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Sacramento City Attorney’s Office warned Target it could face fines for retail theft calls
https://news.yahoo.com/news/sacramento-city-attorney-office-warned-120000373.html
Calif water restrictions
this was snuck in during the 2018 election cycle
California to impose permanent water restrictions on cities and towns
by: Iman Palm
Posted: Jul 8, 2024 / 01:57 PM PDT
Updated: Jul 8, 2024 / 01:57 PM PDT
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-to-impose-permanent-water-restrictions-on-cities-and-towns/
Senate Bill 606 (Hertzberg) and Assembly Bill 1668 (Friedman)
https://water.ca.gov/-/media/dwr-website/web-pages/programs/water-use-and-efficiency/make-water-conservation-a-california-way-of-life/files/pdfs/final-wcl-primer.pdf
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/docs/enrolled_ab1668_sb606.pdf
The bill, until January 1, 2025, would establish 55 gallons per capita
daily as the standard for indoor residential water use, beginning January 1, 2025, would establish the
greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board
as the standard for indoor residential water use, and beginning January 1, 2030, would establish the
greater of 50 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board
as the standard for indoor residential water use. The bill would impose civil liability for a violation
of an order or regulation issued pursuant to these provisions, as specified.
2025
four broad fronts that will decide America’s future:
1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect
our children.
2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the
American people.
3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.
4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution
calls “the Blessings of Liberty.”
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Ecclesiastes 10:2 .The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.
Trump added twice as much to the national debt as Biden: Analysis
https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-added-twice-much-national-151200361.html
Those additions were mostly due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), changes to the Affordable Care Act, and different budgetary acts in 2018 and 2019.
Most of Biden’s non-pandemic-related additions were due to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, student debt relief, appropriations bills and other executive actions.
The two parties add to the debt in different ways, with Republicans doing it mostly through bipartisan legislation and Democrats doing it more through executive actions, the CRFB says in a preview of future work.
Seventy-seven percent of the Trump administration’s additions to the national debt were attributable to bipartisan legislation, while 23 percent came from bills and actions with little to no bipartisan support.
For the Biden administration, 29 percent of additional debt has come from bipartisan laws, while 71 percent came from unilateral decisions.
Seven federal agencies have pushed tech giants to censor Americans, Media Research Center says
https://news.yahoo.com/news/seven-federal-agencies-pushed-tech-090052901.html
California voters lose a shot at checking state and local tax hikes at the polls
https://news.yahoo.com/news/california-supreme-court-removes-tax-170753834.html
Student loan relief contributing to 27% jump in projected federal budget deficit, per CBO
https://news.yahoo.com/news/student-loan-relief-contributing-27-180002635.html
Since President Biden took office, inflation has increased 16.6%.
Grocery (food at home) prices have increased 20%.
Food away from home prices have increased 18%.
Energy prices have increased 38%.
Prices for fuel oil have increased 45%.
Natural gas prices have increased 20.7%.
Electricity prices have increased 26%.
Rental prices for a primary residence have increased 15.6%.
Prices for used cars and trucks have increased 35%.
Prices for new vehicles have increased 20%.
Furniture prices have increased 18.8%.
Apparel prices have increased 10.8%.
Airline fares have increased 39%.
Biden is a failure
Newsom urged to halt progressives' 'scheming' to derail popular anti-crime initiative
https://news.yahoo.com/news/newsom-urged-halt-progressives-scheming-080034428.html
Prop 47 reform penalizing criminals on November ballot
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-group-secures-signatures-land-015547663.html
Some Democrats said they plan to introduce inoperability clauses into the set of proposed public safety bills to prevent them from going into effect if voters approve the Prop 47 reforms. They contend that it's a way to ensure there aren't any inconsistencies in the law.
American College of Pediatricians on gender dysphoria
https://acpeds.org/press/pediatricians-doctors-and-medical-organizations-sign-declaration-urging-prominent-us-medical-organizations-to-cease-harmful-interventions-on-children-with-gender-dysphoria
Newsom’s lawyers believe voters aren’t capable of making informed decisions about taxes | Opinion
https://news.yahoo.com/news/newsom-lawyers-believe-voters-aren-120000493.html
California Gov. Newsom's budget could cost businesses billions in higher taxes
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/california-gov-newsoms-budget-could-185627308.html
Yet a new report published by the California Taxpayers Association (CalTax), a nonpartisan and nonprofit tax research group, suggests Newsom's revised budget plan actually contains several indirect tax increases on businesses that could cost as much as $18 billion over the next four years.
