates steady, as was widely expected, and said that its benchmark overnight interest rate may still be lifted one more time this year to a peak 5.50%-5.75% range.
It also now expects half a percentage point of rate cuts in 2024. As of June, Fed officials had expected to cut rates by a full percentage point next year.
“It caught the markets by surprise because there was this sense that three months of encouraging inflation data would kind of bring down the temperature at the Fed,” said Will Compernolle, macro strategist at FHN Financial in New York.
“But, for a number of reasons, they still feel like they need to stay hawkish – they need to stay very ready to continue to be restrictive,” Compernolle added.
Fed chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday said that a “solid” economy with still “strong” job growth will allow the central bank to keep that additional pressure on financial conditions through 2025 with much less of a cost to the economy and labor market than in previous U.S. inflation battles.
He added that “we want to see convincing evidence really, that we have reached the appropriate level” of interest rates to return inflation to the Fed’s 2% target.
Whether the Fed follows through with its hawkish outlook will depend on economic data.
Fed funds futures traders are pricing in only a partial chance of an additional rate hike, with a 32% probability in November and 45% chance by December, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch Tool.
Benchmark 10-year note yields hit 4.490%, the highest since November 2007. Interest rate sensitive two-year yields reached 5.202%, the highest since July 2006.
The inversion in the yield curve between two-year and 10-year notes narrowed to minus 69 basis points.
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https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/10-year-yields-hit-16-year-peak-fed-seen-higher-longer-2023-09-21/