RANT: Why is Surprise City Attorney being paid 266,000?

Thursday, September 5, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/08/30/us-news/bananas-republic-arizona-mom-arrested-for-violating-law-against-criticizing-city-officials-at-public-meetings/

Arizona mom arrested for criticizing officials at public meeting sues for rights violation

By Natalie O’Neill 

Published Aug. 30, 2024, 5:02 p.m. ET

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Eat your heart out, North Korea.

An Arizona mom was arrested for violating a bizarre authoritarian-style city law that forbids anyone from criticizing city officials at public meetings — outraging a free speech group that now plans to sue, officials told The Post.

Rebekah Massie, 32, was speaking out against a proposed $12,000 raise for Surprise City Attorney Robert Wingo — who reportedly already earns $266,000 annually — at a city council meeting on Aug. 20, when she was cut off by Mayor Skip Hall.

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It wasn’t immediately clear how Massie could be arrested for trespassing at a meeting that was open to the public.

Surprise Police Chief Benny Pina and Mayor Skip Hall didn’t return calls from The Post Friday.

Sgt. Richard Hernandez, a public information officer for the city, told The Post a person may be charged with trespassing if they are asked by a “police officer or the owner of a property” to leave and refuse.

He said the police chief had not asked Massie to leave the meeting — but declined to elaborate on how the law applies to the incident, considering Mayor Hall doesn’t own Surprise City Hall, where the meeting took place.

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Governor of Arizona Katie Hobbs. $95,000.

Attorney General of Arizona Kris Mayes. $90,000.

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. $70,000.

So why is Surprise City Attorney being paid 266,000?  That’s more than the top THREE state officials. 

And, no now seems to understand that the First Amendment applies to the States under the current Supreme Court concept of “incorporation”!

I’ve often thought that Gooferment salaries were out of line and this just proves it.

If I was an Arizona citizen, then I’d insist that no one can be paid MORE than the Governor.  Just like no one should be paid more than the President of the United States. 

Argh!

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SECURITY:  YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

https://tldr.tech/infosec/2024-09-04

TLDR Information Security 2024-09-04

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/yubikeys-are-vulnerable-to-cloning-attacks-thanks-to-newly-discovered-side-channel/

YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel (3 minute read)

The YubiKey 5 hardware token for two-factor authentication has a cryptographic flaw that makes it vulnerable to cloning attacks when physically accessed by an attacker. Yubico has confirmed that all YubiKey 5 models are susceptible to cloning due to a side channel vulnerability in the Infineon microcontroller used in various authentication devices. Updating firmware on affected YubiKeys is not possible, leaving them permanently vulnerable to potential attacks.

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Guess that you can toss these in the trash can or trash bin!

Still think that the authenticator app of a phone is the best two factor authentication technique.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Pass the trash” right into a jail cell

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/08/28/the_sad_lesson_of_school_sex-abuse_101_its_pass_the_trash_not_catch_the_trash_1053859.html?mc_cid=08b6b4d1e0

The Sad Lesson of School Sex Abuse: It’s Pass the Trash, Not Catch the Trash (Part 3 of a Series)
By James Varney, RealClearInvestigations
August 28, 2024

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Ashley quickly told her mother and school officials, including a school security officer she confused with a police officer. They assured her the matter would be handled. But Allen was never arrested or charged with any crime. He resigned quietly from Little Axe in 2002. In the years since, he has coached or taught at seven other Oklahoma high schools, according to state records, a development Ashley found appalling. 

“I watched them pass the trash right in front of me,” said the woman, now Ashley Rolen, 39, an Oklahoma City entrepreneur married to a pastor. She is working to publicize the problem of sexual misconduct, particularly among K-12 school employees. “My story is significant but not unique,” she notes ruefully.

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Sorry, but this should NOT happen. All resignations, “quiet” or otherwise, should be reported to the press and investigated by the police.  Bring the bureaucrats (i.e., principal; the vice; and anyone else in the chain of command) down to the police station, put them in an interrogation room, and ask “routine questions”.  Anyone that doesn’t cooperate is immediately suspended pending an appearance at a Grand Jury.  If crossing state lines is involved the FBI should be conducting the investigation.  I’d insist on an audio and video record be kept.  

This <synonym for excrement> would quickly stop.  No “education” bureaucrat would risk their job, pension, and possible jail time to cover for a criminal.  I suspect that there would enthusiastic cooperation.

And, anyone convicted or loses misconduct suit in court is FOREVER banned from school or Gooferment employment at any level.  