US federal budget crosses grim milestone as interest payments overtake defense spending
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/us-federal-budget-crosses-grim-milestone-as-interest-payments-overtake-defense-spending-155521072.html
Interest is now the third-biggest expenditure after Social Security and health. And not because any of the other programs are shrinking. While most government expenditures grow modestly from year to year, interest expenses in 2024 are running 41% higher than in 2023.
Newsom no tax increases. His budget tells a different story
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/walters-newsom-shuns-tax-increases-170311387.html
American households fully spent their pandemic-era savings as of March 2024
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/americans-spent-savings-economists-worry-113203731.html
Americans have spent their savings. Economists worry about what comes next
Analysis by Nicole Goodkind, CNN
Tue, May 7, 2024 at 4:32 AM PDT·6 min read
Americans saved quite a bit of money during the pandemic: $2.1 trillion worth, to be exact.
That extra cushion meant that consumers kept spending in the years that followed and the economy remained robust despite rising interest rates and persistent, though gradually decreasing, inflation.
But now that extra spending money is gone, economists are concerned about what comes next.
What’s happening: The most recent estimates of excess pandemic savings in the US economy have turned negative, according to Hamza Abdelrahman and Luiz Edgard Oliveira, economists at the San Francisco Federal Reserve.
That means many Americans have more debt than savings and suggests “that American households fully spent their pandemic-era savings as of March 2024,” they wrote in a recent report.
Consumer spending plays a crucial role in driving economic growth in the United States, and it has shown remarkable strength over the past two years. But now that excess savings have now dwindled to nothing, that could hurt spending and spell trouble for the American economy.
Alarmingly, debt is also accumulating. Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said last month that while consumer debt levels aren’t yet “especially” high, the Fed is concerned about the rate of consumer delinquencies, or missed or late payments on expenses such as auto loans, credit card bills and rent.
Instrumental Marxism, or elite model, is a theory which reasons that policy makers in government and positions of power tend to "share a common business or class background, and that their decisions will reflect their business or class interests". It perceives the role of the state as more personal than impersonal, where actions such as nepotism and favoritism are common among those in power, and as a result of this, the shared backgrounds between the economic elite and the state elite are discernible. The theory argues that due to the high concentration of wealth within the State that the actions of State actors seek to secure and increase their wealth by passing policies that benefit the economically superior class.
Political Relations Between Poland & Belarus
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P7fjWEwWq4E
California spent billions on homelessness without tracking if it worked
https://news.yahoo.com/california-fails-track-effectiveness-billions-185244850.html
El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells. Hamas-style attack could happen to us, border mayor warns as migrant surge continues
https://news.yahoo.com/crisis-california-hamas-style-attack-222100376.html
National debt is fast becoming the thorn in the side of the American economy that nobody wants to extract—and it will continue to cause damage, sending the U.S. into financial crisis and 10 years of stagnation.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/america-left-severe-irreversible-scars-113555033.html
immigration judges. Lawmakers ask why the Biden administration won't let immigration judges talk to the media
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawmakers-ask-why-biden-administration-190009661.html
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s Justice Department has ordered leaders of the immigration judges union to seek supervisor permission before speaking, which some lawmakers and union leaders see as a move to silence critics of border policy despite Biden saying he is the "most pro-union president" ever.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle — from GOP firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio., to Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. — are hounding the administration about its decision, with the issue of immigration and the crisis at the southern border front and center in the months leading up to a critical presidential election.
Government gets fatter while Americans rack up record-high credit-card debt
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/government-gets-fatter-while-americans-120022448.html
Millennials and Gen Z face ‘snowballing and snowballing’ debt as high card balances and interest rates eat into their credit scores
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/millennials-gen-z-face-snowballing-154257215.html
Total credit card debt in the U.S. topped $1.13 trillion by the end of 2023,Though it’s not unusual for debt levels to rise with the holidays, that’s the 10th straight quarter of increases. Delinquencies, too, are on the rise.While Americans of all ages are grappling with higher balances, Gen Z and millennials are seeing the largest average increases in total debt and the steepest decline in credit scores, according to data provided to Fortune by personal finance company Credit Karma on tens of millions of member accounts.
