GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “secrecy is transparency” strategy?

Sunday, July 18, 2021

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/07/13/hunter-bidens-art-sales-ethical-mess-made-worse-by-white-house/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAF-Q0NVnpmOS81M2GQfmRRhTkZBvK98BAAwU736hUfgILqnyBRpmpduD9DkT2-VxlhHHuOf46LoQVVcAojbTCH-Byr95c45S8khRHo2IwfW_mRnsTsO

POLITICSCOMMENTARY

Hunter Biden’s Art Sales: Ethical Mess Made Worse by White House
Tim Murtaugh / @TimMurtaugh / July 13, 2021

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Allow me to join the chorus of voices congratulating Hunter Biden for waking up one day recently as an accomplished and commercially successful artist, a sudden event that curiously corresponded with his father’s becoming president of the United States.

This is surely a coincidence, and certainly only represents the latest shift in Hunter’s colorful career path.

In his latest endeavor, he has moved from trading on his father’s name to siphon a fortune from shady foreign businessmen to trading on his father’s name to siphon a fortune from shady “art collectors” from places unknown.

In case you missed the news, President Joe Biden’s son is now a hot commodity in the art world. Though Hunter Biden hasn’t publicly presented his work for sale before, New York City art dealer Georges Berges will conduct two exhibitions this fall—in Los Angeles and New York. Berges projects the pieces will sell at prices ranging from $75,000 for drawings on paper to $500,000 for large paintings.

But if you’re concerned that this represents an opportunity for nefarious characters to covertly line Hunter’s pockets in efforts to influence his father, never fear, the White House has a solution: All details of the transactions will be shrouded completely from public view.

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Sorry, “We, The Sheeple”, but you voted for this nonsense.

Have they no shame?

Nope!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Yet another tragedy of the commons!

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-drought-upends-life-west-basin.html

Water crisis reaches boiling point on Oregon-California line
by Gillian Flaccus

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Beginning in 1906, the federal government reengineered a complex system of lakes, wetlands and rivers in the 10 million-acre (4 million-hectare) Klamath River Basin to create fertile farmland. It built dikes and dams to block and divert rivers, redirecting water away from a natural lake spanning the California-Oregon border.

Evaporation then reduced the lake to one-quarter of its former size and created thousands of arable acres in an area that had been underwater for millennia.

In 1918, the U.S. began granting homesteads on the dried-up parts of Tule Lake. Preference was given to World War I and World War II veterans, and the Klamath Reclamation Project quickly became an agricultural powerhouse.

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“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.” ― Harry Browne

Here we have another great example of the tragedy of the commons!

Of course the little L libertarian solution is private ownership.

Here’s a quick mental model:  All of the stake holders are given ownership of the law and they manage it.  I would bet a payday that in a few years there’d be more water than needed.  Will it be messy and contentious?  Sure!  But it would be “solved” without the Gooferment.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: PCLOB “Book Report” Fails to Investigate or Tell the Public the Truth About Domestic Mass Surveillance

Monday, July 5, 2021

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has concluded its six-year investigation into Executive Order 12333, one of the most sprawling and influential authorities that enables the U.S. government’s mass surveillance programs.

Source: PCLOB “Book Report” Fails to Investigate or Tell the Public the Truth About Domestic Mass Surveillance

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Another Gooferment “failure”!

Expecting the politicians and bureaucrats IN the Deep State to limit its intrusions is just DUMB!

Happy “Independence” Day!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Keystone XL was an example of Gooferment ‘market interference” to make things worse

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Keystone XL

A Canadian energy firm behind the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline said yesterday it would formally end the project. President Joe Biden revoked the company’s permit to build an extension from Montana to Steele City, Nebraska, on his first day in office. 

The canceled line was planned as the fourth phase of the larger Keystone pipeline, which is currently operational (see map) and transports more than 600,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Alberta, Canada, to refineries along the US Gulf Coast. The already built line, which enters the US in North Dakota, remains operational. The addition would have increased capacity by roughly 800,000 barrels per day, or 7% of US daily consumption.

The Phase IV extension was originally opposed over its environmental impact in US Great Plains states, but became a proxy for the larger debate over climate change. See a timeline of the project here. 

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SO how will all this oils move from Canadan to the Gulf Coast? 

Trucks?

No extra pollution, risks, or inefficiency in that!

Gooferment making things worse and worse every time.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: End “unemployment insurance”

Friday, June 4, 2021

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9632659/Supermodel-Anne-Vyalitsyna-seeking-child-support-ex-Adam-Cahan-loss-income.html

REVEALED: Supermodel Anne V. claimed $26,000 in unemployment benefits despite $2.9m Manhattan apartment and $2.6m in savings – as she demands child support from multi-millionaire ex after the pandemic wiped out her income

  • Anne Vyalitsyna, better known as Anne V, is a Russian-American model who has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 10 years in a row from 2005 to 2014
  • She split from fiancé, multi-millionaire tech executive Adam Cahan after having a daughter Alaska, 5
  • In filings to the Manhattan Supreme Court, Vyalitsyna said her income plummeted during the pandemic from $431,000 in 2019 to $77,687 
  • She told the court she owns $2.9 million apartment in NYC’s West Village and has $2.6m in investments and savings
  • She claimed $26,000 in unemployment benefits during the lockdown
  • She says she has monthly expenses of $40,284 and that Cahan has ignored her requests for help in paying for child support

By BEVAN HURLEY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:06 EDT, 29 May 2021 | UPDATED: 18:17 EDT, 29 May 2021

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Why there should not be any welfare or “unemployment insurance” from the Gooferment.