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “We, The Sheeple” must punish the Biden admin to protect the First Amendment

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/08/27/us-news/mark-zuckerberg-admits-biden-admin-pressured-facebook-to-censor-covid-content-says-it-was-wrong-to-suppress-hunter-laptop-coverage/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3 

Zuckerberg admits Biden admin pressured Facebook to censor COVID content, says it was wrong to suppress The Post’s Hunter laptop coverage
By Victor Nava 
Published Aug. 27, 2024
Updated Aug. 27, 2024, 6:55 a.m. ET

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted Monday that the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor COVID-19 content and acknowledged it was wrong to stifle The Post’s coverage of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop.

In an explosive letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Zuckerberg wrote that “senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, repeatedly pressured” Meta to “censor” content related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2021. 

The content the Biden administration requested that Meta take down included “humor and satire,” according to the Facebook founder, and he said he regrets complying with certain demands.  

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Did you all “We, The Sheeple” wake up yet?

Sorry but no one should ever vote for a Democrat for the rest of their voting life!

Every politician and bureaucrat involved should be identified publicly, prosecuted as appropriate, and forever barred from Gooferment.  Too bad we don’t have a Devil’s Island.

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ECONOMICS: The Wyoming stable token is the wrong direction; ND’s state bank is a better idea

Monday, September 2, 2024

https://a.tldrnewsletter.com/web-version?ep=1&lc=59038840-6904-11ee-b58c-ff3e3245800a&p=d6d820a0-6458-11ef-b2cb-45ae9ed9a73f&pt=campaign&t=1724760456&s=a4d4dc8d5599a4dfd9723c7b933879aee51bd33d73d67bdffb0cfe73c7647cc4

TLDR Crypto 2024-08-27

Wyoming is pushing crypto payments and trying to beat the Fed to a digital dollar 

Wyoming plans to launch the Wyoming stable token, a US-dollar-backed stablecoin, in Q1 2025. Its goal is to facilitate faster and cheaper transactions while introducing a new revenue stream for the state. The token will serve as a model for a federally digitized dollar, and the state will invest reserves into Treasury Bills to fund public schools. If successful, Wyoming hopes to expand to tokenizing other assets like commodities and real estate. 

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If WY is really interested in building up their State investing in US Treasury bonds is NOT a good long term strategy.  A better one would be to foster Wyoming businesses like ranches, farms, and homes with “friendly” financing for things whole within their State. The North Dakota bank is the exemplar of how to do it. All State, City, and local Gooferments can do their “banking” with the WY Bank and cut Wall Street out of the “supply train”.  By developing Wyoming’s financial infrastructure it can prepare for the hard times ahead.  Think local; act local.  #endthefed

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Maybe NASA should focus on warning the billionaires buying beach front property ••• •••

Sunday, September 1, 2024

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-harris-admin-warns-kindergartners-climate-change-will-leave-entire-us-cities-underwater/

Biden Administration
Biden-Harris Admin Warns Kindergartners Climate Change Will Leave Entire US Cities Underwater

  • Kids warned of ‘inescapable death spiral’ of climate change by federal government

Thomas Catenacci  —  August 26, 2024

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NASA’s “Climate Kids” webpage offers fun environment-related educational activities, films, and video games for children in kindergarten. It also warns children that the world is undergoing cataclysmic warming, sea levels are rising, global ice coverage is diminishing, and their future may very well be doomed.

Climate Kids proclaims that the cost of fossil fuels is “pollution, the destruction of landscapes and natural habitats, oil spills in the ocean, and nasty fracking chemicals in the ground,” while the “biggest problem of all” is global warming. The website separately shows an image of what it says may soon occur to the United States’ Eastern Seaboard: a calamitous sea level rise covering entire cities, including New Orleans and Miami. The website fails to include a timeline for such an event.

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Maybe NASA should gocus on warning the billionairs buying beach front property … …

Or maybe how to rescue the astronauts stuck on the ISS because their ride home is broken?

Argh!

The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy. 

And, in this specific incident, “way out of their lane.”

If the Obamas believed in global warming’s sea rise, why to they have TWO ocean front mansions.  Could this be evidence that they don’t believe their own propaganda “mis information”.

Maybe NASA should warn Kindergartners about zombies, Pennywise, and not brushing their teeth,

Argh!

I have an idea, let’s defund NASA.  It’s good start.  Let Wall Street sell off their facilities and use it for the 35T$ of “national debt”.  And, while we are defunding things, #endtheFED.  Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments too.

Argh!

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