Americans are spending more on food than they have in 3 decades
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/americans-spending-more-food-3-161554674.html
George Soros's Former Co-Founder Sounds Economic Alarm Saying, 'The Next Problem Has To Be The Worst In My Lifetime' — Waiting For Right Time To Go Short
https://www.benzinga.com/startups/24/02/37185069/george-soross-former-co-founder-sounds-economic-alarm-saying-the-next-problem-has-to-be-the-worst-in
If the total U.S. debt were divided by every household in the country, each household would get about $252,000, according to a September tweet from The Kobeissi Letter.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/much-money-d-owe-national-192507109.html
U.S. debt is the ‘most predictable crisis’ in history
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/jamie-dimon-believes-u-debt-093000484.html
Powell’s deficit warnings jostle lawmakers, economists
https://www.yahoo.com/news/powell-deficit-warnings-jostle-lawmakers-110000613.html
commercial real estate’s impact on banking has just begun
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/problem-ll-working-years-fed-202107790.html
US regional bank sell-off a cautionary sign of more pain to come
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-regional-bank-sell-off-cautionary-sign-more-pain-come-2024-02-02/
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Investors lulled into thinking U.S. regional banks were out of the woods after ruptures last year have been given a jolt by New York Community Bank (NYCB.N)
, opens new tab.
The under-the-radar lender's earnings report sparked a sell-off in regional bank shares in a warning for investors that had grown inured to the sector's sensitivity to high Federal Reserve interest rates nearly a year after two banks failed.
Americans' total credit card debt reached record high
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/02/07/us-credit-card-debt-hits-trillion/72505645007/
Credit card debt, the amount owed by all Americans on their credit cards, rose to a record $1.13 trillion at the end of last year, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported Tuesday.
Card balances increased by about $50 billion, or 4.6%, in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Credit card delinquencies, the amount of time in which cardholders fall behind in making payments, also increased. The percentage of card delinquencies 90 days or more rose to 6.4% from 4% in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Card debt contributed to the rise in total household debt, the amount owed by all members of a household, which rose to $17.5 trillion, an increase of $212 billion in the same period.
It will take years for the oil and gas market to recover from the 'mother of all shocks,' Harvard economist says
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/years-oil-gas-market-recover-005344109.html
Oil and gas prices are stuck on a roller coaster caused by the "mother of all shocks," as the supply-demand imbalance from the pandemic is still roiling energy markets, says Kenneth Rogoff, a top economist.
Chevron Says California Plays a Risky Game With Climate and Gasoline
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chevron-says-california-plays-risky-150000227.html?ref=spot-im-jac?spot_im_highlight_immediate=true&spot_im_reply_id=sp_Rba9aFpG_fb0e8146-0178-3520-bb73-5bdde39a6eb5_c_2bXrsNBXTYzXjReHsgxulaTJoge_r_2bXtvpyoQK1zqUv0XHrp4zJfjYr&utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_campaign=replied-message&spot_im_redirect_source=email
Report: California Looking To Restrict Travel For Classic Cars
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/report-california-looking-restrict-travel-120000026.html
carbon offsets in California. Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest
https://www.yahoo.com/news/satellites-detect-no-real-climate-134055991.html
Gallup survey finds Democrats are losing faith in journalists
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gallup-survey-finds-democrats-losing-004529030.html
Climate change . Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/
“My partner Charlie says there [are] only three ways a smart person can go broke: liquor, ladies and leverage,” the Oracle of Omaha said
Is the state’s water conservation proposal too restrictive? Some experts say yes | Opinion
https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-water-conservation-proposal-too-130000092.html
Black font AB1668 .......2018
section 10608.20 item 2 sub item (A) For indoor residential water use, 55 gallons per capita daily water use as a provisional standard.
California roads had the fifth worst score with a third of roads in poor condition, according to USA Facts.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-roughest-roads-us-study-213904251.html
Here’s how the percentages broke down:
Rhode Island: 48%
New Jersey: 45%
Hawaii: 40%
New Mexico: 34%
California: 33%
Fact Check: Biden Proposed a Border Fence in 2007, Saying No Great Nation Has Uncontrolled Borders
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-biden-proposed-border-182200493.html
Biden administration to unveil contractor rule set to upend gig economy
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/biden-admin-announce-independent-contractor-153013403.html
Since 1789 (Since George Washington was elected ) any incumbent who received over 75 percent of the votes in his party’s primaries (Trump won 94 percent) won the general election . But not in 2020.
Since 1898, any candidate winning Ohio and Florida plus North Carolina has taken the presidency – but, again, not in 2020.
There’s more. Not in 150 years has a candidate whose vote total jumped as much as Trump’s did from one election to the next ended up losing the election.
For almost sixty years, the winner of the electoral votes from Ohio and Florida has also won the nationwide election – but in 2020, no.
For forty years, nineteen bellwether counties around the country have correctly predicted the ultimate winner of the presidential sweepstakes – and who won eighteen of them in 2020? Trump.
Then there’s the blatantly obvious difference in voter enthusiasm between Trump – with his epic campaign rallies – and Biden, whose events sometimes seemed to draw more journalists than voters.
Then there’s what is apparently a suspicious variation in turnout rates between otherwise very similar cities: for example, 84 percent in Milwaukee, but only 51 percent in Cincinnati .
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