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

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS:

Sunday, May 30, 2021

https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/sunepa-spending-phase-out-wood-burning-devices-while-congress

HOME
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WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE
By Mary Lou Lang
Updated: May 29, 2021 – 11:13pm

Pelosi district gets $2.1M to remove wood-fired devices as Congress offers tax credits for wood heat

  • Emissions reduction program spends taxpayer dollars to replace wood-burning stoves, fireplaces with electric heat pumps in district represented by House Speaker, who shepherded through Congress relief package that incentivizes wood heat.

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“It’s duplication nation,” said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO & Founder of the public spending watchdog group, OpenTheBooks.com. “Thoughtful and careful legislating is a thing of past. Simultaneously giving tax credits to install wood-burning devices and grants to replace them (to save the environment) is a great example of congressional insanity.

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Here’s yet another example of incentivizing to install and at the same time to replace.

And the insanity continues.

What if “we” did neither and gave the money back to the taxpayers?

How many more programs like this are there?

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Dominion Ran Entire Maricopa County Election

Saturday, May 15, 2021

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/maricopa-county-elections-witness-testifies-dominion-ran-entire-election-county-officials-observers-never-access-passwords-video/

Maricopa County Elections Witness Testifies that Dominion Ran Entire Election – County Officials and Observers NEVER HAD Access or Passwords! (Video)
By Jim Hoft
Published May 9, 2021 at 4:45pm

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Back on November 30, 2020, Maricopa County elections witness Jan Bryant testified before the Arizona legislature.

Jan has a strong project management background. She could not believe what she witnessed during the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Jan said back on November 30, 2020, that Maricopa County officials DID NOT RUN THE ELECTION!  Dominion employees John and Bruce did.

Jan’s testimony might explain why Maricopa County officials do not have Admin passwords or access to the Dominion voting machines.

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Therefore, the election was fraudulent.

Per se, it’s flawed.

Everyone connected with it should be fired and a grand jury empaneled to indict any violations of the law. 

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: No “whites” need apply?

Sunday, May 9, 2021

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9548499/Wisconsin-dairy-farmer-says-Biden-administration-COVID-relief-plan-racist.html

Wisconsin dairy farmer with two prosthetic legs sues Biden administration over ‘racist’ COVID relief plan that disqualifies him because he is white

  • Adam Faust is a plaintiff in the suit filed in federal court in Green Bay last week
  • At issue is loan forgiveness program in Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus package
  • Non-white farmers are eligible for the program, but white farmers are not
  • Faust, who has two prosthetic legs, argues that the program is racist

By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUBLISHED: 02:09 EDT, 6 May 2021 | UPDATED: 13:03 EDT, 6 May 2021

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The group of plaintiffs joining the lawsuit to challenge the program includes farmers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota and Ohio. 

The suit contends that excluding white farmers from the program amounts to a violation of the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.

‘Were plaintiffs eligible for the loan forgiveness benefit, they would have the opportunity to make additional investments in their property, expand their farms, purchase equipment and supplies, and otherwise support their families and local communities,’ the lawsuit said. 

‘Because plaintiffs are ineligible to even apply for the program solely due to their race, they have been denied the equal protection of the law and therefore suffered harm.’

The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a statement saying it was reviewing the lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice, but that the USDA plans to continue to offer loan forgiveness to ‘socially disadvantaged’ farmers.

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What genius came up with this one?

Should be struck down immediately.

And, everyone connected with it should be fired!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Disney gets a “get out of jail free” card again

Sunday, May 2, 2021

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210430/10004546712/disney-got-itself-if-you-own-themepark-carveout-floridas-blatantly-unconstitutional-social-media-moderation-bill.shtml

Disney Got Itself A ‘If You Own A Themepark…’ Carveout From Florida’s Blatantly Unconstitutional Social Media Moderation Bill
Content Moderation
from the welcome-to-GoogleLand-and-FacebookWorld dept
Fri, Apr 30th 2021 10:45am — Mike Masnick

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Earlier this year, we noted that a wide variety of states (mostly those controlled by angry, ignorant Republicans) were looking to pass blatantly unconstitutional bills that sought to force social media companies to host all speech and not moderate. As we noted in that article, Florida seemed to be leading the way, and now both houses of the Florida legislature have passed the bill that is blatantly unconstitutional, and will only serve to waste a large amount of taxpayer dollars to have this law thrown out in court.

The bill, like so many other such state bills, would violate the 1st Amendment by compelling websites to host speech they have no desire to host. It’s not even worth going through the bill bit by bit to explain its many different unconstitutional parts, but like so many of these bills, it tries to say that social media websites (of a certain size) will be greatly restricted in any effort to moderate their website to make it safer. There is no way this is even remotely constitutional.

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How can this type of payola be legal.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Why isn’t this considered a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment

Friday, April 30, 2021

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zerohedge/feed/~3/DYFLs003WsE/mom-and-pop-landlords-dying-vine-un-evictable-tenants-enjoy-pandemic-protections

‘Mom And Pop’ Landlords Dying On The Vine As Un-Evictable Tenants Enjoy Pandemic Protections
Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden

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As millions of renters across America continue to benefit from sweeping protections against eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic, their landlords haven’t been so fortunate.

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Why isn’t this considered a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment?

Is it because it is so BIG a theft?

Argh!

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